Since Dragon Maiden intended to skip work, Lianye, who barely qualified as having the Lancer class attribute, could simply step in and replace Elizabeth.
Though he was the Master, no one had ever said a Master could not carry a Noble Phantasm onto the battlefield and beat Servants head-on. "Fine, no problem. I'll do what needs to be done myself."
Lianye hefted the Guan Dao and prepared to go himself. He could treat it as one last warm-up before entering Orleans. "Well then, since you're useless anyway, it's time for us to terminate the contract, right?"
"Y-you-you-you-you..."
Elizabeth was so frightened that she could not speak for a moment.
She had never expected Lianye to say that. Dragon Maiden did not actually have any great demands; she only needed her Master to ask her nicely and satisfy her tiny bit of vanity. That was all the ambition she had...
Yet Lianye was utterly decisive. Forget asking her nicely—he did not hesitate in the slightest even when it came to terminating her Servant contract.
What Elizabeth Báthory had failed to understand was whether this was a buyer's market or a seller's market.
There were plenty of Servants here who could take the field. Even the combat strength of the two Masters, Lianye and Gudako, was on an entirely different level. To put it bluntly, no one particularly cared about having one extra Servant like Dragon Maiden.
Even if Camilla was not defeated by Dragon Maiden, another Servant could take her on.
—Thus, the problem now was not that Masters lacked Servants, but that Servants lacked Masters.
(PS: Of course, in a game, Players with collecting obsessions would want to add all hundred-plus Servants to their collection... so they were always short on Servants, such as Black Jeanne, Okita, Bride...)
"W-w-w-wait, I