AN: I don't own Campione or Fate/Stay Night.

Prologue

Another set of memories. Another Emiya Shirou doomed to become me.

At least this version understands that there are some things( people) million times more worth than a flawed ideal.

Ironically, Alaya will eventually take advantage of one of these important people to turn him into me.

It doesn't matter which path Emiya Shirou takes. Alaya will take advantage of his desire to save people or his desire to save those precious to him.

One way or another Alaya will gain possession of the soul of another me which will fuse with my existence.

It took me an eternity to realize there is no escaping from Alaya's grasp. She will make sure that I can't kill any of my past selves. Even if I did kill them, it wouldn't matter. There are virtually unlimited number of Emiya Shirou in the multiverse. All of them will eventually will be pushed towards the fate of being a counter guardian. One or two dead doesn't matter.

I was dancing on Alaya's palm my entire life. Which means my fate was sealed from the start.

My only solace is that the decisions I took in life( each version of me) were mine and the fact that my ideals weren't wrong. Those weren't influenced by Alaya. She simply adjusted her plans accordingly to acquire my soul.

It has been so long since I stopped counting my time here, trapped within my own soul. My memories have long since mixed up and deteriorated. I can barely differentiate between one lifetime and another now.

I am looking for a way out for a long time now. Each time a piece of my soul is sent somewhere for a job, I try to look for a way to free myself or at least that piece of my soul. I rarely succeed. But it is temporary. As long as the major part of me stays within Alaya's grasp, she will always find the minor pieces of me and bring them back.

Over the tens of thousand of years I spent under Alaya's employ, I sought knowledge from every possible source during my missions, hoping to stumble upon something that would allow me to break free.

While I couldn't reach my original objective, my reality marble reached new heights. I can now perfectly replicate any weapon and armor including Ea, the sword of rupture. My understanding of the concept SWORD also changed. Now I can replicate modern weaponry as well.

Yet none of these will help me break free.

My self-decrepitating thoughts were cut off abruptly as I felt myself being sucked away.

Not a piece of me but my entire self, unlimited blade works breaking down around me.

Before I could figure out what is happening, I blacked out.

!

My eyes snapped open. I was lying on something soft. A bed? Where I am? What happened? Is this another assignment?

First thing I noticed when I tried to pull myself up to a sitting position was that I am small, my body basically felt and looked like when I was ten year old.

Not the first time something like this happened in a counter guardian assignment.

Yet something felt inexplicably off.

I looked around.

I am in a large rectangular room with one window at the end and one door at the other end. There are ten standard bunk beds including the one where I was sleeping. The walls are blue.

The beds are creaky and the color of the walls are faded. There are also 19 other children in the room.

All this points to the fact that I am in an orphanage.

Rare but not surprising. This isn't the first long time mission I have been assigned to.

Still something was off.

I couldn't put my mind around it.

I accessed the information about the mission Alaya put in my head.

There was an influx of information. But only two things drew my attention.

Only thing I got was "Stop the multiversal breach" and "This is your last mission".

It was then I understood why something felt different.

Firstly, this body held my real soul and secondly I am no longer connected to Alaya.

I am…. free.

A sob involuntarily escaped my mouth and tears spilled from my eyes without obstruction.

For the first time in an eternity, I went to sleep without any burdens, with the knowledge of my freedom.

And I slept peacefully without any nightmares of slaughtering people tormenting my mind.

!

Elvebredden Kompetansesenter. In English it means Elvebredden Competence Centre. This was the name of the orphanage I am currently part of. It is in Norway.

It's been a year since I was granted freedom. Once I got over my shock( which took about a week), I immediately double checked and triple checked if I am really free or I am dreaming. I searched my entire soul for even a shiver of Alaya's presence. I found nothing.

That's when I was finally convinced that this wasn't a dream or some elaborate prank.

Then I realized that if Alaya was forced to relinquish me, her most versatile counter guardian, then the situation must be different than anything I did before.

So I immediately checked the information provided by Alaya.

It blew my mind away.

This was a complete different part of the multiverse.

One where Alaya and Gaia doesn't exist. Instead exist the corrective force whose purpose differs quite a bit from my world's counter force.

A world with complete different set of rules.

A memory came to me about multiverse with Zelretch. I don't remember how the conversation came to be but I do remember Zelretch telling me that the multiverse itself is divided in infinite parts.

Each part with it's own rules. He also told me that he only has unrestricted access in our part of the multiverse but it requires tremendous effort and magic power if he wants to travel to other parts. Even then he will be restricted. And stated akasha is only the center of our part of the multiverse.

Back then I didn't pay much mind to it. I mean it's not like I will ever set foot on one of those other parts of the multiverse. Hell, at that time I doubted that I would even go to other worlds belonging to my part of the multiverse.

That explains why Alaya had to let me go. She simply doesn't have any power here. She barely managed to create me a body, put my soul here and hyptonize the entire orphanage that the new kid named Emiya Shirou lived from his birth.

Multiversal breach means something or someone will break in my (former?) part of the multiverse from this part.

And I am supposed to stop it.

She must have been pretty desperate.

For a moment, I thought about ignoring Alaya's mission just to spite her.

Then I pushed that thought out of my head. I can't condemn the part of the multiverse where every person I care about lives.

Alaya must have known that too. No wonder she let me go.

Fine, I will do this last mission but I will do it my way.

In the past year, I found out several things.

Firstly, I have no magic circuits. Which means no magecraft. I can still read and create a perfect copy of any weapon I see in my inner world but I can't bring them out.

At least I have access to the evils of the world.

Secondly, the world I am in is in a pseudo age of gods. True gods exist in a separate plane similar to reverse side of the world but once in a while a god that rebels against his legend appears. Those are called heretic gods.

These heretic gods are sometimes the combination of several gods and sometimes completely different from their true counterparts influenced by the way their legend is told in the modern world.

And of course campiones, god slayers who kill them and usurp their authorities.

I personally hope not to become a campione because I don't want to be influenced or changed in some way by some goddess.

But that means no killing gods.

Which simply won't happen given the fact the thing I am supposed to stop is most likely a god or campione.

Even without that my luck will definitely get me into a fight with some god.

Lastly, the year I landed in this world was 2003 and now it's 2004. The technological advancement is almost the same as my old universe.

Alaya also didn't give me any definite time when the breach will happen or any details that will be helpful. Meaning I need to find the clues on my own.

While I would like to solve the problem immediately.

I doubt an eleven year old me will be able to do much. So now I train, find a way to access my reality marble and wait till I am older.

!

October 16th, 2010

"Shirou, let's partner up."

I looked up and saw a Girl staring at me with an expectant face.

Her hair is light caramel and eyes light indigo. Her nose is sharp and she has slight amount of freckles across her face.

All in all she was beautiful for a 17 year old.

If it was any other guy in my current class, they would have accepted without hesitation.

Unfortunately for her, I am not into kids.

"Sure, Sofie"

But I have to partner up with someone anyway. Might as well go with her.

It's just after our midterm exam and now my school, Eidsvoll High School decided to take us to Rakni's Mound, Ullensaker for field trip.

It is a Nordic burial mound said to be the burial place of king Rakni.

We just got off the bus in Ullensaker. We were told to partner up with another person with whom we will have to prepare a report on Rakni's Mound.

Each class was being led by their homeroom teacher to the tomb.

It took about fifteen minutes to reach the mound.

Was it just me? Or was there too many guys in black suit around?

"Sofie, give me a minute. I have something to ask ms Pedersen."

"Is something wrong?" There was a hint of worry in her voice.

"Nothing wrong, just a question."

At least I hope there is nothing wrong. I want to relax a few more years before gods and campiones start messing my peaceful life up.

I walked to the front of the group and found our homeroom teacher ms Pedersen arguing with a guy in a black suit.

"Our school already took permission to visit King Rakni's Mound."

"Sorry mam. But this is an emergency. No one is allowed within the premises."

Then the man in the suit muttered something under his breath.

Ms Pedersen stilled unnaturally.

"It would be better if you leave with your students today and return another day, wouldn't it?"

"Yes, of course." Came a complete machine like response.

Hyptonism.

Which means the supernatural.

What should I do? Should I try to find out what is happening or stay out of it?

I have already managed to access UBW. Without magic circuits I can't use magecraft.

So instead of using magecraft to take the blueprints of the original copy and create a copy of a copy in the real world, I simply summon the original copy from UBW directly.

The problem is since UBW only creates a single copy of every weapon and armor, I can't have multiple copy of the same weapon.

On the other hand copies stored within UBW are no mere copies. They are no different than the real ones to the point that even gaia in my world wouldn't be able to differentiate them as fakes.

I also have evils of the world.

My body is also in top condition.

I can easily handle any average supernatural threats.

The question is if I want to end my peaceful life this quickly or not.

On one hand I will no longer will be able to lead a normal life if I get revealed here. On the other hand this is the first sign of the supernatural I seen in this life.

Ah, screw it. I was kind of getting bored anyway.

I slipped away from my class without anyone noticing.

I discreetly traced ( well I suppose it is no longer tracing.) Hades's cap of invisibility.

Then I approached the mound. I had to be quiet since the cap of invisibility only blocks sight and magical means of detection.

I slipped past the men in suits and walked right through the bounded field.

The moment I did so, an overpowering smell hit my nose. It was a mixture of several different kind of magic signatures.

While I cannot identify all of them, I can however identify the most prominent one.

Divinity.

Fuck.

I can't ignore this anymore. I need to know if a campione is available or I will have to interfere.

I looked around the premises. Almost everyone is wearing black suits like the men outside.

But there was this old man wearing a expensive looking fur coat, loose shirts and pant.

None of these tricked me from the fact that his bearing is that of a war veteran.

I didn't bother getting closer to eavesdrop. The man is practically shouting.

"What do you mean the seal is breaking? We called Lucretia fucking Zola to make sure the bloody god keeps sleeping. That god turned the population of an entire city into blood thirsty berserkers and killed a campione the last time he descended. "

The guy on the receiving end of the shout looked like he was about to piss himself.

The old guy didn't even let him formulate a response.

"The closest campione is the black prince and we have no means to contact him. Evacuate the area around immediately and tell the headquarters to call for the king of swords."

I have heard enough.

There isn't any godslayers nearby and the old guy seemed pretty convinced that the best they can do is minimizing the damage and prevent civilian casualties.

Tch.

I hoped to see a campione in action.

Sure, Alaya gave me info on them. But seeing things for yourself is better.

The group that was probably the local authority on supernatural retreated and the bounded field was empowered to an absurd level.

While it won't even put scratch on a god, it is good enough to stop it for a while.

This will also allow me to fight without any interruption.

I traced Avalon, conceptualizing it inside me and a combat suit enhanced with runes learned from….. . Who was it again?

Short purple hair. A Stern tomboyish face.

Bazett. Her name was Bazett.

I cleared my mind.

This isn't the time to reminisce.

Without reinforcement available, this suit is the only way I can keep up with a god.

I would have liked to try reasoning first.

But I pretty much gave up on that after hearing about the last descent of the heretic god.

Killing a campione I understand but turning the entire population of a city into maddened berserkers?

My own experience in dealing with gods might have also made me a bit biased.

I won't take the risk. I will try to take him down with a single shot.

Only silver lining in this entire situation is that these heretic gods can be killed without anti divine attacks.

I traced my bow and Caladbolg 2 and waited with bated breath.

The mound started rumbling.

Then came the explosion of power.

The explosion destroyed the mound and kicked up a dust storm.

But at this range the divinity emitted is enough for me to pinpoint my target and shoot.

[ I am the bone of my sword ]

[ Caladbolg ]

The famed sword turned arrow flew at mach 8 speed completely blowing away the dust but it missed it's mark.

Before it could hit the god, the spear in the god's hand shot out of his hand wreathed in flame and lightning and clashed with Caladbolg, creating a massive explosion.

I stepped back swiftly and rearmed myself with the married blades.

I reviewed the information got from the spear, a perfect copy of it already residing in unlimited blade works.

Gae Assail, Brionac, Gunginir.

Both a weapon and an authority. It was called by many names. A spear when wielded by hand has the conceptual effect of never missing. While the effect doesn't work if you throw the weapon, when wielded in close quarters, the opponent cannot dodge any blow only block or parry. The spear also radiates fire and lightning, referring to certain myths that consider Odin and Lugh storm gods and Brionac being a fiery spear.

That's right Odin and Lugh. I am fighting a heretic god with two god king class identities.

Fuck.

The authorities he used was the spear and an authority that allows him to make weapons alive in a sense and allow them to fight without any prompting.

Which can also be used to bring out the latent potential of a weapon and make it explode.

Kind of like broken phantasms.

Now what other kinds of authorities does he possess.

Before I could contemplate any answers, a wizened old voice rang out.

"Impressive, child. You forced me to sacrifice my spear. The last devil king I faced could not even scratch it."

With the dust cleared I observed the god in front of me. First thing I noticed that he is old. With wrinkles on his face combined with white hair should have made him looked like a kind grandfather. But that impression was ruined by the eyepatch on his one eye and the other eye shining like the sun. He was clad in old Nordic armor while wearing a grey cloak.

I wasn't surprised that he was more impressed than angry, his spear told me quite a bit about his personality.

"Do I get a reward for impressing you?"

"First you attack with the intent to kill then you ask for a reward. Tell me young warrior, what reward do you want?"

"Can you please withdraw to the netherland?"

"That I cannot do. Instead why don't you join my Einherjar. You shall have everything you want."

Well, I never expected negotiation to work.

"No can do."

His expression changed from clam to deranged glee.

"No you will join my Einherjar. Willingly or not."

[ Warriors of Valhalla, heed the call of the all father and crush the enemy before you. ]

15 Viking warriors was summoned. Majority of them over 6 feet tall wielding swords and shields, battle axes, dual wielding war axes, bows etc. Their glowing pupil-less blue eyes are the only thing that gave away their inhumanity.

They eyed me for a second.

Then they charged.

The first one to reach me tried to hack me apart with an overhead slash with his battle axe. I sidestepped and slashed at him from the side. The Viking without missing a beat stepped back while swinging the axe in an almost 360 angle.

I barely crossed the married blades blocking the axe, the force behind the attack rattling my bones.

Then came the other warriors, each one equally skilled. They ganged up on me. I barely managed to prevent fatal attacks. Any time I nearly kill one of them another comes to the save.

Only reason I am not bleeding out because Avalon healed every wound almost instantly.

This can't go on. I need to deal with them.

Thankfully, Odin is content with just watching.

No, he is observing me, I noted while deflecting an arrow.

These Einherjar are nothing more than disposable tools to get a feel of my level.

I would prefer holding back until I understand the full extent of Odin's capabilities but I don't have a choice. I will run out of stamina if this keeps up.

Avalon's healing isn't exactly free either.

I need something that allow me to deal with them without using too much magical energy.

[ Steel is my body and Fire is my blood ]

An elegant French sword appeared in my hand. With it I performed the famed sword dance of the knight of the white lily.

[ Fleur de Lys ]

The dance brought to surface a fully bloomed lily enchanting the Viking warriors and even left Odin a little spellbound.

I struck without giving them a chance to recover, killing nine of them before they could muster up any semblance of defense. The other six didn't do much better, their movements still sluggish.

After finishing the Viking warriors I let the weapon return to UBW.

Odin still looked unconcerned as if defeat never even crossed his mind.

This is the perfect chance to use UBW.

Without any witness and Odin being completely intent on testing me, UBW is the only surefire way to win.

[ I have created over a thousand weapons ]

!

Odin is intrigued.

Not by the fact that a human managed to defeat his Einherjar.

No there are others who aren't campione who can do that.

Not even By the fact he forced him to sacrifice his spear. While that is an accomplishment that even any campione can boast of, It didn't surprise him that much.

No, he was intrigued by the fact that each time the boy chanted , a powerful essence of steel rolled off from the boy.

Yet he can't sense any divinity.

Even the weapon that should belong to heretic god Fergus mac Roch was devoid of divinity.

Then there was near instantaneous healing.

[ I have created a thousand blades ]

Hmm, is he going to bring out another weapon? Another fine example of steel?

[ Unknown to death ]

The aura of steel around him is getting stronger.

Odin prepared his authorities and magic to face whatever the boy throws at him.

[ Nor known to life ]

The aura of steel kept getting stronger still.

Yet he is still not worried.

Sure he is cautious.

But why should he the king of gods be concerned.

[ Have withstood pain to create many weapons ]

[ Yet those hands will never hold anything ]

[ So as I pray-]

[ Unlimited Blade Works ]

Then the world disappeared in a flash of flames.

!

Odin only had a second to observe this domain of limitless steel before innumerable amount of swords descended upon him.

In response, he activated his authority over sun and light, attaining god speed.

But even that wasn't enough to dodge all those weapons.

[A third I know: if sore need should come

of a spell to stay my foes;

when I sing that song, which shall blunt their swords,

nor their weapons nor staves can wound ]

Alongside his god speed, he attained a body of steel. Lesser weapons barely leaving a bruise, only the stronger weapons wounding him.

Now time to begin the counter attack.

!

A moment after I began my assault, Odin became enveloped in light and started dodging.

But it wasn't enough.

So of course he simply chanted in old Norse and the next thing you know he is tanking some of the lesser noble phantasms.

I prepared myself. Now that he gained a semblance of control, he will start counter attacking.

[ A fifth I know: when I see, by foes shot,

speeding a shaft through the host,

flies it never so strongly I still can stay it,

if I get but a glimpse of its flight ]

But I never expected that a portion of my own weapons would simply alter their course and attack me.

I immediately transported them in another part of UBW.

But that single moment of distraction was enough for Odin to start pushing me back.

Various Nordic runes appeared from thin air and. Spells after spells were evoked, clashing against my swords.

If I had more magical energy pushing him back would be a child's play.

But with my human reserves I can't push back his attacks even within my own seat of power.

This can't go on.

I need to defeat him now before my magic runs out.

Excalibur? No, It's true power can only be released when the planet itself is in danger and while it's base power would be enough to utterly annihilate Odin, he can probably dodge it with his massive increase in speed.

Spear of Longinus? No, I can't even approach him right now.

Enkidu? No, unlike Gilgamesh I can't shoot it out of Gate of Babylon and need to physically approach the target therefore suffers the same problem as before.

Evils of the world? No, I need massive amount of magical energy to power it up enough to pierce the defense of a god.

Most noble phantasms are out simply because Odin can see them coming and dodge them.

And the weapons that are capable of immense wide scale destruction like Ea or Vasavi Shakti are too costly. Even my entire life force wouldn't be enough to activate them.

That leaves me with a single option.

Enuma Elish.

Enkidu's Enuma Elish that is.

Enkidu is a living weapon.

When he took his true form as the chains that bind the heavens, instead of the weapon being recreated within UBW, I gained the ability to become the weapon the same way Enkidu does.

But it can only be used within Unlimited Blade Works.

By directly drawing strength from Unlimited Blade Works itself the same way Enkidu draws power from Gaia, I can use this noble phantasm.

This is an extremely powerful noble phantasm on the same level as Enuma Elish.

But this is one I can use with my current power reserves if I put my all in it.

It will be much weaker than the original with my current reserves but this is a noble phantasm that within UBW is near impossible to dodge and is specifically made to defeat gods.

[ Enuma Elish ]

My body turned into a massive chain while numerous other chains erupted from the ground of unlimited blade works.

All of them ascended along with me to the sky.

And then along with me descended upon Odin.

Even with god speed he couldn't escape.

His magic completely ineffective.

Even his authority over storms only stopping the chains that restrict the heavens for a moment before he was hit and consequently annihilated.

Unlimited Blade Works breaking down around me.

I transformed back into a human being and with inhuman concentration and effort kept myself from fainting.

I need to leave.

The god is dead and the local magical authorities will come looking.

I don't want to lose my anonymity.

Before I could contemplate how I will leave with my tired and prana starved body, I felt myself changing.

My body felt stronger.

I went from tired to re invigorated.

My magical reserves basically went from non-existent to massive.

I also felt something settling themselves within my soul similar yet different to how a weapon usually gets added to UBW.

So this is how you become a campione.

I can test my new abilities later.

Now I need to slip out of here.

!

If any of you have any questions, pm me or write it in the review.

Archer/ Shirou's authority:

Sacrifice for knowledge:

It is derived from the legend of Odin sacrificing an eye and hanging himself from Yggdrasil to gain knowledge of runes.

Shirou can sacrifice any part of his body that is needed for fighting like an eye, an ear, his nose, an arm and a leg. By sacrificing any one of them he can gain the ability to use any singular school of magic with the same proficiency and power a god of magic would possess.

But despite it's name this authority does not provide Shirou with the necessary knowledge only the ability. Shirou must know the details of the magic himself.

It is possible to utilize multiple schools of magic by sacrificing multiple body parts.

Once activated it must be kept for at least nine days.

During the time it is activated, the sacrificed body part cannot be healed by any means. Once deactivated the part will be restored naturally.

It isn't possible to sacrifice a body part that has no significance in combat like a liver.