Chapter 576: Chapter 576: A Reality More Cruel Than a Nightmare
The first night of the Holy Grail War had just ended.
A new day arrived again.
What happened in just one night shocked all circles.
The storm caused by the battle between Gilgamesh and Enkidu alone had already horrified the intelligence agencies of various countries.
Even the Mage's Association in Great Britain, far away on the other side of the earth, clearly captured the magical fluctuations emitted by the two in battle.
Although it was expected, they were still shocked by the Holy Grail War in Snowfield City when they actually witnessed it.
The US official could only cover up the surface of society.
On the mystical side, they were unable to do so, and the appearance of a meteorite crater out of thin air could not be covered up at all.
But, the accidents were far from over.
Strange things were still happening.
"Next is the weather forecast. The low pressure occurring in western Las Vegas is currently—"
The content broadcast on the TV was the usual information.
The citizens of Snowfield City looked at the subsequent climate information and went to work with mixed feelings of joy and worry.
Currently, Snowfield City has not yet experienced chaos or panic.
The citizens who welcomed the second morning of the war were still enjoying the stability that the world had given them.
However, the flaws had already begun to appear in a clear form—
A gas pipeline explosion occurred in the desert area.
Many pets were sent to animal hospitals by their owners, their skin covered with a large number of black spots, suspected of suffering from skin diseases.
People accompanied by their families were taken to the psychiatric department of the hospital, telling the doctor that they "don't want to leave this city."
The collapse of a historic opera house.
A terrorist operation was launched against the police station, believed to be in order to recapture detained criminals. The operation even affected the adjacent hotel.
Despite so many shocking things happening in the city, people were still living their lives as usual.
For those who had not directly encountered these things.
It seemed like something too far away.
Immersed in the stability brought by modern society, people's alertness as living beings was paralyzed.
Before the real panic appeared.
Even if people noticed it, they would deliberately avoid looking into the abyss, because people subconsciously knew the consequences.
—If you look into the abyss, you cannot maintain normalcy.
Therefore, people believed in stability.
They believed that the city was just "accidentally" experiencing frequent accidents, and it would stabilize after a while.
Although there was no evidence to guarantee it.
However, people had a strange confidence, and no one thought that they were in a vortex of madness.
In fact, it was not that the citizens of Snowfield City were stupid.
But it was a premeditated phenomenon.
The city had laid out color schemes in the scientific field that induced specific psychological effects, and set up suggestions that would only be activated when many elements overlapped, deeply affecting the minds of the residents.
During this period, there was also the participation of US government agencies, and it took more than eighty years just to build these.
To this day, the mastermind is still hiding these things.
Hiding it from the many magi passing through, hiding it from the many social scholars who were suspicious of the city's rapid development, and even hiding it from the residents who actually lived here and ran their lives.
In this city called Snowfield, these people had long assumed that this kind of situation would occur, and had applied huge and vague suggestions that could prevent panic to a certain extent.
The lives of 800,000 people were put on the table as chips.
People went to work and lived their lives without knowing anything.
They had no idea that they and the city itself were sacrifices used to offer to the false Holy Grail.
Even if all the citizens of the city knew the truth.
Presumably, it would not matter to those who arranged all of this behind the scenes. Even if it was really exposed, they would think that it was better to nip the fire in the bud than to let the news spread outward and further expand the damage.
In short, they did not even allow the residents of the city to have the opportunity to panic—this was a reality more cruel than a nightmare.
Although some people in this Holy Grail War wanted to save the city.
But, their existence was too small, too small.
Take the police chief Orlando, for example, he was now busy dealing with the post-war concealment problems left over from the first night of the Holy Grail War.
Although, he was not the only one doing this.
Faldeus, who represented the high-level officials of the United States, was also in charge, but both of them felt a stomachache at the same time.
However, this was only the first night.
Even the thirteen heroic spirits had not been summoned completely, and it was hard to imagine how to hide the mysteries afterwards.
Or rather, hiding this Holy Grail War…
Was itself a big joke.
Perhaps stimulated by the performance of those servants and masters in the first night of the Holy Grail War.
The remaining masters holding command seals were also seizing the time to complete the heroic spirit summoning.
The Holy Grail War mechanism in Snowfield City was relatively special.
Because it was a false Holy Grail War, the number of heroic spirits manifested reached an abnormal thirteen.
First of all, there was only one Saber among these thirteen.
The first six were called the false six, and only after the six false servants were summoned could the remaining seven true servants be summoned.
The first of the True Seven to be summoned.
It absolutely had to be Saber.
If Saber hadn't been summoned first, the remaining six True Servants couldn't be summoned at all.
To some extent, those who knew this information were limited.
Only Faldeus and Francesca, the masterminds, and Orlando within the police department were aware.
However, Britain, knowing this intelligence, interfered and seized Saber, who originally belonged to Faldeus's side.
It could be said that the Mage's Association's operation planted on Faldeus gave Britain a significant advantage.
At this moment, all of the false six servants have been summoned.
Now that Richard, as Saber, has been summoned, the remaining actors can also take the stage.
On the second day after the first night of the Holy Grail War.
The remaining six true Servants will manifest in Snowfield City, and the drama will become even more dazzling with them.
Snowfield, power plant, underground.
Having spent the first night of the Holy Grail War.
After learning from Francesca that the Saber-class Servant had manifested, the magus Haruri, a specialist in black magecraft, planned to strike while the iron was hot and summon the True Berserker as soon as possible.
However, an accident occurred—
"Ugh…"
A whimper of pain could be faintly heard.
The girl lay in a pool of blood.
Her chest ribs were nearly shattered by the heavy blow.
Blood mixed with fragments of internal organs flowed out, and she felt the flame of life gradually cooling and dimming.
And the one who caused all this was none other than the True Berserker she had summoned.