As they arrived into a nearby town, everyone decided to stay out from the border for Jeanne and Marie insisted on going into the town to see if there's anybody residing there for info. Once she came back, she said that there are locals in the town but they were refugees as Lyon was destroyed just as Nexus has expected.

"If the town was destroyed a while ago, then there would be some beasts that crawls on ruins." Nexus guessed.

"Yes. The town is filled with monsters from the depths of Hell."

"If there are, then why are the refugees here? Shouldn't they look for someplace else that is much safer?"

"That would be the case. But they said that they had a protector for them." Marie answered.

"Protector?" Mash asked.

Marie nods her head. "A knight wielding a large sword that defeated wyverns and skeletons."

"Probably sounds like our guy. But I doubt that he would survive from those Servants." Nexus guessed at this since causing a commotion like that wouldn't be overlooked so easily.

"Yes, a little while ago they said that some scary people came. Servants, probably as they overwhelmed him by numbers and now he's missing along with Lyon being destroyed." Marie explained.

"I hope he's alive…no, let's believe he's alive in the words of St. Martha." Mash said hopefully.

"Well if he's alive, then he would be in critical condition. So it's a matter whether we could find him or not. Is there anything else you know, Marie?" the black-haired asked to the young queen.

"Well they said that Charles VII visit the village before and General Gilles de Rais marshalled the soldiers. He attempts to liberate Lyon."

"Gilles!" Jeanne blurted in shock hearing that name. Nexus could guess that "Gilles" there is the other one than the Alter that she mentioned. It's no surprise that she'd be shocked considering that they had a close relationship to one another. It would be rather complicated if they meet each other, so that's understandable.

"It could create a tremor if they end up meeting each other." Nexus said.

"Why is that? Gilles de Rais is an admirer of Jeanne, right?"

"Yeah, and there's him hearing the person who admires the most that decimates villages to villages of France and slaughter everyone in it." Nexus said.

"But if he she asks for help, he's sure to lend a hand."

"That's the idea, lady. Gilles is aware of the fact that Jeanne is a Dragon Witch. Even if he lends a helping hand to the original Jeanne then what of his forces? Surely, they wouldn't just offer a helping hand out of consent just because that there's another Jeanne here. They wouldn't trust her so easily. It's not that simple." Nexus explained in a logical manner. "And besides, we need to find this "Dragon Slayer" anyway. And normal soldiers like them aren't trained to match against supernatural monsters."

"You're right. We should defeat them on our own." Jeanne agreed although she still anxious about Gilles.

"Don't worry about it, Jeanne. You just need to focus on the present for now." he assured the blonde Ruler. "If it's too uncomfortable for you then I'll handle it. Can you handle that?"

She stares at him and slowly nods her head "Nexus…yes…I can handle it, thank you for your concern." he nods approvingly from her answer getting her focus to the objective and nothing to worry about.

"Yes, that's what it means to be a boy!" Marie said cheerfully. "Here's your reward!" as she intends to get close to the black-haired man.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Just what do think you're doing, young lady?" he asked taken aback as he reflexively stops her attempt holding his fingers on her forehead.

"What? I'm giving you a reward kiss." Marie answered having no shame at all as Mash reacted to this in shock from hearing that attempt and Artoria Alter furrowing her brows with suspicion.

Nexus looked at her flatly from that attempt and snorted giving her a light forehead flick for the queen's playful act.

"Ow!" Marie backed off holding her head from his flick.

"There's no need for you to give me a kiss as a reward whether it was a greeting or not. Although, I would give you points for boldness but it'd be a 100 years early for a young girl like you to give me a kiss. The only ones I accept are the women I respect and love. Find someone else that you love." Nexus said making the queen pout from this.

"Wow, I never expected someone to counter at Maria's attempt." Amadeus said surprised to see that. "She has the tendency to kiss everything that it caused chaos in the palace. There would be groups of people she'd kissed and people she hadn't. No playwright would touch a story about a court that almost destroyed before the revolution. But it's rare to see someone not excited over a kiss." after that he heard footsteps incoming. "Those soldiers don't seem like they're back from the front since they look ready to kill."

"…Seems like they've become bandits. This tragedy is enough to shatter anyone's mind." Jeanne stated sadly.

"How can you blame them? The Dragon Witch destroyed their villages and now they have to scrounge themselves by taking others." Nexus said as he walks over to them. "Well, let's round them up. Handling on heretic killers is enough for our trouble but I don't want any bandits to give me more of a pain in the ass."

"Yes, we cannot let any more of the townspeople suffer." Jeanne agree prep her banner up. "Let us capture them."

"Got it. Back of the blade it is!" Mash declared.

"No, like I said. There isn't any blade from a shield. We'll just tie them up after this paragraph." Nexus retorts as they handle the bandits.

"Alright. Now that they're tied up, let's just leave it to the town's people. That way, the soldiers will come and take them into custody." Nexus said as he didn't want any attention from the locals. "Okay we're good to go."

They were walking across the field on their way to Lyon. Once they arrived, the town was in ruins as expected.

"…There's no one here." Jeanne lamented seeing nobody in plain sight.

"Doctor, are there any signs of-" before Mash could ask all she could get was static from the reception unable to get a signal. "I'm sorry. Reception's not good around here." she apologized.

Nexus sighed as he shifts his vision to detect any signs of life forms within the ruins. For the most, he could some movements around the derelict environment but doesn't appear to have any life forms at all. He could guess zombies. However, he could only see one, although it is faint, he could see magical energy within it. "I see it."

"Huh?"

"I can see the magical reading. It's coming up from that castle up ahead." Nexus said pointing to the castle entering through the ruins. Despite being damaged, it's still keeping up its structure stabilized. "But in order to get to him, we're gonna have to take care of the things that are moving."

"Things that are moving?" Jeanne asked as they hear groaning noises revealing them to be zombies dragging slowly with cold and dulled skin having no natural flesh of skin at all.

"What you're seeing are those that are walking but have no souls at all. Probably the townspeople or what's left in them, that is."

"Turning these people into monsters…This is beyond heresy!"

"It's pointless to save them anymore. Might as well put them out of their misery. You ready, Mash, Artoria Alter?" he asked the two.

"Yes, ready for battle, Master!"

"Understood."

"Good." Nexus responds looking at the zombies as they move to disable them. "Marie, you and Amadeus go take care of the other side to see if there are any enemies to get rid of. Jeanne, Mash, Alter and I will handle this group."

"Alright, just be careful." Marie said as she and the composer moved towards the other side to cover ground.

The black-haired magus shifts his eye into cyan constructing a wind blade cutting them one by one. He wouldn't want to kill them in a brutal way so he would just give them quick cuts along with every Servants as the number of them starts to increase.

"There's quite a lot of zombies coming over here." the magus respond casually cutting one's head off as Marie and Amadeus returned moments ago.

"I just hurried back because they're also swarming over there! You may not need any, but I can't just sit around because I'm going to help you, Nexus!" Marie declared.

"No time for complaints, then. Let's just get this over with before we end up creating a slaughterfest."

"Don't say such horrible things, Nexus!" Jeanne screamed.

"Well if you don't me to say such a thing then we're just gonna have to make this quick and clean, won't we?"

After that, they dealt all of the living dead along with the wyverns incoming. Most of it was troublesome but managed to defeat them no problem at all. "Phew, enemies eliminated. May they rest in peace." Jeanne said giving her prayers to them.

"Peace…is that what they desire? Such a foolish thing to say." they all turned to the mysterious voice.

"A Servant, huh…" Nexus noticed the voice which belongs to a pale-faced man with red eye covered with a half smiley mask lined with blood and bloody red claws wearing a black suit with white blouse. "You got a name, smiley?"

"I wouldn't call myself smiley, to say. People call me The Phantom of the Opera." the male Servant said known as Phantom. "By order of the "Dragon Witch," this town is under my control."

"So she summoned more of them, huh." Nexus assumed that Jeanne Alter put her plan into motion by summoning more Servants. He could tell for his purpose of being here is to distract them to give them time. But she knew that they wouldn't just leave him there and mark his domain here and do whatever he wants. Either way, he needs to be dealt with.

"Now, now, now. This is the middle of Hell, where the dead live. What will you do now?" he dared ask getting the magus a scoff at his bravado.

"Middle of Hell, you say…?" he muttered under his breath. "I don't think you fully grasp the concept of what "Hell" you're referring to where the dead live then you're damn wrong," everyone could feel the intimidation radiating from Nexus. "The dead belongs in the cemetery where they could rest easy. If you're still going on with this "Hell" you're calling then I'll play with you," he looks at Phantom with murderous look in his eyes as the masked man did not expect for this kind of reaction to happen as his allies are worried and wouldn't try to get in his way. "I'll crush you and your little child's play what you would call "Hell" and show you what Hell truly is."

Saber Alter smirked. "I like those fierce eyes of yours, Master. I was right to choose you as my Master."

"Don't let it get you excited, Alter. This is merely a lesson to someone that takes the term "Hell" lightly and shove it to their faces."

"Hoh, then I shall be looking forward to what you have in store, Nexus."

"R-Right, let's crush our enemies, Master!" Mash said although is confused but decides to follow through advancing.

It ended up being a one-sided battle as Nexus brutally beats Phantom since he pissed him off that ends up with unsettlingly defeat. While the other Servants dealt with the increased number of zombies and wyverns. Although he did killed a few enemies in his way but not very pleasant than the others.

"…U…ghhhh…how….savage of you…." the suited Servant groaned from the serious beating Nexus did as he went back to his stoic look on his face.

"If you can't fathom this then calling this "Hell" of yours isn't worth noting. I don't think that you have any idea what "Hell" truly is." he told Phantom staring down into his eyes from the person who gone through the occurrence of what it felt like in every aspects of every entity. "But…my mission…is…accomplished. Though I shall never be rewarded…you must be truly….evil…"

"Is that so…" is the only response Nexus could give with no denial nor acceptance to the defeated Servant.

Phantom slowly turns his head to Ruler. "Rejoice, Holy Maiden…your evil has grown even more than you." Nexus slanted his eyes hearing that he's provoking her even in a critical state.

"Be silent. It must be hard for you to talk now."

"These are not words. This is merely a song. To lament your future and to mourn it. Forget the Dragon Slayer…run to the ends of the earth. If lady luck is on your side, you might have a chance to esc-" his words were cut off as Nexus stabs him from his wind blade mercilessly coughing up blood.

"You talk too much, smiley." he told the Phantom coldly. "I guess that's the reason why you're so overdramatic making it as your "happy end" with your love."

"The Dragon is here…" he gasped. "…an evil dragon you never have seen before…" as he finally laid motionlessly disappearing.

"I have seen many kinds of dragons, thank you very much. And an evil dragon wouldn't be close to one." he remarked sensing a large energy not surprised that it would be coming towards them.

The reception comes back up with Dr. Roman panicking. "Finally, I got through you! Everyone, I suggest that we evacuate!" he warned frantically. "This reading is way beyond a Servant! It's an ultra-sized life-form approaching in incredible speed!"

"Beyond s Servant! Can such a lifeform exist in this world!?" exclaimed the Shielder.

"World is a big place that you never know it's there." Nexus said sensing more distinctive energies. "Looks like we need to worry about other things than the dragon. There are three Servants ahead and I'm guessing they're the ones we've fought."

"Mmm, this could be quite troubling." Marie muttered hearing that.

"The orchestra is done. I know we wasted our effort, but that's life. We should get out of here." Amadeus said glumly.

"Wait, if that reading is beyond of a Servant, then we need the "Dragon Slayer" more than ever." Mash protest refraining to run away.

"There's no time!"

"If there not here right now, then we do have time. I'm going to the castle. Run if you want." Nexus made his declaration dashing to the castle giving them no time to debate as they followed him.

The castle was dark so Nexus casts a light orb to illuminate finding the man lying on the ground with a grievous wound.

"Ugh, that is not what you'd end up coming back from labor work." Nexus remarked looking at the man which he could assume to be the Dragon Slayer as the others caught up.

"Is that him?" Mash asked.

"What a terrible wound!" Jeanne gasped witnessing the man's wound. Despite being on the floor, Nexus could tell that he is a tall man with long, messy, silver-grey hair with silver armor plating holding a giant sword engraved with a golden cross at the middle as the locals said and a glowing green crest that exposes his chest and a large gash. As the man tries to hold up his consciousness, he grips his sword up swinging at Nexus as he stops it with his fingers.

"What?" this caught the knight off guard as Nexus moves the sword aside nonchalantly.

"Calm down. We're not here to fight you. Much less that I don't think you could hold up for long, but pretty gutsy. I could assume that you're the one that people call you, "Dragon Slayer?"" the man slowly nodded in response to Nexus's question putting his sword down as he trusts his judgement.

"Alright well first things first. We need to get you out of here. Since that dragon is coming." Nexus advised.

"Yes, and there are several Servants as well so we are at an overwhelming disadvantage." Mash added.

"A dragon…I see." the man murmured knowingly. "That's the reason why I was summoned and attacked."

Nexus decides hoists his arm around him for support. "Come on. Let's get you out of here."

"Sorry, I owe you one." he thanks the black-haired as he jumps out from the damaged hole. The others were taken aback for the Master to choose a peculiar exit but he said that it's more faster this way so they followed.

Once they landed on the ground, they met a colossal beast in front of them. "Dammit, they're already here!" Nexus cursed in annoyance. It had huge wings and a large tail with horns and stand on all fours. "A legitimate dragon, I see." he smiled with satisfaction as the rider behind it reveals to be Jeanne Alter.

"I was wondering what you were finding but turns out it's just another dying Servant." she said bluntly. "Very well, you can all die together. Incinerate them, Fafnir." she commanded as the dragon to breath huge amounts of fire at them. Nexus starts to act fast as he set the injured Servant aside from the nearest debris with a sturdy wall he found and rushes to the flames shifting to Fire holding out his arms stopping the flames.

Nexus absorbs the flames to level it down but it just keeps on going. 'Guh, this big guy isn't backing down sooner or later. It really is pushing it.' Nexus thought.

'I don't think I could take this whole thing in my current state. Damn, I guess this is my mistake for slacking off. Heh, what an embarrassment.' he smirked as he can't assimilate the amount of fire as it is overwhelming but refuses to back down as he's straining himself holding the flames and gritting his teeth.

"What an immense amount of energy! You all right!? Can you hear me? Say something!" Dr. Roman yelled getting response witnessing the attack.

"Just shut up for a damn moment, Doctor! I'm concentrating here!" Nexus yelled at him not wanting to have any distractions.

"Senpai! Let me help!" Mash offered.

"As do I, let's do this together, Nexus!" Jeanne said decided to aid the black-haired on holding the dragon's breath.

"Heh, to think that I would get help from somebody else. How shameful of me." Nexus said despondently taking help from someone else as he doesn't want them to be a burden to him.

"Don't say that, Senpai! I'm going to protect you! That is my duty as a Servant!" Mash immediately denies as she never believes her Master to be like that.

"She's right, we Servants are here to assist our Master. Nobody needs to handle by themselves. Therefore, let us help you. Don't always handle things on your own." Jeanne agreed as she intends to help her ally wholeheartedly.

He scoffed not going to argue about this focusing on his negation. "Don't blame me if you end up being burned."

"Right!" they both respond gathering their magical energies setting up their Noble Phantasms.

"Luminosité-"

"Deploying Noble Phantasm!"

"Eternelle!"

"Lord Chaldeas!" both Servants sets protective barriers beside Nexus giving him support to keep the intensity of the flames from the dragon. Fafnir isn't giving in as it increases more flames against the barriers.

"Damn! Guess this dragon doesn't want to give up anytime soon! He's really planning to char us down!" Nexus grunted straining from the evil dragon's increased power.

"Ugh! This is…" Jeanne grunted as their struggling to keep the continuous flame at bay even with reinforced protection still being pushed back.

"I can't hold it much longer!"

Nexus decides to use his eyes to see what this outcome would turn out as he peers into the future just for moment. He smirks at what he saw. "I think we could hold it just a little bit from the back audience just for this moment. Right, Dragon Slayer?" he asked knowing that the knight recovered temporarily.

"Right, thanks to you, my power's restored just a little." the man gets up using the sword as leverage narrowing his eyes at the dragon. "It's been a while Evil Dragon Fafnir. It seems I'll have to send you back to your slumber…"

The dragon stopped breathing as it shivers in fright seeing the man. "Fafnir is trembling…" Jeanne Alter noticed the dragon's fear coming from the swordsman. "Could it be that Servant-?"

He stands up straight facing the dragon lifting his sword upright. "Hear me, One Who Rules the Blue Sky! As I am Siegfried! He who once defeated thee! Noble Phantasm, Release!" he twists the hilt of his sword as the jewel glows blue between it as a great blue beam of light shots up from his sword.

"Gee, do you really have to put such a grandiose line before you use it? I guess I'll put up being a setup for the spotlight, just this once." Nexus commented feeling the ground rumbling and the magical energy that he is putting in despite being wounded.

"Get back!" Nexus calls the other to back away in front of Siegfried in clear for his Noble Phantasm.

"BAL-" he raises his sword above his head.

"-MUNG!" then swings it down releasing the beam of light shooting towards Fafnir.

"Dammit! Fafnir, climb up now!" Jeanne Alter commands as it throws its wings barely avoiding the beam turning to retreat. This was more than enough for the swordsman as he dropped to his knee in exhaustion.

"…Sorry, this is the best I can do." he apologized panting as his magical energy was depleted from a large scale of an attack. "Get out of here, before they come back…"

"We came here to find you, we're not going to abandon you now." Nexus said although a bit tired from the fire, he doesn't show it as his concern is focused on the wounded Servant. "Mash, help him. We found who we're looking for, so let's retreat." as Mash hold Siegfried's arm around her and they make their escape.

"I'm not detecting that ultra-size lifeform anymore. But the enemies are at our tails, hurry!" Dr. Roman yelled as they're running through the valley.

"Senpai, I want a horse!"

"Don't ask me! Ask the one who's riding the horse!" Nexus respond mentioning Marie as she is riding the glass horse.

"Sorry, this is only a one seater!" Marie apologized.

"I'm used to traveling, but this is a first for me! This is just us retreating, right?" Amadeus said running as he is out of breath from the adrenaline he's putting in away from the chasing enemies.

"Geh! No choice!" Nexus grunted as he asks Mash to hold onto Siegfried wondering what he would be doing as he turns to face the horde.

"Senpai!" Nexus raises his hand casting a fireball and throws it like a grenade bombing at the enemies on impact as bodies fly all over. He casts another fire bomb as Jeanne stops him.

"Wait, please. I see something up ahead." Jeanne said as the black-haired man sees another group of army as they happen to be the one of the French being attacked by a group of wyverns. "That's the…French army! They're under attack by wyverns! We need to go help them!"

"Dammit, one after another!" he cursed in annoyance. "This is going to be more of a pain in the ass than I thought it'd be." as he shifts his fire bomb into a spear throwing to the distance where the first wyvern is impaling one of its wing. One of the French soldier saw this in confusion along with the flamed spear to see who throw such a strange weapon.

"Saber!"

"Yes." as two blurred lines sped through the two oncoming wyverns for the black-haired male deliver a roundhouse kick to its neck and the black knight slashing through the other as the soldier hadn't seen it. In front of them Nexus senses two Servants, one was a black knight in black shroud with red visor, several metallic tendrils behind him, and long, blue, ponytail flowing like a walking phantom and the other is a pale-faced white-haired man with blueish-green eyes wearing a black coat with pairs of horse-shaped shoulder plating on each side and carries a black claymore with an axe-shaped edge on top.

"My, what a coincidence. I've never forgotten seeing your face, lazy artisan." Marie said to the man who happens to know him.

"That's good to hear." he responded. "I've never forgotten yours either along with your pale white neck. At the same time, feeling like this is fate that you and I share a connection. An executioner killing the same person twice. Yes, that kind of connection."

"Not just life, but you're also eager to execute Maria? Charles-Henri Sanson. Could it be that you're genuinely mad?" Amadeus conjectured.

The man named Charles looks at the composer with pity disgusted to see his oppressive presence. "As a human, it pains me to discuss our relationship with a low-life like you." he insulted rejecting his aspect to be human. "Amadeus, you claimed all lives and humans to be filthy. To me, humans are sacred, precious things. We executioners respect life. Unlike you."

"So I see that you respect life by taking their heads and preserve them as your own. Ain't that ironic?" Nexus comments sarcastically from the man's contradictive statement.

"They are meant to be kept sacred for us rather than a trash who couldn't love humans, those who couldn't understand her. He has no right to be next to her." Charles declared aiming his sword at Amadeus behind Nexus and Artoria Alter.

"Arrrrrrrr!" the black knight growled as it dashes holding a damaged pole crackling with red lines as Nexus would guess that he got from the village they pillaged through targeting at Alter. She retaliates dashing towards the armored knight as their weapons clash onto each other.

"Arrrrrthuuurrr!" Nexus could assume that the knight would be a Berserker due to limited vocabularies, Madness Enhancement, and his ferocity. Also hearing the name Arthur at Saber that is something that Artoria Alter or perhaps the original Artoria is familiar with at her time as king.

"I see." she took that response stoically knowing who he might be as she pushes the pole away from her. "Stand back, Master. I will handle this one on my own. I doubt he would fight anyone else other than me. If so, then I shall take it accountable. Even if he depicts me as "her."" she told her readying her sword against the Berserker.

Nexus nods knowingly from her decision knowing what she meant to take it for granted as he gives her one advice. "Don't hesitate." he said in an austere tone not wanting her to hesitate on fighting those from their timeline and to not waste their effort just because they can't. You need to confront your own past no matter how hateful, resentful, or regrettable it is. Nexus is no exception, he doesn't regret the things he had done even the times that were inevitable….

"I wouldn't dare." Artoria Alter responds resuming her fight against the armored Berserker.

"Look at the sky!" Marie shouted pointing at the sky. "Look how many wyverns are in flight!" everyone looked up seeing dozens of wyverns flying in the sky and Jeanne goes over to help them and the others to handle the enemy Servants.

"Aarrrrrgghhhh!" Jeanne struck her banner at one of the wyverns attempting to devour one of the soldiers. She was breathing heavily on fighting both sides for the French soldiers saw her as the Dragon Witch and the wyverns devouring them. She doesn't have enough stamina to handle both sides at once.

"Hey, isn't that the Dragon Witch?" one of the soldier asks confusingly. "Why is she fighting the dragons?"

"Doesn't matter, both of them can go down. They burned my homeland so let them both die!" the other said in hatred.

Jeanne didn't say anything hearing that in lament giving no arguments.

"It's a shame, the people you're protecting are saying all kinds of things about you, Saint." Carmilla said as she is the one commanding the wyverns. "The only reason that they're watching is that you're the one dealing with these wyverns."

"…Please leave me be." she pleaded not wanting to hear it anymore from the Countess's pity of hers.

"How stubborn. If you're concerned about manpower, why not ask the French army? Oh forgive me. You happen to be the "Dragon Witch," aren't you? A saint that is burned to death and comes back for revenge. A beautiful, ephemeral, and ultimately ridiculous tale. And you're still struggling. Because now they see you as an enemy! Tell me, Jeanne d' Arc, do you wish to die or do you wish to kill?"

"She doesn't need the manpower to handle your reptile scallions nor any of those wish from you." a voice called from the distance as arcs of lightning shoots across the sky to the wyverns chains of lightning fluctuating every wyverns falling down clumps of bodies all over. Both Servants were surprised at what happened as the one coming from the lightning happens to be Nexus floating in the air. He's using lightning element to levitate himself by manipulating his field of electromagnetic force and keeping his lightning attacks in contract on his specified target to prevent any volatile damage to his allies.

"At least she has somebody that wouldn't abandon her and could tell the difference."

"Nexus!"

"You!"

"What are you doing, Nexus!? There's no need for you to trouble yourself for helping me. This was my decision to make helping them!"

"I'm sorry, what was that? I thought I didn't hear it clearly. You were saying that nobody needs to handle it for themselves?" He said to Jeanne her into his electrical-blue eyes. "I'm merely just paying a favor. Just take it as compensation."

"Did he just killed all those wyverns at once!? That's insane."

"Forget them! He's a complete monster!" Nexus moves his gaze towards the soldiers in a neutral look as they flinched hearing that.

Nexus sighs looking away. "Pointless…" he muttered not even caring to make an argument over such meaningless thing.

"Hmph, to think that you would electrocute all of them at once is quite a feat for a magus, young man." Carmilla said.

"Hm?" Nexus looked at the vampire noticing her. "Oh right, I forgot that you're here. I couldn't notice from that pale face of yours since it blends within the environment out of everything else."

This caused a tick mark to the Blood Countess hearing that remark of his. "Tch, you really have no sense of dignity talking to noble like that. Very well, I'll be sure to rip out that tongue of yours! Wyverns!" she commanded as more wyverns keep on coming in front of Nexus.

"Says the one who wears like a dominatrix. Does every noble would have such dignity for that?" he muttered to himself with a deadpanned face looking behind the enemy reinforcements. "I guess that you lots want to go with them too, huh. Fine." he raises his hand charging electricity onto his hands in a cold glare. "Have it your way." before he fires it, someone's voice gave out the commands.

"Artillery, FIRE!" as cannons launched pass the floating man exploding at the wyverns behind him. Nexus deactivates it looking at the man that gave the firing order to the soldiers. He had pale face with greased black hair and wears an armor with a cross-shaped symbol on the torso.

"Gilles!" Jeanne shouted instinctively directing to the commanding knight as Nexus would assume that's the "other" Gilles. Probably before he was considered as the Demon Marshal.

"Prioritize all surrounding dragons! Fire all cannons!" he commanded as they fire another volleys of cannons at them. Jeanne takes this opportunity to strike at the Assassin letting her guard down as she defends herself.

"As expected from a Ruler. Even with your power stolen, your physical strength…" she could feel the strength from the blonde Servant holding a considerable amount of effort she's putting in as Carmilla calls for a retreat. "Retreat! Lancelot! Sanson!"

"Wait!"

"A-uurrrrr!" the black knight's visor glinted as he solely focuses on Artoria Alter.

"I figured that it was you, after all. Lancelot." she said facing that as assumed to be her accomplice from the Round Table as he performs another strike at her blocking it. Both sides grate their weapons as they attempt to overpower one another having equal strength.

"My, it seems that Saber over there has touched the strings of his heart." Charles said taking notice to that. "So what now, Carmilla? Will he listen to reason?"

"We have no obligation to stay with the mindless black knight." the white-haired female responded as they decide to make their retreat leaving the black knight to them. "Lancelot! Buy us as much time as you can. Until the moment of your life is extinguished!"

"Arrrrrrr!"

"Keh!" Black Saber clicked her tongue as she decides to loosen her grip motioning the poles control. Lancelot swings it horizontally as she somersaults sideways over it landing it instantly delivering another strike but Lancelot quickly reacts to it defending her strike attempting to deliver another swing. Nexus lowered himself to the ground deactivating his element as he walks to the others watching the fight.

"Shouldn't we go help Saber, Senpai?" Mash asked to Nexus as he shook his head.

"I'd rather not get her in the way. This is something that she needs to handle this on her own. If I tried to help, then that would mean that I doubt her to which I wouldn't dare trying."

"You mean that Lancelot happens to be the Knight of the Lake and was the strongest Knights of the Round Tables?" he nods from that inquiry.

"Yeah. Probably the reason why his punishment was ignored from having an affair from the king's wife that bombed the entire outcome of Camelot. Being as the ideal knight he is, he wanted to be punished accordingly being responsible by it. However, due to the neglectence of his consequences forgiving him, the guilt overweighed and now you see him swinging a pole like a madman flaming whatever he wants at "Arthur" or any other faces that looks like her." Nexus motioned his hand to the two knights clashing each strikes from their brute strengths resounding around the battlefield.

"You seem to be pretty knowledgeable of that." Mash said.

Nexus shrugged. "Meh, I had time reading books."

From Lancelot's wide swings were savage but were precise and accurate from his strikes aiming the vital points as Artoria Alter blocks them and counter strikes at his armor. He jumps up as he attempts to strike the Black Saber at the end of his pole. She dodges jumping sideway leaving a crater from the impact creating dust. As she lands away from the dust, her instincts tell her to dodge fast as speeding projectiles coming towards her. The red hazing visor shines through the dust as it clears revealing Lancelot holding an automatic rifle in his free hand that is also cracked in red lines.

"Where the hell did he get that from? There isn't any automatic rifles in this era. Did it just magically appear from it?" Nexus questions of that speculation. 'Don't tell me that he brought guns because the author felt like it.'

(Huh?)

"….."

(Hey, don't ask me ask either MARVELOUS! or DW. They're the ones that made Lancelot's gameplay to summon guns out of nowhere.)

Nexus sighs. "Nevermind. It doesn't matter anymore since this is merely a cheap fanfic for writers that may have big dreams ahead but wastes time on writing this non-profit fictional story. Probably should've draft this from a writing of an amateur to the community to entertain themselves. Or probably ignored. Should find some sources with good fighting scenarios for this."

"Um…what are you talking about, Senpai?" this made everyone else stare at the black-haired strangely from his talk.

"Oh I'm just rambling. Forget what I said." he said waving his hands dismissively at them with confused looks. Saber Alter starts to shift her movements deflecting the barrage of gunfire from the black knight. At the moment, she decides on pumping her mana to increase her mobility a bit to propel herself close to Lancelot as he aims his gun at point-blank range but was instantly cut from her sword and attempts at another strike setting her sword.

"You must have met your end filled with regrets, Lancelot." the Black Saber stated to the knight that served her wholeheartedly even as known to be the traitor to the Knights of the Round Table to accept the punishment for his crimes that was never given. The glints its ghouly gaze of redness at her shrouding her sword in black magic. "I'll be sure to end your misery as what your "king" couldn't accomplish." she delivers a powerful blow from the overflowing magic against Lancelot defending himself from the pole as it launches back to one of the tree trunk.

"Did she won?" Mash wondered.

"No, it's far from over." Nexus said knowingly.

"Rrrrrr…." The armored Berserker growled as he slowly recovers off from the broken trunk. His visor glints with sheer intensity of hatred as the pole starts to cover itself in black shroud.

"RAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!" the Berserker roared resounding throughout his surroundings making the others cover their ears from its sheer loudness except Nexus. The shroud around his weapon fades revealing a pole no more but a black longsword with jagged round edges at the top and engraved with fairy writings and chains that intersects the guards. It is the Knight of the Lake or was one's sword, Arondight.

"It seems that you're finally getting serious now, aren't you? Very well." Saber Alter said as she focuses the magical energy increasing the length of her sword. (This wasn't intentional. I wanted to be more detailed…..not that kind.) "I will no longer hold any restraints from you. If you wish to be slain by my blade, then so be it!" she shouts lunging towards as the knight does the same as his sword energizes emitting black with red outlines violently.

"AAARRRRTHUUURRR!"

"Let us settle this, Lancelot!" two dark blades collide into each other creating a shockwave mixed with red, black, and purple that resounds throughout the area making the others cover themselves from the impact. The two knights were now opposite sides past to each other as Artoria Alter stood up with a stroke of her sword the black knight's armor began to sunder from Saber's magical energy leaving a gash to the Mad Dog and falls to the ground face down motionlessly with his anger subsided as the match has come to a cease.

"It's done." Nexus concluded as seeing his magical energy has been depleted as he can no longer sustain his physical body disappearing sooner or later.

"A-Arthur…" Lancelot groaned with his visor being dimmed looking at Black Saber.

"Your punishment has been concluded, Mad Dog." she said looking behind him over her shoulder. "You may now rest in peace along with your sins."

"My…king…" the lights died out from the visor as Lancelot disperses into the golden light and she looks forward walking towards her Master.

"Alright, let's go." he said as everybody turned carrying the exhausted Dragon Slayer with them.

"Please wait!" the group stopped their tracks hearing Gilles voice from the distance. "You are indeed Jeanne d' Arc! Not the Dragon Witch, but the bona fide saint, is it not!?"

Jeanne stood there silently not wanting to turn around and the black-haired male looks back at him hearing that sheer honesty of his. "At least he could tell the difference. Well how about it Jeanne? Not gonna say anything? There's at least someone who believes who you are."

Jeanne shook her head. "If I answer, I will endanger Gilles's position. We can't depend on them, for now."

"I see, then let's go." he said not to delve too much into it and understandable not to cause any trouble with ordinary people in this era as they continue on to their leave. Once Artoria Alter was walking beside Nexus, he pats her head passively.

"Good work, Artoria Alter." he said to her. She didn't say anything looking away with an obscure hue of redness on her face and a small smile.

Luckily, Nexus founds an abandoned fort from his eyesight detecting no hostiles and everyone decides to mark their safeguard.

"Any luck?" Nexus asked to the young queen who is helping the wounded swordsman.

"No good, my Noble Phantasm can heal minor wounds but not this one." she answered sadly healing the minor wounds on Siegfried but not the large cut.

"I see…" as he could see the abnormality into that wound of his shrouding in black malevolence that has been reinforced multiple times. "Seems like a curse. A lot of them at that." Nexus said asking a question to Siegfried. "Do you remember something when you're in Lyon?"

"I do remember that I was summoned relatively early drifting without a Master. Then I saw the town being attacked so I decided to help them."

"Heh, I guess that's a hero for you."

"Yes…although it's not like that when I was alive. With Balmung, I was able to manage somehow. But fighting several Servants isn't something that you could pull it off easily. And one of them hid me in the castle. My wound wouldn't heal and I couldn't ask for help to give myself away. I had no choice but to wait."

"Did you happen to see a woman controlling a dragon?" Mash asked.

"Well it was more like a turtle….wait, could be a dragon? A dragon turtle? Come to think of it, is it possible for that kind of dragon to exist?"

"Well, dragons comes in many shapes and forms. I have seen many kinds of dragons that are colossal, wingless, mud, metal, turtle-shelled, and even an owl-headed dragon. So yeah, they have their unique qualities being a dragon."

"I see…an owl-headed dragon, huh…." Siegfried said in wonder.

"U-U-Uh, okay you don't need to delve too much into that owl-headed dragon. Forget about it." Nexus said to prevent him to think into it anymore not to get demonetized for this.

"Anyway, she does have an aura of a Ruler, similar to yours." he said motioning to Jeanne.

"That was St. Martha, I would say." she answered sadly.

"St. Martha, the one who drove off Tarasque. I would like to thank her." as everyone else made troubled faces hearing that a wish that cannot be attained.

"She was long gone, Siegfried. There was no way to condemn her actions being the Berserker she had to be." Nexus said in a neutral manner.

Siegfried lowered his head. "I see. I am sure she's prepared for the worst. It was vexing for her to save me when I was useless."

"Baptism Rites could probably remove this curse. But a Servant of considerably high rank must perform it." Jeanne said.

"I suppose that it isn't enough to remove it." Nexus said.

"Yes. It's a miracle that he was able to pull off with multiple curses on him. We would need another Saint to remove multiple curses at once."

"Remove multiple curses at once, huh…" Nexus wondered in thought. "Well, if there is a Saint out there somewhere then we should get a move on. With those curses, it won't be easy taking on Fafnir. The French has been reduced to less than a half. We should split to cover more grounds. Question is how we're going to do this."

Something pops into Marie's head getting excited. "I had a great idea! Let's draw lots right now! Things like this should be settled by drawing lots! Amadeus, please prepare some!"

Nexus pinched the bridge of his nose shaking his head. "You just wanted to do this, didn't you?" he sighs at this for her to come up with a game of chance that is completely inaccurate but decides to comply at this.

As everyone drew lots, the team has been split. Some are uncomfortable with while others approve. Team A concludes with Jeanne, Marie, and Artoria Alter and Team B to be Nexus, Mash, Amadeus, and Siegfried. However the black-haired magus didn't complain as this team is sufficient enough for both sides. Jeanne having defensive skills, Marie with the support, and his Saber at the offense along with her endurance.

"To be honest. I'm nervous about leaving Maria. Not that there's a time when I'm not nervous about you. I'm rather worried about our side." Amadeus said worryingly as Mash downcast herself.

"He means that we have Siegfried to carry out. We're lacking a vanguard." Nexus explained to her. "Don't worry, you're skills are more than enough."

"Yes, thank you, Senpai." Mash said bringing her spirits back up.

"It's quite troubling." Saber Alter said. "It is truly a bother to me to be separated from my Master."

The Master puts his hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry about it, Alter. I want you to go with them. If anything goes wrong, then I'll handle it. I'll manage my side of the problem. Besides, you know how I handle my problems, right?" he assured to the king.

Saber Alter nods at this. "Of course, it was my mistake to think of that. You're strong enough to handle things on your own. Very well, if it's my Master's orders, then I shall oblige to it." Nexus nods in approval reassured that she would focus on her objective to her Master's order not to worry anything of Nexus.

"Right. Amadeus, make sure you get along with them. You tend to be misunderstood by friends." Marie lectured.

"Friends? I just that he never had any. Or he probably has friends that shares the same fetishes as him. Although I can't say that they would be considered as humans." Nexus comments from that.

"Hahaha, you must've been quite the horrible man to say such things to people."

"Well at least I'm not horrible as you are."

It took a hard blow from the composer of the magus's remark in a blunt manner. "Anyway, Maria. Just be careful along the way, don't try to find the pastry if you get hungry."

"Oh my! My heart beats thinking you might propose to me again!"

"Is this really the best time to bring that up?"

"Propose?" Mash said confusingly.

"Oh you didn't know, haven't you?" Roman said to Mash before explaining. "When Mr. Amadeus was 6 years old proposed to Marie a year older than him."

"Yes, I reached out to him as he fell, then I saw him staring me with his starry eyes." Marie said reminiscing the scene of his confession. ""Thank you, nice lady. I'm Amadeus. If a beautiful lady like you has no fiancé yet, could I be the first one?" is what he said to me! I'd never been flattered like that since I was born!"

"PFFFFFFF-HAHAHAHAHA! Oh, oh! I can't breathe! I can't breathe right now! HAHAHAHAHA!" Nexus sputtered and started to burst out with laughter hearing that dialogue. "That has to be one of the most cheesiest lines I've ever heard! HAHAHAHA! And the "starry eyes," HAHAHAHA!" Jeanne, Mash, and Artoria Alter were taken aback by his sudden abrupt of laughter. It was the first time seeing him showing laughter in him. Although a few admit that it's quite cheeky, but it's endearing to see him smile at such a rare occurrence.

"To think a story like that would get passed down…now I'm in a nightmare…" Amadeus groaned being humiliated by his laughter.

Marie giggled. "Of course, it made me so happy that I told everybody about it."

"So it was you, all along! You turned me down! You're such a femme fatale!"

This made the black-haired laughed even more clutching to his stomach. "HAHAHAHA! Even the girl of your dreams just told everybody else of your rejection! HAHAHAHA! Oh my god! Oh god!" he catches his breathe slowly recovering from that story as Amadeus groaned even deeper hearing that covering one hand into his face shaking his head.

"I'm sorry. I couldn't decide who'd be my fiancé. Besides, you know how my life was, don't you? I was satisfied by my decisions. It's for the best. You were loved by many people as a musician. And I died as a silly queen. It can't be helped as I'm always in love. Maybe I was in love the name France and the country itself, not the people…for that I was ended as an arrogant woman."

"That's where you're wrong, Maria. You say that you were in love with France. But that wasn't the case. France was in love with you."

"Yes, thank you, Mozart. Wait, does that mean that I was killed by the people who loved me?"

"Of course, that's how much they loved you. It can easily turn to hatred killing you because you were loved."

"…Hated because she was loved… They were in love, yet killed the one they loved…" Mash wondered in a glum state.

"Well that's some twisted love story that I don't want to be in." Nexus denies casually as he wouldn't want to end himself get involved in such a relationship like that. Even if that was the case, well….let's just say that it'd be impotent to waste such an effort, for now. "Okay, if we're done with that story then let's be on our way." he said as the two made their way.

"See you, Amadeus! Let me listen to your piano once I'm back!" Marie said waving her farewells to her unrequited love.

"Oh, Jeanne. Let's keep in contact with each other at regular intervals." Mash said handing the blonde saint over to the listening device. "It's standard-issue Chaldean communication device and allows to contact each other via magical energy."

"Very well. I'll hold onto it, then." she agreed taking the communication.

"If anything goes wrong, be sure to contact us. I'll be on my sight to find your location in a pinch so don't worry about anything if we can't find you." Nexus assures the group.

"Yes, thank you. Please take care as well, Nexus." he nods knowingly as they make their separate ways finding the fellow Saint to help Siegfried.

As they begin walking at Nexus's side, everyone makes their way to cover the side on searching for the Servant for any possibility for him to be here. They dealt with the enemies as the black-haired male handles it with no problems at all with their Dragon Slayer behind him to move but not in the condition to fight yet. Nexus turned back on Siegfried looking at him walking with the others.

"How are you holding up, Siegfried?"

"I've recovered enough to walk. Anything but combat should be fine. I'll be causing trouble for you a little longer. I'm sorry."

"There's nothing for you to apologize there, dragon. You've just caught yourself in a bad start. Probably from bad luck." Nexus said causing the knight to shudder a little.

"…That's right…I never had any luck for the best of me…" Siegfried muttered downcasted of his sheer moments of bad luck considering that his is ranked E. They make their way across the valley as Nexus could see the town far away.

"Jeanne and the others will be arriving soon." Mash said receiving the calls from Jeanne's group. "We'll be arriving in Theirs."

"Theirs…if I recall, it's famous for its knives. So far it looks like it hasn't been destroyed." Amadeus mentions looking over at the town.

"Yeah, I don't see any smokes, yet." Nexus said using his farsight as he also detects two distinctive magical energies which caused the Master to think in wonder. "It seems that we got two Servants over there. Well let's hope they don't destroy-and there it is." he said unsurprisingly seeing the flames coming from the town.

"This noise… I hate it! This unprecedented noise, the premonition of an unprecedented demon!" the Servant composer spouts frustratingly. "Oh, Muses! Please show mercy! My body can't stop trembling from fear."

"We're on our way now, Jeanne. Stay sharp." Nexus called to Jeanne from the sudden flames into the town. "Come on."

"O-Okay!" Mash responds as everyone makes a dash to prevent any further damage to the town.

"You! You, you, you! You cheeky little runt from the East!" the voice retorts annoyingly that takes an appearance of a young girl with pink hair in mid-back length that is tied with purple ribbons and light-blue eyes wearing a gothic lolita dress wearing white and black high-heeled boots with spikes on the tip with pointy ears and horns that looks more like headphones and a large tail with split ends along with pink scales that holds a lance resembling a microphone which it seems like that she's yelling at someone.

"Hehehe! Who's the actual cheeky one?" she responds as another young girl with golden eyes and long mint hair with two white horns dangled in golden trinkets. She wears a green kimono with white gowns over it, white stockings, and a black obi tied around with yellow strings holding a gold-designed fan more like a shrine priestess. "Do you really think a failure like you can beat a true Dragon like myself, Elisabeth?"

The pink-haired girl known as Elisabeth grits her teeth in frustration to hear from a dragon like her. "Ughhhh! I'm pissed off! I'll deal with Carmilla later, you die first! Creepy stalker!"

"I'm not a stalker. I'm only a devoted bodyguard who acts like a spy."" the shrine maiden protested. "As I am Kiyohime, a woman who lives for love."

"Your love violates human rights!" Elisabeth spats.

"I don't to hear it from a pervert that has blood fetish for torture." Kiyohime retorted. "I imagine you'd be doing THAT, weren't you?"

"That? What are you talking about!?" Elisabeth said oblivious behind the meaning from those words considering that she's too young to have such knowledge like that.

This caught the mint-haired dragon in shock looking at her pitifully. "…What? Elisabeth, I didn't know that you were-" knowing that she's a virgin.

She cut off her sentence scratching her head furiously not to hear another word to the likes of her. "Ahhhhh! Shut up, shut up, shut up! I'm going to-kill you!" she readies her lance pointing to Kiyohime.

"You can't kill me once I'll kill you!" she declares opening her fan up readying to attack each other.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Enough! Stop right there! I can't let you go any further. What you're doing is sacrilege against all voices and sounds!" Amadeus shouted as everyone else arrived at the scenery where two young girls are going head-to-head on each other.

"Humanoid dragons, huh?" Nexus mused looking at the two getting magical energy readings at the both to be Servants that caused the fire. "I guess they're not the saints we're looking for."

"No way! Religions would tumble if they were." Amadeus answered.

"Anyway, we have to stop them! Hey, you two!" Mash shouted getting their attention as they both turned their heads to them.

"What?"

"I'm busy right now. Come back the day before yesterday."

"There is no day before yesterday. We only have tomorrow. Can't you push your schedule for that?" Nexus asked to the dragon girls.

"Hmph. She won't be having any schedule soon. Until the next Holy Grail War!" Elisabeth said.

"Hmph. Frilled-necked lizard."

"Japanese Rat Snake!"

"Mexican-bearded lizard."

"Sharp-nosed viper!"

The two Servants continues to spout on each other as Mash couldn't take this farce anymore. "Okay, stop!" she shouts sternly at them and Amadeus covered his ears being near her.

"Ahhh…my ears will rot…you scum…oh, I'm forbidden to say that. I promised Maria." he said regrettably breaking her words.

"Grrrrrrrr…."

"Hmmmmmm…." the two dragons are still glaring at each other not even bothered by their surroundings and grasping the situation.

"We can't let those two fend for themselves, can we?" Mash asked.

"Well, if both of them never made an encounter then this would've never happened." Nexus commented.

"I'm done. I'm about to vomit. I'm leaving those people to you all…" Amadeus said not wanting to be involved in this fight of naming and screaming.

"Since I am useless and can't fight, I won't say a thing…Sorry." Siegfried apologized.

"Then don't even apologize for such an excuse." Nexus retorted looking back. "Besides, what good can you do to convince them not to fight. You kill dragons for a living."

"…Sorry" he sighed from Siegfried's apologetic look and turned towards the two dragons.

"Do you two realize where you are? If you wanna fight, then go somewhere else that is more rustic here."

"Huh?"

"Did you just say something?" the two looked at the black-haired magus at their annoyed looks for someone to interrupt them. Nexus looks at them with a deadpan look not intimidated by the two.

"Well, you shouldn't fi-" before Mash could say anything Elisabeth cuts off.

"Back off, Puppy!"

He lift his eyebrow from the pink-haired girl's title he was given to.

"Recklessness and bravery aren't the same. Are you stupid?" Kiyohime said.

"Well for you duking out and flaming in a local area, I can't tell whether I'm stupid or perhaps you are stupid better than any other reptiles that has the intelligent to pick their own plains." Nexus answers sarcastically from that remark.

"M-Master? Aren't you a little upset?" Mash tried to calm Nexus down.

The two girls went silent for a moment not suppressing their anger any longer. "…Now I'm pissed."

"You said it. You'll regret your words from the bottom of Hell. Elisabeth, let's get started!" Kiyohime said.

Elisabeth begrudgingly agrees. "Fine! Just don't get cocky just because you're so tough! I'll show you the terror that a Dragonkin can inflict!"

"Did they just team up?" Mash asked surprisingly as they were against each other's throats just then.

"Seems so." Nexus walks up to them. "Ladies, I hate to break it to you, but I'm not the type to regret anything I said." he cracked his knuckles. "I'll be enjoying how much a Dragonkin is capable of." Nexus gives a sadistic smile on his face making everybody shiver.

"Shall we begin?"

Chapter End: Okay so I'm getting a couple of reviews of who's in Nexus's harem. If you're absolutely curious about it, then I'll post some in this chapter for the update. I have some Servants and more likely one Servant to be with Nexus but I'm going to leave it to you people.