You're gonna enjoy the chapters that happen between the Epics of Remnant and before the start of Cosmos in the Lostbelt - or as it's gonna be badly renamed here, It's Always Sunny in the Lostbelt.

Among the planned excursions is Mordred visiting London.
God Cosmos in the Lostbelt is gonna be a friggin emotional ringer for Ritsuka and Kana.
Since they have to destroy alternate timelines for their timeline to live. Plus Paxti jumping in the way of the Yaga firing squad when Ritsuka or Kana BSOD after hearing what they have to do and dying in their arms.
 
Herakles could possibly be a good husbando

You know, assuming he doesn't murder you, you don't accidentally murder him, and you don't mind him being unfaithful.

Heracles is a great and awesome person, but even if I swung that way I'd never even consider marrying the guy. His relationship history is a fucking nightmare and I don't have storage space for all that baggage.

The ideal waifu is Mashu obviously. Which is why for all his faults Ritsuka has good taste.

Which, seeing as there is no justice in the world, is why she is gonna die in a year.

Don't worry, Fou's got his back.

I doubt most of the servants would actually have too much of a problem living in the modern age after and adjustment period.

Suffice to say there are a lot of fucking Heroic Spirits for whom this isn't true. Only a few of the crazier (evil) ones like Moriarty, Iscandar, and Columbus will push their shit while they're still spirits, but when they get back a real flesh and blood body and start interacting with the world again...

Just look at what happened to Gilgamesh after a mere ten years.

Mordred's brought in because Lion King is a Lancer and a King Arthur, so Mordred is as mentioned doubly super effective against her.

On a similar note, the Lion King is one of the best fights in the game for Siegfried, as he's so ludicrously effective against dragons that even when fighting single high HP enemies, his AOE Noble Phantasm still does great against them. And when it's a Lancer, like Rhongomyniad is...

Siegfried: "I'm sorry... BUT YOU CAN'T EVEN COMPREHEND THE LEVEL OF BUFFS I'M ON NOW!"
 
On a similar note, the Lion King is one of the best fights in the game for Siegfried, as he's so ludicrously effective against dragons that even when fighting single high HP enemies, his AOE Noble Phantasm still does great against them. And when it's a Lancer, like Rhongomyniad is...

Siegfried: "I'm sorry... BUT YOU CAN'T EVEN COMPREHEND THE LEVEL OF BUFFS I'M ON NOW!"
Which makes her a decently easy fight for players like me, who got Siegfried as a starter (though I got sidetracked by higher-priority Servants like the various incarnations of Nero- yes, I have all three- to the point that I STILL haven't maxed him, despite being a good ways into EoR...).

I mean, yes, technically I also started with Helena Blavatsky, but I can't be the only one to draw more than one 4* from the tutorial gacha, right?
 
I think I got Heracles, Carmilla, Atalante, MArie Antointette, and Nitocris at about the same time.
 
Wow, so many people getting two Gold Servants on the first gacha, I think I only got Herakles in mine. Of course, that was most often than not enough in the beginning. Though I still don't have Siegfried or D'eon (not that I really miss them, but at least Siegfried I'd like to have).

Having said that, next singulairity is Okeanos and we caught up with the beginning of the fic, right? Though I am a bit sad that we didn't get to see Nobu trying to use bombs in a Singularity, only for it to fail miserably, as mentioned in one of the first chapters. Oh, I guess it will have to be for either Events or the supply runs.
 
I mean, yes, technically I also started with Helena Blavatsky, but I can't be the only one to draw more than one 4* from the tutorial gacha, right?
Bit of a correction: I misremembered who my other starter was. Turns out it was Marie, not Helena. But hey, at least I remembered that I got multiple 4* starters correctly!
 
Meanwhile, there's probably someone still rerolling their starter lineup in hopes of getting exactly who they want, having started around when the game first came out.
 
Which is ironic, because apparently the game is actually technically winnable with only 1 and 2 star Servants.

You'll actually need 3 Stars and the higher star welfares to do most everything. And there are a few challenges which are pretty needy.

But yeah, essentially.
 
Chapter Fourteen - Pt. 1
"This is a terrible idea."

"Shut your mouth zombiekita this is a fantastic idea."

"For the last time—"

"Sh-sh-shut the fuck up someone's coming!"

The Demon King and the First Division's Captain both duck into the bush for cover. A few moments later, another bush rustles, perfectly naturally in time with the wind. Nobunaga waits one second, two seconds, three seconds, fishes out a musket--

"What are you looking at?" asks the Archer next to her.

Nobu screams. Okita screams. Robin sighs and stuffs leaves into both their mouths. When the shock passes, Nobunaga spits the perfidious green out of her mouth and claps Robin Hood on the shoulder. "Well done, green man! Were you anyone else I'd have set you ablaze but it can't be helped! Have you done it?"

"Trap is set," the Archer nods. He holds up an empty bag of dog treats and wiggles it. "I even set a more obvious one to bait him into the trap."

"Hm. He is a canny one. He might not fall for it."

"Which is why I set another one in case he fails to trigger the second trap, with more explosive results."

"Mm yes! Well done, Green Archer! When the revolution rises, you shall burn separately from the Gods!"

Robin grunts. He does not even know why he is doing this, but it is a reasonable way to pass the time. Maybe he'll even get to go shoot things in a micro-singularity next time.

Okita finally coughs out her bloodstained leaves and shakes Nobu by the shoulders. "Get down, get down! Someone's coming!"

The three of them duck back into cover. Lancer soon walks by with Rider, carrying a bag of snacks while the gorgon listens disinterestedly with a book in hand. "And then I stabbed it in the neck!" He says.

"I don't see how you couldn't," Rider shrugs with a hairflip. "Lamia have fairly long necks, after all."

"Yeah you'd know, wouldn't you?"

"In much the same way you know how dog treats taste, yes."

"Now why you gotta be like that, Rider?" The trap catches Lancer's eye and he frowns. "Oh come on, someone actually left dog treats on the ground!"

"Maybe they knew you were coming," Rider comments idly, her eyes never leaving her book.

"Well maybe they've got another thing coming!"

True on both counts, cackles Nobunaga. Mentally, of course. Can't ruin the surprise!

With a scoff Lancer goes to toss aside the treats, but stops just short of picking it up. He stands straight again, one hand on his hip. "Wait, hold on, something's not right. What if it's a trap hiding another trap?"

"No one would use that much effort for you, Lancer."

With a nod, Nobu claps Robin's shoulder.

"...Yeah, you right. Imma just stab it."

With baited breath, Nobunaga and Robin look on. Seconds stretch into minutes stretch into hours as they wait for the trap to be sprung and their day to be made.

"How much longer?"

"Soon," Nobu replies with a mad grin.

"Soon how?"

"Very soon!"

"Do you mean like in the next minute orrrr--"

"Right now!"

"Okay," Kana nods. She pats Nobu on the head and then bonks her with the flat side of Asriel. She stands up out of the bush, holding Robin and Okita up by their collars. "Thanks for the help, Lancer! Enjoy your date!"

"No problem!" Lancer shouts back. He leans to Rider. "How long was she there?"

"For a legendary hero you're not very sharp."

They wander off shortly thereafter, and then Kana holds the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven up by the neck. "And what do you have to say for yourself, hm?"

"I-I am pure evil, I burn the monkmen and the monkwomen and the monkchildren--"

And that was as far as Nobu got before Kana threw her up, grabbed her by the ankles, and swung her at Robin like an axe - or a rusty chainsaw, considering the colour schemes involved. "AND YOU!" Kana shrieks, while Robin sighs and takes the beating like a man, "WHY ARE YOU BECOMING LIKE THIS?!!"

"Frankly speaking, Master, I'm just really bored. There's nothing to do."

"THERE'S EVERYTHING TO DO ROBIN COME FIND ME!"

"Haha, Master, that's a sex thing--OW OW OW OW OW NO IRON CLAW NOBU!"

"BAD NOBUS GET TWICE THE IRON CLAW!"

And while Kana starts squeezing Nobunaga's head like a melon ready to burst and Robin laments the decisions that brought him to this point, Okita Souji is already on her knees, haori slightly open and her katana drawn and ready to disembowel herself. "I'm entirely innocent," she says in not-hysterics. "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING THE BOMBS WERE NOBU'S IDEA!"

"ZOMBIEKITA YOU FAIL ME FOR THE LAST TIME--AAAAAAAAAH NO MY SKULL!"

A part of Kana sighs, for this has rapidly become her daily routine. The rest of her squeezes Nobu's head tighter, for nobody calls her Okita a zombie and gets away with it.

And then a clockwork raven wearing a classy red muffler lands on her head and suddenly all of Kana screams, in the exact same pitch as one Oda Nobunaga, moments before ornate red pillars fall down from the sky and trap her together with her trio of incredibly stupid servants.

"Tut tut, Miss Tohsaka," a dignified british gentlemen growls, before he exhales a puff of cigar smoke. The former Lord El-Melloi II, ex-Lord of Modern Magecraft, taps his cigar against one of the pillars of his noble phantasm and scowls at the redhead behind the red bars. "Tut. Tut."

"...In my defense, Nobu was gonna blow up my boy Lancer," Kana replies in a small voice.

Waver says nothing. His glare remains as unyielding as the end of ages, the scourge of dynasties and the fall of kingdoms. There is no such thing as sympathy for the wicked in the stone sentinel maze of a man who scared off an army with a sick string solo. She whimpers and submits to her fate.

The El-Melloi Class is in session - has been for over an hour by now - and she's involved, whether she wants to be in it or not.
 
Waver says nothing. His glare remains as unyielding as the end of ages, the scourge of dynasties and the fall of kingdoms. There is no such thing as sympathy for the wicked in the stone sentinel maze of a man who scared off an army with a sick string solo. She whimpers and submits to her fate.

I suppose when you have Iskandar as a role model, that tends to develop. After all, he did all those things, and it obviously can be learned, as several of the Diadochi did as well.
 
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