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In the darkness, the shadow twisted.

After a while, Alvin came out from the shadows and looked at the white-haired wizard in front of him. "When did you discover me?"

"At first I didn't realize anyone was following me. It wasn't until this thing appeared just now that I noticed your presence."

Merlin smiled and pointed to the shadow of the snow mountain temple in front.

"There's a Beast sleeping in here... It absorbs the emotions of others and transforms them into its own strength. You might not realize it, but it sensed your feelings just now."

"Normally, a person's emotions aren't this intense... It looks like you encountered something at your Master's house that caused you to experience extreme emotional fluctuations."

"Are you out late at night just to relax?"

Merlin asked with a smile.

“Sometimes asking too much is not a good thing.”

Alvin said calmly, "Have you known about the monster hidden in Yuanzang Mountain?"

"On the first night after I accepted the Master's summons, He tried to devour my emotions,"

Merlin shrugged, "But He failed. After all, I don't know this thing at all."

Nightmares do not understand human emotions. It is quite the opposite. Nightmares themselves are creatures that like to savor "emotions".

"Is this the reason you accepted Illya's summons?"

Alvin looked up solemnly at the temple in the snow-capped mountains. He could feel an extremely terrifying aura in it.

These engraved insects are probably transporting "negative emotions" to Yuanzang Mountain every night to serve as nourishment for the beasts in the temple.

Merlin nodded noncommittally. "If I'm not mistaken, this thing should have existed since the last Holy Grail War."

"It's absorbed ten years of negative emotions as nutrients... If the things inside come out in the future, it will cause huge trouble."

The fact that Merlin even said the word "trouble" was enough to show how much he feared the creatures in here.

"By the way, have you found out where the Crest Worms came from?"

At this moment, Merlin suddenly changed the subject and asked with a smile: "You should have investigated this matter tonight, right?"

Tonight, when Rider's Master escaped, he left behind a piece of insect wings engraved with a bug, and Merlin had obviously noticed this at the time.

Alvin's eyelids twitched slightly, and he said lightly: "No clues."

"Is that so... That's a pity."

Merlin pretended to sigh softly, "If we don't deal with this thing, when it revives in the future, it will definitely devour the girl behind it who controls the engraving worm."

"By then... her consciousness might no longer be her own."

Alvin glanced at the man calmly.

"Merlin, you are still born the same as always."

"I sincerely want to save humanity."

Merlin smiled helplessly: "I'm staying in the tower and doing fine. Do you think I want to come out and work, Alvin?"

"What can you do?"

Alvin asked simply.

"Even if a young Beast is left to its own devices, its destructive power is beyond human endurance..."

Merlin turned his head to look at the shadow of the temple behind him, "But there are limits to what a Servant can do..."

Are you trying to say that you're no longer a human being... Alvin said in a deep voice: "Don't keep me in suspense, just tell me!"

"The Beast within here is likely attempting to use the Chaos Tide, the Black Mud, and the negative emotions of the people of this city as a medium to fully manifest itself."

Merlin smiled and said, "But he probably hasn't thought about who owns the Chaos Tide."

Alvin smiled approvingly: "It seems we have the same idea."

You know, in order to make the creatures in the Holy Grail appear in the world, the engraved insects have been working hard for nearly ten years. Now, who knows how much "black mud" has accumulated in the Holy Grail.

Ordinary people might not be able to do anything about the black mud, but if it's Tiamat...

Alvin and Merlin looked at each other, and the latter walked to the corner very sensibly.

Alvin took a deep breath: "Mom!"

With a low roar, a scarlet crack appeared in the dark night.

In the gap, an extremely beautiful and graceful figure quietly descended.

——Tiamat.

She landed lightly on the ground, her skirt brushing gently over the snow. Wherever she passed, the "black mud" hidden in Yuanzang Mountain boiled like a song of joy.

In an instant, countless corpses of the engraved insects fell like rain.

...She was absorbing the black mud that was supposed to serve as nutrients for the beast of desire!

……

Late at night, at the Matou family home.

The night was quiet, and snowflakes were falling from the iron-gray sky.

Matou Sakura suddenly woke up as if from a nightmare. The moment she opened her eyes, she didn't change her clothes, but whispered: "Rider!"

The door opened, and the royal sister with loose purple hair came to the girl silently.

"What's wrong, Master?"

"Go to Yuanzang Mountain...someone is doing something to the things there."

Matou Sakura said in a low voice.

Her usual gentle look was gone, replaced only by an extremely dark and cold expression.

Obviously, this is not Sakura Matou's own personality, but another consciousness in the body.

——BeastⅢ／L, the beast of desire named 'Kama'.

Although she had an agreement with Matou Sakura at the beginning that they would not attack Haku under any circumstances, there was a big premise... that guy had to be obedient and submit to her.

otherwise……

The so-called white dragon... is just her food.

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Chapter 196: Matou Sakura’s assist.

In fact, before this, Alvin had never thought of such a bold move.

Rider's Master, or the 'Beast' in the Holy Grail, has been secretly absorbing human 'emotions' over the years in order to evolve from a cub into a complete beast, even destroying the barrier that purifies the Holy Grail.

However...even the other party probably wouldn't have thought that the real person who could control the tide of chaos actually appeared in the world.

In other words, Alvin can summon her out at any time.

Letting Tiamat devour the 'tide of chaos' in the Holy Grail in advance can be considered a kind of 'purification' in a sense.

"Aaaaa—"

As if she was enjoying the food, Tiamat opened her mouth slightly and sang loudly.

Merlin smiled with satisfaction and nodded, "Very good, let's press on and convert all the 'black mud' in the Holy Grail into our own power, Mother Goddess of Creation!"

sizzle...

However, at this moment, a sound like an electric current suddenly came to my ears.

Merlin's eyes fixed, and he saw that Tiamat, who had just been suspended in mid-air swallowing the "Tide of Chaos", now seemed to have a crack quietly opening beside her.

An extremely terrifying aura gushed out from the crack.

Merlin's expression changed slightly at the sudden change: "Not good! We need to make her stop first!"

Tiamat's true body has been in a dormant state, and now after the 'spirit' summoned by Alvin has devoured the tide of chaos, this power has been directly transmitted to the true body in the imaginary world.

If he continued to 'eat' like this...Fuyuki's Beast might not evolve into a complete Beast, but Tiamat in the imaginary world would awaken.

Alvin immediately made an "Aaa" sound towards Tiamat in mid-air, calling her back to his side.

Tiamat looked at Alvin with sparkling eyes, as if to ask for praise, as if to say "please praise me", and she seemed not to notice that the two British brothers were already having a headache.

Because the black mud in the Holy Grail was mixed with the tide of chaos, Merlin had originally expected that Tiamat should be able to easily swallow up the "black mud" in the Holy Grail.

However, even Merlin did not expect that Tiamat's true form seemed to be close to waking up. If it was disturbed by any external force, once Tiamat's true form woke up... then the most troublesome thing would not be Fuyuki's beast.

"Now that things have come to this... we can only think of another way."

Merlin sighed after a brief silence and said, "No matter what, the Mother Goddess of Creation takes precedence over Fuyuki's Beast... but her true form must never awaken."

Having said that, he couldn't help but rub his eyebrows with a headache again.

Unexpectedly, before one problem was solved, a new one arose.

At this time, Tiamat poked Alvin's arm and took out a small notebook from her bosom: "Did I do badly?"

When she asked this question, her eyes were full of anxiety and uneasiness, as if she was afraid that Alvin would accuse her of something.

As if sensing what the woman was thinking, Alvin couldn't help but laugh: "...You've done very well. I'll find a way to handle the rest."

As he spoke, he gently touched Tiamat's head.

Tiamat looked up and stared into the boy's eyes, and a smile finally appeared on her cute face.

"Keep calling me if you have any trouble."

After writing these words in the notebook again, Tiamat disappeared quietly.

Silence gradually fell on Mount Enzo. Merlin gazed into the deep night and sighed softly, "I'll think of a solution when I get back. No matter what, I can't leave that young Beast alone."

The destructive power of the juvenile Beast and the complete Beast can be said to be two completely different concepts.

But if even Tiamat cannot 'purify' the Holy Grail, who else can devour this 'black mud'?

For a moment, Merlin fell into deep thought for a long time.

……