Chapter 516: Betrayal and Counter-Betrayal
There's actually a True Ancestor?!
But Bai Cangshu couldn't identify the opponent's exact identity for a moment; not every one of the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors had been seen.
Clang!
At this moment, Bai Cangshu's lower back moved, and the next moment a scream of agony rang out.
Bai Cangshu withdrew his finger and saw Emiya Shirou engulfed in Blazing Flame, rolling on the ground.
Rin Tohsaka tried to extinguish the flames with magic.
Though the young man was in pain, there was little regret in his eyes.
He never liked this Assassin, who acted strangely and often exuded terrifying killing intent.
Seeing the opponent stab a finger into his adoptive father's brow, he couldn't restrain himself and directly stabbed a sword into the opponent's lower back.
But the opponent was either wearing some special armor, or there was some special magical defense on their body surface.
In any case, it felt like stabbing into steel.
Emiya Kiritsugu's eyes also became clearer at this moment, seemingly because the electric current stimulating his brain had restored more of his consciousness.
In the flesh of his brow, there was something similar to black mud, wriggling, and the wound quickly healed again.
Seeing this terrifying Servant turn to look at Emiya Shirou, he instinctively spoke.
"Don't..."
In the great fire of Fuyuki City, he ultimately saved no one, only this child survived tenaciously, as if compensating for all his wrongdoings.
Emiya Kiritsugu raised Emiya Shirou, as if entrusting everything to this child.
Bai Cangshu's finger moved slowly.
Clang!
The sound of armor and blade rang out, and Saber stood in front of her Master.
"Servant Saber, ready to fight you at any time."
Her expression was serious; even though she had witnessed Tao Pai Pai's bizarre speed and powerful strength, Saber was always willing to fight the opponent if necessary.
Bai Cangshu looked at the short woman's emerald-like eyes, devoid of any confusion or fear.
Was that the rigid adherence to the so-called King's Way and Knight's Way, or the True Heart that still adhered to oneself after seeing through everything?
I want to know, I'm very curious...
Bai Cangshu raised his hand towards Saber, his finger seemingly pointing directly at those eyes.
Saber watched Tao Pai Pai's movements unblinkingly, her ahoge seemingly frozen. She knew very well that the person before her was likely a martial arts grandmaster beyond imagination from some era.
A powerful martial artist who challenged various monsters with a human body.
After becoming a Servant, without relying on any magic or sorcery, this body and skill became the most terrifying killing weapon.
Being too close to the opponent, and having lost Avalon, she had a significant chance of being killed by the opponent.
But that didn't matter much.
Death, for Saber, was not such a terrifying outcome, just a bit regrettable.
Buzz~
Golden light faintly bloomed from her hands, and a heart-palpitating aura of power was rising exponentially.
At first, it was at a level that ordinary Servants and strong Reincarnators could display.
But in an instant, it had transformed into a terrifying energy release that even Bai Cangshu found hard to grasp.
The next moment, that terrifying aura caused the tips of Bai Cangshu's hair to turn white, and he almost instinctively activated Kaioken.
This is... Excalibur...
The Noble Phantasm at the pinnacle of the Holy Sword series, the so-called Sword of the Planet?!
Boom!
A terrifying explosion erupted from behind Ryudoji Temple.
Amidst the violent trembling, the cliff began to tilt.
The entire mountain was collapsing?
The neatly laid stone slabs of Ryudoji Temple cracked with a sound, and huge fissures spread outwards.
Rumble!
Ryudoji Temple collapsed first.
Amidst the rising smoke and dust, Emiya Kiritsugu suddenly burst forth, grabbing his adoptive son, whose flames had just extinguished and whose body was covered in wounds, and rushed into the smoke.
He knew very well that with that scabbard inside him, Shi Lang would not die from such injuries.
"Saber..."
Emiya Shirou spoke with difficulty. After his contact with Rin Tohsaka and others today, he already knew that as a Master, he was actually a burden to Saber.
He could neither replenish her magic nor provide her with any help.
At this moment, he actively called out to her to leave together.
Saber looked at Tao Pai Pai, who was only a meter away from her, and the light on the Holy Sword, concealed by the Wind King Barrier in her hands, gradually extinguished.
In her current state, releasing her Noble Phantasm was extremely difficult, and the opponent possessed bizarre mobility. If Excalibur didn't kill the opponent,
She, Shi Lang, and everyone else would likely die.
Saber retreated.
Bai Cangshu did not stop her; he sensed a strong magical aura, and a large amount of black mud appeared beneath Ryudoji Temple!
He looked at the seemingly collapsed "world," raised his right foot, and stomped fiercely.
Boom!
The plaza outside Ryudoji Temple exploded, instantly falling downwards.
Bai Cangshu himself, headfirst, leaped continuously between the rocks. He finally saw the scene below through the smoke.
A black giant slammed Ice Demon·Chrollo into the mountain.
Emiya and Rin Tohsaka were also fighting and retreating.
That's... Berserker?!—
Ilyasviel dangled her feet, sitting in the apartment. She looked at the misty rain outside the window, and due to the great distance, she found it difficult to sense Assassin's location at this moment.
"Does Assassin want to end this Holy Grail War himself...?"
The girl murmured, then showed a strange smile.
"That won't do, Ilyasviel exists for this Holy Grail War."
Thump, thump, thump.
Heavy footsteps came from the stairs, and the next second, there was a knock at the door.
Ilyasviel got up unsuspecting, ready to open the door.
Boom!
Flames burst, and the entire apartment was completely engulfed in high temperature and fire.
"How is it, did it succeed?!"
Someone below shouted, without any intention of concealing their purpose.
It was a man wearing black headphones, with what looked like an antenna behind them, dressed in a jacket.
And the man standing in the high temperature and flames, his golden and red painted metal armor was incredibly dazzling; this was the Iron Man Mark II armor.
Although it couldn't compare to the later ultra-high-tech components, it already had a significant overwhelming performance advantage against ordinary technological level plot characters.
The panel kept displaying scanning results, but couldn't find the target.
"Someone saved her, initiate electromagnetic scan of the surroundings!"
He spoke, and the man below immediately rotated his headphones, as if adjusting the frequency to another level.
The next moment, accompanied by crackling sounds,
Pulses of blue and white began to light up around the apartment.
They didn't know much about magic, but conversely, those mages didn't have very good ways to deal with their tech-side Reincarnators.
"Found her, underground, it's... Black Man-Eating Flower!"
His expression changed, and before he could explain further, a stream of light appeared from a distant street.
The moment he turned his head, the purple stream of light had already crossed hundreds of meters of street and appeared beside him, a hand grabbing his head, and with a crash, carried him flying and smashed him into another street block a hundred meters away.
Whoosh~ Bang!
A miniature missile was fired, but Medusa easily dodged it.
"Quick, make that guy attack!"
The man in the battle suit kept bombarding the surroundings, but Medusa was too fast, and he cursed loudly in the communication channel.
The next moment, footsteps sounded, and a Servant wearing a Black Noir kimono appeared from the street corner.
"Damn it, it's not Gilgamesh, White Mask tricked us!"
"Tell the captain, the deal is—"
Pfft!
A sharp blade pierced through the steel armor, pinning his latter half of the sentence. The Servant who was just at the street corner appeared out of thin air behind him.
That spear-like blade, rather than a spear, was a strange shape, like two greatswords combined into one.