In the Holy City Star Observation Tower, the crisp sound of weapons clashing can be heard from time to time in the towering tower. Occasionally, the outer wall of the tower will be exploded by some force from the inside.
Scathach and Morgan are both versatile heroic spirits who are proficient in both close combat and magic.
In contrast, Scathach focuses more on martial arts that reach the divine realm, while Morgan, the Great Witch of the Gods, prefers magic. When fighting in close quarters, she uses magic to increase her physical fitness to make up for her lack of skills.
Insufficient weaknesses.
As Morgan climbed up in the tower, he could easily condense a large number of elemental spells. From time to time, he could also use the materials at hand to refine some puppets to block Scathach's pursuit.
"Scathach, the Queen of the Kingdom of Shadows, has long admired her name."
Morgan's figure flashed around in the tower, and she floated in mid-air most of the time. It was difficult for Scathach to locate Morgan in the central observatory.
Morgan raised his left hand slightly, and the stairs in front of Scathach suddenly dropped downward, revealing a large blank area with the stairs behind.
Scathach, who was running rapidly, did not panic. She dug the magic gun into the ground under her feet, used the magic gun as a support point like a pole vault, and threw herself to the opposite side of the broken staircase.
Before landing, Scathach used the tip of another magic gun to write a set of primitive runes in the air.
As he floated upward, Morgan suddenly sensed the approaching danger based on his family's ancestral intuition, and deployed a triple magic barrier for himself as quickly as possible.
"Ka~ka~dong~"
The first two layers of barriers were penetrated by the Cone of Shadow that suddenly appeared near Morgan's body, and the third layer of the strongest barrier finally blocked Scathach's rune magic.
Morgan continued to float upwards as she tried to talk Scathach into ending the fight.
"Queen Scathach, I have no ill intentions towards you, why do you keep chasing me and attacking?"
"Ha~"
Scathach curled his lips coldly: "Morgan, the great witch, do you believe this? If you have nothing to ask for from the Lion King, why did you respond to her call and come to this singularity?"
The legends of Scathach and King Arthur are both part of Celtic mythology. Strictly speaking, they should be considered fellow villagers, but they lived in different eras.
The immortal Scathach, who is also a Celt, naturally pays more attention to his hometown of Celts than other civilizations. The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is a topic that cannot be avoided.
When she was summoned to the sixth singularity as a heroic spirit, the inhibitory force gave Scathach this information related to the singularity. She also knew something about Morgan in the legend of King Arthur.
Morgan possesses both the good and evil sides of the Lake Fairy and is a very complex person.
She can protect the people of Camelot like a fairy, or she can wreak havoc on her homeland as a vicious witch.
These two states happen to be true portrayals of two different stages of Morgan's life.
Kai, the Knight of the Round Table, commented on Morgan in the official "Court of Avalon", saying that she was once a good woman, but she didn't know when she started to become so terrible.
On the eve of the war, Lu Xiao and Scathach discussed information about Morgan.
Lu Xiao made a bold guess based on the information she knew. Morgan's personality changed drastically after Artoria came to the throne. She changed from a pure and innocent fairy to a vicious witch who wanted to steal Artoria.
throne.
The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.
Morgan, who was summoned by the Lion King, should continue to oppose her king. She will not change much because the other party is the decisive Lion King. At most, she will hide her true intentions more secretly.
'It would be better to say that the fact that the other party is the Lion King will increase the possibility of Morgan's rebellion.'
Scathach threw the magic spear in his hand at Morgan, who was floating in the air. The spear like a red meteor penetrated Morgan's defensive barrier, but the moment the attack came, Morgan used teleportation magic to leave the place.
No one knows the real reason for Morgan's drastic change in personality, but Lu Xiao can roughly guess that it must have something to do with Arturia.
There are many factors that can cause a person's personality to change drastically, the most common ones being great love and great hatred.
From the perspective of hatred, Morgan is jealous of Arturia who can inherit the throne even though they are both women. This is also the most mainstream interpretation of the relationship between Morgan and Arturia.
But according to Lu Xiao's understanding of a certain fungus creature, he has always liked to create some contrasts among characters that have been determined by history, enriching the character's image from both positive and negative aspects.
Therefore, Lu Xiao tried to infer Morgan's motives from the perspective of love, and coincidentally it overlapped with a certain fantasy that Romani had told before.
'Love, or hate?'
Scathach still had room to observe Morgan's expression during the battle.
If Morgan was acting primarily out of hatred, she would surely be happy to see The Lion King fall.
The outcome of the main battlefield doesn't matter much to her. She will applaud the Lion King if he fails, and even if the Lion King defeats her miserably, she can still take advantage of the opportunity to kill him.
But if it’s out of love…
As the wall of light was destroyed by the Pharaoh's Noble Phantasm, the Great Temple of Glory, Morgan's original leisurely attitude became a little more urgent, and the frequency of her attacks began to increase significantly.
'Did he really guess it?'
Morgan's attitude showed her concern for the Lion King's battle. Although she didn't know for what purpose, now that she had grasped the opponent's psychology, Scathach seemed to be more able to deal with it.
Morgan accelerated her climb up the Star Observation Tower. While she used alchemy to refine the materials in the tower into weapons and puppets to block Scathach's progress, she also used various unspelled spells to directly attack Scathach.
Scathach casually defeated all Morgan's attacks with his double guns, squinting his eyes and looking at the Star Observation Tower where he could vaguely see the light.
'What's on the top floor of the Star Observation Tower? Why doesn't Morgan just use the teleportation spell to get back to the top of the tower?'
In two battles with Lu Xiao, Morgan revealed her knowledge of space magic. Logically speaking, there was no need for her to be entangled with Scathach inside the Star Observation Tower for so long.
'Could it be that Morgan's back-up plan on the top of the star observation tower is related to space, and using teleportation at close range will affect the accuracy of the preset space spells?'
With a rough guess, Scathach also accelerated the frequency of actions.
She gave up following the stairs in the tower, and instead stepped directly on the wall inside the building to leap forward. Using her strength several times, she approached Morgan's floor.
Without affecting the magic core on the roof, Morgan had used his best ability to stop Scathach, but the Queen of the Kingdom of Shadows still easily caught up.
"Tsk~ As expected of the famous God-Slayer, he is indeed not so easy to deal with."
Through the gap in the tower that was penetrated by spells, Morgan looked at the bare core area of the royal city, with a trace of worry in his eyes.
'Lion King, the incarnation of the Holy Spear, I hope you can really display your god-level combat effectiveness, at least until my spell arrangement is completed.'
…
Except for Morgan and Shaka's hard-core hide-and-seek, the fighting in the city has basically subsided, and Lu Xiao, Fujimaru and others have officially entered the throne room that was previously blocked by the wall of light.
A tall and pretty blonde female knight stood in front of her throne, her emotionless green eyes locked on the five people entering the hall.
"Hiss~"
The powerful pressure coming from the Lion King made Ritsuka Fujimaru take a breath.
He was the only ordinary person among the five people present. Facing the god-level Lion King, he instinctively felt fear under the opponent's strong pressure.
However, Fujimaru Ritsuka is after all a senior master who has gone through five singular points. With the help of the magic costume (clothes) specially customized for him by Leonardo da Vinci, Fujimaru quickly re-adjusted his breathing and emotions.
"Can't understand."
The Lion King stepped down the steps from the throne platform: "Magicians of the Observatory, you have already understood my true goal in Atlas Court, why are you still resisting my gift?"
"The Magic King's incineration of human nature has been completed. You should know the final outcome of this disaster very well. Why do you want to stop my plan to leave a seed of hope for human civilization?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka took a deep breath: "We are not against your idea of redeeming mankind, but we are opposed to your choice of redemption targets!"
"Stupid, naive."
The Lion King's expression remained indifferent: "The Tower at the End can only accommodate 500 people. It is natural to select the most suitable 500 people. Could it be said that you still have the illusion of redeeming everyone?"
"certainly!"
Fujimaru Ritsuka firmly clenched his fist and expressed his stance: "As long as we correct the seven unique points of different histories, human nature can be restored. This is the belief shared by all members of Chaldea!"
The Lion King closed his eyes slightly, and after a moment of silence, he raised the holy spear in his hand and pointed it at everyone present: "Our ideas are very different, no need to say more."
"Guardians of human ethics, since you do not agree with my ideas, use your actual actions to demonstrate your beliefs."