Sagara Heima is the last of the seven quasi-masters of the Chikaiju clan who manifested the "Holy Mark" and the heir of the Sagara clan who are proficient in Japanese-style spells.
Unlike Roger and Serenike, who joined the Thousand World Tree Clan but continued to study their family magic with the help of the family's power, Sagara Heima integrated the family's traditional Japanese magic with Western magic from the Eskel family to which Serenike belonged. In this sense, he was the magician who best met the founding philosophy of the Thousand World Tree Clan, integrating completely different family magic styles.
The best evidence is that Patriarch Danic is also very optimistic about him and approved him to go to Japan to summon slaves alone.
The so-called spell is a magic that requires a price to be paid in exchange for the effect. Sagara Baoma's spell is to ensure the safety of buildings or protect humans at the cost of human lives.
He also used this spell in the summoning ceremony, using Rokudo Reika's life as the price to activate the summoning ritual; using the fact that Rokudo Reika was disemboweled and died as a catalyst, he summoned the Servant he wanted.
The summoning ceremony went smoothly from pre-preparation to arrangement to the actual summoning. Sagara Baoma could even feel the aura of the Heroic Spirit coming. Unexpectedly, at the last moment of the ceremony, just before he was about to recite the additional spell, an accident would occur.
An assassin who appeared out of nowhere intervened in the summoning ceremony, emerged from the magic circle he had set up, and took his life without him even saying a few words.
Sagara Haima, who never figured it out until his death, would never know that two souls from another world had been eyeing the Holy Grail and had done many things in secret.
He also didn't know that a time traveler with the advantage of foresight had already set his sights on his identity as a Master, and listed him as the primary target because of the nature of his magic that constantly took the lives of ordinary people.
He casually drew out two fire runes, turning Sagara Baoma's body and his left hand with the holy mark into ashes. Assassin took off his cloak and checked his body while confirming the attribute panel.
"Yes, there is no problem with the soul reconstruction, the body is in good condition, and the transmission was successful."
The art of teleportation that transcends distances is the province of the Second Magic, but Yustisa can also achieve similar miracles with the help of the Holy Grail system constructed by the Third Magic.
The difference is that the second magic directly interferes with space, overlaps two space nodes, and achieves teleportation. Yustisa took a trick and restored the servant's body to a spirit particle that is not affected by physical laws. Through the summoning ceremony and the connection between the Holy Grail, a long-distance spirit particle transfer is achieved, which is similar to the Master using the Command Spell to forcibly summon the servant to his side.
Although Shinji has used the time he spent hiding in the Holy Grail system to initially master the method of spirit particle transformation, Shinji and Yustisa have no experience in this area after all, so they are inevitably a little nervous.
After hearing Shinji's words "transmission successful", Yustisa, who was far away in Romania, could finally relax and start the next step.
"Shinji, summon Lancer as soon as possible before the connection between the summoning ritual and the Holy Grail is broken."
"learn!"
The real purpose of Yustisa sending Shinji to Japan was to let him summon servants. Killing Sagara and destroying his stigma was also to eliminate the quasi-masters who had established a connection with the Holy Grail, so that the originally occupied positions would be idle and could be occupied as quickly as possible.
Normally, a Servant cannot become a Master. However, this limitation does not come from the rules of the Holy Grail War, but from the peculiarities of the Servants themselves. Servants exist in the world only because they rely on the Master, and cannot be the object of possession. Therefore, as long as the problem of the object of possession is solved, it will be possible for a Servant to summon another Servant.
This has been confirmed in "Fate stay night", which records the fifth Holy Grail War. Caster, whose real name is Medea, used the gate of Ryudo Temple as a possession and successfully summoned the pseudo-assassin Sasaki Kojiro.
At this moment, Shinji also wanted to use this method to summon his Servant. And the Servant he chose was the Sixth Master Reika lying on the ground.
This was of course planned in advance. Sixth Master Reika is just an ordinary person, she has no resistance to magic, and she became the sacrifice of the summoning ceremony because of the influence of suggestion magic. Not to mention that she is still in a coma, isn't it Shinji who has the final say
After moving Rokudo Reika away from the pool of blood that served as the altar and placing it at the spot where Sagara Heima's ashes originally stood, Shinji made slight changes to the magic circle according to Yustisa's design, separating the supply of magic power from the object of possession.
After doing all this, Shinji continued chanting the summoning words that Sagara Heima had not yet finished chanting.
"—I swear here. I will be a good person in the world and eliminate all the evil in the world."
"The spirit of the words that entangle you, comes from the wheel of restraint, guardian of the Libra!"
In Shinji's expectation, the next scene would be the same as the three summonings he witnessed, with howling winds, thunder and lightning. Only such a huge momentum is worthy of those who have extraordinary powers and are promoted to the realm of spirits.
But what was unexpected was that after the summoning words were chanted, nothing happened in the magic circle.
There was no flow of magic, no thunder and lightning, and no servant he was expecting.
"What the hell is going on?"
Shocked and doubtful, Shinji once again poured his magic power into the magic circle and repeated the summoning words that he had already memorized by heart - from beginning to end, the complete version.
However, this time again nothing happened.
"What on earth is going on?"
At this moment, Shinji finally understood how Sagara Haima felt before he died.
Fortunately, he is not alone, he has a partner who is connected to him through the dual connection of the Holy Grail System and the Advent Contract.
"Don't worry, the connection between the ritual and the Holy Grail still exists. Go check the magic circle to see if there is anything wrong."
"good."
Shinji took a deep breath, cleared his mind of all the chaotic thoughts, bent down, and carefully examined the structure of the magic circle.
Just as he finished checking the outer circle and stepped into the inner circle, the long-awaited torrent of magic power finally broke out. Although it did not cause wind pressure and lightning like before, the breath that did not belong to the real world accurately conveyed the message that the summoning ceremony had started.
Confused, Shinji followed his instinct and wanted to exit the magic circle, but was shocked to find that the body of the Servant seemed to be attracted by a special force. He could neither move forward nor backward, and could only stand there stupidly.
Fortunately, Shinji's presence did not affect the summoning ceremony, and the flowing magic power did not harm Shinji's body.
A few seconds later, a short figure appeared in the center of the magic circle and shouted to Shinji in an innocent and childish voice:
"Mother."