Let’s tell a story about a king... ahem, a hero.
There is such a hero.
He has been through heaven, caused trouble in the underworld, and fought against Aquaman.
He has immense strength, outstanding martial arts skills, and is unrivaled in his ability to use a stick.
He had a bad temper, a rough style, and often covered his body with an animal skin.
He had overcome countless dangers and hardships, but in the end, he had a happy ending.
You must be thinking I'm going to talk about the Monkey King Sun Wukong
No, I want to talk about the great hero and great man of ancient Greece, Hercules!
In "Fate stay night", a servant summoned by the Einzbern clan.
The reason for choosing him is simple, that is, Medea's evaluation: "the strongest"!
Greek mythology is the most well-known mythology in the world, without a doubt. It describes and portrays countless legendary figures. There is only one reason why it ranks first among so many arrogant heroes - it has an indisputable record.
As the son of Zeus, it goes without saying that he has the standard body of a demigod.
Even as a baby, he could hurt Hera, the Queen of Heaven.
He was even more amazing when he grew up. He strangled the invulnerable monster to death, and the nine-headed Hydra, which was famous for its strong recovery ability and toxicity, also died at his hands.
Even the rulers of the Olympian pantheon, the three main gods Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, the god of the underworld, could not defeat him. This was an impossible miracle in the age of the gods.
He is the pride of mankind and the undisputed strongest figure in human history.
Since the defeat in the Third Holy Grail War, Einzbern has been committed to summoning powerful Servants.
In the Fourth Holy Grail War, they targeted King Arthur, but ended in failure.
This time, they placed their hopes on a stronger hero - Hercules.
Perhaps they felt that the hero's overly strong ego would become an obstacle to obtaining the Holy Grail, so after successfully summoning Hercules, they cast a "frenzy" spell on him, turning him into a Berserker who had no reason and only knew how to kill and fight.
As the leader of the development of the Greater Holy Grail system, Einzbern has a certain degree of privilege, which is manifested in the early summoning of this Holy Grail War. That is, the summoning is carried out two months before the Holy Grail War begins, and it takes two months to tame the Berserker and turn it into a complete killing weapon.
Just because of Hatreth's sacrifice, the Holy Grail War started early and Einzbern's plan was seriously disrupted.
First of all, the two-month privilege was discounted. The war, which was originally scheduled to start in December, was launched in November, and the time was almost cut in half. The taming of Hercules was not completed before they had to rush to Fuyuki to start the war.
Secondly, there was no time to clean up the castle outside Fuyuki. It was the permanent base of the Einzbern, and before each Holy Grail War, they would send people to clean it up, which took about half a month to three weeks. Of course, it was too late now.
Of course, this is not without its benefits. Without a base, their actions become unpredictable. You have to know that in the past ten years, Shinji and Kiritsugu have made many moves in the suburban castle, with the purpose of conducting all-round monitoring of Einzbern. Now, these monitoring methods are no longer useful, which directly led to Hercules appearing near the Emiya family before being discovered by Medea - the monitoring system is not omnipotent after all, and the spies stationed at the airport are just ordinary people who don't know the inside story. And after the last Holy Grail War, Einzbern has obviously become much more cautious.
However, the so-called caution is relative. In the attack on the Emiya family, Einzbern showed the usual characteristics of androids - directness, or in layman's terms, recklessness. Once he found the target, he would go straight for it and kill it.
The reason for being discovered was simple: Irisviel and Illya were careless.
The comfortable life numbed their vigilance. When they first arrived in Fuyuki ten years ago, they were still worried about the pursuit of the family, but as time went by, no pursuit came, and their nerves gradually relaxed.
In fact, not to mention them, even Shinji and Kiritsugu unconsciously put their minds at ease, thinking that Einzbern would not send any more pursuers. The fact that Kiritsugu and Maiya went out more and more every year was the best example.
Without vigilance, people would not pay much attention to many things, such as disguising themselves when going out, not going to crowded places, etc. Over time, the residents of Miyama Town also knew that a pair of silver-haired, red-eyed, beautiful mother and daughter who looked like dolls lived in a certain old courtyard.
At this time, if someone with the same style appears, it is easy to make associations and think whether they are relatives or something like that.
The people of Fuyuki are as simple and honest as those in Gotham—ahem, that’s not the case. If you were a little enthusiastic and asked... you can imagine what would happen.
Then, the thing Kiritsugu least wanted to see happened.
At the beginning, Einzbern did not use Hercules, but only sent a few combat androids.
In the eyes of the androids, the Holy Grail androids are useless except for their magic power, so how can they be a match for the combat androids? These are combat weapons developed and manufactured by the Einzbern's supreme manager, the central program Golem Jubstacheit, after knowing that outsiders cannot be trusted. Excluding factors such as lifespan, cost, and experience, the physical fitness alone is comparable to that of a Servant. This time they were brought here specifically to deal with other Masters, so wouldn't it be easy to capture two non-combat androids
However, the Einzbern family, who were fixed in their thinking, did not know that Irisviel and Illya were not ordinary androids. They could learn and improve. When Illya was pregnant, Irisviel began to secretly learn magic and fighting skills from Kiritsugu without telling anyone, and she had never given up for so many years.
Illya was even more powerful. Orange, Yustiza, the old man with the gem, and Shinji all taught her something, and any one of her would make the bosses of the Clock Tower jealous. Although she had little combat experience like her mother, she still had an overwhelming advantage when dealing with androids who also had no combat experience.
Without activating the magic wand, she entered the magical girl state and defeated the androids with alchemy alone. Due to their similar origins, the mother and daughter did not use heavy hands, but only disarmed them, tied them up like dumplings, and prepared to ask a few questions.
However, before they could start asking, a horrible roar was heard outside.
"■■■■■■■■■■■────!"
It was not a beast, nor a human, but a roar like that of a monster.
Just hearing the sound made the mother and daughter tremble all over and even their consciousness was frozen.
It's like there's a knife at your neck, and if you move a little, your head will fall off.
Then, the mother and daughter felt a violent tremor. The earth was rumbling, the house was shaking, the walls, pillars, and gates were destroyed one after another, and the horrible roar was getting closer and closer.
Finally, after another wall was smashed, a huge shadow enveloped the backyard of the Emiya family's house.
PS: Uncle Hai has wrestled with Zeus, beaten Poseidon, shot Hades in the shoulder, and repelled Ares - to be honest, this record is much more impressive than Scathach, who killed who knows which gods.
PS2: Let me explain as requested by book friends. The servants in the fourth and fifth battles of Aijia were summoned by the power of krypton gold (holy relics). No matter whether Kiritsugu joined Aijia or not, and no matter whether Illya was there or not, as long as Aijia got the holy relics, Dai Mao and Hai Shu would be summoned, the only difference was that their masters were different.