[To be fair, the First Beast was pretty powerful, okay? Without the doctor blowing himself up, you couldn't clear the 1.0 finale.]
[After seeing 2.52, you basically realize that stellar-level beings are actually pretty normal.]
[Is Earth really that badass?]
[You're right, but this is the Moon World.]
The viewers mainly did not know what happened next, so they had no complete concept of what a "Beast" was. Some even thought it was merely an ordinary boss.
But those involved knew just how much pressure they were under.
An underdeveloped juvenile was one thing, but once it fully matured, there really would be no way to fight it.
Yet now, before Artoria's eyes, the Beast was expanding. The Beast was growing.
The sky was filled with blackness.
"Watch out!"
White suddenly shouted.
"Huh?!"
Artoria looked up.
The light grew stronger. There was something wrong with the sunlight—
"Boom—!!!"
"Ugh?!"
The light itself became a means of attack.
Countless beams of "light" turned into a torrent in an instant, piercing through Artoria.
She was going to be torn apart—torn apart by the light itself!
But at that moment, the attack stopped.
A shield of pink petals appeared before her.
That black-clad man had finally made his move.
The petals were shattered one by one.
"Boom!"
At last, all the petals were destroyed, and the black-clad man was instantly covered in blood. But in the next moment, a second shield appeared again.
"Bang, bang, bang—"
The petals shattered once more, but before the shield could fully break, the scorching sunlight gradually weakened and lost its lethality.
"Archer...?"
Artoria was astonished.
"You're our fighting force. We can't waste you." EMIYA Alter lowered his hand. "That scale is wrong. If we don't stop it from growing, we have no chance of winning."
"—All the