"Damn it—this guy! Why won't he stop hounding us?!"
As Rin Tohsaka ran, she glanced back at Shuten Douji, who was being besieged by Yin soldiers led by Ghost General Wei Hao, her tone exasperated.
He was seriously annoying!
"Master."
Archer, who had never stopped drawing and firing his bow, noticed something amiss and glanced toward the Black Tower.
"Huh!?"
Rin Tohsaka followed Archer's gaze and was startled.
"Th-There are so many!?"
"But... why do they feel so weak?"
Her initial shock was immediately followed by confusion.
They had appearances similar to Servants, but judging from the magical energy they emitted, they were nowhere near normal Servants.
If only two or three were like this, Rin Tohsaka would have been on guard against them concealing their strength for a killing blow or something. But when every individual among such a large number was like this... that meant they were genuinely weak.
"They're Shadow Servants. You can think of them as inferior Servants with incomplete Saint Graphs, no self-awareness, and who act entirely according to their contractor's will."
Archer explained briefly, narrowing his eyes.
Even if Shadow Servants were weak, with this many of them...
"That general!"
Archer rose to his feet and called out to Ghost General Wei Hao, who was commanding several hundred Yin soldiers in their assault on Shuten Douji.
Crack—
Ghost General Wei Hao's head suddenly twisted one hundred and eighty degrees around. The ghostly flames in his eyes flickered, but the movements of his hands as he fought Shuten Douji did not stop.
He was at an absolute disadvantage in this battle, and two of his ribs had already been torn off—but thanks to his numerical advantage, and because the skeletal warhorses did not fear the liquor on the ground, they still managed to suppress Shuten