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Noah truly had not expected that forging an infinite Magic Source would take an entire night. Worse, it had absorbed all the Black Mud in the Greater Grail that had turned into curses, leaving even the Grail's opening impossible to stabilize before it simply vanished.
Thinking of that, Noah could not help feeling fortunate.
Fortunate that his Magic Source did not require even more magical energy to forge.
If forging that limitless Magic Source had required more magical energy, then after exhausting all of his own power and nearly draining the Greater Grail's magical energy, Noah would have had no other source left to continue forging his Magic Source.
He had come close.
Very close to failing to forge his Magic Source.
How could Noah not feel fortunate?
"Master..."
At that moment, Rider, who had been quietly standing to one side, threw the person she had been carrying at Noah's feet.
"What should we do with this person?"
Hearing that, Noah lowered his head and looked at the person Rider had thrown down, raising an eyebrow.
It was none other than Shinji Matou.
His veins bulged all over his body, even his face covered in writhing veins. Shinji Matou lay on the ground as though dead. Though his eyes were open, his pupils had completely vanished, leaving only the whites. He looked like a vegetable whose mind had collapsed after suffering unimaginable torment.
In truth, Shinji Matou could no longer be considered human.
After Zouken Matou had forcibly transformed him into a Lesser Grail and used him to open the Grail's passage, the personality known as Shinji Matou had long