A Gift for Chaldea

The banquet was over. Both bottles of wine had been emptied. There were only two children there, yet they had drunk a third of it over the course of the banquet.

Back at the Matou Family residence, Mo Li sat in the study, considering the arrangements that needed to be made next.

The Holy Grail War had a time limit. With the Holy Grail War already underway, Mo Li was still unable to alter the Holy Grail system and drastically change its duration. For example, turning it into something like the Moon Cell Grail was another way of extending the Holy Grail War.

Mash Kyrielight and Ritsuka Fujimaru approached Mo Li with cups of coffee. Ritsuka asked, "Senior, can we really secure the help of those Heroic Spirits?"

Mo Li looked at Ritsuka. "That depends on them... The end of an entire world, a catastrophe that would destroy humanity—when such a problem stands before them, they won't just sit back and watch. It only depends on when they answer the call. After all, they're Heroic Spirits, heroes of humanity."

Ritsuka let out a breath of relief. "It would be wonderful if they could come help us!"

Mash asked, "Senior Mo, where should I go tomorrow to receive the supplies you arranged?"

Mo Li said, "There's a warehouse at the foot of Mount Ryudoji Temple. People will deliver the materials Chaldea needs there. We don't have many of the materials, since they're things created through a combination of magecraft and technology, but we've gathered quite a lot of other things—especially the daily necessities you need."

Ritsuka thanked him sincerely. "Thank you for the trouble, Senior Mo!"

After thinking for a moment, Mo Li said, "Also, I'll personally give you ten billion QP. That's the total amount I've made over the past few days. It was my first time making this stuff, so I didn't produce much. I might as well give it to you now."

The two girls cried out at the same time, "Ten billion QP?!"

QP was a special magical material that could be used to strengthen Servants' abilities, and it was indispensable. Moreover, Chaldea had never possessed as much as ten billion of it since its founding.

"Th-thank you, Senior!" Mash's expression turned somewhat awkward, almost panicked. "But Chaldea has never stored that much QP before. The place where we store QP should only have a maximum capacity of around one billion. Senior... we can't take that much with us."

Mo Li froze for a moment, then recalled something related to that. He remembered how someone had once reached the cap of nine digits, all nines. They really could only store just short of one billion. But that should have only been an early-stage restriction, right?

Mo Li said, "Ah, I'm terribly sorry. I hadn't understood the situation clearly."

Instead, Ritsuka comforted Mo Li. "No, no, no! We're the ones who should be sorry! We were never prepared for something like this, so we simply don't have the capacity to take it all away. Senior, please wait a moment—I'll contact the doctor right away!"

Ten billion QP! That was ten billion QP!

Mo Li sighed. "What a pity. I still don't know how to make embers. We'll have to wait until I fulfill the conditions I agreed on with Tennyo. She definitely knows how to make embers for strengthening Servants."

"Senior, giving us this much QP is already an enormous help!" Mash immediately replied. Was this what one would expect from an immortal? He could actually produce ten billion QP, something even Magi found exhausting to create.

It simply overturned everything she had come to understand at Chaldea.

Come to think of it, Da Vinci often made things called Saint Quartz while she was at Chaldea as well. Her luck was never very good whenever they summoned, though.

Romani's projection appeared. He was drinking tea at the moment. "Dr. Roman here. Did something happen after the banquet ended?"

Ritsuka hurriedly said, "Dr. Roman! Senior Mo said he made ten billion QP for us! But we probably can't take that much with us, can we?"

"Pfft—" Romani sprayed out the tea in his mouth. Only after hurriedly wiping himself off did he say, "Ten billion QP?! Really?"

"It couldn't be more real." Mo Li extended his hand, and light glowed in his palm. Sky-blue crystals of special magical energy—QP—floated out from it.

Romani gave a wry smile. "This is truly astounding... Unfortunately, when our QP storage facility was first planned, it was never built to be that large. It can only hold one billion QP."

Mo Li said, "Is there no other way to handle it? For instance, using nine billion QP as the energy needed to keep Chaldea running?"

Romani thought back. "Huh? That would work. I was too excited just now and forgot that we could process excess QP that way. After all, Chaldea has never used that method even once. We've never stored that much QP before. Now we can test it, and Chaldea really is desperately short on energy at the moment."

"That's good, then. Let's start transferring the QP now."

"Alright. Mash, put down your shield and prepare to transfer the items over."

"Alright! Senior Mo, please begin."

Early the next morning, after teaching Caren all night, Medea went from room to room and pushed open the doors to wake the three of them. Feeling rather speechless, she got them all up to wash up and prepare for breakfast.

Medea asked Mo Li from the side, "The Holy Grail War has started. How are we supposed to fight? I haven't finished developing my challenge yet."

Mo Li said, "Well... we'll set up a magecraft workshop. This Matou Family residence will do for the location. I don't particularly like this place anyway. It'll be perfect if the fighting between Heroic Spirits blows it up, and then we can rebuild it afterward. Besides, you've already spent several days renovating it."

Medea had no objections and immediately said, "Alright, this place it is. Ley Lines aren't easy to damage anyway, so destroying the buildings here won't have much effect. But I don't know how to fight. How am I supposed to do it?"

Mo Li said, "Just reverse your healing abilities. Why can't healing be used to harm? Reversing the effect shouldn't be a problem for you, should it?"

Medea froze for a moment. "Reverse healing abilities... That really is a good idea, and it feels like there's plenty of room for improvement. For example, making someone feel tranquility could become fear or terror when reversed. As for healing, perhaps it can't directly hurt others, but making them suffer shouldn't be a problem. I'll modify it as quickly as possible."

Mo Li said, "I have quite a few ideas myself. Let's test exactly how to reverse your healing magecraft."

"Alright."

And so...

While Ritsuka, Mash, and Caren were eating breakfast, they saw the two of them repeatedly using some seemingly harmless magic to torment a little rabbit.

Mash asked, "Senior Mo? What are you doing?"

Mo Li said, "We're modifying healing magecraft by reversing it. We'll be fighting other Servants afterward, after all. Medea can't exactly use healing magic to fight people."

Ritsuka asked, "Can it really work? How effective is it?"

Mo Li said, "Why don't you try it, Ritsuka? We'll try to go easy on you."

"Uh... alright. I'm curious about what healing magic can be changed into, too." Ritsuka thought for a while and did not refuse. He quickly came to regret that decision.

"Ha, hahaha! Senior, make it stop already! I can't take it, I feel like I'm going to burst from holding in my laughter! Hahaha..." Ritsuka laughed as he curled into a ball on his chair, his face gradually twisting as he struggled to suppress his laughter.

Mash's eyes widened, and she could not help feeling afraid.

Mo Li canceled the magic he had cast on Ritsuka. If what Medea had originally mastered was a series of healing spells, then her current magic was focused on torment. It could almost be said that she had no offensive magecraft at all. Perhaps that was related to Medea Lily herself not possessing much offensive magecraft to begin with.

This was Medea from her days as an innocent young girl, not the witch Medea. If it had been the adult Medea summoned in the Fifth Holy Grail War, then naturally she would have had plenty of offensive methods.

Ritsuka Fujimaru felt like he was about to laugh himself breathless. Still shaken, he sat back down in his seat. "This is what you came up with by improving healing magic? Is there more?"

Mo Li said, "Mm, it should count as torture-type magic. Of course, there's plenty more. What I let you try was only the most basic torture magic."

"Okay... that really is terrifying enough already. But does it work on Heroic Spirits?" Ritsuka Fujimaru asked with a helpless smile.

Mo Li nodded. "Of course it works. Mana is what makes the effect take hold, and magic is the method through which it takes effect. Even Heroic Spirits will be affected if they fail to block it. Let's go, to Ryudoji Temple."

Near the mountain path leading up to Ryudoji Temple, the resources had already been piled up in the warehouse. After dismissing all the staff, Ritsuka Fujimaru contacted Romani, and Chaldea made its preparations as well. Then Mo Li watched as Mash Kyrielight and the others busily began transferring away the supplies stacked there.

It had to be said that relying solely on Mash Kyrielight's shield and Chaldea's cooperation meant they could not transfer much at once. Just like yesterday, they could only move the supplies in batches.

All of Chaldea's staff cheered upon receiving the resources they needed. This was simply the best news possible. They had previously gained a new source of energy, and now they had acquired all kinds of necessary supplies. They could hold out for even longer!

"Yo, Lord Mo Li, so you were here?" Diarmuid greeted them as though he had run into friends, walking into the warehouse.

Mo Li turned to look at Diarmuid. "Mm, we're busy. Diarmuid, aren't you going to challenge other Heroic Spirits?"

Diarmuid rubbed his hair. "Ah... I've already challenged three Heroic Spirits. I fought the King of Knights, the Conqueror King, and Hassan of the Hundred Faces. Two draws and one victory—I only defeated the Conqueror King. Hassan of the Hundred Faces had too many people, so there was nothing I could do against her. Now, the only one I haven't challenged is Lancelot on your side, Lord Mo Li. I knew you were busy with the Holy Grail, so I didn't disturb you, but I had to come now. I don't think I can beat that King of Heroes, so I could only come challenge Lancelot first."