After obtaining the eighth chess piece, Eichi began to prepare the summoning ritual.
Since Eichi had temporarily neglected the subsequent production and promotion of stories related to Heroic Spirits after summoning seven Servants.
Therefore, the summoning targets Eichi could choose from were not many.
Tamamo-no-Mae, of the Caster class in F/E, and the corrupted Gilles de Rais from F/Z.
It was impossible to summon Gilles de Rais of the Caster class.
After all, Eichi was not a Curse User.
So, the only one Eichi could currently summon to assist Medea was Tamamo-no-Mae.
Eichi's earliest understanding of Tamamo-no-Mae came from the F/E game, shared by someone he couldn't remember.
According to the game's lore.
Tamamo-no-Mae was a wisp of a Divine Spirit that split from Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess in the island nation's mythology, and was a manifestation of a certain aspect of Amaterasu's personality.
Due to Amaterasu's status and power in the island nation, Tamamo-no-Mae, as an Incarnation of Amaterasu, was also very powerful.
At that time, there was a way to calculate Tamamo-no-Mae's strength.
If the strength of a top-tier Servant was set at 100...
Then a one-tailed Tamamo-no-Mae's strength would be 9.
She couldn't even defeat a second-tier Servant and was a contender for the weakest Servant.
A two-tailed Tamamo-no-Mae's strength would be 9 × 9, which is 81.
This jump in strength was already very high.
A three-tailed Tamamo-no-Mae's strength would be 9 × 9 × 9, which is 729.
By analogy, a fully-powered, nine-tailed Tamamo-no-Mae's strength would be over 380 million.
It was quite absurd.
"I just don't know how many tails this summoned Tamamo-no-Mae will have."
Although he could roughly guess the answer, since the summoning hadn't been completed, he could still fantasize a bit.
"Declare..."
Accompanied by a familiar surge of magical power, a magnificent figure appeared before Eichi.
"Your trustworthy, peerless beauty, the shrine maiden fox, Caster has arrived, Desu!"
Appearing before Eichi with a vibrant voice was a young woman slightly taller than Artoria.
She had brown fox ears and a fox tail, a large bow tied at the back of her head.
Dressed in a clearly Improvementsed and ornate kimono, she possessed ample assets.
"One tail, huh..."
After seeing Tamamo-no-Mae's appearance, Eichi confirmed it.
"Eh? Does Master prefer me with more tails? But then I'd become very scary, you know."
Tamamo-no-Mae lightly tapped her cheek with her finger, saying with a hint of distress.
Eichi naturally knew what Tamamo-no-Mae meant by "scary."
Actually, Tamamo-no-Mae only had one tail when summoned not because of injury or weakening after becoming a Servant.
Instead, she herself severed her other eight tails.
This was to prevent herself from making bad mistakes due to her immense power.
Initially, as a goddess, Tamamo-no-Mae didn't really think much of humans.
In her eyes, humans were merely beings with many limitations and lives devoid of any meaning.
In their short lives, no matter how much they gained, they would eventually lose it all at the moment of death.
However, a strange phenomenon caught Tamamo-no-Mae's attention.
That was, even though Tamamo-no-Mae saw no elements that could bring happiness in humans.
Yet, humans appeared incredibly happy.
Thus, Tamamo-no-Mae began to carefully observe the humans who worshipped her.
And in this process, she developed a great curiosity about humans.
Finally, driven by this curiosity, an idea formed in Tamamo-no-Mae's mind.
Should she also try to interact with and serve humans?
Perhaps then she could also find the same happiness as humans.
And so, Tamamo-no-Mae transformed into a Nine-tailed Fox and came to the human world.
However, under the trickery of fate.
Tamamo-no-Mae not only failed to find the happiness she desired but instead caused the downfall of five Dynasties.
Karna once referred to Tamamo-no-Mae as a Queen.
She was also called the demonic fox who caused the demise of five Dynasties.
As Lady Hwayang, she caused the downfall of the Magadha Dynasty in ancient India; as Meixi, she caused the downfall of the Xia Dynasty; as Daji, she caused the downfall of the Shang Dynasty; as Baosi, she caused the downfall of the Zhou Dynasty (Western Zhou); and as Tamamo-no-Mae, she caused the downfall of the Heian Dynasty.
Among these, the only one with a detailed description was the events that occurred during the Heian period between her and Emperor Toba.
At that time, Tamamo-no-Mae had lost her memories as a Divine Spirit; as Kuzunoha, she was favored by Emperor Toba for her talent and beauty.
Of course, it was also likely due to the effect of her Dakini Heaven Method; as a woman, when she used the Dakini Heaven Method, she could gain the favor of those in high positions.
However, not long after Tamamo-no-Mae entered the palace, Emperor Toba contracted a strange illness (reportedly complications caused by obesity, etc.).
Originally, this was nothing, but at this time, Tamamo-no-Mae did not possess her memories as a Divine Spirit.
Therefore, she didn't know how to treat Emperor Toba, and someone also pointed out Tamamo-no-Mae's non-human identity.
This led everyone to believe that Emperor Toba had been harmed by Tamamo-no-Mae.
Exiled, Tamamo-no-Mae regained her Divine Spirit identity amidst the sorrow of being abandoned by her loved one.
And because she was a Nine-tailed Fox, a large number of foxes quickly gathered around her.
All those foxes advised Tamamo-no-Mae not to be sad, saying she would meet someone better in the future.
Thus, Tamamo-no-Mae settled in the wilderness.
However, although Tamamo-no-Mae had no intention of retaliating against humans.
Humans, however, did not intend to let Tamamo-no-Mae go.
Armies dispatched to subjugate Tamamo-no-Mae soon arrived; at first, Tamamo-no-Mae still tried to resolve it peacefully through negotiation.
But humans did not believe the words of a "monster."
With no other choice, Tamamo-no-Mae could only defeat the invading army.
Since then, the kind-hearted Tamamo-no-Mae had been immersed in the sorrow of having killed tens of thousands of lives.
Finally, after multiple failed negotiations.
Tamamo-no-Mae, not even allowed to leave the land, chose to be obediently subjugated.
This was the story of Tamamo-no-Mae in the Nasuverse.
Originally, such a Tamamo-no-Mae should not have become a Heroic Spirit.
However, her desire to become a good wife was too strong, and eventually, through a fortunate Opportunity, she became a Heroic Spirit.
Finally, she learned from her painful experience, believing that her power was the main cause of disaster, and therefore severed her tails.
This is Tamamo-no-Mae of the Nasuverse, a peerless beauty with a dark past who truly regarded her husband as her heaven.
Later, the tails she severed became other entities.
It is said that the relationship between these entities and Tamamo-no-Mae seems not to be very good.
However, Eichi didn't know much about those.
Because after entering society, he had few opportunities and little time to calmly play games and carefully understand their content.
Coupled with the fact that Eichi's first account, created at the game's launch, became unusable after a short time due to issues with his phone's System.
Therefore, Eichi didn't know much about Tamamo-no-Mae in FGO.
He heard that someone seemed to have used her tails as account replacements.
"It's not that I prefer more tails; I'm just curious how you maintain balance with so many tails."
"You're curious about that? Master is really interesting."
Tamamo-no-Mae crossed her arms and began to ponder how to answer.
"How should I put it? It's just an innate feeling, you know. Having many tails doesn't affect daily life."
"Is that so."
Although he didn't quite understand, if it was innate, there was nothing he could do.
After all, Eichi didn't have a tail, so he imagined it was similar to how hands and feet felt.
"In that case, please take care of me from now on, Tamamo-no-Mae."
Eichi raised his hand, showed his Command Spell, and completed the contract with Tamamo-no-Mae.
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