Goetia clenched his raised hand, and with a thunderous boom, Karna was engulfed by a sudden explosion. His frail body crashed into the ground amid the earth-shaking blast, carving out a ten-meter-deep crater before he lay there, barely alive and unable to move.
Strong!
Unprecedentedly strong!
So strong that they were not even on the same level!
That was how Ritsuka and the others felt about Goetia's strength.
The moment he appeared, he had instantly defeated a group of Servants. Mordred and Artoria had collapsed after holding out for half a minute. Even Karna, the strongest among them, could not so much as scratch the corner of his clothes. Was this the enemy they had been trying to defeat all along?
Mash held her shield before Ritsuka and Ayako and shouted at Roman:
"Doctor, think of something! If we don't retreat now, we're all going to die!"
"I'm trying too, but the space here has been sealed off. There's no way to bring you back with the Spirit Transfer system. This King of Magecraft truly intends to kill you!"
"At this point, all you can do is hold on. There's still hope if you can last until the reinforcements we sent arrive. Until then, don't you dare die!"
Roman pleaded, his face deathly pale.
"It's useless. Our Spirit Cores are simply not on the same level. No matter how many Servants like us come, we won't be a match for the King of Magecraft. We should be thinking about how to beg for mercy so he might spare us."
In the Fourth Singularity, Andersen, one of the surviving Servants, took off his shattered glasses and spoke with a regretful expression.
Goetia stood in the sky, looking down on Ritsuka's group from above. He let out a piercing sneer.
"Ha ha