Chapter Summaries

Shirou Emiya gained Mystery and completed his transformation into a stronger Servant, then returned to Millennia Fortress and began training with Chiron. The chapter left him studying swordsmanship and sharing a meal with Fiore.

• Shirou Emiya discovered Mystery on his Divine Blessings panel and looked forward to creating a powerful item with it.
• Shirou Emiya returned to Millennia Fortress and told Darnic that he had completed his Noble Phantasm and leveled up, revealing his new abilities and parameters.
• Darnic welcomed Shirou Emiya’s transformation and remained wary of the Red Faction’s powerful Servants.
• Shirou Emiya trained in swordsmanship with Chiron, but Chiron spotted a flaw and defeated him.
• Fiore brought lunch, and Shirou Emiya explained that he ate because he had a physical body.

Shiro Tokisada Amakusa rallied the Red Faction after their Saber was defeated and Berserker was captured, while Semiramis revealed that the Hanging Gardens of Vanity was an aerial fortress built for offense. The Red Faction set course for Millennia Fortress, where the decisive battle was expected to begin in about an hour.

• Shirou Emiya told Chiron that his plan to help Fiore stand again remained possible, though it depended on having enough time.
• Shiro Tokisada Amakusa told the Red Faction that Saber had been defeated, Berserker had been captured, and only five of their Servants remained against the Black Faction's eight.
• Achilles and Atalanta vowed to fight, and Semiramis proposed launching a full-scale attack.
• Semiramis activated the Hanging Gardens of Vanity, revealing that the castle had risen into the sky as an aerial fortress.
• Semiramis told the Red Faction that the fortress would reach Millennia Fortress in about an hour, and the Servants prepared for battle.

Shiro Tokisada Amakusa and the Red Faction approached Millennia Castle aboard the Hanging Gardens as the decisive battle drew near. Amakusa explained that he was risking his life to test whether his wish for the Greater Holy Grail was right, and both factions began preparing for war.

• Karna promised Shiro Tokisada Amakusa that he would give his hero a magnificent finale, while Amakusa and Semiramis discussed his decision to enter the battlefield.
• Amakusa told Semiramis that he would accept death if God rejected his plan, but that surviving would confirm his wish to obtain the Greater Holy Grail; Semiramis permitted him to fight and urged him to survive.
• The Hanging Gardens stopped near Millennia Castle, where the Red Faction gathered at the bow and Atalanta sensed confusion among the defenders.
• Semiramis released Dragon Tooth Soldiers to serve as foot soldiers against the homunculi, and Shakespeare joked about Atalanta's comment that they were fragile.
• The Black Faction emerged from the castle as both sides prepared for the decisive battle.

Shirou Emiya prepared to help heal Fiore before the Red Faction brought its aerial fortress, the Garden of Avalon, to the battlefield. Semiramis challenged Vlad the Impaler, who accepted and ordered the Black Faction to attack, beginning the clash between the two sides.

• Shirou Emiya tested a healing item for Fiore using materials supplied by Fiore and Darnic, then received Darnic's warning that the Red Faction was bringing its base.
• Chiron observed the Garden of Avalon hovering over the battlefield and told Fiore that the Red Faction appeared ready for an all-out fight.
• Darnic and the Masters withdrew toward the city while Vlad the Impaler and the other Servants prepared to face the invading Red Faction.
• Shirou Emiya identified Semiramis as the ruler of the Red Faction, and Semiramis challenged Vlad the Impaler to prove who was the wiser king.
• Vlad the Impaler accepted Semiramis's provocation and ordered the Black Faction's warriors to wipe out the invaders.

The Black Faction sent its Servants and forces into battle while Vlad the Impaler stayed back, confident in their advantage. Atalanta’s Noble Phantasm devastated their troops, and Achilles clashed with Shirou Emiya, whose Divinity made him a worthy opponent.

• Vlad the Impaler held back as the Black Faction’s Servants charged, with Chiron ready to support them from the rear.
• Shirou Emiya, Siegfried, and Frankenstein advanced with the homunculi and Golems, but Shirou stopped them when he sensed danger.
• Atalanta fired Written Complaint Arrow, raining arrows of light across the battlefield and destroying homunculi and Golems.
• Achilles charged from the enemy fortress in his chariot, crushing the Black Faction’s forces as he raced across the battlefield.
• Shirou Emiya struck Achilles with his sword and kicked him from the chariot, then revealed that his Divinity made him a fitting opponent.
• Shirou Emiya and Achilles began their duel, eager to test their strength against each other.

Siegfried fought Karna to a stalemate while the other Servants clashed across the battlefield. Atalanta struck down Spartacus with her Noble Phantasm, but his flesh began to writhe, and Karna prepared to unleash his attack on Siegfried.

• Siegfried and Karna resumed their duel, while Shirou Emiya fought Achilles and Astolfo, Frankenstein, and other Servants engaged the enemy.
• Vlad the Impaler and Chiron assessed the battlefield, and Avicebron sent Spartacus to fight Atalanta.
• Atalanta shot Spartacus repeatedly, but his wounds regenerated and his growing body converted the damage into greater strength.
• Atalanta pinned Spartacus's hand with his own sword and struck him with her Noble Phantasm, Written Complaint Arrow.
• Spartacus's torn flesh began to writhe, while Karna declared that he would defeat Siegfried and invoked “Brahma, Curse Me!”

Karna and Siegfried unleashed their strongest Noble Phantasms in a deadly clash, as the Red Faction’s plan to eliminate Black Saber began. The chapter ended with both heroes charging toward each other, their final attacks about to collide.

• Shiro Tokisada Amakusa urged Karna to kill Siegfried with his Noble Phantasm, and Karna agreed to wait for the right moment.
• Karna used a Command Spell to launch his attack, while Gordes commanded Siegfried to answer with his own Noble Phantasm.
• Shirou Emiya and Achilles fought while discussing Mordred, and Vlad the Impaler rushed toward Karna and Siegfried as Atalanta fled the blast area.
• Shiro Tokisada Amakusa noticed the distant explosion while fighting Frankenstein in the forest.
• Karna sacrificed his Golden Armor to reveal a God-Slaying Spear, and Siegfried accepted that he would likely die but prepared to fight to the end.
• Karna and Siegfried charged at each other as they invoked “Sun, Obey Death!” and “Fantasy Greatsword: Heaven's Fall!”

Karna used his strongest spear to kill Siegfried, then reclaimed his Divine Armor through a Command Spell and fought Vlad the Impaler. As the two clashed, Spartacus neared the point of a catastrophic self-destruction, threatening Millennia Fortress.

• Karna unleashed his Divine Spear and destroyed Siegfried, leaving both factions’ Sabers eliminated.
• Vlad the Impaler confronted Karna, but Karna’s Master used a Command Spell to restore his Divine Armor, and the two began fighting.
• Chiron realized the Red Faction had forced Siegfried to spend his last Command Spell escaping Karna’s attack, leaving him unable to avoid the fatal strike.
• Darnic blamed Gordes for Siegfried’s death and regretted not having Caules summon Saber instead.
• Chiron and the Black Faction’s Masters watched Spartacus grow into a giant as his accumulated damage brought his Noble Phantasm close to a destructive explosion.

Jeanne followed her Revelation toward the forest, convinced that her true purpose as Ruler lay beyond simply overseeing the Holy Grail War. As Amakusa Shirou Tokisada retreated from her approach, he arranged to send Spartacus toward her as a bomb.

• Shirou Emiya and Achilles fought through the forest while the Red Faction’s attack on Millennia Castle raged around them.
• Jeanne sensed an irreversible threat and followed her Revelation toward the forest, despite not knowing why she had been summoned.
• Jeanne fought through the Dragon Tooth Soldiers as she charged toward her destination.
• Amakusa Shirou Tokisada stopped fighting Frankenstein and withdrew after realizing Jeanne had reached the battlefield.
• Amakusa Shirou Tokisada told Atalanta to lure Spartacus to Jeanne and hand that bomb over to her.

Shirou Emiya and Achilles fought to a stalemate until Shirou used his Assassin ability to disguise himself as Atalanta and ambush Achilles. Achilles learned that the Archer of the Black Faction, Chiron, was his teacher as Shirou charged him for a second round.

• Shirou Emiya and Achilles traded blows but held back from using their decisive Noble Phantasms.
• Shirou Emiya released his flames and used the resulting smoke to hide after sensing Atalanta approaching.
• Achilles and Atalanta discussed their next move and headed toward the forest's edge.
• Shirou Emiya, disguised as Atalanta, struck Achilles with a surprise barrage of punches and a kick that sent him crashing through dozens of trees.
• Shirou Emiya revealed his disguise and told Achilles that Chiron was the Archer of the Black Faction and his teacher.
• Shirou Emiya charged Achilles again, calling for a second round.

Shirou Emiya overwhelmed Achilles by exploiting his turmoil over fighting Chiron, while Jeanne encountered Spartacus after Atalanta abandoned her under orders from her Master. A Light Cannon fired from Semiramis's Hanging Garden descended toward Spartacus, leaving Jeanne to realize the attack threatened them both.

• Shirou Emiya battered Achilles, whose uncertainty about opposing Chiron left him unable to fight effectively.
• Atalanta arrived beside Jeanne and warned her that Spartacus had transformed into a monstrous Berserker whose strength increased as he took damage.
• Spartacus attacked Jeanne and Atalanta, blasting rocks at them and injuring them with debris infused with magical energy.
• Atalanta revealed that her Master had ordered her to retreat, then escaped into the forest and left Jeanne facing Spartacus alone.
• A Light Cannon fired from Semiramis's Hanging Garden descended toward Spartacus, and Jeanne realized she was caught in the attack's path.

Jeanne used her Holy Flag to survive Spartacus’s self-detonation, while the blast devastated the battlefield and forced the Servants to retreat. Semiramis then used the Hanging Garden to tear open Millennia Castle and expose the Greater Holy Grail, as Shirou Emiya planned to stay behind and find Jeanne.

• Jeanne planted her spear as a flag and activated her Holy Flag, blocking Spartacus’s self-detonating attack as the Light Cannon struck.
• Shirou Emiya stopped fighting Achilles to evade the explosion, and Achilles retreated into the forest while the other Servants fled the blast.
• The explosion destroyed most of the battlefield’s Golems, homunculi, and Dragon Tooth Soldiers, then quickly dissipated.
• Shirou Emiya welcomed the Red Faction’s plan to seize the Greater Holy Grail and decided to find Jeanne rather than enter the Hanging Garden with Vlad the Impaler.
• Semiramis brought the Hanging Garden above Millennia Castle and announced that the Red Faction would take the Greater Holy Grail by force.
• Semiramis activated the garden’s thaumaturgical formula, collapsing the castle’s soil and foundation until the Greater Holy Grail was exposed.

As the Greater Holy Grail began separating from the Ley Lines inside Semiramis’s Hanging Gardens, the Red and Black Factions prepared to battle over it. Shirou Emiya met Jeanne in the forest and admitted he wanted the Grail kept out of the Black Faction’s hands, but let her go to the Hanging Gardens.

• Atalanta, Karna, Achilles, and Shakespeare saw the Greater Holy Grail swirling with magical energy as Semiramis began separating it from the Ley Lines.
• Semiramis told the Red Faction Servants to defend the Grail while she worked, and Shakespeare hurried to his study to create something inspired by it.
• The factions’ positions reversed: the Red Faction had to protect the Grail in the Hanging Gardens, while the Black Faction tried to reclaim it before it was fully transferred.
• Shirou Emiya evaded Darnic’s orders and met Jeanne in the forest, explaining that the Greater Holy Grail was not his objective and that he preferred it remain outside the Black Faction’s hands.
• Jeanne asked whether Shirou would stop her, and he said he would not; she then charged toward the Hanging Gardens.

Jeanne learned that Semiramis controlled the floating Hanging Garden, while Karna overpowered Vlad the Impaler within its domain. Darnic forced Vlad to unleash his Blood Heritage Noble Phantasm and used his final Command Spell to bind Vlad to his own existence.

• Jeanne recognized Semiramis as the master of the floating Hanging Garden after Shirou Emiya revealed the Red Faction Assassin's true name.
• Karna explained that Vlad's strength had diminished inside Semiramis's domain and continued to drive him toward defeat.
• Darnic urged Vlad to activate Blood Heritage, but Vlad refused because he feared becoming a monster despised as Dracula.
• Darnic used a Command Spell to force Vlad to activate Blood Heritage, and Vlad attacked and pierced his Master.
• As Darnic laughed and bled, he used his final Command Spell to make Vlad engrave Darnic's existence upon his soul.

Darnic fused his identity and obsession with the Holy Grail into Vlad the Impaler’s soul, transforming him into the legendary vampire Dracula. The Servants’ attacks proved ineffective against the new monster, who declared himself the true King of the Night.

• Darnic explained that his Command Spell let him imprint his identity and Holy Grail obsession onto Vlad the Impaler’s soul, though he could not fully dominate the Heroic Spirit.
• Darnic and Vlad merged into a monstrous being, and Vlad cried out as Darnic’s influence overwhelmed him.
• Karna, angered by Vlad’s fate, struck the transformed being’s Spirit Core with his spear, but the attack had no effect.
• The being reformed from bats and revealed that it was no longer Black Lancer Vlad the Impaler, but the vampire Dracula feared throughout the world.

Darnic and Vlad the Impaler became Dracula, a nameless vampire monster seeking the Greater Holy Grail to fulfill his wish of continuing his family. After Dracula attacked Achilles and Shirou Emiya intervened, Jeanne ordered every gathered Servant to defeat him.

• Dracula demanded that the Servants return the Greater Holy Grail and sensed its location in the garden.
• Achilles attacked Dracula, who caught his spear, regenerated from his wounds, and tried to turn Achilles into a vampire companion by drinking his blood.
• Chiron kicked Achilles away from Dracula and explained that Achilles's invulnerability did not protect him from acts of goodwill, including an attempt to make him a companion.
• Dracula attacked Jeanne and Shirou Emiya, but Shirou blocked his claw strike and kicked him back while Chiron explained what had happened.
• Jeanne identified Dracula as a threat to Romania and used her Command Spell to order all gathered Servants to defeat him.

Jeanne’s Command Spell bound the assembled Servants to fight Dracula, and they overwhelmed him without being able to stop his regeneration. When the Red Faction Servants suddenly faltered, Dracula escaped toward the Greater Holy Grail, and Shirou Emiya revealed that their Masters had been taken over and that the group would soon meet the mastermind.

• Jeanne used her Command Spell to order the Servants to defeat Dracula and bound their attacks against him.
• Avicebron sent his Golems against Dracula while Karna, Achilles, Atalanta, Chiron, Shirou Emiya, and Jeanne attacked together.
• Dracula evaded the Servants’ attacks by turning into bats and mist, while his bites and regeneration kept them from defeating him.
• The Red Faction Servants suddenly stopped moving, allowing Dracula to flee toward the Greater Holy Grail.
• Jeanne and Chiron pursued Dracula, and Shirou Emiya told them that the Red Faction Masters had been taken under control and that they would soon encounter the mastermind.

Dracula reached the Greater Holy Grail, but Shiro Tokisada Amakusa stopped and purified him with a Baptismal Chant. Jeanne and the others arrived to discover that Shiro was a Ruler from the Third Holy Grail War, leaving them shocked by his identity and history.

• Dracula reached the Greater Holy Grail and found Shiro Tokisada Amakusa waiting on the stairs.
• Shiro revealed that he had participated in the war as the Red Faction's Master and refused to let Darnic claim the Grail.
• Shiro wounded Dracula with Black Keys and used a Baptismal Chant to purify the vampire, turning him to ash.
• Jeanne and the others entered the chapel and found Shiro standing beside Dracula's remains.
• Shiro identified himself as the Ruler of the Third Holy Grail War and said he was the first Servant to arrive in this world.

Shiro Tokisada Amakusa revealed that he had taken control of the Red Faction’s Masters and their Command Spells to claim the Greater Holy Grail. As he demanded that Ruler and the Black Faction submit, he noticed another guardian among them.

• Shiro Tokisada Amakusa introduced himself and showed that he had gathered the Red Faction’s Command Spells, explaining that their Masters had surrendered their authority while under his influence.
• Jeanne confronted Amakusa about his goal, and he declared that he sought to save all humanity with the Greater Holy Grail.
• Semiramis appeared and admitted that the former Masters were alive but believed they had already won the war.
• Atalanta attacked Amakusa and Achilles thrust at him, but Karna and Semiramis blocked their strikes.
• Amakusa claimed the Red Faction held the advantage and demanded that Ruler and the Black Faction yield, then sensed another guardian among them.

Shirou Emiya confronted Shiro Tokisada Amakusa as a Guardian, while Avicebron abandoned Roche Frain Yggdmillennia and joined Amakusa's side. Amakusa's forces trapped Shirou, Jeanne, and Chiron, but Shirou unleashed Unlimited Blade Works as the battle began.

• Shirou Emiya told Shiro Tokisada Amakusa that he opposed his plans and had let him act because defeating him would still be inevitable.
• Shiro Tokisada Amakusa invited Avicebron to join him, and Avicebron agreed on the condition that Roche Frain Yggdmillennia would not be harmed.
• Avicebron broke his contract with Roche Frain Yggdmillennia and became Amakusa's Servant despite Chiron's attempt to stop the transfer.
• Amakusa ordered Avicebron to send golems against Shirou Emiya, Jeanne, and Chiron, while Karna and Achilles attacked Shirou.
• Shirou Emiya blocked Karna and Achilles, then activated Unlimited Blade Works and drew everyone into his world of swords.