"Hmph, a mongrel's attack is only fitting for a mongrel."
A golden shield appeared from a golden gate, blocking the flames, and the exploding flames made the surrounding air scorching hot.
Gilgamesh, hiding behind the shield, remained expressionless, but everyone else around him suffered.
"Wow, it's so hot, so hot."
The closest unlucky one was Waver, but he still had to thank Takatsuki for not going all out; otherwise, his current flames could easily exceed ten thousand degrees.
At this moment, he only used a high temperature of around three thousand degrees.
"Irisviel, Stand behind me!"
Artoria immediately shielded Irisviel, using the Wind King Barrier to directly blow away the splashing flames.
"Compared to the skill of escaping, a mongrel's attack is not worth mentioning at all."
Gilgamesh continued to spew insults tirelessly.
However, he still frowned slightly, because the scattered flames did not disappear but continued to burn around them.
"Hmph, trying to wear down this King with such a clumsy method? Mongrels can only use mongrel methods."
Gilgamesh was incredibly powerful, but his power did not come from himself.
Instead, he had countless Noble Phantasms in his treasury, enough for him to deal with any situation.
Let alone these flames, even stronger flames could be easily extinguished.
But just as Gilgamesh was about to release a Noble Phantasm to extinguish the surrounding flames, he heard a low roar.
"Durandal: Ultimate Unbroken Hallow!"
The longsword in Takatsuki's hand suddenly erupted with dazzling light.
"Noble Phantasm release!? Impossible, isn't that a projected weapon!"
The surrounding mages felt their universe collapse.
They all knew how fragile Projection Magecraft was; basically, no mage would use Projection Magecraft for combat.
Let alone projecting a Noble Phantasm, and even releasing its true name.
If Projection Magecraft could do that, this Magecraft would have long been enshrined as a family secret.
But the truth was the truth, in everyone's eyes, the projected Durandal in Takatsuki's hand glowed, and then he threw it out...
"Th-threw it out..."
Just throw a Noble Phantasm like that?
No, this wasn't a Noble Phantasm, just a projection.
Durandal, as an Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm, could not unleash a beam, and the one Takatsuki projected would be much weaker than the original, but a projection with an archetype would itself be much stronger, even if it dropped a rank, it still had considerable attack power after release.
Gilgamesh was not so arrogant as to think he could casually block it.
"You have some ability, but... that's all."
Two shields appeared, one on the left and one on the right, the archetypes of two historically famous shields blocking this fabricated fake.
"A fake is just a fake, even if released, it cannot compare to this King's treasures!"
No sooner had he spoken than Durandal, blocked by the shields, suddenly exploded.
Broken Phantasm!
The second stage attack method of projected weapons.
In fact, Heroic Spirits' weapons could all use Broken Phantasm, but no one was willing to use it, because once they used it, they would truly lose that weapon.
Even Gilgamesh wouldn't use this move for no reason.
"Mongrel! You have truly angered me! To make this King, who should be looked up to, Stand on the same ground as you! Such disrespect deserves ten thousand deaths!"
The second explosion stirred up a large amount of smoke and shockwaves. Although Gilgamesh himself was not injured, the streetlamp beneath his feet finally couldn't bear the load and was blown apart.
Gilgamesh landed on the ground and immediately unleashed a sky-filling light curtain, from which Noble Phantasms surged out, directly annihilating the surrounding flames and looking towards Takatsuki's direction.
"Wh-what..."
After the flames disappeared, he saw that Takatsuki, who had been in place, had vanished, with only a massive staff stuck in the ground.
Gilgamesh, not strong as a warrior himself, did not possess the keen intuition of other warriors, nor the extreme physical abilities of others.
When he looked at the others and saw their shocked gazes directed at him, he belatedly realized something.
When he turned his head, he saw a figure holding a longsword high, with red and black light and blazing flames coiling around the longsword.
"Mongrel!"
He was approached from behind without even knowing it!
He was extremely angry, though he didn't know what he was angry about, but he was furious nonetheless.
Countless Noble Phantasms from the gates in the sky simultaneously changed direction, aiming at Takatsuki.
But at the same time, the raised longsword came down.
"Sun Slash!"
A shield appeared before Gilgamesh, attempting to block the sword.
Although not released, it was still an armor with extremely strong defensive power.
However, it was torn apart by the blade in Takatsuki's hand the moment it appeared.
Armament Haki entanglement, Conqueror's Haki entanglement, Demon Flame, plus the inherent power of the Noble Phantasm itself.
Along with Gilgamesh's armor, a single sword strike cut from Gilgamesh's shoulder, almost severing his upper body in two.
"Mon..."
The strongest Servant of this Holy Grail War, the almost invincible King of Heroes, met his retreat on the very first night of all Servants' meeting.
"No more mongrels. Since this is your choice, let me completely drain your utility value, Heaven's Stairway: Love Train!"
Gilgamesh seemed to see something suddenly pierce his wound.
He felt his power draining away, something was seizing the power from his Spirit Origin.
Even as he was about to die, Gilgamesh's eyes widened.
"Mon!"
But in the next instant, he was enveloped in a beam of light and vanished before Takatsuki.
"Was he summoned away by a Command Seal?"
Takatsuki knew that even though he was summoned away, Gilgamesh was dead. The only pity was that he hadn't managed to snatch too much from the opponent's Spirit Origin.
Heaven's Stairway, standing beside him, retracted its arm somewhat unsatisfied. From the feedback received from Heaven's Stairway, Takatsuki knew that this Stand's abilities had increased again.
The previous absorption of the Stelle Core's power within the Jianmu did not yield corresponding power, only increasing the Stand's stats, and this time, absorbing the Heroic Spirit's Spirit Origin, the power gained from it was not much, but in contrast, He gained a lot of data.
Servants themselves were like clones generated by downloading information data from true Heroic Spirits, and Heaven's Stairway stole a part of this data.
This act of theft did not steal any skills from Gilgamesh, but it did steal a lot of data about Noble Phantasms. Now, he only needed to provide enough energy to generate these Noble Phantasms.
Just like Gilgamesh, these Noble Phantasms were unique; once damaged, they could not be summoned again.
But it didn't matter. Takatsuki didn't intend to use the Noble Phantasm's actual body. With just this information, he could project weakened versions of these Noble Phantasms. Wasn't that much more useful than the originals?