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Chapter 1

Seeing Tokiomi sweat is an amusing sight to see, it just shows the sadistic tendencies I inherited from the blonde.

Still, seeing those papers helped me understand that this is the proper Fate Zero I remember.

No, inconsistencies, not this moment, at least, I will do those myself.

Even so, I won't be doing anything rash, I shall wait and observe for now.

And knowing Rider, he will call everyone, that is if Iskandar was summoned.

And once I appear, Berserker will appear too, the only true threat to me.

No one else from this war can do anything in front of the Gate of Babylon.

Still, EA can kill anyone but that's me not counting the weapon since my Hedonist side is telling me not to waste the weapon's majesty on mongrels.

This leads me to use the Gate of Babylon in more… imaginative ways.

But, first…

A golden ripple appeared and a stone tablet dropped into my palm.

A small frown appeared on my face once I saw the hieroglyphs.

"So, no assistance in reading ancient Egyptian, very well then," I said in a bored tone before another tablet dropped from the golden portal.

I put the new tablet on the previous one and channelled some of my prana.

The next moment the new table glowed and the text rearranged, translating the table for me into ancient Mesopotamian language.

A smirk appeared on my face, my Hedonist self was a lazy ass who didnt learn anything while possessing the greatest library in the world.

Me on other hand is not lazy… Well more like driven, laziness is something I inherited from the goldie, not that I can remove that trait without getting myself a body.

Without wasting any more time I started reading the tablets from the time of the Age of Gods.

Waiting for summoning of Caster.

~~~~~~Later~~~~~~

Last Servant was summoned and the war officially started.

The play Tokiomi is going to do with Kirei is very simple.

Since Kirei was Master he could not 'ally' himself with another, according to the rules.

A snort escaped from my lips from that thought, as if anyone cares about rules in a battle royale. Instead of thinking of that, I observed the 'play' these two idiots were doing.

Just outside Tokiomi house, the head of the Tohsaka family was giving his farewell to his priest/apprentice.

This of course quickly change as from a tree an assassin jumps out with a knife in his hand.

It's one of the hundred faces of Hassan.

Not that it went far as golden ripples surrounded the Assassin and spears of all shapes started rushing at the Servant from all sides.

A painful scream escaped from the Servant's mouth, as the corpse dropped to the ground.

"Kirei you have betrayed me!!!" Acting part of the 'play' Tohsaka used his staff to summon a fireball and send it at the retreating priest.

Before long the priest escaped with impressive speed for a human.

Another snort escaped from my lips as I materialised next to Tokiomi.

"It was a lacking play, but it should work to a certain extend," I said with a bored tone as I looked at the corpse of the disintegrating Servant.

With a casual thought, I recalled the weapons back to the treasury.

"I do apologise for lack of skill in acting your Excellency," Tokiomi said that respectfully.

"For the familiars which were around your house this should be enough, now we will wait for other Masters to act, most likely other Knight classes will move soon," I said that as I looked around, my new senses are impressive and Archer class allows me to see further even if I don't have Hawkeye skill.

"As you wish your Excellency."

With that said I dematerialised and went back to the mansion to continue reading stuff from my treasury, maybe I will stumble upon something which can unlock that Clairvoyance or maybe it's something only the Caster version of me possess.

'No, the child one had something similar? Maybe I need to be alive to acquire it?' I thought with a frown, sensing that Tokiomi was back in a mansion I decided to relax for the night wait for the next day, where Saber and Lancer should engage in their fight.

~~~~~~Later~~~~~~

Finally, it has started. I felt a spike of Servant prana in the city, an opening, an invitation.

A few moments later I appeared in Tokiomi's office already dressed in my golden armour, and this time I prepared some extra trinkets for sake of extra protection.

"My King, what are you planning to do?" The red suit dressed Master of mine asked respectfully.

I do know that he is respectful but the moment I behave in some way that affects our war effort he will use command seal.

"I shall observe from distance and will act accordingly, I do wish to see the Heroes who are aiming for my cup with my own eyes."

"I only...request to withhold your fury until we know everything we can about other Servants and their Masters, Your Excellency."

"Do not fret Tokiomi, I have no interest in participating in these early squabbles, we have retainers for those," I said with a snort. Before turning into golden particles and rushing to the city.

A few moments later I appeared on top of the highest skyscraper in the city.

From this location, I can see everything that is happening in the city.

My gaze more specifically went to the docks.

"There you are." My heartbeat for a second accelerated before calming down, as I saw fellow blond dressed in a black suit, she was here as Saber, very good.

I took a deep breath.

"Yes, everything is going just like I remembered, so far so good, not for long though."

Then I looked at the red bridge and saw a tall red-haired man standing there.

Iskandar was here too.

This makes five Servants, five same Servents which I know off.

A few moments later Lancer and Saber started their duel.

It was pretty much the same as I remembered only that it was a live show instead of watching through a screen.

*Tsk*

"Falling for such obvious trick, since when Servants carry fake weapons!?" I said with an annoyed tone.

Why did she believe that Servant only has a single Noble Phantasm and only going to use it? That's her being arrogant...

Now that bastard has hurt my Saber.

My eyebrow twitched realising where my thought process went to.

'Control yourself, man! This is ain't Bronze Age!'

Another part of me is telling me that I am the one who decides which age is which…

'Right… of course, being modest ain't my style…'

Not when I have one of the highest Golden Rules in Fate Franchise.

After Saber got cut I noticed movement on Rider side, he called forth his Chariot and rushed at the battle happening in the docks.

Seeing Chariot fly is something else, well… not quite, my Hedonist side only snorted, Vimana is much, much greater means of transportation.

Moments later the Macedonian Hero landed in between Saber and Lancer.

The theatrics are worthy of a Greek, maybe the redhead does have Zeus blood?

Before long I heard Rider declare that he will hold people in contempt for not appearing in name of Iskandar King of Conquerors.

'Uhh… control yourself he is only goating.' I thought to myself as I was pushing down my growing anger.

'Think of good things! Like seeing Saber in flesh …'

That somewhat helped, to calm down, to the point that I am not shaking from fury.

That's a start.

A few seconds later I dematerialised and rushed towards the docks trying not to think how should I execute that upstart who conquered my lands once in my absence.

~~~~~~Docks~~~~~~

"I Iskandar, King of Conquerors will hold you in contempt!" The red-haired man roared from the top of his lungs.

The Conqueror know the best way to make everyone gather and that is an insult to their pride.

This of course didn't go well with his Master who had a horrified look on his face.

While Lancer and Saber looked at this with hidden annoyance, their duel has been interrupted by some annoying moron.

*CLAP*

*CLAP*

*CLAP*

A sound of clapping spread through docks as on top of light pole golden particles gathered and a person manifested.

"That's the Servant which defeated Assassin!" Rider's Master said with wide eyes, gaining the attention of other Servants they all looked at the new arrival cautiously.

"That's some speech there, but then it's not a shock since they say you are descended of a God who loves theatrics." The golden figure said with crossed arms looking down upon them.

"Heh? They said that I am descended from Zeus, don't they?" Iskandar asked curiously, remembering that he has some Divinity, for some reason.

"Not quite, they said it's Heracles, humans have short memory spans, after all, they can't decide which is what." The Golden Hero shrugged in amusement.

Before any more conversation can happen black miasma started to gather and another figure manifested from it.

It was Berserker, with an inhuman roar it made its presence known, Lancer even asked Iskandar if he is going to ask this one to join him too.

After all, one of the greatest Conquerors in history tried to recruit two knights, who are known for their chivalry, quite absurd. But, it does show the man's charisma for even trying such a thing.

"Hoh? I was wondering where the other relic went from Britain, it would seem one of the round knights have been summoned as a Berserker.

I thought it will be Mordred but Mordred was shorter, which means... Lancelot? Quite fascinating." Archer said with an amused tone.

The shrouded knight roared, it was pissed off for being recognised so quickly.

The black miasma disappeared and one of the Legendary Holy Sword's manifested in the Servent's hands.

"...No...that's… Arondight… " Saber said with total disbelief seeing one of her Knight looking like that!

With an inhuman roar, the black knight lunged at Archer who was still standing on top of the light pole, his hands were crossed and he had an amused smirk on his face.

"That would be enough of you, rabid dog." the blonde Hero said with a sneer seeing such blatant assault on him.

Golden portals opened around Lancelot, chains rushed towards the assaulting Servent, there were quite a bit of them.

Moments later the Servant of Madness was tangled in the chains midair.

The Servant of Bow finally moved his hand and motioned for more portals to open.

This time it was an array of weapons that pointed at the struggling Servant, it would seem that Servant of Madness can resist the chain and was getting out of them.

But, The Golden Hero only needed a few moments to release his weapons from the portals.

Sounds of weapons breaking sound barriers spread through the docks.

A painful inhuman roar spread through the docks before the corpse of the Berserker class Servant dropped on the ground, a few moments later it started to disappear.

"Now that the nuisance is gone do tell me if there is going to be more theatrics from you Rider." The Servant of Bow said with an eye roll.

Not that anyone said anything for some time, Rider's Master was pale white after seeing how a Servant was defeated in less than five seconds.

While Servants can hide it quite well they were affected by this as well, especially Lancer and Saber who looked at this with utter shock.

Saber especially, as she knows how good is Lancelot.

"Not...quite, I summoned everyone to propose a deal!"

Lancer and Saber nearly groaned hearing that.

"Relinquish your claim on grail and join my forces and together we can conquer the world, no! The very stars together!" The redhead Hero said while raising his hand with a large smirk on his face.

"Pffff, Hahahahaha." Archer started uncontrollably laughing hearing that, he nearly dropped from the light pole.

"This… was one best laugh I had in years." The Golden Hero used one of his gloved hands to clean off some tears of laughter.

"Nevertheless, why would I relinquish the claim of grail when it legitimately belongs to me like the rest of this world?" This time the blonde hero said seriously, his shift in attitude from laughing to being serious changed in a matter of seconds.

"...I see… never expected that this war will have three Kings, especially you King of Heroes." Rider said that quite seriously.