Skadi did not hesitate either and followed behind her.
The three of them charged all the way to the foot of the Shinto Building.
By then, the road ahead had already been flooded by the horde of beasts.
"Tempest Hammer!"
Artoria unleashed the Wind King Barrier, sweeping open a path.
"Take this."
Artoria directly tossed the scabbard to Skadi.
It was not for Skadi, but for Matou Sakura.
"She needs this more right now." Artoria was utterly nonchalant.
"For King Arthur, shouldn't the scabbard be the more important thing?" Skadi asked.
"Yes. That is why the most important thing is for it to protect the person it should protect." Artoria said, "Go inside. I'll use the Wind King Barrier to seal this place afterward and make sure these demons cannot enter."
"Mm."
Skadi led Matou Sakura into the building.
Artoria then wrapped the entire building in the Wind King Barrier.
"Come, fiends. You are by no means good, and I will never acknowledge you as good."
Starlight gathered upon her sword.
No monster was allowed to cross that starlight.
Meanwhile, Skadi and Matou Sakura had already entered the building.
Though the outside was wrapped in black mud, there was no black mud inside the building.
Not only was there no black mud, the place even seemed remarkably dry.
"An empty shell..."
Matou Sakura seemed to have thought of something.
That black mud was also like a so-called empty shell.
Skadi set Matou Sakura down. She held Sakura's hand with one hand and carried her staff in the other as she walked forward.
The space inside the building was far larger than it appeared from the outside.
It was as though it were an entire other world.
"Sakura."
Skadi looked at Matou Sakura.
Her trial had not yet begun.
But Skadi