A dark gleam flashed through Ailin's eyes when he saw Ea in Gilgamesh's hand.
"Synchronization—begin!"
Most of the sword-type Noble Phantasms Gilgamesh had released earlier had not been particularly high-ranking, so Ailin had already recorded them in his Unlimited Blade Works.
However, a Noble Phantasm on Ea's level was not something Ailin could record in an instant.
Even with Excalibur, an A++ Noble Phantasm, Ailin had needed more than ten minutes of fighting Artoria before he could complete its Synchronization analysis.
An EX-rank Ea naturally required even more time.
But Ailin also knew that Gilgamesh would never use a Noble Phantasm like Ea to fight him in close combat, which greatly increased the difficulty of recording it.
Thus, Ailin could only analyze Ea through the power it displayed in order to complete its analysis.
"Tell of the beginning, the separation of heaven and earth..."
As the Heroic King Gilgamesh chanted, crimson magical energy coiled around Ea. A violent tornado spun around Gilgamesh, sweeping up and destroying everything nearby.
As Ailin sensed his Synchronization with Ea steadily increasing, a smile appeared on his face.
Just as Ailin was about to take out something to help him counter Ea, he suddenly felt the channel through which Kariya Matou supplied him with magical energy cut off!
Deprived of Kariya Matou's magical energy, Ailin's body flickered into translucency. Immediately afterward, a powerful force seemed to be trying to expel Ailin's consciousness.
The situation left Ailin momentarily stunned.
Under what circumstances would a magus's magical energy support for a Servant be cut off?
There was only one possibility.
The Magus was dead!
But Ailin had personally hidden Kariya Matou on the balcony of a hotel. Before leaving him there, Ailin had even used Reikaku to confirm that there were no Magi with magical energy fluctuations