Double Standards / Building a House ...

Even after Amon fell silent, the Temple of Time remained filled with a joyful atmosphere.

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Chapter 364 Double Standards

"What's wrong? You don't look too good. Didn't Master heal you?"

On the way to protect the villagers, Arash looked at Amon with some curiosity. The other man was silent and had a very ugly expression. Arash couldn't help but ask, "Are you upset because you lost to Agravain?"

"Shut up!"

Amon was furious. "Are you out of your mind, archer?!"

I was mocked at the Temple of Time, and now I'm being mocked by this archer here. It's infuriating!

"Ahem." Mikaela coughed, signaling to Amon to be mindful of his image.

Seemingly realizing he had lost his composure, Amon looked at Arash and whispered, "I am not angry because I lost to Agravain, but because I was unable to help the King. I am angry with myself."

"Hahaha, what are you saying? Helping isn't about success." Arash smiled and looked at Amon, saying, "You stepped forward and did what you could, which is also a form of help to your Master."

"Foolish! Help the King! Success is a must! Failure is not an option!"

Amon said in a low voice, "That's right. Successfully and beautifully completing the task given by the King is the true wish of us Demon God Pillar."

"Don't blame yourself. You're just not back to your prime yet. There's still a chance," Arash comforted him. They were bound to have a great battle with the Knights of the Round Table.

Amon will certainly have a chance to fight Agravain, and he will also have a chance to fight Tristan.

"I await that day." A confident glint appeared in Amon's eyes as he said this. Yes! He still had a chance to salvage the situation!

Seeing Amon suddenly regain his confidence, Arash smiled gently. He thought this Demon God Pillar was a very simple person.

On the other side, Mikaela looked at Amon, smiled and shook her head. Was the Demon God Pillar such a simple existence?

He didn't know, because he wasn't the one who created the Demon God Pillar. However, during the time he spent with Amon, the other party was prone to emotional outbursts and wanted to kill any enemy.

Although he was defeated by Agravain as soon as he entered the arena...

However, he is still a relatively easy person to get along with; at least he enjoys his time with Arash.

"Lady Aila, we're almost there." Hassan of the Hundred Faces stood beside Mikaela, her voice full of respect. "We're only a short distance from my village, but according to the rules, villagers under Kyonobu's jurisdiction cannot enter my village all at once."

"It's time to build houses and go hunting."

Kyoko appeared beside Mikaela, letting out a deep sigh. Her voice was filled with helplessness. "Food was already a huge problem. At least in the original place, some grains and vegetables could be cultivated, but now the Knights of the Round Table have discovered that place..."

At this point, Kyoko unconsciously clenched her fists, her eyes flashing with anger and regret. If only she hadn't been so impulsive and gone to wipe out the patrolling Purification Knight...

The village wouldn't be discovered so quickly, and people wouldn't follow her to another village to survive on empty stomachs.

"We have contingency plans for houses and food," Hassan of the Hundred Faces said calmly. "Your village wasn't truly destroyed. 'I' have already gone to collect resources, and we'll soon have a large quantity of emergency grains and rations. As for meat, we have the Mad Lion to hunt for it. The key issue is the houses..."

Building a house is never a simple task, but if it were just one or two people, Hassan of the Hundred Faces was confident that he could build one in a short time.

But the village of Kyoshinoko doesn't have a particularly small population; it has several hundred villagers.

There are only three hours left until dark. Even if houses are built urgently, it is impossible to build houses overnight to accommodate more than a hundred villagers.

"It's alright, leave it to me," Mikaela said calmly. Building a house was a piece of cake; he had a way to solve the problem in a short time.

"!?"

Kyonobu and Hassan of the Hundred Faces looked at Mikaela with some shock.

"Lady Aila... Although I know you are very strong and can rival the Lion King, you shouldn't push yourself too hard." Hassan of the Hundred Faces was practically trying to persuade Mikaela, as she and Kyoko believed that Mikaela could defeat the Lion King.

Being able to defeat the Lion King doesn't mean you can create a large number of houses, right?

"My lord, there's no need to force yourself. We'll find a way," said Kyoko, bowing her head. Having caused such a huge problem, she would stay up all night building the house.

Of course, although she hadn't studied the relevant knowledge, she had Bai Mao, the encyclopedia, by her side, so she could just ask her anything she didn't understand.

"Foolish! The king is an omnipotent being." At this moment, Amon jumped out and looked at Kyoshino and Hassan of the Hundred Faces with a sneer, "The so-called building of a house is nothing more than a tiny miracle to the king."

"Brother Demon God, you're mistaken. For humans, an existence capable of creating houses in one go is no less than a great god." Arash looked at Mikaela's calm expression, knowing that his Master would definitely have a way to solve Hassan's problem, and continued Amon's words.

"Oh? Such a small thing, and others consider it a god? Humans are really easily satisfied." Amon said disdainfully, completely looking down on humanity.

"Hahaha~ If Master built you a house, what would you think?"

Arash laughed heartily, showing no sign of annoyance.

"Oh! Praise be to the King!!!" As if he had imagined the King himself building a house for him, Amon's attitude changed completely, as if the guy who had just looked down on humans was not him.

The Demon God Pillar is also an extremely easy being to satisfy.

"Stop talking. Leave the house to me, and you can take care of the food." Mikaela rolled her eyes, speechless at the double standards displayed by the Amon.

He now truly believes that King Solomon made a huge mistake when he created the Demon God Pillar.

"Yes."

Seeing what Mikaela said, Kyonobu and Hassan of the Hundred Faces stopped trying to persuade her. After all, this was an adult who had a close relationship with the First Generation Master, and since he had said so, he must have his own way.

"It's just a place where a few hundred villagers live, so it probably wouldn't take much magic." Mikaela placed her hand on her chest. The Holy Grail, which she had plundered from Ramesses II, already had most of its magic absorbed by the Holy Grail within her.

It is indeed a massive amount of magic power. Although it is unknown how Goetia created it, the magic power within this Holy Grail has probably been stored for thousands of years.

Although Ramesses II wasted several hundred years of magic, the remaining few hundred years of magic were enough for Mikaela and Goetia to engage in a fierce battle.

Chapter 365 Building a House

With Mikaela's assurance, the villagers temporarily entered Hassan of the Hundred Faces's village to rest, while Kyoushinko was in charge of hunting, Arash and Amon were responsible for guarding.

Hassan of the Hundred Faces was to tell the other Hassan about what happened in the village of Kyoshino, and about Mikaela and the others coming to their aid in the fight against the Knights of the Round Table.

For the past few weeks, Hassan's forces have faced certain death in their battles against the Knights of the Round Table.

Left with no other choice, in order to cover for the villagers and protect the village, Hassan and his men abandoned their assassination abilities and chose to fight the Knights of the Round Table head-on.

An assassin going to fight a knight in a direct confrontation—the outcome was predetermined from the start.

But things are better now. With the addition of Mikaela, Amon, and Arash, at least in terms of direct combat ability, they now have two who can hold their own against the Knights of the Round Table.

With the right fighters in hand, defeating the Lion King and the Knights of the Round Table won't be too difficult.

After all, they lack people for direct combat, and also... Lady Ella is on good terms with the First Generation Master, so if she asks the First Generation Master for help...

Then forget about The Lion King and the Pharaoh King; they're all trash!

Compared to the First Generation Master, although the two of them were strong, they were still utterly worthless!

No matter how skilled Hassan became in martial arts and assassination techniques, in that lord's eyes, it was nothing more than a matter of a single slash.

The Lion King and the Pharaoh King were probably just a matter of a few more cuts in the eyes of the First Generation Master.

Putting aside the digressions for now, at this moment, Hassan of the Hundred Faces used his clone to lead Mikaela to an open space. She calmly said, "Lady Ella, this is the place where we were originally responsible for building houses. We also set up this place for villagers to temporarily live after other villages fell and some villagers escaped."

Not far from this open space are several stone houses, which look very rough, but are barely habitable and can keep people warm.

Clearly, in the eyes of Hassan of the Hundred Faces and the others, if the Knights of the Round Table attacked, even if Hassan, who lived there, resisted the Knights of the Round Table with all his might, he would not be able to stop the Purification Knight.

The Purification Knight are ruthless killing machines; they will slaughter villagers without mercy because, in their minds, villagers who have sided with the Old Man of the Mountain are innocent.

They must be killed!

Show no mercy, for they have betrayed the great Lion King.

The Purification Knight, Servant, kill ordinary humans as easily as a person crushes an ant.

In the previous villages destroyed by the Knights of the Round Table, Hassan was killed by the Knights of the Round Table, and the villagers were all slaughtered by the Purification Knight. Even if there were any survivors, there were only a handful of three or four people.

Because of these examples, Hassan of the Hundred Faces and the other Hassan did not build many houses. After all, although they did not say it openly, they were very clear about it in their hearts.

If the village is discovered by the Knights of the Round Table, not many people will survive.

For this reason, Hassan and others did not organize manpower to build extra houses, at most a dozen or so, for the refugees to live in temporarily.

But even Hassan of the Hundred Faces did not expect that the Knights of the Round Table would discover the place this time. As a result, none of the villagers died, and Kyoshino was also unharmed.

So now it's a very awkward situation. People have survived but have nowhere to live. The climate and environment here are quite harsh, and the villagers' physical condition isn't very good either.

After all, people in this era often couldn't even get enough to eat, so their physical condition was naturally quite poor.

If they were left outside overnight, even with a campfire nearby, they would likely die from the cold night wind.

This is why Hassan of the Hundred Faces and Kyoko are troubled by not having enough houses.

They are Servant, their bodies are made of magic, and they are not afraid of the cold at all.

They could stay in the forest for a night without any problem.

"No problem, leave it to me." Mikaela naturally understood Hassan of the Hundred Faces's predicament, and he took out a character card.

To be honest, when it comes to building houses, the first thing that comes to Mikaela's mind is the Wood Release from the Hokage world.

That's right, it's not the kind of Wood Release that Hashirama Senju used to destroy the world and easily defeat Madara Uchiha.

Instead, Pain unleashed a Super Shinra Tensei, destroying all of Konoha's buildings.

After the war, Captain Yamato, in order to provide better accommodations for the Konoha personnel, directly used the Wood Release: Linked Pillars Technique to create multiple complex wooden houses.

In reality, one such residence can house more than twenty people. In the original work, Captain Yamato spent a lot of chakra to create a residence that could house one hundred people.

Although I don't know how much chakra is consumed in Hokage, since it's the same energy system, Mikaela thinks it shouldn't be too different.

"Snap!"

Mikaela calmly crushed the card, and her entire being transformed into... the First Hokage — Hashirama Senju.

That's right, why not Captain Yamato? Because he's too weak; he probably wouldn't even be able to sense that he's being summoned.

In the spiritual realm, as Mikaela conversed with many people, she also came to understand one thing.

Even if someone with weak strength were to transform into the other person, they probably wouldn't be able to reach that spiritual space.

For example, Mikaela transformed into Victorious multiple times. Although Victorious was very intelligent, she was too weak to enter the spiritual space inside Mikaela's body.

Even Shana only sensed that her power was being used by someone else because of the power of the Heavenly Punishment God.

Sakuya Izayoi is a natural time controller and is very sensitive to the use of her power.

Needless to say, Hozuki is a great youkai with power comparable to top Servant. Goetia suffered a great loss because of her underestimation.

"Wood Release: Four Pillars!"

After a brief conversation with Hashirama Senju, he was happy to help Mikaela, as he was a kind person, even though he killed Madara Uchiha for the sake of the village at the end of his life.

Overall, Hashirama Senju was a kind person. After learning that so many refugees were homeless, he was naturally willing to contribute his power.

After getting a general idea of what Mikaela was going to create, he thought the ninjutsu was quite simple, much simpler than the strange and unusual ninjutsu invented by his brother.

Then... with the help of Hashirama Senju and the Holy Grail, houses made of wood appeared on the previously flat ground.

"This?! Noble Phantasm?!" Hassan of the Hundred Faces nearly popped his eyes out when he saw this.

"It's just the power of another world, no need to make a fuss." After Mikaela finished building the house, he transformed back to normal and checked the depletion of the Holy Grail's magic power within him.

Hmm! I've lost almost a year's worth of magic power, but the magic consumption is indeed much lower than I expected.

Chapter 366 How come you're not dead?

In just one year, the magic enabled the villagers to obtain houses where they could live, making it a sure-fire way to make money.

Moreover, this Holy Grail was given to him by King Hassan. Using the magic of the Holy Grail to improve the lives of the Mountain People can be considered as repaying the help he received.

Just as Mikaela finished building the house and was preparing for the dinner party.

In the Holy City, the Knights of the Round Table gathered around the throne.

The Lion King was still asleep and would awaken in a while. At this moment, the Knights of the Round Table were on the throne, quietly waiting for the King to wake up.

"What's wrong with everyone today? They all seem so listless." Mordred looked at Tristan, Gawain, and Agravain and noticed that they were all silent today.

Especially Agravain, shouldn't he have noticed that Lancelot's expression was off?

Although they brought back a Servant, Mordred didn't think they could atone for their sins. After all, they had let four Servant escape, a crime deserving of a direct confrontation with their Father King's Holy Lance.

There is merit and there is sin; there is sin and there is merit.

The Lion King's clear-cut attitude of rewarding and punishing is one of the reasons why Lancelot and Mordred are so loyal to her.