"Here comes the sword!"

With Emiya Shirou's call, a weapon flew into his hand through the air.

Archer is not surprised that his other self has such an ability-

After all, his infinite sword system can also achieve the same effect to some extent.

However, when Archer saw what the other party was holding, he fell silent for a few seconds......

The weapon held by Emiya Shirou was about the same length as his height, with a large head and a small handle, in the shape of a spindle, covered with irregular hideous sharp spines, and the overall appearance of a dull metallic color, which appeared unpretentious.

"Wait, you say it's a sword!?"

If Archer remembers correctly, this kind of thing seems to have another name, called ......

Mace.

Although it was a friendly army, Archer couldn't help but complain to Emiya Shirou: "No matter how you look at it, it's a blunt weapon belonging to the armor-piercing stream, right?" ”

"This is the sword."

In the face of Archer's questioning, Emiya Shirou did not hesitate at all, and replied categorically.

"Stop, do you have any misunderstanding about the sword?"

As the owner of the inherent enchantment 'Infinite Sword System', Archer naturally has enough knowledge of 'sword'.

He could see that the weapon held by Emiya Shirou was a 'fake' made by means of projection.

But he really couldn't understand why the other party summoned a mace with a hideous image while shouting 'sword'?

You must know that the Infinite Sword System is limited by its own magical attributes and origin, and its projection range is not very wide, although it is not impossible to copy other weapons or armor, but this often consumes several times or even more than ten times the magic power of the sword, so except for the defensive armor 'Blazing Sky Covering Sevenfold Ring', which specializes in flying props, Archer rarely projects other things.

After all, compared to the original, the texture of the fake itself will be affected, and it will often drop by one level, and if it costs several times more magic power to make it, it will simply outweigh the loss, even in terms of the magic power of the Heroic Spirit, it is also a rather wasteful behavior, not to mention that Emiya Shirou is just an ordinary person!

…… Wait, ordinary people?

Thinking of this, Archer fell silent again.

Well, let's just think of this self who is completely different from myself, an ordinary person......

"Nope."

Emiya Shirou didn't look back: "It's just that you have a slight misunderstanding of what you are holding in your hand." ”

He asked lightly, "What is a sword?"

Emiya Shirou's eyes were fixed on Gilgamesh in the distance, but what he said was exactly what Archer had heard.

"The magic attributes and origins of me and you should all be 'swords', the so-called natural formation of the sword. So, why is it solidified into a 'sword'? ”

"The history of mankind should be earlier than the birth of the 'sword', so before the birth of the 'sword', what is the name of the things they hold in their hands?"

"The Japanese word for 'sword' is often called 'sword' in other countries. The way of the 'sword' that we practice is actually the path of the 'sword'. However, even if it is a skill like sword drawing, we call it swordsmanship. ”

"Western swordsmanship is different. In addition to the big sword that opens and closes, they also have different bayonets, but what is the difference between it and the magnified needle? But it's also a 'sword'. ”

"Since its birth, the sword has been a weapon, born for killing, no matter how high-sounding it is, it can't change this essence."

"I once heard Master tell a story......

Emiya Shirou stood his mace on the ground and began to tell: "In ancient times, there was a swordsman who was invincible and had never met an opponent in his life. However, his skills have not been wasted, but have grown older, and in the course of penance, he has continued to ......"

"In the beginning, he relied on the sword, fierce and invincible."

"Then, he tried the soft sword, the move changes, the twists and turns."

"Then, he used the heavy sword, which had no edge, and was not skillful."

In the end, he finally broke through the shackles, and he did not stay in things, and all plants, trees, bamboos and stones could be used as swords. Since then, he has been refined, and gradually to the realm where no sword is better than a sword......"

"This kind of realm is really fascinating."

Listening to his story, Archer sighed, "If this predecessor is famous, summoned as a heroic spirit, and is of the rank of saber, how powerful should he be?" ”

"Let's not mention this for now, here's the problem."

Speaking of this, Emiya Shirou asked, "A swordsman with this kind of divine skill, he holds a bamboo branch in his hand and a straw, is that a sword?" ”

“……”

Archer was silent for a moment: "Naturally, yes. “

"So, what about the mace in his hand?"

Without waiting for Archer to speak, Emiya Shirou asked himself: "Of course, it's also a sword!" A sword is a blade, and a blade is a sword. Although the form is constantly changing with the development of history, the role remains the same. The stone tool used by the ancient people was the sword, the bronze tool used by the ancient people was the sword, the iron tool was the sword, and the steel tool was the sword. This one...... Naturally, it's also a sword! The name is meaningless, but to see the essence through the appearance, what the sword can do, it can also do, then it is the sword. ”

After that, Emiya Shirou waved the mace in his hand casually, and in the dust, a deep trace immediately appeared on the ground.

Looking at this scene, Arche subconsciously estimated in his heart that the sword aura was particularly large, at least five or six meters!

"In this world, there should be few people on the path of the 'sword' who have gone further than me...... I think I should have a voice. ”

Putting down the mace, Emiya Shirou's hand flashed again, and a long tube appeared: "For me, this is also a sword." ”

"In the beginning, I could only project swords, and when my magic concept and cultivation went further, other weapons and armor could also do it, and when I became enlightened, finally, I was able to project the crystallization of technology that human beings used to fight and kill...... The same weapon used in killing battles is the modern sword. ”

"Don't be misled by inherent experience anymore, what you think is a sword, then, it's a sword! The moves it uses are also sword moves. ”

Archer's eyes straightened.

Before he was killed by the white-eyed wolves who took revenge on the generals, he saw this thing on the battlefield in the Middle East more than once!

Its name, even after a long time, is deeply imprinted in Archer's mind......

You can't go wrong, it's an RPG!

Archer covered her face, forcibly holding back the urge to yell.

it! Why are you so capable?

Project a mace and tell me that it's a sword, even if it's a sword, according to your crooked reasoning, you can barely get it back.

But do you project an RPG and tell me that this is also a sword?

Well, if you think about it, it's not unreasonable......

A sword is nothing more than a weapon.

Weapons are things that are used in battle and killing.

Evolving from the Stone Age all the way to modern times, it seems that there is nothing wrong with saying that RPGs are the sword of justice of the moment?

Archer smiled wryly and turned his head, only to see Rin Tosaka on the side listening to the light in his eyes.

Although the Tosaka family is a famous magician, the unlucky ghost of Tosaka Shichen died prematurely and did not give much guidance to his daughter.

Relying only on the foundation laid in childhood, plus studying alone. According to the magic books handed down by the family, Rin Tosaka's ability to grow into such an excellent magician is not unrelated to her extraordinary talent.

Because of this, she has not received a systematic education and has little discipline since she was a child, so she will not be affected by the usual way of thinking of ordinary magicians, and is more like an ordinary person. When you see a skill that you can't understand, you don't feel repulsed, but you are curious and want to learn it.

She's not an old-school magician who follows the rules, and after being inspired by Emiya Shirou, it seems that some new idea has been born, and she only needs a chance to turn this inspiration into reality.

"What an interesting statement!"

A voice with a hint of surprise sounded, and Gilgamesh on the side seemed to be unable to help but speak.

He exclaimed, "Your point of view on the 'sword' is wonderful, but ...... There is a fatal drawback. ”

"The objects made by projection magic are all fakes after all. Whether it is a knife, a sword, a blunt weapon, or a modern weapon, no matter what you project, it is in natural hardware conditions, and it cannot match the prototype in the king's treasure. ”

With Gilgamesh's movements, circles of golden ripples appeared in the space behind him, and a weapon with a shimmering handle appeared from his treasure house.

There was a condescending look in his eyes, but it was so natural, like the king of the gods above everything.

"It's as if the gap between the Heroic Spirit and the mortal is out of reach."

With a wave of his right hand, those blades turned into more than a dozen streamers under the impetus of magic power, shooting towards the few people in front of him:

"Let me see if the realm of the so-called "Sword God" in your mouth can smooth out the gap in this kind of grid! ”

"Not good!"

Archer's heart tightened, and he wanted to project the Sevenfold Circle of Blazing Sky to fend off this attack.

In fact, with his speed, he could have dodged before the attack was added, instead of using the defensive treasure at the bottom of the box, but Rin Tosaka was by his side, and Archer, who didn't have time to leave with her, had to make this decision.

However, before Archer projected a treasure with a strength comparable to the overlapping of the seven-story ancient city walls, Shirou Emiya in front of him had already taken the lead.

"Arrowbreaker!"

With the trigger pulled, the rocket was fired.

It sliced a subtle arc through the air and slammed straight into the center of those weapons!

Bang!

Just as it reached a certain position, it suddenly exploded.

In the impact of the huge explosion, the direction of the dozens of treasures has changed slightly, no longer locking the three people, but the trajectories of some treasures are intertwined with each other.

Jingle Bell –

With the tooth-aching sound of collision, a small part of the Noble Phantasm had lost its power.

"This ...... Is this really swordsmanship? ”

Archer's face changed.

The things in front of him really affected his cognition.

Emiya Shirou didn't answer him, as the remaining Noble Phantasms were already approaching him.

Draw your sword and slash through the air!

This time, he brought up the mace from earlier.

I saw a sword qi visible to the naked eye slash out, straight at the remaining treasures that were still flying!

Under the effect of such a 'sharp' power, even if those legendary weapons have magical acceleration, they can't help but stagnate.

This is what Emiya Shirou wants.

In the next moment, with the surge of magic power, Emiya Shirou threw down the soldiers in his hand, and projected a ten-character gun with a length of five or six meters in his hand, grasped it with both hands, and grasped the fleeting flaws of those treasures, moving like thunder, a little cold light came first, and then the gun came out like a dragon, and the weapon in his hand swept out again with a series of phantoms.

With a series of piercing collision sounds, the dozens of treasures were all swept away, completely lost power, and fell into the dust!

"Oh, how can you resist the king's treasure?"

Gilgamesh looked at this scene with some curiosity.

To him, the loss of those dozens of treasures was nothing.

This level of things, among his king's treasures, can be said to be as much as there are, and there will be no heartache at all.

He's just interested in the unknown.

Neither before nor after becoming a Heroic Spirit, he had never seen such skills displayed by Emiya Shirou.

His mind moved, and there were twice as many golden ripples behind him as before.

Gilgamesh wanted to see where the young man in front of him could go.

At this moment, though.

Bang bang bang!

Several muffled sounds.

Gilgamesh felt a long-lost sore sensation, which made him frown.

The wrist he raised had already been marked with several blood marks by an unknown hidden weapon.

If he hadn't reacted in time and dodged, I'm afraid he would have suffered a penetrating injury.

"You ......"

Gilgamesh was annoyed.

How dare this person do things without the king's arrangement?

Aren't you supposed to stand still and fight me in your turn-based battles until I'm pushed to the limit!

Obviously, I gave you the opportunity to explain to your companions just now, and I didn't do it during this period, and now, you don't play cards according to common sense?

He looked at Emiya Shirou, and the young man's expression did not change.

In his left hand, he held an extra-long ten-character gun, and in his right hand, at some point, an old-fashioned musket appeared, the muzzle of which was filled with smoke, and it was evident that it had inflicted the six blows that had previously wounded Gilgamesh.

"I know you didn't intend to give it all to me in the first place, so I just avoided it."

The boy met Gilgamesh's scarlet pupils without fear, "I'm just here to remind you that this is a battle, and arrogance and water are useless. ”

"The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, hesitate, and you will lose!"

“……”

Hearing this, Gilgamesh glanced deeply at Emiya Shirou, and for the first time did not look down on him condescendingly with those superior eyes.

"Then it's up to you...... Is there such a qualification? ”

At this moment, Gilgamesh ...... No! Ripples flickered behind the Hero King, and in an instant, countless treasures shot towards the boy.

And Emiya Shirou wielded a giant that exuded a terrifying aura. The gun, facing the golden light, rubbed his body up.

"One library left! Hero King! ”

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"It's an RPG again, it's a mace again, it's a ten-word gun, it's a musket again......"

The inherent concept from childhood to adulthood is still difficult to give up after all, watching the hero king and him fight Ding Lingdang, in full swing, Rin Tosaka, who has been brought to the side by Archer, couldn't help but complain: "Shirou, he can also bear the name of the sword god?" ”

"Nope! What he said was true......"

Archer, who had already seen something, smiled wryly and said to his master, "Although the weapon used is very subtle, he is indeed using swordsmanship!" And it is the pinnacle of superb swordsmanship, which has never been seen before or since! ”

"To say why ......"

Archer looked at the Mo Ye Twin Blades in his hand: "Just looking at his attacks, I feel that my swordsmanship cultivation has improved, and it has increased by as much as 25%. ”

"Huh?"

Rin Tosaka doesn't know swordsmanship, so he naturally doesn't understand why Archer is so shocked: "Why are the numbers you said so accurate?" “

"You won't understand, this is the touching that people who practice swords can understand without words, I only know today that the peak of swordsmanship is like this."

Archer sighed: "Cultivating swordsmanship to the extreme can increase the damage of your teammates by 25%. In addition to himself, he can also influence others, and will not help his enemies in the slightest. With such exquisite control, this kind of cultivation is simply amazing! Not even any Heroic Spirit who descended as a Saber would be able to do this. ”

"And he didn't say much, and he did! He perfectly blends his sword moves into RPGs, maces, ten-word guns, and bursting muskets...... Every attack just now was infused with an amazing and wonderful sword theory. ”

"So, can he beat that golden pickup?"

Rin Tosaka didn't expect that Archer would have such a high opinion of Emiya Shirou.

"This ...... I don't know. ”

Archer remembered something, a memory from a long time ago.

He also became serious: "That guy has a treasure that is enough to destroy the world, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the Ancient King is one of the strongest heroic spirits, even if he only came to the rank of Archer and was limited by a lot of strength, he is not such a difficult guy to deal with." ”

"You mean, this guy isn't the strongest posture yet? So exaggerated? ”

Rin Tosaka is a little unconvinced, humans will always be suspicious of things beyond their understanding.

"That's that exaggeration!"

Archer smiled bitterly, "Don't look at what I'm saying now, if it weren't for the existence of the ranks, the gap between the two of us would have been smoothed out a lot, and if I really used the body on the Valhalla, even if I used the inherent enchantment 'Infinite Sword System', I might not even be able to survive for ten minutes." ”

"Even if it's just the hero king of this servant's body, even if that 'me' has such extraordinary swordsmanship, as well as some strange abilities that I don't know, it can't be said to be a sure thing."

The next moment, as if to confirm his words, the two in the fierce battle suddenly stopped, and the sound of weapons handing over disappeared.

Rin Tosaka and Archer looked over, only to see that there were no more ripples behind Gilgamesh, and the smoke and dust had cleared, revealing Emiya Shirou's unscathed figure.

He dispersed the extra-long cross gun in his right hand, and the six-barreled Vulcan cannon with a red barrel in his other hand at some point, and the muscles in his chest rose and fell without exaggeration, and a mouthful of white training visible to the naked eye spat out of his mouth, cutting the brown earth with a creak.

- The lungs belong to gold, because of the exercises, when he really starts to fight seriously, the breath he exhales carries sword qi.

The sharpness of Emiya Shirou's whole person did not decrease but increased, and his eyes looked at the hero king who was still standing there.

"It seems that this king underestimates you, this level is nothing to you."

Looking at the slightly rapid breath, but as if the sword was slowly being drawn from the sheath, the whole person became more and more sharp, Gilgamesh's eyes became completely sharp, and the original trace of laziness was gone.

He finally put away his arrogance.

The Hero King looked at Emiya Shirou and said, "Miscellaneous...... No, young man, you have proved by your abilities that you are an adversary worthy of the king's attention. ”

"You have taken over the king's treasure, so what power will you use to face the next attack?"

As he spoke, his right hand reached out to the open space on the side, and with a slight grip, he grabbed something like the hilt of a sword—

However, at this moment, the old musket that had disappeared in Emiya Shirou's hand suddenly appeared, and with lightning speed, he pulled the trigger and fired several shots at Gilgamesh's right hand!

But Gilgamesh seemed to be prepared, and his vacant left hand grasped the void, and in an instant, the extremely brilliant huge seven-layer pink petals unfolded, enveloping him in it.

The strengthened bullet hit one of the petals, and it didn't even shake for a minute.

"This level of attack, even ten times stronger, is useless."

Gilgamesh's voice resounded throughout the Inherent Barrier.

"That's ...... A prototype of Rho Aias?! ”

And in the distance, the red Archer had a look of disbelief in his eyes, "How is that possible?" He shouldn't be able to use it, huh? ”

Rin Tosaka looked at the beautiful petals, and couldn't help but have a little envy in her eyes and asked, "Rho Aias?" What is it? ”

"You can call him the Sevenfold Ring of Blazing Heaven......"

Archer muttered for a few seconds, and the same beautiful light unfolded in his hand, but it looked small, just the size of a palm.

He handed this incomparably beautiful flower made by projection magic, which had no defensive power, but perfectly restored, to Rin Tosaka, and took it with a happy expression on the girl's face: "In the Trojan War of Greek mythology, Aias used a bronze shield covered with seven layers of cowhide to block Hector's spear. ”

"It's useless, as long as you can't break through the seven layers of defense in an instant, I can rely on magic power to reset it infinitely, and the defense power of a single layer is comparable to a thick city wall......"

Among the translucent petals, Gilgamesh pulled out his right hand, revealing the hilt of the sword.

That's ...... A huge golden key.

And the key is emitting a dazzling golden light at the moment, slowly deforming-

"Be careful, that's a good sword!"

The future Emiya Shirou shouted at the red-haired boy from a distance: "It's too late to say specifically, this thing is a treasure of the realm, and it is specially aimed at the super-large range and powerful attack of the inherent enchantment!"

"Thank you."

Emiya Shirou answered.

"Enemy Treasure......"

Reminded of this, he thoughtfully shook his right hand at Gilgamesh.

"Drink!"

In an instant, the speed at which the sword was transforming suddenly stagnated, as if the weight of the entire world was on it!

The Sword Realm, as the inherent enchantment of Emiya Shirou, was originally an independent space completely controlled by him, and at this moment, he controlled the entire world to put pressure there, and for a while, he actually made Gilgamesh unseal this world-splitting sword greatly slowed down-

It seems that there is about a minute left before the unsealing is completed.

"Very good control, your inherent enchantment is different from those balloons that I punctured like tofu, it can be regarded as tough and heavy."

Gilgamesh exclaimed, but in the blink of an eye, he showed the peculiar eyes of a king.

- The obedient sword in the unsealing suddenly shook the surrounding space into broken lines!

"Under the incomparably sharp sword, it makes no difference whether you are paper or cowhide!"

"There's still a minute, and you can't interrupt this blow, how can you resist it?"

Holding aloft the changing Creation Divine Weapon in his hand, Gilgamesh looked down at Emiya Shirou.

"He deserves to be the king of the ancients...... It's amazing. ”

Emiya Shirou's palms merged, and then slowly separated, in the midst of which, a little light was gradually stretched, and he said lightly: "However, I am far from being exhausted. ”

After speaking, his palms were completely separated, and a black shadow appeared in the eyes of everyone present.

"That's ......"

Rin Tosaka's pupils shrank.

"How could it be ......"

Looking at that thing, Archer was also incredulous.

“……”

Even when it was the background board of a chapter, Yan Feng Qili, who had always been ancient and waveless, also changed color.

Without him, what appeared in the hands of Emiya Shirou was not some peerless divine weapon, nor was it a high-tech weapon, nor was it something incomprehensible.

It is a knife.

A rusty, cracked knife.

It's not a treasure, it's not an artifact, it's just a ......

Rusty katana.