Fate: Stay Over Night

by TheGoodDoggo

Gallery: ibb. co/album/bVvTWF - There was a mysterious force that pulled the remnants of Yggdrasil toward the New World. But not all of them got to their destination. Some got strayed by the shifting of realities. And then there was exception. It was like you unintentionally touched something so 'Eww' and tossed it to the opposite direction. And so the Thing went there...

3. Chapter 3

Disclaimer: I don't own Overlord or Fate series.

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I myself like the wiki more than the forum, it is easy to the eyes and consistency enough though there is not much detailed information.

So I apologize to anyone who expect a researcher's work in this fanfiction.

If you know something then please point it out. I will inject it in if it doesn't clash with my story.

I have work too, can't sit for too long before the computer. Recently, I could only write about under 500 words a day. When I got home, I only wanted to sleep really. Can't believe that it took me two month to write this chap.

But I get it to 18000 words!

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### Caster ###

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She was standing in a small garden, looking straight at the back of someone a short distance from her.

That person had a slender figure and energetic behaviors. The visage showed that was a female.

She had long platinum blonde hair bundled up into a side ponytail on the left of her head, silky smooth skin and about one hundred seventy centimeters tall.

Wearing exotic armor that had a strange aura emitted from it, she jumped from place to place moving things around the house next to the garden.

The armor covered her body lightly, exposed a lot of skin and accentuated the curves of the wearer. The black and blue mysterious material that comprised the armor was strangely glittering, reflecting the light shone down to the garden.

This… why am I out in the garden? Wait, could this be…

Caster was confusingly looking around.

Just a while ago, she had just taken a bath in the bathhouse behind the shrine so she recognized a few places before her.

This is the garden in the side of the shrine. There were a set of tea table on the isle, the place where an unknown girl had been jumping around for a while.

The time and feeling was strange to her as well. Because this should be night time but here it was, the light bathing the place but a cold chill like that of winter permitted everywhere.

She were sleeping just as Tamako suggested. But just before going to bed, she had casted a magecraft that accelerated thought process on herself.

Normally, no magus would do something like that. Sleep was a rest for the mind, why would anyone make it more taxing?

Her circumstance was difference, thus normalcies needed not to be applied there.

Because she had made a soul bond contract with Tamako, the bond between Master and Servant also got a boost, a very large boost.

That meant she could have a high possibility of seeing Tamako past when she reached out her mind instead of taking time to strengthen their bond.

And with accelerated thought process, she could make the most of her experience in the memories. She could control more freely and had more time to herself.

"Tamako, follow me."

The strange girl called out and began to walk toward the inner of the shrine. Caster's view also moved following the girl.

A feeling of reverence and obedience rose up in her chest.

T-This… is Tamako's feeling toward that girl. She must be her Mistress then.

She could of course move separately with Tamako, assuming a third person view but that was not necessary. Having the same view as her Master could be useful in feeling her emotions. Although it seemed to be lacking a bit.

While following the Mistress, Caster took the opportunity to take a look at everything as they walk.

Tamako was wearing the same outfit as she had seen before, the shrine maiden clothes that held tremendous amount of magical power.

In her hands, surprisingly, was the dog she met in the city, Levia.

He was quietly snuggling up in Tamako's hands.

Shockingly, he looks just like a normal dog when being held. He looks cute.

She had a weak spot for cute things. The Shiba inu breed was indeed beautiful and cute, she could not resist the urge to hug it. The sensation she trying to feel through Tamako was unsatisfying.

Maybe I should get a pet.

Moving on from Levia, she looked up again at the Mistress of the shrine.

The armor she was wearing was too revealing for her taste, it looked like its purpose wasn't even protection in the first place.

Despite that, the girl looked beautiful and elegant while walking in it.

Her appearance looked like a human but she wasn't sure. In the memories, she couldn't really probe anything for more information. Everything was based on the owner's feeling and emotions in that event.

And Tamako had a really blank feeling about everything else around her. It was like she didn't even care one bit or more like, this was the way everything work normally. Caster was so baffled in Tamako's emotion that she didn't know if she should pity or be scared of her Master.

"I am very glad I had created you two."

The Mistress spoke up while walking ahead without turning back. Just that sentence was enough to shaken Caster a bit.

She created these two monster?

"Even if it is just in Yggdrasil but you two was my first and only subordinates. Well, what am I doing talking to myself like this?"

Caster couldn't grasp the meaning behind her words. She just watched the back of that girl without understanding anything.

The emotion of Tamako also didn't seem to be wavered by this. She really didn't get their relationship at all.

In the end, their walk came to a stop at the front yard.

The place was large, it was about one third of the land that the shrine was built on. But it could easily contain dozens of big dragons the size of a house if not more.

There was a tall wall up to four or five meters surround the entire plot of land. The wall was plain in appearance and was painted in a white material she couldn't recognize.

This yard must be about fifteen thousand meters square.

A pathway from the gate where the stair lead up to connected to the front of the shrine.

Beyond the wall, she saw something unbelievable.

Ice mountains surrounded the place. The sky looked bleak and dark, covered by heavy clouds that seemed like a solid object. Snow was falling but none get in the vicinity of the shrine, and somehow the light still persisted in the shrine as if nothing obstructed it. Caster guessed that must be the work of some kind of barrier. That was not wrong in a sense.

In the far she could even spot what looked like a dragon, A DRAGON, flying about.

Where is this? Isn't the shrine located in Japan? This doesn't even look like Earth.

"Tamako, stay here. This will be the place where the combat should occur."

The girl left Tamako standing at the doorstep of the shrine and started to walk alone to the middle of the yard.

She was mustering but Tamako could still hear it.

"I should put a big trap here, or there? OK, there!"

She began to move around again just like in the garden, but this time there was a big difference.

The ground just before the gate was opened up. A big triangle hole covered nearly all the yard appeared.

Caster looked on in shock, not knowing what was happening. The girl continued to make something with her hands hovering and gesturing in the air.

Then a while after that, multiples big truck size grinder wheels with metal teeth and pikes filled up the hole.

The sounds of them moving and grinding against each other made her shudder. A chill ran down her spine just by looking at it.

But for the girl standing there, it seemed to not be enough. Evidently as she was making something else to add to that.

By the look of thing, it seemed to be magical traps that restrained and pulled enemy toward the grinding wheels.

"Heh, it's looking good. Let's add extreme gravity too."

The simple hole was becoming ridiculous. Whoever falling in it would be dead in seconds.

Caster stared at the trap that was covered up to look just like the ground at the beginning. Now that she was aware of it, she couldn't bring herself to walk on the yard without cold feet anymore.

And I walked on it when coming here…

The strange girl turned around and walked back to Tamako. Her expression was blank, but her face was beautiful, a different kind of beauty from the warm and gentle Tamako.

After arriving next to her, the girl looked back on the yard.

"Tamako, Levia, this will be where you fight off invaders. Never let them leave here alive alright?"

Caster felt the reverence from Tamako again as she bowed in acknowledgement.

So this is somewhere around their beginning at this shrine.

From there on, the memories became a repetition of Tamako moving around the shrine cleaning, taking care of the garden.

Thanks to the accelerated thought process magecraft, Caster could view them all continuously without interruption in a short period of time. It was resembling the fast forward function on a video.

If a normal bond of Master and Servant allowed them to see each other important events in life, then her bond with Tamako was like a full documentation of one's life.

What matter was the ability to watch through them all. And Caster was determined to grasp her Master entire history, in case it came in handy. A very taxing thing to do. Regrettably, she couldn't look further back to see the origin of Tamako.

But that was fine, she didn't expect to get anything in the first place.

In the long string of day to day without anything happening, there was finally a change.

The so-called invaders had arrived.

She was excited to see who these invaders were.

There were five of them. All were wearing fancy armors and weapons. The getups looked so extravagant that Caster doubted the practicality of any of them.

Even so, she could see that they were quite eager to fight.

By their appearances, there are two magi and two fighters… what is that last one supposed to be with that lute?

Tamako also got in position at the front of the shrine with Levia jumping down standing before her.

The two of them stayed still in place watching the invaders.

The moment they stepped pass the gate and the trap would be the moment the fight began.

"Hey, look! There are only two guards in here!"

"Lucky! Let's kill them and loot this place quick! Only weaklings would have made a guild here anyway."

The two fighters shouted out in glee and ran toward Tamako.

"Idiots, come back here! There is a trap!"

The female elf with the lute quickly called the two but it was already too late.

"Ugh? What are…"

"Gyaaa!"

The ground under them opened up, revealing the menacing grinding wheels with bone chilling sounds.

One of the fighter got his legs chomped by the wheels and was ground to paste in only one or two seconds.

The other fighter got caught by the [Group Fly] spell of the female human wizard and was saved from instant death.

"Look at what you two have done! He doesn't even leave behind a corpse, how am I supposed to resurrect him?"

The bulky man in the white robe berated them in irritation.

Resurrection ! ?

"I am sorry, ok?"

"Oi, stop talking! There seems to be more."

Just as the female wizard said that, the death hole shot out countless tentacles of light. The things wrapped around and pulled them into the nightmarish pit of death.

"Quickly do something! I don't want to die in a trap like this!"

"Shut up, you imbecile! I am tryin… ugh!"

The wizard and the bard was about to do something but the trap activated yet another layer.

The gravity of the area increased ten times and continued to go up over time, adding force to the pull of the tentacles.

"N-No! I almost reach max level, I don't want to lose my weapon here!"

"This is it. I can't hold on anymore."

Even if they were to be max out, things wouldn't change much. This kind of trap was designed to kill group of level 100 after all.

But who could blame them for agonizing when dying meant losing your most valuable item.

Caster just looked on with a bland face as the group got eaten by the wheels.

Her excitement at finally seeing Tamako fighting was snooped out completely.

She had totally forgotten about the trap.

The brutality of the trap and the helplessness of the invaders made it hard for her to guess their level of power. But one thing was sure, everything unknown in this shrine could be deadly if she got careless.

With that done, Tamako and Levia resumed their daily activities, which was just walking around and taking care of the garden.

They don't get bored or something?

There were also the matter of resurrection that was mentioned but she would leave it for later.

Tamako's Mistress had gone somewhere again. That girl never stayed for more than a day.

When she did, she always bring back one or two flags and some kind of trophies. They were all tossed in a storage room in the back.

And just like that, time flew by.

One week after that though, thing started to get escalated.

There were many more groups just like the first one came to the shrine. And none of them came with peace in mind.

But just like the first group, they were all dead. Though some of them passed the trap and started to attack Tamako, assuming she was the weakest. Levia finished them in one fire breath.

Caster didn't surprise at all. She had expected him to be a divine beast from the start.

The people who came to attack were from various species of beastmen, humans, dwarves and elves. It's a strange sight for her.

In her time, human detested others that was different than them. Coexist was never a thing, even as an idea. The human feared them and isolated them in some way or outright destroyed everything slightly threatening.

This surely isn't my world.

Then on a day just like any other, a big group of fifteen people came. They all had the same intricate symbol painted on their chest or other places. There were even some faces she recognized.

That meant there were even resurrection method that could work without a body. For Caster, that was already in the realm of gods. This was more like the Age of Gods than her own.

The group quickly spotted the trap and disarmed it completely.

They are on a completely different level from the rabbles who came previously.

The moment the trap was disarmed, both Tamako and Levia dashed out. In Tamako case, only an illusion of her moving forward appeared, she had completely become invisible and flown up to the sky.

If not for sharing the same view as Tamako, Caster would have been fooled too.

"Quick! Deploying formation!"

The leader of the group shouted out order. He was a human with incredible body build. He looked like a giant with his full-body shining white armor.

Every one of them spread out and surround Levia and Tamako's illusion.

"Leader! The dog is a Dragonoid and the girl is a Devil just as our recruits said."

"Alright, the Divine Magic Casters and Paladins take on the Devil. Everyone else go for the Dragonoid. Move!"

Then the battle unfolded. A battle unlike any she had seen.

Six people headed for Tamako's illusion. Their spells started simmering all around.

"[Boost Magic], [Maximize Magic], [Widen Magic], [Triplet Magic], [Penetrate Magic], [Over Magic]. Alright, eat this [Wrath of God]!" x3

The three Divine Magic Casters shouted out and casted their 10th tier magic at the same time.

Nine giant fists of Holy light parted the cloud, making the celestial bodies revealed themselves, and came heading toward Tamako's illusion and Levia.

Each fist was as big as a mountain but was compressed to size of the shrine as it crashed down, leaving no place for the real Tamako that was in the air to evade.

This resulted in the massive damage the land received. Half of the shrine was destroyed together with the yard making a big crater five meters deep in the middle of the impact zone. As realism as it was, the game only allowed a certain amount of damage to be inflicted on the environment. That was a justify restriction, just imagined the game without it, the terrain would become a flat wasteland in every fight. And applied it here, the mountain would have been scooped out in the first attack if the rules hadn't been there.

The pit where the trap was placed was exposed but no one pay it any mind.

The illusion was gone and Tamako was standing next to Levia without a scratch. She had deployed a dome shape barrier around the two of them.

"What the fuck! No damage?"

The invaders sounded shock but nothing more. They seemed to prepare some more catastrophic spells.

T-This is insane! And their allied didn't have any injury either!

Caster panicked a bit. The first attack already looked like nine Ex-rank Noble Phantasms. And it seemed that there would be more.

Levia stepped up and began to transform back to his humanoid appearance.

Once again, Caster looked at him with wide eyes. And she thought there would be nothing he could surprise her with anymore.

In front of her stood a boy around twelve years old dress in a white long sleeves shirt with a dark grey knee-length short pant, he looked to be 1,3 meters tall. With golden short hair and aquamarine eyes, he was the perfect pretty boy that girls would try to abduct and bring home.

His eyes shone brightly as he disappeared.

In the middle of the invaders' formation, there were big explosions and flying body flung in the air.

Bashing everything away with his bare fists. With a beastly sound Levia roared loudly and unleashed his class exclusive skill [Dragon's Wrath]. Everything around him got obliterated, included two heavy armor invaders that were engaging with him.

"The hell is wrong with them! Are they Raid Bosses?"

Meanwhile the three remaining Paladins took the chance and slashed out continuously at Tamako with their holy base skills and magics.

Tamako evaded most of them but some skills was too much for her. That was where the barrier and illusion came back in.

Much to her opponents' frustration, she kept disappearing and reappearing everywhere which forced them to use a lot of AOE attacks.

Tamako hadn't gone on the offensive yet. She was busy buffing Levia's defense.

He was now emitting mana waves in the form of fiery crimson fire, incinerated everything around him and melted the ground into magma. In actually, the fiery aura was a skin covered barrier [Dragon Hide] that was enchanted with [Chaos Fire Cloak]. Both spells were highly compatible with Levia's race making their power even more potent.

Unlike the players who shouted out attack's name for their allies to know, Tamako and Levia never had a need to.

Tamako was an invincible support and highly focused on her job.

Levia was a nightmarish berserker tank and never stopped until the enemy perished.

Equipped with deadly defense, Levia shapeshifted his hands into two giant metal dragon claws. The durability and sturdiness of his body was not much different from a divine class weapon thanked to his high level racial classes, and the Shapeshifter job which let him transform his body into literally weapon for his use.

Swatting attacks that could be lethal to anyone else aside like nothing, he splendidly fulfilled his role as a tank.

After reinforced Levia with enough power to end a dungeon alone, Tamako took out her weapon from the inventory.

A platinum staff nearly two meter in height with a pair of white angel wings and a golden halo at the head of it. A shining aura emitted from the entire length of the staff, glittering feather of light occasionally fell down from the aura making it looked heavenly and sacredly.

The invaders looked surprised that she only equipped her weapon now but the leader experienced eyes saw different. She had switched weapon. The bracelet under her sleeve on her right arm had disappeared when the staff appeared in her grasp.

There was a lot of players that used specialized equipment for specific circumstances, and so they always brought with them multiple sets of armor and weapons.

But now what he saw in front of his eyes was an NPC, not a PLAYER used that tactic, and a lot of things that he thought was impossible for NPC to do.

"Stay focus! Her owner may be a skilled programmer but we will triumph it all!"

The moment he shouted that out was also the moment all hell broke loose.

Lava suddenly appeared everywhere, rose up to knee level burning anything that touched it. Cloud of red lightning drifted above the surface of the yard now turned lava lake promising the fate of cinder for any who came near.

They weren't even in the yard anymore. The wall and the shrine all vanished without a trace. The sky turned red and stretched far over the horizon.

No land mass in sight, only a sea of bright hot lava.

"Argh! I am burning!"

"What the hell happened? Did she use [Creation]? How?"

All the melee fighters were trying their hardest to fend off the environmental damage with defensive skills and abilities. The mages and cleric quickly fled to the sky to stay out of harm, they inspected the place briefly and reported back in rapid succession.

"No, this is different! This is an illusion! God dammit, she is master level, and an overpowering one at this field too!"

While the group was gathering together to defend against Levia's devastating punches and cover each other from the lava damage, Tamako began her second stage.

Rising from the lava and dropping from the sky was around fifty giant white nine-tails foxes. Each one was as big as a building, reaching fifty meters just by rising its head up. By the look of thing alone, they could surely deal damage equal to a level 80 monster. The pitch black sclera of their eyes only made the burning red irises looking even more menacing. Lava was dripping from their mouth in place of saliva, brightened the densely packed sharp teeth. Those teeth looked like they could tear anything apart just by a light bite.

That was the fox I saw in front of the stair! There were so many…

That was not all, [Grand Lighting Storm] began to pour down along with [Grand Meteor Shower] continuously. They red sky seemingly distorted into gaping holes with countless eyes leering down below on the invaders.

Sapping the enemies' strength while keeping them at bay with distraction of illusion and dealing mass damage over time. She was built like a boss despite not of the damage dealer type.

Although knowing full well that most of the things were all illusion, they couldn't take any chance and disregard them.

Master level illusion could harm target physically as much as the real thing was a widely known fact. But the scale this time was ridiculous.

"Oi, oi… Who the hell made her? If she had Boss level stat too, wouldn't she became a World Enemy?"

World Enemy? That sounds bad…

"Stop your babbling! Leader, quickly use the World Item before we die!"

The huddle players despite standing knee deep in lava still had a relaxing attitude toward the two residents of the shrine. The protection spell that was keeping them safe would last for quite a while. The previously prepared super tier spell was already interrupted when Tamako switch to offense so the Magic Casters were preparing anew.

Magic formation floating all around creating a complicated structure. The Magic Casters were completely focused on their thing, which was reducing cast-time as much as possible without the use of cash items.

Their number had decreased from fifteen to thirteen people, all thank to Levia's chain of attacks. Thus making the dragonoid their main concern.

"Hm, I guess we have no choice. It pains me to use the [Sword of Revealing Light] just to deal with the two of them, and they are not even the owner of this place."

"Oh come on leader! It isn't one of the twenty, it won't disappear. You can even use it two times a day!"

"Alright! Come forth, my Sword of Light!"

A literally sword of light materialized in his hand as he pointed it to the sky.

"Ugh! Did you really need to shout that out? So cringy."

"Yeah, could you stop it leader? Your shouting is embarrassing."

"Y-You all shut up! I do what I want!"

As they casually making jokes, the light sword in the leader's hand grew brighter and brighter then finally shot up to the red sky to the beyond.

Faster than Tamako and Levia could react, a multitude of long light swords that looked more like spears rained down impaling them in place to the ground.

The power of the World Item took effect immediately.

The lava hell and the red sky cracked up and shattered in the wind along with all the fox monsters. The clouds of red lightning, the lightning storm and meteor shower were dissipating little by little as if resisting but eventually failed and scattered into nothing.

Every one of them was returned back to the front yard of the Devil's Abode.

Tamako was kneeing in place a distance away from the invaders due to the giant light swords pinning her down to the ground.

Her hands held tight onto the staff that was gifted to her by her creator, struggling as best as she could against the force of the World Item.

Her effort was fruitless of course. The light swords impaling through her body were not simply restraining her movement. It prevented all her resisting action, making even the spells she casted previously gone in just a heartbeat.

The same also applied to Levia, he was pinned down just before the enemies. His hands had returned back to human hands, the fiery aura was snuffed out.

His struggling was more visible than his sister Tamako. The ground tremble as he wrenching his way forward, but the light swords stayed true to their purpose. No matter how hard he resisted, not even a slight trembling was found on the swords, they did not budge at all.

"Ha ha! Look at that! Can't make trouble now are we?"

"They sure are handful. Let kill them quickly and loot the place, I don't want to stay here any longer."

Thing looks bad. What is that light sword? What are those World Item?

Caster was restless. She had fled to the sky in order to observe the whole battlefield and witness the powerful artifact at work.

She had no idea what it was, but seeing someone as powerful as Tamako and Levia became so helpless made her want it even more so.

The leader stood before Tamako with a few of his teammates while the rest of them ganged up on Levia. The Magic Casters had completed their preparation for the super tier spell and various 10th tier ones. All the fire power and spells began to pour on Levia's head.

Those incomprehensible magical formation look ominous! I can't feel it but that spell…

The first to be released on Levia was the super tier magic [Fallen Down].

The pillar of light crashed down on Levia with a big sound of explosion and intense force. The force was so intense and strong that the yard was completely merged with the ground in the surrounding.

Without the barrier of Tamako, Levia took quite a lot of damage. It was enough to make him roar loudly in agony.

But as expected of a tank with over the chart life force, he still stood his ground with resilience.

Big slashes that tore space passed through his body, giant mass of melting rocks impacted on his head, big void vortexes opening up in front of his face and in his body causing immense damage.

Next was just a continuation of high end spells liked [Reality Slash], [Meteor Fall], [Implosion]. The melee fighters also unleashed their might without reserved on the immobile target. Every swing of the weapon made the earth trembled and cracked up like ravines, the wind force blew away all the unnecessary dirt and boulders. The mess was worsen as time passed.

Looking at the scene for a moment, the leader left them to their work and return his attention back to the Devil before him.

"Now that I take a closer look, isn't she more beautiful than our girls back at the base?"

"Huh? Oh, you are right leader. Could we somehow take her?"

"Nah, I don't know any method to do that. Let's just finish her off quickly, we can hire some artists if we really want one."

Using all his might with the skill [Might of the Titan] and various buffs, he slammed his great sword down on Tamako, intending to stab her head first to make constant critical damage.

*CHINK*

The sound of metal grinding echoing the air.

The tip of the blade was struggling to pierce through her head. There was an intangible force that was holding the thing in place. Her irises had started to emit white light and turn to bright silver. The searing brilliant light from the eyes alone made every things around her darker, quite a contrast to what light do which is illuminating.

Her hair which was already as illusively black as night then got an even more mysterious makeover. The hair looked as if darkness had been gather sloppily and weaved into strands. It had become partially intangible and merged with the dark aura that was revolving around her body sucking the light in its perimeter.

Gravity around her also seemed to be affected. Her hair and clothes got lighter and floated freely but still looked elegant in the strangely slow wind.

"Shit! She transforms into her true form! What the hell is her race? No one is supposed to be able to resist World Item this much."

"Stop talking and give me a hand here! With enough force and the [Sword of Revealing Light] even the World Enemy will fall. We have the high ground."

The leader and the two Paladins continued to pound on Tamako with renewed vigor. The destruction inflicted on the land was so great that even though the game limited it, the hill that the shrine was built on got shaved a big chunk off of it.

Thanks to her transformation, Tamako became a boss monster for real. Every heteromorphic race had at least one or two form that made them monster-like. Of course the stats was enhanced as well. Even more so with her ultra-rare racial class that her master had dived to the end of the world to earn, Twilight.

Thus the reason she was able to hold out for so long, long enough to witness the place she was born into, the place her entire existence belonged to, her precious home got destroyed, pulverized to nothing.

Burning hot feeling rose up inside her for the first time since her creation. With the unknown feeling built up gradually, her eyes turned even more bright and fierce. But all for naught, the World Item held absolute power.

The rage from Tamako reached even Caster when she was quite a distance away. The emotion was a new change for her. Ever since this dream started this was the first intense fluttered in her Master's feeling. Looking at Tamako now she felt the unfair helplessness and frustration, the things that she herself also experience her whole life. The enemy was extremely strong but not too much to be impossible to reach. She didn't know about the limit of the game of course.

Then suddenly an explosive roar accompanied by an earthquake made all the people there flung back in all directions. Caster quickly turned around to see what happened.

What she saw made her mind go blank for a moment.

"Holy shit! He goes full Godzilla!"

A wizard in the group that was attacking Levia shouted out.

What appeared before Caster was a humping black dragon above fifty meters in height, wings not included. If it stand up straight maybe it would be nearly a hundred meters? There were a lot of crack-like lines that ran along its scales. The lines emitted a golden glowing light and had a slow flow as if hot lava was leaking out from inside the body. The dragon had well-tone muscle from neck to tail and a dignify head fitted to be call a king of beasts. His body build and proportion was optimized for a brawler despite being a dragon making him looked incredibly dangerous.

"How can it be that big? This won't break the rule? He is as big as some Raid Bosses!"

Giant monsters were a common things in YGGDRASIL, but that was a thing for monsters. Levia was not excluded. It was just that every game always had one or two mechanics that classed with one another without anyone noticed because the chance of that happening was rare, so rare that even at the end of the game the 'bug' never appeared again if it appeared at all.

Siriel was a slightly serious player. She was never into role-playing so she made her own NPCs play that role. There was no reason, it was just because she could.

Tamako was the mysterious and gentle shrine maiden. Levia, he was the 'little brother', the monster guard dog, the Behemoth.

In order to make him big enough for the role, she even used her power to search the game database to see which skill or class could increase size. And she found it. The combination of the size transformation skill from the Minimum class with the [Skill Enhancing III] skill of the Apocalyptic Destroyer class. Those would make a giant of anyone who had it. [Skill Enhancing III] multiplied the skill's strength by four times but it could only enhanced one skill though, picked once and be done with it. Of course it only applied to non-defense skills or else there would be those with completed immunity running everywhere. If anyone else had this class they would surely pick an attack or the strongest point of their character.

The Minimum class was a class everyone knew about, it gave massive size and minimized it to normal size. On the other hand, the Apocalyptic– job class series were unlocked only when you clear the temple of the Dark God in the deep of space. The place where only she lurked around and everyone else avoided. Because she was there. Only the top players could go to that place and they all knew about her. She took things from them when they first met as a greeting, from their corpses of course.

The invaders became panic but quickly calm down as they remembered that the World Item was still in effect.

And the World Item showed its power one more. Additional giant swords crashed down and pinned Levia again. The breath attack that was about to be released was stopped immediately by the [Swords of Revealing Light]. The thing suppressed all and any resistance, you could delay the inevitable but not for long, the force will increase by leap and bound until you are down.

His struggle became more powerful as the ground shook and rumbled as if it was going to give in and swallowed them all.

"Leader… how do we finish 'this' before the effect end?"

"…"

"Leader?"

"We will use those cash items like usual. And [Grand Catastrophe]. The World Disaster is for this, it's all in my calculation."

"…"

"…"

"You know you are lame, right?"

"…"

Caster was still dazed by Levia and ignored any other occurrence so when the invaders retreated back she was still looking at Levia struggling form.

A single wizard-like female elf moved next to Levia and began to chant some incoherent words.

Caster finally took noticed of the elf after a while just in time when she finished.

"… &*#$ [Grand Catastrophe]!"

Exploding light erupted from who-know-where swallowed everything. She couldn't see anything but still hear the invader's mad laugh and the pained grunt of Levia.

T-This is madness!

"… Ha ha ha ha! This feeling… so intoxicating!

[Grand Catastrophe]!

[Grand Catastrophe]!

[Grand Catastrophe]!"

A series of small breaking sounds rang out before each shout of the elf. The items relinquished her mana and omitted the chant making the combo damage even more intense.

When everything finished, the shrine looked like a new place.

The side of the hill was gone, it looked like a cliff now. Levia was nowhere in sight. In his place at the bottom of the 'cliff' was a golden pendant and two golden rings.

Levia… no way…

The elf jumped down and picked up the items Levia left behind with glee.

"Yeah! They are Divine class, super strong too!"

"Three Divine class items! I must say 'cash well spent'!"

Seeing the cheering crowd made Caster angry. The fury inside her built up suddenly as she gnarled at them.

Scum, the lot of them.

Yes, indeed. The actions of players worldwide may be considered brutish, savage or go straight up to the alley of scumbag if it was real life. In game, they did the things they never dared to do, lived the life they could never have. That was the last haven for the miserable that lives in the age of submission to the mega corporations, and they were the luckier of the mass to be able to play game.

Suddenly a sinister dark fog expanded out rapidly until the whole hill was cover in it, the sky got dyed red but this time it was not an illusion anymore. In the center of all this was Tamako who aura rose up into a giant vortex of black wisp. Her face was expressionless but her eyes which was looking at the killers of her brother was ice-cold as they shined an intense silver light in all the dark fog.

Tamako was also caught up in the grand spell and fell to the bottom of the cliff a distance from Levia. Due to her specialized in barrier and access to [Boundary of Death] skill that she could survived the catastrophe. But not in one piece of course. She was at her death door, with continuous bleeding everywhere staining her clothes with glowing crimson blood.

The sight of her made one's spine froze up. Caster stared at her Master with a shuddered even when she was pinned down and immobilized by the giant light swords. If it was not for those light swords, Tamako would have torn everyone there to pieces.

"That doesn't look good."

The whole group stopped their antic and looked at the last defender of the shrine.

"Let's finish this!"

The leader shouted out full of determination and rushed up to Tamako with his shining sword.

The others also got serious and reinforced their own attack with everything they got.

In the final moment of her existence, the ice-cold look on Tamako never wavered. Even as her arms got blown off or when half of her chest got pulverized and disappeared. Until her form was completely annihilated, the rage-filled ambient, the hatred-inducing scene would leave a nightmarish trauma for any mortal that witness her end.

The sky gradually returned to its normal dark, heavy looking mass of cloud. The dark force that had covered the hill had also dissipated. The only things remained were Tamako's sacred staff and a glistering platinum ring.

Caster looked down at the place where her supposedly invincible Master just was with an empty gaze.

That last spur her Master put up. Her rage and hatred washed over her as the image of that gentle face met its end.

It was true that she was not that much attached to Tamako, but the time she spend looking at her day to day at the shrine through the memories still made her a somewhat special existence to Caster.

The invaders was searching through the wreckage of the shrine then suddenly everything stopped. The dream stopped.

Caster felt she was being observed and looked back at the direction of the gaze.

Behind her, far off in the sky was an enormous silver eye that looked straight at her.

Silver eye… then…

["I think this is enough for tonight, yes? You really should rest up, tomorrow will be long."]

Along with her words the scenery had dissolved completely into a black blank space.

Caster's eyes opened as she lay in the soft bed.

Fatigue flooded her right after she woke up from the dream. It was still night outside so she still had time to sleep till morning.

Well, it is as expected of her I guess.

With a heavy heart and a tired mind Caster closed her eyes again to sleep for real this time. The things she saw were still lingering in her mind but she would put it off for the moment. maybe she could inquire Tamako later about those.

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### Siriel ###

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A young girl with a shoulder length purple hair was walking alone on the side of the road.

The look on her face was quite depressing. Perhaps something sad had happened to cause such a beauty to feel this down.

Well, it was her normal expression though.

The girl continued on her way. The direction she was heading to was a small park near her school.

This hour in the morning was quite refreshing to enjoy in the embrace of nature.

The only wrong thing here was that the girl was supposed to go to school, not the park.

She was in her uniform but without her bag. A delinquent she was not. On the contrary, she was an upstanding student that had her own fan club at school.

That model student right at that moment was arriving at the bench near the center of the park.

Staring out at the people moving along the pathway boringly as she sat down.

What was she thinking in that empty gaze of her?

She remain there for quite a while until no more students passed by the park.

Clutching her hands in front of her chest, her eyes looking down to the ground. Sadness oozing out of her small figure.

"Hey there, cutie. Why don't we have some fun together?"

A bone chilling dread ran down her spine as the voice addressed her. The surrounding people also walked quickly to get away from there, not even dare to look.

Looking up to see the identity of the person who called out to her. Her hands were a bit trembling but her face didn't change expression at all.

Standing in front of her was a strange sight.

A person dressed up as some kind of magician in video game and made a grandiose pose with the staff.

The blue dress was decorated with silver lining and revealing much of the wearer's skin. It was more of a sexy type of bandage than a dress but that was all the games nowadays were about really.

Beside the intricate 'clothes', the person also adorned a classy pointy hat that go well with the color theme of the clothes. The wide hat wasn't meant to hide the face but to highlight the sharped features of the face and the elf ears that poked out of it.

Her straight platinum blonde hair was let down to sway in the wind. Its length was just at the middle of her back, perfectly to half cover her exposed skin. The stimulation every time her hair got blown by the wind was great but maybe dangerous for underage kid.

People like these were called cosplayers, and there had been a lot of teenagers into this kind of stuff lately.

Seeing the toothy grin the girl muttered out.

"Siriel-nee. Why are you dressing like that?"

"Why? Of course because I look good in it, right right?"

Siriel cheerfully spun around on the spot and made a new pose showing her curves.

"Anyway Sakura, don't you need to go to school?"

Moving next to Sakura, Siriel sat down and got comfortable herself. The fancy looking staff was stabbed to the ground next to her while she was fixing her posture.

"Onii-sama told me to stay away from school today."

"Hmm… Well then, let's go have fun with me then."

"er, no… wait…"

Without waiting for an answer, Siriel quickly grabbed the young girl and ran off.

Her staff that was left behind was disintegrated in a blink of an eye.

The park now became quiet as there were no more people left after Siriel's entrance.

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"Look here, Sakura. You have been gloomy all morning. What's up? Want to tell me something? Big sis will snap whoever that was bothering you."

"…"

The two of them had been going around the commerce district and various entertainment establishments all morning. Of course in their fancy cosplays.

Sakura was forced into an attire of female warrior armor with short skirt, the stuffs were made from dragon hide leather equipped with a long sword on her left hip. The overall theme was black and purple to match with her hair's color.

The two of them really stood out in the street as they played around but that was of no concern to them. Well, maybe it was for Sakura because she was a shy and timid girl.

They were having a break at a café in the area where cosplayers often gathered to do their activities.

People weren't running away from Siriel because she was activating her [Divinity's Aura] in moderation. It was acquired as a race exclusive trait when she reach the apex of Arch Angel, it had charm as a side effect, which was quite awkward for the others as it got them attracted to her and fear her at the same time. No need to say that quite a number of people awakened to some strange fetishes after being near her for a long period of time, but that was beside the point.

Siriel normally would never use this because she liked it more when people feared her, she was a Devil at the core through and through. But to have fun with Sakura she must compromise something.

Sakura continued stirring her glass of orange juice as she thought about how to answer Siriel.

For her, Siriel was the closest to what she would call big sister. Their meeting was just a few years ago when she went to the Emiya residence. At that time she was very scared of Siriel but that fear was gradually disappeared as their interaction increased. She was still scared now though.

"Hey hey, say something, I am waiting here."

"…"

"…"

"… it was, Emiya-senpai…"

"What ! ? Did that dunce do something to you? I will go castrate him now!"

"NO! … it, wasn't like that, it just…"

Seeing the flustered girl before her Siriel smirked to herself and continued to press on.

"Emiya-senpai, he, he brought home a girl, and, and… she was staying with him."

"Heh~, so you was jealous of that girl and got all depressed on your own huh."

"ugh…"

With a small blush on her face, Sakura looked down trying to hide it and kept silent again.

Seeing her in that state made Siriel ponder for a bit.

She never quite understood that thing, love they called it.

Sure she loved violent and destruction but that wasn't the love human always talked about. Even the love of the Angel in her old world was easier to understand for her. They loved peacefulness, harmony and a bunch of weak stuffs, but those were the opposite of devil so she could imagine it. Sometime she wondered why they didn't just come down to the ground and pick flower already. Unknown to Siriel, those Angels really did that but that wasn't important.

"What do you really want with Shirou, Sakura?"

"I, I don't…"

"Really, he is dense and dumb so you need to go for it, you hear me?"

"B-But…"

"No but! Just force your way through! You have my approval!"

"…"

"Grab your happiness with your hands, ignore all others. If it come down to it, I will destroy this island. You got that!"

"Y-Yes. D-Did you say something strange just now?"

"I DIDN'T HEAR YOUR ANSWER! LOUDER!"

"Y-YESS!"

"Good."

With that commotion, they got all the attention there was to have in the area.

Sakura was overwhelmed by Siriel's vigorous speech which she pulled from some manga she read a while back. The aspect of 'force your way through' and 'go for it' clicked with her policies after all.

In the crowd that looked at the two of them there was one person that had a frown on his face. His red eyes stared sharply at the girl in blue as if to burn a hole through her.

Siriel of course would notice such an intense gaze but she swiftly ignored it. She was looking forward to see what he would do.

After waiting for a while, she still didn't feel that he would move so she ended their small break and took Sakura home. It was already pass noon when they got to the Matou mansion.

"Siriel-nee, wait a bit I will return your clothes."

"Nah, keep it. I made it with mana so it's free."

"Then, thank you for today onee-sama."

"Yeah. And go for it. If that gramp do something stupid then tell me, I will twist his leg."

"Please don't."

Sakura smile awkwardly and waved goodbye to Siriel.

After they parted way. Siriel turned around and spinning her fancy staff in her hand, with a skip in her steps she made her way to the riverbank.

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It was past noon so there weren't many pedestrians on the street. The same also applied for the riverbank.

In fact, there were no one at all. Except two silhouettes.

While facing the river, Siriel turned half of her face back to look at the person behind her. He was a handsome young with clean elegant black cotton shirt and pant.

The wind along the river made the bandage-like clothes she was wearing wavering creating a crotch-bending scene for the casual virgins out there. As for the veteran, they may stood strong with their pant deforming but whatever.

She looked at him without saying anything. Her eyes were hidden by her fancy pointy hat so he couldn't see the glint she emitted.

Come on! Attack me already!

Siriel was getting tired of it and was about to slap the guy down to the ground but then he opened his mouth.

"The hell are you?"

Immediately there was displeasure on her face.

"Aren't you rude? Wanna die?"

"Hm, speaking the mong-"

His word was cut off with a strong pressure pulling him down as Siriel suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Kid, somehow you got on my nerve."

Her red demon eyes pierced his souls as he looked at them. That was just a gaze, a gaze of the Devil.

He was sweating a bit but quickly assumed back his demeanor. He tried to hold back his normal vocabulary a bit, right at the moment he want information, not a fight because there was a tingling feeling that told him it would be a pain in the ass to fight her.

"You are not a Servant. Remnant from the Age of Gods?"

He calmly moving around her and took a closer look at the unique features on her.

Siriel stood still to wait for an attack but it never come. She felt the wariness and a bit of hostility so she tried to suppress her grin and the impulse to let out a punch.

"What with the leering? That a bad way to woo a maiden you know?"

"Tsk! Out with it! I haven't got all day for this."

"Now, now, let's just calm down and fight already. My hands are itching here."

She was gripping her right fist tightly in front of her then released it along with a grin underneath that big hat of her.

He was also boiling inside with this interaction. No one had ever talked like that to him, even his enemies.

"You will pay dearly for your insolent savage. At the very least state your name before this king crush you."

Words full of arrogant flew out of him without restraint. No more did he want to know what she was. She maybe a variety that spoil the Grail War, and variety needed to be removed.

Jumping back a few steps to avoid a sudden sweep by her clothes. Even if that was just a result of her haphazard movement, it would still be a slap from a Legendary rank equipment, it possessed a threat on its own. He immediately adorned his golden armor and activated his Gate of Babylon with a few hundred weapons at the ready. The creature before him wasn't something to be taken lightly he admitted.

Siriel was spinning her staff along with her body then slammed its butt to the ground just enough to make a sound without breaking it. She used her left hand to hold the hat from the front so that only her mouth could be seen. Her posture was posed so as to emphasize her well-endowed breast and hypnotic hip.

"Nnn~, pretty boy is angry~. But want to know my name eh? Should I tell you? I don't know~, you are a stranger so…"

She was seriously thinking about whether she should tell him or not.

Meanwhile a dangerous aura was begun to spread out from the young man. His expression was cold as he glared at Siriel.

Siriel was busy thinking so she unconsciously lose restraint on [Divinity's Aura] and unleashed it in full glory. The manifestation of her aura was like a goddess had descended in her playful day.

Her halo also faintly appeared making her snap out of her thought.

"Oh! Huh, teehee! Anyway, you called yourself king right? Then I will use that old title I got a while back.

I am Queen of the Underworld, Queen of Violent and Destruction, Siriel D. Eva."

Along with her introduction, she turned off [Divinity's Aura] and turned on [Aura of Dread].

Making a Frieza stance with her red eyes glinting brightly, the atmosphere began to change.

Cloud and wind was gathered over Fuyuki city. Gone was the sunny and calm afternoon.

Both combatants were ready to explode into action at any moment

"… Siriel D. Eva, Queen of the Underworld. Though I had been to the underworld, I have never heard of that name.

But I shall remember that.

I, Gilgamesh, King of Hero will be your end!"

Just as he finished, a rain of Noble Phantasm from all sort of weapons poured on Siriel's head.

The ground trembled from all the explosion from B to A+ rank Noble Phantasm. The river bank was annihilated and gouged out. The hole was as big as a parking lot.

He continued to pour his weapons down for one full minute before stopping to take a look at the situation.

Smoke and dust covered all over the area obstructing vision. A hearty laugh was resounding from inside the destroyed river bank then a swift of wind cleared everything away, revealing Siriel without a scratch. But her staff was destroyed beyond repair, all that was left was only a thirty centimeters stick that was hold loosely on her right hand.

"You have an interesting way of attacking. I guess Legendary rank without enchantments won't last the exchange."

Throwing the last piece of her staff away and making it dematerialize, she looked at her attacker who then stood at a good fifty meters away.

"But I don't want to take out my main weapons. The kids may make a racket if I blow up their city you know? So something milder then."

Turning her right side toward him, she aimed her right hand and unhurriedly made a grasping motion.

[Queen's Providence (Apocalypse)]

Gilgamesh had expected some damage on her but was surprised when only her weapon was destroyed. After some nonsensical talking of her he instinctually felt alarming and quickly dashed to his right.

A big chunk of the river bank was forcefully scooped up to the air with his previous spot as the center.

A barely visible force hand was grasping that chunk, making a big ball of concrete with a diameter nearly thirty meters. That same hand was crushing the ball to fine sand in its grip.

While being very surprised at the scope of her lazy attack, he was quick in retaliating.

A new wave of higher rank weapons headed straight to Siriel but with just a glance, all of them were scattered everywhere.

Seeing all his treasures were repelled by a strange force, Gilgamesh stopped his attack to reassess his opponent.

Red demonic eyes with a sickening grin plastered on her face. The frivolous air just moment ago around her was gone, replaced by an arrogant and imposing presence of the strong. And by the look of it, those attacks were nothing but mere child-play for her.

He was prideful but not mindless. The caliber of the Queen was clearly at the realm of the god. The divinity that was oozing out of her a while back was more than enough proof for his deduction.

And to deal with god, he got his own mean.

Ripples appeared around Siriel as if trying to surround her. Golden chains shot out from those ripples with incredible speed straight to her, ready to piece and wrap around the target.

Feeling the sharp blades trying to penetrate her skin and bounce off, she was curious to see what would be next so she put off using her ability for bit.

Failing to pierce the target, those chains began to wrap itself tightly around her. Creaking sound could be heard from the force it used to restrain Siriel. Golden glow started to emit brightly out of it.

"Heh, what a neat gear you have here. I can feel its effort in trying to match my strength, and it is doing quite a good job at it too."

Siriel really felt her body's movement was hindered greatly at the moment. Of course she didn't exert all her strength to test it yet. Her clothes were disturbed though, so she used her [Queen's Providence (Apocalypse)] to fix a few delicate places. An exposed Queen wasn't a cool Queen.

Her [Queen's Providence (Apocalypse)] was an ability belonged to Queen of Apocalypse, a rare class that was acquired from clearing the Dark God Temple in one go, for the first time only. The name would change depend on the acquirer's gender.

Providence sounded important but it was really just a high end telekinesis ability. Of course its power was on a whole different dimension, it was from a super rare class after all. It used mental power and Special stat as scale but could also be reinforced with mana liked all abilities of the other classes.

In other word, she could literally scoop the whole city and throw it in the ocean if she wanted. But that didn't sit well with her due to her Angel's heart protested against that.

"So you manage to hold me down, good job I guess."

"You still look quite calm about this but I wonder for how long. You won't be able to get out of those chains, the Chain of Heaven was made to restrain gods, the higher your divinity is the more its effect increases."

He took out a long tube like object with a sword handle. The object was a three part black tubes and had red symmetric lines running on its surface. It was his most powerful treasure Ea.

The three parts began to rotate and pick up speed quickly with the one in the middle going the opposite direction of the other two. Wind and red magical torrents gathered around The Sword of Rupture Ea making a tornado of violent destruction.

Rising his sword high up, Gilgamesh gazed deeply in her eyes with his kingly arrogance.

"Just by looking at you, I can feel the malevolence and madness within. Truly fit for someone proclaimed to be Queen of the underworld. But be honor, for making this King serious.

Now begone! Ea!"

At the moment, he didn't care less about the city or anything else. The creature before him must die. With his godly talent he could tell the nature of about everything at a glance. And that thing made him feel threatened of his existence.

The giant torrent of magical energy became an extension of his sword slashed down from the sky, splitting reality itself making a giant black void space that swallowed anything around it into nothingness while grinding away at Siriel. The river bank was completely destroyed and turned into a mess of concrete and soil.

"I will show you a glimpse of the Truth of the world."

"Heh, I am waiting to see it."

Without changing his expression, he launched a big lance at Siriel, pushing her into the gap of emptiness.

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### The Devil's Abode ###

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After the awkward morning of Caster, Tamako didn't say anything about that memory, just kept her smile on and continued her preparation for their work.

Caster also put off the matter about resurrection and the residents' nature. There would be plenty of time to ask later anyway.

She was still miffed about not participating in the Grail War but was happy enough about the research they were doing. She was a great magus from the age of gods, doing research was one of her forth.

During the morning, Levia had come back to the shrine to tell Tamako about his adventure last night. He was just like a kid came home after school, way too excited and active.

While petting and praising him, Tamako gave him another task. He was to plant several artifacts that she had made last night in a circle formation surround the city.

Levia happily went out again, after his task was completed he could go play with his dog gang in the city.

Seeing the guardian dog leaving, Caster quickly called out.

"Master Levia! Please wait a moment!"

"Hm? The onee-san from last night! Hi!"

Levia had been living in Fuyuki city for those past years, and as a result of that he had picked up some of the japanese ways of talking. It wasn't a bad influence so Tamako left it be.

Caster made a light bow toward him. She wasn't so tactless as to not show gratitude to her helper.

"I thank you again for saving me and giving me another chance. I has made a contract with Master Tamako and now working here under her. Please take care of me."

"Oh! Good for you onee-san! No need to thank me though? You came here by yourself yes? Take care of me too!"

Making good impression was important. Especially when the other person was an extraordinary existence like a gigantic dragon with eye twice as big as your body.

"You can call me Caster. If there is anything you want me to help with, don't hesitate to ask, I will be happy to assist you master Levia."

"Um, um,…"

"What is it, master Levia?"

"You know, calling me master is weird! You should only call my master as master? Well, just call me Levia? Yeah, call me Levia."

"Eh? But…"

Tamako also added in, being that she was also uncomfortable with being call Master all the time.

"Caster, you should listen to him. And call me Tamako too, I also don't like being called Master all day."

Being persuaded by the both of them, Caster had nothing to say. She too wasn't keen on calling other master so it worked for her either way.

"Oh, by the way Tamako-nee! Master is in the city! She was playing with a purple hair girl when my friend passed by."

By his friend he meant the dog of his gang. They were like a small network for him these days. Perhaps they somehow leveled up too? Well, that wasn't important.

"Ah, is that so? Thank you Levia."

Tamako petted him with a kind smile of an older sister. With nothing left to say, they all returned to do their thing.

The magic circle for summoning heroic spirit was quickly dismantled and analyzed by Caster. Being as Tamako was not too familiar with the magecraft of this world but with her bits and pieces of the summoning magic from the tier system, an entirely different kind of summoning circle was slowly taken shape.

Their purpose was to connect to the throne of heroes without borrowing the power of the Grail. By doing so, there would be no influence from the Grail on the heroic spirit that was summon. The matter of mana wasn't a problem to begin with. What with that ridiculous amount of mana Tamako possessed!

Despite their speed of understand the summoning circle, Tamako insisted on taking their time to improve the new one further. What she wanted was a stable way to connect to the throne, not the summoning of hero itself.

Caster must admit that their work was going very well. With a pace like that she might be able to join the war and get the Grail for herself.

They continued to exchange theories till noon. Everything was fine and good then suddenly Tamako stopped telling her theory, her expression didn't change but a heavy and serious aura had replaced the warm and relax air around her.

"What happened Tamako?"

"An intruder."

"!"

Hearing the word 'intruder' made her remember the dream.

Who could pass through the barrier? No way was any Servant capable of that.

Caster was kind of nervous, wondering if there perhaps was another existence like Tamako.

The two of them walked to the front of the shrine and watched the gate.

Caster might not know because she was invited to the shrine but any and all intruders, regardless of whoever they were or whatever they came for, would be eliminated. Unless Siriel told otherwise, there would be no exception.

Slow steps were echoing the yard as the intruder moving up the stone stair. Tamako was standing still with her normal posture, no sight of any kind of disturbance in her mind, a ready stance to 'receive' guest.

"Tamako, do I need to do anything?"

Caster was sure she weren't need but she still asked to see if there was a need for her to show her ability.

"No. Protecting the Devil's Abode was Levia's and my duty. You can fight in other occasions if you want though."

With that answer, Caster gave out a sigh and retreated back a few steps to watch the fight.

When the intruder revealed themselves, Caster felt confused.

Eh? What is that?

Two deep red lights shone brightly in the sockets for eyes, even in the middle of the day. The thing was covered in a dark garb with intricate lining.

Nothing could be seen except the figure seemed to be slim and fit. Overall it looked like a man.

His steps were heavy, leaving slightly dented marks on the stones and earth.

The ground here looks pretty tough too.

While thinking about trivial things, Caster watched the strange man every movements.

But the moment he opened his mouth to say something…

"My master wa-"

Without being able to finish his sentence, his upper body from the waist up turned into smoke and disappeared. The lower half quickly jumped to the side avoiding a giant red lighting struck at his previous spot. The sky hadn't even got a bit of cloud.

Caster looked with wide eyes at the sudden turn of event. Just a moment ago, she thought they were about to talk it out and then lightning struck out of nowhere! But that red lightning, she had seen it in the dream, which meant Tamako had attacked.

Looking at the lower half that was about to jump to the tree line by the wall, there were electrical parts spilling out from the opening. Metal frame that was covered by plated armor, sparks that were flying from the swaying cords. No doubt the thing was inorganic.

As the machine thing jumped, a big ball of red lightning appeared in its path ensuring instant erasure.

But an unexpected thing happened, the orb of red lightning was dispersed by a barely visible hexagonal prism barrier that covered the thing.

Caster thought that it would be able to escape but the barrier that was protecting it was suddenly locked in place and imploded violently compressing everything inside into a super-critical stage.

Soon after, as a result of the compression and the super-critical state of the material, a small nuclear explosion occurred making the whole barrier looked like a small sun.

The thing exploded but was contained by a new barrier made by Tamako. All the force and energy rushed to the sky in a column. The radiation was splendidly absorbed by the barrier.

With the intruder gone, Tamako started to walk back into the shrine. Caster quickly followed after.

"May I ask a few question?"

"What is it Caster?"

"What was that thing? And what did you do?"

Still looking ahead, Tamako answered after a short pause.

"That was a summoned being, an Automaton called Destroyer, it is stronger than a Hanzo if you want to relate to something."

"What! There is something like that? It doesn't look like it belong to this era."

Caster commented while thinking with a shocked look. With the vague knowledge of the modern era, she deducted that the human's technology level wasn't high enough to make something that advance. And that machine was summoned? From where?

Even though the battle was short-live, she was able to generally grasp the capability of the Destroyer. If it wasn't instant-kill by the first move of Tamako then it was really something to beware of.

"Can you tell me what did you do back there?"

Hearing the question, Tamako let out a small giggle. She looked a bit proud of herself. All her strength belonged to her Mistress, and due to her guidance she got more ways to use her power and to become the Tamako today.

"You know, Caster, I am a master of illusion and barrier. Standing before me, even your existence is an illusion. The reason that Automaton was able to run was due to that [Anti-Mana Barrier] it put up in time. But using a barrier in front of me is suicidal if you don't have equal or higher mastery than me. The fission explosion at the end was just the aftermath."

Her knowledge on modern science wasn't too deep but she seriously studied what her Mistress told her to take note of.

She took a glance at Caster to see why she suddenly went quiet. Caster looked a bit off-putting but all else seemed to be fine.

Decided that it was nothing Tamako sat down at her previous seat on the floor in the main hall. She immediately contacted her Mistress with [Message], she had been compiling information in her head while walking back.

["Mistress, there is urgent news."]

["Something happened, Tamako?"]

["There was an intruder. An Automaton – Destroyer. There is a high probability of other Yggdrasil habitants appeared in this world."]

["Neat! So what are they doing?"]

["They actively sent high level summon here, let's assume this is a hostile force. And with this timing when the Grail War happened I think they are involved with this event. Also there are a lot of outsiders in the city recently, most of them had already been terminated by Levia but maybe there are some from Yggdrasil that could hide -["OK, STOP!"]- from him…"]

["I will leave the planning to you! You are to act as the master of the house when I am absent right? So just do it like before. If you need me then call me. Love you~"]

["Ah, wait-"]

Tamako sighed at the unfinished report.

Well, it's just like her.

When she was about to discuss thing with Caster, another [Message] coming up.

["Uhm, Tamako… I forgot to mention earlier but I am about to make blondie here fire up. Maybe you should control the damage a bit?"]

["…"]

["Nn? Tamako?"]

["Where are you Mistress?"]

["The river bank. Come quick! My hands are itchy!"]

Despite her love and loyalty, a headache is a headache. Her Mistress wasn't so magnanimous as to care for collateral damage. If she called her in, the city could be about to explode.

No, it was a sure thing, wasn't it?

"Caster, I am going to the city for a while. Want to come?"

"Eh? Why so sudden? I am going too!"

Her Mistress wanted to protect Shirou, she could see that. In truth, she was a bit jealous that the boy got Siriel's attention so much. She wanted her Mistress come back and spoil her too.

After looked up the hill with extra curses and layers security, they departed to the city, Caster in her black rope and Tamako in her usual shrine maiden clothes.

The sky had begun to change, a noisy day for sure.

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Under a cloudy sky, there was something that wasn't mean for the citizens to see. A young man was standing still and watching a tied-up beauty, her clothes wasn't even clothes, they were just big bandage wrapping around the body, not leaving much for imagination.

At a distant from them, a pair of beautiful and elegant women were observing the situation. They looked like cosplayers from a street over.

"Tamako, should we help her?"

"No, if we do she would be mad at us."

"But she is…"

Caster looked concernedly at the dilemma her Master's Mistress was in. When she first laid eyes on Siriel, a sudden dismaying and dangerous sense filled her mind. It was as if she was about to be eaten by a dangerous beast.

Her appearance was also a bit different from the dream. She looked like a demonic elf if she had to say.

"Don't worry! Even an army of two thousands of my level couldn't kill her you know."

"Wh-Wha, really? Well, I guess she is your Mistress after all."

Two thousands of Tamako? She couldn't imagine. What kind of place had she got herself into?

They then continue to watch on as the young man pulled out Ea. Tamako decided that a wall-type barrier was best here. Let all the power rush up to the sky was the most efficient way to minimum the mana used, just in case someone of her level showed up.

Her barrier was no simple barrier. At her level, one could call her barrier a boundary between realities. Add to that was the supported artifacts to make the barrier self-maintained which were planted by the Shadow Demons she summoned.

The situation at the river bank was heating up. The golden hair young man was making a tear in reality with his strange sword. Everything was sucking up in by the tornado of energy, but there was Tamako's barrier so the outside of the battlefield was safe.

Seeing Siriel being throw into that void made Tamako knitted her brows but didn't do anything.

"That is a Noble Phantasm, so he is a Servant? Is your Mistress alright?"

"She is fine, but she plays around too much."

Caster stopped caring about the anomaly called Mistress and focus on the Servant.

What is that sword? Who is he? Each of his weapons looks like a Noble Phantasm.

The young man waited for the rift to close up and turn to the two of them.

He walked briefly over in his golden armor. On his face plastered an arrogant attitude.

Caster was on guard but didn't move as her Master wasn't doing anything either.

"Well, look here. A Master and her Servant. How brave of you to stand before me."

With her normal refreshing expression, Tamako looked straight at his eye.

"You should not concern yourself with us."

"It is not something for you to decide."

He could not sense any power from Tamako, so naturally he assumed she was a normal magus. She was different from her Mistress, the power she showed on was always suppressed and masked with powerful abilities.

So sure of himself, he took a closer look at her beautiful face and figure, completely disregarding the battlefield behind him.

Drifting around her was an allure that was indescribable, a bit of it also let out from her Servant. Dignify posture, powerful equipment (suppressed), peerless beauty, and that gaze… he could sense an unwavering will that wouldn't bow down to anyone. Above all, he found hidden within those clear gem-like eyes was an innocence and purity he had never seen before.

"Such a fine specimen in this wrecked era. I want you. State your name and come to me, I can give you everything that you could ever ask for. Your life is guaranteed to be in luxury by my side."

It took a few moment for Tamako to absorb what he said, but she was even more confused after she did.

"Eh? What is he talking about so suddenly Caster?"

Caster was standing there amazed at the development. She was completely ignored, but that was fine. Actually she was not fine! What woman could be fine after being ignored like that? Well, Tamako was eye-catching, standing next to her was her own fault.

But then seeing her confusion like that… really, who could have thought she was that clueless about this kind of thing?

She should give a hand here, right?

"You are a Servant, a heroic spirit. What are you doing going around proposing like that?"

"Don't speak out of turn, mongr-"

A strong earthquake liked someone smashing the ground with a sky scrapper quickly came and quickly went. Small tears appeared in space. An inescapable dread filled the air then a pouting voice reverberated all around.

"Hey, hey! Don't hit on my girl! Here, an old man for you to talk to, he has similar way of fighting to you. Take care now, Tamako~!"

Immediately appearing from the circle behind Gilgamesh, was an awe-inspiring old man with white hair and beard. His hair and beard were around the same length, at the middle of his back.

He was donning a white clergy robe that spilled out divinity. His eyes was shadowed by his long hair.

Just as the circle disappeared, a thunderous roar emitted from him. Three pairs of white feathers wings spouted from his back creating a strong shockwave pushing everyone back. His now revealed eyes was bloodshot from rage.

"Kill! Every one of you! DIE!"

Everything around him exploded. Luckily that there was still the barrier Tamako had casted previously or else the city would have to be rebuilt soon.

Tamako had already hugged Caster closely inside her smaller dome-shaped one to avoid the damage. Of course they didn't include Gilgamesh in. He had to fend for himself and took some damage.

The six-wing Angel fly high in the sky and shot his Gatling gun that was suddenly appeared in his hand. The thing was clearly enchanted as multiple runes and magic circles kept repeatedly appearing and disappearing. His target was… everything in sight. The area looked like it was being carpet bombing.

"I, WILL NOT, SELL, ANYTHING‼"

"What the hell is this crap? Damn you savage, are you with that abomination?"

"NO REFUND‼"

Gilgamesh was mad, nothing had gone right for him today. The Angel was focusing on the only one that resisted him, in other word, the King of heroes.

A multitude of swords and lances were launched at the old Angel. Some of them were shot down by the gunfire, the others were bounced off the globular force field protecting him.

"MY WEAPONS ARE BIGGER THAN YOUR‼"

Along with his mad shouting a giant [Gate] was open up in the sky of Fuyuki city. Giant here meant very very big, bigger than Levia's dragon form.

"What in the…"

"Mistress… I will remember this."

With a pout on her face, Tamako overlaid the whole city with a reality wrapping boundary, effectively severed any physical and magical contact with what was about to happen.

Tamako didn't think that the pillars of mana she told Levia to plant this morning were used so soon. The artifacts were Mana Generators to power barrier, for her use only, it was the fruit of her research with her Mistress years ago. A lot of those were used on the hill their shrine resided on. And knowing her Mistress, she guessed that something like this would happen when the Grail War began but not this soon, she barely arranged them this morning!

The boundary she set up was a modified version of her strongest barrier [Boundary of Death] to divide reality. No need to say that it ate a big chunk of her mana pool, and with this scale the consumption was enormous.

When all the Mana Generators were connected, more than half of her mana pool was drained.

Everyone felt the gigantic mana wave of her spell and somewhat grasping what she had done. But they didn't have the time to look or ask as the [Gate] had let out something.

The thing that came out was a long giant metal vessel, a two kilometers space battleship. It had a diameter of about five hundred meters. Completely made of some kind of black, glittering metal with bright golden enchanted lines spread out its length. Giant cannons that didn't look like ballistic weaponry littered everywhere on its body. The design was like a hard-edge centipede.

"M-Master, what is that thing?"

Caster while being hold gallantly by the waist muttered as she looked up at the sky. She had gotten used to asking Tamako about unconventional thing that was related to the shrine's residents, but maybe due to too shocked of the situation, she had reverted to calling her Master.

"If I am not mistaken then that Starship is the Mothership of his fleet."

"Hah ! ? His fleet? By the way what is that Angel?"

"He is a summoned merchant."

"Is that so… wait, a merchant?"

Caster began to stop caring but then weird thing kept popping up one after another.

Tamako felt that explaining more was too troublesome so she stopped to keep control of the battle.

Seeing as her Mistress playing around this much meant that she didn't intend to kill that young man, she hadn't got his name yet. Should she help him? No way. But if this kept up, when the fleet of battleships got summoned, he was as good as dead.

Gilgamesh was continuously launching everything toward the Angel and warding enchanted bullets with one of his sword in hand. Sweats accumulated on his head as he couldn't keep up with the Gatling gun rate of fire and got blasted around. Thanked to his armor and shields from his treasures he was still safe. Even though he had overwhelming might with his Noble Phantasm, his body was just that of a B or A rank Servant. With the rapid pace of the battle, he couldn't use his Ea at all.

The cannons on the Mothership were done charging and began to fire particle beams at Gilgamesh one after another. He dodged franticly while his weapons intercepted some of the beams. Even divine arms would be weathered down and destroyed under the constant force of the particle cannons so lesser grade weapons wouldn't last long.

"I advise you to retreat. You have bad compatibility against that type of opponent."

He glared at Tamako while dodging death beams. He knew that already but…

"Me? Running away? Don't be ridiculous! I, am, the Greatest King!"

"But you are not the greatest warrior."

A beam also aimed at Tamako's head but her barrier casually negated it.

"Are you aware that you are telling a king to run away in shame, girl? And my treasures are endless, I will exhaust his resource soon."

"His resource is limitless. But pride huh, so troublesome."

If he insisted so then she would leave him be. Well, there was time limit for summon without a vessel, that merchant would disappear in no time though she didn't know how long because it was her Mistress that summoned it.

The merchant had gone inside the force field of the Mothership and changed his weapon. Now in each hand a bazooka, he held them under his armpits and fired furiously. The rockets streamed out like machine gunfire, mythical runes glowing on the side of the bazookas. Limitless ammo and madness, a nightmare on the battlefield even for the level 100 player. The force field was generated through high level magi-tech therefore only greater level power could penetrate it.

For Gilgamesh, the decreased rate of fire was actually to his advantage. Quite lucky that the merchant was in a mad rage and wasn't capable of logical tactic.

He was able to use Ea again. His Gate of Babylon continuously shot out A rank and above weapons. He himself had equipped a few defensive articles that highly mitigated all kind of damage.

Even when in a state of madness, the Angel merchant noticed that the irritation hadn't disappear yet. With a roar that had gradually become beastlike, he dematerialized his weapons yet again. But this time he didn't take out new one, he rose his hands high up. Mana gathered and form multiple circles that stacked up on each other behind his head like halos of light. From big to small, they were arranged like a targeting board.

Deeming that the circles meant bad news, Gilgamesh quickly fired off a torrent of red violent energy from his Sword of Rupture toward the Angel.

The power of that attack easily reached A+ Noble Phantasm and tearing space, but all that accomplished was making the Mothership stop attacking and focus on the force field to defense.

Gritting his teeth, Gilgamesh could only increase the power of his attack in hope of destroying the damn thing. He didn't have enough time to make the attack that swallowed Siriel. Even if his treasure could keep him from fatal damage, he was still blasted around if he got hit by any of that bullets.

On the sideline were Tamako and Caster who watched on and commented occasionally.

Tamako was quite impressed by his effort. The method was quite brutish but that could be because he was in an agitated state by the bad compatibility or potential humiliation.

"Hey Tamako, shouldn't we do something? That look quite dangerous."

"Well… It seems he is summoning all his force with that much preparing time. I need to confirm with my Mistress first before interfering in this fight."

"How do we-"

"Heh! I don't mind if you fight him. In fact, it would be awesome to watch. But I promised Levia to let him fight you see? He has been nagging me for a while now."

Caster startled at the sudden reply at her back and turned around. But she regretted it immediately, a feeling like being watched by a vicious predator assaulted her.

Sitting with a crossed leg on a comfortable and expensive-looking black sofa was the girl in the dream, with a few differences like the elf ears and demonic red eyes but it was her no doubt. She was still wearing those skimpy clothes from before.

"Hey sit down you two! It is spacious!"

Siriel was sitting in the center so obviously the two of them had to sit down on both of her sides.

Where does this sofa come from?

Being a bit reluctant to move, Caster was nudged by Tamako to sit. Her Mistress had turned off her [Aura of Dread] so there wouldn't be any negative consequence.

Tamako, sitting on the right side with one hand over the other above her knees, turned to Siriel and pouted.

"Mistress, you meanie! You make a mess again and push it all to me!"

"Bahh! You are reliable. Who am I going to trust more than you?"

With a dismissive laugh, Tamako was put down. The pouting became a bashful smile.

Caster was dumbfounded by their interaction. Her wonderful Master was acting like a teenager!

"So, this is Caster huh? Welcome to the family I guess? The name is Siriel, you can call me big sis."

She had a pleasant smile on when turning to Caster. But then her mood changed into a serious one.

"I smell divinity in your soul, and you had pointy ears too. God-kin?"

Caster was surprised and a bit scared at Siriel's perception. She felt like she could die at any moment under that gaze.

She is extremely dangerous!

"Mistress! Don't bully my assistant! Be a little gentler, please."

Tamako reprimanded her creator while pulling on her clothes.

"Hey! It's gonna fall off! These clothes are delicate you know!"

Siriel needed to use both hands to hold on her clothes to prevent herself from being stripped naked by Tamako's strong pull.

The heavy atmosphere was gone but Caster was still nervous. Siriel turned her attention back to her again.

"So? It isn't like I would eat you for answering you know?"

Gulping down her saliva, she answered her question. If they were enemy with each other, Caster might have unleashed her full might from the tension alone.

"I am a descendant of a god."

"Well, that's fine. You know where to find them?"

There was a slight eagerness in her voice. Caster had thought that her origin might cause some problem here. She didn't reveal too much detail about her family to Siriel because of that.

"No, I died away from my family and don't know much about the other gods."

"Aw, too bad."

With a disappointed look, she turned back to watch the battle. Their group of three on a sofa had an unfitting attitude on a battlefield.

The struggle between one mad Angel and one prideful king was at its climax.

There was a gaping hole in the sky above the cloud, the hole was as big as the entire city. All the cloud was pushed into a spiral around the outer edge of the hole. That hole was the empowered [Gate] from the Angel's spell (And a thirty percent buff as Siriel's summon).

Various objects of mysterious origin were expulsing power in the sky and preventing the [Gate] from letting anything out.

"Wow, with all that golden color and a mad opponent, he looks like a hero in the manga!"

"Mistress, he is a heroic spirit. A hero from the past."

He has a flesh body now though. Tamako had analyzed his mana while he was fighting and determined the difference between Caster and him. The information may be of some use in their small project.

"You spoilsport! By the way, Levia couldn't wait any longer and… there."

The place Siriel pointed at was on the other side of the wretched river bank. A small kid with short golden hair who had an outstanding aura appeared. His aura, which had visualized itself as liquefied golden flame with dark red outline, was very eye-catching.

He was running along the river with incredible speed. Every step made a slight tremor with burning crater deeply imprinted on the surface. Cars and light weight objects got blown away from his path. The citizens were already evacuated long since the first sound of Gatling gun opened fire.

Levia made a straight jump toward the starship just as a crack on the artifacts appeared.

The force field was exploded from beneath. The deafening explosion shook the air and made a big ring of shockwave that flew for a few kilometers. Both the Mothership and the Angel were catapulted through the [Gate] above the sky and broke the artifacts that were restraining it at the same time. A Devastator's punch should never be received head on without resolved.

"Who do you think you are to mess with my fight, brat?"

As usual, Gilgamesh inquired the new participant with a hostile tongue. Warily observing the kid-looking mass of raw power on his Vimana that he just took out. If not for Levia's appearance, he may unleash all the nuclear warheads in his arsenal. He hadn't expected the fight to turn out like this.

"Me? I want to fight too when I looked here? But what is that? You have a very cool chair!"

Using [Fly] Levia jumped around Vimana with his innocent tone.

The exited kid was making him irritate, but at least there was no malice or evil in him. A casual stroll had revealed so many variables to his plan. He wasn't supposed to get serious over those rabbles.

As he was about to tell off Levia, the [Gate] had expanded a bit more. The city was now completely covered in shadow.

Tamako looked up at Levia and Gilgamesh for a moment and judged that they would be fine. She then swept her gaze across the horizon.

Sound of panic was resounding all around the city. The chaos hadn't started yet but that was only a matter of time.

After not finding what she wanted, Tamako asked her Mistress.

"I can't find any strange disturbance around, which means the enemy has already masked the surrounding mana and has been watching for a while now. Mistress, please be careful."

Suddenly hearing a strange assertion made Caster wary of her surrounding more.

"Well, aren't you improved quite a lot? I will be fine…"

"…"

"Alright, alright! I will wear my divine equipment. Happy now?"

Siriel seriously believed that Tamako was her mom now. What with that condemning glaze?

She didn't obtain some sick ability right? I even felt a pressure from those eyes alone!

"… You do that. Return to the Shrine and don't make any more mess now. This is enough for today."

"Heh… I'll be back."

"No."

"Ku…"

Somehow losing the battle, Siriel made her way back quietly while Tamako sternly looked at her back.

Caster was watching with an incomprehensive look. She felt like Siriel may lash out on both of them but she was unexpectedly obedient. Her Master was even capable of ordering her own Mistress around despite what was shown in the dream.

"Tamako, I didn't think you could do that."

Looking at Caster with a warm smile, she stood up from the sofa and started to walk toward the city, Caster soon followed behind.

"My Mistress may look like that but she loves us, her family. It doesn't seem like she is aware though. And it is easier to manage her mischief this way."

Caster was absentminded by the word 'family' and how Tamako lovingly expressed it.

They both left behind the carnage that was about to happen.

Tamako intended to let the Mage's Association deal with the aftermath, concealing or whatever. Her Mistress and she didn't care less about the revelation of the supernatural to the common mass.

Those who cared should exert themselves and do something about it. Meanwhile she would be able to observed potential enemies and their capability.

The one from Yggdrasil would be left alone for the moment. She needed to keep the city intact.

I may as well restore the damage somewhat. They will have to do the rest themselves.

Despite not liking the idea of helping them, at her core she was created as a kind and caring devil so she had unconsciously giving a helping hand by making it easier for the magi to conceal thing.

The pair of Master and Servant moving like phantom throughout the city as things returned to their pristine condition.

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### Assassin ###

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I am a faceless nobody, the one who succeeded the name Hassan i-Sabbah.

Being an assassin meant that people see me as an inhumane person without remorse. Well, that's fine, because they are right.

But I am not a psychopath. I don't take pleasure in killing.

An assassination is a job for me. It is all work, nothing personal.

My stealth ability is nothing to scoff at, so as my intelligence gathering. I am a master assassin.

I used to believe that my abilities plus the one gained from my class could make me undetectable to anyone as long as I don't attack.

I was wrong.

Last night I met two monsters of monstrous capability.

The two of them looked just like the ninjas of this country.

In the beginning, I thought they were normal humans of this era. So, by using Concealment I sneaked passed them and went to the house where the mana waves started.

I nearly rammed my throat into a blade as I ran to the house.

The figure disappeared as I distanced myself and immerged in the shadow.

Looking up I saw that the two ninjas on the tree were only some kind of decoys. I was fooled by the faked life sign and the stealthy presence of those things.

I passed near a decoy that was inside a wall as I moved from shadow to shadow.

And my life was nearly lost a second times. Three surikens phased by my neck and disappeared into the ground as if butter, without a sound. I had evaded instant death but bleed profusely. The artery was severed along with half of my neck.

Turning back only to find that the decoy was actually real as there was nothing on the wall anymore.

With the brief encounter I vanished and returned to my Master as ordered.

I had judged that if I advanced any further I wouldn't be able to retreat anymore. I had luckily escaped death twice, I felt the enemies wouldn't fail a third times.

They were seriously monsters. I could only see half of the figure when the blade was about to pierce my throat. Only the Founder may perhaps went head to head with them.

Well, a battle of professional assassins will end in a single landed hit. Or more like, there won't be a battle in the first place.

The failure last night really hurt my pride, but my Master told me to not mind it, they were beyond my ability.

I will not dwell on it, but my Master kept smiling forever since then.

Today too, I receive a new task. It is tagging along with one of his subordinates to scan the city.

My job is to detect any Servant and report to the subordinate.

By the way, my co-worker with me in this mission is a machine, an Automaton according to my Master.

She looks just like a human. With waist-long white hair, doll-like face, slim body and short maid outfit she is easily mistaken as an idol in this era.

Can the human make something like her? Of course not! I can already tell that she is a monster on her own! Who is my Master really?

"Assassin, please stay close to me. I will activate my [Void Field] now."

"Right. Am I really needed?"

"Don't be like that. Your concealment skill isn't for show. We will stack up on each other. The opponents this time mustn't be underestimated at all cost."

Her name is Eins. She lacks expression in all her conversation despite the content of her speech. Each has their own trait I guess. The opponents she is talking about was the people related to the two last night.

Oh right, she is also an assassin like me… but on another realm of power. Master told me to get used to it. He said a being trained to do something couldn't be compared to a being born to do that same thing.

I still compare us regardless. It is frustrating for me who was the leader of Assassins. I also grasp that she is far stronger than the two ninjas last night. Were beings like those hidden in my time too? I don't really know.

While moving rapidly between buildings, the sunny sky suddenly changes to cloudy and a wave of uneasiness sweeps pass me.

With multiple layers of concealment, we arrive at a dark room on a tall building that is facing the river where Eins determines to be the center of this strange feeling.

Eins takes out a bunch of scrolls and opens them one by one. The opened scrolls are burned up by a magical flame and magecraft upon magecraft activate all around us.

"What are those?"

"Preparation for anti-divination spells, counter divination spells, instant death spells, abnormal condition spells plus [False Data: Life], [False Data: Mana], [Anti-Life Cocoon] and defensive spells."

"…"

Well, not my expertise.

Without further conversation, we both look at the river bank through the window.

The place is void of people except two individuals confronting each other.

The man attack first using countless Noble Phantasms like disposable bullets. He is surely a Heroic Spirit but what kind of overpowered ability is that? How can he possess so many Noble Phantasms?

I thought the match was decided when the girl didn't move and received everything but she remains unscratched, save for her staff!

The fight escalates quickly in scale. The river bank is no more. And now a rift in space is sucking in everything around it. Finally the girl is pushed inside the rift and it closes up.

Eins and I are very far from there but I still felt the crazy power of those Noble Phantasms. The sirens in the city are screeching nonstop from the sudden weather rampage.

There are two more people arrive just now.

One is a Servant, the other must be the Master. What reckless people!

"I can't see through the miko and the monster just now. They must be from Yggdrasil. Assassin, don't make any move."

You don't need to tell me that. I am not a fighter. And by monster, do you mean the girl that was sucked in just now? Aren't you all monster?

Well, I don't know about this Yggdrasil but I will remember it. There seem to be a lot of people from mysterious origin all of a sudden.

Just as we are exchanging some information, an earthquake happens. A girly but dreadful voice reverberates the air for a brief moment then the battlefield reignites its fire and wrath.

A new fighter again. The Angel rises up to the sky and uses a futuristic gun to rain down enchanted bullets on everything in his sight. Including here!

I am about to jump out but Eins stands in front of me and catch the bullets with her two hands in rapid movement. I am pretty sure now that she is a monster among monsters.

The building we are in took a few hits and shakes like it about to collapse.

A giant black hole opens up in the sky and an equally huge metal thing coming out of it. The Angel keeps screaming nonsense while firing off rockets together with the energy beam of that metal thing.

A monstrous mana wave washes over the city covering it in some kind of invisible film. The bullets collide with this film explode but I can't feel any shockwave.

"This kind of magical presence, is the miko a supreme being like my master?"

"Eins, what is that metal thing?"

Eins looks at me for a moment than returns her attention back at the fight.

"That was a Space Battleship belong to the Dreadnought class, the Mothership of that merchant's fleet. If its main gravitational cannon was to fire, the city would be gone. Though I didn't know that he could be hostile."

"A merchant? Really…"

"This is enough, let's return to master. Any longer and we will be detected by that miko, we are in her barrier."

What now, you should say that sooner if she is that dangerous.

Eins takes out a scroll and opens it like before. A smaller black hole like that one in the sky earlier appears.

I follow her through the hole reluctantly. In an instant, we are before the main base's entrance.

I have never come here but I have heard about it from the subordinates reporting to my Master. This place seems to be in Europe from what they said.

The surrounding seem to be a mountain range with steep and rocky terrain.

The entrance is embedded to the side of a ravine and hidden by cliffs and big rocks. Even the door was made of stone.

We move inside after Eins said the password in a string of beeping sound. Now she looks like a machine.

The inside is… as expected of the place a machine like her coming from. Straight corridors with smooth surface reflecting the light from the ceiling. We are being scanned when walking through the door by purple lasers, guns are pointing at me from the walls but retract immediately. Eins must have done something.

Including the entrance, there are four corridors, each has an elevator at the end with Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3 written on the door.

Eins heads for Section 2 door, opens it up and steps inside. She speaks the peeping sound again and the wall before us opens up too.

"Is it alright to bring me here?"

"You may be killed if I left you in the city alone."

I am offended by that! But I won't voice my displeasure. If I hide, Servants may not find me. But I can't say anything about those beings.

She leads me through a long series of corridors again and at the end we are teleported.

"You have returned with Assassin. What happened?"

Before me is my Master? He looks nothing like the plain human I know. Ash-color skin, lean muscular frame, bright purple eyes, short black hair and two big horns on the side of head. He sits on the throne make of metal, cables and wire with a kingly black coat.

He wears big silver belt with black leather trousers and black metal armored boots. His chest is laid bare but with his handsome face, it isn't looking vulgar at all. He looks like a Demon King for sure.

Eins gives him a mechanical box. I feel mana pulsing from his hand for a moment.

"I see. Good job you two. Though I didn't think that the merchant could be used to attack. Can I do it?"

He is pondering out loud as always but seeing this form does it is a strange feeling.

He immediately uses some kind of magecraft with his hand pointing out. A circle appears on the ground before him. From there a beautiful girl with long white hair and blue eyes appears wearing a himation like ancient Greece. She unfurls her six white wings on her back making a glittering spectacle.

She makes an elegant bow toward my Master.

"How can I be of service?"

"Can you go fight something for me?"

He asks her straight away with expectant eyes. But the Angel makes a troublesome face while looking at him.

"I apologize for I cannot do that. We merchants will never fight as it is against our creed."

"Well, I knew that you guy would just dispel yourself if attacked but look at this."

He throws the box to her as it gently drifts to her hands.

"T-This is…"

"So, how about it? He was able to do it so can't you do it too?"

"No, he was afflicted with [Madness], but we are immune to mind attack… I don't understand."

I respect her for the loyalty toward her creed. My Master is frowning though.

"Then you can go."

"Eh? Don't you want to buy anything?"

"Just go, I don't want to waste money."

"*sigh* Thank for your patronage."

She disappears into particles while feeling depressed. I feel for her, I kind of understanding the rage of the old Angel now.

"How could they do it but I couldn't? The situation looks kind of dangerous now. They seem to be hostile when I sent a personal to their base too. I remembered that miko's face, she swiftly took out my Destroyer without a sweat…"

He is in his own world again. It seems like things got serious.

"Alright, I have decided! Eins! Tell Zwei and Drei to prepare a big army for guild raid just in case. We will wait and see until the end of this Grail War. If we can't establish a good relationship with them then it's war. No one shall stand in my way in this third world!"

He is on fire, literally. It is kind of hot so I back off a bit.

So he is the same kind of existence as those people huh? By the look of it, this Yggdrasil is another world too.

But those kind of thing don't concern me. I will serve my lord regardless. Order and principle to live by.

I am already dead though.

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End of chapter.

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Note: I am still drown in work so the pace is slow. Hope I get a vacation soon, can't even play game you know!

I completed my script of this story too by the way. Just so you know that I don't write this story in blind as I go.

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About Gilgamesh, I try to sound arrogant but kind of fail. So sorry for that. His ability to grasp the nature of thing was talent from birth right? Like super advanced perception?

The merchant will have more detail in the next chapter but I can tell you that it was from the Valkirie Downfall update pack. It is just trivia.

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Try to see you soon.

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