Chapter 108: No Victory
My name is Lin Hao,
Black Saber and the Great are dead.
40:07:23
Saber· Alter is a "hypothesis" of King Arthur's use of force and power to rule Britain, and such a hypothesis will ferment in the minds of all those who know anything about the legend of King Arthur, and finally manifest it.
After twelve great battles, military conquests, barbarian invasions, expeditions to France and Rome, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table achieved great fame, and when something like a holy grail appeared to try to get the knights to find it, it was split in half by King Arthur's sword.
However, in the Camelot she ruled, Artoria could not give orders as she pleased, and any high-impact government and military orders had to be reviewed by a "Roundtable Review", and of the thirteen Roundtable Knights present, at least seven knights needed to support and obtain Merlin's approval before the order could be carried out.
This fact is evident in her reputation with Saber · After Alter's identity is summoned, it is manifested as a condition attached to the Noble Phantasm, and without a round-table review, the power of the Noble Phantasm will remain at the level of the support of seven knights, and if she wants to use the Noble Phantasm to attack the Master, injure ordinary people, carry out sneak attacks, and other actions that do not conform to the basic values of chivalry, the lethality will plummet with the number of knights who no longer support her.
However, if she has the opportunity to use the time-consuming Roundtable Review, and when the number of knights supporting her reaches ten or thirteen, not only will the power of the Noble Phantasm increase considerably, but her own attributes will also increase in all aspects.
As a result, after unleashing a sword of oath and victory that pierced the inherent barrier, Saber· Alter can still go back and forth with the Immortal army of Iskander.
[Hammer of the Humble King]!
The black wind blew up as Artoria swung her sword, and several Macedonian spearmen in her path were instantly blown away by the surging magic, and disintegrated and disappeared while they were still in the air, and then reappeared on the outskirts of the warband.
If the King's Heroic Spirit dies outside the barrier, it will return here and will not be able to go out again for a while, but if it fights inside the barrier, it can even teleport itself for a short distance in addition to being able to resurrect in a position of its choice - but this effect is meaningless to Saber, who is already surrounded by the army.
It is incredible to say that a single person can fight against tens of thousands of troops, but in fact, if you can do it with one enemy and ten, after all, even if you are surrounded by groups, there are only a dozen people who can attack the besieged at the same time, and you only need to make a minimum of blocking and parrying according to the order in which the besieger's attack arrives, and then use your strength to make their attacks interfere with each other, and appropriately counterattack to make some attackers start to defend, it is enough.
With the physical fitness that has been upgraded due to the large number of roundtable judges, and the excellent performance of the inherent skill of [Intuition] in the melee, Artoria not only showed no signs of defeat during the time she was surrounded by the Macedonian army, but became more and more courageous, and the hapless Heroic Soldiers flew up in large swaths with the Noble Phantasm stunts she used from time to time.
"That's enough—" Rider, who had been standing on the ox cart and had not participated in the battle, looked at the few spearmen who had been beaten to his cart and grinned to get up, and suddenly raised his short sword in his hand and shouted, "All of them!" Retreat! ”
The unranked Immortals immediately recoiled their spears and retreated, as if they were not involved in the battle at all and were just training, while Saber, who was unable to retract, continued to throw a hammer from the Humble King to knock over one of them before stopping his sword.
Step, step, step, Iskandar urged the wheels of Shenwei to step into the center of the battlefield, far away from Saber.
"Why, to fight between generals?" The black-armored female knight raised her sword warily at him.
"I still don't agree with your royal ways, and I don't think I'm going to lose to you," Iskandar smiled confidently at Saber, "If I have the chance, I'll have a decent duel with you, not as trivial as I do now." ”
Trivia? In Saber· Before Alter could express his doubts, the endless desert and the army of the Immortals vanished like vapor from a window, and the surrounding environment turned back into the mountain path where the two sides clashed.
"According to the detection magic of my little ghost master, there seems to be something wrong with his teacher, and as the leader of the faction, I have to deal with it." Iskandar turned the bullock cart, put his collar in the driver's seat despite Webb's protests, and drove the bull into the air.
Saber· Alter stared in the direction of the Conquest King for a moment with his dragon-like golden pupils before turning to Emiya Kiritsugu and his wife.
40:02:19
When attacked by Kenneth's Heroic Spirits, Saber · Lily's sense of detachment from driving the Noble Phantasm with all her strength because of the killing of Berserker has not disappeared, and she is not Luna's opponent at all, and even the sword in the stone has been almost knocked away several times, and finally Alice Phil took out Avalon, and after activating the absolute defense, she was able to block the attack.
However, Avalon is "that" King Arthur's treasure after all, and no matter how likely Lily is to become "her" in the future, she is not "her" yet, so the result of reluctantly using this holy relic is a further consumption of physical strength and mana, and the plan to recover some strength during the full defense period has also come to naught, and can only wait to be rescued within the defense maintenance time.
Therefore, after seeing the appearance of Illya, a daughter from the future who has always been reliable, Alice Phil relieved her heart and lifted her absolute defense.
However, it was clearly not her first battle, and when Illya turned to deal with the silver Immortal, Alice Fell felt a chill in her heart - a large patch of blinding red was spreading from the back of the Heavenly Cloak to the entire gown, as if she had been seriously injured, but she herself was unaware.
The Heavenly Clothes are the crystallization of the thousands of years of alchemy of the Einzberen family, similar to the magic circuit of the plug-in, which can provide the wearer with a huge increase in magic power - Alice Phil only knows so much about it, after all, the war patriarch did not give this dress to himself, and judging from Illya's behavior of changing into the Heavenly Clothes on a slightly more formal occasion, it should have become some kind of treasure that can be liberated for a long time for his daughter.
This costume that is infinitely close to the third law cannot be broken by regular attacks, unless she is attacked from the root like Kiritsugu's "Origin Bullet".
Moreover, as a ceremonial dress, the Heavenly Vestment has a self-cleaning function, and if the wearer's injured blood is not cleaned up but begins to spread normally, it can only mean one thing - its authority is insufficient.
The fact that Illya had not been injured since the start of the war, and as a result, had not been discovered until now, Alice Phil was a little sad to recall that Illya's anomalous magic overflowed at that time, and it was clear that it was not for nothing that she would pretend to be the Winter Maiden - in the future of eventually becoming a Heroic Spirit, she sacrificed herself to the Root for some reason, just like the original Winter Maiden.
"Kiritsugu, what just happened to Caster?" After finally meeting up with her husband, a worried Alice Fell asked him directly, after all, judging from the direction she was traveling, it was obvious that she had passed from Kiritsugu.
"Black Saber and Rider fought in the Intrinsic Enchantment, her Noble Phantasm was too powerful to penetrate the Intrinsic Enchantment, and Caster appeared and absorbed it."
No, not absorption, Caster transferred it through the portal to another battlefield and defeated the unexpectedly dressed Heroic Spirit, Alice Phil thought.
"Also, the Assassin stabbed me in the guise of Hayashi, which had a toxin on it that interfered with the operation of the mana," Kiritsugu seemed to be a little unhappy with his mistake, and his tone stiffened, "Not only was it transferred by Caster. ”
"Is that so......" Alice Phil lowered her voice.
In this way, the reason why Illya spilled out her magic and froze herself from time to time also got an answer - the operation of her magic was disturbed.
This also solves a long-standing puzzle - with Illya's skills, she can easily cure the patients around Fuyuki General Hospital, but why transfer those diseases to Lin Hao?
Because their "transfer" doesn't pre-avail damage reduction.
A stab may be a minor injury to a human, but if you want to inflict the same damage on the Heroic Spirit, it can only be a Noble Phantasm attack that exceeds its protective capabilities.
As for the diseases of ordinary people, in order to have a similar effect on the Heroic Spirit, it would have to use at least a large magic equivalent to dozens of chantings, and with the magic of the Caster rank, its power would be even more terrifying.
"The riverside stronghold is temporarily unusable," Kiritsugu said, dropping the cigarette butt from his mouth and looking at Alice Phil, "Let's go to the 'Sea House' attached to the castle annex to deal with the next decisive battle." ”
Alice Phil is still very clear about Kiritsugu's style of acting, he will never prepare only one stronghold, after accepting the commission of the Holy Grail War, there are more than a dozen temporary strongholds for reconnaissance in the winter wood room, even if Einzberen was attacked last time, and he didn't find anything unusual when he went to the Sea House to hide, but this just proves that Kiritsugu is hidden.
"Hmm...... Good. Alice Fell nodded, even if she guessed her daughter's information accurately, it was only something that Elijah herself had known for a long time, and what she needed to do now was not to cause her more trouble.
On the other hand, although they don't deal with each other and taunt each other when they meet, Saber· Alter saw Saber· Lily just raised an eyebrow and walked over to help her into the buggy.
Speaking of which, Lily now needs to add additional magic power in addition to the magic power from herself, but with the current conditions, she can't make the Japanese meal she likes, and the conditions on the Sea House side are also ...... Well?
"No, I'm not going to eat your junk food......"
In the back seat of the SUV, there was a report from Saber· Lily's voice.
“…… Not! Hmmm! ”