Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect?
That is, a butterfly in the Amazon rainforest gently flaps its wings, causing a storm and monstrous waves on the other side of the ocean. This is the scientific theory that is almost always mentioned in countless unscientific transmigration stories, namely the butterfly effect.
Originally, Souya felt that since he neither transmigrated during the Third Holy Grail War, nor was he born into the Yggdmillennia clan, such a butterfly, which seemed to have no relation to the Fate/Apocrypha plot at all, could not possibly affect this great Holy Grail War.
But when he was stunned to find that the Red side's Berserker was not the Spartacus he was familiar with, but another Servant, Souya suddenly realized that the butterfly effect had still occurred.
Because of his appearance, this Holy Grail War was very likely to have a different trend from the original work. Either new Servants, a new story direction, or perhaps an unknown danger that was outside the plot in his mind.
"Oh, my Lord, this is truly beyond my expectations."
Involuntarily, Souya let out a bitter laugh.
He had originally felt that since Amakusa's Servant was still the Empress, the plot should be the same as he knew it, and had breathed a sigh of relief.
But fortunately, besides the Caster he himself controlled, the Red side had not changed except for Berserker. Then, by this deduction, the Black side should also very likely have only changed a few individual Servants. The extremely important ones, such as the Grand Duke and Siegfried, should still be there.
Thinking of this, he quickly accepted the fact that the plot had deviated. After all, he was a qualified Executor. Rapid adaptation to changes when hunting heretics was a basic quality.
And soon, he focused his attention on the name 'Kriemhild'.
Although he didn't react at first, based on the familiarity of the name, and the knowledge of myths and history of various countries in the world that he had been forced to learn and absorb under his old dad's supervision, he quickly found this person and the information about her in his memory.
"Kriemhild, the heroine of the Nibelungenlied and the protagonist of the second part..."
Subconsciously, in his mind, he sketched out a beautiful woman in a Gothic-style long dress, holding a magic sword. Although her appearance was demure and beautiful, she was actually a yandere with tsundere attributes, a gloomy beauty.
He couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"Isn't this Siegfried's wife? It looks like she's specially here to cut him down."
But to be fair, counting the Empress Semiramis and the Morgan he was about to summon, and now adding this yandere princess, Kriemhild, this was getting interesting. A Holy Grail War with three 'bad women' of the dark style.
Hmm, it feels like there's a lot to see.
With such a sigh, he looked at the time. It was still 2 PM in the afternoon. There were still 7 hours until the designated best summoning time. Then the remaining time would be spent on carefully studying the Black side's Masters and preparing for the arrival of the queen.
After arranging his plan, he suppressed his restless heart and quietly waited for the arrival of nine o'clock.
And while he was waiting for the summoning, the Millennia Castle, not far from Sighișoara, was also preparing for the final batch of Servant summonings.
"Gordes, have all the preparations been made?"
Walking in the magic matrix under the Millennia Castle, Darnic, in his characteristic Yggdmillennia uniform, leaning on a cane, looked at the homunculi in the cultivation tanks that made up a giant magic battery around him, and said to the fat man beside him.
"Of course. With me as the supervisor watching them, things are definitely foolproof."
Gordes Musik, the head of the Musik family, who believed that his contribution to the Yggdmillennia clan far exceeded Darnic's, had no respect for Darnic, the head of the clan, in his words. His tone was full of pride.
And in fact, it was true. Although Darnic was the head of the clan, and his position in the Clock Tower was the highest 'Grand', and he also served as a second-level lecturer teaching the subject of 'elemental conversion', his actual reputation and contribution were extremely poor. After all, the magi who could come to the Clock Tower more or less had some family background. To let them listen to a lecture from an 'old man' who relied on stealing the souls of babies to achieve 'agelessness', whose life's major achievements were also in playing politics, and even whose Grand title was obtained through political power struggle, was really something they couldn't accept.
And Gordes was completely different. He himself was a first-class magus, and his own family had once been a great magus family that could be compared with the Einzberns in alchemy. Although later, due to their decline, they had to join the Yggdmillennia clan, but with the advanced homunculi he had created with the technical data from the Einzbern family, his contribution to Yggdmillennia was truly far above Darnic's.
Therefore, even if he heard the offense and self-satisfaction in Gordes's words, Darnic's expression showed no concern. Although the Yggdmillennia clan was known as a united great magus family, it was very normal for them to have different names but not the same heart. After all, their magic circuits were still inherited according to the rules of their respective families.
"Then, what about the situation of the others? And what about tonight's final batch of collective Servant summoning ceremony?"
After briefly looking at the homunculi and losing interest in them, Darnic turned to look at Gordes.
"Well, there's no problem with the collective summoning ceremony. The holy relics have also been prepared, but..."
Hearing this, Gordes's words became a little unnatural, and his expression was full of helplessness.
"But what?" Darnic raised his eyebrows, his expression showing no change.
"The others are fine, but Roche seems to still be a little dissatisfied with the Caster matter."
"Just this?" Hearing this, Darnic's brow couldn't help but furrow. "Doesn't Roche know how important Caster is to our strategy and defense? On the eve of the war, everything must be centered on the overall situation. As the head of the Frain family, doesn't he understand this?"
"Well, that's true, but after all, we didn't get his consent beforehand and broke our promise to snatch his Caster summoning right. It's inevitable for a child to make a fuss like this." Gordes's tone sounded a little troubled. He did feel that they were a little in the wrong in this matter. In addition, he was not good at dealing with children, and Roche was the kind of neurotic child who didn't see humans as humans at all, and only saw golems as everything. To this, Gordes had always kept him at a distance.
"Then tell him that after the matter is over, I will give him a sufficient number of Eightfold Twin Crystals as compensation. Let him focus his energy on the mass production of golems these few days."
Darnic was clearly not interested in this kind of matter and casually made a decision to dismiss him.
"Besides that, there is another matter." Seeing that he no longer wanted to talk about Roche, Gordes didn't say much and turned to another matter.
"What is it now?" This time, his expression clearly became a little annoyed. As a politician, he did not like the appearance of such troublesome things in the first place. What he wanted was for everything to be in his hands and to proceed in an orderly manner, not like now, where there were a pile of trivial matters on the eve of the great war.
"It's still about Caster."
Mentioning this, Gordes's expression became a little strange. "...What happened?" Hearing that it was because of Caster again, his face turned a little black. He couldn't quite understand why she, who was known for her wisdom and guidance in history, had caused so many trivial matters since he had summoned her.
"It's Reines. She seems to have been injured all over by Caster because she wanted to play with her. Even, even her spirit has a problem..."
After speaking, both of them fell silent. The huge underground workshop instantly became quiet.
"You mean, Reines was counter-abused and played with by Caster?" After a long while, Darnic said with a bit of a toothache.
"Yes, and it seems she was also affected by an illusion. She is currently receiving treatment."
As he spoke, a look of incomprehension appeared in his eyes. As a noble magus, he had always felt that a thing like a Servant was just a slightly stronger familiar with high intelligence. Therefore, even knowing that his side's Caster was also a famous great magus in her life, he still couldn't understand why Reines would be counter-killed by a mere familiar. It was simply a great humiliation.
But Darnic did not have this thought. He just secretly thought, did Caster have a history of abusing people in her life? According to the records, her personality was not like this, right? Could it be that he had summoned the wrong one? But whether it was the information Reines had obtained after the successful summoning, or the verification of her abilities, it all proved that she was that person, right?
With this thought, he inexplicably felt that things seemed to be getting a little out of his control. But the great war was about to begin, and many things could not be thought about carefully and slowly explored.
...
In a cemetery on the outskirts of Sighișoara, at this time, a burly man was sitting on a tombstone, smoking a cigarette. By his hand was a black briefcase. Through the smoke he exhaled, one could see a black fragment the size of a palm, of an unknown material, and a formalin solution containing a strange nine-headed snake.
"Phew..."
The burly man gently blew out a smoke ring, then picked up the strange solution jar and played with it. "The young embryo of the Hydra... to even be willing to give me this for this Holy Grail War. You know, I was just saying it casually."
As if he didn't care at all, he threw the jar containing the Hydra solution up and caught it. The burly uncle named Kairi Sisigou muttered to himself. Although he looked rough and fierce on the outside, his heart was very careful and meticulous.
Clearly, the Mages' Association's extraordinary actions had decided that this Holy Grail War was by no means as simple as just fighting with the Yggdmillennia clan and bringing back the Holy Grail. "To be able to make that iron rooster Barthomeloi pluck a feather, tsk, I feel like there's a risk of dying in this so-called war."
Thinking of this, he did not shrink back or waver in the slightest. He just lit another cigarette, put away the Hydra larva, and turned to look at the holy relic the Mages' Association had given him. After all, that was the Greater Grail.
As a down-and-out family, a rugged uncle who had to drop out of the Clock Tower at a young age to fight for his family, but in the end, still couldn't hide the fact that he was the only one left in the entire Sisigou family and had no heirs. Such a him, for the survival and continuation of his family, would definitely have to entrust this hope to the Holy Grail.
But, with his identity as a necromancer and his magical energy that stank like a rotten corpse, who among those holy Round Table Knights could he summon? Looking at the Round Table fragment lying quietly in his hand, he couldn't help but sigh, but couldn't help but speculate and guess.
The knight of the sun, Gawain? Mmm, that scorching heat would definitely not respond to me. The Knight of the Lake, Lancelot? Oh, this one is all about being as pure as the light of a lake. I have even less of a chance. Tristan? I don't think I have any poetic potential. Percival? Can a knight chosen by the Lance of Longinus really look up to me? Galahad? This one is even more impossible...
Then what about Mordred?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shake his head with a bitter smile. How could that be? That was the last Round Table Knight, a powerful knight who had defeated an army of tens of thousands with her own strength and had rebelled against the fate of Britain's destruction. Could a gloomy necromancer like him really summon him?
Then, the only remaining, and strong enough, knight... alright, the remaining one was the strongest and most impossible. The Lion of Britain, the glorious knight Lamorak, holding a holy lance and claiming to be as clear and loyal as flowing water. If he could draw him, then his name would definitely be recorded in the annals of the Mages' Association, right? After all, this guy, like his master Morgan, was one of the most famous Servants in the world, yet had never been successfully summoned.
Mmm... maybe as the Lion of Britain, Lamorak would think I'm one of his kind because my name also has the two words 'lion' in it and respond to the summoning? Haha.
With this self-entertaining thought, he finally waited for the arrival of the night, and the descent of the moonlight. Without any more random thoughts, he deftly took out the summoning ceremony instruction manual and materials given by the Mages' Association from his bosom and began to draw.
After a short while, a summoning circle drawn with magical energy-filled blood appeared in the cemetery. And at this time, the moon rose to its zenith. The final summoning time for this war had arrived.
Without hesitation, the several parties in different places all put out their holy relics and began to chant the incantation.
"Let silver and steel be the essence."
"Let stone and the archduke of contracts be the foundation."
"Let red be the color I pay tribute to."
He chanted according to the incantation in the book. Before him, the magic circle for summoning a Heroic Spirit began to emit a dazzling white light, but after his magical energy flowed in, it turned into a piercing red light.
"Heed my words."
"My will creates your body, and your sword creates my destiny."
In the great hall of the castle of the Yggdmillennia clan, a huge linked magic circle almost occupied the entire center. In front of it were four designated Masters with their arms raised, their magical energy surging, and their Command Spells emitting a dazzling azure light. And as the incantation was chanted, the figures of two male and two female Servants began to appear in the magic circle.
This scene was also reflected in the eyes of the black-robed man who was sitting on the throne and looking down at all this. In the shadow under the throne, a beautiful woman with white hair had a strange smile on her lips as she looked at the summoning circle, muttering something, her deep purple eyes filled with an undisguised excitement and pleasure.
"From the Seventh Heaven, attended to by three great words of power,"
In a dark basement in a certain place in the far eastern island country, amidst the blood on the ground and the miserable screams of a magus, a figure that repeatedly switched between the silhouette of an adult woman and a petite young girl gradually solidified. On the side, the naked Rokudou Reika was staring at this scene in a daze, and the dagger that had been in her hand was now stuck in the back of the magus Sagara Hyouma's heart.
"—come forth from the ring of restraint, protector of the holy balance!"
Standing in the garden of the villa, under the moonlight, Souya's eyes were filled with fervent anticipation as he looked at the graceful figure that was gradually appearing in the black light.
Crossing hundreds of years of time, to meet you again in the garden under the full moon, the one I love so passionately...
"Let me ask you."
"Are you Lamorak... or a despicable thing that has usurped his identity and is trying to deceive me."
Before he could react, a black staff emerged from the light, its sharp tip pointing straight at his throat.
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