Threefold Holy Extermination, Double Kill

Semiramis gazed playfully at the gates of the Holy City's outer wall, resting a finger against her lips as she smiled. "Oh~ It's time to see whether my garden's beam cannons can blast open those gates."

At the same time.

Inside the Holy City.

The Lion King's gaze shifted slightly toward the Floating Garden. She saw dense magical energy beginning to gather. Though it had yet to form a beam cannon, it was clearly preparing to attack.

The Lion King rose and stepped outside the hall. With a casual motion, she used the Holy Grail to activate the protective magecraft prepared in advance, enveloping a city thirty kilometers away.

The people living there were all residents who had once lived around the Holy City.

Even if she won, it would all be meaningless once she took everyone chosen by the Holy Extermination and left. If Chaldea won, this era would be restored, and it would still all be meaningless.

Yet this was still something that needed to be done. An act of protecting humanity was enough to let Chaldea understand that she, too, now wished to see humanity's potential!

The Lion King tightly gripped the Holy Lance and bestowed the Holy Extermination she had long prepared upon the Floating Garden in the distant sky.

Inside the Floating Garden.

Semiramis controlled every stone slab, aiming them at the gates and firing. More than a dozen beam cannons merged midway, becoming a light pillar several times larger that slammed directly into the gates.

The gates of the Holy City, struck by the light pillar, continuously rippled with circles of light as they desperately resisted the beam cannon. For a moment, neither side could overcome the other.

Although Gawain had expected this, he still found it difficult to accept their situation of being