Does the master fader in pt produce additional parallel gain?

[illution1]

Lets say you have an audio track with audio playing in pt. Then you add a master fader. Does this increase gain by any small increment? I was wondering because you have the audio track automatically routed to the monitors and then you ALSO have the master fader routed to the monitors additionally.

I am guessing that the master fader just adopts the signal path rather than running parallel , right?

Might be a dumb question, but as a young audiophile I am really trying to learn as thoroughly as possible.

Thanks in advance everyone