Hey everyone, it's been a while.
After a few days of rest and some not-so-conclusive research, I've come to the conclusion that I messed up in terms of the system. For the protagonist, the system is only useful for traveling from one universe to another. Regarding items, I can't think of any that fit with what I'm trying to achieve and don't make Dante a deus ex machina, a male Mary Sue, or something like that.
That's why I'm not giving him another item or why I'm delaying others, like the Ea; it's a goal, but having it so early in the series is like a golden spoon for resolving conflicts, at least in combat, which is why I'm delaying it so much.
There are also impossible or useless items; two examples are the magic wand from Harry Potter and the Yamato from Devil May Cry. The first is being a wizard, but one of those who inherit magic in the Harry Potter world, since each magic is different in each universe. Dante doesn't possess that magic, so a wand is useless to him. Something similar happens with the Yamato: our protagonist doesn't have demonic energy, so the sword is just a normal katana in his hands.
In the end, I'll have to use the system for purely utilitarian objects at the moment, and only if they don't break the logic of not making Dante invincible. Another option is to use it for his harem; she'll have objects as gifts for Dante. I'll see what I do with that later, but it's one way to use it.
Well, that's all. If you have any better ideas, I'd really appreciate it if you wrote them in the comments. On to the next chapter.
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(Note: I think the translator changed some things from third person to first person, I think, looking at some things, but I'm not sure. I'm just letting you know and saying that everything should be in third person. Regards.)
Third-person POV
The appearance of a third Servant in the confrontation was expected, but not in such a reckless manner.
Both Saber and Lancer remained still, sensing a certain aura emanating from the new Servant who had just arrived from the sky.
Before either of them could say anything, the new Servant spun his staff, which extended and struck Lancer, who barely managed to defend herself in time, sending her flying.
At that moment, Saber was behind his new enemy, ready to strike, but the as-yet-unidentified Servant leaped forward, using his tail as a foothold to deflect the sword. From that same position, he kicked Saber, who managed to block it, sending him crashing to the ground and shattering part of the floor.
Saber immediately got to her feet and assumed a fighting stance. At this, the red monkey, now standing, looked at his opponent, ready to fight, which made him smile. This didn't sit well with the swordsman, as he saw in its eyes a destructive and chaotic threat, something quite different from both Lancer and himself.
Saber and Lancer were beasts on the battlefield, but the new Servant was a beast defying all logic, a force of chaos and disorder, something that didn't care about the consequences.
His years of combat had taught him the kind of enemies he faced, and this one was arguably one of the most troublesome he would ever encounter.
Elsewhere in the forest, Lancer was seen running directly toward the fight between Saber and the new Servant, something Dante witnessed.
He could have tried to attack Lancer; it was a good opportunity, but he didn't, as the Servant fighting Saber was not something that could be defeated one-on-one. Unless he possessed divine powers or something similar.
Dante may have had his memories erased, but it was impossible not to recognize this Servant's description.
The appearance of a Chinese warrior, a monkey's tail, and a shape-shifting staff—there was only one being with those qualities: Sun Wukong, from Journey to the West. If Heracles was the most renowned figure in Greece, Sun Wukong was the most iconic in Chinese culture. A top Servant.
Now the question was what class he was; only two options remained: Rider or Berserker. I just hoped it was Rider.
In less than a second, chaos erupted throughout the forest; trees could be seen falling nonstop, the ground terraformed by the chaotic battle between three legendary warriors.
I used my Haki; I could see how the battle, which had been one-on-one, had become two-on-one, with Saber and Lancer against this Wukong.
It was ridiculous; the monkey didn't hold back at any point, he was stronger, faster, and more resilient than both of them—perhaps even stronger together in some of those aspects. No matter how much damage the monkey inflicted, he simply regenerated without stopping, ignoring the pain, his eyes only on fighting, and he never rested.
I had to duck to dodge a slash from the staff, which was aimed at me, but the monkey didn't care about location, so the entire forest was being destroyed by his attacks and movements.
On the other side of the forest, Akane could be seen escaping, dodging rocks and trees falling from all sides.
For her, this wasn't a battle between two or more servants. No, for her, this was the end of the world.
When Akane emerged from the forest, another unknown individual also appeared.
Both looked somewhat uneasy; as soon as they noticed each other's command seals, they went on guard, as if the forest weren't about to be destroyed out of nowhere.
The unknown master displayed three jewels in his hands, which shattered, causing three beams of light to appear near Akane.
"Damn it," she said upon seeing this, using her magic circuits to enhance her physical abilities. She leaped, narrowly dodging the enemy's magical attack.
The moment he hit the ground, Akane generated two magical projectiles in her hands, brought them together, and, using the kinetic and thermal energy from their interaction, fired a bullet faster and stronger than normal.
The opposing Master released two more gems, which shattered, forming a glass shield in front of him. This shield managed to block most of the damage, destroying the magical defense and generating a massive explosion.
From the smoke emerged the Gem Mage, his clothes somewhat dirty and torn, but seemingly unharmed.
He threw three gems to the ground, shattering them, and a multitude of fiery serpents erupted from his feet, hurtling toward Akane.
She leaped again to dodge the attack. But while airborne, her enemy pointed a magical projectile at her with two fingers, ready to kill her.
Akane did nothing as Dante stood behind the mage, poised to strike him dead.
Creating a knife, she prepared to plunge it into him, knowing this man might be the master of that monkey, and the best way to eliminate him was to kill the master rather than engage in a suicidal confrontation.
Just as she was about to touch him, a barrier appeared out of nowhere, blocking Dante's attack.
"Magic for stealth attacks?" she wondered, only for the mage to turn and face her. A glowing gem appeared on his neck, and magical energy surged from within, ready to be destroyed.
"Come help me, Saber," the gem mage announced, and the young, androgynous swordsman appeared between them, throwing a punch at Dante's head.
Dante dodged it, leaping back to face them. Saber's master felt a chill and a sense of death and fear upon seeing and sensing Dante.
Dante was summoned as the Grim Reaper, a being of ultimate death. Dante can kill almost anything; this generates an aura of terror in people's hearts to varying degrees. Only those with strong wills can remain unaffected, Saber being a prime example.
Instead of attacking, Dante leaped toward his master, standing in front of her, protecting her. Only the click of Dante's tongue could be heard, revealing his displeasure at the fact that she was Saber's master, not the monkey's.
"This is not good at all, master; you have to leave as soon as possible," Dante told Akane.
"What do you mean?" she asked, only to see the blur of a Lancer flying between them, crashing into a wall that marked the boundary between the forest and the village.
"I can't take it anymore. I'm out of here. Good luck." She said she was there to lose her composure and flee, an advantage she had since her Master wasn't there, unlike Dante and Saber.
At the edge of the forest, the monkey appeared, walking calmly, holding its staff. It didn't have a single wound; it looked unharmed, as if it hadn't just fought to the death against two Servants simultaneously not long ago.
The remaining Servants exchanged a silent understanding.
Dante, summoning more knives, quickly threw them at the monkey, which the monkey didn't dodge, as the attack had no effect.
This drew the monkey's attention to Dante and its Master, only for Saber to be by its side, ready to cut it down.
Obviously, all of this backfired when he parried with his staff and spun it around, sending Saber flying into the air, crashing through the building and into one of the houses.
It should be noted that the neighbors had heard all the chaos, but their survival instincts led most of them to hide under their beds, hoping it would all be over soon.
"What are you waiting for? Run," Dante told Akane.
She had been paralyzed by the death and fear surrounding her, but Dante's words brought her back to reality.
Without a second thought, she ran from the scene, as did Saber's Master.
When Dante looked back at the Monkey, he was already poised to strike Dante in the face with his staff.
Using what little flexibility he had left, Dante managed to dodge the blow by throwing his body backward, performing a somersault, and landing about two meters away from his enemy.
"Perfect," said the monkey, twirling its staff against the ground, throwing dirt and grime into Dante's face.
Dante ignored it and, using Haki, saw where the enemy was going to strike, creating two swords to cushion the attack.
He managed to block the attack but was forced to hang in the air for a few seconds.
He didn't have time to use Geppo, as the monkey was already upon him, striking him again and sending him flying into a nearby house.
Dante destroyed three houses before finally coming to a stop inside one.
"Ouch," he groaned as he slowly got to his feet.
Suddenly, he heard a baby crying.
Panicked, he looked to the side, seeing a young mother holding a child of about three or four years old inside the house.
He immediately lunged at the mother and baby, dodging the monkey's attack that was coming in that direction.
The staff extended, destroying everything in its path.
The crazed Servant reverted his weapon to its original form and trotted toward the house where Dante was.
While all this was happening, Saber's Master was in the throes of a psychotic break.
The crazed monkey Servant wasn't just revealing the mystery to the civilians in the area; he was also killing them. That might be a good thing, but it's not so good if no one is left alive in his territory afterward. There was no logical way to properly explain all this without resorting to cheap and stupid tricks or even magic.
After all, the chaos unfolding at that very moment was too great to hide; at least he, along with the others, didn't have an effective method for concealing something like this.
Meanwhile, Akane returned to her workshop to place more barriers to prevent the monkey from crossing her mind when she looked where she was. And she had no other choice, since if she stayed, she would only be a hindrance to her Servant.
When the monkey arrived where Dante was, he saw him holding a woman, a baby in each arm, as if she were a sack of potatoes.
"WAIT!" Dante shouted, stopping the Servant mid-stride, as he didn't care that the Servant was holding two civilians in his arms. "Look, you lost an eye." He pointed at the ground, leaving the baby dangling in midair for a few seconds.
Oddly enough, the monkey looked down, falling for Dante's trick, only to be kicked away.
Taking advantage of this, Dante grabbed the baby again and ran from the scene.
Shortly after Dante left, I had to duck to dodge the extended staff aimed at his head.
Houses were being destroyed, people were dying, and only chaos remained. But no one could do anything. The Berserker-class Servant knew only one word: fight.
A spirit of pure combat, whether good or bad, in the best or worst of circumstances, regardless of the means, the method, or the location. If his adversary stood before him, he would go all out to destroy him and leave him in ruins; whatever the obstacle, he would face whatever stood in his way, and even if something stood in his way, he would destroy it all to reach his goal.
That is the heroic spirit in its berserker form, Sun Wukong, a being of chaos who goes against order and the divine solely to create senseless disorder.
Wukong fell, shocking Dante, spinning his staff and destroying everything in his path.
Dante could do nothing, as he had two people on his back, something completely unnecessary and done purely out of impulse to save whoever he could, something he now slightly regrets.
Amidst all the dodging, the monkey managed to land a blow on Dante, sending him crashing into the temple they had invaded the day before.
When Dante got up, he was quite badly injured. He was protecting the baby as best he could. Meanwhile, the baby's mother lay on the ground, on the verge of death.
Sun Wukong didn't care about that; he only wanted to keep fighting. Just as he was about to deliver another blow to Dante, Saber appeared and sliced the monkey in half.
Seeing the Servant cut in half, he relaxed. He had been watching what was happening because, during Dante's escape, he had received orders from his Master to kill Sun Wukong by whatever means necessary. In this case, seeing that he couldn't engage in direct combat, he waited for him to lower his guard before killing him.
At that moment, he remembered the other Servant who had been there, only to find that she was gone, as was the baby; only the woman remained, already dead from the severe injuries she'd sustained after crashing through several houses.
Saber's fighting instincts kicked in, causing him to turn around, but he wasn't quick enough to block the monkey's kick to his ribs.
It sent him slamming to the ground, bouncing him several times before he crashed into a pillar, largely destroying it.
"That's regeneration level; that's nothing short of immortality. I expected nothing less from the Monkey King," Dante said, hiding with the baby, covering its mouth to prevent it from crying too loudly and being discovered.
If it weren't for Saber's intervention, Dante would have died in that attack; he would only have survived by sacrificing the baby in his arms, something he would never do.
All he could do was pray to Saber and hope she survived; at least for him, it was enough to save something amidst all this chaos. Anything else would have been asking for an impossible miracle.
With that, she escaped, hoping that the monkey would relax when daylight came.
Returning to the fight, Saber was doing everything she could to withstand, if you could even call it that, Berserker's blows.
Saber was the preferred class by definition; there was the Holy Grail War, but against a being as superior in combat as Sun Wukong, she was no match.
Saber's stats were high, especially considering she was summoned in her homeland, Japan, but no matter how overpowered she was, the fact that Berserker was immortal, had regeneration, ignored pain, and could be invincible for short periods meant that Saber couldn't stand up to him in any way.
It's no wonder Sun Wukong was considered the strongest summonable Berserker on the Throne of Heroes and a candidate for Grand Servant, holding both the Berserker and Lancer ranks.
If there's one thing he's been able to endure so far, it's because of his sword. A divine construct of spatiality in Unleashed, and Sun Wukong, being a living Unleashed, can use its full power and strength to the limit, or at least to the extent that he can withstand in Master form.
The place was damp, with both of their feet submerged in water. Both were badly injured, but the difference was that Berserk seemed to be affected by it, not to mention that he continued to regenerate automatically and without pause.
Saber was holding her sword with one arm, since the other was dislocated and she couldn't use it now. Panting, she began to consider her options; perhaps if she used her Noble Phantasm, she could damage him enough to challenge his regeneration and kill him somehow.
Sun Wukong watched Saber with a wide, amused smile, since for him this was all just a game. A way to have fun and pass the time, nothing more.
"How fun, let's keep playing until the world ends," said the monkey in a fighting stance, ready to attack Saber.
Saber got into a fighting stance, thinking about the best way to deflect Berserker's next blow.
"Don't leave me behind," an angry voice called from above Berserker.
He opened his eyes and, instead of blocking the blow, dodged it.
A wheel-like weapon, engulfed in flames, crashed to the ground.
Atop it stood a figure clad in black and orange armor; instead of hair, his head was covered in untamed, uncontrollable fire.
"Who?" Saber asked, surprised by the new Servant who had just arrived.
"Don't get upset, brat. I only came at my Master's request, something about the mystery and threats to sorcery; otherwise, I would have left you to die at the hands of this madman," the new Servant announced aggressively.
His gaze shifted from Saber to the berserker before him.
"Immortality. What a coincidence that I possess something similar. Let's see who can withstand more," he declared, causing the wheel he held to burst into flames, ready to attack.
P.S.: I had already uploaded Dante's stats in the assassin class in chapter 22.5; I had thought about uploading the rest, but I didn't; I will do it as they appear in the chapters, if they appear at all.