Shirou's Grand Heroic Saga Chapter 694

"It's true." Caules nodded. "Sixty years ago, Uncle Darnic took part in the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki. With the help of the German army, he brought Fuyuki's Greater Holy Grail back with him. But what does that have to do with the Aerial Fortress?"

"But if the Red Faction had also spent a full sixty years preparing—wouldn't that be possible? For example, if someone in the Red Faction had been continuously preparing for the Greater Holy Grail since sixty years ago, wouldn't the existence of this Aerial Fortress make sense?"

Caules abruptly rose to his feet and said excitedly, "That's impossible! If that were the case, then the other person would have to be at least seventy or eighty years old, right? How could someone like that still have any fighting ability?"

"Wasn't Lancer's Master prepared in exactly that way?" Shirou asked, steering him along.

"That's different. Uncle Darnic only endured until now by fusing with other people's souls and bodies..." Caules suddenly covered his mouth.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Just pretend you didn't hear what I said. Anyway, I think this is far too alarming." Caules shook his head.

Shirou nodded—but he couldn't just pretend he hadn't heard that.

An old monster who had lived for more than eighty years by fusing souls, yet wore the appearance of a young man—those were all crucial pieces of information.

This had to be a mage who was already on the verge of madness, a dangerous individual.

The dangers of soul fusion were terrifying, no less dangerous than the method that old bastard from the Matou family used to cling to life.

"Still, I'm uneasy. If someone in the Red Faction really had prepared for this for sixty years, then they probably wouldn't be a mage." Caules began analyzing the matter himself.