Return of the guardian
With the worm pit on fire Ilya moved on to her next stop. The temple. Depending who the servant is depended how she would deal with this as there were many possible outcomes. Some more pleasant than others.
The main problem was the casters territory creation the caster would be talking with a position of ultimate strength. Ilya herself being the user of the third magic had her own cards to play but she had only just started to explore it and didn't have zelretchs experience. She would have to rely on her combat capabilities if things became dicy.
Ryudo temple the site of a conflux of natural ley lines and one of the sites of the grails formation. It is also a natural strong point due to the natural wards against spirits that the temple has meaning that it only has one entrance, and one exit. Upon her arrival to the gate she saw a man sitting there.
"i cannot let you pass young one for my master has comanded it" he said. A look of discontentment on his face. "and why is that kojiro?" she asked getting a look of shock in return and a bark of laughter from mordred. "how about this I am this wars ruler and I need to talk to caster while I do that how about the two of you spar and compare sword techniques I shall not be long." at this she continued up the stairs towards her goal passed the shocked swordsman while mordred drew her blade. "Shall we?"
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"that fool of an assassin failed in his task didn't he?" griped caster when she appeared above her in the large court yard of the temple. Looking up at the woman ilya would admit she was a beautiful woman. And felt sorry for her when the information of who she was permeated into her mind.
"no, he just knew better than to attack the designated ruler of the war." came the soft reply. This caused caster to pause. "ruler? There is no such thing!" she growled
"Actually in a grail war there are 7 'normal' classes, these are as you should know, sabre, archer, lancer, caster, assassin, beserker and rider." seeing caster nod all servants were preloaded with this information along with the information of the era to allow them to operate in a war and not be confused. There was other information as well such as languages knowledge of current currency and other trivial matters but most don't even notice just assuming that they had already known or it was a link to their master.
"what isn't known is that on rare cases a 'abnormal' class can be summoned, the most well known are ruler, avenger, alter and shielder. For these purposes I will ignore the others and explain ruler." By this point caster had summoned herself a chair and waved for Ilya to continue.
"The ruler is only summoned when there is a problem sensed with the war. Due to this the ruler servant is gifted with enough command seals to help them in their duties to fix any problems that may occur." the magic user slowly nodded her head in comprehension " I see, The fact that you are a ruler means that there is a problem with the war just by your meer presence."
"correct" ilya nodded happy that things were proceeding in a civilised manner. "the grauk has been corrupted beyond repair. And considering the way it was made the corruption is threatening to spill over into the root." at those words casters eyes widened in alarm.
"because of this I have been going around granting the wishes of the servants that I can without the grail. Disconnecting them from it to cause it to dissolve and allow it to be dismantled." at this caster looked thoughtful before she replied.
" A nice sentiment but how would you go about doing that? You are but a child." at this she couldn't help but giggle " well I would need to know what your wish is lady medea?" a startled look came across her face before she settled down.
"i wish for a second chance at life and love, a life without the gods interfering." at this Ilya was nodding. "The same as Rider then." this got a startled look. "since you are medea you would not happen to know any way to create a new body?" she asked caster.
The sorceress thought for a few moments before an answer crossed her mind. "yes I do but it is a dark ritual why?" at this Ilya smiled "if we can give you a new body you wont have to rely on the mana of others and you will be disconnected from the grail. You will have that second chance."
The look that came across the sorceresses face was one of pure joy, she could be free to have a new life. To love! To Live, she would need to modify the ritual as it was seeped in dark magic and would cause her more harm than good but if she did it right she would have what she wanted.
"child if this works I will owe you a debt." and with that and a bow medea of cholchis former princess and sorceress vanished, she had work to do. With a smile Ilya left the temple, she had finished two of her jobs she had one more, this one would be the hardest and most finiky.
Well there is ancient chinese curse, may you live in interesting times. If nothing else the grail wars are certainly interesting just what type of interesting is the question.