The Last Servant (Please Vote)

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Night gradually deepened.

At the foot of a mountain, Noah, Rin Tohsaka, and Saber all raised their heads and looked ahead—or, more accurately, upward and ahead. No one spoke. They all remained silent.

Before Noah's group, on the not particularly tall mountain, lay a stone stairway.

The stone steps were extremely long, seeming to stretch directly into the sky, making people instinctively feel small.

Those long stone stairs would undoubtedly make anyone intending to climb them feel a trace of despair.

For an ordinary person, climbing all the way up would probably take at least thirty minutes.

Fortunately, at the end of those stone steps, Noah's group finally spotted a mountain gate.

Behind the mountain gate stood the temple known as Ryudou Temple.

However, neither Noah, Rin Tohsaka, nor Saber was looking at the gate or the long stone stairway. They were looking at an invisible barrier surrounding the entire mountain.

"That's a bounded field, isn't it?" Noah asked without turning his head.

"A barrier meant to repel people? Or one meant for concealment?"

"Unfortunately." Rin Tohsaka's expression became somewhat solemn.

"It's neither."

"It's a barrier meant for Servants." Saber gave the answer directly, though her expression was equally grave.

"And it doesn't look like someone set it up. It seems to be a naturally formed barrier against spiritual bodies, doesn't it?"

"A naturally formed barrier?" Noah was rather surprised.

"There are barriers like that?"

"There's nothing to be surprised about.