Perhaps at first, people did not realize what changes had occurred in their world. They went to work as usual, went to school as usual, and carried on with their daily routines.
The sky was still blue, the air in the cities still reeked of car exhaust, and the plants still quietly watched everything unfold.
Until the flames of war reached them—abruptly, yet inevitably.
The countdown to the Holy Grail War had not yet ended, but according to the Adjutant's arrangements, the Servants had long since begun building advantages for themselves.
Weapons, hideouts, transportation, food, even manpower—anything that could serve as hard currency in an apocalyptic war fell within their scope of collection.
For instance, some Servants told their Masters that they possessed extraordinary abilities, but needed vast quantities of gold to activate them.
With the bait of "wishes" dangling before them, and no way to withdraw from the competition, the Masters' only remaining choice was which gold reserve to rob.
They had a choice, but the range of choices was tiny.
There were many ways to acquire resources, but robbery was the fastest and cheapest.
This batch of Synthezoids consisted of advanced models. The Adjutant had cracked some technologies from the manufacturing methods of the Mechanical Animal Gods in the Dark Tower Universe, granting the new products all manner of superpowers.
Of course, their power levels were not particularly high. What world-destroying superweapon could anyone expect to make for 120 US Dollars?
Tony's MK2 armor cost 600 million US Dollars, Doctor Ivo's Amazo prototype cost 2.7 billion US Dollars, and Luthor's entire Bizarro Superman project had cost roughly 5 billion US Dollars.
The fact that the Adjutant could make such cheap goods use superpowers was already impressive enough. What more could anyone ask for?
In short, these "Servants" varied