Chapter 177

"Strong protest against holding a Holy Grail War in the United States of America!"

"Damn it, I even saw a parallel-world version of myself get crushed to death by a collapsing skyscraper..."

"Hell, I had it worse. The moment the Knight King fired her light cannon, I vaporized. It was even more absurd than being reduced to dust; I was literally blasted into atoms and molecules."

"Pfft, that's truly miserable. Let's observe two seconds of silence for our international friends."

"Damn, what are you laughing at?!"

"I thought of something happy."

"What happy thing?"

"My wife gave birth."

"Baka, you're clearly laughing at us, and you haven't stopped!"

"As expected, there is a hierarchy even among Heroic Spirits."

At the No. 5 Research Base in the United States, Hawking looked at the tree diagram analyzing the data and sighed.

If the Japanese Sword Saint Sasaki Kojiro were to face the current blackened Saber, although he could still gain an advantage in a sword fight, or perhaps rely on the guaranteed hit of "Secret Sword: Swallow Reversal" to put Black Saber at risk of near-death...

But...

That is all in theory!

When it comes to actual combat, you want to engage Black Saber in a sword fight?

What are you thinking?!

Black Saber is incredibly brutal and filthy rich, throwing around magical energy like it costs nothing.

Once she detects the aura of an enemy Servant, she starts by carpet-bombing with thousands or tens of thousands of light cannons, conducting saturation strikes that level entire mountain ranges and cities. The blackened Saber is cruel and tyrannical, not caring about the lives of ordinary people.

Even if it means paying the price of destroying all of Japan, as long as she can kill her enemies, it's fine.

Servants without light cannons are simply inferior.

Of course, anomalies like the demigod Heracles are the exception.

【Finally, the slaughter between the two great Heroic Spirits reached the skies above Higashiyamato City.】

【It was also exactly where the Tokyo Onmyoryo... had set up a giant magical array!】

【One red and one black figure were clashing, constantly streaking across the low altitude, rubbing and colliding, the surrounding air being squeezed and displaced to form rolling air waves. Many local Tokyo mages were filled with grief and indignation, gritting their teeth and shedding blood-tears as they held their positions.】

【Watching helplessly as their city was destroyed, everything they were familiar with reduced to ashes.】

【Without orders from the higher-ups, they absolutely could not act rashly!】

105. Burning Tokyo, Mages Facing Death!

【On the battlefield where the two figures collided, atop a skyscraper standing on one side.】

【"It seems it will be difficult to return alive this time..."】

【A man wearing a brown coat lit a cigarette and took a fierce, melancholic drag.】

【He was the eighth of the seven Onmyoryo directors, yet he had no confidence.】

【"Why...?"】

【Kyogoku Makoto walked over silently, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with him as they looked at the calamity that seemed like a natural disaster, like a god walking upon the earth, and said calmly.】

【"Are you afraid?"】

【"Yeah, I'm afraid."】

【The man exhaled a puff of smoke: "But isn't there no way out now? It's my home~town, after all..."】

【The man threw the cigarette away fiercely, drew a giant sword, and charged up with a ferocious expression.】

【"Bastard!!"】

【A gale exploded, like a ray of light rushing toward the monarch ravaging the earth.】

【Yeah...】

【This is home...】

【Kyogoku Makoto looked at the burning, molten earth and the scarred city, his figure erupting into motion.】

【"All departments, prepare!"】

【"Let us join forces and drive the god out of our home!"】

【"Yes!!"】

【Across the city, furious voices rang out one after another.】

【"Leyline link..."】

【"Link complete!"】

【"Magic array ready..."】

【"Ready!"】

【"Shall we activate?"】

【"Activate!"】

【"3."】

【"2."】

【"1."】

【The city shook violently, gales danced in all directions, and beams of ghostly light shot into the sky, constructing an array covering half the city.】

【It's coming.】

Reality.

A scene of astonishment.

"What terrifying magecraft, it's like the magic temple built by Caster."

"This coverage area is so large..."

"Hiss, so much manpower and resources, magic materials—they must have bet everything!"

"The Onmyoryo has substance; it's worthy of being an official institution that has existed for hundreds of years."

"The mages who can come here, even if they are just cannon fodder, are elites across the country, all geniuses."

"Yeah, the most excellent seven directors of the Onmyoryo seem capable of arm-wrestling with Heroic Spirits."

Countless people discussed it, quite excited.

Compared to these Heroic Spirits who shine in history and bear countless illustrious achievements, the general public finds it easier to relate to them.

Mages gathering, legion-style combat—it made them feel blood-boiling, wishing they could go up and fight side-by-side.

Of course...

These genius mages are nothing like ordinary people, though.

However... the next instant.

People were stunned, staring blankly at the sky-curtain, silent.

There was a suffocating feeling of an explosion.

How the hell is this possible?!

【Boom!】

【A thunderous explosion rang out, and the tyrannical female monarch turned into a pitch-black light, piercing the sky.】

【The next moment, the array that the city's great leylines had pinned their hopes on was breached with a 'pop', and the countless large barriers gathered together shattered like glass, the power of the leylines mixed with magical energy spilling all over the ground.】

【It didn't even cause a splash, nor did it attract any attention.】

【"Roar!"】

【Another burly figure followed closely behind, roaring as he scattered the clouds in pursuit.】

【The giant axe in his hand swept across, and the mere aftershock destroyed one magic array base after another.】

【The two intersecting rays of red and black light were like lightning constantly flashing in the blood-colored sky, treating the layers of defensive walls in Higashiyamato City as if they were nothing.】

【Are you kidding me?!】

【Even the Onmyoryo director was stunned, staring blankly at that scene.】

【Although they didn't expect to suppress the legendary King Arthur, could they not even hinder her for a moment?】

【This is... a despairing gap like a natural chasm!!】