Of course, this was also the reason why he was unwilling to take Shirou, whom he viewed as a mongrel, seriously. But if the enemy were Saber, Gilgamesh would not be so arrogant. However, Gilgamesh, who already knew about Saber's Noble Phantasm, was not too worried at the moment.
It would have been easy to dodge that blow; not to mention, Gilgamesh felt he only had to resist that strike with his strongest Noble Phantasm, the Sword of Rupture, Ea, to defeat Saber with ease. No matter how strong the power of the A-rank Noble Phantasm Excalibur is when released, it is nothing compared to the EX-rank Anti-World Noble Phantasm, Ea.
"Die! Archer!"
Saber's Agility had reached A, so her speed was incredible. She jumped up in a few dodges, stepped off the wall, and then slashed toward Archer with the holy sword in her hand!
"Hmph, do you think you can compete with this King?!"
Gilgamesh looked down at Saber and sneered. Then, dozens of golden circular ripples appeared behind him, and their number multiplied at that moment. In an instant, as Saber was about to reach the height of the Hero King, nearly a hundred Noble Phantasms concentrated on a single point and turned into a torrent shot toward her!
"Damn it!"
Naturally, Saber couldn't sit still in the face of such a dense attack. She used the Invisible Air wrapped around her sword to unleash a blast of wind against the iron pillar of the street lamp she had just stepped on!
"Strike Air!"
Boom————!
The walls that Gilgamesh overlooked from his high vantage point were nothing more than concrete, easily crushed into dust by the tornado! Saber's petite figure used the thrust of the blow to propel herself away from the spot where the group of treasures fell.
"How dare you attempt to stand on the same ground as this King... I really don't know whether you want to live or die!"
Gilgamesh spoke with annoyance. Then, in mid-air behind him, as if fueled by the anger of the King, hundreds of golden ripples instantly lit up. Sharp Noble Phantasms extended out, locking onto Saber's figure!
"Tsk..."
Saber couldn't help but feel immense pressure, and fine beads of sweat oozed from her forehead. Sweat slid down the girl's chin and fair cheeks. While such an attack was not to be feared as long as she unleashed the power of Excalibur, Saber feared that such a wanton squandering of Shirou's magical energy would be a burden on him.
I was able to release the Noble Phantasm once to avoid this crisis, but what about the next time? What if releasing the Noble Phantasm failed to defeat Archer and I ran out of magical energy before Shirou arrived?
As soon as she thought of this, Saber bit her lip. The troubled expression on her delicate and beautiful cheeks added a bit of charm to her. Seeing this, Gilgamesh smiled wickedly with possessiveness. Torturing a young girl who was also a King was very pleasant to Gilgamesh. He even had the idea of taking her as one of his treasures. Of course, before that, he had to use absolute strength to make her surrender.
With this in mind, the group of treasures raining from the sky turned into a net, finally gathering together and shining with an incomparably dazzling golden light, like a sudden rainstorm!
Whoosh————!!!
Seeing this, Saber didn't think twice and hurriedly raised the Invisible Air to its maximum power!
"Hah!"
At this moment, there was no time to accumulate mana to release the power of Excalibur. The Strike Air, which swept from the ground into the sky, hit hundreds of Noble Phantasms, but it still couldn't withstand the torrential rain of weapons. Seeing this, Saber pursed her lips and raised her sword, intending to fight through the injuries and resist.
At this moment, the voice of the young man came from the dense forest not far away.
"Trace... on!"
At the moment the boy's voice rang out, the same number of Noble Phantasms as the group falling from the sky shot out of the dark forest, dragging blue trails and rushing into the air!
Boom Boom Boom————!!!
The sound of explosions rang out in the sky one after another, as lively as a fireworks display.
"You bastard again!"
The red hair blown by the night wind, the black hoodie he was wearing, and the face that Gilgamesh would never forget made the Hero King bark in rebuke. It was the unknown man who used Projection magecraft to copy his treasures; now he appeared on the battlefield of Heroic Spirits again, easily blocking the barrage.
Since this young man had come here, it also revealed Kotomine Kirei's current situation. Gilgamesh, feeling the broken connection between Heroic Spirit and Master, finally showed an angry face. His ruby-red eyes were stained with arrogant killing intent, burning with fury.
"You... this King will tear you into pieces!"
This was, by far, the most disgusting person to Gilgamesh. Because that guy was able to copy the treasures in his Gate of Babylon, which was intolerable to Gilgamesh's immense self-esteem. The magecraft used by that guy proved he was a magus, but Projection—an extremely low-level skill in the magical world—had reached a point where it could compete with Gilgamesh's treasury.
After the battle at the Einzbern castle, Gilgamesh also connected the Projection magecraft used by the other side to the previous battle at the Mion River. The Sea Demon summoned by Caster was most likely destroyed by this young magus. Gilgamesh vividly remembered that he only came close to colliding with a special weapon—he didn't know whether it was a sword or an arrow—shot by the opponent.
Because Gilgamesh's focus was not on the Noble Phantasm at the time, he did not notice its specific shape. Thinking of what Diarmuid had said to the teenager at the time, it was not difficult to guess that he was the child who had refuted him at the banquet.