Boyzilla: I like this title, inheritor is a logical term for the designation of the Victor of the Holy Grail War, the bearer of the Regalia.

Akasha Bloodriver: yes, you van se a true bloodbath in my last production.

Daemon of Crawling Tentacles: the response at this question is in this chapter.

Xirons20: Thank You, most of your questions have response in my precedents interventions. "Hakuno, will invoke more servants" : Yes.

Note of the author: a new chapter, you will not sea Hakuno in this part, but you will see a great battle like in the legends, a new " siege of Troy", a new "Mahabharata", a war with powerful heroes with divines blessing and weapons !

Light and Darkness

Otawa Bay, Japan

The night had been full of emotions for the crew of submarine I.402 and for all the inhabitants of Yokosuka. The battleship Haruna and Kirishima (both Kongo-class) had attacked the fortified harbour in pursuit of the rebel submarine.

This had led to a battle lasting several hours, the ships of the Fog ramming the defenses built by humans like playing games, destroying the batteries of the defensive wall closing the bay, before making a sufficient breach for their passage. The Japanese army had responded to the attack by sending fighter jets. Poor helpless toys! They had all been shot down without even a scratch on the two warships.

Chihaya Gunzou then intervened with the help of the most recent Japanese war submarine, the Hakugei, drawing both battleship into the submerged ruins of the ancient city. After a long battle of attrition, Konaki the commander of the Hakugei had succeeded in trapping the two enemy ships and destroying them by serving as a corrosive torpedoe supplied by Gunzou. He had fired just as the two cruisers had merged into some sort of huge gravitonic cannon. Taken by surprise by the use of a Fog weapon by a "harmless human", Haruna and Kirishima had lost control of their weapon, destabilized by the mini black hole. The chain reaction had backfired against the Mentals Models. The result was the formation of a gigantic sphere of energy, which had consumed the two battleships, disintegrating them into fine dust! The shock wave had resulted in a tidal wave, while the energy flash had seen with the naked eye hundreds of kilometers away, impressing measurement instruments all over the planet. (1)

Resting at the bottom of the bay, the Hakugei was in a bad state. It had received a direct impact from an energy shot that pierced it from side to side, fortunately without touching any vital system. She had also been hit several times by near-miss, her torpedo defense system (fast-firing guns) having managed to prevent her from being hit directly.

- Can you hear me, bridge?

Commander Konaki worked like a convict to plug a gap through which the sea poured. Many sailors and officers around him worked with water up to his ankles. But as he worked to save his ship, he continued to learn about what was going on outside the bruised submarine.
In his earpiece, an officer of the deck replied:

- Yes sir... we can hear you.

- Status report!

The officer replied:

- We don't have the details yet, but most of the bridge has stopped function. The engine has been completely shut down. We're running the bare essential with the backup battery.

Being near the explosion site of the two cruisers had finish of the Hakugei. She could not resume the sea by her own means. Fortunately, she was close to the shipyard that built her.

Konaki focused on the essentials:

- Prioritize the engine! How's the sonar ?

Although there is little chance that enemy ships survived the explosion, he needed proof, not speculation. The officer on deck responded diligently:

- The sonar is working... We can hear something that sounds like a giant waterfall... but other than that...

Konaki shook his head. He had seen Haruna and Kirishima open the ocean to snatch the I.402 from the seabed like Moses had done from the Red Sea. The open wound in the ocean closed.

- Captain, this is the Bridge!

Hearing the officer's emergency charge voice, Konaki answered immediately:

- What is it?

- We have just received a emergency message from the base! It says:" Yokosuka port command has confirmed the sinking of both Fog's battleships." Captain...! Captain! We did it! We've sunk both of them! We're the first man-made vessel... to have sunk fog battleship!

Everywhere, on board of the Hakugei simple sailors and officers embraced in the joy of the moment. Humans could beat the Fog!

Governments around the world were sending congratulatory messages to Japan. China and Russia were proposing to send economic aid. The U.S.A. renewed its intention to help Japan develop the vibration warhead. They immediately sent a space transport with emergency aid.


One battle ended, another began.

Because war never dies.


Austrian Tyrol,

A battle was raging. A battle as the Earth had not known since the end of the Age of the Gods. Two armies collided in the encased valley. Their attacks collapsed large chunks of rock and caused landslides. The trees were cut by swords. The arrows fired were impregnated with poisons unknown to mortals. The maces exploded, digging spheres of fire into the ranks of the fighters. The lances were burning with red energy.

That was Roland in Roncevaux.

Hector opposite Achilles under the walls of Troy.

Gilgamesh and Enkidu facing Humbaba.

Coming from the bottom of the valley, the coalition army of Iskandar and Darius III were struggling to move forward even though they were slowly repelling the enemies programs of Velber.

At the center of the melee, a Gatekeeper struck the Macedonian soldiers who surrounded him with great blows. The colossus, with his hands replaced by maces heads, broke the pikes, threw men into the sky, or throw them to the ground. However, the soldiers of the Ionian Hetairoi were not weakening. They impaled the giant that collapsed before crumbling into purple particles.

The loss of this powerful unit caused a breach in the formation of Velber's troops, immediately exploited by the phalangists. Their disciplined formations had no trouble repelling the effigy armed with swords and axes that fought without military formation.

Suddenly she jumped among them, iron maiden wielding a multicolored sword. Twirling, bouncing, sprinting among them, her blade depicted rainbows that mowed down lives, slaughtering Macedonians by the dozens.

Altera stopped and released the power of her blade. Three jets of ice erupt in front of her, freezing a wave of soldiers that was rising towards her.

In a moment, the course of the battle was reversed. It was the turn of the Macedonians of Iskandar to bend. Their formations had just been driven in. Following their leader, effigies and Aggressor cut into pieces the disorganized phalangists.


A few kilometers away, a tent sheltered the Q.G. of the Austrian troops deployed in the valley. The officers gathered around the computer consoles displayed a deathly silence. The images sent by the drones exceeded anything they had ever experienced.

"Someone wake me up and tell me I'm dreaming". The voice of a technician, squeezing against him a file he wanted to give to a major, summed up the impression of everyone present.

A dream.

A nightmare.

Something that cannot exist.

However, the drones continued to film what could not be. The major took the file from the technician. It consisted of a simple cardboard shirt. There was a red sticker marked "confidential" and a simple name "Hakuno Kishinami".


The fight dragged on. Both sides had given up hope of a quick victory. The warriors of the two kings, the minor heroes and the undead, individually outskilled the effigies used by the star of destruction. However, Velber could call in more people.

On the left wing, the forehead looked like a huge melee, a succession of individual battles. Swords, axes, and spears collided in a constant noise. Here and there, in-fighting men collapsed before disappearing, as if never existed. Darius III skeletal warriors, his eternal slaves, trying to advance toward a near Aggressor. For around him, effigies appeared unceasingly, filling up the losses in the ranks of the army of Velber. If he can't be destroyed, the Immortal will be overwhelmed by the sheer number of adversary.

One Immortal collapsed suddenly struck by an electric flash, another by his side, others... The shots came from the sky. Winged effigies hovered over the battlefield. They fired electricity with deadly precision at Persian fighters. Their action precipitated the debacle of the bodyguards of the King of Kings.

At that moment a shriek shook the valley.

There in the front row of the reinforcements, marching towards the first line, advanced a war elephant covered with paint representing eyes.

Darius III stood on his neck, waving in each hand a war mace with the head wrapped in green flames.

Suddenly tentacles of darkness sprang from beneath the feet of his terrifying mount. They were covered with bones and skeletal arms came out. They fell among the fighters, hitting the Effigies on the ground as in the air.

Darius III Codomannus lauched his mounting forward. With a powerful thrust, the war elephant broke into the ranks of Velber's armies, leading the assault of the Immortals who came after him. One of the tusks of the elephant impaled the Aggressor which struggled for a moment before dissipating into data purple particles.

Flipping his head back, the King of Kings howled his triumph...


Pacific Ocean,

The gigantic battleship Yamato was moving into the deep sea. Protected by an energy bubble, the Yamato Mental Model was looking at a screen that was floating right in front of her. There was a terrestrial confrontation between two armies wielding primitive weapons: swords, axes, spears, pikes and bows. However, the clash in the Austrian Alps gave off enough energy for its sensors to pick up a sudden explosion of power.

Yamato 2, dressed in a kimono, manipulated various virtual screens whirling around her. There were enlargements of the battle, still photographs showing various types of fighters, calculations, algorithms or graphs.

She spoke out:

- The images broadcast by Austria to its European allies and other states of the world show no signs of manipulation. It is not a question of digital reconstruction, but rather of slightly delayed shooting.

Yamato 3 turned to her sister, who was also surrounded by virtual screens showing scenes from the battle:

- The Macedonian soldiers using Macedonian sarissa about 4 to 6 meters longs, the short one in first line, the long ones to the rear. It's the standard armament and formation for the phalanx from Phillip II and Alexander's era. It's historically accurate.

- Thank you.

Yamato 1 frowned, her only reaction to the enormity of the revelations made to her. In less than forty-eight hours, the supreme flagship of the Fog had been forced to admit things that would have driven more fragile minds to madness.

Yamato could not deny what she saw since the analyses showed that there was no will to deceive her. If it was true, then what did it mean? By Hakuno Kishinami, the Fog had learned a number of things about the Moon Cell Automaton. It was an alien computer installed on the moon of a parallel world. The video sent by the Austrians to their allies - hacked by the Fog- made them discover another mysterious entity... Velber, the star of destruction who returned every twelve thousand years to attack the Earth!

The Fog could not remain neutral and Yamato doubted that we could reason with an entity like Velber...


Austrian Tyrol:

- Light at the other end of the world- conquer! Via expugnatio!

The spectacle that offered itself to the cameras of the drones was probably to finish breaking down the last barriers of rationality among the spectators.

A war charriot fired by two oxen had just appeared... over the battlefield. Iskandar laugh while the lightning generated by his wheels hit the ranks of the Enemies programs below:

- Gordius Wheel!

Amid the roar of the oxen, the chariot lost altitude and eventually landed in the middle of the enemy ranks. In a powerful trampling, Gordius Wheel crossing the field of battle, the bulls killing by horns and hooves, the chariot by is wheels, and this physical damage strike simultaneously at multiple magical lightning bolts.

Iskandar's target was a plant. He rushed at it for the first time, making it take the full power of his charge before turning back. The strange machine that created the Agressors had fallen to the ground and was still surrounded by electric shocks. His second charge was victorious.

Around the Conqueror, more of an hundred of Enemies Programs were loosening into purple particles, including three gatekeepers. The victory pushed the colossus with the red beard to leave in a great burst of laughter that made his passenger grimace.

The latter was strangely dressed in a three-piece suit, with a tie and cufflinks. He certainly not wore a Macedonian outfit under his elegant red overcoat. His hair was long and black.

- You still haven't lost the habit of blowing up my eardrums, Rider!

He choked like a "friendly" slap almost took his shoulder apart.

- Waver, you have gained a few centimeters and a little courage, but you still have to get used to the noise of the battle.


Iskandar's victory had not escaped Altera. This time, the balance of the battle had just shifted in favor of her enemies. With the loss of a plant his troops did not renew themselves so quickly, and the individual superiority of his opponents gave them the advantage.
Pointing the knob of her sword to the sky, she appealed to her Noble Phantasm:

- Teardrop Photon Ray!

A scarlet ray sprang from the pommel and struck the sky where several luminous pentacles unfolded. Then a ray fell from space, struck magic circles and found itself amplified into a formidable laser fire that struck the earth, in the middle of the ranks of the coalized army.
The result was a formidable explosion that swept through the ranks of the Immortals she was fighting. Without even allowing herself a moment of rest, the champion of Velber jumped forward, crossing a vitrified and smoking landscape. The enemies were dead. Hundreds of fighters had fallen in a moment.

In the center was a crater... and Darius III, Altera's primary target.

His war elephant had been destroyed, but he stood up, waving his two masses still wrapped in green flames, and stormed.

Unfortunately for him, the King of Kings was far from coming out intact from Altera's most powerful attack. He remained potent, but his blows did not carry. A veritable bonfire, Altera dodged while jumping, rolling, and retaliated at every opportunity.

Pierced with blows and scrapes, the Berserker fell on one knee.

While Velber's envoy lifted the Glaive of Mars to strike the fatal blow, a thunderbolt forced her to jump from a distance.

- Enough!

Altera looked up to find out who had called her. Not surprisingly, it was Iskandar. Gordius Wheel again made contact with the ground, heading for the king of the Huns, who courageously faced the charge of the oxen of Zeus, surrounded by electric shocks.

She raised her sword over her shoulder and slashed in front of the divine chariot. A rift opened, a rift in which stars could be seen on the dark side of the cosmic void. Gordius Wheel disappeared!

However, Altera merely rotated slightly to look at Iskandar who had just touched the ground, holding by the collar of his overcoat a purple Waver Velvet was shaking of indignation:

- Twice you lose your chariot in a frontal attack! This might be the time to start using subtlety, don't you think?!

The King of Conquerors scratched his scalp in a bored air:

- I would think about it. Finally, it gives me the opportunity to fight the King of the Huns with a sword in my hand.

He laughed, drawing his own sword, and then making great strides towards Altera.


Aristeia

It's an old word. An old Greek word... a word that was ancient in the time of classic Greek... in fact this is a word of Homeric Greek. In a dramatic poetry like Iliad, a hero lives for the battle finest moment (Aristos is the Greek word for "best").

The meeting of Altera and Iskandar was the Aristeia of the two heroes. The very meaning of their heroic existence. Altera was almost single-handedly routs the Immortal guard, and defeated Darius III. She was a mighty foe for the king of Macedonia. But also, the rampage of Gordius Wheel -empowered by Zeus Himself- was the mark of a true hero, and Iskandar was also a formidable enemy for the champion of Velber.

The clash of two heroes of this caliber was an ultimate Aristeia.

Iskandar threw himself forward laughing, Altera conter and soon the two opponents opposed each other in a dazzling display of fencing.

Every time the blades collided with energetic flashes, sparks shone. Blows that missed their target would open the floor. The two opponents were of equal strength, but faster and more agile, Altera attacked from all sides, twirling, striking, withdrawing, to launch under another angle.

Quickly, Iskandar began to retreat, finding himself forced to defend without being able to strike a blow.

When she threw an attack on the King of Conqueror that froze him, it released into a formidable electric shock. However, Altera returned to the charge and struck his armed arm.

The sword escaped from the fingers of the colossus to sink into the ground several meters away. As the champion of Velber pointed her blade under the throttle of the defeated, Iskandar passed his hand in the hair, looking embarrassed:

- Well, this is my defeat...

Altera imperceptibly lowered the sword of Mars:

- You wanted to test my force; do you recognize that I am stronger than you?

- Yes... for now. But I ask for another chance to undo you! I've just been summoned, and to be honest I haven't regained all my abilities. Look, I have a proposition, Altera.
- The defeated one wants something from me? All right, I guess as the victor I have to listen to you.

- I offer to join you... and Darius too. You do not know the path of the conqueror. Let me teach you. When I regain all my strength, I reserve the right to challenge you again.
- Do you know where Hakuno Kishinami is?

- The Victor of the Moon Cell Grail War? Yes.

- All right, take me to her.


(1) The confrontation is described between chapters 9 and 14 of the manga. I decided not to tell it in detail because it had not been disrupted from the original narrative.


Author Note: You must have found the Fallout Easter's egg by yourself. Otherwise, the appearance of Waver Velvet (adult) has a meaning that you will understand later. Let's just say I find it awkward to make a character appear just when you need it. At least when his incredible knowledge of magic and myths make him useful, no one will wonder where he came from.