A/N: Hello again, people. I am back to give you another updated chapter (15,456) and sorry that it took a very long time to post this, almost two months and a half now. The reason why it is taking so long to update was that I am entering the Ohlone College and studying for my mid-terms, which is slowing my writer-creator. I cannot sit on my computer much and I struggle with fear that people would critique my work too much and can't get my thoughts out, which was different for me to think what is going to happen next. Trying to get most of the servants' personalities right in one scene without being OOC personality is a hard job to pass that.

So there were 72 reviews, that is a lot of reviews to answer back since last time, but some of them were questions and suggestions that are terrible and badly-implemented ones that sound good on paper that is, but I answered those ideas if it is good or not. I will not try to answer all of the reviews.

I am not going to answer this again one more time and will try to make it as simple as possible for those blind reviews that cannot understand what I am saying as not to make this frustrating for you:

1: Complaining about my grammar checks (Seriously do you come here to read all my chapters just to leave a complaint about my grammar)

2: Suggestions for a crossover idea (Listen, my crossover ideas are something that is supposed to be unique and different, not like writing stories that can never go anywhere, jumping around between stories without any clue as to what to do, doing on a whim or an idea of a crossover story seemed like a good one at the time but then make another fic again before progressing the fics last time)

3: Trying to give me a very complicated idea that is so confusing and hard for me to answer back to you. (I got too many of these ideas that I had lost stream and interest to ever make it that I don't care to read it that much)

4: About summoning an OC servant that some of the review's suggestion or offer a myth/history figures that sound basically a wish fulfillment then any else (This questions had been overdone and I have been making my OC servants profile that was in my chapter last time due my spare time, got almost every one of them done so quit ask me this because I am done with that OC servant ideas)

I am going say this one more time, here is the list of OC servants that are interesting figures that would be appearing in my story and for story ideas and relationships which I have made most of the servant's profile sheet to make sound interested enough and loads of character development paragraphs with a fascinating background so that you want to know them. There are some servants who have unfinished sheet but I am working on it:

Simo Hayha (Archer/Assassin), Aleister Crowley, (Caster), Eve/Hawwah (Assassin), Moses(Caster), Bellerophon(Rider), Skuld the Scandinavian Elvish Princess (Caster), Helen of Troy (Caster/Assassin), Pandora (Caster), and Nefertari (Caster), Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, the Holy Maiden of Winter as Ruler class, George Washington(Archer/Rider), Pocahontas (Lancer), Clytemnestra (Avenger), and Enheduanna the Lady of the Heaven (Caster)

I am also not going to answer almost the same questions that some reviews keep repeating over and over. Go, look back to the other chapters to see if those types of questions had been answering or not by other people. If this happens again then I delete it as I am slowly lost my patience with some of you.

Time to answer some of your questions.

General Ironox: Every character from Fate series on their assessment of Benjamin is almost 180 degrees out of phase with how he truly is. The magecraft is slowly coming closer.

Shadow: Thank for saying that.

LukeSky001 chapter 23. Nov 18: Berserker(Cu Chulainn) was more powerful than he would normally be due to getting power from the Grail directly, ensuring a near limitless supply of mana. Rune of Resurrection is a Noble Phantasm-class and that her family possesses a Sorcery Trait which allows them to pass on their abilities through bloodline rather than teachings. No, Rune Magic is not OP as the usage of modern runes is unpopular within the Mage's Association and it is possible to affect a target with a Rune inscribed at distance, but the rate of success is low with the target that possesses Magic Circuits due to the effect of Resistance. Unless it is Primeval Runes created by Odin himself and used by Scathach, Brynhildr, Cu Chulainn, and Sigurd, old Runes referenced by Scathach, and Modern Runes that are mere imitations of the above and weak one then it is OP.

I don't think that Rin would simply put runes on the jewels because she is overconfident on her Jewel Magecraft, and she often disregards minor but important details, try to learn Rune Magic is a waste of time to do which her most favorable opinion on Rune magic at first glance seem incredibly useful. However, in reality "Sure, it looks neat, but it has serious problems, from poor range and accuracy, instant death spells generally don't work against at Magi who have magic circuits resistance", I don't think any Magi would try to learn several different Magic Spells if they don't found it useless or considered trash because of that most of Magi are simple crippling overspecialization at almost anything else but Magecraft.

Demon dark mezzo Sangue: Thank you for saying that. About the one that suggests Servants is that I do not pick any of them just because you asked for it.

UNSC Know Your Place: Shirou and his group are planning to go find the location of Benjamin that is because this is pretty much of a plan that they had come up with as this sixth Holy Grail is on a whole different level. The police guy does suspect on what he does think is going on so he has begun to gather proofs to other.

On the Balance scene on the Police vs Magi is the hard one to write down due that time as I had to read every Fate Franchise light novel up to date which it is not really much to show type of scene, so what I come up with is that Magi may have inhuman abilities and those bullshit magecraft which surprise the Police Force at first but with the right modern military-type hardware weaponry/technology can overcome magic defenses. Also charging headfirst into the modern SWAT army's that specialized in defeating human wave attacks and crowd control are definitely not the brightest thing to be doing, especially if you're trying to win a war and this is the Magi's first time in the urban warfare. Last is that the Magi are so used to get away with their shits they were doing that they think they can do it again of get away with nearly everything. Not only that most of the Magi possess an overly romanticized view of what the Holy Grail War was supposed to be like, abides by the rules of the Holy Grail War, thinking they would win victory in exciting and legendary battles, entered the Holy Grail War in an attempt to win prestige, and strangely, have a habit of enjoys the proposition of honorably dueling another magus which I see that three times in the light novels of Holy Grail wars.

The Reinforcement skill is most difficult magecraft out there, Reinforcement in the simplest sense is busing a base to the utmost, effectively improving its performance. Examples are increasing the durability and performance of the legs to run faster and jump higher, using it upon the eyes to see farther distances, etc. Yes, still no amount of reinforcement by modern Magi standard can take a 12 gauge shell point blank to the face unless they have regenerating capabilities or a dead apostle but the modern army can just bring the bigger gun with heavy firepower. If the Reinforcement spell from the Age of the Gods then you are going to need something else to take it down.

It can be assumed that Waver due to being an instructor at the Clock Tower, can also be assumed that his skill in the spell is low. Rin is capable of reinforcing various parts of her body. Taking this in mind, she is proficient enough at this spell to be able to close a gap of several meters in an instant through the reinforcement her legs. This displays her talent in the field, as the application of reinforcement to enhance living body parts is considered the pinnacle of difficulty so her skill in this spell is high and quite strong really same with Luviagelita. Bazett Fraga Mcremitz is quite skillful with her Runic able to efficiently switch which runes she needs active at a moment's notice. She often cycles between runes dozens of times in combat on almost reflex alone. Shirou is good at that UBW and his Reinforcement skill speak for itself. But even at his absolute peak in UBW, though, he is still an absolute trash mage, the worst of the worst, below the bottom of the barrel.

The US Special Forces vs Enforcers would be a wins with undermining costs attached because each side doesn't know each other very well. I would bet the US and their allies can win on a long run with The Association win the battles but lose the war kindly way.

ArcherShirou: The secret about magic is not over but only dew groups of people are suspect what is going on with this, made the link from the proofs can answer for them. The first to reveal this for the world is another story but it would soon spread among the public.

Government: No matter what happens, it will somehow be blamed on the President and the Government who has very limited ability to influence essentially no ability to influence in the areas of the economy that an average American is likely to personally experience. They are going to be blamed anyway.

The Holy Church: With a positive history of protecting people from mages and monsters of those times, they can get away with all this stuff because has enormous influence over the Europe.

The Clock Tower: Hide magecraft and cover up those magic event (Can range from anything) doesn't score any point and come to them at a great price from the public whereas Association members have once in numerous times able to get away with everything but this time more than they can chew, they have been very unsuccessful in covering their tracks this time. If they can expect to be seen as nobles or researchers from the public then they are simply deluding themselves, Association is so wrong as their cover-up and had been committing many horrendous crimes with so many events from the past that had to kill countless normal people for own experiments on living people while justified as a means reach for the Root. No other government would support them as other government don't want to be in the crossfire of hate and do have standards, apparently disgusted at their experimenting on live subjects which government couldn't stand it. The Holy church loves to see them fall. I assume when the Mage's Association is exposed and they're faced to fight against a superior opponent (composite UN and other government), they'd just retreat into various unreachable places and continue to do what they previously did, being much more careful. Magi are cold selfish bastards who barely give a shit about their peers, would be certainly inconvenienced which their numbers take a massive nosedive. The Mage's Association effectively ceases as an organization but the magi won't really care as they can retreat to places where technology cannot reach.

Vampires: Most of Vampires/Dead Apostles would simply stay conceal and go in their daily life as long none of those Vampires/Dead Apostles try overboard of doing something that makes everyone to go after them then they are fine for now if they keep a low profile that is.

All others: It is unclear how much there other supernatural out there so.

UNSC indomitable: I hope that this chapter was enough to give screen time to other Servant as for Benjamin's friends, let said that I have a plan for them. I know some reader would have trouble keeping track of who's are currently in the story but that is not an issue if you know who they are. I had already pick the Servants that going to be next: Siegfried, Angra Mainyu, and OC servant Skuld, Scandinavian Elvish Princess (The last one was that I want to try this out of creating OC servant) I would try to ignore the haters and the grammar nazis but I am slowly lost my patience.

MaxHD2490 chapter 28. Aug 15: The Chimeras from the last chapter are homemade from different human and animal part so they have not been tested in a battle which it is not a good idea to use them for battle as Chimeras are not dogs. If the Chimeras from Age of God then you going to need an air strike and bomb to do some damage to the chimeras. Wyverns on the other hands are that you need some Anti-aircraft artillery to blow them out of the sky. Also magical beasts maybe quite threatening, but you should know that those type of beasts is endangered species that can a hard time reproduce their number. Like what I said about Penthesilea, Flanna would have a time hard keep her away from Achilles as a fight can start any sec now.

Piddle: You are right about Jubstacheit von Einzbern as he usually maintains a cold, dignified and well-mannered facade in public but beneath his persona, he acts ruthless, brutal and too demanding which he lacks common sense and mental stability. Since I would not be surprising that his diplomacy of negotiating can be terms that are too demanding or threat Benjamin to hand over the Third Magic with pretty much zero leverage that didn't even reflect the situation that he was in, also neither side ever expects the other to accept the offer they give. Even terms that on the surface are extremely favorable but it actually works against them because Magi is good when comes to political dealings.

LukeSky001 chapter 28. Oct 23: That is a nice version of Unlimited Blade Works inspire.

LukeSky001 chapter 27. Nov 10: What would Rory's stats be? I don't know as I am not really of making servant's stats that well.

King0fP0wers chapter 28. Aug 15: Yes, the whole misunderstanding itself is mostly part of the story, their reasoning is very sound and logical and utterly wrong which more or less every character from Fate series just can't grasp that they think on the belief they are the hero saved the world from a villain (Benjamin) with an intellect to match who control New Jersey, use evil ritual of the Holy Grail to summon the army of servants and command them that an incredibly dangerous threat to the world and a highly advantageous ally to the villain (Benjamin). That is nowhere close to that but may they could be right for the wrong reason. Switch to Benjamin's point of view, he sees Mage Association and The Church as incomprehensibly powerful menacing and fearsome groups who would stop at nothing target him and his family because he accident reveal magic to the world and that every Magi is come to the USA to finding him and take the Holy Grail from his hand. He is not wrong by the way as he and his sister don't mistake what type of story they're in because the world is filled to the brim with dangerous things and a bunch elements of grimdark supernatural. Fafnir is boasted of the Holy Grail and the dragon is very powerful by Age of god standard as it said to put a fear of death in Siegfried's heart.

Galer: About SWAT vs Magi, I thought people would criticize it as I am not good at writing down battle scene but again this is my speculations of the battle as show that Magi are not good at coming up with new strategies on the fly as the spanners pop up, too much faith in the institutions of the magi, and worse at all is they are firm believer in the superiority of magecraft over modern weapons, sneers at modern muggle weaponry as cheap tricks in a prestigious battle like the Grail Wars. Their negligence derived from arrogance believe that the only true threat to them cannot be anything other than a magus of similar skill, underestimate what a human without magecraft can accomplish, which makes them weak to non-magical attacks and technology weaponry. They seem to be unaware of grave consequences of fighting close-quarter urban landscape being too confident their thaumaturgical skills, unable to relate the conditions of a battlefield or scenarios.

Your suggestions that the timeline of the history should be situated in 2017 is no because FangDriver8 said the timeline should make sense and it doesn't matter if the year is boring or not which some of my chapters would have timeline errors. All of the detective characters were created to be reader surrogate to some readers who have no idea what's really going on at first and eventually receives a full, spoken explanation of everything known by readers who did reading the light novels. The detective characters viewpoint acts like in a contemporary Film Noir of stylish crime drama which writes like that to make it more interesting.

Billy Reb: The Mage Association & the Church reaction at who Ben and Flanna really are if they can not kill them is that they would stop at nothing to put a leash the siblings to control them, trying to stick one of their own in charge of servants, or exhaust all of their luxuries just to gain their favors and win them over. Really, the Mage Association & the Church would try to get the sibling under their control which is a great leverage in the world. Too bad for them that the siblings are completely immune to suck-ups and Flanna know that the Mage Association & the Church truly want a control of Holy Grail and servants.

Will siblings give each servant nicknames?: Yes, the sibling has already done that for some of them, try to give each servant a badass nickname or name that hide their true name. If you had read that nickname/codename for my servants and classes due my chapters, you would notice that nickname/codename are either sound cool or really simple because the sibling is not sending their servant to look impressed but to show that they mean business and obvious meanings classes to tell exactly what type of servants is going to do with their enemies and not making an awesome spectacle of showing off their weapons.

How will some of the Servants view America and American culture?: They see a nation brought about under shaky circumstances, in uncertain times, with endless challenges still on its horizon and still, it stands. Indeed, it has grown more vast and more powerful then it has imagined. But at the same time, it's not all sunshine and roses. America is fraught with inner turmoil on a governmental level, on a personal level like race and class, lifestyle and religion... it's worrisome. While it may not tear itself apart anytime soon but America seems to have a habit of stick to everyone business which there is a chance that America may have a distorted view of what's right and wrong that everyone else that doesn't agree will get trampled in the way.

When the FSN x Akame Ga Kill is crossover going to come out?: While I have got most of the ideas out but they are everywhere in the plot to try to get them together is a cross puzzle and low chance to update it. The issue is that I need to write done a good prologue which I don't how to start the story as to make the reader get interested in it.

LukeSky001 chapter 26. Nov 13 Benjamin and True Rider(Queen of the Amazons) would be a non-romance but the relationship is similar to Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman because I watch the movie.

LukeSky001 chapter 26. Nov 13 How the hell can Francois Prelati do that? but again she/he seems to have an in-depth knowledge of the Holy Grail War and in particular the Ruler class so that explains it.

Aurain Orimura: I cleaned that part up for your sake and tried to make it a bit more believable. I should tell that those Chimeras are actually homemade from different human and animal parts which are not an advanced form of magecraft as they are untested, a weak imitation of the real Chimeras, and are not suitable for battle yet. Some of Magi do need a guide on how to create it because it is not an easy task to do so and it takes special means to create more of it even talented one don't have the ability to mass produce on a huge scale. Not every Magis can have the ability to manufacture, it generally takes a few tries or some time to work out the kinks and bugs and what-not which they have to stake their whole life work on it. Their quality is low that possess flaw or deficiency in its construction sometime performance so they are based create poor substitute also fatally flawed in ways both physical and mental. Familiars are mostly for support, glass cannon, or cannon fodder if the Magi want to make an army then they are going to build workshop more like a factory then produce depend on how long it would take and you need a home base to gather all of those materials that take more time and that would take an ordinary Magus a more time to finish at least one. Do you think that Magi can create all of those materials out of thin air unless you are Caster servant or come from powerful magus families that have a connection to give your, the materials you need.

Yes, I do know that was a plot-convenient guide because my detective characters were going nowhere so from your criticize I downplay the plot-convenient guide so the police characters can pick up the pace in the near future. Yes, there are some minor grammar mistakes which I am almost done grammar check chapter 28 so I can update with minor grammar mistakes gone.

Pol is always right: What are you said?

Redyun: Because my story updates new chapter every three months or so, it may get slowly because of real work and going Ohlone college. Yes, there some few grammatical error which I had got someone to fix it for me. I do not pick your suggestion of a Saber-class because you asked which I had repeat said to everyone else and the Saber-class is Siegfried for my next summoning.

Red qim: I am not going to pick your suggestion just because you asked or for fan favorite servant. I am not in the mood for if Saladin were heroic spirits and create his Servant stats.

MaxHD2490 chapter 28. Oct 8: What an odd match and at this point, I don't really care what excuse they come up with how she become a Pseudo-Servant.

LeozinPS: Am I making Ben the bridegroom of Frankenstein?: Maybe.

MaxHD2490 chapter 28. Aug 20: Justeaze can transfer a person's soul like how Illya places Shirou's soul into another container without the soul degrading even it is an incomplete version but it is better than nothing. The Jewish Golem was removed because of Avicebron who can make the same golems and it is no difference between Jewish Golem and a normal one.

Saint rider 890: You can not put a link on fanfiction and there are no steps to go see the fans-make profile of the Counter Guardian Arturia and her design. I had no idea why you ask me to put Counter Guardian Arturia appearing in my story but the answer is no.

MaxHD2490 chapter 28. Sep 1: The Phantasmal Beast is Gugalanna, I think. I had no idea what Filia is doing for unknown reasons.

StormOfDiamonds: Yes, I pick Enkidu because he is easy and a simple servant to write down. Karna would come later in the story and some of alter ego even there are problems with their design. I have to wait for Perseus to appear in Fate Grand Order game before write down his personality.

Rein-San: Those OC servants, just no and I don't know who the heck those servants which I am not going to say it again. Sumanai San (Siegfried) would appear in the next summoning.

Ptl: I had read Sword Dancers to understand Archerko little bit, she would avert Cu Chulainn like a plague which she would appear when I think she is ready as I am read some fanfiction stories that have Archerko in it.

MaxHD2490 chapter 28. Sep 28: You kindly explain it to yourself so I don't know what you are trying to get. Ben and Flanna can see some Fate Apocrypha servants were from their point of view of the Apocrypha Holy Grail War but it is kindly fuzzy that the sibling can see few scene but most of it was blurry. Servants originally weren't supposed to keep their memories. And as some of the recent Interludes support, they don't keep the memories of their past summonings but do have "vague recollections" of them so the siblings can see a bit of the memory from other past Holy Grail War. but again, to be honest, I think it's just an inconsistency that a lot of writers don't necessarily bother remembering. Even main Fate media is patchy about it, so I am not expecting every single scenario writer to actually fully have it down.

Silver566 chapter 18. Oct 10: Do you just read all my chapters, to only complain about grammar? If you don't like my story, free to leave.

Silver566 chapter 16. Oct 9: Go reading all my chapters first before you comments.

Extremeninja09: The Holy Church is fine as they aren't blinded by the modern technology showing have a common sense unlike the Mage Association but some of the lower rank members are ignorant of the fact that the Benjamin's Military Strength is too strong and cannot ignore the possibility of him hold the Holy Grail with him that it is too powerful in Benjamin's hand that he should hand it over to them for safekeeping but Flanna have already know the Holy Church are being hypocritical as their moderators are always in it for themselves, either supporting one team from the get-go or working for their own ends that violating neutrality because their image of being neutral makes them beneath notice in the eyes of the Holy Grail participate so Flanna doesn't trust their words.

From what I read about the Mage's Association in the novel, it is that they look strong on paper and sometimes a boogie man, but it has some major problems and that is split loyalties and in general extreme incompetence. Their troops have no real battle plans and just rush to the front door with as much force as possible. They are overly specialized in magecraft and no real trackers/rangers to support their army, most of the leader due the Holy Grail War is either cunt or retard with no real combat experience, have a giant ego that everybody had to obey their order without questions. Also, they have no real intelligence network beside the Holy Grail participate, so they are blind in nearly all regards to what happens in the world and seem to think they can try to take command of them, use each other to do the hard work and then backstab each other over without consequence. One gets the feeling that the Mage's Association is very inexperienced when it comes to proper warfare. Just keeping a bunch of rogue Magi off the lawn every once in the while will not prepare them for real battles. Their head leader or pseudo-aristocratic elite called the Lords cannot be able to fight and win a war against any decent organized military force which I wonder that their leaders are picked based on how good they are in single magic combat.

A good example due the Fate/Apocrypha early battles, Clock Tower decided to send in 4 mercenaries, a Church official and a first-class instructor as their Masters, as getting the Japanese Grail Families involved would take mountains of paperwork and therefore they wouldn't be ready in time. By late stage of the novels, the Clock Tower seems to take their fuck sweet time to help the greatest bounty hunter Magi in the world that had peacefully removed and the Holy Grail had already been taken.

In fact, the only thing that I don't like is that every time in fanfiction stories or in the light novel, someone talks/warn about the Association on how menacing and fearsome they are, which a whole city would be wiped out just to keep existence of magic a secret and can cover up the event up with hypnotism, blackmail, kidnapping, killing, and covering everything up when showing how grim and dark the supernatural world was. First of all: those type of people who told newcomer are an unreliable source since they have only heard rumors and has never seen Hunters/Enforcer in action or from Magus who lost terribly against them. The Fate light novel lore is constantly told that the Hunters/Enforcer are very dangerous but everything that was shown to us contradicts that. They have extremely ineffective weapons and lack strategist that made them look so effective so it is based shown, don't tell. They are not good at gathering military intelligence, they are not good at using complicated tactics, they are not good at strategizing, hiding their tracks, the list goes on and on. For all their dire reputation, there are signs that the Association isn't as powerful as they like to pretend, it could merely be a demonstration of a propaganda, exaggeration, and fear mongering done by the Association itself, being told so often everyone assumes it to be true. Flanna fought in the Afghanistan war and tend to be serious skeptics about all of that propaganda/rumor as points out the flaws of those threats and couldn't think of any city that could get wiped out without anyone notice it. If any characters from Fate series try to scare/warn her with that method which Flanna would mock that vainglorious propaganda and said that they were waste her time of making idle threats because I really don't like how anyone would just automatic believe that shit without asking some good detail questions if it was true or not

Shirou who is a self-proclaimed hero and think that he is in a heroic tale of good and evil, he thinks that he's the hero fight against a sorcerous overlord (Benjamin) and will naturally overcome the villain during his power of UBW. Unfortunately, since Shirou change like a headless chicken without scouting, used stealth or an element of surprise like several times. It can not help that Shirou win/survive the Holy Grail war with a new power of able to projects copies of legendary weapons to fight metahumans and demigods which can came out of the experience with a rather inflated view of himself, thinking he should able to win the next Holy Grail war but Shirou only won a few battle with actual luck or plot armor it becomes rather clear he is just a boy trying to act like a veteran hero which mean Shirou acts more reckless and enjoys being a hero that he always wants to that make think he can do everything himself as he sticks with people's business that makes him overconfidence that Flanna and Benjamin can eventually get him by luring him into a trap. From Benjamin's view, he thinks Shirou looks like a little kid playing at being a Hero who also comes off as an unsavory, idealistic, self-sacrificing idiot with a notion of saving everyone with no loss instead of willing to make tough decisions and inability to LEARN from his mistakes.

Yes, some of the worlds are from the police came from Predator 2 movie because I am using the book as a larger templates or guideline to structure this story around. You are right about what Angra Mainyu is going to do. The finance had been explained three times already so doesn't ask again.


Back in the Einzbern family castle and an unknown amount of time has passed since the summoning ritual attack

"The workshop for the homunculus industrial district is now active and I shall begin preparations for my tools soon enough." After receiving his subordinate's report, Benny Von Einzbern strode to a corner of his workshop and sat down in his chair, re-reading the report. "So, it has been confirmed that the Holy Grail system is able to operate flawlessly and a large amount of mana has improved the system to allow the summoning of more Servants."

"Impressive, this is one of the most powerful systems that we have ever seen." Benny had a savage and triumphant grin behind his impassive expression. "But I can not say for Lord Jubstacheit, god, he has gone mad with rage over that failure."

A day had passed since the summoning ritual attack, which had been thrown into total disarray by the introduction of Mastermind's hidden card with Jubstacheit shouting in rage and order to start manufacturing an army of golems, dolls, and homunculus with all of their resources. Jubstacheit has spent almost all of his time skillfully making powerful homunculi, enough to fight toe to toe with a servant, if that is possible, caring little for the well-being of his creations, prioritizing his pride as a designer over any pain they may experience. It hadn't been easy to sustain this much upkeep, but it would hold enough to drop where they need to go, as the Alchemy of the Einzbern family was useful for overcoming limitations such as this in the short-term.

Benny Von Einzbern looked at his work of homunculus that had been done and improved with high-quality. Those created as soldiers are built to be able to wield large halberds and use powerful magecraft that are potent enough to easily match an average magus. There were some modifications to improvements that had been learned whilst preparing for war. Even these improvements could lead their life to be shortened to five months. He knows that homunculi would be of little threat to a servant. Though physically they might be strong enough to match the weaker or average classes in physical might, they lacked the skill and prowess to be much more than irritants. Still, they could be useful against any other magus and lesser servitors who can get in their way. In many ways, their previous weaknesses had become a strength, in that they could be sacrificed easily enough due to them lacking value, as they had no reason to hold back with the strength they had which can make them dangerous to their enemies.

Being one of the most powerful families, all manners of thaumaturgical implements circulate through the Clock Tower. Whether you are looking for eight-hundred-year-old jewels or even thousand-year-old parchment, as long as you have the resources and connections, getting hold of such things would be simple. Every resource and business from other magi family traded materials and favors that the Einzbern family needs for their experiments.

"How long until Lord Jubstacheit will be done with his work and come out of his room?" Benny Von Einzbern asked him. "If he speeds it up and all goes well, it should take around three days." The speed that Jubstacheit's modifications performed upon creation hadn't been anything radical or groundbreaking as he constructed them to be harder to break down in two hits by a servant. But what Benny did not expect was that Lord Jubstacheit went down into the bowels of the castle where the Einzbern family threw down their failures into the pool, taking many of the failures to his workshop and started to work on the failures. Since then, all of his emotions have had these rigid efforts to reclaim the Holy Grail.

Benny Von Einzbern put the report away and read Illyasviel's letter that arrived today, which had been received with mixed emotions. On the one hand, Illyasviel von Einzbern was able to succeed in the summoning ritual with no issues, but on the other hand, the hand was able to take away the catalyst that was supposed to summon Berserker King Arthur. And aside, the rest of the world already seems to know that something is going on in the United States area.

There was a flaw, one that Benny was aware of, but would not dare to voice to Jubstacheit, who might kill him. He sighed in remembrance of the days when the current head of the family had taken power and the focus of the Einzberns had shifted from seeking the Holy Grail to winning the Holy Grail War. It was as though Jubstacheit had forgotten why they were fighting in the first place; his entirety was upon being the victor of the ritual.

It wouldn't surprise him if Lord Jubstacheit decided to try to summon another servant in hopes that the hand was not quick enough to take the catalyst. He gathered a basket of clothes and herbs, everything needed to treat cuts and bruises, before hunching over and going to the training room where homunculus were practicing their combat skills. As he thought, some of the homunculi sported numerous cuts and bruises. He tended them as best he could, knowing that it was for naught as Lord Jubstacheit was forcing them to train nonstop until they met the requirements to match the skills of a weaker or average servant class in combat skills.

Their wounds treated, Benny left the homunculi to rest and heal for now. He returned to his study and placed the medicine in their proper places. His morning routine finished, he made his way back to his workshop and checked his tools before fixing some of the homunculi that he had overlooked. Everything seemed to be in order and just a usual day until Lord Jubstacheit said that the manufacturer golems, doll servants, and homunculi numbers were done.

Then there was a raven with a letter from the Mage's Association only carrying the smallest of messages, but it was likely important. He read the short letter and his heart fell. The list of incidents that were caused to reveal magecraft to the whole world one by one and the latest news of the shipyard attack, which had just appeared this recently.

Several minutes were spent just looking at the letter, hoping it was a forgery. The last thing he wanted was to be the one to deliver the news to Lord Jubstacheit. Deciding that Lord Jubstacheit was more likely to be angered by a delay than interrupting whatever he was doing, Benny scurried towards the door and looked for one of the numerous guards patrolling the castle.

"Young man," he said weakly to the first guard to pass by him. "Would you be so kind as to deliver this letter to the king?" he asked while handing the thin paper to the guard.

"At once, Sir Benny."

"Thank you. Could you also tell the next guard you see to summon the rest of the council? I feel it would be best to do that as soon as possible."

"Of course, sir."

The younger guard went off with haste, no doubt to find another guard to call the council. Benny also asked the same for the next guard he found. The sooner they were assembled the better. As he slowly made his way towards the council chambers, both as part of his elderly facade and to give enough time for the other members to arrive, he pondered what might come in the next few days. More fury, no doubt.

When he arrived at the council chambers, he found only the rest of the family present. The other guards trickled in with Lord Jubstacheit being the last. After the contents were read out, the room exploded into a hubbub of discussion. The letter was surprising, and so was everyone who agreed with each other.

But Lord Jubstacheit was furious as his rage was indescribable. Everyone present gossiped to each other about their reaction to this information. Benny kept his head down and muttered empty words to stave off suspicion.

"Just in case, I have also had the scouts examine the area where it took place and witnesses so there is a legitimacy to this claim."

"DAMN YOU, MASTERMIND! I am going to make you suffer for this!" Eventually, the Lord Jubstacheit stormed out and the rest of the family members talked to each other about the recent news.

"What a shame," one of the elder Einzberns said angrily. "A death is too good for that Mastermind! Two centuries of building the ritual to recover our long lost Third Magic that we had once had, we have been suffering failure after failure for each war, then somehow a Holy Grail out of nowhere appears to be more powerful than any of us has created. Then, this unknown person, who came out of nowhere, dares to steal our Grail out of our hands and decide to use it for his gain."

As agreeing, shouts were hurled at each other. Some were in favor of sending their troops now after that event. Others pointed out that they should make allies from the Clock Tower first before doing anything reckless.

"This action must be avenged."

"That Mastermind will receive his due."

"I expressed that we should kill that Mastermind right away."

"Are you a fool? We should not do any reckless acts that would risk everything we have," another elder pointed out. "And also we can't let our weaknesses show to other magus. What would happen if we risk drawing attention and opposition to other enemies?"

"Let them come and do their worst!" another elder expressed derisively. "We do not cower in the face of others, including the Mastermind. You should shame yourself for letting fear get the hand of yours."

"What was that? Bastard, you dare assume me of being cowardice!"

Benny Von Einzbern was currently nursing a headache as nearly all of his family members had not experienced much of the Holy Grail War or outside world. "Don't they realize the storm from those events are something that they can not handle."

"This is a serious oversight," an elder named Franz Von Einzbern began as he stroked his beard. "We had expected the Mastermind to have two or three servants by his side, not have 14 servants including Ruler class as his master."

"It could be something of an exaggerated number but still it seems increasing the number of homunculi was the right decision to make," Another elder member named Gertrude Von Einzbern remarked. "I'll admit that Great Grail is something that can not be ignored."

"Yes, the Great Grail usually requires sixty years in order to amass enough mana to summon Servants, making the planning period span over generations but this quality of the Grail should conduct a legal on the matter. The Grail's level is higher than we have ever made. With proper training and resources, in time it can push to a level infinitely closer to that of True magic."

To say that the Holy Grail system was nothing more than a masterpiece, as it was one of the most important wonders in the modern magical world in both scales of complexity and purpose. Able to summon spiritual heroes of time long ago and support them was nothing of an engineering marvel of their part but also found to open a direct path straight to the Root or grant wishes for the winner.

"Yes we can put this matter to rest," Benny Von Einzbern said as he nodded. "Our concern now should focus on what we can do here and now."

The mention of a plan sparked activity amongst the serried ranks of the members as the room's atmosphere changed.

"I say we send thousands of our homunculus to establish a base over there and once we are prepared, it will be time to crush him once and for all, and then take the fight to the Mastermind's doorstep!" A hot-blooded Einzbern member shouted out as he raised his hand into the air. "It's time to show what will happen when someone dares to steal the grail from us!"

"You're absolutely right, I'm tired of the wait and making homunculus!"

"It's time to let that fool Mastermind in that barbaric land know how fearsome we Einzberns can be!"

"Exactly, just as he says."

"Please let me join you on the battlefield, sir!"

These words, sandwiched by scattered laughter and repeated throughout the throng of the magus, grated unbearably on Benny's ears and his gut ached as he considered the potential crises within the council chambers.

A young man with white hair and an excited grin with an unmistakable hint of greed hidden under his eyes stepped forward. "So who will be the overall commander for this battle? I trust nobody will object to myself?"

"Yes!"

"Sure!"

"You would be the one to lead!"

Benny knew there was nothing to stop that man from doing something reckless and decided to send him to the land in hopes of him dying easily, which then he added his two cents to this plan. "I'll leave it to you. Conduct the scout safely to the land. From there, you will also be in charge of the encampment and entrenchment. Don't be so eager to rush into the fray."

"I understand," the young white-haired man nodded with an almost greedy smile that was hidden under his false enthusiasm.

"I see..." Benny did not seem able to accept that the man would ever listen to what he was saying, but he continued to ask, "How many troops will be coming with you?"

"Around five hundred."

"Five hundred…"

Although Benny hid his reaction masterfully, he could not conceal his own disappointment. What could a mere five hundred troops do? In all likelihood, they were merely a guard of honor to protect him. The units would probably not be used at all, just build a base for transport when the main force arrived. This young white-haired man seems to have no military experience or any training. He thinks of deciding to meddle with the plans and make the strategic decisions for himself. He is clearly not cut out for the position at all.

Benny soon started to listen to the other family members' enthusiastic replies of their own plans, which most of them may seem pretty solid at first, but he still believed there might be some wild cards that would throw everything out the window. He could only hope that the impending preparations would blow away the clouds of unease forming over his heart, but it could not.

Then there were some plans that involved the Holy Church or the Mage's Association, which some of the family members wanted to form an alliance with them. Well, it sounded good on paper that is, but due to internal disputes with each other and the recent events that exposed the secret of magic which soon came to be public knowledge, an alliance would be difficult. It relied too much on people who either hated their guts, didn't like to be ordered around by the Einzbern family or do not really like them. Some of the Clocktower members considered the Einzbern family nothing more than a group of homunculi who are extremely unhelpful and useless, led by an isolated angry, bitter, joyless, grumpy old man who occasionally in the midst of struggling to make a new Greater Grail and leading a pointless existence within these castle wall, lurks alone taking no advice from anyone, trying to win a fruitless war that would not exactly give him what he wanted.

Benny resisted the urge to laugh at some of the Einzbern members who were often kissing up to each of their schemes under the belief that flattery will get them somewhere, or displaying this so-called master-plan that would cause reckless stupidity in any kind of situation, rather than actually giving good advice. "Well, it's either laugh or cry. Shame I can't do either. This is madness.


In the Einzbern territory and inside of the small Einzbern Castle

"It can't be true." Illyasviel von Einzbern said as she shook her head, reading the report paper. "I can't see how the Mastermind is picking his targets or why he is doing this besides causing a string of disasters along the way."

"Please, close your mouth, Lady Illya," Sella said as she closed it for her. "It would not be wise to let flies in. But still, this event is quite troubling."

"I can not understand what he was planning for all those events," Illya said with a frowned face. "Almost all of this does not seem to benefit him besides sacking some money."

"Hmm, when we arrived at one of the incidents, which was at a gun store, to investigate any clues that the Mastermind left," Sella said as she made sure to use her Memory manipulation spell on all of the police members that were at the crime scene and small bounded fields that made outsiders not notice anything unusual. "After asking some questions with the witness, it left us to believe that the Mastermind was there and in person."

"Oh, did the witness describe his appearance?" Illyasviel said, putting down the report paper. "Because of that, we need to know who he is or a clue that can lead to something."

"It was not really much as the witness was quite shaky from what he had seen," Sella answered her, knowing that the witness there only looked pretty tough as long he was in control of the situation and made sure he won the situation but turned into a whimpering coward when he met a Servant face to face. "The witness was able to say that the Mastermind was covered in a hood with a white half-face respirator and there was a black demon knight."

"Oh, it's not much, but it's better than nothing," Illyasviel commented at the disappointment at the lack of the appearance of the Mastermind. "Is there anything else?"

"Well, after a few minutes of investigating the scene, one of our homunculi found this," Sella placed a broken piece of red jewel on the table. "I assume that this jewel was found at the scene and this can lead to a clue from the Mastermind, but we did find this."

Illyasviel von Einzbern stared at the broken piece of the red jewel as the tingling sensation activated the magic circuits in her eyes to scan how powerful it is, which caused her eyes to open wide when she has measured the level. "It can't be! It's impossible, unbelievable."

"What is it, Lady Illya?" Sella asked Illyasviel. "Is there something wrong with the jewel?"

"No, there is nothing wrong with it, it is just the jewel is packed with magical energy that is even higher than Rin's family Jewel Magecraft. It might be a fairytale, but it's really a magic of that level of ancient time, it would be nothing short of mythical." Usually, the jewels can be just charged up with a bit of magic every day to supply a greater amount of energy when needed, but they also make good explosives. This red jewel is three times more powerful than the one Rin Tohsaka owns Jewel Magecraft.

Sella picked up the jewel and studied it, her gaze was so focused and keen that it unsettled Lady Illya. "Since this was found at the scene, that means the Mastermind must be a practitioner of Jewel Magic."

"It could be highly possible, as the Mastermind has mostly tried his best not to be seen that easily and showing his power," Illyasviel nodded lightly. That was, without a doubt, the attitude which the Mastermind adopted as the leader of Servants and being so secretive that you can only see a glimpse of him. "Not only that, I assume that he is also an Average One possessing an elemental affinity for five different elements too."

"I can also see that," Sella felt that Lady Illya could have a point on that theory. "That can probably be true."

"Indeed. We should probably try and learn more about other servants." After saying that, Illyasviel cast a spell on the jewel: Detect Mana. "Apart from that… there's the matter of the Mastermind's base. Surely there must be an area where he can easily set up without anyone noticing."

"Regretfully, we know nothing about this state. When we get information from our data, I will immediately begin looking into it starting with history and maps," Sella answered to her. "Which we are one step closer to our goal."

Illyasviel graciously accepted that idea. "Ahh, I'll leave that to you. Is there anything else we've missed?" Sella shook her head. "Good, what comes after this will be a battle for the survival of humanity as a species. It will be a fight for the future."


Back at Benjamin's house

"So that is why I am called Ruler," Joan of Arc explained her class as Benjamin sat at the long table, looking at all of the other servants who ended up having a tea conversation just as Alice said she wanted. Enkidu tasted the food that he was eating and while Paracelsus went back to working on his stuff in the basement, which the alchemist did speak with Valkyrie a little off to the side of the table before leaving as he studied the recent summoning, making a note about it.

"Well, it is close to what Alice wanted and the tea that she wanted was not available," Benjamin thought as he saw Alice trying to speak a conversation with Brynhildr who was staring at the teacup that she was holding.

Sakata Kintoki was drinking beer with Beowulf as they laughed and chatted with each other as their faces turned red. "Well isn't this a sight for sore eyes! Glad to see the Warriors of old haven't forgotten the sanctity of a good drink!"

"Well said! Rather than steel, tonight we cross cups!" Beowulf agreed with Sakata Kintoki who couldn't help but smirk. "I can't say I know much on the subject of other Berserkers, but yes, I'd say I at least am something of a special case. After all the trouble I went through learning to be civilized and enjoy moments of camaraderie and peace like this, I might be disappointed to be reduced to a mindless beast. Then again, beasts have their own appeal."

"Ha, it is good seeing another Berserker who is also not a mindless beast!." Sakata Kintoki broke out into a broad grin at Beowulf "I'm going to waste my time and get drunk, which we are going to waste our time and get drunk together."

"Wait, can servants get drunk, is it possible?" Benjamin asked in his head. "Could be, I guess? At least, they seem to get along with each other, well maybe too much drinking of beers."

"Master, is there anything else that you need to understand?" Joan of Arc asked Benjamin who snapped out of his thoughts. "I can explain the custom Ruler class again or about the system of the Holy Grail."

"No, I don't need to know it once again," Benjamin answered her. "It is kinda amazing that you are in charge of the Holy Grail and that there is a unique class that I had not heard of."

"Yes, generally there are seven classes," Joan of Arc explained. "My role was to ensure that the Holy Grail war was fought justly, like enforcing and being bound by the rules and making sure the Grail was safe from harm. Usually, Ruler class does not have a Master, as I serve as the absolute supervisor of the Holy Grail War and also given the duty of safeguarding the framework of the war."

"But there's one thing that doesn't make any sense," Benjamin asked her with a confused face. "How are you my servants, which are you quite upset that I summoned you?" He knew there were rules here and there but it is ludicrously inconsistent and strangely hypocritical as there are a vaguely undefined set of codes as to what constitutes normal summoning system behavior from his point of view.

"Hmmm, normally I would complain about how someone was able to disrupt the stability of the Holy Grail, but when I heard your voice from the Throne call me forth for guidance, I reached for you," Joan of Arc answered with a small smile on her face before returning back to normal. "And to explain that last question, I don't seem to have that answer that you are seeking as I do feel the connection of the Grail and but for some reason, I strangely feel just as strong as I was back when I was alive, so I'm fairly certain that this is not a regular run of the mill Holy Grail."

"Oh about the Grail, my sister will explain that to you," Benjamin simply smiled in a sheepish voice. "Well, I am not sure about out feeling of the connection to the Holy Grail because all I did was to summon the servants to boost them strong enough using new summoning chant from Paracelsus which I really do is to cart the Holy Grail." He was happy with how the summoning ritual turned out. Despite the fact that he was able to summon the strongest servants, some of them were people that he knew in popular culture which Benjamin was glad to actually meet them in the flesh, even though they are kinda weird in a way.

Beowulf, or sometimes his sword, is adapted a number of times in cinema, on the stage, and in books. Brynhildr is either mentioned as a person or sharing an object as her namesake.

"Still, I remember that you came here, with no wish, simply because of what I sought? And what I...needed?" Benjamin asked her even though he was glad that she got along with him as he was unreasonably lucky to get another Servant that could understand and work towards his motivation not once, but twice. The Holy Grail tended to pair him with the craziest of servants, but he didn't think it would go this far to dump a like-minded servant just for now.

Jeanne then smiled a bright smile and giggled her soft laugh before expressing to him why she did what she did. "You have a kind heart, Master. As such, I am here to help show that. I will fight with all my strength to aid in guiding you as I too was aided and given guidance in life. You may be certain on your path, that it's too late to find happiness, but I hope to show you otherwise, that you too are not beyond salvation. My goal... during my lifetime... well, looking back it seems so simple compared to the task you've set for yourself, Master. But, I do take some pride in helping see that goal of mine realized, though I lived not to see it. I was... tasked to save my nation from foreign usurpers that would steal our identity and our nation's crown away from us. I fought to restore rightful rule to my land and helped turn the tides of losing a war. Were it not for the grace of God, I, a simple farmer's daughter, would have been unable to do as I did. There is much in life I feel I was overpraised for, I received praise for things when I deserved it not, but I am still proud in a sense that I was able to be a sword that could help lead my nation to victory, even if I did not live to see it through."

Benjamin couldn't help but smile at her answer. Still, she was someone that knew when someone was going too far...or at least she thought she did. She seemed to view his duty as something that was too much. As she described her own goal, Benjamin nodded. It fit perfectly with the idea of the Maid of Orleans, the hero that the Holy Grail gifted to him. "I definitely feel that I am in the presence of a true hero. It is an honor, Ruler."

This caught her off guard and flustered her as she twiddled her index fingers around each other and tried to justify how she wasn't really anyone special as soon after he praised her, stating how he felt when he was in the presence of a true hero. "I'm no one special really. All heroes that can properly be called from the Throne of Heroes are worthy of such praise, so it's really no big deal." Humility was always in her nature. She felt much what she was thanks to her God who guided her, a simple farm girl to do great things and turn the tide of a war

"Not all Heroic Spirits are, Ruler...I found the opposite firsthand," Benjamin responded back. "Your achievements are legendary, worthy of praise even among others in the throne, which I am glad to meet you." Joan of Arc was basely a model for fictional female characters and had been apparent in many media outlets, which is memorable enough to know her name, was heavily admired by humanity as a shining example of a leader.

Being the humble spirit she is, she tried to downplay her Master's compliments of her being a true hero, saying she wasn't any greater than any other true hero that could normally be called forth by the Throne of Heroes. In response, he said that not all Heroic Spirits are, saying he has seen such first hand. Such a statement put a frown on the normally cheerful maiden's face as it clashed with her strongly held beliefs about ALL proper heroes who were called forth by the Grail. She knew not all of them had the strength to obtain the Grail but she truly believed in the value of every one of the noble spirits that could normally be called forth by the Grail to fight for it. So, her Master's words about seeing such first-hand truly puzzled her, but she decided it would be best to refrain from pressing on about it for now. As he continued, he praised her achievements and her deeds, causing her facial expression to change from sadness to embarrassment, as she blushed at his words of praise and twiddled her fingers around.

"Well, it was nice to talk with you. We should wait until my sister comes back with the rest of the other servants," Benjamin said to her as he drank his tea. "I am going to talk with Brynhildr for now. Can you manage to get Alice away from her? I don't need a distraction."

"Sure, Benjamin," Jeanne answered with a smile and called Alice over to her side while Benjamin went to talk to Brynhildr about something.

"Yes, is there something you need from me, Master?" Brynhildr asked him as her gaze fell slightly as she reflected on the memories of her killing Sigurd flashed through her mind. She recalls that the pull became ever stronger, Brynhildr wanted so badly to get a second chance. She wanted to never experience suffering like it again and as the pull began to gravitate her towards the unknown, she lets it do the inevitable and face her unwavering determination to make things right. She was being pulled towards a light and that all will become clear as she closes her eyes. When the moment she was summoning into this world, Brynhildr notice Paracelsus to her further surprise but he smiled and bowed slightly, said that he was sorry that they end up fight each other due their Holy Grail War

"Well, remember our conversation a few hours ago when I ended the topic?" Brynhildr nodded as Benjamin continued saying with a smile that her flash memories of Sigurd's smile from him would make her afraid to kill the boy, "I kindly want to thank you, Brynhildr, Servant Lancer... thank you for standing with me and agreeing to be my Master. I wish to learn the true stories of the Heroes that were a part of this world's history, and those that shaped the history with their own hands. There are a great many things I need to know and understand everything sooner or later."

Benjamin's smile faltered for a moment, and his chest grew heavy. "Though... if I'm to be perfectly honest... I just want to be able to live up to the potential of being a good Master that everyone would follow, even though I don't have magecraft that would allow me to stand alongside a Heroic Spirit in combat. With the US government and other organization's advent coming closer, there is little time to prepare for me to train in combat as the world is changing every day now." Somewhere, deep in his heart, he wondered if she even understood what it was that he was wrestling with? That being a possibility scared him far more than her indifference, yet he could not fathom why it did, in that moment.

"Yes, the world has changed, mortal magic has waned with the passing of the age of the gods. You may yet find an echo of it, but it will be a pale imitation of the real thing," Brynhildr mused in a soft voice, which everything she said sounded so angelic that he loved to hear every time. "Perhaps your ancestors may have wielded such magic, outside true magic, there are no things mortals can wield that can compare to the strength of a heroic spirit. I do not mean to discourage you, but rather, enlighten you. I cannot have you chasing ghosts, but rather, pursue that which is. Many men have sacrificed too much in pursuit of past glory. What you should do instead is look at what you have in your hands and see how you can make that great."

Benjamin stared at his hands as she spoke. "You ask for a great many things lost to time, Master," Brynhildr remarked, drinking from her teacup. "Some stories are best left forgotten. Others still, grand they may be, are found on lies." Her expression was always that of sorrow, her tragic life had clearly led her to believe that she shouldn't be happy anymore.

"Living up to the expectations of others is not something to deride, that is true, but one should not be bound by the hopes and dreams of others. Instead, you must live up to your own desires. If you cannot find joy in yourself, you may doom yourself to a life of solitude and disappointment. Dour, though my words may be, I speak them as a necessary warning so you do not make a choice you might regret." She told him in response to his declaration of doing what he should achieve being a Master. "There are those that would call that a fool's errand, Master."

"I cannot make your choices for you, master, I can only guide you. In the end, you must make your own choices," She leaned back into her chair, her voice's soft, almost lisping quality becoming more obvious. "Well, I shan't die anytime soon if I can help it. Hopefully, I can keep you safe until such a time that you finally find out what you wish to do with your own power should you acquire master," she murmured softly, offering him words of encouragement for the first time since they made their pact. "It isn't necessarily correct, power can be used however you wish, for good or ill... but I would like to think that using it for the betterment of your fellow man is for the best.

If nothing else, she liked her summoner's personality and his pure heart. Brynhildr was just worried about how they could lead to his downfall. This was as good a time as any, for her to determine if the boy before her had promise or if he was a hopeless fool. She might not betray him in that case, but a divide between them both would be dangerous - especially when they had not even learned how to fight together. She did not hate her father, Odin, for cursing her either. He was the father god, the one responsible for guiding the Valkyries to their stations in life. However, there was one man she still loved to the fullest even as he left her for another woman. That man was Sigurd, a man that she loved so much and wouldn't let go no matter how much she wanted it to go away.

She always loved Sigurd even when he left her for another woman, she wanted to be with him so badly. And yet, she couldn't figure out his whereabouts. At that point, she was just pining a lot for the husband she loved so much, he was the ex-husband that she couldn't let go no matter how hard she tried. Incidentally, she was full of tragedy and despair, so much that she was depressed whenever she thought of Sigurd.

Benjamin, of course, took this at face value as learning a valuable lesson from a Valkyrie who has seen tens of thousands of battlefields by staring at the skills of many heroes, which you don't argue with a hero who is an expert in hand-to-hand combat and a powerful servant.

"Well...as long as I am here, Master, I will protect you as long as I breathe and live. That is my solemn promise to you." She wouldn't hold it against her new Master though, Brynhildr begins to smile despite the sorrowful expression she seemed to bear.

Suddenly the door swung open and in came Flanna walking with a group of homunculi and the Black Knight carrying weapons cases and boxes. "Benjamin, you are back from college." She then realized there were other servants who were at the long table and new ones that she had not seen yet. "I take it that the Holy Grail has summoned three more, right?"

"Well yes, sister, Paracelsus has given me a chant that can hopefully make each one to be more powerful, enough to manifest more Noble Phantasms in their class or at least make their stats highly effective later. It seems that it works for us, sister, but I can not say that this is a good idea to make them on steroids," Benjamin responded to Flanna, who then looked at the three new servants that she had not seen yet. "And we have three servants that I think you may know. So, do you want me to introduce them to you?"

"No, I want to talk to them one by one," Flanna said as she nodded towards the Black Knight to put the stuff in the living room and then turned to Benjamin. "Starting with you first and then after we're done talking with the new servants, we need to change our structure of the command and strengthen our house with actual defense structurally, as bounded fields and magical traps will not do shit if the enemy knows a way to get inside of it. So, Benjamin, we need a serious talk about you and the servants."

Flanna gave the order to the Black Knight and the group of homunculi to put the weapons cases and boxes into the living room before walking upstairs, she took a look at the new servants.

She stared at Brynhildr to study her silently for a minute. It was certainly a fascinating piece of work as her eyes caught on it, but significantly less so than the Servant herself. Beautiful, regal, but with an expression on her face that reflected deep tragedy and sorrow. It was a look that Flanna could recognize instantly, one that she knew all too well. After all, it was the very same look that greeted her every time she could bring herself to look in a mirror back when she was in the war. As far as first impressions went, manner and beauty told her the one thing that she needed to know, that she would be reasonable as it was still an early impression of this woman, but Flanna felt like she at least had nothing to fear or feel concerned about when it came to the tragically beautiful armored woman.

Then Flanna turned to study Jeanne d'Arc, a knight in shining and resplendent armor. The gender was a bit unexpected, to say the least, and it was the minor cause to her surprise. It was a well-known fact that girls weren't allowed into knighthood, with a few notable exceptions in history, and it did not take that long for Flanna to put her finger on her face. The first thing that came to mind was that the French knightly girl somewhat looked like Lily, well if she had a more muscular tone and was better endowed in the hips and bosom department. The girl had armor and for this to happen, for a commoner to wear one, it would mean that she had lived during a time where Chivalry had declined enough for the Knights to overlook such a breach of theirs alone was enough to pinpoint the historical period of her life, especially given Flanna's field of studies back at school and that French knight living during one the longest conflicts mankind had known. "The One Hundred Years?" Flanna questioned, feeling she already knew the answer but decided to let her brother answer this French knightly girl's True Name for her.

The last servant caused Flanna to fixate on Beowulf's appearance a bit more, an absolute behemoth of a man grinning at her and looking like a goddamn movie star. In saying that, he looked familiar - there was a film that she recalled, something like Fight Club? Yeah that's right, he looked like the main character of that. Not that Flanna had ever watched the movie, but she'd read a bit about it on the Internet from time to time. That didn't really matter right now. What mattered was that this servant who looked like Tyler Durden. There wasn't much more than that. He was a big guy, she didn't need to be so close to him as it would be quite easy for him to break her like a twig with his bare hands, so if she said something too untoward she'd probably get herself in a bit of a pickle.


The personal chamber was something that looked more like a library, with books, ledgers, scrolls and insignificant things, everything. Benjamin looked around the place with his eyes as he remembered that this was his Grandpa's office back when he was still young. He was sitting at the table, patiently waiting for his sister to get things organized and clean. On the outside, he looked calm and collected, on the inside though he was a complete mess and nervous at what his sister was going to talk about.

Flanna walked over to her chair at the table and poured herself a small glass of wine. She motioned a gesture to offer Benjamin some, which he agreed and poured some wine into his glass.

"So let's begin now, Benjamin," Flanna announced as her face started with a serious look. "Who are those three companions that the Holy Grail has summoned for us? I want their name and their class."

"Well, we have Beowulf, a Berserker class, and Brynhildr, a Lancer class," Benjamin introduced the two servants first as to see his sister's reaction on the two servants. "I believe that you at least know them by their name from popular culture."

Flanna's poker face and unamused stance resembled a recruiter who was meeting the complete inadequacy of new recruits in an army. "So we have a Berserker who is a battle-maniac that would go for the action-packed, hands-on one by preference, and a selfish, arrogant brute who perpetually seeks fame. And a Valkyrie who killed her mortal beloved Sigurd in a rage as he was cheating on her by mistake and ordered human sacrifices on his funeral if that's what I have read about her. So, who is the last one?"

"Well, Jeanne d'Arc, who is a special class called Ruler that acts as a referee, ensuring that the rules exist in the Holy Grail," Benjamin explained to her, saving the best for last.

"Well, explain this class as best you can," Flanna asked as she looked at him for a moment. "I want to know the class' strengths and weaknesses so I can see what I can possibly use the class for." She grabbed her notebook and began to write down when Benjamin told her all he knew about Ruler class, which Flanna had to draw the picture of it and why Jeanne d'Arc was summoned here in this world.

Flanna was looking at what she was writing in her notebook as Benjamin sat quietly, watching her to be done what she was doing and waiting to see how Flanna would react.

Flanna didn't say a word as she reached out to pour herself a glass of wine once again and began to respond back to him. "So, Benjamin what is your impression on those servants?"

"Well, I believe that they are the heroes that were in the stories and really good friends to me mostly," Benjamin answered to his sister. "I am fine with them as I think they are loyal to us and can be trusted."

"I imagine that you trust them a little bit too much, Benjamin," Flanna said dryly. "Because I don't have any confidence in them, save for some of them."

"Why not?" Benjamin asked her. "Is there something wrong with them?"

"It is somewhat an issue to me," Flanna stated. "I expect every act of kindness from each servant to have some kind of motive and a reason to be summoned for you, Benjamin. I am not really sure that they are here to serve with honor or loyalty as each servant who has been summoned to this world has a specific wish in mind for the Holy Grail, which is right inside of our house and that can cause some civil war for a single wish for those who have one in mind."

"Well, I did ask some of them about why they still follow me or if they had a wish that they had in mind," Benjamin said as he drank his glass. "So I had good reason not to doubt them and they would do their part to protect us. I found no issue with that."

"Benjamin, I do believe that servants generally never lie outright as a matter of pride and being honest so that you don't doubt them," Flanna pointed out a flaw. "Also, anti-heroes have no reason to care about lying so much as being misleading because no one would believe them and well, of course, there is also that they won't lie, there are other ways of keeping secrets."

"By the way, I don't want you to be fooled by their glamorous heroic deeds or how historical writings tend to paint some of them from a heroic viewpoint," Flanna explained as she had seen enough heroes who always believed in themselves, able to single-handedly save all the world problems with sometimes pretty words before becoming cynical wrecks that are trying to be a hero of fables and legends were impossible without making some sacrifices and cannot accept that the world doesn't work the way they think it does and treating anything that goes against their views with hostility, sometimes dealing with fools who would commit the foulest of acts and then pretend that they were saintly heroes out of legendary tales. "I have seen so many people praised heroes too much already that can tend to leave out the less than savory decisions that servants did, which it either glossed over or otherwise treated as heroic and glorious actions, praising them regardless."

"The problem with history is that it's always written/rewritten by which side wins. A lot of books and evidence we have today are the works of poets and artists who wanted to impress and serve their lords as their propagandist, glossing over any dishonorable deeds of their own heroes," Flanna discussed with him considering how warped many of the stories are from the ancient times. "A fundamental problem with history is that most lessons, especially in the realm of public education are distilled into vignettes that can offer some sort of fuzzy feeling of cultural pride or an overbearing tale that makes me clench my jaw so tight every time a historical and mythology figure is exceedingly flattering while skirting over their more unpleasant acts or condemning other figures as some kind of villain, personally ruining their reputation."

"History is the succession of people acting consistently with their wants and their concepts of the Good. Some of them become known as having greatness, so their flaws and weakness get redacted from the story for the sake of simplicity. Consequently, whatever lessons they might have been able to impart get lost in the noise of hero worship," Flanna stated to Benjamin who was listening carefully to her words. "From what I can tell about the Holy Grail is that the cup either summons Servants who may be drawn from mythology/stories which can be a hodgepodge of every single story told about them or can be in an ambiguous state in which one of those stories were true or just made up. That would leave Servants to at least have some kind of noble goals. However, sometimes their traits have been often exaggerated to make them seem as if they were an extremely honorable person; never mind that they made lots and lots of mistakes or have been covered up to make themselves look like a hero by exaggerating them to the point of the ridiculousness, we can not tell which one is the true hero since there are so many alternative narratives of each servant."

"All of this explanation is why I have some issues with them, Benjamin, as there are many biographies written about them, along with multiple varying portrayals in the media and the concept of exceptionalism, which is difficult to sort through all of the rumors and outright propaganda to get a sense of who the real hero actually was," Flanna explained to her brother, who nodded as he understood why his sister had some degree of paranoia with the servants. "All the sources on most of those heroes are compiled by historians who either exceedingly flatter in very positive terms or are fairly unsympathetic which comes from their enemies."

"Also, since then we have just recently found that our world is filled with nearly every mythological being you could possibly think of, plus a few more. Vampires, werewolves, two different types of ghosts, demons, unicorns, so many more monsters, gods and of course, the incredibly complicated Magecraft that hides from the public." Flanna said acidly. "We have a Holy Grail that can grant wishes with a group of servants that can destroy the cities so many times, which I am not sure that they're either unreliable, alienated, or incompetent on the first impression and with so many organizations who are looking for us for their own selfish reason. And because one of our servants broke the security of magecraft before I got here, we have every organization searching for us and the Holy Grail, and that leaves us little time."

"Do you know what that means?" Flanna asked as the words put all of Benjamin's hairs on end as he realized what she meant. "We have a big target on our backs and well you can afford to show openly to your servants but how long will they follow you if they see you looking so weak-willed or can't fight at all. Some of them will not mind if you don't have any combat skills, but others would not like how you were being a burden to them as they had to babysit you."

"So that means I have to be a leader for the servants because of the mess," Benjamin hated the words as he wasn't meant to be a leader as he knows putting an inexperienced person in charge of a group of powerful heroes isn't always a good thing. "Sister, do you think I will be a good leader for them?" The last thing Benjamin wanted to do was sound like he would enjoy the idea of being it.

"I think you will be," Flanna answered her opinion. "Well, you may not sound like it but I have seen you talk with those servants, trying to understand them and you seem to enjoy making friends with the servants. You have a good head on your shoulders and heart in your chest, put those right traits of one in the making and you can get the title of Master of Heroes by being charismatic, good at negotiating and having a unified vision for the servants to follow."

Benjamin laughed at that. "I don't particularly consider myself as a leader."

Flanna leaned back against a wall, fingers laced under her chin. "What kind of leader do you think you'll be?"

"A good one," Benjamin answered her. "That can help them."

"Mm, I think so as well. You've got the right temperament for it," Flanna said with a smile on her face before returning her face back to normal. "But what makes a good leader? Hmm? What is a good leader's most important qualities?"

"Holiness?" Benjamin asked.

"Well sure, there are advantages of wanting to be holy as a beloved leader full of devotion and piousness that gives you clearer ground rules of what is right and wrong, it can help you promote a sense of community, comfort, discipline, and of shared goodness. If you want to help those less fortunate and find human guidance to guide you throughout your life." Flanna replied with a small smile before going back to normal. "But there are some disadvantages if too much of it goes into your head and it gets in the way of your actual job of ruling and your responsibility. Finding/Being a religion generally does not always come with an overall improvement in your personality and behavior, Benjamin, as you either become fervently religious, but no more likable, and it furthers the damage to your health and looks or a stern, disciplined, humorless, self-righteous prig/fanatic."

"Sometimes you would get overconfident in religion as thinking what faith of yours will shield you, which it is not," Flanna explained a little bit more as she remembered Joan of Arc was a religious fanatic and her preferred tactic was to pray and then run headlong into battle without any kind of strategy at all. There was account of her in the Siege of Paris (1429), which was one of the last battles she ever fought and should have been a seasoned military strategist by that stage, but she very clearly wasn't because she charged towards the main gate with the French army and tried to cross the city's moat filled with water in front of the gate without much siege engines. "So do not put religion mixed with strategy and tactics."

"What about Justice?" Benjamin asked. "It sounds like good important qualities."

"Well, a leader should be truthful, just, and righteous," Flanna replied, knowing that her brother thought it would be easy and simple but it is more complicated than that. "But like what I said, too much of that truthful attitude in your head, being painfully straightforward to the point where you can make yourself look both sterner and more ruthless than you are actually beneath the façade that people would see you as a stuck-up, unpleasant jerk and an enemy from those benefiting from the existing corrupt political systems. Those who have almost the exact same righteous ideals that you are surrounded with, they would likely to push you in that direction too much, and can cause you to start claiming a moral superiority. There are two types of justice but there is really a clear answer of whether to be Lawful or Good, as the first would never make out well in the end and the other would be ruthless and merciless in their enforcement of it, and will tolerate no dissent so the answer to this is to be good, or at least pragmatic, is the smartest choice for you. Strict moral code doesn't always work."

"How about Strength that you said a few minutes ago?" Benjamin asked. "That is another way to show servants a worth to follow and make sure that they don't think I look like a burden to them."

"A leader needs to be strong in order to be able with command and to lead armies," Flanna said as she stopped leaning back on the wall and walked to him, putting her hand on his shoulder. "But don't think that winning and ruling are the same things because you have to do some actual business of ruling if you believe that ruling and scheming are extremely boring and generally prefer to solve your problems with violence. There will be at one point in your life that you will have sat at a table and done paperwork, like keeping the food safe and the roads repaired and hearing the world's complaints and pleads and so on. Be careful of putting honor before any reason or using honor as a polite suggestion. It is just a fancy word for pride or stubbornness, which I don't want your head to be full of honor and incorruptibility if you do not equip yourself with the skills necessary to survive in a corrupt political court."

"So you've said three things, but what do they lack?" Flanna asked. "What are the main traits of a leader that you need to survive?"

Benjamin pondered and then he realized what it was, "Wisdom and Understanding, it is what makes a leader great."

"That's right, a leader should be able to understand in making the decisions he makes and wise enough to know what to expect in the long run and should know what he knows and what he doesn't know," Flanna said to him as Benjamin slowly got up from his chair which she pulled back. "Also, a leader should know when to be kind to reward those who help and when to be ruthless to send clear messages when dealing with enemies."

"You are young and untrained for this kind of leadership," Flanna said before rounding him on him. "Normally I would have you sit tight in the house or something that should keep you safe and alive, being inexperienced, but I know that it would make you miserable and unhappy. Now I am going to train you with my knowledge of firearms and modern military technology while Chiron will train you with knowledge of weapons and martial arts. Your servants clearly do not realize that you cannot be guarded every time and coddle you like a wet nurse. There will be a time that you will be by yourself and soon enough everyone in the whole world will know you and me."

Benjamin nodded in understanding as Flanna merely returned her attention to the scrolls on her desk. She picked up her pen and began to write. After a moment she sensed that Benjamin had not left and looked up. "Was there something else you needed to say?"

"Yeah, I want to hear your opinion of the Omnipotent Mage's Association, or Clock Tower to be precise. From what I've read about the book, this organization seems to be the boogie man on every Magi who wants to join in, yet fear at the same time. And it's not even like they're the only Mage Association in the world, besides the fact that only Europe is within their de jure jurisdiction. Almost all of the pages about the organization warn that revealing the existence of Thaumaturgy or seceding from the Association is essentially a declaration of war." Benjamin asked her, as this piece of information unnerved him a little bit. "So I want to know if they really have that kind of power?"

"You do know the Association is a prideful little shit and that everything it said in the book should be taken with a wallop of salt on a thin vale of propaganda and fear." Flanna chimed as she wasn't fooled by any of that. "That's a baseless lie. I wouldn't be surprised that the Association is offering terms with pretty much zero leverage or terms that are too demanding that didn't even reflect the situation that they were in." For all their dire reputation, there are signs that the Association isn't as powerful as they like to show off. It is that they pretend to look strong on paper and act like a boogie man for low-rank magi, but it has some real major problems, which are split loyalties and in general extreme incompetence. "Most of what we think we know about them is a lie or are from unreliable sources. From what I see based on the Association's reaction and how they respond to these incidents, it's that they didn't make their threats clear and that their so-called elite mages that are a force meant for an extermination being are easily killed, contrary to their invincible reputation. This could merely be a demonstration of a lie being told so often everyone assumes it to be true."

"This is clear with showing that they have no idea how to handle their problems and are very inexperienced when it comes to actual proper warfare," Flanna explained to him. "Also, the United States is not an upstart country that the Association can bully around or destroy a city and cover-up the incidents like no one's business, So the Association doesn't have any brains to plan anything and they're stupid enough to make incredibly poor decisions. Tell me, Benjamin, what battles have the Association ever won that I should fear them? They know nothing of gathering military intelligence, using complicated tactics, strategizing, hiding their tracks, the list goes on and on."

That reply, Benjamin did not answer but just nodded his head and hurried off having heard the last word from his sister. "Oh one more thing, call the new servants to come here one at the time, just about one hour."


As Flanna watched Benjamin close the door and leave, she stared at what she wrote down in her notebook about the Ruler class' strengths and weaknesses.

The eighth image showed a beautiful woman in holy garb with her eyes closed, holding an edgeless sword in one hand and a scale/balance in the other hand.

Ruler, the Nonpartisan and the Supervisor. It is a non-standard Servant class and an additional eighth Servant brought forth for the purpose of presiding over Holy Grail Wars. The Grail utilizes its own logic to sense when actions are encroaching upon its authority, and regardless of other mediators like those from the Church, it brings forth Ruler to protect the concept of the Holy Grail War itself. Ruler Classes are not to be underestimated. As they are an Anti-Servant Class, no Single or Group of Servants will fair well against one ruler with command Seals. However, the Ruler class would never be summoned in the first place in a normal Holy Grail War unless in two cases where a Ruler class Servant would be summoned.

The first case is when a Holy Grail War is conducted under exceedingly special and unusual circumstances with unforeseeable consequences. In that situation, the central pillar of the ritual, the Holy Grail, would judge that Ruler, a Servant outside of the control of human hands, is required in the Holy Grail War. And the second case is when there is a possibility of the world itself being distorted due to the effects of the Holy Grail War, in the modern setup of the Holy Grail War, Masters fight each other using Servants to obtain the Holy Grail. In most of the cases, Masters are chosen from magi, who value secrecy. It's extremely rare that one of them would invite disaster upon the world but there are a rare few who would use the Holy Grail War to bring about the world's destruction so the Servant Ruler is summoned when the Holy Grail determines that such destruction is theoretically possible and imminent, and is given the duty of safeguarding the framework of the Holy Grail War.

The criteria to be summoned for the Ruler-class has some in need under normal conditions. A class generally reserved for Catholic saints, as they are considered nonpartisan and with no desire for the Grail. Being a saint is not one of them, but as a saint are mostly like being a qualifier for being a Ruler and need to be impartial. Ruler class must be totally fair to both sides, keeping the rule because he/she are who's watching the HGW, she/he is not desired for wishes, only acts in the interest of the Grail. Their True Name Discernment class skills allow them the ability to see other servants' true names and entire status information revealed in their eyes, which can give them an edge over their opponents. But if there is a Servant with concealment abilities that hid his/her true name or gives false information, then luck chance would bypass it. Their other class skills, God's Resolution, allows a Ruler class to be granted two Command Spells for each Servant that participates in the Holy Grail War and cannot give it to other Masters. And the last one is Magic Resistance, which does not need explaining again.

The positive side is that they are a team captain that commands a group of servants and leads them to the battle. They can easily slip into the role of second-in-command and support the team if the main leader is wounded or not there. They can also restrain a troublesome servant in case of a rogue incident that causes the servant to go independently by itself. Also being summoned in this class can give a rank boost to their state for a below or average servant makes them strong enough to face an enemy servant one-on-one combat. Having a Ruler class on your side can be abused to shit, as having a servant being a Master gives one more than an unfair advantage over an ordinary Master who has no means to even try to counter it. Humans cannot compete with the servant as beings of legend. The Ruler can be made a center point of the team and primary support rallying point, while seen as a dangerous position and almost an honor for the Ruler to lead their troops ahead. They can be a chief advisor and the executor of the Master's command, generally managing the day-to-day running of the group if the Master is not present there.

However, there are some weaknesses and holes in a Ruler class that is not exactly feared from the Holy Grail as they acted on the guide of the Grail and were therefore not suitable for combat despite boosting their state, mostly because of their Command Spells power over the other Servants and a high Magic Resistance, the ability to see other servant's statuses and skills and parameters. Take/Put those advantages to the side and they prove to be rather poor fighters when facing high-level servants and are a one trick ponies. Ruler class is supposed to be a neutral concept. Flanna found that hard to believe, as neutrality is actually an impossible concept and stupid as there is no backup for the Ruler class. It is like having a sports game but the referee can be killed without any consequence, also adding the fact that people can get killed in the crossfire and the abundance of people who don't respect the vow of neutrality. While sure there is a failsafe mechanism to ensure that Ruler can actually RULE the game with command seals, could literally tell servants to kill themselves if she/he wanted to, which makes attacking her/him even more stupid and a nuisance. On paper this sounds great, but if the Ruler class manages to get killed by someone somehow, she/he can't ensure her/his only purpose so she/he has to make sure to survive and thus kill the people that try to kill her/him in self-defense, which makes the Ruler class not absolute neutrality. Since the beginning, if someone manages to trick the Ruler class to waste two of her/his command seals, then there is no way to get more. Therefore, they become completely useless in privilege of the Ruler presiding over the Holy Grail War. So basically you can kill the nuisance referee and most likely are breaking the rules and suffer no consequences for doing that.

Flanna's view on this class is a mixed review and an average class that looks like it was unfinished at the last minute. Also, she is suspicious of the class and then there is no way to know what the Ruler class is up to. Their loyalty is questionable at best and a wild card because there is no way for her to tell if the Ruler class would follow their Master or the Holy Grail's will if this cup is alive or not?

In addition, since the Holy Grail can randomly summon any kind of servant, there would be a high tendency that some of the servants wouldn't work well with each other. Like if heroes came from the same time and had a grudge against one another, it wasn't uncommon that both two rivaling factions in history had great heroes or had a hero and villain from the same era being forced to work together in a team. Forging a team with that issue is an arduous task due to all the political infighting, old wounds, hatred of each other, and divergent agendas, which can be very fragile at times when they are needed the most. "All it would take is just a wrong word, an ill-timed jest, remembering one slight, or even a look at one and our noble servant will be at one another's throats." Jeanne d'Arc would not be much help once the two Command Seals are used up since there is no way to get more. If and because of that, Ruler would have spent half of her energy trying to knock not even some morality but some sense of cold pragmatics into some of the servants' heads. If it doesn't work, then Flanna is going to order Ruler to command some of the servants to kill themselves, deciding that working around them is impossible.

Flanna slowly sat uncomfortably in her chair. The chair wasn't the problem, it was the servants and the Holy Grail who made her uncomfortable. Her wine glass was nearly finished, but she didn't take a second drink from it. "So this would be my and my brother's legacy from now on. Trying to get along with half of a band of drunken fools and the craziest, reckless warmongers with a few sane servants able to keep them in line while surrounded by Mage's Association, who are forever driven to expand their knowledge in an attempt to reach an impossible goal of entering the Swirl of the Root and the Holy Church, whose teachings were corrupted into willing to do anything for the sake of their god that is full of overly zealous fools, jealously collecting and hording artifacts that were left behind. And the U.S. Government, who is trying to figure out what is going on here and are searching for us. I guess it is time to make plans now."

Still, there are other matters at hand besides the new servants. Flanna took a piece of paper and a pen as she began to write down, laying out a command structure for the servants and her brother. She then brought out the layout of the mansion-sized house and glared down at the area surrounding it. There is going to need to be more defense structures for the house, as the Bounded Fields and magical traps would not be enough. Someone would be able to pass through that. Then, there is the income and business which would concern coins, food, and doing paperwork. She made a small note of making sums of money for herself and her brother as she may have to do some shady methods, which Paracelsus can help manufacture the philosopher's stone into gold to sell it. She wants to see how that works.

Then there are some servants who are a good fighter or powerful caster or whatever they are, but that doesn't automatically translate into being a good leader or administrator, Flanna had to figure out a way for some of the servants to learn basic skills outside of combat. Combat-oriented builds, which are generally sensible in a war where combat is an important aspect, but would become a problem during an event when survivalist-based skill becomes equally important to survive without much mana. In fact, some of them need to be in a position that's suitable to them and something for them to do, as she cannot leave some of them to hang around the house doing nothing or they would end up fighting out of boredom. "So much stuff to do to make it work and so little time to get it started. This responsibility is so large for me and Benjamin. I am going to need strong and brilliant administrators from the servants to arrange this out. There are logistics and organization to put it to work."


Benjamin was slowly walking down the stairs as he thought about the talk with his sister and doubt began to creep into his mind. Flanna and he had a burden on their mind, his sister thought that he could be the right leaders to lead the servants, but can he do it and was he truly the best man for the role?

"You know most people would be celebrating upon hearing that they command a group of servants and having the Holy Grail in their hands," Enkidu commented as he appeared out of the kitchen. "From the look of that face, I'd say that you are worrying too much about doubting your own abilities."

"Yes, you can see my face, Enkidu, as I am easily read." Benjamin continued his pacing down the stairs. "I know what my sister said back in the room but the truth is I don't want to be the leader." For the first time in his life he was truly afraid. He was nervous when college graduation was getting close by but had slowly grown independent to be an adult, and had decided to do things his own way from now on. Being a leader of the servants, however, made him more afraid than anything else. "I was afraid of what would happen if any organization took interest in acquiring this so-called sacred Grail, it would be a war for survival, as all these incidents become public knowledge as time passes by, all of this happening because of that cup."

"Well, that's a noble reason at least," Enkidu shrugged. "You're not stupid to refuse it or deny the contract, there is no turning back now."

"But now I'm not so sure. I don't know if I can do this. For the first time in life, I'm afraid," admitted Benjamin. "All I did was nod my head during the talk with my sister." Benjamin was silent, pondering over every possible decision and command he might have to make. So much power and so much responsibility. "God help me, how has it ever come to this." He looked sick, his face white, his hands trembling.

Enkidu reached up and put his hand on his shoulder. "This group needs a figurehead, Benjamin. Your sister can still play the leader for now, on the other hand, you will be the main central figure when the time comes, as I believe that Flanna cannot be near to you all the time. Your sister is a middling and solid commander but not much of a figurehead to follow. Which she does have charisma, but one that's more of an acquired taste than others."

"All right then, we have to just go forward and not look back," Benjamin said in a measured tone, smiling grimly at him.

The two made their way to the entrance of the kitchen.

There was much laughter and cheering, which Benjamin was seeing Sakata Kintoki arm wrestling with Beowulf, who appeared locked in an impasse. He hoped that the table would not be broken any longer or they were most likely to dislocate their own arms. Also, he saw Joan of Arc sitting with Alice laughing slightly about something they were talking, which caused Benjamin to smile as he saw Alice become much more open and friendly, revealing her inquisitive and child-like nature much more often. Brynhildr was staring out the window, looking at the night sky that was full of stars.

"They are having fun, right Benjamin?" Enkidu asked as he turned around his face while smiling at Benjamin. "The recent servants seem to get along with our group. You can see the happy mood in this kitchen."

Pleasant chuckling coupled with Benjamin's reply. "There is no reason to doubt. It looks great to see them having fun."

"Benjamin, how are you?!" Sakata Kintoki said as he turned his head while still arm wrestling with Beowolf who smiled back at Benjamin. "You are back from talking to your sister."

"Yeah, Sakata, so what do you want to eat for dinner?" Benjamin asked as he walked to the sink and washed his hands. "I want to celebrate with our recent servants."

"That's great!" Sakata Kintoki shouted with an eager voice. "Meat, Let's celebrate them with some meat. Our treat to them!"

"Ok, sure let's have meat for dinner," Benjamin nodded. He turned on the sink, filled with water and grabbed the pan. "Enkidu, can you get the meat out of the refrigerator? There are some of the supplies inside that can help for the feast" He knew that the amount of food that those servants eat is ridiculous. He wondered if they just love eating his food, not because they are hungry but just enjoying a shared meal can be somewhat refreshing.

Enkidu nodded and pulled the refrigerator door, looking over the ingredients to search for the bag of meat, which he found and gave it to Benjamin.

Benjamin took out a slab of meat, cleaned it thoroughly through running water and laid it on the table. He scanned the various knives available at the counter and picked a chef's knife, turning the seven-inch long blade against the light for inspection. He moved the slab of meat to the cutting board and was just getting ready to raise the knife until he heard a soft-spoken voice in his ears.

"I believe you should leave that to me, Master." Joan of Arc interjected. Benjamin looked up to see her, placing the pads of her gloved fingers over her collarbone and the armor and cloak seemed to unravel into threads of light that scattered like luminescent dust. Without the armor, her dark blue dress made her look less like a warrior and more like a nun. In fact, it would not be hard to confuse her for one had she been wearing a habit. There was a cross hanging by a chain from her neck. A plain one smelted in silver by its appearance.

"Are you sure you want to cook for dinner instead letting me do it?" Benjamin asked as he put down the knife. I'm fairly confident in my cooking skills but what about your skill of cooking."

"I am exceedingly capable of preparing a meal. Perhaps I am better at it than you are. The grail did grant me knowledge of the modern world and I believe it does give you more knowledge on matters you might be familiar with in life. Cooking was one of my responsibilities in my household, master." Joan of Arc corrected him curtly. "I can show how well I can do it."

"All right then, show it to me." Benjamin said as he stepped beside, letting her do the work. "I want to see how you can cook."

With remarkable familiarity, she wasted no time and rolled her sleeves up her elbow and washed her hands in the sink. Once that was done she hurried to the fridge where she looked over the ingredients. She decided what she wanted to cook once she had seen the contents. She wore an apron which was a poor fitting for her, but nevertheless, would serve its purpose and turned towards the fae-kin. She picked up the chef's knife and using this, she expertly set it against the meat, angling her body over the pork so she could use her weight to nick the edge of the knife into the pork, just an inch deep into the skin, dragging the blade in long uninterrupted strokes over the surface. A diamond pattern formed not long after and she flipped it again, repeating the same process on the other side.

"That is nice clean cut," Benjamin commented as he watched the pork being prepared for the next step. She then pulled up a roasting tray, cleaning it over the faucet and drying it with a disposable napkin to set it on the stove to heat up. Taking a handful of sea salt, she rubbed the pork through, to fill the nooks and crannies so it would be bursting with flavor when it was done. She looked over the tray, which still wasn't properly heated up and decided she would prepare the seasoning. To bring out the flavor of the pork, she raided his shelf, taking generous portions of fennel for cutting, garlic, then olive oil. She sliced the fennel into small portions and crushed the garlic cloves with ease, removing the skin. Once all that was done and the tray was suitably hot, she placed all three ingredients into the tray causing the contents to sizzle.

"What did you want for sides master?" Truly she seemed to be in her element. Even her mood appeared to improve as she hummed a familiar song throughout the work she was doing.

"Uh... Garlicky Roasted Broccoli with just a bit of the garlic and lemon juice," Benjamin said, only partially surprised by her familiarity with kitchen works, as he watched her go on. For sure she seemed competent, on the same level with his sister, a clear indication that life at her age was much different from life on his own. "Do not let broccoli get burnt through the pan and pr-"

He was about to say something but stopped in his tracks, speechless as the main door of his house knocked, which almost every servant turned their head toward the sound. "Hold on, let me get that door, keep cooking the food. Sakata Kintoki and Alice, please come with me,"

"Sure thing, Benjamin," Sakata said as he overwhelmed Beowulf with the sheer power in his arm, as his Monstrous Strength skill raised it to even higher levels in a pinch that was a difference in raw strength. The sudden explosion of sound made Beowulf lay flat on the ground, his arm muscles singing a sore sound.

"Is Beowulf ok?" Alice asked Benjamin who stared at that small hole in the kitchen.

"Beowulf will be fine, he just needs to rest, that is all," Benjamin answered Alice. "He will get up really soon."

Benjamin with Sakata Kintoki and Alice walked to the door as he grabbed the doorknob and opened it.

"Hey, how you are doing?" Achilles said with a smile as he was carrying a small girl over his shoulder. "Oh wait, you must be my second Master."

"You are damn right, and I take it that you are my servant," Benjamin asked as he studied the small girl who looked to be age 16 to 17 years old and wearing a brown dress with blood wounds over her pale body and short black hair that had obviously not been showered yet. "And that you are following an order from my sister and which requires almost all of servants," Benjamin said as he looked behind Achille to see Lu Bu, Hassan of the Cursed Arm, Atalanta, Chiron, Saint George, the Storm King and Ozymandias.

"Oh, good heavens. Should I explain about this, Benjamin?" Saint Geoge asked as he noticed Benjamin staring at that girl on Achille's shoulder. "Because it is not what it looks like. We found this little girl during our mission and we believe that she was important somehow, so we took her along with us."

"Don't worry about it, I understand what you mean," Benjamin said as he let them inside. "If this girl is important to those Magi, it means they are up to something with her. Oh by the way, we got new servants in our group so I think you all should go talk with them."

"Atalanta!" Alice yelled with joy as she tackled into Atalanta's chest. "You come back, play with me."

"Oh right, I will be there in a minute," Atalanta said with a smile and hugged Alice. "There is something I need to do first."

"There are new servants here?" Achilles remarked as he gave the girl to Atalanta who held her close to her bosoms. "Well, let's see which one of them is worth my time. He grimed as he put his spear over his shoulder, followed by Atalanta who was carrying the girl, Chiron, Lu Bu, and Saint George.

Ozymandias began to laugh aloud. "Haaa, our new servants should all bathe under the pressure of me and feel the glory of gazing upon such splendor of observing my form well."

"Oh my king, you are back from whatever my sister ordered you from somewhere," Benjamin greeted the King of Kings. "I take it that it went well, that you don't actually need me to be over there."

"Hmmm, you are mistaken," Ozymandias said with a dissatisfied voice. "A miserable excuse for needing to show my self over something of this caliber."

"Then I wonder if you are ok with me being your Master?" Benjamin asked him.

Ozymandias stared down towards Benjamin with his face which being a smile, more present and honest. "You are a fine Master, I will take your resolve and make you survive to see your dream. If you fall to your knees half-way, I'll continue to drag you back up over and over even if your legs are bruised from it. You and your sister were willing to risk your life to bring me to this world that I will soon rule over once more. Make no mistake for I shall reward you for this." He said, as the King of the Sun brought the curved hook of his staff over his shoulder and entered the house.

"I don't think that I have the heart to say that is not what I was talking about," Benjamin thought but let it slide. "But still I'll try to live up to your expectations and everyone else's too, not regarding any of the servants as tools."

"Master, are you tired?" Hassan of the Cursed Arm asked, concerned about second Master's health. "I am sure that you must take some time to rest."

"No I am fine, it is just that I feel the stress, that is all," Benjamin answered as he rubbed his forehead. "Just go back and report to my sister who is upstairs doing her stuff about whatever your group was doing." As Benjamin pointed behind him, the Old Man of the Mountain bowed his head and vanished into the darkness.

Circling her horse around, the Storm King bid the horse stop, unseating herself from her mount and climbing to the ground with a clank of her dark sabatons. "The mission was successful, the enemies stand no chance against us. I will be in the backyard, attending the other horses." Her voice was rough, and low though unmistakably feminine.

"Oh sure, go ahead." Benjamin looked upon the draconian mounted warrior with bafflement on how straight and simple she acted as a servant. Despite everything, there was always an air of nobility and grace around her, even clad in entirely draconic armor, dark as the night itself, and perched upon a black mare taller than herself where her gauntlets bore a rough, scaly appearance. This nobility made Benjamin sure of one thing despite the uncertainty of his servant's identity. This was a true knight from the age of knights. "There is something that I want to say, please if you would tell me, may I ask your name?" Whether or not she was a woman was immaterial to him right now, the sheer power radiating off of her, validating her existence already in his mind. It was not fear, but a mix of admiration and respect.

The Storm King turned her head and responded back. "Later, not here with everyone with you." Recalling it was as if recalling a dream. Her own story, the legend, came surging into her mind. There were none who would dare speak the name of falsehood, for she was the King of Knights herself, an unparalleled existence. She, who controlled not one but three gifts from God, and the bearer of the pillar of the world. "I answered that question with your sister Flanna."

Yet when one thought of King Arthur, it could be said that a different image came to mind. A knight in shining armor, almost literally - as one of the Nine Worthies, King Arthur represented the pinnacle of chivalry. Yet here he - no, she - was, undoubtedly clad in armor that could be called anything but shining, and in fact, took great pains to resemble the mightiest of phantasmal beasts. Undoubtedly female by way of voice and by the curvature of her body, there was little to hide of her gender as well. And any supposed charismatic aura she had: well, it simply wasn't there, for whatever reason.

Benjamin could not help but be taken aback by the answer he received as he watched the Storm King take the horses, Red Hare, Bayard and Llamrei into the backyard. "Not what I expected for an answer but I will take it."

He turned to stare at the half moon in the sky and said to himself of a creed that he had made himself. "Night has gathered, and now my times have begun. I never asked for this no more than I asked to be the Leader of the servants, A responsibility will be cold and heavy into my head, but so long as I have the Grail with me, then I have a duty to defend it from falling into the wrong hands and I will not end it until my death. A storm is coming but I will have to endure it, for the night will become dark and full of terrors."


I am sorry that the last two parts of the scenes feel kinda rushed to end for almost two months and a half has passed. I am trying to be done writing without prolonging the scenes. I had Ohlone College's homework and tests to do so there is a good chance that my next chapter will be next year which I hope not, as there are half of the ideas that in my head so I am going to be slow for the next one.

I had questions from you that I need to know.

1: I want some ideas for an upcoming battle for dragon Fafnir and servants, which I want a good one that put some thought into it.

2: I want ideas for my police characters to move the plot because I was feeling like it was not going anywhere so I need a good one.

3: I want to know what is Shirou Emiya, Rin Tousaka, Luviagelita Edelfelt, Lord El-Melloi II, and Bazett Fraga McRemitz's strategy and tactics, not combat, but actual battle plans.

This is important for number three because I want to know about that as the sibling who had smarter, experienced servants who fought in large battles in the past with them, but on their own they couldn't have beaten Shirou and his group. You should take note that Shirou's group has never been in a real battle before. Their prior battle experiences are so used to fighting more or less one-on-one battles in the Holy Grail War that they have no idea how to conduct a campaign on a huge scale war and none of their group felt like correcting each other even as they explained their strategy right in front of each other or restrain Shirou from charging into the battle, not that he would have listened to his group every now and then.

So the poll that I had put it up was which one Benjamin should train first. The winner is Firearm and Ballistic vest, strangely I thought people would choose Medieval weapons and armors but I think you want to understand how to actually use a gun and so I would have put my time into research on military and some martial arts.

Guest chapter 28. Aug 16 Weapons for Ben against Shirou glaive, naginata, sai for close range against Byakuya and Kanshou and for Armor chain mail type: That is good and kinda makes sense for him to use. Is it me or does Shirou Emiya just love to use those dual wielding just because it feels so natural for him.

Guest chapter 28. Aug 16 How would Servants like Iskandar and EMIYA react upon meeting their former masters?: Iskandar would laugh and say the words from Fate Zero that "Whether you are or are not a Master, you are my friend, and that will never change" EMIYA would be shocked to see his former master Rin with other faces that he knew which he had to fight them. EMIYA must choose between his former master or his new master. Flanna, on the other hand, this conversation would be a strain on her trust with any servants that know their former masters and she would closely watch some of them very carefully.

Guest chapter 28. Aug 19 This is a good chapter though it did focus more on the magi and the police rather than Benjamin or Flanna. The tv shows and movies that change pov well... there are a lot of them that are too many to list but Heroes is one there so many characters from different backgrounds that pov changes often and besides I think you're already doing a good job of the pov already: I am glad to hear that as many different points of view can keep you on edge sometimes.

Guest chapter 28. Aug 23 Okay. I know that you are never probably going to put this character in the story, but I just have to type it. Many times I believed that beings like Types, Arucreid Brunestud, Solomon, 72 Demons, Gilgamesh, Divine and Phantasmal beings and Ado Edem where the strongest and there was never gonna be anything put stronger or have a super powerful ability. That was before I read DDD. Or more specifically, read about '.Ishizue. So I gotta ask you, what do you say to that?: First of all, it does sound scary but it's poorly expanded as it was not explained clearly to me, so I call her special ability one of the most bullshit I had read in my life.

Guest chapter 28. Aug 31 What is gonna be Rin's reaction on Flanna using jewlery magecraft?: Jealous and pissed that Flanna can throw almost endless jewlery bombs without a care in the world while Rin Tohsaka is still constantly broken after the Fifth Holy Grail War while Rin Tohsaka still has some left as she manages to put enough prana into these gems but that is not enough firepower. Rin can see Flanna as another Jewel Magecraft rival just like her other rival Luvia who can erect a mansion and nearly buy the whole top floor of the Norwich Students Dormitory entirely for herself. On the other hand, Flanna can't quite wrap her head around Rin Tohsaka's insane logic of the price of those jewels as Flanna is nowhere near Rin's or Luvia's level of wealthiness. Flanna doesn't realize that those jewels that from Paracelsus are easily worth at least twice as much as a catalyst which Flanna is throwing countless money at her enemy.

Guest chapter 28. Aug 31 Ooooo, my woooooord! Shit just got reaaaalll... Sherlock Holmes...and it's awesome! When are you summoning him? Also, btw Paracelsus's item construction got updated: He has numerous anecdotes like a legendary alchemist who manufactures magical items, acquiring this Skill at EX Rank as a result. With this level, one can create a variety of tools, objects and so, like a powerful mana cumulate crystal such as the 'Philosopher's Stone', artificial spirits that correspond to the five elements called Elementals, robots endowed with a multiple-body-synchronous-thinking ability (homunculi), etc. Mass production of jewels used for Jewel Magecraft can also be done by using a leyline connected to his territory: Sherlock Holmes will come later and Paracelsus's item construction is finally explained clearly.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 12 Just looked around and now I can say with 100% certainty: Confirmed. Emiya alter is Shirou from "Superhero" or also known as "Mind of steel" ending Heavens feel: Thanks for explaining his story for me.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 13 Your story is great but I think you should change the timeline of your story from 2005 to 2015 because I think 2005 doesn't fit this kind of you think that would make fate stay night character too old you can change fate zero and fate stay night timeline to 2005 and 2010 to make sure it doesn't stress out too much: In Fate Stay Night, the Fifth Holy Grail War took place in 2004 and the events of Fate/Hollow Ataraxia happened six months then it was dismantled ten years after the Fifth Holy Grail War in 2010. So, you got the opposite way because if I put the timeline in 2010 then the Fate characters would be way too old. So the timeline in the Babysitter of Heroes is six months after the events of Fate/stay night, one year after the Fifth Holy Grail war then it was over and dismantled in the same year so it would be too stressed out. FangDriver8 tell me to edit that so the timeline makes sense a bit.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 14 Managed to find out how Edison looks like. Here is the picture: You can not put a link in FanFiction website or put it in the review so you are going to have to tell me step by step how to look for it.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 14 Heracles information as a True Archer got updated as well as Berserker(Jack the Ripper) True Archer Ex-Reincarnation pandora Jack the Ripper -From HellIm kinda lazy so please go look yourself: Sure, I would go see it.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 16 In a future story can you make an OC that has a personality disorder with 4 max in a future story because it is interesting to see characters react to see multiple people in the same body kinda similar to Diavolo from Jojo: No, because that idea of yours is too complicated and ridiculous as personality disorder is hard to write down and I've seen so many inaccurate fics it's disturbing. All it really does is just add to more stigma. Please do not throw plans that sound like it is a good idea without putting some thought into it.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 16 Tell me your opinion: If countries itself could have a concept of luck, would you say that Russia has an EX luck? I mean, well, let's go back to the summer of 1812. Napoleon, commander of the Great Army which conquered almost an entire Europe, goes to conquer Russia. His army wins and wins and everything is fine for now. AND THEN comes the winter, which JUST happens to be the coldest in 100 years! Then fast forward to WW2. Operation Barbarossa: Hitler attacks Russia everything fine, until, again, EVER. EVEN COLDER THAN 1812! What do you think? Is it some kind of good luck? Or just some BULL?: I am going to say a famous history lesson about this misunderstanding that Hitler and Napoleon are called idiots because they tried invading Russia in winter and failed. Most of us know it as due to the winter, but how true is that? Hence, the truth is both of them knew of Russia's winter and thus started their campaigns in summer. However, they didn't realize just how much meaningless ground they had to cover. All this ignores the fact that the Russian Winter is the traditional campaigning season as it turns rivers into highways, and hardens the usually muddy roads. Because do you ever walk to Russia on roads as it is like in the US and Canada.

According to historical evidence, Napoleon Bonaparte didn't fail his famous campaign to Russia because of harsh winter, but only because of his own tactical errors. His famous apology for this military disaster ("It is the winter that killed us. We were the victims of the climate ") was only an attempt to hide his own failure. Napoleon's losses on the way back should be principally attributed to the scorched earth strategy of the Russian army, not to the cold winter weather. After the remnants of his "Great Army" left Moscow, they had prepared food stocks only for seven days. Not harsh winter, but hunger, diseases, desertions, and casualties suffered in other minor battles caused the majority of Napoleon's losses during his invasion of Russia.

And then the famous WWII. It wasn't a magic winter that destroyed the Soviets, but Hitler's arrogance which prevented him from properly supplying his troops. And then there was the issue that the muddy roads in the Autumn slowed the advance as much as the snows of winter. Finally, the tide didn't turn during Winter, as the Battle of Stalingrad occurred AFTER the famous Soviet Winter of 1941-42. It was Soviet courage, generalship, and losses that halted the Germans, not General Winter.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 16 How about a fun moment of the child servants like Jackie and Alice react to kids show and cartoon-like the muppets, lazytown, mister rogers and sesame street: That is a good idea that I will put the moment into my next chapter when I take a rest after updating this chapter.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 20 Hello there I love reading your fanfic and if I may suggest a servant, can you put Knight Artorias from the game Dark Souls as a servant most likely as a berserker or as a saber? That would be a nice idea: No as just because you asked for it.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 21 What will be the sibling's reaction when finding out what mana transfer really means and will there be a time when they will have to perform it even though they are not Magi?: For Benjamin, no problem as a man, he can't help it. Then again, the number of female Servants outnumbering males and some of them are really attractive and are quite the looker which he begins to develop a lustfulness for women during that time and probably dropped dead upon seeing female's bodies naked during their bed. On the other hand, Flanna is not buying any of it and knows that mana transfer is just an excuse to have sex with her and often turns anyone down claiming that she's not interested in the matter but she rolls her eyes anyway just for the amusement of it. Flanna would basically give the servants a potion full of blood fluids mixed with herbs, and magic from Magi's dead corpses so she does not need to deal with that issue.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 20 Benjamin won't turn out like Light Yagami, will he?: To compare Benjamin to Light Yagami is like comparing a wolf to a sheep. Both are a normal person who discovers magical powers, gains a buddy/friend, makes a worthy foe and picks up love interests along the way. Their quests/stories each involve the supernatural and the pursuit of justice but however, Light thinks that justice will prevail and acts like a self-righteous hero of justice. While Benjamin's aware that sometimes the bad guy won and sometimes justice didn't prevail, never act like a self-righteous hero. However, whereas Light Yagami is overconfident to the point of arrogance that he ends up relishing in using his power to abuse everyone and rule with an iron fist, still he sees a circle of supporters as nothing but pawns to be manipulated and then disposed of, while Benjamin has confidence issues that inhibit his performance in battle and never abuses, treating the Servants under his employ well regardless of where they come from or who they were in life. Light can't take criticism, no matter how bad his idea was, while Benjamin listens to criticism as he would change/fix his bad idea.

While Benjamin continues to act humble, feeling undeserving of his honors and not using his title often, Light Yagami continues to act arrogantly and insists on being referred to as a God of a new world. Whereas Benjamin never forgot his roots/humanity as he moved upward to improve the society, while Light had forgotten his roots/humanity as he ruled society with senseless cruelty that is because his death note had almost no checks and balances (which most of the rules are just guidelines) that tainted Light Yagami to develop a god complex and become a remorseless sociopath who stops at nothing to rid the world of criminals, while Benjamin doesn't have Command Seals (which are used to prevent the servants from killing their master right away) but he has servants as his bodyguard who are his checks and balances that would not blindly follow the orders of their Master who need to be taught how to be leaders before they get obeyed, also are meant to protect and fight for their Master from himself.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 18 In case you make a code geass crossover, F.L.E.I.J.A. is equivalent to a B rank at weakest and if charged more, rank is higher, As for knightmares, normal ones can be destroyed with weak and slow servants( E rank) While stronger like Albion(the strongest at the end of the series) would need (C rank), Strenght and Durability And (at least B rank) Speed One last thing: Anyone with the Code of immortality has absolute immortality, is unable to die, age, get sick, or be permanently wounded, is absolutely self-sustained, and his/her mind and soul are as immortal as his/her biological body. Any injuries he/she suffers immediately heal, even if he/she is incinerated, blown up, decapitated, completely deleted, or even if he/she is completely destroyed to the sub-atomic level, he/she will still return to life. Absolutely immune to all harm, nor can he die of any natural causes

His/her existence and soul were completely independent of even the concept of reality, making him/her not bound to the subjects of life, death, and manipulations. The only way for someone to kill someone with the Code is that the person has to have Geass in both eyes: Sure, this is well-balanced information of Code geass level which can help without upsetting any fans from both series.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 22 Is Jesus gonna be in the story? Or at least as the corpse like from Jojo?: No, because I am not making any plans related Jojo or any OC servant of him, so quit asking something like that.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 29 Warhammer vs Fate Who does you think would win? And how powerful would the Emperor be if he was summoned by Benjamin?(of course, don't even THINK about doing that please): Emperor is a good four-thousand years older than other servants and can effortlessly boot Gilgamesh out of this spot. Read Property Damage fanfiction because it speaks for itself.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 27 Seeing how Ramses is waaaaaaay much different from the Bible and still loving Moses as his brother, tell me, what will be his reaction when he finds out that God has forbidden Moses to go to the promised land? Also, I got an idea for a vessel to summon Moses with, his skeleton or his wooden staff, what do you say?: Ramses's reaction is he would rage how God's actions seem a tad extreme and that God himself was so monstrous as to not allow Moses to enter the promised land should never have Moses's worship. Ramses thinks the way that God himself who is angered at the worship of other gods seems to suggest he may not be the only one and believes God acts like he is the one and true deity, making him no different than the rest of other gods. I said his wooden staff as his body was never found as God buried Moses in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 28 Where are Ben and Flanna parents now and will they learn of their situation: Their family lived in a different area and home, so they don't know that their son's house is full of Servants, not to mention, they don't know that their son and daughter are leading their servants on random missions. They are positively shocked and surprised but also fear that knowing their children would no longer have a normal life and that they must always keep moving on.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 5 Heh, you really like to abuse the troupe 'Reality Ensues' eh?: Yes, I abuse that troupe as to my knowledge, normal modern governments in the Fate world are blissfully unaware of magecraft and any supernatural forces. I mean, a third of the reason the Mage's Association exists is to hide magecraft and keep it confined to the smallest possible number of people. That doesn't actually make sense when you think about it though. I mean remember that guy in Zero who could make zombies with special bee things, a single mage could become a huge threat to national security, you'd expect at least some level of awareness. The explanation that the government was being controlled was somewhat acceptable at first, but not enough to really sell me after a few years of reading the light novel. After all, a lot of things start to happen at once in the same city, all within a few months, the entire planet will be looking down on them with a microscope. Countries from the other side of the world will be investigating as to what's going on. As much as I love to see my story be posted on T.V Tropes fanfic of Fate stay night's recommendation page, I feel like I don't deserve it as I see how well writers of other Fate fanfic pages and see how good the quality it was, that feeling I was out of place there.

To be fair though, this was a minor complaint of mine, as I was delving deep into political mechanics when I started to research why modern governments can't make such large-scale cover-ups and that's when I started to write my story. I had studied the Magi's characteristics, habits in life, their culture, their battlefield tactics which to be fair everything about them is self-destructive and screamed wrong which doesn't make any sense as their societies are similarly retarded, their Association has probably had the longest streak of dumb luck in the history of that universe to survive to modern time and there is one more thought: the lack of unity. Plus their behavior is so atrocious and so idiotic sometimes that their domination influence made almost no sense.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 5 In akame ga kill most of the teigus were lost so can you add teigus that are new to represent the lost ones were the servants find to give to their group if recruits: There are 48 Teigu in total and only 30 were shown but 14 were destroyed, so that means that there are 18 left to be found. Pretty much. The story was rushed as there are some unnamed Teigus that haven't been listed. No, the servants did not use the teigus for themselves but maybe they can give it to their allies.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 7 Do you think the problem with RWBY crossover fanfic is that the characters come from another world attend beacon academy classes some despite their age. I read a couple fanfic and most of them did the exact same thing basically I'm saying if people do the same thing over and over it will get boring and also for those read this don't be afraid to be unique: That is the issue plus another Holy Grail War in RWBY world, reincarnation into that world, and joining the beacon academy members to fight against Salem can get old really fast. Also, the way that RWBY character Professor Ozpin was able to find the character from another world is kind of ridiculous and makes absolutely no sense at all, plus the way Salem and Cinder Fall are able to enact all of their plans without a fail and domination influence made almost no sense. Another one that the RWBY crossover fanfic is updated every hour or so that making my own RWBY would be pointless as I can see my fanfic go down to page 2 where nobody would see it.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 9 Can recreate the scene in the resurrection off of friezas revival with Gilgamesh with similar dialogue: I could do that but I don't know which dragon ball anime/game you mean so I can see it.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 10 Hey, due to the fact that Benjamin is living in New Jersey is he ever gonna say to the servants about that time when "War of the Worlds" was being broadcasted and started a worldwide hysteria?: No, because that is so off topic and random as I don't think that people would talk about an event that was so into the past.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 10 Are you gonna summon Primate Murder? But in a form of Fou(he's such a cutie in that form isn't he?): Fou in his cute form.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 12 Hey, I know you said no more Oc servants but I gotta ask you, what do you think about summoning Saint Longinus?: I am not going to give my opinion on him as I am tired of reviews giving me questions that are pointless, off-topic, OC servants suggested even though I keep saying that there will be no more of this.

Guest chapter 1. Oct 18. /revision/latest?cb20170925143006 This picture gave me an idea. Archer Alter as an undercover agent for Benjamin and Flanna?!: A good idea but it said that "The site can't be reached" so you are going to tell me how to reach it step by step.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 16 Wait a sec, Alaya and Gaia are CONFUSED? Wha?: It was barely an excuse for why Alaya and Gaia did not just appear on Earth and kill everyone and then move on. Let's keep it that way.

Guest chapter 1. Oct 18 Some things from Archer Alter Dialogue in Fate Grand Order have been translated so you should go and read so you can see what to write. P.s. Is it just me, or is Archer Alter a masochist? He said once during an ascension or level up that he enjoys the feeling of his body breaking?: His body is breaking down from regaining his identity, as "Shirou Emiya" is completely incompatible with who he's become and what he's done as he abandons every aspect of "Shirou Emiya" to become a Counter Guardian.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 22 In the end, the best word to describe Shirou would be: hardcore altruistic. Right?: That and he has a very warped idea of day-dreaming idealized justice that is sometimes toxic and delusional on a disturbing scale to some people's point of view. Still, you have to respect him holding his ideals so high and refusing to give up on them no matter what. But I feel like Shirou doesn't even try to learn from his mistakes and keeps repeating the same folly. While he did mature a little bit of his attitude, but that is all. On the other hand, Benjamin and Flanna are realists and visionaries who understand how things work and what kind of pushes, efforts, and sacrifices are required to get the most optimum and desired results if not exactly what she/he wants.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 18 Wow... a lot of people ask you for oc servants and ask the same questions over and over must be really frustrating, I feel for you: Thank you for saying that as I hate how reviews don't go back to other chapters to see if their questions have been answered or not. Then there are those OC servants that are random and feel uninteresting.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 23 Hey you gotta go to youtube and watch these fate grand order snippets from Sippy VA. One of my favorites is "Fighting Lobo". In it, as the title says fight Lobo, how they defeat him? Well, throw an onion that looks like a ball, throw it at him and say: "Fetch, boy!" Result? INSTANT DEATH: I'll go check it out.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 23 Also check out one from LKnightVA called Black Sheep. Watch until the end. While it's technically a parody, isn't it awesome seeing the Emiya family together?: I saw it

Guest chapter 28. Oct 23 When you summon those Assasin class servants( or servant) from Fate zero, are you gonna include that small kid that was later adopted out? You know, a kid(servant) who was supposed to get close to Rider and Waver and try to kill them when she got a chance?: Yes, I would include the small kid because I feel that she should be in it.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 23 New servants came: Yagyu Munemori l, Mochizuki Chiyome Kato Hanzo and O.M.G. Sengo Muramasa(still not summonable, for now) in the body of Emiya Shirou. Shit Just Got Real: I love that we got more Japanese servants that we don't know who they are and are interesting enough to see their story. I want to see more Chinese Servants that are rather small and not from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms which is overrated.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 23I know this is way too early, but here is a chant from Sengo when he used Muramasa. .hr/url?sat&sourceweb&rctj& watch&ved0ahUKEwi0nKK89IbXAhXSJ1AKHftQDmEQwqsBCEowDA&usgAOvVaw1z_k1Hw8sW92ufkfKLJ4s3: I see it and sounds awesome to hear.

Guest chapter 28. Oct 28 Would be considered making version of this story with different x overs like oc that gets the grail to summon the servants is like a duelist from Yugioh world like arc v or 5ds and the servants would be interested to participate like team: No but I will think about it and don't throw random ideas at me because I hate it when you do that to me.

Guest chapter 28. Sep 19 Increase Gun god's endurance to C(was capable of staying awake in Subzero temperatures and shoot a type Venus before fainting): Sure, got it

Guest chapter 28. Sep 19 Ok, Ado Edem showed up on the vs battle wiki, we put everything we need for his stats, so... you can summon him now or later if you want to. Also,

Type Mercury

Class: Beast

Strenght: Ex

Agility: Ex(moves at same speeds as Ado Edem)

Durability: Ex(stronger than any material on Earth)

Endurance: Ex

Luck:?

Skills:

Ultimate one: Ex

Authority of the Beast: Ex

Independent manifestation: Ex(due to existing as long as Earth he gains this skill) Makes him immune to Meopd, can only be destroyed and even if he is destroyed by normal circumstances( no Slash Emperor or Black Barrel). He will immediately regenerate on his own planet. Also, no pressure on his existence due to the fact that Mercury still exists

Noble Phantasm:

Crystal Valley (水晶渓谷, Suishou keikoku) Ex: By violating the reality of Earth ORT leaks an "alien system" that rewrites physical laws to passively transform the area around ORT into an alien crystalline, said to be beautiful, but horrendous and disturbing at the same time, that makes up the environment it lived in on Mercury. If humankind is considered that which destroys the planet, ORT can be considered an invader that paints the planet into an alien world. The Crystal Valley is far superior to Arcueid's Marble Phantasm in power. Yet, for the ORT this is an ability as natural as breathing. To sum it up, it turns everything that is hostile into crystal territory which he can absorb, regardless of how strong are the defenses or durability of the target. Range is about several hundred meters

To put the long story short its powers are:

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Non-Corporeal, Absorption, Matter Manipulation, Reality Warping(Passively rewrites physical laws and transforms its surroundings into an alien environment), lacks a concept of death, Immortality, Regeneration.

Just tell me, what is going to be others reactions to him being summoned?

Something like:"DOOMSDAY IS COMING!"

Like that?: It is a good one and very simple to tell what it does. Oh, one more then I need to Type Venus's stats and Noble Phantasm from you as I think you are good at making servant stats. Here is almost everyone in the Fate series that I think they would react to Type Mercury because the Aristoteles are the strongest beings in the universes and Nasuverse's Bane.

Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg's reaction on Type Mercury: He looked concerned and afraid that he needs to be a little more serious, being careful around that Ultimate One that there is nothing he can do if he wants to piss Flanna off, which she sends the Ultimate One at him because Zelretch fought Type-Moon and won by luck as Type-Moon was too late in understanding the power of Magic which he doesn't think he would survive the second time of battling another Ultimate One face-to-face.

Aoko Aozaki's reaction to Type Mercury: Have a horrified expression and wonder how is she able to do some damage on the Ultimate One with her Fifth Magic.

Touko Aozaki's reaction to Type Mercury: Like her sister, she would have the same horrified expression and actually fear dying for real if she fights it.

Orlando Reeve's reaction on Type Mercury: A wide-eyed shock and horror as he is freaking out at what he saw.

Faldeus Dioland's reaction to Type Mercury: He becomes overwhelmed with panic and distress as he trembles at the terrifying atmosphere emitting from Type Mercury.

Rohngall 's reaction on Type Mercury: He is a bundle of nerves, near his breaking point.

Francesca's reaction on Type Mercury: Terrified by the Ultimate One that Francesca fears she can die for real because Type Mercury was able to easily kill the previous fifth Dead Apostle Ancestor in seconds after being attacked

Jester Carture's reaction to Type Mercury: He starts laughing like a madman, completely entranced by Flanna's power to summon Type Mercury and rambling how he's resolved to see how it will play out.

Barthomeloi Lorelei's reaction on Type Mercury: Gone was the dignity on her stoic face as in its place was a barely-restrained panicked face.

Kiritsugu Emiya's reaction on Type Mercury: He is able to act more cooperative with the sibling as he slowly watches Type Mercury carefully as knowing what it is.

Angra Mainyu's reaction on Type Mercury: He would laugh at how luckily the sibling was able to do the impossible of summoning the Ultimate One while glad to meet it.

The Shirou's group reaction on Type Mercury: Faints, panics, merely shakes their head in denial of what they have seen now, and shit themselves.

Sakura Matou's reaction to Type Mercury: Drop whatever she was holding and shook in fear.

Irisviel von Einzbern's reaction to Type Mercury: Quite horrifying to see another bizarre giant monster that is designed solely to warp off humanity being in their group.

Illyasviel von Einzbern's reaction to Type Mercury: Her eyes and mouth open wide at the sight of that thing.

Chloe von Einzbern's reaction to Type Mercury: Call out her Kanshou and Bakuya as she nervously points her dual swords at it.

Bazett Fraga McRemitz's reaction to Type Mercury: Drop her Fragarachs to the ground as she wonders how the hell she is going defeat that thing.

Caren Ortensia's reaction to Type Mercury: While she looks to remain calm and nearly expressionless, but to those who knew her better, had never seen her so rattled

Shinji Matou's reaction on Type Mercury: Scream in fear and faint to the ground.

Gun God's reaction to Type Mercury: Slowly reaching for his gun as he feels afraid

Ado Edem's reaction to Type Mercury: Stare at ORT with a serious look of daring to attack him

Type Venus's reaction to Type Mercury: She seems to be happy that one of her comrades was here.

The Clock Tower and Holy Church's reaction to Type Mercury: That's it, I'm out and Okay, I know when I was beaten. Get me a white flag, time to cash in all my remaining chips.

All of the Berserker class's reaction to Type Mercury: Some gaped at Type Mercury or given pause.

All of the Avenger class's reaction to Type Mercury: Most of them react with horror and are frightened by the Ultimate One.

All of the Casters class's reaction to Type Mercury: Most of them would be unsettled and appalled by seeing that thing.

All of the Archers class's reaction to Type Mercury: Overawes them with its mere appearance and is absolutely freaked out.

All of the Sabers class's reaction to Type Mercury: Most of them are terrified of what the Ultimate One is going to do next.

All of the Riders class's reaction to Type Mercury: Their faces fill with dread and regret.

All of the Lancers class's reaction to Type Mercury: Most of them are left frozen in terror.

All of the Assassins class's reaction to Type Mercury: The Ultimate One makes them all go deathly quiet.

All of the Ruler class's reaction to Type Mercury: They are utterly terrified of the Ultimate One and can't keep their group in line unless they're right next to their group.

Moon Cancer class's reaction to Type of Mercury: Seem to be scared shitless of the Ultimate One.

All of Alter Ego class's reaction to Type of Mercury: The fusions of various Divine Spirits of great renown find that they would have to draw on every ounce of their resolve not to run away or die.

Archerko's to Type Mercury: "Masters, how are you able to summon that thing?!"

EMIYA's reaction to Type Mercury: "Masters, what have you done?"

Altria Pendragon's reaction to Type Mercury: "Masters, who and what are you?"

Benjamin's reaction to Type Mercury: "Why is everyone moving behind me? Why are you guys scared of that thing?"

Flanna's reaction to Type Mercury: "As long as whatever that thing is staying loyal and follows Master's commands, I don't care what it is or what it does."