"Found him? Did he leave the magical workshop?"
Caster was a little surprised. Although she had only seen Roland's Shadowkhan a few times in the past two days, in terms of functionality, these seemingly ordinary ninja soldiers were even more powerful than her Dragon Fang Soldiers. They were even better at concealment, and were comparable to countless assassins working together in searching for intelligence.
In just one day, Roland had all the information about other Heroic Spirits and Masters' bases under his control, except for Darnic, who was nowhere to be found. Caster was still wondering if he had used some special Noble Phantasm to do this.
"It's not like he left," Roland said with a strange expression, "He just hid in a special place."
With the help of the shadow ninja's vision, he realized that Darnic was not hiding in a place where the ninja soldiers could not find him, but in a place with a very low priority, so it took so much time.
In the face of Caster's puzzled look, Roland waved his hand: "Anyway, you'll know when you come and see."
The kneeling black shadow ninja gradually turned into a dark vortex, spreading to the feet of Roland and Medea and swallowing them.
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In a dark and closed corridor, with the flickering lights above, a heavy and solemn atmosphere filled the entire corridor.
The two magic furnaces in the center of the corridor whistled, causing the magic power to spread like electric current, filling the square space.
And Darnic was concentrating on looking at the illusory scene in the water mirror that was gathering like fog under the light.
"King Arthur and the King of Conquerors, it seems that the masters of this session have put in a lot of effort."
Darnic muttered, his face looking a little gloomy.
Then, he asked the figure behind him, "Can you handle them, Lancer?"
The figure stood quietly in the shadow where no light was shining, and answered in a calm voice.
"That rider is fine, but if he becomes an enemy of the Holy Sword Master, I can't guarantee how things will turn out."
"That's enough."
Darnic nodded. As a survivor of the last Holy Grail War, after witnessing the terrible battles between Servants many times, he still believed in Lancer's words. Although there were some accidents during the process, in terms of performance, Lancer's strength was unquestionable.
"By the way, Master, where are the homunculi in your magical workshop? After you activated the magical workshop to prevent prying eyes, they all disappeared."
"They should be guarding outside the magical workshop. However, they don't have the tools of the soul, so they can't touch the special branch of magical workshop that has been transformed into Another World, the Dream World."
Bounded Field, this is one of the essential abilities of the best magical workshop.
Although it is not as strong as the Reality Marble formed by mental images, with the supply of powerful magic, it is also possible to replace the magical workshop with the desired Another World.
In this case, unreasonable things like infinitely overlapping corridors, mazes that cannot be exited, and buildings that regenerate once destroyed can all be freely generated according to the wishes of the magical workshop owner.
This absolute dominance means that the magus in the magical workshop can even freely change the distance of space and fight against the incoming enemy in the way he wants.
And Darnic, during these sixty years, has conducted more in-depth research on this. The entanglement of dreams and souls has allowed him to successfully develop a method to place the magical workshop in a different world called dreams.
Here, the mysterious quality is the key source that determines whether damage can be caused. Ordinary magic cannot hurt Darnic at all in the face of the strange world called dreams.
"Although the damage in dreams will return to reality after the transformation to another world ends, among all these magics, the only one with such high-level magic that can still work in dreams is probably Kayneth."
Darnic's mouth curled up with a hint of pride on his face.
"And the Servants, only souls with real quality can appear here. In front of the mystery of the Servants, you cannot resist."
The Lancer hiding in the shadows showed no emotion, but pointed out the shortcomings of Darnic as if he was evaluating the pros and cons of a weapon.
"Yes, and this is another paradox. The moment the workshop is activated, this place is already a dream. If you want to kill me, you have to destroy the magical workshop first. But this is already a different world called a dream. How can you find this place?"
Danic felt that he had already established himself as an invincible person. He said, "No matter what kind of familiar or servant it is, if they don't know that I am hiding in a dream, they won't be able to find my trace."
"That's not entirely true, Master."
Suddenly, Lancer stretched out a hand and blocked Darnic behind him.
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Darnic, who didn't know what was going on, frowned, but his past experience didn't make him hesitate too much, and he chose to trust Lancer's actions.
Sure enough, the next moment, in this hazy alien world, countless black shadows appeared out of thin air, and soldiers in ninja costumes floated up from the shadows and slowly surrounded Darnic and Lancer.
"How is this possible? This is a dream..."
Darnic easily determined the identity of the other party's familiar from the similar ninja attire, so he felt uncontrollable shock.
They can even travel freely in dreams. What are these familiars made of?
But after seeing these familiars, Lancer became even more nervous.
"Be careful, Master, this is an attack from another group."
As Lancer spoke, the black shadow ninjas that surrounded the two of them suddenly moved to the side, leaving a main path, as if they were respecting the arrival of their master.
Roland stepped out from the shadows, looked at the vigilant master and servant, and gave a gentle greeting.
"It was really hard for me to find you, Darnic."
"Master of Caster, what do you want to do?"
"I just want to observe whether you are worthy of being the first to be killed, and what conspiracy you are hiding."
Roland narrowed his eyes and looked at Darnic who was behind the Lancer.
This guy is worthy of being the Master of the last Holy Grail War. He has mastered the essence of hiding, has no illusions, and always stays with his servants.
This technology hidden in dreams is also very interesting. If it is not the Shadowkhan, Roland would not realize that this is a dream unless he sees this magical workshop with his own eyes.
But compared to this, Roland was more curious about the Heroic Spirit summoned by this guy.
For the Masters of the Holy Grail War, who cannot know the identities of their Servants, the best way to judge their strengths is to observe their attributes.
Therefore, when Lancelot of the original work first appeared, because he was protected by a treasure, the masters present were all confused about his identity.
But the situation Roland encountered was even worse than that.
The quality of the Master will affect the Servant's abilities. Even if it is replaced by an artificial human like Irisviel, Saber's attributes will be high and low. However, this Lancer, whose true face has not been revealed, has all B in five dimensional attributes.
There is no exception, the balance is almost weird.