The Holy Grail War, about once every sixty years, the spiritual power in the leylines of Fuyuki City will accumulate enough to support the Holy Grail incarnation, so the Holy Grail with the power that can be immediately fulfilled no matter what the wish is will appear in Fuyuki City.

However, only a group of Masters and Servants can be given this power. Therefore, an unwritten pact was made, and seven magicians led their summoned Heroic Spirits in a battle for the ownership of the Holy Grail, and the surviving victor would take ownership of the Holy Grail - this is the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City.

However, it is essentially a huge ritual system planned by the Einzberren family, the Tosaka family, and the Machiri family (Makiri family) in order to reach the "roots".

According to the occult, on the outside of this world, there is the apex of dimensionalism - "force".

It is defined as the origin of the coordinates of the origin of all things, and the "vortex of roots" where all magicians' long-cherished wishes are located...... It is both the origin and the end of all things, recording everything that happens in this world and creating the throne of God for all things in this world.

Nearly 200 years ago, there were attempts to reach this "outside the world".

The Einzberen family, the Machiri family, and the Tosaka family, who are known as the founding three families, hope to reproduce the "Holy Grail" mentioned in countless legends. In order to summon the Holy Grail, which can grant all wishes, the magicians of the three families exchange their secret skills with each other, and finally make this Holy Grail, which can be called the "Cauldron of Almighty", manifest.

…… However, this Holy Grail can only fulfill one person's wish, and the moment this fact is revealed, the partnership immediately turns into a bloody battle.

This was the beginning of the "Holy Grail War".

After that, every 60 years, the Holy Grail will reappear in the Far East, Fuyuki, which was once summoned.

The Grail would then select seven magicians who were eligible to possess it, and give them a portion of their vast mana, so that they could summon the Heroic Spirits, known as the Servants, to determine who was truly qualified to hold the Grail through a deathmatch.

So far, the Holy Grail War has been held three times.

Around 1800, the first Holy Grail War began.

At the beginning, the First Holy Grail War, the Holy Grail summoning ceremony was carried out in the form of a "cooperative call".

However, after the Holy Grail opened up the connection to the source of magical power, the situation turned into a battle between Tosaka and the Einzberen family and the Machiri family for exclusive power, and the result was an immediate failure.

From then on, the three families formed the Holy Grail Covenant, and established the rules that are still used today, calling other magicians, and then asking them to kill each other for the purpose of the Holy Grail - except for themselves, all the magicians who can summon heroic spirits are hindrances, and let them die in battle, if they had this idea at the beginning, the whole process would have been more efficient; And from the standpoint of the three major families, it is not a good thing to be able to legally clean up magicians other than themselves.

However, due to the lack of formal rules in advance, the Master's awareness as a "participant" is thin; On the other hand, since there was no later...... That's the current spell.,So there was a situation where the servant didn't obey the order.,This Holy Grail summoning failed before it formed the shape of the ceremony.,The place where the Holy Grail descended was Yanagi Temple.。

The second was held around 1860, after the Industrial Revolution, and was held only in view of the failure of the first one.

Although the "Spell System" was completed, and the Master was able to use the servants at will, the ritual ended in failure for many reasons. The place where the Holy Grail descended was the Tosaka Mansion.

The third time, which was held on the eve of World War II, was held in which the Imperial Army and the Nazis also mixed in around the Little Holy Grail and fought on the Imperial Capital as a stage, but failed due to the destruction of the Little Holy Grail.

The place of the Grail Descent is the Church of Winterwood.

And now, the fourth Holy Grail War is about to begin, and for this reason, the magicians who plan to participate in the Holy Grail War are desperately preparing, hoping to take the Holy Grail into their hands and realize their heart's desire.

And Einz Belen, one of the three founding families, sent the master this time is Emiya Kiritsugu, who is known as the "magician killer" introduced from the outside.

The place where Emiya Kiritsugu and Alice Fell were called by the patriarch was the chapel of the city of Einzbelen, the most spectacular and gloomy place in this frozen castle.

Of course, this is not a place to praise God and pray for His salvation. The place of prayer in the city where the magician lives is actually the place where the magic ritual is held.

Therefore, the stained glass that you see when you look up is not the face of a saint, but the long history of the House of Einzberen, who wandered on the path of the Holy Grail.

Of the three founding families, the Einzberen family spent the most time on the Holy Grail.

Closed off in the frozen mountains, stubbornly rejecting all foreign communication, they began their quest for the miracle of the Holy Grail about a thousand years ago. Yet their quest can be summed up in frustration, humiliation, and physical and mental solutions, and then repeated countless times.

Two hundred years ago, they had to abandon their efforts on their own, and instead cooperate with the external Tosaka and Makili in agreement.

However, in the Holy Grail War that ensued, they failed to win once due to their lack of combat power as masters - as a result, nine years ago, they made the decision to bring in a magician from outside.

Speaking of which, Emiya Kiritsugu is already the trump card specially prepared by Einzberen, who is proud of his family's bloodline, and does not hesitate to twist his creed for the second time.

As he walked down the hallway, Kiritsugu's aimless gaze was suddenly drawn to a relatively new painting in the window painting.

It depicts the "Winter Saintess" of the House of Einzberen, Richlech Yustiza, and the two magicians who serve her on the left and right holding out their hands to the cups in the sky. Judging from the composition and balance of this painting, it is vaguely felt that the Einzberen family is nostalgic for the past when they had to bend their knees to turn to Tosaka and Makili for help two hundred years ago.

If he could win this war, Kiritsugu smiled bitterly in his heart, with a slight irony, he would have been painted on the window like this.

The old magician, Lord of Winterfell, is waiting for Kiritsugu and Alice Phil at the altar.

Jubstuttgart von Einzberen (tentative name) became known as Ahat after becoming the eighth patriarch. He has lived a long life spanning nearly two centuries and has ruled the Einzbelen family since its purpose changed from "the search for the Holy Grail" to "the struggle for the Holy Grail".

He had not experienced the time of Justisa, but since the Second Holy Grail War, he has tasted defeat again and again. For the old man Ahat, the arrival of this third chance has made him more anxious than ever.

Nine years ago, when he saw Kiritsugu Emiya, who was then notorious as a "magician killer", he welcomed him into the Einzberen family just because of his strength, which shows how much the old magician is hungry for victory.

"A sacred relic that has been explored by Kenervo for a long time, and today, it is finally in hand."

While brushing his white beard like a frozen waterfall, Old Man Ahat radiated a completely unaging gaze from his sunken eye sockets, staring at Kiritsugu.

Although he had lived in the ancient city for a long time, Kiritsugu had long since begun to avoid his gaze after learning the almost paranoid pressure of meeting the old patriarch.

Looking at the place where the old patriarch gestured with his hand, there was a long black box cabinet tightly bound on top of the altar.

"If you use this as a medium, you should be able to summon the strongest Servant known among the 'Heroic Spirits of the Sword'. Remember, Kiritsugu, this is the greatest aid Einzberren has given you. ”

"Thank you, honorable patriarch." Pretending to be expressionless, Kiritsugu bowed his head deeply.

The Holy Grail did not seem surprised to accept Einzberen's breaking with ancestral tradition and recruiting foreign blood, and Emiya Kiritsugu had already engraved a curse on his right hand three years ago, and he would enter the war with Einzberen's thousand-year-old wish in the upcoming Fourth Holy Grail War.

The old patriarch shifted his gaze from Kiritsugu to Alice Field, who was also lying on the ground with the same respect.

"Alice Phil, what's the state of the 'device'?"

"There was nothing wrong with that. After putting it in the winter wood, it should work fine. ”

The "Cauldron of Almighty", which is a wish-fulfilling machine, is only a spirit-like existence in itself, and has no substance. Therefore, in order to realize it as a "Holy Grail", it needs to be attached to the "Holy Grail Vessel". The battle for the seven Heroic Spirits that began in this way can be said to be the ritual process itself that summons it to appear.

The person responsible for preparing this artificial chalice for use as a summoning device has been in charge of the Einzberen family since the beginning of the Holy Grail War. And in this Fourth Holy Grail War, the person in charge of preparing the "weapon" was Alice Phil, so she had to go to the place of war with Kiritsugu.

Old man Ahat's eyes were shining, and he nodded solemnly.

"This time...... Kill all six Servants and make sure to achieve the third magic, the Heaven's Feel. ”

"Yes."

"Yes."

The magician and the Homunculus, a couple with the same fate, answered in unison in the face of the old patriarch's command with an almost evil passion.

However, in his heart, Kiritsugu couldn't help but be surprised by the old patriarch's paranoia.

Accomplishment...... The long history of Einzberen brings together their thousands of feelings, but there is only one word. That's right, Einzbelen's spirit was only obsessed with achieving the third magic.

Materializing the soul is the work of God.

This secret art, which was taken away from the hands of mankind by God, has been pursued by them for thousands of years...... In this long wandering, they have been lost and even confused about what is a means and what is an end.

For Einzberen, who had sought the Holy Grail only to prove that their long years of searching were not useless, and to prove that "that thing exists", their fanatical eyes could no longer see the usefulness of the summoned Grail.

"Well, as you wish, I will complete this holy grail that your people have been seeking with my own hands." With a frenzy no less than that of Old Arhat, Emiya Kiritsugu whispered in his heart, "However, that's not the end of it. With the power of the Cauldron of Almighty, I want to fulfill my long-cherished wish......"