Looking at Irisviel who instantly summoned three white giant eagles in front of her, "Melty of All Faces" felt quite a headache.
As the incarnation of Assassin with the highest magical properties, Melty can disguise herself as Caster to a certain extent. Irisviel seems to believe it, but she actually wants to test it out?
——Has the blood stain on the right half of your dress been washed away?
——It took some effort, and the other part is the left half.
Look, what a perfect response, but who would have thought that the place where Caster was stained red with blood was behind him?
The last time she was eliminated by Caster using unknown means, she was too far away to see the girl's condition, so she was deceived by the Einzbern's android with just one sentence.
Whoosh! Whoosh——
Melty embarrassedly dodged the attacks of the two white eagles and took out the dagger with his backhand.
As an assassin with the highest magic power, she can resist magic attacks to a great extent, and with the ability to transform others, she can be said to be a sure shot at attacking a master with average sneak attacks.
However, Irisviel's attack is not a conventional magic method, but a combination of "imbued mithril threads" created by fusion of alchemy into various forms for attack and defense. These "forms" cause physical damage.
Instead of magic damage, Melty's traits are completely unavailable.
Moreover, even if you want to fight back——
The assassin took advantage of a "white eagle" to fly into the air and swung his dagger at it. As a result, the white eagle instantly turned into a mess of threads and tried to tie her hands back. Fortunately, she was narrowly dodged at the last moment.
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This giant eagle, which she named "White Stork Knight", was not so powerful and flexible when the war first started. It could only use its huge size to spread its wings to protect specific locations, but now it seems to be more capable... Melty is here
When attacked by two giant eagles at the same time, he had to choose to temporarily transform into a spirit body to evade.
Those three stupid guys didn't even say they were here to help - they disappeared?
Melty, who was forced to turn into a spirit body, glanced angrily at Irisviel who had taken back the silver eagle, turned around and quickly rushed to the previously planned ambush circle to ask for help, but found that there was no one there, not even Ryunosuke and Ryuunosuke.
Emil has disappeared.
Ah... Is he really transferred away by the master? Assassin lamented that their head-on confrontation was completely inconsistent with Kotomine Kirei's long-standing style. When the Ancient King and the Conquering King fought, if he was prepared
If you do something secretly, you will definitely recruit assassins, and you won't let the most important Emil be so close to the battlefield.
However, since he did not give himself instructions, it means that he allowed himself to continue his previous actions by default, but he would not provide any support except magic power.
This is enough. The multi-faceted Melty started to change her appearance while thinking. There is no point in continuing to pretend to be Caster. Although they are related by blood, the era is too far away. It is better to continue to use Emiya Kiritsugu's appearance.
, even if she was discovered, she would have to hesitate before taking action, and that was the opportunity.
"Ellie! Stay away from her! She is not Lin Hao!" After making up her mind, Melty transformed into Kiritsugu and hurried over from the other direction. As for the question of whether Lin Hao was herself or not, Melty
Ti hasn’t thought about it yet.
Melty was very sure that her imitation of Emiya Kiritsugu's voice and tone was perfect. Even if Irisviel had doubts, she would still have to ask tentatively, and then she would be able to——
After turning around the big tree, the large piece of silver mithril weapon floating in the air interrupted Assassin's thinking about the "next plan". She had seen Gilgamesh throw away the attack of the Noble Phantasm like that casually several times.
Although I had thought about how powerful those weapons would be if they were used by the Assassin army, I just dared to think about it.
Irisviel waved her arm down without any hesitation, and dozens of weapons made of mithril threads flew immediately, stabbing the Assassin who kept Kiritsugu's appearance into a hedgehog.
"Why, what..." Assassin did not continue the fight. He was still able to speak at this time because Irisviel's power was dispersed and was not enough to kill her directly.
"Because Kiritsugu only spoke before the battle started. If it was really Kiritsugu just now, he would have shot directly." Irisviel was recovering the mithril thread that was not stained with blood at all, and replied after hearing this.
Humph, I see, next time, if there is a next time... Melty, who was not injured enough to continue talking, turned into a burst of scattered light and disappeared.
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[Sanctuary Technique] is a magic commonly used by Kotomine Kirei as his agent - or is it called divine magic? It can form a "force field" that isolates the caster from the current world, and cannot affect each other at all.
, can be said to be the best choice to avoid hitting traps when escaping or sneaking in. However, it cannot make people in the force field invisible, so the scope of application is limited.
However, when operating in the woods where there may be magic traps everywhere, this effect is just right. There is no sound of footsteps or friction from the caster walking through the woods. Although the side effect is that it is blurry when looking out from the inside, it is also
It can strengthen the display of certain elements, such as human body temperature and magic power.
If a person appears in front of Qi Li, he will first see the person's red outline that symbolizes body temperature, and the surrounding seven-color halo according to the magic attributes. The most important thing is that if this kind of detection is covered by magic, it will be even more difficult.
Conspicuous.
Therefore, whenever Emiya Kiritsugu appears in front of him, he will know it immediately.
[Tactical Stealth] is a standard action that Emiya Kiritsugu will use in most actions. It is composed of ordinary stealth actions combined with his own [Inherent Temporal Control]. It can achieve the effect of "turning a blind eye" to people, even if they are
If people witness it from a relatively close distance, they will just ignore it like pebbles on the roadside.
Specifically, it uses the miniature barrier [Inherent Time Control] inside the body to isolate all breathing, heartbeat and body temperature. If it is detected by magic, it will only conclude that he is a dead person or a sculpture.
Soon after reaching this conclusion, the magician will become dead.
Although it is insufficient to cover up his own intelligence, his stealth action allows him to hide in the blind spot of ordinary people's sight at all times, and clearly perceive any disturbance nearby. As long as the enemy still needs to walk, he will inevitably be discovered by him.
Therefore, he will definitely discover the other party before Kotomine Kirei does.
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Kotomine Kirei and Emiya Kiritsugu passed each other.
This is a forest path divided into upper and lower sections due to terrain. Qili went from west to east, while Kiritsugu went from east to west. They walked on the same road, and silently conducted a lot of related investigations on each other at the magical level.
The battle with counter-reconnaissance ended in vain simply because the condition of "direct visual observation" was not met.
If both of them were careless, this miss would have become a reality, but due to their respective identities before joining the war, they were both sharp and careful enough.
The consumption of [Sanctuary]/[Inherent Temporal Control] increased by 10% in the previous few seconds, and has now been restored.
After realizing this fact, the two of them stopped and turned around at the same time. Although there were trees completely blocking their sight, both Kotomine Kirei and Emiya Kiritsugu confirmed that their opponents were there.
position.
After confirming the existence of his opponent, he naturally had to attack. Compared to Kirei, who had no long-range ability, Kiritsugu took off the weapon he was carrying.
According to intelligence, the priest's cassock in black is effectively bulletproof, and its protective power is not given by magic. Therefore, unless the "origin bullet" directly hits the body or the large magic entity he uses, the effect of destroying the magic circuit will be ineffective on him.
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Although Kiritsugu also has some experience in close combat, he spends most of his time using firearms. If the former practitioner who is good at close combat is allowed to approach, he may be killed in an instant, so this battle prevents him from approaching quickly.
That's the key, Kiritsugu thought as he threw the grenade/grenade in the expected direction.
Kirei was in the force field of the Sanctuary Art. He looked at the magic light that suddenly appeared at the location separated by trees, where he expected someone to be. He confirmed that his intuition was correct, and released the Sanctuary Art in the next moment.
He rushed towards the opponent's position, and the bonus generated by consuming the command spell even allowed him to walk on a nearly vertical tree trunk.
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"Boom——"
The hand/mine with deliberately enhanced power destroyed the last big tree between the two opponents. When it collapsed, the priest and the magician killer standing on the trunk saw each other.
The distance was not enough, so Kirei suddenly stepped on the tree trunk to leave deep footprints, and with the sound of the tree exploding, he flew towards Kiritsugu below.
Kiritsugu, on the other hand, without hesitation, took out a short machine gun with a deliberately expanded magazine and sprayed a heavy rain of 9mm bullets towards Kirei, while continuing to retreat to distance himself.
The strengthened and modified robes can naturally resist attacks of this level, but they cannot eliminate the kinetic energy impact they bring. If they are allowed to hit or dodge, they will be distanced again even if there is no damage. Kirei immediately liberated
Pressing the black key, he went straight towards the hail of bullets in front of him. Instead of "blocking" or "parrying", he only used force to turn them to the "deflection" state, causing this hail of bullets to pull out.
The intention of keeping distance completely failed.
[Inherent Temporal Control·Twice]!
"Boom! Boom!"
Before the black-clothed priest broke into the melee range, Kiritsugu jumped back without hesitation, aimed at him and pulled the trigger. This modified gun, which was for the first time comparable to a sniper gun, could not rely solely on the black weapon in the opponent's hand.
He can dial in time just by pressing the key. If he wants to resist, the distance is——
Pfft.
The dark wings appeared in front of the priest, and the powerful bullet disappeared silently when it hit it, and he himself further attacked the magician killer.
Seeing that Kiritsugu seemed stunned by the fact that he could fly, in order to avoid the possibility that his coat was also strengthened, Kotomine Kirei did not hesitate to raise his leg and give him a fierce side kick on the head.
Kick.
boom!
When Kiritsugu raised his two guns to fire, another grenade thrown between the two exploded in time, pushing the two men in mid-air backward several meters at the same time.
The battle was paused, and both sides, who were waiting in full formation, had some understanding of the enemy's methods, and the fallen and broken trees around them proved the ferocity of the attack and defense in these few seconds.
