Chapter 72

"What is that...?" Inside two F-15 fighter jets, pilots Yagi and Kobayashi looked down with puzzled expressions at the massive, fog-obscured figure below. Although they couldn't see it clearly, the general outline was enough to tell them that there was a huge object moving below.

"Control Center calling Diablo I. Please report the situation." But what could they report? A monster? Saying that in a monitored situation would definitely get them fired. However, from the fog, they could vaguely see several massive tentacles. For both Yagi and Kobayashi, it was hard to describe this thing.

"Then... if we descend, we should be able to see it clearly." Kobayashi moved the control stick, and the F-15 completed a turn, heading towards the fog-shrouded figure.

"Get closer, a bit closer, and we should be able to... Whoa?!" For Kobayashi, an unknown reason caused the controls to malfunction, and the entire fighter jet was pulled by something that even a subsonic F-15 couldn't break free from. From Xunxin's perspective, dozens of tentacles, thick enough for two people to hug, quickly extended from the water, tightly wrapping around the F-15's fuselage.

"Tch, have you been watching all those special effects shows for nothing? Facing an unknown monster, rushing in recklessly is just asking for trouble." Although he said that, Xunxin couldn't just watch someone die in front of him. As the sea monster was about to swallow the fighter jet, Xunxin opened a spatial portal to the cockpit and pulled out Kobayashi's seat along with the malfunctioning ejection system.

"Ah, ah... I'm still alive?" The narrowly escaped Kobayashi looked around, seeing himself being held by a man with blue wings, while around him, people in various ancient costumes were performing impossible human feats to combat the monster.

"Anyway, don't get in the way. Leave this to us professionals. You go rest by the river." Opening the spatial portal again, Xunxin threw Kobayashi to the riverside. However, Yagi, who was in the air, couldn't see this interaction. With Yagi's eyesight, he could only see his friend's fighter jet being dragged into the sea monster's body, only to be swallowed after emitting some sparks.

"Control Center calling Diablo I. What happened? Report immediately!" The uninformed control center loudly asked Yagi, but Yagi, now consumed by anger and fear, couldn't respond normally.

"eyes, lots of eyes... Diablo I, engage!" The F-15 completed a turn in the air and rushed towards the sea monster.

"Wait, wait, Yagi, what's going on?" On the brink of losing his sanity, Yagi cut off the communication, armed all the weapons, and, as the world's most advanced fighter jet, the F-15 was equipped with four AIM-7 Sparrows, four AIM-9 Sidewinders, and 940 rounds of the M61 Vulcan cannon, making it a small arsenal. In the F-15 breaking the sound barrier, Yagi aimed the targeting system at the sea monster. On the other side, Xunxin, seeing the F-15 diving at high speed, helplessly opened the communicator.

"Yan Ye, materialize Berserker on that plane and take control." Putting down the communicator, Xunxin had to follow the original plot and let Lancelot use the Knight's Immortality to control the plane. After all, pulling the pilot out of a supersonic F-15 was like carving a micro-sculpture on a flying bullet, and Xunxin had to keep the spatial portal open to do this. If he pulled Yagi out and didn't close the portal in time, a bunch of severed parts of the plane could fly over and hit Xunxin with a face full of metal and oil. Though he wouldn't be injured, no one wanted to be covered in strange-smelling oil.

Fortunately, Lancelot didn't let him down. After materializing on the fighter jet, Lancelot's armor ejected several anchor points to secure him to the supersonic aircraft. The chaotic and murderous magic power eroded the entire aircraft, and within a few seconds, Lancelot took control of the F-15 and transformed it into a Noble Phantasm. Seeing Xunxin's actions, Yan Ye, who also didn't want innocent people to die, ordered Lancelot to hover in the air. Although Lancelot, as a Berserker, was hard to control, the Yan Ye after Xunxin's training had significantly improved his control over Lancelot and could simply control his actions. After the transformation, the F-15's wings folded down, and the magic-modified wings emitted blue-purple flames, allowing the transformed aircraft to hover in the air, an action no normal plane could perform. Xunxin opened two spatial portals as usual, grabbed the nearly insane pilot, and threw him into the portal leading to the riverside.

"Truly a bunch of death-seekers. Don't they know that the military planes sent to face monsters are just cannon fodder..." Dodging a tentacle, Xunxin slashed out a dozen air blades, leaving large wounds on the sea monster. Unfortunately, the sea monster's regenerative ability hadn't declined, and it quickly recovered from the wounds like a balloon being inflated. However, Xunxin didn't mind. He glanced at the gray-haired figure on the top of the high-rise apartment closest to the Vimana where Gilgamesh was, and continued his attack on the sea monster.

On the Vimana, Kirei Kotomine sighed in relief. He thought the magic would be exposed in the report from the government's fighter jets, but the incredibly powerful master of the red Saber had solved this problem for him. However, the strength Xunxin displayed also made Kirei break out in a cold sweat. The firepower of a single person even surpassed the total of the other Servants, and he even used the Second Magic of space manipulation, which was related to the Jewel King. Xunxin's threat was now ranked above all the Servants in Kirei's estimation.

"This mad dog didn't come to challenge me, how boring." Gilgamesh watched the Berserker piloting the F-15 to shoot at the sea monster, looking at Kirei. "Well, I don't want to waste time on this ugly monster, Shi..." A magic bullet glowing with blue light grazed Kirei's scalp, interrupting the King of Heroes. Kirei turned his gaze to the source of the magic bullet, where Yan Ye had been waiting on the rooftop of the apartment for a long time.

"O King, I will be the opponent of the Master." Kirei couldn't back down; this was a challenge to him, a noble. As the head of the Farbauti family, who had become a Crown-level mage with mediocre talent after countless trials, how could he retreat in the face of someone who had once abandoned the path of magic but returned to compete for the Holy Grail?

"Fine, let you have some fun." The King's words were interrupted, and Gilgamesh was very angry, but as the oldest king, he didn't need to deal with a Master himself. Such matters should be handled by his vassals. The Vimana flew over the apartment, and Kirei jumped down, landing gracefully on the ground with the help of gravity manipulation and air control magic, facing the man before him...

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