"He actually dodged it?"
Orsted stood on the broken ground, looking at Shirou with surprise, as if he was seeing something very unexpected.
From his point of view, Shirou shouldn't have been able to avoid that attack.
After all, compared to the Dragon God Orsted, Shirou was like a grasshopper struggling on the ground. Faced with such a huge difference in power, the latter had no way to fight back at all.
The name of Dragon God means that Orsted is one of the strongest beings in this world.
Ranking second among the Seven Great Powers, his strength is enough to crush all opponents in this world.
Even if Shirou is in Servant form, the difference between them is still very big.
While Shirou has many skills in Servant form, his strength was already stretched when facing the Water God, who isn't even among the Great Powers. Now, facing a truly Great Power level expert, and a top-tier one like the Dragon God, he's no different from an ant.
However, in terms of strength alone, Shirou really is just an ant, but the actual battle isn't decided by pure power.
Otherwise, most battles in this world would just be arm wrestling matches, and whoever was stronger would win.
In reality, true battles aren't just about strength and speed.
There are more important things that decide the outcome of a fight!
"Huff..."
Shirou took a deep breath, recalling the Dragon God's attack just now.
It was undoubtedly Sword God Style, and Sword God Style of an extremely high level, much faster than Ghislaine, who taught Shirou Sword God Style!
As the Dragon God, Orsted actually knows the Sword God Style invented by the human Sword God. This is unbelievable, but Shirou doesn't have time to think about why he knows it.
More than Orsted's mystery, Shirou is only focused on how to beat him!
"Tap!"
In the distance, Orsted suddenly moved again.
His extremely fast movements were impossible to follow with the eye.
After Shirou realized that even Clairvoyance couldn't keep up with Orsted's movements, he gave up trying to watch him with his eyes. Instead, he fully activated Servant Emiya's special skill - Mind's Eye!
Yes, the reason Shirou was able to dodge Orsted's extremely fast Sword God Style just now was because of his special Mind's Eye.
This is the insight that Servant Emiya developed through training and practice. It allows him to calmly understand his situation and his enemy's abilities in a disadvantageous situation, and find a way out of the "battle situation." Based on the information he gets, he predicts the opponent's actions, breaks the situation, and avoids danger.
Shirou has experienced a lot of battles and training over the years, which has improved Servant Emiya's Mind's Eye skill, raising the original B rank to B+.
It is thanks to this ability that even with the Dragon God's attacks, which are impossible to see, he is still able to dodge them!
"Snap!"
With the help of Mind's Eye, Shirou dodged based on instinct.
"Boom!"
The area where he was standing turned to ashes again.
At the same time, Shirou fired several arrows without looking back.
The reason he only used archery as an attack method, and didn't directly project Kanshou and Bakuya for close combat, was because of Eris's earlier mistake.
The Dragon God Orsted seemed to have Water God Style skills of a very high level.
If he rashly engaged in close combat, the result would definitely be that he would be parried and defeated by the Water God Style before he could react.
It can be said that the more Shirou fought, the more shocked he was by the Dragon God's power.
Not only does he have mastery of the Water God Style, but he also knows god-level Sword God Style, and he has an almost indestructible body.
This makes the Dragon God himself like a moving fortress, which no one can defeat head-on!
Because of this, Shirou could only choose to use a bow and arrows as weapons, constantly pulling back to create distance and looking for a chance to win.
"Snap!"
"Snap!" "Snap!"
The arrows in his hand were released like a meteor shower.
Shirou moved his position every time he fired a volley of arrows to avoid taking a direct hit from the Dragon God.
However, although his movements were flexible enough and his Mind's Eye was sharp enough, he gradually began to struggle.
After all, even if the Dragon God's attacks didn't hit him, they still put a lot of psychological pressure on him.
The more the battle continued, the greater the sense of pressure became.
In the end, he might even lose the courage to fight.
Fortunately, Shirou's will was strong enough. His belief in protecting his sister was deeply rooted in his mind, preventing him from being overcome by fear.
But even so, winning was still as difficult as climbing to the sky.
Facing an opponent as terrifying as the Dragon God, it was impossible to find a chance to win without paying a price.
So Shirou stopped.
For the first time, he stopped running and chose to face the Dragon God.
"..."
Seeing Shirou stop, the Dragon God Orsted looked at him with interest and said, "What? Are you not going to continue with your strange way of fighting?"
Even the Dragon God was impressed by Shirou's resilience.
After all, most people would have been overwhelmed by this level of combat long ago, and would have given up or been defeated by a small mistake.
However, Shirou had stubbornly held on until now. He seemed to have turned his will into a cold, emotionless machine, making dangerous attacks with a perfectly cold attitude.
Orsted admired Shirou's will and was even a little reluctant to kill such an interesting human.
But he still hated Hitogami's apostles.
He couldn't let any of Hitogami's apostles live in this world.
This was the Dragon God's principle.
Therefore, even though he was very interested in Shirou, the Dragon God didn't hide his killing intent at all, showing his intention to completely destroy Shirou.
On the other hand, Shirou had also realized that he couldn't defeat the Dragon God with a war of attrition.
Orsted's body was as strong as steel, and no amount of arrows could cause him any damage.
And while the earlier Broken Phantasm could affect Orsted, it consumed a lot of Shirou's own magic power. One dream-like summoning wasn't enough to last that long.
So, if Shirou wanted to win the battle, he had to use a more extreme method.
Even if doing so might cost him his life, he couldn't run away -
"Trace, on!"
In an instant, Kanshou and Bakuya appeared in Shirou's hands.
And compared to the usual Kanshou and Bakuya, Shirou directly projected the enhanced version of these paired swords, with the appearance of crane wings.
After holding the twin swords, Shirou charged towards Orsted.
"Magic to create weapons? There's magic like that in this world?"
Orsted didn't care about Shirou's attack. Instead, he admired what Shirou was doing.
Shirou didn't care about Orsted's attitude. He just rushed towards him, the twin swords drawing an arc in the air, creating a huge wave.
"Too slow."
Orsted commented on Shirou's swordsmanship, and easily raised his right hand and shattered all of Shirou's projected twin swords with one punch.
It was too easy, like tearing a piece of paper.
Of course, this result was also within Shirou's expectations.
The moment the twin swords were destroyed, he pulled out the Noble Phantasm he had prepared from behind - Galatine.
Although it was Knight Gawain's weapon, the level of this Holy Sword was not low at all. It was a sister sword to King Arthur's Excalibur!
When Pope Millis returned it to Shirou, he definitely didn't expect that he would use this weapon at this time!
"Holy Sword, release!"
Shirou already knew that normal attacks couldn't defeat Orsted. If he used a powerful projection, it would take a long time to prepare.
That would only leave a lot of openings.
So the only chance was the Noble Phantasm he was carrying with him, Knight Gawain's Holy Sword!
If he released this Holy Sword at maximum power, even Orsted couldn't completely block the impact!
The moment Shirou had this thought, he noticed Orsted suddenly snap the fingers of his left hand.
The next moment, a small square window about 50 centimeters wide rose from beside his feet. It was a beautiful silver window decorated with gorgeous dragon patterns.
"Open, Front Dragon Gate."
Orsted said softly, and the window opened.
At the same time, the magic power of the Holy Sword that Shirou released with all his strength was also released like a flood.
The shining light tore everything apart, but the moment it hit the silver-white window, it was completely absorbed!
"Boom!"
The flood of magic power was like being swallowed into the stomach of a giant beast. It didn't cause any damage to Orsted at all, and turned into nothing.
"That's... magic?"
Shirou was dumbfounded.
He didn't think that there was such a strange magic in this world that could directly absorb the magic power of the Holy Sword level.
However, the power of the Holy Sword wasn't going to disappear just like that.
The strange magic that Orsted made, after absorbing all the energy, seemed unable to withstand the power, and cracked with a crisp sound.
At the same time, an explosion occurred around Orsted.
However, the scale of the explosion was much smaller than the power of a normal Holy Sword.
The power was greatly reduced!
"I seem to have heard of similar rumors before about a Holy Sword that can release light waves, made by a human blacksmith named Muramasa. Do you know that Muramasa?"
"..."
Shirou was speechless to Orsted's words.
He also found the fact that Galatine was completely caught to be a bit unimaginable.
At this point, even he felt like he was at the end of his rope.
Right now, his only chance of winning was one, even though he was very reluctant, but he was afraid that he only had one choice, and that was to use Servant Emiya's true trump card - Unlimited Blade Works!
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