Stray Chapter 62: Black mud
In the Fuyuki Civic Hall, or to be precise, on the stage of the music hall, lies Irisviel's cold body.
Kotomine Kirei had no plans to let her live at all. When he was informed by Gilgamesh that Emiya Kiritsugu was coming, he had already strangled the woman to death, and then went to look for entry. Emiya Kiritsugu of the Minkaikan engages in a duel.
When the battle in the Minhui Hall and the battle outside the Minhui Hall started at the same time, the woman who was the "Guardian of the Vessel" had already lost signs of life, and her internal organs had long since recovered. In the form of the Holy Grail container——
Everything is ready, just waiting to reclaim the souls of the remaining servants.
It didn't take too long, the vessel of the Holy Grail finally absorbed the soul of the fourth servant after Gilgamesh was beheaded.
Although it is cruel to say that, in terms of design concept, her body should have just begun to collapse at this stage, after all, the souls of four servants have only been recovered.
Representing that the Holy Grail War has just entered the late stage, the remaining three parties still need to go through a more brutal and more intense fight with each other before they can decide the only winner at the end, whether it is the actual ceremony The needs of the Holy Grail War, or the rules of the Holy Grail War, are the same.
Irisviel was the first example of the idea that the Einzbern family had absorbed the lessons of the past and made the Little Holy Grail into an active android—because the last Holy Grail War failed , because the little Holy Grail was destroyed, causing the third ceremony to become a "cancelled game".
So, her responsibility is to at least stick to the final stage, and then summon the Holy Grail to prevent the Holy Grail from being destroyed in the front... but the reason why accidents are accidents is because there is no way to cover them all.
For example, in the case of Irisviel being killed in advance, the "Guardian of the Vessel" no longer exists, then after absorbing the souls of the four servants, the essence of the "vessel" will naturally begin to be exposed out...
As it is now, because the sealed spell has lost its effect, the "vessel" is being summoned, and the core gathers a very powerful magic power, the aftermath brings deadly heat and high temperature to the surrounding .
This beautiful artificial human corpse was completely burnt out in an instant, turned into fly ash, and no trace of its existence could be found anymore. At the location, a golden container made of inorganic substances appeared with a dazzling golden light.
As soon as it came into contact with the outside air, the scorching golden cup scorched the floor on the stage and the surrounding curtains, and the raging flames swept the empty music auditorium.
On the stage where the fire was raging, the golden cup seemed to be held up by a pair of invisible hands, floating in the air, surrounded by flames.
——The Holy Grail Advent Ceremony, dreamed of by the three families, began quietly without even having a priest to preside over the ceremony.
However, the Holy Grail this time is obviously abnormal. What it brings is definitely not the power of hope to realize all miracles, but the most ancient evil, absolute evil, and the sum of evil in the world.
The souls of the four servants were recovered. Although they were not able to return to the Throne of Heroes immediately because of the strong binding force of the Holy Grail, they have been trying to return. This trend is like the flow of water from a high place to a low place. , the phenomenon of apples falling from the tree is normal, so...
Engineering for the "piercing" of the world has begun at this moment.
As a result, the originally closed "door" had a hair-thin, invisible gap unknowingly. Through the small gap, something on the other side of the door crept into the Holy Grail.
That thing looks very similar to "black mud"... it's pure black, just black, a mud-like "object".
The black mud that had infiltrated the Holy Grail dripped out suddenly, followed by another drop, slowly turning into a thin black line, like a crack in a dike. In a short while, this maliciously transformed black wave overflowed the container and flowed to the floor of the stage.
The strength of the floor of the music hall is simply not enough to carry this dark thing, or there is no substance in this world that can carry this thing
The endless "maliciousness" spreads out, eroding everything around it, flowing deeper into the ground like melting snow water seeps into the ground. This vicious vortex of power will evoke the calamity of calamity, until it destroys all humans who deserve to be cursed, and until then, it will continue to spread malice.
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In the large prop warehouse below the music auditorium, the fateful battle between the two is in full swing.
Emiya Kiritsugu is almost the one who was completely suppressed, and the situation is very unfavorable for him, because as a magician killer, he mainly uses his understanding of magicians. Through the combination of magic and modern mainstream weapons, it is highly efficient Destroy the magician who is the target one by one.
But when facing Kotomine Kirei, almost all the advantages were lost—
He didn't have a targeted plan in advance, he didn't have the ability to ambush various traps on the battlefield, and he didn't have the support of Maiya at a distance or around him... Anyway, he didn't have anything, and could only be forced to talk to Yan Mine Kirei just confronted him, and there was a **** sparring fight.
Although Kotomine Kirei is a pervert with a twisted mind, I have to say that his fighting ability is terrifying by human standards—
Using the black key throwing in long-distance combat, single throws including preparations can be completed within 0.3 seconds, continuous throws can be completed within 0.7 seconds after confirmation, and can be completed in 0.7 seconds for unconfirmed targets. Barrier attack, the power of this concept dress can penetrate through iron bones.
In melee combat, I learned a very strong Chinese boxing method "Bajiquan" from an old priest. Although the details are unknown, it is indeed a master level. With the experience of **** fighting accumulated in the era of agents, the Slowly sublimating into an extremely terrifying human body destruction technique, Kotomine Kirei can even break trees with two strikes, which is extremely dangerous.
In addition to the multi-swipe Command Spell on the arm, although the magic circuit has not been fully developed, it is very easy to use magic in the case where Kotomine Kirei uses the Command Spell as a one-time magic power source.
And through this method of use, even a living human can inflict effective damage on servants as long as they use nearly ten Command Spells.
What does Emiya Kiritsugu have in comparison? For the half-baked magician Kotomine Kirei, the trump card of the Origin Bullet was not too much damage, and the vestment on Kotomine Kirei's body was able to hold the bullet, that is to say, even the kinetic energy and attack power of the bullet itself were affected. The maximum defense is...
At the moment Kotomine Kirei activated his magic, Emiya Kiritsugu took the opportunity and used a Origin Bullet. He originally expected to destroy Kotomine Kirei with one blow, but it exploded. The opponent's hand was filled with black keys filled with magic power, but it did not cause any damage to Kotomine Kirei himself.
Because Kotomine Kirei was not a real magician in the first place, and his magic circuit was not fully developed, he just misappropriated the preparatory command spell obtained from his old father as a source of magic power in order to temporarily learn to use magic.
Although the characteristics of the Command Spell determine that it is only a consumable that can be thrown away after use, but in the end, it saved Kotomine Kirei's life-at the moment when the magic is activated, the origin bullet that comes into contact with it will activate When it took effect, the Command Spell, which was the source of magic power, disappeared from the agent's arm.
This was not expected, Emiya Kiritsugu didn't understand why the Origin Bullet didn't work, and Mine Kirei didn't even know the characteristics of Emiya Kiritsugu's Origin Bullet, and he didn't know that he was invalid. Turned the opponent's trump card.
One of the two people didn't know that their tricks were invalid, and the other didn't know that they were hit. As a result, the battle was once again deadlocked. Now the game has completely become a contest of "distance" to grasp——
Emiya Kiritsugu is trying desperately to distance himself, giving himself time to reload and a chance to attack. His fighting style relies on bullets. As far as Mine Kirei was concerned, he was chasing desperately, compressing the distance, and wanting to blow out his old enemy with one punch.
Since both sides have completely different fighting styles and the most suitable distance to launch an attack, it is natural that they can only rely on the strength of their feet to fight each other.
It can be said that facing a devilish man like Kotomine Kirei, who has been trained to the extreme, the magician killer Emiya Kiritsugu can only rely on the time magic of "inherent time control" to last until now.
The flow of blood, the burning of hemoglobin, and the time required for muscle movement from start to finish are all accelerated, showing physical fitness that is impossible for ordinary people to achieve. Stop the past time, accelerate the future time, and speed up the self.
Only in this way can he reluctantly hold a stalemate with Kotomine Kirei.
One of these two people relied on the high speed shown by magic, destroying their own physical strength at all costs, and gaining a speed that seemed to be a hang-up. Whether it was moving and dodging, loading ammunition, or launching an attack, their movements were almost the same. Drag out the afterimage.
The other is a ferocious muscle monster. It is obviously a living person, but it has honed itself into a terrifying murder weapon. A single kick can crack the ground, and the punch of a fist can be as powerful as a blow in the chest. Detonating a grenade can rupture the chest cavity and smash the lungs and heart into a puddle of flesh.
No matter what I said, the result was doomed. Emiya Kiritsugu had no chance of winning. The only possible winner was Kotomine Kirei...
But the two were presumably so absorbed that they didn't notice the thing that was slowly dripping through the ceiling.
As a result, at the moment when Emiya Kiritsugu's body reached the limit, Kotomine Kirei seized the opportunity and was about to unleash eight major moves. smash.
Boom! !
However, the ceiling collapsed at this moment, and both men were covered with black mud falling from the top of their heads!
Emiya Kiritsugu didn't know what happened, because after he opened his eyes blankly, the first thing that caught his eye was his wife's familiar voice and smile——
"I knew Kiritsugu would definitely come to accompany me. I believe that if it were you, I would definitely be able to get here."
A nostalgic gracious face, but there's something else that makes him feel a little off, maybe because she's wearing a black dress he's never seen before.