3rd Pov
Waver fainted after the brief counter with Hephastion. He was brought by Gray and Claues to the compartment to rest. Gray looked at him worriedly, Claues gave her a reassuring smile and said," Don't worry about it much, he will be fine", she nodded and relaxed hearing that. " Well I guess he is a failure in dying as well", Olga who was sleeping on the nearby bed said as she stood up.
Then they had a small talk meanwhile in the Locomotive room, the conductor glanced in the front with disbelief, he quickly sounded the horn, making Leandra standing near him ask," Sir Rodin is something the matter?", he nodded and replied," There is an anomaly in the train's path ahead, it might be hard to believe but someone meddled with train's track, and now the train is heading to the Child of Einnashe".
She gasped hearing that and quickly asked him," Can you slow the train down?", he shook his head and replied," The output won't go down", in the end, there was a single thing for him to do. He quickly used brakes, creating a shock that shook all the apartments and the train started slowing down but in the end, it still entered the Child of Einnashe.
Olga, Claues, and Gray who had their chat stopped by a sudden shock, regained their balance after the train stopped and heard the announcement from the Rodin," Attention, we have an announcement to make, we regret to inform you all that this train has entered in the child of Einnashe".
"What the hell?", Olga cursed completely dissatisfied with the train conductor. She glanced outside to see it snowing heavily," Where are we?", asked Gray confused, Olga sighed and explained to her how Child of Einnashe is an offspring of the Forest of Einnashe one of the twenty-seven mythical Dead Apostles. Meanwhile, some mages came outside with the intent to burn a part of the forest so they can help the train zeppelin return back, but in the end, they were killed by the living forest.
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3rd Pov
"Let the auction begin!", said Leandra in a loud voice, the excitement of the people couldn't be hidden. The last day was hectic as hell, firstly the train entered the child of Einnashe, then the group of Korabo, newly arrived Melvin the self-proclaimed best friend of Waver, Yvette, and Gray teamed together to free the train. In the end, Gray encountered Hephastion again and had to stall for time against her, which resulted in her separation of her from the group.
Not to mention once the train got freed, she was unable to board, but somehow she showed up hours later. Then Adashino proved that Korabo was behind Trisha's murder, how he committed the murder with the use of his Mystic eyes, when he tried to prove his innocence the deputy chairman of the Train Zeppelin arrived, a superior dead apostle with the capability to extract Mystic eyes.
In the end, she extracted Korabo's mystic eyes as he promised her, and in the end, he was proven guilty and the case ended, or so everyone thought, Waver who was extremely suspicious of Neo had new suspicious about a person other than Neo, and in order to prove Korabo is innocent he had planned for this moment.
He glanced at Neo, and the woman was extremely similar to Saber sitting on his lap, like always she was wearing a mask that hide her face, in fact, he had doubts whether the mysterious wife of Neo was Saber, after all, Hephastion was a servant appeared before the beginning of Holy Grail War so that was a very big possibility.
But that created other problems, not to mention his mind was refusing to accept that the King of Knights can sit on someone's lap like that. He knew Saber from the previous Holy Grail War, so he knew her personality quite well. Still, he decided to leave that for later on and focused on the auction and his plan.
The auction began, and mystic eyes started being auctioned one after another, there were two people buying the Mystic eyes pretty hard, it was none other than Yvette, whose family magecraft was related to the creation of artificial mystic eyes, which made them have quite a wealth, so she went pretty hard on this auction as
always, since the Mystic eyes meant more to her family than
others, and she had been given a pretty big budget from her family
for this year's auction as well.
The other was surprisingly Neo, who brought a few mystic eyes at quite a hefty eyes, though, unlike Yvette's cheerful expression, his face looked as if bored, glancing at the valuable pieces of organic pearls he retained an unamused expression. The others didn't know about it, but Neo was buying Mystic eyes to give to Medea so she can do her experiments, and even if that wasn't the case, he was simply buying them to collect as it didn't even put a dent to his pocket, using Hundreds of Millions of Dollars was nothing to him.
He had cheats called First True Magic and Alaya, so money would be the last thing he would have to worry about after his mastery over First True Magic had improved significantly. He can simply create trillions of Gold, and silver with his EX+ Ranked Mana. Finally, it was time for the last item to be auctioned," Now, comes the last item of today's auction, the Jewel class Mystic Eyes of Transcience".
He glanced at the Mystic eyes of Korabo with amused eyes," The bid stars at thirty million dollars", Leandra said and the betting started.
"40 Million!"
"50 Million!"
"90 Million!"
"130 Million", said Adashino earning a shocked face of Yvette," Are you joking with me?", she asked, Adashino smiled and replied," I am not the type of Joke", she gritted her teeth and quickly raised the bid," 160 Million!", another bid sounded," 190 Million", gasps could be heard as they glanced at Melvin, "230 Million", said Yvette with a smile as if sure no one was going to bid again.
"240 Million", said Adashino crushing her dreams to oblivion, "250 Million!!", shouted Yvette," 280 Million", again said Adashino stunning the pink-haired Lolita," 285 Million!", suddenly Waver said raising his hands, it stunned everyone, " I said 285 Million!", he said looking calm, but his hands were slightly shaking. Leandra smiled and was about to finalize the deal when Neo said," Auctioneer, can we get a break? Things are getting too heated".
Everyone glanced at him confused, he hadn't participated in the bid yet, Leandra nodded not refusing her currently second-best buyer, and agreed to his request. Waver and Melvin sighed in relief. After that, all of them went to their compartments, and Melvin quickly rented some of his valuable possession securing 200 Million Dollars extra for the auction.
"The auction now restarts", Leandra said as the bidding restarted," 290 Million", said Weaver, 410 Million", said Yvette silencing everyone, Adashino glanced at her and gave up," Is anyone wanna go higher?", asked Leandra, Waver's hands trembled as he said, "420 Million!", Yvette quickly raise the bid as well, and in the end the bid reached an astonishing 530 million dollars. Suddenly Waver's purse glowed lightly and he said," Wait a second!".
"We won't allow another break", said Leandra, he said," I want to say something about Miss Trisha's death", Adashino stood up from her chair and asked," What is this? Are you dissatisfied with my deduction?", he replied," Your deduction itself was very accurate but there was a problem with your logic", she said putting her hand on her lips," Oh, then let's hear what the Great detective has to say".
He quickly called out Claues who came with Trisha's head, then started explaining to them the clues, and in the end, he said," That will make him the culprit", everyone became stunned glancing at Claues whose body was surrounded by a ring of purple fog," Professor!", he said with disbelief.
"Well, he really looks like me", said Claues coming from behind with Rennis, everyone glanced at him in disbelief," What does this mean?!", asked Gray, " Isn't that obvious, he is a fake", replied the Claues who had just come now, the fake Claues started laughing and then his disguise wore off revealing a man with long red hair.
"Impressive, I thought my disguise was perfect", he said with an amused smile, not worried at all, Waver replied," It's you who used Korabo's Mystic eyes to kill Trisha and the person who made this train go in the child of Einnashe, Doctor heartless the man who said his heart to be stolen by fairies, someone like you should have no problem to steal something from my vault, isn't that correct."
He smiled and replied," Indeed, everything you said is correct, I am the culprit behind the stealing of your relic, and behind the death of Trisha, and I am also who dragged this train within the child of Einnashe", Waver continued," Your name is doctor heartless, you also committed the murder seven years ago using Korabo's mystic eyes, you also created the fake pseudo-holy grail to summon that fake servant".
He started clapping," Haha, to think you would figure out this much, well sorry but it's time I leave now", Waver hearing him narrowed his eyes and said," Adashino!", she quickly tightened the grip around his body with her artificial snake, but in the end it was futile, Doctor heartless quickly used his command spell to summon Hephastion who freed him from Adashino's grasp and threw her meters away.
"Adashino!", Waver glanced at her worried, then Gray quickly summoned ADD, as he transformed into a Scythe. A wave of mana rushed out of Hephastion, surprising everyone," What the heck is she?", muttered Olga in disbelief as the amount of Mana she possessed was something she had never seen in a mage, even the vice-headmaster of Clock Tower whom she had met once. Gray muttered," She is a servant", she gripped her scythe tighter.
"She is Iskandar's shadow", he said surprising everyone again," But brother that doesn't makes any sense! Didn't you tell me that Iskandar was a red-headed giant, who was over two meters?",
Reines asked him, he nodded and said," Indeed, but in the legends,he had black hair, his height was short, and he passed heteromorphic eyes, like her, Faker is a reflection, she is one who protected Iskandar, she forged his identity, gender, everything".
"Yes, you are right, I am not Hephastion, that's just a name I took for convenience, instead I am his reflection", she said getting in a battle posture, Doctor heartless suddenly said," I know, that you two misses are very eager to settle your score, but I wouldn't like to destroy these beautiful mystic eyes, so conductor, can you open the pandemonium?".
Rodin nodded, and the roof of the train opened, Doctor heartless with Hephastion got quickly on the top of the train, and Waver and Gray followed them, soon a clash between the two begin, while Doctor Heartless chanted a spell, causing a black portal to appear in the sky, Waver gasped and shouted in disbelief," It can't be!", he glanced at the monstrosity coming out of the portal, it had a big mouth in the middle, and had hundreds of wood tentacles.
He smirked and replied," Yes, I have unleashed the Child of Einnashe!", countless wooden tentacles spawned out of the ground, Rodin quickly hit the brakes and the train quickly stopped in its track. Thousands of wooden tentacles spawned and covered the area around the train entrapping it, Waver gritted his teeth glancing at the figure in the sky.
Meanwhile, Hephastion managed to land a hit on Gray throwing her tens of meters away, as she crashed on one wooden tentacle. " Gray!", Waver shouted, Doctor heartless said with a confident smile," You lose, Lord El Melloi II". Suddenly someone else's claps sounded on the roof, Waver looked back to see Neo.
"That was certainly amusing, you got rid of the boredom and made this trip worthwhile", he said, as he walked forward being followed by his wife, they glanced at him surprised, What he wants to do?', waver thought as he glanced at the man, who was quite mysterious and was involved in the Holy Grail War in one way or another, but after determining he isn't the one whole stole his relic, he decided to give up on finding out his identity for now.
"Well, your Faker is certainly impressive, even summoning that Child of Einnashe is a good trick", he said, then glancing at the monstrosity hanging in the sky, he said," Still, your servant is nothing compared to a True servant, Let me show you what a true heroic spirit is like". Their eyes widened hearing that, even others who heard it from inside were surprised.
A torrent of Mana gushed out of Artoria, as she dropped her mask, shocking Waver," I-It can't be", he muttered looking at his nightmare, Artoria's dress quickly changed as she was now claded in black armor, with red stripes, her armor had clothed sleeves reaching her palm. She held a black sword with golden stripes.
"King of Knights!", said Waver, as his face paled remembering his near-death accident. Even the doctor heartless was greatly surprised by such events. Suddenly a huge amount of Mana radiated from her, it was felt through the distance of one Kilometer as Mana as pure as Ether clumps from the Age of Gods ran
through her veins. "This is unexpected, but well I still have a servant", Doctor heartless said as if reassuring himself, he was completely surprised by Mana oozing out of King of Knights," Artoria dear, can you just obliterate that ugly tree? It is ruining the beauty before my eyes", asked Neo gently, she nodded and replied," As you
command, My King".
The next moment her sword started glowing purplish, she held up her sword and said," Excalibur!!!!", a powerful beam of red light shot from her sword hit the monstrosity hanging in the sky through the portal. In even less than one-tenth of a second, it got obliterated the moment the beam touched it.
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3rd Pov
Gray glanced at the figure dumbfounded, the one on top of the train was none other than the King of Knights herself, a legendary figure who held Excalibur and Rhonogomyniad, two divine constructs of the highest level. Not to mention Avalon, the strongest defense artifact capable of defending from Anti-World Noble Phantasms, Divinities, and True Magics.
Ever since her face started morphing into Artoria's, she had gotten some parts of her memories as well. Even despite all that, she hated her face the most which was a copy of Artoria's, and even Waver who didn't like Saber's face, told her to wear a hood, to prevent himself from seeing her face every time, and she obliged agreeing with him.
Now, that legendary figure was standing before her, and her mind was a mess. Her eyes glanced at how the King of Knights, holding her sword tightly swung it towards the Child of Einnashe and released Excalibur, which unlike her memories released a red beam of light, that vaporized one of the strongest things in less than a second.
Ar-toria", a name escaped from her mouth, as she stood gobsmacked." This!! This feeling!!!", said ADD as he trembled in her palms. To be honest, he was created by Morgan Le Fay to keep the Miracle of Rhongomyniad from fading after the end of the age of the Fairies, and she made him based on the personality of Sir Kay, the Knight who liked the Artoria the least of all the Round Table.
Morgan was extremely contradicting in making him, as he is the seal of the weapon of Artoria, to return to her once she is resurrected but his personality makes him like her the least. In fact, if the untransformed King of Knights was in front of him, such a reaction wouldn't have come out of him, as he was made to instinctively dislike Artoria.
But the one before him was the rightful heir of Britain unlike the original, she was who gained the Primeval Energy of Britain just like Morgan, so her control over him was more than one would accept, as Morgan used the Primeval Energy of Britain while creating him, it would be right to say that she can now have absolute commander over him, due to the weapon he is sealing is rightfully Artoria's and his creation involved Primeval Essence of Britain.
Meanwhile Doctor Heartless looked at her stupefied, he couldn't believe that a single attack from the servant standing in front of him was enough to destroy the Child of Einnashe, even if it was just an offspring of the real deal, it still was at least half strong as the original was. Waver Velvet was not in a better position than him, as he was reminded of the horror of the girl standing before him, her visage was as strong as ever, and he gave off a Kingly aura, but this time it was more of a tyrant than a kind-hearted king.
Doctor Heartless aka Kurou, quickly made a judgment within his mind and used his command spell decisively," I order you with my command spell, Faker! Kill that person!", he ordered to her. Hephaestion feeling empowered by the spell summoned her chariot and quickly dashed towards Neo breaking the sound barrier, Kurou had made a quick and efficient judgment to let his servant focus on killing the master instead of the servant as quickly as possible.
From the words of Waver Velvet, the person standing before him was the legendary king of knights no worse than King of Conquerors and it can be said she is the more famous out of the two. Thus, he knew the chances of his servant winning against her even in an unfair fight were extremely slim. In fact, his quick decision and order were really impressive, alas he was against someone stronger than the King of Knights, and Artoria wasn't going to stand like a fool when her king is being attacked.
Using every bit of strength she could muster up in her legs with A rank agility, she aimed at the chariot flying towards her Lord, and with a condensed shot of Excalibur she divided it into two with the intent to kill her, unfortunately for her, Hephaestion narrowly escaped her death, and jumping out of her destroyed chariot, she charged at Neo and used her mystic eyes to stun him.
An octagram appeared in Neo's eyes just before Hephaestion slashed with her short swords at him, he dodged the lethal attacks with ease stunning the Fake Iskandar, who redoubled her effort slashing him with more accuracy and agility, still it proved to be of no use as Neo dodged her attacks with ease again.
Her eyes glanced at Neo's eyes, which had an octagram, it took her no time to understand that it was the effect of his Mystic eyes, clicking her tongue she decided to create distance between them and escape with her master, as winning against them was extremely difficult for them. Neo was immune to her mystic eyes, which was a big surprise for her, and he was able to dodge her attacks, telling her that he wasn't an easy opponent either.
She and Kurou had the same thought in their mind, and that was to escape
Unfortunately for her, the Yandere Knight of Neo was not idle and had already arrived behind her, and without giving her a chance to escape she plunged her sword into Hephaestion's heart.
*Splurrt*
The sound of flesh being sliced sounded, as Saber using her strength moved the plunged sword upwards dividing Hephaestion into two. It was clean and seemed almost effortless and it showed the prowess of the King of Knights, who if not for Hephaestion's chariot would have killed with relative ease. Her body quickly started vanishing as it turned into golden particles.
Kurou was stunned by the outcome and quickly started chanting a spell to create a portal and escape quickly, but his spell failed terribly much to his surprise, he glanced at his enemies, to see King of Knights had appeared before him, and swung her sword slashing through his neck, beheading him and spilling his blood all over the roof.
It was over, the enemies that gave so much problem to Waver and Gray were killed in less than a minute. The shocked Lord El Melloi II still lay on the rooftop, trembling as his nightmares surfaced. He was again shocked by the display of power from Artoria's Excalibur, it was definitely more than the sealed Rhongomyniad that Gray can use.
He gulped down his saliva looking warily at Neo and Artoria, who walked towards him, and then stopping in front of him, she lowered her head and asked with a blush on her face," My King, was that satisfactory?", Waver was unable to see her blushing, and was in shock being unable to predict her facial expression from her behind. Still to see the King of Knights acting like this was surprising, still what happened next changed his worldview.
Neo smiled and patted Artoria's head as if she was a puppy, and said," Indeed it was a satisfactory performance, good girl", she lowered her head as her face became redder with a blush that covered to her tips of ears. She felt happy with his praise and enjoyed his caressing merrily. Gray who had already got on top of the roof, and was able to see the facial expressions of Artoria, was too surprised and shocked greatly.
A blush appeared on her face as well, seeing Artoria acting so girlish compared to her memories of her. Claues, Rennis, and Korabo on the other hand who had come out a while before to help them, were too shocked by the presence of the King of Knights and her unusual behavior. Waver stood up and glancing at Neo, asked " Who are you?", he looked at Neo warily.
Since Neo had Artoria with her, it meant he was one of the seven masters of the True Holy Grail War, which was going to be held soon. This increased his danger level significantly, and as he held control over the King of Knights, it can be said his next actions can decide the life and death of everyone present here.
"Who I am you ask? I am Neo, husband of Artoria", he said as a matter of fact. His reply stunned everyone since his words implied that he was the husband of a heroic spirit, one that was the King of Knights. Neo under their vision, approached Artoria and hugged her waist. She quickly unsummoned her armor to make it more comfortable for him to hug her.
His one hand was over her waist and the other was over her back as he hugged Artoria. who snuaaled on his chest. There was no reluctance in her eyes as she inhaled Neo's scent. Since her face was covered no one saw her doing it, not even Gray. Sweat dripped from Waver's forehead as he looked at Neo, who was hugging Artoria.
A question plagued his mind, and he asked," Is she really King of knights?", Neo glanced at him as if looking at a fool, while his eyes still retained the octagram. Artoria suddenly broke her hug parting with Neo's warmth with reluctance, then she turned towards Waver and summoning her sword, she placed it on the roof, with her hand on the top of the hilt.
"Let me introduce myself, I am Saber class servant, and incarnation of the King of Knights, King Arthur!", she declared giving everyone another shock. Gray stepped forward and said," Yes, she is right, even if the color of her armor has been changed, even if her tone of skin has changed and her eyes aren't green, she is no fake, but real King Arthur".
She glanced at her, opening her hood, revealing her face which looked an exact copy of Artoria's but with different hair color and eyes. " I see, you are the vessel made for me to reincarnate", Artoria said in a cold voice causing Gray to shiver, not only her but others as well can feel as shiver in the spin, hearing that cold voice, which gave them visage of a ruthless King.
Gray nodded, and then glancing at her with a resolute face, she said," There are somethings, I want to ask from you and confirm", Artoria replied," I have no time to give an answer to a fake, who was made based on my old self", her words gave a lot of clues, especially on how she referred Gray being made on her old self, referring that the current Artoria is the future version of the King of Knights Waver had met in the fourth Holy Grail War, or so everyone guessed completely oblivious to the truth.
"Now, Waver Velvet, the Lord of the Modern Magecraft, how about we have a nice chat, like mature people, while sitting on a chair, sipping some tea?", he asked him, Waver nodded with wariness in his eyes, things were too uncertain and dangerous for him, thus he had no chance but to oblige to Neo's request, after all, he had no confidence that Grav despite possessina Rhoanomvniad will be able to defeat its real owner, not when her Master has powerful and Mysterious abilities.
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3rd Pov
Neo calmly rested on the chair, Artoria stood beside him claded in her black armor, and her face was covered with a black colored metal eye mask. She stood like a loyal knight waiting for her king's orders. Waver, Olga, and Reines sat on chairs as well, surrounding the table placed in the middle of them. Neo created some snacks and tea using his magic, unknown to the nature of the Miracle he is using the Mages didn't show much reaction to it.
Neo sipped the tea enjoying its delicious taste as if he was at a tea party, but the atmosphere by no means was a soothing one. The three mages sat on their chairs with wary expressions on their faces, even Gray held a confused and wary expression towards the Master of Artoria after what had happened with the last servant she had met such a thing was to be expected from her.
"So are you a master in the next Holy Grail War?", asked Olga with her hands folded, that was the most understandable explanation for the Servant that was accompanying him he chuckled and replied," Did you not hear her words? That she is incarnated?", she frowned hearing that, Reines with a playful smile narrowed her eyes, and said," Lady Olga, it means that the King of Arthur has been resurrected in this era".
She gasped hearing that, Claues behind them was too surprised by this not to mention Gray who almost stumbled hearing that. Waver's eyebrows twitched hearing that, he wanted to say many things and even curse the King of Knights for almost killing him in the previous Holy Grail War when they had nothing to do with Irisivel. Obviously, for now, his attention was mostly on the topics, ' How King Arthur was resurrected' and, Does she remember about him?'.
Olga glanced at the King of the Knights, and seeing her standing so menacingly she couldn't help but gulp in fear. Everyone else shared her sentiments after all the visage of the King of Knights claded in black armor, with her eyes covered in a black eye mask, on top of her hands holding her trusty Legendary sword of promised victory while standing , while standing emotionlessly was too scary for their dear hearts to handle.
Neo seeing their expression glanced at his lovely Knight and sighed," I see, you all are scared of her", their expressions changed hearing that, they didn't want to Neo realize that as it would put them at a great disadvantage against him, who might be their enemy." That isn't th-", Claues tried to say, but seeing the look on Artoria's face which was saying,' Disrespect my King and get ready to be Excalbirated', he stopped.
Neo patted his leg, and seeing the signal, Artoria quickly unsummoned her armor, changing her outfit into a gothic one, then she quickly sat on his lap embraced him, and made herself comfortable. Everyone glanced at this speechlessly, anyone can see that Neo's and Artoria's relationship was quite unusual. It made them remember about Neo's words on how Artoria is his wife.
Neo smiled and said," Now, let's begin our small chat, you should
have a lot of questions regarding me right?", they nodded and Reines said," That would be obvious", he continued," Well, to begin with, I am a Magician", his words surprised everyone, especially Olga who stood up from her chair and asked," What did you say?! Neo, you might be an exceptional Mage but please refrain from calling yourself as Magician, as it is an utter insult to all the Mages trying to reach the root".
He started laughing hearing that, making the situation awkward then with a cold look on his face and said," If me being a Magician is an insult to all the Mages, then let it be.", Olga gritted her teeth hearing that, even Reines was feeling quite disrespectful from his statement, and remained silent for his elder brother to speak.
Waver being the understanding and smart person he is, quickly asked him," Can you prove it to us? I mean there is no need for you to prove to us that you are a Magician, but your words are really shocking", he smiled and replied," You are right I have no need to prove to you guys, just me making incarnate the legendary King Arthur is enough of the proof you need", he then showed both of his hands raising them in the air.
Waver gasped, and Neo said," As you can see I possess no command spell, other than that, Artoria I am deactivating that okay?", she nodded remaining silent while enjoying his warmth in his lap, the next moment a weird feeling was felt by Gray who stumbled and fell on her four. Waver glanced at her worried, and under his shocked eyes, Gray's hair turned completely blonde, while her eyes changed into yellow.
"This-", Waver muttered, Neo stood up and said," That should be enough of the proof that the person in my lap, is King Arthur as for whether she has incarnated it is up to you to believe, but I would like to make my identity clear so can you bring me Trisha's dead body?", Olga glanced at him angrily and said," What do you want to with her? I won't giv-", she couldn't complete her sentence as a psychic slap hit her.
She glanced at Neo who looked at her coldly," Shut up, seriously how stupid you can be? You do realize that I can kill all of you right? It would take Artoria a single move to obliterate you all, and even if you want to curse me then do it after If I was to fail to prove that my words are right, anyway bring me her body".
Olga shut up and glanced at Korabo and Claues who nodded, brought her dead body, and then laid it on the grass. Neo stood up from his place and separated from Artoria who had a reluctant look. Then he approached Trisha's corpse and took out her soul from his ring, he had been researching souls after he consumed Jone's soul.
It did increase his mastery over third magic somewhat, and his soul quality by a bit, but he found it to be useless to increase the quality of his soul by consuming purified souls, as it would take a million souls to increase it by 1%, his soul was already the limit of human beings, even greater than many high ranking Divine Spirits without itself being divine.
So he had put his plan on soul research on hold, after that, though he did make a ring that can store hundreds of souls at once alongside a ring that could act as inventory.
Neo took out Trisha's soul and then glancing at Trisha's dead body, he snapped his fingers, and a light shined on her body, repairing all of her injuries, then he gently submerged her soul back into her body, and reconnected it with her body. Everyone looked at this spectacle with expectations and horror, since Neo's actions can predict what he wanted to do.
It wasn't impossible to increase lifespan by using Magecraft, there are also other alternative methods like inhabiting others' bodies. But no one can resurrect a person using his old body, as that fell outside of the limits of Magecraft. It fell under the category of a True Miracle, and Neo did exactly that, under their eyes. Trisha's eyelids fluttered earning the shock of Olga which turned into gratitude as she opened her eyes and slowly got up.
"Miss, where I am? Didn't I die?", she asked Olga, who glanced at her speechlessly, still embracing her in a hug she said," You stupid, attendant, that's the first thing you ask after being resurrected?", Trisha became perplexed hearing that and asked in disbelief," What do you mean by resurrection?". Olga started explaining everything that happened after death, and then she glanced at Neo with gratitude.
She bowed her head and apologized," I apologize to you, my behavior was quite rude, especially considering it was towards my benefactor and Magician." Neo just shrugged, and he glanced at Waver. " A new magician has been born, it is sure to cause a stir in the entire Mage World", said Reines, as she glanced at Neo with some lewd intentions.
Even if she is the king of knights, she looks like almost 15 years of age, and her breasts are small as well, that means he like young people and I have a chance', she thought nervously realizing how rewarding the situation is, if she managed to rope Neo, and marry her then El Melloi faction will directly surpass the three great families, as other than Clock Tower's director there is no magician present in the current time, at least to her knowledge. She started giggling thinking of that.
Neo glanced at her and she blushed, getting near him, she performed a Noble bow and said," I am Lady Reines, at your service Lord Neo", Claues and Waver became dumbstruck hearing that, but then realized what Reines was up to. Neo glanced at her and said bluntly," I have no interest in you, Lady Reines, though I do have some job with your brother".
She became disappointed being rejected so directly, heck it was the first time in her life she even approached someone romantically and the result was quite bad for her, and when she heard that he has some work with her big brother, she glanced at Neo in suspicion and a thought came in her mind, Does he swings both ways, no that might be not the case, I am just overthinking '.
She was proven right that she was overthinking, as Neo proceeded to reveal he was from another timeline, and he was here to end the Holy Grail War. This stunned them, as Neo's words meant he had Second True Magic same as the Director of the Clock Tower. He even revealed how he and Waver are best friends in another world.
"Wait a minute?! I am your best friend?!!", Waver asked shocked, Neo nodded thinking, Yes the best friend who is soon going to be a slave to work, Muhahaha!! ', Reines's eyes shone and she thought,' Hehe, the situation is still salvageable '.
Neo's next words caused everyone to gasp," Well, you aren't Waver that I know, even in a way you both are the same, still you remind me too much of me, so how about I fulfill one of your wishes? It can be anything except disadvantageous to me and being a true magician", everyone's eyes shifted to Waver wondering what will he ask.
Even Waver felt anticipation and excitement hearing that, though he felt under pressure seeing everyone's eyes. As of now, Korabo, Claues, Reines, Olga, Gray, and Trisha including him were present there, others were inside the stopped Train Zeppelin separated by a small boundary field that prevent anyone from peeking into their chat.
Reines glanced at Waver clenching his hands, sighing she put her hand on his surprising him, and said," It's ok for you to fulfill your wish, Dear brother in the end you still have to fulfill the promise", he became calmer hearing that, Gray glanced at him and said," Professor, I really think you deserve your happiness".
He nodded, and then glancing at Neo he said," My request might be quite foolish, and he might no remember me, but still I want to meet Iskandar once more", he had said these words after some thinking, although there was a chance that he might summon Iskandar again by participating in fifth holy grail war it wasn't absolute.
Firstly, Iskandar won't remember him, secondly, he wasn't sure that only Iskandar will be summoned and not one of his subordinates, lastly, as Neo said he had come from other timelines to win and end the Holy Grail war, for unknown reasons. Thus participating in it was suicidal, Neo smiled expecting this answer," Okay, I accept, but before that let me make it clear, I will be incarnating him similar to Artoria, and he will remember you, but he won't be allowed to participate in any Holy Grail War, okay?".
Hearing that Iskandar will remember him, he didn't care about other things much and said," That's all right", then Neo contacted Alaya telepathically and resurrected Iskandar with everyone's shocked eyes. "Huh, Is that you Waver?", asked the red-haired giant glancing at the long black haired spectacled man, who nodded to his question with moist eyes.
After that, making everyone take a blood oath to not disclose anything about his arrival and identity, he left the place. Artoria asked him," Lord, even if he was Waver Velvet he wasn't the one from our timeline so why did you help him?", Neo replied," My dear Artoria, I was in a good mood and I did something that gave me personal satisfaction and took almost zero efforts, is that explanatory?".
She nodded, understanding his choice. Neo's inner weeb was quite strong in a way. It gave him personal satisfaction to help the sad characters he watched in his past life, though he did it only if he felt like doing it, and saw no disadvantages in doing it. Again, he had not intention to seek to help everyone, but rather only the ones whom he met in person, alongside the above-mentioned reasons.
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3rd Pov
Neo returned to the house he had bought in Fuyuki City by teleporting himself and Artoria there. As soon as they appeared, they were greeted by the scene of Medea and Scathach playing chess, while Elsa was watching Television. Suddenly sensing them Medea stood up and walked towards him,"~ Welcome back dear~", she said as hugged him. She was completely in her wife mode.
"Welcome back, My horny disciple", said Scathach with a simple greeting, though a slight hint of lust was visible in her eyes. Elsa too came towards him and performed a maidly bow," Welcome back Master, should I arrange a bath for you?", she said with a smile and licked her lips slightly showing her intentions.
Neo knew she was in the mood for some kinky stuff and played along with her, soon he experienced heaven for the next two hours, and after that, he made love to his wife Medea, then disciplined his horny teacher who lusted his own disciple, and finally filled Artoria's tummy with his seeds. In the end, he was quite exhausted.
'Well, why do I have such lusty wives?', he thought, but then discarded such thoughts as he didn't mind their lust a bit, he was quite a lusty person himself. ' Anyway, I have created quite a variable in this world, that makes me wonder, just how much chaos it will cause, and just how many Gacha points I will get?', he thought with an excited smile.
Say, he acquired a single gacha point every day, and the other way to acquire gacha points was to change the destined sets of events in a world, In a way he is an outsider to every world so his every action will change their events which will earn him Gacha points. He can take any path for it, become a savior or a destroyer, kill someone, or save someone as long as it causes change in the ' Plot' defined by the Gacha system he will earn points.
In front of his wives, he put up a reason that he helped others because he wanted to, and despite how irrational that would seem, they respected his decisions as they were quite the same. But his main reason for helping others is to change the plot and gain Gacha points by them. For example, he had given Iskandar to this world's Waver Velvet.
He is a very important person in the main scheme of events, Heck in another world like Fate Strange Fake, all of his disciples in El Melloi's class are masters to two servants, even his actions caused quite an effect in the Fake Holy Grail War. In this world, once the time of his new adventures comes, Iskandar's existence will quite deviate from the 'Plot' and lead to many new sets of events.
Of course, he will be getting Gacha points for them, but the system will only give him based on some complex calculation, or if the change had already happened. Thus he hadn't gotten Gacha points yet, but in the future, he will surely get Gacha points. Not to mention he is also testing on what kind of deviation he will get Gacha points and how much time it will take.
Is helping Kiritsugu and his family enough? Or does it need something big like a heroic spirits involvement? Whatever the result might be it doesn't change the fact he will be getting bonus Gacha points in the future. 'Well I should now involve myself in the event of Unlimited Blade Works, and after that I will get combined Gacha points from that event and El Melloi's event ', he thought.
He can raise simple requests to his system, like giving combined points of different events after a set time or taking the stored Gacha points in advance. Of course, he could ask barely anything else from his system, and since it had Q&A system he was fine with this.
Anyway, he had settled down in Fuyuki City to wait for the Fifth Holy Grail War to start. For other mages all over the world, it is but a small ritual held in the island country of the Far East. But Neo himself knew what Holy Grail and Holy Grail War meant and their importance to the entire world. If Holy Grail Were to be released it would drown the entire if not the most humanity within its evil mud.
Not to mention the power of Heroic Spirits which no one human or only a handful of mages depending on timeline can compete with, not to mention the overpowered servants like King of Heroes, King of Knights, King of Magecraft, Chains of Heaven, Raging Destroyer which were in a league of their own.
Although only two of them will be present in this timeline, which are a weakened King of Knights and arrogant Gilgamesh who would never use his full powers unless he found his opponent to be worthy. It did make Neo a bit excited. Still, a thought lingered in the corner of his mind, Who will be the caster? Medea or someone else?'.
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Neo Pov
I glanced at the wide city with attention. Even during the nighttime, the city was as majestic as ever, I could see the red-coloured bridge at a distance which was also a special building of this city, at least in anime. Beside me Medea floated while covered in her robes, her eyes glancing at the city searching for the caster.
"Master, she is there, I can feel her ", she said, I nodded and then both of us teleported there. I looked at the new environment we were in, a place full of forest cover. On the right of the us there was a wide staircase leading to the Shinto temple situated at the top of the Hill. Just a few meters away from us, lay the injured body of a woman, she was covered in robes looking exactly the same as Medea beside me.
She was none other than the Caster summoned in the Holy Grail War, suddenly her eyes turned towards us. " I see, so it was you", she said with a weakness in her voice, clearly indicating how her life was slipping away. I walked towards her, with Medea following me, then she glanced at other self with pity," I see, you killed your master", she said.
Medea lying in front of us became silent and then mustering up the entire strength she had left she stood up, Medea got wary seeing her alter self moving, and got ready with a spell, meanwhile the injured Medea put her hand on my cheek, her robe fell down revealing her cute yet sad face, she then said," I never thought you won't believe in yourself, especially seeing my current state".
Medea replied in a stern voice," Injured or not, I know myself well know it better than anyone that to achieve my goals I won't even care about the feelings of a innocent child much less' other me'", Medea chuckled hearing her, and then looked at me she said," It is indeed true, but I just wanted to look it carefully, the solace you had found in this cruel world".
Her body started shimmering with golden lights as her body started disappearing," You are so lucky, only if it was me-", she said as she completely disappeared. The place became silent, Medea grabbed my shoulder and asked," Dear? ", I looked at her with a smile and said," Don't worry I am fine Medea, other version of you isn't enough to affect me, after all, she isn't you in the end".
Her face turned red hearing that, while I glanced at the place she had disappeared, the words I had said to Medea were without an lie, but this encounter did bother me a bit, after all, it was undeniable that the woman who was just standing before me was Medea, her looks, her personality was extremely similar to my one.
'That's why I hate time-related bullshits, Thankfully it's just an alternate self of Medea like Marvel universe or DC universe and not her past or future self', I thought with a bit of joy. After all I couldn't imagine my life being anything but chaos with time- related stuff. Finally content with the meeting I said to Medea," Let's leave".
She nodded, and we went back to our residence, and after that naturally, we made love with each other to strengthen our bond. Once, our session was over, I lay on the bed with Medea whose head was on top of my chest, as she slept peacefully with a content look on her face. I caressed her hair gently and played with her elf-like ears. Then I sighed and thought, Holy Grail War is on nigh, well while I am in this timeline and too early on top of that why not I do that?'.
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3rd Pov
In a classroom full of teenagers, one can see a red-haired boy looking out of the window with a face that showed how he was a bit tired from the overwork. The classroom was full of chatter from the students as the news that two new transfer students were coming to their school had already been revealed to them.
They were quite enthusiastic about the new students as the boys were hoping at least one of them to be an extremely beautiful girl and the girls were hoping to be a handsome boy. Unknown to them the wishes of both the parties were going to be fulfilled, As the door opened and a handsome black-haired boy walked in, he had a strikingly handsome face and black eyes, one could see a bit of red hair mixed among his black hair.
The moment he turned towards the group of students as if an wind had passed, almost everyone was stunned, it wasn't just girls who were entranced by his pleasing smile but also boys, as everyone could feel just joy looking at him, as if they were meeting someone very important.
He introduced himself," My name is Neo El Dlsardius, and beside me is my sister Artoria El DIsardius", As his words reached everyone's ears and they glanced at the girl, they again were stunned although it was not as strong as earlier, still the scene of an extremely beautiful girl stunned them, she also had a stranger Aura around her which wanted them to stay from her.
"Nice to meet you all ", said Artoria, as she looked at the students in front of her with no interest. Neo glanced at the teacher and said," Ma'am?", his voice woke up her from her trance and she said," *Ahem* So kids, they are our new transfer students coming from foreign I hope that you can help them to settle in and behave good with them, though if you don't behave good then I have a solution for it as well", she laughed and everyone felt a bit nervous seeing the predatory look of Taiga.
Soon, both of them sat at a seat near the window just in front of Shirou, who still remained unaffected for the most part but whenever he looked at Artoria a weird feeling flared up inside him as he knew her, yet nothing came to his mind. Soon the class began, and everyone decided to wait for the tiffin break to talk with them.
It was because they got a weird feeling and were too dazzled by them, thus they wanted some time to prepare before talking with them, and the break period was the perfect time to do so. Neo smiled while looking at the familiar atmosphere, This brings up memories, some pleasant and unpleasant ones, well I guess Artoria should enjoy these two weeks as well and learn about school life', he thought.
Hmm, it is still two weeks before the war begins, and as long as I don't intervene with Matous they will hopefully summon her, so I can get her ', he thought, although he can Alaya to summon whatever heroic spirit whenever needed but to win their hearts is not easy, and if there is a situation where his chances increases then why leave it?
'Still, with me here, Fate Unlimited Blade Works is no longer an appropriate name for this worldline, rather that Old man should name it Fate Unlimited Waifu Works ', he joked in his mind.
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