The Holy City's barrier had been shattered. Without question, it was a shocking development—and one that greatly boosted the allied forces' morale.
At once, the excited allied army launched a charge toward the gates of the Holy City, giving off the momentum of intending to smash straight through the gates and storm into the city in one push.
Without question, such a disorderly charge would have been suicidal on an ordinary cold-weapons battlefield—the textbook example of cannon fodder.
However, things were entirely different when the ones charging were groups of Sphinxes and Servants.
They were all supernatural beings. Once the barrier was broken, it meant that the Holy City's anti-Purging defenses were gone, allowing the supernatural beings to charge straight in.
Anti-Purging defenses were among the strongest tiers of magical defense systems. Normally, only equally anti-Purging attacks could break them; even repeated bombardment from ordinary A-rank Noble Phantasms would fail to do so.
However, Ramses II's Ramesseum Tentyris itself possessed anti-Purging defensive and offensive capabilities, which was why its attack had been able to shatter the Holy City's barrier directly.
The implications hidden behind this clash of attributes were not directly shown in the Light Screen footage. Only the written explanation allowed people to understand them, and thus they came to realize just what kind of defensive power the golden Light Screen barrier enveloping the Holy City possessed.
Then, when the vanguard of the allied army reached the gates, a towering knight suddenly appeared. He leaped down from the city walls and landed before the gates.
At that instant, the brilliance of the sun concentrated upon the towering knight, causing the sunlight bathing everyone else to dim somewhat.
This was not a figure of speech, but a fact.
For the one who had suddenly descended was Gawain, the Knight of