Chapter 62: Crossing the Primordial Sea, Kyaa! (cont.)

Shirou hurriedly got to his feet and asked anxiously,

"Are you okay, Saber?"

The view was too dim for Shirou to make out Saber's condition at all, but no matter what, they had to get out of there first.

"I'm fine." Saber discreetly wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. "Let's go!"

Semiramis, seated at the center of the garden, covered her mouth and laughed softly as she watched Saber get hit and Shirou prepare to flee on the screen before her.

"I have not yet permitted you to escape."

Semiramis narrowed her eyes, the vertical pupils in them widening like a snake watching its prey.

She had not acted personally before because Achilles had been pursuing them, but things were different now. She alone stood between Shirou, Saber, and their escape.

"Sample the taste of Hydra Poison, you who dared invade the Hanging Gardens!"

The space displayed on the screen was suddenly filled with purple mist. It was the nearly unsolvable Hydra Poison.

Legend said that after Heracles defeated the Hydra, he soaked his beloved arrows in its venom, creating one of his most famous Noble Phantasms.

But regrettably, one of those who died to that Noble Phantasm was his teacher, Chiron.

It was said that after Chiron was struck by Hydra Poison, the pain became unbearable, so he relinquished his immortality to find release.

This was Hydra Poison, a vicious toxin that even immortality could not resist, one that inflicted unbearable agony!

"My apologies, Caster, but I'll be taking your prey now!"

The moment he spoke, Shirou dragged Siegfried, who had collapsed under the effects of the poison, away. His stumbling steps did not slow in the slightest as he sped forward.

Hydra Poison could not affect him at all?!

Semiramis's eyes nearly popped out of