The Dark Castle

Archer left the city and soon arrived in the dense, dark forest to the south. She could see the dark castle looming just over the treetops in the distance. As she carried on through the trees, she suddenly felt a magical effect drop over her.

Her vision danced, and for a second, she had trouble maintaining her balance. A Bounded Field was disorienting her. It would be enough to throw off a mortal magus, but for a Servant, it was easy enough to overcome.

The Einzbern Castle waited, it's front doors shut and locked, and its windows dark.

The servant remained in spirit form and entered the castle, searching for the young blonde woman, or the master who had shot hers. She began her search on the highest floor, entering through an upper window. She could have gone through a wall, she supposed, but that was just too odd...

The castle inside was totally dark and silent, and she could not sense the presence of any lifeforms besides the rats crawling through the crawlspaces.

In one room near the center of the castle, she came upon a peculiar sight. Computer banks and monitors were set up all along one wall; all of them had been turned off and disconnected. Along the other wall, an array of modern weaponry, including several assault rifles and grenades. She also found a crate filled with several rocket-propelled grenades. The launcher itself was missing.

A large map of Fuyuki had been spread upon a center table, with various locations circled: the Tohsaka mansion, Ryuudo Temple, and the Church.

As she inspected the equipment, she heard a faint boom echoing from Fuyuki City.

It wasn't hard to piece together what had happened. Either the missing launcher or some other technology had caused an explosion, and it was either at the Tohsaka mansion, or at the church...

Though she did not sense any people, this room was ripe with possible information, including, perhaps, the location of the vessel. She reconnected the computers and turned them on.

The monitors booted up, flicking on one by one. They were surveillance cameras, most of them displaying different locations in the castle and the surrounding forest.

A few others displayed several locations around Fuyuki city itself. A few displayed Ryuudou Temple, and a few others were placed at the bridge, and in downtown Miyama and Shintou. Finally, two cameras showed Tohsaka Mansion and the Church, though from a great distance. The Church lay mostly in ruins, ablaze from the rocket launcher's damage.

She frowned. He would pay dearly for that. He could have simply left well enough alone and kept his life, but apparently that was too convenient for this master. She looked closely at the surveillance cameras for the castle and it's grounds. Perhaps if there was something that looked odd, or a place that would be unlikely to be surveiled, but was anyway, it would tell her where this vessel was. She would not waste too much time on this though. Her master would need her, and apparently, the missing former master was present at the church. Capturing him would be good enough.

She could find no other unusual locations being monitored by the cameras, and searching the room turned up no other revealing documents. It appeared the Master had cleaned up and left in a hurry.

The servant grabbed a few weapons and ammunition for them and went to her master as fast as she could. Hopefully he would find these useful.