Avenger wasn't pleased with how things were going.
This wasn't anything like her fight with Caster back in the forest. The Assassins were fast, too fast for her. It took her a second to create a new matchlock rifle and fire at the sneaky servants but the white-masked bastards were already gone by that point. Moving behind her back, trying to force her to use her final move, her Noble Phantasm. Well, too bad for them she wasn't going to satisfy their wishes.
While firing another barrage of bullets or blocking one of the attacks with her katana, Avenger didn't notice how one of the Assassins tried to jump at her from the side. However, before a female Assassin could cut her target's throat, a red spear pierced her body, ending her life. Avenger raised an eyebrow in surprise. "I thought I told you to attack Rider."
Lancer smiled before speaking. "Doing it right now. By the way, our masters escaped," he said before jumping after the servant with the chariot.
Avenger let out a relaxed sigh. Her master was safe and sound. 'He is safe and that's what matters the most. However...' Her red eyes burned with fury at her enemies. Now it was time to burn them all. Her favorite minigun appeared in her right hand as she aimed at the nearest Assassin and opened fire.
The unexpected attack caused one of them to pause. The pause that cost him his life. Two out of five were dead, three more to go. Avenger felt a presence behind her and quickly turned around only to block an upcoming strike. Katana met knife as red eyes stared into the empty eyes of a white mask that resembled the face of the Grim Reaper. Avenger was holding her katana with only her left hand while the minigun was lowered.
Eight matchlock rifles appeared behind her to cover her back if one of the Assassins decided to backstab her. Avenger noticed that the skin of her foe was a different color from regular humans. A thought came to her mind. "Few Assassins instead of one. What are you? Some sorcery trick or familiar?" How many Assassins were there? Certainly more than these five but she needed to learn more information.
The remaining Assassins laughed. "It doesn't matter who we are. What matters is that you won't win this war, king from the east."
A wicked smile appeared on Avenger's face as her eyes stared at him with fire. "Oh, really? Ara, we will see about that." A matchlock rifle materialized next to Assassin's head. Before he could move, the gun fired and the head of a killer from the past exploded. Avenger turned to the side to see the last two servants with white masks.
Instead of attacking her again, the last two Assassins glanced at each other. They didn't exchange any words but without a sound jumped back and clearly tried to escape. Avenger clicked her tongue. They were unable to force her to use her Noble Phantasm and were running away. How disappointing. The red-haired servant was about to raise her minigun and finish off the fleeing enemy but stopped when the ground under her legs trembled.
With an irritated scowl, she yelled. "Now what?"
Her answer was one of the columns that fall on the ground. Soon it was followed by another. Avenger stared at it before raising her eyes as she heard the annoying laugh of that King.
"HAHAHA!"
Rider laughed like a madman while crushing column after column. Avenger was tempted to forget about the Assassins and go after the King of Macedonia. Her pride as self-proclaimed ruler of Japan was demanding the blood of all foreign kings that dared to enter her land. Especially the blood of the Golden Archer. Lancer landed behind her but Avenger spared him no glance.
"What is he doing?" She pondered.
"Trying to crush this place with us I presume." answered the male knight.
"You couldn't distract him for a longer time?"
"Sorry, but the big guy is really good with his pets."
She let out a sigh while Rider continued to fly around, lighting following his chariot whenever he went. When she looked back at her previous targets she saw that both Assassins couldn't escape. Iskandar's actions deprived them of an exit as it was right now covered by a destroyed column.
"Forget about Rider. Let's take out the last Assassins and leave." Lancer nodded before following her direction.
Five matchlock rifles appeared at both sides of Avenger. Each one of them made one shot before fading away. The Assassins were distracted by the shots and weren't able to see the other two servants rushing at them at high speed until it was too late. Lancer's spear pierced a female Assassin head while Avenger cut the last one in two.
Satisfied with killing at least one threat, Avenger turned to the last obstacle in the form of a column. Red energy formed around her heel as she raised it and kicked the hindrance before her. Looking back at the destroyed base of Caster, she saw how Rider finished with destroying the place and now was making his escape as well. However, unlike Avenger and Lancer, the King of Conquerors literally made his escape by smashing his chariot into the ceiling and making a big hole in it.
"If there's no exit he will make one, yeah?" Avenger chucked while Lancer turned to their exit.
"Let's go. Our masters must be waiting for us." not wasting any second both servants left the former hideout of Gilles.
They couldn't prepare an ambush for the French servant or kill Rider but at least they knew that Caster won't return here anymore.
***
"HAHAHA! That went splendid! Truly a great plan, Master!"
Rider couldn't stop laughing while two of them were flying in his chariot. His master greatly surprised him today and Iskandar was proud. Waver on the other hand was feeling like he was about to vomit. This entire thing didn't end the way he originally planned but Waver couldn't deny the fact that it was a rather exciting day. Still, the young master couldn't stop feeling like he didn't do that well.
"Come on, Rider. My plan was simple and crude. Just simply smashing things until everything falls on them." It was a rather silly idea when talking out loud.
His servant waved him off. "Give yourself more credit, Master. Thanks to you we found this place, learned that Assassin is still alive and there's more of them and most importantly met other masters. The last thing is the most important."
Waver blinked. "Why? I already knew about Professor Archibald and that second guy couldn't be older than 19 or 20. I doubt he is powerful magi since he used a regular gun." Waver wasn't able to study the second guy since his attention was focused on his professor. Well, since they were enemies.
Rider chuckled."Sometimes I forget that you are still a rocky virgin." His master's face went red.
"Rider!"
"Master." Iskandar started seriously, Waver gulped from the sudden change of his tone. "When I said that the Master of Avenger reminds me of my siblings I didn't mean it in a positive way." The King of Conquerors looked at his master's eyes and Waver could see that his servant was remembering something painful. "Don't be fooled by the appearance of that person. I knew people like him during my life. They are the kind of people who will kill without remorse...I think he and Avenger are alike in that aspect."
Waver silently thought about it. Iskandar had a life full of adventures and most likely met all kinds of people. However, if the master of Avenger made such an impression on him from just one encounter, Waver was a little nervous to know who that guy really is.