"Ah, yes."
"I've known that for a long time."
Facing the beast that mocked him, the powerless king wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. Still maintaining his calm composure, he slowly rose from the ground.
"That I would be destroyed by my own Noble Phantasm."
"...Because that is the end of King Solomon."
His somewhat slender figure stood before the towering Goetia, incomparably small yet incomparably upright. With his back to Fujimaru Ritsuka and Lawrence, there was nothing but gentleness in his expression.
"...What?"
Goetia was somewhat stunned. The motion of releasing his Noble Phantasm to kill Solomon involuntarily came to a halt.
With that gentle smile on his lips, Solomon slowly floated into the air. Particles glowing with warm light appeared around his body, while soft ripples of golden magical energy spread from where he had just been standing.
"Goetia, let me teach you the final magecraft."
"That is, your First Noble Phantasm of King Solomon, whose true name you do not know."
Having obtained King Solomon's remains, Goetia, once King Solomon's shadow, had gained permission to use Solomon's abilities. Most of those permissions.
He truly resembled Solomon, but he was not Solomon in the end, and could not use all of Solomon's abilities.
Thus, he could freely use King Solomon's Second Noble Phantasm, [The Time of Crowning Has Come, I Enlighten All Things] (Ars Paulina), and Third Noble Phantasm, [The Time of Birth Has Come, I Correct All Things] (Ars Almadel Salomonis). He could even use the Third Noble Phantasm to burn away the energy accumulated by human history and make himself into a new celestial body. Yet he alone did not know the true name of the First Noble Phantasm, and could only give it the awkward assumed true name of [Ars Nova].
"That