King of Conquerors: Iskandar
Strength B
Endurance A
Mana C
Agility D
Luck A+
Noble Phantasm A++
Judging by parameters alone, Iskandar already counts as a very excellent Servant. Not only that, Iskandar also has an EX-rank Reality Marble as his final trump card.
Looking across all of FZ and FSN, the King of Conquerors' overall strength can rank in the top three.
Don't think Iskandar's parameters aren't particularly outrageous compared to other Servants. You have to understand that a Servant's parameters are closely tied to their Master's mana.
But Waver... although his later achievements are extremely impressive, his mana, in the entire FZ storyline, is only a bit stronger than Ryuunosuke's. After all, Waver is someone with theory knowledge at MAX, but whose practical magecraft is so bad he can't even properly use hypnosis. For all you know, even half-baked Kariya Matou is above him.
Waver looked at the King of Conquerors sitting in front of him, studying the world map. He rubbed his cheek, which still hurt from being slapped to the ground, and unconsciously trembled as he extended his right hand.
I need to make him understand who the Master is! Waver thought to himself.
Calm down, Waver. Command Spells can only be used three times total. Once you use them up, you won't be able to control a disobedient heroic spirit anymore.
In the end, Waver let out a long sigh and still didn't use a Command Spell.
But what Waver didn't know was that while he relaxed, the King of Conquerors sitting before him also breathed a sigh of relief.
Looks like my little Master isn't too bad, at least he can endure a lecture of this level from me.
Don't look at Iskandar's big, brash demeanor and assume he's just some simple-minded guy. A man who could become a king—who could become the King of Conquerors, followed by so many people—how could he possibly be a pure idiot.
Rough on the outside, meticulous on the inside.
Iskandar had tentatively acknowledged his Master. Don't assume Servants will completely obey the magus who summoned them and won't choose their own Master. In life, they were all heroes—earning their acknowledgment is not an easy thing.
Think about it: if Waver hadn't stolen Kayneth's Holy Relic, and Kayneth had summoned Iskandar instead, what would the result have been? You have to know that even when facing Diarmuid—famous for his loyalty—Kayneth had plenty of complaints.
If it were the Conqueror King... I'll bet fifty cents he would've burned through his Command Spells before the Holy Grail War even started.
Just as the Conqueror King himself said, he would never acknowledge Kayneth.
King Arthur is a woman?! And she's a short little girl?! Kiritsugu Emiya and Irisviel stared at the figure who walked out of the magic circle in shock, their first reaction being that they must have taken the wrong relic.
King Arthur, the British war god famed throughout the world, with the glorious name of the Twelve Knights of the Round Table—was actually just a little girl?!
After confirming the fact that the Servant he summoned really was King Arthur, Kiritsugu felt his head starting to throb.
Without another word, he turned and left, decisively, perfectly in line with Kiritsugu's style. But his actions left the ahoge King he had summoned feeling extremely awkward. In the end, gentle Irisviel had to step in and receive the ahoge King.
Looks like this mission just got very tricky, Kiritsugu thought as he walked out of the castle gate.
"I found this old book in my family's storage. Hey, kid, let me see how my ancestors summoned demons." Ryuunosuke said to the little boy tied to the floor, who had already been scared into tears.
This was Uryu Ryuunosuke, after killing the man and woman of a household. Bored out of his mind, he followed the old book in his hands and drew the magic circle from it.
Do demons really exist in this world? He was only doing it because he had nothing better to do. It just so happened that Ryuunosuke picked the exact time when the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City was beginning.
Most importantly, the magic circle in the old book he held was precisely a heroic spirit summoning circle. And blood was also a required condition for summoning a Servant.
"What does it feel like to be killed by a demon? Hahahaha... tch, that hurts." A strange symbol suddenly appeared on the back of Ryuunosuke's hand. "What the hell is this?"
At the same time, the magic circle on the floor actually emitted a blazing white light.
Because there was no Holy Relic, the Holy Grail would randomly select a Servant compatible with the Master. In other words, if we're talking about high compatibility, summoning a Servant this way is actually the best method.
But since it's randomly chosen by the Holy Grail, the Servant's ability and strength are also random. You might pull an exceptionally powerful heroic spirit, of course, but you might also pull trash with all parameters capped at D and no special abilities.
The uncertainty is too high, so magi basically never do it.
But Ryuunosuke isn't a magus. He's just someone whose family might carry a magus bloodline.
After smoke billowed and cleared, a gaunt man—skin stretched tight over bone—appeared before Ryuunosuke and the little boy. He wore silver-white armor with a cross emblem printed at its center and held a sharp sword stained with blood.
The man's eyes were hollow and lifeless, as if they couldn't focus on anything. The most important point was that the man had no eyebrows.
"Jeanne... Jeanne, Jeanne..." the man murmured, as if he couldn't speak any language besides those two syllables.
"Uh, Mr. Devil?" Ryuunosuke truly lived up to being a professional serial killer—his nerves were abnormally thick. He accepted instantly that the other party was a demon and had been summoned by him, and even greeted him.
"Jeanne! Jeanne! Jeanne!" The man lifted his lifeless eyes and looked at Ryuunosuke.
Bluebeard Marshal in the Berserker class. As the last of the seven classes to be summoned, Bluebeard ended up as Berserker. Because CASTER had been summoned by Zouken Matou, only Berserker was left.
But... Berserker is a class that greatly boosts ability at the cost of sacrificing reason, while Bluebeard was already mentally abnormal after losing Saint Jeanne.
So... a madman who has lost his reason.
Just thinking about it feels exhilarating.
But unfortunately, with Bluebeard appearing as Berserker, he lost a very powerful Noble Phantasm—Prelati's Spellbook, which could summon the sea demon god.
Although the sea demon god isn't controlled by Bluebeard, its power is beyond doubt. At the very least, aside from a small number of heroic spirits with powerful AOE abilities, most heroic spirits can't eliminate it.
In its place was Gilles de Rais' normal Noble Phantasm: "The Roar of Mustering Under the Sacred Banner."
"Jeanne? Is that the demons' language? Nice to meet you. My name is Uryu Ryuunosuke, and my hobby is killing." Ryuunosuke scratched his head, a little embarrassed, and extended his right hand to Bluebeard.
Something miraculous happened. Bluebeard, who should have lost his reason, also extended his hand to Ryuunosuke.
When the two hands clasped tightly, the contract was formed.
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