Chapter Forty-Six: Deceit
My name is Elijah,
Shi Chen and Kenneth are tearing each other apart.
129:43:21
Lancer is in a bitter battle, a fact that even Webb can see.
Two large, bulky puppets made entirely of pink crystals blocked the group of people who had burst into Tosaka's mansion in the hallway.
The Red Rose can remove all magic, but the power to make the puppet move comes from its core, and to poke it, you have to destroy a large crystal in the front or back of the puppet, but then there is no need to use the Red Rose, a small magic trick can disintegrate it.
The extinct Yellow Rose can prevent wounds from healing, but the puppet's mobilization of crystals from other parts to cover and repair wounds is not considered "healing" at all......
If it weren't for Lancer's possession of the Heart Eye, a highly skilled skill that is very conducive to close combat, he would have been defeated a long time ago.
On his teacher's side, he watched the battle with his hands behind his back easily, and his posture was calm and chic, as if he was holding the victory, but the demon who was punched and kicked by the puppet so that he flew everywhere completely destroyed his confident expression.
Mr. Kenneth is good at séance and alchemy, basically making demons are summoned spirits, and then using alchemy to strengthen them, but if it is not a weak spirit that has been temporarily recruited for a long time, it is useless no matter how strong it is, Webb looked at a mummy with a strengthened metal appearance being trampled by the puppet, and sighed silently.
The most important thing is that these puppets have a strong ability to absorb magic attacks, and if they are not careful, they can directly "fatten" it to more than twice their original size.
So how did Emiya Kiritsugu break through their defenses at that time?
"Mr. Webb, you can answer, with the existing conditions, how can you quickly destroy these two crystal puppets?" Kenneth seemed to think that Weber was idle, so he took the initiative to ask questions by name.
"Uh...... Since our weapons are useless, why don't we let them kill each other? Webb said casually while complaining that the teacher had come up with the question at this time.
"......, but it seems that Mr. Kenneth is quite surprised, is it really possible?"
129:41:23
Ding! Boom!
"What, what's going on with these two Assassins?"
Although the Assassins infiltrated the mansion without checking for a while, they were spotted by Sora as soon as they triggered the first magic trap and caused quite a bit of shock.
Even though the mansion was a temporary workshop and the decoration was of poor quality, after careful arrangement, there was no shortage of protective enchantments and traps, and Sora activated and controlled the traps one by one between the safest controls.
Kenneth analyzed Caster's plan and believed that all the Heroes and Masters had their battlefields in this large-scale battle, and it was impossible for anyone to easily level the opponent and attack Sora, and the only thing to worry about was to incarnate countless Assassins, so his defense adjustments to the Western-style Pavilion before the battle were all set up for large groups of weak enemies.
Judging from the current situation where black figures flashed in the monitoring crystal ball at any time, it can be said that it is in the middle of the game, and Sora did use those magic traps and trigger summoning demons to eliminate several Assassins, but the plan can't keep up with the changes.
Spike Trap, a magic trap designed in reference to Luna's original body, looks like an ordinary carpet or wall hanging, but as long as there is a presence defined as an enemy approaching, it will suddenly stab at the opponent like a hedgehog, and the best of them have already pierced three Assassins in this defense, but it is also the first to break the sand.
It was a much taller entity than the other Assassins, his massive body and strong muscles made it appear more than three times larger than the others, and the spike trap even made a stone-like clinking sound after stabbing at him, and then the entire trap was destroyed by his punch in the next second.
Stamping traps are another type, usually placed in narrow or high corridors disguised as walls, and when the enemy approaches, they will rush with lightning speed, and if successful, the target will be knocked flat or knocked down from a high place, depending on the terrain, and similarly, this trap that kills Assassins one after another also encountered a nemesis.
It was a tall but normal Assassin with exceptionally large arms and fists, and Sora had the impression that he had beaten Iskandar back and allowed Berserker to take the bullock cart. At this moment, he not only used his huge fist to stop the ramming trap, but also dragged down the panel disguised as a wall.
"That's—" Sora slapped the table in exasperation, after all, there were only a few traps out of all the traps, and the two guys could have torn off most of them with their own aggressive bodies, and then they could only pray that they couldn't find the control in between.
"Luna! You go out and shoot them to death! In the end, Sora made the decision to take the initiative, even if the Assassins couldn't find her in the end, and when Kenneth came back and saw the chaos, would she have to explain that she was afraid of fighting and had been hiding?
Wouldn't that make him very proud?
Although Luna's treasure is not yet fully formed, it should be no problem to take the two large thick boards that are not known for the material.
"Yes, Queen," Luna got up and walked through the same trap-strewn passage to the outside.
129:38:01
"Bump! Touch! Rumble! ”
On the top floor of the Tosaka Mansion, two huge crystal puppets had just fallen apart, and the pair of monsters who had been helpless with the efforts of Lancer and the demons were beaten to each other by punching each other in a movement like an earthquake, and finally fell to the ground and shattered at the same time.
"Observe carefully, Mr. Webb." Kenneth was in a good mood because of the breakthrough, and Webber naturally didn't ask himself where he had been careful.
After Webber proposed to let the Crystal Puppets kill each other, Kenneth, who approved of it, immediately adjusted his strategy, allowing the Demons and Lancer to fight and retreat at the same time, and finally let the two stone men get close and accidentally punch each other, with the result that the two of them fought endlessly, completely ignoring Kenneth's master and apprentice.
"There is a limit to the enhancement effect of any magic prop, and if the puppet's body is strengthened to this extent, then the maker's control of their minds will have to be as simple as possible, I'm afraid there is only a 'guard here', 'who will fight whom' level of orders, but for now, they still have a 'infinite counterattack' setting." Kenneth, who was in a good mood, took the initiative to explain.
Infinite Counterattack, which means an unlimited number of counterattacks at any target that hurts them, is ideal for bulky, thick-skinned guards, but if they can't hit their target and there are other enemies within range who have damaged them......
"But teacher, why do I think that the enhancement direction of these two crystal puppets is completely aimed at you and Lancer?" Webber looked at Dilumudo, who continued to explore the path ahead: "From this, if Tosaka Tokitomi had already anticipated that we were coming, could there be something more targeted later?" ”
"Hmm." Kenneth frowned.
In the previous battle of the warehouse, too much information had been revealed, so it was natural that the enemy tried to target him, but in the absence of the main heroic spirits of both sides, he still had to deliberately target himself, the master, for the ......
"Be careful, Lord!"
Pushing open the attic on the top floor of the Tosaka Mansion, a pitch-black figure bypassed Lancer like lightning and swooped down on the two Lords, and Kenneth only had time to see that it was a shorter man who was thinner than the other Assassins.
Ding——!
Returning in time, Lancer quickly picked up the scimitar that slashed at Webber's throat, and Webber didn't retreat in surprise until the dust settled.
However, at this time, the little Assassin who had just been killed was gone.
"Humph!" Dilumudo seemed to feel that he couldn't hold his face, so he slammed the door and rushed in.
"Hehe~ There is a way in heaven that you don't go, and hell has no door to break in."
On a chair in the middle of the attic leaned on a female Assassin, also dressed in a black tights and a white mask, but covered in a black veil, her voice hoarse and languid.
"Heh, you're the body of those Assassin incarnations, and it's not a small breath to die." Kenneth followed Lancer into the room, glancing around to make sure there were no other magic traps.
“…… Noumenon? Webber cautiously followed, as if afraid to bump into the little man again.
"This Assassin incarnation has been attacked everywhere countless times, and it is impossible for it to go without a price," Kenneth confidently pointed to the female Assassin, "Obviously, as an ontology, she can neither be spiritualized nor combative. ”
"Hehehe-" the female assassin sneered, "Only one servant dared to enter the enemy's base camp, and I don't know who it was when I died." ”
As she spoke, a black mist began to roll around her, and eventually, ten Assassins, including the previous little man, appeared to surround Kenneth Trio.
"Remember, my name is 'Melti of Hundred Faces.'" The female Assassin's tone was a little smug: "Makul, kill them." ”
"Well, I remember." Kenneth sneered similarly, "Lancer, the real name of the Liberation Treasure. ”
"What? Not red and yellow roses? The self-proclaimed female Assassin's tone brought a bit of panic.
"Pierce them!" Lancer exclaimed, "[Gae· Dearg! Gae· Buidhe! 】”
With a blazing red and yellow glow, Lancer's form turned into an invisible afterimage, and when he reappeared, all the Assassins had been impaled and fell to the ground and disappeared as spirit children.
"This can't be—" The self-proclaimed Female Assassin followed in their footsteps.
"Very good, this raid has basically achieved its goal, retreat." Kenneth sensed for a few more moments, and after making sure there was no Heroic aura around, he beckoned Lancer and Webb to leave.
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"It's a good show, huh."
In the underground workshop of the Tosaka Mansion, completely isolated from the spell of magic fluctuations, Yan Feng Qili, who had lost his [empathy] due to the death of all the Assassins on the upper floor, stroked the sleeping Emil in his arms, and the corners of his mouth pulled up a little arc.
This tactical deception, which is worth two spells, should have been successful.