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Taking a close look at the monkey-king, you can intuit from the scrying ability that the Master-Servant contract gave you that he has a ludicrously powerful immortality ability that’s been largely sealed by Perseus’ spear. Yeesh, he’s bad enough now, you definitely wouldn’t want to have to deal with him when he automatically resists more than half of all incoming damage, quickly heals whatever damage he takes, and won’t drop dead from normally fatal wounds. And of course you can’t forget that he can clone himself too! What kind of cheating powerset is this!? You really need to find his Master.
Saving you at least that much headache, a man in dark robes covered in red markings revealed himself at Wukong’s side, followed by an unarmed clone of Wukong (who had the same wounds on his forearm and shoulder that Perseus inflicted on the main Wukong), Caster of Red, who appeared to be a girl in a shrine-maiden outfit with a giant suit of armor at her side, and a little girl cradled in the arms of the walking armor, possibly the Caster’s Master. The man in the robes advised Wukong, “Not too fast, пoжaлyйcтa*. We need to stay together!”
*[pronounced ‘pozhaluista’, for those who can’t read Cyrillic]
“Heehee, thanks for the ride, Zan-kun!” The little girl giggled as the suit of armor gently set her down.
“You guys better make the best of the opening I made for you.” Perseus grunted through his labored breathing.
As much as you’d love to, there were quite a few obstacles now. Most obvious was that the enemy Master was on the roof of a building, but if you wanted to scale it a simple spell from Avenger could resolve that issue. Or maybe blow the building up? More pressing was the fact that in terms of ready first-class combatants, you may be outnumbered. Wukong and his clone made two, and Caster of Red and her suit of armor would make four against your Avenger and Rushorou’s Lancer of Red. Although, Caster of Red herself doesn’t actually look any stronger than you or Jen if Avenger amplified your strength, but her suit of armor is probably a different story. Perseus probably wasn’t in good enough shape to fight right now; perhaps the potion Avenger prepared would alleviate that. Though the issue there is that Wukong would probably press the attack the instant she tried to toss it over. What happened to the other Servants that were fighting them, anyway? Did Wukong beat them? Hopefully at least the berserk Archer will come charging back soon. Dark clouds slowly started gathering above you, as though to signal impending doom.
Rushorou whispered to you, “If your Servant could do some wide-area attacks to either scatter them or force the Servants to tank the hits, my Lancer could push the real Wukong back long enough to buy us an opportunity. We may need to go after the Masters; I’ll have your back.”
