#615 - Since ancient times, spearmen have been lucky E (first update)

Seven participants, now six are out, leaving only the last one.

But there's no rush, even if all seven are gathered, I can forcefully seize the right to participate.

George released all the magic books.

According to the phone call Rin Tohsaka received earlier, five participants had already summoned Servants. Rin Tohsaka was the sixth, leaving only the Saber-class Servant unsummoned.

If he wasn't mistaken, this seventh person was likely Shirou Emiya.

Because according to records, the Master representing the Saber-class Servant in the Fourth Holy Grail War was named Kiritsugu Emiya, who was Shirou Emiya's adoptive father.

Moreover, Shirou Emiya had a magical item resembling a scabbard within him, which was likely the catalyst for summoning the Saber.

He had two choices to participate in the Holy Grail War: one was to use the catalyst within Shirou Emiya to summon the Saber and directly become the seventh participant.

This wasn't difficult; he had seen the summoning array, and the Matou family's magic books contained detailed records.

With his skill level, he could analyze and perfectly use it in just a few minutes.

The second was to randomly select a participant, kill the Master, and form a new contract with the already summoned Servant, thereby becoming a Master.

In fact, this was also part of the Holy Grail War.

The Holy Grail War required the simultaneous killing of both Master and Servant to conclude a side.

Otherwise, a living Master could summon a new Servant, and a living Servant could form a contract with another mage to participate in the war again.

As for the magic for forming contracts, the Matou family's library also had it. The Matou family was originally the family that created the summoning array, so naturally, they had many spells in this area.

Sakura Matou could even temporarily lend a Servant to Shinji Matou, who was just an ordinary person, allowing Shinji Matou to become a Master and participate in the Holy Grail War.

"This guy, is he injured?"

Speak of the devil, just as he guessed Shirou Emiya was the seventh Master, George saw Shirou Emiya returning.

The combined collection of books from both families was considerable. Even with his mental strength, it took him two days to read and understand everything.

It was now the evening of the third day.

However, Shirou Emiya's condition was clearly not right at this moment. His expression was blank, his face was pale, and there was a pool of blood on his chest.

Upon closer inspection, although there was blood and the clothes on his chest and back were torn, there were no wounds on his body.

This situation suggested that he had been pierced through the chest by a weapon similar to a spear, but had been healed with healing magic.

"Is he being chased?"

Just as Shirou Emiya muttered to himself as he entered the room, George suddenly sensed a figure in the distance, approaching at an extremely fast speed.

It was a young man, dressed in blue martial attire, holding a red spear, giving him a similar feeling to the Archer summoned by Rin Tohsaka earlier.

He should also be a Servant summoned by another Master among the seven.

"Holding a spear, that should be the Lancer. Being chased by the Lancer, it seems I guessed correctly."

Leaping forward above the houses, the blue-clad youth quickly arrived above Shirou Emiya's house, and then holding the spear, without saying a word, directly stabbed downward.

Shirou Emiya, lying in the house, quickly dodged, picked up a roll of paper, and used his magic to reinforce it as a weapon, fighting with the Lancer.

Unfortunately, the difference in strength between the two was too great. Shirou Emiya was kicked out of the room and landed in the yard in one exchange.

This was mainly because the Lancer didn't immediately kill him.

"Why do you want to kill me?"

Shirou Emiya barely stood up, asking in confusion.

He had just been cleaning the dojo of the archery club at school when he saw two strange guys fighting. After that, he was pierced through the body by this guy in front of him.

In a daze, he seemed to see a girl saving him.

When he woke up, he found that the two strange people had disappeared, so he went home.

He had just arrived home when the person who killed him actually chased after him again.

He didn't understand, without any grievances or hatred, why this strange person insisted on killing him.

"There's no way, I don't want to kill you either, but according to the rules of the Holy Grail War, witnesses must be killed. I can only say you're unlucky."

The youth flashed the spear in a showy manner, his face full of helplessness.

"So it was just an accident."

Hearing the conversation between the two, George knew he had guessed wrong.

He thought Lancer was chasing Shirou Emiya because Shirou Emiya was also one of the Masters participating in the Holy Grail War.

It turned out that it was just because he witnessed the battle between Servants.

"To save or not to save?"

Shirou Emiya had nothing to do with him. According to his character, he would completely rely on his mood when encountering this situation. He was not a messenger of justice.

Moreover, if Shirou Emiya was killed, then he could conveniently take the magical item he was interested in from his body.

But in the next second, he changed his mind.

Because he found that in the moment of crisis, the prototype of a Command Seal was faintly appearing on Shirou Emiya's left hand, and a magic circle for summoning a Servant also appeared in the warehouse next to the yard.

"He really is the seventh Master."

After completely confirming Shirou Emiya's identity, George moved his mind and decided to take action.

"I just wanted to give you a quick death, but you had to struggle so much."

Seeing Shirou Emiya get up and prepare to escape to the warehouse, Lancer sighed, raised his spear, and prepared to go in to completely finish him off.

However, at this moment, he suddenly noticed a branch attacking from behind, tightly encircling his right ankle.

Before he could react, he was lifted upside down and slammed hard on the ground.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Hearing the sound behind him, Shirou Emiya stopped and turned his head, his expression suddenly changing from the anger of being chased to surprise and disbelief.

"Tree... tree... the tree has become a spirit?"

He saw the maple tree that his adoptive father had planted and that had already withered.

At this time, it had actually become taller and more lush, and it was also using branches to entangle the person who was chasing him, repeatedly slamming him on the ground.

The once arrogant youth had blood coming out of his mouth from the slamming.

"Who is it, daring to sneak attack me!"

After being repeatedly slammed more than a dozen times, Lancer finally reacted. The spear in his hand turned red, and he cut off the branches that were binding him like lightning, rolled over and landed on the ground, carefully looking around.

His thoughts were different from Shirou Emiya's. He didn't think the tree had become a spirit.

Instead, he felt that it should be a magician nearby who was good at plant magic, secretly controlling the big tree to attack him.

"Lancer, your luck is a bit bad to meet me.

But the spear in your hand is a bit interesting."

At this time, George also transformed from tree form to human form, looking at the red spear in Lancer's hand with interest.

Even though he had only casually extended some small branches just now, with his physique, those small branches were much harder than ordinary steel.

The fact that Lancer's spear could easily cut them meant it was not an ordinary magical weapon.