Chapter 2519 / Chapter 2520

Great Pom-Pom's feet slid two deep grooves on the stage, but she didn't take a single step back.

As Great Pom-Pom thrust his arms upwards with tremendous force, the massive Iron Tomb fist was pushed backwards.

As a consequence, Great Pom-Pom's health bar dropped significantly in an instant.

The battles between Aeon are certainly not as simple and dull as this.

But that's how it is in the gaming industry.

There are no earth-shattering clashes of Path powers, no grand scenes of grasping the sun and moon or plucking stars from the sky. There are only simple mechanics and numerical clashes: how much health you lose when you hit me, and how much health I lose when I hit you.

It's that simple, unpretentious, and boring.

Just as Iron Tomb's iron fist was pushed away, Aha suddenly jumped out from behind Sparkle and stood directly opposite Sparkle.

"I'm waiting for Aha to get ready, what are you waiting for? To die?" Sparkle shouted at Sparkle, hands on her hips.

"I'm waiting for my Command Spell to cool down. What are you waiting for? To die?" Aha also poked his head out from behind Great Pom-Pom and shouted at Sparkle.

"I think you two are the ones courting death." Great Pom-Pom slowly turned his head, his round eyes sweeping between Sparkle and Aha before glaring at them.

Aha shrank back, intimidated by Great Pom-Pom's intimidating gaze.

But the next second after he shrank his neck, Aha suddenly turned around, and with an extremely swift movement, lifted Sparkle from his waist, raised it high above his head, and then pushed Sparkle towards Great Pom-Pom without hesitation.

Great Pom-Pom didn't react for a moment, and the large hand that had just been taking the iron fist instinctively pressed down on the Sparkle that was being pushed towards him.

Sparkle's palm and Great Pom-Pom's palm pressed tightly together at that moment.

"Whoosh!"

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A golden light suddenly burst forth from the point where their palms touched, Sparkle felt a burning sensation spreading across the back of his hand.

When Sparkle looked down, she discovered three brand-new scarlet Command Spell emblems on the back of her hand.

The Servant Contract... has been established.

"Great, you two have finally formed Servant Contract." Aha breathed a long sigh of relief upon seeing this, wiping non-existent sweat from his mask with the back of his hand.

Now he no longer needed to fear A Kivili coming after him.

After all, as the true Ruler of this Holy Grail War, Aha possesses exactly twice the number of Command Spell as all Servants, allowing him to use Command Spell on the same Servant a maximum of two times.

The first time was when I summoned A Kivili to this stage.

A second time? That can't be used a second time.

Saving the final Command Spell to force Servant to commit suicide is an unavoidable element in the Holy Grail War!

Sparkle's feigned death was precisely to buy Aha time to use Command Spell.

Sparkle feigned death to lure the enemy.

Of course, if Sparkle is really dead... then Aha certainly won't be coming back.

This is called the probationary period!

"Haha! Now I have General Aha and A Kivili, and I can slay the Iron Tomb!" After confirming that the three brand-new Command Spell emblems on the back of his hand were real, Sparkle suddenly turned to face Sparkle, put his hands on his hips, and laughed loudly.

"Oh, really? Then let me ask you. You successfully contacted A Kivili and renewed your contract with him, but isn't Aha already unable to leave this stage?" Sparkle twirled a strand of hair with her fingers and replied casually.

"And I remember saying, right? This is a turn-based game. And you just moved twice, didn't you?" Sparkle stopped twirling her hair, a slight smile playing on her lips.

"Huh? Is that what you mean by turn-based? I called mine chain summoning." Sparkle tilted her head, looking a little dazed.

"Sorry, the final interpretation right belongs to me." Sparkle smiled, crossed her arms, and spoke with an air of self-righteousness.

"So what? Your Iron Tomb can't hit Aha, right? I have the meat shield A Kivili to protect Aha!" Sparkle put her hands on her hips, forcing a tough expression on her face.

"It's not that great. But did I tell you that if Iron Tomb wants to usurp Aha's power of the Aeon of Joy, it definitely needs to touch Aha himself?" Sparkle asked casually.

Sparkle was stunned for a moment, then her expression changed.

It was only then that Sparkle remembered that when Sparkle used Iron Tomb's power to usurp the Great Silver Wolf's Ether Card, Iron Tomb had not personally come into contact with the Great Silver Wolf.

At that time, the Iron Tomb only completed the takeover remotely from behind the scenes.

Perhaps... the power of the Iron Tomb never needs to be activated through physical contact.

And Aha, from the moment he arrived until now, has remained within the Iron Tomb's attack range. Or rather, within the stage created by the Ether Editing technology!

"Buhao! My Servant!"

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The moment Sparkle finished speaking, the rust-colored marks on the stage moved.

Those cracks that originally looked like just the marks left by the Iron Tomb's iron fists striking the ground suddenly seemed to come alive at this moment, wriggling, extending, and expanding from the cracks in the stage floor, and then in an instant transforming into countless rust-colored chains that pierced towards Aha and A Kivili from all directions.

"Ding ding!"

The ear-piercing sound of metal clashing mingled together, and the chains came hurtling through the air at a speed that was almost too fast to react to.

Just Setsuna the chains were about to pierce both Aha and A Kivili, Aha suddenly stretched out his hands and shoved the Great Pom-Pom in front of him away.

A Kivili's round body rolled several times on the stage, barely avoiding the chains' attack range.

Aha himself went towards the chains, as if protecting his dear friend A Kivili.

"Pfft!"

Several rust-colored chains pierced through Aha's body almost simultaneously.

Chains pierced through Aha's chest, abdomen, and shoulders, pinning Aha in mid-air. The hem of his widow's dress fluttered wildly in the shockwave, and a small crack appeared on his red mask.

The chains piercing Aha's body did not stop; the rust-colored light spread along the chains' patterns into Aha's body, like countless greedy roots sucking away at the core power of this Aeon of Joy's body.

Aha, pinned in mid-air, looked down at the chains piercing his body, then looked up at A Kivili was still rolling on the ground.

"Aha... you!" A Kivili Pom-Pom's round body, looking at Aha, who was pierced by chains, with a bewildered expression.

Are you sick in the head?

The Iron Tomb restrains the Aeon of Joy, but not the Trailblaze Aeon.

And you just used me as a human shield.

What on earth is this guy thinking?

Aha's body, pierced by chains, slowly slid downwards. A hand laboriously reached out from the gaps in the chains, trembling as it was raised towards A Kivili, as if trying to grasp something. The fingers of that hand were slightly curled, and it swayed weakly in the air twice.

A Kivili paused for a moment, then walked over and half-hug Aha, who was dressed as a widow, with Pom-Pom's chubby, short arms.

Aha's red mask still bore that same smug smile that never changed, but countless tiny golden particles of light were emanating from the edges of the mask.

"What do you want to say?" A Kivili asked in a deep voice.

"A Kivili... believe in the power of Friendship and Bonds. This is... the Last Lesson I'm teaching you." Aha's voice was weak but clear, his tone carrying an unprecedented seriousness.

A Kivili stunned the entire Pom-Pom.

The Last Lesson?

Although he didn't know why Aha had suddenly become so sentimental, A Kivili had to admit that, in this situation and context, this kind of performance was quite captivating.

But Aha probably didn't secretly take advantage of me, right?

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However, this feeling of being moved lasted for less than a second before A Kivili's expression changed.

Something fell silently upon him—a more subtle, intangible force of law that could not be detected by physical senses.

A Kivili suddenly looked down at Aha's drooping hand and discovered that Aha's fingers were holding a document that was slowly melting like cream.

Teacher Qualification Certificate.

"Buzz!"

As the document melted, a mysterious power surged into A Kivili's Spirit Origin. On A Kivili's attribute panel, a line of never-before-seen golden text slowly appeared:

[Individual Qualifications - Riding Together].

A Kivili's expression shifted from moved to confused, from confused to understanding, and from understanding to clenched teeth, all within two seconds.

"Aha!" A Kivili glared through gritted teeth at the guy in his arms who, even on his last breath, still didn't forget to buff himself.

But looking at Aha, who had only a few seconds left to live, A Kivili took a deep breath.

Never mind... death is the greatest tragedy.

Although this guy will be resurrected soon.

At that moment, Aha shakily raised his hand, his fingertips slowly sliding across the ground as if writing something.

"Is there something you're trying to say?" Sparkle peeked out from behind A Kivili, staring nervously at Aha's finger that was still moving slightly.

"The next step is the best way to defeat me after I've merged with the Iron Tomb. If you don't use this method, you'll have a very difficult time winning," Aha said weakly.

"What method? Just tell me, stop talking nonsense!" Sparkle urged impatiently.

"The solution is... the solution is..." Aha's voice grew weaker and weaker, and his fingers slid slower and slower across the ground.

Aha's hand suddenly stopped, his head suddenly tilted to one side, the red light on his mask dimmed abruptly in a fraction of a second, and he let out an extremely faint "ga".

Then Aha's body transformed into countless golden specks of light, like stardust scattered by the wind, flowing upstream along the rust-colored chains and silently converging towards the massive mechanical shell of the Iron Tomb.

Sparkle remained crouched in place, frozen in place, still in the same close-up position.

She finally got two Aeon Servants, but one of them just died.

"... Don't panic. It seems like Aha wrote something on the ground just now." A Kivili paused for a moment before breaking the silence, looking down at the last spot where Aha's finger had slid.

"Yeah, yeah! That scared me to death. I knew Aha wouldn't die in the most difficult way." Sparkle suddenly came to her senses and breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, it's incredibly frustrating to see someone who clearly knows the solution but keeps going on and on about "the solution is... the solution is..." until they're exhausted and still haven't gotten it out... That's the dumbest way to die, bar none.

When Sparkle watching TV dramas back then, I really wanted to curse at the screen.

Fortunately, Aha wrote on the ground with his finger, so the answer should already be there.

Sparkle and A Kivili both looked down at the patch of ground where Aha's finger had traced.

Four characters and a string of ellipses were written crookedly on the ground.

"The solution is..."

Upon seeing those four words and that line of ellipses, both Sparkle and A Kivili fell silent.

Aha, what are you doing?

You even have time to write ellipses? You don't have time to write out the solution?!

You fucking!!

Sparkle took three deep breaths before barely suppressing the urge to rush into the Iron Tomb, drag Aha's Spirit Origin out, and beat him up.

Throughout the entire process, Sparkle stood quietly to the side, observing the whole thing.

There was no opportunistic attack.

He also did not order the Iron Tomb to take action against Sparkle and A Kivili.

However, this is not about Sparkle displaying martial ethics.

It's because it's a turn-based game.

Furthermore, even disregarding the limitations of turn-based combat, once Iron Tomb moves, while Sparkle can indeed move as well, what difference does that make?

One is Sparkle with special abilities against itself, and the other is the Trailblaze Aeon A Kivili.

Which one can Sparkle beat?

Furthermore, if we get too close to Sparkle, we might actually be caught off guard by Sparkle's Noble Phantasm and suffer a humiliating Flipping the car, which would be a huge loss.

Therefore, Sparkle chose to remain inactive and wait for the opportune moment.

All that remains is for the Iron Tomb to absorb Aha's power of the Aeon of Joy, and then everything will be settled.

Vita, you're not coming up, are you? Then I'll go down.

If the Iron Tomb had only absorbed the power of one Aeon of Joy, Sparkle wouldn't dare say she could defeat Vita. After all, Vita received the blessing of the Sea of Quantum and possessed Aeon- level power, but there are still differences between Aeon.

Without knowing the exact level of Aeon Vita's blessing was equivalent to, Sparkle, in order to avoid Flipping the car, could only treat her as the strongest hypothetical enemy—that is, treat her according to the standards of the Nanook IX.

But now, with the blessing of two Aeon of Joy, things are completely different.