After collecting all the valuable items from the study, Lynch immediately began the operation of chasing down the Old Worm while continuing to collect all other valuables.
Although the inventory provided by the amusement system was not infinitely large, its area was considerable, about half the size of a football field, and it had a height of five meters, making for a huge space.
With such a large system inventory, if it weren’t for the inability to directly load the entire Matou Residence into it, Lynch might have done just that.
The method of loading was also very simple: as long as an item was held in the hand, it could be directly loaded.
This ‘holding’ was merely an action and did not require actually lifting the item, so even larger items could be loaded directly.
This was precisely the situation now.
Amidst the magic explosion created by Matou Zouken, Lynch used the Iron Man Armor to block the explosion while collecting everything that looked valuable.
The books in the study, though appearing to be just books, were quite valuable in the magical world, considering they belonged to a family of mages with a centuries-old lineage and an ancestor who was still alive.
The same went for the safes and various antique ornaments.
Anyway, selling these items later could be entrusted directly to Aozaki Touko.
All Lynch needed to do was transform into a’Storm Plunderer’.
Now, the Old Worm had transformed into many insects, scattering throughout the Matou Residence.
This old thing, after years of modification, had long ceased to be human.
His body was an aggregate of insects, capable of transforming into numerous insects when needed.
However, this method was bound to have a core, and in fact, Matou Zouken did have a core insect, which was his true body.
In the original Fate story, after completing the modification of Matou Sakura’s body, he hid his true body within Matou Sakura, making him extremely difficult to kill.
He was one of the hardest entities to kill in both the Fourth Holy Grail War and the Fifth Holy Grail War, truly a scourge that lasted a thousand years.
However, although his abilities were bizarre and insidious, when facing the special character ‘Iron Man Tohsaka Tokiomi’ created by Lynch, he encountered a true dimensional reduction attack.
He was now completely unable to cope with Lynch’s assault.
Some insects tried to escape, but as soon as they went out, they were attacked by small muzzles that suddenly appeared in the air.
These were Lynch’s detached nanobots.
They hid in the air and would quickly combine to form a small floating gun when needed, attacking locked targets.
Undoubtedly, this technology was quite outrageous; it didn’t even exist in Marvel movies and was more akin to comic book settings.
But Lynch, in the ‘Iron Man Tokiomi’ setting, had incorporated his technology into this world’s magic system.
Therefore, this Iron Man Armor also combined the Lunar Cell Liquid technology held by Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald, the ‘Lord’ of the Clock Tower and the most tragic character of the Fourth Holy Grail War.
With the help of this top-tier magic system, it achieved the effect of transmitting energy across space, allowing the nanobot armor to freely divide and be remotely controlled.
Hmm, this thing looks ridiculous no matter how you look at it, a classic example of ‘I thought so’ power, where settings are filled in with little thought.
But it’s still the same principle: as long as it’s reasonable and the setting is deemed valid, the amusement system will implement the function when modifying the character card settings.
This was the case now.
Lynch used this method to seal off the entire Matou Residence.
As long as Matou Zouken tried to escape, even if he tried to flee underground, it would be useless; he wouldn’t be able to escape.
After all, various detection functions are the most basic.
With the black technology support of the Iron Man Armor, the area fifty meters underground of the Matou Residence had been scanned.
Clearly, with Matou Zouken’s abilities, he couldn’t hide that deep.
At most, he would just try to escape through the sewers.
These areas would naturally be directly sealed by Lynch, leaving Matou Zouken with nowhere to run.
Matou Zouken quickly discovered this, which filled him with both shock and rage.
He attempted to counterattack, but couldn’t even get close—the Iron Man Armor could emit infrasound waves that normal people couldn’t hear, but these infrasound waves caused immense damage to Matou Zouken’s various insects, with those that got too close dying instantly.
Truly – a natural enemy.
Matou Zouken was terrified, profoundly so.
The old man, who had lived for hundreds of years, had never encountered such a situation.
Even though he had seen various powerful beings, and even the Second Magician, Zelretch, those beings were more powerful than the iron man before him.
Yet, none of them had ever formed such an absolute and complete counter to him as this iron man.
No way to heaven, no door to earth.
Escape was useless, fighting was powerless.
Why did such a situation arise?
Why was this happening?
Matou Zouken couldn’t understand.
What grudge or enmity did the iron man before him have against him?
Why use such targeted methods against him, completely leaving him no way to live?
Fear, confusion, panic.
All sorts of emotions intertwined in the heart of this old monster who had lived for hundreds of years, making him seem as if he had a confusion debuff stacked on him.
Live!
I must live!
I have to live!
The Old Worm roared and shrieked, his will to survive boiling over.
He could not accept such a result, such a situation.
He had struggled to live until now, had finally seen the hope of eternal life through the Holy Grail.
Matou Zouken was unwilling to be killed like this.
Abandoning family, abandoning the past, abandoning ideals.
Matou Zouken, with only the rotten and humble will to ‘live’ remaining, just wanted to survive.
And so, Matou Zouken headed towards another room on the second floor.
In that room were two other people: Matou Tsuruno, Matou Zouken’s son, and Matou Shinji, Matou Zouken’s grandson.
Matou Zouken wanted to use these two as vessels to potentially keep himself alive.
Even if there was only a sliver of hope, Matou Zouken would try, even if both of his blood relatives would die as a result.
Because Matou Zouken only wanted himself to live.
Hehe, this old man must live!
This was Matou Zouken’s obsession.
Amidst this obsession, his intense emotions and fixation continuously generated fun points.
In a short amount of time, he was about to exhaust all the fun points he could generate at once.
Meanwhile, in a bedroom at the end of the second-floor corridor, Matou Tsuruno and Matou Shinji, father and son, were huddled together, trembling.
When Lynch’s intrusion into the Matou Residence caused a huge commotion, the father and son heard the booming sounds and were startled.
Afterward, Matou Tsuruno, the father, immediately ran to his son Matou Shinji’s room, and then they both hid in a corner of the room.
Undoubtedly, as Matou Zouken’s son, Matou Tsuruno’s life was quite tragic.
From the moment he was born, he was regarded by Matou Zouken as a backup body.
Furthermore, not long after Matou Shinji was born, Matou Zouken, in front of Matou Tsuruno, threw Matou Tsuruno’s beloved wife into the worm pit, where she was devoured.
At that moment, Matou Tsuruno suffered a tremendous blow, and he was even unable to resist Matou Zouken.
He was truly powerless, so he completely gave up, drinking heavily every day, committing entirely to depravity.
In a sense, this was also a ridiculous form of resistance—Matou Zouken used his body as a backup vessel, right?
Then he would willingly fall into depravity, completely give up, and ruin his own body.
It must be said, this was both ridiculous and tragic.
However, Matou Tsuruno was still a father.
Therefore, not yet drunk this evening, upon hearing the commotion, he immediately ran to protect his son, Matou Shinji, who was terrified by the sounds outside.