Fate/Fool Chapter 20

Days swiftly passed as my group collected all the information, and done all that which needed to be done for the ritual to be done to dream walk our astral forms into the Land of Shadows.

And it didn't take long for the news to break about what happened in Las Vegas. And what happened afterwards... It was a brutal reminder that this world had no mercy for the weak.

Reading a specially enchanted projected newspaper that had the important Magi news. My face darkened with a frown as I read headline.

[Las Vegas wiped away by Counter Guardians!]

The city but days after I left was visited by at least 2 Counter Guardians whose identites were obscured from casual view and divinition attempts. And both of the Counter Guardians nuked the city and obviously collapsed the entry point into the Reverse Side of the World.

And most specifically that Texture.

The more interesting thing was the surviving accounts of the Counter Guardians in the mages that managed to flee before the Noble Phantasm's landed.

One of which was a twisting black hole that shredded the landscape, scarring reality itself as it burrowed down into the ground. The spatial storm obviously tearing apart the pathway leading from the Texture up to the Human Order.

And the other one was the nuke in a glowing meager silverish blue arrow that was shot from a great distance that then exploded in a flash of divinity, authority and glassed Las Vegas from the world.

Already, the Mages Assosiation was spinning the event as a meteor hitting Las Vegas and wiping it out. Which... To be honest, was a fair assumption to make as it wasn't like there was any radiation left over to make people think it was a nuke or something.

'Hmm, the only Servant, I know of that has such spatial abilities is like... Fujino Asagami with her Mystic Eye's of Distortion getting boosted by being turned into a Servant.' I mused as I recalled from my FGO lore that with her ability to 'distort' things she got up to Touhou levels of fucking nonsense.

As for the other one... It sounded a bit like Arash? But I didn't think he was a Counter Guardian? But for all I knew, it could have been Alaya's best boi Emiya who projected Arash's own Noble Phantasm or some nonsense.

As when he was on the job to wipe out an area, and not constrained by the rules of a Grail War, he was also able to get up to some fucky shit with how he was given loads of mana from Alaya.

But regardless of the loss of the western capital of Gambling that I could already see turning into a shitty side event in FGO. Complete with like Nero or Gilgamesh making a flying super casino or something.

I was now just waiting with Radia and Nazica for the turning of true midnight for us to be able to go on the dream walk.

The four of us, including Tamamo who was in her physcial form waited with baited breath as Nazica and I sat facing one another in the ritual circle filled with reagents that the twins had sourced from their own very wealthy family's vaults.

The grandfather clock magically set to perfectly reflect the displayed time ticked and tocked as the final few minutes passed by.

"You have our totems Jake?" Radia spoke quietly just to make sure obviously as I was the one in charge of actually binding the shadows into the totems.

I nodded and held up the girls totems. Nazica's totem was a serpent with ornate scales that looked like it was shedding its skin along with having toxic fangs. Nazica in particular was hoping that following the mythology of the serpent shedding it's skin to gain new life.

She would be able to do something similar with the help of her familiar.

Well that and she wanted a big scary snake that could lash out of her shadow at someone who pissed her off.

On the otherhand, Radia's totem was a wolf... That's it, she wanted a wolf because, A that type of Familiar was as stable as it came. And it would for sure be combat applicable as she herself had some thoughts of doing Enforcer work to build up the Pentel family's reputation.

My own dragon themed totel was still tucked into the druidic pouch filled with herbs and special materials which would tether it to my soul as I went on the dream walk.

All possible preperations and whatever safety measures we COULD find were taken. But to be fair... Dream walking into the Land of Shadows was stupidly dangerous. And the only reason the twins were willing to do this.

Was that their family itself had fallen on hard times and they needed to show themselves to be talents and powerful mages. As they were also the only members of their families younger generation.

Finally the ritual room's grandfather clock rang out in warning to one minute being away from true midnight and the ritual circle flared with swirling purple light that made my Six Eye's burn at the spatial energy being emited from the powerful ritual.

As this ritual wasn't merely being powered by us of course... No, even if we all including Tamamo put our mana into said ritual it woudn't be nearly enough.

No, the twins spent a great deal of money not only getting magecraft gems from the Eldfelt family. But they also sold a family favor to be able to tap into the Mages Association's leyline energy that Waver had access to as the Lord Ell Mellow.

"Show time." I whispered as the dream weaver bag on my chest burned hot. Ritually enhanced sedatives filled my lungs and my eye's darkened as my body gave out... But my concious remained fully active.

My inner eye spun as I felt Nazica grab hold of my astral forms arm as we spun through the gaze of Morpheus. Using the waking world of dreams which was the closet to the Human Texture to have our astralized bodies leave the Human Order safely.

The swirling darkness that was so comfortable was broken as a purple candle was light in front of us and we were anchored in place as Nazica said softly. "Now we make our way to the Land of Shadows. Our selves guided via Radia back in our waking world." 

I nodded as I looked around with my Six Eye's and it was... Too much as I could see dreams and nightmares that made up the subconcious minds of humanity. Something I KNEW that I could not mess with or touch. Lest Alaya get snippy.