"Then let us begin this meeting. First, I must inform everyone of the existence hidden behind this Holy Grail War. Its name is the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars. As for what purpose these Demon God Pillars harbor, I have roughly guessed it. Regarding evidence....."
Aslan took a gentle sip of tea, then cast his gaze upon his magecraft teacher, Morgan. Although his Fairy Letters could also perform memory extraction, Morgan should be able to use magecraft to display the situation of that time in greater detail.
"Morgan-sensei, I will trouble you with the scene reproduction."
Morgan nodded. She even removed her black veil to demonstrate her sincerity. Then, she raised her hand and began using magecraft to retrace the scene of when she encountered the attack.
It was not just this; Aslan also nodded towards Shinji. This child also possessed a portion of video recording. Although it could not display everything like magecraft could, it was sufficient to corroborate that the images retraced by Morgan belonged to the actual situation. This was enough. If anyone still believed this was all a setup by Aslan's group, then Aslan had nothing more to say.
There should be no Heroic Spirit stupid enough to believe all this was a setup, Berserker excluded..... After all, most summoned Berserkers were existences without reason.
It was also thanks to the fact that during the battle with Morgan, the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars exposed their own identity. Otherwise, it would have been truly difficult to explain this fellow's danger.
However, the fact that the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars appeared in such a somewhat disgusting form did indeed shock everyone.
"I see. So the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars look like this..."
Marisbury looked at the image before him, resting his chin on his hand. This was rare and precious intelligence. If he took it to the magus world to sell, he would surely obtain a decent reward. After all, there were still quite a few people conducting research on the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars, but because the era was too distant from the present, most data was long incomplete.
He could use this intelligence and some video data to drag a few more magi to work in Antarctica.
Thinking of this, Marisbury curled the corners of his mouth. In any case, this was a good thing for him. The stronger Chaldea became, the stronger the power to maintain Human Order would be, the safer this world would be, and his long-cherished wish would tend more towards success and completeness.
However.....
Marisbury observed the others. The expressions on the others' faces at this moment could not be considered very good. After all, those were the legendary Demon God Pillars. For magi of this era, they could indeed be counted as unimaginably existences. It was just like ordinary people seeing a long-extinct dinosaur in a zoo.
After all, anyone who had researched the Demon God Pillars would discover that since the era of King Solomon, the Demon God Pillars had not appeared in human vision again. There was a full 3,000 years between then and now. Many guessed that the Demon God Pillars had died or been destroyed along with King Solomon's death. They did not expect to encounter a situation where the Demon God Pillars were squeezed into a single physical body in this era.
"As for what kind of purpose these fellows harbor, it should be to retrieve Solomon's body, and then incinerate Human Order. When Human Order is completely burned away, the traces left by humanity in this era and the achievements left by Heroic Spirits will all be brought to a close. Everything starts from zero. Simply put, it is the denial of everything present."
All Heroic Spirits, whether existences engraved in human history with glorious achievements or Anti-Heroes, are existences entrusted to human history. If this segment of human history were completely burned away, even if a new world appeared, the Heroic Spirits would cease to exist. This is equivalent to denying all of humanity's achievements to date.
It even denies everything since life was born on this planet.
How should one describe these Demon God Pillars? Perhaps they can only be described as arrogant. And extremely arrogant at that. Even gods would not dare to say they would deny everything since the birth of life on this planet, yet these Demon God Pillars dare to deny it so. It is beyond description.
"I know that uniting all Heroic Spirits now to besiege the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars may cause certain losses to everyone. On behalf of Chaldea, I can promise you all that if you have any need for Chaldea's assistance in the future, Chaldea will certainly lend a hand. Why not take a tour of Antarctica after this Holy Grail War ends to see how strong our Chaldea is?"
Marisbury made his promise to the crowd. Or rather, he looked like an old fox smiling at everyone, waving his paws and flicking his flame-like tail, attracting everyone into his "trap". Judging by Chaldea's existing magus resources, various data resources, and high-tech products, there was no reason a magus would choose to leave after seeing these.
Every time he saw magi widen their eyes and decide to stay because of Chaldea's various infrastructures, Marisbury felt that all the money he spent was worth it.
It was truly not in vain that he often lay in the infirmary feeling like his life was ending soon, nor was it in vain that he emptied his family fortune to build Chaldea in Antarctica. He was completely different from those magi who valued family background and bloodline; he welcomed any magus and researcher to join Antarctica.
Even that boy who appeared to have only amateur magical ability was the same. This boy was a descendant of the Muramasa family, right? After growing up in the future, he might not be inferior to his ancestor. By then, Chaldea would have quite decent equipment to use.
How should one put it? If not for the need to hide the magus world from the vision of normal people, Marisbury would want to post a recruitment advertisement worldwide. He! Marisbury! Refused no one as long as they were talented.
In short, after hearing that the enemy was the legendary Demon God Pillars, alliance naturally became the only way out. At least, combination groups other than the Artoria siblings had no way to deal with this bunch of Demon God Pillars. They couldn't just exit this Holy Grail War directly without gaining any benefits, right?
Kiritsugu's goal had basically been achieved. Based on the alliance in this Holy Grail War, exchanging for a new body for his daughter would be no problem. Rin, on the other hand, began to think about how to rely on this Lord Marisbury to realize the revival of her family, at least to stop the family from continuing to decline.