2 2- Lancer's Ambush
[Reincarnation sucessful]
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I wake up on the floor of a school hallway, a neckless laying next to me. I get up, pick up the neckless and store it inside my body, then i go on my way outside the school and to Shirou's house.
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How do i know where it is? I asked the system. A pity that I diden't get anything out of Shirou's body out of it's sheer existence. Having his memories, magic circuits, skills and etc. would have been helpfull.
...Aaaaaand I just gained another entry in the Greed Achivement.
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Anyway. On my way home, I got some essencials done:
Firstly, I took my cellphone out of my pocked and proceded to swallow and 'digest' it. I use the phones materials alongside some substances from my biomass to make a new one: better, untraceable, batery free and part of my body, so it will only be operatable by me, it won't make any sound and will be regenerated if damaged and it will also allow me to use it without ocuping my hands, voice, sense of hearing or anything external, as it will be directly linked to my 'nervous system (the mush thingy that can be anything including a nervous system and is known as biomass)' it will receive and deliver calls as if i'm using some sort of telepaty, Heck, i can even be in multiple phone conversations at the same time without anyone outside beeing able to TELL that i'm on the phone!
Second, I use some biomass to create some clothes above my skin and consume the old ones. There, if my clothes get damaged now, they will simply regenerate. Even tho now I'm technically naked...
Lastly, I check on my body and search for stuff to improve. Diden't find anything, the System did a hell of a good job: The body is entirely made of the same type of cell, that acts as digestive system, brain, muscle, structure, etc. I notice that due to that, most of my organs are just ornamental, like, if my head is chopped off, i'll still have all my five senses and ability to think like if nothing ever hapened!
With those done, I start considering how I should handle the future events I remember from the show.
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I've decided to walk home. It made me a litlle sad that building hopping or straight up flying would rise to much atention. Void mode might have solved that issue, but it uses to much energy and i'm not in any hurry.
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By the way I should mention that the System fine tuned some powers to be usable in real life as oposed to games, resulting in some powers beeing buffed and some beeing nerfed: the full potential of my shapeshifting beeing one of those buffs, and Void Mode beeing one of those nerfs.
In the game, Void Mode caused the user to be invisible and undamageable at the cost of energy and a bit of speed, now it doesn't give the immortality stat anymore.
I'm quite OK with this nerf since the reason for it was the power's immortality stat being redundant:
as a Prototype I can heal from any wound as long as I have at least some biomass left, and as a Tenno, whenever I "die", the Void just brings me back to life. So I'm immortal AND hard to hurt.
If I want to be invulnerable, Void Dash can do the trick just fine. It was also tweeked by the System and it was completly reeworked: What once was a 'travel' power, is now a 'state' power like Void Mode and it allows me to pass throght solid matter! A Prototype's strenght + the Tenno's bullet jump movement tecknique will be way better than anything the old Void Dash could acomplish!
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On my way home, I start considering how I should handle the future events I remember from the show.
In the show, mages live in secret from human society, and the Holy Grail War is a sort of competition between 7 mages, the winner of the war gets to make one wish to the omnipotent Holy Grail.
The participants of the war receive 1 servant each, those servants are the spirits of past heros such as Shakespeare and King Arthur (some fictional characters from my dimension, aren't very fictional in this one), the servants help their master in the war, and feed on a bit of the master's mana. Should a servant bring victory to its master, their wish will also be granted.
Beeing (usualy) famous heros, it is important to keep the servants name a secret from other competidors, as the legends tend to record both the strenghts and weaknesses of those heros, making it easy to plan strategies againt them. As the servants' class is easly distinguishable, and one servant from each class is sumoned for the war, they are comonly used as the servant's alias (the classes are: Lancer, Archer, Saber, Rider, Berserker, Caster, Assassin).
The masters receive tatoo looking things called 'Comand Seals', they can be used on their respective servants to force their bodies to the master's will. Using this to put a leash on a disobidient servant is a WASTE of a Comand Seal, as the bloody things can be used to boost a servant's power above their limits, make the servant teleport, and even more! As each master only get 3 Comand Seals per war, they need to be VERY wise with how and when to use them.
If your servant dies, then you're eliminated from the war/competition, the last team standing wins.
It is important to note that servants are POWERFULL AS ALL HELL, so the prefered tactic in the war is to hunt for the oponent masters, because without a master (or more precisely, their mana), the servant starves to death.
The protagonist from the show (Shirou Emia) is the corpse I'm possesing right now.
Shirou is the adoptive son of a retired (and now deceased) mage. Shirou knows only one spell and have only a vague idea of what the magical comunity is. He got himself in the war by accident, as he witnessed a battle between the servants Archer and Lancer, Lancer stabbed Shirou to off the 'human' witness and keep the existence of magic a secret. Archer's master, Rin Tohsaka (the girl I have to make win this thing) decided to use a mysterious amulet (the one that was by my side when I woke up) to heal Shirou. After that, Shirou get's better, stuff happens, he summons a servant, team up with Thonsaka, he falls in love with Tohsaka, he falls in love with his servant, he falls in love with so many people that I thought that the show would turn into a rom-com, and then he wins the war and doesen't wish for anything cause he just wanted to keep the bad guys from geting the Grail, the end.
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The first thing I need to deal with right now is Lancer, because he will try to kill me again once I get home.
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Hmm... This idea might work...
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When I arrive home, I just throw myself, face/biomass-down, at a spot on the floor and pretend to be asleep wile keeping an eye/back/biomass on the celing.
My FOV (field of vision) is as wide as my body's surface (internal surface included!), so I can look at something without being caught, quite easily. Yay for beeing a pile of mush.
Soon enough, Lancer materialises on the celing and drop spear-down onto me.
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I wait for the perfect moment.
The spear pierces my heart/biomass and Lancer touches the ground beside me, blood gushes out of my wound in way larger quantities than it should have for a normal pearson.
I stop the bleeding but leave the hole in my chest/byomass and stand up, moving like the spear isn't even there (Void Dash) and shapeshift my arm/biomass into my own spear.
Lancer tries to pull his spear back to deliver a second strike, but unfortunaly for him I've already anchored his spear to the ground using my biomass.
I thrust my arm-spear into Lancer's chest, he lets go of his spear and tries to block my atack using his arms, I use Void Dash to bypass his defences and attack his heart directly, as soon as the heart is skewered, I change the tip of my arm-spear into a hook and pull with Prototype-level strenght.
I rip Lancer's heart out of his body, efectivly avenging Shirou Emia's death.
It all took just a moment, not even a second has passed since Lancer's landing.
He looks at the impaled heart in my arm-spear-hook-thing, not a trace of fear in his face, only surprise and confusion.
after a moment, his body falls lifeless on the floor.
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It all went smoothly.
I've decided to leave Lancer frozen in surprise during my attack, in fear of his retaliation (if I'm going to live in this house, I would like to keep all of it's walls still standing!).
Firstly was the fact that I was facing him backwards all the time, reason why I laid face-down. Since the concept of front/back in my body is only ornamental, it was not a hard stunt to pull.
Second was allowing myself to get hit. It allowed me to trap Lancer's spear, confuse him with the exagerated blood and when I stood up, make him second guess if he really hit me or not.
Then attacking, as he didn't felt anything until I reached his heart, he probably concluded at that point that I was some sort of magic illusion/allucination and started searshing for it's source.
Confused as he was, even his Servant's reaction time wasen't fast enought.
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Or maybe I'm overestimating him and I was just faster than him.
