The Cursed Gamer, Book 3

353: The Grail (2)

Chapter 353: The Grail (2)

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"So how do we use it?"

"Err, I don't know. I think just holding it and wishing for something will work?"

Inside the castle of Babylon, only Neji and Rumi remained. If something were to go wrong, he didn't want Siduri or anyone else to suffer from it.

The yellow rocks that the castle was made of, shone gently from the fire torches that were lining up the wall. It was nighttime already, and the party outside was coming to a slow end.

Neji and Rumi stood beneath the staircase that led to the high throne. They stood there and contemplated. Soon realizing that there was no point in theorizing, Neji grabbed the goblet with his hand and chanted.

"Summon Merlin and Medusa."

Usually, summoning servants would require some hard-to-get things. However, with the omnipotent wish-granting device that was the Grail, it was all too easy to summon any servant. With just a name alone.

Merlin and Medusa were summoned by Gilgamesh, in the original 7th Singularity. But since Gilgamesh used the Grail to summon Neji this time, that incident didn't happen.

Neji had planned from the start to summon Merlin—knowing how helpful he will be and also to learn a few spells from him. As for Medusa, in the original timeline, her loli version was summoned as a plan to fight against the Goddess Gorgon, who was a variant of Medusa too. While Neji didn't need another Medusa to defeat Gorgon, he was impressed by the merge of two Medusas and her power level.

That's why he chose to summon these two in particular.

The golden cup that was the Holy Grail shimmered faintly. The light blinded the room and a surge of mana left the goblet. An incredulous and unimaginable amount of mana concentrated on two spots before Neji. Neji waited with Rumi and witnessed the summoning procedure—the magic energy focusing to create magic circles that soon projected two forms.

Two figures appeared above the magic circle that was on the floor. The golden magic circle vanished slowly, leaving the two people—two girls—in front of Neji and Rumi.

"Huh," Rumi had her arms crossed. "Wasn't Merlin supposed to be a guy?"

"I am not sure, but I think this is Merlin from Fate/Prototype. I am not surprised the summon brought a girl. My luck is too good."

["Thank you. I personally had nothing to do with it though."] Loli Luck's voice added after Neji's comment.

In the meantime, the two summoned girls looked around and observed the place.

One was a pink-haired hottie who was a little taller than Merlin, but in contrast to her original timeline self, she was curvy as hell. Her eyes were pink and had snake-like slits, and she was wielding a dagger that had a chain attached at the end of it. Her body was mature and hot, calling all observers to come to touch her.

That was Medusa, coming from the Rider Class.

[Medusa – Snake-Human – Peak Tier 14]

"She's kinda hot."

Rumi leaned over and whispered to Neji, who looked stunned.

"Wait, you're into girls now?"

"No. I am just saying. But if I was, you have Kimi to blame."

"Fair."

Moving along, the other summon was a white-haired and pink-eyed beauty of shy stature. She was wielding a silver staff with a large blue gem on its top.