Return of the guardian

It was not until after the school day when a grumpy sabre returned from her turn watching over Ilyas brother that the wire familiars returned with their reports of the goings on of the other masters. It was a dysmall report. Out of all of the seven servants only three were being used correctly. Out of those others all required ruler intervention for one reason or another.

Rider had been stolen by proxy and her master was being held hostage forcing the servant into a corner. This was not acceptable as due to the unsuitable new master they were forcing her to commit murder to sustain herself.

Lancer his old master was murdered and is only co-operating due to command seals but was only doing the bare minimum. But unknown to him the atrocities she sensed bellow that church.

Caster while the reasons are unknown, she killed her master, they might have been legitimate or not but she has started to feed on the Mana of the people of the town and summoned the assassin servant thus locking the war and causing untold headaches for her.

So after she finished her dinner she decided to start her job, pulling her hair back into a single braid and putting on her armour before calling Mordred. They were heading out.

There first destination was the school. The false master of rider had been setting up a barrier around it and she could think of few reasons that required such a construct in the middle of the holy grail war. Few of them were benevolent,

Upon arriving she found one of the sigils anchoring the mage-craft at which she summoned a dagger to her hand, it was a ceremonial piece with a thin blade. It was crafted using magic causing the blade to be coloured. This blade is called rule breaker and it has the ability the severe magic and contracts. It is a rare one that this blade cannot cut.

So with the quick application of rule breaker the barrier was quickly UN-raveled. This however was only their first stop of the evening. Quickly they headed to the matou house just before Ilya reached it she created a islotaion and quarantine barrier around the building using her familiars. She might not be able to do it with the fines as the ilya of this timeline but she can definitely put in more power .

Passing through the barrier she and Mordred readied themselves. Mordred moved off to intercept the rider servant, her task was to keep the servant busy, give her a threat to allow Ilya to do her job.

So as they approached a woman with long purple hair materialized before them. Ilyas True name determination clicked immediately telling her that the rider was Medusa This was causing her some worry as one or two Anti-hero spirits could be a glitch but this was a full blown problem now. Almost immediately Mordred blew a crater into the ground with the force of her charge clarent locking into place with a pair of chained knives held by medusa.

Ilya didn't have time to watch the fight casting out her senses to hunt her quarry she found the three live sources one with hardly any magic, one with a good bit, and the last felt strange.

Moving towards the first as that was the false master used the servants dematerialization ability to cloak herself from view. When she found the boy it was not impressive. One shinji Matou was a self titled ladies man but here he was hiding holding on to a book for dear life and sweating, his eyes darting around looking to be keeping an eye on a escape route. Any semblance of nobility that the boy had or handsomeness was long gone.

Ilya walked up behind him chose a random katana (one of miyamoto musashis) Traced it to her hands and pierced his heart with the blade. The look of shock on his pitiful face as he turned to look at her only to fall was the last thing she registered of the man before she had to dodge as a chained dagger flew at her head.

"Medusa I would think twice before attacking the ruler again especially when she was freeing your master from her confinement." she snapped at the woman. The sound of her name caused her enough pause to let her take in the words and process them before she growled back. "What do you mean?" Ilya sighed in response and replied "there are several issues with this war and since I am here the grail was able to reincarnate a spirit in me making me the ruler. We are also blaming zelretch for he had some part somewhere along the line but we are not thinking about that."

"now do you want me to save your master?" she asked this got a sigh from the woman "yes she has suffered enough from this hell." nodding to the gorgon Ilya nodded to Mordred who quickly vanished to collect the girl while she headed to deal with the other problem.

Inside the mansion she headed to the source of the disturbance she had felt. In the basement was a massive pit filled with crest worms, despicable creations that while allowing one to in essence transfer the consciousness it also destroys part of the mind while doing it as the mind was not designed for such a process.

To make matters worse is what they do to the body. They literally feed of the human body leaving only a husk behind so while they can in essence allow for an unnaturally long life they can also cause a premature death.

Because of this no magus has used them in centuries. They all decided that they had to many downsides to be of any use. But here was an entire pit full of the abortions and standing just next to them was the patriarch of the matou family. Looking smug as if he had just won the lottery.

Seeing this she was glad she had put up a quarantine field as it would not allow any of these things out and conciduring he probably infected Sakura the field will stop him from transferring.

So looking him in the eye one last time with a glare she turned now that she had all the proof she needed and exited the mansion. She got to a safe distance before she summoned a Caladbolg 2 and her bow. Over charging the abortion of history she fired it at the building, she erased it from the landscape. With a sigh she lowered her bow well that is the first of her tasks done 2 more to go. Hopefully they aren't as irritating as this one was.