Corroborating Intelligence

Shadow Servants could withstand the first wave of attacks, but not the second or third.

While they were still trading fire with the anti-army-class bombardment, Fujino Shiro, standing at the edge of the Floating Garden and looking down, directly activated her Noble Phantasm. Her Mystic Eyes of Distortion took in every Shadow Servant.

Then, terrifying distortions began to occur.

The constructed town twisted into fragments, and the bodies of the Shadow Servants exchanging fire with the beams began to warp as well. The building at the center of the town lit up, its glow flickering as it resisted the Mystic Eyes of Distortion.

Though Shadow Servants did not react much to pain, their movements inevitably stalled when their bodies were nearly twisted into knots. That brief pause became their doom!

Magic Release and unleashed Noble Phantasms lost their continued supply of mana. The beams that had been locked in a stalemate broke through layer after layer of resistance and blasted into the area where the Shadow Servants had gathered. The resulting explosion wiped out both the buildings and the Shadow Servants in a radiance that spread across most of the town.

Semiramis sighed. "Those who possess only battle instincts are still far inferior to true Servants."

This had been a surprise attack, and the other side had not reacted in time. If they had dispersed, they would have been much harder to deal with.

As she spoke, several Servants had already descended from the Floating Garden and landed amid the town's ruins. Some searched the battlefield for any Shadow Servants that might have survived by chance, while others headed straight for Irisviel and Illya.

The area where Irisviel and Illya were located had been deliberately spared. They had come to capture them, not kill them.

Artoria charged directly toward the