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"Esdeath."
When Kisaragi Rin spoke, Esdeath, clad in the Noble War Chariot, immediately raised her hand, sending forth an ice pillar hundreds of meters high. Gilgamesh, who had appeared standing at the highest point with an air of superiority, had long displeased her.
The probing attack naturally couldn't harm Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh merely summoned a few Noble Phantasms, shattering the terrifying ice pillar.
However, the target Kisaragi Rin needed to prioritize was not her. In the brief moment Esdeath and Gilgamesh confronted each other, Medusa, riding Pegasus, had already charged towards Gilles de Rais, who had transformed into a Sea Demon.
His body was truly massive, a thousand-meter mass of flesh resembling a mountain. As Medusa flew nearby, hundreds of tentacles stained with black mud swept towards her. If she were caught, she would undoubtedly be sent into that monstrous maw to be chewed.
However, Medusa was never alone. Against such a colossal creature, Saber directly unleashed her Sword of Promised Victory.
With the cry of Excalibur, a golden beam of light was slashed forth by Saber, striking the Sea Demon and blossoming into a holy cross-shaped blade.
Then came Medusa, who had prepared Black Flash on the Immortal-Slaying Blade.
The Immortal-Slaying Blade was merely a B-rank anti-personnel Noble Phantasm, naturally incapable of inflicting fatal wounds on the Sea Demon. Only when imbued with Black Flash could it achieve the power to kill the Sea Demon and the mechanism to sever its immortality.
The hit from Excalibur made the Sea Demon let out a terrifying shriek. Riding on the residual power of the holy cross-shaped blade, Black Flash and the white horse followed closely behind!
The black lightning, under Lv10 - Effect - Invisible, became unremarkable. Such an ordinary strike was thus delivered to the heavily wounded Sea Demon.
In an instant, space wailed, and the Sea Demon died with it. Only its remnant soul was collected by Medea into her equipment.
[You have killed Caster - Gilles de Rais]
[You have obtained Gilles de Rais's Treasure Chest]
[Your quest - The Eighth Servant That Shouldn't Exist's completion progress has increased]
"It's a pity Emiya Shirou ran away. Now we can only get four treasure chests."
Kisaragi Rin said to Yukinoshita Yukino beside him.
"Isn't there an Archer here? Clearing out Soichiro Kuzuki's potential allies here is also a good option." Yukinoshita Yukino looked up, scrutinizing this final Heroic Spirit. Her face was filled with natural arrogance, looking at them with a disdainful expression, which left Yukinoshita Yukino a bit bewildered.
Just now, Gilgamesh, controlled by the Corrupted Holy Grail with infinite magic, couldn't defeat us. What's wrong with you, Gilgamesh, coming to show off in front of us now?
"Is there something wrong with this guy's head?"
Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't help but think.
Gilgamesh didn't notice Yukinoshita Yukino's gaze, which was like looking at an idiot. She was observing Saber and Medusa, who had cooperated to kill the Sea Demon.
Seeing the Sword of Promised Victory, she understood that this was King Arthur of Britain. The latter, however, made her a bit curious: it was clearly Medusa's petrifying Mystic Eyes, but why did she hold the Immortal-Slaying Blade?
And, a one-shot kill on that Sea Demon?
Not even a leak of magical energy, just one slash and the Sea Demon died like that?
The strange move made Gilgamesh think of the Command Spells in Shinomiya Kaguya and Hayasaka Ai's hands, the ability from that place to bestow one's Skills upon Heroic Spirits.
However, even with terrifying strength, Gilgamesh still showed no fear, because she saw divinity on the Heroic Spirit riding the white horse.
Randomly thinking of herself facing Scáthach, Gilgamesh was a bit displeased. King's Treasure hung high in the sky, hundreds of Noble Phantasms partially manifested from it, but she still didn't make the first move.
The battlefield temporarily ceased fire.
After killing Gilles de Rais, Kisaragi Rin was not in a hurry to act against Gilgamesh. He was currently channeling magical energy to help Medea recover from her injuries; her Caster class made her body rather fragile.
"Master, I can deal with my injuries later. Let's take care of her first."
Medea said in the team channel.
"No, this space is under her control. If there's any slight deviation, this conscious Gilgamesh might use some Noble Phantasm to escape from here."
The inherent barrier named Spiritual Palace was actually shattered by the space released by Gilgamesh, which made Kisaragi Rin keep thinking about where he had seen this space before.
Flipping through past memories, he already had an uncertain answer, an answer that made Kisaragi Rin somewhat reluctant to directly kill this Gilgamesh.
Kisaragi Rin motioned for Saber and Medusa to temporarily return, while continuing, "A conscious Gilgamesh is still easy to understand. As long as she's thoroughly enraged, she'll stay here and fight us, but I think we can expand our appetite and achieve greater results here."
"Use her as bait to attract the enemy players?" Yukinoshita Yukino thought for a moment, pointing out the flaw and asking, "Esdeath's power to stop time has already been exposed. Before time stop is released, enemy players cannot appear before us."
Yes, knowing that Kisaragi Rin and Yukinoshita Yukino's combination has time stop, no normal person would approach Kisaragi Rin to experience time stopping before time stop is released.
As for Gilgamesh?
She came by tracking the traces of King's Treasure. When she shattered the inherent barrier and covered this place with her own space, she discovered that the people in the space were the combination of Kisaragi Rin and Yukinoshita Yukino.
Gilgamesh knew they might possess time stop, but her arrogance made it impossible for her to leave without a word. Yet, directly engaging in battle made Gilgamesh a bit worried about losing face again. Thus, the current situation was temporarily in a stalemate.
Knowing there's time stop, the enemy Master is basically impossible to approach the battlefield. Even if a battle were to occur, the enemy's strategy should be to wait for time stop to activate, have the Master far from the battlefield use a Command Spell to forcibly recall their Servant, and then rejoin the battle after time passes.
"Unless, we make the enemy believe that Esdeath's time stop has already been used!" x2
Kisaragi Rin and Yukinoshita Yukino exchanged glances, both understanding the crux of the problem.
But how could they make the enemy believe that Esdeath's time stop had already been used?
Looking at Esdeath, enveloped by the Noble War Chariot, Kisaragi Rin suddenly remembered something and said, "Esdeath's class is Berserker. According to others' perception, she should be in a state of madness."
It was the third day of the Holy Grail War. After yesterday's battle, the maddened Esdeath came into Kisaragi Rin's possession and regained her self-awareness.
Logically speaking, Soichiro Kuzuki wouldn't know this, nor would other players.
So, in their intelligence, Esdeath's current state was that of a maddened Berserker!
"How about a deception?" Kisaragi Rin asked.
"A maddened Heroic Spirit, naturally, disobeys the Master's commands, fights the enemy regardless of anything, and then is defeated by Gilgamesh…"
With just a simple explanation, everyone understood what Kisaragi Rin's deception entailed.
It roughly consisted of two steps: first, Esdeath feigning a maddened state of disobedience, and second, the maddened Esdeath being unable to defeat Gilgamesh.
The former would give the enemy a psychological cue, making them believe that Kisaragi Rin couldn't control the timing of Esdeath's time stop release. And when the opponent accepted this psychological cue, they would see the latter that Kisaragi Rin presented.
That maddened Heroic Spirit with time stop, even if she couldn't defeat Gilgamesh, didn't unleash her Noble Phantasm?
They just finished a battle?
Perhaps… time stop has already been used, and now is the best time to seize victory!
The simple plan was concluded; the details still needed careful refinement.
Just as Kisaragi Rin was about to tell Esdeath to begin her performance, he discovered that the situation was starting to go awry again.
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