As Mordred's group advanced through the monster-filled area, they discovered a bizarre sight. The battlefield was blanketed by a dense, bloody fog that drifted eerily, enveloping any worms that emerged from the earth.
These bloody mists moved like predators, killing off each worm within moments of the fog's contact.
The mists then dr...
2023-12-24 06:55:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe spear pierced through Semiramis' body without obstruction. With the central area as the starting point, the already battered Hanging Garden collapsed and shattered piece by piece.
Semiramis and Karna began dissipating at the same time.
"I'll answer one of your questions, Assassin," Karna said, looking at Semiramis in his final mo...
2023-12-22 03:30:09 +0000 UTC View PostCovered in blood from head to toe, blood still flowing from the spear wound pierced through his chest,
Yet he laughed loudly.
"HaHahaHaha!"
He cackled without restraint like a gleeful, petty man.
"In the end I was still one step ahead. You lost, Karna!"
Taking advantage of Karna's moment of shock, Arjuna channeled a...
2023-12-22 03:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostRising to her feet, she said over her shoulder, "Let's go. With Eternal King and Beast gone, foul things are crawling out. Stay close so you don't get lost!"
"Ah, yes! I understand, Miss Unknown!" Kiara hurriedly followed along.
Mordred shot her an irritated look. "Don't call me Miss Unknown. That sounds really weird."
"Then, w...
2023-12-21 06:29:38 +0000 UTC View PostHeracles roared, flinging Archer off his body.
Somersaulting gracefully midair like an agile wildcat, Archer stuck fast to the stone wall, clinging tightly as she glared at Heracles with bared fangs.
"Archer..." Mordred eyed the woman in surprise.
Without a doubt, it was Red Archer Atalanta.
But...
"She actually man...
2023-12-21 06:29:35 +0000 UTC View PostCrack crack crack——
Heracles crawled from the ruins, stone axe in hand, bellowing a deafening roar. His blood-stained, berserk eyes flashed with violent fury. Yet even lost in his rage, he knew Mordred was out of reach.
His crimson gaze darted through the darkness and locked onto Kiara. With a savage roar, he kicked off the rubbl...
2023-12-21 06:29:32 +0000 UTC View Post"What's going on here?" Vlad asked, eyeing the Primordial Human warily as countless octopus-like tentacles suddenly sprouted from its body.
Cracks splintered through the earth like a spider's web. One after another, bizarrely-shaped bugs crawled out from underneath.
If Shirou were here, he'd recognize these creatures as the Chthonian...
2023-12-19 02:53:16 +0000 UTC View PostAstolfo's hippogriff charged straight for the Primordial Human.
Over there, Vlad and Spartacus were locked in battle, but it was clear the Primordial Human had the upper hand.
Keen observers could see that despite Vlad's power boost from being in Romania, he and Spartacus were slowly being overwhelmed.
By this point, the Primor...
2023-12-19 02:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostMordred's brows furrowed, gripping her black-reddish sword tightly as the Beast staggered closer.
"Give up. I know your weakness," the Beast laughed, leering at Mordred.
"Y-You still want to take me back?" Kiara asked worriedly. Then, more resolutely - "I won't go without a fight."
"After taking some of my authority, you dare r...
2023-12-18 04:26:30 +0000 UTC View PostThis ultimate attack, completely unlike Scáthach’s, betting everything on a single decisive strike!
Suddenly...
"Crack, crack, crack."
His body cracked like glass, emitting spiritual particles into the air like falling snow.
It was the prelude to his dissipation.
Facing such a terrifying strike, the Beast hurried...
2023-12-18 04:26:27 +0000 UTC View PostShirou's expression turned solemn. The whirlpool of light around him completely receded into his body.
"This is...!"
The Beast's expression changed violently as she saw the people behind Shirou—countless shadowy figures. Magi, knights, missionaries, soldiers, merchants, commoners...
One by one, they slowly walked toward Shiro...
2023-12-18 04:26:23 +0000 UTC View Post"Let me out!"
With a snap like a taut string breaking, the Beast couldn't restrain herself any longer.
"Out! Out!" she shouted in rage. "Do you know what's out there in the outside world? I'll tell you - it's filled with animals. It's hell. There's no place for you out there! Shut your mouth and stay put in my body! You'll experience...
2023-12-16 01:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun blazed endlessly in the cloudless sky as thunder crashed like rolling floodwaters across the land.
With an earsplitting boom, Arjuna fell from the sky like a meteor, obliterating countless boulders before finally slamming to a halt, buried in rubble.
Lightning sizzled and thunder grunted as the stones entombing him shuddered ...
2023-12-16 01:49:19 +0000 UTC View PostBeast III could forgive anyone's hostility and hatred directed at herself. Any violence against her she took in stride, even relishing it. But there was a sole exception—the only thing intolerable to her: this split-off part of herself!
Even if she couldn't eliminate her existence, Beast III absolutely refused to confront her.
And ...
2023-12-15 07:25:29 +0000 UTC View Post"M-Mr. Assassin..."
Beast III's compassionate smile instantly froze. As if sensing something inconceivable, her eyes constricted sharply.
"M-Mr. Assassin...you're right. Finding happiness in an illusion only helps me - it does nothing for others I have failed or those I still owe apologies. Suffering continues to exist..." A frail fe...
2023-12-15 07:25:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe subway train zoomed past. The objects around Shirou started morphing into something illusory—or rather, they'd been illusory all along.
Standing at the end of the car, he stared out the window into the distance at the city, which seemed to dissolve gradually into haze.
He just stood there, eyes fixed on the utopian metrop...
2023-12-15 07:25:24 +0000 UTC View Post"Artie..."
He set Mordred down to stare at the aproned woman. "You're not calling me 'King' anymore?"
As Mordred cried "Mommy!" and tackle-hugged her, Artorie wiped her hands on her apron. She lightly stroked Mordred's cheeks before lifting her head. "What nonsense are you saying, Shirou? Why would I call you 'King'?"
She wore ...
2023-12-13 05:04:29 +0000 UTC View PostA bright flash of white light blazed past, and Shirou felt a moment of dizziness and disorientation. When his head cleared, he found himself staring into a pair of wine-red eyes.
He was in the library. In front of him stood a woman with short, golden hair cut to her ears. She wore a simple white blouse and black pleated skirt showing off h...
2023-12-13 05:04:26 +0000 UTC View PostDevil's Bodhisattva gently lowered her head, then raised her compassionate, bright gaze towards Shirou and Mordred with a gentle smile. "Isn't Mr. Assassin wondering what my true goal is? Very well, I shall tell you. I'm here to provide salvation. I will make the Earth my body—no, I will become countless Earths, saving all the people across th...
2023-12-12 09:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostShirou told Saber and the others that Beasts couldn't be negotiated with. However, being unable to negotiate didn't equate to being unable communicate.
Beasts still possessed rationality, merely a rationality that ordinary people couldn't comprehend.
Simply put, they violated the worldviews and values of the masses, thus leading to t...
2023-12-11 04:50:00 +0000 UTC View PostIndeed, the swordsmanship sublimated into Lancelot's Noble Phantasm.
Arondight Overload: Breaking All Restraints - The Overloaded Light of the Lake!
This Noble Phantasm overloads Lancelot's sword, Arondight, with magical energy. Rather than emitting the energy as a ranged attack, it releases the vast power on contact when cutting a t...
2023-12-11 04:49:54 +0000 UTC View PostKotomine stood in place, gazing at the sky, a look of bewilderment on his face.
Through the vast, dark night, warm sunlight leaked past the thick black fog smothering the land, casting faint golden rays onto the earth below.
Such intense light...
His eyes widened in astonishment. At this midnight hour — the darkest time when ...
2023-12-11 04:49:50 +0000 UTC View PostWith a sigh, Mordred packed away that impractical fantasy and all those wistful thoughts.
She had already overcome tribulation and forged her own legend. Reality was as it was; there was no need to indulge an illusion that shouldn't exist, like a childish girl.
Mordred turned her back to Shirou, leaving him with only the sight of her...
2023-12-09 09:11:36 +0000 UTC View PostMordred looked at the chalice Shirou had retrieved from two thousand meters underground, disbelief flooding her face.
Impossible... How could he have possibly found this chalice?
Could it be that he had seen through her scheme from the very beginning?
Then why did he keep attacking her right side during their fight?
Had t...
2023-12-09 09:11:33 +0000 UTC View PostShirou's brows rose slightly. His propulsion devices flared again to widen the distance between them. From his Unlimited Blade Works, he summoned the Death Scythe, slashing directly at the vulnerable spot on her lower abdomen.
As when first facing Achilles and Atalanta, the scythe's cruel curve tore through the very fabric of space, stabbi...
2023-12-08 04:48:21 +0000 UTC View PostAfter parting ways with Shirou and the others, Adam led his people to stay near Trifas. He located the underground passage they had previously used to escape from the Millennia Fortress. Originally, Adam had intended to infiltrate the Fortress through this passage to save Spartacus.
However, much to their surprise, Spartacus had vanished w...
2023-12-08 04:48:17 +0000 UTC View PostIn that moment, Nero’s anti-team Noble Phantasm was activated. A gorgeous golden theater was constructed around Nero and Kiara—the theater she had built during her life in Rome. This greater magecraft was similar to, yet different from a Reality Marble. Once deployed, it would weaken and confine any enemies locked within.
“Are you pl...
2023-12-07 01:58:33 +0000 UTC View PostSaber tightened her grip on the holy sword, a solemn look on her face. It was clearly extremely difficult to swing her sword at Kiara—at both versions of her. Since there were two Kiaras, it meant one was the real Kiara Sessyoin and the other was the Beast that Shirou had told them about.
Just then, a questioning voice emerged from the r...
2023-12-06 03:58:41 +0000 UTC View PostStanding before Mordred, Shirou asked, "The one you were waiting for...it wasn't me?"
She looked at him, her expression lonely and disappointed. "The one I was waiting for was Eternal King, not you, Assassin."
"I'm sorry, Mordred. Eternal King...won't appear before you." he sighed.
He knew. Yes, he understood that the one she s...
2023-12-06 03:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostShirou, Vlad and Spartacus marched steadily toward the central area. It seemed Semiramis and Kotomine had sensed the danger as well, as more monsters blocked their path, including some large beasts.
But these creatures posed no true obstacle. Between Shirou, Vlad's ferocity, and even Spartacus's berserker strength, how could mere monsters ...
2023-12-05 04:15:58 +0000 UTC View Post