Chapter 10: Prohibition of Passage

Lancer, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, was a little depressed now.

He had been walking the streets of Fuyuki City all day, exuding the aura of a Servant, but until night fell, not a single Servant responded to the silent challenge sent by Lancer.

He even expected that the battle between the warring parties in the Holy Grail War would begin at night and deliberately chose the Bayside Warehouse District in the north of Fuyuki City.

His master, who intended to fight the enemy here, also set up a barrier around it to prevent unauthorized people from entering by mistake.

But... not even one person came.

Just when Diarmuid began to think that he would not be able to fight the enemy's Servants tonight, an explosion was heard from the sea on the other side of the seaside park.

Along with it came powerful magic and the aura of the Servants.

Apparently, some Servants had already started a fight before accepting his challenge?

Then, under the instructions of the Master, Diarmuid left the Bayside Warehouse District and headed towards the Seaside Park.

Standing on the treetop and looking into the distance, Diarmuid clearly saw the scene of the two female Servants fighting.

What was even more amazing was that the two female Servants looked so similar. This surprised Diarmuid, but he also understood the current situation.

If an old friend of his appears as a Servant in the Holy Grail War, he would also ask the Master to allow him to fight the old friend first.

"The two parties fighting... are they Saber and Berserker...?"

The Master's voice came through the magic channel, and Diarmuid knew that the Master was considering how to make arrangements.

"Master, that Berserker can use powerful magic in addition to hand-to-hand combat. Even Saber, who has excellent anti-magic ability, suffered at her hands," Diarmuid reported the battle situation he observed to the Master.

Faced with such an opponent, Diarmuid's blood boiled and he wanted to challenge Berserker, but as a knight, he could not allow himself to go against the spirit of chivalry by intervening in the duel between Servants as a third party.

But his Master had no such concerns.

"It seems that if that Berserker stays, she will become a very difficult enemy. Lancer, go and help Saber kill Berserker."

"But, my Lord! This kind of interfering behavior is really—"

Diarmuid couldn't help but plead with his Master who was watching in the dark.

"This is an order."

But his Master just coldly issued an ultimatum.

The Spear Servant clenched his two spears in both hands. The spears were wrapped with rune cloth to hide their true appearance.

Even if he had to go against the code of chivalry, Diarmuid did not want to go against his lord's logical orders.

"...Yes, sir," he answered with difficulty and rushed towards the battlefield between the two Servants.

The next moment, the sudden sense of crisis made Diarmuid stop.

As if appearing out of thin air, a whirlwind of pitch-black crows suddenly appeared. At first, there were only a dozen of them, but two seconds later there were hundreds and thousands of crows.

The mournful cry of a crow sounded ominous.

In a blink of an eye, the crows dispersed again, and in the center of the "whirlwind" stood a young man in winter clothes.

"It's a very correct tactic, but I'm sorry, it's a one-way street from here on. Please go back, Lancer, and your Master," Tatsuya Suzuki stretched out his hand and made a gesture of asking him to go back.

Recognizing at a glance that the other party was not a disguised Servant, but the Master of the Holy Grail War, Diarmuid's tense body relaxed slightly.

That kind of trick of appearing out of thin air could be an illusion or a spatial transfer. No matter which one it was, it proved that the other party was no ordinary person.

But it is common knowledge in the Holy Grail War that a Master cannot match a Servant.

"Step back. I don't want the two spears in my hands to be stained with the blood of other Masters." Diarmuid raised his spear, with the tip of the spear pointing at Tatsuya's eyebrows.

Seeing that persuasion was ineffective, Tatsuya slowly lowered his arm. "That won't work. Others are reminiscing about the past. Wouldn't it be a shame if you interrupted them?"

In fact, he left the final decision to Morgan. After Tatsuya took Sakura and Caren home and settled them down, he rushed over without stopping.

Seeing that the battle between Morgan and Artoria was becoming increasingly intense and Morgan was not at a disadvantage, Tatsuya decided to wait.

Unexpectedly, Lancer's Master wanted to join the battlefield and let the Servants take advantage of the situation.

"I'm sorry, but I can't disobey the orders of my lord," Diarmuid could only refute. "If you refuse to give way, then I can only force my way in by brute force!"

The Lancer class has the highest A-level agility stat among the Holy Grail War Servants, which is even higher than Rider's agility stat.

As an excellent Lancer, Diarmuid has an A+ agility level.

He was confident that with his speed, contemporary magicians would not be able to stop him from passing.

That's how it should be.

Diarmuid was planning to bypass Tatsuya and rush towards the battlefield, but at the moment of passing by him, he was hit by a low sidekick.

He was caught off guard and hurriedly blocked the attack, but the huge inertia bounced him away, and he retreated several meters back from where he had just rushed out.

"How... is it possible..." Diarmuid couldn't believe it.

Tatsuya's sidekick didn't hurt him, but the shock it caused was enough.

Human magi are able to keep up with the speed of their Servants and use that as a basis for counterattacks.

"This is a good opportunity! Kill Berserker's Master, Lancer!"

The Master's orders followed, and Diarmuid no longer hesitated or had any regrets.

Being able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a Servant, even a human magus, this Lancer no longer had any intention of looking down on him.

After repelling Diarmuid, Tatsuya wrote four runes around him at this time.

Something no Celtic warrior could have been unaware of.

That is a vow to never retreat and an engraving that will never allow escape or survival.

"Are you related to the Knights of the Red Branch, or are you a descendant of those warriors?" Diarmuid prepared to fight.

"What's going on?" Tatsuya didn't intend to answer, and a stone flew out of his hand.

"Hagalaz."

As Tatsuya pronounced the rune, the stone suddenly exploded as it flew past the dodging Diarmuid's cheek, emitting extremely cold magic that was enough to freeze everything.

Despite his best efforts to dodge, his left arm and the hand holding the spear were inevitably covered with a thin layer of ice, which spread all the way to his neck.

Surprised, Diarmuid looked at his arm, then with a little effort, the burst of magic power dispersed the icicles.

Then, the Spear Servant laughed from the bottom of his heart.

"Your power is enough to knock me away, and your rune magic is unfathomable. I am very happy to meet an opponent like you."

"It's annoying. I really don't want to fight with you..."

Tatsuya strikes a stance with his bare hands, doing the exact opposite of what he says.

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