Chapter 136
What kind of attack was that? Was it Noble Phantasm?
Lancer was filled with doubt, but after Emiya Kiritsugu's explanation, he understood that this was Emiya Kiritsugu's ability. However, he, Lancer, had no way to deal with either the terrifying Thunder Armor Giant or the ability to Dankū!
But what else can we do besides deal with it? He has already been discovered by [Emiya Kiritsugu].
After being targeted by [Emiya Kiritsugu], Lancer had no choice but to grit his teeth and walk out of the woods, onto the steps, and look at [Emiya Kiritsugu] standing at the entrance of Ryuudou Temple.
"Berserker!"
Lancer, holding two pistols, stared intently at [Emiya Kiritsugu].
"Lancer, you are the third servant to come before me."
"The third one?"
"The first one was Archer, but after Archer challenged me, he ran away because he was afraid of my power. Rider is the second one."
"What?"
Lancer was surprised. He hadn't expected that the arrogant Archer had also come here, and that he had even fled because he was afraid of the Berserker's power.
"So, you want to run away too? If you run away, maybe you can survive to the end and return safely to the Throne of Heroic Spirit."
[Emiya Kiritsugu] spoke coldly to Lancer.
But Lancer saw these words as utter sarcasm.
"Impossible!"
Lancer pointed his gun at Emiya Kiritsugu, filled with Wrath.
"Even if I die on the battlefield, even if I fail to lift the Holy Grail for my lord, I will never do something like running away!"
"Is that so? What if your lord ordered you to run away? Would you obey your lord's orders and become a deserter, but have the opportunity to lift the Holy Grail for the protagonist later, or would you disobey your lord's orders and be killed by a powerful enemy?"
"This..."
Lancer was stunned for a moment.
Emiya Kiritsugu's words essentially gave him two choices.
One is to be a coward who fears battle but will become a loyal subject to his lord, while the other is to not be a deserter and to perfect his chivalry, but this is tantamount to letting him betray his lord again.
Neither of these two choices made him feel extremely uncomfortable.
"I..."
"What, is it so hard to make a choice? Lancer Diarmuid Duibhne, isn't your wish to be loyal to your lord? Now that your lord wants to obtain the Holy Grail, will you betray your new lord again, or will you betray your own chivalry?"
"Of course, you can choose to betray both your lord and your chivalry at the same time. After all, you've already done it before, haven't you? You betrayed your protagonist, took away your lord's fiancée, and then killed the knights who came to pursue you."
The words of [Emiya Kiritsugu] made Lancer's eyes widen. Anyone who knows him knows about his dark history, but to say it directly to his face is basically slapping him in the face.
His desire to participate in the Holy Grail War was to be completely loyal to his new lord and become a knight loyal to his lord, but the reality was completely different from what he had imagined.
"So, Lancer, what's your choice?"
The question from [Emiya Kiritsugu] caused Lancer immense inner turmoil.
But the next moment, he no longer needed to hesitate.
Because his vision suddenly split into many lines.
Click—
His vision shattered, and the [Emiya Kiritsugu] who was standing there, who had been standing with his arms crossed, changed to a position where he was sheathing his sword, except that the sword in his hand was a dagger.
Pfft—
Blood gushed from Lancer's waist; his body, like Rider's, was severed in two.
"When!"
Lancer's body collapsed to the ground, and she strained to look up at the [Emiya Kiritsugu] standing on the steps, unable to resist asking a question.
What do you want to ask?
"It must be an illusion. I didn't even notice your attack. You must have used an illusion to deceive my eyes. When did you use an illusion?"
When Lancer asked him a question, [Emiya Kiritsugu] just gave a cold smile.
"Since when did you begin to have the illusion that I didn't use illusion magic?!"
"So that's how it is. I lost from the very beginning..."
Lancer sighed helplessly.
"This time, I was also unable to be loyal to my new lord."
Finally, after a moment of reflection, Lancer went silent.
Waver nearby, was stunned.
He witnessed Rider and Lancer fall one after another at the hands of [Emiya Kiritsugu].
When Rider fell, he, as the Master, was already shocked, because Rider's fall meant the end of this Holy Grail War for him. He hadn't done anything, had only appeared once, and was eliminated the second time he appeared. This Holy Grail War was completely meaningless for him!
Lancer's sudden elimination terrified Waver, because Emiya Kiritsugu had killed so quickly that he was now afraid Emiya Kiritsugu would come up and cut him in two as well.
Frightened, Waver couldn't help but touch his abdomen, only breathing a slight sigh of relief after confirming there was no open wound.
[Emiya Kiritsugu] glanced at Waver, a slight smile playing on his lips, then looked up at the sky.
"You're back again? Are you mentally prepared to challenge me?"
In the sky, the golden spaceship reappeared, Gilgamesh stood on it. However, the spaceship was now covered in blood, and even Gilgamesh's golden armor was stained with blood. Clearly, he had just been through a battle.
"You bastard!"
Gilgamesh, who had just appeared, launched an attack on Emiya Kiritsugu without hesitation.
A golden curtain of light instantly filled the sky above Ryuudou Temple.
224. archer: A mere fatal wound!
Archer Gilgamesh is undoubtedly the final boss of the Fourth Holy Grail War. He does have the problem of being careless and arrogant, but once the battle starts, he is definitely the most powerful servant in the Fourth Holy Grail War.
When Gilgamesh goes berserk, he becomes an even more formidable force in this Holy Grail War.
"Wow!!!"
Countless golden light curtains enveloped the entire Ryuudou Temple in the sky, then began firing their Noble Phantasm. Seeing this, Waver immediately covered his head and ran down the mountain. He dared not stay any longer; staying here would mean death! Absolutely certain death!
[Emiya Kiritsugu] watched as the Noble Phantasm began to fall from the sky like raindrops, but he wasn't too worried.
Archer's attack was indeed powerful, but the question is, after already fighting Caster, how much Magic Power did Archer have left to expend like this?
Servant requires Magic Power to maintain its existence, and the Magic Power required to use Noble Phantasm is even higher. So where does this Magic Power come from? Either it can extract it from the outside world, or it can be directly extracted from the Master.
This is why amateur magicians have a harder time in the Holy Grail War, because they don't have enough Magic Power to support the Servant's actions. Tokiomi Tohsaka, although a traditional magician and not an amateur, still has limited Magic Power. Even though the Tohsaka family has many gems to store Magic Power, they can't keep using it indefinitely.
Gilgamesh's almost venting attack continuously consumed his Magic Power, maximizing the attack efficiency of the Gate of Babylon.
However, Emiya Kiritsugu's actions were incredibly cunning. Every time he was about to be attacked, he could immediately disappear from his original spot and reappear in another place to avoid the Noble Phantasm's attack.
Gilgamesh watched as the Emiya Kiritsugu dodged so quickly. At first, he thought the other party possessed spatial abilities, but later he realized that the other party simply moved very fast.
This greatly displeased him. Although the Gate of Babylon had decent attack power, it was not very effective against high-speed units, so he directly used another Noble Phantasm.
"The Chains of Heaven!"
Golden chains also appeared from the light screen, rushing towards [Emiya Kiritsugu], attempting to lock Emiya Kiritsugu up.
However, Emiya Kiritsugu abandoned his attempt to dodge and charged towards Gilgamesh.
"Hmph! A dying struggle!"
The Chains of Heaven appeared before Gilgamesh, weaving into a massive net of chains that lunged towards Emiya Kiritsugu.
However, faced with the oncoming chain net, [Emiya Kiritsugu] simply drew his dagger and slashed hard at the air in front of him.
A dark blue Portal appeared out of thin air, and all the golden chains went into Portal.
"What?!"
Gilgamesh was stunned when he saw the Portal that had suddenly appeared.
But he reacted quickly, and a bunch of shields appeared behind him, blocking the black dagger that suddenly appeared behind him.
"You mongrel! I never knew you had such abilities!"
Gilgamesh turned to look at the [Emiya Kiritsugu] behind him, who was holding a dagger and stabbing at him, and couldn't help but mock him.
"No wonder they're like rats in the gutter; all they can do is use this kind of trick!"
"Is that so? Is that what you think?"
Pfft
Gilgamesh's right hand was severed at the root.
Flames suddenly burst into flames on the severed right hand, which was then quickly burned to ashes.
"What?!"
Gilgamesh was shocked again. Completely unaware, his right hand was suddenly severed. How could this be!
"You bastard, what have you done!"
Gilgamesh clutched the severed wound on his right hand and shouted Wrath at Emiya Kiritsugu.
"How did you do that? Just as you can see, you were slashed once."
[Emiya Kiritsugu] replied with feigned indifference.
Although Li Yue had been messing around with Elemental Power, don't forget what he said to his adoptive father when he first obtained the power of the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.
The power of the Enma's Blade is such that it can easily kill an enemy on sight if they don't know it. However, it might be a bit more troublesome against those who do know the Enma's Blade. But once protected by the dream power of the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, the Enma's Blade can easily kill the enemy without them even knowing it! Even if the enemy knows the Enma's Blade's abilities!
Because Enma's Blade's Dimension Slash requires drawing the sword, the opponent can dodge it by judging the drawing action. But what if you can't see the drawing action?
Gilgamesh was completely unable to draw his sword as Li Yue severed his right hand with Dimension Slash.
"Hey, come here!!"
Gilgamesh Wrath unleashed his Noble Phantasm and Chains of Heaven at Emiya Kiritsugu.
But it was all useless.
"How on earth did a scoundrel like you obtain such power?!"
"That's beyond your knowledge."
[Emiya Kiritsugu] dodged Gilgamesh's attacks while replying with an arrogant expression.
"Because the weak are not worthy to know my strength."
Such taunts enraged Gilgamesh on the spot.
He didn't care anymore. Even if he lost his right hand, he would use his strongest power to kill the bastard in front of him!
Gilgamesh controlled the spaceship to rise into the sky, and then stretched out his left hand forward from above.
Crimson Magic Power gathered in the sky, and a huge sword hilt appeared in his hand, slowly being pulled from the void as he moved.
That was Gilgamesh's strongest offensive Noble Phantasm, Enuma Elish.
It is said to be the strongest sword capable of cutting through the world!
Although he only has his left hand, the King can still wield the Enuma Elish even with only his left hand, which is fundamentally different from someone who can't wield a sword at full power after injuring their left hand! Because he is the King of Heroes!
The red, cylindrical blade of the sword was fully revealed as Gilgamesh drew his sword.
"Although you are fast, you are a mongrel. No matter how fast you are, you cannot dodge this attack!"
Gilgamesh raised his left hand high, ready to destroy the entire Ryuudou Temple complex!
As for the fact that such a commotion would be too great and would affect ordinary people, Gilgamesh no longer cared about that. He wanted to kill the person who had humiliated him!
"What a pity."
[Emiya Kiritsugu] Looking at Gilgamesh high in the sky, he said these words, and then his whole body turned into ashes and disappeared.
"Huh!? Pfft—"
Gilgamesh's eyes widened, and then he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
His chest was completely pierced by an arm, and the very tip of that arm was still clutching his heart.