He put his gloved hand into the pocket of his coat, and when he took it out again, he only held a card in his hand, with a splendid palace and a flock of black crows hovering above it.
Different from other bronze-colored cards that are unremarkable in appearance, this card shows a molten golden color and contains an extremely powerful magic reaction.
"Appear again—"
"Inherent barrier [Crows' Night Banquet]!"
As the card bloomed with a dazzling magical light, even the atmosphere stopped flowing. The light wiped away the entire world like an eraser. The surrounding alleys were instantly replaced by a magnificent palace. Hardy looked around and found that he was in it.
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Black crows hovered over the palace, swarming in like dark clouds, and finally turned into crow-feathered assassins to surround him, with hundreds or even thousands of people inside.
【It’s actually an inherent barrier——!】
Although Hardy's expression remained normal, the solemn look in his eyes revealed his mood at this time.
You must know that the inherent barrier is not a simple magic. It is a magic that rewrites reality with the user's mental image and scenery. It can be said to be the highest level in magic and the magic closest to magic.
In addition to goblins and dead disciples, individual high-level magicians can also cast inherent barriers, but the other worlds created by others will be "naturally" eliminated, so maintaining the inherent barriers requires huge energy and cost.
As a result, it can only last for a few minutes.
In other words, he only needs to persist for a period of time, and the inherent barrier that traps him will naturally collapse, but it is foreseeable that the attack he will encounter next will not be as fierce as usual.
Fortunately, although I can't cast the inherent enchantment, I don't have a way to deal with the inherent enchantment.
"I'm going to rely on you this time, caster."
He turned to look at Shakespeare beside him and took a deep breath.
"Ah, everyone is struggling as hard as they can on the stage, and it seems that even I, who wrote the script, am no exception."
The pages of the book in Shakespeare's hand are turning rapidly. This is the story of Hardy, the story of Sangrade Fane, and the story of the familiar in front of him. But in the final analysis, these stories all belong to this story called the Holy Grail War.
story.
In the Holy Grail War, everyone is their own protagonist, and everyone's story is so huge and exaggerated that it almost turns the entire world upside down.
Shakespeare never thought of himself as a follower of the csater class, he always thought of himself as just a writer.
Originally, he was unable to display his strength in the Holy Grail War. He could be said to be an out-and-out waste. After all, no matter how many wonderful stories he wrote, he could not resist the violent attacks of other Servants.
But since as a heroic spirit, appearing here is synonymous with miracles, and the so-called miracle is to subvert the so-called ordinary principles and accomplish the impossible. He can use thousands of words to fight against other opponents and win.
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This is the role that Shakespeare, the unique playwright in the world, should play.
"Ah, ah, ah, it's really a serious situation."
Scanning the surrounding Crowfeather Assassins who were waiting in formation, Shakespeare scratched his head and kept turning the pages of the book.
"But we can't live up to Master's expectations. Forget it, we can only rely on my sharp tongue to be used properly. It's just a gamble. Anyway, I'm already dead. So
If you look at it, no matter how much you bet, we will make money."
He nodded slightly and wrote in the air with a quill. The words emerged and jumped, like musical notes coming to life.
"Oh oh oh, my masterpiece that incorporates sincerity, concentration, innocence and various other factors is about to appear again."
Facing the erosion of the inherent barrier, he keenly noticed the key points. In this inherent barrier, the most important thing is the doctor with the bird's beak. He is the anchor point that maintains the existence of the barrier.
It's just that the opponent is strictly protected by more Crow Feather Assassins. If you want to kill the opponent, you have to kill hundreds of Crow Feather Assassins.
From this point of view, it is really an almost impossible task. Of course, the reason why it is called almost impossible is because he has a way to get rid of this predicament.
——That is his own Noble Phantasm.
"Then please allow me to explain, in fact, this precious phantom..."
Before he finished speaking, the Crow Feather Assassins rushed forward without saying a word, waving their blades silently. Now that the two sides were in a hostile state, they naturally had no obligation to wait for Shakespeare to activate his Noble Phantasm.
If it is an ordinary writer's heroic spirit, most of them are precious phantoms that can realize the story. Even the hero in the story can be summoned to this world as long as the writer himself is a heroic spirit.
If it were Shakespeare, he would have no shortage of heroes he could summon, whether it was Macbeth, Richard III, or the Goblin King Oberon and the Three Witches.
It's just that his Noble Phantasm is not a summoning type, but a simple type of Noble Phantasm. No matter what kind of hero exists or what kind of powerful magic is, in the end, it all exists in the story. As long as you realize this
It can be easily defeated.
In the stories he writes, it is not impossible to change time and space, or even lie to the world itself.
The Crow Feather Assassins wanted to defeat Shakespeare before he could activate his Noble Phantasm, but the Noble Phantasm was activated much faster than they expected. When he started writing this brand new story, his Noble Phantasm
Startup has started.
The world was closed, a new order was created in the script, and the emerging stage broke into this magnificent palace.
"Okay! Our precious phantom is unveiled! Come and take your seats! Don't smoke! Refuse to take photos and videos! Don't even make savage boos!"
"The world is my hand and my stage!"
【——The performance has arrived, and it deserves a thunderous applause! 】
There seemed to be an invisible breeze blowing here. The strong figures of the Crow Feather Assassins suddenly stopped unnaturally like robots that had lost power. The Doctor Bird's Beak, who was protected at the end, had a blank look in his eyes.
It's as if the soul has been taken into another world.
Shakespeare's Noble Phantasm has transcended the category of magic, and even has the same coercive power as the inherent barrier. If it actually steps on this stage, it must play its assigned role until the end.
Although Dr. Beak can perform powerful magic like inherent barrier, there is no denying that he is just a familiar after all and does not possess the same intelligence as humans.
So in the stage built by Shakespeare's Noble Phantasm, he was at a loss, because as a familiar, he never had a real life of his own. He could only act step by step according to the script like a puppet on strings.