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Chapter 40 - Chapter 40: Servants Battle the Black Dragon!

"Now, you are all finished!"

Seeing the surrounding Servants half-dead, Jonouchi laughed loudly.

Whoosh!

Bang!

But just as he was laughing, a flying sword shot over, piercing the body of [Time Wizard] and shattering it.

"Huh?"

Jonouchi suddenly came back to his senses, then saw Gilgamesh staring at him furiously from the high building.

"Mongrel, you have such guts!"

"To dare make this King reveal such a humiliating posture."

Clutching his wound, Gilgamesh's eyes seemed to spew fire; his ferocious face looked unusually scary.

"You can actually still stand up?!"

Clearly Saber, Assassin, and Rider were all lying on the ground, struggling to stand, so why could this shiny guy still move?

Jonouchi didn't understand.

"I won't let you mess around anymore!"

Unknown numbers of "Gates" opened behind him. The dense golden light illuminated the night. Gilgamesh looked like he wanted to shoot Jonouchi into a hedgehog.

"Hmph! I'm not afraid of your weird attack methods at all!"

Quickly reaching out to lift the Trap Card Set on the Duel Disk, Jonouchi said sternly.

Also at this instant, all the "Gates" opened by the "Gate of Babylon" disappeared.

"What?!"

Failing to take out any Noble Phantasm from the Treasury, Gilgamesh felt befuddled for the first time.

"Heh, you guys fight relying on so-called Noble Phantasms and Skills, right?"

"Then I just need to seal them."

Looking at the opponent proudly, Jonouchi rubbed the tip of his nose and shouted.

[Skill Drain]

That was a Trap Card that could be activated by paying a certain amount of magical energy (LP). A powerful card capable of invalidating the Noble Phantasms and Skills held by everyone.

Whether it was the "Gate of Babylon" Gilgamesh relied on or the Scabbard "Avalon" that was slowly healing Kenshin and Saber, they all lost their effectiveness at this moment.

What made Saber and Kenshin feel even more terrified was that the "Eye of the Mind" and "Instinct" that had always been keen began to fail.

Now, let alone releasing Noble Phantasms, whether they could fight smoothly with such injuries became a problem.

'Although during this period, I also cannot activate new Magic and Traps.'

'But with it here, there is no problem.'

Of course, this wasn't without cost; Jonouchi's own related abilities would also fail. He could only rely on summoned monsters to fight now.

But glancing at that pitch-black dragon, Jonouchi was incomparably reassured.

[Red-Eyes Black Dragon]

That was the strongest Ace he held at this moment. There was nothing that could make him feel more at ease than this.

"If you want to fight, then come!"

Slapping that card onto the Duel Disk, Jonouchi said in a deep voice.

"Roar!!"

A huge pitch-black dragon suddenly shrouded the sky, far larger than Jonouchi imagined.

"Eh?"

"Is Red-Eyes Black Dragon this big?"

Looking up at the Black Dragon that was unknown circles larger, Jonouchi laid out a question.

This form was at least one-fifth the size of Fuyuki City...

If it weren't nighttime, it would probably have been surrounded and panicked by passers-by in the city long ago.

"He can actually still summon a Dragon?"

Saber barely climbed up from the ground and crouched, looking at that huge Black Dragon in astonishment.

"Hah... whew..."

The effectiveness of the Scabbard was stopped, still maintaining a heavily injured state. Kenshin opened his eyes and looked at the Black Dragon almost blocking the sky, feeling very powerless.

Such a creature existing in legends was actually summoned by the opponent casually.

It was hard to imagine what kind of powerful Magus Caster was in his "lifetime."

"Ahhh!! It's a Dragon!!"

"Tch..."

"Still underestimated him too much..."

Waver was directly scared into sitting on the ground, his legs trembling. Lelouch covered his chest, suppressing the pain.

He really didn't calculate that Caster's combat power was so fierce.

First he almost "cleared the game" with that small familiar, then later he could invalidate the Servants' Noble Phantasms and Skills, and then summoned a huge Dragon.

This combat power was not inferior to the rule-breaking Berserker and Archer at all. His little calculation really looked very insignificant right now.

Inexplicably, it reminded Lelouch of unpleasant past experiences. Every time he thought victory was in his grasp, that guy Suzaku would forcibly destroy his plans with brute force.

"Hmph, trying to shame this King time and again?"

"Berserker, let's pause the battle between you and me for now."

Staring at the Black Dragon in the sky, Gilgamesh didn't have any feelings. Having had many fantasy experiences in his life, he wouldn't be scared by a dragon.

"Clack..."

The pitch-black armored Servant took off his helmet, revealing that mature face, also staring at the Black Dragon in the high sky.

It would be very bad to let such a dragon launch an attack.

And because of Caster, even his ability to "Class Change" was invalid. The Class used now was "Saber." A golden greatsword was held in his hand, just right to deal with that Black Dragon.

"Jonouchi..."

Her state slightly improved, Kyoko Sakura lay on the ground looking at him.

"You can rest a bit more. Both of us are running on empty now."

Using [Red-Eyes Black Dragon] had already exhausted Jonouchi's current magical energy, and Kyoko Sakura also needed magical energy to recover, so this was actually the last resort.

Glancing at the [Skill Drain] activated on the far right of the Duel Disk, Jonouchi felt slightly relieved.

As long as he sealed the Noble Phantasms and Skills of this group of opponents, they would lose most of their combat power.

"Hah... whew..."

"Assassin, can you still move?"

Saber looked at Kenshin, who was still lying on the ground, and asked.

"Barely able to move... thanks to the previous recovery."

If not for the effectiveness of the Scabbard, would he have it this "easy"?

"As expected... my Scabbard is with you."

Just now, approaching Kenshin wasn't accidental. Instead, "Instinct" detected the existence of the Scabbard, making her approach. Now that it was confirmed, Saber also roughly knew the reason.

The only chance for Assassin to get the Scabbard was probably during the period when Irisviel was taken away.

Kiritsugu gave his Scabbard to his wife to save her life, but he didn't expect to encounter such an attack. It seemed she had misunderstood that man before... Giving such an important "life-saving" item to Irisviel instead of himself proved that he really cared about her.

"Now whether it is you, me, or Rider, I'm afraid it's hard to move like normal."

"Berserker and Archer seem able to confront the Black Dragon, but given Caster's magecraft and their injuries, without being able to use Noble Phantasms, I estimate they won't last long."

Looking at the two who had already started fighting the Black Dragon, Saber spoke slowly.

"What do you want to say?"

Asking the key point, Kenshin gasped and said.

"I have a way to annihilate the Black Dragon in one fell swoop..."

"But Caster's magecraft is very troublesome."

"Can I ask you to work harder?"

"Only with your god-like speed is it possible to destroy the machine he uses to cast magecraft while Caster hasn't reacted."

"You really make things difficult for others, Saber..."

"But it seems there is no other choice."

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