The war between Lancer and Saber was still ongoing.

Chen Yu muttered softly, monitoring the battle between Lancer and Saber through the drone.

But a white-haired woman not far from the battlefield attracted Chen Yu's attention even more.

Irisviel von Einzbern was undoubtedly a beauty.

She was as beautiful and ethereal as a doll, with ruby-red eyes and long, silver hair that shimmered like snow.

Wearing a white fur coat suit made of high-grade fur, which she considered commoner's attire, she watched the duel between Saber and Lancer from the edge of the battlefield with immense tension.

Irisviel was an artificial human from the Einzbern Family and the deeply beloved wife of Kiritsugu Emiya.

Considering Kiritsugu Emiya's personality incompatibility with Saber, the Knight King, and for tactical reasons, Kiritsugu Emiya decided to make her the overt proxy Master.

So, Irisviel followed her husband's plan to become the proxy Master, acting openly, with Saber responsible for protecting her.

Meanwhile, Kiritsugu Emiya secretly carried out his plan to precisely eliminate other Masters.

For Irisviel and Saber, it was like 'the knight and the protected princess.'

Irisviel was a young woman exuding a noble aura, which Saber, the true Knight King, greatly admired, and thus had no objection to her becoming the proxy Master.

However, Irisviel was an artificial human after all, with only nine years of accumulated life experience in terms of emotions, which made her possess both the elegance of a lady and the naivety of a child, becoming a princess who could sometimes be troublesome.

Before the Fourth Holy Grail War, Irisviel had never left the Einzbern Family, and her husband, Kiritsugu Emiya, often told her stories about the outside world, which made Irisviel always curious about external things.

This outing was Irisviel's first time leaving the family to experience the outside world, and also her first time facing a Servant battle.

Her inner unease showed on her face, making her look pitiable.

By the way, despite Irisviel looking like a mature beauty, she had only lived for nine years since her birth, which meant Kiritsugu Emiya's wife was only nine years old. This made Chen Yu sigh at how 'bold' Kiritsugu Emiya was.

And Kiritsugu Emiya's daughter, Illya, was only eight years old at this time.

Wife nine years old, daughter eight years old, Kiritsugu Emiya, how are you any different from a 'beast'?

Chen Yu, having activated Occlumency to prevent Nyarlathotep from prying into his thoughts, was carefully admiring the appearance of Kiritsugu Emiya's wife when a strange voice suddenly appeared on the battlefield.

"Leisure time ends here, Lancer!"

Like a 'Loud Voice' spell, a huge and deep voice echoed across the battlefield where Lancer and Saber were fighting.

Chen Yu heard the voice of the intruder on the battlefield clearly through the miniature surveillance camera installed on the drone.

"Don't waste time. That Saber is a formidable foe. Lancer, I permit you to use your noble phantasm. Finish this quickly!"

Chen Yu raised an eyebrow.

Kenneth El-Melloi is already losing his patience?

He's letting Lancer display his noble phantasm now to finish this quickly?

One must know that there aren't just Lancer and Saber on the battlefield; all the Masters are watching in the shadows.

Chen Yu controlled the drone, starting to circle the battlefield, searching for Kenneth's whereabouts.

Servants require magical energy supply from their Masters to maintain their physical form; the further they are from their Master, the greater the consumption of magical energy. Therefore, Servants usually don't stray too far from their Master.

Kenneth must be nearby.

But where is he?

The drone circled the battlefield but did not find Kenneth's figure. Instead, a few hundred meters away, it saw Maiya Hisau, holding a rifle and using a scope to peek from the rooftop of a warehouse.

Maiya Hisau was Kiritsugu Emiya's assistant, lover, and tool.

She had a beautiful figure, well-defined features, and slender eyes that always gave people a cold impression.

Maiya was born in a war-torn country and had been a weapon of war since childhood, which developed her cold personality.

Later, she was rescued by Kiritsugu Emiya and became his assistant.

Maiya was not her real name; it was a name Kiritsugu Emiya gave her when he applied for her passport. She was fiercely loyal to Kiritsugu Emiya, even seeing herself as a part of Kiritsugu Emiya.

At this moment, she was talking to someone through an earpiece, presumably Kiritsugu Emiya.

"Darling, to the northeast of the battlefield, my swarm has detected Lancer's Master. Lancer's Master is standing on the roof of the warehouse!"

Hearing Nyarlathotep's reminder, Chen Yu sent a few drones towards the warehouse roof in the northeast direction that Nyarlathotep mentioned. He saw that it was empty, with no sign of Kenneth.

"Lancer's Master must have used an illusion or concealment spell to hide his figure. The swarm can sense a unit with a magical energy signature similar to Lancer's on the warehouse roof."

So, the other party is invisible, right?

Chen Yu was too familiar with invisibility.

He was the man who had used the Serpent Spell to stroll around Hogwarts at night for an entire semester; no one understood invisibility better than him.

As long as it wasn't a phase-space type of magic, like his Dimension Mirror spell, which hides oneself in another dimension to observe the real world, he could easily ferret it out.

Chen Yu ordered the miniature surveillance cameras on the drone to switch to infrared scanning mode.

In the blue monitoring window floating at the edge of his vision, a human figure composed of red, yellow, and blue colors clearly appeared.

Magic could make a person invisible, but it couldn't hide the heat emitted by the human body.

At this moment, Kenneth El-Melloi was standing on the warehouse roof, brazenly believing that no one could detect him through magic.

Perhaps ordinary magic indeed couldn't track Kenneth's figure, but this method was ineffective against machinery.

After confirming Kenneth's location, Chen Yu left one drone to monitor Kenneth, while the remaining ones scattered to search for Kiritsugu Emiya and Matou Kariya.

But he didn't know if these two were 'old schemers' or 'Lord Voldemorts'; both of them, having received modern education, were truly more cautious than the other.

Chen Yu had the drones circle the battlefield several times but still couldn't find any trace of them.

Under Kenneth's command, Lancer threw his yellow short spear to the ground, holding the red long spear and removing the 'spell cloth' that had been wrapped around it to conceal its abilities and true form.

Lancer's action of discarding the yellow short spear made Saber mistakenly believe that the long spear was Lancer's noble phantasm.

Lancer struck first, thrusting rapidly with both hands. Saber easily parried with her sword, causing the spear to strike Saber's blade.

The moment the spear tip touched the blade, the Wind King Barrier was damaged, briefly exposing a golden sword.

Knowing the length of Saber's blade, Lancer's attacks became more ferocious, while Saber continued to parry Lancer's relentless assault with her swordsmanship.

During the continuous clashes, the originally invisible noble phantasm was now almost completely exposed.

But Saber possessed an A-rank innate skill called 'Instinct.'

It allowed her to instantly determine 'the most suitable action for herself' in battle.

Amidst Lancer's relentless assault, Saber keenly noticed a flaw in his attack.

Predicting that the opponent's next strike would be a perfect opportunity for a desperate counterattack, she prepared to rely on the hardness of her armor to withstand Lancer's attack, while she herself would cut towards Lancer's shoulder, intending to cut Lancer in half.

But a pain in her abdomen interrupted Saber's attack. Saber immediately decided to swiftly rotate her body sideways and flip over, narrowly dodging Lancer's fatal thrust.

After Saber's proxy Master, Irisviel, used magic to heal the wound on Saber's abdomen, Saber immediately realized that the red long spear in Lancer's hand had the effect of 'anti-magic.'

"Oh dear, this is bad."

On Fuyuki Bridge, Iskandar stopped his roughhousing with Waver, pressing down on Waver's still struggling hair, turning to look towards the Warehouse District of North Port, and muttering, "This is not good."

"What? What's not good?"

Waver finally pushed away Iskandar's large hand and asked.

"Lancer used his noble phantasm, tricking Saber into shedding her armor. Although I don't know what abilities the short spear Lancer threw down has, it's undoubtedly a trump card. This time, Saber was careless!"

Lancer successfully wounded Saber's abdomen with the red spear, forcing her to abandon the defense of her armor.

Gae Dearg, the Crimson Rose of Exorcism, had the effect of severing magical energy, and Saber's armor was made of magical energy.

In other words, against Gae Dearg, Saber's armor was like paper.

It was precisely for this reason that Saber was successfully induced to dispel the heavy armor made of magical energy on her body, using the magical energy originally used to maintain the armor for attack instead.

By releasing magical energy, Saber could instantly accelerate herself, increasing her strength and speed by a full sixty percent.

Converting the defense abandoned with the armor into offensive speed was Saber's method to deal with the 'anti-magic spear.'

But those involved are often confused, while bystanders see clearly.

Chen Yu and Iskandar both realized that the yellow short spear discarded by Lancer was not useless.

But Saber, in the midst of fierce battle, did not realize that the yellow spear Lancer had thrown down earlier was not just for show.

So she didn't realize the trap Lancer had set.

In a desperate struggle, by the time Saber reacted, both of them had simultaneously been cut on their left arms by their respective weapons.

Lancer suffered only an ordinary wound, which could be healed by healing magic; in just an instant, the wound on Lancer's body was healed by his Master.

But the wound on Saber's arm was caused by Gae Buidhe, the Yellow Rose of Mortality, and once struck, it would leave a curse, preventing the wound from healing.

Irisviel anxiously used healing magic, but it could not heal the wound on Saber's left hand.

The tendon was severed, leading to the severing of the most important thumb among the five fingers. Therefore, Saber could not firmly grip the sword hilt as before, causing her to quickly fall into a disadvantage in the subsequent battle with Lancer.

And seeing Saber fall into a disadvantage, Iskandar, sitting on Fuyuki Bridge, also rarely showed an anxious expression.

"Oh dear, this is not good, very bad. Lancer plans to end the battle now, but the time is not yet ripe. I originally planned to act when there were more people, but if Saber is eliminated now, it will be too late!"

This was the first time Waver had seen Rider show such an expression, which made him, who was tidying his hair, start to feel uneasy.

"Too... too late? Rider, weren't you planning to act when they were all exhausted from fighting each other?"

Rider's words again left Waver somewhat confused.

Weren't we planning to watch the clam and the snipe fight so the fisherman could profit? Does Rider have other plans?

"If Saber is eliminated, wouldn't that be more beneficial to us?"

Iskandar frowned, stomping his foot hard, causing the bridge arch to shake violently, scaring Waver, who was still arguing, to quickly lie down, letting out a cry of acrophobia.

Iskandar looked down at his Master.

"Fool, what are you saying? My little Master, have you misunderstood my meaning? I did once expect other Servants not to be provoked by Lancer, that's only natural, isn't it?"

"But instead of finding them one by one, it's better to gather them all and deal with them at once, it's more satisfying."

"Gather them... deal with them all..."

Waver didn't know how to respond; he was stunned by what his Rider had said.

"Yes! To fight six heroes from different eras is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If all six are present, I will not let a single one escape!"

Iskandar let out a fierce and dangerous growl from his throat, like the roar of a lion, but a hint of a smile could be seen on his upturned lips.

"Saber and Lancer are both hot-blooded warriors; it would be a pity for them to die."

Waver, hearing Rider's words, screamed hysterically, "If you don't let them die, what should we do? The Holy Grail War is supposed to be a slaughter!"

Looking at his hoarse Master, Iskandar went up to the disappointing Waver and punched him in the face.

He knocked Waver directly onto the bridge arch, making Waver cry from the pain.

This scene made Chen Yu feel a bit of a sting in his own face.

Iskandar was heavy-handed. Chen Yu mourned for Waver's predicament for two seconds, having such a highly proactive Servant.

Looking at Waver lying on the bridge arch, Iskandar began to expound his philosophy of conquest.

"To conquer without destroying, to dominate without humiliating, that is true conquest!"

Iskandar once again drew his sword and forcefully slashed the blade towards the empty sky, tearing open space.

Accompanied by purple lightning, an ancient chariot pulled by two divine bulls wreathed in lightning surged out of the spatial rift.

This was Rider's noble phantasm—Gordius Wheel.

Originally a sacrificial vessel for the god Zeus, it used the hooves of divine bulls and the wheels of the chariot to crush enemies, and could also be used for aerial travel.

It was the chariot that appeared in Alexander the Great's legendary 'Gordian Knot' and the fundamental reason why Iskandar could manifest as the Rider class.