Mount Enzou, as a place where ley lines converged, endured suffering it could not bear.
Not to mention the thousands of Servants in the Great Cavern, just the duel between the two knights on the other side caused irreversible damage to this terrain.
"Excalibur!"
As the number of departing Heroic Spirits increased, Artoria's output also grew. She had now evolved to the point where she was no longer content with ordinary Magic Power Emission attacks. The light cannon, which should have been a Kill, became a normal attack method with the support of infinite magic.
And if Durandal was even grazed, she would at worst be crippled.
If she couldn't defend, then she wouldn't defend!
Durandal, who had just mastered the use of magic, directly abandoned the option of constructing a defense with magic, investing all the magic she received from her Master into Krishna beneath her.
She was pulling away at speeds beyond her limits.
The faster she accelerated, the more Durandal was astonished.
She had initially worried that her frantic consumption of magic would lead to Takatsuki's magic becoming scarce, but the magic transmitted from the other side remained incredibly steady, as if boundless.
Unbeknownst to her, Takatsuki, who was once an ordinary person, had also grown into a superhuman existence.
It's just that his attack methods were still too limited. Although already very strong, they simply couldn't compare to his own foundation.
Others had ultimate moves, but their stamina or magic couldn't keep up.
Takatsuki, on the other hand, was the exact opposite. His exaggeratedly terrifying vitality and magic, coupled with his unique self-recovery skills, inflated his combat endurance to a degree that almost made him a perpetual motion machine.
Durandal on the other side was different; her own skills consumed too much, causing her to not dare use her full power at all.
She had originally worried that using the power of the World Bubble would lead to its collapse.
Perhaps because she was a Servant, she found that she could reproduce this power using magic, but the cost was a drastic consumption of magic. However, after confirming that the other side could keep up with the consumption, Durandal held nothing back.
She grasped the spear formed by combining Pandora and Durandal, and the lance condensed from her Stigmata power, with her two extra arms.
Durandal gripped Krishna's reins with both hands, fully injecting magic into Krishna to further accelerate.
Just as Durandal could only rely on speed to evade, Artoria was also frustrated.
She could only act as an infinite turret in place, constantly and rapidly outputting magic to bombard.
Although the power of such a light cannon decreased, its advantage was that its activation speed increased.
But even so, she still couldn't catch up to Durandal's speed.
She had infinite magic, was the other party the same!?
Watching Durandal and Krishna move faster and faster, to the point where even with her eyesight she could only see a blur of light, Artoria changed her tactics.
She reined in the light cannon in her hands, no longer chasing Durandal's figure, but confined it to her sword, blocking the only path to the depths.
But this action of hers was redundant, because Durandal had never tried to escape this battlefield with her speed.
Because she didn't understand the Holy Grail, even if she got past, she wasn't sure she could end it all.
And…
She had confidence!
"Come on!"
A flash of light passed through Artoria's eyes. Magic that could even devour light enveloped her sword, and she swung a light-devouring slash at the light in front of her.
"!!!!"
Dodged!?
No! Not dodged!
Artoria's body swung uncontrollably in the air. Two lances pressed against her chest, continuously pushing her backward.
The extreme speed prevented her from even resisting this force. Speed = power, this was no joke.
Boom boom boom!!!
Artoria, pushed forward, was repeatedly shoved against the stone pillars and walls, forcibly shattering the hard rock. Even her magic-wrapped armor began to crack under this force.
"Ha!"
Krishna suddenly stopped, and the immense inertia was instantly transferred into Artoria's body. With Durandal's movement, Artoria was sent flying high into the air.
But this was far from over.
Standing on Krishna, Durandal used her legs to support a giant bow constructed from her Star Armor Wings. A massive Star Abyss Illusion Spear, formed from magic, was notched as an arrow. Golden flames, like the sun due to extreme heat, enveloped it.
"This strike! Pierce the Stars!"
The moment the Star Abyss Illusion Spear was fired, Durandal's two arms behind her—one holding a long spear constructed from Pandora combined with Durandal, and the other holding a black lance—simultaneously hurled both spears at Artoria.
Artoria felt like a lone boat in the vast ocean.
Blasted away, then bombarded by the power of the stars in the air, followed by scorching flames with the heat of the sun.
"Ahhhhh! Excalibur!"
Even facing such a barrage, Artoria forcibly unleashed her final radiance, that black light that devoured all other light.
However, this torrent, capable of swallowing even light, did not engulf Durandal.
Because it was torn apart by a Holy Sword shimmering with miraculous light.
Durandal, reshaped into a spear, directly withstood the torrent of the Holy Sword, once again demonstrating its inherent miracle in this world.
Closely following was... a new power, condensed by Durandal's strength, inheriting and merging the powers of Kaslana and Schariac, a lance bestowed with the name Atargatis.
Midnight Atargatis, striking later but arriving first, instantly pierced through the already shattered armor and through her body.
And after that, it was Durandal, which had torn through Excalibur's light cannon, shooting towards Artoria's head.
Artoria burst with magic, slightly changing her position to try and avoid her vital points.
But something she didn't expect happened: the shaft of the spear connected to the Holy Sword suddenly erupted in flames.
This changed the trajectory of the Holy Sword, which had been flying straight.
"What!"
Puff!
Without even a moment to mourn her heavily wounded abdomen, what immediately pierced Saber's head was...
The Holy Sword—Durandal...
"Hoo... hoo... hoo..."
Looking at Artoria, who was firmly pinned to the wall by two spears, unmoving, and then slowly transforming into black light particles, Durandal fell off Krishna.
Although the series of attacks just now seemed fluid and simple, the danger and effort involved were incredibly exaggerated.
Even though the magic consumption was entirely borne by Takatsuki, as the one who activated the abilities, her physical exhaustion and mental fatigue could not be replaced by magic.
After catching her breath, she forced herself to stand up.
Because Durandal knew that the battle was far from over.
Turning to look behind her, she wondered if Kiritsugu had survived the previous battle.
Although Artoria hadn't targeted him, the aftermath of that attack... it would be difficult.
At the same time, Durandal also worried about Takatsuki, who was confronting Gilgamesh Alter.
However, judging by the stable supply of magic, it should be...
Still fine.
And what about Takatsuki at this moment?
"So, why bother?"
Looking at the ruined cave.
The nearly ten thousand Servants were almost slaughtered.
They didn't even last a minute before Gilgamesh Alter killed them all.
These people, although they were once brave warriors.
But they did not possess Noble Phantasms, and facing Gilgamesh, who was comparable to a Grand Servant, they were merely cannon fodder.
And Conqueror was now pierced through the body by a Noble Phantasm, lying in front of Takatsuki.
"Hahaha, as expected, that Gilgamesh guy is indeed a formidable foe."
Conqueror lay on the ground. Gilgamesh Alter did not continue attacking, seemingly because the puppet constructed from Gilgamesh's body and personality also inherited a part of his arrogance and appreciation for heroes.
"When I knew the Holy Grail couldn't fulfill my wish, I already gave up, but in this Holy Grail War, the one I most wanted to conquer was indeed the oldest king of humanity, but now it seems..."
Let alone conquering, he couldn't even last a minute in front of him. This was without activating his Reality Marble; if he had, he wouldn't have lasted half a minute.