Fight! A Tragic End!

Fight! A Tragic End!

"Roar!"

Berserker's roar rose continuously from the collapsed ground below, as if it had come straight from hell, making chills run down one's spine.

"Now!"

Luo Zhen refused to let up once he had gained the upper hand. Gritting his teeth, he stopped holding back the mana in his body and released it all.

"Ant Summoning!"

An exquisite Magic Circle spun open beneath his feet, and one magic ant after another crawled out of it.

This time, nearly a hundred magic ants were summoned.

The densely packed magic ants swarmed into the collapsed cavern like a stampeding herd of beasts, accompanied by the scraping of their mandibles.

"Roar! Roar!"

Berserker roared nonstop.

Looking closely, at the bottom of the cavern—dug to an unknown depth—the densely packed magic ants had swarmed over Berserker like maggots on a corpse, wrapping around him.

Berserker struggled desperately. His ax-sword was like a heavy meat cleaver, smashing, crushing, and chopping apart the magic ants clinging to his body, sending flesh and blood splattering everywhere and staining the bottom of the cavern red.

But this was when the magic ants' numerical advantage came into play.

A single magic ant naturally could not restrain a monster like Berserker.

However, hundreds of magic ants densely clung to Berserker's body. Combined with strength rivaling that of a High-Level Familiar, even a Servant like Berserker was firmly restrained at this moment and could only struggle desperately.

To break free from the magic ants, Berserker would have to kill them one by one.

But Luo Zhen would never give Berserker that opportunity.

"Mashu!"

Luo Zhen's face was pale as he supported his mana-depleted body and gave Mashu one final order.

"Bury that monster alive!"

Upon hearing this, Mashu carried it out without hesitation.

"Yaaaaaaah!"

With a shout like a desperate full-powered strike, Mashu gripped her massive shield and leaped into the air. Like a meteor, she brought the shield's base crashing down onto the ground.

"Rumble—!"

With a thunderous boom, Mashu's full-powered strike shattered the earth. Cracks spread around the cavern, and the ground eventually collapsed once more.

Clearly, while Mashu had been fighting, Luo Zhen had already controlled the magic ants and had them tunnel through the ground below.

Countless stones and chunks of rock came tumbling down.

"Rumble..."

Amid the trembling of the ground, the stones and rocks gradually buried Berserker and the densely packed army of magic ants at the bottom of the cavern.

Dust rose like smoke.

After an unknown length of time, the rubble completely buried the cavern, leaving behind a huge pit filled with debris in Fuyuki City.

When the sound of the last falling stone came to an end, everything seemed to have settled like dust and fell silent.

"D-Did we... win?"

Olga Marie poked her head out from inside a building, looking at the scene in trepidation.

Luo Zhen, meanwhile, seemed to let out a sigh of relief before his body tilted to the side.

"Senpai!"

Seeing this, Mashu hurried over and caught Luo Zhen before he fell.

"Huff... huff..."

Luo Zhen leaned against Mashu and breathed heavily, utterly exhausted.

Looking at his deathly pale complexion, anyone could tell that Luo Zhen's mana had been completely depleted.

He had supplied Mashu with a massive amount of mana, summoned a highly mana-consuming evil spirit, and finally called forth over a hundred magic ants. It would have been stranger if that hadn't exhausted all his mana.

Now, Luo Zhen felt that his body had become utterly hollow. His Magic Circuits had also stopped operating, gradually dimming like electrical circuits after their power had been cut.

At the same time, the surge of strength in Mashu's body gradually faded, and even the Command Seal's enhancement had reached its limit.

"Senpai, are you all right?"

Ignoring the strength draining from her own body, Mashu asked Luo Zhen with a worried expression.

"I'm fine..."

Luo Zhen shook his head, but his voice was extremely weak.

"Please wait. I'll let you rest right away."

Mashu helped Luo Zhen up, apparently preparing to take him somewhere to rest.

Luo Zhen shook his head again.

"Now isn't the time for that." Luo Zhen spoke somewhat hurriedly. "There's no way that method could defeat Berserker. At most, it only bought us some time. Before he comes out of the ground, we need to leave immediately."

If a Servant could die simply from being buried alive, then the so-called Heroic Spirits would be far too pathetic.

Mashu could not possibly fail to understand that.

"Understood. We'll retreat now."

Mashu helped Luo Zhen up and immediately prepared to leave.

As a result, the two of them had underestimated this Servant known as Berserker.

"Crack..."

When a cracking sound came from the ground behind Luo Zhen and Mashu, splitting the earth open, the two people preparing to leave froze completely.

Their eyes widened simultaneously.

"Fou!"

Fou, who had run over from ahead and was about to leap into Mashu's arms, stopped and let out a cry like a wail.

"Ah!"

Olga Marie, who had been about to emerge from the building, screamed as well.

But Luo Zhen and Mashu had no time to react.

The next instant...

"Bang!"

The ground behind them exploded apart.

The massive man burst out from it, carrying a terrifying aura.

"Roarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr—!"

With an enraged roar like a declaration of death, Berserker emerged from underground with magic ants hanging all over his body. Facing the backs of Luo Zhen and Mashu, he raised his ax-sword high.

Under such circumstances, the two of them had no chance of escaping in time.

Mashu especially seemed to have suddenly reverted to the helpless girl who could not fight at all. Faced with this sudden situation, she was completely unable to think clearly.

In the end, only one person moved.

That person was Luo Zhen.

And the final action Luo Zhen took was very simple.

He shoved Mashu away without mercy, despite her supporting him.

"Senpai!"

Mashu cried out in alarm as her body was violently pushed aside and she fell away.

That fall also carried Mashu out of the ax-sword's attack range.

The ax-sword came crashing down.

Then, amid the astonishing force of the blow, it struck Luo Zhen.

"Bang—!"

A collision like one that could stop the heart echoed across the sky.

The strike, powerful enough to shatter bedrock, sent Luo Zhen flying violently. He shot into the distance like a bullet and crashed into a ruin.

The sight left Mashu's mind almost completely blank.

When she finally came to her senses...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Mashu let out a terrifying scream unlike any she had ever made before. Tears glimmered at the corners of her eyes as she raised her shield without a thought and slammed into Berserker.

The impact blossomed like an explosion.

Under the force of the collision, the ground shattered once more.

The two Servants fell into it together and, accompanied by countless rocks and pieces of rubble, dropped into the bottomless pit.