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Chapter 9

"Gods… he killed half of my men with a single shot from his Gate!!!" Iskandar said with wide eyes.

"Rider! the ground!!!" Waver pointed at the ground.

The sandy desert just turned gold!

"This is bad!!!" King of Conquerors realised that both Sky and ground and the entire front just turned into Gate of Babylon.

Just as they thought all three directions unleash their weapons immediately killing the rest of the army leaving only the chariot... sort of functional.

And just like that, the Noble Phantasm Ionioi Hetairoi was undone.

Before Iskandar can continue his charge regardless, the wall behind Gilgamesh has turned rainbow in glow and a new load of weapons rushed at Rider.

King of Conqueror did try to dodge this new attack from a single front only to his shock these new weapons have locked in at him and started following him.

Before long the divine bulls have been skewered and the chariot was lost…

Iskandar had to jump off the chariot to survive the assault as he realised that the weapons have locked into his chariot instead of him.

After landing on the asphalt Macedonian King looked around and saw that portals surrounding the bridge from three sides stopped shooting.

This only meant only one thing and that is King of Heroes is allowed Rider's Master to live.

King of Conquerors decided to use this moment to let Waver retreat.

After ordering Waver to live, Rider summoned his trusty horse and ready for the last charge, knowing quite well that it's impossible to win.

Nonetheless, he won't going to give up just because he can't win.

Moments later he charged with everything he got.

Not that he could go far as his horse quickly got impaled from spears and pikes which rushed from the ground.

The King of Conquerors didn't give up as he jumped before his horse completely collapsed.

Aiming his sword at the sitting King of Heroes.

But then chains rushed at him and he was caught midair.

"Heh… 2000 years between our rule and this is the gap…" Rider said with a sigh.

"Indeed… next time King of Conquerors do bring some giants, dragons and maybe couple demi-gods, for higher chance of victory," Gilgamesh suggested casually.

"Hahaha! I will!"

Next moment Iskandar got impaled from different directions, killing him in an instant.

Once the Macedonian King was gone all the portals and weapons were recalled into the treasury Gilgamesh then got up from his throne and walked over to Waver his hands were crossed and he had a disappointed look.

"You do realise that Grail Wars are battles between Servants with support of their Masters? Yet, you didn't boost King of Conquerors one bit.

Tell me why? You had three command seals which could have made me at least take the battle slightly more seriously." The Golden Hero said with a disappointed tone, which made Waver embarrassed.

"...I...completely forgot that it can be used in an offensive manner like this."

King of Heroes shook his head from hearing this.

"Rider is a good tactician, but tactics win battles, strategies win wars, remember that." After saying that with a burst of golden particles the Mesopotamian King disappeared.

Making Waver think about what the King just said.

~~~

'Less than 3 minutes… in less than 3 minutes the fight was over.'

'Archer didn't even move from his throne!'

With a sweaty forehead, Saber looked at the 'battle' at the bridge.

It was over before it properly even started.

All she saw was Rider pulling Archer into his Reality Marble that only lasted less than a few minutes before the Reality Marble got destroyed.

Then the charge… which ended quickly as it began.

In end, it was as one-sided as one can get.

"It's only you and me Saber." Archer manifested next to her.

"I won't going to surrender just because you showed me the difference between you and King of Conquerors," Sabre said with narrowed eyes.

"Hahaha. I don't know where you got this idea that I am trying to scare you off? All I did with this was to show Rider the difference between him and me." Gilgamesh shook his head while saying that.

"He believed that he could raid my vault or make me join him. All I did, was prove to him that he is several thousand years too young to do that." The Golden Hero casually shrugged while saying that.

"Saber I will see you tomorrow, until then have a nice evening."

After saying that he disappeared just like appeared leaving the conflicted King of Knights behind.

~~~

Emiya Kiritsugu was walking through the empty corridor of Tohsaka manor, so far he has not found a soul in this place.

The defences were annoying to take care of, even so, no one responded to alarms, and once he passed through the defences no one was there to greet him.

He had a chance to get rid of Archer as he was dealing with Rider.

This was the perfect time to get rid of opposition.

With Rider's defeat, something he simply knows will happen, Archer is far too powerful for King of Conquerors after seeing how easily King of Heroes can erase Servant, Magus Killer simply knows that Golden Hero will win this.

With Rider's defeat, it will only going to be Saber and Archer and now it's the perfect time to deal with Tohsaka.

"You finally here, took you long enough." Emiya Kiritsugu stiffed hearing that voice.

He slowly turned around and saw Archer sitting in Tokiomi Tohsaka chair. Both of his legs on the table the golden King was dressed in casual clothes.

Magus Killer didn't wait he simply pointed his Thompson Contender and shot at the blonde.

Sadly the bullet dropped on the ground the moment it left the barrel.

The Saber's Master eyes widened.

"You forgot the rune I left on your body," Gilgamesh said simply as he drank some tea, there was no fear or anger in his voice, the King of Heroes is treating this as casual conversation.

"Impossible...I checked my body there was nothing there!"

"Indeed, it's not there when I am away from you." The Mesopotamian King clarified.

Emiya Kiritsugu eyes widened once more as realisation hit him.

"Even so, I am using a regular gun!"

"The rune is specifically created just for you Emiya Kiritsugu. I am a perfectionist at heart, and the rune is specifically created to deal with you.

As long as I see you as an 'enemy' the rune will work as a concept which nullifies the threat known as Emiya Kiritsugu.

The only way for you to get over this is to believe at a subconscious level that you are no longer Emiya Kiritsugu, OR make me stop thinking that you are an 'enemy'." The blonde explained with a satisfying smile on his face because he quite liked the look Saber's Master had.

Sheer amount of disbelief and even horror, it was satisfying, as good the wine he used to drink regularly.

"T-This… are you truly an Archer? This sounds more like work of Caster…" Emiya Kiritsugu lowered his gun, as he asked dumbly.

Now that the blond mentioned, he doesn't have that self-assurance to shoot like he used to before coming to the house.

It's like all of his skills just left him the moment he entered the house.

"Hahaha! Are you trying to give me a class? I am King of Heroes! You people don't seem to understand who you are dealing with.

Neither Rider, neighter Tokiomi, no one seem to comprehend, they all think it's some fancy title, it's not! I am the strongest and oldest Hero in recorded history! Not even once in this war did I even use more than 1% of Gate of Babylon weaponry! You lost this war the moment Tokiomi summoned me Emiya Kiritsugu." Gilgamesh said with matter of fact voice.

In truth, he was getting tired of the disrespect everyone showing to him.

Oh, he can stomach Saber's for obvious reasons, and Rider's theatrics balanced out with his disrespect.

But the rest? Not so much, humans are utterly ignorant of his power and what Gilgamesh can do.

Even when Tokiomi said that 'he is going win' he almost immediately caved in from seeing Iskandar's army.

Thinking that it can eclipse King of Heroes power.

"Now that you here, I have an offer for you."

Emiya Kiritsugu was dumbfounded hearing how quickly Gilgamesh personality switch, going from angry to calm in a fraction of a second.

The Magus Killer has no idea if it's some sort of method to keep him on his toes, or it's the way he is, but it's damn effective.

"What kind of proposition are we talking about?" The Magus Killer asked cautiously.

"The which one will save your wife's life and majority of the city from a massive fire." The Golden Hero said as he took a sip of tea.

"...What are you talking about?"

*Sigh*

"The Grail War, how much do you know about the previous war?" King of Heroes asked.

"Not as much as I would like to know." Emiya Kiritsugu said neutrally he started to have a feeling there is something more to it.

"Indeed. Take a seat, let me explain some history to which you have never been able to gain access to." Gilgamesh motioned to take a seat for Saber's Master.

Emiya Kiritsugu didn't know how to react to that. Here he was in one of his enemies houses having a civil conversation with a King who ruled Mesopotamia around 5000 years ago.

The ridiculousness of this situation is beyond anything he did so far...

Nonetheless, the King of Heroes won't going to talk unless he takes his seat.

And so the Magus Killer with a sigh took his seat.

"Good, now you know that the Einzbern family are alchemist at core, and their combat prowess is abysmal. This lead to their early exists in previous wars.

Einzbern head became annoyed by this and in the third war, he decided to...cheat." Emiya Kiritsugu eyes widened that was something he didn't hear!

All he knew was that Einzbern left the war early because their Servant was one of the first to be beaten.

"The original plan was to summon Ruler Class Servant which will allow them to have command seals over other 6 Servants."

"Such… Servant is possible to summon!?" Magus Killer asked with wide eyes.

"The Ruler class Servants are very rare and only a few Heroes fit that category, Jeanne d'Arc is one of few possible Servants who fit in that category.

As you can imagine it didn't work, tempering with Grail System had large consequences which Einzbern didn't foresee, they summoned Avenger Class Servant with the name Angra Mainyu."

"Angra Mainyu… they summoned a God!?" Emiya Kiritsugu nearly jumped from his seat hearing that.

*Snort*

"No, it's impossible to Summon Divine Spirits with the current system Fuyuki has. No, they summoned a mere human which was treated as All World's Evil.

As you can imagine grail which suppose to be 'colourless' was tainted the moment Angra Mainyu died and its essence entered the system."

Magus Killer eyes went wide as he looked at the floor for a moment his brain started to work trying to understand what this means.

"If the grail is to manifest what will happen?"

"Any wish asked of it, will be fulfilled through destruction. As you can imagine...the city will burn." Gilgamesh finished his small history lesson.

"...I assume you have some idea for this? That's the reason for this, isn't it? You want something from me?" Emiya Kiritsugu asked as he realised why King of Heroes said all that.

"Indeed, I am the world's greatest collector, at my time I had every single known treasure in the world. I want Saber's catalyst, I want Avalon.

Give it to me, and I will drain all the prana from the Greater Grail and the Lesser Grail, this will give you from 50 to 70 years to find a way to deal with Grail, destroy it, cleanse it, I do not care."

When Gilgamesh finished saying that Magus Killer eyes went wide as saucers.

"H-How do you know I have Avalon!?"

This time Emiya Kiritsugu truly was shocked how does this Servant know that he has Avalon!?