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12-26 The Holy Grail under the Royal Capital

Satou's here Using a polluted holy thing for a heretic ritual seely major in fiction Why don't the competent people of the heretics just make an evil container froe obsession

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I leave the sakuraround cave with Flash Drive, and round cave with earth e in an instant, I coe cave It has elliptical shape with enough space that could hold a whole stadiuround is littered with several hundredsfrom the shabby clothes, they're corpses of laborers, prostitutes, beggars, orphans, and beastkin people I understand that they weren't killed all at once looking at the piled up dust above the corpses

--I'll bury them properly after this incident is over

There's a lit bonfire on the opposite side of where I descended in the interior part of this cave, and a golden cup on top of a violet pedestal

That's probably the Holy Grail

Severalso it with the men, it seems the Holy Grail is about five ic power fros happen

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I ju their ritual

"Who are you! Are you obstructing the ritual! Foolish pretend hero!"

Thebubbles fro a violet overcoat that cover his head and has water buffalo's horns on it

Thisthe Light of Liberty's members

This noble's second son is the only one who doesn't participate in the ritual

He probably can't chant like oing to say so stopping their ritual

I quickly strike every Light of Liberty ic hit the members' bodies, but they couldn't actually stop it, and it succeeded crushing the blood

Of course I'h level people were h to make them faint

"Th-the ritual!"

The noble's second son falls down and can't stand up when he saw theknocked down

This man is the only very low leveled one with his level 3, so I didn't shoot him with the [Short Stun]

He'd probably die if I did

I hit hi the noble second son

I can question the detail later

The Holy Grail is ht now

I rail is filled with transparent amber-colored liquid inside

This amber-colored liquid is etting closer to the Holy Grail, I can feel the pressure froic Essence (Mana) It feels si from holy sword Excalibur when it's fully filled

However, unlike with the holy sword, I feel sinister dread, or rather so of rejection co personal i to the Holy Grail

First, I tried putting it into e just as is, but it wasn't possible

It can't be helped, so I'ic power

I slowly touch the Holy Grail and extract its e resistance, it's quite difficult It feels like the extracted

I extract theit apart

I put the extracted ic power into holy sword Durandal of course

>[Curse Resistance] Acquired

>[Chaos Resistance] Acquired

--Oh, it's been awhile since the last resistance skill I got

I allot both resistance skills with maximu in

"You foolish hero! Be cursed by the Holy Grail and attain demon lord-hod!　Be reborn as an apostle of Evil God and become our brethren!"

The noble's second son who seeson the ground

--He woke up already huh It see drainingthe noble's second son

The ic power that I had absorbed went back when I was just allocating points earlier

The ic power inside the Holy Grail is a lot as expected, there's still half of it even though Durandal is at full capacity

How long did this thing accue Durandal with a prototype holy sword e, and drain the Grail's ic power into it

"It can't be It took several ic power frole person shouldn't have been possibly able to do anything"

The noble's second son as laughing loudly up till now changes to half sins to talk in deliriuic power until it's around 10 left

I can just arrest and bring the at theevenly with the sakuramochi demon, I want to quickly settle this and join the is Daamnnn you Herooo"

The noble's second son repeatedly cursesatto actually do anything

When the reic power of the Holy Grail is at around 5, the Grail begins to strangely vibrate and e sound

Before I knew it, jet black tar-like liquid is accumulated on the bottom of the Holy Grail It seems this tar-like liquid is the reason why there are resistances when I'ic power

The tar-like liquid on the botto like an indeterminate life form

"■ Tusk Fly Swarm Summon (Summon Moskoff)"

One of the fallenunnoticed, and summoned swarms of fist-sized fly

"■ Faith Death Soldiers (Aniic, changing theundeads

Other ht have ht of them as just normal humans

I'll reflect on it later

I have to prioritize disposing these guys for now

I stop trying to neutralize the Holy Grail temporarily, and deal with the current situation

I destroy the ic] in packs

It seeic, the ones that are hit by ain

I burn down the flying tusk fly swarms with [Fire Shot]

On the other side, the s, hold thes like they're praying

"""O Long Horn, feed on our despair in exchange of tyrannical power"""

That [Long Horn] should be an itee someone into a ing around the third prince using that in the Duchy Capital

TheHorns] into their foreheads

--Like I'll let you

I use [Magic Hand] to take the [Long Horns] fro things fro fro [Re ropesaway their equipet back to the Holy Grail, and thejet black liquid has turned into oval-shaped crystal the size of a softball

The ite it

According to AR reading, it's [Evil Thought Crystal (Evil Philosophy)]

Since the Holy Grail's state was 'chaos', I' I've got enough evil god with the [Dog-head De for the ti

Geometric violet lines of flashes sometimes appear and disappear on the jet black sphere Its color and shape are different, but it looks similar to the Crimson Treasure of Furu Empire

I steel e

I was on guard for a bit, but I didn't get cursed or so

I'd like to relinquish it if possible, but carelessly throwing it away could create unnecessary incidents, so I can't

I can just throw it to the sun when I've become able to chant

The [Evil Philosophy] seeht earlier as the Holy Grail is now e