A Not So Evil God In Fate/Grand Order

After evaluating his situation, Seth started walking in a random direction to see what he could find (Not that he was expecting to find anything amidst this flaming hell).

Walking for a few minutes didn't change a thing, still no signs of life. 'This is getting more and more complicated, with my powers being as weak as they are now I will take an eternity to find something useful'. Seth thought but just as he was about to stop for a moment he detected multiple presences in the distance.

'People? No...this looks like the soldiers from Duat. Did someone liberated spirits here? I don't know. It could be the people that died from the flames came back to "life" as evil spirits to seek the life that was stolen away from them' He thought as he followed the direction where he detected the presences.

He took some time to get there, human bodies had their disadvantages after all. What awaited him where skeletons carrying either bows, swords or lances.

His stoic face frowned at this. The dead weren't his forte but he was sure that this was not normal. Not the part about the skeletons but the fact they were carrying weapons. Normally if people came back to life by their own "will" they will come as evil spirits/ghosts. On the contrary, if they were revived by someone, they will become zombies or skeletons depending on how much has their flesh decayed.

Now this where the things get complicated, even tho he is a God from an ancient civilization that doesn't mean he is someone who doesn't know about the modern world, looking at the now-collapsed buildings around him it is clear as day that this is not an era where weapons like that are common.

Seth sighed "Hah...I knew this was troublesome but like this? Summoning the dead from the past? This world keeps getting messier and messier" There was only one reason there could be this kind of monsters here and that was someone had summoned from the past or they were directly summoned here when whatever happened here well...happened.

The skeletons seemed to react to the sound of Seth's voice so they looked at his direction and with weird sounds coming from their joints dashed towards him. A brief look over the horde of bones told Seth there were approximately 70 skeletons.

"I had to get used to this body anyway" Said Seth as he readied his spear against the group of skeletons. He noted that even tho their movements were a little fast they were stiff (They were skeletons after all).

Wanting to test the limits of his body he reached the first skeleton who, like him, wielded a spear. The skeleton moved towards him while thrusting his spear forward, he evaded the thrust and went to the side of the skeleton before kicking him. The skeleton as if made of fragile glass cracked into pieces. 'Guess this body isn't that useless after all'

Following the fall of the skeleton, another one came to take its place. This time it was a swordsman. It raised its sword and did a vertical chop towards him, Seth just raised his spear with his right hand to meet the blow which was not heavy at all. He proceeded to punch the skull of the skeleton blowing it into pieces. Doing a rough assessment he was 3 times stronger than the weakest of his Palace Guards when he ruled Ancient Egypt. Not something to be proud of but compared to a normal human it will give him an edge. He isn't sure how good he will fare against those Heroic Spirits Anubis told him about tho.

Even if all he did was dodge 2 blows and attack two times he already got the feel of his new body. Before being a God he was a warrior, and before being a warrior he was a genius in combat. Now all that was left was making it accustomed to a fight. Fortunately here he had 68 punching bags left to practice.

'This body won't stand even a second of my fighting style, I will have to create a new one. What a pain' Thought Seth while scratching his head and dodging the arrows, slashes, and thrusts that came his way. Although he seemed annoyed, his eyes didn't betray his enthusiasm. He missed this, the thrill of combat. How many years? How many centuries? How many millennia? How long has it been since his last battle? Even tho he didn't regret killing his brother, usurping the throne and rebelling against old those decrepit Gods. He had to admit he missed battle above all else.

Seth rotated his spear beheading three approaching skeletons while continuing to reminisce about his past. The Gods needed someone to take the mantle of an Evil God so the people of Egypt will fear them and never, absolutely never disobey them. After all, what better thing to keep people in check than fear?

He dodged an arrow aimed at his head and backstabbed a skeleton that sneaked on his back. He then grabbed its rusty spear and threw it towards the skeleton archer impaling it in the head.

He was chosen, he was the "sacrifice" the one who will have to carry the sins of the Gods. He always received the hate of the people, if they didn't feel happy or they weren't loved, they blamed him instead of Hathor. If the night lasted longer than the days, they blamed him, not Khepri. If the waters of the Nile weren't enough to make the land fertile, they blamed him, not Anukis. He was made to carry all the blame, forever accepting that this was his fate and he couldn't change it. That's why he hated the Gods so much and favored Humanity over them.

Stoping with his edgy and depressing past, he finally decided to put his focus on the fight. He needed to explore other places like this one if he wanted to reach the root of all of this. Getting a little serious, he started massacring the skeletons left and right for the next 2 minutes until the last one of them fell.

Putting his spear over his shoulders he started walking again in a random direction until he could feel a presence again.

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Seth has been here for a few hours already. He has fought over 4 hordes of skeletons after the first one. It didn't seem there was something special to be found on them so he just massacred them all altogether.

Currently, he was sitting on top of a demolished house doing nothing. He wasn't going to lie, at first, his excitement shot through the roof at the chance of battling one again. But said excitement plummeted to the ground after only battling those weak a.s.s skeletons.

'I need to think about what I'm going to do. I can't keep walking in circles, besides I don't have any idea about what I have to do. Save someone? Kill someone? I honestly don't know and Anubis didn't know either' He pinched the bridge of his nose. He definitely was going nowhere like this.

While he was trapped in his thoughts he detected another pair of presences at the edge of his radar. Thinking it was just another group of skeletons, he didn't bother with it and kept thinking what was he going to do with all of this when suddenly a big projectile of magical energy was thrown towards his direction.

He got up, spun around and on reflex he swung his spear to meet the projectile but then his long-dormant instincts screamed for him to dodge instead of parrying, which he did. He inclined his body barely avoiding the hit. Despite this, he could feel the hit on his stomach as the now identified arrow grazed it.

Not wasting any second he jumped in the direction of the arrow, gaining a 2 seconds before the arrow hit the ground creating an explosion. Even tho they were 2 seconds, they were enough for him to avoid getting any substantial damage.

Getting up from the ground after being thrown by the explosion, he looked up towards the direction the arrow came from. There, on top of a building stood a shadow-like thing with what appeared to be a bow in his hands.

"Tch" The figure clicked his tongue in annoyance, he had hoped to kill this strange guy without him noticing. While he was patrolling (He was not a gatekeeper like a certain blue dog) he found a guy killing a group of skeletons. Even tho he was corrupted now, that didn't mean he simply lost his memories of the Holy Grail War before it became what it is now. And he was pretty sure this guy wasn't on it. An unknown variable or anomaly so to say.

Now that his plan failed he didn't want to fight, after all, the now corrupted King of Knights hadn't ordered him to do anything...yet. So, he turned around to leave when suddenly he heard the voice of the anomaly, a voice filled with disdain.

"Hoh? I know that archers have it rough on a 1v1 but to sneak attack like that, you sure don't have any pride to speak of" Archer could feel his eyebrows twitching. Why does everyone talk about pride?! Is it a trend nowadays?!

"Pride won't get you far, you would do well in remembering it" Archer spoke while giving him a last look.

'Interesting. Kid these days sure have it rough' Seth thought while raising an eyebrow at Archer's words. That's all the reaction he was gonna get.

"Don't be in a hurry. You greeted me, so if I don't greet you back it will surely leave a bad taste in my mouth" He said while moving his body into a throwing position. He extended his arm backward and then threw his spear with all the strength he had. As Archer was at the end of his range (roughly 1000 meters) he had to exert some effort.

The spear traveled as fast as the arrow that Archer has thrown previously. In seconds, the spear collided with the building archer was on. destroying it completely. Archer jumped from rubble to rubble as they were falling eventually landing on the ground. He managed to avoid any direct damage but his shoulder took a hit from a stone flying upon the impact of the spear. Archer looked at the direction of the Anomaly as the spear he had thrown previously returned to his hand as if nothing had happened.

"It seems we are even" Archer spoke as he quickly disappeared from the place not even once looking back.

Seth just stood there looking at the direction where the Shadow Archer was previously.

"A being made out of mana with extraordinary powers and with rational thinking. I guess that was a Heroic Spirit" Seth contemplated as a small smile formed on his face. At least now he isn't so in the dark anymore. 'Holy Grail War' That name came to his mind. If the words of Anubis were to be trusted, there are 6 more Heroic Spirits. This certainly will be fun.