The days passed one by one, getting closer and closer to the time of the Fifth Holy Grail War. Those preparing to participate also began to search for the necessary catalysts. At the very least, Marisbury had not been in Antarctica for a long time, and had been searching all over the world for the catalyst he needed. After all, in order for his industry to continue to develop, this Lord of the Clock Tower was determined to find his target with the resolve to win.
However, this Lord of the Clock Tower probably couldn't find the catalyst of that King Solomon, as he had in the original timeline. After all, this world still had the butterfly, Aslan.
Whether it was when he was traveling the continent 1500 years ago, or when he was traveling the continent in these years, Aslan had always tried to avoid the worst possible outcome. So, finding King Solomon's tomb could be considered a must-do. But even 1500 years ago, King Solomon's tomb had already existed for about 1500 years, and it was now almost 3000 years away.
As early as 1500 years ago, when Aslan had found that tomb, it had already shown signs of damage. And the body of the king buried within had also been sealed by Aslan using special means, even using a portion of the island power of Great Britain.
At that time, Aslan was still a little happy. As long as that group of Demon God Pillars did not occupy this body at the first opportunity, then in the future, they could forget about using King Solomon's body. In fact, even the manifestation of the Demon Gods would probably require another medium. Just after Aslan had returned to this world, Aslan, who had mastered the technology of the machine gods, even took the time to return to that tomb again.
What he did there, needless to say. Of course, he used the technology of the machine gods to directly launch King Solomon's body into outer space. The reason Aslan didn't dare to use this technology before was, of course, because he couldn't pinpoint the location. Therefore, after he had traveled through space, it was uncertain whether he could return to Earth. But for a corpse that he absolutely did not want to return to Earth, to banish it into the universe was, of course, a good thing.
To know that something dangerous might happen and not take any action is a fool. One cannot really wait until the danger arrives and then deal with it. At that point, it would be too late. Even now, Aslan still had a few worries. After all, a few years ago, when he had gone to strengthen the seal and to banish that corpse, the seal he had set up back then did indeed have signs of wear and tear.
At the very least, after banishing that body to who knows how many light-years away in the universe, Aslan also breathed a sigh of relief. Because if that group of Demon God Pillars wanted to return to Earth, they could no longer use the body of the Magic King. Under such circumstances, even if they became a Beast, they probably wouldn't be able to use the Magic King's Noble Phantasm.
In that case, in this world, even if Goetia were to be born, he would only be an incomplete Beast, or a Beast in its larval stage. Most importantly, as long as he did not retrieve Solomon's body, Goetia should not have the immortal ability of "he will not die as long as Solomon is not dead."
In fact, Aslan had even pulled the ten rings from Solomon's remains, and had then launched them into the universe ten separate times at different times. If, under such circumstances, Marisbury could still summon Solomon, then Aslan, while feeling helpless, would also worry about how he should explain to Solomon that he had banished his remains into the endless universe. If he wasn't worried that destroying Solomon's body would release the seventy-two Demon God Pillars sealed within it, Aslan would have even wanted to divide Solomon's body into hundreds of pieces and launch them one by one into the universe.
Of course, whether doing so could make everything develop according to his own ideas was just Aslan's own speculation. (After all, he could only deduce based on the existing data. If there were discrepancies, just treat it as a different world.)
In addition, to avoid the occurrence of the "bleaching," Aslan had also, during his travels abroad these years, completely destroyed a certain Eagle Sauce's secret research institute. As for the research products inside, he had also used the technology of the machine gods to send them all into the universe.
He had truly given too much for this world.
It was a pity that these things could not be spoken of, and no one gave him a salary. Most importantly, Marisbury had his sights set on Solomon's catalyst from the very beginning. And since he had already cleaned out the place where Solomon's catalyst was most likely to be found, that is, Solomon's tomb, the possibility of summoning Solomon was indeed not great.
These years, Marisbury had already become mentally exhausted and haggard due to all sorts of financial deficits. If he were to give Marisbury another blow at this time, then Marisbury might really just quit. For him not to tell Marisbury, and to let him think that it was just because too much time had passed, so he couldn't find that king's catalyst, was also for the sake of his psychological condition.
Most critically, he had done so much, yet neither of those two damned little lolis had come out to give him any reward. After all, he was avoiding a major crisis.
No material reward, no verbal reward, and even no one knew. If such a job were to be placed on someone else, perhaps they really wouldn't have bothered.
At this thought, Aslan sighed again. It was really that the closer it got to the time of the Holy Grail War, the more he liked to let his thoughts wander, worrying if there was some preparation he hadn't made thoroughly.
Even Melusine had noticed his abnormality. She had been comforting him during this period. Merlin had also sent him a message using a dream. The future had indeed changed. Compared to the scene he had first seen, the current future was much better. It was simply like the difference between a small asteroid hitting the Earth and a meteorite hitting the Earth.
But even so, Aslan's intuition was still telling him that if he was careless, the situation could still be reversed. If he didn't take it seriously, the situation might even return to its original dangerous state.
In any case, he still couldn't relax.
But it was almost mealtime. No matter how worried he was, he had to eat first.
Just as Aslan was heading to the cafeteria, he heard Kenneth's somewhat troubled voice as he passed his room. "What did you say? The King of Conquerors' mantle, which Waver had just managed to return, was stolen again?!!"
Kenneth rubbed his forehead. Why was it that before every Holy Grail War, his things would be stolen? Who had he provoked to encounter such a thing?