You are very strong, but my painting style is better than yours!

But this seemed to have angered the hounds. There were rustling sounds in the darkness, and spiders the size of medium-sized dogs fell from the ceiling. One of them almost covered the girl, but was shot through by the bird familiar at the critical moment.

"This is... dangerous."

The girl endured the burning pain in her body, as if her nerves were being roasted on an iron plate, making her face pale and covered in sweat.

Her alchemy skills are excellent, and her magic circuits are top-notch, but her body is too fragile. Once she uses magic that exceeds her limits, it will gradually collapse... If this continues, she will be exhausted to death by her enemies.

But she must not die here!

After so much effort... the family finally waited for sixty years, and the Holy Grail finally began to work again. A new trial has arrived. This is the last chance to fulfill the destiny of the generations!

As an artificial human, she was created just for this day!

"Open the door!"

The shield magic turned into a circular shield to resist the invasion of spiders, and the girl opened the suitcase. The outer shell automatically deformed, and after a while of stretching, it stuck tightly to the ground. The inside showed red lines, forming a complex magic circle.

The holy relic has also been prepared long ago. It is the scale of the strongest fantasy species. Although it is highly random, those related to "dragon" are generally powerful servants!

"Declare—Ah!"

hum!

Just as if flames exploded from within her body, the magic circuits forcibly extracted a large amount of magic power from her frail body, like using a hydraulic press to crush her flesh and blood, causing the girl's eyes to bleed, her skin to crack, and her nerves to burn. Before she could utter a few words, she could hardly see with her right eye.

But keep going!

"My destiny—"

Bang!

The powerful wind pressure and heat exploded the familiar, interrupting the girl's chanting. Her body flew out like a puppet with its strings cut, and fell dejectedly on the cold ground.

……it's over.

The enemy is a veteran, perhaps having participated in the Subspecies Holy Grail War, and recognized the summoning ritual and took action in time to stop it... The silver-haired girl closed her eyes unwillingly.

The hissing sound gradually approached, and the ferocious demonic spider stretched out its fangs towards her——

hum! ! !

Suddenly, a strong white light was released from the magic circle. The arthropods that were accustomed to the darkness struggled frantically as if they were doused with hot oil, and quickly retreated into the darkness. The hidden "hounds" also sounded alarm bells.

Oh no! The summoning ritual actually started on its own!

But it was too late to escape at this time. The next moment, the world turned upside down. The ground seemed to be covered with a thin layer of ice, reflecting all the truth as clear as a mirror. The darkness was swept away, and the hounds hidden in the magic had nowhere to hide.

Zheng!

The short sound of a sword rang out, and the surroundings fell into silence...

Then a mysterious figure tiptoed and landed lightly on the ground.

"Let me ask you, are you my master?"

"……Yes."

The girl managed to raise her upper body and used her left eye, which had good vision, to see the boy in front of her. Her magic circuits also felt as if they were connected to another being.

A delicate and beautiful face, wearing a loose black kimono... Is she an East Asian Servant?

At the same time, the boy was also looking at his Master:

Although she had many wounds on her body, her features were covered by blood, and her elegant white dress was torn, her original beauty could still be seen.

"My name is Sera von Einzbern...I am your Master!"

"The contract is established~

Servant Berserker, Aizen Iori, rushes from the wheel of suppression to protect you!"

Volume 2: Death Comes to the Holy Grail War: Free: FA World Basic Background

I want to educate people who don't know about it, but I also want to make sure that people don't think it's a joke, so I'm going to write a free chapter to introduce the basic settings of FA:

(There is no need to explain the definition of "Holy Grail War"...)

Sixty years ago, during World War II, the Third Holy Grail War was held in Fuyuki City, but as we all know, it cannot be called a true Holy Grail War without accidents.

So when the winner was about to be decided, one of the contestants, "Danic Preston Yugdomrenia (Thousand Worlds Tree)", accidentally discovered the hidden Holy Grail.

Then he made a very "genius" decision:

Instead of trying to grab the Lesser Holy Grail that was the prize for the winner, they took away the Greater Holy Grail that supported the entire competition system!

The Greater Holy Grail is the foundation for the Holy Grail War. It is responsible for storing magic power and supplying magic to the Servants (the Master's supply of magic is only a small part). The "wishing machine" that finally appears is essentially the vast amount of pure magic power inside the Greater Holy Grail.

Stealing the Holy Grail is probably like a monkey entering Tushita Palace, but instead of stealing the elixir, he stole the elixir furnace...

At the time, he did this very secretly, and all the people involved were silenced, so no one knew that he hid the Holy Grail in his hometown of Romania.

In the following sixty years, Danic secretly gathered the descendants of various magic families to expand his power, preparing to use the Greater Holy Grail and Heroic Summoning as his trump cards to split from the Magic Association and work on his own, thus competing with the Clock Tower.

However, the conspiracy was exposed, and the Magic Association naturally could not tolerate anyone challenging its authority, so they sent assassins to sneak into Romania and tamper with the Holy Grail, and thus the Fourth Holy Grail War began.

This time the Holy Grail War is not a seven-person chicken-eating competition, but has become a tit-for-tat confrontation between two major forces: Danic's "Thousand World Tree" family and the Magic Association of the London Clock Tower!

Each side has seven Masters quota, which means that there will be two camps, red and black, with a total of fourteen sets of masters and servants participating in the battle!

Not to mention how the Qianjieshu family will absorb the Master quota internally, the Magic Association has put a lot of effort into recruiting Masters. They are basically well-known elites in the circle, or mercenaries recruited from outside (similar to Kiritsugu).

The Magic Association's status has been challenged, so naturally they have to go all out to establish their authority. Therefore, they have prepared the best relics and are waiting for a crushing victory to declare their authority!

But on the other hand, Danic was not afraid because the Holy Grail was in the basement of his house, which meant that the trophy was already in his hands before the game even started.

In addition, he had more time to prepare than the Magic Association and found a servant who was almost invincible in Romania as a trump card in advance, namely Vlad III.

Volume 96: The Grim Reaper Comes to the Holy Grail War: Chapter : I Don’t Want to Make Up for My Magic!

Who understands? My family members are in such a bad state!

Iori had imagined what kind of Master he would be summoned by, but he never expected to encounter the Einzbern family, which had declined to the point of near extinction!

If it is the world line of the original FATE, Aijia is a good partner. It is one of the three major families and can exploit system loopholes. It also has sufficient financial resources and can make various preparations in advance.

Moreover, home-loving female masters are generally very beautiful, with silver hair and red eyes that perfectly hit the preferences of a certain group, whether it is an innocent one-year-old wife, a dark and arrogant legal loli, or a mouthless, big-breasted and cute girl... all kinds of attributes are available.

Ahem! Of course, this is secondary. Iori is here to fight in the Holy Grail War, not for a blind date. He doesn't care about the Master's appearance at all!

However, in this "FA (Apocrypha)" world line, the course of the Holy Grail War was greatly changed, and the fate of Aijia also changed a lot:

The current Einzbern has almost been removed from the mysterious side!

Danic had stolen the Holy Grail in the beginning, but this thing was built with the magic circuit of the Holy Maiden of Winter as the core, and with the Jewel Master as a witness, after a series of complex magic rituals.

Its level of sophistication has far exceeded the comprehension of ordinary magicians, and is basically equivalent to a particle collider in the physics world. Although Danic is also an academic giant, if he wants to study this thing on his own... Sorry, there's nothing I can do.

In order to obtain the original data, he chose to take action against Einzbern, the main builder of the Holy Grail.

The Einzberns are a family of very traditional magicians, the kind that focus on academics but are not good at practical combat, and their frontal combat capabilities are average.

In addition, Danic was in Germany at the time and relied on a small and powerful organization in the local area - Nacui. With strong manpower and material resources, Danic easily flattened Einzbern and stole a large amount of information and methods of cultivating artificial humans.

After the destruction of his homeland, Einzbern lost most of his financial resources and could only flee with a few precious items.

Over the next sixty years, the last descendants of Einzbern tried again and again to restart the Holy Grail War and fulfill the family's destiny. They even wanted to create another Winter Saint and the Greater Holy Grail, but that huge gamble that involved a huge amount of resources ended in complete failure.

After all the hardships, the artificial people who inherited the Einzbern have lost most of their bargaining chips and even their value in the eyes of the Magic Association.

Sera von Einzbern is one of the several artificial humans created by this family using the last resources. Her mission is to wait until the day when the "Fourth Holy Grail War" begins, and then win as a Master!

In order to complete this mission, companions sacrificed themselves one after another, and in the end only Sera's fire remained.

She was chosen because her magic circuits are the best among everyone, and her brain has enough performance to store the inherited knowledge of the Ai family.

Being weak physically is a big problem, and Sera's emotions are too rich for an android... But the Einzbern in this world line doesn't have enough resources to create an android as perfect as "Irisviel".

Even this participation in the war was extremely unexpected:

Although she came to the Magic Association to fight for the position of Master, her hope was actually slim. Even the three major families including Einzbern had little hope.

According to normal development, she would have been targeted by some hound-like magicians because of the holy relic she was carrying, and then died in a London subway station, and the Einzbern family would have disappeared from the world of magic.

But Iori's arrival changed her fate...

"What should I do with you?"

In a suite in a hotel in London, Iori changed into a well-fitting black suit, stood by the window with a glass of red wine, and turned around to look at the silver-haired girl lying on the bed.

——The items mentioned above were all "taken" by Iori from the store for free. This certainly cannot be considered stealing. After all, when he took them openly, no one came to stop him.

"Your sleeping face is quite cute."

Sera managed to treat her injuries, at least making herself look fine on the surface, then went to the city and checked into a room to live in. Then she collapsed due to exhaustion, and it was even Iori who carried her to the bed.

This tall and well-proportioned silver-haired girl put on an English-style lady's cloak to cover the bloodstains on her body. She had a fair and delicate face and her eyes were closed, like a sleeping beauty waiting for the kiss of true love.

But Iori knew that beneath that seemingly neat disguise was a body that was collapsing.

What is referred to here is not the skin, muscles, internal organs and the like, but the magic circuit that is unique to the magician, and the nervous system that temporarily serves as an auxiliary circuit.

The magic circuits of androids are generally excellent, and Sera's are particularly outstanding, but the bodies that match them are too fragile.

The Einzbern family has passed down the knowledge to the present day, and almost all of it has been engraved in Sera's circuits and brain. Starting it is like an ordinary car burning aviation fuel - as long as it doesn't explode, it's lucky if it falls apart.

This time, Sera used magic at an overclocked frequency, and her body has suffered great trauma, and it is an irreversible trauma. As a cyborg, her lifespan has begun to count down.

"I finally got to participate in the Holy Grail War, but my Master is a porcelain doll that breaks at the slightest touch."

Iori said to himself, "Why not just finish this and find another Master?"

"..."

"Ah!"

The black-haired boy put the wine glass on the high stool and walked slowly to the bedside: "I know you woke up a long time ago, are you so shy that you don't want to see anyone? My master~"

"…I'm just judging whether I'm safe."

Sera slowly opened her left eye, straightened up and leaned against the head of the bed, looking at Iori cautiously and carefully, and intentionally or unintentionally hid her right hand - strictly speaking, the three Command Seals on her right hand - to the side at an angle where Iori could not see.

"For a Berserker, you are surprisingly rational."

"That's because you're surprised by what you've seen. When there are more and more strange servants, maybe irrational berserkers will become even rarer."

Iori noticed Sera's little move and smiled, and said calmly: "Don't worry, although I am not a 'partner of justice', I am definitely not a traitor. Since we have made a contract, I will protect my master until you achieve the final victory."

"That would be best," Sera said sternly, "I will also abide by the contract... Tell me, Berserker, what is your wish for the Holy Grail to fulfill?"

"My body." Iori said frankly, "I want to live in this world in another form of life."

"Is that so... This isn't such a difficult wish. With the power of the Holy Grail, it's very easy to make a heroic spirit take on flesh. It doesn't even require a single wish."

Sera breathed a sigh of relief: "I promise you that your wish will be fulfilled when the time comes."

"Then, in order to improve our rapport, I'll confirm this:

Master, what is your wish?

"Relief for all mankind!"

Sera did not hesitate. This was the meaning of her existence as a cyborg. After hundreds of years of inheritance, the Einzbern's long-cherished wish had long since become something like a curse. Even if she was the only one left, she had to fulfill it.

"What a grand goal~" Iori smiled, "A Greater Holy Grail alone may not be enough... but that has nothing to do with me. I just need to win."

"Berserker, from now on I—"

"I will decide the future course of action."

Iori looked at Sera, his pair of black eyes were deep and mysterious, full of convincing courage.

"Unless you are confident that you know how to fight better than me!"

“This… the Holy Grail War cannot be won by brute force alone.” Sera was worried that Iori underestimated the cruelty of the Holy Grail War, so she quickly explained, “You must also know how to gather intelligence, win over allies, and formulate strategies—”

"Are you good at these things?"

"..." Sera suddenly stopped talking.

Are you kidding? If Einzbern was good at these things, how could they have fallen to this point?

"Then you have to leave it to me. You are responsible for providing me with magic, using support magic, and being careful not to be killed by the opponent's master."

Iori said earnestly: "Protecting yourself is the greatest help to me."

"……I see."