Gray River Town's Holy Grail War, evening of the second day.
The four teenagers gathered around a table in the inn's lobby, discussing their next moves with their Servants. Sovell and Artoria sat off to one side, listening to the meeting and offering advice on their decisions.
"At present, we aren't just unsure about the nature of the Holy Grail fragment here. More importantly, we don't know who makes up the other two factions."
As the only one of the four who excelled equally in martial arts and magecraft, Rin Tohsaka naturally took the role of moderator and guided the discussion:
"So we currently have two main tasks. First, determine whether there's anything abnormal about Gray River Town's Holy Grail fragment. Second, if there is, try to communicate with the other Masters, appealing to their emotions and reasoning with them wherever possible."
Once they had clarified their faction's current objectives, they began discussing whom to send out that night. Illya eagerly volunteered:
"Let Illya's Berserker handle it."
During the previous night's battle, Heracles had used up two of his resurrections because of the enemy Azure Archer's Noble Phantasms.
In return, however, Heracles had gained substantial resistance to those two Noble Phantasms:
Flame God's Roar (Agni Gandiva) Rank-A Resistance-90%;
Indra's Thunder (Vajra) Rank-EX Resistance-93%
Just as I thought.
When Illya saw that neither resistance on the panel exceeded 95%, she understood: the resistance Heracles gained was affected by a Luck check between both sides.
Without fully activating Mad Enhancement, Heracles's Luck was only B-Rank, and even with full Mad Enhancement, it only reached A-Rank.
Yet in Illya's Master's view, the rank displayed beside Arjuna's Luck was a jaw-dropping "A++"!
There was no need to say whose side the goddess of luck favored. After all, saying