Beginning of Offense

Saber looked at her opponent in front of her, it was Lancer.

Lancer's Master was quite pissed when Emiya decided to blow up the whole building he was staying in.

And so, under his fiance's urging Kayneth, the Master of Lancer, decided to go on offense and deal with handicapped Saber who was injured in a previous exchange in the docks.

It was the perfect opportunity to do so, at least in Kayneth point of view…

"Saber this is our last opportunity to finish our duel," Lancer said to the blond knight.

The Servant of spear knows that he won't going to have another chance to experience a proper battle…

He knows that neighter Saber's Master or his Master cares about honour.

And most of all there was a very powerful witch on loose, everyone was living on the edge with such an opponent, lurking in shadows.

Even now Saber's attention from time to time would wander to the forest they were fighting in, not knowing when Caster would attack them.

"Yes, let's fight Lancer!" Saber said to the Irish Hero.

Through Saber tried to hide her mental state, Lancer did picked up, he somewhat could understand when there is an evil older sister who destroyed her kingdom running around in the same war.

The Hero of Spear decided not to hold back, same with Saber, as she did not hide her sword, neighter Lancer hid his spears abilities.

Second later they clashed once again.

While the Servants are fighting. So, are the Masters, Kayneth brought out his main Mystic Code 'Volumen Hydrargyrum'. It looks nothing more than a blob of mercury. But, it's extremely lethal as Magus has complete control over mercury manipulation.

And with few swipes of it, the whole Einzbern castle front lobby was in complete mess, with broken vases, paintings, even floor was not spared as it had deep gashes.

Kayneth was pissed for losing his hotel base and multiple mystic codes he brought from England, and now he will get his revenge from Emiya directly.

Pity, that his clouded emotions will be used against him by Magus Killer as he started to lead him by the nose to a perfect position to end him.

While Masters and Servants were fighting, Einzbern homunculus and Lesser Grail host has left the castle through a hidden passage.

Only she didn't run away far with Emiya's assistant and her bodyguard, as she has a connection to the boundary field of their castle.

The moment it was breached she collapsed on the ground.

"Irisviel!" The black-haired assistant and her bodyguard rushed to her side.

"Are you okay?" 

The silver-haired woman ignored the question, as she remembered what she saw the moment the boundary field was breached.

"She is here. Both of them, Caster and her Master." She said that while slowly getting up with her bodyguard help.

They looked around the forests seeing that the place look more vibrant already.

"We have to warn Kiritsugu and Saber of them!" The Homunculus said to her with a worried look.

"My priority is to watch over you Irisviel." The woman dressed in a suit pointed that out.

"Then it's a good thing that your orders are to protect me no matter where I go, correct?" The silver-haired woman said with a knowing look.

The woman in suit could only sigh, and follow her Mistress back to the castle.

~~~~~~With Ren~~~~~~

"What primitive Boundary Field, at least it's better than the one at Bug Man's house," Morgan said with less disgust as she saw a sprawling forest in front of her.

"Einzbern love their seclusion," Ren said as he looked around, he then continued to speak.

"Meaning they invested quite a bit of resources into them." He turned back at her while saying that.

"Pointless if you ask me." She snapped her fingers elegantly.

Shattering the boundary field casually.

"They have not thought about invading Fae, which should not be around at this point and time," Ren said with a deadpan look, he knows quite well how much time does it take to set up a boundary field.

Yet, Morgan just burst them like some bubble made from soap.

To his words, the Servant of Magic just shrugged her shoulders.

After entering the Einzbern territory they started to stroll towards the castle location.

Before arriving there Ren with Caster picked up the location of the Servants battling.

'It's time…"

He softly said to Morgan who slowly nodded, she will track this battle with keen interest.

The witch wishes to see the power of their attack hound, after all that hard work they spend on their new Servant.

~~~

As Lancer and Saber were exchanging blows, the Servant of Spear was having the upper hand because of Saber's disability.

Not only one of his spears that holds the curse is very annoying and dangerous, any wound inflicted doesn't heal, thankfully Saber has her armour. But, not every place of her body holds a piece of armour.

Saber already accumulated several cuts while Lancer always keeps his distance now that he can see her sword length.

This lead the blonde knight start to using her Strike Air Noble Phantasm just to balance out the pressure.

If this continues she will lose from simple attrition and accumulated injuries.

But, as their duel gets heated up the vegetation started to come to life even further, heralding the arrival of someone or something.

As next moment black miasma started to gather around in front of them in a swirl like fashion.

"This is not good!" The blond knight said with a sweaty look on her forehead, the Servant of the Sword has realised that she forgot to pay extra attention to her surroundings!

Both of the knight class Servants stopped their fight and observed the phenomenon cautiously.

A few seconds later the miasma formed into a black armoured knight who slowly stood up.

Greenish-blue like particles danced around alongside the miasma and its green glowing eyes stared at the duo of Servants.

"Berserker?"

"This is no good Lancer! This servant is under Morgan's control!" The blonde said that while pointing her blade at this intruder.

Multiple things started to pop up in her mind as she felt that this Servant is a Fae, and the oppressive aura its emitting was off the charts.

'Did Morgan summoned a Servant on her own? Did she brainwashed another Master? Or, did she killed a Master and took the Servant as her own?' She thought all about that as she closely observed this servant.

"It's some sort of Noble Phantasm or a curse which make me unable to make out what this thing is…" She softly said to her temporary ally.

"It appears so…" Lancer said with a frown.

"Berserker kill Lancer…" a male voice spread through the area like a wind.

"Understood, My Lord." The Servant of Madness said with an indifferent voice.

Neither Lancer or Saber could tell if it was male or female, or even a being of flesh… it was a goosebumps-inducing thing.

"Prepare yourself, human." Berserker lifted his both hands slightly, then brushed them down, the very next moment he was holding two Black greenish longswords.

"Berserker don't interfere! This duel is between Lancer and me." Saber angrily said with a frustrated look.

"Your opinion is irrelevant." Berserker said that as next second he lunged forward leaving a sonic boom behind.

Both Saber and Lancer's eyes went wide seeing the speed of this Servant.

~~~

"Berserker can...talk? Didn't you increased his Madness Enchantment?" Morgan said after witnessing trash talk between Lancelot and its original King!

She is not going to lie it was beautiful to watch!

"What of it? I spend the whole day tempering with his vessel's thought process." Ren said while slightly rotating his shoulder, he did barely slept because of all that work.

"Mental pollution… you completely, destroyed his original personality?" She said with wide eyes.

"Indeed, he is now at the point where even religious extremist would be jealous of his fanatism to serve," Ren said with a smirk.

While Morgan looked at him with no small amount of awe, the more she is exposed to his homunculus art the more she sees the benefits of it, no wonder her human counterpart delved into this art.

'But, this is where his origins comes to play… his prana is more attuned towards controlling someone or something…' The pale blond witch thought seriously for a second before continued to watch the fight while slowly strolling towards the Einzbern castle.

~~~

Lancer had barely a fraction of a second to cross his spears before receiving the blow from Servant of Madness.

His eyes bulged further as he was pushed back, even skidding through the ground.

Saber reacted quickly as she was swinging from Berserker's side.

The black knight didn't even bother with her as his body moved in a nearly supernatural manner, he dodged with spin and did a roundabout kick sending the blond flying.

Saber thanks to her instincts was able to partially block that blow with her sword, but the force of the blow was something she has not experienced before!

'This Berserker is not normal at all!' The Blond Knight flew through the air as she thought about this, the pain washed through her hand, making her go numb.

She quickly readjusted mid-air before landing on the ground, her whole body screamed in protest.

The girl looked at her right hand, it was shaking from pain, she could only grimace at this.

Her gaze went to Berserker who was already in front of Lancer and the Servant of Madness was already overwhelming the fellow knight.

Each blow was beyond anything Saber saw, in strength and sword mastery, it's like this Berserker was master of the blade. Yet, wasn't it suppose to be a rapid beast incapable of thought?

What kind of monstrosity did Morgan released upon the world!?

She was about to rejoin the fight, but Berserker as if knowing turned around and instead of holding a sword it had a black greenish…

'Is that a gun?' Saber's eyes widened as she felt warning bells ringing in her head, she quickly used a tree to hide as the Servant of Madness released a volley of prana imbued bullets.

"Your fight is with me you rapid beast!" Lancer lunged with his spears while Berserker was shooting at Saber.

Once again the Black Knight showed his mastery over combat as kicked the spears away, and with spin pointed the assault rifle at Lancer face.

'What madness is this!? How is it so good with multiple range of weapons?' Lancer thought as he tried to block and dodge the bullets.

*BANG*

*Painful Groan*

Lancer quickly rolled away and distanced himself away from Berserker, his right shoulder was busted and it was severely bleeding, he won't be able to utilise his dual spear fighting style until he is patched up.

He could ask his Master to patch him up. But, The Irish Hero grimaced when he felt how pissed his Master was right now…

~~~

Ren with Caster arrived at the main lobby of Einzbern Castle, the pale blond witch hummed at the sight of the place.

"Hmm, not quite there yet. But, It could work after few renovations." She said that she inspected the place.

The Servant of Magic was behaving like a customer who was about to buy its first house.

"Hate it to break it to you, Caster. But, Lancer's Master is about to get a bullet to his head if we are going to waste time here." Ren said that as he walked up by flight of stairs.

"And why we care about enemy Master?" She asked with a sigh, not remembering this particular conversation before.

"To put it simply, I need a capable castellan, once my power is revealed in the Association, it will be either total war with them, or they will be in total awe and will try curry favours, something which I have no interest with all the political nonsense of the Association." He explained to her.

"So, you need a minion?" She said after thinking for a bit.

"Yeah, and it just turns out he has quite a bit of influence there." He grinned for a second as he heard a loud bang from a gun.

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