Chapter 19
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War
An unyielding force that cares for no one yet is fought by everyone able, it is where sides are drawn and lines are blurred, there are no heroes here nor are there villains, only goals formed by those in power but fought mostly by the lower caste.
In another time the Holy Grail war would have created untold destruction should it happen with merely the Clocktower and the Vatican overseeing it and now that possibility is happening through the mirror dimension as Naruto skid across the road before quickly slamming both hands together and crush one of the creatures in between two buildings. It didn't last long before the creature burst from its confines and tries to attack again, only for it to run downwards when the roads folded inwards before the Sorcerer Supreme created a shield to block a charge from another creature
The shield held firm as the creature folded itself before it was sent flying backwards before the Sorcerer Supreme shoots into the air and fired a hail of magic spears straight at the enemy Caster, all of the attacks were blocked by her shields before she too manipulated the surroundings such as forcing roads to allow the creatures to attack him from all sides.
One of the creatures tanked one of the spears before Colossus dive bomb right at it from above, the other was suddenly being attacked by green vines bursting out from the ground, the last was sent flying back after a giant blast of magic before the Sorcerer Supreme took to the skies and fought the enemy Caster
Elsewhere Alexander laugh joyfully as he and the enemy clashed in a titanic bout, the two collided fist against fist as the red head said out to him "well isn't this interesting, it seems fate had decided to recreate our battle once more, isn't that right King Darius"
The now named King Darius looks at him stoically before answering him "so it would seem and it looks like you're still as irritable as ever"
The red haired conqueror merely grin as the two continued their bout as Darius leap back to avoid a heel roundhouse from him before jumping even further to avoid to follow up attack that destroyed the roof they stood on.
The Purifiers were being cut down like flies as the soldiers the Sorcerer Supreme brought in were decimating them alongside their Sentinels, bullets were blocked by magic shields, movement is near impossible with physics being thrown out the window in this world and now they are slowly being overrun by the numbers that Naruto brought with him
The Sentinels fared just slightly better only because of durability but even then they still fell, which was indicated when Storm and a few of the Mages did a combined lightning assault that blew one of them to pieces while Wolverine landed on top of another as a Mage creates a path for the mutant to use as he lunges at the Purifiers
Lancer grits her teeth in annoyance as she fends off against the armoured being, the two fought while standing on the walls and defy all logic of physics, lance clashed against spear as the blond went for a stab but was deflected before she had to quickly jump away to avoid being slash in half
Landing on another wall the blond woman blocked a downwards slash that cratered the place she stood upon before pushing him back and lunges right at him, the black armored being deflected the strike but failed to block the heel kick that sends him shooting into the road before Lancer slammed right into soon after, the attack was enough to create a tidal wave made of stone before Lancer was sent flying into a parked car and broke it in half
The servant of the lance groans for a moment before pushing herself up and narrowed her eyes at her enemy. The armored being stood menacingly right in front of her before he charged right at her while shouting "AAARRRTTTTHHHUUUURRRRRR" another clashed exploded right then and there as Lancer manage to push him off and slams her lance right at his side which sends him flying into the pavement
The servant of the lance could only look on with a frown on her face as the armoured being stood right back up and roared like a beast hungry for blood, she then spoke out to him "so this is what you could have become, I wonder if it was her that allowed for it to happen or would it happen because of the one who holds your heart"
All she got in return was yet another roar before the woman steeled herself and said outloud "very well, though I may not be the ruler that you know but it is still the duty of a king to punish his unruly knights so come Berserker and let me show you why it is I became the ruler of Britain"
Creating a whip the Sorcerer Supreme lashed out at one of the creatures by the neck and let's go, instead of being slacken the whip finds itself buried into the ground and held the beast in place before Naruto summons two more to bind it's hands together, he would have continued the assault if he didn't have to save Colossus from being turned into a chew toy
The sorcerer launch the attacking beast into the air by manipulating the road which gave the metal russian time to get away, he then shot into the air as he now engage the second creature by summoning a hail of light spears and bombarded it, Naruto then finished it off by creating an even bigger spear, this one bigger than an average tanker truck and hurled right at it
The result was the creature being skewered in half diagonally before the spear itself detonated and destroyed the creature into atoms. Naruto barely had any time to rest as Caster flew past him and he reacted by taking blasting to the skies when magical blasts nearly struck him
He turned on the enemy Caster before retaliating with a fury of lightning attacks which she dodges in turn before the enemy Caster summoned out a portal and there the last of the creatures pounce right at him, it barely got close as a portal opened right in front of it for it to pass through but only half way before the portal closed on itself and slice it in half, the lower half fell towards the ground before showing the Sorcerer Supreme unscathed as the blond stare at the enemy Caster.
Caster on the other hand couldn't help but give a tiny smile as she spoke out to him "well it would seem that this generation's Sorcerer Supreme is as powerful as your predecessor"
The blond raised an eyebrow for a moment as he said to her "hmm well I'm not surprise that you of all people might know my master or at least one of my predecessors, after all you are at least one of Greek's sorceress with that flavor of magic you're using and the way you modified those creatures"
The female nodded happily as she replied "nice isn't it, sure they're a little lacking with what I have but they sure hold out well wouldn't you say?"
The blond shrug for a moment before answering her "not too bad, they actually could take on most B ranked Mages and managed to at least tanked some of my C ranked attacks with minimal problems"
The Caster beamed at the praise for a bit as she did a mid air curtsy bow before the sorcerer continued on "you know that this war will end one way or another, I can help break the contract of yours so you can stop helping these fakers, what do you say?"
She was about to respond when she suddenly disappear in a flash of red light, the anti-climatic way made Naruto blink owlishly for a moment before he looks down to see the creature that he bind had found itself speared through the mouth, next to it was Colossus and Caster alongside a few of the soldiers he brought with him.
He slowly descended towards them and finally assessing the situation for a moment as Piotr asked him "is it over?"
The blond looks at him and replied "for now, to be honest I figured that we might be able to take them all out but I'm satisfied for now that we're able to deal a crippling blow to them"
He then slowly bring his palms together before the entire place they were in was now broken and all of them were back in the real world, he could see the dead bodies of the Purifiers and the mages littered all over the streets, he could not sense any of the enemy servants nor Stryker himself in the vicinity but he didn't mind too much since he would rather not have either group having an edge with survivors until he was able to at least secure one master and servant from each side with both of them being complacent
He then saw Lancer walking towards him, she had a few cuts and bruises here and there but she looked good enough to go for round two, I took a look at her for a moment before asking her "you okay?"
She nodded though there was a hint of sadness as she replied to him "yes, it is not easy seeing someone you know turn into something like that, even though he is not the same one that I knew there is still that lingering doubt of what if"
Naruto thought about it for a moment before he nods at her when a figure appeared from a portal behind him, said figure was a woman with purpled colored hair where its coloring lighten towards the tips of her hair, her eyes were cold amethyst with a small beauty mark under her right eye, she had impressive assets that showed through her clothes as she wore the same uniform as the other soldiers but she also had on a white coat hanging loosely from her shoulders and a sword on her hips.
Nearing him she crossed her arm over her chest and bowed before she said to him "Lord Naruto I am here to report our attack against the masters on the magi's base"
Seeing him nod she then continued her report "the blitz attacked worked well but the enemy Caster manage to corral our forces towards Archer and Assassin, we've suffered losses but they are minimal as we switched to Plan B to which the explosives did their job and crippled their base's infrastructure. We have manage to eliminate at the very least 30% of their forces and from what some of our scouts told me we might have manage to wound at least one of the masters on their side"
The Sorcerer Supreme hummed for a moment before he asked her "and what about Saber's master?"
She looks at him for a bit before answering him "they surrendered the moment all of them tried to escape, Saber will be a handful and the other three will be complacent enough after your run in with two of them"
Naruto looked at her confuse for a moment before a remembering as he spoke outloud "right he did have an assistant a few years back" he hummed for a moment before he then asked her "okay what about the rest of the group?"
The woman didn't even hesitate to answer "Scáthach had manage to take out the Purifier's Assassin but Lancer manage to get away because of the magi's Rider who Archer identify as Achilles interfering at the last moment"
Naruto raised an eyebrow at her before he muse outloud "considering who our Archer is I'm not surprise, though it is interesting that we have not one but three servants who at least know one another in this war, anyways what about the rest?"
She made a small face before she replied to him "Assassin and his master had track the magi within their capabilities but had no choice but to end it when Caster use a teleportation spell and…Shizuka had reported that she suffered some losses but the Armstrong siblings manage to help out alongside her and Flay, Saber and Berserker did battle against the enemy and suffered some damage likewise with the enemy servants, the only one unscathed was the Purifier's Saber who we speculate could have some form of invulnerability which narrows down most of the Heroes of legends, we manage to capture what seemed to be a high ranking officer from the Purifiers"
"So all we have to worry about now is where they are right now since we didn't take out their Casters then?" inquired the blond which was answered with a stiff nod before he then said to her "very well, heal the wounded then tell everyone to double check everything on our side, after that get some of our sensors to do their work in locating the enemy right now and tell them I will join them later if the need arises. I want you to bring Saber's master and his entourage to our base I will speak with them there"
The woman nodded before she bow towards the blond before asking "is there anything else my lord?"
What she wasn't expecting was the humorous tone as Naruto said to her "yes, you could come and chat with me after all it has been forever since we've talk and last I recall was when Shizuka and I celebrate your graduation, it hurts you know after what happen that night you've just nearly stop coming to the Sanctum don't you like us anymore Beatrice"
The grin he held was enough for the woman next to him to blush furiously as she then mumbled something before she turned around and started to get away from the blond, Lancer seeing this looked at him with a confuse look on her face before Naruto explained to her "wild night with a drunk Shizuka, believe me it is a whole lot worse than what you could think off"
The servant of the lance blink once, twice which made Naruto chuckle for a bit before he motion for her to follow him.
(Elsewhere some time later)
Kiritsugu Emiya was not easily intimidated, he was a man who people claimed to have no fear as he possess no heart nor soul towards anyone who was actually close to him, he was someone who could look death in the eye and would barely even twitch. Now though if one would see how he is now then they would claim that he was a fake or that they should fear the person who could put an emotion like that in a man with no fear, and rightfully so as the Sorcerer Supreme sat before him where the blond looked unamuse at him and his entourage
Standing next to him was the woman named Beatrice as she stood vigilantly alongside Lancer who stood to his right, Irisviel was just as nervous as Naruto bore his sights right at them as he spoke first "glad to see that you could at least see reason though I'm not ashamed to say that I'd hope for you all to give me a reason to smite you from the face of the earth"
The homunculus wince at the tone knowing that Naruto would make good on his threats as she then bow towards him and replied "if such were the demands of the Sorcerer Supreme then I would have no choice on your terms even if one could call as such"
She couldn't help but give a small jab as she knew how she really surrendered in the first place and so did Naruto as he scoff before retorting "as if I could care for imbeciles like you Clocktower magi, you and everyone of your order have done nothing but sown discord and endangered lives all for the sake of reaching the Root, an existence mind you only a select few can enter safely and not be a target for its guardians. I and the others have warned all of you quite a bit to give up such a goal but even so I have plenty of reports of so called 'rogue' groups that does quite a bit of dangerous and forbidden experiments to do so, and now you and everyone in that group had decided to start this stupid war in my domain of all places, that alone would warrant me to exorcise my right and wipe you all from the face of this existence but considering what you fools did to the grail was you're only saving grace from my wrath so don't patronize me doll"
Those who were in front of him had to take a step back when the Sorcerer Supreme slowly showed his power and it was more than enough to startled them even Saber could feel the power coming from him as Naruto continued on "so I will tell you this right now, you will stay here, you are now considered POW and if don't understand what that means, it means that you are under lockdown, you cannot leave, you cannot use your Magecraft and if you do so you will be put in solitary confinement with your circuits sealed until further notice, be fucking glad I don't bind your husband over there before I rip your circuits right in front of him, so I suggest that you don't push your luck Enizbern now get out of my sight before I will find something else to stave my boredom"
The four were about to leave but Kiritsugu couldn't help but asked "why?"
Naruto raised an eyebrow in slight confusion as the Magus Killer continued on "you have more than enough power to go toe to toe against the strongest servants, you have an army at your beck and call, you could destroy all of us as a whim so why try to spare one master in each faction where your faction itself could defeat us?"
The blond looks at him for a moment with half lidded eyes before he humored him "that is because people like you all are nothing more than cockroaches, irritating to all and very stubborn to kill, unlike you I actually think of the fallout and what ifs instead of taking an easier route just because I was lazy, I unlike you do not underestimate nor overestimate anyone. Like I have stated you are all just like those cockroaches and I would at least rather have one master from both sides so I can focus my attention into destroying the rest so they don't foolishly destroy the world with their greed, especially now with the grail being place in such a position so there is your answer Emiya satisfied"
The man would have said no but the tone Naruto had on was enough to shut him up before all of them headed out the door though Saber was slightly more reluctant than the rest, once they were gone did the blond slump in his seat before voicing out "sometimes I both love and hate this job"
Beatrice looks at him for a moment before she then asked "I am curious Lord Strange why did you not just simply erase those filth which would have save a lot of headache?"
The blond turns to her for a moment as he then answered her "one word, politics, as much as I want to do it the problem was if I really didn't have a real valid reason to do so then I would be under scrutiny from all corners, sure it might be mostly from those who care more about obtaining power for less than noble intentions but even those who would understand would wonder if I would turn into a tyrant and just simply kill for merely personal reasons. I will admit I have planned on overthrowing them for some time now but now I don't know if I should thank the celestials for giving me such an ample opportinuity or curse them for the same reasons"
The woman thought about it for a moment before she nods before Lancer then spoke out "are you sure about trusting them master? You may have force them to surrender through underhanded means but it doesn't mean that they might honor their side of the deal"
Naruto then simply replied "it is because of said underhanded means that they will comply Lancer, right now they have no support other than what was brought here whereas I have near unlimited resources to carry out my threat, whether I go through with it is a bet they have to take because I am a man of my word. Would I really though maybe, but do they want to risk it would be the question so no Lancer, I'm not worried about them betraying us because what I have is far more important than what Jubstacheit would give them"
The servant of the lance didn't so much as answer which was more than enough for Naruto before he stretch his arms up and then said "all right now the boring stuff is done lets go Lancer because right now Sizuka is feeling a little frisky and wants me to bring you along for the ride"
The blond woman didn't seem to get the idea as she tilted her head whereas Beatrice just scoffs at him with a hint of red on her face as she said to him "well won't this be interesting"
He then turns his attention towards her with a near malicious grin on his face as he said to her "of course it will…since you'll be joining us"
That made her wide eyed as she sputtered out "wh-wh-what! Are-are you joking my lord, why would I join in such a thing"
Finding some amusement in it the Sorcerer Supreme simply replied "well its because I gave my word to Shizuka to drag you there should we meet once again, you do realize that you did cut off all form of communications with us right, I mean you made my wife quite sad for letting her think that you didn't like her anymore especially what a 'connection' all three of us had during your graduation party at the Amestrian Soldier Academy"
That made her stiff slightly as various compromising images flooded her mind, looking down upon the amuse look on his face she had to stammer out a retort "I-I-I would love to join you my lord, bu-bu-but I have important work to do, yes really important so I must decline for now"
She stiffly headed towards the doors but her body didn't comply as she froze before being lifted into the air via telekenisis, seeing this she then spoke out "stop, what are you doing!?"
All she heard was a chuckle as the Sorcerer Supreme said to her "now, now, I am a man of my word after all and a wife's word is nearly law as no man could ever hope to fending off and won't she be surprise to see you again"
Her eyes could only widen in shock and now the woman was struggling in vain to try and break free yet it didn't not do anything more as the Sorcerer Supreme then moves her towards a certain Kitsune's room as Beatrice begged and pleaded to him while Lancer followed on curiously, wondering just what is that all about
She got her answer real soon as she alongside Saber had a good on hands training in what is known in the mystic world as the Tantric Ritual
She alongside the rest of the women did not get one wink of sleep that night
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