"... Yeah. Not bad."
Atram Gariastha, a young man with brown skin, blond hair that reaches his chest and a gold chain as thick as his little finger, stared at the traces left by his bombing with a cruel smile.
This is the nearby high ground.
The Windermere Lake District is one of the few holiday resorts in the UK, so it is impossible for Izeluma to monopolize it. In fact, Izeluma's territory is only a small area with a radius of several kilometers. Outside the territory are various leisure resorts or high-end hotels for the public.
Atram is now in the lobby of such a hotel, looking down at the land of Izeluma through an antique brass telescope.
The entire hotel was booked and no outsiders were allowed to enter or leave, so Atram had no time to worry about what he was doing. He reached out and hugged the scantily clad maid who was sitting on him, and whispered.
"How is it? I am confident that I can match the witch's fire that burned down my rival and the city."
The young man compared his actions to the killing technique once performed by the heroic spirit named Medea, and boasted about his achievements.
If Shinji heard what he said, he might laugh until his stomach hurt.
First of all, this guy is a participant in the Fifth Holy Grail War. He used a huge amount of money to buy a place to participate in the war, and the servant he summoned was Medea.
Secondly, the environment of the Age of Gods in which Medea lived was different from that of the modern world. Before the Western calendar, a magician of Medea's level only needed one trick to match a modern bomber. For modern magicians, even if they used ritual magic or great magic, they might not be able to reach this level.
Atram was able to accomplish this purely because he had the right people at the right time.
Weather: The weather here is unpredictable.
Geographical advantage: The lake area has abundant water vapor.
Renhe: Atram brought 32 magicians from Gariasta to set up the ceremony. Gariasta was good at magic related to thunder and lightning, which created the shocking effect of thunder and lightning washing the ground. Simply comparing the level of magic, he is not even worthy of carrying Medea's shoes.
Finally, and most importantly, in "Fate stay night", no matter which world line Atram is in, he is burned to death by Medea. Yes, with the witch's fire that he boasted to the maid now.
Therefore, Oil King, you really can’t raise a flag. If you raise such a flag, unless you are the protagonist, the true child of destiny, no one can save you.
Of course, the young man now did not realize that his future was already determined. He was smiling smugly and giving further orders to his subordinates.
"Come plunder! Come usurp! Start being efficient!"
The Gariyasthas are a group that started out like this.
If you want words, go plunder them.
Swing the blade in your hand as much as you can.
This is how Atram was taught.
In order to decide the leader of the family, his father gave his children, including him, various trials with the key of power struggle, and the young man completed these trials with the highest efficiency. And then, unlike his father who inherited the title of nobility in the association but did not step into the world of magic, Atram proudly accepted magic.
Because he felt that magic, which was considered behind the times, was more advantageous in modern times.
The pain he had to overcome when inheriting the Magic Mark was also a pleasure for him, because it was the best opportunity to savor the fruits of his victory—just like now.
The maid he was holding, who was also his most trusted assistant, asked in a low voice:
"Master, is this really okay? There is..."
"What? The old woman from Baruyereta?" Atram sneered and pinched the maid's waist twice.
The maid's silence was her consent.
After plundering for a while, Atram probably felt relieved and explained.
"Don't worry, I'm not arrogant enough to challenge the authority of the lord, let alone Baru Yereta, one of the three great nobles. Mike Gulagile has already contacted the old woman on our behalf. As long as we don't really cause a death, she will turn a blind eye to our actions, saying that she wants to use us to investigate something. It's really hateful, but now we can only let her use it. Izeluma will pay for her arrogance. There are as many ways to make people's lives worse than death as she wants - what's wrong? You seem to have something to say, just say it, you are also thinking about me, I can still tell good from bad."
After getting the master's permission, the maid breathed a sigh of relief and said with some concern:
"In addition to Lord Baru Yereta, the others who stayed in Izeroma were Professor Velvet and his students from El-Melloi's classroom. I heard that the New Age group was very difficult to deal with."
"I thought you were going to say something, but it turned out to be this." The young man's face showed obvious disappointment, "A useless teacher who can do nothing but teach, a group of problem students that other departments don't want to accept, the El-Melloi classroom, the New Age, are just nice-sounding names."
"But Professor Velvet is called 'Lord Without a Crown'; would that be possible—"
"I wonder why you've become more and more timid since arriving in London. If it was El-Melloi's crowned lord, I would have had no choice but to retreat. A mere 'lord without a crown'? Let's wait until he really becomes a lord. Besides, Mick also said that El-Melloi and Izeluma almost had a conflict, and they might even take advantage of the situation to rob. As long as he doesn't come to make trouble, I don't mind making friends with him, after all, he is also a survivor of the ceremony. He seems to have owed a lot of money recently? If you are willing to exchange information, I don't mind helping him pay off his debts. Problems that can be solved with money are not problems. The last thing Gary Asta lacks is money. Just dig some oil and you'll have it. Huhuhuhuhu, technological development is not all bad."
"If he really is against us..."
"Then we'll cripple them all. Oh, he seems to have a relic of a great hero? Let's take this opportunity to get it together with the secret treasure. Although we can only summon one heroic spirit, it's always a good idea to make more preparations. I always do things thoroughly. I'm not like El-Melloi and his students who just wanted to play around and ended up getting nothing and almost crippling their own family."
The only opponent that the young man feared was Lord Baruyereta, and the rest of the crowd was of no importance. Although he was an old immortal with no other merits except his age, in magic, age also had its value.
However, this obstacle has been removed now. In the Twin Tower, there is no one left to fear. There is no need to worry about the boring killings. All I have to do is ravage them from the front and plunder them.
"bring it on."
As he spoke, Atram picked up the wine glass and stood up.
"Confess your sins - the sins of taking the game from me, the sins of refusing to deal with me."
PS: Why did Weber say dun instead of do? At the end of the previous chapter, a book friend has already explained it very well. You can understand it at a glance, so I won’t explain it in detail.
PS2: By the way, I don't know the reason, but Weber said something similar when he was teaching Gray in the original work, so I'll quote it here. It's a pity that the famous detective Weber and Sherlock Holmes don't interact much in FGO. I really hope to see the two of them team up to solve the case.