"I imagine you have a lot of things to deal with, Mr. Lancer, so I will take my leave."
After sending Lancer to the room allocated to him, Darnic politely bid him farewell. Lancer indeed needed to organize his thoughts and current situation, so he didn't waste any time with him. After closing the door, he lay on the bed and began to sort through the things he had encountered in the past half a day, trying to find what he needed from the tangled clues.
Darnic, on the other side, did not return to his study after leaving but instead knocked on the door of a certain room.
"Patriarch Darnic? Is there something?"
Because it was already nighttime, Fiore was only wearing a pajama and a cloak.
At this time, she looked at Darnic with some confusion, seemingly not understanding why he would come to her at this time.
"Fiore, what do you think of that 'Lancer' from today?"
Darnic's question, which came out of nowhere, made Fiore feel a bit baffled, but feeling that the other party was talking about serious matters, Fiore's expression also became serious.
"I think that magician probably hasn't truly decided to join us. As expected, the reason he chose to join us should be just to save his life. It can almost be foreseen that when he summons a servant, that will be the time for us to break off! And according to Caules, that man seems to have a higher combat power than you, Patriarch, so to be safe, I think we should take care of him when he summons a servant!!"
Although she looked gentle and weak, in a certain sense, Fiore was also a 'standard magician'.
Living in a magician family since she was a child, and being valued by the family since she was a child because of her talent that far exceeded others, she had received an elite education since she was a child. This undoubtedly made her an excellent magician at a very young age, but the price was being completely out of touch with the world of ordinary people.
At least from the mouth of an ordinary girl, 'killing people' would not be said so casually, but perhaps it was precisely because she lacked the common sense of ordinary people. In her opinion, she was just stating a fact, but she didn't notice that Darnic, who had always maintained a single expression, had his mouth twitch slightly when he heard the words, 'that man seems to have a higher combat power than you, Patriarch'.
And she even looked at Darnic, this elder, with an expectant look, just like an excellent student handing a paper filled with answers to a teacher during a class quiz.
"Ahem~ Your analysis is very correct. That man is indeed very dangerous, but it also proves the excellence of that man's talent and bloodline! Fiore! As the most outstanding woman of this generation in the Yggdmillennia family, I want to give you a task!"
Although Fiore lacked common sense, it didn't mean she was stupid. On the contrary, as the most talented magician in the family, she was very smart. She had already guessed what the other party was going to say almost at the same time Darnic opened his mouth.
"I hope you can capture that man's heart!"
If it were a normal woman, she would show resistance at this time, but for Fiore, it was not a difficult thing to accept. After all, in the magical world, marriage alliances with other families for the sake of family bloodline were not strange things. Some families even practiced inbreeding for the purity of their family bloodline.
So after hearing Darnic's words, she nodded without hesitation.
"Crack~!"
As the door of the room was closed, a smile appeared on Darnic's face.
His original plan was to seize Lancer body after dealing with the Clock Tower, but he didn't intend to waste the other party. As he said, if he could optimize the family's bloodline, he wouldn't mind. And if he could use Fiore to make the other party dedicate himself to the family for the next period of time, it could be said to be killing two birds with one stone!
At this time, Darnic's face showed an incredibly confident smile.
'The next step is to lock that boy to the 'Yggdmillennia family', so it's a good time to announce it in advance...'
In the original plan, there was a step to formally declare war on the Clock Tower. Now, it was just brought forward. In his opinion, the scale of victory had already tipped towards them. Now, whether the declaration of war was early or late, it was just a step he took towards 'victory', a matter of distance.
At the same time, Lancer, as soon as he entered the room, began to draw Rune magic on the floor. First, he checked if there were any extra spells in the room, and then he used the 'Lightning' rune to clean the room to make sure there were no wiretaps or surveillance devices. Only then did Lancer sit on the bed and breathe a sigh of relief.
One must know that before this, although he had been trying to make himself look a bit calm, in reality, his heart was incredibly nervous. He was in the 'enemy's' base camp. If the other party wanted to do something to him, he would have no chance of survival under the siege of two servants.
'If I make a move now, there's no way I'll survive. I still don't know what class that 'Great Prince' is. If he's not a Lancer, maybe I still have a chance to summon my senior brother, but my master... the chances are slim, after all, I can't even imagine what she would look like as a heroic spirit.'
In Lancer opinion, the other party was simply a bug-like existence. The most basic point of a heroic spirit was to be 'dead', and Lancer didn't think the other party would die.
'I'll be ready to run once I summon a servant. Although the chance of winning a 1V6 is almost non-existent, my goal was never to get the Holy Grail anyway, so it doesn't matter...'
Perhaps because the time he was unconscious was not short, Lancer, who was lying on the bed at this time, had no intention of sleeping. He just kept thinking in his mind about what he should do. Just like that, time slowly passed. In the entire castle, everyone started to rest except for the constantly working homunculi, while Darnic on the other side had already revised a 'Declaration of War' that he had prepared for a long time. At this time, he sat at his desk and read it again with a face full of joy.
'This time, I'm going to let those bastards who looked down on the 'Yggdmillennia family' know how powerful I am! I'm so excited! To see those guys who are usually so high and mighty groveling at my feet, begging for my forgiveness!'
He could have gone to rest, but he just sat with his hands crossed, constantly smiling at the stars outside the window. There was no doubt that he couldn't sleep at all at this time. He was looking forward to the moment when the 'declaration of war' in his hand was delivered to those people.
Even if he couldn't see the other party's expression, it didn't stop him from fantasizing about it.
...
Time passed, and the dark world once again welcomed the light, and Darnic, with a face full of smiles, handed the 'letter' in his hand to a familiar.
'It has finally begun! The revival of the Yggdmillennia family!'