[Exchanging a glance, the Servants ponder over how to answer Yusuke’s query. There’s a chorus of no good Merlin should answer and Merlin, you’re the Caster, do something useful— to which he looks mock wounded by the insults. Alas, if seems I must inform them what it is. Merlin leans against his staff— it definitely looks like flashy prop but there’s something ethereal about it.]

The answer to that is complicated, but think of it as magic— well, magecraft— like in a video game. Have either of you played any RPG games? MMORPGS? [ He doesn’t wait for them to answer.] But unfortunately, I hate to burst your bubble, but you’d probably only able to do that only if you have dedicated animators working in the background to use CGI for the whole stadium~!

[ How does he know about this?— well it does get boring in Avalon, he livestreams!!!! He’s a cute idol himself! Praise him!]

We all used something called a Noble Phantasm— which is power based on our legends. Some of us have more than one. It’s almost like a temporary manifestation— where it reproduces scenes or display feats from them but it requires a lot of energy so we don’t use them too often [ lol lmao says one of the big giant overworked looping buffers at Chaldea.] It also depends on class, but you boys don’t have to worry about all of that~!

[ Merlin dismissively waves his hand.]

Also to clear something up, think of us as mere shadows of those from those legends—! Except me, of course!