I don't own Fate/Grand Order or it's related fandoms and characters. The same applies to any other fictional work(s) that may be referenced. And be warned that some non-OC characters might be OOC.

Sorry about not publishing recently guys, I got busy with some personal stuff.

Also, when I said last chapter that Caster would be appearing later on, I meant on the story, not on the First Singularity.

Now, on with the show!

Chapter 17

Ritsuka couldn't help but look back at the things that happened until this moment.

Their arrival at Orleans, meeting a nice Jeanne, meeting an evil Jeanne and her servants, fighting wyverns, fighting french soldiers…

And now they were about to fight the Rider Saint Martha and her Iron Dragon, Tarasque.

"Martha… Saint Martha? Watch out everyone!" Warned Dr. Roman. "She once defeated a dragon with nothing but prayers! If she's a Servant, that means-"

"Let us see if you are capable of slaying me-!" Martha proclaimed, her grip over her cross tightening.

"She's a dragon rider!"

As the chaldeans waited for her dragon mount to appear, they tensed up when a massive amount of malevolent mana seemed to approach.

However…instead of a dragon, a man came from the forest.

And Saint Martha seemed to grow flustered.

"Eh? You're not Tarasque?" Before she composed herself, and then as if she just noticed something, she frowned. "Wait, you seem to have a similar aura to his, but…I can't feel him any longer. Does that mean…"

"If you are asking about that giant turtle dragon…Then he's dead." The pink haired man said nonchalantly, while shrugging.

Everyone looked stupefied at him, before a beep came from Ritsuka communication device.

"Everyone, look out! An unknown Servant signature has appeared!" The doctor broke the atmosphere.

"…We noticed." Ritsuka sighs at that.

"You were late again Dr!" Mash criticizes him, making him sulk.

The unknown man just looked at the situation with amusement, before raising his hand to catch the cross being swung at his face.

"I'm sorry, but I can't control myself. Hearing that you slayed Tarasque ignited my Madness Enhancement. Let's see if you can defeat both my dragon and myself." Ritsuka and his Servants got ready to fight once again, but the mysterious stranger had other plans.

"I don't want to fight a saint, my grandma would beat me up if she knew I did such a thing. So…"

Before she could react, Jacob pulled Martha towards him and with a now crimson mist covering his other hand, he pressed it against her forehead and then pulled away. As he did so, a dark mist seemed to have latched on his crimson one, and left the saint's body at increasingly faster speeds, until nothing was left.

"There, now you are no longer corrupted. But you also lost your connection to the Grail, so you are probably going to fade away as well." As if on cue, Martha's body started to turn into golden motes of light.

"…Hehe. To think I would be defeated so easily. But this is fine as well. Seriously, don't make a saint massacre you!"

"I don't plan to."

"…You might be able to defeat Tarasque, but if you want to defeat the Dragon Witch's dragon, you'll will have much higher chances of succeeding if you go to Lyon…The city once known as Lyon. There lies a Dragon Slayer." Then as her body was about to truly fade away, she spoke her last words. "Tarasque, I'm sorry…Next time, I hope I'll be summoned properly." And then she was gone.

"Even Saint Martha can't resist the Dragon Witch." Jeanne said as she carefully approached the pink haired man.

He smiled sadly at her.

"She'd undergone Madness enhancement, in addition to being summoned by a corrupted Grail. It couldn't be helped." he said to her, as the rest of the group relaxed and approached as well, as they noticed the stranger had no ill will towards them.

"Normally it would be impossible to even talk to her." Mash agreed with the man's assessment. "The only reason we were able to communicate was because of her incredible self-control."

"Yes. She was peaceful, yet fierce as a person. I could tell." Marie Antoinette comforted the Maiden of Orleans. "She is the Iron Saint. She is a woman like adamantite, who solves things with her fists in the end."

"They say she defeated the Tarasque with a sermon, but I bet she just beat it up." Mozart joked. "And thanks to her we know where to go now."

"Indeed. So, are you going to join us, stranger?" Mash boldly asked the man.

"I indeed desire to do so. But before that, I think we should introduce ourselves first, no?" He asked her amused.

"Oh!" The girl blushed. "Of course, I'm Mash Kyrielight. Shielder Class Servant."

"Amadeus Mozart, Caster Servant, at your disposal."

"I'm Rider Marie Antoinette! Nice to meet you!"

"Jeanne D'arc, Ruler, a pleasure to meet you."

"And I'm Ritsuka Fujimaru, Chaldea's last Master."

"…Well, it's really nice to meet you all as well." The man smiled at them, and then the crimson in his eyes became green once again, and his black sclera turned back to white as he deactivated his Noble Phantasm, allowing all to see his natural eye color.

His hair remained pink and braided due to it's length.

"I'm the Foreigner Class Servant, Technoblade. It'll be an honor to fight by your side."

And with that, this chapter comes to a close. Once again, I apologize for the wait, and thank all of you for the patience. To clarify, Jacob is no longer wearing the pig mask, but he is wearing the Leviathan Crown. It's one of his Noble Phantasms, but it doesn't appear on the stats page because of the corruption caused by the Blood God. Next chapter I'll post the hidden information about Jacob.

I also corrected a mistake I made on chapter 15, when I forgot to take away Gaea's Blessing, as Jacob finished his "Tutorial", and will no longer grow stronger stats-wise because of it.

He will grow stronger, but the same way every Servant in the game does.

Because of plot. And to keep them relevant.

Anyway, that's it. Hope you guys enjoyed it!