Chapter 238: The First Night, Opening (Published First, Revised Later)

When Lancelot was summoned by Matou Kariya, other Masters in various places in Fuyuki City were also summoning their Servants.

As soon as the Holy Grail War began, the summoning of the Servants was almost completed.

This means that the Holy Grail War has finally begun.

And when the Holy Grail War begins, it also means that Fu Le and Medea’s plan will begin.

No matter how they deal with other Servants, their own tactics have been determined.

That is to plunder other servants.

But plundering servants is not that simple.

First of all, it is the will of the follower himself.

In the UBW line, Medea was unable to make Altria surrender to her after she took ownership of her.

Because this King Arthur strictly abides by the code of chivalry.

So she attaches great importance to loyalty.

This means that even though the contract between her and Shirou Emiya has been terminated, she is still willing to obey Shirou Emiya’s orders.

Just like the relationship between a Master and a Servant.

Generally speaking, the stronger the servant, the better, but this is not always the case.

For example, the character of the servant is also something that needs to be considered.

The most classic ones are the Hero King Gilgamesh and Tōsaka Tokiomi.

Faced with the arrogant Gilgamesh, Tōsaka Tokiomi is willing to serve as his subject in order to maintain the relationship between himself and his servants.

But he also lost his command.

Gilgamesh will not obey orders from others.

So most of the time, Gilgamesh has more say in this pair.

Although Tōsaka Tokiomi has the Command Seals to restrain Gilgamesh, the number of Command Seals is limited.

Gilgamesh’s character cannot stand any “humiliation”.

Once he forced Gilgamesh to do something, even if the two of them remained harmonious, it was just a pretense.

It’s just that Tōsaka Tokiomi hasn’t used up all his Command Seals yet.

Servants all have their own personalities.

They are more than just tools.

When the personalities of the Master and the Servant are extremely incompatible, he must be prepared to use the final stroke of the Command Seal to make his Servant commit suicide.

Because once all the Command Spells are used up, the Masters will no longer have any way to interfere with their Servants.

By then, the arrogant servants are likely to turn against their masters.

Therefore, the character of the Servant is also extremely important.

Like the Hero King Gilgamesh, although he is extremely powerful, no one can summon him with Fule.

He can’t stand seeing others riding on his head and acting as his father.

Since there is a counterexample like Gilgamesh, there is naturally a positive example like Altria.

There is even a more extreme example than Altria, and that is Diarmuid, who descended as a Lancer in this Holy Grail War.

This servant also believes in chivalry.

But for some reason, he did not remain loyal to the king he served during his lifetime, which made him extremely upset and regretful, and it became his obsession.

Generally speaking, the servants who can be summoned by the Holy Grail War are those who have wishes that they want to realize with the help of the Holy Grail.

Servants like those who have no wishes usually will not descend in response to the summons.

For example, Altria’s wish is to use the power of the Holy Grail to go back to the past and change history.

But Diarmuid is different, his only wish is to be loyal to his master.

He didn’t need the Holy Grail.

He was just trying to get the Holy Grail for his Master.

Therefore, even if the ownership of these two people was taken away by using the “Wan Fu Bi Ying Po Jie”, it would be extremely difficult to make them loyal.

Apart from these two knights, the remaining two, Gilgamesh and Iskandar, are also difficult to deal with.

These two have typical kingly personalities.

They all have extremely strong self-esteem.

The same thing happened to Gilgamesh. When Tōsaka Tokiomi forced him to bow his head with the Command Seal, he already had the idea of changing his Master.

And he also has such strength.

There are countless treasures in his royal treasure.

Noble instruments of any effect can be found in his treasure house.

Even a treasure with an effect similar to ‘Wan Fu Bing Ying Po Jie’ exists.

Therefore, he is fully capable of unilaterally terminating the contractual relationship between him and Tōsaka Tokiomi.

But he did not do so, because his self-esteem did not allow him to kill the subjects he had already recognized.

If he is really dissatisfied with his Master, he will kill Tōsaka Tokiomi as soon as he appears.

When he was summoned by the Command Spell, he could actually kill Tōsaka Tokiomi, but he chose to give him a chance.

In this case, his self-esteem would not allow him to do so.

But this did not affect his idea of changing his Master, and he began to instigate the heart of Kotomine Kirei, Tōsaka Tokiomi’s disciple, to train a new Master for himself.

The same is true of the Conqueror King Iskandar.

He also regarded Weber as his own subject.

And is actually cultivating him.

At this time, he might even accept the option of changing the Master.

Besides, King of Conquerors Iskandar always keeps Weber by his side, so it is difficult for him to have the opportunity to use the Ten Thousand Symbols Breaking Rules to attack him.

And if you get too close to Iskandar, there is a high chance that he will pull you into his Noble Phantasm.

So compared to the two knights, these two kings are more difficult to control characters.

Therefore, Fu Le never regarded them as characters that he needed to control, but as characters that he needed to conquer.

As for Assassin?

Fu Le never thought about him.

Whether it was to seize his ownership or to eliminate him, Fu Le didn’t give much thought to his problem.

After all, the only way for Assassin to win is to kill the Master.

In addition, there is intelligence gathering.

These musical instruments are not needed.

So in Fu Le’s opinion, the two knights, Altria and Diarmuid, are worthy of his seizing control.

Although as knights they are very loyal to their masters.

Therefore, if you want to obtain their ownership, you must start with their Master.

Needless to say, after Director Ken was crippled by Emiya Kiritsugu, it was easy to take control of Diarmuid from him.

After all, at that time, in order to protect Director Ken’s life, Diarmuid would probably be willing to do anything.

As for Altria?
Unlike Emiya Shirou, Emiya Kiritsugu and Altria dislike each other.

Altria is a knight who acts uprightly.

And Emiya Kiritsugu is a killer who will do anything to achieve his goal.

The values of the two have always been contradictory.

So although Kiritsugu Emiya is the actual Master of Artoria, compared to Kiritsugu Emiya, the one who is regarded as her Master by Artoria is Kiritsugu Emiya’s wife, Irisviel.

But Irisviel is the destined Holy Grail.

She was bound to die in this Holy Grail War.

By then, using Irisviel’s life as a bargaining chip, it would be easy to gain control of Altria.

What’s more, in the early stage of the Holy Grail War, Fu Le didn’t necessarily want to seize their ownership.

Fu Le can easily create a powerful enemy and then guide other forces to form an alliance.

As long as Gilgamesh is dealt with first, the situation of this Holy Grail War will improve a lot for Fu Le.

Thinking about the many possibilities, Fu Le’s mouth corners slightly raised.

He was enjoying this moment of working hard for victory.

The reason why Fu Le chose Medea was not only because the Caster class was more suitable, but also because he didn’t want the servants he summoned to be too strong.

Apart from anything else, if it was just for victory in the Holy Grail War, Fu Le would never choose Caster. The Caster class is doomed to be difficult to win in the Holy Grail War.

The same class is the Assassin class.

The same is true for Berserker because he has no intelligence.

Therefore, if you want to win, the best classes are still Saber, Archer, Lancer and Rider.

Among them, Saber has the highest chance of winning.

Unlike Caster where it is difficult to select a strong one, there are countless powerful servants of the Classic class.

Apart from anything else, if Fu Le summoned Karna, it would be enough to win.

After all, Karna is as strong as Gilgamesh, and he is more obedient.

He has no other disadvantages except that he consumes a lot of magic power.

However, this shortcoming is not a shortcoming at all for Fu Le, but an advantage instead.

He had enough magic power for Karna to consume.

But Fu Le didn’t do that, because that kind of victory would be too boring.

After all, Fu Le knows the specific information of other servants and the future plot development.

This is already a huge advantage.

With these advantages, even if Fu Le summons Assassin, he can still win by instigating conflicts among other forces and assassinating the Master.

But it’s still the same sentence, that’s so boring.

Fu Le is here for vacation.

He came to enjoy the Holy Grail War.

That’s why he limited his own strength and put many restrictions on his own intelligence, such as not assassinating the Master.

He just wanted to enjoy the authentic Holy Grail War.

Fu Le really likes that state of exhaustion.

The Holy Grail War has begun.

So Fu Le stopped playing with Xiaoying, and today he walked alone on the street.

Today is the first day.

Of course, this first day is not the first day of the Holy Grail War.

It was the first day when the story began in Fu Le’s memory.

Just now, Fu Le met Irisviel and Altria on the road. They were also strolling on the street.

Fu Le, who met the two people, did not step forward to say hello.

He just glanced at the other person a few times, then continued walking forward with a smile.

“Is it finally starting?”

The corners of Fu Le’s mouth rose slightly.

Since the Holy Grail War began, Fu Le sent Medea to Ryuudo Temple.

She was asked to build a magic formation there to confuse others and make other forces mistakenly believe that Caster built the magic formation in Ryudo Temple.

But that’s just a smoke screen.

Medea reported to Fu Le yesterday that several different kinds of familiars appeared outside Liudong Temple.

Obviously, they were spies sent by the masters of other teams.

But Medea ignored these familiars.

As long as there is a magic formation, these familiars will not run in and cause trouble.

For those magicians, they know very well how difficult the magic field is to deal with.

“Yes, is it finally time to start, Master?”

Medea’s voice rang in Fu Le’s ears.

Her figure gradually emerged from the blank space around Fu Le, and then landed lightly on the ground.

“It looks like today is the day when the Holy Grail War truly begins.”

Gazing into the distance, Fu Le smiled at Medea.

The reason why Fu Le and Medea said this suddenly was because in the distance, the aura of a strong man was rising into the sky.

Apparently, near the dock, a strong man was provoking other strong men in the city.

He is issuing a challenge, waiting for someone to accept his challenge.

But this atmosphere has been rising for a while.

But no one has responded yet.

Apparently, no one seemed willing to take the fight.

However, Fu Le knew that Artoria would go to fight next.

From this point on, the Holy Grail War will begin in earnest.

“So are we going to join in the fun?”

“go!”

Without any hesitation, Fu Le immediately took Medea to the dock.

But on the way, Fu Le changed his clothes.

In the early stages of this Holy Grail War, Fu Le did not intend to show up in public.

So Fu Le put on a robe like Medea’s and put on a hood to cover his face.

This way, no one can discover Fu Le’s identity.

Looking at Fu Le’s new look, Medea couldn’t help but smile.

As the first servant to appear in this Holy Grail War, Medea has also received a lot of modern knowledge.

Especially in terms of emotions.

As a famous witch of betrayal in mythology, Medea’s emotions are undoubtedly twisted.

This means that once she meets someone who can trust her and makes her trustworthy, she will pour all her emotions into the other person.

Just like when she met Soichirō Kuzuki during the Fifth Holy Grail War.

And at this moment, she was pouring her emotions into Fu Le.

In Fu Le’s words from her previous life, Medea was a heavy girl.

And it also has some yandere attributes.

Now that she saw herself and Fu Le wearing ‘couple outfits’, her mood naturally brightened up.

Fu Le and Medea soon arrived near the dock.

But they didn’t come closer.

The two found a secluded corner, and then Medea raised a curtain of water in front of them.

A moment later, a warrior appeared in the water curtain.

“Oh, this is Lancer?”

Medea guessed.

The two spears carried by Diarmuid were too conspicuous.

But we can’t be sure that he is Lancer, after all, there is also a class called Rider.

Although they are cavalry, they also have times when they engage in close combat.

For example, Medusa, for example, Achilles.

“coming!”

Fu Le suddenly said.

Upon hearing this, Medea looked into the water curtain.

I saw two figures slowly walking towards Diarmuid.

The people who came were none other than Artoria and Einspheir.

“Are there finally warriors willing to come and fight?”

Medea laughed.

At the same time, her eyes lit up when she saw Altria.

Medea really likes Altria.

It is still the same now.

(End of this chapter)