48 Contact with both Factions

A few days later, Jun and Mordred were heading for the church to meet the priest serving as the supervisor from the Church for this Great Holy Grail War.

Penthesilea meditated inside the reality marble where time flows slower so that she did not have to wait as long and Jack followed from a distance, hidden with her Presence Concealment (A+) as previously discussed

A dove familiar of the Assassin of Red Semiramis had approached him with the message to meet at the church so Jun was going there now.

As soon as he arrived and entered, with Mordred following in her spiritual form, he spotted Shirou Kotomine, the man himself kneeling reverently in prayer while Alaya, his beloved God was arranging for all of his plans to fail.

Meanwhile, Semiramis in spiritual form watched over him analyzing Jun as soon as he had entered the building.

"I assume you're the one who called me here?" Jun spoke first.

As he did, he communicated mentally to Mordred.

'You'll probably get a bad feeling soon but don't worry, I've got it handled.'

Mordred was confused but gave out an okay in response.

"Pleased to meet you. I am the supervisor dispatched by the Church for this war, Shirou Kotomine." Shirou greeted.

"Haikami Jun." Jun also gave his name.

"You're servant?" The priest asked.

Given a mental cue, Mordred materialized in full armor, giving Jun a discrete look.

'How the hell did he know?' Currently, she was indeed having a bad feeling about the situation.

"Then I shall return the favor." Shirou spoke.

Semiramis materialized and introduced herself.

"I'm the Assassin of Red, my True Name is Semiramis. Nice to meet you, Jun or what was it."

"Then let us start by exchanging information shall we?" Shirou suggested.

"Sounds good." Jun replied and they both sat down.

"The Black Faction seems to be mostly finished with their preparations. Especially, their Lance, surmised to be Vlad III is particularly dangerous." Shirou started.

"It seems you already knew it." He added.

"Indeed." Jun replied.

"I did my own scouting already." He added.

"Oh? Then can you share what you discovered?" Shirous requested.

"Of course." Jun replied and began revealing some fact he knew.

"They seemed to have summoner Caster quite a while ago to build his workshop and start producing Golems to bolster a veritable army of Homunculi they themselves created. I deduced his True Name to be Avicebron, a Kabbalist and renowned golem master." He started.

"Very well. That is certainly valuable information." Shirou nodded and even Semiramis thought better of Jun, as in, "He might make a useful slave." kind of better.

"I have no more true names for you but I have more or less grasped the grades of the enemy Servants. Their strength seems to be focused on Lancer, Archer and Saber while Rider and Berserker seem quite a bit weaker."

"For the former, their noble phantasm might make up the difference but I've seen Berserker's master test hers and its nothing that impressive. As for Assassin, it seem to not yet have arrived." Jun concluded his contribution of information.

"Excellent, this much information ought to give us quite an advantage. Also, the summoning of a Ruler Class Servant has been verified." Shirou mentioned.

"Hmm . . . Well, Ruler is supposed to be neutral so there shouldn't be too many issues." Jun shrugged.

"What about our faction?" He asked.

"There seems to have been some problems with Berserker but the rest have assembled, you're the last to arrive." Shirou replied.

"Shall we go meet them?" He suggested.

"You and the empress here have probably turned them into puppets so no need." Jun casually said, stunning everyone in the room.

Mordred summoned her sword and Semiramis to chains made from magecraft but Shirou spoke.

"I wonder what you're talking about?" Sounding genuinely confused.

Jun's Dragon Eyed that could see through all manner of falsity shone and he spoke.

"Do not think these eyes can be fooled priest. I'll let this attempt to screw me over slide but it better not happen again." Jun blatantly threatened.

Shirou closed his eyes and became silent for a bit as both servants awaited awaited their masters' orders.

"I'll keep that in mind." He finally said, extending his hand for a shake and Jun took it. Both Servants then disarmed.

With that, they temporarily parted ways, Jun went into to town with Mordred in casual clothes by his side.

"What now master? You seem to have a good handle on things." She said.

"Let's go for a date in town shall we?" Jun suggested.

"Date!?" She looked at him weirdly but then remembered his true appearance and blushed.

"Yup! This town is managed by our enemy so by nightfall, they should come and pick a fight with us, until then, we should just enjoy our time together.

As for Jack, jun had already given her three extremely important missions.

Back in the church, Shirou was conversing with Semiramis about the war before asking about Jun and his Servant.

Semiramis checked with her familiars and stalled for a bit before saying.

"They seem to be on a . . . date?"

". . . ?" The priest was at a loss for words.

Later, during nighttime, much like Jun had predicted, and army of homunculi and golems had come to tested them out, making Jun look at Mordred with a smug look.

"Yeah, yeah you're the best let's get to fighting." Modred rolled her eyes.

"Alright Mor, take care of the golems, I'll handle the homunculi." Jun said.

"Got it." And the battle started.

And swiftly ended.

Jun easily dodged the arrow released by the homunculi and shot them all down with magic bullets fired from his fingers while Modred demolished all the golems with ease. The Black Faction members watching the fight were impressed but not the slightest bit afraid and still very confident.

One particular member, Celenike Icecolle Yggdmillennia, the master of the Rider of Black Astolfo stealthily looked at Jun's image with lust. Even his downgraded appearance was enough to provoke such feelings in most people without a strong enough will.

'It would be better if he was a bit weaker though . . .' She thought.

Meanwhile, Shirou sent Karna, the Lancer of Red to intercept Ruler on her way to Trifas, a city with a central position to the war where Jun was also heading next.

Also around this time, Sieg, despite no yet having his name, obtained consciousness and free will, developing a powerful self preservation instinct that led him to try and escape a horrible fate.

Sieg was a character with plot armor so thick even the gods could not penetrate it. He was about to die but gained consciousness and freed himself. He was going to get caught but Astolfo, the Rider of Black, the only one in the entire Yggdmillennia Castle was the one to find him first and helped him.

Later, Astolfo helped him escape but they were caught he got mortally wounded but Siegfried, the Saber of Black sacrificed himself by giving the homunculus his heart, leadining to him calling himself Sieg.

The rest of the Black faction then arrived to take him in along with Astolfo but Ruler interfered and saved him. Then, after he chose to return to the fight out of his own free will, Mordred killed him but Berserker of Black's noble phantasm shocked him back to life.

His life was still in danger though so he gained the ability to transform into Siegfried to fight Mordred but got beat anyway and so, when he was about to die, Spartacus appeared and Mordred retreated.

After that, he was about to get caught in spartacus attack and die along with Astolfo but Ruler stepped in and saved them both.

That was far from the ned but, safe to say, Sieg was a pawn prepared by Alaya and given the necessary plot armor to succeed in the task Alaya wanted him to do, even if he himself did not realize it.

This time though, Jun was planning on running some major interference on the plot. Due to his actions, the incidents involving Spartacus, the original Berserker of Red and Jack the Ripper would no longer happen, making the war much more straightforward.

He then ordered Mordred to proceed in spiritual form to Trifas without him as he activated his Veil of Death's Secrets with a True Name release to completely hide his existence as he waited in the vicinity of the Yggdmillennia Castle.

Karna, the Lancer of Red, attacked Ruler but, like in the original series, he got interrupted by Saber of Black and after a couple of exchanges, both retreated, leaving Ruler alone as she had refused to accompany Saber's master, Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia to maintain proper neutrality.

Now though, it was time for Jun to run some interference. He ordered Jack to get ready to infiltrate the Millennia Castle and perform her first mission while he sent Nyxo to allow him to talk to Ruler.

'It's time to finally get this show started!' Jun thought with excitement.

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