Unlimited Blade Works.
The ultimate projection skill that Servant Emiya reached in his lifetime. It is a technique called a "Reality Marble" that allows Servant Emiya, who has no Noble Phantasm of his own, to become a powerful Servant.
The essence of the Reality Marble is the creation of a huge hill covered with countless swords, with an endless yellow sandy wasteland and endlessly turning gears above.
The inside of the Reality Marble is like a steel mill filled with weapons, flames, and giant gears. Countless swords are kept planted in the ground, and most of the weapons stored there are Noble Phantasms of Servants that have a hidden, sure-kill power that can be copied and identified using projection magic.
Most of the Noble Phantasms are swords, and while armor is possible, it requires two to three times more magic power than normal projection.
Also, the copied Noble Phantasms will be one rank lower than the original.
Everything caught inside the Reality Marble is trapped and cannot escape by normal means.
At the same time, the Reality Marble, Unlimited Blade Works, is the source of Emiya Shirou's unusual projection ability.
Emiya Shirou is good at projection magic, but that is only a byproduct of his mental landscape, which takes the form of the Reality Marble "Unlimited Blade Works."
Because the Reality Marble stores countless weapons, like a weapons depot of thousands of weapons, Servant Emiya can easily copy any weapon he has seen once.
In fact, every weapon that has been copied once is registered in the Reality Marble, and projection magic can be used even without activating the Reality Marble.
This is the most special thing about Unlimited Blade Works.
As long as he is in that space, Servant Emiya can create any weapon he wants an unlimited number of times, and the speed of projection is far faster than normal. Even creating a thousand or ten thousand weapons in an instant is normal, not to mention that there are Noble Phantasms of A-rank or higher among them.
He can not only freely take out and use the weapons stored there, but also modify them as he likes, like the Fake Spiral Sword. In addition, he can use the ability to project again to shoot Noble Phantasms to use as disposable arrows, and then use the "Broken Phantasm" battle method where the magic power of the Noble Phantasm explodes.
It is because of this powerful skill that Servant Emiya is able to join the ranks of powerful Servants. Although he is not a top-tier Servant, he is still a powerful trump card.
Emiya Shirou himself was able to defeat Angelica, who used Gilgamesh's card and became the avatar of the King of Heroes, by using the power of Unlimited Blade Works.
However, Unlimited Blade Works is not an ability that can be used at will.
Emiya Shirou did use Unlimited Blade Works to defeat Angelica, but he paid a very serious price for it. That is, his fragile human body could not bear the huge soul of Servant Emiya.
Unlimited Blade Works, as the product of Servant Emiya reaching the limit of his path, is the embodiment of Servant Emiya's soul.
If one cannot follow the correct path and see the same scenery as Servant Emiya, one cannot truly gain the approval of Unlimited Blade Works.
When Shirou denied the ideal of being an ally of justice and decided to give up the whole world to protect his sister, he was already suffering the backlash of Servant Emiya's soul.
For Servant Emiya, the embodiment of an ally of justice, Shirou's choice was equivalent to a betrayal of his ideal.
Therefore, Unlimited Blade Works, which was born from the ideal of an ally of justice, would naturally cause extremely serious backlash and side effects on Emiya Shirou himself.
The strand of white hair on his forehead now is a manifestation of this influence.
If it continues to erode, Shirou's soul may even be tainted by the existence of Servant Emiya and become a copy of the Servant's personality.
He definitely does not want to see this happen.
But now, he has no choice.
Faced with Orsted, who can shatter Noble Phantasms with his bare hands and even absorb all the light waves released by Galatine with ease, Shirou has no other thoughts. The only way to defeat him right now is to use Unlimited Blade Works!!
For this reason, after coming to this world, he recites the incantation for the Reality Marble for the first time—
"I Am The Bone Of My Sword."
"Steel is my body, and fire is my blood"
Suddenly, as Shirou recited the second line of the Unlimited Blade Works incantation, an extremely large amount of magic power burst out from his body. The materialized magic power even turned into blue flames, surging in all directions and finally turning into scorching energy, soaking into the earth.
"This is..."
Seeing what was happening before them, the black-haired girl and Eris in the distance both showed tense expressions.
Both of them felt an extremely exaggerated power expanding continuously. The extremely hot flames even made their skin feel the high temperature.
Even if they could feel the heat, Orsted would naturally be able to feel it too.
Moreover, Orsted's feeling was even more obvious.
He could clearly feel that there was a power in Shirou's body that even made him tremble erupting.
If that power were allowed to spread, it would definitely be a very bad thing!
Therefore, the moment he had this thought, Orsted acted almost without hesitation and rushed towards Shirou, who was still chanting!
"!!!"
Faced with Orsted's intention to interrupt his incantation, Shirou could not stop him.
Unlimited Blade Works has one major weakness, which is the long chanting time.
At this time, he himself could not resist in any way, and could only try his best to resist the opponent's attack!
"Pa!"
The purple, petal-shaped round shield reappeared.
Shirou chose to project Rho Aias to fight against Orsted, trying to block Orsted's attack with Servant Emiya's strongest defensive Noble Phantasm.
At the same time, the incantation in his mouth continued—
"The number of blades I have created exceeds one thousand"
"Unaware Of Beginning."
"Nor Aware Of The End."
As the words fell, the power of the Reality Marble had already begun to affect reality.
The originally cold and dark-colored jaws of the Red Dragon had gradually changed color and revealed a desolate, endless field of yellow sand.
Shirou seized the time to continue chanting, trying to further speed up chanting the complete Unlimited Blade Works lines.
But before that, Dragon God Orsted had already appeared in front of him.
"Bang!"
Orsted did not make any extra moves, he simply threw a punch.
Shirou felt the techniques of the North God Style on that fist.
The last time he experienced this feeling was when he faced the Undead Demon King Atofe.
Orsted actually knew the North God Style's ultimate technique that Atofe used—Cutting God Style!
"Boom!"
The moment the Cutting God strike erupted, Shirou could even clearly see the scene of space being shattered. The round shield, as thick as a wall, almost disintegrated into sand the moment the fist touched Rho Aias.
"Bang!"
The moment the shield shattered, Orsted seized the opportunity and stepped directly towards Shirou!
His right hand was still facing Shirou, while his left hand was placed on his waist. Then, he assumed the stance of a thrust and slashed at Shirou's heart...
He clearly had no sword.
It was just using his hand in place of a sword.
But Shirou felt a violence from it that was countless times more exaggerated than Atofe's!
"...Ugh!"
His instincts wanted to evade, but the incantation of Unlimited Blade Works could not be interrupted.
In a dilemma, Shirou could not move and was ultimately directly hit by Orsted's iron fist!
"Crack!"
That was the sound of flesh and bones being directly shattered.
Orsted's fist slammed into Shirou's chest.
The next second, the other party began to move away from Shirou's sight at an astonishing speed, or rather, everything was moving away from Shirou at an extremely fast speed.
Then, heaven and earth began to turn upside down.
The scene began to lack correct perception, like a broken film.
"—!!"
Unable to even form the slightest thought, Shirou was directly smashed and sent flying. His entire body bounced around on the narrow path in the jaws of the Red Dragon and finally crashed straight into the ground, creating an unbelievable roar.
"Ah... Cough..."
Consciousness reconnected.
But Shirou would rather not have remained conscious.
Because at the moment his consciousness recovered, a pain that felt like his internal organs were being torn apart attacked his entire body.
Almost no part of his body remained intact.
His internal organs were shattered beyond repair.
If he were not in Servant form, Shirou would probably have died physically in an instant.
"It's over."
Orsted calmly withdrew his fist.
Shirou was helpless.
The biggest weakness of Unlimited Blade Works had been seized by his opponent, and he had been interrupted before completing the incantation.
This fact made Shirou helpless, and he only felt an unspeakable sense of powerlessness.
After all, he still couldn't defeat such a terrifying opponent.
"Have you given up?"
Orsted looked at Shirou, who was unable to move, and showed a cold expression. "Well, then obediently die, Apostle of Hitogami."
"..."
Shirou could not refute Orsted's words, nor did he want to.
He didn't care about Hitogami or the Dragon God.
For him, there was only one belief: to protect the people he wanted to protect.
For this reason, even if his body was shattered and his bones were broken, what he had to do would not change!
"Cough!"
However, before Shirou could move, thick blood flowed out of his body and splattered on the ground. There was ultimately a limit to human will.
He was powerless, unable to even maintain consciousness, and he passed out just like that.
"Die."
Orsted looked at Shirou's appearance with a cold attitude. He grabbed him, about to shatter his body completely.
"Big Brother!! Shirou! Don't!!"
Eris screamed when she saw this.
Her body had already been scarred and bruised before, and she could not even stand up now, but she still desperately crawled over.
Seeing this, Orsted showed pity and said indifferently: "Is he important to you? I'm sorry, Eris Boreas Greyrat, but one day you will understand why I have to kill all these apostles of Hitogami! One day you will know the truth!"
As he spoke, his actions did not stop at all.
Even if Shirou's body had been shattered beyond repair, like rotten mud, he would still tear his body apart completely and completely obliterate the existence of the Hitogami's apostle.
However, Orsted's action was not completed.
Because before his act of killing Shirou could be realized, a strange sensation stopped him.
Moreover, Emiya Shirou, who had originally lost consciousness, suddenly opened his eyes, and the youthfulness in his pupils faded away, as if he had been replaced by another mature face.
Most importantly, even though his body was severely damaged, he still completed the action!
"Trace, On!"
"Shoot down the hundred heads!"
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