Currently, there was no such thing as an app store in this world, but there were terminal managent tools like "91 Mobile Assistant"—which more or less served as a joint-distribution platform.
That said, mobile gas were still in their primitive stages, and the gas offered through these kinds of terminal tools were pretty rough.
So, the users on those platforms weren’t even close to the target audience for 2D ani-style gas. In terms of quality, they were completely unsuitable for proper testing.
That was why Tang Yao didn’t test the ga through these terminal tools.
But… this also brought so challenges.
Mainly, that downloading the ga for user testing was kind of a hassle. You had to download the software from the website, then manually transfer it to your phone. The whole process was tedious.
Luckily, for now, phone manufacturers hadn’t started restricting app installations under the guise of anti-fraud, user safety, or system stability enhancents.
In fact, most of them didn’t even have an app store yet.
So while downloading was annoying, installing was still simple.
Soon—
Rumi had installed the ga software from Avalon Studio.
“…Fate/Grand Order, huh?”
Rumi looked at the new app that had appeared on her phone and softly read out the title. Then she looked at the icon.
The ga’s icon featured Saber, but wearing a crown—looking a bit more regal than her appearance in Fate/Zero.
The icon was quite polished.
Rumi muttered to herself, then tapped the app.
The screen went black.
Then, it lit up again—a sleek, stylish logo faded in. It looked like both a small boat and a sword sheath, with the word Avalon slowly appearing underneath.
After the logo disappeared, a character illustration appeared: a cute girl with short pink hair, glasses, and a white short-sleeved lab uniform. A progress bar was displayed at the bottom, indicating resources were being loaded.
The loading wasn’t fast.
But the character illustrations kept rotating—each one beautifully drawn and eye-catching. As Rumi stared at them, unknowingly, the ga finished loading.
The main screen appeared.
A deep blue sky with a swirling, black hole-like vortex in the center. Clouds encircled it, light radiated outward… It looked like a gateway to another world, as if tapping it would transport you sowhere else.
“This looks pretty legit… but what a waste of good art assets.”
Rumi could tell imdiately—serious effort had gone into the ga’s visuals… But thanks to her preconceptions, she didn’t think it was a good thing. Instead, she felt the artwork was wasted: “No matter how pretty it looks, once you’re in the ga it’s still just the sa old gaplay. You’d be better off making an online PC ga. Phones just…”
She shook her head and tapped “Start.” The ga prompted her to register.
Rumi registered with her phone number and randomly chose a userna.
Finally—
The screen flashed white.
The ga began.
…A howling wind suddenly rose.
A snowy facility nestled among mountain peaks appeared on screen.
At the sa ti—
Text appeared at the bottom.
【—Base sequence confird as human geno.】【—Spiritual device classification: Good · Neutral.】【Welco to the Archive of Humanity’s Future. This is Chaldea, the Human Order Preservation Organization.】
“…???”
Rumi stared at the subtitles, slightly confused.
Wait, wasn’t this… Fate/Zero? What’s with this “Chaldea”? What the heck is the “Human Order Preservation Organization”?
She was dazed, lightly tapping the screen to advance the story.
She discovered that the player seed to be… a Master? Or perhaps a newly hired staff mber at Chaldea?
Tapping again, the interior of Chaldea appeared—and a white, cat-like creature suddenly popped onto the screen. Its fur was soft and fluffy, and it leapt gently into view.
“…”
Rumi widened her eyes slightly at the sight.
Animated sprites?
She imdiately thought of the animated character illustrations on the Fate/Zero website and was a bit shocked. Wait—don’t tell
the whole ga is like this?
This is… a mobile ga?
Just as that thought crossed her mind, the pink-haired, glasses-wearing girl reappeared on screen—but this ti, it wasn’t just a static image—it was animated…
Yep. Sure was.
Rumi stared at the lively character in front of her—the girl even pushed up her glasses—and was montarily stunned. She reflexively tapped the screen…
And with the dialogue lines appearing in sync with the beautifully animated sprite, a timid girl who wasn’t good at expressing emotions seed to co alive right before her.
“Wait… this is a mobile ga?”
Rumi stared at the character illustration on her screen and couldn’t help blurting out the question aloud. She even took off her glasses and leaned in close for a better look.
Up close—
She could tell the resolution had been slightly lowered to adapt for mobile, but the animation based on the original artwork was incredibly fluid and finely done—so the visual experience was excellent.
“…Mobile gas can reach this level now?”
Rumi put her glasses back on, looking utterly stunned. But she didn’t stop playing—she kept tapping through the dialogue.
The opening story wasn’t particularly complex—it was mainly used to set up the plot and worldbuilding. Not especially fun, just standard fare. But combined with the utterly explosive visual quality… there was no way it could be called boring.
It wasn’t just not boring—it was astonishing.
Because up to now, the mobile gas in this world were still rough, low-quality mini-gas.
So to encounter a real ani-style mobile ga like this—Rumi was thoroughly shaken.
It was like the ga had the words “Art Asset Overload” stamped across the entire screen.
Soon—
The prologue wrapped up.
And amid her awe, Rumi found sothing very strange: she didn’t recognize a single character in the ga.
Though many of the terms and settings clearly followed the Fate/Zero universe—like Masters, Heroic Spirits, Holy Grail Wars, and so on…
She understood the general premise too. Basically, in the ga’s world, “Chaldea” was a special global organization ford by various countries to preserve humanity—preventing human extinction.
And half a year ago, Chaldea discovered sothing shocking: humanity would go extinct after the year 2016.
It made no sense. Logically, such a future shouldn’t be possible—physically or otherwise. It wasn’t caused by an economic collapse or geological disaster. One day, human history just… vanished. It was unexplainable.
Yet observation confird it. So Chaldea sifted through 2,000 years of human records to look for anomalies—anything that had never existed on Earth before.
After relentless effort, they finally detected a new anomaly—
In 2004, in a small city, Chaldea discovered a space that didn’t exist in recorded history—a space they couldn’t observe. They theorized it could be the reason for humanity’s extinction and nad it “Singularity F.”
At the sa ti, they decided to execute the sixth experint, still in its testing phase—the Spiritron Dive.
Spiritron Dive ant converting a human’s body into spiritual particles and sending them back in ti.
The player took on the role of one of the chosen Masters participating in the experint—your task was to travel back and investigate Singularity F… going back twelve years to Fuyuki, uncovering the cause of humanity’s disappearance, and eliminate it.
“I get all that… but where’s Fate/Zero?”
Just as Rumi had that thought, the prologue reached its final stage…
The player-character, a Master candidate from Chaldea, was sent to Singularity F to analyze and remove the disruption to history. But during the teleportation process, sothing went wrong—and the player was accidentally thrown into a parallel tiline, becoming an observer of a certain Holy Grail War.
This place was also called Fuyuki… and it had already seen four Grail Wars.
As this explanation scrolled across the screen—
Illustrated stills suddenly appeared.
Saber vs. Lancer’s first clash.
The showdown between the two mages, Kayneth and Kiritsugu Emiya.
The Three Kings' conversation: Artoria, Iskandar, and Gilgash.
…All iconic scenes from Fate/Zero.
And finally—
The image froze. Then… Fate/Zero’s protagonist, Kiritsugu Emiya, appeared on screen. He slowly raised his hand, his expression shadowed. The Command Seals on the back of his hand glowed blood red.
【By the order of the Command Seal… grant
the Holy Grail. Saber, use your Noble Phantasm to destroy the Grail.】
【By the third Command Seal, I order you again—Saber… destroy the Grail.】
Yes.
In a hazy flashback, the climactic scene of Saber destroying the Holy Grail appeared in-ga.
As Saber collapsed and raised her sword, slashing downward—at the mont the Grail was destroyed, black mud burst into the sky… pouring into Fuyuki City as flas erupted everywhere.
Even though it was just dynamic CG, the high-quality presentation made it incredibly powerful.
“…That was aweso.”
Rumi stared blankly at the scene and muttered softly.
But then, she suddenly realized sothing was wrong.
Wait.
Hold up.
What… what was that!?
Did she just get spoiled!?
Huh? No?
What did that an!?
Why would Kiritsugu order SABER to destroy the Grail!?
?????????
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