Footsteps... footsteps...
"Good nerve you have. Coming here openly in broad daylight. To begin with, how did you find this place?"
A building located on the outskirts of the city. The Archer faction that made it their base. Elza Saijo, who participated with the wish for the happiness of all children, remembering a dead child, and her Servant, Archer Arash.
Artoria, she was also the first Servant she had met.
"And what's more, without a Servant."
Artoria, who came to the Archer faction alone, without Saber.
"...That's right. Probably, being incredulous is the natural reaction."
"Don't tell me... you deliberately didn't bring her?"
Elza looked at Artoria incredulously and saw that one Command Spell had disappeared from the back of her hand. With that, she thought, could it be that she used a Command Spell to leave her Servant behind and came here...
"Elza, step back."
"Archer?"
"You... are you human?"
A soft sound...
A sword is drawn from her scabbard.
"...Elza, run away."
"What? What do you mean..."
"Hurry!"
"What misconception are you under. I have no intention of killing her, at least... Ah, is that it. You're afraid of getting caught up in the Noble Phantasm. To think you'd consider using a Noble Phantasm. Impressive. But... at the same time, you're too heroic to be interesting."
Artoria, holding the sword in one hand, slowly walks towards Archer with footsteps... footsteps. Arash quickly holds Elza and leaves the spot. He advises her to run as far as possible and quickly, then pulls the bowstring.
A roaring sound!!!
A downpour of steel pouring from the sky. A rain of arrows reaching ten thousand. Pure skill. An absurd rate of fire for an archer. The skill of the great hero from Persian mythology, the hero who ended the divine age, was immense.
King Arthur evaluated him as an incredible archer on the level of Tristan... but no matter how much he is the pinnacle of famous knights like the Round Table, he was an incomparable master.
Even Chiron, the teacher of Greek heroes and a divine spirit, affirmed that he could not defeat Arash in archery, and he was a great hero who could easily cancel out the special move of the Sphinx, the greatest divine beast in Egyptian mythology, with 50 arrows shot simultaneously.
50 arrows simultaneously, with a maximum rate of fire of ten thousand. Truly a monster.
Because of that, the sky looks black. A huge shadow falls on the earth, and the downpour of steel falls directly on Artoria.
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!!!
Each shot has power at least equivalent to A-rank or above. The range is also a joke at 20km; all of Tokyo was within his range, and he immediately confirms Artoria's condition with his innate Clairvoyance.
As befits a great hero of Persian mythology, his Clairvoyance is eyes blessed by the gods. It is on the same level as the Clairvoyance of those like Gilgamesh, and although its ability is inferior, it is fundamentally the same eyes. It could see through the essence of the opponent,透视 possible, and even roughly read minds.
"Haha... this is a powerful enemy I've never seen even in life."
Thud... tok...
Black arrows densely embedded all over the ground. And, Artoria walking through them with footsteps. Arrows embedded all over her body. However...
Tok, thud... tuduk...
Arrows gradually fall off her body as if being pushed out. Her bloodied body gradually glows and recovers.
Artoria walking with a grin... a smile. For a moment, he felt a chill, but Arash did not back down.
Bang! Kwa-gwa-gwang!!!
Arrows are shot. However, she does not avoid them. Without avoiding the arrows that could even kill divine beasts, she advances while taking hits. Her sword begins to glow gradually.
"Tsk...!"
Feeling that it's not good, he pulls the bowstring without an arrow.
"O holy Lord in heaven. O shining Lord who bestows all foresight, dignity, and power. See my heart, my thoughts, what I achieve. Now, O creator of the moon and stars. Behold my deeds, my end, the Spenta Armaiti (holy devotion) I achieve. After firing this all-out strike, my sturdy limbs── will immediately scatter to pieces...!"
Footsteps... footsteps...
"{Stella} (Meteor Strike)!!!!"
His arrow is shot. At the same time, his body turns to light and shatters, and the arrow he shot becomes seven-colored meteors flying towards her.
To that, she stretches out her left hand.
"{Avalon} (The Farthest Utopia from All Things)"
A roaring sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And, the miraculous strike achieved at the cost of his life vanished without piercing the vainly brilliant light of paradise.
Tsu-tsu-tsu-ch...
"...Oh dear."
As the light fades, the sheath of light that appeared before her hand disappears. At the same time, a faint light flows from her body. Smiling wryly at that, she looks up at the sky.
Above the sky, a brilliant light was rising, and at the same time, the Pharaoh riding the Sun Boat was watching from there.
"... {Fridwen} (The Royal Shield that Suppresses the Whirling Waves)"
At her feet, something like a small golden shield or a surfboard appears, then it soars high into the sky, creating a splash of water.
Swoosh!!!
"What...?"
And, her slash as she jumps down from the Sun Boat cuts the Pharaoh's neck, and his head rolls on the ground.
"Why... you...!"
A slicing sound!
"Sorry, but... no interruptions."
This time, Artoria cuts his body. However...
"Don't think a Pharaoh will die easily...!"
"...Indeed. Even if it's not a temple, since he has summoned a temple in the sky, there must be some influence. It seems that to kill him, it's not cutting the neck, but destroying the head or the core."
A metallic sound...
In her left hand, a dagger is gripped, and she aims it at him.
"{Sequence} (The Unbending, Burning Sword of Victory)"
A blast!!!
"Tsk... insolent..."
A blue light beam is shot, and Ozymandias quickly raises a pillar of light to cancel her attack. Subsequently, golden light beams shot from the sky fall on Artoria.
"{Carnwennan} (White Hilt, Tread on the Shadow)"
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa!!!
Four crystal stakes appear from the void with blue light. The stakes, called white daggers, fly through the void, shooting blue beams as they fly to cancel the light.
"Meri Amen (Love of Amen)!!!"
Kwa-ah-ah-ah-ang!!!!
A huge beam shot from the temple. With power on the level of an Anti-Country Noble Phantasm, a force that can easily melt even Servants.
"{Spumador} (The Illusion Sword that Forges Lightning) & {Sestyfol} (Divine Tool from the Fairy Forest)"
A blue-light dagger like lightning and a long green spear fly and cancel Ozymandias's divine punishment. Subsequently, as she raises her finger to the void, a huge greatsword appears above with golden light.
"{Marmyadose} (Thou, Great Hero Blessed by the Gods)"
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa!!!
As she forcefully brings her hand down, the simultaneously slashing greatsword emits golden light and splits the Sun Boat in half.
"How many divine tools do you have... all Noble Phantasms made by fairies and gods? You... as I thought, you haven't died yet!"
"You are merely a visitor. So, no more interference."
Swoosh...!
"{Clarent} (The Brilliantly Shining King's Sword)"
A sword appears in her hand with silver-white light. Her slash cuts the Pharaoh's body, and then blue light gushes from the cut wound, freezing his body.
Jjeojeok.... Kwarurrung!!!
Subsequently, Spumador falls, and intense blue lightning occurs, shattering his body to pieces.
"...."
The Sun Boat crashes, and from the crashing boat, Artoria looks briefly at a boy in the distance... An invisible cloak appears in her hand, and as she puts it on, her body becomes transparent and invisible. She jumps off the boat and disappears somewhere.