mysteries

I opened my tired eyes to see myself in an unfamiliar room. The wall was made of plastered bare brick. As my eyes darted around the room I remembered where I was

"Lancer!" I yelled standing up on alert

"I see you're awake!" Lancer's voice calls me

I sighed in relief at the sound of Lancer's voice and looked in his direction. When my eyes hit her I realized she was in front of the door leaning against the wall looking at me with a smile

"Yes, I didn't think so myself" I lay down on the bed again with a sigh

"so what happened? You just fell to the ground vomiting blood!"

Laughter

I couldn't help but chuckle as I put my hand to my head. Shit, I didn't expect a single servant inside my soul to do so much damage to me, if this keeps up I'll end up dead in less time than I thought.

"I'm fine, I just couldn't stand Avenger entering my soul" I respond with a sigh

"And now?" Lancer opened her arms angrily "If you die, I won't get my wish"

"It's comforting to know you care so much for me."

"Have it" Lancer also chuckled putting his hand on his hip, but his face became serious in the next second "let's give up on the war? you know, living in this world for a while? I'd like to see how the world has changed since my death!"

Lancer didn't meet my eyes, but I could see a genuine look of concern on her face. She just whispered those words but it was enough to make me feel happy from the bottom of my soul

"No, we're going to win this war, even if we have to appeal" I spoke with a growl "It's time we started making our move"

I pulled a small blood-red ball out of my pocket and showed it to Lancer with my best smile. I threw the stone to her that it caught in the air easily

"What is that?" Lancer asked looking at the stone with curiosity "it seems to be magic"

"This is a philosopher's stone, actually just one of the prototypes," I said confidently puffing out my chest "In it, there are artificial souls which can become mana"

"Is this a mana carrier?" Lancer asked squeezing the stone and forming a big smile "Master, with this I can use my Noble Phantoms unlimitedly without demanding too much from you"

"Yes, with that I can help you" I replied with a smile getting up from the bed

"Help me?" She asked, "How?"

"Like this" I smiled straightening myself on the floor, my legs were still wobbly but still strong enough to keep me upright "It's time to put my theories of combat magic into practice"

I ran my mana through my magic circuits and closed my eyes. An image of a familiar gun popped into my mind.

Millions of numbers popped into my head starting to intertwine with each other and doing the maths, hundreds of beads inside my mind

"Trace On" Focusing on the gun that was carved in my mind, I whispered the words of the spell and felt the mana in my body drain away.

The next moment he was elsewhere. my inner world as I call it. whenever I'm in a state of extreme concentration I stop here

The place was a completely calm and transparent ocean with a calm city beneath it. In the sky were calm clear blue and a bright sun

Around me, numbers started to emerge from the ocean floor coming straight out of the city and flooding the surface doing thousands of maths I don't understand.

I suck at maths

The accounts started to close, starting to form more accounts until they finally joined and in the next second they disappeared at once.

The image of the revolver was held by an albino woman, with white hair, red eyes and a beautiful smile coming close to me.

With each step she took closer to me, a calm settled in my chest, behind her a huge pure white mist that seemed to have solid physical form followed her.

the woman arrived in front of me and her smile didn't fade. I tried to say something, but my mouth didn't move, my voice didn't come out and my body didn't react

The woman brought her hand to my face. it was warm and gave me a feeling of protection that I had never felt in my life. it was something new, something alien to me

"You've made your choice! But, you're not ready, to master the darkness of Alter power."

The woman's melody voice reached my ear and in the next moment it was gone and the beads formed again in my head as if nothing had changed.

At the last moment the accounts came to a result they broke and my throat started to ache. I found myself kneeling on the ground holding my throat and in the background, the blank landscape began to turn dark.

The city below me started to catch fire even from under the water until a big pair of red eyes formed in the background of the landscape looking down at me.

In the next moment, shadows began to rise from beneath the ocean to the surface and attack me. When these shadows came close to me my fear got the better of me

"No, go away get out of here"

I started screaming and running across the surface of the ocean, what the hell was going on I don't want to die. This was a dream, absolutely a dream

Pain... Pain... Pain... Pain... Pain... Pain... Pain

A cry of pain tore from my throat at the enormous pain in my chest. In a panic, I looked down and saw one of the shadows crossing my chest.

the blood was flowing. I tried to grab the shadows to get her off me as quickly as possible. I needed to get away as fast as possible, otherwise, I'll die

"Don't run away, This is the path you chose my descendant"

A voice spoke in my ear and my body calmed down! How stupid I was, that's right! This is the path I chose by convincing Angra Mainyu to kill herself to prevent others from getting away with the Grail if I can't win the war

My legs stopped flailing and my body stilled. At that moment all the shadows attacked me at once. the pain was maddening. tears fell from my eyes and my soul cried in pain.

But it didn't last long and everything went out

"Come back when you're ready to dominate me"

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"Master" Lancer yelled running to Alecs

She picked him up princess-style and quickly put him to bed.

Lancer quickly grabbed a washcloth wet with hot water that she had been using to tend to Alecs on his first faint and placed it on his forehead.

Alecs are burning with fever. His body was in a cold sweat and shivering. Lancer put his hand on his chest and was surprised when he realized the cause of the problem.

Mana, too much mana was passing through Alecs' Magic Circuits, too much mana for his weak Magic Circuits to be able to assimilate.

he was having a magical overdose. Lancer understood right away what he needed to do. she had to get the mana out of Alecs' body quickly or else he would die. But, she was a warrior and her magical abilities were rusted when she came out as a monster.

She thought about sucking his blood and taking magic for the vampiric being she was, but then she realized she had a lot of magic in Alecs' body, more magic than blood.

She would be able to kill him from Anaemia before she managed to draw enough magic power to stabilize him.

Yes. She knew how to use magic, but her power, in general, was physical and curses that were cast against her became part of her power and what little divinity she had in her body.

"There's no way" Lancer only knew one way to absorb mana from Alecs and that was extremely difficult for her due to her traumas "Master, you're going to make me have nightmares at night, you idiot"

Lancer began stripping Alecs' clothes. the only way she knew was a sexual ritual, damn the Greek gods that besides screwing with her life, they still only taught her unnecessary things!

Lancer prepared to take off Alecs' pants when a hand caught her hand.

"Lancer what are you doing?"

"That's… I can explain"