"Witnessing such a sight, one can't help but be captivated by it."
Calming her excited heartstrings, Rin said in a flat tone. Lancelot, behind her, also nodded in affirmation. However, Rin then smiled with confidence and composure.
"But even with them as opponents, I still firmly believe that victory belongs to me. The King of Conquerors has a vast army, so I should also bring out my own army."
As Rin's words fell, a thin stream of mercury flowed from Rin's sleeve, gathering into a mass on the sand. The large mass of mercury, after appearing in the outside world, playfully bounced around like a nimble living creature. It then transformed into a tender, beautiful young girl who happily hugged Rin's arm, rubbing her small face against it.
It was MIKU.
Rin smiled and stroked MIKU's head, then said seriously:
"MIKU, now is not the time to play. The battle is about to begin."
The adorable mercury girl first froze, then released Rin's arm and quickly turned her head back and forth, looking at her surroundings. Even with her small mind, she realized that now was not the time for playing. Her small face nodded seriously.
Rin looked at MIKU with relief, then closed her eyes, clasped her right hand to her chest, emptied her mind, and fully activated the vessel of the highest mystery of the human world within her—
The Jeweled Sword!
The human body is another world independent of the world outside. Therefore, in the conceptual world within the human body, the world correction caused by the Second Magic activated by the Jeweled Sword is much smaller.
"Crack!"
The tearing sound of space barriers splitting echoed within Rin's body. An infinite source of life force from infinite parallel universes flowed out from the outside of the world, surging into Rin's body like an ocean pouring backward!
"MIKU!"
Upon receiving the vast magic power from Rin, the mercury girl emitted a faint glow all over her body, and then her entire "person" exploded with a bang! She exploded into a sky full of mercury droplets, shimmering like stars. When these shining stars fell onto the sand, one mercury humanoid after another stood up from the ground, surrounding Rin as the center, just like the ancient Chinese myth of'sowing beans to make soldiers'—
7524 MIKUs manifested!
The King of Conquerors, who yearned for army battles, saw this scene and immediately became excited, shouting:
"Is this your army?!"
At this moment, Rin radiated an endless tide of magic power like a spring, stabilizing the forms of the extremely divided MIKUs. After the 7524 MIKUs were completely formed, she opened her eyes and smiled proudly.
"Exactly!" The MIKUs in front of her parted, creating a path, and Rin walked to the very front of her formation:
"Each of their individual bodies is formed by my magic power; they are essentially my clones. As long as I don't fall, they cannot be defeated. King of Conquerors, let's begin!"
"Ah ha ha ha...!" Suddenly, the King of Conquerors felt an unprecedented joy. This was an excitement of meeting a worthy opponent, which was inexpressible for the lord of an ancient conquering army.
"One person forming an army, one person becoming a nation, good! The king of the present age has issued a challenge to us, warriors, how do you say we should respond to her?"
"Fight! Fight! Fight!" The Army of the King let out an earth-shattering declaration, without any hesitation. They were the army of the conqueror; wherever the king's command reached, they would fight!
The shining sword of Alexander in the King of Conquerors's hand seemed to cut through the sky. Wherever the king's sword pointed, all obstacles were swept away!
"Trample them!!!"
"Hah ah!!!!" The Army of the King erupted in a sky-shattering roar and charged forward, the stirred yellow sand obscuring the sky. Even before the army arrived, their soaring morale was enough to destroy all obstacles with overwhelming force.
Gazing at the rapidly approaching boundless army, this army was more than ten times superior to the Persian Immortals they had faced before. In terms of both quantity and quality, the immortal Heroic Spirits, famous throughout history, were by no means comparable to a group of walking corpses.
Rin closed her eyes and took a deep breath of the scorching air, feeling the temperature of the furious sun shining down—
Projection Magecraft x 7524!
From the hands of all the MIKUs, the shape of a weapon flowed out. Then, with a flash of magical light, a materialized noble phantasm appeared in the hand of each MIKU.
Enchantment Projection involves adding the projected object to a physical object, causing it to possess the effects of the projected target.
Because there is a physical attachment, there is no longer a need to strengthen the real qualities. Instead, the structural principles of the projected object are applied to the attached object, and the extent to which the original projected object's effects can be manifested, given complete surgical procedure (jutsu-shiki) and magic power, depends on the capacity of the attached object and its compatibility with the projection.
Because the requirements for external objects were too stringent, this application method of projection had always been cast aside by Rin as a mere trifle. However, for MIKU, who is liquefied magic power in physical form, there is no doubt that all requirements are met with 100% compatibility!
A unit armed with 7524 noble phantasms was born in an instant. Although individual MIKUs, after extreme division, could only wield D-rank noble phantasms, a noble phantasm is still a noble phantasm; it is not comparable to ordinary knives and iron swords!
"Berserker, lead 'her' and block the King of Conquerors's army for me!"
With the final preparations complete, Rin and Lancelot charged, going against an army more terrifying than a mountain collapse or a tsunami!
Lancelot had already drawn his Avalon, and the terrifying power of his EX-ranked stats was once again displayed. He galloped at an extreme speed that the eye could not follow, brushing past the King of Conquerors, who was charging at the very front in his chariot, and plunged into the Army of the King!
If a bomb were to fall into a sea of people, the sword winds unleashed by two A++ ranked noble phantasms instantly cut down nearly a hundred soldiers of the army. Such a rate of attrition could not be ignored even by an boundless army.
At this moment, more than a dozen generals appeared within the Army of the King, their spiritual aura and momentum no weaker than any Heroic Spirit participating in the Holy Grail War!
Aristonous, Lysimachus the Satrap of Thrace, Peithon the Satrap of Media, Leonnatus the Satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, Perdiccas the commander of the Companion Cavalry and regent, Ptolemy the Satrap of Egypt, Libya, and Arabia, Hephaestion... The seven close retainers of the King, and countless heroes from his path of conquest. Among them, some individuals were even stronger than the King of Conquerors himself! Although they lacked noble phantasms and classes due to their manifestation within the Army of the King, they were nonetheless true and genuine heroes!
"Unknown warrior, now it is our turn to be your opponents!"
This was a clash of armies, not a knight's duel; there were no rules of fair one-on-one combat. Each of those facing Lancelot at this moment possessed a reputation no less illustrious than the knight of the lake! On Rin's side, only Lancelot could stop them; Rin's Magic Circuits alone were insufficient.
"Oooooh—!!!"
A roar of negative energy fluctuations erupted. The Black Knight, back on the battlefield, unleashed his strongest form. Beneath his night-colored cape, which danced with the flying sand, the peerless Berserker fought single-handedly against all the generals and heroes within the Army of the King, his twin swords wildly dancing, overpowering more than a dozen ancient heroes.
"Such a formidable foe is truly unprecedented! Comrades, for the King! We shall conquer all!"
"Kill...!!!"
It was unimaginable that Heroic Spirits, without noble phantasms or classes, and even with greatly reduced stats, could still fight against the EX-ranked Lancelot with one against ten and not be defeated. Perhaps for them, only when fighting alongside the King on the battlefield did they reach the pinnacle of their lives.
His gaze shifted from the generals clashing on the battlefield. The true focus of the entire battlefield was ultimately the core of both armies—the King!
"Distant Pillage Domination!!!"
The true name, finally released, caused the chariot to suddenly burst forth with boundless lightning, as if carrying a god to war. The majestic roars of the divine cattle in the past simply could not compare to this moment. The King of Conquerors' war cry, accompanied by the thundering roar of the chariot, and its immense power, this chariot, once used to sacrifice to the god Zeus, now finally displayed its Divine Might! Lightning cattle, flowing with divine blood, manifested as sacred beasts providing its traction, pulling it to crush all obstacles in its path!
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