After all, she was a TOP-class Servant. The only ones who could stand on equal footing with her were Zhuge Kongming and Merlin.
As for the Saint Jeanne d'Arc who supposedly wanted to save the world, as mentioned by Jeanne d'Arc Alter... well, the real warehouse keeper was still in a sunless warehouse, silently wiping her holy banner lance and Sword of Saint Catherine with her tears as she waited for the distant day she would finally see battle.
How should one put it?
The situations of the two Jeannes truly made one sigh with a complicated expression...
Once the fresh forces, made up of Servants and two Masters even stronger than Servants, joined the battle with overwhelming force, the situation was instantly reversed.
Ordinary soldiers had no power to resist combatants on the level of Heroic Spirits. They were not quite being mowed down like grass, but they posed no significant threat either.
The red swordswoman standing proudly in the center of the battlefield displayed combat strength close to that of a Heroic Spirit as well. Yet from what he could sense, she was different from Jeanne d'Arc, the others, and Mash. She was neither a Servant nor a Demi-Servant, merely an "ordinary" human.
Well, Lianye and Gudako were ordinary humans too.
"Put down your swords. The victor has already been decided!"
Nero sheathed her bloodstained meteoric-iron longsword and pointed it at Mash, who stood at the vanguard. "And you all, are you reinforcements from the capital?"
"No, we—"
Before Mash could explain, the red swordswoman's torrent of words overwhelmed her. The timid junior simply could not reclaim the right to speak under the other's forceful presence.
"I had thought the capital had been completely sealed off. No matter, brave warriors such as yourselves deserve rewards. Even if