faster than luffy speeds
Huh. didn't expect the Event to straight up state an FTL feat there...
The world tried to turn off the summoning system and Nero just brute-forced her way in
I mean, it actually makes sense for Beast Classes to be stronger than the base 7 Classes considering how they are usually superior to a singular Grand Class vs. the other Extra Classes which are abnormal.
I wasn't commenting on why Beast is like that, I was saying its funny she's making a big entrance just to be at disadvantage against the focus of the next four chapters
Okay so according to spoilers from Beast's Lair, yeah, Summoning and contracting with a Beast is obviously a massive no-no as the entire Event story is thus:
- Beast Draco Nero literally kidnaps your ass from Chaldeas with Tiamat(Who explicitly summoned herself there) and Mash try and fail to protect you from her(Tiamat does try and tell you the gist but your ignorant and stupid so you don't get it in time).
- You end up in Lilim Harlot on the Arcade side as Draco Nero is dying but it seems the Counter Force is being efficient and retarded so they are only sending Shadow Servants against her on basically recording as she's "basically on Death's Door".
- Ritsuka actually ups and tries to tell her to fuck off but in an even more shocking twist, Draco already contracted with you without your knowledge and thus, Ritsuka is now marked as a Enemy of Humanity and thus will be targeted by the Shadow Servants. Breaking the contract won't do shit as it's literally one and done, the Counter Force sees you as an enemy and wants you dead period.
- Thus they have to basically support each other until Nero Draco goes fully mature again and basically kills you, I guess(I only guess because she also seems to state you can just get the Grail from there when she fully ascends). Throughout the first few nodes and chapters, you get some decent backlog into Nero Draco's plan, how she did it, what is Lilim Harlot and when shit went off the rails(Basically Arcade exposition and some neat stuff we wouldn't have gotten otherwise).
- Tiamat actually follows you to Lilim Harlot and drags Setanta with you to try and deal with Draco and you point out the problem(Killing her won't do shit to the Counter Force wanting Ritsuka's head on a platter) so you start an alliance alongside the new 4* Servant Locusta who shows up and bails your asses out further to literally ascend upwards on the Twilight Ladder to get to Nero Draco's ascension spot.
Of course, we will find a way to get the Counter Force to leave us the fuck alone but wow, Nasu and co. did not pretend we can just contract with a Beast and not have enormous consequences for doing so.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot Draco actually does explain "Why it didn't happen with the other Beasts" and it's actually a decent answer:
They all knew that this would happen and thus, they either chose different Classes or remained larval Beasts to avoid that issue.
ALL OF THEM could have remained Beasts and Kiara explicitly reins Kama in to avoid her going that route.
Everyone else, including Kiara, wants you to succeed which is why they didn't manifest as Beasts meanwhile Draco explicitly came in as a Full Beast.
So that technically means Draco just gave Tiamat et al a blank slate to go Beast mode on her ass if the Counter Force is as hardline as she's saying.
Which means it'll somehow get reversed by the end (or not matter if this is actually a different universe, I'm not familiar with Arcade enough to know if it's the same reality or not)
Arcade is explicitly a different parallel timeline altogether from Mobile(It's what Tiamat tries to explain to you before Draco through her... equivalent of DGPs whisked you away) and thus, you have no knowledge of what happens there and neither does Chaldea.
This becomes a huge problem as you are taken to Lilim Harlot in which Chaldea cannot contact you or help you out and only Tiamat appeared there because Independent Manifestation is bullshit and she found and dragged Setanta to help you out(Which is why he's the Welfare).
To say it easier, Arcade doesn't have Romani nor Goetia in it but Draco knows about them and tries to emulate their plan and go over Tiamat at once. It's also stated that Draco caused Gray to go nuts with Rhongomyniad in her Event and as we've seen, Events happen far earlier in Arcade than Mobile and through different means. So it's a different timeline than FGO Mobile but it's not it's own Time Tree if that makes sense.
EDIT: For the first part, again NO Tiamat cannot go full Beast because if she did, The Counter Force would see both her and Ritsuka as a threat to be exterminated. Kiara also realized this and it's also the reason she didn't go full Beast to fight Kama in Ooku. Every Beast but Kama knows this and Kiara has to keep Kama on a leash to avoid her Beasting out and basically getting Ritsuka killed.
That's what I meant. If contracting a Beast puts a permanent kill-order on Ritsuka's head, never to be lifted.....then Tiamat and the others are free to go Beast and tear Nero apart since the damage is already done.
If they haven't (and if Arcade is just a parallel universe and not a completely separate one a la the Servantverse) then that probably means either the Counterforce is more flexible than Nero is saying or there's some way to undo it.
Though the fact that they're acknowledging all of this raises the question of how they'll justify Nero sticking around afterwords. Unless her third ascension has her somehow change classes lol
That is the million dollar question, isn't it? I get your point that the other Beasts can go and tear Nero apart but again:
1. She's currently so weak she can die to Shadow Servants so there's no need for that(Not even her DGP's are actually alive, they are completely hollow)
2. If they become Beasts, they cannot become Servants ever again. It's pretty evident it's not worth it since they want Ritsuka to win(outside of Kama) and becoming Beasts would fuck that up, especially to kill one that's basically dead.
But yes, there has to be a way to get out of what Draco put on Ritsuka though or have general consequences or to put it more plainly:
There's gonna be a way to keep Draco around as a Beast Class without the Counter-Force freaking the fuck out over it(Unless we are going to go into MASSIVE gameplay/story segregation but Nasu never truly does that for anyone outside of getting them early... which should be possible due to the Throne's nature)
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