219. Fierce Battle at the Castle
The shrill neighing of horses tore through the night sky of Einzberen Castle. The addition of a third-party force caused both sides to pause for a moment, and in front of Emiya Kiritsugu, a snow-white horse crossed the skylight and landed in front of him.
Seeing the figure of the white-clothed military general on horseback who had once had a relationship with each other and another decadent man in a hooded sweatshirt, Emiya Kiritsugu put on a posture of imminent battle:
"Berserker, and the Berserker Master? Why are you here tonight? ”
The strange posture of the wild goose slowly flipped off the horse, and the experienced Emiya Kiritsugu judged at a glance from the movements of the wild night that the opponent's left hand and left foot were stiff and immobile.
However, he is not surprised, since ancient times, magicians have been freaks in the eyes of ordinary people, and among the magicians he has seen and even killed, there are many who have a few more hands, and many of them have implanted strange organs or modification devices in their bodies. The decadent man in front of him at least retains his human appearance, which is not very strange.
Jian Tong Yan stood still on the ground at night, coughed lightly a few times, and then lifted his hat, revealing his face:
"You should be the lord of Saber, Emiya Kiritsugu. Don't worry, we're here to talk about a partnership. ”
Emiya Kiritsugu's vigilance still hasn't been let go,
"Cooperation? What do you mean? ”
"We'll discuss the specifics later. As a sign of our sincerity, Berserker and I will help you stop the lancer, and you will deal with the lancer's master. What do you think? What do you think of this deal? ”
Emiya Kiritsu's mind was spinning, and the reason why he fell into disadvantage was mainly because he was one against two, especially when the other party had a servant. The combat effectiveness of these heroes far exceeds that of ordinary magicians. It's an impossible task to win on your own.
He felt that he had taken advantage of the advice of the Berserker Master. And the other party did not propose to fight with him, but suggested that the two sides fight separately, which made Emiya Kiritsugu more reassured.
At the moment, Emiya Kiritsugu doesn't know if Berserker's lord can be trusted. Although the Maki family, as one of the three royal families of the Holy Grail War, has always been the focus of his intelligence collection, and he is also very clear about the fact that the identity of the master is the current second son of the Makiri, but he has not investigated the detailed information about the behavior and personality of the host of this Holy Grail War.
If the other party is actually a capricious villain who will even stab him in the back, then Emiya Kiritsugu will never cooperate with him. In this way, you have to deal with external enemies, and always be on guard against your teammates behind you, which is better than fighting alone.
After much thought, Emiya Kiritsugu nodded.
"Alright then, I hope you can keep your word."
"That's nature, berserker, target, the knight in grass-blue armor with two spears, on!"
"Drink!"
Accepting the order issued by the master, the white-clothed heroic spirit, who had been sitting on the back of the horse without moving, let out a loud shout, and stabbed with a spear.
"Interesting, I didn't expect Berserker to be a servant who is good at making guns."
Dilumudo's hands, one red and one yellow, one long and one short, were diagonally in front of his body, and the blades of the berserker were held against the two guns.
Lancer's Master, Kenneth, took a fixed look at the night.
As one of the 12 Monarchs of the Clock Tower, Kenneth's magic skills are unfathomable to ordinary people, and he has also been teaching as an instructor for many years, and he has a wealth of experience. At a glance, he could see that the magic circuit of the master in front of him was quite bad, and his magic qualification was not high, and it should be a magic ability that was forcibly improved by pulling out seedlings.
The combat power of such a magician was insignificant to the battle situation at this time, and the balance in Kenneth's heart quickly weighed the combat power of both sides.
This time, he took advantage of Caster's efforts to create a riot and broke into Einzberen Castle in order to share the victory with the Saber master.
Just last night, the magic workshop he had built on an entire floor of a hotel room was vandalized by the enemy in a way he had never imagined.
He has always looked down on the technology invented by humans who can't use magic, but this time the mortal explosives made a deep impression on Kenneth.
Instead of breaking through the defense of the magic workshop, he used a large amount of explosives to directly blow up the physical foundation of the magic workshop, which is completely unreserved and has the characteristics of a magician's reserve, and with the influence of his monarch and the power of money, Kenneth quickly found out the whereabouts of this magician killer who was likely to kill him.
Magicians are almost always revenged, and since Emiya Kiritsugu blew up the entire building last night and almost killed himself on the spot, it makes sense to take the other party's head himself.
After actually fighting, he found that the other party was indeed as he expected, and he was not a powerful magician. Instead, they prefer to fight with a variety of modern thermal weapons. Although his qualifications as a magician are good, he has not been carefully developed at all, and his mastery of magic is very weak, and until now, Emiya Kiritsugu has not used any offensive magic, but has always relied on thermal weapons to launch counterattacks.
Kenneth therefore judged that Emiya Kiritsugu was weak, and as long as he took it seriously, he could quickly kill the rest.
"Time, there's not enough time."
Kenneth glanced at Dilumudo, who was in a standoff with Berserker.
Although he didn't like Dilumudo's style of acting, Dilumudo's combat effectiveness was indeed good, although in the first night's battle, the berserker showed strong combat effectiveness, but if he used delaying tactics, Dilumudo could support it for a while. During this time, he should be enough to kill Saber's master. Solving Saber's master also means the exit of Saber's camp, and at that time, he can retreat with Dilumudo. If Dilumudo can't get out of Berserker's grasp, it's nothing more than a spell of the Spell. Compared to the side that completely wiped out the Holy Grail War, this level of attrition was still within the tolerable range.
"Lancer, Berserker is very strong in combat, and there is no certainty of victory, I order you to maintain delaying tactics. Until I kill the Saber Master, give me the Berserker and his Master. ”
Dilumudo nodded, this time the master has nothing to question about his orders, Berserker is indeed a strong enemy, which he can feel from the opponent's gun, the swift speed, the unpredictable trajectory, the heroic spirit is also a first-class powerful force, and the spear-shaped treasure in the opponent's hand and the sword treasure that he glimpsed on the first night are as powerful as his two guns or even stronger. In addition, the opponent's master is ready to support him, even if he uses his two magic spears, he has nothing.
"Yes, my master."
Just as Kenneth wants Emiya Kiritsugu's life, Emiya Kiritsugu, who is on the other side, also has a ghost in his heart.
In his hand, he had a hole card, a weapon made up of a part of his own body.
In this world, all people have their own "origin", also known as the chaotic impulse. Conceptually similar to primordial instinct, but also similar to fatalism. It means that all things, including life, already have a direction (cause) at the beginning of it, and then will inevitably develop in that direction.
The origin of Emiya Kiritsugu, as his name reveals, is a combination of "severe" and "chasing", or reconnection.
This is different from the so-called "destruction" and "restoration", his "follow-up" is not 100% restored, but haphazardly connected. It's like cutting a piece of rope with scissors and then reattaching it back in a knot.
It looks like the same rope, but after tying the knot, the thickness of the knot part of the rope is completely different from the original. And although this rope is connected up, it is actually two ropes.
What happens when such an "origin" acts on a fine instrument or on a magic circuit in the magician's body that is just as fine, or even more sophisticated, on which the magic is unleashed?
The answer is almost total destruction.
The magic circuit in the magician's body is a very delicate thing, and after being cut at will and reconnected indiscriminately, the magic circuit will be devastated, and if the affected object uses magic power while the magic circuit is destroyed, it will release an effect similar to a short circuit in the body, and the magic circuit in the body will go berserk, causing serious damage. The amount of damage depends on how much magic circuit the opponent uses and how much magic power is used at the moment when the magic circuit is distorted, because the direct cause of the damage caused by the short circuit of the magic circuit is that the opponent's own magic power causes damage to himself, so the more magic power and the more magic circuits there are, the higher the damage affected by the origin of Emiya Kiritsugu.
In order to be able to use his roots, Emiya Kiritsugu performed surgery on himself, took off his left and right first and second ribs and grinded them into powder, and condensed them through soul engineering, and the bone powder was sealed into 66 projectiles as a bullet core, forming Emiya Kiritsugu's unique powerful magic costume - Origin Bullet.
This is equivalent to a magic dress for magicians, the higher the level of magicians, the more magic power, the more magic circuits, the more damage they will take, and for a magician like Kenneth at the level of a clock tower monarch, the power of the origin bullet is almost deadly.
And this is also the reason why Emiya Kiritsugu can become a magician killer, if you use a traditional RPG game as a metaphor, then Emiya Kiritsugu's origin bomb will cause real damage to the magician who is shot, and the amount of damage is calculated by multiplying the level of the attacked magician by a certain proportion of the maximum HP, the stronger the magician will receive more damage, and it can even produce a spike effect with damage greater than 100% of the HP. Even the world's No. 1 magician could capsize in the gutter in front of Emiya Kiritsugu.
Although a low-level magician will not cause fatal injuries if he is hit by an origin bullet, the opponent's combat effectiveness is already low, and there is no need to use the origin bullet at all, and it can be solved by only ordinary firearms explosives thermal weapons.
So far, 37 of Emiya's 66 origin shells have been used, and none of them have missed, and each use of the origin bullet marks the life of a strong magician.
Therefore, Emiya Kiritsugu also has considerable confidence in the victory over Kenneth.
With the tacit consent of both sides, the battlefield was divided into two parts, on one side was the Imperial City PK between the two servants of Lancer Dilumudo and Berserker Zhao Yun, and on the other side was the battle between Kenneth and the two Imperial Masters of Emiya Kiritsugu.
Kenneth made the first move, only to see him take out a test tube from his body, pull out the test tube plug at the mouth of the test tube, and pour out the liquid in the test tube. And there were words in his mouth:
Fervor, mei sanguis (Boil, my blood)!
The liquid poured out of the test tube is a flowing metal, mercury. Inspired by Kenneth's spell, an eerie wriggling began on the ground, eventually forming a large sphere.
Although this scene has a strange taste, Emiya Kiritsugu is like a great enemy, and his expression is solemn.
Emiya Kiritsugu knew very well that Kenneth could not have made such a pointless move as a mere handsome man in a life-or-death situation, and in fact, his guess was correct.
This seemingly harmless ball of mercury was actually made by Kenneth in his twenties, and his proudest magic costume - Moon Spirit Essence.
With 140 grams of mercury as the physical carrier, it is constructed with the physical characteristics of mercury and the fluid operation that Kenneth himself is best at, and has multiple functions of automatic enemy hunting, automatic defense, and automatic attack.
With a flick of Kenneth's fingers, a portion of mercury was separated from the moon spirit essence that looked radiant in the moonlight, forming whip-like mercury blades, forming a huge cage-like strike area, shrouding towards Emiya Kiritsu.
The speed of the silver whip was so fast that it even formed an afterimage in the air, and the average person of Ermelo would definitely not be able to avoid the attack of the Moon Spirit Marrow. However, Emiya Kiritsugu still dodged the seemingly impossible attack launched by Kenneth when he manipulated the Moon Spirit Liquid with a nimble reaction that surpassed ordinary people's imagination and the same swift dodge.
Dodging the attack of the Moon Spirit Marrow, Emiya Kiritsugu bypassed Kenneth and ran around a corner, disappearing into Kenneth's field of vision.
"This kind of speed is not like a human being can achieve at all, is it using magic?"
Kenneth had some curiosity in his eyes, and as a magician, he was interested in all kinds of unique magic tricks.
His idea was not wrong, what Emiya Kiritsugu used was the time magic that the Emiya family had studied for generations. Able to separate the inner side of a particular space from the temporal flow of the world as a whole, and control the speed at which it flows. However, the use of this magic is quite expensive, in order to be able to use time magic in actual combat. Emiya Kiritsugu modified it to a certain extent, narrowing the range of time flow changes to the inside of his body, and shortening the length of time to a few seconds. Minimize the consumption of time magic so that it can be used in battle. By manipulating the speed of blood flow in the body, the speed at which hemoglobin binds oxygen, and the speed at which energy substances are transformed through respiration, he is able to perform combat maneuvers and evasive actions that ordinary people cannot do at all.
This method of using time magic was called "Inherent Time Control" by Emiya Kiritsugu, and it was only by relying on this magic that he successfully dodged the automatic attack of the Moon Spirit Marrow Liquid.
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