Chapter 210: Revised · Spiral Sword
How strong exactly is Emiya's eyesight?
To use an unexaggerated metaphor: as long as he finds a high point with a sufficiently wide field of view, Emiya, standing atop it, can observe the status of the entire Shibuya District. It wouldn't even be a problem for him to use a bow and arrow to perform precise suppressive fire against enemies.
Even with the highest-precision sniper rifles currently available to humanity, paired with a so-called "sharpshooter," achieving precise shots within two kilometers is the limit.
But for Emiya himself, never mind two kilometers—his precise shooting range can completely cover the entire Shibuya District, which is at least five kilometers or more. It's not that his attacks can't reach further, but rather that there are too many interference factors beyond that point.
Emiya, who habitually leans toward modesty, doesn't boast about himself like that.
At this moment, the distance between Emiya and that massive meteor was approximately two kilometers. It was clearly too late to rush there in person to stop it, but since the opponent was entirely within his range, Emiya wasn't that anxious.
After glancing at the chaotic streets where people had already begun to fall into shock and coma due to the high temperature, Emiya immediately moved to the top of a building in a few flashes, set up his longbow, and aimed into the distance.
Under pupils dyed a burnished gold by magical energy, Emiya easily locked onto the rather inconspicuous Jogo beneath the meteor. He also noticed the expression of excitement on the opponent's face, as if it were savoring a long-awaited vengeance.
"Those minute wounds that haven't been healed... I see, do they come from Mahoraga's Sword of Extermination?
To have pushed this fellow to such an extent, those kids are indeed quite capable."
Simply by seeing those few minute wounds on Jogo's body, Emiya had successfully deduced exactly what had happened to lead to the scene before him. It was obvious that Jogo—a cursed spirit with a rather arrogant personality—must have misjudged the students' combat capabilities at the start of the battle, allowing Fushiguro Megumi to successfully summon Mahoraga with its offensive power liberated.
After a series of combat exchanges, Mahoraga, which had already adapted to the heat of the lava, was no longer an individual that Jogo could resolve through normal means.
Although the ability to push Jogo to this point was largely thanks to having a "bug-level" shikigami like Mahoraga, it was still a form of strength, and one that was harder to refute than so-called "luck."
Even Emiya had to admit that Jogo's strength could indeed be called top-tier in the entire jujutsu world. The only extreme exceptions who could steadily overpower it were individuals like Gojo Satoru and Ryomen Sukuna.
Even for Emiya himself a little over a month ago, although he was slightly stronger, it was limited. After all, his physical condition was too much of a burden, making him unsuited for long-duration and high-intensity combat.
And for a Special Grade cursed spirit like Jogo, which almost never lacked a supply of cursed energy, a situation of fighting until exhaustion almost never occurred. Minor injuries also wouldn't deal a fatal blow to the unique body of a cursed spirit.
However, as long as his storage of Noble Phantasms was sufficient, Emiya would have no problem steadily resolving the opponent—and that was only speaking from his past perspective.
After learning the [Reverse Cursed Technique], Emiya had basically healed the hidden injuries left over from past battles. The only remaining difficulty was that the issue of "adaptability" had not yet been fully adjusted.
After all, in the final analysis, a significant portion of his body still belonged to "Heroic Spirit EMIYA." Even judging by the dreams Emiya had been having recently... it wasn't impossible that other things might be mixed in as well.
This meant that when Emiya operated Projection Magecraft at full power, or released his [Reality Marble], rejection reactions would still inevitably occur within his body. However, the current Emiya believed he could suppress such anomalies.
This was the massive reinforcement brought by the [Reverse Cursed Technique]—it not only solved some of his body's hidden dangers, but even the supply of magical energy was mostly resolved.
While he couldn't yet easily draw upon vast amounts of magical energy as he could with Miyu's support, he no longer feared his magical energy being completely exhausted.
Beyond that, his studies in the jujutsu world had brought him another immensely important skill—[Forging].
At its core, Projection Magecraft was inherited directly from Heroic Spirit EMIYA; it couldn't be categorized as an ability he had trained himself. But this technique called [Forging] was completely different.
In just over a month of practice, Emiya, who was exceptionally suited for this technique, had raised it to an incredible level—though this was inevitably thanks to the various careful teachings from the old man in his dreams.
If only speaking of Projection Magecraft, even if Emiya spent several more years, he naturally couldn't compare to the accumulation of Heroic Spirit EMIYA over countless years... This was
fundamentally a magecraft that converted "experience" into "strength," and the various "Emiya Shirous" had already witnessed countless glorious Heroic Spirits and Noble Phantasms for him. No matter how much Emiya trained the precision of his projections, it was impossible to surpass Heroic Spirit EMIYA himself in a short time.
So, after successfully realizing this, he placed his focus on another key point: the integration of Jujutsu and Magecraft...
"Trace on."
As his thoughts flowed, and to prevent the distant Jogo from launching an attack immediately after completing the accumulation of the technique's power, Emiya placed the Spiral Sword onto his longbow in advance, aiming directly at Jogo and its massive meteor.
Even if Jogo, with its sharp senses, realized the fact that it had been locked onto, it was meaningless. Because the moment Emiya locked onto it, it no longer had any room to dodge.
For a Noble Phantasm like the Spiral Sword, which had high specifications in its own right, its true upper limit of power actually far exceeded the potency Emiya had displayed before.
Firstly, the existence of a Servant is fundamentally a partial fragmentation of the essence of a Heroic Spirit for the purpose of conducting a secret Holy Grail War. It cannot compare to the true original Heroic Spirit, and the power of a Noble Phantasm can hardly match the true original text.
And a Noble Phantasm projected by Emiya would drop yet another rank...
Emiya, who originally lacked sufficient magical energy, had no ability to fully release the power of a Noble Phantasm in his own hands. That was why he often discarded the correct usage method of "True Name Release" and turned instead to "Broken Phantasm."
Only today did Emiya finally have the capital to infuse a Noble Phantasm with sufficient magical energy. However, this method was still somewhat inefficient; while it consumed a large amount of magical energy, the final power couldn't achieve a sufficient gap compared to Broken Phantasm, and it was far less convenient than the latter.
To resolve this awkward situation, Emiya began trying to use the [Forging] technique to infuse the incredibly abundant cursed energy within him into the Noble Phantasm, allowing it to bloom with the radiance it truly deserved.
Even if this was merely a "fake," it still had the potential to bloom with a radiance almost identical to the original; the only price was that it would completely collapse afterward.
Coincidentally, such a price was not a real price at all for Emiya. All he had to consider was how to make the Noble Phantasm compatible with cursed energy.
After undergoing several days and nights of intense research, this idea finally saw a breakthrough under the continuous deepening of the [Forging] technique. The Pseudo-Spiral Sword · Revised in Emiya's hand was the first finished product.
After considering and attempting many possibilities, Emiya finally chose the most stable plan—using magical energy as the fuse and cursed energy as the fuel packed inside. This way, he could not only maximize the saving of magical energy consumption but also reduce the steps needed to modify the projected Noble Phantasm.
As for whether a single shot would cause irreversible damage to the Noble Phantasm? That was clearly not something Emiya needed to consider.
"Hmm... I'll try to aim slightly off. After all, Itadori and the others finally have such a suitable opponent."
As Emiya gently adjusted the crosshairs of the sword-arrow upward by an imperceptible fraction, a red light began to swirl around the blade of the Spiral Sword, followed by a gradually increasing high-speed rotation.
In just a moment, the tip of the sword-arrow completely transformed into a rapidly spinning crimson spiral. It even brought forth violent thunder and storms, blowing the debris on the rooftop into a swirling state. It was also thanks to the high temperatures created by Jogo himself—which caused most people to lose their ability to act and think—that this scene would inevitably go unnoticed.
Despite the storm being so intense, Emiya himself didn't waver in the slightest. His palms and his eyes, which were tightly locked onto Jogo's movements, didn't move an inch.
Until the moment Jogo laughed and threw the meteor, Emiya simultaneously released the bowstring in his hand—
"Revised · Spiral Sword-Caladbolg II!!"
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