Countless rays of light and countless prayers shone from every direction, all surging toward the holy sword in her hand.
"What is this?!" Iskandar's expression changed. Archer stared unblinkingly at the light, remaining silent for once.
"Oh no, someone pissed off the ahoge. Someone's about to get GG'd." Watching the gods battle from afar, Sakutsuki gloated as he reached into his pocket and connected to a communication familiar.
"Get ready, Kariya. This is a perfect opportunity."
"You don't need to tell me!" On the other end, the man who had just been about to fall asleep before being awakened and forced to rush over without pause replied irritably.
Without charging it, Saber raised her holy sword high and unleashed her fury upon the two figures in the sky.
"Excalibur—!"
Though deliberately restrained, the incomparably powerful breath of the stars came roaring forth. Seeing that things had gone wrong, Rider had already steered his chariot aside, but Archer did not move, as though he intended to watch that aurora until the very end.
As the Gate of Babylon opened, countless powerful Noble Phantasms formed a barrier, blocking this merely small-scale Noble Phantasm release.
"My king..." Tokiomi Tohsaka watched the destructive light beyond the barrier with trepidation, yet the peerless king beside him did not respond.
That peerless radiance reminded the first Heroic Spirit of a distant past.
—Long ago, there was someone. Though his body had been made of mud, he had foolishly and laughably insisted on standing shoulder to shoulder with the children of the gods.
His arrogance, which knew neither heaven nor earth, naturally enraged the gods above, and he died beneath divine punishment.
Even now, the Hero King could not forget the sight of him breathing his last in tears.
The Hero King had asked him why he