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Teacher Pu had been riding an elephant and enjoying the attention of the crowds when the flood arrived. This was not how he had expected the session to develop.
Darius III, fortunately, had the physical dimensions and instincts for this kind of situation. He scooped Teacher Pu out of the oncoming water with one arm, located the nearest iron tower, and climbed it. He stood at the top looking out at a Fuyuki City that was now entirely ocean, holding his Master, and showed an expression of emotion that was rare for him.
His elephant was somewhere below the waterline.
He had not ridden that elephant for long.
With the Holy Church's warrant against David now marking him on the map, Teacher Pu had his destination. The journey across Fuyuki's flooded skyline — Darius leaping between structures in strides that gave Teacher Pu's cardiovascular system genuine concerns — eventually brought them to the sight of the main battlefield.
The Golden Hind. The Golden Theater descending. The collision.
From a third-person perspective, at distance, the scale of it registered differently than the streams showed it. Teacher Pu watched the theater and the ship lock together, watched the undead crew dissolve, watched Nero emerge through it like a comet.
Then watched Nero get kicked backward and land in the water.
Then watched Drake bring the cannons to bear.
Darius III, beside him, made a sound that suggested he had already decided what to do next.
"No — no, wait — that's a very active battle, if we jump into it we'll be caught between—"
Darius jumped.
Teacher Pu's scream covered the distance of three city blocks, audible through the stream audio, before Darius landed both feet directly on the Golden Hind's bow.
The stern lifted. The whole ship seesawed. Two enormous feet drove through the wooden planks and anchored.
Teacher Pu, on Darius's shoulder: "Oh my — NO — put me DOWN — I need to vomit—"
[Chat]: TEACHER PU
[Chat]: he stepped on the ship like a stepping stone
[Watching_Drake]: Drake looks tired but she sees the new threat
[Watching_David]: David's face just did something
Darius set Teacher Pu aside carefully — the specific care of someone who had registered that this small person was his only lifeline and should not be broken — and stepped toward Drake, axes in hand.
David reacted immediately. "Moon Spirit Elixir, attack mode."
The elixir spread from underfoot and transformed — countless sharp spikes erupting from the deck between Darius and Drake.
Darius ran through them.
[Chat]: ...
[Chat]: IT DIDN'T DO ANYTHING
[Comparing]: the elixir injured Nero. Nero hit a wall. Darius walked through it like it wasn't there.
[Stats_Note]: Darius III's divinity and physical constitution put him in a categorically different durability tier than Nero's relatively modest endurance stats.
Drake pulled the rudder.
The ship leveled — the bow came back down — and the centrifugal force of the motion flung Darius outward off the deck. His trajectory continued across the water until his feet found nothing, and for a moment he was suspended over the open sea.
Then his soldiers arrived.
They came from below the water — skeletal figures in ancient Persian military formation, rising, stacking, building a platform under their king's feet. Ten thousand of them, soldiers from Darius's army, undead but structured, combat-capable at near-Noble Phantasm level, indestructible in the specific way that things with no remaining life to lose are indestructible.
[Chat]: ARE THOSE ZOMBIES
[Chat]: HE'S STANDING ON A PILE OF ZOMBIES
[Lore]: Athanatoi Ten Thousand — Immortal Ten Thousand Riders. Darius's Noble Phantasm. can be summoned into reality rather than a Reality Marble. they appear as walking skeletons. combat power just below Heroic Spirit level. immortal — decapitation doesn't stop them. they can also unify into a single form.
[Watching]: they're merging
[Still_Watching]: they merged into a War Elephant
[Chat]: THE DEATH WAR ELEPHANT
[Chat]: THIS IS AN ANTI-FORTRESS NOBLE PHANTASM
The elephant raised its trunk. Green death-light began building at the tip, converging, aimed at the Golden Hind.
Drake: "Comparing firepower? Let's see — will your light cannon destroy my ship first, or will my cannons take you down first?"
The undead crew rematerialized on deck. Dark projectiles loaded, one after another, scattered across the sky like a full broadside.
From above: crimson flame turned into a curtain, igniting the entire volley mid-air.
"You've waited long enough." Nero dropped back onto the water, scorched but moving. "I am reborn again and again like a phoenix. Shall we continue?"
[Chat]: NERO IS BACK
[Chat]: THREE-WAY BATTLE
[David_Update]: David's face has gone pale
[Drake_Update]: Drake is showing a bitter smile
"As you can see, dear Master," Drake said, "you should probably brace yourself. But I don't plan to admit—"
"Drake!"
The arrow came from nowhere and pierced through Drake's chest.
[Chat]: ...
[Chat]: WHAT WAS THAT
[Chat]: WHERE DID THAT COME FROM
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