Chapter Summaries

Kiritsugu Emiya decided to destroy the Holy Grail War before abandoning his ideals and fleeing with Irisviel. When Iskandar stormed Einzbern Castle, Artoria and Sovell met him, and the kings began a drinking contest in the castle garden.

• Kiritsugu told Irisviel he intended to destroy the Holy Grail War.
• Iskandar breached Einzbern Castle’s barrier with his Thunder Chariot, but Sovell’s protective formations stopped the charge.
• Artoria and Sovell confronted Iskandar, who revealed he had cut down the surrounding trees and challenged them to drink with him.
• Artoria, Sovell, and Iskandar gathered in the castle garden, where Iskandar used a bamboo ladle to drink wine from his barrel.

Sovell, Artoria, Rider, and Gilgamesh gathered for a banquet that became a debate over which king deserved the Holy Grail. The chapter ended as Rider proposed settling the question through a contest of kings rather than a war.

• Gilgamesh arrived at Einzbern Castle, and Rider invited him to join the banquet while Sovell secretly discovered Kiritsugu's bat familiar and invited the Emiya couple to watch.
• Kiritsugu and Irisviel accepted Sovell's invitation and headed to the castle.
• Gilgamesh rejected Rider's wine and produced a golden flask of exceptional liquor, which Rider and Artoria enjoyed while Sovell became tipsy after one cup.
• Rider mocked Sovell for being a lightweight, and Sovell drank juice while consoling himself that his human half explained his poor tolerance.
• Rider proposed turning the Holy Grail War into a debate and drinking contest to determine which of the kings was worthy of the Grail.

Sovell, Rider, Gilgamesh, and Artoria discussed their claims to the Holy Grail over wine, with Gilgamesh insisting it was his treasure and Rider declaring his intent to take it. The kings agreed they would eventually settle their conflict with their blades, while a drunken Artoria objected when Sovell pointed out her true age.

• Rider praised Gilgamesh’s wine, then asked the kings to explain their wishes for the Holy Grail.
• Gilgamesh claimed the Holy Grail originated in his treasury, and Sovell identified him as King Gilgamesh.
• Gilgamesh said he would grant the Grail only to subjects who submitted to his rule, while Rider insisted he would seize what he desired.
• Gilgamesh and Rider agreed that their opposing claims would have to be settled in battle.
• Rider noticed Artoria had drunk much of the wine, and Sovell explained that she was older than her youthful appearance suggested.
• Artoria struck Sovell when he began to reveal more about her age.

Sovell, Artoria, and Rider debated what a king owed the people and what each of them wished for, while Tokiomi ordered Assassin to attack the banquet. Rider defended conquest and declared that his people should devote themselves to their king, provoking Artoria’s fury.

• Artoria challenged Rider over his willingness to seize the Holy Grail, and Rider said he wished to gain a physical body so he could conquer the world as a living man.
• Sovell declared that he would kill Rider after the banquet and said he wished for the weak to live in peace, while Artoria said she wanted to remain in the modern age with him.
• Rider argued that the nation and its people should dedicate themselves to the king, and Sovell called his view tyrannical as Artoria agreed.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka had Kirei Kotomine use a Command Spell to order Assassin to attack the banquet.
• Rider praised a king’s ambition and power, and Artoria angrily blamed his way of ruling for his empire’s collapse and his people’s misery.

At the kings’ banquet, Assassin revealed himself as Hundred Faces, prompting Iskandar to summon his reality marble and army to destroy them. After the battle, Sovell asked Rider whether the banquet was over.

• Assassin surrounded the banquet, and Sovell identified him as Hundred Faces, the final leader of the Hashshashin.
• Iskandar challenged the other kings over whether a king must stand alone, then summoned his reality marble, Ionioi Hetairoi.
• Iskandar’s army of Heroic Spirits appeared with Bucephalus and charged the Assassins.
• Iskandar ordered his army to trample the Assassins, and they slaughtered them across the desert.
• Sovell restored his robes and asked Iskandar whether the banquet was over.

Sovell confronted Iskandar after declaring the banquet over, and Iskandar chose to face him despite knowing the danger. As the two sides prepared to fight, Gilgamesh discovered something surprising about Sovell and summoned the Vimana to carry the nearby onlookers away.

• Sovell unleashed his white dragon might, silencing the celebrating Heroic Spirits, while Artoria shielded the Emiya couple and Gilgamesh endured the pressure.
• Iskandar ordered his troops to form ranks as Sovell advanced and asked whether the banquet had ended.
• Iskandar confirmed that the banquet was over and accepted Sovell's challenge, then rallied his army to fight the King of the Wind.
• Gilgamesh used Sha Naqba Imuru to inspect Sovell, noticed his White Dragon King's Core and Mystic Eyes, and abruptly deactivated the Noble Phantasm.
• Gilgamesh summoned the Vimana and offered Artoria and the others a ride to protect them from the coming aftermath.

Iskandar led his army against Sovell, but Sovell transformed into a colossal silver dragon and destroyed the Gordius Wheel, leaving Iskandar defeated. Before his final charge, Iskandar asked Sovell to protect Waver until the Holy Grail War ended, and Sovell agreed.

• Iskandar summoned the Gordius Wheel and charged Sovell with his army after Waver spent two Command Spells ordering Rider to win.
• Sovell shed his robe, revealed his dragon form, and summoned chains that restrained Iskandar’s advancing army.
• Sovell unleashed his Anti-World Noble Phantasm, diving as a thousand-meter silver dragon and wiping out the Heroic Spirits in the army.
• Sovell’s impact destroyed the Gordius Wheel, but Iskandar survived and returned with him to Einzbern Castle.
• Iskandar asked Sovell to protect Waver after his departure, and Sovell agreed.
• Iskandar summoned Bucephalus and launched one final attack as Sovell told him it was time to wake from his dream.

After defeating Iskandar, Sovell agreed to shelter Waver and reassured him that he was not to blame for Rider’s departure. At Einzbern Castle, Waver confessed to deceiving two elderly people and asked to say goodbye; Sovell praised him for recognizing his mistake and holding on to his kindness.

• Sovell destroyed Iskandar and his steed, then promised to shelter Waver until the Holy Grail War ended.
• Sovell told Waver that using two Command Spells to strengthen Rider had been a sound choice and that he should not blame himself for Iskandar’s departure.
• Gilgamesh acknowledged Sovell’s strength and gave him a jug of wine as a return gift.
• At Einzbern Castle, Irisviel agreed to let Waver stay, and Sovell accepted a barrel of wine as payment.
• Waver told Sovell that he had used Suggestion Magecraft to pose as the grandson of two elderly people and asked to say goodbye to them.
• Sovell reassured Waver that his regret showed he could correct his mistakes and had not abandoned his kindness.

After Waver said goodbye to the Mackenzies, Sovell gathered the Matou and Einzbern allies to discuss the corrupted Holy Grail and end the War. Kariya fought Tokiomi while Lancelot battled Gilgamesh, and both duels remained underway.

• Waver apologized to Guran and Martha, then Sovell took him back to Einzbern Castle after they said goodbye.
• Sovell revealed the Holy Grail's contamination to the Matou Family, and Kiritsugu Emiya announced his plan to end the ritual.
• Kariya agreed to support Kiritsugu's plan but insisted that Tokiomi be left to him, and Kiritsugu accepted.
• Kariya challenged Tokiomi to a duel and used water armor to attack as Tokiomi defended himself with fire.
• Lancelot dodged and deflected Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon weapons on Mount Enzou, then taunted him to use more weapons.

Lancelot used Arondight and Kariya Matou’s Command Spell to overcome Gilgamesh’s barrage and strike him with a hidden burst of magical energy. Gilgamesh vanished after acknowledging Lancelot’s tactic, leaving Lancelot alive but gravely wounded.

• Lancelot realized he needed Arondight’s boost and a sudden close-range attack to defeat Gilgamesh, who surrounded him with golden gates.
• Lancelot unleashed Aroundight Maximum, scattering Gilgamesh’s ready Noble Phantasms, then called on Kariya Matou for Command Spell support.
• Lancelot used the added magical energy to propel himself toward Gilgamesh, evaded his chains, and endured a barrage of weapons before slashing his armor.
• Lancelot activated Aroundight Overload, causing magical energy hidden in Gilgamesh’s wound to erupt near his Spirit Core.
• Gilgamesh praised Lancelot’s tactic, cursed him for defiling his treasures, and vanished as golden motes while Lancelot limped toward him.

Tokiomi Tohsaka lost the battle in the woods when Kariya Matou used his final Command Spell to save him from Tokiomi’s attack. Sovell ended the Fourth Holy Grail War by dismantling the corrupted Greater Grail, then discovered that the Einzbern Family’s mountain of gold was the cursed Rheingold.

• Tokiomi Tohsaka attacked Kariya Matou, but Kariya used his final Command Spell to make Berserker protect him, forcing Tokiomi to concede defeat.
• Lancer lost to Saber, and Kayneth and Sola-Ui died in an accident while leaving Fuyuki City.
• Sovell declared the Fourth Holy Grail War ended without a winner, dismantled the Greater Grail, and destroyed the corrupted soul fragments of Justeaze with Irisviel von Einzbern’s consent.
• Sovell and Kiritsugu Emiya put their plans into action, bringing Illyasviel out of the Einzbern Family and making Irisviel its head and sole ruler.
• Sovell found a mountain of gold in the Einzbern castle and identified it as the cursed Rheingold, which awakened greed even in him.

Sovell and Artoria left the Einzbern family, traveled through modern Britain, and visited the site of Artoria’s supposed tomb. Their reunion with the past began when Guinevere’s aged soul appeared at their tent.

• Irisviel thanked Sovell for removing the Lesser Grail from her body and offered him half the Rheingold treasures.
• Kiritsugu Emiya told Sovell that he planned to settle in Japan with Irisviel, and Artoria said goodbye to Irisviel.
• Sovell and Artoria traveled through Britain before visiting Glastonbury Abbey, where Artoria was shocked to find a site marked as her tomb.
• Sovell and Artoria camped at the abbey, but the Thousand Winds alerted Sovell to a supernatural visitor.
• Guinevere’s aged soul appeared, recognized Artoria, and embraced her while apologizing through tears.

Sovell learned that Guinevere had remained an earthbound spirit for a thousand years and enlisted Merlin to provide a doll so she could have a new body. After finding the doll in a black stone coffin and confirming its compatibility with Guinevere’s soul, Sovell and Artoria resolved their awkward question about how Guinevere would affect their relationship.

• Guinevere told Sovell that she had stayed at the ruins after the Round Table’s survivors died and asked Jin Garin to bury her there.
• Sovell realized Guinevere had never reincarnated, then threatened Merlin until he agreed to make her a doll resembling her youthful self.
• Merlin gave Sovell a riddle, and Sovell interpreted it as a direction to dig up the marble coffin beneath the ruins.
• Sovell opened the coffin, retrieved the doll that looked like young Guinevere, and confirmed that it was highly compatible with her soul.
• Artoria told Sovell that he and Guinevere were both her wings, and Sovell later concluded she had expressed herself poorly.

The author reflected on the story’s motivations, plot, character portrayals, and lore across Volumes One and Three, and clarified how the protagonist’s powers and key events worked. The author ended by outlining which future Fate storylines would share this volume’s world.

• The author explained that frustration with other stories and portrayals motivated the fanfic, and described the three stages of Volume One’s plot.
• The author defended Britain’s victories over Rome and Gawain’s victory over Lancelot, and discussed the Round Table’s endings and the transition from the Age of Gods to the Age of Man.
• The author clarified that Sovell’s goodness depended on his class and that his true body had power comparable to a top-tier god because he wielded Albion’s authority over wind and fire.
• The author explained how Mordred’s dragon factors let her stab Sovell, and how the golden sky’s blessing empowered Artoria’s use of spears in her final battle.
• The author stated that the planned Fifth and Sixth Holy Grail War stories would share a worldline with this volume, while Apocrypha and Grand Order would take place in parallel worlds.

In 2004, Darnic Yggdmillennia prepared to summon a powerful Servant for the Holy Grail War after his clan failed to find the Holy Relic of Britain's legendary prince. Caules found the required relic just in time, and Darnic summoned Lancer, Sovell Pendragon.

• The chapter recounted how Darnic seized the Greater Grail after the Third Holy Grail War and hid it in Romania, where he spent seventy years adapting it.
• Darnic asked Fiore whether the clan had found the Holy Relic of the legendary British prince, and she said they had not.
• Darnic prepared to use a relic of Vlad III as a backup, but Caules burst in and announced that they had found the relic Darnic needed.
• Darnic performed the summoning ritual in Yggdmillennia Castle, and a powerful Heroic Spirit appeared amid a raging gale.
• The Servant identified himself as Lancer, Sovell Pendragon, and asked Darnic whether he was his Master.

Sovell learned that Darnic planned to use Homunculi as weapons and sources of magic power, and refused to tolerate the practice while agreeing to fight for Yggdmillennia. Two months later, after Sovell killed forty-nine mages sent to attack Trifas, Yggdmillennia announced its departure from the Mage’s Association and its intention to pursue the Greater Grail.

• The Greater Grail activated its backup system, creating a fourteen-Servant war between the Black and Red factions.
• Sovell questioned whether Darnic could provide enough magic power and explained that he wished to summon another version of himself so they could retire together.
• Darnic showed Sovell the Homunculi prepared as weapons and biological batteries, and Sovell condemned the plan and threatened Darnic.
• Sovell refused to let Darnic use the Homunculi for magic power but agreed to help Yggdmillennia win the war as repayment for his summoning.
• Two months later, Yggdmillennia announced it was leaving the Mage’s Association, and Sovell killed forty-nine of the fifty mages sent to attack Trifas.
• Darnic had Sovell spare one attacker to deliver Yggdmillennia’s declaration and its claim to the Greater Grail.

At Yggdmillennia Castle, Astolfo tried to introduce the summoned Servants, but Gordes refused to reveal Saber's true name because it exposed a fatal weakness. Sovell allowed the exception, then warned Gordes not to disgrace the great hero he had summoned.

• Astolfo introduced himself as Rider and learned Chiron's true name after Fiore gave permission.
• Astolfo asked Frankenstein's Master, Caules, for her name, and Caules revealed it before Frankenstein objected to her nickname.
• Gordes stopped Astolfo from asking Saber to reveal his name, explaining that it was tied to a fatal weakness.
• After Darnic received Sovell's approval, he allowed Gordes to keep Saber's true name secret.
• Sovell called Gordes back and told him to honor the great hero whose name commanded Sovell's respect.

Sovell recognized Saber as Siegfried and looked forward to eventually fighting him, though he worried about the Red Faction. Meanwhile, Kairi Shishigou summoned Mordred, who declared herself Arthur Pendragon’s rightful successor and destroyed the Round Table fragment used as her catalyst.

• Sovell identified the black Saber as Siegfried and anticipated a future clash between them.
• Sovell felt uneasy whenever he thought about the Red Faction and wondered whether it had summoned a dangerous opponent for him.
• Kairi Shishigou summoned Mordred in a Bucharest cemetery using a fragment of the Round Table.
• Mordred warned Shishigou not to call her a woman after he saw her face beneath her helmet.
• Mordred smashed the Round Table fragment and insisted that she was Arthur Pendragon’s rightful successor.

Mordred explained to Kairi Shishigou that she was King Arthur’s homunculus son and wanted to return to the past to challenge the Sword of Selection. At Yggdmillennia’s castle, Sovell tested Caules’s resolve to fight his sister Fiore, and Caules said he would kill her for victory and then use his wish to bring her back to life.

• Mordred told Shishigou that King Arthur was a woman and that she had been created as a homunculus by alchemy.
• Mordred said she did not want the Holy Grail to make her king; she wanted to return to the past and challenge the Sword of Selection.
• Sovell encountered Caules and Frankenstein training in the castle garden and warned Caules that an internal war could follow victory.
• Sovell asked Caules whether he could kill Fiore if they became enemies, and Caules said he would kill her and then wish for her revival.
• Sovell recalled asking Fiore the same question and judged that she had agreed in words but might not be able to act on them.

Gordes learned that Siegfried's cloak could conceal him perfectly and asked about his wish, while Mordred and Shishigou scouted Trifas for an attack on Yggdmillennia's castle. Sovell watched them through an eagle Familiar and grew furious.

• Gordes confirmed that his Saber was Siegfried and discovered that Tarnkappe granted him immense Strength and perfect optical concealment when its hood was raised.
• Gordes asked Siegfried about his wish for the Holy Grail, and Siegfried said he had no such wish but felt remorse toward his wife.
• Mordred walked through Trifas with Shishigou while wearing a revealing outfit she had cut from the jeans he had chosen for her.
• Shishigou asked Mordred what her father and teacher would think of her clothes, and she claimed she did not care what either thought.
• Sovell watched Mordred and Shishigou through an eagle Familiar and grew increasingly furious.