The Babysitter of Heroes

by Laurence Wu

Benjamin is your average college student, he lived a simple life. But when he move to his grandpa's house, find golden cup which appears a Holy Grail that summons several servants in flesh and blood. He must not only deal with servants moving into his house but stop them from killing each other and cause chaos in the city. He did not sign up to be a caretaker for the Heroes AU 2005

26. Chapter 26

A/N: Hello again, people. I am back to give you another updated chapter (13,578 words) and sorry that it took a very long time to post this, three months, as I've got world quest and homework that are keeping me very busy for a while, which causes me to write around a hundred words per day. The school has been keeping me busy for quite awhile and I need my time to be done with that work. I completely forgot to keep on writing more words to this chapter as even in free time writers have trouble getting stuff done. You know the feeling quite well.

AN: So there were 71 reviews, which is a lot, but some of them were questions and suggestions that are still terrible and badly-implemented ones, but I answered those ideas. I will not try to answer all of the reviews. I am not going to answer about summoning an OC servant, complaining about my grammar checks, suggestions for a crossover idea that has been overused already, and trying to give me a very complicated idea that is so confusing and hard for me to answer back to you.

I am also not going to answer almost the same question that some reviews keep repeating over and over. Go, look back to the other chapter to see those type of question. Stop give ideas about what Benjamin and Flanna should have a weapon, guns, and armors. Also, no more romance ideas for Benjamin or sometimes for Flanna.

Time to answer some of your questions.

NitoriHasu: No, I am not going to answer that idea of your servant crossover which looks at 24 to see where I put what OC servants are going to appear in my story.

MaxHD2490 chapter 25. Jan 22: Yes, Flanna would find it strange that Quetzalcoatl is a blonde goddess rather than a feathered serpent which can be even more confusing that Quetzalcoatl loves humans and despises human sacrifices and its rites as which is ironic, the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incan people love to practice human sacrifices for her and other gods to please them.

Justeaze as a servant is the normal one from Fate Stay Night, not the one from Fate Grand Order. The demon boar is the one that kills Diarmuid which in myth, it was incredibly large for a demon boar and evil which was described to eat runes and put even the Dragonkind to shame. That means that slaying one of those demon boars is not easy, as Diarmuid died fighting that with his own life. So it should take around five to seven servants to take a demon boar down.

UNSC Know Your Place: Thank you for saying that. But, still, I would not include servants you want in your review, just because you ask for it because those servants will come later, as those servants have been overused already and I only pick servants that have not be used that often.

Rin and Shirou react when the Catalyst is stolen is in this chapter. Their reaction when they know the truth about the Grail War in New Jersey is relief that it is not a damn war over the Grail but it's still horrifying that a person is in command of around a hundred servants, which she/he is not afraid to use them.

MessianicMinato: No, I am not going to summon her, even though I love reading that light novel.

SomeRandomDude: No, thank you for that idea, though.

MaxHD2490 chapter 25. Feb 26: Flanna and Benjamin would be afraid that Lobo wants to slaughter every last human for the crimes committed against him and his fellow wolves, which means them too. Headless Horseman maybe wants their heads too.

OrchiSucks2: So many questions from you but I will try my best to answer some of your questions

Will King Solomon's summoning retain the memories he had in his human incarnation?: No, he would not as this is not Fate Grand Order story.

Will there be epic reunions between lost friends like Waver and Iskander, and Shiro and Saber, and furthermore, will they go home with them?: Yes, there would be reunions with each other and they would go back home, I am not sure with Iskander if Waver's home is at the Clock Tower.

How will the servants deal with the individuals in the know who come knocking in pursuit of lost magic, knowledge, potential partnerships, and crazy fan people who would lose their fricken mind over meeting their idols in the flesh?: That is up to Flanna and Benjamin to handle that stuff. But as long the servants do not share anything that is top important information as long they learn nothing that could be used against them; those who do are usually wiped of their memories rather than killed if that fail then kill them.

How would Waver's group react to the summoning of Gods and other entities wearing the bodies of family and friends, or who are in fact family and friends, especially their alternate summoning, since Rin, Sakura, and Waver were avatar suits for several heroic spirits?: Mindblown, also, Zhuge Liang would not appear in Waver's body and Ishtar would not appear in Rin's body. Sakura would have to wait until her Servant appears in Fate grand order.

Would Kiritsuga and Irisviel, who were turned into servants in Fate/Grand Order, help combat the Demon Gods?: No, they would not fight Demon Gods, as I am tired of those good vs evil plots or those Holy Grail War plots.

How will several servants deal with their alternates, like Saber dealing with her alternate forms like the Lancer-class Wild Hunt King Arthur, and Cu Cuchulain dealing with his caster and dark alter self, Iskander dealing with Alex, and Medea dealing with the likes of Medea lily, and Elizabeth Bathory dealing with Camilla, and Gilgamesh dealing with his caster self?: Not every servant would have their alternate forms in my story, as I would only summon their evil counterpart or give some of the servant's double summonses.

When does the Heroic Servant faction manage to deal with the Magus Association, the Church, and the Einzbern coalition?: In a realistic way, the Magus Association, the Church, and the Einzbern coalition all have the common goal of removing Flanna and Benjamin to keep their hands on the Holy Grail. But, the issue is that the coalition refuses to work together as you may know that already from other chapters, and will probably end up fighting each other as well as trying to take the Holy Grail for their own selves, despite the fact that they have a common goal for a good reason.

The result is that Benjamin and Flanna win the war, as all of the factions are too busy fighting and weakening each other to focus on their common enemy and keep hamstringing each other for petty reasons because one side is never willing to cooperate, the other one is doing their own thing without telling their ally, and the main group is pissing off everyone who's technically on their side due to paranoia, arrogance, and their desire to keep the Holy Grail away from other groups who are rapidly depleting all their resources, whose is diminished every day as they keep fighting on, their military spent from fighting and losing so many battles along the way and are in a very fragile position.

The coalition is all so focused on their complex political gambits and petty feuds that they've forgotten their true enemy, Benjamin, and Flanna, who take them out one by one without them realizing that they are getting taken out one by one. Yeah, I know it is pretty anti-climatic but how would the Clock Tower even work together because of the political implications, the Holy Church who is too secretive with their plan and the Einzberns who want the Holy Grail for themselves. But I may be sure that the coalition did not go down without a fight.

Where are Ben and Flanna going to find the funds to clothe, shelter, and feed all the servants the grail is summoning, along with how are they going to do damage control due to the actions of said servants?: Else, steal or work to get money. Flanna and Benjamin can make a farm to grow some crops and build some shelter for more space. And the damage control, let the Clock tower and the Holy Church do that job as they have been doing that all the time before this event even happens.

How would they get the paperwork necessary to have a minimum wage position, much less legal identities, and back stories to get stuff copyrighted or patented for the more creative or inventive types like Mozart, Paracelsus, Da Vinci, and Shakespeare?: There are illegal places that make fake ID cards, driver licenses, and airport cards, which can give fake back stories. Some creative or inventive stuff can be sold online or get someone to sell them. Also, magic spells like Memory Manipulation and Command make that stuff easy.

Are the Pantheons and other supernatural entities going to get involved?: Only Phantasmal Species, no gods. The magical beasts are no pushovers, even as the servants would be pushing over their limits to kill those beasts. Dead Apostle Ancestor would probably appear in my story but most of them spend almost all of their time staying in their territories and trying to maintain the balance between society and themselves. They don't want it to be known that vampires exist at all and to protect their own lives, they hide the bodies of their victims, expand their territory and use various magical techniques to make things appear not out of the ordinary. The Sea of Estay would try to ask a favor to learn or regain lost magic, which depended if Flanna made sure that they were not making ingredients of a bomb under her watch. The Atlas Academy wanted access to the servants for the same reason, but Flanna would only allow some of the knowledge for them if the Atlas Academy shared their stuff too, as they hoarded information and knowledge for some reason. They have one rule here: That which is created here must never leave.

OrchiSucks2 chapter 23. Jan 29: That is a very complicated idea and suggestion, which I would not do anything like that because I am not trying to make a good vs evil plot or Holy Grail war plot which have been done to death.

OrchiSucks2 chapter 21. Feb 5: Sure, here some of the noble phantasms that Benjamin and Flanna are going to use: Gas Dearg, Rule Breaker, Durandal, Dainsleif, Arrow protection amulet, and Hade's cap of invisibility. While Benjamin and Flanna cannot activate most of the weapon's abilities, put magical energy into it, or release noble phantasms, but they have a weapon from the past back into the legend that is rare. To have a legendary weapon in your hands is quite powerful and cuts through a mage's powerful magic shield like a hot knife through butter. There are some number of Noble Phantasms that display passive abilities that continue to function without any need to call out their names, so it doesn't need certain conditions in order to wield the weapon, needing the ability to utilize prana and/or training in order to use the phantasm to its full effect, which the siblings do not need to use the phantasm to its full effect. As long the weapon or armor is useful even it is half effect, it would still be able to help them

EL Hunter chapter 24. Jan 17: Yes, the Holy Grail will summon a Ruler class in the next chapter 27 with a Lancer class and Berserker class.

ArcherShirou: The part of the atomic bomb plan is doom from the start, there is no way those Clock tower's member would found one without getting caught along the way.

Yeah, I agree with you on people's reaction on magic as most fantasy stories portrays the return of magic as heralding the return of a golden age. But in a realistic way, it's making an already bad situation worse. Because of most of the modern people don't even believe that magic still exists in this world, making them terribly unprepared for what's to come, very few people can understand, control or protect against this powerful thing. In fact, the whole magical package is outright stated to be a double-edged knife. Magic may be morally neutral in itself, but it's not going to make life easier by coming back.

That is a good opinion of why the magic got weaker but it explains that as technology moves towards the future, magecraft moves towards the past. As technology has advanced, the ability of magic users has only declined, where magic was once powerful, it now has to hide from society at large or risk destruction. But that does not mean Magic can beat Technology if mages are so backwatered people that prize beliefs and lifestyle of the old way then the modern technology and new way of thinking cause them stunted their progress and prevented them from properly assimilating to the rest of world which magus believing that their magic and comparable magical tools they have possessed will never be inferior which would leave them making incredibly poor decisions that lead to them getting their asses kicked in one way or another as the magus are largely ineffective due to a lack of numbers and poor discipline.

Sure, Magus are vicious with their magecraft that are unparalleled to other magus and other normal people but have no discipline which does not obey to order that easy, no strategy which on paper, no unity which every magus is only for themselves. In a battle, each man fights only for his own glory.

MaxHD2490 chapter 25. Jan 19: It is going to be a massacre at the docks in the next chapter and with the ship sink in the water. Flanna had no idea what Hans Christian Andersen's Noble Phantasm does anywhere but she knows that it can bless her to the point of overkill, and if she can't take it then she turned into a horror mewling spawn of something.

No, Nitocris and Cleopatra are not going to be part of Benjamin's harem.

Matrience: Thank you for that information

Professor Janus: He is going to make an appearance in chapter 27.

Piddle: I was told by three reviews of the almost of the same ideas as you but I have always told about fate prototype saber and the regular saber.

Saint rider 123: Yes, I would summon Arturia Lancer the non-alter and yes, her personality is different. Lancer Arturia views her saber counterpart as a young sister and not as an alternate version of herself. Her reaction with Shirou, Irisviel, Kiritsugu, Gilgamesh, Iskandar and other Knight Round Table especially Mordred is mature and good rèlationship with them but tends to stay away from them for some reason.

Galer: I have read Jojo's bizarre adventures manga in school and quite think that it from the 80s and '90s timeline manga. I am not making a crossover with it. And No, I am not making the events of fate grand\order into my story as this good vs evil plot can get really tiresome.

King0fP0wers: I am still making an early plan for the Akame ga kill Crossover as I am writing it down on the piece of paper as I am advice myself against starting a second story which I have seen many many writers combine stories and perhaps five or so actually succeeded. It is really really hard, at the very least if you are trying to plan on finishing both of them. I was wiser enough to focus on one story and ensure it can get regular updates instead of spreading myself thin across two stories. It is better to have one good story than to have two with incredible slow update speeds as it alway a trap, I have seen many writers fall in (including myself) is that we start writing something and suddenly think of another great plot (which may or not be an actual great plot). However, the excitement at the new idea dies out just as it does with the first and you keep writing these short stories that never get finished. Attempting to run two concurrent stories is often a recipe for burning yourself out faster as tackle multiple projects at once.

Yes, the sixth Noble Phantasm of Achilles was quite well made as I know that he was already badass enough without it but in the original legend Achilles was invincible, regardless of the amount of divinity, which was necessary considering the actual intent behind the war. I found it strange that Achilles doesn't have the suits of armor that were forged by Hephaestus during the Trojan War. Galahad would appear with Masha's look if you want to know what he looks like then google search that said "danbooru galahad (Fate)" which you see it in first and second on the first page. Yes, I share your opinion about Hassan of the Hundred Faces as he can give any mages a run for their money.

Amelia831: I think about make romance interest for Flanna but not right now. For romance interest to Benjamin's friends which no plan right now about them too.

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He was born and raised in the village of Einsiedeln in Switzerland. His father, Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim, a chemist and physician, and his mother, who presumably died in his childhood. Born in the village of Einsiedeln in Switzerland and having moved to Villach of Carinthia, he was educated by his father, as well as by local clerics and his covenant school. His father combined his interests in chemistry and medicine with his patients' experiences in the mines and in the smelting plants and became an expert in occupational medicine. The young physician, who was headstrong, stubborn, and independent, grew up in a home environment where chemistry and biology were paramount and he learned a great deal from his father, who became his role model. He decided he wanted to be a physician/chemist like his father. At the age of 16, he started studying medicine and Magecraft at the University of Basel, later moving to Vienna. He then gained his doctorate degree from the University of Ferrara, before being employed as a military surgeon in the Venetian service. The young physician would travel quite often, carrying out his wanderings as an itinerant physician and sometime journeyman miner throughout Central Europe to help the common folk with his Magecraft. His traveling mindset took him across Europe through countries like Germany, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Russia.

He soon became a professor, city physician and the chairperson of medicine at the University of Basel after deciding to settle down for a brief moment in his life. While practicing as a physician, he was hugely interested and drew influences from renaissance centric philosophies, like Hermetic, with religious and philosophical bases, neo-platonic mystical philosophical bases, and Pythagorean philosophies and thoughts. Paracelsus rejected most of the prevalent and widely accepted world views and magic theories of medicine. He followed most of the contemporary university physicians who practiced astrology while pursuing studies in the field of medicine. Astrology gained maximum importance in his medicine. He indulged himself for long hours practicing astrology in order to take notes and write consistently, in order to build astrological talismans for curing disease. The physician produced various forms of talismans for a different type of diseases and ailments. He also made talismans suitable for all zodiacs.

Soon after taking his degree, he set out for many years of wandering through almost every country in Europe, including England, Ireland, and Scotland. He took part in the Netherlandish wars as an army surgeon. Later he went to Russia, was held captive by the Tatars, escaped into Lithuania, and went south into Hungary. In 1521 he again served as an army surgeon in Italy. His wanderings eventually took him to Egypt, Arabia, the Holy Land, and, finally, Constantinople. Everywhere he went, he sought out the most learned exponents of practical alchemy, not only to discover the most effective means of medical treatment but also—and even more important—to discover "the latent forces of Nature," and how to use them.

He wrote in his notebook. "He who is born in imagination discovers the latent forces of Nature.… Besides the stars that are established, there is yet another—Imagination—that begets a new star and a new heaven."

Soon, he returned to his home in Villach to find that his fame for many miraculous cures had preceded him. He was subsequently appointed town physician and lecturer in medicine at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and students from all parts of Europe went to the city to hear his lectures. Pinning a program of his forthcoming lectures to the notice board of the university, he invited not only students but anyone and everyone. The authorities were incensed by his open invitation.

It was at this time that his stubbornness had evolved into a rebellious spirit and he began to challenge the system of medicine including teaching and practice. He was disenchanted with universities and said that "The universities do not teach all things, so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller.…Knowledge is an experience." He strongly criticized apothecaries, antagonized the medical faculty, and aroused the jealousy of other medical practitioners which he then published a pamphlet in which he vehemently opposed the use of the theories of Galen and Avicenna, calling them useless and saying that those who followed them could not possibly diagnose diseases accurately. The outraged medical faculty banned him from lecturing, but he demanded to be allowed to lecture, saying that he had never requested their approval.

He angered his magi colleagues once again by lecturing in German instead of Latin in order to make medical and magical knowledge more accessible to the common people, which was the traditional language of teaching. He introduced new ideas on the preparation of medicines, the use of minerals to treat illness, and the diagnosis of disease through analysis of the urine and the pulse. Also, he refused to prescribe the medicines of the local apothecaries. But despite this backlash to his reputation, many people took themselves in as beloved pupils of the great Paracelsus. He reached the peak of his career at Basel. In his lectures, he stressed the healing power of nature and denounced the use of methods of treating wounds, such as padding with moss or dried dung, that prevented natural draining. He also attacked many other medical malpractices of his time, including the use of worthless pills, salves, infusions, balsams, electuaries, fumigants, and drenches.

During the students' celebration of St. John's Day in midsummer, he burned the Canon of Avicenna, then the classic medical text, in a public square to demonstrate his opinion of it. He lost a court case over a medical fee he had charged a patient and was sentenced to prison. Just eight months after he began teaching, he fled Basel in the middle of the night and went to Colmar. The rest of his life was spent traveling around Europe, practicing medicine where he could and composing several works, which, once again, he attracted the animosity of the medical community in Nuremberg, but successfully treated several cases of elephantiasis.

He was invited to Salzburg, Austria, by the Prince Palatine, Duke Ernst of Bavaria, who had an interest in alchemy. The young physician became wealthy and was sought by royalty because of his book "Der grossen Wundartzney" (Great Surgery Book).

"The wounds must drain, he insisted, for if you prevent infection, Nature will heal the wound all by herself."

He later bought the rights of citizenship in Strasbourg to establish his own practice of alchemy. During this time, he would be known for creating the original Azoth Sword. He left behind many achievements and books such as the "rediscovery of the four (five) elements" and the "rediscovery of the three humors" around this time as well. Not only did his (re)discovery of the four elements (with the potential fifth) and three metallic principles help the advancement of Magecraft, he also used his knowledge in alchemy to help common folk with no connection to magic, taking in even more willing pupils under his caring wings.

Due to his life, he held a remarkably radical view of the world that was in stark contrast to almost all other mages. He believed that magic was something the public should've been made aware of. He had believed in the good that magic could bring to the world if only everyone was made aware of it. Unfortunately, this ultimately caused him to get killed. He was a person who left the legend of an ideal person in the magic world and he expressed a part of his own research to save people far and wide in the world and therefore lost his life for that desired expression.

The Mage's Association sent their assassins to his doors in order to preserve the mysteries of magic when the young physician returned to Villach again to see his father, only to find that his father had died four years earlier. He took up an appointment in the White Horse Inn, Salzburg, where he greeted his assassins with complete composure and pacifism, who never meant to eliminate him immediately. As to them, he was still a rare and talented individual which they had to warn him more than thrice by the Clock Tower in his attempts to disclose the mysteries of magi.

But they soon found out that the young physician refused to change his way of revealing magic to the world, which they had to slay him. After that, they salvaged all that they could from his workshop from the tome that he had wished to publish, in order to reveal the existence of magic to the world, to mountains of catalysts and experimental notes.

His death was covered up that he died of natural causes or a brief illness. His body was interred, at his request, in the graveyard of St. Sebastian. A tomb was erected by an unknown person in the porch of St. Sebastian's Church.

The physician became a Heroic Spirit who left his name in human history and the magic world, while not proceeding down a blood-stained path. After his death, the movement of Paracelsianism was seized upon by many wishing to subvert the traditional Galenic physics, and his therapies became more widely known and used. Most of his writings were published after his death and still, much controversy prevailed. He was accused of leading a legion of homicidal physicians and his books were called heretical and scandalous. However, after many decades, a new pharmacopeia by the Royal College of Physicians in London included paracelsian.

"Therefore, I lost my life. It couldn't be helped. I wanted to save people. They were afraid of me disclosing more of my knowledge. My beloved children were no different and the mages were also the same to me, either had no other choice but to drive me off from this world, for more than being incompatible." - Paracelsus

"Alterius nonsit qui suus esse potest" ("Let no man belong to another who can belong to himself.").

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He was born to the sea-goddess Thetis and the human hero Peleus; although originally Thetis was to marry either Poseidon or Zeus who once competed for the hand of this enchanting goddess, the gods instead had her bear the seed of Peleus, as a prophecy stated that if one of these gods lay with the Nereid, the son born to her would be mightier than his father, wielding a more powerful weapon than the thunderbolt or the trident.

"Let her accept a mortal's bed, and see her son die in battle, a son who is like Ares in the strength of his hands and like lightning in the swift prime of his feet. My counsel is to bestow this god-granted honor of marriage on Peleus son of Aeacus, who is said to be the most pious man living on the plain of Iolcus."

When the young warrior was born, his loving mother Thetis wished to make him immortal, and for that purpose, she dipped him in the waters of the river Styx. After that, she tried to anoint him in ambrosia and warm him in holy flames in order to burn off his human blood. But Peleus interfered, claiming that it would 'destroy Achilles as a man'. With the ceremony interrupted, Thetis flew off into a rage, and although she maintained contact with her son, she was never reunited with her husband.

Some years later, when the young warrior was a child, his father brought him to Chiron, the wise Centaur who lived in Mount Pelion, to raise and tutor him in the ways of heroism; Chiron readily accepted and educated the young boy and fed him on the inwards of lions and wild swine, the marrows of bears, milk, and honey. Unfortunately, for the pious Centaur Chiron, who was not a drunkard like other centaurs, and who never had used his weapons against a man, and who spent his Old Age learning about herbs and teaching to play the lyre to his pupils, the young warrior proved to be a difficult task. For when the boy had forever left his tender years behind him, he started wandering wherever he pleased, disobeying his teacher, and indulging in what he thought to be a good time, plundering the homes of neighboring centaurs, stealing their cattle, and provoking a growing anger in the whole province. That is why, when Thetis, being afraid of what was being planned by fate and by Zeus, came to Chiron to see her sweet darling son the Centaur and begged her to take him away.

When news of the impending Trojan War reached her ears, Thetis received a prophecy that concerned her son. According to it, Troy could not be taken without the aid of Peleus' son. However, if her son took part in the War, he would die. Thusly, Thetis, seeing that it was fated that his son should perish in the war, and still look for a way out, disguised him as a female and entrusted him to king Lycomedes of Scyros. It was quite hard for her son to accept being dressed like a girl. No matter how much his mother worked on his rough heart until he noticed that this was the only way to come closer to the king's daughter Deidamia. Having accepted the looks of a girl, he was presented by Thetis to the king as Achilles' sister. And the king swallowed the lie, for a mortal cannot avoid being deceived by a deity. But some have thought that the story of Achilles disguised under the name Pyrrha in Scyros is absurd, and argue that Achilles lived in that island because he had conquered it. However, due to an affair with the princess Deidamia who he bore a child and the timely interference of Odysseus, the deception was unveiled.

It was then that Thetis would ask him a question that shaped his destiny.

"Do you want to live a long and happy life without ever having your name recognized by the masses? Or would you rather go to Troy and live the exciting but short life of a hero with brilliant achievements in battle?"

For the young warrior, the answer to that bore no question and, although incredibly proud, Thetis couldn't help but also be incredibly sad, as her son was doomed to live an exceptionally short life. With that answer, she requested Chiron to train her son once again and Chiron happily accepted the role of mentoring Achilles for nine years.

In that way he was then fifteen years old, became Leader of the Myrmidons, a people of Phthia, to lead them against Troy, along with the other allies. Nevertheless, Destiny left, at any moment, two courses for Achilles: to stay in the siege of Troy, die and win everlasting Fame, or go home and fameless and have a long life. That is how Achilles sailed from Scyros and went to the war, leaving in grief the pregnant Deidamia whom he married before his departure.

"Is this free wedlock? ... You are given to me only to be torn away ... Remember that the fears of Thetis were not in vain."- Deidamia asked him a question.

The invincible warrior soon arrived with his fifty or sixty ships to the harbor of Aulis, opposite to the island of Euboea, where the powerful Achaean fleet was gathering in order to sail against Troy and obtain through persuasion or by force the restoration of Helen and the Spartan property, both stolen by the seducer Paris. His mother warned him not to be the first to land on Trojan land, for it had been prophesied that the first to land would be the first to die which he was able to avoid. The first among the Achaeans to land was unlucky Protesilaus, who, having killed several defenders, was also the first to die.

Now, it has been conjectured by military expertise, that the Achaeans, on their arrival to enemy land obtained a victory; for otherwise they could not have landed or even less built fortifications. But at the same time, not having enough supplies, they dispersed being obliged to resort to plunder, piracy and perhaps even agriculture. It was a lack of supplies, then, that led to the dispersion of the army, making it possible for the Trojans to defend their city for ten years, although many other cities in Asia Minor were destroyed by the invaders. During this phase, the invincible warrior sacked the islands of Tenedos and Lesbos, and the cities of Thebe, Antandrus, Adramytium, and Lyrnessus; and reaching far to the south, he sacked also Cyme, Phocaea, Smyrna, Clazomenae, and Colophon.

Within the Trojan War, the invincible warrior was truly indomitable. Whether on foot or his chariot, he was the fastest hero there was. Invincible and far too skilled, he was a human exceedingly close to the level of the gods and, when faced with him, the heroes of Troy had no choice but to either stand their ground and be slaughtered, or run away and get stabbed in the back. With each kill, his legend grew.

However, there was a problem at the Greek side as in the tenth year of the war, King Agamemnon delivered himself to arrogance, humiliating a priest of Apollo who had come to ransom his daughter, Agamemnon's prize. So Apollo called down from Olympus darker than night, and let a pestilence decimate the Achaean army, thus avenging the humiliated priest. When the seer Calchas declared that Agamemnon's way of treating Apollo's priest was to blame, the king, though insulting the seer too, agreed to renounce his girl, but at the same time announced his intention of compensating himself by taking someone else's prize.

On hearing the king's threat, the invincible warrior called the king a shameful scheme and a man always ready to take the lion's share and to profit by others' efforts, piling wealth for himself. King Agamemnon was then utterly displeased, and answered by letting the warrior know that, by taking away his sweetheart Briseis, he would teach him a lesson in both power and kingship in the same way that Apollo was robbing him of Chryseis.

"Go to the hut of Achilles ... take the lady Briseis into your custody, and bring her here. If he refuses to let her go, I will myself go with a larger company and take her, which will be all the worse for him." - Agamemnon to his heralds.

Having heard the new threat, the invincible warrior considered killing Agamemnon, but while he pondered, Athena came from heaven, and, invisible to the others present, seized him by his hair and stayed his anger. Keeping his word, Agamemnon let Briseis be fetched and taken away from his tent. This is what allowed wrath to make its nest in Achilles' heart, keeping him in a dark mood and away from the battlefield. Accordingly, the host of Myrmidons that had followed him to Troy became an idle mass who watched each battle from the sideline. But in the view of his mother, who could not see any justice in letting her son be miserable at this unjust state of affairs, she went to see Zeus, and put her left arm around his knees while her right hand touched his chin, asked of him compensation for her son as to teach Agamemnon and the Achaeans a lesson for the outrage her sweet son had suffered, by letting them, if only for a while, be routed by the Trojans.

"Avenge my son, Olympian Zeus, lord of counsel; and give might to the Trojans, until the Achaeans pay him due respect, and magnify him with recompense." -Thetis asked Zeus for this unfair act from King Agamemnon.

Zeus both listened to this prayer and granted it, sending the king many false dreams carrying the message that victory was at hand and he should prepare to attack and that is why the Achaeans suffered many defeats in the battlefield; for the god resolved that they should learn to honor the man they had outraged as time went by and the Trojans became more and more dangerous. It was not before the military situation had considerably deteriorated, that Agamemnon tried to appease the invincible warrior's wrath so that he would fight again, by offering him the seven tripods, the seven women, the seven cities, and many other gifts which included Briseis, whom Agamemnon claimed he had not touched.

But gifts, profit, and riches were the same as nothing to the invincible warrior for whom friendship, honor, and being of one heart, was far more important. And so, convinced that the king would forever lack the means to appease his offended heart, he turned down the gifts as he considered these gifts hateful, for Menelaus' brother had done to him what Paris had done to Menelaus, and it was precisely this kind of outrage the Achaeans had come to avenge

"Why has he gathered and led here his host, this son of Atreus? Was it not for Helen's sake? Do they then alone of mortal men love their wives, these sons of Atreus? No, for he who is a true man loves his own and cherishes her, as I too loved Briseis with all my heart." - Achilles asked Agamemnon's envoys.

And because no agreement was reached between the king, who thought that wealth is coveted by all, and the warrior, who was proud of his own heart, new defeats fell upon the Achaeans as when the Trojans, having come closer, succeeded in setting fire to the ships, the invincible warrior consented to send his close friend Patroclus to battle again in order to stop their offensive. That was when his close friend Patroclus was killed by Hector, the first prince of Troy and the golden city's mightiest warrior looting and even attempting to desecrate his body in the process.

After receiving the news of the death of his friend Patroclus from Antilochus, the son of Nestor, the invincible warrior grieves over his beloved companion's death which he asked his mother to let him go and seek death since he had not been able to save Patroclus from dying. "It is true that Zeus has done that much on my behalf. But what satisfaction can I get from that, now that my dearest friend Patroclus is dead? I have no wish to live unless Hector falls by my spear and dies." His mother Thetis comes to comfort his distraught son. She persuades Hephaestus to make new armor for him, in place of the armor that Patroclus had been wearing which was taken by Hector.

When the new armor arrived, the invincible warrior armed himself with a new set of armor and shield and took the field, killing many men in his rage, but always seeking out Hector. Which, he even engaged in battle with the river god Scamander who became angry that the demigod was choking his waters with all the men he had killed. The god tried to drown him but was stopped by Hera and Hephaestus. Zeus himself took note of the enraged invincible demigod's rage and sent the gods to restrain him so that he would not go on to sack Troy itself before the time allotted for its destruction, seeming to show that the unhindered rage of the demigod could defy fate itself.

Sing, Muse, of the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, the accursed anger which brought countless pains to the Achaeans

Finally, the enraged invincible demigod found his prey and challenged Hector to single combat, who was a genius in warfare and could've won the War all by himself had it not been for the invincible demigod. The result was obvious to all and, even after tricking the invincible warrior to abandon his immortality using magecraft to create a Duel Field, Hector was no match for the enraged demigod and was defeated by a paper-thin difference in skill. Accepting his fate, Hector begged the enraged invincible demigod not to spare his life, but to treat his body with respect after killing him. The demigod told Hector that it was hopeless to expect that of him and declared that "My rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw – such agonies you have caused me."

However, the way with which he treated Hector's body afterward was both foolish and intolerable as the invincible warrior drag his corpse by its heels behind his chariot. It was until King Priam of Troy, who humiliated himself in front of the man who had killed his son and pleads for the return of Hector's body so that he could be buried.

After his temporary truce with Priam, he fought and killed the Amazonian warrior queen Penthesilea, but later grieved over her death. At first, he was so distracted by her beauty, he did not fight as intensely as usual. Once he realized that her distraction was endangering his life, he refocused and killed her. After removing the fallen Amazon's helmet, the hero was so overwhelmed by her beauty that he began to cry from the remorse of killing her. One of his lieutenants, Thersites, a simple soldier and the ugliest Achaean, taunted the invincible warrior over his love and laughed at him, and then he proceeded on, gouging out Penthesilea's eyes. Enraged, invincible demigod responded to this disrespect by immediately slewing Thersites. Diomedes, cousin of Thersites, in revenge he stole Penthesilea's corpse and dragged it behind his chariot and into a river.

As the invincible warrior was scaling the gates of Troy and he was hit by Paris with a poisoned arrow which the god Apollo guided Paris' arrow to shoot his only weak point. Now vulnerable and sensing his death coming, the invincible warrior nonetheless stood his ground and continued to kill the Trojan soldiers with all of his strength, despite getting shot in the heart numerous times with arrows. By the time he finally fell, he had made a bed of corpses to rest on; truly an end befitting such a great hero.

As thus, Achilles became immortalized through the ages, his name now known all throughout the globe.

---

He was a non-exceptional man with little to no talent at all.

But though he had no such talents, he sought the title of the Old Man of the Mountain.

He was young, filled with raw impatience and was afraid of dying and being forgotten, he decided to do everything he could to become the next Hassan and leave his mark in history as a great and noble person.

The Old Men of the Mountain are the pinnacle of assassins in their respective generations, and it is mandatory for one to wield an inimitable talent. Hundred-Face has her myriad skills compartmentalized within her multiple personalities, while Serenity's entire body is a lethal poison. As for him, he had no such talents among the Óld Men of the Mountain, he is just a very mediocre and average Hassan. He has no noteworthy talent to speak of.

Harsh training not being enough for him, he underwent heavy body modifications, culminating in his acceptance to carry the arm of the demon Shaytan. To those ends, he sacrificed his own body, implanting into his right arm that of the devil, Shaitan.

If there was no speck of talent in his body, then he would just have to turn that talentless body into the host for an extraordinary power. However, with such power came great physical weakness, eating and drinking came at a great pain to this Hassan. But despite that, he still led the Assassins faithfully up until the end of his life.

He threw away his face, his humanity, and the woman he loved, all for the sake of becoming the Old Man of the Mountain. His childhood friend and lover, he became a Hassan and left her. Salia then went into the Holy City to marry someone, then Rushid was born.

Having thrown away his wife, his body, and everything that made him human, he eventually succeeded in becoming Hassan.

But in the end, he came to realize he was now the nameless nobody he was so afraid of becoming. He even went down in Hassan's history as the most unremarkable of them all. His deeds unremembered by anyone.

Though he became Hassan, his goal in life was for his real name to be recognized throughout the world, as such that is his only name when fighting in a Holy Grail War.

His death was as inevitable as his coronation, such was the fate of all men and women who carried the name Old Man of the Mountain. If it meant the salvation of his people, he might have been fully satisfied with his life, but he knew better than to wish for such an impossible dream. With the records of the world at his disposal, he knew that the collapse of their once great kingdom was inevitable, but even that was something he could accept given the circumstances. However, there was one thing that he hated most of all, it was a wish that granted his greatest strength and also his weakness. He wanted all to know his name. Not as Hassan Sabbah, but his true name etched in the markings of time so that all might know who he was. And thus, he was granted multiple chances at accomplishing this goal, this is but one of these changes, was it to be a short-lived dream? Or something more?

He was not sure, though he was very well aware of how cruel the world could be. It appeared that this war was far more abundant than it ever was.

---

Some part of the Industrial area of New Jersey and at night time

It's been a few hours since Shirou, Rin, Luvia and Lord El-Melloi II arrived in America by airplane and headed to their hideout. They are now in an abandoned warehouse, which is perfect for their summoning because of the prana-riched soil. The four of them were preparing their summoning ritual and putting their catalysts in their altars.

"Make sure that you don't miss any spots on it," Lord El-Melloi II asked them as he looked at their handiwork. Each of the large circles etched themselves into the ground, glowing as brightly as the aura surrounding the catalyst, which had five smaller circles inside of it at the pentagonal points. Each of the circles had some kind of marking inside of them which depicted fire, water, earth, air, and lightning with the center holding a rune that looked a little of a portal. "We don't want our plan to mess up."

"I really do not like to be in the open area with no way to cover any minute now," Lord El-Melloi II said nervously as he kept glancing around the area. Ever since they entered this place, he had the feeling of being watched and every so often, he could've sworn he'd seen the shadows and silhouettes changing and altering as he searched around every minute now, which he had used a Night Vision spell that was bestowed upon his eyes to see in complete darkness.

Lord El-Melloi II was not the only one, as Shirou, Rin, and Luvia did so too, as the feeling had grown tenfold as if there were things watching them everywhere.

"You are not the only one, Lord El-Melloi II," Shirou replied as he squinted around to his left and right, trying to find the source, as his instincts were screaming there was something in plain view.

"I feel it too, and this place is giving off this strange feeling like something's going to happen," Rin said as she turned her head to Shirou, who gave a nod back.

"Maybe it's something to do with that gang incident a few hours ago?" Luvia asked them while she was almost done with her circles and at same time squinting to the left at a bunch of boxes with her eyebrows scrunched together. "Could the Mastermind already be on to us now and watching our every movement?"

"I am not sure how to answer that, Miss Luvia, but maybe it just got us all paranoid after watching that TV news," Lord El-Melloi straightened his face before saying to Luvia. "Is everyone almost ready?"

"Yes," the three magus assured as they stepped back and stared at their handiwork.

"Then let's begin," Lord El-Melloi II said to them as he got ready.

The four magus stepped into the summoning circle and began to chant the incantation as they poured their magic prana into the circles.

"Silver and iron to the origin. Gem and the archduke of contracts to the cornerstone. The ancestor is my great master Schweinorg. The alighted wind becomes a wall. The gates in the four directions close, coming from the crown, the three-forked road that leads to the kingdom circulate. Fill. Fill. Fill. Fill. Fill. Repeat every five times. Simply, shatter once filled. I announce. Your self is under me, my fate is in your sword. In accordance with the approach of the Holy Grail, if you abide by this feeling, this reason, then answer. Here is my oath. I am the one who becomes all the good of the world of the dead, I am the one who lays out all the evil of the world of the dead. You, seven heavens clad in three words of power, arrive from the ring of deterrence, O keeper of the balance."

As the four magus recited their incantations, the summoning circle began to glow brightly. They waited expectantly for their servants and their command seals as they prepared to gaze upon the face of their servant that was about to be called before them. However, the servants and command seals never appeared and the summoning circle just kept glowing.

"Strange, why haven't our servants and command seals appeared yet?" Luvia wondered as she kept staring at the large circle. "Did we do something wrong?"

"I don't know. Our servants and the command seals should appear after the incantation. We did the summoning procedure correctly, so it shouldn't have any error," Rin explained as she frowned, remembering the last time she did the ritual. She had practiced it a thousand times to eliminate the possibility of making even the slightest error, which she intended to summon a strong Saber class servant without a catalyst to only see an Archer class crash-land in one of the mansion rooms after the summoning process had been completed. "Was the summoning circle delaying the servant summons?"

"Why haven't they appeared? There must be something wrong! What do you think it is, Lord El-Melloi II?" Shirou asked as he feels his supply of prana drain in half which was confirm that it was a success.

"I honestly have no idea. I have never encountered a problem like this." Lord El-Melloi II replied. "I don't think there was an issue with it and anyone can do the summoning ritual without needing the instruction book much."

Lord El-Melloi II was pondering about why the servants and command seals haven't appeared, but he couldn't find the answer. This has not happened before as he did his summoning ritual during the time when he was still a student of the Clock Tower, which he did not mess up his ritual and got it perfectly without missing one line. Then, he saw the center of his summoning circle begin to swell a little.

"What's happening?" Lord El-Melloi II thought as he observed it carefully. Then, something shot rapidly from the swelling, hitting the lord in the chest and sending him into a pile of empty wooden crates.

Smash!

Luvia and Rin gasped with shock at the surprise attack as they saw Lord El-Melloi II land into the pile of empty wooden crates and create a smoke of ducts around it.

"Lord El-Melloi II!" Shirou shouted before he turned around to see what caused Lord El-Melloi II to fly into the air. Upon closer look, it was an arm made of prana that hit Lord El-Melloi II.

"What is that?" Luvia asked in shock as she pointed her finger at the summoning circles.

Just then, more prana arms came out of the summoning circles and attacked the three magus. The magus swiftly dodged their attacks and regrouped.

"W-What is that thing? Where did it come from?" Rin asked as she dodged each prana arm who tried to punch him with the strength of a Reinforcement bat. "Keep your hands off me!" she shouted as one of the prana arms ended up touching where it was not supposed to be and got stomped on very hard.

"Could this be the reason why our servants haven't appeared? What caused this?" Luvia wondered which of the pieces came close together as she punched one of the prana arms really hard and turned it into golden dust.

"Girls! Look!" Shirou pointed at the arm, getting the girl's attention. One of the prana arms took Lord El-Melloi II's catalyst and disappeared through the summoning circle and the other arms headed to other summoning circles.

"It's after the catalysts," Rin deduced with her eyes open wide.

"Whatever this is, we can't let it take the catalysts. Luvia, check the lord if he's okay while Rin and I fight these things," Shirou commanded Luvia. "Alright, but be careful," Luvia said as she headed toward where the pile of empty wooden crates was.

Shirou nodded. "Rin, let's go!" He ran towards the prana arms. "We've got to stop them!"

"Right!" Rin followed behind. "Shirou, get the catalysts while I hold them off."

"Alright. Trace... on!" Shirou chanted. His two short swords, Kanshou and Bakuya, which are his favored weapons to project, appeared in his hands.

Rin lifted her left arm, straightened her left hand and put her right hand on her left forearm and fired black hazy orbs known as Gandr at the hands that were getting close to the catalysts, destroying them in the process with the force to smash through concrete. However, a pair took their place in each destroyed hand.

"What! They instantly spawn new ones. That means I can't destroy them. I'll have to stun them till Shirou gets the catalysts." Rin thought as she decreased Gandr's power, which is capable of knocking out a normal person, and fired, stunning them in place.

Meanwhile, Shirou was hacking and slashing his way towards the first catalyst, the Indian amulet. When he got close to the altar, he jumped over it and took the first catalyst. "Good. One down, two to go." Shirou thought. He placed the amulet in his pocket. He proceeded to run to the next catalyst, a wooden piece of a bow. More arms appeared from the summoning circle. Shirou prepared himself to attack them.

"Stop fighting right now!" a voice came out of nowhere which Shirou stopped in his tracks. "Huh? Who said that?" he said as he searched around the part of the Industrial area. "Where are you?"

"What!? Is someone here? But where?" Rin thought and she stopped attacking as she looked everywhere to see if anyone was here. She detected no one close by. Then, an arm made of prana slowly appeared behind Shirou, who was still searching around the place.

"Shirou! Behind you!" Rin shouted as her hand reached out to Shirou.

But it was too late, as Shirou turned around, he was struck in the face, sending him to the ground.

"Shirou!" Rin called in worry as she was about to go toward him before more prana hands appeared around her.

Shirou staggeringly got right back up on his feet. However, more arms appeared and held him in place, which forced him down on the ground while one arm took the catalyst from his pocket. Shirou struggled to free himself, but it was no good as each arm was strong enough to hold him down. A chuckle was heard out of nowhere.

"I'll take this, thank you very much," the mysterious voice said before the arm holding the catalyst disappeared from the summoning.

"Damn! Show yourself!" Shirou called out as his head turned right and left, searching for the voice.

"I'm already here."

"What!?" Shirou cried out.

"Look down here."

Shirou looked down and saw a small hand waving at him. "Yo, what up!"

Shirou and Rin were visibly shocked at this scene.

"That thing can talk? How? Wait... Could this thing be the mastermind behind this war?" Rin thought as she stared at the hand while studying it.

"W-What are you?" Shirou asked the hand. "And who are you?"

"I'm just someone who wants those catalysts. That's all you need to know. Which, by the way, I've already obtained them." In its hands held the last two catalysts. The hands disappeared through the summoning circle. "Now that I have the catalysts, I'll just kill you while I'm at it." It raised his arm in preparation.

"Wait!" Rin shouted out. "I want some answers!"

"You're kind of annoying. What do you want?" the hand said as its expression that's somehow readable through to them.

"Are you the mastermind behind this war?" Rin asked the hand.

"No, but I'm helping him," the hand answered without any hint of a lie.

"Then what's your objective?" Rin asked another question.

"That's none of your business. Now, if you're finished, I'm gonna kill this guy," the hand responded without answering the question.

"That's not gonna happen," Rin said confidently as she got ready to fire her Gandr.

"You're pretty confident, even though I have your friend's life in my hands," the hand said with a smug tone of voice. "Your spells are not fast enough to reach him."

"Gandr!" a voice called out behind Shirou from nowhere.

Just then, three small blue jewels bounced right next to Shirou and hit the arms holding him.

The three jewels began freezing the arms that bound Shirou.

"What's this!" the hand yelled.

The arms shattered by Shirou, freeing himself. He looked behind and saw Luvia running towards him.

"Are you alright, Shirou?" Luvia asked worriedly as she reached her hand out to him.

"I'm fine. Thank you." Shirou reassured as he grabbed her hand and pulled him off of the ground.

"That's impressive, blondie. Well, I got what I came for. Oh, and stick around for the fireworks," the hand said before disappearing back into the red circles. The summoning circles turned red as it began overloading with prana.

"What's happening," Shirou said as he stared, puzzled, and then comprehension dawned.

"It can't be. Guys, get out of there. The summoning circle is about to explode," Rin called out as she also realized that the hand was activating an arming sequence into the summoning circles.

"This is bad. Let's get out of here," Shirou said as he and Luvia ran as fast as they could, with Rin waiting at the exit. When they got out of the warehouse, the summoning circles exploded, destroying the warehouse and sending them flying a few feet until falling onto the ground. When it was over, the three magus stood up, only suffering a few cuts and bruises.

"Is everyone okay?" Shirou asked his friends as he checked himself.

"I'm okay," Luvia reassured.

"Same here," Rin reassured.

"Where's Lord El-Melloi II?" Shirou asked them.

"I'm here," Lorde El-Melloi II called out.

The three magus turned around and saw Lord El-Melloi II, walking with a stagger and clutching his chest. There was blood on his mouth.

"Lord El-Melloi II, are you okay? I thought you died." Shirou asked worriedly as they walked close to him.

"Hmph, I'll admit that it caught me off guard, but that level of attack cannot kill me. Before that attack made contact, I used Reinforcement Magecraft to increase my durability on my chest, but I couldn't properly execute it since I got hit before I could complete it. If I got hit by that attack without any defense, I could've been in trouble," Lord El-Melloi II explained as his Reinforcement spell was rank D+ due to being an instructor at the Clock Tower, though it can also be assumed that his skill in the spell is low and due to his poor physical condition, which even Luvia Edelfet was physically stronger than him, with magecraft. "Now, what happened?"

"Well... our catalysts got stolen," Shirou answered. "And then the summoning circles blew up." He said that last word awkwardly.

"What! How did this happen?" Lord El-Melloi II replied angrily as he was still clutching his chest in pain. "And how did the summoning circles blow themselves up, I have never seen that before in my life."

"We'll explain later. That explosion might catch the attention of firefighters and the police. We need to leave." Shirou explained as he started to hear the siren in the distance. "You wouldn't believe what we saw."

Lord El-Melloi II calmed himself down and replied. "Very well then, lead the way."

Then, the four magus left the scene with Lord El-Melloi II walking with a stagger and while clutching his chest in pain, which they didn't notice a doll-looking bird was watching them using telescope eyes, viewing from some part of the Industrial area away from their eyes' view.

---

Even if the day and age were different, theft was still theft, surely. But to disobey the oath he had sworn to his new Master would be a much larger offense in regards to violating the code of chivalry. Loyalty to one's lord came before most anything else - and even kings had ordered their knights to seize assets and lands from others when it was deemed "necessary".

Besides, in the end, this was nothing more than the price of living as a Servant once more. And Lancelot had been unwilling to actually hurt anyone that is not a magus, which criminals, especially serial killers, and serial rapists, are a different story or breaking into the police headquarters like his Master had suggested once when she arrived at that location with some homunculi where they had to meet there. She explained that police headquarters had quite a lot of upgraded equipment and weapons, which she badly needed for her outfit which was not much of a cover up for her.

Flanna then suggested that they should head to a nearby gun store instead and sack that place, which Lancelot agreed with that plan as proof of another good solution. The knight's own solution had not only proven a lot more effective but ensured nobody got hurt as a direct result of their actions as partners.

Flanna had planned to make a false report after robbing the gun store was over, and sure enough, that police would respond in force and would find no trail of them.

"Oh right, Demon Knight you know the plan now," Flanna asked him and Lancelot nodded his head and quite agreed with his new codename, as it wouldn't be too surprising if the people he's saved thought he was the demon taking them over to the other side. Maybe at least once he would possibly be mistaken for a physical incarnation of brutality itself with a helmet blazed with a crimson fire, filled with hatred for the living and a longing for slaughter anytime now. "You just need to stare at the cash register owner and fill him with enough fear that he would not alert the police."

"Now let's get ready," Flanna said as she poured her hood over her head and put a white half-face respirator in her mouth while Lancelot materialized his black armor. "Follow me."

They carefully walked into the gun store and Flanna stepped in front of the cash register owner who appeared to be a strong, heavily-built man whose face was large and battle-scarred, standing behind the counter wearing an apron smeared with gun oil and grease with burly muscles. He was reading his new paper before he noticed her shadow covering the counter.

"Can I help you sirrr," the cash register owner said with a rough, aggressive voice as he looked up at Flanna right before his eyes and mouth opened wide. "Wwhaaaaaatt?" He stared at Flanna with her white half-face respirator in her mouth. Lancelot who looked like a death knight and a group of homunculi only superficially resembled humans and looked like an ape-like entity taller than an average human, similar to a yeti.

Flanna slowly pointed her thumb at the store door and give him a death glare "Out," she simply said, "Or I force you right now in a piece."

The cash register owner was sweating like a horse and was trying to push the alarm button under the counter as his breathing was ragged and his body was shaking with a simple glance at the black knight, whose intense presence emanated from the fearsome figure before him. He felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple and his legs were paralyzed.

The air seemed heavy and his lungs were too weak to move as crushing pressure of black knight's bloodlust was suffocating and his eyes started to roll back and he fell to the floor.

"That was easy," Flanna said as she burst out in a hearty chuckle. "I was about to knock him out, but this will work."

"For a gun store, this is quite conspicuous," Flanna wondered aloud as she took a look at the store which was designed like a western bar. Assault rifles, carbines, submachine guns, hands, even a few RPG tubes were hung up on the walls like trophies on display. "Well, let's take everything in here and try to not leave anything behind."

Lancelot gazing at the weapons on the walls had occupied himself sufficiently while homunculi were taking every gun and ammunition that was not nailed to the walls. Lancelot ended up smashing the door that led to storage rooms where there was stock in duffels and balls that contained the weapons cases and boxes, along with tactical gear such as a chest rig, fingerless gloves, a sidearm holster, and other accessories necessary for modern combat.

Flanna watched Lancelot, who had acquired a good amount of grade weaponry and emptied the weapons and supplies from the back door of the storage rooms, carrying them into a nearby alleyway. There, the weapons were carried down a manhole and taken into a sewer. It was easy to make sure no one noticed them carry stuff since it was night time, and the nearest light had supposedly burned out its bulb. The homunculi were done taking down every gun and ammunition that was not nailed to the walls and dumped them into the sewer while she made sure that none of the stuff dropped by accident.

Flanna quickly dragged the cash register owner out of the gun store and put him to another side of the sidewalk. She took a look at the street around her to see if there was anyone around, which she was glad for that. Flanna watched homunculi drag out some stock as the sound of crates being dragged around, equipment clicking about, and gun parts scraping against one another came from the back. She took some duffel bags full of weapons and ammo and supplies in a pile.

Flanna took jewels out of her pocket and stared at them, those Crystals are made from ether clumps and precious metals before being imbued with prana; they are limited use Mystic Codes, capable of storing up to a B-rank worth of prana each. They are naturally able to easily store prana due to partly being made of precious metals. These jewels correspond to the Five Elements and are extracted from a large crystal deposit created through Alchemy and they are powerful enough to blow away a building.

In another word, they are grenades on steroids. While it takes a long time to create these crystals, with an established Workshop that has the proper alchemic technology, however, Paracelsus von Hohenheim can create them very quickly using leylines and can produce a vast amount of gems. In a normal case, these jewels can be used by anyone provided that there is prana within them, but Paracelsus makes sure that she is able to use the Jewel Magecraft without the need to be Magi.

She knew that what she was going to do next would cause the Clock Tower to go postal on her and her brother with this jewel magecraft. Just about any Caster class could land in trouble with the Mage Association, not to mention the Vatican and their Enforcers. Nearly every Caster is capable of magic that would make an ambitious magus jealous. They all pose invaluable skills and otherworldly knowledge.

Some of the Servants are more or less of divinity blood, which it wouldn't be surprising that they would be fine subjects for research on divinity. Due to the fact that Flanna and Benjamin have so many Servants around, the Clock Tower and Holy Church want to know how Flanna and Benjamin managed to contract so many of them and get them to be so loyal. The Clock Tower and Holy Church will want a leash on her and Benjamin so they'll want to keep them 'safe' until they learn the secrets.

Those Magi are more or less acting like they're far better than muggles. At best, they're slightly more advanced. At their very worst they are culturally stagnant, have a bad court for a justice system, and a government as corrupt as any struggling Third World nation. Their combat abilities are inferior to even basic firearms, much less trained military, and their education facilities have downright pathetic safety standards which seem to be par for the course, and the fact that they are hiding their magical backward world from muggle society — making their purported superiority over the Muggles in every way a deliberate joke. Except maybe in the field of medicine. Despite how cocky those Magi are to normal people, who are far better than they are in every other respect have better armor, weapons, and technology, and pretty much everything else as those Magi think that once they get through the American land, they'll be able to run roughshod over everyone with their magic.

They are so dead wrong.

Lancelot materialized from the shadow before his Master. He wore the typical suit that he had taken such a liking to and inclined at the hips in a formal bow. "I have returned, Master. I have acquired the weapons you wanted me to seize, and there was no one else who was there and harmed in the process. I hope this proves to you that your proposed method might have been more trouble than it was worth, in the end." There was no tone of disrespect in Lancelot's voice, which was calm and cool. Only sincerity and a knightly atmosphere of duty. He did not take pride in his actions, but considered them necessary - besides, some harmless infraction like this would not blemish his notion of chivalry. Ultimately, this was but a means to an end.

Lancelot merely hoped that he would not need to so brazenly steal again, though he was confident he had acquired enough supplies to last throughout a good number of conflicts.

Within minutes of staring at the gun store, the sound of gunshots shattered the city's silence. Flanna and Lancelot turned to the direction of the sound.

Flanna looked at Lancelot's face. "You want to see what it is, Lancelot?" The black knight nodded his head in response. "Oh right then, pick me up and let's go check it out."

As Lancelot leaped on the rooftop and dashed into the direction of the noise and away from the gun store and into where the building looked more run-down. When they got to the location, Lancelot moved to a building and put Flanna down which she gazed down to the street.

A man and a woman were cowering in the doorway of a burned-out building. They were cornered by ten men who were threatening them with guns, iron baseballs and knives. The men's intentions were as clear as they were bad.

"Robbery," Flanna said as she narrowed her eyebrows. "It is quite common in this state, which is everyday news on TV."

Flanna watched the men laughing and walked closer to the couple, "I am assuming you want to go rescue them, right?"

Flanna turned to Lancelot who then nodded his head. "Well, then go be a knight in shining armor." She chuckled and took the jewels. "I am going to see how powerful this jewel is, say they can be target practice."

Lancelot leaped off the roof and charged into them. In the dimly lit street with the heavy rain starting to pour down, Flanna was confident that they would not look up and see her clearly.

"What the..," one of the attackers called as he turned and saw Lancelot storming forward. He wiped the rain from his eyes in disbelief right before he got slammed into the wall.

Lancelot heard their sharp intakes of breath and felt their fear changing. They were now more frightened for him now than for themselves, even the couple was afraid of him too. Loud, sharp sounds of gunfire filled the air as the attackers opened fire on him. Lancelot heard pinging as the bullets struck his breastplate and fell harmlessly to the ground. His armor was quality beyond compare, capable of taking even getting stomped by a chariot with only a scratch to show for it. This does not take into account the abilities of Noble Phantasms, however.

Not wanting to risk killing one of them so brutally using his super servant strength, Lancelot used all his skill and backhanded one of them who had shot him with a pistol across the jaw in a flash as he fell down to the ground.

Lancelot left the attacker on the wet ground, moaning and crying as he clutched his own jaw as he walked past him and stomped on the pistol.

Shortly after that, several screams filled the air, all of those men had terror filled in their hearts with an inside of everyone present. Indeed, it felt like they had been plunged into a waking dream.

"Kehhhh!"

"How could this be?! That is―!"

"Un-unbelievable! This is impossible!"

There was no doubt at all that it was a monster. It was a monster sheathed in black plated armor. The black knight was excessively large, and the silhouette was filled with evil. It was as though a god had drawn forth the essence of violence and brutality from all humanity, concentrated it, and given it physical form. His rustic helmet with a thinly carved slit displaying the ghastly glow of his eyes brilliant, shining hatred burning in it. (Their point of view)

One of the men had collapsed to the ground like a puppet whose strings had been cut, while the rest of them had their pale faces who were frozen in shock as they began hyperventilating.

Pretty soon a small red jewel hit the concrete sidewalk behind them and exploded with the size of the rocket-propelled grenade which knocked some of the men to the ground.

"▂▂▃▃▄▄▅▅!" Lancelot roared out, which scared them enough to run away.

Lancelot turned to watch the remaining of those men left and approached the couple who was still shaking from fear but soon realized that he was not going to hurt them.

"Thank you, thank you," cried the man. "I don't know who or what you are, but you saved our lives."

The young woman cried out, and her shaking hands went to her mouth. The man put his arm around her for comfort. "You know we weren't supposed to be here," he started. "It's our first visit here and we got lost. Then we ran out of gas and those men attacked us. If you hadn't come..."

In the distance, the sound of sirens filled the air. They were getting closer. "You saved us, and we'll never be able to thank you enough," the man said as Lancelot managed to see a closer look at them, which the man was handsome with pale eyes and smooth skin, apart from a spread of stubble around his chin, while the woman had an air of gentleness and was pretty.

The sound of sirens drew closer. At the far end of the street, police cars with their flashing lights raced forward. "You'd better go," said the man as he split attention between Lancelot and the approaching police cars. "You saved our lives, we'll make sure to tell them what really happened here. Go now, before they see you."

Lancelot stepped back into the shadow and jumped into the air, landing back on the rooftop and peered over the side to see the couple staring up at the spot where he'd vanished.

"It's time to go," Lancelot thought as he headed back to Flanna who was checking the hole that she had thrown before she looked at him.

"I admit, Lancelot, that was a very good job down there," Flanna smiled as she watched police cars pull up, and officers were getting out. Some went to the wounded gang on the street and others to the couple. Soon, more vehicles arrived. "Let's head back and hope the others are doing their jobs right."

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Hassan of the Cursed Arm sat quietly in the lone tree that overlooked a small meadow and the shipyard before him. It was the dead of night with only the half-lit moon gleaming off the colorful flowers that decorated the meadow below him.

For what purpose had he come here once more in this world? He was not sure, maybe he only meant to ponder of his life, or maybe he thought to relish in the bountiful nature of this new land he was still so unfamiliar with. Regardless, he found himself perched atop the tree with nary another in sight as he waited for the rest of his comrades to catch up to him. The Old Man of the Mountain was ordered by his mistress (Flanna) to scout around the warehouse district of where the bounded fields and where to the guards patrolled so that those Magi and criminals were blinded of what happened to their men and their backup of telecommunications networks.

After sabotaging their telecommunications networks and radios, which Hassan's comrades would arrive at their base and destroy what was left of them.

And so he sought fit to monolog, was another listening in on the conversation? Or was he simply content to remind himself of his past life? Perhaps either was true but he cared little for it.

"Water was often something scarce in my homeland, however despite its rarity, a few oasis did indeed exist. Inside this oasis, various trading towns would appear to surround the oasis using their resources. Of course, not all of them were lucky, it was not uncommon to hear about the times when one town or another would dry up, leaving it nothing more than a deserted ghost town, "Hassan of the Cursed Arm thought as he remembered his past life and one of the missions that he had done. "It was in one of these small trading posts where a small faction of people took shelter. It did not take long for this to be discovered and upon the news reaching my own ears and during an even shorter period of time the decision was made on the village's fate. I decided to personally carry the mission out with a few trusted others, we left under the cover of night much similar to the one now, and by the time we have finished, that small village was nothing more than a burnt husk of land surrounding a blood-soaked pond."

The reasoning for my decision was simple, that town was filled with people extremely loyal to a rival faction. They had planned to set themselves up close to our own towns so that their people would be able to infiltrate and weaken us. As the leader of the sect, I could not let this happen, so they were fated to die a cruel reality but one that would eventually end up saving the lives of countless more of my people. Was it right to kill so many men, women, and children? So long as the ones you are meant to protect will be saved, any cost is a worthwhile cost..." His monolog finished as the skull mask simply continued to stare off into the night, his jet black cloak occasionally fluttering in the mild winds.

"Ya know, in most cultures, it's rude to talk to yourself in public," Achilles chided, weirdly casual for a man who had just seemingly dropped out of the sky. "People might think that you are crazy talking to yourself."

Hassan of the Cursed Arm said nothing to the Trojan hero as he continued to sit there, unmoving. It was clear that his newfound companion wanted nothing more than to talk for now at least. "It is also rude in some cultures for one to eavesdrop on another." The skull man responded back and nothing else which caused Achilles to raise an eyebrow and then smile.

There was not much to do in the midst of the night and as a Servant, he required no rest at all, which pretty soon the rest of his comrades have now arrived here in the lone tree. Atalanta, Chiron, Saint George, The Storm King, Lu Bu, and Ozymandias.

The Old Man of the Mountain studied each of his comrades and gave an opinion about them.

The Spear Beyond Nature General roared in excitement as so did his red horse. "GRAAHH" As the Berserker did not attempt to sugarcoat the fact that he's a sadistic brute whose sole purpose was to cause death and destruction everywhere he went and that he needed the violence and chaos, that he surrounded himself in his life the same way other people needed bread and water to live. Hassan made no effort to conceal his dislike of this servant as after all, he himself is anything but disloyal—loyalty seems to be something he holds in high regard, and he would never question his master's authority, defect, or betray them in any way, shape or form. It could be said that he is an embodiment of discipline and devotion, and is always looking out for his master. This Berserker is anything but loyal and is simply waiting for the right time to strike.

The Assassin was sure that Lu Bu was likely eligible for an Assassin Class, despite being rough twice the height and 3 times the width of anyone else, which is very amusing, to say the least. But still, Lu Bu would soon be prone to flying into murderous rages if there were no fights for awhile, which Flanna had to put Berserker into his group to give him something to kill every once in awhile to cool him down or the General of Repetition would leave under her control to do something behind her back. Lu Bu didn't talk too much, but Assassin suspected him to be much smarter than he looked. Lu Bu would prefer to be in the frontline to warfare and since he is an almost heavy armed plated giant who could destroy a line with one swing, it is the best approach for him.

"Fellow heroes, I, Ozymandias, the sun itself and a god of my people has arrived to grace all of you with my presence," the King of the Sun said with his proud, signature grin. "Let's see what this place has to offer for me which I-," Assassin pretended to not hear what he was saying and was not amused towards the attitude of the Rider, which he did not hide who he truly was, and flaunted down the throat of anyone who spent more than five minutes with him. The King of Kings was not supposed to be in his group and was not part of the plan, as Flanna was in the middle of hammering out the details of the plan, which Rider overheard them and demand to be in this group, which was the sign that he had made his mind and was set in his intentions.

Flanna did not even try to talk the king out of his reckless plan. And yet, it would be a mistake to assume that's all there is to him. Ozymandias' ego hid a genuine desire to do good, in the grandest way imaginable.

"Oh god, does he ever shut up," Achilles said with his eyebrows raised and his spear as if it was being held back from killing someone, which the moment the king started talking, it never ended. "He has a quite of ego there and I just want to stick my spear to his heart if he does not shut up right now."

"Now, now Achilles," Chiron chided calmingly, as he was a patient man. "Be reasonable, we are here for good reasons and not to fight each other." Meanwhile, Atalanta watched the teacher and student talk to each other as she checked her bow and arrows.

"If this King commands us to his bidding then I would," Achilles said with his eyes rolling. "Let's get this over with."

"How long are you guys going to stay like that? Let's go," the Storm King said with her helmet glowing red brightly. "Let's get crushing our enemy and anything that stands in our path."

"Good heavens, they really are helpless of making plans that do not need to use brute force to answer their problems," Saint George said with a worried voice. "I pray to God himself to let our enemies have mercy from them."

Hassan of the Cursed Arm mostly likely agreed on that last statement, as he would express disgust if Lu Bu and the Storm King went overboard of butchering their enemies, almost beyond recognition and be nothing more than a wild man who only aimed to cause destruction whatever they go. To be fair, he would be almost as concerned with the way it made their group look, as this kind of way would gain the scorn of both of the people and police force.

Playing too dirty can make one look too dishonest and playing too fairly can cause one to be outmaneuvered. His Master wanted his group to be somewhat honorable and at the same time know some underhanded ways in dealing with your enemies without looking too honorable. Assassin knew this order too and prepared to some dirty work behind the scenes.

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The Shipyard

On the far outskirts of the city of Jersey where the small industrial district area where rows of factories stood. Deep within this district, practically walled off by the enormous factories around it, was a modest meat processing plant. It only operated seasonally, probably because the local stock raising industry was not exactly flourishing, and few of the city's residents were even aware of its existence.

The basement of that factory, however, concealed another face, one that had not been cleared with the Business Registry. It was a mage's workshop, constructed within a many-layered Bounded Field in a subterranean space far larger than the area of the lot.

Even the surrounding factories, which appeared unrelated at first glance, were, when one traced their ownership far enough, all ultimately linked to a single organization: the Scladio Family who are mafia structures differed from the proper Mafia organization who has joining hands with or absorbing a multitude of different organizations, creating a faceless mob unconnected with national borders, bloodlines, or ideologies.

But why would a collection of mages really band together to protect a criminal organization?

Simple actually as it is to make free use of their power to defend their patronage and make business. As a result, the Scladio Family displayed unparalleled rapid growth in the underworld, had attached itself to a division of the government and gained enough power to get involved in the Holy Grail war. Enough power to nominate one of the mages who was to be a Master in this war.

Several guards stood outside, huddled around the fire in the trash bin as they were left to man the gate to let cars in and out on a nearly constant basis, leading to long, miserable days, and even longer gloomy nights. Some of them were patrolling around the place in a pattern that they could cover as many lines of sight as they could or stood to watch at watchtowers. Some of them wore heavy jeans, short-sleeved white or gray shirts with bullet proof and load-bearing vests over them, utility belts, thigh bandoliers for some, and black balaclavas. While some of them wore hooded, long-sleeved black jackets to protect themselves against the winds.

"Man, it's freezing outside," one in the group uttered, hoping to break the silence and pass the time without going mad from the cold and boredom. "I don't think that I have ever been this cold, man. It's like being in a freaking refrigerator."

"Yeah, tell me about it," his companion replied dully. "Those guys, whatever they are called, mages, left us outside to freeze to death. Assholes bet they are nice and warm in there."

"Take it easy, man. I want to ask, who are those people anyway?" One of the thugs with an Ak-47 assault rifle muttered, annoyed at their complaining about the cold outside. "You know the group with stuck up attitudes and rich business suits."

"They are just sorcerers who play magic tricks with fairy-tale creatures and legendary beasts," one of the group members answered with his voice dry as a desert. "I don't believe they are fucking wizards. If a warlock's spell could kill me, I would be dead by now. I would piss on their corpse right away."

"If they did try to kill you then what would happen next?" A thug asked as he held a shotgun in his hands.

"I can shoot those fuckers down with my gun," he answered with an assault rifle engraved with black camouflage. "Can't be that hard, they die when they're killed and physical attacks are reasonably effective against them, which I can shove my fists in their mouths. I bet that they can't survive a precision missile strike," he then started to laugh.

The hard-faced group just laughed at him with his joke.

"Oh man, I can't wait for this guard duty to be over. I'm going straight to O'Kane's, havin' a pint after this."

"Yeah, I'm with you too after this. I need a goddamn drink."

It was just another night as an hour passed by which once more, a couple of them started to bitching about guard duty again, a few guys talked about the latest haul from the ship trade and pricing of drugs.

That was when the spotlight from the watchtower died down and street lights started to shut down one by one.

"What the hell!?" one of them cried out.

"What is going on?" a thug asked his group.

"I can't see a goddamn thing!"

"Go move out!" The leader commanded fiercely. "Someone go to the main power lines and fix that thing!"

"Everyone! Stay on your toes! Frank, check the main power generator now and David go with him in case he needs help with it!"

Frank and David walked to the main power generator and saw that it had been severed and torn to shreds. "What the hell happened here?"

"Oh shit, that looks bad, I don't know anything about this stuff so you are on your own, buddy," David said as he studied the generator. "I ain't too good with electrics."

"Oh thanks, bro," Frank said with a frown on his face.

"You are fucking welcome," David put his hand on Frank's shoulder and walked away from him and sat down on a chair.

Hassan of the Cursed Arm slowly dropped down from the ceiling and materialized his black dirk leisurely behind him as he stabbed through the back of the leaning man's head while he clapped his hand over his mouth and the man fell to the ground with a small thud. His partner did not hear the sound, as he was too busy trying to fix the generator.

Assassin slowly walked to Frank, quickly grabbing his head and smashing it into the generator, knocking the man out into a coma. "This is more like it," Assassin thought with satisfaction as he grabbed a flashlight out of Frank's pocket and flashed it on and off quickly.

"Step one is done and step two begins now," Assassin said with a satisfied voice. "Let the Fiend of War unleash on them."

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Boom!

An explosion rang out in the air as several guards were thrown off their feet and landed on the ground.

A man with a rather large build, who wore red ancient-Chinese style armor with a pheasant-tail headpiece on top of his head, was riding on a red horse complete with glowing crimson red eyes, and a mane and tail of fire. On his right hand was a halberd of great length.

Several guards opened fire. They didn't know what the hell that monster was that they were shooting at, but their senses registered his presence. Their ragged nerve endings tingled with stark terror at this monster in their midst, and their primal survival instincts took over as something deep within their brains screamed at them to fight, to fight for their very lives.

"Open fire!"

"Shooting at it now!"

"Oh God, what the fuck is that?"

"I don't know, keep shooting at it!"

"Oh my god, what is that thing!"

All hell broke loose as the arena erupted with the sound of automatic weapons fire. Hundreds of bullets spanged off the man's red armor.

"Raaaaaaaaaaaagh!" Letting out a mighty roar, Berserker charged alongside Achilles, the Storm King, and Saint George into the shipyard with Chiron and Atalanta who provided them with cover fire as each arrow found a spot on each guard's body.

"Son of a bitch!"

"Cover me, goddammit!"

"SHOOT 'EM!"

"RUN TO SAFETY!"

"SOMEONE TELL THE BOSS, WE ARE NOT EQUIPPED FOR THIS SITUATION!"

"JESUS WHO ARE THESE GUYS?"

One guard was holding an M79 grenade launcher and was ready to fire at the servants. Then Chiron and Atalanta quickly turned around and fired their arrows at him. Their arrows penetrated the man's body armor, causing the guard to misfire the grenade at a group of vehicles nearby at a parking space where it caused a chain reaction of explosions in a fiery blast, which set some of the guards on fire and flew into the air.

"Screw this, I'm getting out of here now!"

"Fall back and get everyone out of the open!"

"IS THAT A FUCKING SPEAR?!"

"SON OF A BITCH, IT IS A SPEAR!"

"What is that up there in the sky?!" Some of the guards looked to see a flying boat and opened their mouths in shock. "What the fuck?"

Ozymandias appeared with his Mesektet, the boat of the sun and fire with several beams of light, demolishing a sizeable portion of the ship's station on the water and some of the warehouse, which bellowed out an intense orange fire across the area. Several guards could hear the sirens outside in the distance, and the whupping of helicopter blades overhead, and they knew that their options were to flee or make a final, desperate stand.

"OHH- SHHHHHIIIIIITTTTT!"

"Who cares, just fire at that thing, just fire fire fire!"

"Someone get a rocket launcher to shoot that vehicle down!"

"The cops are almost here!"

"That fast already?!"

"Deploy smokescreen."

"Ah, those bastards want a war! Well, we will give them a real motherfucking war!"

"We need assistance, call for backup!"

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OK, a lot of things are going on here in this chapter but I don't want to go on talking about what is going on in this chapter as you should figure this out for yourself. But let's say that a lot of factions and people are making their own moves and are trying to find out what is going on here in this region.

Time to answer some of the Guest reviews

Guest chapter 25. Jan 17 Also for Ado Edem I got some cool and funny idea. Do you know Castiel from Supernatural? There was this scene about him going shopping and it would be really funny if you made him awkward like that: Good idea and I am pretty sure he would do something like that.

Guest chapter 19. Feb 14 I went to vs battles wiki to see how would air gear characters fare against servants and I saw something unbelievable: Ikki, the main character has durability stronger than Heracles(Berserker), speed faster than Lancer( Cu Cunlainn) and Strenght just a little bit lower than Lancer(from the beginning of the story) and at the end of the story actually stronger then Heracles(again as a Berserker)!: Let not even discuss about the power level in this chapter.

Guest chapter 22. Mar 19 Servants are going to undergo Ascension? How will that work?: I explain this later in the future and a hint of this.

Guest chapter 25. Jan 17: Thank you for listening to my book suggestion and giving your honest opinion which goes along with mine. I only suggested because started listening to it after I found this fanfic, it gave the same vibe. And also thx for letting her get some kind of happiness. I wish that someday we see some of the Grand servants be summon like Solomon or King Hassan. Especially King Hassan. His design can't be more metal and badass: You are welcome and Brynhildr would appear in the next chapter, Grand servants would summon later.

Guest chapter 25. Jan 17: Gorgon should be in Benjamin's harem it would a nice contrast to Shiro's and the power she would give to Benjamin even you make a downgraded version of it would give him the power to compete with the magus: It doesn't explain what kind of power that she would give to her master but I do know that her affection and love is not meant for kinship with human being.

Guest chapter 25. Jan 19 Nice chapter. I don't know if you've already answered this but what will Gilgamesh call Benjamin? Will Nero call Benjamin Praetor and Jack calls him Father?What would be Benjamin's reaction to Altera? In my opinion, she is possibly one of the more dangerous servants because of her need to destroy. On the other hand, she might behave differently due to being able to live a life other than a warrior: Gilgamesh would call Benjamin a caretaker (a person employed to look after people or animals.) and his sister a hostess (a woman who receives or entertains other people as guests.) Nero calls Flanna a Praetor (the commander of an army and an elected magistrate) and Benjamin a quaestor (officials who supervised the treasury and financial affairs of the state, its armies and its officers) which also mean he clean up the servant's shit if you know what it means.

Benjamin's reaction to Altera would be shocked that the historical Attila the Hun who is a barbaric man known as the most feared enemies of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires and that his name is exemplifying awe and fear in the present day is a girl.

Guest chapter 25. Jan 20 It's weird but I actually ship Enkidu and Benjamin together (please don't hate): It is because they look nice together and doesn't help that Enkidu looks somewhat girlish, with soft skin and long curly green hair.

Guest chapter 3. Jan 20: You know what is Benjamin and flanna last names: Flanna Amaral and Benjamin Spratt. Yes, it is possible to change your last name for a new one.

Guest chapter 19. Jan 22 I know you are not gonna make him a servant, but I gotta ask you, what do you think the stats for Shrike from Hyperion would be?: It is hard to judge without looking on it and sounds unstoppable, don't really think anyone in the gauntlet can survive it blades: Strength: Ex, Endurance: Ex, Agility: Ex, Mana: Ex, Luck: ?, and N. Phantasm: — It does have an actually huge disadvantage which the Shrike has no real knowledge of its enemies other than that they're easily the equals or betters of some of it's more dangerous opponents. It is known to muck about with trying to inflict pain on its enemies as it's personality seems to be that of a rank sadist, likely born out of confidence that it's so fast that no one would be quick enough for it's tendency to dilly dally with torturing rather than killing an enemy to make a difference. Something I feel would be a crucial weakness here because he won't know that some of the servants will survive his cutting.

Guest chapter 25. Jan 24: Wait, what!? The holy grail will seriously summon Tiamat?! O_O. I know she won't show up anytime soon but when she does how the heck is Benjamin going to control her? When Benjamin becomes friends with Shirou and Rin will they give him that book that let him see his servant's stats?: The Holy Grail would nerf Tiamat much of her power to her normal form and not-having-gone-insane-and-psycho-with-destroying-evolution goddess mode but still strong enough that she is a Berserker on steroid as she nullifies all attacks of Ranks A++ and below which it is the only way, I hope that she will be obtainable eventually.

Benjamin would become friends with them once he understand them enough which he would question like how Flanna would do the same about magic and magus but still, he would not understand their magus morality and like why does Shirou is assessed to become a hero of justice and wants everyone to be happy, Rin tries to behave like a typical magus and talk to him about how much trouble that Benjamin has caused with his servants who have caused chaos to the whole world and the sense of duty that magus have to do with his magecraft. The book that provides the ability to read out the status of a Servant with powers of clairvoyance is useless to them because Flanna and Benjamin don't have the same ability to see the servant's stats as they are normal human being and have no magical energy inside of their bodies to proper connection with the servant which I has already explain this topic three time. Flanna's notebook is actually more useful as she wrote down more detail like personality, levels of reliability rating, an issue with an order, strengths, and weaknesses than just the status of each hero.

Guest chapter 24. Jan 25 How is Benjamin going to bond with all his servants? He should bond with them similar to how the avatar bonds with units in Support Conversations in Fire Emblem Awakening. I think Benjamin having anti-magic weapons like Gae Dearg is a good idea but how will he get one?: Something like that as Benjamin would try to get to know each hero like talk, listen and fight with them. Yes, he would use anti-magic weapons and armor.

Guest chapter 25. Jan 25 Have you seen Fate/Extella yet? It could really help you with Altera's character and even Nero and Tamamo no Mae.: I have watched some of them and does help me a little bit more to understand about them.

Guest chapter 25. Jan 25 I have been thinking for awhile where is flanna, ben grandpa in all this is he secretly with zelrech in the clocktower watching with ben and flanna: Grandpa is traveling around the world, that is all.

Guest chapter 25. Jan 25 I like to see Ben and Flanna or Shirou and Rin reaction Gilgamesh AUO cast off: Benjamin's reaction: "Your highness, can you put your pant on, right the way?". Flanna's reaction: (blush quite red on her face) and said, "Do you want to be castration, my friend?". Rin's reaction: Put your clothes on, pervert! while her face turns bright red. Shirou's reaction is almost the same as when Arturia is in the bathroom naked

Guest chapter 25. Jan 30 Will it be explained how the Holy Grail ended up in Benjamin's grandfather's box and exactly where it came from? Or will it remain unexplained?: I have just explained this already in chapter 1 and that is all.

Guest chapter 19. Feb 1 Don't put him as a servant but I gotta ask for your opinion, do you think, would Oswald, the man who killed Kennedy be summoned as Assassin?: No, he would not be a servant at all.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 1 Will Miyamoto Musashi be in Benjamin's harem?: No, she would be in Benjamin's harem and she acts like a big sister to him.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 7 Is Mordred going be summon?: No, not yet

Guest chapter 25. Jan 17 In how many chapters is Benjamin vs Shirou? For some reason I am getting hyped up about them fighting.: Not sure which chapters they would fight but I got a lot of ideas about their fight.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 8 Hi I'm the guest ask for Asclepius to be summoned as an OC servant do think you can make him a female like an eclipse Ophiuchus from fairy tail: No more of those OC servants and that is all.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 7 what about Asclepius one of Chiron students he can be a great caster to have great abilities to heal others like sickness or wounds and also he can be a divine spirit as for his catalysts can it be a live snake (theirs a nonvenomous snake named after him the Aesculapian snake I suggest looking it up): No as I told this topic already, no more servant.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 9 What do you think of a Counter guardian Benjamin: No, I would not make a counter guardian of my OC.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 14 Hannibal Barca And Trieu Thi Trinh have them both as Riders class: No

Guest chapter 25. Feb 17 Abraham van Helsing as archer class he can use the crossbow from van Helsing movie: No

Guest chapter 25. Feb 17 Will Ereshkigal be in Benjamin's harem? She would have an enormous crush on him when she learns he would want to be her friend due to her loneliness: She would have an enormous crush on him and act like a sister to him.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 18 Did you Altera is actually a remnant of an alien death machine?: Yes, I know that already.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 18 Tiamat's personality when she is summoned should be usually quiet with an emotionless expression but surprisingly obedient and attached to Benjamin and Flanna like a daughter, she will give off a murderous/sinister aura whenever she is upset, which could be a running gag and Tiamat should also be nicknamed Tia. Oh, and did you hear Altera is actually an alien?: I like that idea of you and would take it, yes I know Alteria is an alien.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 21 Is there a possibility of Mordred and Marie being paired with Benjamin? I know saber Mordred doesn't seem to care about romance except when you get infatuated with other female servants, but rider Mordred clearly has a crush on her master but hides it like a tsundere. Will Mordred have her rider self-personality when she is summoned? Marie also considers her master as her spouse and holds them above all else: No, Rider class Mordred in my story and Maries may consider Benjamin as her spouse in teaser way.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 22 Will Suzuka Gozen appear in this story and would she be attracted to Benjamin?: Yes, she would appear in my story much later and she attracted to Benjamin for a good reason.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 23 Do you think Mata Hari can be paired with Benjamin: Not really.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 25 how effective is Kojirou Sasaki in combat to Flanna: Flanna would have no chance of face Kojirou Sasaki who was skilled enough to give Artoria to be on defend mode.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 26 Will Jeanne d' Arc (Alter) appear in this story as a separate character rather than being another aspect of the original Jeanne?: As a separate character and as an Alter servants.

Guest chapter 25. Mar 2 Will either Jeanne Alter or normal Jeanne is paired with Ben? I'd really love to see the relationship between him and alter due to her being a tsundere with an inferiority complex: Both of them would not be paired with him but they would get well along with him and his sister.

Guest chapter 19. Mar 5 Remake the fight from fate strange fake, between Gil and Enkidu, also I wonder what will everyone's reaction on the fight be( if it happens): It would happen some way in the future and everyone's reaction to it is jaw drop, sweat drop on their face, and some of them go mad at just see the fight as their mind can not handle it.

Guest chapter 19. Mar 6 OMG! EMIYA ALTER CAME OUT! AND IT'S AWESOMEEEEEEEE!: I know and curious what made him an Alter as his background is a nice way of explains him.

Guest chapter 24. Mar 16 Wait, WHAT?! YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT BONNIE AND CLYDE?: I thought you mean FNAF but I think you mean the American criminals who traveled the central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, robbing people and killing when cornered or confronted. No, I do not want to summon them.

Guest chapter 25. Mar 19 Do a Kuroinu x over so that the servants kill them and save the women: I think about it while it was uncomfortable to watch.

Guest chapter 25. Jan 31 You should summon Leonardo Da Vinci soon. She would be an extremely useful Caster due to her great intellect and talents in engineering, inventing and weapons development. She could invent custom vehicles, equipment and weapons for Benjamin and Flanna. Vehicles like the Tumbler or the Batpod from The Dark Knight for when they are fighting magus to cover up who they are much better than ordinary military vehicles.: She would come much later and she remakes the weapons into a better version of it. She would remodel the ordinary military vehicles to make each of them much powerful than before. Flanna and Benjamin are not trying to look attention grabbed which no custom vehicles like a bat car or something like that.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 1 Great Story. Are culture shock, sex education, and birth control going to be issues that the Servants will have to learn to adapt to? Heck, since the Servants are now flesh and blood, and have the entirety of their souls available (which would explain why their class summoning is wonky, if they have access to artifacts, objects, and skill sets that would not otherwise be available in a proper summoning), are the biological issues that regular people deal with, like aging, body odor, hygiene, menstruation, sickness, and pregnancy now things that the Servants, and by proxy Ben and Flanna have to deal with? What about access to divinity or possible paths to regaining some, if not all of their divinity, especially for the Servants who were demigods, fallen gods, divine descendants, or are considered "holy" in some way, shape or form? Heck, what about servants like Scathach, Merlin, Arthuria Pendragon, Arcuied Brunestud, and Shiki Ryougi, who are still alive through some means or another?: Culture shock is not going to be an issue as when summoned they will automatically gain general knowledge about the era they are summoned in but some concepts may still have to be explained to them. Sex education and birth control are not much of issues to them. Biological issues slowly the process and servants are resistance to those type of issue much more.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 5 Right now it looks like Flanna is taking charge but it's understandable since Benjamin has no experience yet. Will Benjamin start giving commands once he gets enough experience? When Benjamin finishes his training and begins fighting magi, he should bring these weapons: Long Range- Assault Rifles (AK-47, AR-15, AK-103) Handguns (Glock 17, CZ 75) Shuriken

Mid Range- Spear (Gae Dearg, Gae Bolg) Short Range- Sword (Caliburn) Knives, Taser I don't know if weapons like Excalibur can be replicated but I do recall EMIYA say he could make an inferior version of it. Could Alexandre Dumas do the same thing?: Yes, he would soon begin to lead them in the future. Nice suggestion about the weapons and shuriken are not primarily intended as killing weapons, but rather in a secondary role as a nuisance or distraction. EMIYA can only make an inferior version of Excalibur with all of his mana which can probably kill him at random chance. I don't think that Alexandre Dumas can make the same thing as EMIYA which the sword is made by the Lady of the Lake.

Guest chapter 25. Feb 8 Even if Benjamin and Flanna live in a mansion-sized house there is no way it could house 150 servants. They're somehow going to need to get a bigger place or somehow expand it. Someone reviewed Ben and Flanna could get funds in the form of gold through alchemy which I think is possible. Maybe... And someone else wrote the servants would get jobs.

I've been reading reviews regarding Benjamin's possible gear and armor, someone wrote Benjamin should wear the Arkham Knight style bat suit. This to me, seems like an interesting idea. The suit is lightweight, it's protective, doesn't slow the wearer down and it would conceal the wearer's identity quite well. There is also a fear factor, the suit would make Benjamin intimidating to magi especially those who underestimate him. One of the reasons the magi are so terrified of Artoria lancer (Alter) is because of her terrifying draconic suit of armor.

People have been commenting who might be in Benjamin's harem, as of now you seem to have confirmed two. Kiyohime and Tamamo-no-Mae. I want to see if I can guess the other two, I will put my reasons why, of course. But first I gotta ask this: Will you consider giving Benjamin 5 or 6 love interests instead of 4? Brynhildr: She's a tragic figure and needs something good to happen to her. Miyamoto Musashi: She falls in love easily and likes to be depended on very much. Altera(Attila): Her MyRoom dialogue shows that she develops feelings for the protagonist. Nero Claudius: She'would become attracted to Benjamin after witnessing his growth and it would be amusing to see her and Tamamo be love rivals like always. Boudica: Her MyRoom dialogue reveals she confesses her love for her master. Okita Souji: Her My room dialogue also makes it clear she falls in love with her master. I hope guessed some right.

I'll be waiting for the next update: They would expand by building more building around the area and use the trees too. The funds are explained already and Benjamin would wear the Red hood outfit and Flanna would wear a mix of the Arkham Knight and SWAT Armor, both of them use a voice modulator ensuring never twigs to their identity. I would maybe give one more love interests but Brynhilder is not a good thing for love interests, Attila and Nero Claudius are ok, Boudica acts like a big sister to Benjamin and Okita Souji maybe ok for him.

Guest chapter 23. Mar 7 Can't the rider servants place their vehicles and/or animals in some sort of pocket dimension and can be summoned when needed. Ramses summoned his ship from the sky and Iskandar summons his sword, I think that counts as pocket dimensions, it would make things easier for Benjamin and Flanna. Shielder should be summoned before Serenity, the master of shielder is protected from all illness and impurities. Do you think Serenity will be paired with Benjamin and what will Shielder/Galahad's personality be like, the same as Mash and will he/she explain why they were summoned as a girl?: Yes, most of the servant can summon their stuff in their so-called pocket dimension. Ok, for Shielder to be summoned first before Serenity. I think that she would be ok paired up with Benjamin and Galahad can be explained if you read the book of King Auther.

Guest chapter 25. Mar 23 What do you think of Flanna x Lancelot seriously that guy love: They look good together like a Lady and Knight relationship, although there's nothing romantic about it but I admit it would be a nice pairing.

Guest chapter 25. Mar 27 How about Jackie and Alice meet bold daughter and become friends which would help them get information and how about one of the Hassan meet night raid and beats them with ease to show the true strength of an assassin: That is nice idea of Jackie and Alice with Blod daughter which I keep that in mind. Good idea about the Hassan shows the Night Raid what is assassin truly is about his strength and the Night Raid would have no LUCKY that they have to deal with an actual "could be everywhere" spying, backstabbing and invisible Assassin, on top of everything else they have to contend with.

Guest chapter 25. Mar 27 I'm sorry to ask a question while you're already answering reviews but I gotta ask. I know you've said alter egos will not be appearing as servants but will at least BB appear as a servant? She has just been announced as a servant in F/GO. I don't know what class she's in but I'd probably make her a ruler based on her abilities. Would she have a crush on Benjamin and only pay attention to him?: BB would maybe appear once we can actually see her and what class she is. No, she would not have a crush on Benjamin only act yandere to EMIYA

Guest chapter 25. Jan 18 Didn't the fate series say Shirou's traceability on does swords other than that EMIYA could just teach ben how to counter or out do most of the movements being a future self and observing multiple timelines hundreds(?) of times over.: Benjamin can fight Shirou on a short term but would start to lose on a long run as Shirou has more combat knowledge then Benjamin. Which EMIYA would do most of the fight against Shirou with his backup support.

Guest chapter 19. April 2 What will Emiya's(archer version) and serious reaction be to the alter counterpart?: EMIYA's reaction would quite shake that there is an evil counterpart of him and that EMIYA (Alter) who has grown steadily more cynical in the face of slaughtering a cult in the past and become evil to protect humanity the exact thing he has become slowly become a mask of a Counter Guardian and abandons every aspect of Shirou Emiya. Shirou's reaction is horror that his future self completely cast aside everything he loves and go down the exact same route as his foster father, willingly damn himself for his ideals and acceptable eliminating people who threaten humanity as a whole without a care in the world.

EMIYA Alter despises both of his version as he sees normal EMIYA as an eyesore who was not hardened and ruthless enough to doing what he has to do and Shirou who was too trusting and gentle for his own good which making himself seem like a massive pushover and easily exploitable.

Guest chapter 25. Jan 18 I have questions, ideas, and suggestions.

1) I really like this story and I really like Ben and I want to know more about him. How old is he? does he like movies, games or comic books? what does plan to do after college? While Ben is pragmatic and mature does he have his own strong sense of justice and ideals but doesn't go as far as Shirou?: Benjamin is nearly 18 years old and while he has a good sense of justice and ideals which is not as strong as Shirou that he is capable of understanding between god and evil but he does see the world as a terrible place and is not hesitant to seriously injure them or kill them. He would evolve into a more cold-blooded and dangerous character but would still maintains his moral values more or less. I would list a bunch of things of what Benjamin like or hate like a normal high-schoolers in the next chapter.

2) Will Ben reveal to the world about magic?: This one has already been explaining from the last chapter.

3) I think Ben should wear a bat suit similar or identical to the Arkham Knight but all black and made from Kevlar armor, gauntlets with 3 razor blades like Batman and without the A symbol. maybe a bat symbol or no symbol at all. The helmet could have red eyes and also have a voice modulator to disguise his voice and sound similar to Batman in Batman V Superman or Green Arrow in Arrow. I know what you're thinking how will he get that stuff. Maybe from his sister who is getting military stuff and customize it. Or he could ask his servants for help like Paracelsus with his item construction to make a reinforced mystical version of it and give the Helmet an enchantment that disguises his voice. Maybe you're asking yourself why a bat suit? Because Batman is awesome and Jason's suit is just as good as a military. Simple Swat armor sounds boring and wouldn't hide his identity much.: Benjamin would wear the Red hood outfit and Flanna would wear a mix of the Arkham Knight and a simple SWAT Armor, both of them use a voice modulator ensuring never twigs to their identity. They are not trying to look attention grabbed which simple looking, that is it

4) The gear Ben should have are a utility belt and holsters that contain flash bangs, grenades, bullet clips, smoke bombs shurikens and tear gas pellets. The weapons he should carry are several handguns, a rifle, combat knives, a lance and a sword. All possibly reinforced.: Nice idea which I am ok with it but I would not have way too much of that stuff.

5) How exactly does Ben get the money to provide for his servants? Right now he has over a dozen servants but he's going to end up with a lot more and most of them will stay in his house after the war. I have an Idea on how he could get more money by asking a caster class servant like Paracelsus with item construction to create an item like a philosopher's stone to turn any metal, stone or wood to pure gold. Ben could maybe sell the gold to people who don't ask questions and make a lot of money that way. I don't know what Ben plans to do after college but maybe with all that gold, he could start his own company that deals with technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy. Ben would become a millionaire or billionaire philanthropist. Another Batman thing I know but come on at least think about.: This is already being explained as I have answered this to an another Review which Benjamin would not start a company as that is too much of an idea.

6)Will Ben become more influential and charismatic in the future? Right now his servants are okay with him and usually follow his orders but will he get to the point where his servants will have such a strong bond with him that they pretty much will do almost anything he says. A storm is coming and Ben will need to lead his army to victory.: Mostly yes as Benjamin is a decent leader, who takes into account the problems for each servant and is more of a people person than her sister.

7) Will Artoria go with Shirou after the War?: Yes

Now I have questions about Ben and some female servants.

1) Kiyohime- What would their relationship be? How will he react to her stalking skill? Will she follow him everywhere including school and how will he feel about her? I feel Kiyohime needs special attention to deal with her and Ben needs, to be honest with her at all times otherwise, she'll go yandere and try to kill him. I like the Harem idea but how will she feel about it, she is the jealous type.: Mostly likely, they make a fine pairing with each other while Benjamin is uneasy by how obsessed she is to him. Still, Benjamin would get really creep out that way Kiyohime follow him almost everywhere he goes and how madly she in love with him that he has to be careful of lying her even he has to be brutal honesty to her. But, at least he love her food which is quite good

2) Tamamo- She like Kiyohime will obviously be infatuated with Ben right away and maybe Flanna too but I'm going to guess that Flanna is straight so Tamamo would be more attached to Ben. How well would they bond? I'm guessing really well since She like Ben is a realist underneath her airhead front and she's pretty easy to handle if give her enough attention but also like Kiyohime she is the jealous type.: Tammaro would be infatuated with Flanna and Benjamin on first look which the sibling got along with her even they found her a little weird and rather flirty to them. She would get along with the sibling very well as a wife to both of them.

3) Nero- What would their relationship be like? I think Ben and Nero would bond well but Nero is going to need special attention otherwise she may throw a tantrum. I feel Nero would admire Ben for his willpower to fight on regardless of what fate awaits him and be angry at the situation he is in. Ben is not strong, he has no special talent and he's not even a magus and she'd be angry at the heavens for ignoring his powerful will.

Keep in mind Nero is a very passionate and devote person and I don't think it's unrealistic of her to fall in love with Ben. At first, she would see him as a faithful companion but as he gets stronger and skilled and the more they spend together she would eventually fall in love with him. And if remember correctly in extra Nero said she allows harems.: The sibling would get along with her too even they found her a little bit annoying of wanting attention every time she appears.

4)Brynhildr- How would Ben deal with her? Ben would begin acting nice to her and she would start to see him as the reincarnation of Sigurd and fall in love with him but also try to kill him. What would Ben do about her when she gets like that?: Yes, Benjamin would act nice to her just any other servant but he starts to notice how unstable she is, which he has summoned to Sigurd someway in the future and the rest of servants would stop her if she goes out of control.

5) Mordred- How will Ben handle Mordred? She has an explosive temper and a complicated personality if Ben says one wrong word it could set her off. How will she react to the other knights like Artoria Lancer and Lancelot?: Benjamin would go along with her plan even he doesn't sugarcoat his conversations with her as he keeping tabs on her brattiness attitude. Benjamin and Flanna avoiding the ass-kissing behavior even Mordred is semi-obsessed with earning praise and approval from her masters which she appreciates this kind of attitude. Mordred react to Artoria Lance is mind blow and rest of other knight like Lancelot and Gawain is self-explanatory