"He was a part of the sun god's blazing radiance, with the valor of a lion, a bull, or the leader of an elephant herd; radiant as the sun, handsome as the moon, and fierce as fire."
Thus had the Indian epic, the Mahabharata, described the Hero who now stood before Sovell with spear in hand-Karna.
Son of the sun god Surya, king of Anga, the finest archer under Heaven... and, of course, a top-tier Servant occupying the position of Red Lancer in this Holy Grail War.
"Lancer" was the Class of spearmen. It existed to better accommodate the power of those Heroes throughout human history who wielded spears, lances, staves, and other polearms.
Yet why had Karna, the great Hero renowned for his archery in the Mahabharata, manifested in the Lancer Class, which should not have been his?
The answer was undoubtedly terrifying.
"Oh? Spatial folding... or expansion? Quite the impressive work."
Pushing open a stone door in the courtyard, Sovell surveyed an interior clearly at odds with its apparent size from outside and casually guessed at the true nature of this bounded field.
Karna did not respond. Having lived his entire life as a warrior, he knew little of such advanced Magecraft. Yet the workshop provided for their battle was far more spacious than even he had imagined.
Neither the ceiling nor the end of the stone floor was visible. There was no obvious source of light, yet the space remained brightly lit.
"I know of you, Black Lancer... or rather, Sovell, King of the Wind. Rider was strong, and you, who defeated him, can only be stronger.
Among the five formidable enemies I faced in life-the Pandavas-one was the son of the wind god Vayu. I witnessed the storms he unleashed, too-splitting mountains and shattering stone,