Fate/Inheritance

"Hm~ hm~ hmmm~" Sakeyuki-san's cheerful humming was pleasantly entering my ears while we were walking around. Hearing the tune, I suddenly thought of what we did last night making me blush. Last night, in one of our pillow talks when her clarity was not blurred by alcohol we reintroduced ourself properly and apparently she was shocked that she just took the v.i.r.g.i.n.i.t.y of the supposedly 'demi-god' from another world.

While her full name was actually Tenri Sakeyuki and those close to her simply call her Sake-san or Sake-chan or even plainly Sake for convenience sake (I was shocked that their language and culture is similar to Japan but well their oni so I guess it's fine?). Learning her full name somehow elicited a laugh from me about how 'arrogant' and simple her name is making her go 'rough' at me in another round.

Looking at my right, I see her prancing about with a refreshed look while carrying that big sword of hers at her back. Thinking about the different kinds of expressions she had last night made me somehow cheerful apparently.

"Curse you… curse you…" Yamada's baleful voice suddenly was heard behind me startling and freaking me out. Smiling wryly, I scratched my cheeks in embarrassment while thinking about what happened in the morning…

I don't know if it was coincidence or not, but when I got out of Sake's room to do my usual practice routine well…he was actually outside at the moment to train also and the situation had nearly got out of hand when his acute senses picked up the scent inside the room. So I spent almost an hour trying to ran away from him who was shooting around a huge amount of killing intent while I tried to explain what happened when…

"Hnnn~ <3 danna~ so rough~" Sake's e.r.o.t.i.c sleep talking somehow entered his ears and he started using his shadows with the intent to kill. I had no choice but use some slightly 'forceful' means to restrain him and it took nearly our whole morning to slightly pacify him and return back his sanity.

After that 'small' squabble, I had secretly conversed with Lancer about the strange increase of magical energy in me and body and its current changes and I was shocked about what I learned.

Apparently, my body's current state can be simply called in 'Limbo'. What is Limbo? It is sometimes called Purgatory and something like a realm between Heaven and Hell in Christianity. The 'little gray area' if you call it, where kind and pure souls temporarily reside to clean their selves of some 'stains' of sins they committed and those souls who are already forgotten. I am currently making an example but my current state is something similar to that.

A Servant's body is fundamentally a non-corporeal being so they are more inclined to the Spiritual side of things that's why they need containers or vessels to be summoned and called forth to the world. While a human body is a corporeal entity, meaning their body is always tied to the Earth and always susceptible to the existing 'Laws' of the world they inhabit.

Now this is where things get edgy, apparently as a Demi-God (even if sealed I still retain some of its basic benefits so it still counts), I am already in between that gray area of existence between the corporeal and the non-corporeal. But I am still considered in a 'higher' state than ordinary humans but my parameters can't reach those of 'pure' Divine Spirits so I am still just a human in standard one who is a corporeal being just packed with Spiritual steroids and a higher form of Mystery.

Then the Install of the Class Cards came around, letting a Heroic Spirit possess me while retaining my personality f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y alters my body into that of a state similar to both Ruler (Jeanne d'Arc) and Sieg in the Great Holy Grail War. Because my body had become something nearly identical to theirs, my Inheritance ability and the Saint Graphs I had alongside my Command Seals I can turn into a state higher than Sieg and Ruler did with a more enhanced benefit.

In short, my state in Install form is more close to that of a Servant than to that of a human so I can get the benefit of astralizing while my 'real' physical body is being stored in my Reality Marble by Sapphire akin to a knock off of a Throne of Heroes while the one staying in the physical realm is a spiritual body.

Apparently the 'mana transfer thing' is also legit in their 'world' and it's highly effective to those beings similar to Servants and familiars so those magus whose morality is sometimes questionable by common human standards do it just for practicality except of course to those who have relationsh.i.p.s to their partner. So as a magus and one who's body can be considered a plagiarized that of a Servant gets a benefit (lol).

Hearing his explanation alongside Sapphire and Ruby's, I had suddenly remembered of that old cartoon of a boy who can freely turn into a ghost due to a freak accident in his parents lab while the mana transfer thing made me remember that weird anime that the main character gets a power up by b.r.e.a.s.t feeding making me look strangely at them.

After our private conversation, Yamada and I was dragged by Sake and here we are touring the town. I was actually mildly shocked at the infrastructure the town had. It had two walls, an outer wall made of durable wood that encircles the 'town' and an inner wall made of stones that is heavily fortified and designed as a castle. Apparently the outer wall was recently made a few years ago and due to lack of materials and funds they were forced to use wood from the gigantic forest in the south east side of the town.

It was originally built as a garrison and a fort in guarding for beast's hoards coming out from said forest so the capital will not get into any danger of being overwhelmed but due to countless caravans and merchants using this route they made a town just outside the fort. That's why I noticed that the people we walk pass by seems to have some different cultural clothing or features and even other races seems to be walking around. I also noticed that the buildings in the 'Town' is actually built strategically even if there are difference of architectural style that smells of different cultures that if countless numbers of enemies would pour from outside they can slow them down using the tight streets and specific choke points.

Currently from the words of Sake, there had been apparent talks about formally calling this place a city but it will be called out later in a meeting that the nobles and the king will do in a few months. Thinking about something, I asked also if it had a sanitation system and apparently they had one through the knowledge brought by the heroes and built canals and used a nearby river also as a moat also for defenses. While thinking strangely about the strategic significance of the place, it seems we had arrived at our destination.

"Here we are~ welcome to the place rascals and idiots usually go to earn their living, the town's Adventurer's Guild~!" Sake cheerfully introduced to us while gesturing at the two stories building in front. A tavern-like building stood while armed men and women coming inside and outside of the place. With a double doors motif usually see in Wild West movies, it somehow screams instead of a place outlaws usually rest and drink about, but the sign of a silhouette of a man's head wearing a cowboy-like hat with a feather plum in it and the sign of Adventurer's Guild in the world's Common Language it somehow made my blood boil of romantism seeing it.

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While they were busy gawking at the guild's infrastructure in a dark cavern in a certain nearby forest a disturbing conversation is taking place.

"…and that's everything, my Master…" A dark and chilly voice reverently called out to an unknown silhouette sitting in a throne. His figure almost indiscernible that the only light source of the cave, a blue flame flickering slowly in a torch attached to the cavern rocks can only see a giant of a man wearing black armor.

"Hmmm…for that woman of all people to lose…had she gotten weak perhaps?" A somber and cold voice muffled in armor slowly said. The shadow, who spectated William's battle with Sake is currently below the man and prostrating itself while shivering in fear.

*Tap*…*Tap*…*Tap*… the silhouette's finger's slowly tapped the armrest of his throne apparently thinking of something.

A few minutes later, the sound of the ominous tapping slowly stopped.

"…The boy may bring interesting promise in our side… the plans of my Lord needs strong men and beings with strong potential...are our forces ready?" He thought out loud and suddenly addressed his loyal servant.

"Yes… master they are ready and hungry for destruction…ke ke ke~ but… those wild orcs had some signs of rebelling master." The shadow replied.

"*scoffs* Those pretentious ants… kill some of them to set as an example but don't kill the strong ones. We need strong fodder tonight. Turn the corpses also into undead so we can strike fear to their ranks." He ordered another servant in standby.

"Yes, master" The shadow bowed reverently and vanished while muffled cries suddenly echoed out and reached their side a few moments later.

"The plans of our Lord must be swiftly dealt with and I want that town to turn into rubble when the first ray of dawn will see the first step of our Lord in turning this world into what he imaged! *Bang*" With his words he stood up and announced loudly, grabbing something behind him a gigantic double edged sword was taken out and stabbed into the ground. Red glowing lights suddenly flared in his helmet's visor and multiple red eyes full of blood thirst suddenly snapped open around him and multiple roars echoed out of the cave.

"Ha~! Ha~! Ke ke ke~!! Yes my Masterrr!" The shadow cried out joyfully amidst his mad cackle while gazing reverently at the menacing helmet his master wore. His two red ghost fires seemingly observing the gigantic figure with veneration.

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Author's Note:

Sorry been busy yesterday... So here is the chapter yesterday alongside today's chapter which will be sent in a few 'moments!!!' Yaay~ to you also guys cauze last week's rank before the reset was around 209 or 208 so a bonus chapter for this week!