Cleaning the Greater Holy Grail

The church, the Holy Church's only stronghold in Fuyuki City.

As a secretive organization that both opposed and cooperated with the Mage's Association, its primary duty was to hunt down and kill magi who exposed magical powers to ordinary people, while also dealing with the media, government, and various law enforcement agencies.

It could be said that the reason most ordinary people had not completely become playthings in the hands of magi was more than ninety percent thanks to the Holy Church.

Otherwise, if there were a few more lunatics like Emiya Kiritsugu's father, secretly researching vampires, it would absolutely cause enormous panic and chaos.

But now, this church had become a gathering place filled with filth and evil.

As the souls of the five Heroic Spirits returned to the Throne of Heroes in the outer world, the gap leading to the Root had opened, and the Greater Holy Grail, formed from the vast magical power gathered from the ley lines beneath their feet, finally began to emerge slowly.

Unlike the solemn and sacred image everyone had imagined, what flowed from the golden cup was nothing but black liquid like rotting, stinking blood.

Although this thing also radiated astonishing magical power, even from dozens of meters away, one could clearly feel the malice toward the entire world washing over them.

"Berserker was right! The Holy Grail was contaminated long ago! That thing... is no omnipotent wish-granting machine. It is a calamity that will destroy the world."

Emiya Kiritsugu swiftly loaded another bullet into his gun and stared at the black-red liquid spilling from the altar.

At that moment, he was immensely grateful that he had come to his senses early enough to save Irisviel from her tragic, hopeless fate.

Otherwise, the one lying on that table now would have been