Atram Galliasta was a mixed-blood Magus of Western European and Middle Eastern descent.
Well, since the Middle East was involved, he was naturally connected to the oil tycoons.
His father was an oil king...
Even their magecraft had been purchased for "entertainment" and as a wealthy man's "status symbol." Atram's father treated magecraft merely as amusement and did not take it very seriously.
But the young Magus Atram Galliasta was quite dedicated to magecraft.
Relying on the oil tycoons' traditional methods, although their history was not particularly long, they had bought themselves a noble title. Their status was far above that of ordinary Magi, similar to the declining Tohsaka Family.
In terms of influence over ordinary society, their family ranked among the very best in the entire Clock Tower.
Still, they ultimately lacked deep foundations. In terms of magecraft alone, they could not compare to those long-established Magus families and were merely second-rate.
In the future Fifth Holy Grail War, Atram Galliasta would use the Golden Fleece as a Holy Relic and summon Caster, Medea the Traitor Witch, one month before the war began.
Well, because of an oil tycoon's personality problems, he really was betrayed and died miserably at the hands of his own Servant.
As for whether he deserved to die, Atram absolutely deserved it. In the future, in order to refine mass-producible mana crystals just as oil was exploited in ordinary society, Atram would directly use living people as raw material, extracting them through a combination of magecraft and modern machinery.
He even built a Magecraft Workshop specifically for mass production.
But it was not exactly that he disregarded human life. He still respected the lives of normal people. Yet because of the education he had received since childhood, he did not regard "lives" that could be