Without an advantage in attributes, or power on entirely different levels, the gap between powerful opponents could only determine who held the upper hand, not who lived or died.
Even with his multiple ranks of existence, Roland still needed to fight at close range to destroy Verethragna with maximum effectiveness. Otherwise, with Anti-Messiah countered, Verethragna could use his immortality to drag things out for a long time before all his magical energy ran dry.
After all, he was a Heretic God, not a Campione who had usurped divine power. He had no restrictions such as only being able to use each avatar once a day.
But both of them knew that the moment the Spear of Longinus was thrown, victory had already been decided.
Just as Verethragna had said earlier, even with his ranks sealed and all his power lost, as long as Roland remained alive, he himself was the beginning of civilization. Unless Artosh intervened personally, the most Verethragna could do was plunge Roland's consciousness into chaos, causing him to begin splitting apart as in the original Eva, becoming Angels and even humans to forge a new world.
Moreover, because so many radically altered elements had been added during Roland's growth, the Angels and humans born from him would probably be far more terrifying than those in Eva. Driven by their instinct to converge, those new lives would yearn for completion until Roland revived.
Thus, even though this God-Slaying Spear was not a weapon of causality obtained from Type-Moon, one that inherently contained a concept like a Noble Phantasm, but a Spirit Garment Roland had evolved from his completed Angel body,
its chaotic nature left Verethragna's immortality utterly powerless to resist.
Crimson Spirit Remains fluttered through the raging currents of air, scattering like raindrops and dancing like snowflakes, slowly