Fate Th(re)e Heroes
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Chapter 53: In the Sky
"Congratulations, Lucemon Chaos Mode!", Ruler told Saver of Black. "You have reached the 100th Floor. Usually I would now fight you personally, but unfortunately as the Ruler class Servant, I cannot."
"No matter", responded Saver of Black, "I have already absorbed more than enough data. I won't need to absorb this castle anymore. In fact…" He smiled at Ruler. "… I think I like it. I will make it my throne when I become the ruler of the world!"
Instead of being taken aback or angry, Ruler just acknowledged his desire.
"Then when the Holy Grail War is over come and challenge me for the position of the ruler of this castle", he told the black Saver.
"Don't worry, I will deal with you soon enough", he rebuked, "for now I shall save the world!"
Saver held up his hand and some sort of energy pulse went out in all directions.
The young boy living at the Fuyuki City temple looked up into the sky. The clouds were tinted orange from the setting sun but they were not what caught his attention. No, high in the sky above him was something flying in the air. It was way to big and compact to be either a bird or an airplane. In fact, it looked more like a castle in the sky. His eyes widened. Was that were the being from yesterday had gone? He had to tell his big brother abut this!
"What is the matter, Tokiomi?", inquired Kirei. "Did you find out where the energy pulse came from? That would certainly be the day, Saver not figuring something out before we do."
"Yeah, yeah, laugh it off", the irregular Servant responded, "it's not like I know everything."
"Just tell us already what the fuck is going on!", Archer of Red interrupted annoyed. "Do you always have to distract from the fucking issue at hand with some ridiculous banter first?"
"He is right", agreed Tokiomi, "this is too important to stall. Kirei has told me that all around the city every single digital screen now displays the words: 'You must choose to follow me or be destroyed'."
At once the atmosphere in the room became heavy.
"That is bad", noted Lancer of Red and everyone present had to agree.
"Saver of Black is making his move", concluded Kiritsugu.
The irregular Servant had already shown his desire to conquer the world so it was not difficult to figure out from whom the message was.
"What is he thinking?!", raged Volquart. "Does he want to reveal the existence of thaumaturgy?!"
"I am more concerned about all the people who are going to die because the equipments at the hospitals do not show what they are supposed to", exclaimed Berserker of Red, his fists clenched.
"Right now we can still make it look like a cyber terrorist", Saver of Red added, "we've got to stop him before he decides to show up in person. Any idea where he currently is?"
"Kirei told me about a flying castle that showed up around the same time. It can only be seen by people with a connection to thaumaturgy or children. That is the only clue we have."
"Saver is not the kind of person to keep himself hidden after announcing his intentions in such a way", added Kiritsugu. "If he wasn't in the castle, he would have showed himself in some other way."
"Then let's hurry up", decided Berserker, "before the black team figures out what's going on."
"Good point", conceded Saver, "we don't want to deal with them on top of things, too. Let's quickly get the humans and Rider to the Church, so we can get started."
"I think Avenger should stay behind with the Masters", interrupted Archer suddenly, surprising the others.
"Eh?", exclaimed Avenger. "Why? I can help, too!"
"Really?", rebuked Archer, before turning around, addressing a different Servant. "Saver, what are the odds for Avenger to win against Saver of Black in a one-on-one battle without any outside influence?"
"Zero", supplied Saver "helpfully". While they currently had no time looking up their chances, he had still some statistics from earlier. "I gave up after the Zhou yi (Book of Changes) prophesized her death for the sixty-third time."
"And that was before his Evolution (To Reach New Highs)", added Archer. "Now he fucking thinks he is strong enough to fight against all the other Servants at the same time!"
"He is right", conceded Lancer. "There is no reason for Avenger to risk her life in this fight."
The Servant in question looked on the verge of tears.
"I am not that weak, am I?", she asked meekly. Berserker and Lancer looked away while Archer bluntly told her:
"You are not strong enough." Then, seeing that they had no time to loose, he turned to the others, ignoring Avenger's feelings. "Let's go, already."
Transferring everyone to the Fuyuki Church took longer than anticipated. Well, it had only been half an hour but it still was way too long as by the time they had finished all their preparations the sun had already set. While on the one hand they now didn't need to worry about getting spotted – much – this also meant that the black team had gotten enough time to notice what was going on.
But more importantly, as mentioned earlier they also did not have enough time for him to use his usual Zhou yi (Book of Changes) and Epistola de Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae, et de Nullitate Magiae (On the Wonderful Powers of Art and Nature) combo, so they were going into this blind. And unlike with Zouken's Black Blood Worms, they couldn't just wait it out. No, stalling would only make it worse. Their only hope would be the fact that Zouken and co. don't like to deal with the Mage's Association, too and would probably accede to leave them alone until Saver of Black was taken down.
Regardless, they had all agreed that this was no reason to invite the other team and so they decided that Saver of Red should not use any of his abilities, since that would attract Saber of Black like a shark smelling blood. This of course left the question, how he was supposed to get to the castle in the sky. Berserker had his Air Dance, Brawler her wind manipulation, Archer his Vector Change (The Deadly Basics of Science) and Lancer could shot vertically into the air as well as transform into a bat. Caster would teleport in once they started fighting – not that that pacifist would do much fighting himself – but that still left himself. In light of this Brawler had readily offered to take her Master. Still, that left Saver of Red with one question…
"…why bridal-style?"
Indeed, he had been picked up by the other Servants in bridal-carry. And he didn't knew why but somehow he couldn't shake the feeling that his Servant had chosen this particular method of transportation for a reason.
"Because I cannot see otherwise", she explained.
Saver looked skeptically at her face trying to find a crack in her poker face.
"Oh, really?", he asked. "Then why do you not carry me on your back? It's not like you have any wings there that would get in the way."
She contemplated about it.
"I just wanted to do it", she finally admitted the true reason.
Not seeing something wrong with that, Saver shrugged.
"Well, since I am going to jump off as soon as we see the enemy, knock yourself out."
"Sure", she acknowledged and used her power to propel herself up into the sky, following by the other Servants.
From up-close the flying castle looked even more impressive. In fact, calling it a castle didn't really do it justice. It was more like a freaking flying country! Granted, not too big of a country, considering its main body appeared to be around a tenth of New York City in surface area and could fit around 28 times into Tokyo, but this still made it over 170 times bigger than Vatican City! And that's only the lowest floor! It was made up out of 99 of those, even the smallest never falling below 1.8 miles.
Each of the 100 yard tall floors were protected from the outside by metal plates. Below the lowest floor was a big chunk of earth and rock, as if the castle had been once rooted to the ground but one day decided to lift up and never come back down. In regular intervals around the lowest floor were eight 500 yard long catwalks ending in platforms with a long spike up and below each of them.
And on top of the whole flying island was an actual gigantic castle in red colors.
"Oi, Brawler", Saver addressed his Servant verbally, his ability to converse not being hampered in such thin air thanks to him being a Heroic Spirit, "try if we can get into the red castle from here!"
Brawler nodded and at once send out multiple streams of wind. They reached the castle without any problem but instead of doing any damage to the walls and windows, where they hit tiny violet hexagons popped up.
"Tch", cursed Archer, noticing that violence wouldn't get them inside. "Does anybody see an entrance?"
"There!", exclaimed Berserker, the first to find it.
Following his gaze, Saver noticed a hole in the fortress where one of those catwalks was connected to the main body.
"Looks like that is it", he acknowledged but as they tried to enter, they ran into their first problem.
"Heads up!", Lancer called out to get their attention.
It didn't take long for the others to notice what he was referring to, as the glowing Pegasus heading towards them was rather hard to miss.
"Saber", cursed Saver as he jumped out of Brawler's arms and activated the wings on his shoes. "Go on ahead, I'll lead him away."
His Servant nodded solemnly and went into the castle, followed by the rest.
"You know", mused Berserker as he surveyed the brick stone buildings to each sides of the road, "this looks oddly of familiar."
Even though they were inside, they could not see a ceiling, a blue cloud-filled sky filling its place. Brawler levitated upwards towards it and looked around.
"There is that bell tower from Ruler's call", she exclaimed, before narrowing her eyes. "And Saver of Black, too!"
"Lead the way!", Lancer urged her but Berserker and Archer had already gone ahead into the direction Brawler had been looking. Lancer and Brawler exchanged gazes with each other, shrugged and then went after them.
Thanks to his High-Speed Movement the not-mad Servant was the first to arrive. He drew his large cleaver and pointed the tip at his flying enemy. Saver of Black's reaction to that was only to smile derogatively at him.
"So, you are the first to appear", he greeted him. "I was worried that nobody would notice my declaration. Have you come to join me in my paradise? Or are you one of those upstarts that cannot be saved, no matter what?"
"Guess!", Brawler called out as she send out currents of air.
To her surprise Saver did not evade. Instead he pushed forward, ignoring the superficial damage he took from her winds. Not wanting to get close to him, she quickly gained altitude, at the same time Lancer of Red jumped up between them, holding his position in mid-air and firing off his Gungner (Lightning Bolt).
In the blink of an eye Saver shot past the Knight of the Lance and was upon the Servant of the Fist. She had only time to widen her eyes in surprise as he called out "Paradise Lost!" and a barrage of punches hit her. Each of them was delivered so fast that she didn't even have time to be thrown back before the next one connected. And at the end of the combo, he delivered a vicious kick, sending her spiraling to the ground.
That not enough, as she crashed into it, the surface proved itself to be even deadlier as instead of giving away under the impact, it stayed firmer than any material on earth, the only sign of impact a violet hexagon that popped up declaring "Immortal Object". But the force had to went somewhere and even Brawler's manifested body, augmented by her Noble Phantasm was not able to withstand it, her bones shattering on multiple places.
"Brawler!", shouted Lancer concerned as he threw something towards Saver.
The fake angel sidestepped it in mid-air and shot towards the Knight of the Lance. But as he was striking towards his foe, he stumbled, as Lancer suddenly vanished and in his place was some voodoo puppet. At the same time black sword-like streams shot upwards from below, ready to cut the Servant in little pieces. Saver took to the artificial sky but they wouldn't let him go easily, keeping close to his trail. So, instead the masterless Servant turned around and fired off blast of light and darkness, destroying them.
"Getsuga Tenshou (The Light that Pierces the Heaven)!"
This distraction was used by Berserker of Red to step behind Saver and attack with a wave of light. Saver quickly spun around and shouted:
"Dead or Alive!"
In the palm of his hands appeared orbs of light and darkness which he threw towards the approaching wave. The three attacks hit at the same time, resulting in an explosion that was by no means normal. At the edge of the blast radius flowed spheres of squares with strange symbols over each other.
Down below Lancer had used the time to take care of Brawler, giving her a potion that healed her wounds. And while Saver faced Berserker, Archer send out more black streams attacked him from behind.
"Paradise Lost!"
But the masterless Servant ignored them and instead shot towards the not-mad Servant and attacked him with a barrage of punches. Even though he could see the attacks coming, thanks to his foe's Counter Hero, Berserker wasn't capable of evading or blocking them. In the end, even he was flung back, but unlike Brawler he was able to gain his footing, before he hit the ground. Just in time to look up and see a black and a white sphere closing in on him. Only using his High-Speed Movement, he escaped from the attack.
However using it was risky, as it only worked to move from one location to another and since he might charge headfirst into an attack if he were to use it to go to a battlefield, it left his comrades on their own for a short time. And in a fight between Servants things can turn bad really fast.
To their luck, Saver was not exempt from this rule as the moment he dealt with Berserker was used by Lancer to score a blow with some kind of laser beam from the palm of his hand.
"Worm!", raged Saver, more annoyed than hurt as he rushed towards the Knight of the Lance, ready to use the other Servant as a punching bag.
However, even though all of the punches connected dead-centre and Lancer had a lower Endurance than Berserker, he didn't even so much as flinch in the onslaught. Silently an unmoving, he endured the attack, coldly gazing into the eyes of his surprised enemy.
"What did you do, worm?!", he snarled.
He was so distracted that he didn't notice when not too far away Archer kicked at Brawler's backside, redirecting her vectors and sending her flying off towards the fake angel. Aided by her power to control wind, she shot forward with a speed that would had torn any normal human in half. But since she was a Servant she was fine. Not so much the one who had an enforced fist crashing into his side with high-speed.
"Payback!", declared Brawler as the first solid blow on Saver of Black flung the Servant away and ramming against a wall that proved to be just as malleable as the ground. It went without saying that that hurt.
"You… start to make yourself nuisances", exclaimed the masterless Servant through clenched teeth. "I'll crush you like the bugs you are!"
"Rankyaku Hyoubi!"
Literally out of nowhere came a swirl of flying air that cut into Saver of Black's shoulder and would have head the Servant's head, if he hadn't moved as soon as he hurt the attack coming.
"Wa-?" Brawler of Red turned around to where the attack came from and spotted her black counterpart in his half-human-half-leopard form. Next to him rode Saber of Black on his Pegasus, also closing in on their former team member.
"Yo, Brawler", greeted Saver of Red his Servant "how are ya holding up?"
"You were able to convince Saber and Brawler to help?", she asked surprised but Saver shook his head.
"I would really love to take the credit for that one but those two had a bone to pick with Saver of Black from the beginning. Seems they don't like traitors much. Well, I'll take what I can get. Pot of Wisdom (Shattering of the Stories)!"
Pages flew out from Saver of Red's Noble Phantasm, encasing his black counterpart in a hurricane of paper.
"Don't underestimate me! Paradise Lost!"
Saver of Black spun rapidly around and pushed the pages away with a furry of punches. Saver of Red just smirked as he activated another Noble Phantasm:
"Huolongjing (Fire Dragon Manual)!"
The pages around Saver of Black started to glow and the fake angel's eyes widened before the paper around him violently exploded, with him right in the center of it all.
For a moment it looked as if that did the job but then Saver of Black shot out from the dust throwing black and white orbs at the others.
"Barmāyeh (Ox-Headed Mace)!"
"Casa Di Logistilla (Destruction Declaration)!"
Saber of Black hit the sphere of darkness with his giant sword, shattering it with glowing lines, while Saver of Red negated the light one.
Then suddenly Berserker of Red appeared right behind the masterless Servant, his cleaver exchanged for his katana-shaped Tensa Zangetsu (The Chains that Destroy the Moon in the Heaven). Before Saver of Black even noticed that he was under attack, his body was already pierced from behind. Now, rooted in place, he couldn't escape when Archer of Red send out his black streams, both Brawler flung wind blades at him and Saver of Red riddled him with Black Keys while Lancer of Red activated his Gungner (Lightning Bolt) for a direct hit.
"Impossible!", Saver of Black shouted in face of such an onslaught. "I am Lucemon, I won't be defeated like this!"
In a last-ditch effort, he shot streams of light and darkness out of his hands but while it might protect him from the attacks up-front, this said nothing about his back. Still with his sword keeping the enemy in place, Berserker of Red gathered prana around his blade. And when the masterless Servant noticed it, it was already too late.
"Getsuga Tenshou (The Light that Pierces the Heaven)!"
Saver of Black could only scream in pain as a black wave of energy obliterated him from the inside out. And when the attacks from the other Servants hit their mark, too, it just assured the end of the would-be world dominator. Under the gazes of the other Servants, what remained of his body turned into particles of white light that fell down to the ground.
One moment of silence, then Brawler of Red did her victory pose and shouted:
"We did it!"
Only for her breath to get stuck in her throat as if to mock her the particles suddenly turned black.
"Still not over?", exclaimed Lancer flabbergasted and Archer clicked his tongue in annoyance.
"Looks like it", commented Caster, finally announcing his presence, as the particles started to rise again and gather at the place where Saver of Black had originally died, growing into an bigger and bigger black orb.
"A death-activated Evolution(To Reach New Heights)?", analyzed the red Saver thanks to the clairvoyance of a Master, "yeah, not going to happen!"
Curiously the other Servants looked over to him as he took out two books of his.
"Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (The Improvement of Human Reason)!", he announced and suddenly his other book shattered.
"What?", escaped Berserker, as the shattered Noble Phantasm was assimilated into Saver's chest. Curiously Brawler of Red leaned in closer.
"What did you do?", she asked, studying his chest for any hints.
"Oh, I just destroyed Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Werther Effect) to increase my Luck by a rank", he explained helpfully.
"Did you really just sacrificed one of your own Noble Phantasms for such simple gain, Angra Mainyu?!", responded Saber of Black agitated to which Saver only shrugged.
"Not the first time", he answered. "Idiana (George Sand), Parallel Lives (Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans), A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (Webster's Dictionary), Candide, ou l'Optimisme (There Is no Basis for Optimism), Metamorphoseon libri XI (Books of Transformations). When you have really all the world's books, you're bound to have some dangerous or borderline useless ones. So, if I can use them to get extra-prana or raise my stats when needed, why shouldn't I? And right now I need quite a bit of Luck so I can activate this!"
Saver paused dramatically, took out another book and held it high up into the air, before shouting its name, activating it at the same time:
"Bill of Rights (An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown)!"
The book rose into the air, opened and showered the orb with gold light. Saver of Red now turned back towards his audience.
"Now this Noble Phantasm allows us to vote!", he explained. "It takes its own rank – which is C, by the way – as well as the Luck of everyone who is against the activation of another Noble Phantasm and compares it to the Luck of everyone who is for the activation of that Noble Phantasm together with the rank of the Noble Phantasm in question. Out of those variables it then calculates a new parameter which is used for a Luck-check. If the Luck-Check is successful, the Noble Phantasm gets denied. And with all of us against it, I say we've got pretty good odds, don't ya think?"
He grinned at them smugly, sure of his finisher. That was until one Servant decided to rain on his parade:
"Why would I be against the activation of a Noble Phantasm?", inquired Saber of Black, making the irregular Servant turn around dumbfounded. "I told you, the tales of heroes are grander the greater the challenge. That is why heroes flourish, the stronger their enemy!"
"I agree", added Brawler of Black. "I have accepted the call of the Grail so that I can fight against strong opponents. Now that my Master finally allows me to do so, why should I stop?!"
Saver's face was ash-pale. His eyes opened wide, his mouth agape. Nobody had ever seen him so shocked, not even when the second set of Servants had appeared.
"Get out of here", he finally exclaimed. His voice was calm, too calm. It was like all of his emotions had been cut out, leaving nothing behind than an empty string of words. Yet, at the same time, everybody felt an illusion of utter dread swinging in with these words. Like the calm before the storm, when you knew something terrible was going to follow. And Saver did not disappoint as he continued to speak in the same tone of voice:
"When Bill of Rights (An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown) fails, it increases the rank of the Noble Phantasm by two."
In unison the Servants turned around to the orb as it grew bigger and bigger and bigger. The Servants had to retreat back as the orb even started to occupy the place they had been before, still growing bigger with every second.
"This is the last time I am teaming up with you guys!", declared Saver loudly, as the black orb now began to stretch and change into a different form before taking on color.
In the end, what stood against them was a mighty purple dragon-like creature with a bulky body resembling some beastly armor, two strong legs and arms with three golden claws each, six big purple pair of wings with the last one covering his legs like a shroud and a long tail which tip resembled a three-clawed hand, too. It's dragon-like head on its long serpentine neck donned deadly white teeth and a spike on its chin as well as a golden mask that covered its eyes and sprouted a wing on each side. But all of this was not visible to the Servants as their full vision was blocked by some giant sphere of unidentifiable dark gray matter held between the monster's two forelegs.
The head looked over the sphere down on the puny Servants below him. It opened is maw and purple-red flames streamed out of it, behaving more like water than fire. But before any of it reached the assembled Servants, the flames as well as the head rotted away, thanks to Caster of Red drawing them. But the victory was short-lived as the head immediately started to regenerate itself.
"Oh, come on!", cursed Saver in disbelief. "An EX-ranked regeneration Noble Phantasm?!"
"We have to bring more distance between us!", Lancer told him while they all shattered into different directions.
Saber of Black however, went straight for the mystical sphere and used his Barmāyeh (Ox-Headed Mace) on it. Golden glowing lines spread out from the impact point and raced over the surface of the sphere, only to shatter away, leaving the orb unharmed.
The dragon prepared another breath-attack but his head was blown away by Berserker's Getsuga Tenshou (The Light that Pierces the Heaven). However, this brought them only a few seconds, as the head regenerated instantly afterwards and quicker than one would expect from such a big body, it extended its serpentine head and head-butted the surprised Servant.
Though for Berserker it felt as if he was trying to block a building with his katana and so it was no wonder that even his Air Dance could not root him and place and he was thrown backwards while Brawler of Black went over to the base of the neck and with a swirling Rankyaku Hyoubi that was augmented with Brawler of Red's wind control cut off the whole neck in one go.
It still didn't stop the regeneration but it still took a second longer. Enough time for Archer to finally get atop the body of the beast. There he put his right arm against its back and concentrated. His arm sank into the armor-like flesh and with all his willpower manipulated the vectors around it and himself, pushing it down to the ground with great force and speed. The ground, which they already had established to be literally indestructible. And while the sphere proved itself to be just as hard, this did not go for the body carrying it and like a giant bullet the orb tore through its protector.
Saver of Red narrowed his eyes.
"Lancer", he called it out and the Knight of the Lance replied with a "Got it!"
By now everyone had noticed it. The dragon regenerated constantly and the sphere was protected by a powerful barrier, strong enough to withstand not only Saber's Barmāyeh (Ox-Headed Mace) but also all of Caster's attempts to destroy it with his Devil's Left Hand (To Draw Is to Curse). However, that it had such a strong defense also proved that inside of it was something really important to protect. In other words, the weak point. That still left the question on how to get through that barrier. However, what if instead of breaking the barrier, one just simple ignored it?
"Gungner (Lightning Bolt)!"
Now Lancer's Noble Phantasm was too small to completely engulf the orb or even a bigger area of it. Which was why he concentrated on the centre of it. However, there was a second problem: the range. The orb was gigantic enough that even standing in front of it, he new that his spear would not reach on its own. Luckily he wasn't fighting alone:
"Euangelion Ioudas (Gospel of Judas)!"
"By the power of this Command Seal, I, Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri, order you, Lancer of Red, to reach your enemy with your Noble Phantasm!"
Not only had he the support of Saver of Red right by his side, their Masters were also rooting on them from the sidelines, watching through their eyes how the battle unfolded and helping them in their own way if the opportunity arose. And so, with the help of both his ally and his Master, his Noble Phantasm reached further than anytime before, shooting right through the heart of the sphere with the sound of a trombone of victory. The high-pitched ear-piercing scream that followed told them of their success. However…
"…he still isn't down", realized Saver of Red as the dragon regenerated once more. Even though they had powered up Lancer's Noble Phantasm to reach him, it was still not enough to finish the job. But before he could activate his spear a second time, the high-pitched voice spoke:
"Divine Atonement!"
Seven big purple disks of light appeared above the otherworldly sphere. Both Servants paled at the sight and quickly brought distance between them as the disks turned white and shot twelve giant streams of light in every direction.
"Barmāyeh (Ox-Headed Mace)!"
"Casa Di Logistilla (Destruction Declaration)! Als ich ein kleiner Junge war (Not Everything Seen by Children Should Be Told to Children)!"
Saber of Black and Saver of Red did their best to stop the attack, they were only able to deal with one stream at a time. And while Caster of Red managed to destroy four of them at the same time, that still left half of them, continuing unhindered.
"Vizard (The Mask of the Warrior)!", shouted suddenly Berserker of Red as he moved his hand over his face, gathering a bunch of prana as he did so. When he removed his hand over his hand was some kind of human bone mask, similar to those of the assassins. Only that the assassins had pure white masks while his was painted red on the left side.
And then he moved. And he was fast! They had thought he had been fast before, but now his speed was ridiculous! He was fast enough to sprint towards the two Brawler before the monster's attack hit them, grab both of the startled Servants and without loosing any speed retreated again, dragging them with him, regardless of any complains they might have had.
And just in time, as suddenly the streams shattered, multiplied and switched the direction inward, turning the area around the orb into a complete kill zone. A kill zone, Saver had no way of leaving in time. And it was just his luck that the origin of the danger came from behind him, making his two, most-used defensive Noble Phantasm useless to him. Oh, Casa Di Logistilla (Destruction Declaration) could reduce the damage a bit, but it wouldn't be enough for something on that scale. This was beyond thaumaturgy of rank A. So, he took out a different book:
"Hōjōki (The Ten Foot Square Hut)!"
A/N:
Hi guys and gals.
And now Saver of Black had finally made his move. But there was no way for him to survive as Chaos Mode against those odds. No matter how much prana he had absorbed, he is still only one Servant. And unlike Gilgamesh he can't just spam Noble Phantasms. And Counter Hero does not really work as good as you'd hope on someone who uses his Noble Phantasm to power himself. So, while he was able to give the four members of the red Team a run for their money, as soon as Saver showed up with the two black Servants it was over.
Ironically they would have been better off without the support from their enemies considering how that turned out.
Gashadokuro Amanojaku
CLASS/TITLE: Saver of Black
Master: none
True Name: Lucemon Chaos Mode
Sex: unknown
Strength: B
Endurance: A
Agility: B
Mana: C
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: A
Class Abilities
Counter Hero: A+
Induces an effective 3-rank parameter reduction against any opponent that can be classified as a 'Hero.' The parameter-down effect is reduced by one rank in the circumstance that the opponent is of the 'Antihero' category.
Charisma: E-
Leadership-skill of a tyrant.
Skills
Independent Action: A
Capable of remaining in this world for a week without an established contract. Also capable of living on for a short period of time after suffering extensive damage on his spiritual core.
Honoring Sacrifice: A+
Doubles the amount you gain every time you kill someone to absorb their prana.
At this rank it also allows to ignore any restrictions regarding the beings you can kill and absorb prana from that don't have to do with the nature of the being.
Absorption: A
Allows for absorbing other people's data and the data of smaller objects to increase ones performance.
Jamming Aura: A
A skill that makes one disrupt electronics just by one's presence.
At this rank it effects all electronics in a whole city.
Noble Phantasm
Evolution: To Reach New Highs
Rank: A; Anti-Self; Range: 0; Targets: 1 person
Allows to transform the user into a more powerful form after assimilating a certain amount of prana and data. It is automatically activated with the termination of the current form.
CLASS/TITLE: Berserker of Red
Master: Matou Kariya
True Name:
Sex: Male
Strength: A+
Endurance: A+
Agility: A+
Mana: A
Luck: A
Noble Phantasm: A
Class Abilities
Mad Enhancement: X
Lost because of an opponent's Noble Phantasm.
Skills
Battle Continuation: A
Makes possible to fight even with deadly injuries and can remain alive so long as one does not receive a decisive fatal wound.
Hidden Visibility: D
It is impossible for anybody without magic circuits or psychic ability to see this Servant.
Air Dance: A
A skill that allows for running across the air as if it was solid ground.
Berserker is able to stand in mid-air, regardless of the direction he is facing.
Prana Burst: A
is the increase in performance caused by infusing one's weapons and body with magical energy and instantly expelling it.
A normal weapon that is not on the level of a divine mystery can be destroyed in one blow. Raises defense in several times.
High-Speed Movement: A
Allows the user to quickly switch from one location to another. At this rank he can move from one end of a city to the other in an instant.
Noble Phantasm
Noble Phantasm #1
Rang: B; Anti-Unit/Anti-Spirit; Range: 1-2; Targets: 1 person
Getsuga Tenshou: The Light that Pierces the Heaven
Rang: B~A++; Anti-Gate/Anti-Fortress/Anti-Spirit; Range: 1-99; Targets: 1000 people
Gathers a lot of prana into a the blade and releases it in one single wave. The strength of the attack depends on the amount of prana previously gathered.
Tensa Zangetsu: The Chains that Destroy the Moon in the Heaven
Rang: A+; Anti-Unit/Anti-Self/Anti-Spirit; Range: 1-2; Targets: 1 person
A cloak and sword-combination that increases the rank of Mana and Agility of the user by 2.
Vizard: The Mask of the Warrior
Rang: A+; Anti-Self; Range:0; Targets: 1 person
Increases all parameters by two for a short time but if it is used up to its breaking point, the user becomes even weaker than a normal human.
CLASS/TITLE: Saver of Red
Master: Akaji Akage
True Name: Angra Mainyu
Sex: Male
Strength: E
Endurance: E
Agility: C
Mana: E
Luck: E
Noble Phantasm: A
Class Abilities
Counter Hero: A+
Induces an effective 3-rank parameter reduction against any opponent that can be classified as a 'Hero.' The parameter-down effect is reduced by one rank in the circumstance that the opponent is of the 'Antihero' category.
Charisma: D
Leadership-skill increases slightly.
Skills
Human Body: ?
Saver doesn't need a Master to exist and has a higher mana regeneration, but can not enter spirit form.
Collector: A+
The talent to collect high quality goods.
Saver is capable of collecting all books and written texts.
Acrobatics: B
Is the ability to use acrobatic feats in air combat.
Increases agility by one rank as long as Saver is airborne.
Noble Phantasm
Zhou yi: Book of Changes
Rank: E; Anti-Information; Range: 0; Targets; 1 person
A book that helps predict the future with the methods of Cleromancy.
Epistola de Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae, et de Nullitate Magiae: On the Wonderful Powers of Art and Nature
Rank: B; Anti-Unit; Range: infinite; Targets: 1 person
Gives hints to where a person could be and what they will do based on what they already did in the past.
Pot of Wisdom: Shattering of the Stories
Rank: C; Anti-Self; Range: 0; Targets: 1 person
Covers the user in a giant spider made out of sheets of paper. The user can decide, what kind of pages to use. It can block any attack of a lower rank than this Noble Phantasm.
Huolongjing: Fire Dragon Manual
Rank: A+; Anti-Army; Range: 0-10; Targets: 10 people
Lets any object around the user explode and allows him to create any weapon of ancient China using gunpowder.
Casa Di Logistilla: Destruction Declaration
Rank: C; Anti-Unit/Anti-Thaumaturgy; Range: 0; Targets: 1 person
A thick magic-binding leather book that has the ability to disable magical properties. When equipped it gives "Magic Resistance" of Rank A.
Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān: The Improvement of Human Reason
Rank: B; Anti-Object; Range: 0; Targets: 1 object
By destroying one of their Noble Phantasm without turning it into a broken Phantasm, the owner can increase one parameter of their chosing by one rank. Each parameter can only increased once.
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers: The Werther Effect
Rank: B++; Anti-Unit; Range: 0; Targets: 1 person
If a person giving this book falls in love or is already in love with someone but the love is either unrequited or the owner feels the person they love is out of their reach it activates. For the following 96 hours the book will steadily increase their emotional turmoil and yearning for the other. If the effected person kills themselves in this time, the owner of this Noble Phantasm gains prana in the amount of a Command Seal. If the effected person does not kill itself after the 96 hours are up, the person will loose his feelings for the other and gain a high-ranked Servant Skill corresponding to their personality.
Idiana: George Sand
Rank: E~A+; Anti-Unit; Range: 0-50; Targets: 1 person
Creates a stream of water to sweep away a person. The stream is bigger and stronger the more love of any kind the user fells towards that person.
Parallel Lives: Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Rank: E; Anti-Self; Range: 0; Targets: 1 person
Gives the owner the ability to blend into any society
A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language: Webster's Dictionary
Rank: E; Anti-Information; Range: 10; Targets: 1 phrase
Allows the user to find the definition and origin of any phrase uttered in its vicinity.
Candide, ou l'Optimisme: There Is no Basis for Optimism
Rank: C; Anti-Self; Range: 0; Targets: 1 person
Every time the owner gets to know someone new, he has to do a Luck-Check. If the Luck-Check not successful, he dies unless someone in the vicinity sacrifices a Command Seal for him. If the Luck-Check is successful: a random one of his parameters in increases by a Rank. This Noble Phantasm can be deactivated but cannot be activated again afterwards for twenty four hours.
Metamorphoseon libri XI: Books of Transformations
Rank: A+; Anti-Self; Range: 0; targets: 1 person
Transforms the user into a random animal and gives the user knowledge on the way to return into his original form, which is just as random but usually involves multiple steps.
Bill of Rights: An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown
Rank: C; Anti-Noble Phantasm; Range: 15; Targets: 1 Noble Phantasm
Passively negates the effects of Charisma against the owner. When another Noble Phantasm is activated, this Noble Phantasm takes its own rank as well as the Luck of everyone who is against the activation of the other Noble Phantasm and compares it to the Luck of everyone who is for the activation of that Noble Phantasm together with the rank of the Noble Phantasm in question. Out of those variables it then calculates a new parameter which is used for a Luck-check. If the Luck-Check is successful, the Noble Phantasm gets denied. If not, the Noble Phantasm is increased by two ranks.
Euangelion Ioudas: Gospel of Judas
Rank: D~A; Anti-Unit/Anti-Army/Anti-Divine; Range: 0-30; Targets: 30 people
A book with 30 pages. One can sacrifice a page to achieve a supernatural effect that the user can attribute to "sound" or "holy". One can use multiple pages at the same time to increase the strength of the effect.
Als ich ein kleiner Junge war: Not Everything Seen by Children Should Be Told to Children
Rank: B~EX; Anti-Thaumaturgy; Range: 1-50; Targets: 10 attacks
Can attract and absorb any supernatural attacks that can be launched. The rank of the attacks it can absorb is higher, the lower the minimum age of the people observing the attacks is.
Hōjōki: The Ten Foot Square Hut
Rank: E~EX; Barrier; Range:1-5; Targets: 10 people
