Sub-World Fate: Apocrypha
Romania....
Amakusa Shirou Tokisada was a man who desired the salvation of humanity, to purify all the evil of this world and bring paradise to Earth.
For that wish, he did not hesitate to deceive the magi of the Clock Tower, manipulate them, and become the leader of the Red Faction...
As the final Servant of the Third Holy Grail War, Amakusa prepared for sixty years for this moment.
He summoned his Servant, Assassin of Red...
Semiramis, the wise Queen of Assyria, a powerful queen who was both Assassin and Caster...
Her powerful Noble Phantasm had reached an EX rank, and with the help of the other Heroic Spirits, Amakusa was confident in his victory.
He would seize the Greater Grail from the Black Faction, kill all the Heroic Spirits, and fulfill his wish...
Unfortunately, a new Holy Grail took shape in Romania.
The World Holy Grail.....
New Masters appeared, and its delicate balance of power was lost, especially when that man appeared and summoned a Crowned Servant...
Amakusa knew he was no match for that man, so the struggle for power ended before it even began, and the Green Faction took control of his Red Faction.
This was only natural. Against a Servant of the highest rank, it was impossible to fight. Even Semiramis had to lower her proud head before that monarch....
Fummmm
And that night, another great threat was summoned...
A beam of light shot into the sky, illuminating the world as a gigantic presence took form...
"I-impossible.....how could...how could it?!"
As a Ruler-class Servant, Amakusa had privileges in the war. As the arbiter of this conflict, he could see the true names of Servants, their parameters, and even their Noble Phantasms...
But with what had been summoned, Amakusa did not need any of that to know that what had taken shape was a massive problem.
"How could the Holy Grail summon such an existence?!"
This surpassed what a Crowned Servant represented, even beyond the Gods....
There was no longer any way for him to win. Even if he once still had hope of overthrowing the Crowned Servant, now his main concern was whether humanity—or the world itself—would survive....
"What a serious problem...."
Amakusa was not the only one who thought so. Marisbury Animusphere, one of the Masters of the Green Faction and the one who had taken command of the Red Faction as well, frowned as he watched the fallen light from the sky...
He had summoned a Crowned Servant, the great King of Magic. With that power, even in this World Holy Grail War, he had been confident of victory.
All for the sake of humanity. His abilities had predicted human extinction, and for that, he needed the Holy Grail to create Chaldeas...
But it seemed the extinction crisis had arrived first...
The question was whether his Crowned Servant could overcome this crisis. The chances were slim, because no matter what kind of Servant it was, illuminating the world with its presence was impossible.....
Yet for the future of humanity, he had to fight, whether it meant clashing with the Red Faction or forming alliances with more Masters...
"!!Hahaha!! Very good! That's what I'm talking about!"
While some sank into pessimistic thoughts, others laughed in madness and delight...
Blue Archer, the great King of Heroes....
He had been summoned into this World Holy Grail War by a girl who was not a qualified magus. To Archer, such humiliation deserved death, but he stayed his hand. The girl herself was very talented. Her soul was corrupted like a Mongrel, and the repulsive existences dwelling within her disgusted him. Even so, the light in her eyes moved the King of Heroes to show mercy...
At first, he had not planned to take this war seriously. Even with so many Servants and Masters, he did not believe there was an existence that could force this great King to use his greatest Noble Phantasm. He was about to limit his power, rejuvenating himself just to amuse himself by playing with these Mongrels who called themselves Heroes...
But he never got the chance to do so. When that beam of light illuminated the world, Blue Archer understood. This would not be a boring war—on the contrary, it would be a battle of life and death.
He was the King of Heroes, and even against Crowned Servants or Gods, he dared to say he could win.
But when it came to illuminating the world, not even the Gods were capable of such a feat. Only Beasts could accomplish something that distorted reality itself.
And that existence had been summoned....
He tried to use his Noble Phantasm, the "Omniscient and Omnipotent Star," which was said to "spread across every corner of the world like the light of the stars, seeing through all of creation."
The King of Heroes used it to peer into the future, but the moment he activated it, his Clairvoyance was cut off like a video dissolving into static...
The King of Heroes was unable to see the future. His Noble Phantasm depended heavily on the fate of the World and served as a guide to perceive the paths ahead.
But the instant the beam of light covered the planet, all fate was severed.
There was no future to see. Even the planet itself did not know what would happen. Everything was unfinished, and there was no way to know what they were facing. Even when he tried to see what had been summoned, a pair of heterochromatic eyes struck his will without mercy, damaging his Noble Phantasm...
That was why Blue Archer laughed in madness. He had been wounded. A single glance had pierced his defenses and damaged his Noble Phantasm.
This level of danger was acceptable as a Beast—a fight for survival....
Meanwhile, Blue Archer's Master clasped her hands in prayer toward the light in the sky...
"Senpai...be careful.."
"Ha...ha....ha...."
Rin trembled. That pair of heterochromatic eyes looked at her like trash. The presence of this Heroic Spirit cast a deep psychological shadow over her...
Especially when she saw his parameters....
Servant: Avenger / Berserker / Blue
Strength: A+ (???)
Endurance: EX (???)
Agility: A++ (???)
Mana: EX (???)
Luck: ------
NP: ???
Class Skills:
Independent Action: EX
Territory Creation: EX (???)
Independent Manifestation: EX
Avenger: EX
Berserker: (???)
Pioneer of the Stars: ???
Mana Replenishment: EX (???)
Child of the World: ???
World Savior: ???
Personal Skills:
Sharingan: C
Mangekyo Sharingan: B++
Rinnegan: A+
Apocalyptic World: A+
Limits (Gap): A+
Susanoo: A+
Astral Armor: A+++
Eight Gates: B+
Byakugō: B
Mana Manipulation (Chakra): A+
Noble Phantasm:
Metatron | Anti-Army / Anti-Fortress | B++ (A-)
Rasiel | Anti-Unit / Anti-World | A++ (EX)
Zafkiel | Anti-Unit / Anti-World | A++ (EX)
Zadkiel | Anti-Army / Anti-City | B (B+)
Camael | Anti-Army / Anti-Fortress | B+ (B+++)
Michael | Conceptual / Anti-World | A+++ (EX)
Haniel | Special Movement / Anti-World | A++ (EX)
Raphael | Anti-City / Anti-Unit | B++ (A-)
Gabriel | Anti-Mind / Anti-Popular | C++ (B+)
Sandalphon | Anti-Unit / Anti-Fortress | B+ (A+)
Kerubiel | Fortress / Anti-World | EX (EX)
Ain Soph | Anti-World / Anti-Planet | ??? (???)
Terminus Est | Anti-Thaumaturgy / Anti-Planet | A+ (EX)
Eggy | Barrier / Sorcery | A- (A-)
Aiwass | Anti-Planet / Anti-Star | ??? (???)
World-Protecting Crown | Anti-Planet / Anti-World | ??? (???)
Miracle Requiem | Barrier / ??? | ??? (???)
Rin swallowed hard at this unbelievable reality. This Servant shattered every limit of her imagination.
He was so powerful that Rin suspected she had misread the data, or that this Servant was cheating and manipulating his parameters.
And just because the ancient book said it was an incredible being did not mean it should break the entire world...
Rin did not know what to think....
(Summoning him was a mistake!....)
She did not feel safe. With such power, she even doubted whether Command Spells could control a Servant like this.
Just what did she summon?!
To begin with, he was a dual-summon Servant, able to be both Avenger and Berserker. While rare, it was not completely unheard of—there were other Servants with similar classifications.
But this Servant had far too many Noble Phantasms, and all of them were high-ranking.
There were simply no weaknesses...
And what about those question marks?!
Can he become even stronger?!
"Um?!..."
But as she wavered between fantasy and reality, Rin noticed something abnormal.
Her body, defying gravity, floated toward the Throne, straight toward the Servant...
Her heart nearly leapt from her chest in fear. That pair of heterochromatic eyes seemed to devour her very being. Looking directly at him felt like falling into an abyss, yet at the same time, there was a warm embrace—similar to her father's...
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