Oath of Heracles

Master! This is bad! The nearby village is being attacked by wild beasts!

And it happened quite suddenly, it seems. Are you awake, Fujimaru?

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I'm not sure that Berserker is well suited for rescue efforts. I hope it will be all right...the village, I mean...

Not just the fields are being destroyed, the buildings are as well... Doctor! Get us details on the enemy!

I am, already! What? Whoa! Their numbers are incredible! It's completely surrounded!

Master, we'll just have to take them out as we see them!

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Nice work! We're done on this side. Oh, no! That girl!

Waaaah! ...Mommyyyyy!

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This is going to be bad! Berserker doesn't see the child! You've got to stop him somehow!

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Waaaah!

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I-I'm so scared, I can't look directly into the monitor... Fujimaru, was the girl...?

No, Doctor. She's all right. He's going after what's behind her!

Gyarrrh!

Waaaah! That scared meeee...

Now, now. It's all right. Run off somewhere safe, all right?

...Whew! Thank goodness the girl is fine.

Oh, that's right! Berserker must be directing his hostility toward large foes first. That's why he

Doctor, how many survivors are left?

Oh, man! We're surrounded by enemies! You're in an even worse situation than before!

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Oh, Fujimaru, I figured out why Berserker did what he did earlier.

...Earlier? Oh, you mean when that girl was spared by Heracles.

Yes, that. I thought there was something odd about it, so I did some digging and found out the Madness Enhancement on Heracles,

is actually rather weak. It leaves a tiny bit of his reasoning intact.

So, earlier, thanks to that bit of reasoning, he didn't attack the girl.

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Oh, I see. But why is Heracles's Madness Enhancement so weak?

Well, that's because Madness Enhancement was originally a skill meant to forcefully strengthen weak Servants.

But when it comes to a Servant like Heracles, driving him mad consumes massive amounts of magical energy.

In other words, the Madness Enhancement level is reduced, enabling him to manifest by using less energy.

Anyway, the fact that you don't have that much magical energy, Fujimaru, also plays a role in that.

You mean to say, Heracles's current status is much weaker than what he could've been?

But even at that, it's far stronger than most Heroic Spirits.

Rather, I am kind of scared to find out what he could've been.

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...But I'm sure that even at Heracles's original state of madness, that girl still would have been safe.

No, no. I really doubt that. He's a Berserker, you know. A Berserker!

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I'm not so sure about that...

Yes, for sure...!

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