A/N: Hello again, people. I am back to give you another updated chapter (13,731 words) and sorry that it took a long time to post this, almost like two and a half months, as I've got world quest and homework that are keeping me very busy for a while, which causes me to write around a hundred words per day.
So there 40 reviews, which is not much now but some of them were questions and suggestions that are still terrible and badly-implemented ones, but I answered those ideas. I will not try to answer all of the reviews.
But before I get to the part of answering your questions, there is something that I need to tell you about those suggestions of asking me to summon an OC or canon servants first.
Stop asking for me to summon them, as this chapter will be the last time I will answer those badly-implemented ideas and suggestion which I simply said No/Nope the next time.
Here is the list of OC servants with interesting face claim that would have a high chance of appearing in my story and for story ideas and relationships:
Simo Hayha (Archer/Assassin), Aleister Crowley, (Caster), Golem Jewish(Berserker), Eve/Hawwah (Assassin), Moses(Caster), Bellerophon(Rider), Skuld the Scandinavian Elvish Princess (Caster), Penthesilea(Lancer), Helen of Troy (Caster/Assassin), Pandora (Caster), and Nefertari (Caster) note: Yes, considering her necklace that summons her husband instead of herself, she might not be Heroic Spirit material but fuck it, as Nefertari is just as famous as her husband Ramses II who is a national hero - sort of the equivalent of King Arthur, part real man, part legend.
And maybe one more servant: Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, the Holy Maiden of Winter as Ruler class because having been the founder of the Heaven's Feel system, she oversees the course of the War as Ruler. I imagine instead of the "original" Justeaze, it'd be a magical A.I of sorts, implanted with her soul and personality to make sure Grail Wars go according to plan. Like a debug program basically, only sapient. Or a Caster class, which she existed before the time of Nasu's stupid "no more Heroic Spirits were made after this point in history" rule kicks in, so it's technically possible she could become one. She's not really famous enough for it, but there are lots of ways to write around that.
Time to answer some of your questions.
MaxHD2490 chapter 24. Nov 26, 2016: Ereshkigal's appearance would still resemble Fate/Extra Rin with blond hair, while Ishtar has a striking resemblance to Gilgamesh and with a face that resembles Rin with red eyes and long blond hair that reaches down to her ankles. Lord El Melloi II, Shiro, Rin and Luvia's reaction would be, "Is this some kind of freaking joke or Rin, is this your long-lost twin sister/relative?!" Shortly before they find out that Ereshkigal's purpose is not to fight them, but to frame Rin as the main suspect because Ereshkigal has a very paper thin disguise on his face, which the police force thinks that Rin is Ereshkigal because of her hair.
Fate characters think that the Mastermind is a genius of using his spells to change the face of his/her servants into their faces to frame them for a crime, which Flanna and Benjamin have no idea what is going on and assume that Parvati (Sakura Matou), Ishtar and Ereshkigal (Rin Tohsaka) are actually their true faces during their lifetimes, so they are not going to ask about this issue.
I think that Enkidu would not be happy to see Ishtar and would want to throw something at her. Ishtar would probably want to find out about Shiro and be spying on him that causes Shiro's sixth sense he's developed in his years of being in the Holy Grail war to go off constantly, and he feels himself being watched but cannot prove it because Ishtar is very good at hiding.
Arthuria Alter (Lancer) is a very big terror to the Magus because they have never faced a servant before. Flanna would try to ask Arthuria to open her helmet but her personality tends to stay away from other servants and other.
Alter Egos have an awful design and would look uncomfortable to see them move around the cities in that dress. I don't like that all of them look like Sakura, which is just an awful and lazy way of putting her face like that.
ArcherShirou: I would think that heaven would look something like Avalon or a Utopian place. I don't think that mages would know who controls the atomic bomb or where to find it, as there are nine countries that have nuclear weapons and I don't think that mages can walk in and hypnotize someone when you would be caught doing something funny. Also, how on earth can the Mages go find the person who holds the atomic bomb and that it needs the government's permission to launch it. Launching a bomb is not even a good idea, as that left a lot of clues, which Mages are not aware that there are cameras everywhere.
Benjamin would say half of the truth to the world, as he cannot explain clearly to the whole world because he also simply has yet to fully comprehend the understanding of the functional magic and concept of vampires in the Nasuverse.
Saraak: Yes, my story is good with some bad grammar mistakes, which I have a speech teacher who helps me to correct and improve those errors, so all of the chapters and even the latest (grammar check three times) have been fixed by her. Well, I don't mind people politely telling me to go correct grammar but what completely makes me fear the most is that a grammar Nazi would piss me off like "you used the wrong "you're" please go kill yourself, you're a dumb fuck with nothing to say." I have learned to appreciate that some very intelligent people are ridiculously bad with grammar and spelling. My Dad's boss is a great example. Don't act like you're superior because your brain is configured in a way that you can easily handle your language's configuration. I think the main reason people do it is for a sense of superiority over someone else. Another thing I find annoying is when people think that pointing out grammatical errors in your argument makes theirs more valid. I am not sure if it is because they're embarrassed or that they react badly to any implied criticism.
I know that you are not trying to insult me but just said in a straight forward way. Personally, I don't mind being corrected, and not just my grammar. Correction allows us to improve. I gave up the idea that I was always right quite a while ago. I'm the sort of person who believes if you can understand the point trying to be made, the format does not matter. I'm writing this to the best of my ability just for people to like my story.
Saint Rider 123: I want my chapters to be long as possible but since it is overdue for two months and a half which I would make the next chapter shorter than usual so you don't miss out of it. Yes, I would not add Shiŕou in my upcoming crossover becausè he has way too much story in crossover ànd non-crossover to point that I already sick of seeing him and stupid Hero of Justice act of his while I don't hate him it is just too story focus on him which get real bored every time there is a new story that is posted with him focus on too much already.
King0fP0wers: About Dendara Light that could match Ea or Excalibur, mind you that EX doesn't necessarily mean its stronger than A. EX stands for 'something that can't be calculated' or 'have no exact value'. which we can not tell which Noble Phantasms, Rank EX would win each other.
About Vlad III (Extra) Bluebeard, and Mephistopheles, Ben and Flanna can be seen as some sort of moral support or restraint to make sure that they don't go overboard on their rampage like doesn't kill any innocent/children which as long as their victims are criminal or magus. Mephistopheles' Noble Phantasm would be a double edged sword as there would be good that Mephistopheles use it on his Master or his alliance for fun.
The Holy Grail would just random pick catalysts to summon a servant for Benjamin and Flanna who have hardly any clue how to do this and would allow the Holy Grail do the work for them. They maybe want a servant that best suited but they don't really care what kind of servant. They still don't want too many servants of same class but that make the group crippling overspecialization
Too many of Saber class: It is going to be very hard for Flanna to get the Sabers to agree to carry out her battle tactics no matter how strange or cowardly actions, no matter if it involves strategies or not that make Flanna's group unable to make much of their movement because the Saber are full of chivalric honor and honorable face-to-face single combat.
Too many of Archer Class: It is going to get hard to Archers to follow her order if they happen to be unruly or disobedient that sometimes stroll around without making her aware of their whereabouts. The high, the rank of Independent Action skill than a good chance that Archers can easily ignore her orders because there would be too many jackasses.
Too many of Lancer Class: Then it is going to be high chance that Lancers who most of them have an abysmal Luck stat which would actually die by their luck or make the plan ever worse than before. Some of them are not normal that they don't follow the order clearly and do thing different that would be gone horribly right or horribly wrong.
Too many of Rider Class: Now what could wrong with this class you might think? After all, Rider Class mostly have a lot of Noble Phantasms in their pocket but there is good chance it would destroy most of the environment which can get everyone attention. Their mount if it is an animal then they are also a hell of an eater that consuming an unholy amount of mana (if they are used often) or food/water (they are still animal) every day that requires a lot of money. Sometimes they are big and huge that make them a huge target.
Too many of Berserker Class: You know what would happen if they get out of control and that would no one to stop them.
Too many of Assassin Class: They can be sometimes, not the most trustful to be close to you and maybe kill you in your sleep. Some of them are super-weak, even by Assassin standards which can abe defeated by modern-day magi in a straight up fight or anyone who are good at fighting.
Too many of Casters Class: There is a good chance whatever the Casters are making, would blow up in their face or make a thing that goes totally right or wrong as there is no safety test.
RoSes: Lancer is supposed to be brutal and Pale Rider is a walking disease if you read the Fate/strange fake light novel and manga. Yes, you are right about Persona (series) as it is really hard to power balance and get their personality right.
Guerrafuego: Ok about this book, it was a complete disappointment, I see how it only had 4 and 5-star reviews which the first chapter was promising but the second part was over the top absurd. I get that the dragon was trying to adjust after thousands of years being asleep but the so-called humor relied heavily on crude and coarse comments made by the main character in an effort to show how out of touch he is and then there is the frequent use of the F-word. I'm no prude and have no problem with a judiciously placed crude comment or swear word but in this instance, it was immature and read more like a teenage boys idea of a hero which the end of the story just get right down weird.
My major problems with the book (besides that it has so many useless scenes that don't push the plot or character development forward), lies mainly in characterization. This book needs some serious editing. It includes too many mundane actions that don't advance the plot and that end part of the story was stupid. I have no idea what was other reviews gave this book a 4 and 5-star which they need their eye check.
Brynhildr is going to be next for the summon with two with her and yes, I like her awesome design too and her tragic character cemented the fandom's liking for her. Also, there is also a datamined voice line for Brynhildr reaction to Sigurd: "My beloved...Sigurd. I...love...him...from the bottom of my heart. Even now, I still love him...love him...really love him. That's why I want us to die together." Bryn really needs some serious help and you said that she need to have something good to happen to her. Well, her wish is to meet Sigurd again but she would automatically kill him if that happens, etc. She wants to live happily with him but her body wants to kill him.
MaxHD2490 chapter 24. Dec 8, 2016: Yeah, Benjamin and Flanna would not grasp the details of her stats for their sanity health sake and now holds the belief that servants capable of destroying the world are common. They soon conditioned to accept a rather horrible, disturbing pieces of information with a smile on their face as they stare at the stats and Beast class unnerving icon but the Holy Grail would still summon Tiamat in her normal form. The Clock Tower and Holy Church's reaction to her: "You may panic now with screaming about post-Apocalypse and apocalypse in the Book of Revelation". Also, King Solomon a user of over rank magecraft is so far beyond anybody else that just seeing the magic he casts can drive people insane which Lord El Melloi II, Shiro, Rin and Luvia's reaction on the scene does not take it well.
MaxHD2490 chapter 24. Dec 6, 2016: I still have some rwby/fate fanfic ideas inspire from Fate Shattered Moon by Trick N. Zwei which is third fate party would full of mostly anti-heroes and some noble heroes doing some crazy stuff and lot of magnitude of misunderstanding of villain plans.
MaxHD2490 chapter 24. Dec 19, 2016: I would add Medusa (Gorgon) and Rider(Medusa)who in somewhere in the story would drink the herb of immortality to become Lancer (Medusa). Only Rider(Medusa) belongs in Shiro's harem and Medusa (Gorgon) somewhat in Benjamin's harem which if by any chance, they manage to deepen the bonds with each other, her Master will then acquire a great power(You really don't want to know)
The reason why her appearance is quite different in Hollow ataraxia is that when Medusa was protecting her sisters from the foolish humans, she began to experiment with ways of killing them more quickly. Deciding to become a trap against those who would take her sisters, she grew into the Gorgon each day as her body, heart, and very being decayed, all backed by the thought of becoming stronger for the sake of protecting her sisters. Now the monster that we saw on her NP is her true form after taking her two sisters inside her. both Euryale and Stheno feels bad about Medusa becoming Gorgon and decided to join her, creating that abomination on that NP which is said to be much stronger than Hero.
Yes, several of her MyRoom dialogue make it clear she seeks to eat the protagonist when given the chance which Benjamin and Flanna have to keep their guard up when she is around and could not get rid of the sense of foreboding that came from being watched. Their reaction to Medusa (Gorgon)is like a small animal, squirming within a loving hand. As a human being, it was only natural to feel that terror wrapped up in that joy. To solve this issue of how to keep you safe from been eaten by Gorgon which is to bring Euryale and Stheno along with you because even after becoming a big scary monster Medusa still can't stand up to her sisters.
Also, there is also a datamined voice line for Medusa (Gorgon) and Rider(Medusa) reaction to Perseus, oh boy, Perseus you better watch yourself when you arrive.
Medusa: "Am I unhappy with Perseus's presence? To be truthful, it is a little awkward, but I hold no grudge or hate against him. He is a hero who acts in good will, and in a way I pity him. But it is not something to say in his person."
Gorgon: "Perseus is here? Excellent... how should I kill him, break his limbs first before kicking his head off?"
MaxHD2490 chapter 24. Dec 26, 2016: I am not surprise of that because I have never play Tsukihime which fans of that game were left gobsmacked at this seventeen-years-in-the-making reveal. Also, Fou would appear in the story from the summoning ritual which Benjamin and Flanna would assume that Fou is familiar cut pet nothing else even if Fou was revealed to be Primate Murder, they would deliberately ignore or disregard important information for the sake of their sanity so they don't go mad with mind shocking.
Sanzou (Xuanzang) would not be in Ben's harem because she is too innocent to think of lewd things after all. Yes, Benjamin and Flanna would be surprised by the gender-flipped servant but they are going to get used to it.
MaxHD2490 chapter 24. Dec 31, 2016: Yes, Happy New Year to you too and I kind hope that Miyamoto Musashi design would look like Vagabond manga but this TYPE-MOON we are talked about and at this point, is it any wonder to this which she is still awesome even the gender flip threw me out there which they explain that she came from an alternate universe instead of being a woman who wasn't recorded as such by history.
There are a lot of Fate anime planned for 2017 but I am happier to see a Fate/Apocrypha anime adaptation and ongoing manga.
Galer: I don't any of those Magus has ever fight against a servant or even fought in Holy Grail war because they are more of scholars then fighters as that was to protect themselves and their research. Enforcers, Executors, and Exorcists has actually fighting experience against entities like supernatural threats and magical creatures which have a fighting chance or better chance of surviving. However, while those who have combat experience and the capacity to become Masters, there is more to a Master than someone that supplies a Servant with Mana. Masters should be a commanders for their servant which they has to make a decision that can lead to victory or defeat, unfortunate no Magi in the Clock Tower have the training or experience to make a decision on the battlefield because they assume the Holy Grail War is game to them or treat it some kind of backwater project. One more thing there is no teamwork here as Enforcers, Executors, and Exorcists who each of them are from different organizations, parties, and factions can not get along very well due to their radically different alignments/way of life. Flanna would laugh at them for thinking they have any power over her and Benjamin, seriously a Holy Grail and around 150 servants with enough power to destroy the world potentially calling Benjamin's house, their home, there isn't much they could do considering how backward the clocktower is nowadays. Seriously, I can't see the plot not involve a bunch of shifty mages trying to take advantage of the Holy Grail or them trying to stick one of their own in charge who will more likely even demand the Holy Grail over to them. It doesn't seem likely that they would just back down due to being intimidated by Flanna having a bunch of heroic spirits as it didn't stop them in Fate Apoc novel/manga.
Cain the first murderer would be in Assassin, Berserker, and Avenger class. Jesus Christ of Nazareth would be in Caster and Ruler class: If he was summoned in a Grail War as Caster he would prefer not to engage in combat with the others, instead, he would want to determine specifics about the Grail itself. Though he may fight, if he finds any of the participants to be particularly evil aligned and dangerous to humanity but he is still not much of a fighter. If he was a Ruler class Servant in the Holy Grail War he is less the forgiving teacher and more an impartial judge. In all honesty, he finds the concept of the Grail War ridiculous but sees his summoning as a task given to him by his father and oversees the war with impartial eyes, though he does help any Servant or Master that comes to him looking for guidance. Before you ask I am not going to summon them, ok.
To answer your questions of what would be the reaction of Shirou and the others that went through all this mess because of a complete misunderstanding and a BIG one is that they would still be afraid of Benjamin and Flanna because none of them want to consider the idea that the most powerful Masters who command around hundred and fifty of servants which Shirou and the others has absolutely no idea what they are going to do and the fact that they basically trying to negotiate the Masters of Heroes but still they are right about one thing, one wrong move in their pressure with servants present could easily mean certain death. Shirou and the others would be still terrified at the potential threat of them as Benjamin and Flanna can do whatever they want and if the Fate Characters trying to stop them then Flanna and Benjamin would quickly become an extremely dangerous no-nonsense pragmatic fighter which the battle would quickly be done. Shiro and Rin's villain are always like to gloat on how evil they are, exposit on their plan before attack them, handles the plotting and fighting their opponents, all of that villain stuff but those enemies end up lost to Shiro and Rin because they underestimate them and by the time they realize they need to go all out just to survive, it's always too late. Flanna would slowly to become very cautious, calculative, collective, and not look down on her opponent, or what some people call it paranoid. Due to that she always overkills her opponent.
Still, even if Benjamin and Flanna explain that they are just normal human, not a mage there going to be a good chance that Shirou and the others refuse to believe that statement and would too horrifying for them to accept it which they thought Benjamin and Flanna might be planning an even more wicked scheme. Lord El Melloi II, Shiro, Rin and Luvia would try to figure out what they're are dealing with their theories and examinations which they have no idea how wrong they are. Everyone from the Holy Church, Clock Tower, police force, and government who seen from their point of view, Flanna and Benjamin looks like the ultimate force of a evil masterminds in the world, with an intellect to match and a huge army ready to begin a reign of terror on the surface world that is a threat to humanity's continued survival. It is so great that everyone can't imagine the terror of what in their mind which actually Benjamin and Flanna's just like "I have no idea what I'm doing" and think they are messing up as they are trudging along, barely knowing what they are going to do and trying to look good, and no one realizes how many mistakes they are making. Flanna and Benjamin are sweating bullets from the inside if they are doing something wrong. Their enemies are grasping that their intelligence knows no bounds, but everyone over thinks everything like for examples
Why did Benjamin or Flanna pause for a bit, (maybe she/he is planning a wicked scheme)
Why did Benjamin or Flanna answer right, (maybe she/he had everything already planned, predicted all possible choices and prepared the appropriate responses)
Why does Benjamin and Flanna have a black expression on their face (maybe there is some sort of defensive ability to protect their conscience so that none of these emotions are present on their face or they are just inhuman person who takes no joy of killing human and is a monstrous who was trying its best to act like a human being)
Did they make a mistake? (Impossible, they must be testing us and knows we're on guard against them by still provoking us like this)
Saint Rider 123 chapter 13. Dec 26, 2016: The servants would question most of the superhero's fighting style, uniform and unwilling to kill their foes as they watch the movies. I don't think that most of the servant show up drama television or acting as a model but there would be some would do that like Elizabeth Bathory who want to be an idol which she is focused on her singing and Nero who is trying to be a good artist and write a play that she wrote which plot is not very good.
Mythfan: Yes, I would make Oda Nobunaga's personality fairly balanced, an ambitious warlord capable of both kindness and cruelty as she may appear cruel and ruthless but he's actually quite caring and compassionate. Despite being a legendary hero of old, during the days of the Samurai, Oda possesses a flexible way of thinking. While she enjoys the old and the reliable, she's more than willing to try the new and the unexplored. Yes, she would actually show Lelouch and the Night Raid what real difference between preaching and actually getting your hands dirty for the greater good. She give both of them (Lelouch and the Night Raid) an advice which is to worked quietly, expanded your influence, accumulated wealth, expanded your connections on the city, crushed your enemies and make some ties with an underground criminal organization within the city (She does that back in her lifetime)
For an example for the Night Raid, she would say them in brutal honesty voice that their ruthless tactics (which murder is the best solution) make no little impact on the Capital City which is a pointless effort that hardly works in the long term it would cause a problem that drew attention from The Empire. She said that about how taking a contract on some particularly reprehensible nobles just because the nobles are guilty of what their contractor says they are before killing them without investigating their background that much which the Night Raid just eavesdropping on the target conversation or on their background which the Night Raid would jump to conclude that target is evils because their actions and personality. Instead of killing the target, they should have realized that even such worthless individuals had their uses like used the target as the scapegoat to cover up something. Also, the Night Raid seem to treat their missions as fistfights instead of going for the throat, act like a heroes instead of killers, the Night Raid members even state that they are murderers, not heroes which I found that hard to believe that statement as many of them are typically not so stealthy at all.
In addition, the members of Night Raid are assassins for hire which she doesn't understand what the hell the Night Raid need so much money that is a bag of money or two if they could have just pillaging everything that is not nailed down on the target's house and reduce the upkeep of their hideout which is so massive that it contained many rooms including the one for meetings, living quarters and a kitchen, as well as a few outdoor facilities such as training grounds and the hot springs which the Night Raid think they cover up a logistics trail that huge and that is not a hideout at all.
For an example for Lelouch, she said that if he wants to cause a revolution then he would need to learn how trained in arms, history, and law, get taught practical skills like fishing, mending clothes, and providing first aid. And, also go among the Britannian, Elevens, and Federation's citizens to empathize with them and learn humility, so that he would be a benevolent and conscientious ruler. Because Lelouch doesn't really know how people work and has little actual experience when it comes to the cut-and-thrust of politics which he always keeps dependent on his prodigious mind that said to possess a genius-level intellect, and able to capable of devising and executing strategies with incredible speed and precision which is nothing more than an artificial and self-proclaimed brilliant plan that make perfect sense, on paper. They just happen to be completely wrong for the situation he was facing. Also, his genius mind sometimes goes against himself that leave him to overthinking and make a poor, even insane, decisions believing they were necessary for the plan but so far all it's done is caused them disaster after disaster on the long run.
In another word, Lelouch is unfit to be a revolution leader if he can not get actually military experience which makes Lelouch nothing more than a person with slightly above average intellect who think he is himself as a genius which while his intelligence and ability can able to pull a mean game of revising it whenever new circumstances arise make him a great tactician, but one thing people tend to forget is the number of his plans that ended up going horrendously wrong thanks to circumstances out of his control or he couldn't possibly see coming, often resulting in his friends and loved ones getting killed as a result. Tthe takeover of Japan by Britannia is what drives him to revenge make him have an immature worldview on Britannia so quickly as he always keeps talk and feels about the Britannian government is rotten to the core and must be dismantled. Too bad for him, two of the most important people in his life don't agree which also ruined any ability to connect with anyone which cause him to get excessive paranoia which gotten worse as time pass by and would quick to accuse people of treason over the smallest slights, real or imagined as he can't read the intentions of an opponent shrouded in a cloak of suspicions that leave him to overthinking himself, he would slowly be strangled by his own imagination and can't move a thing.
Hcharper131: I have always putting Aleister Crowley one of the lists and I am doing this for one time once. Toriyama Sekien biography is so small that I can't make him into a servant because the only record about him is that Toriyama is most famous for his attempt to catalog all species of yōkai in the Hyakki Yagyō series
About Abe, no Seimei since Tamamo no Mae describe him as a handsome man with shifty eyes and a soul black as the underworld in the Fate/Extra which his personality is like an eccentric, laid-back individual who beholds everything with a sage smile.
However, at his heart, he is a terrifying fanatic who believes himself chosen by heaven to 'save' the world. To that end, he is willing to commit any crime, no matter how vile. He has something of an ego as well, contrary to his sage-like disposition. He will act offended if anyone doesn't recognize him upon sight, saying that the name of Abe No Seimei is one famous across all the East. Since he views himself as chosen by heaven, opposing him is equivalent to going to heaven itself. In other words, an unforgivable crime. He would probably regard the state of humanity at present as 'fallen' and barbaric. Much discipline is necessary in order to bring it to what he envisions as its 'proper' state. Since he- who was set above the mundane world from birth- does not understand humans, his vision of salvation is hopelessly at odds with human nature. His wish would be the one that seems pure, but it is actually tainted by egotism.
He has noble intentions, but his personality leads him to antagonize and be a dick to almost everyone especially Tamamo if they ever see each other which she notes that even though his dream world is good and beautiful, he's such a jerkass being that anything he creates will probably turn bad and twisted. In another word Abe, no Seimei is a self-central asshole who believe himself to be the center of the whole world which he is only trapped in his own small world, he wouldn't be able to see what was happening outside.
A certain Guest: Yes, I was kind of inspired of Brave Shine (flowers) but it also from Illya playing with Kiritsugu to count walnuts before the Grail War in Fate Zero. Benjamin doesn't have the guts to said that to Ozymandias that it is his fault. The reason why Ozymandias sitting rather idly since that raid because he likes to prefers to lead from the back, so he can properly direct his troops (servants). Yes, I would summon EMIYA (Assassin) who became a Counter Guardian in order to protect Ilya and Shirou after his death in Fate Zero
Piddle: I know that already and I would have a plan for Artoria Pendragon to turn into the male king Arthur by magic from Merlin for shit and giggle.
King0fP0wers chapter 24. Jan 15: It look like Fate Franchise would be very busy this year. About your thought on the servants.
Jason: While he can easily control other berserkers there is a good chance that he would use berserkers to follows his commands instead which Jason should be watch carefully. Yes, he is so useless as he has little more combat power than an above average human which back in his lifetime he was purely mortal and lacking any magical weapons unlike nearly every other Greek Hero, make me wonder how this incompetent moron pass the training that was taught by Chiron of all people, did he pass the training but didn't require thinking at all which is my guess. Jason would try to flirt with Flanna and fail miserably as most of the servants are a good looking man or pretty boy so she able to built up resistance to their beauty.
Gilgamesh(Caster): Well, I would use the Archer version as when his friend is here which Gilgamesh's personality become more stable as learning that is his best friend, Enkidu, was summoned too.
Li Shuwen: He can be a good bodyguard with Flanna as he can easily blend into the city much better than other servants, also, regardless if he is summoned in Assassin or Lancer class which there are no special changes in his basic performance. Benjamin would be a bit uncomfortable with him that Li Shuwen swore to always bring his enemies' head to his master which disgusted him much and want to fight with anybody who is a strong Servant.
Hundred-Faced Hassan: Yes, he can be perfect intelligence gathering network with no other opposing Servants to fear while maybe some mages can fight them head on but would quickly get overwhelmed by number. Yes, psychological tactics as an overabundance of his personas lead to the enemy team becoming properly paranoid before long for most people will continue to fire several shots in his general direction, just to be sure they got him or not. They can be everywhere at any time, waiting for a large, confusing battle in which to strike, stab, and run, since Assassin class are so uncommon in higher levels of play that it actually comes back around on itself, since players are generally unaware of Spies and are easily fooled by disguises and to provide an ever-present threat in the enemy's mind and make them waste time. He can force the enemy team to go out of their way to try to find him, which could be just the right opening for Assassin's team to make their move. Flanna can use him to able to make proper use of his multiple personas to be an actual threat in battle instead been a canon fodder and give his multiple personas some weapons, armor, and equipment to increase their chance of success.
"Master, you are back. Are you in need of a homunculus to help you with something?"
In the midst of the darkness, the basement had been changed since the morning that Benjamin and Flanna left the house. Paracelsus von Hohenheim who was wearing a white robe composed of prana, right, closed his eyes as he called his second Masters in command. In the huge ritual where the Holy Grail is in the center of the room with many human-sized containers lining in the background, and shelves and boxes are filled with ingredients, gemstones, and magical tools on the tables. Saint George and Lu Bu are also there.
"Oh yes, Caster, I do need a homunculus. That would help me with my disguise. Like, dye my hair blond and make the clothes that I bought from the store to make it look like a convincing disguise," Flanna answered as she carried her shopping bag. In it were the necessities: her hair dye, her contact lenses, soap, a toothbrush, some clothes and a towel. "Also, there's something that I want to ask you."
"Of course Master," Paracelsus said as he walked to the tank with I name stenciled upon it. He felt the untapped glories that he might have lain ahead, from what grew within, and put his hand on it. The large metallic container started to shift, making mechanical and gear shifting noises. The container opened with a small smokescreen erupting like those sci-fi films that contain aliens. Saint George and Lu Bu watched curiously as the small smokescreen slowly disappeared with figures shown to the group.
Homunculi are created through alchemy by combining human genetic material and several elements. They have an extraordinary magical ability, and some can even potentially live forever, as the concept of age is meaningless for them. They receive from nature all necessary knowledge and reasoning at the moment of birth while being 'technically' unkillable, though presumably not destroyable. They most likely resemble a human, but with pale skin and red eyes, sometimes a very small human or humanoid creature.
But this Homunculus looked different than what Flanna thought as it slowly sat straight up. It looked like a human-shaped gorilla creature with three red-like eyes on its head, sky blue skin, four blade-like fingers and yeti-like feet. The Homunculus I took its time to examine its surroundings before it then took notice of the male and female presence beside it. Its eyes, lush and exotically red, turned to Paracelsus waiting for his command. Saint George and Lu Bu studied the Homunculus I with great interest of attention through being inexplicable.
"Is there something wrong, Master?" Paracelsus asked Flanna who look puzzled at the Homunculus I.
"No, it's just the Homunculi looks different than what I thought it to be," Flanna answered as she studied the Homunculus I body. "I thought it would look more human."
"Ah, it is a Proto Homunculus, which is the early stage of the evolutionary due to my past life," Paracelsus explained to her as he showed an alchemical bottle in his hand that had a red liquid and fetuses inside it.
He described his early method for creating homunculi. "The sperm of a man is to be putrefied by itself in a sealed cucurbit for forty days with the highest degree of putrefaction in a horse's womb, or at least so long that it comes to life and moves and stirs, which is easily observed. After this time, it will look somewhat like a man, but transparent, without a body. If, after this, it is to be fed wisely with the Arcanum of human blood, and be nourished for up to forty weeks, and be kept in the even heat of the horse's womb, a living human child will grow therefrom, with all its members like another child, which is born of a woman, but much smaller."
She nodded even she does not understand that much for the sake of her sanity which trying to understand the Thaumaturgy whatever it call would make her head spin. But what he specified about them is a perfect homunculus, who are pretty much a man-made artificial extension of nature that, external factors aside, will not die for as long as the planet is healthy and has mana left. As the homunculus are artificial creations, they do not need nourishment or sleep and never suffer from fatigue or even the ravages of time. They were treasured as guardians and laborers. But, there are some downsides to the homunculus, which they may suffer from small statues, short lifespans, lower intellect, and lack of reproductive capabilities as the price of being given life through such artificial means.
It takes special means to create homunculi, so even a talented magus cannot create one as needed. Furthermore, because their production takes considerable time, effort and cost, even the weakest ones would cost a considerable amount of resources, as one would find it hard to purchase many materials without going bankrupt. However, since Paracelsus von Hohenheim is the legendary physician turned alchemist and the one responsible both for creating the Alchemic system that is used by most alchemists of the modern era, making homunculi is easy, like a walk in the park to him as he is one of the earliest people to create homunculi since the beginning.
Furthermore, his own version of homunculi that are forged by him in great quantities is like heaven on earth. His homunculi versions are elite units, which can easily withstand hits from Servants and are incomparable war forces able to easily match average Magi in combat, though they will never be a match for a strong Servant. But, due to the nature of the modern world, they are created into where now the average "levels" are much, much lower. They are unbelievably powerful in their own right that just three or five of them can brutally massacre a whole battalion of average Magi. There may be one or two experienced Magi in modern times who are capable of easily destroying them but the numerous homunculi can overwhelm experienced Magi who won't be able to stop at least some of them from getting into assault range, and it's all downhill from there. Even with a great loss, Paracelsus easily can produce large numbers of homunculi over a short period of time.
"Do you understand it, Master?" Paracelsus asked. "I can say it one more time."
"No, I understand what you are saying," Flanna answered. "Are those Proto Homunculus intended for stealth? Because I am going to need six of them for stealth operations at this night."
"Of course, the Proto Homunculus is able to render itself invisible. In addition, it can suspend itself on a ceiling like a bat as their legs allow them to stick to the ceiling, attached to a spider," Paracelsus answered as he walked to the other tanks and activated them. "The moment it leaps towards its prey, it could launch with its four blade-like fingers in four simultaneous strikes. Its abilities include killing its prey with a single blow to the head and to the chest."
Six of the Proto Homunculus come out of their tanks and line up in the formation, waiting for a command as Saint George and Lu Bu moved in the back.
"Saint George, has there been any issue with the Holy Grail and has Lu Bu done anything strange with his behavior for quite a while?" Flanna asked.
"So far, after you left I have been watching Lu Bu for awhile," Saint George answered as he quickly looked at Lu Bu. "Then the Holy Grail started to flash bright and spat out a shield, then soon after that more catalysts appeared too." He led Flanna to the table with recent catalysts that had spat from the Grail.
A black veil, shield, Carmilla(book), a Trojan helmet, Colt M1877 double action revolver, an old light bulb, the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan book, Finnbhennach's horn, an old Apache knife with dried blood, and moccasins (outdoor slippers) were there.
Flanna walked to the recent catalysts, and casually picked one of them up, using hand gloves and examined the recent catalysts. "This is getting stranger by the minute now."
She placed one of the catalysts back on the table, briefly closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. "I was thinking that we have to rob another museum if we run out of servants to summon, but apparently the Holy Grail decided to do that job for us. Rather than direct my energies on wondering how the Grail is doing this, I am going to just take it straight from the horse's mouth and leave that there."
"Master, I prefer that we don't do another museum incident, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth," Saint George coughed, breaking her thought. "I don't think we need any more attention to doing that again."
"Oh right, George," Flanna answered to him. "Because this mission is going to need a lot of stealth operations for our group."
"In the meantime, I am going to dye my hair blond and get my contact lenses on," Flanna said as she started to walk upstairs and head to the bathroom. "The rest of you get ready for the night operations. Paracelsus, start to manufacture more homunculus into the containers and use familiars to scout around the cities."
"Yes, Master." Paracelsus nodded as he starts to prepared use his familiars.
Flanna walks up to the bathroom's mirror and stared at it with dark red eyes as she pinched the end of her own long maroon hair. "My hair.." she murmured, "it's going to get in the way of my fighting in combat soon enough. I do not feel at ease if my hair is tied up in the ponytail as it normally is."
She sprayed water into her hair and then combed it a little, grabbing scissors. "But this is an exception, for me to engage in combat." She began to cut her hair into a shoulder-length maroon hair. "Hmmm it's not like I hate to cut my hair short, but I think this style fits me."
She took a skin whitener cream out of the sink cabinet and placed the cream on the sink table as she took a look at her light brown skin. "I am also going to do some skin whitening, which is going to at least take a week or more." She took off most of her clothes, leaving just her underwear and sports bra, took a handful of cream and spread it around her arms, legs, chest, neck, and face.
After Flanna was done with the cream, she opened the contact lenses box and slowly placed the contacts into her eyes. Then, she opened and closed her eyes over and over to get used to the pain from the contact lenses.
Flanna took out the hair dye kits and put on vinyl gloves, pouring the supplied bottle into a bowl and brushed her wet hair using a comb. She grabbed the paintbrush from the kits and slowly worked the dye, breaking each section of hair up into smaller 1/4"-1/2" subsections until her hair turned from maroon into blonde hair. After the dye was done, she set a timer for 30 minutes to leave the dye in her hair.
She put a shower cap on her hair to keep the dye from going everywhere and wrapped her head in a towel so that the cap retained the heat of her head. This helped speed up the dyeing process. While waiting until the process time was up for her hair to be done, Flanna sat down on the bathroom's chair in a slouched position with her head resting against one of her hands and take out her notebook from her pants, pondered what to do with the Mage's Association and the Holy Church's fate as she read what she has written down in her notebook.
The Mage's Association:
Strengths: In order to protect themselves from that which would threaten them (be it the Church, rival organizations of Magi, or the monstrosities that punish humans who break taboos), they accumulated military might. In order to further the advancement (degeneration) of magecraft, they built research facilities. And, in order to deter crimes committed with magecraft, they created laws. They also have a huge manpower and when operating cohesively, possesses enough military power to upset the international influence of the organizations spanning far and wide, with educational and research institutions throughout many jurisdictions and borders, where it enacts and enforces its own rules in regards to Magecraft. Despite their size, however, their sphere of influence is heaviest in Europe, with their current "headquarters" being the Clock Tower of London. Thus, in the orient and in particular for an example Japan, America, and China, the Association has next to little power to act in any official capacity, instead opting for a stance of neutrality (on paper anyways).
Weaknesses: In a realistic way, the Mage's Association is not a unified whole as you would have thought to be, it is a conglomerate of three great branches: Clock Tower, Atlas, and the Sea of Estray. However, after Clock Tower was named the headquarters of the Association, the three branches have drifted apart. When one speaks of the Mage's Association, one most specifically refers to the Clock Tower of London. Despite claiming to accept all theories of Magecraft, the Association only respects those which follow its own systems, along with what may be called "western sorcery." Even then, some branches such as Runecraft and Witchcraft are viewed with disdain, the latter not even taught in any formal capacity. Due to the disparity between the school of Magecrafts, Asians are generally viewed with disdain within the Association. Two main factions exist within Clock Tower, those aligned with the Barthomeloi, purporting aristocratism, and the Toranbelio, who oppose them. The Third faction, Meluastellia, functions as the third party in this trifecta. To put it frankly, corrupt politics can completely screw up their selection of a representative like how an unpredictable, arrogant piece of idiot in the group who, despite his sheltered life and lack of military experience, might decide to attack her home base in a perfect moment that would be spouting nonsense within some sort of military gathering about how he would be the one to bring her down.
The inner workings of the place are ruled by petty power struggles between several factions of them and would soon fall into a political disorder any time and are insulting each other, stealing supplies from each other, it certainly doesn't stop the war that they have been fighting. Since most of them reject in using modern technology, believing that the comparable magical tools they have possessed since long before the technology was invented will never be inferior and will remain superior due to not having such issues, which by the way could have given them an edge or two that caused the Mage's Association to be still stuck with its old ways of thinking. And, as a result, their Thaumaturgy is fading away slowly as so many Mages from all over the world gather and devote themselves day and night to the study of Magic are busily tripping over and being tripped over by other factions and competing for power and budget, rarely sharing the result of their own researchers between each other. Despite that, there is suppose to be modern schools of Magecraft to teach and learn, which is just practitioners of magecraft school in name only.
Foreign Relations: The Mage's Association was the most geographically secure country of all and faced almost no territorial encroachment from aggressive organizations that plagued its neighbors. It was by far the most peaceful nation, aside from the annual territorial dispute with the Holy Church. It's presently at an uncomfortable truce with The Church, at war with vampires, riddled with inter-branch rivalry - most notably between the 'Three Great Branches' Atlas, Sea of Estray, and Clock Tower - and the headquarters itself, Clock Tower, is peppered with a rivalry between factions of noble magi. And that's not counting the actions it takes against individual outsiders and other magical organizations outside of Europe. As stated above, the Mage's Association consists of three branches: the Clock Tower of London, the Atlas Academy of Egypt, and the Sea of Estray in Northern Europe. For the most part, each functions independently, with their own politics and agendas. In fact, it can be said that the Mage's Association does not even exist unless it needs to; meaning that the three branches tend to be busy vying for each other's throats, only coming together when it serves them individually. Relations between the three branches have been less than tenuous.
She is not sure how on earth they are like this primarily selfish and short-sighted Magi who are so obsessed with increasing their magical knowledge and power beyond human limitations so that they can gaze or reach in the Akashic Records, which is impossible in their lifetime. The only possible answer she can think about the root of this problem is that ever since they drifted apart from society and became a secret known only by a necessary minimum number of people, it caused many of the Magi to grow delusional of relatively large amounts of research. And, due to a lack of understanding of the conception of time and up to date makes them believe the progress of Thaumaturgy, as well as institutions that transmit their secrets to the next generation would continue forever.
Power Level: Their powerful levels are considered to be extremely weak under the Age of Gods or Servants standards and their modern Magecraft remains far inferior while they are still strong as far that of the past. So much so that Paracelsus said that his Magecraft abilities would seem like a sorcerer to the eyes of a modern magus, even though what he was doing was just simply using the mana in the air to create a much larger crystal, which normally takes a month and requires a transmutation incantation of a three-day and night duration to be completed in an instant. His abilities and skills in magecraft are on an entirely different level than any living magus can produce that he can spam spells that would require long rituals and capacity to recite spells at high speeds, which would have to take a normal mage that needs a magic circle, a ten- court aria and a full minute, or even thirty seconds if the mage is very good to cast a single beam of light.
Also, almost every servant can just walk in and destroy them right away, but there are some magi who can fight head-to-head against some servants in single combat. However, they would have a hard time fighting against them on a long run.
Flanna's opinion about and relationships with The Mage's Association: This place can just go kill itself. First of all, that place is sloppy and filled with greedy, power hungry, and prideful Magus or Lords arguing with each other, vying to outdo the other, and not caring one bit about the mess they have created in the first place. Therefore, let's be honest here, none of them cared for their community. Most of those Magus only care about the pursuit of magic knowledge of the Akashic Records and nothing else. The Mage's Association is also highly classist of magical potential through that of a mage's heirs with the nobles Magi most likely to reject or look down on some of the most talented individuals of their organization due to their humble birth. Any attempt of structural reform in the Mage's Association were thwarted by the noblest Magi who feared such changes could to be a threat to their power
The Mage's Association may have the guts to demand her to hand over the fruits of the Holy Grail and other stuff that she has, to which the Association would confiscate for the greater good that is nothing more that allowed them to perform less than moral experiments rather than apologizing to her. They would have sent a document that said something along the lines of, "To begin with, the Holy Grail originally belonged to the Tohsaka, Matou, and Einzbern families. The one responsible holding the Grail has taken control of it unlawfully and should oblige to return it to its rightful owners." There is no way that she would hand the Holy Grail over to them and much to think that they would keep it for safe keeping, as that will only fan the flames of idiots, fighting over a stupid single wish that may not work at all.
Flanna decided that the Mage's Association fate offered no appeal to her and has taken no interest in that the place has to offer as she could not possibly be interested in the amount of resources, stored knowledge, and other benefits in anything they offer for she is not a magus, to begin with, and would be thrown into the trash can anyway. To begin with, wealth would be completely out of the question, for she could find a way to get money as most common and mundane objects of magical items, which are very valuable to them and can be worth an entire treasury from the Association. As for providing military and magical support, well, why the hell would she be interested in things that were far inferior to her own, as one servant can wreck or cripple them. Offers of rank and authority would be useless to her as those are nothing but titles that are shams and purely symbolic functions with no actual power that gives no genuine authority over its "subjects."
She deemed that place to be the weakest cesspool of infighting and corruption, clinging on whatever remaining influence of their magecraft they have on the world. As noble Magi refuse to abandon their crippling traditions while the world changes around them and the fact that some of them who may actually use their head to turn achievements for adoption and conformity to a certain degree for modern science or modern technology, which could at least lead generally successful lives means that the Mage's Association will either have to adapt or collapse completely in the near future.
While she may give them a chance of ceasefire and opened formal relations to better understand each other, the greatest problem is how the Association's members of higher rank will handle their lowly members who would complain about this decision and might be aiming for a chance to run amok. How long would the Mage's Association start to send conflicts to exist behind the scenes in cases such as disturbing the border by attacks with their special units, espionage and small clashes between different parties? It is only a matter of time before Flanna and her servants would invade the place and raze it to the ground. Mage's Association would probably not surrender, even in the face of death with Magi accepting it unless they get a first-hand experience of servant power. Since when are those prideful and arrogant Magi ever going to listen to reason and wait?
The Holy Church:
Strengths: The Church is almost similar to Mage's Association, but they are more organized, understand modern technology and have a common sense of pragmatics and smarts. They are relentless in the extermination of demons and vampires. Its members, the Executors, have two main purposes, which are the recovery of holy relics and demon killing. The Executors hunt anything that is heretical that is not part of God's teaching. No heresy can be tolerated in the world of God, and demons who corrupt and defile His children must be exterminated. The Holy Roman Catholic Church enjoys the largest following of any magically affiliated organization in the world, and by the same reason, it is not only the wealthiest of all the factions but boasts the largest fighting force of them all, a fact that is not readily apparent because their agents are scattered across, straining their manpower to the utmost. Despite the strength that the Church wields, the only real significant benefit that the Holy Church had brought to this world is to make sure that vampires/Dead Apostles are not infecting public people that turn them into a ghoul, living dead, and blood sucking vampires, or mages that are trying to turn into a Dead Apostle. So, they would become immune to the passing of time and use their immortality to research all kinds of forbidden and dangerous magic, all in order to pursue their dream of reaching the Swirl of the Root as they focus their experiments into discovering a path to it. The Holy Church had the power to move nations at where its influence is heaviest in Europe, where the Church's influence was strong there.
Weaknesses: While most Church members could be reasonable and grateful, some of them can be radical and be very narrow-minded, like those who committed crimes and are protected by the radical factions who either have some vested interest in the criminal or were just bribed. There are also many different factions in the Church that may have a very shallow faith on religion, which some of them can be twisted and use their faith as an excuse to commit twisted deeds. One example was this faction called Burial Agency who enjoyed enslaving the captured heretics, gun nuts, and maniacs with an insatiable bloodlust, they will even go against the wishes of the Church without orders to eliminate heretics and definitely never cooperate with foreign demon hunter organizations. They have a strong influence as they might go as far as to skewer a Bishop if they think that he is possessed by a demon, which is the most heretical section of the Church. In America, the Holy Church's influence is diverse by state, and the Church could apply considerable pressure when circumstances such as the elected president and public opinion were favorable. In America, where the Church's influence was weak, it could be difficult for them to enter by force.
There is also an Order of the Templars, who are a small but powerful faction in the Church. However, they are a separate independent organization of their own and hold only loyalty to themselves, not to the Bishop. They are considered to be far more radical, bordering the line of terrorism in their activities, as they hire criminals to work for them or even join their ranks. They seem to specialize in heretic hunting and often lend some of their own heretic hunters to the church, when necessary. The Holy Church's problem has to do more with its religious faction way of thinking and it needs to change its way of thinking and morals. Having different separate religious factions/subdivisions might be a problem of their way of their religious view.
Foreign Relations: Apparently from what she learned about the two of them, the Church is on very bad terms with the Association, which the mission was to conceal magecraft, and those two groups have crossed swords numerous times that dates back to the past. Now at present, those two have reached a tenuous agreement, and overt hostilities have ceased, at least for now, which soon would come to an end in the future. Sometimes they have even been known to cooperate with the Association on occasion from combatting this greater threat of blood sucking vampires to keeping supernatural elements of the world hidden from the public, though for different reasons than the other and for the sake of humanity.
Right now both of them are allies after that Museum incident, which they are searching for her and Benjamin to wipe her family off of the face of the earth because if she and her family members reveal the threat of their secrecy and existing magecraft to the world. Unfortunately, despite being allies with each other, both sides secretly are trying to undermine each others' efforts as a result of historic animosity between one another. Even if it looks like Mage's Association and Holy Church are cooperating to hurt her family members on the surface, this so-called alliance was only superficial as a way to appease one another. It is attempting to plot against and investigating each other, which there is a huge chance they are doing that right now.
Power Level: Unfortunately, since none of the servants have clashed with any Holy Church member, which makes this military's strength almost unknown, but the church members are said to be far stronger than those of the Mage's Association. Additionally, their members are usually more skilled than any of them in combat fighting when compared to the Mage's Association members who think of all combat operations as being magical in nature by habit and are crippling overspecialized in combat. The average skill levels in the Holy Church members are also generally considered quite high for them to give the servant one hell of a fight. But, it seems that they are always looking for some new talent for their replacements as loss of numbers are quite high due to every death of apostle raids every time, which they may send a group of executors from the Church when the time is right to move, which she has to make sure to keep a look out for them.
Flanna's opinion and relationships with The Holy Church: Well so far, it is a bit much better organization for Flanna to not raze it to the ground at the least, but is still wary of the organization as she is not sure if they have been monitoring activities and political movement in New Jersey since her servant hasn't encountered any members of the Church. Flanna rather hopes to try to negotiate a peaceful coexistence with them and maybe form an alliance with them, but the chance of that would be quite low as there may be a church member who tends to let their faith and holy zeal overcome their tactical sense to attack her as a heretic for some other reason with religious ferocity, which could lead them to get slaughtered pointlessly. The Holy Church may view themselves as the chosen people of Christianity and have all their artifacts from holy relics, including the remains and blood of saints, the nails that crucified Christ, the holy cross, the thirty silver coins of Judas, and other items with the holy attribute that can cause them to be fundamentalist and zealous to the extreme. So they may believe that their holy arms and armor and Executors can beat the servants and their henchmen by themselves without a problem. But since when are the group of fundamentalist racist humans not going to be reasonable when it comes to her and Benjamin.
She also believes that, like the Association, the Holy Church would also demand her to hand the Holy Grail over to them, as it is one of their most sacred artifacts and that they feel the need to keep it from falling into the wrong hands. Unfortunately, she was doubtful about the Holy Church's claim about the Holy Grail as she determined that they wanted the Grail for themselves and made the claim so they could hoard it.
Flanna feels relief that most of the servants summoned from the Holy Grail are leaps and bounds more powerful than even the strongest of the magi and church members. If any of the servants ever decide to fight seriously against them, their opponents might as well already be dead or crippled. But she is still mostly concerned that she and Benjamin are still human, that even a simple spell or skillful fighter can kill them without trying. There is going to be magi or church members that can destroy her and Benjamin in one-on-one combat, which she must step up her game considerably and plan very cautiously on the grounds that somewhere out there might be a spell or even a trap can spell doom for her brother and herself.
She also has a plan that assassinates the Director or Vice Director that would make the war stop, but she soon realized that even killing one of them or both of them would not make the war truly end just because one of the authority figures on one side is killed, as he/she would possibly get replaced by an idiot who thinks he is a genius and poor strategist. They would be hard to predict, making the war even harder. However, at the same time, maybe a slightly smarter than average person who thinks he is a genius is really easy to predict, which both of those chances are still dangerous anyway, as those new directors would probably do a better job of fighting her and the servants in a different and unpredictable way that is downright stupid.
She took out her phone and started text messaging her brother about his school and that after school was over, he should head back home for his upcoming training.
"Master," a muffled voice interrupted Flanna as she turned an irritated stare towards the one who interrupted her text. It was Hassan of the Cursed Arm, who she had sent to kill any magi moving around the cities.
"Assassin, what is it?" she asked in a bored, yet polite tone. "Have you found something when you scouted around the place?"
"Yes, a church member was spotted in the street, it is a Moderator of the Holy Grail War, " Hassan of the Cursed Arm said as he humbly lowered his head towards the superior leader. "She is one that you need to watch out for."
"What is a Moderator?" Flanna asked, not knowing much of the war. "And what is so dangerous about her?"
"A Moderator plays a part in Holy Grail battles by regulating the fights, making sure nobody breaks the rules. There is a neutral area set up by the Church in order to oversee the war. It's where masters register themselves to participate in the Grail War," Hassan of the Cursed Arm explained to her. "The Supervisor usually answers any questions and if you lose your servant, then you can stay in the church as a hospitality to prevent anyone from killing you for being a loose end. But I don't consider going there for hospitality, as it has been abused before."
Flanna nodded as she agreed with what he had warned about the Supervisor and their so-called rule, as the moderators are always in it for themselves, either supporting one team from the get-go or working for their own ends. Although the rules stated that the church area is a neutral zone, she well understood that if you got support from them, then you can cheat your way by seeking sanctuary under false pretenses. And, even those so-called supposed neutral ground can jump in on the action of the war, for there is no rule that the supervisor of the war can't compete in the war.
"Can you explain some of those so-called rules?" Flanna asked as she listened to Hassan of the Cursed Arm, who listed some of the rules of the Holy Grail.
In the end, really the rules are just some flimsy guidelines and a set of things you physically can and can't do. But at the end of the day, all that really matters is the last man standing can claim the prize (and they might not do even that). Anyone who strictly plays by the intended rules is doomed to get taken out by everyone else. For example, The Holy Grail War is supposed to be a fight between Servants, but there ain't no rule that you can't kill a Master who is usually a physically weak and puny Wizard to make their Servant disappear. In fact, since not all Servants are suited to direct combat, sometimes it's the only way to have a chance.
A Master is given the power to summon one Servant, and if he loses it, he can form a contract with a Servant whose Master was killed. But, ain't no rule that you can't form contracts with multiple Servants all at once, though, given that the mana requirements a single Servant has with a mage have to be strong enough to provide for multiple Servants, which would be rare indeed. There ain't no rule that you have to wait until the war begins to summon your Servant, for you can summon at any time and kill your enemies right before they can summon their servant.
Seriously, the Grail War is full of loopholes because many of the rules were made by the Mages' Association and Holy Church, but the Grail only follows its own rules. As far as the Grail is concerned, there ain't no rule that Masters have to be chosen from members of either of those organizations or that their Servants have to recognize their rules or face the consecrate (which...who is going to stop them?). It looks like a rule that every entrant is a Master with Command Seals to control and maintain their Servant, but all that's really there is that Command Seals help control a Servant, and Masters are granted them. Anything from an unruly Servant to Masters stealing Seals, to alliances, to unrelated parties jumping into the war and betraying each other.
"So, the Holy Church decides to send a Supervisor in, thinking that those who participate in the Holy Grail War would play by the rules," Flanna said in frustration and anger at the Mage Association and the Church, who are responsible for manipulating the media and covering up evidence of the war to prevent it from spilling over into everyday life. "Idiots, each and every one of them. These people honestly believe that this war is some kind of game to them and just need to hold on a bit longer until they have what they want. Do they not know it is uncommon for Masters to fight in broad daylight, for the same reason?"
"The Mage Association and the Church think of themselves as some kind of chess masters or master manipulators before the battle actually starts. Which, as soon as time passes by, it becomes obvious that they are not good at coming up with new strategies on the fly as the screws pop loose," Flanna shouted in frustration as she recalled them to mind, these simpletons who could only see the bait dangling in front of them, whose intellect was no better than amateur.
"Master, do you want me to go after her?" Hassan of the Cursed Arm suggested a plan to her. "If it's for the sake of protecting the grail, I can bear with prolonged conflict. You should clear your head from time to time, Master."
Flanna opened her mouth, and then closed it. She repeated that action several times as she narrowed her eyes. It was a very attractive suggestion, one which would make anyone hesitate their anger. "No, it is far too early to send you after the Supervisor and besides, the Supervisor might be well versed in hand-to-hand combat to the point where she can kill you, which I would not send you to your death so early. The Church's foolishness made quite a good impression on the Mages' Association at that place. Killing her would make them be on high alert. After the all, this lets them grow proud, and then we will destroy them in one hit when they lower their guard."
"By the way, do you have her location on where she lives?" she asked him. "We can visit her at any time and could get some information from her, which I think you know how to thoroughly break a man's will, right?"
Hassan of the Cursed Arm nodded his head. "We are the group of assassins who have ridden ourselves of emotions. If there is a need to torture her, then don't refrain us from going overboard with it."
"Good, let's not focus on her now," Flanna smiled in satisfaction before her facial expression turned back to normal. "Is there any other news that you need to tell me about?"
"During my trips around the cities, I happened to notice several cars that ran along the long road through the wilderness over the speed limit, so I trailed them. Several mages were riding in one of them," Hassan of the Cursed Arm reported. "They managed to arrive at a ship docks where there were several cars and vans around the warehouse district. Normally I can take out all of them, but the sight of guards patrolling the area and entrance made my chances of being caught high with bounded fields."
Flanna silently listened as the Assassin described a list of magic tools and other resources that moved into the storehouses. "So, they are making a foothold into one of the shipyards and using subway stations to transport illegal goods from whatever they come from, which I suspect that an underground criminal organization is working with them, doing some illegal activities." Her face twisted in an angry scowl before she quickly regained her mask-like expression.
"Assassin, go down to the basement and wait for further orders," Flanna said as she took off the towel from her hair. "Understand?"
"Yes, master," Assassin said as he irregularly melted into the shadow.
Flanna sighed deeply and slowly took off the shower cap from her hair, looking at the mirror, which most of her hair had to most likely be blond now with some red tint in some parts of the hair. "This will do for now," she smiled at how fast the dyeing process was, taking a look at her skin that was somewhat white enough for now as she put her clothes back on.
After a few minutes of double checking, she closed the door to the bathroom and turned to see Chiron, Atalanta, and Achilles with a carefree smile on his face, who arrived from the window.
"Hey, master," the Adamant Hero smirked in delight at her. "We are back." His smirk on his face could make any woman swoon for him, which worked somewhat for Flanna.
Her lip began to quiver a bit as her cheeks began to blush a bit. It was clear that she was embarrassed. He was charming, sure, but now was not the time to think about it.
Achilles couldn't help but smile, he was also accustomed to the small blush that framed the girl's unkempt, boyish features.
"Oh, Achilles, Chiron, and Atalanta you all are back," Flanna responded back as her face turned back to normal with her serious expression back. "How was the trip around the cities?"
"It was big, loud and smelled awful there most of the time," Atalanta answered as she rubbed her nose from the smell of the garbage can that still lingered in her sense of smell. "There is nature in some parts of the area."
"Those skyscrapers make a good vantage point of the city," Chiron answered as he remembered admiring the view of the city as glass windows made it shine brightly. "The city has some stuff to look around."
"Well, for me, I didn't have any time to admire the city but what is that sport called again?" Achilles asked her as while he was sprinting throughout the cities, he happened to notice a group of people consisting of teams that took turns switching between two roles centered around, striking and catching a ball. He stopped for a while to watch the sport and developed a mild interest in it. "They would shoot a ball through a hoop on a rectangular court."
"I think you want to know about Basketball, right?" Flanna answered his question, not surprised that he was developing an interest in modern day sports, as he was from Ancient Greece where ancient Olympic games were as much a religious festival as an athletic event. It was held in honor of the Greek god Zeus that Achilles may have joined in the Olympic games once or twice in his lifetime.
"Oh, so that's what it's was called," Achilles said in a gesture of enlightenment, which he hit the palm of his hand with his fist as his head was provided with the history of basketball and its rules from the Holy Grail. "Master, do you have a basketball in this house that I could use?"
"Well, I do have one somewhere in the house, but I'm going to need an air pump first," Flanna answered in a serious tone. "In the meantime, all of you head back down into the basement where I'm going to explain what we are going to do next."
"Sure, whatever you say," Achilles said in a carefree voice as he and Atalanta walked downstairs to the basement.
"Chiron, could you give me Achilles's stats?" Flanna asked Chiron, who was about to head down too, which he nodded his head.
As Flanna was done writing the Amaranth of the Brave's stats, she had a harder time to accept what she was looking at, as her eyes widened in astonishment and shock as she clutched the notebook.
"I must have drawn a huge luck of getting the strongest servant from the Holy Grail."
"Seriously, this is bloody ridiculous."
"Is the Holy Grail making each servant from the summoning ritual more powerful each time?"
The Rider of Red: Achilles, the hero of The Iliad and Chiron (Archer of Black)'s pupil in life.
Attributes and Stats
Strength: B+
Endurance: A
Agility: A+
Mana: C+
Luck: D
N. Phantasm: A+
Class Skills
Magic Resistance, Rank C: Can cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against Magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals. However, when receiving the effect of his invulnerability that nullifies all attacks of those who do not possess Divinity of a certain rank which any type of attack against him is nullified, including physical damage. Magecraft be damn harm this servant at all.
Riding, Rank A+: Creatures that are on the level of Phantasmal Beast and Divine Beast can be used as mounts for him to ride on but Dragon is a whole different level. It's stated that the Riding skill isn't enough, you need another skill for this to happen.
Personal skills
Battle Continuation, Rank A: At this rank, it is possible to keep fighting even with otherwise deadly injuries in his body, and can still remain alive so long as he does not receive another decisive fatal wound to his body. In his legend, after getting shot by an arrow at his heel and many shots at his heart afterward, he still fiercely fought and used all his strength to kill the soldiers of the Trojan army around him. Not knowing the meaning of 'giving up', Rider can even fight for a while after having been fatally struck in the heart despite getting shot in the heart numerous times with arrows.
Bravery, Rank A: The ability to negate mental interference such as pressure, confusion, and fascination due to possessing a powerful will. At this rank, it also has a bonus effect of increasing melee damage in combat fight.
Affections of the Goddess, Rank B: A form of divine blessing born through the love received from a goddess. In Rider's case, the affection comes from his sea goddess mother Thetis. All stats beside Mana and Luck have been ranked up by one boost to his stats.
Divinity, Rank C (B): Due to being born of Sea Goddess Thetis and the human hero Peleus, this ability allows him to break through skills such as Protection of the Faith and Enlightenment of the Sacred Fig and also has an effect that reduces special defensive values called 'purge defense' in direct correlation with the Divinity's rank. When donning his golden armor, the rank of this skill becomes B.
Noble Phantasms
Psyche Armatos: The Gold Cloth Armor, Rank E to A: The final treasure of Achilles, the second set of armor forged by Hephaistus to replace the one stolen by Hector, and the pair to the Shield of Achilles, Akhilleus Kosmos. A golden armor wreathed in bronze, orichalcum, gold and adamantium. It glows like the rays of the sun itself, its brilliance enough to captivate the eyes of allies and enemies alike. Truly an armor that is light with fighting spirit, just like its owner.
When asked about what kind of armor would be fitting for a hero such as Achilles, Thetis' response was 'an armor as magnificent and as terrible as the sun, shining with the light of the stars, that would make him invincible - a god on the battlefield'. With those thoughts in mind, Hephaistus constructed this Divine treasure. It is a special Noble Phantasm that does not draw power from its own making, but rather from the making of the wearer's own soul. A veritable manifestation of the wielder's fighting spirit, it gives Achilles' soul-crushing blood-lust tangible form and genuine offensive and defensive might. So long as his spirit is unbreakable, the armor itself can also be considered unbreakable.
It has a special effect that raises certain values of the wearer by drawing upon their inner power. Endurance gains a +, and both Mana and Divinity are rank-up while the Construct is being worn. It is also possible for him to gift this armor onto fellow Servants who were renowned for being the receivers of gifts, or to his own Master. In that case, the receiver will also gain Divinity on the same rank as Achilles along with the protection of Andreias Amarantos, effectively 'becoming Achilles'. However, they cannot use the armor's offensive feature. If one's will is broken, the armor becomes as thin as paper. In the hands of a weak-willed and cowardly individual, it would become veritably useless. Even Achilles was betrayed by this loophole when shot through his heel; having accepted his inevitable death, the armor lost its power and allowed numerous arrows to pierce his heart.
A usage that Hephaistus likely never designed, Achilles can cause his spirit to soar at will and use the manifested aura in an offensive manner by combining the armor and Dromeus Komētēs to execute a devastating charge that can blow holes through fortifications. Effectively, he becomes a human battering-ram. It was this ability that leads the god Apollo to come down from Olympus when Achilles neared the walls of Troy. Had he been allowed to advance, he may very well have dashed right through the gates and sacked the city by himself, defying fate.
Type: Anti-Unit (Self), Anti-Fortress
Range and Number of Targets: None
Troias Tragōidia, Rank A: Achilles' war chariot from the Trojan War. Drawn by her father's divine horses, Balios and Xanthos, it was used to mutilate Hector's corpse by dragging it around the battlefield for nine days. The Chariot is also equipped with chains on which to secure beaten up opponents, with which Achilles can drag them around for some serious damage. Also, a destructive trample attack via divine horses. It boasts extraordinary power, firmly charging and "riding like lightning," which is very difficult to stop. Using it, he tramples throughout the battlefield with godspeed, easily trampling anyone in front of it and scraping up the ground simply from riding it, increasing damage dealt proportionally to its increase in speed. It can be described as a giant galloping lawn mower that can mow people like grass.
Type: Anti-Army
Range and Number of Targets: 2-60 and target 50 people.
Diatrekhōn Astēr Lonkhē, Rank B+: It is a simple spear with sturdy workmanship that is well designed for close combat. Able to destroy all defenses and pierce the chests of heroes, he holds it lightly in one hand as a means of using for its original purpose as a throwing weapon. During his life, he developed an ability with the spear that creates a fair battle ground between two opponents, where no gods, outside help or elements of luck can intervene. It is a separate dimension outside of time, so when the duel within concludes, it will have lasted only a second from an outside perspective. The dueling rule must be agreed upon by both parties so it is useless against someone refusing to duel. While the fight in the novel involves only fists, weapon usage can be permitted.
This spear also gains abilities in which wounds inflicted by this spear cannot be healed as long as it exists as the injury that can only be healed by having a fragment of the spear rubbed into the wound as long as he said the spear's name, which would activate the curse. But, he cannot invoke the true name against female opponents due to an awful amount of regret of killing the Amazon Queen Penthesilea with this spear, it can neither be used on someone weaker than himself.
Type: Anti-Unit
Range and Number of Targets: 2 to 10 and target about one person.
Andreias Amarantos, Rank B: It grants his entire body, excluding his heel, the blessing of immortality, and negates all attacks from those who don't possess the "Divinity" skill. Any type of attack against him is nullified, physical damage, the "normal attacks" of Servants, and even great Noble Phantasms. Those who possess the blood of a god within their veins are permitted to harm him. It can only be fully negated by those with possessing the Divinity skill equaling or surpassing Rider's C-rank Divinity, the damage won't go through completely, reduced to 75% of the damage for rank D "Divinity" and to 50% for E rank. Additionally, even without Divinity, the damage will be dealt as long as the attacking Noble Phantasm is a divine armament. In that case, the damage calculation would depend on the rank of the divine armament. If they possess both Divinity and a Divine Construct, the ranks are treated as combined when attacking with said Construct.
If his heel receives a direct wound, Achilles is rendered mortal and this Noble Phantasm is lost, for now. It is very hard for his heel to heal after it has been wounded, as it will actively reject all but the most extreme of healing spells, accepting only natural means of restoration.
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)
Range and Number of Targets: zero and target itself.
Dromeus Komētēs, Rank A+: this Noble Phantasm specifically names him as the fastest hero of any era, and that once activated, very few people can keep up with him. In fact, it makes him so fast that he is pretty much teleporting, which however its usage requires that his weak-point must be exposed but not many servants can keep up with his speed.
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)
Range and Number of Targets: zero and target itself.
Akhilleus Kosmos: It is a defensive type Noble Phantasm which can protect him from any attack that allows it to protect against Anti-Unit, Anti-Army, Anti-Fortress, Anti-Country, and Anti-Divine Noble Phantasms short of an Anti-World one. And yes, you can actually use the shield as a weapon but you cannot use Achilles' method of attack with the shield. The Shield of Achilles, described in a passage in Book 18, lines 478–608 of Homer's Iliad, has roughly three-quarters of the chapter devoted to detailed descriptions of the ornamental engravings on the shield (You can google search Achilles' shield of what it looks like).
Type: Barrier
Range and Number of Targets: zero and one person
Personality: From what I describe him, he is almost exactly what he is supposed to be as broad-minded, audacious and capable of being amazingly petty, but also capable of defending noble causes. He is bloodthirsty to the point where he is excited that someone can actually hurt him and seems to almost view his immortality as a curse, as it prevents him from being hurt in most fights and thus taking the thrill out of it. Romance is a matter of great importance to him. Promiscuous both in this life and the one that preceded it, he pursues the women that he finds attractive with great gusto. Possessing the kind of charm that would make even a married woman flustered with just a few well-chosen words, he holds great confidence in his abilities as a lover, almost to the point of excess. Most certainly, the existence of other rivals and romantic partners will not stop him. He is like a wild raptor with a strong body, a fair face, a toothy grin and a complete lack of any kind of crudeness; both beautiful and ferocious, a prime example of Grecian ideal beauty. He has a particular kind of attraction for females of the same region as him. He is almost undoubtedly pursuing a beautiful Greek heroine (Atalanta) fighting now even if she were to be his enemy. On another note, he doesn't like fighting women as much as men, probably due to the incident concerning Penthesilea.
Contrary to popular belief, he would rather not fight Hector again. The three people that Achilles does not want to rematch using his spear regardless after death or alive are Hector, Penthesilea, and Chiron.
STRENGTHS: First and foremost, this is Achilles, the great hero of the Trojan War. Strength and beauty aside, Achilles has guts and plenty of them. This is paired up with a hearty determination to get the job done once he really gets into the mood. Just ask Hector. If you're the right kind of person, either pretty or Patroklos-ish enough, you'll probably hit it off at the start. Given who he is, it was no surprise that he'd be this, but his sheer number of powerful Noble Phantasms, excellent stats across the board and high-ranked skills is almost staggering. Achilles is downright broken as a Servant because he has six Noble Phantasms, enormous stats, and was a born prodigy when it comes to warfare. Achilles, who cannot be harmed by any Servant that doesn't possess a Divine attribute. This is extremely broken, as there is no guarantee that a Servant with a Divine attribute will be summoned in the Holy Grail War and there is basically nothing that participants of the war can do to stop Achilles from wiping all of their Servants out.
WEAKNESSES: First and foremost, well, Achilles has the original Achilles' Heel. He is arrogant, aloof, and highly irritable. Do not tempt the Wrath of Achilles, for to do so is to call down the thunder and reap the whirlwind. Just ask Hector. It is not easy to get along with the great hero of the Trojan War, due to the above qualities. Achilles tends, to be frank, and to the point, speaking with much eloquence when he wishes to, but with few manners. He is prone to having bouts of cold shoulders, especially with regards to people and things he takes a liking to. His equally legendary lust will sometimes get in the way of a proper fight, and at worst, he'll stop trying to kill an enemy and start trying to seduce them instead. Whether a young virgin girl, an experienced mother, a faithful wife or even a virtuous nun, none are 'safe' if they happen to cater to his tastes which that include. Chiron points out that he would have a hard time-fighting people he was once friendly with. He is a charismatic, amazingly skilled fighter who is the most handsome man in the world, with serious personal issues.
Levels of Reliability Rating: Dependable to Steadfast
An Issue with Order?: Well, he is not a hero that rebelled against all authority from his master, but will not accept tasks he does not wish to complete or like. In such a way, he once openly ignored the orders and taking up arms only for the sake of a friend.
Watching the inhabitants of this time was...strange. Even in Lancelot's mind, it brought up memories of the past. Today was something strange in the fact that Lancelot found himself watching a family play in a park. It was one of those scenes that transfixed Lancelot as he watched them, though at the same time it left a hollow feeling deep down. The servant, in a typical black suit that he had taken such a liking to, was watching the group in silence as his mind would begin to drift into the sea of red haze that was his madness, which was still lurking in the back of his mind. There, he would find the memories that he had long since buried deep...the ones that hurt most of all.
"My son," Lancelot whispered to himself.
It had been some time in Summer when he heard of his son reaching the age of manhood. The moment had been a strange one, considering the case of Galahad's birth and the fact that for some time he didn't even know he had a son. So in setting out that day for a ride to the South to the small little abbey which his child had grown up in, he had pushed down the first domino. Lancelot had always cursed himself for this, though now he could not go back to change it. God above only knew how he yearned to rewrite it all.
Yet still diving deeper into what was his fragile state of mind, he could remember the day he Knighted him. That feeling of pride that had welled up in his chest when he looked down upon him. If only he knew he was sentencing his son to a short life.
Merlin's voice rung out in his ears like the sound of a church bell, "Half as long, Twice as bright".
As the words echoed through his head, something else would archer him back to reality, pulling him back with great enough force to snap the servant to alert. As the father and one of the sons played catch, the man would throw the ball just a bit too high. This caused the object to go over the boy's head before coming to a slow rolling stop in the street. It would all seem to go in slow motion from there.
The son would turn on his heel before quickly scurrying to get it, ignoring the shouts from his mother and father to come back. They were a warning after all, as up the street a truck would be coming at great speed. Lancelot didn't think for a moment about the scenario any longer. Instead, the Black Knight did what he was called to do in life and took action. The Berserker would shoot forward, materializing his black armor as he did so into the mass of black fog that he would appear to be.
It would take half a second or so to close the distance between her and the boy. Time moved quickly enough to scoop up the child and the ball from the street before leaping off the way as the truck slammed on its brakes. When Lancelot landed in the park, the ground would crack on impact but otherwise, the boy held by him was fine if not a bit scared of what exactly had saved him. Slowly the Berserker would release the child from his grasp as the boy would begin to stammer out thanks.
"T-Thank you..." the child would manage as he would look up into the black fog like a creature that was Lancelot.
Lancelot's helm would tilt to the side for a moment before his other hand produced the baseball within his taloned gauntlet. The boy would look up at the Knight before slowly taking the baseball from Lancelot's hand. With that, Lancelot would pat the child's head before gesturing him to hurry along. The boy would take one last look up at Lancelot before darting off back to his family. Soon, cries of relief would echo through the park as the Berserker would watch the family embrace their son. As Lancelot would listen, the boy would go on about how a strange black guardian angel had saved him. A sad sound escaped the Berserker as he watched them in silence. The thought of the matter being drawn up in his head once again.
"If only that were true..." he said to himself.
Lancelot somewhere inside that armor began to stir once more. "GGGAALLLLAAHHAAD." The name came out as a long groan from the black suit of armor as he recalled his son's name. The memories of the past came back to his mind in shards and pieces. The first of his memories being the last time he saw him alive, moving forward to receive the grail. He remembered how his pride had turned to horror as he saw him fall, as his world had slowed that day. The scene of his son falling through the air forever trapped in his mind, with his lifeless corpse falling in his arms.
Then, he stopped shaking until he deactivated his Noble Phantasm For Someone's Glory as he calmed down with his face huffing, catching his breath. Lancelot looked around to see id anyone noticed his disguise, which a small group of people was crowding around the boy's family and the truck. He felt relief that no one saw him, Lancelot decided to leave the scene now while he had the chance.
Benjamin and Enkidu managed to arrive back to their college and got to their classroom before any of his classmates noticed they were late. Thankfully none of them or the teachers asked any questions about who Enkidu is, next to him. They assumed that Enkidu was just one of their classmates that they never noticed. Good thing that no one recognized Enkidu, but another issue is how to give Enkidu a good name to pass by, as his name is never common in today's world.
It took a few minutes until Benjamin gave Enkidu a good name, Midori, which is a girl's name and the meaning of the name is a green child or greenery child, which makes a lot of sense to Enkidu who had long green hair, a cheerful, passive attitude and a sort of childlike innocence.
Right now, Benjamin and Midori (Enkidu) were doing their best to pass their history tests.
"Oh god, this is hard for me to understand," Benjamin said with a nervous voice. To be able to study through college was quite hard for some people. At the all in the United States, there are over 7,021 colleges and universities.
Benjamin put down his pen as he finished writing down his assignment. He rolled his shoulders and massaged them a little to ease some tension they had.
He turned his head to the side to see how Midori (Enkidu) was doing, which Benjamin felt quite strange to see a hero from the past doing a test with him. Only to get shocked that Midori (Enkidu) was almost done with the first page and moving on to the beginning of the second page. "He's answering it pretty quickly. I thought he wouldn't be able to answer any of it." Benjamin thought to himself.
"Midori, how can you be so quick on the test?" Benjamin asked him, making sure that no one heard him. "This test is the hardest one that the college has in this class."
Midori (Enkidu) stopped writing and turned his face with a simple smile. "When Servants are summoned from the Holy Grail, we are given the minimum information required to allow us to fit into any era."
"I know that, but I just want to know how you can be almost done with the first page," Benjamin whispered as he shifted his eyes back and forth, worried that someone would hear them. "Unless you are just probably guessing by writing nonsense answers on the paper."
"Would you like to see what I write?" Midori (Enkidu) replied and showed his paper to Benjamin. "You would be amazing with it, as these questions are quite easy for me to answer."
"Fine, give that, " Benjamin said as he rubbed his temple in a vain attempt to quell an oncoming headache and grab Midori's paper from his hands. "Let's see this."
Benjamin stared at Midori's paper and gave a long study at it. "Hmm, the beginning questions are about the early history of Middle to Late Bronze Age, the answers were all quite acceptable. No missed marks. The middle questions are about Early Iron Age and Classical Antiquity, it's a more sophisticated answer than the books that I have memorized and it seems correct to me." Benjamin slowly had his eyes open wide.
"Damn," Benjamin said deep into his thought. "I've already memorized the information that I didn't understand the past two times... Who would've thought the questions would get harder and harder to answer. And Midori's answers are answered so brilliantly."
"Midori, how the hell do you know the answers so easily?" Benjamin asked Midori (Enkidu). "These history tests require a lot of studying and practice to get most of the questions right."
"Every time I look at the questions from the paper, the Holy Grail provides me with enough knowledge to answer it smoothly which includes a certain amount of information on that topic too," Midori responded to him. "It's convenient and it makes the world more complicated."
"So that Holy Grail is providing you with a lot of information like a god damn computer and explains the details to you," Benjamin said with jealous eyes. "I really wish that the Holy Grail could provide the answers to my head too. So I don't have to do this long ass studying."
"Hold on for a minute, I am going to copy some of your answers on my paper before I give your paper back to you," Benjamin said as he looked at his paper and Midori's paper. "Is that ok?"
Midori (Enkidu) gave him a nod of the head.
Before Benjamin started to write down the answer, his phone gave a small buzz sound, which he grabbed from his pocket and stared at the messages.
"What is it, Benjamin?" Midori (Enkidu) asked as he sat comfortably in his chair.
"My sister called me and asked us to come back home right away once school is over," Benjamin answered as he typed a new message back to her. "She and the rest of the servants are going do something at night, which we have to head back just to be safe." He knew that Flanna told him to make sure that whatever you say or type, don't mention anything related to the Holy Grail/War and Servants, as everything has ears and eyes everywhere in this modern world now. Benjamin was not sure how good the Holy Church and the Clock Tower's intelligence and the network were, but he is pretty sure that they are on a governmental level without the technology inside of it. "Also, she told me where the air pump is in our house."
"Well, let's get this test done and get home quickly now," Benjamin said to him.
The Ray's Tavern was an unpretentious bar in one of the working-class neighborhoods that has seen much better days, but the bar was still one of the nicer areas in the city. On this occasion, the bar was packed with many different people from the middle-class worker to teenagers to some off-duty cops who were clamoring for the attention of the bartenders, telling war stories, and boisterously buying one another drinks.
In one of the tables was Sergeant Jeffery Smith, Detective Augustus, and Detective Valerio, who each of them is holding drinks of a cocktail, whiskey with a beer, in their hand.
"You don't look so good, my friend," Jeffery Smith said to Augustus as the stout man drank his cocktail. "What happened to you?"
"Felt like shit all day," Augustus replied, weakly. "It's the damn heat."
"You need a better drink," Valerio said, with a small smile. "You want a cold drink?"
"Yeah, make it a club soda," Augustus said as his forehead sweat. "God, interrogating a lot of witnesses in the middle of the hot afternoon makes my brain fry and overheat."
"Club soda," Valerio repeated, with surprise. "Are you sure you would be all right, drinking that much?" Augustus was not exactly a teetotaler. He could easily drink most of his fellow officers under the bar.
"Yes, don't question me about what I should drink," Augustus said. "Because I really need a good drink,"
"If you say so," Valerio said as he ordered the club soda.
"All right now," Jeffery Smith said with a serious voice. "Let's get this meeting started right away."
The table got a little quiet now. "So, what information do we got from our assignment and what we got?" Jeffery Smith asked his friends.
"I got nothing from that gang incident, other than just another newcomer servant calling himself Rider of Red," Augustus reported, as the stout man nursed his drink and handed them a photo of Achilles. "Here is what he looks like."
"Wow, a pretty boy," Jeffery Smith commented. "Not sure who he is, but the armor looks to be from an Ancient Greece time period."
"Hmm with a strong body, a fair face, a toothy grin and a complete lack of any kind of crudeness; both beautiful and ferocious, a prime example of Grecian ideal beauty or close to it," Valerio described the Greek hero's body. "Also, with him holding a spear and being called the Rider Of Red, I think that we should look at the Greek hero of the Trojan War, Achilles."
"You are joking, right?" Augustus asked as his head was sweating bullets, which Jeffery could see the nervous look on his face. "Are you saying that Rider of Red is Achilles, which he is like invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel?"
"Calm down, I was only just guessing, but it seems it is quite possible that the Rider of Red is him," Valerio said to his partner as not to worry him too much.
"Well, if he was him then we are pretty sure that we are going to be fucked right now without even trying," Augustus poured the club soda into his mouth. "What about you, Jeffery? Did you find any sort of clue that gives us to search in the right place?"
"Yes," Jeffery Smith answered as he held a tiny video monitor in his hand so that his friends could see it. As Detective Augustus and Detective Valerio watched the videotape, he leaned close to them and gave him his report. The tape showed the subway train with some men in black business suits, sometimes wearing a hood over their head, smuggling in and out with some illegal dealings of alchemical items.
The next tape showed a black van that would arrive at a garage door and which would drive away off somewhere. The last tape showed the subway train arriving at the station and that was when the light curtain died off, then there were screams coming from the subway train as the roof was being torn apart into pieces. Then, what appeared to be an explosion of some kind of fireball shot everywhere. That was when the camera was destroyed by a flying knife.
"Damn, you have found a huge set of information, more than any of us could have found," Augustus smiled and grinned as he tossed down his drink. "We have a lead now."
"Still, what the hell happened on the subway train?" Valerio asked. "Was it one of those servants at that place?"
Jeffery Smith shook his head. "No, it was not, but I think it was," he tried to describe the skull man as best he could.
"A Grim Reaper?" Valerio commented, "Hmmm, no it could not be, as the skull man should have scythe blades."
"So we have a servant that eats a human corpse," Augustus said with a toothy smile before his face turned back to normal. "I have a good feeling that we are never going to make it out alive, but we got to take this real cool." Which everyone nodded their heads. "Since it is impossible to predict what those servants will do and who they are, so that means one thing. We need to find that black van right now."
"I got the plate number and vehicle description page in my notebook. I have some of my men already pinpointing their location," Jeffery Smith reported as the Sergeant handed over his notebook and a map. He pointed his finger at the shipyard address. "We think that those men in black business suits are located here. This would be our first lead."
"The shipyard, there's definitely something slippery about that place," Augustus remembered that place was suspicious of illegal smuggling of the drug trade and human trafficking, but four times in the last year, he and Valerio have sent the police force to break them up and four times all they turn up is nothing. He doesn't know if it's a spy within the police force's ranks or maybe it's just the sight of a group of police cars moving thru the streets that tip them off.
"Yeah, this is where we'll find those unknown men in black business suits," Jeffery Smith said as he grabbed his phone and started typing on number keys. "Surveillance is our specialty now, remember this from now on. The pieces of the puzzle are beginning to start to come together. Also, one thing: just because we haven't seen any of them around doesn't mean they aren't there."
"Now we are talking, I'll go fetch some of my boys along with the special weapons," Augustus's face broke out into an ear-splitting grin. "Valerio, you are going to come with us, you can do that servant's identity later. I have another feeling that this isn't going to be a walk in the forest and I want capable men by our side." He remembered some asshole who mocked towards the police force, that they are useless and incompetent, but those type of people are the ones who have the worst opinions of police and are generally people who lead lifestyles that bring them into contact with police frequently, especially if they treat the police in an offensive manner.
Valerio looked at the notebook and then back at Augustus. "Well great, then let's turn our findings over to the FBI and CIA of what we have found."
"We can't give this information to them yet," Augustus said as he turned his head to toward his friend.
"What?!" Valerio exclaimed. "Why the hell not!?"
"Augustus, are you afraid that they would take the credit and make themselves look good in front of the public, which soon there would be rumors that police are so incompetent that federal task forces have been brought in to do the job for us." Jeffery Smith said with his eyebrows up. 'Is their image that bad?"
"No, not that, it's just that ever since the moment the FBI and CIA arrived in our station house, they have been acting like they own the place," Augustus answered as he looked down at the table. "Not only that, I heard from some of my boys that there is a shady government agent name Orlando Reeve who has been sneaking around the station. But, it's only just rumored, which I don't roll over for anyone's federal task force, especially without a goddamned good explanation."
"But still we have to make sure that they don't suspect us to know this lead ahead of the time," Valerio said, locking eyes with his partner. "Or that we have been holding back the report for awhile."
Augustus pulled out a cigarette and lit up. "Give those reports to the federal task forces at a later time."
"Completely?"
"Yes, completely," Augustus started. "But how long do you think these guys find those reports and put two and two together themselves?" He put the notebook and video tapes into a brown folder and set it back down from the table. "If they speculate us of how we got to that place ahead of the time, we can just say we were nearby the shipyards and arrived there first."
"And besides, I don't care how big this is or who's involved," he said, "This mastermind is going down." The two foxy gentlemen grinned at Augustus's cunning. This was a career maker. They were on the trail of heroes from the past who are playing tag with federal agents and another unknown group at the same time. It was enough to wear anybody out.
Jeffery Smith was already convinced that the Mastermind and his servants, whoever the hell they really were, had to be part of some kind of secret war between those men in a black business suit, which possibly that there is also a high chance of a third party who is involved with this too. It was the only explanation that made any kind of sense.
OK, a lot of things are going on here in this chapter but I don't want to go on talking about what is going on in this chapter as you should figure this out for yourself. But let's say that a lot of factions and people are making their own moves and are trying to find out what is going on here in this region.
Important note for the readers: So due the time I have been writing this chapter, I have been making some ideas and brainstorm from MythFan of making a Crossovers stories which are a Fate stay night with Akame ga kill and Fate Stay Night with RWBY. Don't worry about me abandon this story as I want to take a break and refresh new ideas into my head before going back to my story. I make sure that I am researching both of them before write down some real good ideas into the prolog chapter.
I have already got a lot of idea for Akame Ga Kill and RWBY when I watch/read it but first I need a good prolog to get readers attention which is where to start the crossovers story for the first chapter and prolog. So I am going to need some good tips and ideas before I start a new crossovers story. I have already planned out which servants would appear in the crossovers but you can add some good ideas of what can the servants doing or be useful in the Akame Ga Kill and RWBY. Make sure that your suggestions and ideas that are not terrible and badly-implemented ones that sound like a cool idea without even put some thought into it.
The crossovers which I can explain in a very good detail.
RWBY: I would add mostly anti-heroes and some noble heroes doing some crazy stuff and lot of magnitude of misunderstanding of villain plans which I tries not to make them join the Beacon Academy because it get boring every time that fanfiction writers do that and I add servants to become a third party of wild card who threw wrench into Cinder's Associates and Ozpin's plan which in a realistic way the manipulators can't control everything, and sometimes their plans fall apart because they take too long to make decisive action which shows an another Chessmaster weakness, the inability to truly know everything. Since most people in Remnant get their news from Tv New report who sometimes ever accurate, so misinformation spreads rapidly. This can be specially shown whenever an important event happens a variety of stories spring up, so even a spymaster can be unsure what actually happened.
The RWBY world look to be a typical black and white morality story but then Ozpin who is supposed to be a good guy is heavily implied to have an incredibly shady past, Cinder is heavily implied to have a tragic backstory that caused her to hate the concept of destiny and the Maiden system and want to dismantle it, one of her enforcers does have a tragic backstory (Emerald was basically homeless and destitute until Cinder gave her food, a home, and care, which is why she's so loyal to her), and Salem heavily implies she has very good and legitimate reasons to hate Ozpin and want to see him fall. The world of Remnant is populated by civilized Humans and Faunus and the chaotic, uncivilized Grimm, who are fantastical, fairy tale-esque monsters...who outnumber Humans and Faunus by the billions, civilization is almost entirely powerless against them, and have driven mankind to the brink of extinction. The civilized world is comprised of four major kingdoms, each focused on a specific aspect of society...and they are all at one another's throats due to political and ideological differences that they are unable to put aside, even as the Grimm pound at their doors.
Professor Ozpin abides by the classic tendency to let his students flaunt the rules by going on a mission outside their skill-level with only a single huntsman to back them up just because the protagonists are connected to the villains. The girls find themselves hard pressed during the mission and only force Roman to speed up the plans rather than fully stopping him. The girls almost get killed, Faunus do die, and the city is invaded by Grimm. Ozpin's superiors respond by revoking his authority over the Tournament and warning him they will be discussing his career options after the Tournament is over.
It's a very real, all or nothing, life or death war of survival against an enemy that's almost incomprehensible stronger, better equipped, and better organized than the heroes (RWBY), people have died and much more will die before it's over, and any semblence of victory will come at a heavy price. Ruby Rose is constantly built up to become a major character and hero, who will have a grand destiny before her and fails miserably to stop Cinder because she's just a kid and Cinder is a fully grown woman who just became mostly physical goddess, and is brutally murdered in a senseless sacrifice that accomplishes nothing but traumatizing her friends. Yang who can able to bounce back from nearly everything thrown at her...but when the villains publicly disgrace her in the eyes of the world, destroy her home, and cripple her, her bravado completely shatters and she is riddled with realistic depression and PTSD because, like Pyrrha, she was just a kid who had her entire world turned upside down in a traumatic way.
Akame Ga Kill: I would add where the servants take the "change from within a different approach with a bit of rule breaking because the Servants understand The Revolutionary Army's position and to an extent, their support and their cause, however, there was always one glaring reason that the servants did not choose to join or support Night Raid when the opportunity arose. The Night Raid members are all under the command of the Revolutionary Army so most of their order come from the leadership which the orders are mostly likely to be (murder is the best solution to every problem) that makes the Night Raid nothing more than a hired muscle who blindly follow order without question and gotten so addicted to murder that the members find some flimsy reason/excuse to justify of killing their targets. This is supposed to be black and gray morality or gray and gray morality manga but it acts like everyone who fights the Empire is good guy which is ironic as not every neighboring country who formed an alliance with the Revolutionary Army are not their friend as they want just rid of the Empire which they would jump into the war once it took over, wanting a piece of the lands and Southern and Northern Tribes come into the land for their opportunity and take revenge against the empire for the death of Numa Seika and the atrocities they've caused.
Seriously, despite called themselves Night Raid because the majority of the assassinations occur at night, when is more easy to kill people, are dangerous and efficient assassins throughout the Empire and their name and symbol are dark themed which, however, many are typically not so stealthy as each of the members tense to sneak in/near to the place only until they reach their intended victim or when the target come near to them, then straight up burst into the room and engage the target in a sword fight/ fistfights. This is best shown when Tatsumi work with some of them in the early assassination targets which they end kill them in somewhat open area with some witness around that place that drew attention instead of killing the targets in their sleep, when the targets is by him/herself alone, just make it look like an accident or suicide and kill them while wearing disguise.
Not only the Night Raid fail the most basic step of how to kill your targets, they drew too much attention by killing the Prime Minister's cousin who has the high ranks in the government which Honest wasn't happy when his cousin was killed that cause him to order Esdeath back from frontier after she was done subjugate the Northern Tribes to deal with the Night Raid which the Empire created two special units, the Jaegers and Wild Hunt, both of them have caused Night Raid considerable losses of their members in skirmishes because the Night Raid are so used to kill weak targets that they would caught surprise by strong targets who can fight back.
Well, I do get that every member of the Night Raid are genuinely good people at heart and they know that in order to change the corrupt state of the empire that they will need to be merciless against anyone that stands in their way for the greater good. However, I should point out that preaching the displays of the corruption of the Empire and hopefully their ideas reforms can change the Empire after Revolutionary Army takes over the government would not work like that as The Revolutionary faction suffered heavy casualties after that and none of the Revolutionary armies know how to administrate many territories and regions because many of the various advisers from the Empire who know how to administrate many territories and regions are kills by the Night Raid on their hit list or by The Revolutionary faction using horrifically brutal public executions.
While many nobles, advisers, and officials are abusive, corrupt and arrogant but at least they tried damn hard and mostly succeeded of making money flourish and move the food supply into the Capital city and other places as they were also the pillars stones of leadership and authority which many of them are get kill one by one now there vacant position in the hierarchy where inexperienced second or third in command subsequently rose to power to fill in the graps but unfortunately they were never properly educated and utterly competent which most of them were simply unable to cope with the responsibilities of leadership that cause the condition of each city much worse than before or get replace by much worse leaders. Take the throne is much easier than keeping one, being a powerful general in wartime doesn't make you a good king in peacetime as your strategic genius doesn't extend to politics, your problems still aren't solved. The Revolutionary Army leaders who are good at building up their growing numbers and strength until they are strong enough to take on The Empire and Najenda who her years of experience serving in the Empire as a general have made her a highly capable leader that make a good chance of win in battle but governing is the hard one which they can make one lousy administrator and politician as each city in the Empire land is in its own state of fresh chaos which is hard task of taking care of each of the place when the Revolutionary Army have already had dry resources to try and acquire the kingdom into a fresh start and trying to maintain its upkeep as some shrewdness people are smart enough to neither waste resources refurbishing it until they have the gold to tear old building down that are below a certain standard and updated the resident's living conditions.
Not only that is the issues, the villages and towns are also suffer from heavy taxation and peasants who are start dying from starvation due to failed harvests and unable to buy enough food, resulting in widespread shortages in the remote areas of the empire. This has forced many country-living citizens to move to the capital to seek money to help their village, only to sometimes find death (or worse) because of the high crime rate. This issue caused the Empire to slowly lose their nation's strength and neighboring countries merely engaging in a war of attrition to consume the weakening the Empire with minimal losses, an alliance with the Revolutionary Army be damnation. The end result of Akame Ga Kill would be that the revolution on behalf of the people ends up becoming a power-play between governments of two nations, neither of them really have the best interests of the people on the ground. For every idealist fight for freedom, there are five thugs who signed up for the looting and/or psychos who just want an excuse to rape and kill people. That would be the aftermath at the end of the manga Akame Ga Kill
Time to answer some of the Guest reviews:
Guest chapter 24. Nov 28, 2016, When is Kischur going to appear?: He will appear in the background watching the events most of the time.
Guest chapter 24. Jan 16, 2016: I have a few questions.
1) Why did Flanna receive command seals for Lancelot and Artoria instead of Ben? Was it because she was near the holy grail as Iya was about to summon them and the seals she was supposed to receive were transferred to Flanna?: Answer: Flanna was touching the grail at the same time when Iya summon a servant which the Holy Grail end up transferred the seals to Flanna's body which there are more than three command seals grow into her body. It was an accident that no one has predicted.
2) How does the master thing work? The holy grail chooses Ben as the master of all the servants but is it the same with Flanna or does it only apply to Lancelot and Artoria as she has the seals?: Answer: All of the servants can sense that Benjamin is their master and would sense if he is in danger, they can still follow Benjamin's order but at the same time they can sense absolute authority from Flanna which the servants have a nagging compulsion to follow her order but they can ignore whenever they want to. This is a down version power of being a Master.
3) Will Ben eventually get command seals of his own maybe for Scathach whose catalyst was taken by Avenger but she hasn't appeared?: Answer: No, Benjamin would not get commands seals because he is not a magus nor does he have magic circuits or command spells which Flanna got it by accident. Since, Benjamin is not a Magus and only a human being with no knowledge of the supernatural world and no magical abilities whatsoever, which causes him to be unable to have command seals and the ability to see his own servant's stats that make him almost useless in support. There is only one benefit for this as Master, and that is providing magical energy to a Servant will leak magical energy in a volume that is easily detectable to most spellcasters, which allows a Magus to determine that the Master has a contract with a Servant. This is good news for him because it does not give any sign that he is a Master, and most of the Magus would just simply walk past him without noticing a single energy from him.
This is actually accurate in Fate series, a good example is Souichirou Kuzuki who have not been sensed as a Master and a Magus for quite a while as he isn't a Magus himself, he only acts as her anchor to the world, while she must subside off of the magical energy taken from the leylines and the town in order to upkeep her existence so that is good reason why Rin and Shirou are unable to sensed anything off about him at school until it is too late. Fate writers in FanFiction always forget about this small issue due to their stories. The reason why Scathach has not appeared yet because I don't want people to ask for her to be summoned because she is one of the fan favorite servants to suggest and I also tired of people ask me this.
4) When will Ben discover the Existence of Avenger and what is his goal? Is he trying to start a war and frame Ben? Who is the true Villain?: Answer: somewhat of a yes answer but Avenger would not try to kill all human but have a different way of approach to start a war and get Flanna and Benjamin into this mess, also there are no true villains which it gets old really fast if I do that.
Guest chapter 24. Nov 28, 2016, What is going to be Solomon's personality and his relationship with Benjamin and Flanna?: His personality is a wise, benevolent human being which he is considered strong-willed, but only in that he says whatever is on his mind and has no social skill, and rarely shows any emotion simply because he perceives things in a bland tone as if he was talking about the weather. His relationship with Benjamin and Flanna is straight forward like 'I'm just a tool so I don't want anything' mentality. He will just do what is requested of him, he sees both of them brave enough to get thrown into this world is filled to the brim with dangerous things and a bunch of cosmic horror elements but has a fighting chance to defend themselves even Benjamin and Flanna are weakest human being
Guest chapter 24. Nov 28, 2016, In a fight between Shirou and Benjamin, who would win?: I will not answer who would win as I don't want the reviews to argue with the power level. But I answered this question as I somewhat said this in Chapter 19.
Ben (with reinforcement) vs Shirou: This one is going to be hard to answer. Benjamin would be at a disadvantage fighting against Shirou Emiya with medieval weapons as Shirou can just use his projection to call upon any weapons in the world, weapons that are scanned upon seeing them once and his Overpower Reality Marble. But Benjamin can still win with some good chances, as long as he is using an anti-magic weapon like Gae Dearg to pierce directly through any projection made of magical energy, also enhanced enhancements and ability boosts rendered useless when struck by the spear, and any item that acts as a magical energy source. If this is a hand to hand combat fight, then Benjamin would win, as Shirou Emiya was not trained in hand to hand fighting. I see him getting beaten up by Souichirou Kuzuki in the new anime.
Guest chapter 24. Nov 28, 2016, How the hell did Benjamin hurt Kischur? He is a normal human, right? He doesn't have any special abilities (not that I got anything against it), right?: I did that just for a joke, which it is going to be a running joke as every time Kischur is watching Benjamin and Flanna, there would be a random object thrown into his face.
Guest chapter 1. Dec 2, 2016, In Fate Grand Order you have a special handshake with Karna, will something similar happen in this story?: Benjamin would do a normal brofist with Karna.
Guest chapter 24. Dec 4, 2016, How about these people have servants Geronimo, Theodore Roosevelt, and Al Capone because they are very famous (especially Geronimo for being the apache leader and Roosevelt being the president) and summoning in America would give them a boost in stats for NP Roosevelt: his gun and rough riders, Al Capone: his car, Geronimo: his army and horse: Geronimo is always in the game and for Theodore Roosevelt and Al Capone, the answer is no because it is getting ridiculous of this suggestion to summon OC servants.
Guest chapter 24. Dec 4, 2016, King Kamehameha is a ruler of Hawaii and has an army (go check on the internet) it would be interesting to see another king that's from the USA: Oh, I understand who he is now but no thank you as I am tired of summoning OC servants to suggest.
Guest chapter 19. Dec 4, 2016, Found out why Shirou can use only Tracing. It's because he can only use his magic specialty because of his ideals and because he puts no value on his own life. The Fettered troupe so to speak: Ok, that explains it but I don't understand why this keeps showing up in fate stay night fanfiction and sometimes crossovers. In those guest reviews, they always said "Even with his elemental affinity and origin of sword the magecraft types/styles/spells Shiro should be able to use without having a normal elemental affinity and origin are runes, alchemy, and material transmutation which is the basis, formalecraft, witchcraft, bounded fields, non-elemental magecraft, reinforcement, alteration, structural grasp mystic code and familiar creation." "Please don't make the mistakes many fanfics do by thinking Shiro can only do projection and reinforcement."
Guest chapter 24. Dec 5, 2016, If you ever do a High school of the Dead x over with fate how about OC like here gets the grail and brings it to school to show it to his friends (Takashi group) and when the zombies appear that's when he uses it to summon the servants: That's somewhat a good idea but the issues are that Servants actually have little to no experience taking care of the common people in an urban warfare/ Fallout game/ soon to be a post-apocalyptic lifestyle, even the "leader" type (kings, lords, and generals). Here they got people who just had their lives flipped upside down, limited resources and zombies hunting down people, which Charisma skills would not work on those people when they are starving and confused as hell. While the servants are superhuman seasoned warriors and don't need to sleep or eat, the humans are normal people, scared, out of their comfort zone and have needs. Plus, I think none of the servants, besides the EMIYAS, have faced "infected zombies". The story could be a test of leadership.
Guest chapter 24. Dec 12, 2016, In the queens blade story, will the servants be with different characters to form a team like Leina with Arturia, Diarmuid, Emiya Archer and Cu Chulainn: One or two servants with each queen's blade character, and I would not use most of the servants that are Fate Zero, Fate stay night because those servants are overused too much so I would use other servants from other Fate series.
Guest chapter 24. Dec 12, 2016, What would be Gilgamesh's reaction to Emperor of Britannia, Emperor of Akame ga kill and Honest and Aldra: This is going to be hard to say in Gilgamesh's way of describing them but I would try my best of his reaction to them: Aldra, he thinks that demon Delmore that controlled Aldra who ended up falling in love with her is the kind of love that will surely become either their downfall or salvation.
Prime Minister Honest: An incredibly fat, lazy slob who basks in debauchery, pompous and corruption squeals like a pig and is not aware enough to realize how dumb he is, a fat fraud and moron. A mass of bloated, fatty oil, so much so that even his face resembles a fat pig consisting of excessive fat inside his body and sometimes breathes like a pig, which his corpse would be lit a wick on his belly and it would burn for days with the corpse's fats as fuel.
Emperor of Akame ga kill: A naive brat whose innocence does not excuse incompetence and unable to see his advice, is a fat pig. Able to fool him so easily despite all evidence to the contrary, but Gilgamesh would actually give him a small amount of respect of willing to accept death as his punishment and finally open his eyes to realize the fool he was.
Emperor of Britannia: A lazy Emperor leaving the duty of actually leading the empire to others and he sees all people as faceless pawns despite his good intentions. His empire is full of corrupt/selfish/incompetent/insane commando and rulers. Gilgamesh will spit on either fake explanations of Charles' plan for the Ragnarok Connection (which is to kill God, which will cause instrumentality and 'create the world without lies). As far as Gilgamesh is concerned, the world belongs to him and him alone. Anyone trying to conquer it is stealing from him. And forced peace through making all humans, both living and dead, into one being. Gilgamesh is the kind who advocates that conflict is what helps humanity grow. He'd see him as a pathetic whiner who's running from reality because trapping everybody in some rainbows-and-sunshine dream world forever is so pathetic by Gilgamesh's standards as to not even be funny as a joke.
Guest chapter 19. Dec 15, 2016, Summon Asterix and Obelix! Please!: No, for the love of god, is this some kind of a joke because this is a fate stay night fanfiction story, not a crossover to summon Characters from movies, anime, tv shows, comic books and books. I will not say this again, as I am sick of people asking to summon OC servants or something ridiculous.
Guest chapter 24. Jan 2, Are having Edmond (avenger) in this story: Yes, because I said this twice already in my chapters. And before you say anything, I do not want to summon him as one of the early servants to be summoned because you ask for it, as I don't want to show favoritism to the most popular and fan favorite servants which they have been overused in too many fanfictions of fate stay night stories.
Guest chapter 19. Dec 25, 2016, Another OMG! FOU IS ACTUALLY A PRIMATE MURDERER (wait, that also means, if he is Merlin's familiar, then MERLIN IS THE MOTHERFUC..ING BEST BEAST TAMER EVER!): Yes, thank you for sharing that with me and yes Fou would appear in my story, which Benjamin and Flanna would think that Fou is a cute pet and familiar and nothing else.
Guest chapter 19. Dec 25, 2016, OMG! WAS SOLOMON THE ENTIRE TIMEEEEEEEE! AND THE "SOLOMON" EVERYONE WAS FIGHTING IS ACTUALLY POSSESSED? OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDD: Not a big surprise about that.
Guest chapter 24. Jan 2 What do Ben and Flanna think of Beowulf: A really loud dad that they have to go to all of his sports games and attempt to cheer the games on. The only difference is that Beowulf might join in the fun as well and find it weird that Beowulf will follow the master's orders heavily. He is quick to listen, making him even weirder-looking compared to his fellow Berserkers which it is ironic that he has the lowest possible rank in Mad Enhancement and doesn't suffer from any loss of reason from it at all, and is therefore the most lucid of them even despite being the closest Heroic Spirit to the historical berserkers, even partially drawing his name from them, he is the sanest servant in the class.
Guest chapter 24. Jan 3, Looking for all catalysts that Ben and his servants from the museum, I'm surprised that no one asked about the Buddha statue that he could summon Buddha himself as a servant: They don't think it is important because they thought you have to achieve great heroic deeds in life in order to move to the Throne of Heroes.
Guest chapter 1. Dec 11, 2016, When are you summoning King Hassan? (my recommendation is that you summon him after you summon all other Assassins) and when are you summoning Tiamat (Beast II) of Beast class? (yes you can summon her): I am ok with that idea of yours, which the Hassan-i-Sabbah would be glad to see their leader is with them while still at the same time quite afraid of him because of the determined voice line of Hassan of the Cursed Arm's reaction to King Hassan, which his line: "W-w-w-w-w-who is that chief? I cannot calm down, magician. As long as that Hassan is present, I cannot calm myself down." Hassan's reaction to King Hassan reminds me of a goofy Yakuza underling. I can literally imagine him crying over every word King Hassan says while yelling: "Anikiiii!"
I will summon Tiamat when the Ruler and Avenger class are revealed to Benjamin and Flanna. I know that she can be summoned but the issue is that her attitude towards a Master, should she somehow be summoned, is that they are simply one in seven billion of the things she must exterminate, unless I nerf her so that she would not be able to kill all of the servants by herself, which she is still strong enough to be like a Berserker class on steroids. Benjamin and Flanna's reaction on Tiamat is that they would find her hard to imagine to be their mother with a supermodel body. Given she gave birth to a generation of gods and 11 monsters, they are more curious about why their mom (ancestor) is wearing a skimpy BDSM harness instead of a proper shirt. They would treat her like some sort of a little sister or daughter than a mother.
Guest chapter 24. Jan 9, Hope that Gilgamesh is coming out soon ~: once again he will appear much later.
Guest chapter 19. Jan 13, The bond between Gilgamesh and Enkidu is so strong that they can sense each other's presence even when they are a whole country's distance apart. So, when you summon Gilgamesh, immediately cut to the scene with Enkidu feeling him being summoned: Ok, I would do that.
Guest chapter 19. Jan 14, With so much mana fertilizing America, are some gods gonna revive, are some dragons gonna appear or we can expect another Age of Gods?: Gods are not going to be revived because gods of the Nasuverse need prayer badly as while some existed before there were beings who could believe in them, many Divine Spirits were created by the belief of humanity. As time passed and worship waned, they faded and became weaker Elementals, or ceased to exist. So if the gods of the Nasuverse are going to come back for the second Age of Gods then they going to need a lot of believers to come back to life but I seriously doubt anyone want those god/dess back to life as almost of them are jerk or just out right down lazy which are widely remembered today for being spoiled children with fancy powers at best and at worse total assholes. If those type of god/dess come back to life then it is going to be impossible to control them and they would go do whatever they wanted with no repercussion as most of them has never been punished for any of their crimes against other gods and humanity (especially women) and this attitude continues.
Some of the Phantasmal Species would come back from the Reverse Side of the World when they smell the mana in the air and other would come back to life/ arrive back like Demon Boar, Hydra, Dragon Kind and Chimera.
Guest chapter 24. Jan 14, This is a very different story. I just found it not too long ago and I'm already hooked. I rarely come across a character like Benjamin who is completely normal thrown into a totally messed up situation. I like how mature he is compared to some other characters like Shiro. Benjamin won't get any superpowers obviously but will at least be a skilled fighter maybe not to the level of Batman, Green Arrow, Nightwing or Red hood but somewhere around those lines? He'll need to be to survive.
I was thinking on pairings for Benjamin and here's what I've come up with: Nero, Tamamo, Joan, and Kiyohime or Scathach. I believe Nero would want to be loved with every ounce of her being and I'm not saying it out of favoritism ( Nero is my favorite saber) as the game said "while this woman could love more than any other person, she could not experience the joy of being loved. Tamamo because well obviously. I couldn't decide between Kiyohime or Scathach.
I'll be looking forward to the next chapter. : Yes, Benjamin is completely normal as there is really nothing special about him. Yeah, you heard me there is no secret hidden mysterious ultimate power, no gains his powers through yelling, no special about his family tree and no dark, bloody secret that motivates his truly selfless heroism. I want him to be a mature character and a person does not freak out like an immature or naive like someone that you know (Shirou Emiya) because I am sick of other OC characters being immature in other fan fiction stories and they always overreact with everything or being naive. It is so annoying and disappointing to see them act like that and that not how real person act. Benjamin is not an inexperienced person who has never seen danger events or weird stuff. But still expect him to react with appropriate horror or weird to things like a mature way and not to overreact to it. He would be a skilled fighter but not to the point of him able to fight head on against to Shirou Emiya, Rin, and Luvia by himself so Benjamin has to turn into a combat pragmatist because he ahs no chance face them in one on one combat.
I have already tell what is Benjamin's pairings somewhere chapters. Nero (it is more like want someone to understand her), Tamamo (Yes, that obviously why), Kiyohime (that is obviously too), Joan of Arc (I don't want her to pair up with Benjamin just because she look beautiful), and Scatharch(more like a teacher than a romance partner).
Guest chapter 5. Jan 12, Next update, plz!: Sure
Guest chapter 19. Jan 7 One more thing about Ado Edem: there is actually only 1 crossover about him, not two: Ok, I was also thinking about add Gun God and V/V The Angel in my story after reading the Notes for quite a while.
Guest chapter 24. Nov 26, 2016: Ok, here is Ado Edem's stats.
Ado Edem knows as Knight Edem
Class: Saber
Strenght: Ex
Agility: Ex
Endurance: B (his armor is A rank)
Mana: B (Ex) (when manipulating ether into his arm to make Slash Emperor)
Luck E (because he was too powerful that he was imprisoned in the Witch Swift Umbrella)
Class skill
Item construction(False): E(Ex) he is capable of manipulating True Ether for creating Slash Emperor, however, its rank is also E, due to being capable of creating ONLY his Np and nothing else)
Personal skills
Battle continuation: A
Eye of the mind (false): A
Independent Manifestation: A
Ultimate One's Slayer: Ex
Guardian knight: Ex
Robust Health: Ex (he can still breathe normally even though the Earth is full of space dust and can even go to space without any ill effects)
Denial of Nothingness: A (Allows for a manipulation of True Ether from space even not on the same level of a God)
Bravery: A+ (He has face Ultimate Ones so nothing can scare him else)
Miracle: Ex (He has kill Ultimate Ones that doesn't have a concept of death in it)
Innocent monster: A (He was feared by all of his comrades who thought he was a monster that was enough to put him in a prison. This skill is more of a hindrance rather than a help because it gives him a "monster" attribute making weapons against "monster" attribute effective to him if it can even affect him much)
Noble phantasm:
Slash Emperor Ex (anti-fortress, anti-world):
A sword that is created on a basic of a growing rose, that activates with clenching his right arm with his full strengths. A sword takes HUGE amount of True Ether in order to take down any enemy. It also damages the planet depending on a target's size. It enforces the concept of "truth" Also, due to servant's skills Item Construction(False) it is equivalent to a C rank Np
personality: As long he isn't forced to do anything and rather asked, he will do it, he love nature as he would gaze at the scenery which he want to see beautiful environment because His Earth was full of toxic, grain-infused air and wasteland that can't even support the basics of life as it was known for all of the humanity's former existence. Also, he will barely control himself when he sees others destroying native lifeform
Appearance: Armor that appears to be futuristic, mostly gray in color and he appears to have a helmet could probably allow him to be in space. Also, due to innocent monster attribute, his real appearance is now a homonculus with gray hair and red eyes.