"It is indeed a snake foot, but it is turning into a living corpse, and it even attacks us directly."
Faced with Charlotte's confusion, Ais frowned and summarized the bizarre scene in front of her, unable to understand the reason.
"Contaminated? Didn't notice at all."
Scrooge speculated on the reason.
After reacting, the next moment the three of them looked at the left hand standing there.
"Left hand, do you know what's wrong with Snakefoot?"
"He's fallen behind."
"...We didn't notice it, how did you know he was falling behind?"
Charlotte was obviously not prepared to let the opponent deal with it easily.
"Because my hearing is sharper, and you should be lucky that he chose to escape instead of attack in the first place."
This is true.
At the reminder from her left hand, Charlotte felt frightened.
The teammates behind him who were supposed to be on guard suddenly turned into monsters themselves.
If he directly chooses to attack, even with Ais around, the consequences will never be easy.
But this was only one aspect. Charlotte absolutely did not believe in the explanation of hearing.
This exploration operation seems to be becoming unstoppably weird.
"Sage?"
Charlotte looked at the sage who had been silent, hoping he could give an explanation.
"Snake Foot's remains are still very different from living corpses. It cannot be absolutely concluded that he was contaminated at this time."
Not contaminated... Then how could he be like that and then go crazy?
Everyone looked at each other for a moment.
Even at the next moment, his left hand, which had been standing like a sculpture, seemed to notice something strange, and turned his head to "look" at the sage, frowning slightly.
Capturing this scene keenly, Scrooge took a step forward.
"If this is the case, it seems that there is no way to proceed."
"That's not necessarily——"
The sage's words stopped abruptly, and his head was penetrated directly by a dark red ray.
…
"...Are you crazy?"
As the sage's body crashed to the ground, a deathly silence filled the air, which was broken by Aisi's scream a few seconds later.
"idiot!"
Facing the team members who were on alert for a moment, Scrooge, who committed the crime, did not escape at all, but sneered again and again.
"The degree of awakening of the Holy Grail has obviously been underestimated. If it weren't for me, you would be dead!"
"What's the meaning?"
"You can ask your left hand what you mean, so you really didn't notice the changes in the sage at all -"
"What has changed about me?"
It was the sage's voice that interrupted Scrooge.
But he saw that the headless body he had just stood up staggeringly.
Even the head above has been restored.
"Heal me."
With a cold command, Aisi started to act as if she had just woken up from a dream. At the same time, the bright golden light also condensed in the hands of the sage.
"I think I know what's going on-"
The sound suddenly stopped again, and the sage, who was struggling between life and death, had his head penetrated by another dark red ray, and the golden light that had not yet been condensed on the scepter escaped.
How could it be used so quickly - not Scrooge!
In a change that drove the exploration team almost crazy, the next moment everyone realized that the ray actually came from the black hole in the left eye socket.
"He's the one with the problem!"
Charlotte was the first to react.
This is not the ability equipped on the left hand at all. The only explanation is that it was infused by the Holy Grail.
There is no difference between him and those living corpses!
The moment she realized this, a blazing flame ignited on Charlotte's right arm and blasted out.
However, this brutal punch was blocked by invisible ripples in front of the target and did not hurt the opponent at all.
asshole!
Frightened and angry, Charlotte punched her again.
Almost at the same time, a dark red ray also hit the invisible shield.
Scrooge seemed to have realized what the truth was just now... and for this ultimate move with the most stringent release conditions, he had to recover first.
…
The combined efforts of the two produced surprisingly good results.
The invisible shield that was originally as stable as a mountain was torn apart without any resistance.
The left hand behind the shield was hit by the fist of fire and the ray at the same time, and half of the body disappeared instantly.
died?
Charlotte and the two breathed a sigh of relief, but then everyone's eyes froze.
It seemed to disappear for a brief moment, and when it reappeared, the missing limbs were actually complete.
"This is the power of a sage!"
Charlotte woke up again, stopped the third punch in time, and concentrated on defense.
"Ignore him, he will really die soon -"
Halfway through his words, he saw that his left hand did not make a fatal counterattack at all as expected, but turned around and walked away.
Even until it disappeared into the darkness, there was no sign of falling down.
"No, it's more like losing a destiny directly to nothingness."
When a group of people felt lost, another unexpected voice appeared.
Sage?
After realizing who it was, more than one person turned to look, and then began to doubt their own sanity.
Everything happened in a flash. It was not surprising that the injured body did not collapse immediately. However, at this moment, the mutilation on the head disappeared.
"...This is also why I can still survive. For a short period of time just now, the existence of my left hand seemed to have disappeared directly, including the act of killing me. I never thought that there would be such a miracle... The Holy Grail
It seems to be waking up faster than expected..."
There was a rare trace of confusion in the eyes of the sage who had come back from the dead for the second time.
"Then he is gone now?"
"At the Holy Grail, my previous judgment was wrong. I thought there was something else behind him."
"Then should we go?"
"No."
The sage shook his head.
"The Holy Grail is more powerful than expected. This is the reason why we want to control it, and it may also be our only chance."
"Don't be scared."
Seeing that almost everyone looked hesitant, the sage gave a low smile.
"Having such authority, you can only rely on false misdirection to try to kill me. Even without our knowledge, we still failed."
"A wonderful sacred weapon, but at present it is no match for us."
It does seem to be...
The sage's tone was still full of contagion. After the originally crisis-ridden situation was described from a different angle, the group's confidence suddenly regained.
"We'd better hurry."
Without giving any more time to hesitate, the sage turned around and walked ahead.
"The left hand is probably to transfer the Holy Grail. Fortunately, the password to open the clock tower hall is relatively long."
…
"Where is he!"
The sage's judgment seems to be correct.
When the exploration team arrived at the stone statue hall, they happened to see the left hand knocking the last blow on the stone statue.
Seeing the stone statue starting to spin, Charlotte wanted to catch up but was stopped by the sage.
The next moment, the invisible agitation spread, and the five shadows on the dome became clear to everyone's eyes.
Frowning at this scene, Charlotte didn't have time to say anything as a torrent of information exploded in her head.
Sage...sage...
Relying on a little bit of adaptability formed through many times of training, he finally managed to avoid the incoming rays with great difficulty.
Charlotte, who had regained her consciousness slightly, noticed that the sage walked into the hall alone and left a message.
"Wait for my signal and remember to only pass one person at a time."
…
"I don't know if such a dialogue is meaningful, but please believe that I have great respect for your existence."
After a while, he entered the bell tower hall and went straight to the golden lever on the wall. The sage spoke up and looked at his left hand, which was walking step by step towards the Holy Grail in the middle.
"I think we can get along very happily, under the witness of the gods..."
Clapping his hands to send a signal, the sage did not hesitate to grab the lever and adjust the dial above his head according to the direction he had calculated long ago.
But the next moment, his relatively strong palm fell directly from his wrist.
And in his vision that also slipped, the last scene he saw was that his left hand grasped both handles of the Holy Grail, and then the two disappeared into thin air.
The task summary will be left tomorrow
This chapter has been completed!