First came Heracles's great bow. The dazzling arrow was no less brilliant than the Nine Stripes of golden dragons from the God Slayer of Hundred Beasts just now.
A few seconds later, the golden light faded, yet the man remained completely unharmed.
The man seemed rather troubled as he narrowed his eyes, then opened them again.
"Sorry, but your attacks are useless."
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"Completely useless?" Shirou furrowed his brow and instinctively looked at Gilgamesh. Perhaps she knew something. Under an attack like Heracles's, the white-haired man had not simply withstood it through overwhelming defense; he seemed to have directly nullified the attack. Was it some conceptual ability?
"I never expected you to appear here, and to have retained part of Beast I's traits as well. Anti-summoning?" As expected, Gilgamesh knew quite a bit. She shrugged. "I didn't expect you to step forward now."
"After going through so much, I've grown too," the white-haired man replied. "How about it? Can you persuade them to leave the Lostbelt? Members of Pan-Human History trying to save a Lostbelt—what a ridiculous joke."
"That is beyond my ability. This was his decision, not mine." Gilgamesh looked ready to sit back and enjoy the show, with no intention of attacking the white-haired man.
Lord El-Melloi II, however, caught the key terms in Gilgamesh's words.
BEAST, and anti-summoning.
"One of the Seven Human Evils?" Lord El-Melloi II deduced. "Its trait is anti-summoning, which means the power of Servants is completely useless against him."
Shirou looked around. These were all Servants, merely with Spirit Cores far stronger than those from the Fuyuki Holy Grail War.
A force like this, composed of Servants, was more than enough to sweep away the vast majority of obstacles. Unfortunately, before the enemy in front of them, they