Semiramis's Battle

"Ritual?" Sieg asked. "What ritual?"

"A ritual that uses the Greater Holy Grail to materialize the soul."

Author's Note:

First, let me clarify. This Sieg isn't flying around like Ultraman or transforming. He's just wearing Blood Armor and equipping Noble Phantasms as gear. He's basically like Shirou with the Sword in the Stone and Avalon, except he has undergone some physical enhancement. So Sieg is really weak right now...

Semiramis's Battle

The Holy Grail War generally involved summoning seven Servants to compete for an artifact commonly believed to grant wishes directly, its basic principle being the use of vast amounts of magical energy to bypass the process.

That was right. In the eyes of orthodox magi, the so-called Holy Grail was merely an artifact with nearly inexhaustible magical energy. Yet even such a Holy Grail had driven countless magi to fight over it and die in the process.

If they knew the true purpose of the Holy Grail, they might regret their own shallowness.

It was the Third Magic, a magecraft attained to materialize souls and save all humanity.

"Finally? I've finally waited for this moment," Amakusa Shirou murmured.

The Holy Grail before him bore the image of a homunculus sleeping peacefully. Lizleihi Justicia von Einzbern had once been able to touch upon the Third Magic, but the soul materialization she devised was far too slow. Therefore, she used her own body as part of the ritual, while the other two of the Three Founding Families provided the Command Spells and the site.

The first three Holy Grail Wars had all ended in near failure. The Einzbern family had almost given up, the Makiri family had been completely destroyed, and the Tohsaka family had resumed its quiet life as a minor landowner in the world of magecraft.

But this time