As Abner pondered, the battle before the mountain gate changed once more.
Although the three enemy Servants were all quite powerful, their "souls"—the so-called "Roselle phantoms"—had already entered Edwina's Silent Winter oil lamp and the Lesser Grail. What remained were merely shells.
That state made their movements rigid. Leah, Abner's Servant, quickly seized an opening and used the Holy Lance in her hand as a medium to unleash Angel-level Holy Light. With a single strike, she was the first to purify the King of Heroes.
Then, bolstered by the Command Spell Abner had used earlier, she launched a second Angel-level attack, successfully inflicting grievous wounds upon the Conquering King as well.
Meanwhile, after Marshal Gil of Bluebeard saw Leah's figure bathed in radiance, he became visibly excited. Working with Telles the Prophet, he recreated one powerful spell after another recorded within his grimoire, continuously killing the Hassans who had split into different personalities.
—Since Telles had previously been the Master of Assassin-class Hassan and was deeply familiar with his abilities, the slaughter went especially smoothly.
But at that moment, silver-white Lightning Snakes leaped out from the mountain one after another. They rapidly multiplied, crackling as they intertwined and stretched forward, evolving into a dazzling sea of thunder that sought to drown the entire mountain gate.
At the sight, Leah immediately pointed her lance straight ahead and solemnly proclaimed, "God says, be nullified."
Before her words had even faded, the sea of thunder before her abruptly calmed considerably. Whether the darting Lightning Snakes or the dense web of lightning, nearly seventy percent of them weakened or vanished from thin air.
Bluebeard and Telles also hurriedly abandoned their opponents. The former turned to a page in his grimoire and released a lightning web of his own, while the latter constructed a Barrier