Those bodies having lost their souls completely were not something that should be happening... It made zero sense for Goetia or whatever to be stealing some poor shmucks souls.
But with a blinding series of mind-shattering light, I was tossed in the air as we came out of the Rayshifting system.
I first felt Tamamo's hand grab my own arm as we spun through the air, and with a loud cracking noise. I heard concrete shatter as Tamamo kicked a wall over as we came through, and the motion-blur and dimensional-travel haze over me faded.
And as my feet hit the ground, the smell of a burning city hit my nose in the most offensive way. Not only that, but the smell of infinite curses hit my senses as well as I knew instantly. That I had landed right in the heart of Fuyuki during the failed Grail War.
'Ahhh hell. Well, at least Salter is just a beat stick without crazy conceptual powers.' I thought as it should come down to it. With Tamamo and myself. Not to mention if we found Ritsuka and Mash along with Caster Cu. We should be fine.
With Tamamo trailing behind me, I took in our surroundings. And it seemed that we had landed on the middle floors of some large apartment tower in the middle of a heavily burnt out apartment that was thankfully abandoned, it seemed.
Cursed flames illuminated the cityscape in the distance, and with a hum, I said thoughtfully. "Well... I don't even have a proper Chaldea outfit so they can't communicate with me if Chaldea even still stands to begin with. So I need to just play things by ear I suppose."
Tamamo leaned against me slightly and said quietly. "What should we do darling? Should we bunker down and await reinforcement?"
I stared off into the distance as I considered what I knew of Singularity F. The servant's within and how I would deal with them.
There was a moment of pause as I realized that Herakles would likely be an impossible opponent truly, if his God Hand wasn't nerfed in his corruption.
But beyond that, I looked towards the Matou and Tohsaka homes. Which was all to clear to my Six Eye's as I could see the broken bounded fields that once surrounded the mansions.
'Maybe I can loot those two mansions for goodies. Hell knows what state Chaldea will be in if I manage to even get back to.' I thought with a frown.
As Chaldea in of itself didn't have the unlimited funds it was supposed to have. As once again, Marisbury summoned David and not Solomon, so he got folded during the Grail War he took part in.
"Who knows where or even if there are reinforcements Tamamo... So let's get a move on, I want to loot the workshops of the local magi family so we can have some supplies and reagents for the future." I said firmly.
Tamamo made a noise of agreement and with that I just stepped past the broken chunk of wall and fell down towards the ground level a couple dozen floors below.
To break my fall, I took out my spear and with a flare of my mana, the sharp tip shot downwards and with a crack. It broke into the ground, and as it held up my weight, I just retracted the spear's length.
Which broke my fall easily.
We then began moving through the burning city of Fuyuki for just a while as we didn't even make it more than a couple of streets before we were attacked by a twisted spirit that howled as it tore through a nearby wall with it's intangible nature.
My spear danced through the air with the cursed edge tearing through the spirit's incorporeal form. Making it sizzle and hiss as it's form was broken apart by the curses woven into my spear made by the godkiller Scathach.
And then with a single ofuda that hit it. Tamamo destroyed the spirit entirely while saying thoughtfully. "That was an interesting spirit... Didn't look like any kind I have seen before?"
Honestly... She was right in a very weird way. The spirit looked more like a revenant with its form covered in an ornate burial outfit. But it was also not looking much in the way of a strictly human spirit.
'It looked like a Gallu from the Babylon singularity... But why would Ereshkigal's spirits be here?' I mused to myself while also noting how underworld-themed spiritual minerals were also pushed up to the surface back in Vegas and who knows where else.
Something wasn't adding up, and I didn't like it.
I frowned as a loud howl rang out, and a dozen more of those spirits were attracted to the noise. "Clear them out... I am going to collect the material remains." I said as I kneeled down to gather up the ghostly ectoplasm and undead bones.
After Tamamo quickly and easily cleared out the other corrupted spirits. I had us move faster. As it was all to damned clear that the city was utterly dead with no survivors to question.
We soon reached the Matou mansion... Which was a fucking crater. A very specific crater, actually, as a long trench that tore through several miles of terrain was all too clear to anyone who knew the local's Noble Phantasms.
'So Saber nuked the Matou Mansion... Noted, kinda fucking annoying but whatever.' I thought with a frown before I found a hole that led underground in the trench.
"There is a hole... And it probably lead's to some fucked up workshop actually." I said before I went over to the hole and saw that just down the way was a still intact stone staircase.
Which almost certainly led to the worm pit of the Matou mansion.
"Let me go first. I can watch out for any intact boundary fields or nasty curses, darling!" Tamamo said excitedly, and then she jumped down into the hole without hesitation.
There was a good five-meter fall to get in, and it was good that Tamamo DID go first as there were several dozen boundary fields and nasty curses that were hidden on the way down into the true basement of the Matou mansion.
And as I entered the true basement... Yup, it was the worm pit, but the worm pit itself was filled with Crest Worms. Crest Worms that were all dead, and in an odd way as they hadn't been destroyed or burned away by excess energy from Saber's noble phantasm either.
But as nasty looking as the fucking Crest Worm's were. I was far more interested in the store room on the other side! "Hahaha! Fuck you Zouken, all your goodies are mine!" I cheered as the store room was filled with a whole load of goodies.
High-quality gems compatible with magecraft. Materials from phantasmal beasts. An actual Magic Crest with thirty high-quality circuits from some random poor bastard that Zouken obviously harvested from.
A whole bunch of good stuff that I threw directly into my spatial storage... Until I found something very interesting, actually.
'Well, well, well... I found the catalyst that was used to summon Lancer-class Medusa as well.' I thought as I found the pitted but heavily cursed blade that was obviously Harpe.
It's curse of denying regeneration and doing more damage to monsters was rather similar to my own spear so I could recognize the curse. Even though my spear's curse came from the runes and materials used in its creation. While this curse was almost certainly inlaid upon its form by the Greek gods themselves.
'I wonder if I can get Da-Vinci to make me a few sniper bullets or throwing stars made out of this Harpe?' I wondered with an evil smile.
Let's see that annoying ass corrupted Cu Alter in the future deal with the fact that he can't use his busted regeneration!
With my spatial storage nice and stuffed with goodies we quickly got up to the surface. But as we reached the surface, all to quickly we saw flares of light in the far distance and even over the sounds of the falling apart city.
We could hear the sounds of explosions and fights over there.
"Let's go see if that is our reinforcements!" I called out, and I flooded my body with mana to reinforce it as I shot towards the sounds of battle.
Tamamo quickly followed behind me to watch my back as I sped faster then any normal human could run through the ruined street's of Fuyuki.
Soon enough we reached the scene of the battle... I found the lewdly armored form of the ultimate Kouhai in Mash protecting the ginger-haired form of Ritsuka Fujimaru, with her oversized shield.
And even as I idly noted that the silver-haired director Olga, was missing. I was focused on the hooded figure of Medusa with the twisted scythe she had in her arms that was clearly a degraded form of Harpe as well.
"Lancer Medusa... Heavily corrupted and weakened at that. But be careful of her weapon as it's Harpe. Now go crush her." I said firmly to Tamamo who giggled happily and walked past me with her own large odachi falling in her hands.
Meanwhile, I took out my own spear as I wanted to see how I stacked up against even a corrupted servant. But even as Mash shoved Medusa back, I could tell she and Fujimaru were wary of us.
So I called out. "Chill out Mashu, I am also part of Chaldea! I was recruited four days ago and I am friends with the Director Olga!"
"Ohhh, the little ants have their own real servant? Maybe this could be actually interesting then." The corrupted form of Medusa said before she swung Harpe to meet Tamamo's nameless Odachi noble phantasm.
But with a loud boom of displaced air... Tamamo utterly crushed her in terms of raw strength, and Medusa cried out as she was sent flying through the air.
'Yeah, you are just a corrupted servant in a broken body. You aren't some divine spirit or high-grade phantasmal beast.' I thought as I remembered how that Wendigo spirit and the divine spirit gave me so much trouble.
My spear shot forward towards the figure, who launched away, and she slashed aside my spear. But after training with Scathach, I instinctively just retracted the spear so that the crimson, tiny serrated hooks on my spear would catch on the handle of Harpe.
As our weapons locked for a long second. I flared with mana as her glowing eyes met mine, and in an instant, I felt my blood slow, and my skin begin to harden.
Then Tamamo blitzed in, and with a loud crash, she smashed her sword into Medusa's own weapon while yelling as the stronger 'monster' girl smashed her rival through a building. "Dirty snake! Don't you dare look at my darling with those cursed eyes! You can't turn my hubby into stone and snuggle with him for eternity!!!"
Yeah, turning me into a cuddle pillow was literally not at all what this Medusa 'Alter' was planning.
But yandere Tamamo was doing yandere Tamamo things as her elegant swing's of her Odachi became the brutal slashes as she took up the strength of a Berserker and the air cracked and I could feel the explosions of air being displaced as the pissed off Tamamo crushed Medusa into the ground with her strength.
Several chain-like snakes tried to attack Tamamo from the side to pull her away. But my spear shot past Tamamo's form and I drew my spear around her as she was over Medusa to block the dozen conjured up snake-like chains.
And Medusa tried to block Tamamo's enraged strength... But I remembered all too clearly that even in base Fate. She actually had terrible 'luck' when it came to fighting someone with pure strength.
A loud wet crunch rang out as Tamamo smashed aside Medusa's spear, Harpe, and then she stomped the arm that still held it to the point that blood splattered in the air.
And then with another crunch, Tamamo swung her odachi downwards on the downed form of Medusa with a spray of blood shooting in all directions.
The swirling chains in the air fell out of the air with a loud clatter of metal hitting the surrounding concrete and steel debris.
There was a moment of silence as Fujimaru and Mashu looked at Tamamo with some fear, even as the twitching form of Medusa quickly began breaking apart into golden motes of light with her death.
Then Tamamo whirled around with her eye's glowing and saying happily. "Darling! I crushed that wicked snake just like you asked! I have no idea, but the smug look she had when she was trying to curse you just set me off something so fierce!"
And I couldn't help but wonder if the core of Tamamo was remembering what happened at the Mooncell. Where Medusa tricked Tamamo and sealed her with the classic Killing Stone, and then right in front of her. Cucked Tamamo of her master and stole them away.
So yeah... Maybe buried in the depths of Tamamo's Saint Graph that transcended the Throne of Heroes. When a Tamamo laid eye's on Medusa. It was on fucking sight apparently.