Eliminating a Master was far easier than defeating an enemy Servant.
However, several years after the Sub-Holy Grail War developed, the Assassin class was no longer as powerful.
There were only nineteen Old Men of the Mountain in the Heroic Spirit Throne, and their abilities and Noble Phantasms had already been thoroughly revealed through countless Sub-Holy Grail Wars.
The magi had developed countermeasures against assassins, and a climate of hostility toward assassins had even taken shape.
By now, the Assassins had returned to their original position—the lowest rank.
Hyoma Sagara was naturally well aware of the Assassin class's current state, so he decided to take a different path—not using Hassan-i-Sabbah as his Servant.
He already had the perfect target in mind.
What was the most important ability of an Assassin?
Some might say assassination techniques or Noble Phantasm performance, but Hyoma Sagara believed that what mattered most to an Assassin was the amount of relevant information available.
Even the finest Hassan-i-Sabbah would not be so frightening once his abilities were known.
Therefore, Hyoma Sagara chose the world's most mysterious criminal, an assassin whose true identity was unknown even now: Jack the Ripper.
Jack the Ripper's most famous deed was undoubtedly the brutal murder of five prostitutes near Whitechapel in London's East End.
Thus, Hyoma Sagara decided to use a prostitute's flesh and blood as the catalyst for summoning an Assassin.
He casually picked someone out on the street.
Who she was did not matter. He did not consider her a person anyway.
She had made a bit of a fuss at first, but after he beat her, she quieted down.
Next, all he had to do was dismember this prostitute according to the historical accounts and cut out her heart...
Just as Hyoma Sagara was about to bring down the