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"code: diffusion"
The sudden flash of light robbed the spearman of his entire field of vision. As he instinctively closed his eyes, he only heard a rapid sound passing by his ears before his consciousness was plunged into endless darkness.
Three seconds later, after Artoria had finally recovered from the sudden flash of light, the broken spear in the back field had turned into magical radiance and drifted away in the wind. After a brief moment of regret, the swordsman no longer hesitated and raised his blade at the "enemy" in front of him: "Wind King Barrier—!"
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Eve regretted her decision to join the battle without bringing the "amplification device" that her father had specially made for her into this world. Although she had the support of primal magic, once her body's "hardware" could not withstand such a huge input of magic, no amount of energy would help.
The "amplification device" was created to solve these inherent problems within her, but it's currently still in the "Spark World" and hasn't been retrieved yet, so it can't play any role at all.
At first, things were fine. With the help of numerous commands mounted on the central processing mechanism, she easily eliminated an "obstacle" that she vaguely remembered. However, as the number of "obstacles" appearing in front of her increased, Eve had to change her battle strategy. From the initial aggressive attack, she was now forced to switch to defense. If she didn't have a decisive means, she might really fail.
But if it really comes to that, Father—
A powerful slash interrupted Eve's thoughts and prompted her to make a final decision. Just as she decided to activate the third level of the central code, she suddenly heard a sound.
"…Father?"
Even though it wasn't the first time she'd seen it, watching the magician in front of her summon more and more Heroic Spirits as easily as buying cabbages from the roadside still gave Rin Tohsaka, who came from a family of magicians, a feeling that her worldview had been completely shattered.
"Saber, Archer, Rider, Lancer, Caster, Assassin, Berserker... Could it even be possible to summon Ruler?!"
Regardless of Rin Tohsaka's thoughts, it's undeniable that the battle is shifting in their favor. Admittedly, the opposing Servant, who appears to be a "Caster," is quite powerful. Despite not using any Noble Phantasms, he can easily perform attacks, movements, defenses, and flights using things that resemble "magic." However, ultimately, he lacks a decisive force to break the deadlock. He's fine against a few enemies, but he struggles against multiple opponents in a gauntlet-like battle.
"That's it! Once we eliminate this last one, we'll find the 'Root Treasure.' Then, by destroying the Root, we can return to this world, and the future that belongs to us magicians will surely be reclaimed!"
Fujimaru Ritsuka, who overheard this sentence unintentionally, suddenly understood.
"So that's how it is... The one who lost their future in this singularity is not a human, but a magician."
"senior?"
"Mash, I understand! What we need to reclaim in this singularity is not the future of humanity, but the future of magicians!"
Having found his target, Fujimaru Ritsuka's previous confusion vanished, and even the speed and method of drawing the summoning circle for Heroic Spirits improved. Through some unseen intuition, he drew the strongest "ace".
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Her consciousness was still immersed in that unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar voice. After hesitating for a moment, Eve decided to act according to the voice's instructions. Just as she was about to activate the command to leave the battlefield, a sharp whooshing sound from above forced Eve to immediately interrupt the command output.
Unlike the projected Noble Phantasms, these Noble Phantasms that fell from the sky were far superior in both strength and mystery. Simple defensive commands were simply not enough to completely block them. After barely holding on until the attacks of these Noble Phantasms ended, Eve stood on the only small patch of land that remained intact in the dense "jungle" of Noble Phantasms and saw an "obstacle" that also left some impression.
"Long time no see, woman."
Gilgamesh, the oldest hero-king, hovered in mid-air, looking down at the "ants" trapped beneath his feet: "The return gift from back then, now accept it properly."
Eve's question was answered in just half a second. In her vague memory, it was she who activated the third-level code during the Fourth Holy Grail War to destroy the King of Heroes along with another Servant beside him.
"Looks like you've remembered?"
He raised his hand, and a vast array of powerful artifacts, even more numerous than before, almost enveloped the entire sky nearby. With the fury of a king, he pointed downwards: "Then take this regret and roll down to hell, you scum!"
Facing the barrage of powerful artifacts overhead, capable of utterly destroying her form and consciousness, the girl calmly lowered her hands, awaiting the arrival of something—
[General-purpose annihilation weapon V1.00 activated, multiple targets detected.]
Amidst the pure, unadulterated mechanical sound, a pair of "eyes" watched this scene unfold in the sky above.
[Overload program started]
[Assault Form Activated]
Spiderweb-like cracks spread silently and wildly at the base of her bent legs.
[Annihilation procedure initiated]
Soul Leap: Chapter 309 General-Purpose Annihilation Weapon (Part 1)
He fell on the battlefield... no, it should be said that he "fell" on the battlefield.
It swept across the battlefield at a speed that even the "all-seeing eye" could not detect, dragging the heroic spirits that were originally there down to the ground. The violent impact seemed to shake the entire city of Fuyuki.
After a long while, the dust that had been stirred up finally settled again.
Pushing aside the pile of stones in front of him, Shirou Emiya quickly located the "culprit" through the dim moonlight overhead. At the same time, his contracted pupils also caught sight of the magic power gradually dissipating from the huge depression beneath its feet.
“archer…”
The words, so subtle that only the speaker could hear them and it was hard to tell whether they were words of surprise or helplessness, were spoken by the "murderer" who was hundreds of meters away, yet he turned his head toward them.
Against the dim background, two flickering crimson dots were aimed at him. Just as Shirou Emiya was about to raise his projected Noble Phantasm to attack them, his instinct, granted by "Intuition," made him cancel the action at the last second, and he lowered his head at the fastest speed he had ever seen in his life—
“——————!!!”
It wasn't a point of light; it was only because we were facing it directly that it appeared as a "point." After the angle of our gaze shifted slightly, Shirou Emiya finally understood where this "intuition" came from.
The scarlet ray barely grazed his scalp, silently cleaving everything around him at the same horizontal level before disappearing without a trace at the horizon.
The fallen Heroic Spirit then felt a sense of lingering fear. If his reaction time had been even 0.1 seconds later, he might have already followed in Gilgamesh's footsteps. However, even so, the situation was still far from optimistic. Putting aside everything else, the two powers that the opponent had just displayed—incredible speed and laser sweeping that ignored distance—had already perfectly countered ranged attack Heroic Spirits.
In this situation, if the Archer class player wants to continue attacking, someone must step in to hold them off, or at least restrain them from unleashing their terrifying "Noble Phantasms" in an instant...
Seemingly having heard his plea, just as the figure in the distance missed its first attack and was about to launch a second wave of attacks, the other heroic spirits who had been scattered by the blast gradually returned and regrouped. Upon noticing the figure in the center of the battlefield, they immediately launched an attack.
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[Multiple targets detected approaching, battle mode switched]
Her crimson eyes, still radiating scorching heat, quickly returned to their original color under the rapid cooling mechanism. Her left hand left a blur as she reached behind her, completely blocking her deadly attack before it could even be launched, much to the surprise of the spearman.
At the same time, her other free right hand was raised towards the empty space above. With a sharp metallic scraping sound, the holy sword, swirling in the gale, struck her elbow directly. However, instead of easily severing it, Saber was forced to retreat a distance to regain her balance due to the invisible backlash from above. In this less than two-second moment, only one Heroic Spirit faced it directly...
Turning to look at the spearman before him, it was at this moment that the Lord of the Demon Realm recalled the face he had once encountered.
"It's you!"
During the Fourth Holy Grail War, she was also summoned as a Lancer and given the order to stop the being before her. However, she was forced to retreat after only inflicting a negligible amount of damage on the opponent. Now it seems...
Feeling the demonic spear firmly fixed in her opponent's hand, Scáthach rationally released her grip, but it was too late to give up at this point.
He reversed his left hand, turning the gun blade that was originally aimed at his chest towards the front.
[Increase in growth rate, Phase 1]
Behind the howling, distorted vortex of wind, the crimson demonic spear churned the atmosphere, tearing it apart from mid-air and leaving a vacuum trail in the sky before disappearing without a trace.
[Elimination complete]
Behind the mechanical sound, it turned around again to face another "target of annihilation".
Looking at the being before her, who had the same face as the one in her memory but whose aura was completely different, Artoria was filled with doubt.
The opponent's strength was undeniable, whether it was killing the strongest heroic spirit on the field the moment they appeared or destroying the Lord of the Demon Realm with a single move. But behind this power, she couldn't sense even the slightest aura of a "strong person," but rather...
"Are you really a Berserker?"
It did not respond, but silently lifted its foot—and stepped down.
"Thump—"
Behind the collapsing land, the Knight King could only catch a distorted silhouette "flash" in front of him. He tried to block the opponent's movements with the holy sword in his hand from the only angle he could reach, but he did not expect that it would ignore the sharpness of the holy sword and directly smash his clenched fist onto the surface of the blade.
"clang----------!!!"
This is probably what it feels like when a baseball bat hits a baseball. With such a violent impact, the Knight King didn't even have time to adjust his center of gravity. He was smashed from one end of the battlefield to the edge and crashed into the ruins with a loud thud.
As it lowered its right hand, which was already undergoing repair, and continued forward—
"Roar--!!!"
The burly body roared and smashed through a collapsed wall, charging wildly toward this side. At the same time, the stone axe in its hand, as tall as a man, crashed down with terrifying kinetic energy.
"I never expected it to be like this again."
At the same time, an assassin who appeared out of nowhere gripped an astonishingly long blade and took a step forward: "Secret Sword - Swallow Return!"
The two Heroic Spirits' most powerful attacks struck the central figure one after the other. The swordswoman, who had barely crawled out of the ruins, breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. Just as she was about to disarm herself, the cold, mechanical voice rang out again.
[Increase in Growth Rate, Phase Two]
"——! H noon also abandoned his father's phosphorus (seven) slippery seal"
The sudden burst of wind whipped up the surrounding dust and rubble, revealing a scene that the knight king could hardly believe his eyes.
The heavy stone axe struck its target precisely, but became stuck in its body.
—The sharp blade certainly had a high hit rate, but it only broke into several pieces and fell in disarray.
Ignoring the Noble Phantasm being inflicted on its body, its outstretched hand landed on the Berserker, who was unable to dodge in time.
[Command: Impact.]
Soul Leap: Chapter 310 qu|n-Wu Yiqi Ba Ba Lingqi` Beware of General-Purpose Annihilation Weapons (Part 2)
This was not a battle, it was a massacre.
The massacre of a group of people by one "person".
As beings born from human legends transformed into mystery, Heroic Spirits are undeniably powerful. However, their power is limited by their class.
Just as sprint champions emphasize explosive power while long-distance runners emphasize endurance, Servants often have different strengths in various aspects due to class distinctions, thus being divided into different classes, and there are even relationships of restraint among classes.
This is only natural. No one is perfect, and even heroic spirits are not without flaws.
However, if there really is an individual whose speed, strength, attack, defense, etc. are all "perfect", and they are in opposition to each other due to some circumstances, how should they fight?
Fujimaru Ritsuka couldn't have imagined it, so he could only watch helplessly as the Heroic Spirits he had summoned, with whom he had a deep bond, were smashed, trampled, and torn apart by that "monster"... and disappeared without a trace, turning back into magical energy.
In terms of mystery, it is not powerful; at least it does not contain any incomprehensible treasures. However, in stark contrast, its very existence is incomprehensible.
With speeds that can easily tear through sound and the atmosphere, power capable of creating craters on the ground with every impact, and the stamina that hasn't faltered even slightly after nearly "annihilating" over twenty heroic spirits, and most terrifyingly—
"clang--------"
Amidst the sounds of countless collisions, and watching the tiny wound on "it" that was gradually healing at the point where the Oath Sword had struck, the Knight King felt a sense of despair.
—This kind of "absolute defense" is simply impossible to be allowed.
Whether physical or mystical, no attack can break through its terrifying defense, and even trying to breach it with concentrated attacks is utterly futile.
"The healing speed is much faster than the damage speed... At this rate, even if we continue fighting for three days and three nights, we still won't be able to break through its defenses."
After witnessing yet another Heroic Spirit being caught off guard and taken down in one fell swoop by that unreasonable defense, the Knight King made a decision.
"Master, leave this to us!"
“…Saber?”
Gripping his sword and pointing it forward, the Knight King said solemnly, "Our goal is to destroy the 'Anti-Root Noble Phantasm.' Leave this to us. Master, go find the 'Anti-Root Noble Phantasm' and destroy it immediately. That way, our sacrifice won't have been in vain."
"But--"
“Senior, Miss Artoria is right. The most important thing right now is not to deal with the enemy in front of us, but to destroy the Root Noble Phantasm. As long as we can destroy it, we will definitely be able to eliminate that enemy once the Root returns!”
A mix of conflicting and complex emotions welled up inside her. After one last glance at the distant battlefield, Fujimaru Ritsuka made up her mind: "I'm counting on you!"
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[Target detected approaching the alert point; elimination order adjusted]
The figure moving at high speed stopped without warning, but this scene did not give the noticeable Heroic Spirits any sense of relief. Subsequently, their intuition was confirmed.
[Priority targets identified, annihilation process to be executed.]
"Stop him!"
Without any warning, every Heroic Spirit present made the right choice. In an instant, all sorts of colorful magical radiances stirred up the magical energy above Fuyuki City, forming a huge vortex. The figure at the center was immediately captured by this "power," and after various restrictions, restraints, and freezes, there was an overwhelming bombardment of Noble Phantasms.
If the power of Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon is 1, then the combined power of the attack formed by the true names released by the wielders of these Noble Phantasms has exceeded 10.
Faced with attacks far exceeding any previous ones, the computing center was operating at full speed.
Undoubtedly, the best option is to "evade". Relying on the metal structure converted from the spark source, one can easily escape from these treasures, even when caught by numerous negative status effects.
1被削减了50%只剩下0.5,自然无法避开速度为0.8或者0.9的攻击,然而10被削减掉50%后依旧还有5,基础上的决定性差距注定了战斗的结局,然而现在不同。
In the program's calculations, if it avoids these "annihilation targets," there is a greater than 50% chance that it will be entangled by them and unable to prioritize annihilating another target approaching the warning point. If it is approached by a limited number of annihilation targets, then the mission will have an 80% chance of failure.
Clearly, 80% far exceeded the limits of probability calculation, so instead of fleeing from the overwhelming brilliance of countless Noble Phantasms, it raised its right hand—
[Increase in Growth Rate, Three Stages]
[Highest level of privileges unlocked, graviton energy storage complete]
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