Chapter 6 – Is This Ten-Pull Gacha Really Not Going to Give Me a Servant?!

Chapter 6 – Is This Ten-Pull Gacha Really Not Going to Give Me a Servant?!

Hearing the system announce that he could now roll the gacha, Ethan didn't hesitate for a second and confirmed immediately.

"Summon right now!"

[Confirmed, beginning ten-pull gacha.]

[Please remain silent; the summoning ritual is about to commence.]

The mana flowing through the ley lines began to converge beneath Ethan's feet.

Before long, a silver summoning circle slowly emerged.

"This massive amount of mana... Where exactly is it coming from...?"

Olga Marie quickly sensed that something was wrong. Her eyes followed the flow of mana, locking onto Ethan, whose face was filled with determination.

"Civilian, what are you doing? Don't tell me…!"

At the same time, Medusa also noticed the anomaly in the space around them.

"Summoning right in front of me? Don't underestimate me."

With just a single glance from her, the chains around her wriggled like venomous snakes, lunging straight at Ethan!

—Clang!

A massive shield blocked the incoming attack.

"Don't you dare harm Senpai!!!"

Mash resolutely stood in front of Ethan, intercepting Medusa's strike.

"You annoying little brat!"

Medusa swung Harpe – Immortal Slaying Scythe once more, slashing down at Mash with overwhelming force.

But at that moment, Ethan had no mind to pay attention to the battle. The summoning circle this time was forming much slower than his previous single-pull summoning.

[To speed up the process, Host can try chanting the summoning incantation.]

"Huh?"

Hearing the system's message, Ethan looked incredulous.

The hell? I have to chant for a gacha roll? How superstitious can this get?

[Chanting the summoning incantation can increase the probability of summoning a Servant.]

Damn it!

Why didn't you say so earlier!!!

Ethan glanced at Mash.

She was steadily falling into a disadvantage against Medusa. In order to protect him, Mash had to use all her strength to block every attack.

There was no time to delay any further.

Ethan immediately raised his hand, marked with his Command Spell, over the summoning circle. At that moment, the summoning incantation automatically appeared before his eyes.

—"Let silver and steel be the essence. Let stone and the archduke of contracts be the foundation. Let black be the color I pay tribute to. Let rise a wall against the wind that shall fall. Let the four cardinal gates close. Let the three-forked road from the crown reaching unto the Kingdom rotate."

—"Let it be declared now; your flesh shall serve under me, and my fate shall be with your sword. Submit to the beckoning of the Holy Grail. Answer, if you would submit to this will and this truth.!"

The mana in the ley lines surged violently into the summoning circle.

—"An oath shall be sworn here. I shall attain all virtues of all of Heaven; I shall have dominion over all evils of all of Hell.!"

Sure enough, with each verse of the chant, the summoning circle on the ground began to spin wildly, forming a swirling mana vortex.

—"From the Seventh Heaven, attended to by three great words of power, come forth from the ring of restraint, protector of the holy balance!!"

The moment the final chant was spoken, the summoning circle beneath Ethan erupted in a dazzling light!

"You lot have truly angered me now, you little brat!!!"

Realizing the situation had turned dire, Medusa furiously raised Harpe – Immortal Slaying Scythe and slammed it down with full force!

"Ugh…"

Mash let out a pained groan as she endured the tremendous impact, her body staggering back a step. But she gritted her teeth, standing firm, continuing to shield Ethan.

"I… I won't… let Senpai… get hurt…"

"You're just a second-rate Pseudo-Servant, and yet you dare talk big?!"

Medusa's face twisted with madness.

The Harpe in her hands aimed directly at the unsteady Mash, launching a lethal strike!

Mash clenched her teeth, gripping her shield tightly, bracing herself to take the blow head-on.

—Whoosh!

Suddenly, a dark figure shot past Mash.

Medusa, who had just put all her strength into her attack, suddenly changed expression. She immediately leaped backward, retreating into the area covered by her chains.

"Who?!"

She tightened her grip on Harpe, scanning her surroundings warily.

A shadowy figure, moving at extreme speed, was charging straight toward her.

"Hmph."

Medusa scoffed coldly, swinging her arm, revealing her long purple hair beneath her cloak.

Under the dim glow of flickering flames, her hair resembled a writhing nest of venomous snakes, instantly transforming into countless chains that lashed toward the intruder.

"You think you can escape from my trap so easily?"

However, the dark figure paid no attention to Medusa's taunts, solely focused on dodging the chains rapidly closing in around him.

Despite his incredible speed, the overwhelming number of chains was suffocating.

In mere moments, countless chains had restricted his movement, trapping him in a confined space.

And then—

—Pierced through!

The chains, like a horde of vicious serpents, instantly impaled the dark figure, tearing him apart into countless fragments!

Watching the intruder get shredded by her chains, Medusa smirked.

"Haha… Everything you do is futile. Why haven't you realized it yet? You're nothing but lost drifters, completely ignorant of the brutal reality of the Holy Grail War."

Her gaze shifted toward Mash.

"Little girl… You're next."

Medusa stepped forward, preparing to launch her next attack.

But—

—She stopped.

Her body suddenly stiffened.

Because—

That dark figure had appeared behind her once again.

In his hand—

—Was a semi-automatic handgun.

"———?!"

Before Medusa could react—

—Bang! Bang! Bang!

He pulled the trigger without hesitation!

—Ratatatatatatatata—!!!

As the gunfire roared, Medusa immediately leaped onto her chains above, attempting to escape.

But before she could take even two steps—

—She staggered, then plummeted straight down.

"Cough… cough…"

The dark figure stepped forward, approaching Medusa, who was now kneeling on the ground, blood pouring from her mouth.

A Servant, yet she had suffered such severe injuries from nothing more than a firearm.

"Who… are you…? But even if you defeat me… you won't be able to face… Saber…"

Her opponent completely ignored her words.

He simply reached into his coat and pulled out a large hunting revolver—

—And aimed it straight at her head.

—Bang!!!

With her Saint Graph destroyed, Medusa's eyes widened in unwillingness as her body slowly dissolved into the air.

The dark figure holstered his gun, then calmly stepped in front of Ethan.

"Mission complete, Master."

Only now did Mash and Olga Marie finally see his face clearly.

He was a middle-aged man.

Short white hair, a face weathered by time, and eyes devoid of emotion, as if he had already seen through all the cruelty of the world.

To him, the battle just now was nothing more than a routine assignment.

"Thank you, Assassin."

Ethan nodded.

"If there's nothing else, I will conceal myself. If any threats arise, I will be on alert."

"I'll be relying on you, then."

Before Ethan could even finish speaking, the white-haired man had already vanished into the air.

"I can't believe it… He actually succeeded in summoning a Servant on his first try…?"

Olga Marie was still in utter shock.

"Hey, are you really just a civilian? And that Summoning Chant… Where did you even learn it?!"

Faced with Olga Marie's barrage of questions, Ethan could only smile bitterly and point toward the scattered Magic Crystals on the ground.

"Director, do you need these?"