I Am A Villain

'Forcing the soul to corrode while the reality marble/domain was active, devouring it piece by piece until only the outer shell remains. He didn't die, he slowly fell into the abyss that is my soul, every soul I ever consumed slowly forcing him to accept the lie, that he is a prisoner in there, that he will die in there and as the lie was forced onto Archer, that lie became reality, and the reality, that he just needed to take a few steps back to get out, slowly became a lie .'

'What an interesting ability… the strong of mind will definitely die as they won't back down while the cowards get to live as if they are not worthy to be devoured. Well, it all depends on their behavior in the end. You get to choose whether you live or die and you don't even know about it, a cruel ability… '

'The difference between it and the one I use is that killing soul-based lifeforms using physical means would be… stupid to even try. To run away from this you would need a physical body and a domain/reality marble activated.'

As Zero came out of the Reality Marble, outside things were escalating.

…

Lancer: "We have less than a minute. Attacking him isn't getting us anywhere."

As Saber thought for a bit she came up with a solution.

Saber: "Lancer, you and I will distract him. Shirou, it's up to you to destroy the magic circle. You only have one chance, do your best."

Lancer: "It's not like we have a choice."

Emiya: "YES!"

As the 2 servants attacked Emiya sent 3 swords to attack from the front while Gilgamesh simply watched as more portals opened.

Gilgamesh: "Don't you understand the futility, you pitiful mongrels?"

Emiya: "It might be futile, but we still have to try."

As he said that a sword Emiya had hidden before, black with red lines came from the side and broke through Gilgamesh's blockade, breaking a few weapons in the way.

Gilgamesh: "What?!"

Emiya: "GO!!!"

As the sword continued it crashed with the magic circle, breaking the circle and itself from the backslash.

Emiya: "We did it!"

Saber: "It's over!"

Lancer: "Finally!"

Gilgamesh: "How could I… to this mongrels!" – he spoke in anger

Suddenly claps were heard and as all of them turned their head they saw Zero standing on the edge of a roof nearby, a drink in his hand calmly watching them. All of a sudden everyone got a bad feeling.

Emiya: "It's over now, your magic circle is broken. Your plan is finished, just surrender."

Zero: "Yeah… No. I'll give you this though, never expected you to break through the decoy though."

The trio's eyes opened wide.

Saber: "You mean…"

Emiya: "Decoy?!"

Lancer: "I'm starting to hate being on this team."

Zero suddenly raised 3 fingers in the air, lowering them one by one as the 4 spectators watched carefully.

'Who the f.u.c.k just sits and waits? There is definitely something wrong with fictional characters.'

As the last finger fell a loud sound was heard in the sky, like gears shifting into place, but softer. Above the location of the previous magic circle, the clouds split, and another magic circle, twice the size the previous one reaching 1 km in diameter was revealed as numerous identical chants were heard.

Gilgamesh: "The first one was hiding the magic gathering behind it."

Saber: "We were tricked."

'Duh!'

Emiya: "What?!"

Zero: "BOOST X10!"

Zero: "Summoning: Come forth… Bahamut - Dragon of the End "

[A.N: Just came up with a random title, not taken from any work of fiction in this case.]

As the magic circle rotated faster a tear started to form, from the other side a giant black dragon, reaching almost 700 meters in length came through.

As the dragon came through the trio was showing extreme trepidation, Gilgamesh being the only one excited, as he took off towards the dragon.

Emiya: "A dragon?!"

Saber: "Not just any dragon. Judging by the name it must be very powerful."

Zero: "Correct!"

Emiya: "Is this what you wanted?! Are you happy with what you brought here?!"

Zero: "Ho… I would have really been much happier… had I any control over that thing."

Emiya: "Wait you mean…"

Saber: "You can't control it?!"

Zero: "Nope."

Zero answered as he continued drinking.

Saber: "You realize that there is a dangerous beast in front of us and not even you are safe."

Zero: "That depends on your perspective." – Zero said uncaringly.

Lancer: "Haaaa… I am really hating being on this team."

As the King of Heroes was being pushed back by the giant dragon the other 3 participants went to join the fight.

As the battle continued Zero was carefully looking, studying every movement of the beast and the 4 fighters. Slowly calculating, determining, and separating skill from pure luck.

He was calculating the effects of the protagonist's aura or plot armor. Observing and verifying its limits.

This was the first time he had attempted something of this nature. With no previous notes to compare to it would be a good basis for the ones ahead.

Luck, fate, protagonist's aura, plot armor. It all boils down to a chance being created in an impossible situation. A series of events that somehow connect and lead to it or one moment of instinct, luck, or chance. A microscopic chance becoming the most probable one to happen. Impossible to predict, calculate, or create… is it?

A way to create and even manipulate that chance. To manipulate/create that 0.0001% and make it a certainty. A fool's dream, a crazy notion to even consider, nobody even knowing that all it took was 2 things. 2 simple tools that could be found without much difficulty now that his magic sequence for sacred gears was finished. Once he gained that sacred gear half the job would have already been finished. Only the last piece of the puzzle remained.

As Zero was looking closely, the dragon was finished in one last strike.

[Displaying Protagonist's aura, as the dragon was stronger than the other 4]

'As long as the requirements are fulfilled… I can make it happen.'

'That luck that all main protagonists have, that god-given ability to be at an exact place and at an exact time to gain something that will benefit you. I will gain an even stronger version of it, that I can control at will.'