Chapter 546: So Your Kotomine Church Also Has a Gas Explosion Day!
Gate of Babylon, the exclusive Noble Phantasm of the King of Heroes, Gilgamesh. Its true form is a key-shaped sword connected to the Golden Capital, and possessing it allows one to freely retrieve items from the treasury, which contains the prototypes of all Noble Phantasms and the crystallization of human wisdom.
From this, one can see how highly Gilgamesh, affectionately known as Goldie or Golden Boy by everyone, is portrayed in the Type-Moon universe.
Just this one phrase, "containing the prototypes of all Noble Phantasms and the crystallization of human wisdom," already places him in a theoretically invincible position.
Of course, such a setting naturally requires a personality that is arrogant to the extreme, and only such a personality would give his opponents a chance to exploit.
However, with the Gate of Babylon, Gilgamesh, due to the sheer number of treasures within, has no regard for these Noble Phantasms whatsoever. So much so that in battle, he almost uses these divine weapons, which players would cherish immensely if they could get their hands on even one, as disposable projectiles.
Indeed, the blade shot towards Cheng Tian, if compared to player equipment, would be at least a purple rare-grade one-handed sword. But to Gilgamesh, it was no different from firing a bullet.
It was extravagant to the extreme.
But just as the flying sword was about to pierce Cheng Tian's head, the Shield of the Mind precisely blocked its flight path.
Sparks flew, but it couldn't advance an inch further, ultimately falling powerlessly to the ground.
However, at the same time, a flying sword of the same size, composed entirely of energy, visibly condensed on the Shield of the Mind and was reflected directly back towards Gilgamesh—
Soul of Orochi! Mirror Reflection!
Clang!
Another disposable Noble Phantasm was fired, but this time its target was the energy flying sword reflected by Cheng Tian, shattering it instantly.
However, the situation did not end there.
The moment the energy flying sword shattered, the Soul of Orochi on Cheng Tian's neck flashed slightly again, and then a black particle-type spatial fluctuation appeared out of thin air, heading straight for the King of Heroes—
The 8% chance triggered the Black Particle effect!
The King of Heroes, who had been sitting on the bench observing Cheng Tian's every move, suddenly felt a chill climb from his tailbone to his skull. His initial intention to take the hit shifted into an evasion, almost completely abandoning his "King's Dignity" as he side-rolled to dodge, letting the black particle fluctuation collide with the golden, rippling Gate of Babylon.
The King of Heroes froze, not because of his clumsy evasion, but because this inexplicable black fluctuation had left an almost imperceptible attack mark on the outer space of his Gate of Babylon!
Although it was just a mark, it meant that this attack had truly hit his treasury!
...It seems this is not just an ordinary scoundrel who only knows how to talk big!
Emotions of anger and excitement intertwined, making Gilgamesh's feelings quite complex at this moment.
He wanted to directly kill this arrogant insect who dared to question the origin of the oldest hero and the existence of Uruk, yet he didn't want to easily give up such a great variable.
The main reason Gilgamesh chose to incarnate and remain in the present world was actually to seek amusement. Amusement was the highest priority among all things. He even sealed the Star of Omniscience and Omnipotence for this purpose, all to avoid spoilers!
Gilgamesh was still pondering his amusement, but Cheng Tian's companions, on the other hand, exhibited fearlessness.
As an Enforcer of Seal Designation dispatched by the Clock Tower to Fuyuki City, Bazett definitely belonged to the category of elite mages, and naturally had the qualification to inquire about the Fourth Holy Grail War's related information.
Upon hearing Cheng Tian's conversation with him, Bazett had already fully realized who this Golden Boy was.
And even without the records of the Fourth War, the renown of the King of Heroes was, if not universally known, at least widely spread within the mage community.
Although Bazett was rather carefree in her daily life and very simple emotionally, she was extremely meticulous in her work. Since she was cooperating with Kirei, she would naturally investigate beforehand.
As the most active participant in the Fourth War, the various deeds of the King of Heroes had indeed entered Bazett's mind in an incomplete form.
She just never imagined that Gilgamesh had existed in the present world for over ten years!
However, when this oldest King of Heroes came into conflict with her Master, Bazett instantly cast aside all her reservations about the King of Heroes. With a burst of speed, her fist was already smashing directly towards the King of Heroes' head.
Without the slightest hesitation!
Bazett at least had some prior knowledge, but Eileen was purely possessed by the idea of "I don't know where this is, I only know he's an enemy, I'm going to kill everyone."
The moment she saw the two sides start fighting, she executed a very graceful backflip followed by drawing her bow, and an elven arrow imbued with wind and piercing power immediately flew out, cutting through the air.
Boom!
At the same time, Father Kirei, who was near Tohsaka Rin's mansion, was dealing with localized street damage caused by the Servants' brawl under the pretext of "a gas pipeline leak causing an explosion." He suddenly shivered, his gaze involuntarily turning towards the direction of the church. Then, his body froze.
The scale of destruction that battles involving Mages and Servants, with their supernatural abilities, could cause goes without saying. Even without using wide-area destructive Noble Phantasms, there would be numerous non-human traces left behind.
And these traces still had to be hidden to avoid public attention.
Although Father Kirei himself broke the rules, ambushing Bazett and actively intervening in the Fifth War, acting as both a participant and a judge, it cannot be denied that he was indeed working very hard to deal with various problems.
These Servant Masters fought to their heart's content, but none of them thought about cleaning up the aftermath.
Ultimately, these troublesome matters still had to be piled onto Kirei's shoulders... and he had no choice but to do them.
It's no wonder he would go to the shopping street to eat extremely spicy Mapo Tofu to soothe his broken spirit whenever he had nothing to do.
In the current time and plane, this was the first time Kirei had used "gas explosion" to cover up the traces of destruction from Servant battles. Yet, he never imagined that his own home had already been blown away.
The Kotomine Church, a detached house with its own yard, occupying a small hill, had almost its entire roof blown off by Eileen's uncharged arrow, sending a large amount of brick fragments mixed with beautiful glazed tiles flying into the sky.
It was currently broad daylight with people scurrying everywhere, and it was also in the relatively more conspicuous church area. What was even more terrifying was that there was no barrier set up to keep out ordinary people here.
Numerous eyes, both intentional and unintentional, had already focused on the unfortunate church's direction at the first moment.