At this moment, hundreds of kilometers offshore from Fuyuki, an unprecedented battle of Heroic Spirits was unfolding on the open sea.
Tens of thousands of Gate of Babylon ripples illuminated an area ten miles wide on the sea surface! Countless noble phantasms rained down like raindrops in a storm, leaving no blind spots, no room for escape, completely sealing off this entire space!
However, amidst this dense offensive where tens of thousands of noble phantasms were launched every moment, not a single one hit its target. These noble phantasms, falling like rain, always pierced through a afterimage left behind at some unknown time.
The power inherited from Lancelot, perfectly integrated with Rin's own strength under the catalysis of Unlimited Martial Prowess, and the grace of the Lady of the Lake made Rin even more at ease on the water than on land. Unlimited Martial Prowess, a skill sublimated from the concept of humanity's greatest legend, aims to fully manifest 100% of the wielder's strength.
Lancelot was a knight, a warrior, and thus could wield all the ultimate martial arts of humanity. But Rin, while a warrior, was also a Magus! Under Unlimited Martial Prowess's perfect control over all aspects of herself, her use of magical energy reached its peak!
Every ounce of power, every bit of magical energy, could be utilized perfectly without any waste. The force of Rin's rapid, powerful stomps on the water surface was enough to weigh nearly a hundred tons, yet she didn't break through the water while running. Under her meticulous control of force, every step Rin took was as heavy as a thousand jun, yet there wasn't a single bit of wasted energy! She ran across the water at such speed, accelerating past the sound barrier, and then pulled a massive vacuum shockwave of the same color as the light emanating from her body!
When an object moves at super high speed in the atmosphere, it tears through the air in front of it, while a vacuum is left in the space behind it!
A sword swung freely, the air pressure stirring the vast ocean into a towering sea tornado connecting heaven and earth, sucking up numerous noble phantasms in the air. A figure clad in black armor, swift as lightning, charged towards the golden king who stood like a deity upon the surging sea!
The pitch-black demonic holy sword unleashed a sword light that ripped through the night sky. The magical energy was compressed to the extreme on the blade, and in response, hundreds of noble phantasms instantly appeared before it to meet the attack!
Boom!!!
A hundred-meter-high splash erupted on the sea surface; Rin's attack was thwarted.
Rin couldn't help but frown as she looked at the unmoving Gilgamesh. The King of Heroes, clad in divine attire, wore an expression of boundless, death-like indifference and calm. He continuously emanated a dazzling light as vast as the sun, engulfing everything around him in his own color. His eyes, sparkling with golden ions, seemed to gaze upon the truth beneath the world's surface, a figure like a true god, possessing a divine body and exuding divine majesty.
Rin knew this was another of Gilgamesh's little-known EX-rank noble phantasms, and it was a permanently active EX-rank noble phantasm—Omniscient Omnipotent Star!
Like the light of a star, it spread across the land, seeing through all phenomena. It was the King of Heroes' spirit elevated into a noble phantasm, capable of instantly discerning an opponent's true name or the true nature of their noble phantasms, even if multiple layers of concealment were applied.
However, because the effect of Omniscient Omnipotent Star was too astonishing, even though it was permanently active, Gilgamesh found the answers it provided too boring, so he intentionally limited its effects in normal circumstances.
And the claim that Gilgamesh couldn't fully utilize the power of the noble phantasms within his Gate of Babylon was simply nonsense. Once Gilgamesh stopped suppressing the effects of Omniscient Omnipotent Star, all noble phantasms in his treasury could be activated!
As Gilgamesh raised his hand, a long spear, sparkling with starlight, emerged from the Gate of Babylon.
"Great God Declaration · gungnir!"
Following Gilgamesh's declaration of its true name, this divine spear, released with its true name, shot up into the sky from the gates of the Gate of Babylon!
The Meteor Spear · gungnir, once thrown, its inevitable hit is decided by causality. It is an inescapable spear that will always strike its target, even if it deviates from the timeline. It is therefore a certain kill, impossible to block, impossible to evade. To be declared and locked onto by this mythical spear is equivalent to reporting to the gates of hell! Rin, who had once used parallel displacement to manifest it and annihilate Matou Zouken, knew this all too well.
But as this meteor-like spear streaked thousands of meters across the night sky, tearing through the icy atmosphere filled with the breath of death, and arrived as a destructive strike from the heavens, Rin, witnessing it all, showed no trace of panic. Her calm, clear blue eyes watched the meteor falling towards her from the sky, and she acted!
The scene in her vision slowed down infinitely at that moment: splashing water droplets, noble phantasms being thrown, surging waves, and even the meteor spear, flying at over ten times the speed of sound, the destructive sonic boom it created by breaking the sound barrier, the shockwave that violently twisted the atmosphere and swept everything like a thunderous roar. Everything she saw, heard, and felt became slower and slower, until it entered a state of near-complete stillness... The extreme speed of acceleration corresponded to the ultimate slowness of everything within the same timeline. In that state, no matter how complex the action, it would appear as only an instant in the real world. In the past, Rin would never have reached this level, but now she had achieved it! In an instant, under a thousandfold acceleration of one-hundredth of a second, she did it!
Just as the unavoidable, sure-hit meteor spear reached her, about to pierce her, in the almost completely still vision slowed down a thousandfold, Rin, transformed into the Black Knight, clearly captured the trajectory of the divine spear, which locked onto past and future, as it cut through the atmosphere. And at the same moment, she "gently" grabbed the mythical spear that was destined to pierce her!
A Knight Does Not Die Empty-Handed!
It was as if she were holding a meteor falling from the sky with both hands! The air pressure from gungnir's meteor divine power explosion blasted away everything within a hundred meters of the impact point!
Rin concentrated all her life, magical energy, spirit, will, fear of death, and desire for life into her hands! All her power condensed to an extreme point at this moment. It was no longer a simple action, but a confrontation with predetermined fate using her entire life and will!
"Fate, get out of my way!! 0.9!"
Rin's heart roared, and her will, which never believed in the inevitability of fate, erupted at this moment! From the part where her hand grasped the Great God Declaration · gungnir, black, leaf-vein-like patterns rapidly expanded like a spider's web across the entire meteor spear, transforming it from a starlight divine spear shining like a galaxy into a hellish black. The EX-rank A Knight Does Not Die Empty-Handed, perfectly inherited, was flawlessly displayed at this moment!
The instant she took possession of the divine spear, the ultimate, perfect spear-throwing martial art automatically completed itself in Rin's mind. The divine spear in her hand instantly turned its tip, pointing towards the night sky.
"I hereby declare that this spear will inevitably strike Gilgamesh, Great God Declaration · gungnir!"
"Small World Encompassing the Azure Sky!"
Boom!!!
The battle continued...
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