A/N: Hey peeps, I'm back, with a new chapter out. Sorry it took me so long to do this one, it took me a bit to get it right compared to the last one, and I had to rewrite a few things in it because I didn't quite like how it turned out. Also since I forgot it last time, I will put Godou's updated Servant Stat sheet, along with my planned one for Shirou at the end of this chaper. Now for a quick reviewer review, though there wasn't many to be honest but still just enough to do one:
1.) Shirou's Unlimited Blade Works will be more thematic, but I hope to retain the sheer badassery that he typically holds an aura of without really trying to. Its more thematic in its appearance, but will have some badass moments planned in future uses.
2.) Arturia wasn't forgotten, she just had to be confined to her room and bound to her bed by Irisviel's mana constructs to stop her from trying to do anything stupid to hurt her grandbaby. Irisviel might be a rather laidback woman, but rile her up, and she can be an absolute terror when angered.
3.) While Venus will get her just deserts, she will NOT be bound to Shirou, there will be a reason for this in the next chapter I plan to release, which is an interlude chapter set in the future of my fics timeline, to give you all an idea of what will happen in my story. Also, Rin will not become everyone's favorite(read useless) tsundere goddess, but there is a plan in the works for just where Venus' lost power will go, courtesy of a certain trolling old bloodsucker and dimensional hopping vampire's pranks.
And now for the disclaimer:
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own 'Campione!', 'FATE, or any other series referenced in this fic, as all are the respective properties of their respective authors, creators, publishers, and owners. This fic is an AU of Marcus Galen Sands' fic 'God Slaying Blade Works', with an emphasis on 'WHAT IF', using the 'Harem Ending' route of Nua Realta, a meshing of canon lore where it makes sense, references to other fics credited as used to the best of my abilities, and my own original ideas thrown into the mix. This is a FREE, FANFIC of a FANFIC, as in an UNPAID FAN-MADE FICTION of a FAN-MADE FICTION that I wrote for absolutely no monetary gain whatsoever. So if you paid to read this then you got ripped off, and if you do not like it then you do not have to read it. Nobody is making you.
And now onto the story...
Story Start:
God Slaying Blade Works: The King of Wrought Iron
Twenty-seventh Blade: Blade's Fall, Sword's Rise, and Powers Restored
Unknown Location
Venus P.O.V.
After leaving my rather fun challenge for my own personal amusement, I decided to enjoy my toy for one last little romp before sending him to finally be broken for good in battle. Straddling his very large girth, I then proceed to begin milking his rather massive family jewels fully intent to drain him dry this time. Since he was going to die one way or another after tonight's battle, I figured I may as well let him enjoy this last night of pleasure.
Bouncing up and down his arm-sized shaft as I begin releasing a particular authority of mine in exchange for another, I have him seed my womb this time, only this time I gave him the privilege of which not even my husband or countless other lovers had done in the past. The pleasure this time around was something unbelievable this time, and his monolithic twin orbs of masculine essence fully shrunk down to a more normal size for him, completely empty as his girth actually swelled to thrice his size in response to undoing the Authority which prevented him from releasing. Screaming as I felt it bloating my womb and just barely prevented from pouring out, the sheer thickness of his seed had actually made me nearly lose control of the authority which let me keep him under my sway as I felt it take root…
Grinning lecherously at the reactions I felt within my divine womb being seeded for the last time by my pet Devil King, I had my toy finally rest after having him spend the past 12 hours forced to build up all that delicious seed within him whilst unable to release it. The sheer heat of this Devil Kings hot, thick, and massive release was like molten metal in my womb as it settled and found its mark. If this Devil King was going to die for my entertainment, I might as well allow him this one last pleasure. After all, what greater pleasure is there than having impregnated the Goddess of Love, herself as a man's final act before dying in battle?
...little did Venus know, though she did drain him completely dry and the attempt did cause her to nearly lose control, but it was not the reaction she had intended that she had achieved...For even though she regained control, for a split instant, Emiya Shirou's eyes shone with a light from within...a light showing an intent to retaliate in defiance…
...and while she meant to spite him by forcing him to father a child with her, what she did would inadvertently spell her doom, as what that split second of control allowed the captive King of Wrought Iron to place within the unsuspecting Goddess of Love's womb was not a child as she had planned...but a rather ironic form of vengeful retribution for the sex-obsessed goddess...
Tokyo Station Bridge
Third-person P.O.V.
After [Venus] revealed her intent to have Shirou battle for her personal entertainment, the Committee, along with Luo Hao, Kusanagi Godou, the Kurogane siblings, Kiritsugu, as well as both Irisviel and Illyasviel waited for the arranged time at the predetermined location. Even though they sent a request, John Pluto Smith could not come, due to issues within his own domain to take care of, but received an apology from him at least. The Committee had already evacuated the surrounding area through the assistance of Kiritsugu, Irisviel, and Illya using a wide-area bounded field to encourage the people in the area to go elsewhere via hypnosis that the Committee helped set up on a large scale by their instructions.
Herakles and Illya had already told them the identity of this divinity was the Goddess of Love, [Aphrodite], otherwise known as [Venus] to the Ancient Roman Empire. However, even with this information, they still couldn't quite get all the information necessary for Godou to be able to use the [Golden Sword] on the Goddess of Love. The plan was for Yuri to use her [spirit vision] to gain the knowledge from the memories of the void, therefore gaining all the knowledge necessary for him to use it. While she did this, Aya and Reki would protect her and give her the chance to do so, Godou and Luo Hao would battle Shirou and keep him busy, with Illya supporting Herakles wherever the two were needed. As for Kiritsugu, he would use his skill set and training as the Magus Killer to lend support from the shadows, as befits his background as a former assassin of rogue magi and dead apostles.
They had made sure to set up about two hours before sunset, that way they could get ready while also be able to keep everything mostly under the radar from the mundane masses. After the bounded field was finished being set up, Irisviel wen back to the Emiya manor to keep an eye on the girls there. Arturia had to literally be confined to her room to keep her from trying anything in her present condition, while [Futsunushi] was inconsolably switching between raging at [Venus] for her transgression against a fellow sword's pride and grief over the possible loss of her one and only soul mate.
As the clock started to approach the appointed time, everybody was on edge. Nobody knew what to expect or how this would end. When the sun had finally approached the twilight of dusk, that was when [Venus] and Shirou finally appeared, though it was the sight of the Goddess of Love that caused more tension than what she had the King of Wrought Iron dressed up in. Shirou was wearing a purple tunic along with his white mantle, though it would seem that [Venus] chose to leave his [Shroud of Martin], but had it covered up with whatever divine authority she used to make it match the rest of his attire's color. He was wearing a pair of purple pants, and his usual black combat boots was replaced with a pair of white boots.
However, [Venus] was wearing her usual white and purple loose-fitting dress and had her black and gold jewelry as accessories...but her stomach was bloated and she had placed what seemed to be some kind of racy thong which seemed to keep whatever caused her stomach to remain bloated within her. It didn't take anyone long to figure out what she had done. She was essentially showing off how she had essentially forced Shirou to impregnate her by keeping his seed within her womb. That caused a great deal of anger to shoot through those who knew Shirou personally, and through Ilya, Oda, Herakles, Reki, and Kiritsugu more so than the rest, as they knew just what she was doing then. She had sent him to die after trying to have him impregnate her. Given her original incarnation they managed to gleam from the knowledge that they had, it caused them a great deal of anger.
After all, her original incarnation of [Ishtar] was a Goddess of Fertility who specialized in stealing the powers of others by essentially pulling something similar to this just now. In some references, she did something like this in an attempt to sway [Gilgamesh], only to throw a tantrum when her attempt to sway him was rebuffed. Not waiting for much else more prompting, [Venus] then made her announcement…
"Now that were are all here, I say it is time for the entertainment to start, my little toy. Fight, fight until you break."
...then Shirou stepped forward, tracing a sword into existence that suddenly made both Illya and Kiritsugu immediately begin to panic at the sight of it. They both KNEW that sword, yet at the same time they didn't know it. It looked exactly like Arturia's [Excalibur], but it was twisted, tainted, and corrupted by evil; Glory had been twisted into War, Hope inverted into Power, and Salvation warped into Destruction. Stepping forward to answer her command, Shirou proceeded to start unleashing the dark and corrupted mana from the tainted holy sword that had been twisted from its original form…
"EVERYBODY MOVE NOW!" "GET YOUR ASSES OUT OF THE WAY RIGHT NOW!"
Illya and Kiritsugu's sudden panicked shouts got everybody to move exactly as Shirou brought down that abomination of a sword's path of absolute devastation from its downward swing in a single linear direction. Just barely did everybody manage to get out of the way as the tainted mana released by its swing passed them by. It was the evil counterpart to the King of Knight's Sword of Promised Victory; it was…
"...[Excalibur Morgan]..."
After the sword had unleashed its power, it had broken up into a shower of the very same tainted scrap from whence it mocked the blade it had been twisted from, before those fragments dissolved into motes of mana back into the air. The fact that he even used THAT thing was enough to prove he wasn't fully in control of himself in the slightest. After that blast of power, there was a major cloud of dust thrown up into the air, and when they tried to find her again, they saw that [Venus] was no longer there; she went and hid while Shirou fought under her thrall. She had apparently been smart enough to use that distraction to hide herself, thereby making Yuri's attempts to carry out her part of the plan that much more difficult. The Committee agents decided to get back as far as they could from the battleground this was turning into, while the remaining individuals who could at least fight against the enthralled King of Wrought Iron tried to carry out the plan they came up with, while the battle was being watched from the distance by several individuals…
[Athena] out of desire to ensure Kusanagi Godou didn't die ant anyone's hands but hers; The Traveler watching in curiosity of the battle and his vested interest to see just what power this God-slayer had that drew his attention so, and how best to steal it for himself; [Lancelot] and Lady Guinevere, however, were most shocked by the display of that sword they just witnessed. While her protector could not fully manifest without the curse of madness driving [Lancelot] insane, the Deity of Steel was able to manifest in a manner with Guinevere's magic allowing the knight to exist halfway between the realm of a god's myth and the mortal plane, yet even 'He' gawked at the sight in incredulous disbelief…
Guinevere P.O.V.
"Beloved Child, is this thine power thee mentioned Sir Shirou possessed before?! That sword...what is such a blatant desecration of our King's blade even EXISTING for?!" [Lancelot]'s outrage was understandable, given the twisted nature of that abomination. However, it was Guinevere's rather stunned response that made her protector pause…
"...Sir Knight...mayhaps it is because of [Venus]' manipulations of Sir Shirou that the Sword of Divine Salvation was twisted in such a manner...after all, the [Excalibur] that Guinevere saw Sir Shirou use against [Mordred] was not that THING, but the genuine one…."
"...He is most certainly powerful for a mortal...even more so than I initially thought...but this still does not convince me of what you said before about him having steel within him..."
"Take a closer look and see, Sir Knight..."
Taking a moment to humor the request, Sir Knight suddenly recoiled at the sight of Sir Shirou's core, much in a similar manner to myself in both reaction and in disbelief of the sight… "WHA-what is THIS?! How does a mortal have such steel-wait...this is not an essence of [steel], but something else in its entirety…something far, FAR older than even [steel]..."
This got my attention. Sir Knight recognized what this is? "Do tell Guinevere, Sir Knight: What is this bizarre power within Sir Shirou that makes up his core, if not the essence of a God of Steel itself?"
"Beloved Child...Sir Shirou is not [steel]...Sir Shirou is[sword]..."
My mind froze at the implications of that statement...if Sir Shirou was not [steel], but instead was [sword], then that meant-!
"...a True Child of Steel..."
Sir Knight didn't even respond from how shocked my protector was at the discovery. After all, there was only one Deity in all of existence who had a core bearing that essence...which means that Sir Shirou truly was HIS descendant and heir...oh boy...[Venus] was dead, in more ways than one for this transgression this time...she just couldn't keep it in her pants for the one time she really should have...I almost felt sorry for her, and what I knew was coming from this one...keyword here being 'almost'...
Third-person P.O.V.
After Shirou unleashed that initial attack, a huge cloud of dust and smoke were stirred up, yet no matter what, the cloud never dissipated for very long, if at all. The reason for that was due to a minor Noble Phantasm he used called the [Fog of War], the weapon of a nameless avenger whose family was slaughtered by soldiers due to a mistake on their part, and sought vengeance upon them. He did help enough people to make it into the Throne of Heroes, but he also killed a lot of innocent people in pursuit of his blind fury. This weapon essentially inflicts a curse upon the area it is stabbed into, disrupting all perceptions and making it difficult to differentiate between friend or foe, even making it fairly easy to cause friendly fire, even making both mystical or mundane sensory abilities to be disrupted.
After unleashing that particular cursed weapon, Shirou began to summon forth his undead servitors and used it in conjunction with the [Ruler Regalia]. Sending them out, they further added to the chaos of the battle. Luo Hao was essentially lashing out at any sense of danger she felt instinctively, while she was about to strike a certain shadowy figure within the smoke around here that refused to part and obscured her vision and senses, she made out the figure of someone, and was about to strike, but froze when she heard a certain teenage God-slayer's voice…
"Eh, Nee-san, what are you doing?"
"Little brother? What are you-?!"
Luo Hao's instinct were the only thing that saved her in that moment. She moved before her mind had the chance to process it, and she lashed out in retaliation, shattering an undead soldier in an armored form that was demolished along with its body. She understood instantly this was no ordinary smoke cloud. It seemed to be some kind of magic that obscured friend from foe, making it next to impossible to not hit ones own allies...truly a dangerous situation to be in right now… After slaying that undead soldier, she had more showing up, and began to clear them out as they got close enough for her to see them through the smoke. Calling upon her Authority of the [Defending Godsword] after another attempted to slash at her, she began to capture them and used its power to drain the undead servitors to regain her strength.
As she started crushing them with her bare hands and phantasmal blade, one got rather close and she countered it by shattering its weapon with her martial strength in hand-to-hand combat...only to suddenly get sent flying back almost fifty meters by the explosion that created, losing her grip on her Authority, wiping out the undead gathered around her as their weapons detonated in a chained explosions, and dazing her in the process for a few moments...
Elsewhere, Godou was dealing with his own mess of undead, and not having an easy time with them. His sword training with Shirou helped, as did the spear training he got along with his gift during the Feast of Kings, and his loaned weapon in the form of a spear from his sworn sister, Luo Hao's personal collection was definitely helping out right now, though it could be better. He was simply swatting them away like flies with how he batted them aside using the flat of the rather long spear blade, almost like a cricket bat how he sent them flying after getting too close. He was trying to figure out what he knew of Shirou's magic to figure out how he was creating this annoying smokescreen of his, before it clicked: Shirou's magic was making weapons, which meant it must be one that makes the conditions of battlefields worse...but now that he knew what to look for, how would he be able to go about dealing with it in this moment…
While the Devil Kings were battling it out, Reki, Ayamatsu, Erica, and Liliana were watching Yuri's back, trying to keep the enemies off of her while she tried to relocate [Venus] for her part of the battle strategy. It was most certainly easier said than done, given how the Goddess of Love had hidden herself, only to reappear then disappear again, therefore rendering her attempts fruitless. Reki and Aya were blasting away with their firearms, whilst trying to think of a plan for once they ran out of means to fend off the undead servants of Shirou's [Lord of the Dead] Authority being bolstered by his [Ruler Regalia]. They were burning through their stockpile of explosives, enchanted munitions, and stamina on top of that.
Liliana and Erica were wearing themselves out just trying to cut down any of the servitors coming too close to Yuri. While they were holding out for now, it was only a matter of time before something went wrong and they possibly paid the price for it. It was at that moment an explosion suddenly rang out from within the smoke causing the group to suddenly feel a sense of dread when Reki shot an armored undead's weapon...which then instantly reacted by exploding upon the impact with the armor-piercing .45mm caliber round…
"Be careful everyone! Their weapons are exploding on contact!" Yuri shouted as her instinct as a hime-miko discerned what happened, causing a bit of a cold chill of dread to run down their spines at that. They were made aware that Shirou had the ability to produce powerful weapons by bringing out their full potential, but at the cost of their lifespan and their destruction after a single use, a so called 'Broken Phantasm', but the fact he was using them now...they needed to deal with the source of whatever was causing this smokescreen and ruining their ability to detect their surroundings with any bit of useful clarity, and deal with it, NOW, before one of them gets killed by the damned blasts…
While everyone else was working on their ends of the plan, Illya was with Herakles, the two of them working on trying to find Shirou, or failing that, draw [Venus] out of hiding. A sudden sounds of explosions however drew their attention, as a figure suddenly came flying at them and hitting the tree they both stopped by to gt their bearings, and saw it was none other than the Empress of the Martial Realm, her clothes singed as she suffered a few burns and some serious lacerations from metal shrapnel tearing through her arms and shredding the wounds open as she defended herself from the blast. Illya and Herakles made to her as quickly as they could while Illya used some healing magecraft to patch up her wounds real quick, right as some more undead appeared.
"...Miss Einzbern...that ability of King Emiya's to produce those exploding weapons of his is most certainly annoying to deal with in the best of situations...in these conditions, even if he was being controlled, is simply and cruelly too brutal, even for him..."
"He's not fully in control of his actions, Luo Cuillion. Remember, he may have thought of using such a strategy before, but decided against it, as he deemed it too cruel to use. He has no such moral restrictions now, especially when he isn't the one deciding whether to use it or not."
Illya patched Luo Hao's wounds enough for her to deal with the rest on her own as she fought. While Herakles kept watch, he sniped a few undead that tried to approach, taking them out by detonating their Broken Phantasms prematurely with a single arrow to each grouping, clearing them out before they could even get close enough to detonate the weapons themselves. As for her Eminence, she merely nodded in response as she understood without him even needing to say it. After all, King Emiya wasn't the one deciding what to use right now, it was the heretic goddess who took control over him.
"I think that Shirou's using a noble phantasm to create these conditions. We just need to find it and destroy it, wherever it is. Look for any weapon stabbed into the ground when you go. Any that gives off an obvious curse or magic that makes it hard to focus on it specifically. That's most likely the one you need to smash to clear this all up." Illya's last words of advice to the Chinese Devil King was returned with a nod of acknowledgment at her reasoning. She wouldn't normally take such words from anyone, but considering it was her knowledge of Shirou's magic she was relying on right now, she decided to make an exception for this situation.
As they were all battling an uphill battle, Kiritsugu was not idly sitting around. He was moving around while constantly marking certain parts of the area in preparation for his next few moves in contribution to the plan. While the Emiya Family magecraft wasn't exactly considered very useful in combat, the former Magus Killer had developed several ways around this particular weakness. He had taken to asking the Committee's agents for the materials and labor to help set this up while he put the finishing touches on it himself in the middle of battle. He was marking the area in particular while sneaking around with his rather clever and sly usage of [Time Alter: Stagnate] at just the right timing in this situation whenever anything got too close to him, whether they be friend or foe.
The purpose for this was to prepare for a potential boost to his abilities over the entire area while trying to use [Rulebreaker] on Shirou. The only tricky part for him will be how to get close enough to his son without him spotting the dagger and dismissing it on the spot. If they fail in this, then the only other way would be for Godou or Luo Hao to slay [Venus]. Normally, this plan of his would not work under normal conditions. But normal conditions would be in their old world, where the Age of Gods had long since come and gone, magic was a dying art and a limited resource, and the influence of [Gaia] crushed thaumaturgy from existence. Under these circumstances, what he was doing was tantamount to a high thaumaturgy on quite the scale. He only hoped his plan worked before something went wrong. As he placed the last marking for his preparations, he noticed something sticking out of the ground and realized what it was at a glance: a noble phantasm.
Quickly grabbing a small demolition charge from his belt and sticking it to the ground around the blade, he sneaks away, carefully preparing to make his way back to Reki for this next part of the plan. He put just large enough an explosive to destroy it while leaving only a small hole in the spot the blade was stuck in. After a few minutes of sneaking around he was finally ready, before an explosion occurred and sent a figure flying right past him overhead. Recognizing the dress being worn by said figure, he carefully made his way to the standing form of Luo Hao, and just catches the tail end of their conversation, deciding to make his presence finally known to them.
"Good thing I found it then." The three turned right to him in a defensive stance, before relaxing slightly when they saw who it was. Kiritsugu then continued without giving them time to question him about where he's been the whole time. "I found a Noble Phantasm stuck in the ground just a few minutes ago while doing my part, and place a small explosive charge right by it. Herakles, I need you to take me to Reki, as he knows the next part of the plan we came up with for this fight." The Son of Zeus nodded, before picking both Illya and Kiritsugu up to carry them. "Empress Luo Hao, if this doesn't work, then I need either you or Kusanagi-san to kill [Venus] afterwards as soon as you can. There's no telling what she might make him do if we don't pull this off."
Afterwards, Herakles carried the two of them right to where the Dragoon siblings were fighting off a few walking undead IEDs. Kiritsugu fired off a couple of shots from an A.D. Desert Eagle he pulled from his waist holster, clearing out the group that tried to sneak up on them from behind after circling around. Turning to see what caused the explosion, Reki perked up when he saw who it was who just saved their bacon.
"Glad to see you finally finished your end Kiri."
"Pop the flare Reki. Time to clear the field of this smoke."
Reki grinned from his little collaboration with the former Magus Killer as Kiritsugu pulled a detonator out, flicking open the safety before pressing the switch, detonating the small explosive and destroying the [Fog of War], resulting in its influence being erased, and causing any attempt to clear up visibility or properly communicate to cease being hindered. As he did this, the Phantom Bullet of Black Steel did just as the elder Emiya asked, firing a signal flare to the Dragoons in the vicinity to unleash the magic bullets he and Kiritsugu handed out to them earlier. Firing off the shots, the Emiya Family's Innate Time Control Reality Marble was cast over a wide area, slowing down the time of the enemies caught within it, while leaving everybody else outside its confines perfectly fine.
The shots that were fired were two-fold: the first shot cleared away the smoke, clearing the line of sight, visibility, and allowing communications to get back up, while the second activated the massive bounded field surrounding the immediate vicinity of the battleground. It was here that the sight of Shirou was made, being restricted in his movements as a result of the bounded field slowing his time down and messing with his ability to properly perceive the flow of time. While [Venus] was still hiding, by doing this, for now, they had the chance they've been looking for. Kiritsugu then bolted to the side while Reki began to fire bullets at Shirou, knowing it wouldn't do much, but needing to distract the enthralled Devil King while the Time-bending effects were still hindering him.
Luo Hao and Godou both realize what was going on and rushed Shirou from their respective places, getting his attention. Reki's covering fire helped keep Shirou from making any sudden attempts to attack, while Luo Hao charged from his left, and Godou from his right. When Kiritsugu set up this Time-bending bounded field, he did so while taking the time to calibrate it so only those within its confines during its initial activation would be affected by the temporal warping effect of ones senses and perception. While Shirou's mind is seeing what is happening, his body's ability to properly react in time has been somewhat hindered by its inability to properly perceive the coming attack due to the time lag caused by the Bounded Field. However, its only a temporary effect at best; Shirou's rather good usage of the [Fifth Magic: Magic Blue] renders it only a short-lived solution, but it gives enough of a chance to actually use the measure he gave them if they time it right…
From behind him, Kiritsugu approached from his blind spot, hoping to catch him off guard, while Luo Hao and Godou tried to attack him in his hindered state. But before they could get close enough…
"Thou clad in madness and rage, unleash thine wrath upon thine foes, to arms!"
And instantly Shirou's armor switched out with a different one. His [Ruler Regalia] and [Lord of the Dead] Authorities were traded for a different one, as the strength of numbers was replaced with the power of destructive fury. Kiritsugu's eyes went wide in shocked realization just from what this new armor was meant to embody: the [Berserker Regalia]. His form twisted, as a three meter steel giant suddenly grew where his son once stood, and with its appearance, the effects of the bounded field were neutralized through sheer brute force and strength alone, never mind through the innate magic resistance of the [Berserker] class.
Shirou's form was still covered in a similar mantle to that of the [Ruler Regalia] or [Caster Regalia], but it was a tattered clothe more akin to a loincloth on this massive form as it was hung around his waist. His body was essentially made of iron and steel plates, covering his six arms, three faces, and possessing the strength to make even Herakles at his best feel inferior in comparison, and was oozing red-hot metal through several cracks in his form with enough molten heat to make a blacksmith's forge turn green in jealousy. The tattered and blood-red loincloth was just barely protecting his modesty, only just preventing his goods from being unveiled to the world with any wrong moves with how deceptively frail it looked along with the battle skirt it had around his hips.
He had a set of six very large gauntlets and a matching pair of greaves, with his three faces in the from of a trio of masks that were the images of a god, a demon, and a human's faces, each with a permanent scowl of perpetual rage engraved onto their faces, and each one was staring right at the three of them independently as they came at him...and in that moment, all three of them were simultaneously thinking something along the lines of 'oh shit', right as Shirou in the [Bererker Regalia] performed a two-handed grab on them with two of the arms each from this form while all three of them were in mid-run, right before slamming them into the wall across the bridge they started their battle from after throwing them right into it full-force.
Luo Hao and Godou were mostly unhurt, thanks to their physiology as Devil Kings, but Kiritsugu got the brunt of the force right into his back and arms, leaving the bones severely broken and rendering him unable to continue the fight. The only saving grace that kept him from being killed outright were the enchantments of his outfit passively reinforcing his body to make him durable enough to survive the blow and accelerating his healing by granting a minor regenerative effect. Either way, his gambit failed, as the [Rulebreaker] he had in his hand was shattered before he had the chance to even use it, its fragments scattering into motes of its component prana. As Luo Hao and Godou got to their feet, they both saw the means to break Shirou's control dissipate and knew what that meant: one of them would have to kill [Venus], or in the worst case scenario, kill Shirou. It was a bitter pill to swallow, but they weren't willing to give up yet…
"That dagger...I see...so that's what you were planning to do...Too bad it failed." The Goddess of Love made herself known as she recognized that very dagger. How could she not, after all, it was used by the Witch of Betrayal whom she had once bewitched for her own amusement once so long ago, though she could have taken the whole thing a lot better than she did in her opinion. Either way, their plan was foiled.
Luo Hao used her Authority, [Revitalization], to try and heal Kiritsugu's wounds enough to get away on his own to safety, as she could not move him right now without leaving her back open to her opponent, and he was still keeping the bounded field up in his state, so she could not risk moving him without interrupting his spell from the pain he was in. She just barely finished before the enthralled King of Wrought Iron made his next move.
As Shirou began to charge them with the [Berserker Regalia] donned, Herakles met him to slow him down, as even he knew this would not be easy. He was a [Berserker] himself, so he knew how strong they had to be to qualify for that class, and Shirou matched him as a human specializing in self-reinforcement, and that was before becoming a Campione. Now with the backing of the [Berserker Regalia], his already impressive physical ability was enhanced to the point that not even Herakles' infamous strength could hold him for too long. However, that was only if it was on his own; luckily one of the other combatants decided to lend him a hand in the form of two giant statues to help restrain the enthralled Devil King…
"A great force is exerted! Great force vanquishes small evil!/The Root of my power of Vajra, now is the time of great might that can tear apart heaven and earth!"
In response to her words, Luo Hao used the principle Authority she gained to become a Devil King to begin with to support Herakles in restraining Shirou, as Godou proceeded to use another authority of his own to match his controlled counterpart, but not in terms of strength, but in versatility. Considering how he was in a state where he wasn't exactly able to think very well, as well as from his understanding of just WHY Shirou doesn't normally like this particular authority, he takes a gamble. He could tell something was off with Shirou's reaction time, even before the bounded field was up, so he felt this was needed to confirm his suspicions. Just like in his battle against [Apollo], Godou summoned the most versatile authority currently at his disposal for his plan…
"[Ama no Murakumo]!" Heeding his call, the god-sword answered his call to arms. Using it in conjunction with his other planned authority, Godou uses the spell words to combine the two and entrusts the Grass-cutting sword of [Susanoo] to do the rest. Calling forth the [Boar], [Ama no Murakumo] figures out his King's plan and follows suit by encasing the Divine Beast in a bladed shell of steel and transformed its tusks into a pair of massive swords in order to trample Shirou out of the [Berserker Regalia]. Sensing the danger, both the Son of Zeus and the Empress of the Martial Realm pull back as the two statues of Luo Hao's authority holds him down for a few more seconds before being thrown off, but it was long enough for the transformed [Avatar of Destruction] to trample upon the bridge, with Shirou's [Berserker Regalia] right beneath its charge.
'I knew it...Emiya-san's hesitating, even before he fell under the effects of Mr. Emiya's spell...[Venus] doesn't have full control over him...he's fighting her even now...' The King of Ruin couldn't help but realize after his gambit worked better than even he expected it to, his suspicions becoming more than mere speculation and hunches at this point with how much merit they had by this latest clash.
While under normal conditions Shirou would have activated [Enkidu] to ensnare the [Boar], with the [Berserker Regalia], he traded his ability to think rationally for madness-enhanced strength, meaning even if he could use the authority in time, his mind would not be able to do so, nor could he with the restrictions of the armor he was wearing at that moment. And that was without his perceptions being hindered by the time-bending field his father cast. When the transformed [Boar] finished its duty, Godou dismissed it, and Shirou stood back up, significantly damaged, but not impaired too badly for the battle to continue unimpeded. Even so, the King of Ruin achieved his objective: by destroying the [Berserker Regalia], Godou essentially caused the [Regalia of Champions] authority to become lost for the rest of the fight. It was the one weakness of this particular armor of its authority that Shirou mentioned in his notes of his capabilities. Should this armor be destroyed, then the whole authority becomes unusable for a whole three days, regardless of whether or not he had other armors to spare.
When Shirou got up, his eyes were still obviously glazed over, but still had that oddly focused look, like he was being spacey, just like it was described. Illya saw it and recognized it for what it was in that moment. Shirou was being controlled by [Venus], but she had somehow trapped him in a perpetual state of his 'battle mode' while causing his body to follow solely her orders. Shirou then traced a certain spear that made everyone's hair stand on end in instinctive fear: it was blood red, with an odd vein-like series of ridges that made it look organic, and was absolutely dripping with blood lust...it was the very same weapon he was once on the receiving end of not long before becoming a Campione: [Gae Bolg], the Barbed Spear which Pierces with Death…
The second Shirou pulled that spear out he turned and ran towards Luo Hao at high speeds, intent to use it on her. While Luo Hao did not know what that weapon was, her instincts screamed at her to get the hell out of the way, to move out of its path, as Shirou got into a stance almost like a hound, ready to pounce upon its prey at a moments notice, wound up like a spring right before he jumped. Luo Hao's body reacted before her mind ever had the chance to process the danger by instantly using her [Shield of the Black Tortoise] to defend against it right as Shirou invoked its name…
"...[Gae...Bolg]!"
Luo Hao only just barely avoided getting speared through the heart by just deflecting the cursed spear away, not enough to prevent injury, but just enough to prevent being fatally wounded. She was actually rather shocked just how easily that spear pierced through her shield, or even the fact her body recognized it as enough of a threat for her to resort to it. Her feelings on the matter were mixed. On the one hand, the fact she even used it at all was a major sting to her pride. But on the other hand, the fact she was even forced to use it to block the attack at all, even instinctively just to deflect the blow enough to avoid being killed, showed just how strong a weapon this was. She recalled him mentioning spears that were cursed to always pierce their target's hearts, but this just drove the point home for her just how dangerous that spear was, especially since the wound did not seem to heal until he was forced to dismiss the weapon by her sworn brother Godou's next attack.
After countering the blow, Godou jumped in to lend Luo Hao a hand with [Ama no Murakumo] swinging the sword to clash when a shock went through him with a rather strange occurrence right before his eyes: [Ama no Murakumo] clashed with a second [Ama no Murakumo] in Shirou's hands, angering the subordinate deity wielded by Godou, and flat out demanding to shatter that insulting mockery to itself. After Shirou told him in the past he could copy the sword, but he wouldn't as it would be an inferior copy in no way equal to the genuine sword in Godou's possession, he dropped the topic at the time. However, with the counterfeit divine sword before him, the King of Ruin understood what Shirou meant by 'inferior': the copied sword in Shirou's hands had neither the genuine article's pride, nor its soul.
After clashing a few minutes at ludicrously high speed, the imitation Grass-cutting Tsurugi is Shirou's hands finally shattered, with the fragments causing Shirou to actually flinch somewhat in spite of his supposed lack of self-awareness. That twitch would have normally gone unnoticed, but Godou saw it, however briefly, and realized what it meant: Shirou truly wasn't completely under [Venus]' sway and was fighting back somewhere inside there. Now, he just needed some way to force an opening for Shirou to break free of the-
"I think this has been going on for long enough. Stop holding back, my pet and go all out! Use your full power and fight until you break, and keep fighting!"
To say that the collective thought of everybody there was somewhere along the lines of 'oh shit' was an absolute understatement to the severity of that one command's implications, even for the more polite company among those gathered. If Shirou stopped holding back, then they were in trouble…
However, Godou noticed something off about Shirou's reaction for the first time the entire battle: His eyes shone with a light of life for the first time after receiving an order from the Goddess of Love. He had a suspicion what that meant, but right now he became wary as Shirou simply walked forward after having been forcibly separated after their last exchange by about twenty meters from the force of their clashes…
Within the Unlimited Blade Works
To say that the scene was a rather sad one was something only one who had not heard what was said would speak of. In the time he had, [Xiphos]' shade revealed everything to Shirou as his body slowly but surely began cracking more and more. His entire being was now but one big crack, just one good tap away from shattering completely. When [Venus] ordered Shirou to go all-out, they both knew it was time…
"So, Blade of Humanity...now that you know the whole truth of the matter, do you intend to keep moving forward with the warranted rage you feel...or will you move forward as you always have..."
"You ought to know full well what I intend to do, Elder Sword…"
"Even though it's the hollow, empty life of a machine...simply to fulfill a flawed ideal which can never truly be achieved, you would still choose to do so?"
"It may be flawed, but that doesn't make it any less beautiful to pursue...besides, isn't it the same with you, pursuing a similarly impossible fool's dream?" Shirou said as he walked up to the hill, as iron and steel, ash and flames swirled in the area around him, walking up to the very Hill of Swords within his soul, to the very same sword he saw there before, the statues standing in reverence around the same statue of an Asura where this sword was stabbed in its place. His hands grabbed it as the flames and ash began to swirl around his grip, right as he was about to pull it out…
"I see...very well...I shall entrust you with 'me' then...take care of yourself...Emiya Shirou, Blade of Humanity and Last Hero of Mankind..."
The elder sword's words were with his approval, as he was going to break soon, and the newer blade was going to have to pick up the slack all on his own. The two knew what the other was thinking without needing to utter so much as a single word; an unspoken conversation playing out between them simply through eye contact alone. In a wordless nod, the primordial existence finally shattered, as the Child of Steel to inherit his will bid him farewell for a job well done as he pulled the sword from the hill…
"...rest well, [Basilleus], old Sword of the World. You've long since earned it..."
Scene Change
Emiya Manor
The Emiya residence was in utter chaos. The sword Shirou last forged was somehow emitting a bizarre energy similar to Shirou's Reality Marble from the cracks forming along its surface. But before they could get an idea of just why it seemingly was breaking without any rhyme or reason, is suddenly exploded in a flash of light and vanished, without even a trace of the blade left in its wake...causing a panic as to where it went or what happened to it…
Scene Change-Tokyo Station Bridge
Third-Person P.O.V.
As he started walking forward, Shirou began chanting words that were all too recognizable to some of those in the know about just what those words were…
"I am the Bone of my Sword"
He spoke barely above a whisper, yet his voice rang out throughout the world itself unimpeded and clear as day. His body began to flare up as his magical energy began to coalesce around him in such a thick amount and his body began to light up in a circuit pattern of burning orange, originating from the sword pattern on his right arm…
"Iron is my Blood and Glass is my Heart"
As he chanted this verse, Illya began to panic, had Herakles grab Yuri, and drag her to Godou to try and pass the knowledge of [Venus] to Godou right then and there the second she got the information she needed to give him. She realized what was going to happen next before the others did...
"My Hands have created Infinite Blades"
As Shirou said this verse, the magical energy surrounding him changed, going from a cold, heat-less blue flame, to a raging orange flare in a vortex of iron and flames, of ash and steel, centered around him with a ludicrous amount of magical energy coalescing around his body...
"Forged from Heaven's Feel, Tempered through Hell's Flames"
When Shirou said this verse, the flames began to form a circle around the whole area, encompassing Godou, Luo Hao, Illya, Herakles, Yuri, Erica, Liliana, Reki, Ayamatsu, and even Kiritsugu...everyone involved in this battle was inside the area of this next spell, even [Venus] herself found herself within its confines of this circle...
"Have withstood Eternal Pain to create countless swords,
Broken and Reforged, Shattered and Remade, Yet still I Stand, Nameless and Forgotten"
When he said these words, his eyes showed tears flowing from them from within, as if the pain of the meaning of the words themselves was such that not even while suppressed, could he not express the sheer depth of the pain he felt as he chanted this, as though a great suffering were inflicted upon him enough to make even his inhuman pain tolerance give out…
"For the True Child of Steel decrees atop the Hill of Swords..."
As he uttered this last verse, the flames began to spin rapidly while compressing inwards upon itself with him at their center, as they gathered even more magical energy from his surroundings; the very ground around him cracking, with flames pouring from the cracks as reality itself was warped and reshaped into the image of Shirou's inner world. Phantom blades and weapons forming in the air and ground around him, while the sound of colossal mechanical gears turning begun to ring out in the area as the ground around his feet swirled in a flaming circle of ash, diamond dust, powdered steel, iron sand, and golden shavings…
"[Unlimited Blade Works]"
After he uttered that last verse, the world itself exploded, while Shirou closed his eyes; he didn't need to see to know what was happening, as he was invoking his inner world onto reality itself. When the others opened their eyes after the panic finally settled, they were absolutely shocked by what they saw…
It was a world of iron and steel, of ash and flames...massive gears hung while turning impossibly in a sky of eternal dawn burning a bright orange just like that of an iron forge...around them was a field of smoldering ash, iron sand, powdered steel, golden shavings, and diamond dust...not a single blade of grass grew within this lifeless world of metal and fire, and the ground itself scarred as though from a horrendous battle greater than any other in existence; here and there riddled all around them were weapons stabbed into the ground in a manner reminiscent to graves, nay, to memorials to the great warriors who wielded these weapons...they were swords of all kinds, swords of all makes and types, of all cultures…
Swords of Justice, Swords of Evil, Swords of Villains, Swords of Heroes, Swords of Power, Swords of Strength, Swords of Magic, Swords of Weakness, Swords of Great Warriors, Swords of Ordinary Soldiers, Mundane Swords, Mystical Swords, Divine Swords, Mortal Swords, Cursed Swords, Cleansing Swords, Demonic Swords, Holy Swords, even a few other weapons like spears, axes, and bladed pole-arms scattered here and there; everywhere they looked, it was a world of nothing but arms and armors fitting even loosely the definition of 'sword', indiscriminately embedded into the ground regardless of how famous they were, or how much metaphorical 'weight' the blade in question had in its history...all were equal within this world of infinite weapons of such exquisite make and quality...
...and on a hill at the center of this otherwise lifeless world of steel and flame, was a hill of swords with a series of statues on top, each taking the form of one of the forms of Shirou's Authorities of the [Cursed Martyr] and the [Regalia of Champions]. However there was also a series of weapons stabbed atop the hill to give the otherwise flat plains of infinite weapons some sign of significance over the others here...and all those present saw them and noticed instantly just what they were...the weapons of those nearest and dearest to Shirou himself as a person; the weapons of those who helped shape him into the person he was today…
...a cursed shinai next to an equally cursed memorial katana emanating with the curse of [All the World's Evils]...a stone axe-sword next to a metal one...a pair of bows, one black as pitch and the other made of a bronze-colored metal, next to one quiver filled with spear-sized arrows...a pair of chained daggers like nails and a sword/scythe radiating certain death to any immortals cut with it...a ritual athame dagger next to a ludicrously long katana that was seemingly impossible to use...a pair of throwing knives next to a series of pistols...a couple pairs of swords and a single sheathe, holding one sword and the rest leaning against it...a spear radiating bloodthirst and death...and a series of weapons that lacked the same 'weight' as the rest, but were nonetheless equally of sentimental importance to the owner of this world...
While gazing about this world, [Venus] had a look of absolute ecstasy plastered to her face, and was rejoicing in the thought of her authority stealing this power for herself. [Ishtar]'s authority which allowed her to absorb and pilfer so many other deities authorities was part of the reason she allowed herself to be bloated with his seed as she had been. It allowed her to steal the powers of others, however, that one arrogant child so long ago rebuffed her advances, and she made him suffer for it...but she had unknowingly made a fatal mistake this time.
As she approached Shirou who had yet to move and attempted to drape her form over his, something rather unexpected happened which shocked all present, even [Venus] herself...an arm made out of metal formed from Shirou's right shoulder where the Goddess was approaching him from and proceeded to bitch-slap her, backhanding her back about forty meters from the King of Wrought Iron before said arm returned to within his body, as he said two words to her, but those two words restored hope to his family witnessing this act and made [Venus] realize the extent of her folly as she slowly understood the meaning of the verses of the Aria he used to create this space…
"Get bent."
"GACK!"
"You have NO IDEA just how much I've been waiting to do that to you for what you did to me, [Venus], or should I call you [Aphrodite], or your original identity, [Ishtar]?"
As the goddess in question was shocked by his actions and words, right by Shirou, a sword impaled itself into the ground from the sky above, the very sword that was within his workshop until just now, but the blade, despite being cracked before, had shattered upon impact, but instead of being destroyed, it had then reformed into a more smoother form than it was before. The blade was still the same size and general design, but everything was smoothed out, with one exception: the sword was crisscrossed along the blade by a set of black leather straps, like the ones wrapping the handle, only these weren't just for show or a fashion statement as the pale glowing runes of ancient primordial had alighted upon these straps implied otherwise for their true purpose: they were seals…
As he grabbed the sword and picked it up, in delayed response to his first two words, the seed [Venus] had been greedily holding within her womb suddenly exploded outwards in a blooming of flames and blood in a blossom of iron and steel. Shirou had put a good chunk of his mana into that release she milked out of him, making sure to give her one hell of a surprise when he activated the curse he poured into her womb. In his small moment of regained control, he used [Never Ending Vengeance] to create a time-delayed curse to activate the unique trait of steel and flames he had placed within her womb, causing it to explode outwards the instant he regained control of his body, inflicting retribution upon her for all her victims of her desires and her lust.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUH! WHY?! BUT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO LOVE ME! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!"
The Goddess in question seemed shocked by this unexpected attack from within, screaming in pain, saying he loved her, how he shouldn't have been able to do this, before proceeding to demanding to know how he broke free, what he did, how could he do this to her…
Shirou simply looked at her and said one thing in response to her questions, and before he undid the seals on his sword and swinging it down upon her…
"Love my wrought iron, metallic ass. You wouldn't even know what true love was if it sat in your lap and called you 'mama', you whore of a goddess. You never held dominion over 'love'. You held dominion over lust, chaos, greed, and desire, but never love. And you cannot usurp the love of a True Child of Steel's 'Heart of Glass'..." As he said this, Shirou began to transform in appearance, his body having that same metallic appendage form on his right shoulder, joined by three more, two on each shoulder, having a total of six arms, four made of iron, steel, ash, and flame, and two of flesh and blood. His head also sprouted two additional faces from the back of his head of the same materials as his arms, in the form of a god and a demon's faces. He also seemed to sprout a presence that was unmistakable, and his form gave off an aura that was both warm, kind and gentle, but also cold, cruel, and hard. His form reflected that of the entity from which his chosen path is derived: an Asura...
"Born from Nothingness...Repurposed by the Hands of Men...Shaped in the form of a Sword...Sharpened by the humbly ordinary labors of Mankind...Given purpose by the Will of the World..."
As he spoke each verse, a single strap of the seal undid itself, partially releasing the true power of this blade's sealed power, along with unleashing a portion of Shirou's own self restrain in his full might, unhindered and no longer a burden upon his physical body for the time being, and as Shirou swung his blade down upon [Venus] to finish her off, Shirou called out the name of his new weapon, the Noble Phantasm that is his and his alone, the one he could not use before now, named for the memory of his ancestor, the Will of Steel he inherited, and the title they both bore…
"[Basilleus]: Sword of the World!"
...and [Venus] was cleaved in twine, her powers and divinity permanently stripped from her in that one slash, as even in her next life, she would be reduced to a mere divine ancestor the next time she descended upon the mortal plane of existence, never again to ever regain the full divinity she once held in retribution for her sins, for the sword Shirou had used to finish her off was no mere Noble Phantasm, but the undisputed highest ranked one in his entire arsenal's disposal, ranked even higher than [Gilgamesh]' own treasured Sword of Rupture, [EA] itself. As the True Child of Steel, he had that power, as it was one of the reasons why [Basilleus], or [Xiphos] as many knew him, was the true Strongest Steel: the power to seal the divinity of those who go too far out of line was his power, therefore not even the King of the End would dare cross him or his line out of fear of this very power…
As she laid dying, [Venus] only had one thought going through her mind...how much this God-slayer had apparently refused to break or give in to her...how his strong love for his family which rivaled even [Hestia]'s gave him the strength to resist her as he had...and how she was envious of that love...wishing to experience receiving something like it just once in her eternal existence...right as she faded from the world, returning back to her myth, with her divinity forever sealed as punishment for her transgressions against the last True Child of Steel, before she knew no more, she had but one final thought as oblivion claimed her…
'...ah...he looks rather good in the red and black his attire became from this battle...'
At the start of this fight, Shirou's attire was in her colors, but due to the intensity of the battle itself, the white of his attire was stained red, and the purple was scorched black by the heat caused by both his opponents attacks and his own body heat charring it from within. The holy shroud wrapped around his left arm was returned back to its original red color from the blood staining it, and his shoes had also turned black and were barely holding together from the strain of his battle wearing them out.
After slaying her, Shirou collapsed to his knees, reverting back into his human form from his 'asura mode' along with the reality marble around him fading from existence as the Sword of the World cut even his reality marble apart with its slash just now. As he stood on his knees, kneeling in exhaustion with his new sword to prop him up like a crutch and his wounds bleeding through his ruined attire, Luo Hao, Godou, and the rest walked to check up on him, while Herakles and Reki helped carry Kiritsugu, since he still couldn't walk on his own right now with his back and his ribs still currently fractured, if not broken here and there. But before they could celebrate their victory, yet another danger appeared and sent the weakened group back to the ground.
It was none other than [Sthenos], [Euryale], and [Persephone] but the latter was revived into her full glory. Before they could ask who she was though…
"I am [Pan], formerly known as [Persephone], now freed from my jailer [Hades] accursed seal upon half my true identity, I am now free!"
Shirou instantly recalled her, and knew instantly they were in trouble, especially since when he was under [Venus]'s sway, he had inadvertently got an idea of what was up with those two fallen goddesses at her sides. He noticed the discontent in their actions and their obvious anger and blood lust. How none of them caught on is probably due to them not being as sensitive to such things, but even in his controlled state, he noticed, and [Venus] also knew, she just didn't care to mention it...this was bad...he could tell what those two were planing to do from the knives he saw them both having in their possession at the time, but he was too weakened by that Goddess' damned control to do anything about it and now when he finally could the price of using [Basilleus] rendered him paralyzed by its backlash from the physical exhaustion, on top of the battle he just endured…
"Why don't you kill them now?!"
"Indeed, this is the perfect opportunity!"
Shirou turned his gaze to the restored Divinity before him, trying to get up enough to get her attention, to shout at her to get away, to warn her of what was coming, to do something, anything, but he couldn't move very well from using the Sword of the World on top of his physical exhaustion from [Venus]' enslavement of him. Godou and Luo Hao weren't much better than he was right now. Both were exhausted just as bad as he was, and the rest even more so...Herakles was probably the only other one besides the three of them in any shape to move, but even he couldn't do much to fight while having to look after so many people at once...especially after how [Pan] just unleashed a wave of wind that sent them sprawling onto their asses to the ground and the pressure of which left them too weakened to do anything to resist...if she decided to do as they suggested then-
"...No. There is no need for that. We are leaving. I will grant the aid you requested, then our business will be concluded."
[Pan]'s response was met with a growl of rage from the two, as they had been fully angered by her perceived continuously superior attitude to them this entire time. Within their hearts, the sprouting flowers of betrayal had fully bloomed an ugly blood-red shade and radiated malice and betrayal. They pulled out the knives they created for this moment and they lashed out with the knives, stabbing her in the back and slashing the blades outwards to the sides as they dragged them out in the most painful of ways.
[Pan] screamed in horrific agony as [Sthenos] and [Euryale] proceeded to steal the restored Goddess' divinity to fuel their own, but it was wrong. The two were twisting into ugly, horrific monsters, reminiscent of the myth of them being twisted similar to their sister into ugly monsters for their transgressions. They resembled a pair of giant twin serpents, but with the upper bodies of twisted women, and their hair transformed into snakes themselves, with massive maws that could unhinge and devour men in a single bite...they resembled the stereotypical form of the Gorgon Medusa from myth. While [Sthenos] moved to finish off [Pan], [Euryale] moved to attack the downed God-slayers while they were most vulnerable, however…
*KLANG**FWSHING*
...Shirou, in a final act of defiance, managed to call forth [Arondight] to bolster his physical strength enough for one last counter as [Athena] herself stepped in to defend the Kusanagi heir, much to the surprise of everyone, none more so than said God-slayer in question.
"What do you think you are doing, Mother?!" Shrieked the twisted form of what was once her daughter, [Euryale]. As for [Sthenos], she saw it as an annoyance for even her own mother to get in the way of her and her [Euryale]'s vengeance against their sister, [Medusa]. The added fact that this puppet who was merely [Venus]' plaything was also getting in their way now that he got control back only fueled her wrath. The words of their mother however, caused quite a bit of confusion, before their seething gazes glowered at the reduced form of the one who birthed them…
"Kusanagi Godou is MY prey and mine alone. No one but me is allowed to slay him."
"..."
"..."
"...wow Godou-san...making even a goddess famed as being a maiden fall for you...that's seriously some ridiculous popularity you've got there...color me impressed..."
The roars of rage from the three goddesses in question made him simply smirk wider, despite himself, even when their words were laced with hate and venom enough to surprise him that the [Holy Grail] didn't manifest right then and there in response…
"Watch what you say about me, Devil King of Wrought Iron!"
"I'll kill you for that implications, you mere puppet of a God-slayer!"
"I'll kill you, right after I kill these other God-slayers, for that smart mouth of yours!"
"...you might be a goddess of wisdom, honored [Athena], but when it comes to the matters of your own heart, you are most certainly clueless...I just got one last thing to say to all this: Go Godou-san..." Shirou chuckled tiredly, much to the King of Ruin's blatantly obvious embarrassment, as [Sthenos] lashed at him once more and [Euryale] and [Athena] began to clash in a battle to determine who gets to slay the weakened Devil Kings and their entourages.
Shirou knew he was not coming out of this one alive. He was tired beyond all belief, just barely keeping himself up, even with [Arondight] boosting his physical strength enough to stay upright, but it was a losing battle. That last witty comment he made was all he could do in his situation, but right then and there, just before the twisted daughter of Athena could snap him up in her enlarged maw, an armored and horse-bound rider came charging into the fray, with an all-too familiar lance in hand, running straight into [Sthenos] and knocking her back, right into her sister, [Euryale], in a surprise attack out of nowhere.
"Sir Shirou, this Knight offers 'his' sincerest greetings to you, on behalf of this one's Beloved Child. Allow this knight, [Lancelot], to lend mine charge to thine foe."
"...I take it Lady Guinevere's nearby then...that helps a lot..."
Without further ado, the mounted knight took the battle from there, as Guinevere was preparing the [Holy Grail] to steal the divinity of both the sisters to the Gorgon Queen. As Shirou watched in amazement as this worlds counterpart to Arturia's best friend and most trusted knight battle, [Lancelot] and Guinevere were working to aid him in stopping these two from hurting their former ally and slaying nearly half the God-slayers currently in the world. But as Shirou began to slowly get his bearings back, he noticed something wrong...[Lancelot]'s attacks were not as strong as his initial charge...that worried him a bit…
As he contemplated what was wrong, it dawned on him. In his legend, Sir Lancelot was a man known for his strength, supercharged by the blessings of his adopted mother, Lady Vivian, also known as Nimue, the Lady of the Lake herself...which means that this version of the famed knight was lacking the means to do so on his own, therefore required a charge of some form to be built up in order to do more than a single devastating attack. Not hesitating for an instant, Shirou stood on two shaky legs, wound his arm back, and called out…
"Sir Lancelot!"
[Lancelot] turned in time to hear a quick call of catch, right before he tossed his sword to 'him', the unfading light of the lake, as it made contact with this worlds version of its original wielder and one-time rightful master...and a sudden surge of strength shot through the Knight of the Lake, as power not felt since 'his' heyday in 'his' prime surged throughout 'his' body in that very moment 'his' sword was in 'his' grasp. Even bathing in a thousand lightning strikes from countless thunderstorms combined never came close to the level of strength that 'he' felt from simply holding this one sword in 'his' hands. 'He' never wielded this blade, 'he' never saw it before, it was not part of 'his' lore, but even so, that didn't matter, as for in that moment, the sister sword to [Excalibur] was instantly granting its boon to its perceived original wielder on loan by its current master...and the effects were immediately visible. [Lancelot]'s dulled coloring and tired physic suddenly became far more vibrant, 'his' armor become more colorful, 'his' bearing suddenly became full of strength and vigor not felt even in 'his' prime, and the surge of power that 'he' felt was only that much stronger, since it was an odd connection with 'his' sword that gave these boons to 'him'…
Deciding to shelve the issues for now, the sworn protector of Lady Guinevere proceeded to start slashing even more fiercely than ever before, with such unrelenting vigor that even Shirou was taken aback by how much power this worlds version of Sir Lancelot seemed to gain just from this one act of holding a traced copy of his sword. It was certainly obvious just how much power the God in question had lost, so to receive this boost was probably helping him out a great deal, especially given what he was fighting was basically his natural enemy, albeit a degraded form: a dragon. [Arondight] was a dragon-slaying sword, so its boosts were even greater than normal, but even so, this was a bit much, even in Shirou's book.
Right after [Lancelot] began to counter attack, the weakened goddess he had protected had simply looked at him in confused disbelief as she asked him a simple question that was completely full disbelief, before demanding he take responsibility for this…
"...why...why did you help me...why save me, when I was one of the ones who helped Venus do what she did to you...why not just let me die, after I just had everything taken from me after all this work...why..."
"...because if I did, wouldn't that have made all the work you did pointless? Was all the effort you put in so meaningless, that you'd just throw it all away just like that? I know you helped that bitch do what she did to me, but if you just asked for my help, rather than go about it the way you did, maybe you wouldn't have had all this happened. But even if you were set back, as long as you're not dead, you can still get back up and try again. Besides, my body just moved on its own...and its never wrong to help others..."
[Pan] just looked at him in disbelief of his words...before indignant feminine fury shook through her. Here she was, fully prepared to die, and this young man had the nerve, the audacity to tell her to live, to tell her it wasn't pointless, and that she shouldn't give up so easily after having been stripped of everything so soon after regaining what she sought being stripped, and here was a mortal, telling her not to give up?! She wasn't so far down as to require pity from a mortal of all things, and made her displeasure known to him in that instant.
"You better take responsibility for this! I was prepared to die, and you didn't let me! You are going to take responsibility for this, and I will not accept any complaints to the contrary, understood!"
"Yes Ma'am!" Shirou instantly agreed on instinct with her demand. He didn't know what he had to take responsibility for, or even why she was upset with him, but he felt that if he refused, then he would have faced a fate far worse than if he had fought [Mordred], Gilgamesh, Angra Manyu, Herakles, [Perseus], Medea, Archer, Sasaki, True Assassin, Medusa, and Cu Chulain again, all at once, at the same time, all whilst completely unarmed, defenseless, naked, and alone...to say the fear he felt of any feminine fury made him rather go through that hell than receive a woman's wrath was a truth he would never deny, if any asked him his opinion on the matter...especially right now, for reasons he did not know nor could figure out in his exhausted state of mind…
For her part, [Pan] was blushing up a storm, but luckily her outburst disguised it as feminine rage rather than embarrassment. She could feel some strange attachment to this Devil King, even before [Venus] got her hands on him, yet not for the life of her she could not figure out what was making her feel like a puddle under his attention now...could it be that she-
*SHlK-SHIlK*"RAAAAAAUUUGH" "GUAAAAAAAAAAAUGH"
In that instant, before [Pan] even finish her thought, she tore her gaze to the sight of the two traitorous former allies of hers, as they were suddenly slashed across the abdomens, before a giant chalice appeared and drained their power as Mother Earth goddesses away in an instant, and her eyes widened in shocked terror and horrified disbelief. [Athena] had been lucky enough to flee before she could get caught up in that, which [Pan] could not blame her for doing at what fate she saw befall them.
The two of them were drained dry in a matter of minutes after the slash was made, killing them both as their Divinities of the Earth were stolen to empower the [Holy Grail] Authority of the Witch-queen of Briton. In that instant, she felt fear for her being, as she had only just barely retained a fraction of her reclaimed divinity, but it was damaged, fragile, and barely held together from whatever [Sthenos] and [Euryale] did to her, but if they used that on her now...she would be reduced even further than she was as [Hades] accursed prisoner to rape and demean as he pleased under the pretense of his 'wife'...she could only hope this Devil Kings presence and promise of protection would prevent Guinevere from attacking her too…
After [Lancelot] bought 'his' beloved child the time she needed to invoke the [Holy Grail], 'he' let her drain the divinity of these two goddesses. But as it drained into the chalice, 'he' noticed something that was not right. It was a form of corruption that was wrong. The [Holy Grail] was only meant to steal the divinity of Mother Earth Goddesses, as in female deities of the Earth, but from within the last vestiges of their divinity, [Lancelot] saw their essence was tainted, blackened, and most certainly not naturally part of their original beings. Along with them, came a pair of blackened seeds, baring the same tainted essence as the last bit of their divine essence.
'He' didn't really think much, nor was 'he' much for thinking beyond the battlefield, but even [Lancelot] knew that this was not something that 'he' could allow to get within the grail. Slashing with 'his' borrowed blade, 'he' prevented the tainted essence from getting inside the grail, but failed to notice the seeds getting inside, merging together into a singular seed the size of a walnut, before settling into the bottom, as it attempted to take root. 'He' didn't really think too much on it, nor was 'he' much for thinking too deeply on anything outside of battles to begin with, so [Lancelot] simply shrugged it off as a part of [Mordred]'s authority, born from his exposure to [Venus]'s corrupting influence, possibly leading to his eventual betrayal of them and 'his' King. It wasn't in 'his' nature to overthink about overly complicated matters, so 'he' simply walked away once 'his' part was done...
...as 'he' walked away, had [Lancelot] bothered to look deeper into it, or even mention it, then things might not have gotten to the point they did later on...nor would there have been such dire consequences for what would happen, when the King of the End attempted to use the very grail to strengthen himself in the fated battle to come…
...only to walk into an argument between 'his' beloved child and [Pan], fighting over the two of them staying with Sir Shirou, and began to chuckle a bit, causing the freed King of Wrought Iron to turn to 'him' for help, only for [Lancelot] to begin trembling as laughter erupted from 'his' mouth in 'his' mirth over Shirou's misfortune with women striking yet again. When all was said and done, Shirou could only bemoan his new 'housemates' antics in a single sentence…
"...Root-damn my E-rank luck..."
Scene Change
Traveler P.O.V.
I had witnessed this Devil King's powers and how he fought, yet the nature of his power was something which caught my eye more than anything else. He bested a Goddess of Love's control over him through a love not even she could usurp...that kind of strength of will notwithstanding, the true nature of this foes powers made me very cautious of ever having to deal with it head-on, much less on my own without any support.
Strong as I was, not even I, the God of Travelers, Steel, and Adventure would be capable of doing this on my own; I needed strong allies, those strong enough to achieve a grand quest, the likes of which haven't been done in centuries. Recruiting some would be easier than others, but the one I wished more than the rest would make all the difference between success and failure to achieve my newest goal.
So I decided to go and recruit some allies who would hopefully give me the strength necessary to steal this power to travel between worlds this Devil Kings has in his possession. It would most certainly be helpful to me, especially to recruit her, but getting her aid will be the one thing that will make it difficult...but if I can pull it off, then she might very well grant him the aid he needs to achieve my goal without the need for the others in mind, for at long last a new horizon is finally dawning upon my eternal existence…
Soon, the God of Travelers, Journeys, Steel, and Odysseys shall attain the power needed to traverse between worlds, and reach the freedom he so desperately craves of the unknown, and I shall finally have adventures to realms unknown to all those before me…
...little did the Traveler know, his plans were going to draw the ire of quite the powerful immortal sorcerer...and the ramifications of his actions were going to cause all kinds of backlashes the world over for his transgressions...
A/N: And that's the latest chapter! As promised as my apology, here's Godou and Shirou's updated servant stat sheets:
Name: Kusanagi Godou
Titles: The Seventh Campione, The King of Ruin
Alignment: Lawful Good
Possible Classes: Saber, Assassin, Berserker, Rider, Lancer
Base(Camel)[Bull]{Raptor}
Strength: E+(B)[B+-A++]{D}((Physically training under Shirou has slightly improved his abilities in this parameter))
Agility: E++(B++)[C+]{A++}((Physically training under Shirou has slightly improved his abilities in this parameter))
Endurance: C++(A++)[B-]{B-}((Physically training under Shirou has slightly improved his abilities in this parameter))
Mana: A+(Even if he only uses it for his authorities, being a Campione automatically grants this ranking in Mana)
Magic Resistance: A+(Due to his Campione status, he automatically gets complete immunity to anything less than a divine level mystery, unless casted orally or in gaseous form)
Luck: A++(although it automatically increases to EX rank in the presence of the fairer sex, at this rank he can will any game of pure chance into his favor)
Noble Phantasm: EX(since authorities are comparable to Noble Phantasms as a form of Divine mystery, this is the ranking for it)
Noble Phantasm list:
Trap of Argalia: The Legacy of Astolfo
This is the traced weapon Shirou gave Godou and after he made it permanent using the Denial of Nothingness during the Feast of Kings as his gift to his fellow King. Its stats and abilities are all the same as the one wielded by the famed Paladin of Charlamagne himself, as Godou has the same temperament as its original wielder in regards to killing, thereby being granted the privilege of becoming its second owner.
List of Authorities:
Ten Incarnations: The Manifestations of the Persian Warlord
This authority is the manifestation of Verethragna's ten incarnations usurped by Godou when he first became a God-slayer, and a reflection of Verethragna's nature as the Persian god of War, Victory, and Light. As the result of this authority's numerous natures, it is considered a single noble phantasm with multiple forms and restrictions for their usage, thereby ranked and categorized as follows:
Gale-Type: Support Rank: C Target: Self Range N/A(Due to not having a set range other than requiring to be called by one with all their heart in a life or death situation)
Bull-Type: Support Rank: B Target: Self Range: Self
White Stallion-Type: Anti-Army/Anti-Fortress Rank: A++ Target: 1-1000 Range: 1-99
Camel-Type: Support Rank: B Target: Self Range: Self
Boar-Type: Anti-Fortress Rank: A Target: 1-1000 Range: 1-199
Youth-Type: Support Rank: B Target: 1-10 Range: 1
Raptor-Support Rank: B Target: Self Range: Self
Ram-Type: Support(Anti-Unit/Anti-Army) Rank: B(A+) Target: 1(1-199) Range: 1(1-49)
Goat-Type: Anti-Unit/Anti-Army Rank: A+ Target: 1-199 Range: 1-49
Warrior-Type: Anti-Divinity/Anti-Unit Rank: EX Target: 1 Range: 1-199
Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi: the Grass-cutting Tsurugi of Susanoo
Type: Anti-Unit/Anti-Evil/Anti-Curse Rank: A+ Target: 1-20 Range: 1-10
Yes, this is the sword that Godou got from slaying it, and it is the very same sword that Susanoo once wielded in battle, and entrusted Ena with usage over. It is a sword with multiple useful abilities and traits, including an anti-curse and anti-evil affinity, along with the ability to copy any authorities used against either it or Godou, or even combine and steal the abilities of authorities either Godou himself has, or has been the target of, under the restriction that either Godou or Ama No Murakumo are subjected to it first before it can copy them. It also has the power to manipulate lightning and control storms, produce copies of itself, among countless other useful abilities that Godou could never be bothered to properly memorize, or be able to...
The Shining Chariot: Divine Mount of Helios
Type: Mount/Anti-Platoon Rank: C++ Target: 1-99 Range: N/A(Depends solely upon whether or not Godou can see where he is going)
This is the authority Godou obtained by slaying Apollo, as his incarnation as Helios, the god of the sun. Whenever Godou summons this chariot, he can ride at the godspeed normally reserved for his Raptor authority, and can combine this Authority with his White Stallion or Boar authorities respectively, on top of combining them with Ama no Murakumo, but will significantly drain him faster by combining these multiple authorities than just the two of them. He can also produce a great deal of heat with this chariot's passing, but it lacks the mobility to make wide turns and such, hence its lower rank. However, this authority's lack of mobility is somewhat mitigated by its ability to produce searing flames that burns anyone unfortunate enough to get caught up in its passing, even should they manage to dodge it, thereby preventing it from being completely useless and securing its position as a C++ ranked anti-platoon weapon.
List of Possible Class Skills:
Mind's Eye(True) Rank: D+
Due to his status as a Campione, Godou automatically gains this skill as part of his skillset, regardless of whichever servant class he is ever possibly summoned under. Thanks to his training under Shirou and his onw life or death battle experience against Gods, Enemy Campione, and even his own unusually sharp instincts, his ranking in this skill is rather high for his otherwise peaceful background.
Riding Rank: C-
Due to growing up in an age where transportation is available to anyone in a world where the Age of the Gods has yet to end, Godou ends up with this skill, both as a Saber or as a Rider, but in the later case, will end up being bumped up to a B- rank to fit his class.
Madness Enhancement Rank: D-
Due to his rather tempermental nature towards harming those he sees as his cherished ones, Godou has something of a minor ranking in this skill, causing his true nature as a savage warrior to be unleashed and uninhibited whenever he uses this skill.
Presence Concealment(Lesser) Rank: B++
Due to his rather unassuming demeanor and background, along with his rather sneaky methodology for when he is forced to fight and fast-talk his way out of trouble, Godou has developed something of a lesser form of the typical Skill of the Assassin class. At this rank of his unique version of this skill, he doesn't so much as go unnoticed as he hides in plain sight, makin himself seem like part of the background and as if he is supposed to actually be where he is when he isn't.
List of Personal/Unique Skills:
Eroge Harem Protaganist Rank: B-
Due to his rather ludisrous luck with the fairer sex, Godou automatically gets rather ludicrous boosts in any actions involving women in some manner. At this rank, he is ludicrously popular with women to the point of having earned himself status as a natural playboy unintentionally and subconsciously creating a harem without even meaning to do so.
Nature of the Defiant Spirit Rank: C++
Due to Godou's rather stubborn nature in refusing to get involved in the supernatural as well as his own tendency to dig in his heels on any issue he flat out refuses to budge on, e has inadvertently created this unique skill, granting him a will that not even an order from gods can force him to obey if its against his principles to do so.
Flash of Inspiration Rank: B
Due to Godou's rather unusually talented knack for thinking out of the box and creativity in using his authorities in a manner that not even Verethragna could ever hope to recreate, Godou has developed this unque skill, granting him the ability to gain flashes of inspiration to overcome obstacles and defy the odds, turning any situation automatically into his favor.
Probability Manipulation Rank: EX
Due to his rather ludicrous luck and natural talent for willing pure games of chance into his favor and turning it into an art from, Godou has inadvertantly created this unique skill, which literally is the power to defy fate itself on a whim. Needless to say, he'll get into a LOT of trouble with casinos and gambling den's with this skill in the future...
Charisma Rank: D-
Due to Godou's unusual penchant for turning his own enemies to his cause, Godou has gained a lesser form of this skill, allowing him to bolster his own strength and those of his followers just by his presence alone.
And now for Shirou's updated Servant Stat Sheet:
Base(Reinforced){Dragon-Slaying Steel}[The Cursed Martyr]
Name: Emiya Shirou
Alignment: True Neutral
Official Titles: Eighth Campione, King of Wrought Iron, The Living Blade, All-wealthy One, Sixth Sorcerer, Blade of Humanity, True Child of Steel
Unofficial Titles: King of Fakers, King of the Forsaken, Ultimate Badass, Ultimate Stud, Champion of Justice, The Ideal Knight, The Love Guru, The Divine Chef Unequaled Beneath the Heavens and Peerless Above the Earth, Devil Tamer, Second Sword of the World, Bassileus II
Strength: B+(A+){A++}[A++]
Agility: B(A-){A+}[A++]
Endurance: A(A+){A++}[EX]
Mana: EX(Due to his status as a sorcerer, on top of his status as a Campione, he has gained a near infinite reserves of magical energy, limited only by his stamina)
Magic Resistance: EX(For obvious reasons, his already high magical resistance was bolstered after becoming a Campione)
Luck: EX(Due to claiming a portion of his birthright in the form of Bassileus' soul merging with his own, Shirou has gained an upgrade in his luck, however, it will still be impossible to tell whether his luck is good or bad at times, due to Murphy's Law just loving to bitch-slap him upside the head every chance it can get, hence he prefers to refer to it as E-rank as a running joke amongst his close friends and family)
Noble Phantasm: A~EX
Noble Phantasm List:
Excalibur: The Sword of Hope's Light
Rank: A++(EX with Avalon) Type: Anti-Evil/Anti-Fortress Range: 1-300 Target: 1-999
Due to being parially acknowledged by the sword in question, Shirou has gained partial use over the blade's functions. While in Arturia's hands it was the Sword of Promised Victory, and its divine equivalent in the King of the End's hands, the Sword of Divine Salvation, in Shirou's hands, this legendary Last Phantasm has become a sword which embodies his nature as a living beacon of hope for those whose lives have been touched by his presence, and his inheritance of Bassileus' powers have further unlocked its functions for his usage. Its a powerful Anti-Evil weapon capable of one-shotting Angra Manyu now, even in its restricted state of usage, and cleanse any curses, dark, or malignant powers with its light shining of Shirou's hopes, like the beacon of which he is for those around him.
Current Number of Locks: 27
Current Locks Currently Unlocked: 20
Avalon: The Everdistant Utopia
Rank: A++(EX with Excalibur) Type: Barrier/Support Range: Self/5 Target: 1-10
After becoming acknowledged by Arturia, and receiving partial acknowledgement by Excalibur as its rightful owner, the sheathe has been further upgraded, becoming capalbe of shielding up to ten targets within its soothing light, healing and cleansing any maladies or abnormalities with their conditons while within its protection, anc can now target up to five meters of protection centered around Shirou when used as a defense, on top of its usual protections and healing capabilities.
Unlimited Blade Works: Creation of Infinite Swords
Rank: E-EX Type: World Range: 1-300 Target: Infinite
Shirou's reality marble. After gaining the approval of and blessings of Bassileus, Shirou now has the power to produce secondary storage spaces in the form of secondary Reality marbles to store anything he aquires, as a merger with the Gates of Babylon authority, but for the most part the two can still be considered as separate pocket spaces, but also as two forms of a Reality Marble now, with all the weapons from the Gates of Babylon copied within his main Reality Marble and the originals still stored within the Vault of the World.
Shroud of Martin: The Seal of the Heretical Saint's Left Arm
Rank: A+ Type: Seal Range: Self Target: Self
The mystic code of Archer's holy shroud, upgraded due to his status as a heroic cpirit into a minor Noble Phantasm. Due to Shirou's alterations to this fragment of the Holy Shroud of a Counter-Guardian, its gotten a few upgrades to act as a seal of supression, in conjunction to a few other accessories, including a ring from within the Gates of Babylon to supress his Prana Output to a level where he can go about his daily life without shredding everything around him through his overwhelming mystical presence alone.
Bassileus: The Sword of the World
Rank: EX Type: Anti-Existence Range: N/A Target: N/A
The memorial sword of Bassileus, better known to most as Xiphos. When he fused with Shirou and entrusted him with his power, Shirou turned his fragmenting remains of his essence into this sword, merging them wth the remnants of the blade he attempted to forge a physical counterpart to. Due to the materials in question being from two divine beasts with strong ties to devouring powerful existences, this sword is a powerful Anti-Existence type weapon, due to its ability to literally devour any power it slices apart, sealing it away or severing it off into two separate existences, permanently. Anything that gets severed by this Noble Phantasm is essentially gone for good, with the case of servants simply losing their lost abilities or appendages temporarily, for the duration of their summoning and unless the get resummoned. As such, this sword could even cut a blast from EA in half, due to it actually outranking the prized Sword of Rupture of the Golden King of Heroes and Ruler of Uruk.
Current Authorities:
Gates of Babylon: Vault of the World
'I who am King of the World, shall never find myself without riches. My domain is everywhere, so too is my treasury, for everywhere in my domain my Vault will always be with me.'
EA: The Sword of Rupture
'Sword whose might split heaven and earth, and ruptured creation itself, the King calls forth to unleash the right of Enuma Elish'
Enkidu: The Chains Holding the Heavens
'I am King who Defied the Gods, the Divine Bull Slayer, and you who bares the beasts' divine blood, I hereby bind you!'
King of All
The Cursed Martyr
'The Mother watching her child in anguish. The Brother watching his sibling in agony. The Saint weeping tears in despair for those he fails to grant Salvation. I take their pain, their misery, their burdens, and them to strength, for I am the Cursed Martyr!'
Never Ending Vengeance
'The parents watching their child die. The soldier cut down in the middle of battle. The pauper in the alley stabbed. The beggar in the ditch lookin to the lord's palace. I take from them their grudges, their hate, their malice, and unleash Never Ending Vengeance!'
Dragon-Slaying Steel
'The Hero endures through adversity. The Hero stands tall in the face of impossible odds. The Hero never flinches, when wielding the Dragon-slaying Steel.'
The Hero's Charm: The Privilege of the Hero
Mount of the Hero: Hero's Steed
'A Hero rides to battle in glorious fashion, mounting a steed of exceptional quality. Come forth, Mount of the Hero!'
The Twin Clubs: Ayamari the Chaser and Yagarish the Crusher
'Come forth Ayamari, Crush them Yagarish. The time for hunt and carnage is nigh' upon us. Do battle as befits a warrior of the Twin Clubs!'
God-King's Privilege: Divine Right of the Gods
Lord of the Flies: King of all Insects
'I am Lord over Plagues and Sin, the King who commands Insects. Come, Children of Enchidna, for your King demands your fealty!'
Lord of the Dead: Ruler of the Underworld
'I am the Monarch who reigns supreme over the nether, he who commands the souls of the afterlife, and decides whether a death is Just. For I am Lord of the Dead.'
Regalia of Champions: Mantle of the Heroes
'Clad in the steel of heroes of ages past, presnt, and future alike, I hereby don my Regalia of Champions.'
Bow of Babylon: Archer of the Ancient Sumerian Fertilities
'As one who governed the fertility and war, I call forth my divine bow, and bestow both glory in death and beauty in life with my Divine archery!'
List of Possible Class Skills:
Mind's Eye(True): Rank A++
Independent Action: Rank B+
Riding: Rank C-
Territory Creation: Rank EX
Presence Concealment: Rank C+
Madness Enhancement: Rank D-
List of Personal/Unique Skills:
Projection: C-
Tracing: A+
Reinforcement: B++
Alteration: B-
Structural Analysis: EX
Runecraft: B-
Wielder of the True Magics: A++
Innocently Charming Smile: EX
Cooking: EX
Eroge Harem Protagonist: EX
Feed the Harem: B-
Blacksmithing: B-
Blessings of the Primordial's Will: EX
A/N: And that's now Shirou's updated Servant Stat Sheet. FYI, for the newer skills and authorities, I will explain them next time. Next Chapter will be something of an interlude and a slight Omake Chapter involving a time skip of about a few decades as Shirou meets up with Ren and encounters Venus' reduced state. It'll be my way of giving you all and idea of what the future holds and what I plan to do different from GSBW and Canon. Until next chapter, PEACE OUT!