FATE: Target of Grand Master

Beep! Beep! Beep!

With the referee's three whistles, a city-level university football match came to an end.

Xia Yan, as the main organizer of the school's football team, delivered an assist hat-trick with three assists, helping the team to a 3-0 victory over their opponents.

With such an outstanding performance, Xia Yan was also named the best player of the match.

The team leader had originally arranged a media interview, but the reporters waited in vain for Xia Yan to appear.

The team leader approached the other players and asked, "Where's Xia Yan?"

"Xia Yan has already taken a shower and gone home."

"What! Didn't you remind him that there would be interviews after the match?"

The team member stammered, "Team leader, you know perfectly well that besides playing football, Xia Yan's biggest passion is video games. Today seems to be the day of a special event for the mobile game he's been playing. When he left, he was still muttering about how much sacrifice he'd made for the match."

The team leader sighed and could only make up a lie that Xia Yan played while sick and went to rest after the game, and then he dragged the rest of the team members to complete the interview.

Meanwhile, Xia Yan was sitting on the bus back to school.

He glanced at the time on his phone and realized something was wrong.

The battle on the pillars will end in two hours.

Xia Yan hurriedly opened the six-character mobile game on his phone and frantically clicked on the screen.

Xia Yan was stunned when he finally entered the event instance.

"Damn, there aren't a single pillar left. Don't FGO players have anything else to do?"

Despite the complaints, now that the pillar battle is over, all we can do is obediently grind free dungeons.

After a tense and exciting battle with command cards, Xia Yan emptied his stamina bar for the day.

Upon opening the card pool interface, Xia Yan saw that familiar figure.

She has long silver hair, wears a gorgeous black, white and blue outfit, and holds a magnificent black and blue magic wand.

"Morgan, today is the day we'll take you back to my kingdom!"

After checking the time again and confirming that it was a time when his luck was at its peak, Xia Yan decisively pressed the summon button on the screen.

There was no black screen, nor the familiar Fufu loading bar. The phone screen went white instantly and emitted a dazzling white light. Xia Yan reflexively shielded his eyes with his hand.

Ta-da! (BB CHANNEL)

After a powerful and familiar melody, Xia Yan slowly opened his eyes and found himself in a void.

"No way, I was just playing FGO, and it's making me hallucinate?"

Xia Yan pinched his face hard, and the real pain made him feel even more unreal.

"Where is this?"

As if to answer Xia Yan's question, a screen-like frame appeared in the void in front of Xia Yan.

A figure that Xia Yan was very familiar with appeared in the picture frame.

"Hello everyone, fellow Master candidates, I'm your adorable junior, BB-chan."

The voice of the purple-haired AI girl came through.

"I know it's a bit impolite to bring all of you Master candidates here without prior notice, but BB-chan has her own reasons, and I hope you can all be understanding."

As BB spoke, she made a cute face with her head tilted and tongue sticking out.

Looking at BB, who seemed "alive" like an AR image, Xia Yan felt increasingly unreal.

"In order to help all the Master candidates adapt to the current situation as soon as possible, BB-chan will explain the basic rules of this Master selection space."

First of all, this is reality, not some virtual image like VR or AR. So please, those self-righteous guys, shut up.

Secondly, since everyone in this world has been brought in, BB-chan doesn't have the energy to serve the more than 80 billion humans who haven't become Masters yet. Therefore, she will give you a trial before you become official Masters.

To clarify, BB-chan's inability to serve over 80 billion people isn't due to performance limitations; it's simply because she doesn't want to waste her magic. BB-chan does not accept any negative feedback regarding its performance.

80 million people!

Even if it's bragging, this bragging is a bit too much.

But soon, Xia Yan stopped thinking it was bragging, because he saw countless people of all sizes in the surrounding space.

Among them were primary and secondary school students in school uniforms, business people in suits, and elderly people in white vests who looked bewildered.

These people, just like himself, were densely distributed in the void around him.

"Finally, let me tell you my purpose in doing this: to select seven Masters who can reach the Grand rank. As for what happens after reaching the Grand rank, you don't need to know for now. Oh, and by the way, BB-chan is giving you a friendly reminder: in this trial, failure means only death."

This statement undoubtedly sparked dissatisfaction among everyone.

Regardless of whether it was truly a prank, such an explanation is far too malicious, even if it was a prank.

Although Xia Yan couldn't hear the voices of the people around him, he could tell from their angry expressions and waving arms that they were dissatisfied with BB's earlier remarks.

"Alright, alright. If you have any complaints, you can tell BB-chan after you become official Masters."

Ta-da!

Another powerful and familiar melody rang out, and Xia Yan lost consciousness.

When Xia Yan opened his eyes again, he found himself in an abandoned building.

The building is in a dilapidated state, with the steel bars that should have been embedded in the concrete exposed like tentacles.

Xia Yan looked outside. It was already night, but the intense flames around him illuminated the surroundings very clearly.

By bringing his hand close to the flames, Xia Yan could feel the heat from the burning and hear the crackling sound of the flames.

Seeing this scene, Xia Yan's first thought was, "Could it be that I've been transported to Fuyuki?"

Indeed, Xia Yan had basically accepted BB's previous statement, because he simply couldn't imagine what kind of technology in his world could simulate such a realistic visual, auditory, and tactile experience.

Click.

Xia Yan turned his gaze back to the room. The space he was in was not large, and there were no weapons or supplies that he could use for self-defense.

Xia Yan looked down at himself and saw that he was still wearing the clothes he had changed into after the previous competition, which meant that he had transmigrated along with his physical body.

There's no need to worry about starving to death after being brought here. However, on the other hand, the injuries I suffer here are all real.

Click. Click.

Xia Yan noticed a crimson mark resembling a scepter on the back of his right hand. As a FATE fan, Xia Yan immediately recognized it as a Command Seal.

In other words, he has now become a true Master, but where is his Servant?

Suddenly, a purple message box popped up in front of Xia Yan.

[Master Candidate Trial Begins]

Objective: Successfully summon a Servant and survive until dawn.

Xia Yan analyzed the contents of the information box, which meant that he had to find a way to summon a Servant.

The incantation for summoning is easy; I've already memorized it perfectly. The problem lies in drawing the magic circle to summon the Servant.

Xia Yan tried hard to recall the pattern of the magic circle. Some details were indeed hard to remember, and there didn't seem to be any tools like paint to draw magic circles here. He couldn't very well use his own blood, could he? He would probably faint from anemia before he even finished drawing it.

Click. Click. Click.

Disturbed by the "click" sound that had been ringing in his ears, Xia Yan finally snapped out of his thoughts.

Thanks to this, Xia Yan noticed that a skull with flames burning in its eye sockets had appeared in front of him at some point.

Isn't this just the most common grunt in the game—the skeleton soldier?

At that moment, the skeleton soldier raised his machete and swung it down at Xia Yan.

"Wow!"

Xia Yan hurriedly dodged, but the skeleton soldier was too close. Although he avoided a fatal blow, a large gash was still cut into Xia Yan's left shoulder.

"Hmm!"

Xia Yan let out a muffled groan.

The sharp pain in his shoulder made Xia Yan want to cry out, but it also made him realize how dangerous his current situation was.

You can't make a sound, or you'll be doomed if you do!

Despite the pain, Xia Yan rushed towards the only exit from the room.

The skeleton soldiers realized that Xia Yan was trying to escape and immediately gave chase.

Fortunately, as a grunt, the skeleton soldier was not much faster than a normal person, and Xia Yan, who had been training, managed to escape the room first.

Outside the room was a corridor, at one end of which were two or three skeleton soldiers wandering around.

Without hesitation, Xia Yan immediately ran towards the direction where there were no skeleton soldiers.

The sound of running immediately attracted the attention of the skeleton soldiers in the corridor, who joined the pursuit of Xia Yan along with the skeleton soldiers chasing out of the room.

Fortunately, Xia Yan was not running in a dead end; at the end of the corridor, a staircase appeared.

Xia Yan quickly ran up the stairs to the first floor, but stopped a second later.

A dozen skeleton soldiers stood in the lobby on the first floor, each holding a gleaming cleaver.

"Dear skeleton brothers, I'm just an ordinary college student who happened to be passing by. If you're willing to let me out, I'll definitely burn a lot of paper money for you later."

Xia Yan tried to use his "talk therapy" skill, but it seemed to have the opposite effect, as the skeleton soldiers began to surround him.

Xia Yan looked at the building exit, which was about ten meters away from him, and then at the skeleton soldiers in the lobby. He gritted his teeth and prepared to break through.

He first deftly dodged a skeleton soldier's slash, then rammed into the body of another skeleton soldier.

Daily training made Xia Yan's physical fitness much better than that of ordinary people, but Xia Yan's good luck ended there.

Just as Xia Yan was about to continue running forward, two skeleton soldiers attacked at the same time, one grabbing his foot and the other kicking him in the stomach.

Xia Yan cried out in pain, staggered, and fell to the ground. Blood dripped from Xia Yan's arm onto the floor of the hall.

Oops!

Xia Yan knew what falling down meant at this moment. He tried to get up, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw three skeleton soldiers slashing at him at the same time. He could only kick back with both feet and barely avoid the attack.

Seeing this, the other skeletons gradually surrounded them as well.

Xia Yan didn't care whether he could break through or not; he could only dodging the attacks of the skeleton soldiers.

With each movement Xia Yan made, more and more of his blood dripped onto the ground.

"what!"

Just as Xia Yan, covered in wounds, was kicked to the corner with nowhere to hide or avoid, a crimson light suddenly burst forth from the ground.

A surge of magical energy erupted from the ground, and a summoning circle pattern appeared on the floor, which glowed crimson.

To Xia Yan's astonishment, a girl with long silver hair, dressed in a gorgeous black, white and blue outfit, and holding a magnificent black and blue magic wand appeared in the hall.

The girl opened her sapphire blue eyes and understood the situation in an instant.

With a casual wave of her hand, the light from the tip of her wand turned all the skeleton soldiers who had surrounded Xia Yan into dust.

Then, the silver-haired girl walked up to Xia Yan with a scrutinizing gaze, looking down at the battered man.

"Berserker, Morgan. Queen of the fairy kingdom of Britain. Are you the one who desires to submit to me?"