Lu Xiao twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled: "Old Chongzi, although my strength is not the strongest among the heroic spirits, it is more than enough to deal with you."
"Qiang~"
Slowly pulling out the Immortal Sword on his back, red spiritual energy circulated on the blade.
Zang Yan felt an unpleasant aura from this knife, which made him instinctively feel fearful.
Lu Xiao's figure suddenly disappeared from Zang Yan's sight.
"Boom!"
A slender bolt of lightning suddenly fell from the sky above Matou Residence. It penetrated the defense of the flying marking insects on the roof and fell on the sword held high by Lu Xiao. After a transit, it was heavily bombarded in the insect warehouse.
"Well!"
Matou Kariya, who was affected by the impact, hit his head against the wall and fainted. Pieces of marking insects were blown up all over the sky, but Sakura, who was closest, was not hurt by the thunder.
Sakura, who was thrown into the insect warehouse, was like an unresponsive doll, allowing the imprinted insects to burrow inside her body and absorb the magic power. It seemed that her sense of pain was temporarily blocked in the endless torture.
Her eyes stared blankly at the top of the basement. It wasn't until the ceiling of Matou's house was penetrated by lightning and the roar of thunder and lightning exploded around her that she came back to her senses and looked around her with dull eyes.
The charred marking bugs lost the vitality they usually used to torment themselves, and the disgusting smell of roasted protein floated in the insect chamber. Sakura, who was only over 5 years old, suddenly felt the urge to eat in large quantities as revenge.
The age of 5 is supposed to be a time when children enjoy their childhood innocently. Sakura, who was born into a family of magicians, has to bear a burden that a child of her age should not bear.
"Shua~"
Lu Xiao pulled off the magic floating cloak from behind and covered the naked Ying.
Through eagle eye vision observation, Lu Xiao could see that there were still a lot of imprinting insects left in Ying's body.
These marking insects are deeply connected to her magic circuit, and killing them rashly may cause irreparable damage to Sakura.
"This...this...what is this!!"
Rin's extremely angry roar came from the body of the familiar Gem Bird. She asked Lu Xiao with a trembling voice: "Assassin, is this the Matou family's magic? To actually forcefully implant insects into the body, this is simply..."
"Correction."
Lu Xiao picked up Ying Ying from the insect warehouse with one hand, still holding the Immortal Sword in his right hand and scanning the surroundings with eagle eyes vigilantly.
"This is Matou Zouken's magic, not the original form of Matou family magic."
The original magic of the Matou family...or the Maqili family was definitely not so twisted.
The magic characteristic of the Makiri family is absorption, which has the characteristic of sending the results back to one's own body. It can also be used to weave spells to bind others.
The attribute passed down from generation to generation in the Makiri family is water, but their spells are not mainly water-based spells. The water attribute is to match the absorption spells passed down from generation to generation in the family.
Through the research on absorbing spells, the Machili family gradually learned a variety of expanded magic specialties, including creating and transforming familiars, inventing command spells in the Holy Grail system of the Yusan family, etc.
Manipulating engraved insects is just one of the manifestations of the Machili family's expertise in creating and transforming familiars. Even insect magic itself does not need to educate future generations in such a torturous way. This is purely the result of Zangyan's own twisted xp.
In the 200-year-long struggle to survive, the righteous partner named Machili Zolgen gradually lost his original intention, leaving only an obsession with survival that he did not know the source of.
His body has been deeply transformed by insect magic and can no longer be considered a real human being. Zang Yan's soul has gradually become distorted during the long years of torture. The descendants of the Matou family have been tortured by him with the marking bug to a greater or lesser extent.
"Rin, calm down first and don't be impulsive."
"Suck~"
Full of anger, Rin took a deep breath and barely controlled his emotions: "I know, assassin, kill that disgusting old bug for me!"
Lu Xiao's lips curled up slightly: "I obey, Master."
The soul of Zong Yan was hidden in one of the countless engraved insects. Lu Xiao held Xiaoying with one hand and walked forward, killing all the insects captured by the eagle eye one by one, even if they were hidden in the cracks of the wall and the corners of the furniture.
There is no way to avoid his pursuit.
Under the continuous bombardment of the weak thunder that Lu Xiao deliberately invited, many caring people in Fuyuki City noticed the situation of Matou Residence, and each arranged their demons to rush to Matou Residence.
"Found you."
While chasing down the marking bug, Lu Xiao discovered an individual whose behavior patterns were different from those of his other companions.
Marking insects don't have much intelligence, and they will only follow their instinct to escape when faced with Lu Xiao's execution.
But the engraved bug captured by Lu Xiao with eagle vision escaped. Lu Xiao was obviously different from other bugs. It tried to escape from the Matou mansion in the chaos.
"boom!"
A bolt of lightning struck in front of the engraved insect's escape direction, followed closely by a red sword light.
Just when it was about to be killed by Tai Dao, Zang Yan's panicked stopping sound suddenly came from the body of this strange engraved insect.
"Wait! You can't kill me. Once the sealing insect I possess dies, the Matou family's magic seal will be lost forever!"
"Buzz~"
The Immortal Slash stopped less than one centimeter away from the Zong Inkstone Engraving Worm, and the sharp blade cut a small incision on the head of the Engraving Worm.
Seeing that the negotiation was effective, Zang Yan continued to say: "Assassin, what does your master want from letting you attack the Matou residence? Maybe we can make a deal."
"Ha~"
Lu Xiao sneered and swung the long knife to extend the red aura on the Immortal Slash to the engraved insect.
"My Master just wants you to die."
"Ahhhhhh!!"
The special power of the Immortal Slash to eliminate the undead bound the soul of Zang Yan, who was trying to change his body to escape, into the body of the engraved insect. Zang Yan, whose soul was gradually eroded, let out a shrill scream.
"No! I still have an important task to complete, I can't die!"
Watching Zong Yan's soul aura gradually dissipate with cold eyes, Lu Xiao finally asked him a soul question.
"Maqiri Zolgen, what is your final goal that you are willing to linger on for two hundred years?"
"Target……"
Zang Yan's struggle gradually slowed down. After a few seconds of silence, Zang Yan sighed faintly: "It turns out... so, in the corruption of my soul, I forgot my original goal and gradually became what I once was.
The most disgusting person."
"Justeza, I..."
Before he finished speaking, Zang Yan's soul finally dissipated under the erosion of the power of Immortal Slash.
‘The Saint of Winter, Justeza Ritzleich von Einzbern, one of the founders of the three royal families who founded the Holy Grail system.’
Lu Xiao didn't know what the relationship was between Justisa and Zang Yan, and he had no interest in digging into these ancient histories for the time being.
After moving Matou Tsuruno, Matou Kariya and Matou Shinji out of the damaged Matou mansion, Lu Xiao carried Sakura and searched the mansion roughly, but could not find the precious inkstone in his collection.
The place for magic tools.
'Most of Zangyan's magic relies on insects as familiars. It is understandable that magic tools are scarce, but what about the holy relics? Has Zangyan not obtained it yet?'
'etc.'
Suddenly an idea flashed in Lu Xiao's mind: The Matou family was destroyed, and the job of Assassin, who should have belonged to Hassan Baimei, was replaced by me. Major changes occurred before the Holy Grail War even started. If the Matou family's sacred relics were lost,
Into the hands of Tokiomi Tohsaka...'
Fuyuki Manager Tokiomi Tokiomi and Holy Grail War Supervisor Kotomine Rimasa may arrive at any time. With such a big commotion, Lu Xiao cannot stay here for long.
Using runes to ignite a fire in Matou's house, Lu Xiao further built a barrier to control the scope of the fire within the house.
This will ensure that all the marking insects are burned to death in the fire, and it will also prevent the fire from affecting the surrounding residences.
"Wow!"
The cold water balls created with runes hit the three survivors of the Matou family. The three unconscious people suddenly woke up under the stimulation of the ice water.
"ah!"
He Ye stared blankly at the Matou residence that was burning in the raging fire, with an expression on his face that was half expectation and half fear.
After Yan Ye woke up, he immediately looked around for Ying's whereabouts. When he saw Ying in Lu Xiao's arms, he immediately glared angrily and tried to attack with his fists.
"Let go Sakura!"
"Don't get excited."
Lu Xiao reversed the Immortal Slash and struck Yan Ye's fist with the handle of the knife. However, Yan Ye, an ordinary person, almost fell to the ground in pain.
Looking at the three Matou family survivors with different expressions, Lu Xiao said to them in a calm tone: "I'll give you a chance to choose."
"One: From now on, you will change your name. You will no longer call yourself Matou, and you will no longer have any connection with the magic world. The Matou family's earthly property is at your disposal."