Fate/Origins. Volume 1

For two hundred years, a contest among mages, called the Holy Grail War, has been secretly held in the Japanese city of Fuyuki away from ordinary citizens. Wanting to obtain the Cup that grants wishes, seven summon the greatest heroes of the past as servants and clash in a bloody battle... Fate/Zero tells the story of the fourth Holy Grail War, which took place ten years before the events of the cult game Fate/stay night. Everyone knows that it was the catastrophe of the fourth War that led to the premature start of the fifth. But what happened there? The renowned screenwriter Gen Urobuchi, an unrivaled master of thriller, lifts the veil on the dark secrets of the past...