"Roarrrrrrrrrrrrr----!"
When such a roar appeared in this space and reached the ears of Luo Zhen, Mashu, and Olga Marie, all three of them trembled at the same time.
"What... what is that...?"
Olga Marie's face turned deathly pale.
"Mm..."
Mashu tightened her grip on the shield, squeezing so hard that even her fingertips turned white.
Cold sweat also trickled down Luo Zhen's forehead.
From that voice, everyone sensed a violence powerful enough to stop their hearts, lower their body temperature, and even halt the flow of their blood.
Then, a terrifying sense of crisis surged into their hearts.
The next second...
"It's coming...!"
Mashu let out a shout.
"Boom----!"
Almost at the same time, one wall of the room in the building where they were hiding exploded apart. Amid the blast, it turned into countless fragments that tore toward the surroundings.
"Eeeeeek----!"
Olga Marie screamed.
Luo Zhen stared fixedly ahead and saw a figure slowly walking in through the wall that had been blown apart.
It was a giant over two meters tall, with knotted muscles and a tremendously powerful build. He wore a battle skirt, held a stone axe with a serrated edge, had his upper body exposed and his feet bare, and was covered from head to toe in black markings.
"Roarrrrrrrrrrrrr----!"
The giant let out a roar powerful enough to shake the air, turning it into waves of sound that swept outward.
"...!?"
Mashu raised her enormous shield in front of everyone, blocking the wave of sound for them.
"That's... impossible... right...?"
Olga Marie took step after step backward, her face full of fear as she stared at the giant, who looked like a fiendish god.
"This is... a joke taken way too far..."
Luo Zhen's expression also became extremely strained.
From the other party, Luo Zhen felt a terrifying pressure that even the Archer who had attacked him had never possessed.
Obviously, the other party was a Servant.
Judging from his utterly mindless appearance, he was undoubtedly a Berserker.
"A Class suited to Heroic Spirits who had fallen into madness during their lifetimes..."
Servants who received this Class gained the skill Mad Enhancement. In exchange for having their rationality stripped away, they received enhanced power.
That Class originally existed to strengthen weak Servants.
But the Servant before them was separated from the word "weak" by an astronomical distance.
"That's undoubtedly one of the top-tier Servants!"
He was an existence that could rank in the First Tier even among all Heroic Spirits.
Now, he had manifested as a Berserker and gained further enhancement at the cost of losing his rationality.
He was already a top-tier Servant, and he had been strengthened on top of that.
That was the enemy Luo Zhen and the others were now facing.
Thus, Luo Zhen understood.
"Compared to the Archer from before, this Servant isn't even on the same level!"
When facing the Archer, Luo Zhen had nearly suffered a reversal despite holding the advantage. There was no need to mention what would happen against the monster before them.
Therefore, Luo Zhen had only one thought.
"Run!"
Luo Zhen's voice rang out.
"That isn't someone we can deal with right now! Escape before he goes berserk! The farther away, the better!"
Neither Mashu nor Olga Marie objected to Luo Zhen's decision.
At once, Luo Zhen, Mashu, and Olga Marie all turned around and ran without hesitation.
"Roar----!"
Berserker immediately let out an enraged roar and gave chase.
"Boom----!"
In one corner of the burning city, the side wall of a building suddenly exploded, sending shattered stones and rubble flying in every direction like bullets.
Mashu, holding her Cross Shield, flew backward through the broken wall, her face filled with shock and pain.
"Roar----!"
Berserker charged over at a terrifying speed, accompanied by a frightening roar.
Despite his enormous build, Berserker moved as nimbly as a leopard. As he shot toward Mashu, he swung up the stone axe in his hand and brought it crashing down at her.
"Clang----!"
Amid the horrifying impact, the stone axe struck the shield and unleashed an unsettling force. The impact exploded across the shield, sending a shock wave surging outward.
"Guh... ngh...!?"
Mashu let out a stifled groan as she blocked the blow. Her slender body could not suppress the astonishing force that landed on the shield. She was blasted backward by the shock wave and slammed into a building behind her, shattering its wall.
"Mashu!"
Luo Zhen ran out of the building and could not help calling out when he saw this scene.
"What a... monster...!"
Olga Marie also ran out, her face extremely pale.
"Roar..."
Berserker, holding the stone axe, turned around at that moment and looked toward Luo Zhen and Olga Marie.
"...!?"
"Eh...!?"
Luo Zhen and Olga Marie felt their scalps prickle at the same time and backed away.
"Haaaahhhhhhh!"
Only then did Mashu's shout ring out. Bracing herself against her shield, she leaped from the shattered wall, turning her entire body into a cannonball and stirring up a fierce wind as she charged Berserker.
With a "bang," Mashu's charge was stopped.
"Roar----!"
Berserker continued roaring, looking completely devoid of reason. Yet the way he planted the stone axe and blocked Mashu's smashing shield was clearly the result of countless battles.
Needless to say, this Servant had not lost the combat techniques he had possessed in life merely because he had lost his rationality.
This was practically cheating.
"Now!"
Mashu held back Berserker's weapon and shouted toward Luo Zhen and Olga Marie from behind her shield.
Only then did the two of them react.
"Go!"
Luo Zhen abandoned his reluctance, grabbed Olga Marie's hand, and ran in another direction.
"W-wait! What about Mashu!?"
At this moment, Olga Marie was instead the one who began worrying about Mashu.
"Mashu will be fine!"
Luo Zhen gave that answer in a tone that brooked no argument. Dragging Olga Marie along, he ran forward with all his might.
"Fou!"
Fou had also landed on the ground. He ran ahead as if leading the way.
The two humans and one beast ran toward the depths of the city, seeking only to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the disaster behind them.
However, another problem soon appeared.
"Hah... hah... hah..."
Luo Zhen gradually began gasping for breath as his stamina gave out.
"You... you're still the same as before! Your stamina is absolutely terrible!"
Olga Marie clicked her tongue as she spoke, then instead dragged Luo Zhen along while running forward.
However, Olga Marie was also a girl, and her stamina was hardly any better.
"Trying to compete with a Servant in stamina is idiotic in the first place!"
Seeing that both of their speeds were beginning to slow, Luo Zhen activated his Magic Circuits without hesitation.
"Wolf Summoning!"
Two sturdy black wolves were summoned.
"Quick! Get on!"
Luo Zhen pushed the flustered Olga Marie onto one of the wolves, then mounted the other himself. He immediately urged both wolves on, and they began sprinting forward.
"Haa..."
"Roar..."
Behind them, Mashu's shouts and the enemy's angry roars continued to echo.
Listening to those sounds, Luo Zhen pressed one hand against the Command Seal on the back of his hand.
The moment they escaped the battlefield, Luo Zhen would use the Command Seal without hesitation to summon Mashu back.
With that plan in mind, Luo Zhen urged the wolf Familiars onward and continued running.
P.S. Congratulations to "Yi Yiying" on becoming the book's fifth alliance leader! Let's scatter the flowers~~~!
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