Fate/Celestial Sword

Chapter 5 (2/2)

Dawn meant the beginning of a new day, people woke up to start their day and prepare for their respective responsibilities, children for school, adults for work, and Shirou to continue training.

"Caster?"

" Do you need anything Shirou? "

"I can't get used to hearing your voice in my head" was a different feeling than the voice transmission technique "Did you finish everything you wanted to prepare last night?"

" That's right, haa~, if only I had my spiritual core complete, let's not talk about one night I could finish everything in thirty minutes "

She managed to secure the entire surroundings with all kinds of boundary fields, detection, traps, hypnotic, and many other tricks, she had hypnotized the surrounding civilians to send them away from the city and sent family members to hide throughout the city.

" I will return to the base and I will be able to start teaching you magecraft…I also have the mystical code that you need prepared "

"Pleasant"

He couldn't help but be a little excited to have a magical accessory, those "mystical codes" were very different from the martial treasures he had created, it was a shame that he couldn't create his martial treasures because of his current state.

After all, their blacksmithing methods were very unusual.

The redhead did a lot of stretching while waiting for his servant, he looked at the command spell for a moment and understood the great disadvantage they had compared to the other masters.

The possibility of boosting the attack or teleporting or recovering his noble phantasm although Caster could not access his noble phantasm because of his spiritual core.

"Do we understand our disadvantages?" Caster returned and made his presence known with that question.

"Yes, but we have to take advantage of the fact that there is another Caster and try to move all the attention to him."

"That...is an excellent plan" Caster could create some "dangerous" boundary fields and blame it on Caster2 or many other things to put Caster2 in the sights of the other master "Excellent Shirou, we can work on that right now..."

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves and look at the bigger picture, we still have to meet the other participants and their servants" Shirou stopped Caster from getting ahead of things.

"Okay~ and take this, I think you'll like it" Shirou received a set of child-sized clothes, he liked the style and colors but its size made him look cute and not at all powerful.

Dark pants, a red shirt with black touches, shoes that Shirou had never seen before, and... a white cape?

"It's called haori, it's part of the traditional costume of this country," the servant explained, seeing the confusion on the redhead's childish face. "They all have different defensive enchantments and reinforcement runes, try them, I know you'll like them."

She had stolen the clothes but you couldn't expect her to be able to create something of such high quality in her weakened state and a single night. She took what she needed and filled it with runes to enhance it.

The haori was the most important as it had what Shirou had asked for and a few additions from Caster.

It would be interesting to see his reaction.

Meanwhile, she had a lot to deal with, but her delay was not for nothing, she learned great news thanks to her family.

Assassin had died.

One less competitor on the board.

…

If you asked Waver how his day was, he would answer that it was bad, very bad, horrible, disastrous.

The night before, not only could he not sleep because of his servant, but he had to steal books from a bookstore, and his cheek, like his forehead, hurt from the blow that his foolish servant had given him.

At least he knew he was strong.

"Good morning Waver-chan."

It was a little sad to think that the most love and affection he had received was from the two old men he had hypnotized into passing himself off as his grandson.

"Where is your great friend? Doesn't he want to eat with us?"

" That fool is more worried about Clinton than eating" a lot of complaints about his servant but he couldn't say anything in the face of the truth "he's busy watching TV, he'll come down later"

"hohoho, a boy will be a boy, that's what I always say"

"Did you at least like the cookies?"

Waver was happy for the interaction of the elders, he thought he would have to hypnotize them again but he had taken his "friend's" situation in stride.

" He said that we will go out at night to walk around the city, I have to be prepared for a possible confrontation." He swallowed his food to get rid of his nervousness.

At that moment I realized the possibility…no, it is better not to think about it too much, it is not good to have your thoughts against you.

" We still have the problem of Archer's Noble Phantasm"

Neither he nor Rider could recognize Archer's abilities, what he had seen thanks to his familiar was too absurd.

and powerful.

It would be better to stay close to his servant.

…

"Do not try to force him to obey you, all you have to do is wish for it, that mana is already part of you"

"I understand"

Caster wasn't impressed by her master's speed of learning magecraft, she couldn't expect him to learn it overnight.

They were currently in the courtyard of the house where they were practicing magecraft, Caster had taught him the basic reinforcement spell but they did not have much success.

Shirou was wearing the clothes that Caster had prepared and improved, he was impressed with the defensive capabilities of the fabric and even more so with the features of his haori.

The gravity increase was integrated into the Japanese clothing and also brought with it the ability to hide from the eyes of civilians, hide a little of all the Mana that was being expelled, and be able to practice reinforcement with it to improve the gravity increase ability.

"Remember the steps to be able to perform the spell correctly, all the steps represent one thing but they all have different meanings individually"

They had practiced for three hours but unfortunately, they couldn't spend that much time on their magical training, the redhead still had to train his martial arts.

"That's all for now, let me take care of activating the gravity increase and start training your martial arts"

"Okay...hey Caster, how strong are your flames?" The redhead looked at the sky and estimated that it was close to noon.

It wouldn't take long to train his martial arts.

"with primal runes, I could melt even divine materials but now I can only burn diamonds...sigh what a shame"

"I guess that would be enough, could you generate a high-temperature zone around me and create the most powerful flame you can?"

"requirements for one of your techniques?" Caster knew that to use the techniques you had to meet certain requirements to continue practicing them.

"yes and no, I need to try something"

Caster did not question her master and prepared a magic circle that would prevent the temperature dispersion and drew another magic circle to increase the temperature.

All of this took no more than a few minutes.

"Sit in the middle and prepare yourself, my flame is not the strongest because of my weakened state but it is still dangerous for you."

"It's better that way"

What Shirou wanted to experience was the Great God of Forging's body technique and see if magecraft could positively affect his training.

Caster started the magic circle and the temperature around Shirou began to increase very quickly.

The only requirement of the body technique was to have divine fire and do the exercises of the technique but I wanted to test how the technique reacts to a magical flame, the elevated temperature was to improve the environment for the technique.

The heat was not that unbearable, Shirou had absorbed five divine fires and it was a titanic task to achieve due to the absurd temperatures and other phenomena. The redhead's body began to sweat and the Great Forging God's body technique was activated.

Caster noticed that all the heat was disappearing from Shirou's surroundings although it was better to say that Shirou was absorbing all the heat, she was forced to increase the power of the magic circle and prepare a fire rune.

"it's good" Shirou could feel how the body technique purified his body of all impurities.

His bones, lungs, pancreas, brain, and all his organs were purified. The redhead's sweat came out black and had a horrible smell, they were the impurities of a body that was never purified.

It meant that the technique was working.

"the flame" that was the signal for Caster, her rune exploded into flames and the magical fire of great temperature approached the redhead

Compared to a divine fire, Caster's flame was thousands of times more docile and easier to absorb. The first process did not present any problems for Shirou, it was a simple process.

The flame was guided by Shirou throughout his body to purify it even more, veins, organs, muscles, bones, and cartilage, a black smoke came out of his pores with an even more horrible smell than the previous one.

success.

Caster wrote a rune in the air to summon strong currents of wind to drive away the bad smell.

The process was slow as the flame was barely strong enough to properly influence the body technique but once the process was finished the last one began.

He guided the magical flame into his belly and began to absorb it into his dantian, it was a slow process and required Caster's support in delivering more flames of equal power to continue.

His body initially did not have any means to practice martial arts, it was last night that Shirou managed to create his dantian to be able to begin gathering energy and the flames were trying to enter that place.

It was a dangerous and deadly process, one wrong step and it could be a charred corpse but Caster's flames compared to the divine fire were like comparing the level of a cub and a tiger.

"Puff...unexpectedly it worked" After an hour of complete concentration the redhead managed to successfully finish his body technique.

"it was a success?"

"I consider it a half success" he raised his hand and Caster's flame appeared in the palm of his hand "Now I can generate your flames but I need to replenish it after a while"

"That's perfect, you have a way to protect yourself" the servant applauded in joy.

Caster's flames in his dantian purified his qi but compared to a divine fire, the flames were slowly consumed and had to be constantly replaced.

It was a success in Shirou's book but the technique had not advanced in rank, a more powerful fire was needed that would generate much more heat.

but progress was progress.

"your...what was his name?..." Shirou's memory was not that good compared to his other world, disadvantages of starting from scratch "Familiar? yes...ahem, did your familiar get something?"

The duo returned to work after the redhead rested for a few minutes, they were still in the holy grail war and the redhead's worries were many.

the civilians, Caster2, Uryuu, the Grail Wish, and many more.

"The locations of my familiar are the residence of the three founding families and the city, currently there is no news but it was expected, the masters only operate at night, it is considered an unwritten rule"

"That's good to know…any news on Caster?" Shirou couldn't forget about that psychopath, he assumed it would be worse now that he had a Servant by his side.

"unfortunately I lost track of him and there was no related crime throughout the course of the night" She was attentive all night for any possible sighting.

"Did anything that would be considered strange happen?"

"a master is guarding the church with very elusive familiars, it was just a coincidence that I found them" That familiar ran into her and he hadn't noticed, it was a demonstration of Caster's abilities even in his weakened state

"Can't we locate them?"

"We can but I don't want to alert them to our presence" she answered while performing a spell to clean her master, the smell was already too annoying and in a moment it was spotless again "I don't trust my weakened state to be able to track him without them noticing."

"It's not yet noon, we can use it to get to know the town and plan strategies..."

It was at times like these that Caster remembered again that the redhead was much older than he looked, had great strategic thinking, and was not nervous about the war.

She was curious to know why the grail chose him as a teacher...well, half a teacher.

It was strange that the grail could summon her and it was even stranger that they summoned a monster like Caster2, the aura around her was rotten and not at all similar to a "hero".

"We can't risk going out, Servants have the ability to sense another Servant and in my state I doubt we can even face Assassin" It was embarrassing for Caster but it was the truth.

In her current state, she was only an elite magus of this time at most.

"Then we have to take care of increasing our strength as much as we can for today and we will see what happens tomorrow."

"We can still see the city and the surroundings if we share our senses with my family"

"Is better"

They were safe in the unoccupied house, Caster's boundary fields hid them perfectly and Shirou could take advantage of the day to increase his strength as much as he could. Caster was in charge of preparing all the supplies they needed or might need, while Shirou was training.

The main thing was food and clothing for his teacher, even if his teacher said that he only needed the minimum he was still a small child in the growth stage and very good nutrition never hurt.

...

"Shirou you have to see this."

The sun had already come down from the sky and it was very late. The redhead was training the entire time and had excellent results, managing to enter the first stage of fundamentals training in record time.

He approached Caster and she shared the image her familiar was receiving.

Three people, two servants, and one person. The match had just begun and the female Servant had changed her suit for armor that looked like a dress but Shirou knew it was of good quality.

"A battle of servants"

"The man is the servant lancer and the woman is not identifiable, she has a weapon hidden by a spell but her grip and posture make it clear that it is a sword"

"So you think it's Sable, right?"

The fight had begun, the movements of both Servants were not impressive in the eyes of Shirou and Caster but it was to be expected. In a fight where the strength of your opponent is uncertain, it is better to start with calm movements and without using all of one's abilities.

Lancer and Sable were studying the opponent with their attacks and blocks, but it was clear that they could not measure their rival forever. Lancer slowly began to up the ante and show more strength and skill but Sable was still able to hold his own.

"They are both masters of their respective weapons." Caster agreed with the redhead's analysis.

The movements were slow but strong but they could not hide their experience in combat with their respective weapons.

Those were his opponents in that war.

"A confrontation against them would be fatal for us"

"It is necessary to prioritize our search for the other Caster so I can recover my spiritual core, if I have all my power it would not be difficult to win against them"

Caster was very confident in her magical abilities and battle sense, those were the advantages of being the result of the fusion of two individuals. Scatchach had a great experience in all types of battles and also with runes, she had some flaws in the magical part not related to battles but Skadi's experience solved this problem.

"We are not the only ones watching this battle."

Shirou noticed three other people at the beginning of the battle, two men and a woman.

"The three are magus and it seems that two of them are forming a team, the one who is at the top of the warehouse does not hide his command spells... but they are not the only ones"

The familiar's gaze moved his sight a little and Shirou managed to see a person with a cloak and mask at the highest point of the place.

"Is that…?"

"Assassin"

Caster was a little doubtful about the veracity of Assassin's death but wanted to believe it was real, she had too many disadvantages and the disappearance of a Servant would be ideal.

It's a shame that your doubts came true.

Three Servants were in one place, two Masters were located and two others could not find out if they were Masters or were the support of a third party.

Seven people in total.

"That spear… Gáe Dearg? so the other one has to be… I see."

The fight between Lancer and Sable escalated, one of the spears was revealed and Caster was able to recognize it in a moment thanks to her historical connection to Lancer's homeland and the information provided by the holy grail.

Shirou was also analyzing the spear and couldn't help but praise the creator of such a beautiful and dangerous weapon. Shirou was a master blacksmith and his skills allowed him to create a spear of such a level but he could not imitate the magical abilities of the spear.

He felt that his desire to learn magecraft was renewed and increased.

"Ha, does that brat think no one would recognize those spears? silly"

"Do you know him, Caster?"

"Of course, those spears you have were created with a material very similar to my weapons or the weapons of my student, a material that I obtained from an absurdly powerful ghostly beast of the ocean" Caster proudly boasted of his feat "The cursed spear Gáe Buidhe that can inflict incurable wounds and the other spear has to be Gáe Dearg that can cut mana."

"Excellent weapons"

"That's right, they were weapons that were created for Aengus Óg and then given to his adopted son as a gift, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne"

"Any advantage we can get from that information?"

"He always falls due to his bad luck and I doubt it will be different in this war...we just have to avoid it and let time pass so that his destiny is fulfilled"

"It's not very useful"

The fight started again and Sable's only advantage disappeared, the invisible sword that no one knew its measurements was seen in the clashes of the weapons.

A beautiful gold with blue lines that were symbols of royalty.

"Moron"

Caster watched as Sable received the blow from the spear and managed to break through his defenses, his plan was clear to receive the blow and counterattack relying on the defenses of his armor.

Too bad his armor is magical.

"But it was a big deal." Shirou watched as the wound on Sable's side healed instantly. "A healing spell?"

"He was thrown by the albino...how curious, his appearance is not that of a common person...pale skin, white hair, and red eyes"

Shirou was paying so much attention to the fight that he hadn't seen the appearance of the woman standing in the battle zone.

Crimson red eyes

Now that woman had Shirou's full attention.

…

"Is that Rider?"

The appearance of the Servant had interrupted the battle between Sable and Lancer, the presentation was so loud that Caster's familiar could hear it.

King of the conquerors, King of Macedonia, Alexander III.

Iskandar.

The invitation he had made to the two Servants to hand over the grail and become part of his army was quickly denied by Saber and Lancer, making clear their loyalty to their respective masters.

"This man managed to conquer most of the world?"

Rider's appearance was accompanied by his master, he was identified by the man who Caster sensed was Lancer's master, It was very clear that the man was not on good terms with the young Rider master and the young man was clearly intimidated by the presence of the lancer master.

"At what point did this become so dramatic?" Rider's words of encouragement to his teacher seemed very cheesy to Scatchach but very honorable to Skadi.

"That place became the most dangerous in all of Fuyuki."

Four Servants in total, with so many gathered in one place it was impossible for the result to be anything remotely peaceful.

Shirou had a bad feeling, the back of his neck was tingling and he didn't know the reason. Something dangerous was about to happen but he didn't understand what it was and he worried, not for him and Caster, but for the albino woman.

"THOSE WHO WATCH IN THE DARK, SHOW YOURSELF BEFORE THE KING OF THE CONQUERERS, ISKANDAR!" Rider shouted.

The scream was powerful and reached the ears of Caster's familiar.

The family member was not the only one who heard the call.

Golden particles appeared on top of a lamp post and a golden servant appeared, the presence of the servant denoted his royal origin and his wealth.

He looked like gold itself.

Danger.

Shirou's neck tingled with fear and the premonition of something bad appeared in all his senses.

"destroy the familiar!"

Shirou's shout alerted Caster and she didn't hesitate for a moment to follow his order.

The familiar hundreds of meters away from the fight exploded silently and left no trace of having existed.

No one noticed but the golden servant let out a small smile.