Time passed quickly. As they watched the sky darken once more, the Holy Grail War had entered its final stages.
Everyone stood in the courtyard, waiting for the moment the Holy Grail would appear. They waited and waited, until even the two elementary school students were unbearably sleepy. Finally—
"Gurrr~"
A black hole suddenly appeared in the sky, unfathomably deep and exuding an eerie presence.
"It's appearing—the Holy Grail!"
Everyone grew excited and waited for the Holy Grail to emerge, but no matter how long they waited, it never descended.
"What's going on? It's already past midnight, and the seven days are over. Why hasn't it come out yet?"
Mo Shuying had just completed another Check-in and received fifty blue essences. These things appeared from time to time. He now had four hundred of them, and once he accumulated enough, he could exchange them for Heroic Spirit skills.
"Dunno. Did the Holy Grail break?"
Astolfo scratched his head and voiced a guess. Mo Shuying switched to the Archer Card and used Clairvoyance. All he saw was endless darkness, and—
Black mud pouring forth in torrents!
Boom!!
The "hole" in the sky suddenly expanded, and something like black sludge spilled out. Like mercury pouring across the ground, it fell into the city. In an instant, countless lives were submerged, their souls absorbed into the black mud as flames erupted across the earth.
"This is...!"
Artoria recognized the black mud. The Fuyuki fire more than ten years ago had been caused when she cut apart the Holy Grail with a single strike, causing the overflowing black mud within it to spill everywhere and ignite a raging inferno.
That black mud was All the World's Evil, the gathered malice of every evil in the world. It took the form of black mud and