Chapter 384, Flower of Darkness
"Avalon" is an ideal country founded by goblins, another small world that is protected by great magic and independent from this world.
King Arthur was the only mortal emperor to be granted residency in Avalon after his death, and legend has it that her wise rule was admired by the elves.
As a Heroic Spirit, "Avalon" is Artoria's last trump card. When she holds the scabbard in her hand, she will ignore all damage and isolate all earthly attacks.
Therefore, no matter how powerful Himeno and his Sky Driving Legion were, they couldn't shake Avalon in the slightest. When the blade touched Artoria's body, the force blasted everyone away.
After liberating the Avalonian Noble Phantasm, Artoria's previous injuries were instantly healed, and in addition to the huge loss of mana, everything seemed to be back to the beginning of the battle.
But...... The price of all this is a huge loss of mana.
In fact, although her injuries have healed, Artoria is already out of breath, and with the Wind King's enchantment and Avalon just now, her magic has bottomed out.
As long as the fight lasted for another minute, her body would collapse as her magic ran dry, and before that...... The only chance to win is ......
She clenched the holy sword in her hand, and she poured the last of her magic into it.
With the instinct of foreseeing the future, she seized the opportunity of a thousandthth of a second in the next round of attacks of the Sky Exorcist Legion.
"Oath...... Sword of Victory! ”
The moment Avalon used the last of his magic to bounce off everyone's attacks, the light of the holy sword shone again. Ignoring everyone else, she has only one goal.
"Himeno!"
If these Heroic Spirits are called. So just kill the original Heroic Spirit, right?
Ignoring the second round of attacks immediately launched by the others, Artoria continued to stir up her magic in a desperate attempt to channel the light of destruction of the Holy Sword towards the tyrant.
With Himeno's speed, there was no way to dodge.
However...... At the moment of swinging the sword, Artoria's instinct, as if foreseeing the future, made Artoria perceive some unusual power.
In the Skydrive Legion, there is one person who has never made a move!?
It was a white-haired woman who looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a robe decorated with star patterns, at this moment. She is holding the Dharma Seal in her hand, guiding some mysterious power to descend into the world.
"It took a lot of time to calculate this exotic starry sky, but in the end, it was the same way."
The stars in the sky radiated a dazzling brilliance, and some kind of power from the sky was channeled down by the white-haired woman, turning into a silver circle, trapping Artoria in it.
"Hoshino Formation!"
For a moment, Artoria felt that her whole body was bound by some invisible force. Those beautiful silver rays were stronger than steel, and Artoria relied on her A-level magic resistance to force the holy sword to wield, but ...... The golden pillar of light passed by Himeno......
The last attack, which did not hit.
"It's over......"
After the blow, Artoria knew she had lost her last chance. The empty body has run out of mana, let alone fight. Even normal walking is impossible.
Her heart was filled with a strong sense of frustration. Why? Why did you fail so easily!?
It's okay to say that simple skills are inferior to people, but the enemy clearly relies on numbers to defeat themselves.
Why? A tyrant with a group of companions who trust each other so much? Have such an army of allegiance? Even after death, it was sublimated into a treasure!?
So...... What about yourself as the so-called "Ming Jun"? But in the end, he is still alone, with dreams that will never be understood, and he is doing his efforts that will never be praised.
Like a stubbornly stupid paranoid. Proceed cautiously on the path called "Right".
is like an ascetic who is self-inflicted, giving endlessly in the ridicule and indifference of everyone. Nothing in return.
With a self-deprecating laugh, Artoria relaxed.
"Perhaps...... Failure is the best ending for me. ”
Realizing this, although full of unwillingness, but just as a fighter, this defeat is not unacceptable.
"That's it......"
Faced with the next round of attacks from the Skydrive Legion, Artoria was ready to accept her defeat.
……
However, as time passed, she did not feel pain.
"It's not like that."
A voice rang in his ears.
"Who?" Artoria opened her eyes, only to find herself floating naked in a pitch-black space.
There was no answer, just some kind of black fog spreading through the space.
"Ya...... ...... Wang ......"
Suddenly, she felt the touch of something wet scraping across her cheeks.
Artoria turned her head like an electric shock, only to see a dissipating mist, and she reached for her cheek, looking down to see that some kind of scarlet liquid had stained her fingertips red.
Is that...... Blood.
"Alukata! It's you? ”
After experiencing the initial panic, she immediately guessed the author of all this.
"Ha, that's sensitive."
A slightly cool ** was attached to Artoria's back, and the white jade-like arms passed under the girl's armpits.
"What!?"
Artoria immediately struggled, but found that she could not move even a single bit of her body.
"Be obedient~"
Then, his arms began to move slowly, like a snake, along his lower abdomen, and his five fingers pressed down slightly, pressing red marks on his skin, crossing his sensitive flanks, climbing up the green, small curves, and finally reaching Artoria's cheeks, which trembled slightly with anger.
"Demon, what do you want to do?!" As if entangled in a python, Artoria was furious.
"I'm here to help you win. With your Noble Phantasm, as long as you have enough magic power, you are invincible, right? ”
"Let go of me, I don't need your help."
"No, you need it, you need it." Alukata clung to Artoria, who couldn't move, and continued to tempt the pure knight in a tone full of **.
"It's painful, Artoria, the world is so unjust. You are such a dedicated person, who has given everything for the country, but in the end he ended up betraying and dying, and he? The man who seized the world by bloody means, but he held great power and enjoyed all the glory and wealth. ”
"......" Alukata's words were magical, and Artoria felt a strong emotion welling up from within.
The black mind began to erode the original pure white and flawless soul.
"Want to win, right? Want to keep fighting, right? Then accept my magic, put aside your responsibilities, and just pursue victory as a warrior. As long as you win, you can definitely find the answer you seek. ”
It was as if water had seeped into the parched, cracked soil, and the surrounding black mist burrowed through every pore of Artoria.
“…… No! ”
Subconsciously struggling, like drinking to quench his thirst, knowing that the black magic is by no means a good thing, but the body involuntarily frantically absorbs it.
As the magic power was introduced, Artoria's resistance became weaker and weaker......
"Haha, lovely knight king, if you want magic, I have a lot of them here."
Looking at the painful appearance of Artoria's confrontation with herself, the complex emotions of longing and disgust, the ancestor of the vampire showed an extremely satisfied expression.
"Come on, come on! Suck it up, lovely Artoria, how do you satisfy your appetite? ”
With a lewd smile, Arukata buried her head in kissing the trembling knight king in her arms, and a huge and dirty magic flowed from her mouth......
Pure white flowers, stained with ink.
Noble people fall into the quagmire of **.
What could be more pleasing to a demon like Arukathe?
The Flower of Darkness, which had been buried in Artoria's body since she was first summoned, finally came to bloom.