"This wall of purity, I suppose it can block all the sins in the world if it so desires. An existence like me probably can't even take a step closer, right? However, I was already aware of this.
How long can such a wall of purity last? Ideals, before they are realized, are ultimately just ethereal dreams."
Alcides saw through the essence of the ideal city.
Ideals are ultimately just ideals.
This kind of conceptual Noble Phantasm is not a bounded field, and the amount of magical power required to maintain its manifestation is extremely astonishing.
Therefore, as Alcides said.
The white chalk wall, after colliding with the wind pressure of the Sword of Rupture and the torrent of light, also turned into particles and dissipated into the air.
The Sword of Rupture flashed with dazzling red light.
Seeing that the gears of the Sword of Opening were about to turn again, and the world was about to let out another ear-piercing wail.
Suddenly, Alcides saw.
Moran moved his mouth and hands to cast a certain spell, and he immediately became alert.
In an instant—Alcides' longbow violently exploded!
That towering body, which had devoured the Bull of Heaven and was comparable to the body of a chief god, was knocked back several steps.
—How… is this possible!?
Alcides instantly understood what had happened to him.
He had poured magical power into the Sword of Rupture to unleash its wind pressure, but it had short-circuited due to some internal obstruction.
But this was just the beginning.
In order to unleash a powerful strike that could destroy Moran, he had poured in an extremely vast amount of magical power.
Its total amount was no less than the amount used by the Bull of Heaven to destroy Snowfield, impact the planet's surface, and create a surface disaster.
The short-circuit reaction caused by this massive amount of magical power suddenly caused one of the magic circuits within his body to rupture.
This seemed to trigger some kind of chain reaction.
The blocked second and third magic circuits ruptured one after another, like a water balloon expanding to its limit and bursting open.
"Ugh…!"
Just as Alcides had regained his footing.
Another magical power runaway occurred.
Although Alcides was not a magus, his body itself was a mass of magical power, the so-called spirit base.
All the blood vessels and nerves that permeated his body could be described as magic circuits. Even if Alcides' spirit base expanded to the scale of a chief god, it was still the spirit base body of a Heroic Spirit.
And those magic circuits have now all turned into fuses, triggering a chain reaction of minor magical power overloads.
Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!
Magical power explodes within arms as sturdy as steel!
Magical power explodes from the tips of feet, honed to a razor's edge through long training!
Magical power explodes within the blood vessels, as deep and firm as the roots of the World Tree, distributed throughout the body!
The five internal organs, akin to masses of magical energy, rupture!
Even the nerves in the eyeballs, part of the brainstem, and the blood vessels throughout the body—all explode!
The intervals between the magical power explosions gradually shorten, and finally, a massive burst of magical power erupts from the area around Alcides' heart.
An impact that cannot be distinguished as pain or heat.
The same happens to the hand holding the Sword of Rupture, Ea; not only are all the blood vessels shattered, but the fingernails are also blasted off.
"…Don't even think about it!"
Accompanied by an imposing shout.
Alcides stomps his foot heavily on the ground, attempting to transfer his out-of-control magical power into the earth.
In the next instant, spiderweb-like, hideous cracks spread across the ground within a radius of dozens of kilometers around him, and the ground sinks a full six meters, with the foundation stones in several places being overturned and lifted up.
If it were a normal Heroic Spirit, they would have already exploded and died from this situation, but Alcides withstands it by sheer force.
Just now, it could be said that everything except his bones had exploded.
Almost all of his other organs had been blasted once.
But he had merely survived; the condition inside Alcides' body had completely collapsed.
All of his magic circuits are necrotic.
Leaving aside circulating magical power within his body, it is already a miracle that he can survive in this condition.
"Heh, as expected of you, to be able to maintain your ability to act in this condition…"
Moran cannot help but say in admiration.
He had been waiting for Alcides to be on his last legs to finish him off with this trump card.
Using Dumas' ability to weave stories.
Moran sewed Kiritsugu Emiya's Origin into the Sword of Rupture, Ea, waiting for Alcides to usurp it.
Once Alcides used the Sword of Rupture, Ea, once, the magical power within his body would connect with the Noble Phantasm, and the effect would be as if Alcides had personally swallowed Kiritsugu Emiya's Origin Bullet.
The magical power of the Sword of Rupture, Ea, with its "severing" nature, would flow back into Alcides' body, transmitted to every magic circuit, turning into a lurking bomb.
When Alcides used the Sword of Rupture, Ea, again.
The lurking bomb would instantly detonate—
Magic circuits engraved with the property of severance, after being scoured by extremely pure magical power, would only result in circuit breakage due to magical power overload—Alcides would die on the spot.
After all, if all the blood vessels in the body were to rupture.
No one could survive.
Therefore, Alcides truly surprised Moran.
Even in his fallen state, his unyielding tenacity had not changed in the slightest. He had actually survived.
"…Guh…!"
Alcides spits out a mouthful of foul blood.
It was not just a simple blood clot, but his shattered internal organs. The fact that he could continue to function was largely due to the black mud within his body.
The black mud is similar to an external magical organ.
Therefore, it was not affected.
But simply relying on the black mud to sustain combat was no longer possible.
Alcides was currently at his last gasp.
Just look at his miserable appearance.
His entire body was dyed blood-red by the filthy blood from the ruptures, and his blood vessels were exposed outside his body after the explosions.
There was not a single place that was intact.
"…Ha… I never expected… to be outmaneuvered to this extent. Even after devouring the Bull of Heaven and this Sword of Rupture, Ea, in the end, I could only inflict this much damage on you…"
Alcides' eye sockets were filled with blood.
His eyeballs had already exploded.
Although he was looking in the direction of Moran, it was unknown whether he could see Moran clearly.