Hello everyone and welcome back to the start of chapter 69 of the story!
Hope all of you are about to have a great Christmas and enjoy the new event in JP. (Have any of you seen the roster for it? Most random cast group I've ever seen)
And also, Mahoyo is now available on Steam. I should give it a try. Because while I do enjoy spending Christmans with my family, spending it with Aoko seems very tempting.
DISCLAIMER: All of the Nasuverse characters belong to Nasu and are property of Type-Moon, with the exception of the OC's that belong to me, the author
Fate Grand Order OST- Ever-Present Feeling
"If there's a word that could describe my entire life, it would be dullness. My studies, my achievements, everything. The world of magecraft would become drearier with each passing day that I would attain more information about it. A place full of mystic that stops being mystical once you discover everything about it."
"Amazing Faust! You were able to perform it in such short time!"
"Our university is blessed by having a prodigee like you amongst us."
"Could you explain me more about this formula?"
"Eh? You also study astrology and astronomy? I can't even barely study to alchemy haha! You really must know every secret in the world Faust."
"What exactly did I knew apart from spending entire days locked in my own house reading books and manuscripts? What could all these fulfilments give me? The praises always felt so shallow. Why should I have been praised with something that was so easy and simple to learn? I never had a true challange or difficulty on my scholary career. Nor anything else in my life besides that."
"Ehehe, you're such a bookworm Faust! Reading even when outside next to the lake?"
"Ah, sorry Gretchen. Is that I will have an exam tomorrow."
"And? Didn't you spent the entire yesterday studying for it, silly?
"Uhm,I..."
"I didn't deserved you Gretchen. You were the only person who tried to understand me and I in turn tried to understand you. That life of leisure and ease. How could someone be contempt with knowing so few and trivial things? Such insignificant and mere knowledge that kept me around, curious, trying to comprehend it. The only times I felt anything else was with you."
"Cursed dark magic? Why would I be intrested in something that is forbidden?"
"Forbidden because no one knows how to control it right. You on the other hand can probably master it as you do with the rest Faust. You're a genius after all!"
"Hmm...How difficult do you think it would be for me to learn it?"
"Finally, something would give me the joy of researching and studying. That I would kill my tedium with it. Taboo magic was an area of magecraft that few would dare to venture and majority would die trying. Things that a mortal's eye was not supposed to see. I wanted to gaze at them and be fascinated by the prohibited ways of magic's nature. All of those years being an hermit in my house...would have not been in vain."
"F-Faust? You've been looking very tired lately. Have you been sleeping?"
"Don't worry Gretchen. I just didn't sleeped much tonight."
"You shouldn't push yourself that hard..."
"Heh, I know."
"But I did not care. I was too ignorant and obsessed to ear you in that moment. The study of the recent topics, were proving to be the challenge I was looking for. It was the first time in years that I felt thrilled and enthusiastic about my studies. I had never been happier. How quickly things fell apart..."
"A-Are you...the demon I just summoned?"
"Hehehe, pleasure to meet you and your humble office, Faust-dono. Call me, Mephistopheles. Tell me, are you happy with the results."
"...Yes."
"I had to sold my soul and parts of my body as the pact demanded. But in that moment, they didn't felt like huge loses. I had attained knowledge that no average mage possessed. What I had gained outweighed what I had lost. Cursed wisdom and a demonic partner in the form of Mephistopheles. During all my life, I was considered an intellectual and that night, was when I got at my stupidest. From that point forward, much to the opposite of what I imagined, I just kept losing and losing and losing."
"Aaah...Aah...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Aaah aaaaaaaah aaaah ahaaaaaaaaaa!"
"What's the matter for all that weeping and sobbing Faust-dono?"
"You've burned her house with her inside! Why?! I didn't told you to do that, Mephistopheles!"
"But you did told me to perform a trick that would take her breath away, didn't you? Well, I think I might have done just that. Huhuoohahahahahahaha!"
"I didn't...asked for any of this!"
"Why did that had to happen? Why I had to be this way with this life? Why I never cared about socializing? Making friends? Leaving my house more often? Instead, I only ended up hurting others and myself. Soon, my excitment turned into regret. The reputation I had built was all gone, alongside everything of meaningful that I had in life. Mephistopheles eventually started to get bored with his acts of removing what I had of my life left, deciding to take things to an higher level. And so my story ended with guilt and chagrin. A sin that I would never get rid of."
"It wasn't until recently, that I had a second opportunity."
1 week ago
Bloodborne OST- Hunter's Dream
Standing at the top of the tall Clock Tower building, Faust laid his eyes upon London, accompained by a dark cloaked figure. The alchemist spotted a handful creatures on the city streets who had been all covered in shadows. But they weren't helter sketers, nor hommunculi or automata. These ones were demonic, wandering in the darkest areas and undetectable to the naked eye.
"Do tell us alchemist, what thoust glimpses?"
"Monsters desguised as men. A lot of them." Faust responded. "Sinful creatures." He gave another version of the answer before lifting up his face. "Flaws."
"Thou art correct, O alchemist." The figure congratulated him. "Those demons down there, are sin itself. Aspects of why the man is so defective. Gaze at how they scourge this city. How they profane the beauty of it and the peace of its people's souls. A world like this, can never know what true glee feels like."
Faust had figured it out much likely what the figure was trying to say. "Which is why the master thinks it can no longer keep existing as it is. Do I got it right?"
"This existence is rottened to the core. Engulfed by the putrid nature that is evil who inhabits in every person's soul, shackeling them away from true paradise." The figure said, raising up its arms in the air. "How long we have been subjected to this pain." The figure closed its partially shadowy and deformed hands with rottened meat into fists. "All of this collective suffering will come to an end. Armageddon will be the answer to it."
Faust stood behind his master, listening to its words carefully and with attention. "And how will this way be paved until there?"
"It will not be created alone. The path is built alongside the steps we take. We have already laid the first stones down." Opening its hand to London, the figure called out the shadows covering the streets, making the demons fade back into obscurity and the city go back to an area filled of Demonic Fog. "This next step is crucial. Which is why we require of thy help and service, O alchemist." The figure turned its cloaked head around to stare at Faust. "Thoust witnessed what the malice of sin can be capable of, haven't thee?"
"...I did." Faust stared down at his own hand, mentalizing how much of himself had been taken away from him in the previous life. "Fruit of my own flaws."
"Do not lament any longer, servant of ours." The figure faced him, standing right in front of Faust. "For thy atonment will be achieved. Perceive and follow us, and thou shalt have redemption."
Faust was willing to do it. Another pact, but one that he hoped it would erase the sins he had been haunted ever since that day. "I shall obey to your orders, my master. Tell me, what should I do?"
"In a space of couple of days, a special group of people will appear in this Singularity."
A few days ago
"What? This is my fate here?"
"You look very surprised." Jekyll told to the alchemist as the two where in the latter's office, with Faust checking books and novels about himself.
"This ending. How was it possible?" Faust asked to Jekyll. "How could I have been forgiven and ascend to heaven after doing a pact?"
Jekyll smiled to him. "Well, that is just one of the countless versions about you. The author of that one thought you deserved to be redeemed while others not. Your destiny varies according with the author that is writting it, no matter what of your personal opinion on the topic."
"But why would someone think I deserve a pardon? I commited a great sin that should've doom me forever. I fell to my own hubris." Faust replied, thinking how absurd the thought of being absolved by a person who never met him but was aware of what he did sounded.
"I think it's because we are all a bit like that. Imperfect beings who try their best to not give in. And sometimes, the intrusive thoughts inside our heads appear to be very attractive to just ignore them." Jekyll responded, grabbing a little flask from his desk with a liquid inside of it. "Why do we have this evil inside of us? Why can't we have a life free of sin? Human nature is really weird and complex when you analyze it throughly, don't you think so?" Jekyll chuckled. "That must be what it differs us from animals. We can rationalize and put consciousness on our actions. It is probably why some people can sympathize with you as they can see from your perspective."
"Why would anyone dare to be in my shoes? To understand something beyond logical fathom?" Faust replied, still not taking Jekyll's side.
"Perhaps they would do the same given the chance." Jekyll simply responded. "No matter how foolish a person acted, everyone is subjected to do things they will deeply regret later in life. But that is okay. Mistakes are meant to be learned from in order to better yourself."
"And when a mistake is so big and fatal that there is no coming back? What moral there is to learn from that?" Faust questioned the scientist.
"As a warning and advise to others to not commit the same mistake. Does it remind you of anything?" Jekyll gave a small smile, knowing that the alchemist was aware of what he was referencing.
"If so, then people shouldn't be forgiving me. They should despise me for what I've done. To be that one exemple to not follow. My life is that. A cautionary tale about a fool who gave everything to lose. Not of a man who gets redeemed in the end." Faust told Jekyll, believing no one should feel remorse or pity for what happened to him.
"But I, just like that author, see that you are more than just an alchemist who made a pact with a demon. You're a human with flaws and regretts, like the rest." Jekyll said, putting a book of his collection into the shelf. "That shows that you never had intentions of hurting anybody or doing malice on purpose. For me, it is a sing that you are a good person who can be forgiven."
Leaving out a small exhale from his mouth, Faust thought for a moment about what Jekyll had just told him. "Then, it is possible to be atoned that way?"
"Heh, for someone who studied a lot, you aren't exactly an expert when it comes to a human's mind and nature." Jekyll smiled, facing the alchemist. "Yes, I think it's possible."
"And so I've decided."
Opening his eyes, Faust saw only one person in front of him, together in the dark depths of his soul.
"Hmmmmmmm? So you are really going through with that?" Mephistopheles asked to his contractor, playfully jumping up and down. "Even after it had promised you with the thing you so long seeked for?"
"Yes. I've figured there is other ways of doing things." Faust replied, is eyes not moving at all while Mephistopheles jumped around him.
"Oooooooooooh! Do I sense a betrayal Faust-dono?" Mephistopheles asked, amused. "Have you finally get how funny it is to backstab others for fun?"
"No. I'm not like you or will ever be." Faust responded slightly agressive.
"Hmmm, you think so? Oh silly Faust-dono. You're the reason I exist in the first place!" Mephistopheles exclaimed, giggling. "I'm what you craved for. I am the product of your searches. You summoned me to this world so that we could make a contract! We two couldn't be any more linked." The demonic clown then stopped jumping, leaning his head torward's Faust's ear. "How long I've tormented you? How long have we been together? Even in a second life, I still end up coming with you."
"You're right. I'll probably never get rid of you. That is a fact that I will have to accept it unfortunately. But..." Faust stared Mephistopheles in the eyes. "I will make sure that you will never hurt me or anyone else again."
Taking some steps back, Meohistopheles was impressed, before going back to laugh again. "Hihihihiahahahahahahahaha! How brave of you to say that Faust-dono! I am truly grateful to have been appointed to be your personal demon! As long as you live, so can I! No matter if it's in the physical plane or not! Like you said, you'll never get rid of me, Faust-dono." The clown begun to step back into the shadows. "And remember, everyone has a breaking point. However..." Mephistopheles dissapeard into the darkness. "I will root for you in this. Make sure to give me a great spectacle Faust-dono! Or die trying! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
The insane laughter of Mephistopheles echoed around Faust's mind before ceasing out.
The alchemist ended up sighing. "You are a very good supporter, Mephistopheles."
Present
The giant clock's pointers where almost on the midday. A strong wind breathed on top of the tower as Faust approached the figure, his master, who was gazing at the city while the alchemist's presence had already been noticed.
"Good to see thou lives alchemist. Thy wounds were not of an easy task to seal." The figure told him about the wound Faust had suffered from Artoria Alter's lance. "The Spirit Core almost got shattered into pieces if not for our shadows to connect it back together."
"I understand my master. It was an awful slip I shall not make it again." Faust replied politely and obediently.
"Chaldea and the reamining forces of the other faction are fighting themselves below us as of right now. If we be patient, this will be a great occasion to interpose." The figure explained to Faust, awaiting for the end result of the fight that was happening on the underground of the Clock Tower.
"Right..." Faust replied, a bit distressed. To which the figure didn't failed to notice it.
"Does something troubles thee, O alchemist?"
"I was wondering in my head." Faust replied, not trying to hide the obvious from his master, gathering the courage to confront it. "Is this really the way?"
A little silence stood between him and the figure.
"Elucidate." The figure demanded calmly, still staring at the city.
"I'm thinking if Armageddon is the only option for salvation. If it has to be truly necessary?" Faust elaborated.
"Thou art dubious about our methods?" The figure slightly rised it cloaked head up.
"The human is a flawed being by nature. From what I perceived recently, the sins or flaws we might have are actually essential to us. The purpose of their existence is so that we can learn from them, I believe." Faust speaked in earnest. "Wouldn't erasing those concepts, be unecessary and defeat the purpose of being a better person?"
"...I too used to think like that." The figure responded, not seeming very upset to have its plans questioned. "Nonetheless, the problem is the consequences that comes with those flaws. How many of them caused destruction? How many sins have taken away countless lives? What is the purpose to rectify and learn about mistakes if there is always someone else to unleash grief and pain upon the world? Society will be forever stuck in a loophole of endless suffering that will only end with its own extinction. We have to make sure the world avoids that fate."
"And how can you be so sure of that? That humanity won't be able to break free from that cicle?" Faust asked.
"We see thy form of thinking has changed. How peculiar." The figure commented. Which was true. At the start, Faust had few to no objections about his masters point of views and plans. But now, the alchemist had become more inquisitive. His mentality had changed. "Thou not desires for redemption?"
"I do. Every person should be given a shot at redemption and absolution." Faust told him, grabbing the necklace that was given to him by Fran. "Not through your ways, but instead by learning from their own sins!"
"..."
"..."
The pointer of the minutes moved. 11:59.
"We see." The figure talked, not a hint of anger or anxiety in its voice. "So that is how thou chooses to interpret the problem. We shall tolerate it. Thou art free to cut the contract of master and servant, O alchimist."
"What?" Faust asked, surprised.
"It is clear that our viewpoints do not align and thou art resigned. We are not one to force and oppose a person to work against their will. If thou wants to abandon the partnership with us alchemist, thou art free to do it. We shall not make thee think otherwise."
"So you're letting me go." Faust replied, not expecting that turn of events.
"Indeed. If what thou wishes for is to help Chaldea without being a servant of ours anymore, thou are allowed to." The figure then turned its head around, and altough its face couldn't be seen due to the dark void that covered it, the figure was clearly eyeing Faust. "But be warned that without our supply, once this Singularity is resolved, thou shall dissapear alongside its anomalies." The figure told to the alchemist about the consequences that would happen if he abandoned their contract and helped Chaldea. "May thou find atonment in such short amount of time." It said in its own way of wishing good luck to Faust, changing its attention back to London.
"I will. Thank you for the understanding, master." Faust called the figure by that title before starting to walk away. However, not five steps after, the alchemist stopped in his tracks. "Then...does that makes us enemies as of now?"
The figure lifted its head. "Hmmm, it could be considered so."
Hearing that, Faust tightned his grasp on the staff. "Good." He said, preparing for something. "That means I won't feel bad by doing this!" Immediatly turning around, Faust fired a projectile from his lamp, heading quickly torwards the figure.
As it exploded into a huge cloud of dust, the figure stepped out of it in the air, not uttering a word or noise about this sudden attack from Faust as it landed back on the ground.
And that was exactly where Faust wanted him to land. "I've got you!" Exclaiming, Faust made a large alchemy symbol appear beneath the figure. Shortly afterwards, slammed his hands together.
"The pact has been sealed and the dark secrets uncovered
Suddenly, more giant alchemy symbols surrounded the figure who stood still.
My knowledge trespassed the greatest taboo!"
The veins inside Faust's body as well as the alchemy symbol on his chin started to glow red. All of the symbols were set in position.
"Now we shall witness this demonic sin!"
With both hands on his staff, Faust striked the ground and made the upper and lower part of the weapon spin on opposite ways, resulting in a bright dark purple shine from the lamp at the top.
"The Compunction Of a Genius Sinner: Faustbuch!" (Debuffs enemy with Bound, Curse and Noble Phantasm Seal)
All of the alchemy symbols brightened up in a purple glow, creating a transparent dome and firing lasers at the figure, keeping it paralyzed.
"This was my trap seal Noble Phantasm. Glad to see its working!" Faust said, staring at the figure. He had spent the entire way to the tower planning to use it, calculating on how he would catch the figure with his Noble Phantasm. Lifting up his staff, Faust pointed the lower tip of it torwards the figure who remained silent. "Sorry, but your plans are too radical to let them be undisturbed." Faust said as the tip started to glow. "I'll have to finish you here and now! Goodb-urGhrgh!?"
Feeling an entire sword piercing through his chest, Faust look at it as blood flew out alongside some of his mechanical pieces inside his own body. "W-What..."
The alchemist stared in shock as he saw an entire dark and monstrous arm impaling his chest from behind. "How...?" Weakly turning his head around to see who could have done this, Faust glimpsed at a tall demonic creature covered in shadows behind him. Two red glowing eyes on the place where it was supposedly the face, as well as ten horns sticking out from the head alongside some spikes on the shoulders, giving a menacing and terrorizing aura. The creature had seemingly surged from the ground, more specifically from Faust's shadow. "My own...shadow?"
The alchemy symbols of the alchemist's Noble Phantasm started to flicker, being overlaid by a dark substance that corrosion them.
"What a disheartening action thou forced us to do, alchemist." The figure finally spoke, the restraints of the lasers and alchemy seals no more keeping them bound. Faust's Noble Phantasm had been totally destroyed. "To think thou would dare to brand thy weapon against us when we gave thee liberty to go away. More proof on how sins can give birth to harmful flaws." The figure begun walking torwards Faust, who was still impaled by the demonic looking creature's arm.
"Y-You..." Faust tried to reply back. The figure had probably had anticipated for this. There was no other possible way for how it remained so stoic and calm through the alchemist's surprise attack and Noble Phantasm invocation.
"Betrayal is quite the heinous sin. Thou believes thy redemption can be achieved like that?" The figure asked Faust in a misture of seriousness but also mockery.
"Gngh...raghr!" Faust coughed more blood as the figure approached him. "C-Curse you..."
"Now, there isn't any reason for us to not kill thee. Still..." Moving the arm, the figure shoved its hand in the area of Faust's heart.
"Arghr!" The alchemist let out an agonizing yell.
"That does not mean thou hast lost all the usefulness to us. As our servant, thou shall carry this last order." Shadow branches started to flow down from the figure's arms, penetrating and entering Faust's body, going to where his heart was.
"Ngh! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Feeling an insufferable and burning pain corrupting his heart, Faust screamed at the top of his lungs, his body twitching in agony.
"Time to let thy sins enter and absorve thy mind, heart and soul. Accept what thou are and what thoust did." The figure speaked as Faust continued to scream. "Thou hast been judged and condemned. Merge thyself with the flaws that devour the soul and body. Become sin itself."
Taking out its hand from Faust's body, the figure had left a black hole inside of it, with dark roots coming out of it. The demonic creature also took its arm out of the alchemist's chest, making more blood to spill out and Faust to fall onto his knees, gasping for air as a strange sensation begun to corrupt his body.
"Ah...Ah...Ah...You..." Trying to stabilize his breath as his body was partially destroyed and falling apart, Faust moved his head up to stare at the figure. "You won't get what you want!..." He told to the figure, defiantly.
"Obstacles are meant to be surpassed, aren't they? No matter how many are along the way." Forming a sword-shape looking weapon by controling the shadows near it, the figure gave one final look at Faust. "I will achieve paradise for everyone."
With a clean slash, Faust was cut on the torso, causing his body to fall off from the edge of the tower whose pointers had aligned in the same hour:12:00.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood OST- Sorrowful Stone
"My body...I can't feel anything."
Was the thought that crossed the alchemist's mind as he went down falling all the way from the top as the bells rung. His muscles and bones were rooting and rusting. Every heartbeat felt like the last one as something fiendish circulated more and more on his vains and his vision begun to fail. Faust couldn't move an inch or give any response. Just watch helplessly as his limp body was about to hit the ground. His plan had failed. He couldn't even bring the figure down with him. But at least, his mind was sure that he tried to do the right thing.
"If being flawed would automatically deem someone as a bad person, then I think there would be no one good left in the planet. So if you ask me, having flaws doesn't necessarily you are a bad person. In the means you're normal, like the rest of us."
"I would still forgive you despite knowing that."
"You're a person who wants to fix your own mistaked Faust. And that is what I consider to be a good person."
"...Ritsuka..."
The alchemist remembered of him. The Chaldea master. The one who forgive him and expanded his views. The person who made the alchemist face his mistakes. The way he could smile with such adversities and think positive despite everything. Flawed and yet someone who wouldn't let that bring him down, being a good person at heart. How Faust wished he could have been friends with him and the entire group. They would have been his first ones in his entire life.
And so, the alchemist's body crashed into the ground.
"Ah!"
Letting out a small and soft gasp, Fran lifted her head all of a sudden.
"What is wrong Fran?" Jekyll asked concerned. The two where inside the living room of the old man's house, guarding it. "Are you feeling alright?" He said, seeing Fran put a hand close to her chest tightly as her expression seemed like of someone who was about to cry.
"Nuh hum!" Frankenstein shook her head, quickly putting the sadness away, not wanting to worry Jekyll.
"Is it about them?" Jekyll questioned, wondering if Fran was thinking about the group's safety.
"Worry not. That bunch of ruffians seem to take very good care of themselves." The old man responded, standing next to the window of the room. "I wouldn't bet on them to kick the bucket. " He assured to both Fran and Jekyll.
"Y-Yes." Jekyll responded in agreement.
The old man then turned his head to look at the view outside the window. "But London has been quite upside down for some time. Whatever you lads are doing, hope it can resolve this fast!"
Coughing and waving the dust away from his eyes, Ritsuka got a shocking surprise, seeing Faust all beaten up and with his body in bad condition, having sustained great damage.
"F-Faust?" Ritsuka uttered, appalled and wondering what could have happened to the alchemist to be in such state.
"...S-Sorry Ritsuka..." Faust muttered weakly as his eyes and entire body were almost overtaken by a dark substance. "...I tried...to make up for my own mistakes..."
"Whar ar-" Before he could finish, Ritsuka saw the alchemist's body being covered in pitch black shadows, creating a dark sphere which then bursted out, releasing strong gusts of winds that launched Ritsuka out from the top of the hill. "Aaaah!"
"What...What is happening!?" Zolgen, who was nearby, also was thrown out of the hill, trying to understand from where all this dark and violent wind was coming from.
The commotion was so much that Peko and Nala had stopped their fight with Barbatos, who also got its attention captured by the winds.
"Where is this wind coming from?" Peko asked confused while Nala spotted Ritsuka's body in the air.
"Ritsuka!" She exclaim, seeing him about to fall to the ground. With Peko noticing him as well, both the siblings made a cooperative effort in catching Ritsuka's body, preventing him to hit the ground but causing the twins to stumble and fall on the floor in doing so.
"Are you okay?" Peko asked to Ritsuka.
"Yeah. Thank you for the catch." Ritsuka replied.
Barbatos saw Zolgen falling from the sky and landing right next to it. "Hey, human mage. What is the meaning of this?"
"I do not know!" Zolgen responded, being as clueless as the Demon God Pillar.
"Kkrgh! Is this suppose to be an enemy attacking us or something?" Hans commented, trying to maintain his feet stuck on the ground.
"I wasn't expecting such turn of events at such late hour of the play! This truly came out of nowhere and unscripted!" Shakespeare added, attempting to maintain his balance as well.
"Hans-san! Shakespeare-san! We have arrived!" A voice sounded behind the two alongside some footsteps. It was Mash and Mordred, both appearing at the entrance of the cave.
"Ah! You two maidens did it and defeated the cruel king! What an extraordinary feat!" Shakespeare exclaimed happily.
"And I see it was quite some hard time doing it." Hans said, seeing the injuries the two had suffered from their battle with Artoria Alter. "Anyways, at least that's one less problem!"
"Sure is!" Mordred replied before feeling the strong wind clashing with her body, forcing the knight to keep her balance. "But can you explain what the hell is happening here now?"
Mash was also trying to withstand the wind as she noticed something rising up from up the hill in front of Angrboda. "Up there! Look!"
As the wind died down, a huge creature appeared on top of the hill, gaining everybody's attention. It was large, dark, demonic in nature, with countless holes on its skin. A feral pair of humanoid arms and legs. Two black pigeon wings welling up from its back. Three raven skulls on the head's place with one horn coming out of each skull. The monster let out a terrifying screech as it spred its wings open, causing certain apprehension in everyone on that cave.
"What is that thing?" Peko questioned as he, Nala and Ritsuka were joined by the rest of the party.
"Master, Peko, Nala! Are you all well?" Mash asked to the trio who was glad to see her and Mordred back.
"We are! Also, this means you've defeated that king, didn't you?" Nala replied.
"Yeah! Jackass king is as good as dead!" Mordred replied. "She won't be a problem for us anymore. Unlike this thing." She stared at the demonic looking bird.
"What even is that supposed to be?" Mash talked.
"It's Faust." Ritsuka replied, much to the party's shock.
"Eh?" Peko stared at him dumbfounded.
"Faust transformed into that creature somehow. I've seen it with my eyes!" Ritsuka explained, having seen the alchemist's last moments before turning into the huge monster.
"But how is that even possible?" Nala asked.
"I don't know exactly." Ritsuka answered.
That was when Mash decided to contact Romani. "Doctor! Are you there? We need you please!"
Responding immediatly, the hologram of Romani appeared. "I am and I'm seeing the same as you!" The doctor told them, sounding as nervous as the rest. "I've already done an analysis but the result of the readings just came juxtaposed and majorily illegible! The thing I got is that creature is indeed Faust but his Spirit Core looks to be all altered and messed up! As if it was corrupted by some type of virus!"
"You're saying someone transformed Faust into that thing?" Peko asked.
"Someone or something. Either way, the Faust we knew is completely gone, modified into that creature we are seeing now!" Romani told them.
"Crap! This is looking awful!" Barbatos exclaimed, not having a good feeling about the grotesque monster that just appeard. "We have to call our main body! Urgently! This creature is-"
The Demon God Pillar didn't even had a chance to finish talking before being completely obliterated by large thorns that appeard from the ground, killing it.
"Mhm!" Zolgen observed his ally dissapearing in shock. He was all by himself now. "Barbatos didn't even saw that coming! What am I supposed to do now?!"
Having killed the Demon God Pillar, the now corrupted and demonified Faust absorved its power, calling the thorns back to the holes that they came from on his body, releasing a monstrous grunt.
"Will we have to fight him?" Ritsuka asked, stunned by seeing the monster taking out Barbatos so quickly.
Turning his three skull heads torwards the party, 'Faust' spread his wings and jumped torwards them from the top of the hill.
"Guess we'll have to!" Mordred replied, grabbing Ritsuka and pushing him out of the way, with everybody else doing the same as Faust skidded on the ground with the three raven skull beaks.
"This is an enemy we have never faced before! We have to be careful!" Peko said.
Observing the aspect of the monster, Nala thought about something. "Hey doc! Is Faust technically a demon now?"
"By what I could understand of the few readings I had, it is highly possible that is his nature now!" Romani responded to the girl.
"So does that mean..." Peko begun to realize something.
"I'll test it now!" Nala exclaimed, running torwards Faust. The monster spotted the girl coming torwards him, firing a dark fireball from one of his skulls. Nala managed to slice in half and proceed. Quickly, Nala slashed one of Faust's arm, amputating it from the rest of the body at almost lightspeed, making Faust to cry in anguish.
"He his weak to light!" Ritsuka exclaimed.
"Just like those imps!" Mash added.
"It makes sense. Demons fear the light after all. The classical light versus darkness confront from stories of old." Shakespeare commented.
"Good one sis!" Peko told to Nala who smiled at him.
"Like I expected!" She replied. However, the joy didn't last long as the severed arm of Faust melted into shadows that came back to the monster, reshaping into a new arm like it didn't had been cut off in the first place. "What?!" Nala exclaimed in shock before seeing a black circle appearing beneath her feet.
"Watch out!" Mordred rushed to Nala and shoved the girl away from the circle which then a dark thorn erupted from there, preventing the girl from being impaled.
Faust wasn't done however, rising his arm up to attack both Mordred and Nala who were on the ground. Thankfully, Mash appeard just in time, stopping Faust's arm with her shield. But the impact was brute enough to make the shielder lose her balance and fall some meters away on the ground.
Peko gained Faust's attention by firing a light bullet right in the middle of his body while gathering with Mash, Nala and Mordred with the rest of the party. "You two shouldn't oush yourselves that hard!" The boy told to Mash and Mordred.
"Exactly! You are only making the injuries worsen!" Hans added, talking about the wounds the two girls had suffered on their fight against Artoria Alter.
"Who gives? I still have enough energy to spare!" Mordred replied, refusing to slow down.
"S-Same here!" Mash responded, fighting back against the pain of her wounds.
Ritsuka however wasn't so sure if he was willing to let his servant do that extra effort. "Mash..."
"No worries master. I can bare it." Mash told him with a reassuring smile.
"Brace yourselves guys! This isn't over yet!" Romani called their attention as he watched Faust starting to fly up in the sky with his wings, crashing his body in order to make huge debris fall from the ceilling alongside firing more fireballs from his skulls.
The party did their best to avoid the shower of attacks coming down at them.
"That maggot really is out of control!" Hans talked, seeing Faust flying torwards them, forcing the group to lay down to avoid the tackle of his body.
"You tell me! I like him more as a anti-social nerd before!" Mordred replied, with Faust bashing his demonic body against the walls of the cave while letting out a screech.
"He is totally hostile!" Peko observed.
"It means there's no reasoning with him!" Ritsuka added.
"Hey! Where is that mage dude anyways?" Nala speaked, bringing the fact they have forgotten about Zolgen's existence in the meantime.
"Now that you speak about him..." Mash said, trying to look for the other enemy.
"There!" Ritsuka said, seeing that Zolgen had just finished from climbing up back to the top of the hill near Angrboda. "Are you running away Zolgen!? I thought a mage like you had more back bone!" He insulted him, thinking Zolgen was being a coward.
"Shut up you simpleton! I won't be bad mouthed by a low mana like you!" Zolgen shouted back at Ritsuka. "In these situations, a self-respecting mage knows the most crucial thing is to make it out alive no matter the methods! That is what kept me alive for so many years!" He extended his arms wide open. "Just to show how great our powers differ, I'll defeat this creature that you are having such trouble defeating! Here and now!"
Exclaiming, a thunder appeard from Angrboda behind the mage, lightning up the entire room and even striking Faust's body, making the monster fall on the ground with the unexpected damage. The tunders captured the party's attention.
"Urgh! What is it now?" Mordred asked as she stared at the electrified Angrboda.
"Oh no! This is bad!" Romani exclaimed in a bit of panic as he looked to his monitor.
"How bad is it?" Peko asked him.
"Signals of a new servant are appearing from Angrboda! Zolgen is about to summon them!" Romani responded, much to the party's distress.
"That's just what we needed now!" Hans replied.
"If both sides decide to attack us we will be quite in trouble!" Nala speaked.
"Prepare for the worst then, guys!" Ritsuka told the group.
As the thunders died down and the dust near the Angrboda died down, a figure appeard by Zolgen's side.
"Greetings! My mind is of a boundless genius with no limits! The man who mastered electricity itself and gave it as a gift to humanity like Prometheus gave the fire! Inventor of many revolutionary ideas, I pionnered civilization to a new technological age! A master of engineering born a prodigy in a humble village of Serbia, I became the new light to mankind!"
From the dust, a tall and refined handsome adult man appeard. He wore a dark purple suit with grey buttons and white sleeves and gloves, also having corresponding jeand and a black cape hanging on his back. He had long black hair with two long cyan blue bangs coming out from the sides. His right arm totally robotical and mechanical.
"My name is Nikola Tesla! The genius and revolutionary master of the electric current!" The servant presented himself.
"Ni...Nikola Tesla?" Mash said in awe to his presence alongside Ritsuka. This was no obscure historic figure by any means.
"By your reaction, I can say he's a big shot." Nala said, seeing both Mash and Ritsuka's faces.
"Oh you have no idea." Ritsuka told her.
"Figures with that speech." Peko added.
"I personally never heard about this guy but I can feel his status are no laughing joke. This servant truly has the qualities of a pioneer!" Hans commented, noticing the grand and imposing aura of Nikola Tesla.
"I too feel that reverent aspect of the man. Fighting him won't be easy most certainly." Shakespeare said.
"Tsk! Genius, revolutionary or whatever, he is going down!" Mordred adjusted her posture, prepare to fight Faust and the new servant at the same time if needed.
"Heh...Hehehehahahahahahahahahahaha!" Seeing Tesla, Zolgen started to laugh madly. "Do you see this? Do you see what and who I've just summoned Ritsuka Fujimaru?" He called Ritsuka. "I have the great Nikola Tesla at my disposal now! A servant of such status that is partially responsible for the bases of the modern society you live in! A pioneer who changed history alone! Do you understand it now? This is what differs us! Never an insignificant human with low mana would be able to summon such Heroic Spirit! You are but a persistent insect with dumb luck! And it shall end it now! After I am done with you all and that thing, London and all of mankind shall fall!"
Ritsuka cleenched his teeth as Zolgen continued to laugh. "Bastard..."
Zolgen then looked at Tesla after calming down. "Heed me servant! Destroy our enemies and create havoc on this city!"
Staying initially silent, Tesla didn't even gave the effort to stare at his 'master'. "No."
"...What?" Zolgen thought he had heard it wrong.
"I refuse your orders. Simple as that." Tesla stared at him.
Shocked, Zolgan closed his fist with the Command Seals in anger. "What do you mean by that?!"
"You said your objective was to destroy mankind, right? Then I wont be helping you." Tesla responded coldly.
"Grrr, I am your master moron!" Zolgen shouted rageful at the inventor. "You are my servant! I summoned you! By logic you have to obey me! It's the contrac-aaarhgr!"
Tesla shuted Zolgen up by sending a thread of lightening from his finger at the mage, electryfing him.
"Did he...just attacked his own master?" Mordred said in surprise and confusion alongside the rest of the party.
"Silence already! Did you not listen imbecile mage?" Tesla scolded Zolgen. "I told you I am not helping you destroy humanity! I gave it all of my best! I make it prosper into a new age! My whole life and inventions were for its greater good! I will never destroy something that I deeply cared about!"
"Tesla is rebelling against Zolgen." Peko speaked, seeing the servant refusing fervently his master's order.
"W-Why...you..." Zolgan, gravely wounded, tried to get up on his feet as he cursed Tesla on the inside. "This has to be the work of his Independent Action!" "T-Tesla you fool...if you kill me you won't stay in this Singularity for too long..!" Zolgen told him, raising his Command Seals. "Now...by my Command Seal I-"
But once again, Tesla shutted the mage. This time for good as the servant fired an electric beam, vaporizing Zolgen from existence, getting everyon speechless at seeing that.
"He killed his own master..." Romani speaked in astonishment.
"That was...good?" Nala replied, also not knowing how to properly react to this.
Tesla meanwhile ended up sighing. "I'm sorry you had to see this. Apologies, people of the future!" The inventor told them.
"Does this means we're good?" Ritsuka asked him, wanting to know what position Tesla would take in all of this.
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"We certainly are." Tesla smiled at Ritsuka. "Now, how can I help you?"
Ritsuka smiled back. "Thank you for saying that!
"Welcome to the team!" Nala added.
"Uff! I feel like we dodged a bullet!" Hans sighed in relief.
Tesla then noticed Faust getting back up from the thunder it had suffered. "I reckon that monster is the thing that is trying to kill you, am I correct?"
"Yes! We need to defeat him in and destroy that thing behind you if we want to save London!" Peko explained.
"Will you help us Tesla-san?" Mash asked him politely.
"But is that even a question? When humanity is in danger I will always lend my aid!" Tesla proclaimed, starting to charge up his mechanical arm.
"Alright! Let's do this then!" Mordred exclaimed, heading torwards Faust.
The monster raised his arms and crushed them on the ground, trying to smash the knight who dodged away from the attack.
Tesla then fired electricity from his hand at Faust, forcing him to retreat against the wall before being strucked by a thunder on the shoulder.
Peko took the chance to fire at the other shoulder, blasting the arm off from the rest of the body. Nala then completed the combined attack by slashing Faust on the chest, forcing the monster's back to hit the wall.
"We are managing to contain him!" Ritsuka told, seeing the others doing a good work against Faust. "Keep like that!"
Unfortunately, he was speaking too soon. Against the adversities, Faust fought it off by exposing the dark holes in his entire torso to the enemies, starting to fire lasers from it.
"Watch out!" Mash said as she protected Ritsuka from a projectile while everyone else did the same by either dodging or blocking.
Faust then started to attack wildly. His monstrous body moving like an animal by waving his arms and legs violently at anywhere, having no definitive aim, like a mindless beast. He would shift between walking or crawling in the middle of his attacks, making him unpredictable to the party who was trying to avoid the monster's uncontrolled hits.
"What a savage! Not he only looks like a monster, he also attacks and acts like one!" Shakespeare commented as he used his books to give more supportive spells to his allies.
Faust then stopped his wild movement to charge a fire inside the mouths of the three skulls before all of it into the ground beneath him, starting to cover the ground with dark flames.
"How will we evade this one?" Peko questioned, seeing the flames quickly taking all of the ground of the cavern, and about to reach them.
"A brilliant mind always finds a solution boy!" Tesla responded, summoning an electric current with a snap of his fingers. "Hop on!" He told to the party who were all fast to jump to the electric current which showed to be harmless to them before guiding the group to the top of the hill, avoiding being caught by the flames.
"Well played!" Nala told to the inventor before going to shift her attention back to Faust who was back again to flying, circuling the hill while charging up the holes on his back to fire more projectiles and dark thorns at them.
"Get ready to dodge again!" Hans said as Faust released a wave of attacks to the party. Some of the projectiles ended up hitting Angrboda, damaging it.
"Faust is also hitting on the machine! That might be helpful!" Nala said.
"Sure! We won't have to destroy it later if he's already doing that unintentionally!" Mash replied.
"Boy!" Tesla called Peko out. "Aim to one of his wings and shot it while I'll shot the other at the same time! Understood?"
"Hum?! Y-Yeah!" Peko responded, not expecting the inventor to have come with a plan so fast and including him in that.
Timing their attacks, both Peko and Tesla successfuly hit the two pigeon wings of Faust, with Tesla even managing to blast one of the three raven skulls.
Feeling stunned after such attack, Faust let out a screech as it came crashing down without his wings to fly, about to fall on top of the party, more specifically Ritsuka.
"Get out of there Ritsuka!" Peko told him as Faust's demonic body crashed and slided on the ground of the hill.
"Aah!" Ritsuka ended up being catched by the slide of the monster, attempting to grab the horn of one of the two remaining skulls but failling, ending up to hold on to the feathers of the wings that had just been restored as Faust begun to get up and was about to fly upwards again.
"Master!" Mash exclaimed, seeing him in trouble.
"His about to fly away with Ritsuka!" Nala shouted.
"No he ain't!" Mordred replied, sprinting and jumping to the other wing as Faust took off and flew into the ceilling, crashing through it.
"Ghgnghr!" Ritsuka and Mordred were both doing their best to continue grabbed to the feathers while Faust pierced through the layers of earth and ground, eventually popping out to the surface and heading torwards the top of the clock tower.
"We're outside!" Ritsuka exclaimed to the knight as he saw the ground getting more and more distant away from them.
"If you ain't gonna stop this, then I'll force you to!" Mordred yelled at Faust as she pierced her sword into one of his wings as well as attacking his back, provoking huge pain on the monster who begun to fly out of control and collided with the top of the tower, making Ritsuka and Mordred fall right on the edge alongside some debris.
Coughing, Ritsuka opened his eyes to see Mordred stuck under some rubble. "Mordred! Are you fine?" He immediatly went next to her in aid.
"Definetly! I'll get out of this in no time flat!" Mordred responded as Ritsuka begun to help her in taking the debris off.
However, Faust descended quickly to where the two were, screeching at both.
"Crap!" Ritsuka, with an instictive reflex, put his arms and body in front of Mordred, willing to protect her as Faust waved his arm, ready to slam it on Ritsuka.
Yet, the monster stop right before he could do it.
"Hm?" Ritsuka watched it confuse as the arm started trembling and Faust retreated it back. "Faust?"
Looking unwilling to do it or fighting against something inside his own body, Faust begun to bash his own skull heads on the ground, trying to surpress the urge that was making him to act mindlessly and kill Ritsuka. As if there was still a shred of sanity left in there.
"R...Rit..tsuka...k...k...ill...m...me..."
The grunting noises of the monster was almost perceptible to Ritsuka's ears who stared at him in shock as Faust continue to self-harm himself in attempts to prevent the master of humanity from being killed.
Unfortunately, it couldn't last much longer as Faust went back to lose control of this demonic monster, who was about to attack Ritsuka with the beak of his raven skull.
"Step away!" Mordred came in, pushing Ritsuka to the back, saving him from being hit and then slashing Faust near his skulls, forcing the monster to retreat some steps back.
"Master! Mordred!" The voice of Mash sounded as she and the party appear next to the tower's top, standing on top of Tesla's electic current that helped them travel there.
"Guys!" Ritsuka replied before bumping with his foot on a fallen lightning rod that belonged to the tower. "A lightning rod?"
"Pionner of the Stars!"
Putting his mechanical arm in the air, Tesla concentrated a huge number of storm clouds thorugh his electromagnetism. "Quick master of Chaldea! Use it on the monster!" He ordered to Ritsuka who realized the intent of the inventor's plan.
"Sure!" Ritsuka replied grabbing it.
Faust was quick to act, lauching himself torwards Ritsuka, attempting to stop him from using it.
Nala however had anticipated to that.
"Precise Stroke!"
She released a huge slash from her sword, cutting Faust's body horizontally in half. "Do it now Ritsuka!"
Having been given an opening and chance, Ritsuka sprinted torwards Faust alongside Mordred, with the knight piercing her sword in one of the two skulls while Ritsuka used the other to jump on Faust's back, stinging it with the lightening rod, much to the monster's pain and screeches, now struggling to get Ritsuka off his back.
Having finished to charge all of his arm, Tesla was about to attack. "Now get out from there! Jump!" He told to Ritsuka and Mordred.
The master of humanity let go of his grip on the lightning rod after hearing that, sliding down on Faust's back and being catched by Mordred.
"Taste this, you foul creature!" Tesla yelled, commanding the thunderstorm clouds to release a gigantic thunder to strike Faust from above as Mordred jumped with Ritsuka on her arms off the ledge.
All of the light, the electricity and power begun to affect Faust's body greatly, being lightened up from the inside out with huge agonizing screams as the shadows slowly begun to burn away. It ended up in a huge explosion, with the impact hitting Ritsuka and Mordred on the back.
It was so powerful that it had knocked Ritsuka out, with his last vision being of about to fall into his Chaldea's team arms.
"Master!"
"Ritsuka!"
"Ritsuka!"
"..Mngmh...Nghn..." Slowly opening his eyes, Ritsuka was greeted by the faces of Mash, Peko and Nala staring back at him. It seemed they were now inside of the cave again.
"Thank goodness. Your blackout didn't lasted for too long master." Mash said with a smile before helping Ritsuka get back on his feet with the aid of Peko and Nala.
"So...we won?" Ritsuka asked them.
"Hell yeah, we sure won!" Nala told him with joy.
"And what about Angrboda?" Ritsuka made another question.
"Destroyed." Peko told him, showing Ritsuka the machine in front of them that was now all broken apart. "After that Tesla attack, a lot of things fell down here, including Faust himself, which ended up crashing Angrboda."
With that information, Ritsuka then looked to the side, seeing both Hans and Shakespeare healing Mordred while Tesla stood by watching.
"I told you to not move dammit!" Hans scolded Mordred as he worked on healing her back.
"You're the one who can't stay quiet for a sec!" Mordred replied back at him.
"Then how else do you want me to do my job?" Hans protested.
"With patience and cool head dear friend. Those are virtues of a writer." Shakespeare happily advised Hans.
"As if I needed councils from you!" Hans responded him.
"Thank you for all the help guys! We couldn't have done it without you!" Ritsuka told to the servants.
"Yeah, right. How about you grab the grail so that we can celebrate later?" Mordred told him with a smirk. "I think this is the first time in years I really wish to just lay down and rest."
"You were also a great help Tesla-san. I can't imagine on how things could have gone differently if we had to end up fighting you instead." Mash showed her gratefulness for the great inventor's aid.
"Oh please, I was just feeling it was my duty to prevent the collapse of the mankind which I worked so hard to contribute for. That was the fatal mistake of the mage who thought I would commit such crime against my own species. I shall never be a destroyer but a creator!" Tesla told her.
"You speaked like a great man now." Peko talked to him, liking how Tesla's affection for humanity was the reason the servant refused to obey Zolgen's orders and decimate him.
"Of course! Great men always have great words. That's another gift of geniuses like me." Tesla responded with a shine on his face and a smug.
"Actually, I think he might be a bit of a cocky person now that I see it better." Peko said to himself, reeavaluating Tesla's personality.
"Well, you sure handled the enemy pretty good with those attacks of yours." Nala told him as Fou appeard on top of her head.
"Fu, fou!"
"I merely showed that monster what a human can do when he surpasses his limits and is at the top of his game. Nothing much." Tesla said proudly before slowly having a sad frown on his face. "But..."
"Hm?"
"Hm?"
"Hm?"
"I felt kinda awful for having done that damage to the creature poor pigeon wings." Tesla said, truly saddened.
"Okay, that was just weird to say." Nala looked at the inventor with an awkward face.
"Perhaps he is more of a strange man than a great man after all." Peko also stared at Tesla with the same expression.
"Ah yes, that whole stuff about Nikola Tesla loving a pigeon..." Mash remembered it, thinking how bizarre it was for her when learning about that fact for the first time.
Nala then saw Ritsuka standing in front of Angrboda, silent. "Ritsuka?"
Not responding, Ritsuka gazed at the broken machine for two more seconds or three before walking torwards it. He had just made two steps when he felt his foot stepping over something. Putting his show away, Ritsuka saw a fragment of a broken alchemy necklace on the ground. The master of humanity crouched down and picked it up, staring at it. "Is Faust..."
"Yes, master. Faust is gone." Mash sadly told him, unhappy that they had to kill a former ally who had become a mindless beast in his last moments, wishing that they could have somehow prevented that from happening.
"I hope that he is at peace now." Peko speaked, also sorrowful. "Far from what was disturbing him all this long."
"At least he is no longer suffering. No one should have a life like that." Nala added, showing her condolences as well.
Yeah...at least that." Ritsuka replied, closing the hand he had the broken necklace on into a fist. "You were never a bad person, Faust."
"Heh...I'm sure he his happy that we defeated him. He always had a strange way to express himself." Mordred told them, not wanting the group to be left down by the alchemist's death.
"We need to know what happened to make Faust turn into that thing." Romani appeard on his hologram. "The readings and the way his Spirit Core was corrupted. It had to be work of something malevolous in nature. It had completely overlaped the original Saint Graph of Faust and molded into something demonic."
"It definetly wasn't something Faust himself could be capable of doing." Mash told to Romani.
"Certainly not. The nature of his sudden transformation is suspicious. Me and Leonardo will have to try and decipher the readings even if they look unreadable here at Chaldea." Romani said before smilling at the group. "Meanwhile, take the grail from Angrboda and use this as an opportunity to say farewell to our allies before this Singularity starts to fix itself."
Peko nodded. "Sure thing."
"And with that, it's already four! Another day at work as a Chaldea member!" Nala said joyfully, looking forward to go back to the Chaldea base after another mission concluded.
"Heh, I admit its becoming a routine already. Each Singularity resolved, is a step closer to humanity's salvation." Mash responded, also showing an happy smile on her face.
"Thinking about it, what is the prize we get for saving humanity at the end? Like, there has to be a reward for such mission right?" Ritsuka asked to Romani, wondering about that aspect.
"Apart from getting to continue to live? Hummm...Well..Erm...It's...It's a..." Romani stumbled on his words as he scratched his head.
"You really never gave thought to it, did you doc?" Ritsuka questioned him, staring at Romani with a dissapointed glare.
"I-it's not that! It...It's a surprise! Yes! A surprise! You will only get to see when you complete the entire ordeal!" Romani exclaimed, finding an excuse to bought him time.
"We will surely be waiting for it when we clear the remaining Singularities then." Peko joked a bit, with the rest of the team laughing as well.
"Yeah, yeah guys. Pretty funny." Romani replied. "Anwyays go and grab the grail. We WIll sTart...PrepaRiNg...tHe...Ray...Shift..."
The transmission of Romani with the team begun to fail and get ecstatic before ending up falling out.
"Hello? Doctor? Do you copy? Doctor!" Mash tried to establish contact with him again, failing.
"Why did it got cut off?" Peko asked, not understanding why the transmission fell all of a sudden.
"Could it be because we are in an underground cave or something?" Nala pondered.
"No, that can't be it." Ritsuka told her. "The transmission had shown to work pretty well in areas beneath the soil already. It has to be something el-"
"Ah, I see you already took care of the problem."
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A sudden sharp fear struck all of their hearts in that moment as chills run through their nerves and goosebumps on their skins. A sinister aura had arrived.
"What...was that voice?" Ritsuka asked, paralyzed in fear much like the rest of his team, as if they had seen a ghost.
"T-This mana...I..." Peko stuttered as a drop of sweat run from his face and his heart begun to beat faster.
"I...I can feel it too." Nala speaked, her eyes and hands trembling with trepidation. "M-My hands! They won't stop from trembling!"
"Is it...another enemy?" Mash tried to move her head to look where the voice was coming from despite of the fear she was feeling.
Even the servants more at the back wer e having the same sensation as the Chaldeans.
"D-Dammit! What the hell is this?" Mordred was with her hand close to the chest.
"Something...that makes even immortals feel like mortals..." Shakespeare commented, his legs shakening.
"Yes. This presence. Is unusual." Tesla told, his mind feeling up with certain apprehension.
"It's as if...we stumbled upon something cursed. A thing that wasn't meant for our presence." Hans said, trying to not fall to the ground from the sheer dread he was feeling.
"Alas, it seems you have completed another one of my trials."
"F-Fou...!" Even Fou had hidden behind Mash.
Feeling the paralyzation slightly wearing out, Ritsuka gathered enough courage to look behind him and witness the presence that was frightening them. "W-Who...are you..?"
Right in front of the destroyed Angrboda, there stood a single figure. Imposing, threatening, fearful, menacing. Having appeard in method simillar of a Rayshift. Only a 'man' and his mere existence in that cave. Yet, it was a clear danger to Chaldea and everyone else. The most fear they had experienced until now.
He had a tanned skin with black tribal tattoos encompassing all over his arms as well some rings around them. A long white hair which a part of it was tied into a side ponytail by what seemed a red collar. His vests and clothing were ancient but of a royal, having a white, black and red pattern with some traces of gold. A big white and red cape covering his back which would then end in tatters who would lift up and glow into a celestial red. The man's eyes were completely dark, the only glow from it being the looming red iris that made anyone shiver from looking at it. He also had two black lines coming out from each corner of his mouth.
This man, was everything but ordinary. His appearence was of a great concern.
"Quiver in frailty, lowly humans. For you are in the omniscient attendance of the Great King of Magecraft, Solomon."
To be continued...
And that was it for chapter 69!
And oh boy, we reach in that moment, like when I was playing the game for the first time, I felt the moment when 'Solomon' appeard for the first time, is when the devs and producers of FGO started to think 'Oh yeah, we can't just expect our game to thrive solely on pretty waifus jpeg. We also need to have a good story'. So for me London's ending is when things begin to be taken more seriously and the stakes get higher. And we finally reached to that point of the story here.
Faust is down, reaching to the end of his participation. Once again, I hope I was able to present this OC character/servant of mine in an enjoyable way to you and that it was capable of being up to the task of having served his role well in this version of London's story. And his end was as simillar as his tale: tragic.
We also got more time focused on the figure and have glimpses of its plans and ideologies with this chapter. Is it speaking all in truth or is it just a full bananas dialogue? More on that later.
Also, the last servant of this Singularity appears which is Tesla. And here he is taking no 'destroying humanity' nonsense. Like, he is an inventor who's creations always helped society, and the dude is quite proud when it comes to that. So here, instead of going crazy and trying to destroy London, my man Tesla decides to get based and help Chaldea instead on the fight that occured.
Last thing, and important one before ending this A/N: Next chapter will be the final one of London! Meaning that this Singularity had a total of...19 chapters! The longest Singularity of this fic so far! It had quite the good run.
And so, that's all I wanted to say, and see you next time on chapter 70 and last one of London! Peace!
P.S:
(Faust is walking on the hallways of Chaldea when he encounters Oberon walking in the opposite direction)
Faust: Oh, hi dad.
Oberon:...What?
(Context Time: The origins of the name 'Faust' can go as back as the Middle Ages, appearing first in a work called Historia Brittonum under the name of Faustus, a character born between the 'love' of Vortigern and his own daughter)
Oberon-Vortigern: WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FU-
