Sovell had entered the second phase of his battle, while Karna and Gawain remained locked in a fierce, evenly matched struggle.
As a Servant of the Red Faction, Karna naturally bore the responsibility of eliminating the anomaly of the Black Faction's seven Servants sharing a single camp. With the Greater Grail directly supplying his magical energy, he received a considerable boost, especially given how much energy his attacks usually consumed.
Yet Gawain was no less formidable in comparison, and perhaps even surpassed him. Through his first Noble Phantasm, the Wheel of the False Sun, he could draw on Carnwennan's own power to supply himself with magical energy.
Sharing a Spirit Core with Carnwennan, Gawain could even recharge by basking in sunlight during the day, storing vast amounts of magical energy to sustain his consumption on a nighttime battlefield.
To put it another way, Karna was an older-generation car with an internal combustion engine, requiring fuel to run. Gawain, meanwhile, was a new-generation solar-powered car that could run simply by soaking up sunlight.
Furthermore, this Noble Phantasm granted Gawain the same "Star Holy Sword" standing as Carnwennan, giving him extraordinarily high defensive resistance against all Servants with solar powers, as well as Servants belonging to solar pantheons.
Karna was different. His rank A Personal Skill [Divinity] granted extremely high defensive resistance against Servants of solar pantheons whose Divinity ranked below his own, but, well...
Gawain was not a Servant of a solar pantheon.
His power came directly from the sun itself, and there was not even a trace of divinity in his blood.
Thus, Karna's defensive bonus did not work against Gawain, while Gawain's worked perfectly well against him. That was where the gap between them arose.
But Karna's father really did love him. (Note 1)
The solar armor and golden