093, Lyons
"Mm... we're almost there, right?!"
Queen Marie's voice was somewhat languid and sultry. Although she was a Rider, traveling without her Noble Phantasm due to insufficient mana had indeed left her rather tired. Still, while Marie was a pampered Princess Consort, she was also remarkably optimistic and cheerful—if anything, perhaps a little too passionate?!
"Yes, almost."
Jeanne d'Arc nodded and looked toward the outline of the city appearing ahead. The thought of seeing another destroyed city made her feel a little gloomy. It looked as though there was no trace of human life at all.
There was no doubt that Lyons was also a city destroyed by the dragon horde. The closer they got to Orleans, the more enemies and wyverns there were. This had also been one of the first regions destroyed by the maddened Servants and the wyvern swarms.
The ruins of the capital were vast. Finding an injured Servant among such crumbling walls and devastated ground was no easy task.
Unless they possessed a +16 bonus to the "Presence Concealment" ability, Servants could sense each other's mana and existence when they were close enough. Meanwhile, the skills of the Ruler class allowed one to pinpoint the location of every Servant across a wide area.
If Jeanne d'Arc had not lost her Ruler-class skills, finding the "Dragon Slayer" within the ruins of Lyons would have been a trivial matter. But without such a convenient radar function, they could only search Lyons step by step.
To speed up the search, the group decided to split up.
"Fine, then let's see who finds him first. Amadeus and I will take the west." Marie smiled.
"Then Mash and I will go east." Jeanne d'Arc said. As fellow members of the Lawful Good alignment, the two got along very well.