The Summoning VIII

General POV

"Yes, the servant class, Avenger," the mother continued for the father as she made up a tense and dramatic atmosphere. "The Einzberns cheated in the third Holy Grail War, probably just frustrated they never won. So they decided to summon an extra servant to the Holy Grail War, this is the Avenger class."

"By utilizing the connection the Holy Grail has with the Throne of Heroes, they purposefully put another wire along the war, a wire that extends far above the Throne of Heroes into the Land of Divine. Yes, they attempted to summon a Divine Spirit, one of the highest forms of incorporeal being."

"Ever heard of Angra Mainyu?" Racking her brain to find anything related to the question, Luvia ended without any leads and so she shook her head. "Figures, to raise the percentage chance of being able to summon a divine spirit, the Einzberns decided to call upon the most unknown of Divine Spirits, one of them, Angra Mainyu just happened to catch their eye."

"It was said that Angra Mainyu was and is a Zoroastrian God of Darkness. And as unknown as a God is, their powers still exceeded most if not all mortals, Heroic Spirits included. I imagined the Einzberns were hopeful, that is until they actually successfully summoned Angra Mainyu. First day of the Holy Grail War, a servant is already taken out, that servant is the class, Avenger."

"Turns out, Angra Mainyu, so called Zoroastrian God of Darkness never had any capabilities. 0 physical, 0 magical, 0 strategical, all 0. And so, the Avenger class is never seen again," the mother looked like she had just closed a fairy tale book while the father moved next to explain further in detail about the whys and whats.

"There is a reason for the summoning of servants. Even for 50 years of charging, the Holy Grail still has an exceeding capacity to filled and the Einzberns thought of the way through the Third Magic, thus Heroic Spirits. When a Heroic Spirit is summoned, it's magical energy is also extracted and fused, creating a servant, this energy of the purest kind is what the Holy Grail needs."

"But why would they need a battle when the Einzberns could just summon 7 servants and take their energy? Why because then the servants meant to be summoned wouldn't want to be summoned. Heroic Spirits has immense will, to summon them, they need to accept the hand stretched out to them, and social laws already described this as such, no helping hand without any helping gain."

"The Holy Spirits need something worth to be summoned for and thus the Einzberns split the wishes up. Half of the accumulated energy stored in the Holy Grail to grant a servant's wish, and the other to grant the master's wish, creating the perfect harmony, a sweet delectable carrot of invitation for the Heroic Spirits."

"To win the Holy Grail War, 6 of the servants must perish, after all, there could only be one winner," Luvia grabbed another piece of duck while listening. "So, who has won?" she asked after fully gulping the piece. "That's the thing, in the 200 years and 4 Holy Grail Wars, there hasn't been a winner, no servants usually make it to the end alive."

"4 wars no winners?" Luvia is clearly surprised, it's strange considering there has been 4 wars but none succeeded? "Yes, and the death toll is usually large with half the contestants ending up dead before the end of it. And the worst of it occurred in the third Holy Grail War," there's a reason why Luvia's parents went worried upon seeing the command seal, as masters have large mortality rates.

"The third war was participated by the 3 usual participants, the Einzberns, Makiri now Matous and Tohsakas. As I said before, the Avenger class was summoned so there are a larger amount of servants as well as masters in this particular war, this holds a correlation to our family's participance in the war."

"Yes, the other masters were respectively from the factions or families, Edelfelt, Ryuudou, Nazi Party and the Japanese Imperial Forces. Yes, surprisingly two of the masters were of non-magi, the Nazi Party being Adolf Hitler and the Japanese Imperial Forces being the only Emperor Showa, Michinomiya Hirohito and the only recognized 'emperor' in the world."

"I previously said of the correlation between the larger amount of servants and masters with the Edelfelts. Through some unknown coincidental means, during your grandmother's Heroic Spirit summoning, two Heroic Spirits were summoned instead of the expected one. Yes, this is a result of our unique thaumaturgy to split magic crests onto two different heirresses."

"During the summoning, your grandmother's sister was also present on site and the summoning ritual deems the magic crest on your grandmother together with her sister's, and thus it made a mistake of summoning two Saber classes instead of one, an advantage that became a disadvantage and acquired inability to win."

"With this information known to the masters, they chose to target the Edelfelts first. Worse of all, your grandmother has a bad relation with her sister, it was known they loathe each other, hates each other and couldn't be put in the same house, no less same room. This further lowers the Edelfelt chance to do anything as each sister operates from a different point and so no cooperation."

"In the end, it was the cunning and shameless Tohsaks whom caught us off guard together with Ryuudou, killing your grandaunt and expelling your grandmother out of the water, traumatizing her enough to not want to step foot on the island of Japan anymore. Those imbeciles," the mother clenched her fist in annoyance.

"This is the perfect opportunity to wipe our rival out. For ten years, gem business has been mainly given onto our hands. This opportunity is only acquired from the Tohsaka Family's Head, Tohsaka Tokiomi's death from the 4th Holy Grail War a decade ago. Before that, Tohsaka ruled over gem production and distribution, we cannot let that happen."

"The Tohsakas are now left with one heiress, no time is better to take her out."