[Name: La; Css: Berserker; Gender: Male; Attribute: Lawful-Mad.]
[Strength: A; Endurance: A; Agility: A+; Mana: C; Luck: B; Noble Phantasm: A.]
[Css Skill: Mad Enha C.]
[Personal Skills: Magic Resistance E, Prote of the Spirits A, Eternal Arms Mastery A+.]
[Noble Phantasms: Arondight: The Unfading Light of the Lake (A++ anti-unit Noble Phantasm, range 1-2 meters, maximum target 1); For Someone's Glory (A++ anti-unit Noble Phantasm, range 1 meter, target 0); A Knight Does Not Die With Empty Hands (B anti-unit Noble Phantasm, range: 1 meters, maximum target 30).]
As La unched a sudden attack, Chihiro and his allies were well-prepared.
The moment La nded, Sigurd and Darius III stepped forward to intercept him.
"Da-da-da-da…"
Without hesitation, La raised his signature Blue Fire Gatling gun and opened fire.
Sigurd and Darius III responded immediately, summoning their respective ons to block the onsught.
Sigurd, wielding his Noble Phantasm Gram of the Twilight Destru, alsht out Gram, a sword he had obtained from a treasure chest. For the first time, he engaged in bat wielding dual bdes.
Darius III, oher hand, summoned his pair of goldewirling them with wild vigor. His ferocity earned him an apt mental niame—"the Bck Whirlwind."
With their ons defleg every bullet, the two warriors charged forward, unstoppable.
Realizing that the Gatling gun was iive, La tossed it aside and dreitch-bck sword—the Noble Phantasm, Arondight: The Unfading Light of the Lake.
Arondight was a orusted to mortals by the ke fairies, much like Artoria's Excalibur. Its bde was unbreakable, and its durability rivaled that of the "Sword of Promised Victory." However, after La used this bde to kill his fellow Knights of the Round Table, it was stripped of its status as a holy sword and became a demonic on.
In this moment, La demonstrated why he was sidered the stro of the Knights of the Round Table. His swordsmanship was blindingly fast and ruthlessly precise. Even while fag two enemies simultaneously, he was far from being at a disadvantage.
"Impressive!" Sigurd excimed.
Reizing that his dual-bde style was ineffit, Sigurd discarded his sedary sword and focused on wielding Gram with both hands. He ihe bde with Rune magic to double its destructive power.
Yet, despite his efforts, Sigurd found himself suppressed. His strikes cked the weight to decisively overpower La.
Unbeknownst to Sigurd, his disadvaemmed from Arondight. During La's lifetime, the bde was used to sy a dragon, granting it a special effect: it suppressed and inflicted additional damage on Heroic Spirits possessing dragon attributes.
Unfortunately furd, the "drago" he acquired in life had granted him dragon attributes, leaving him vulnerable to La's Noble Phantasm.
Darius III, oher hand, fought with brute strength but cked the refieique of his oppo. Though his ferocity was endable, he failed to overwhelm La.
As the battle tinued, La began gaining the upper hand, much to Zouken's frustration.
"You fool!" Zouken screeched. "Break the barrier already! I summoned you to save me, not to duel these idiots!"
However, with Kariya nowhere in sight, La showed no iion of obeying the old bug.
Zouken had no choice but to send orders to Kariya through the group chat, f Kariya to issue a and Spell remotely.
Relutly, Kariya gave La the order: "Destroy the barrier."
Upon receiving the directive, La abahe fight, effortlessly pushing Sigurd and Darius III aside. With one decisive swing of Arondight, he shattered the barrier surrounding Zouken.
The barrier, hastily structed by Zhang Jiao and not reinforced with additional mana, was no match for La's attack.
Seeing the opening, Zouken wasted no time. His body dissolved into a swarm of is that began fleeing in every dire.
"Don't let him escape!" Chihiro shouted, his voice sharp with urgency.
"Hurry and obey! Immobilization Spell!"
Golden light surged from Chihiro's talisman, aimed at stopping the fleeing is.
But Zouken had anticipated this. His swarm scattered into thousands of tiny fragments, rendering the spell iive.
"The wind stirs from the eastern quarter, the earth aligns with the star spirits. Summon the raging gale to clear the path. By my and, obey!"
"Fuujin no Noroi!" (Wind God's Curse)
Chihiro immediately switched tactics, casting a spell to summon a fierce gale. He g Tokiomi, giving him a subtle signal.
A powerful tornado tore through the forest, sweeping Zouken's fragmented swarm together.
"Is, no matter how numerous, ot withstand the might of a hurrie," Chihiro muttered.
"Fire!"
Tokiomi seized the opportunity, casting a fire spell that bined with the tornado. The fmes roared as they engulfed the swarm, iing tless is.
However, a few mao escape the fiery tempest, their tiny bodies speeding toward the hidden location of Zouken's life-preserving i deep within the forest.
But it was too te.
Zhang Jiao emerged from the shadows, holding the writhing life-preserving i in his hands.
"Wait! We talk about this!" Zouken's voice echoed in desperation, his panic palpable. "Whatever you wah, knowledge, secrets, I give you anything! Just name your price!"
Zhang Jiaarded the creature with cold disdain. "The pursuit of immortality has long been a goal fi and sorcerers alike. But you… you chose a vile and twisted path to achieve it."
"You were once a renowned magus," Zhang Jiao tinued, his tone filled with a mix of pity and pt. "Now, you're nothing but a rotting parasite. Your existence is both tragid revolting."
With those words, Zhang Jiao tossed the life-preserving i into the fire.
"NOOOOOOO!" Zouken's final scream pierced the air as the i buro ashes.
In that instant, the remnants of Zouken's i swarm disied, ed by the fmes Zhang Jiao jured with a wave of his sleeve.
At long st, Matou Zouken both his physical body and life-preserving i was pletely destroyed.
[Ding! Group member Matou Zouken is dead and has been removed from the group chat.]
Seeing the notification, Chihiro finally let out a sigh of relief. "It's done. He's truly gohis time."
The system's firmatio no room for doubt. Matou Zouken was dead, with no ce of revival.
But before anyone could celebrate, a low rumble echoed across the sky.
"Boom…"
Thunder roared, signaling the arrival of an ued guest.
A fsh of red light desded from the heavens, apanied by a powerful voice.
"ISKANDAR!!!"
Iskandar, the queror King, had arrived.
The moment Darius III saw his old rival, his rationality vanished, and he roared in fury. The Berserker charged recklessly toward Iskandar.
"Hahaha!" Iskandar ughed heartily as he summoned his chariot, Via Expugnatio. "At st, King of Persia, we meet again!"
Iskandar's eyes gleamed with a mix of excitement and nostalgia. "You look exactly as you did during our third pursuit. How I wished we could have shared a drink! But as, it seems fate has destined us to csh once more!"
From a safe distance, Waver observed the se from Iskandar's chariot. "That's Darius III?"
Meanwhile, Brynhildr joihe fray, intercepting La with a bzing nce.
"My beloved Sigurd will die by no one's hand but mine!" Brynhildr decred, unleashing a wave of blue fmes.
La turo face her new oppo, their bdes g fiercely. Unlike Sigurd, eakened by his dragon attributes, Brynhildr fought La on equal footing.
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At st, Matou Kariya arrived, apanied by a surprising ally: Artoria Pendragon.
Artoria had bee by Emiya Kiritsugu to assist Kariya as part of their alliance.
[Name: Artoria Pendragon; Css: Saber; Gender: Female; Alig: Lawful Good.]
[Strength: B; Endurance: A; Agility: A; Mana: A; Luck: D; Noble Phantasm: A++.]
[Css Skills: Magic Resistance A, Riding A.]
[Personal Skills: Intuition A, Mana Burst A, Charisma B.]
[Noble Phantasms: Excalibur - Sword of Promised Victory (A++ Anti-Fortress Noble Phantasm, effective range 1-99 meters, capable of targeting up to 1,000 individuals); Invisible Air - Barrier of the Wind King (ti-Unit Noble Phantasm, effective range 1-2 meters, capable of targeting 1 individual).]
This was the sed time Chihiro had seen Artoria sihe first night of the Holy Grail War. Though she remained posed, there was a shadow of exhaustion in her expression, no doubt caused by her for Irisviel.
"Arthurrr!"
The moment La saw Artoria, his madness surged anew.
"La, I and you with a and Spell: Calm yourself!"
Kariya acted decisively, using a and Spell to force La to suppress his rage and regain posure.
After all, with Artoria now on their side, the st thing Kariya needed was for La to lose trol and plicate matters further.
"Chihiro, did you really kill Zouken?" Kariya asked, his voice trembling as he igokiomi entirely.
He had seeification in the group chat on his way here but still found it hard to believe.
Chihiro nodded calmly. "Rest assured, the old bug is truly gohis time."
"You fools!" Kariya shouted, anger and frustration spilling over. "Do you even realize what you've done? Do you uand the cost of your as?!"
"Are you referring to Aoi?" Tokiomi interrupted coldly, his sharp toting through Kariya's outburst. "Don't assume we're as inpetent as you. We've already dealt with that."
"What?" Kariya froze, his expression shifting to disbelief.
Tokiomi's gre hardened as he tinued, his words ced with disdain. "Let me tell you something, Kariya. Aoi has been saved. Unlike you, we don't simply roll over a Zouken manipute us."
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