The Battle on Tokyo Bay (3)

Oswald looks at the Pharaoh who is sitting on the throne. Rider doesn't look amused seeing him intruding on their fight.

"Tell me, Magus. What are you doing here? I don't remember inviting you to my temple," the cold voice of Rider vibrates through the hall.

Oswald looks around and sees Saber and Lancer were beaten up pretty badly. Archer and Ruler are almost out of juice.

As for Rider, although there are some destroyed places around him, he is perfectly fine. It is the result of one of his Noble Phantasms, Ramesseum Tentyris, which grants him and his Guardian Beasts immortality.

"Well, I am here to fight you together with these 4 Servants," not minding the chills he was getting, he replied. He is trying to stall as much time as possible for the others to get back some of their strength.

"You? A simple, weak human, is going to fight me?" Rider ridiculed Oswald with a snort.

"Yes, this simple weak human is going to stand against you to save the city," without batting an eye, Oswald pulls out Yamato from the scabbard.

"Hmm… that blade, it is something else," Rider raised his eyebrow when he saw Yamato. Some of the demonic powers are sipping through the blade as they are speaking.

"But I have to ask you something," Rider said with a slightly amused tone. "Why are you not dead yet? Seeing these Servants, I am sure that the curse is working. So, why are you not dead?" he asked.

"Well, your majesty, I am just that awesome," Oswald smirks.

"I know you are trying to stall time but it doesn't matter. I can just kill you like this," with a snap of Rider's finger, a ray of light passed through Oswald's heart. His body dropped onto the ground, lifelessly.

"No!!!" Saber and the rest screamed. Ruler just stared hard at her Master's corpse. Although she saw her Master dead, the connection between the two of them is still there. So, she can only assume that her Master is still alive.

"You!!!" Lancer angrily charged toward Rider but she was so focused on Rider that she didn't see a Sphinx which rammed into her.

She flew across the temple and readjust herself in the air and landed on her feet. "You! You! You! You! I won't forgive you!" Lancer's face is full of anger. She is staring daggers at Rider who is parrying a slash from Saber.

"Calm yourself, Lancer!" Ruler shouted, shooting Rider with multiple muskets.

"Calm myself?! We failed to protect him!" The Valkyrie screamed back crazily in a hoarse voice. "We weren't able to protect him… again!" she continued while grabbing and shaking her head.

Leaving the muskets to keep shooting at Rider, Ruler rushed toward Lancer and punched her hard. "Get a grip, idiot!" Ruler shouted and punched her again. "Keep your focus on the enemy instead of having a breakdown!" She continued.

It made the love-crazed valkyrie calm down a little and started staring venomously at Rider. Her body started burning blue flames and charged toward Rider to help Saber.

Rider is taking on four Servants like it was nothing. He got plenty of prana from his Master and the curse inside the temple made all the parameters of Servants rank down by one. So, he has plenty of advantages here aside from being an immortal.

"Why did you kill him?!" Saber yelled.

"He had it coming since getting into my temple without being invited," Rider replied. "And you too, Ruler. I had already killed your —," Just as he was about to continue, he heard a gasping sound from below.

"Gasp!" Oswald sat up while taking in a lot of air.

"Dammit. It takes 15 minutes to regenerate a heart," he muttered and looked around the surroundings.

"You were saying?" Ruler smirks at Rider.

Rider looks at Oswald, not believing that a human didn't die from being pierced to the heart by a light beam as hot as the sun.

Without giving a chance to Rider, the four Servants keep on pushing him. With Oswald joining the fray to keep the Sphinxes at bay, the battle is going better than before and Rider notices that he is being pushed back.

"That's six," Oswald said as cutting the death line of a Sphinx.

With the other Servants being here, he can take on multiple Sphinxes together with the support fire from Ruler.

He dodged the incoming attack from the right by teleporting behind. And another incoming jaw from above by teleporting to the left. And he noticed too late for the incoming claw from the front.

*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*

Ruler's muskets shot the head of that Sphinx and not missing the opportunity, he quickly slashed the death line on that Sphinx.

"And that's seven," he keeps on counting.

Noticing Rider being pushed back nearly to his limit, Ruler smirks, "Not too tough now, eh, Egyptian Dio?"

Just as he was about to retort such rudeness from Ruler, he noticed that his mana supply was cut off. After seeing Rider raise his eyebrow, Oswald smirks and asks, "I guess your Master is no longer here."

"Assassin," Rider growled.

"Yup," Oswald replied with a popping p sound while standing up. No one would believe that the man got his heart destroyed if not for the hole in the shirt he is wearing.

"You cur!" Rider got angry but immediately calmed himself. He will not get angry because of the cockroach. He prepared another plan as with the lack of prana supply, he couldn't keep on using his Noble Phantasm, Ramesseum Tentyris.

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With Assassin, about 30 minutes ago,

Under the moonlight, a young girl is dancing passionately. She dances and dances and dances so much that she is giving off sweat. This was the job given to her by her Master and that scary man. She will finish it without fail.

The girl is wearing a white mask shaped like a skull on her face to hide her identity. But almost all the people from the Holy Grail War know her as Assassin, the Servant of Assassination.

She is dancing inside the large workshop that's underneath the center of Mt. Okutama. With the help of the Philosopher's Stone given to her by the scary man, she was able to dispel every barrier in the workshop.

She kept dancing as it is what she is supposed to do. She dances elegantly in order to please her Master even when she is nowhere to be seen.

She dances from inside the closed-off ventilation control room to use the vents to circulate the poison that came from her sweat and scent as she danced. Although she notes that the concentration of the poison is considerably lower by using this method.

As long as the people inside the workshop do not have the mystic code that blocks poison she could kill everyone inside.

Her Master had told her to kill everyone even though the scary man reminded her Master not to. But according to her Master, he only warned her Master, not her. So, she is allowed to kill everyone.

Thinking about killing everyone almost made her stop what she was doing because of the Master of Berserker's words. Those funny words keep repeating inside her ears.

But she shook it off. She can't let down her Master. And she is scared of the scary man. So, she dances. She dances while thinking about the boy she had fallen in love with.

After dancing for a little longer, she stopped. Her job here is done. Now, she needs to go inside and see if there are any survivors. If there are any, she will need to end them.

She walks inside the hallway. Many corpses are lying on the ground, on the chair, on the table, and… one body on the cupboard. She looks around, searching for any survivors.

"No survivors," she muttered. Room after room, she looks around. She found some strugglers but she ended them with her knife.

And finally, she saw the man with a mask, lying his head on the table. Assassin can tell immediately that the man is already dead. Without sparing a second glance, Assassin walks toward another room. The room where she noticed a survivor.

The room is clean. Too clean with some runes here and there. The air in this room has good circulation. It's also been properly processed, against gases, and against dust.

Noticing that, Assassin immediately understood that the boy inside this room was able to survive because of it. So, she would do the same old way, gutting the boy in his bed. She stabbed her knife to his head, neck, heart, and stomach. He died without being able to say anything to his assailant.

And thus, the future Master of Perseus, Rider from the upcoming 2nd Tokyo Holy Grail War, died just like that.

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Author's Note;

This chapter is a little shorter than others, but hey! A chapter is a chapter. I didn't update a chapter the previous week because I was busy with the assignments.

And how do you like the new name of the story?

"Moonlit Chronicles of the Unambitious Magician"

Yeah, I know I am bad at giving names, but I am improving, okay?

Thank you, Izumi Yamazaki, for the cover photo. Oz and Lorelei look amazing! You can check it in the paragraph comment.