"This is the decisive blow, Atalanta!"
"Black Bird!" Looking at Atalanta, who was right in front
of him, Shirou swung his iron fist without hesitation.
Under the continuous acceleration of divine speed! Under the ultimate mass of the armor he wore! Under the entanglement of magic power! This "Black Bird" strike was incomparable to even Usamaru Renren's. This strike was a decisive blow!
"Though not Mordred, Atalanta, you too can become my Great Deed for leveling up!"
"Kosmos Kyrios!" With a shout, the almost negligible distance between Shirou and Atalanta was separated by a world.
"Boom!" As Shirou's iron fist collided with the world standing between him and Atalanta, a huge reverberating sound echoed through the forest. The impact of their collision blew away and flattened all the surrounding trees. At the same time, the explosion caused by the clashing magic power slowly rose.
"Pfft!" After several consecutive leaps backward, Shirou, who had avoided being crushed by Achilles' chariot, couldn't help but spit out blood! Feeling his comminuted fractured right arm, Shirou wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his left hand and complained helplessly, "So tough!" Achilles' Noble Phantasm, Kosmos Kyrios, was simply too tough. So much so that Shirou's own arm was comminuted fractured by the recoil. This
was truly embarrassing!
"Are you alright, Sister!"
"Ah! Thanks to you, Rider! I almost lost my life!"
Atalanta was still shaken by Shirou's strike. If that punch had landed on her, she would probably have been instantly shattered into pieces!
"Is that so? Then I arrived just in time!" Immediately, Atalanta's gaze fell upon Shirou, who had already removed his armor.
"Good attack. I didn't expect the Black Faction to have such a brave warrior as you!"
"You're braver than me, Greek Great Hero, Achilles!"
"Was my True Name recognized? Well, since I released my Noble Phantasm, it can't be helped!" With that, Achilles waved the javelin in his hand and said with a laugh. "Black Faction warrior! Let's have a fight to the death next time!"
"Let's go, Sister!" With that, Achilles drove the chariot away with Atalanta. Feeling Atalanta's sharp gaze from behind the chariot, Shirou smiled and waved his left hand
at her.
"How unlucky! I thought I could take out Atalanta here and level up."
"It seems I'll still have to rely on Mordred!"
"With Achilles around, it's hard to take down a lone Atalanta!" Analyzing the current situation, Shirou summoned Yoisigure and began to heal his arm. A few seconds later, Shirou's injury had returned to normal.
"Never mind, let's go back first!" With a stomp of his foot, Shirou's figure disappeared into the forest that had just undergone a major battle.
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"Is that so? Red Faction's Archer and Rider are Atalanta and Achilles, respectively?" After hearing Shirou's report, Vlad III and Darnic, sitting in the Throne Room, couldn't help but frown.
"We can disregard Atalanta for now. Achilles' strength is undoubtedly that of an extraordinary Servant."
"With his immortality, to break through his defense, one must possess divinity. Otherwise, one doesn't even have the right to fight him!"
"No wonder Siegfried couldn't do anything to him!
Gordes, that fool, actually wasted two Command Spells!"
Thinking this, Darnic became even more furious.
As magic crystals that could restrain Servants,
Command Spells' abilities were not limited to just restricting a Heroic Spirit's abilities. They could also strengthen a Servant's power with those magic crystals, and even do things that were normally impossible, such as spatial transfer. Therefore, Gordes' act of wasting Command Spells was akin to wasting an opportunity to reverse the tide of battle. How could this not enrage Darnic? This was the strongest Saber!
"In that case, among our roster, only Chiron should be able to contend with Achilles, right?"
"That's right, leave Achilles to me!" Accepting the heavy responsibility of dealing with Achilles, Chiron clenched his fists.
"Actually, I also have the ability to deal with Achilles.
My Noble Phantasm can complete the transformation from human to demigod after I defeat a powerful opponent."
"When that happens, with divinity, I should be able to directly confront Achilles and Karna!"
"This is also why I wanted to deal with Mordred alone earlier!" Presenting his leveling up as a Noble Phantasm, Shirou hoped Darnic and the others wouldn't interfere with his duel with Mordred! At the same time, this could also explain his future strength increase.
"So you're saying that after your transformation, you'll be able to contend with Karna and Achilles?" Seeing that Shirou's strength could still increase, and reach an extraordinary level after the increase, Darnic was extremely excited. Although he now knew the information of several Red Faction Heroic Spirits, this didn't excite Darnic much. This was because the strength revealed by the Red Faction at this time was too powerful.
There were already two extraordinary Heroic Spirits. And their side only had Vlad III. Such a situation was extremely disadvantageous for the Black Faction. But now with Shirou's existence, the Red Faction's strength was significantly boosted. At this moment, Darnic was extremely grateful for Hyouma Sagara's gacha roll in Japan. He never expected that Hyouma Sagara, that lucky bastard, would actually pull a god-tier card!
"In that case, Shirou, rest assured, we of the Black Faction will fully assist you in hunting Mordred!"
"Then thank you all!" After a heartfelt discussion, Shirou, who had been monitoring the outside of Millennia Fortress with familiars he had just learned to summon, suddenly said.
"Speaking of Siegfried, why isn't he here now? Is he injured?" At this moment, only Shirou, Vlad III, Frankenstein, and Chiron's groups were in the Throne Room. There was no trace of the other three groups.
"Just now, Rider ran off with a homunculus suspected to be Caster's Noble Phantasm core. I sent Saber to pursue him!"
"Huh, something like that happened?" After listening to Darnic's explanation, Shirou said with a chuckle. "Since we're all clear here, I'll be leaving first!"
"I'm quite interested in what's happening with Saber, so I'm going to take a look!"
"Then go ahead, Shirou!"
"Bye-bye!" After greeting everyone in the Throne Room, Shirou disappeared from there. Standing on the roof of Millennia Fortress, Shirou leaped down and followed Astolfo, who had been caught by Siegfried on the outskirts! How could he not get involved in something like this?
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