Among the four major spiritual veins, Fuyuki Church and Tohsaka Mansion are secretly colluding. Choosing these two places to manifest the Holy Grail is a typical door-to-door delivery.
The citizens' mansion in Xindu is located in the downtown area. Considering the disgusting things contained inside the Holy Grail, Lu Xiao would never place the appearance in a densely populated area.
Then there is only one most appropriate answer - Liudong Temple, which is located in the deep mountains and old forests, with one man at the gate and ten thousand men unable to defend it.
Lu Xiao originally considered building the stronghold directly in Liudong Temple, but after some consideration, he finally chose to give up.
Liudong Temple is the first of the four major spiritual veins. Not only Lu Xiao can know it, but all participants in the war who know something about Fuyuki City will get this information sooner or later.
Just like Lu Xiao's prior investigation, a well-prepared magician should observe the situation of the four major spiritual veins in advance.
Not to mention the Tosaka House and the Fuyuki Church, which already have owners, once someone attempts to monopolize the spiritual veins as a magic workshop, it is likely to attract turns from other participants, or even a joint attack.
In the Fifth Holy Grail War, the reason why Medea was able to use Ryudou Temple as a stronghold was because, on the one hand, the Masters during the Fifth War were relatively "simple", and most of them were younger students who were relatively incapable of strategic thinking.
Relatively immature.
On the other hand, it is also because of the powerful position creation ability possessed by Medea, the Goddess Witch.
In cooperation with a certain gatekeeper who concentrated on guarding the shrine, Medea built Ryudou Temple into a watertight fortress, and rashly breaking into the magic workshop of the Great Witch of the Gods was just asking for death.
In contrast, among the masters of the Fourth War, there were many ruthless experts who defended Liudong Temple in advance. Someone might secretly install a bomb that would blow up the temple together with it.
The barrier of Liudong Temple can only protect against the intrusion of unnatural spirits such as heroic spirits. Ordinary humans cannot be blocked by the barrier. A certain magician killer can climb over the mountains and sneak in from behind the temple.
Lu Xiao plans to wait until the Holy Grail War enters the second half and the Little Holy Grail can no longer maintain human body functions before moving its position to Ryudong Temple. This can effectively avoid being targeted in advance.
After finishing the investigation of Yuanzang Mountain, Lu Xiao was about to return to the workshop along the same route, when the strong sense of threat coming from the distant sky stopped him.
An unknown object was spinning and approaching Lu Xiao's position rapidly. As the distance shortened, the size of the object became larger and larger.
"boom!"
Lu Xiao avoided the landing point of the unidentified flying object in advance. The huge object crashed into the mountain outside the Yuanzang Mountain barrier, raising dust flying all over the sky.
Lu Xiao, who was originally a little relaxed, immediately expanded the scope of his eagle vision. He was surprised to find that the unknown object that crashed into the ground turned out to be a hostile creature.
"What the hell? Fantasy species?"
Lu Xiao's mind was filled with questions. Although Fuyuki City had spiritual veins, he had never heard of information about the existence of fantasy species in Fuyuki.
If there is, the Tohsaka family, who are the managers of Fuyuki, will definitely know about it as soon as possible.
The huge fantasy species slowly crawled out of the mountain, shook its slightly groggy head in a humane manner, and turned its orange eyes to Lu Xiao, who was observing from a distance.
This fantasy species has a huge head and a back carapace covered with spikes. There is also a long spiked tail behind its butt, and it has six thick thighs under its body. It looks very ferocious in appearance.
"roar!"
The obviously hostile fantasy species opened its six legs and charged towards Lu Xiao. During the charge, sparks flew from the corners of its mouth, and Lu Xiao immediately guessed what this guy wanted to do.
"Whoosh!"
Activating the Boots of Hermes, Lu Xiao left the place and flew backwards at a speed that broke through the sound barrier.
"Ouch!"
Sure enough, the fantasy species of unknown origin spurted out a large piece of blazing flames from its mouth.
Fortunately, there is relatively little vegetation near the Yuanzang Mountain Hollow, otherwise a forest fire would have been inevitable.
Lu Xiao did not intend to fight this stupid, dark and thick fantasy species. He speculated that this guy should be tamed by someone... or a heroic spirit. It was probably a beast released specifically to target the enemy.
Just when Lu Xiao was about to turn on the aura blocker and evacuate the scene, a dazzling beam of light suddenly fell from the sky. When Lu Xiao retreated to avoid it, he captured two figures approaching quickly within the effective range of his eagle vision.
One of them locked onto Lu Xiao's position, further accelerated with an explosive force close to human limits, and rushed in front of Lu Xiao almost in the blink of an eye.
"drink!"
Amidst the loud exhalation, a powerful fist packed with concentrated energy hit Lu Xiao's chest hard.
At the same time, another person standing in the distance using spell support waved the stick-like object in his hand, once again summoning several offensive spell lights over the battlefield, and cooperated with his teammates in close combat to flank Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao remained calm in the face of danger, crossed his hands in front of his chest, and relied on the arm armor of his Hidden Blade suit to block the powerful punch of the enemy who was fighting at close range.
Using the reaction force to throw himself backwards, Lu Xiao narrowly avoided the beam of light falling from the sky.
'One versus three is not good for me, let alone a fantasy species among them, so retreat first.'
The moment he landed, Lu Xiao immediately activated his aura blocker and hid in the darkness with the help of the black smoke that rose after the fantasy species breathed fire.
"Tsk! He actually escaped...ahem, what a pity that the enemy escaped."
The first voice that sounded on the battlefield was an ethereal and clear female voice. The first half of her words were relatively casual and even seemed a bit rude. She seemed to suddenly remember something in the middle of the sentence and immediately changed her tone to a holy and dignified one.
"Huh~"
The first person to attack Lu Xiao was a strong old man with white hair and beard. He was wearing a bulletproof vest unique to the Holy Church. When he retracted his punching stance, the old man exhaled a long stream of white air.
"Assassin's hiding ability cannot be underestimated. I didn't expect that such a well-planned sneak attack could not save him."
A woman wearing a blue and white holy robe and holding a long-handled cross walked out of the smoke.
"Boom!"
The cross paused lightly on the ground, and the smoke that enveloped the area quickly dispersed in the breeze.
"Ouch~"
The fantasy species that returned in vain flinched, its huge body moved closer to the girl, and the human expression on its face seemed to beg her for forgiveness.
The beautiful girl with long purple hair and a holy face gently stroked the fantasy species' mane with her hand.
"Thank you for your hard work, Tarasque. I can't blame you for the failure of this mission. Go back and rest first."
"Ouch~ow~"
The ferocious giant beast, like a puppy praised by its owner, gradually transformed its body into a spirit child in joy, leaving only its cheerful barking in the Yuanzang Mountain.
That old church member was the Holy Grail War Supervisor Kotomine Rimasa of Fuyuki City. He frowned and looked at the destroyed ecology near Mount Enzo, and bowed his head to the girl respectfully and asked.
"Saint Martha, what should we do next?"
The saint known as Martha solemnly replied: "Continue to trace the whereabouts of Assassin. He is the enemy designated by the 'Lord' himself. He must not be allowed to cause trouble in this world!"