Chapter 549: EA, Sing Your Heart Out!
[Calamity of the End: Template Skill, Reality Marble. By manipulating people's anxieties and rumors in specific locations beforehand, it amplifies and converges 'malicious information' that circulates within a small area and possesses common knowledge, until a distinct image appears. Then, it bestows a physical form according to the appearance and abilities described in the rumors, ultimately manifesting a Reality Marble that reflects the image people hold in their hearts.
You can release a mobile Reality Marble with a radius of 7.5 kilometers (Spirit * 100 meters, Spirit's extreme value breakthrough) around yourself. Within this Reality Marble, you can summon 'malicious information aggregation shadow Heroic Spirits' of monsters, players, and NPCs you have encountered in all previous dungeons with less consumption; the Reality Marble consumes 100 MP per minute, and the skill cooldown is 12 hours.
You can summon a maximum of 4 (Charm / 10) shadow Heroic Spirits simultaneously. Each shadow Heroic Spirit will be enhanced or weakened according to the current dungeon difficulty and will randomly come with at least one skill and one piece of equipment from the original entity, while also possessing the original entity's basic combat proficiency. Summoning consumes 50 MP. These low-consumption shadow Heroic Spirits can only exist within the Reality Marble's range.
You can designate a target enveloped within the Reality Marble and construct a shadow Heroic Spirit based on the image and abilities that target perceives it to have. A shadow Heroic Spirit constructed using this method can only exist as 1 entity at most, and its personality, cognition, abilities, etc., will be restored as closely as possible. This shadow Heroic Spirit will possess at least 1 piece of equipment and 4 skills; during the existence of this special shadow Heroic Spirit, your other shadow Heroic Spirits cannot be summoned.
Under the blessing of your 'Arbiter' identity and the current dungeon scenario, your shadow Heroic Spirit summoning range is greatly expanded, allowing you to summon units you have never seen before as shadow Heroic Spirit templates. (Arbiter Enhancement)
You will be able to use Calamity of the End in non-full moon environments. (Sun God Gem Shard Enhancement)
You can only summon intelligent individuals.]
[Additional Evaluation: It is both a shadow and a mirror. The prejudices in people's hearts are a great mountain, and the more solid the mountain, the deeper the shadow it casts.]
Watching his MP bar rapidly filling up, Cheng Tian hadn't even had time to say anything before he was hoisted onto Bazett's shoulder, who, despite her slender limbs, was a veritable human-shaped tyrannosaurus. With Bazett's other arm, she held classmate Irene, and with a seemingly effortless leap, they swiftly distanced themselves from the shadow Heroic Spirit Enkidu.
The two on the ground and in the sky were clearly about to have a hearty exchange of blows, and the moment Cheng Tian had the thought of creating distance, Bazett executed it.
Just now, Cheng Tian had protected everyone with his barrier; now it was her turn to exert herself.
Currently, Cheng Tian's bare Spirit attribute had reached 65 points, and combined with a series of new equipment, it was no problem to stack it to around 75 points. His corresponding MP cap also increased to 2250 points, and based on this MP cap, the maximum absorption limit of the Guardian Barrier simultaneously reached 22500 HP.
The increase in the Spirit attribute naturally corresponded to an increase in MP recovery rate. In just one encounter, the Guardian Barrier's MP recovery rate was maxed out. Combined with the advanced Sun's Protection, even without the corresponding percentage bonus from Gleaming Purification, Cheng Tian gained 16 MP per second, or 960 MP per minute.
But the Gate of Babylon was not low-damage, high-frequency; it was high-damage, high-frequency. If Cheng Tian hadn't deliberately shrunk the Guardian Barrier's range to reduce his own hit area, the barrier might have been broken long ago.
However, while taking hits, he wasn't idle. He used this opportunity to release another new ability, 'Calamity of the End,' which he had just loaded not long ago and hadn't even warmed up.
Previously, Enkidu was indeed a false existence that could only unleash one attack before disappearing instantly. But when the barrier was deployed and the source target was set as Gilgamesh himself, the situation became completely different.
Let's put it this way: whatever personality, posture, and strength Gilgamesh believed Enkidu should possess, this aggregated information entity, specifically concocted for Gilgamesh, would infinitely approach the image he perceived.
It was like looking in a mirror, in another sense.
Of course, Cheng Tian also gained a home-field advantage in a certain sense. Even as a temporary employee, he was a person of the local planet's will. A certain dark-skinned, white-haired individual might even respectfully address Cheng Tian as 'Minister' or something, so preferential treatment was normal.
Furthermore, this mission was a genuine B-rank dungeon silver side quest. It could be said that if one wanted to deal with Kirei Kotomine, one absolutely could not avoid Gilgamesh himself. Since they had offended him, they might as well offend him to the death.
Towards the King of Heroes, who was as powerful as imagined in the original work and in his current display, Cheng Tian showed not even a hint of fear. He had even anticipated the reaction of the shadow Heroic Spirit Enkidu, summoned by himself, and it indeed unfolded as he had thought.
When close friends meet, they must greet each other with their strongest attacks.
The King of Heroes was indeed the strongest Heroic Spirit in this Holy Grail War... but don't forget, this was a dungeon in Heaven's Chosen Space.
Since he became a boss-level unit in a B-rank difficulty dungeon, he was inevitably subject to the same dungeon restrictions as the players.
And as a humanoid boss with the attribute of being embodied by black mud, this was Gilgamesh's biggest weakness!
[Gilgamesh: Leader Template. Heroic Spirit. HP = 1P = 1.25 W / 1.5 W. Strength 55, Agility 40, Spirit 75, Charm 80]
[Unit Traits — Black Mud Incarnation, Golden Rule, Divinity, Gate of Babylon (contains a large number of Noble Phantasms)]
As Gilgamesh existed in his black mud incarnated form, the strength of his physical body was actually not very high. Even in a B-rank dungeon, and with both his Strength and Spirit attributes at their extreme breakthrough states, it was not as high as imagined.
The King of Heroes, Gilgamesh, was incredibly powerful, but this did not mean that every King of Heroes who manifested as a Heroic Spirit had the same combat power. Different Masters, different eras, different states, and so on, all had an impact on the Heroic Spirit.
Boss units always had areas that needed balancing. The HP of Gilgamesh, incarnated by black mud, was indeed relatively low, but it was actually exchanged for the overwhelmingly powerful Gate of Babylon and the 'Black Mud Incarnation' trait.
If Cheng Tian, with his Guardian Barrier, hadn't been fighting this time, just one round of Gate of Babylon bombardment would have essentially left the players permanently in this world as corpses. If they couldn't even touch his clothes, then whether his HP was a little low or high wouldn't really matter.
And Enkidu's greatest mission was actually to exhaust the King of Heroes' MP reserves with all his might, thereby creating a greater opening.
Heaven and Earth showed anomalies, and winds swept away clouds.
If one had to use a word to describe the scene before them... 'catastrophe' might be the most fitting.
"EA! Sing your heart out!!!"
Holding a strange longsword, Gilgamesh looked down upon all beings.
"I'm going all out, Gil."
Surrounded by green plants, Enkidu looked up at the sky.