Leif Lenore stood on the mountain in the distance and looked at the servants on the battlefield.
Ever since Leif was threatened with force by Romulus in Rome Vienna, Leif has no longer stayed in that "Rome" that was completely built on Romulus's Noble Phantasm.
It was at that time that Michael VIII found him.
Originally, Leif had a headache when facing Rome, which had its own rudiments of restraint, so he summoned servants like Octavian and Caesar who could bypass Rome's self-protection mechanism.
However, the summoning ceremony has deviated from the normal ceremony since the middle.
Relying on the basis of the Chaldean summoning technique, Leif originally planned to summon seven servants with different levels of riding, just like Gilles de Rey did when he was a Caster in France.
However, the summoning technique broke away from his control halfway through. It seemed that his act of summoning Roman servants resonated with the land of Rome.
Or maybe the servant summoned midway has been connected to the prototype of Rome's restraining power.
In the end, Leif was excluded from the summoning spell, and the original summoning of heroic spirits became a form of joint summoning.
This directly led to the emergence of Romulus and Michael VIII.
Caligula, Romulus, and Michael VIII were not the servants Leif wanted to summon.
Not to mention the extremely powerful Romulus and the extremely weak Michael VIII, Caligula alone was full of uncertainty.
Leif could not guarantee that the most notorious madman in history would help his niece, the equally notorious Nero Claudius.
Although Caligula responded to the call as a berserker, it was easier for Leif to control his actions through command spells, but when facing Nero, no one knew what would happen in the end.
In fact, Leif did use the Command Seal when Caligula faced Nero.
As for Romulus and Michael VIII, it was another level of difficulty.
Romulus was too powerful for Leif to control through command spells. The reason why Romulus appeared here was all because he responded to the spell to become a joint summon.
However, Michael VIII, who could be interfered by the Command Seal, did not give Leif the chance to use the Command Seal at all.
This cunning spider completely obeys any order from Romulus and Leif, and on the surface it is a perfect servant.
However, Leif clearly knew that Mikhail VIII had other plans behind him.
He did not come simply to destroy "Rome".
If Alexander and Zhuge Kongming had not been defeated, Leif would not have chosen to lend his power to Mikhail VIII.
But at the end of the rope, the only combat power that Leif could rely on was Mikhail VIII. At least Mikhail VIII could buy time for Leif.
Perhaps among ordinary people, Mikhail VIII can easily provoke wars and instigate coups, but that is only limited to ordinary people.
Just relying on the extremely mysterious Noble Phantasm of Michael VIII cannot turn a person into a monster, let alone a monster of the level of Chimera.
Although it cannot be compared with the Chimera killed by Bellerophon, the knight who rode the Pegasus in mythology, the "fusion beast" created by Leif is far from comparable to ordinary fantasy species.
This was not difficult for Leif. He just gave part of his flesh and blood to Mikhail VIII - some branches of the Demonic Pillar.
As the seventy-two demon gods under King Solomon, each demon god is equivalent to the highest-level familiar, even compared with fantasy species such as Chimera and Sphinx that appear in myths.
Just a very small part of the Demonic Pillar's "body" is enough for Leif's flesh and blood to contaminate and invade normal humans, causing their bodies to change.
As for how Mikhail VIII should use the branches of this demon pillar, it is not something that Leif worries about.
He didn't expect Mikhail VIII to accomplish any feat of stopping Chaldea alone, and Leif didn't think Mikhail VIII could defeat Matthew and King Arthur.
All Leif needed was for Michael VIII to buy him some time so that he could re-summon combat power capable of fighting Chaldea and Rome.
Leif narrowed his eyes and looked at Mikhail VIII who was locked in a bitter battle in the distance, and nodded with satisfaction.
If Michael VIII really defeated Chaldea, it would disrupt Leif's plan.
But if both Michael VIII and Chaldea, who had ulterior motives, were to suffer losses, then it would undoubtedly be the best outcome for Leif.
Just observing the battle situation in the distance, the Holy Grail in Leif's hand continued to emit waves of magic power.
The fluctuations emitted by the Holy Grail, which contains magic power that can satisfy almost any wish in the world, can even vaguely affect actual objects and spaces.
A huge number of shadows kept appearing around Leif.
There is currently not enough time for Leif to find more servants who can fight against Rome, so the shadow servants created based on the records on the Heroic Seat have become Leif's first choice.
But Leif’s real trump card is not these shadow followers——————
Rome was not alone in being able to destroy Rome.
So what if it's a prototype with similar inhibitory power?
Isn’t what the Demon God Pillars are doing against the real restraint? What's more, what Rome possesses is only the rudiment of restraint.
Leif chose to summon Iskandar and Zhuge Kongming in the hope that Alexander the Great, who conquered Persia and Egypt, could defeat Rome from the front.
Although they ultimately failed, the information Leif received was even more important.
"Rome" was not invincible.
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"Rome" was not invincible.
Michael VIII knew this very well. When he saw the towering and thick walls of Constantinople, he once thought that the city could not fall.
However, the fact is that Constantinople has fallen to the Crusaders for decades.
Even the majestic walls of Theodosius could not completely protect against outsiders.
Although he had the royal blood of the former Byzantine Empire, Michael VIII, who ultimately relied on conspiracy and transactions to climb from an official to co-emperor of the Nicaea Empire, knew this very well.
Therefore, even after regaining Constantinople, Michael VIII never let down his vigilance against invasion by others.
A wish that you want to realize even at the expense of Rome?
Ridiculous, Michael VIII's wish has always been to keep "Rome" strong, unlike Octavian and Caesar who had daughters or beloved wives. In his life, Mikhail VIII would sacrifice anyone and do anything for the crown.
He even went as far as to blind the eyes of the eight-year-old Emperor John IV to ensure that he would be the sole emperor of the rebuilt Eastern Roman Empire.
He did not hesitate to provoke a war that lasted for decades, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people to ensure that the Crusaders would not attack Constantinople again.
How could Michael VIII, who had worked hard to pull Rome away from the whirlpool of war throughout his life, be affected by such an attack.
Mikhail VIII calmly dodged attacks from all directions.
Only Boudicca, who once belonged to Rome but rebelled against Rome, could temporarily ignore the skills of Michael VIII.
Even so, there is still nothing that can be done to him.
This was the capital that gave him the courage to fight alone.
"Protection from war"
