Helena put away her grimoire, giving Takumi a rather complaining look.
Up until now, she had been startled by Takumi three times!
But it couldn't be helped; who asked Takumi to be the Master?
Helena had no choice but to comfort helplessly:
"Anyway, thanks for your hard work, Student Kobayashi."
"As for our situation here..."
"Although I really don't want to admit it, our troops have actually just engaged the Celtic army. The numbers on your side were indeed at least several times more than ours—let me clarify in advance, I only discovered this point not long ago."
Helena spread her hands, indicating she was innocent.
The familiars she deployed generally wouldn't get too close to the enemy to prevent being detected by the opponent's Servant units. After all, familiars that transmit real-time images over such long distances were quite difficult to make. If a few were shot down, not only would her heart ache, but if it caused some major movement of the opponent to not be transmitted back, it would be passive.
"So Cú Chulainn and the others put most of the cannon fodder soldiers in the south, while bringing the elites to the north themselves?"
Takumi asked thoughtfully.
"Exactly! What we are dealing with are true elites! Look over there—"
Edison crossed his arms, very proud, pointing with his chin at the Servant battlefield in the distance.
Takumi looked in that direction and couldn't help showing a surprised expression.
Only to see a large cluster of dark Shadow Servants, enough to be considered a small army, fighting fiercely with several normal Servants on their side, looking inseparable.
However, although there were many Shadow Servants, they basically had no reason and couldn't use Noble Phantasms.
Under the concerted efforts of Nightingale and other Servants, one or two could be finished off in a short while.
Especially Li Shuwen and Scáthach, the two were extremely ferocious, almost taking away a Shadow Servant with one spear strike, like chopping melons and cutting vegetables.
"That's a Shadow Servant unit!"
"—But to be honest, how did that guy holding the Holy Grail produce so many Shadow Servants? If there were still only the three of us with this quantity, we'd probably have to rely on Karna releasing his Noble Phantasm to solve it..."
Edison changed his tone, saying with a bit of gladness amidst speechlessness.
"This is the current situation. The battle shouldn't become too intense temporarily. If you are tired, you can sit and rest for a while first."
Helena shrugged, suggesting to Takumi.
Takumi didn't answer but looked at the sky, asking with a weird face:
"Uh, are you sure it won't become very intense temporarily?"
Putting slight emphasis on "temporarily," Takumi pointed diagonally upward.
Helena and Edison looked up in that direction. Good heavens, a guy emitting blue fire was charging straight down from the sky.
That natural imposing manner and divinity, no need to test to know the opponent was absolutely not an ordinary person!
"...Obviously, this 'temporarily' is not ordinarily short."
Helena was silent, then said seriously.
Also putting slight emphasis on "temporarily."
Takumi shrugged. Just right, his grass-cutting (musou) time was a bit too long; finding a suitable opponent to fight wasn't bad either.
"Alright, then I'll go..."
Saying this, Takumi was just about to act when a voice suddenly interrupted his movement.
"Master, leave him to me. Your opponent is still behind."
A shining spear of light blocked the path. Karna rode the divine fire into the air, his voice calm.
Although it might have the suspicion of belittling his greatest rival in life, Karna had to admit that if the somewhat proud and arrogant Arjuna clashed with Takumi, who liked to use full strength from the start, he might be hacked to death directly in a few rounds.
After all, Arjuna was an Archer, not good at close combat. While Takumi possessed Rama's power, his speed and methods were very weird and swift. He could easily dash in front of Arjuna and block his biggest reliance.
As for an archer who couldn't even find a chance to release his Noble Phantasm being closed in on by a combat master whose stats all exceeded his, the result naturally didn't need much explanation, right?
"KARNA!!!"
Voice arriving before the person. Arjuna was still eight hundred meters away from Karna, yet his roar had already reached the ears of all Servants on the battlefield.
"ARJUNA!!!"
Hearing Arjuna's voice, Karna's hot blood also boiled after a long time. His eyes widened, his voice no longer calm, shouting loudly along.
The next second.
Blue fire arrows traveling at several times the speed of sound already shot towards Karna's body.
Karna didn't evade his gaze, exerting his [Mana Burst (Flames)] to the limit. His whole person, like dragging two flame tail fins, rushed rapidly towards Arjuna.
Encountering Arjuna's blue fire arrows on the way, he merely put the spear of light in front, then picked lightly, knocking the arrows flying in the shortest time.
The arrows exploded in mid-air. The terrifying airwaves and heat almost overturned the mechanical soldiers on the ground.
Just one arrow, its power already exceeded many Noble Phantasms!
And at the same time this explosion occurred, Karna, wrapped in flames, had already dashed in front of Arjuna.
—In fact, he could also close in on Arjuna quickly.
The spear of light clashed with the bow of flame, [Agni Gandiva]. The equally terrifying flames of the two erupted the instant they clashed, burning large swathes of Celtic soldiers below them into charcoal.
The two didn't care about such things. Both were incredibly powerful existences. With only the opponent in their eyes, they simply didn't have the mental energy to pay attention to other things, otherwise it would be easy to be found an opening by the opponent and defeated.
The two fought constantly, like two flame comets crossing and soaring in the air and on the ground. Every clash would cause large-scale destruction to surrounding objects, completely a natural-disaster type battle.
"Quick! Everyone stay away from where those two guys are, make enough combat space for them!"
Helena saw this and knew this was serious. She hurriedly used magecraft to notify everyone on her side.
"Magical energy consumption is so fast, the meter is spinning like a fan!"
Under Karna's all-out battle, Edison providing him with magical energy sweated profusely.
That is, he used something similar to a power station to provide a continuous stream of magical energy for himself and most Servants. Otherwise, in a decisive battle of this level, even if Takumi came, he couldn't hold on.
A group of mechanical soldiers and Servants standing close hurriedly made space for the two's battle.
Takumi naturally wouldn't disturb the two who were high. The two of them were just like Hashirama and Madara, Naruto and Sasuke; obviously an atmosphere that didn't allow a third party to intervene.
Better find other suitable opponents...
Besides being somewhat exhausted, Takumi, in relatively good condition, searched the battlefield for an opponent worth fighting.
Robin Hood, who was fighting Shadow Servants, suddenly found a huge shadow appearing on the ground at some point. Looking up subconsciously, he was instantly dumbfounded.
"Holy sh*t! Even dragons were summoned?"
Robin Hood couldn't help swearing.
Takumi naturally also saw this behemoth suddenly flying down from the sky, his eyes couldn't help flashing.
Dragon slaying? I have quite a bit of skills in that!
Just wanting to strike, to experience the feeling of having special attack in hand after a long time, a pleasant voice suddenly rang out.
"Leave this to me!"
Red light flashing in Scáthach's eyes, with a soft shout, absolutely no intention of discussing with anyone, she directly turned into a red beam, piercing towards the giant dragon that hadn't even flown down yet.
Not far from her, Li Shuwen slowly lowered his reaching hand, swallowing the words he wanted to say.
'I'd better fight these Shadow Servants...'
The depressed Li Shuwen chose to vent his anger on the Shadow Servants.