Above the ruins of Tokyo, King Arthur was engaged in a fierce battle with Six Authorities, who had obtained the power of True Moon.
Each collision between the two sent the already shattered Tokyo further toward destruction.
Atop two skyscrapers, Six Authorities and King Arthur faced each other from a distance. The waves surging from the sea had now almost submerged the entire city of Tokyo, and a rolling torrent was rushing beneath the buildings.
Creak.
The building beneath King Arthur could no longer withstand the torrent below, beginning to groan before its collapse. Simultaneously, this groan seemed to act as a signal for battle; Six Authorities and King Arthur vanished instantly, reappearing in the sky between the buildings, colliding violently.
The sonic boom generated by the collision caused the surrounding hundreds of meters to tremble. Then, the earth cracked, and the seawater, as if buried with hundreds of tons of explosives, formed a towering water column.
Rin, floating in the air while carrying Aoko, watched the two battling fiercely below. She twitched her eyes as she glanced at Aika, who was standing on a nearby hillside watching the battlefield. Then, countless magecraft Formulae emerged in her mind, attempting to find a Formula that could resolve the battle between the two.
"I hate high-speed battles!"
Sitting on the Ishtar's Bow, Aoko nodded in agreement upon hearing Rin's complaint.
"Me too!"
Indeed, if judged solely by destructive power, Rin and Aoko could replicate the effects of the battle between King Arthur and Six Authorities below through magecraft and magic. However, the physical capabilities of a Magus and a Magus were completely insufficient to support them joining such a battle; it was simply because they were too slow.
Those guys below, fighting at over a dozen times the speed of sound, were just too fast for both Rin and Aoko! So fast that if they joined the fight, they would likely be killed or injured several times over in the time it took to cast a single spell.
As time passed, King Arthur and Six Authorities brought even greater shock to Rin. The battle so far had only been a warm-up for these two monsters who now transcended common sense—King Arthur, just empowered by the Root, and Six Authorities, who had just obtained the power of True Moon. Now that the two had gradually grown accustomed to their new powers, their speed and strength had surged once again.
"Rin, have you thought of a solution?"
Hearing Aoko's question, Rin wore a stiff expression and silently shook her head at Aoko.
In truth, it wasn't that there were no magecrafts that could allow Rin to defeat King Arthur and Six Authorities in their current states, but those magecrafts required sufficient preparation or specific conditions to be cast. However, with Tokyo completely shattered and sliding towards the sea, there were no conditions for Rin to prepare any spellcasting.
Just as Aoko and Rin were at their wit's end, a beam of light unfolded beside them. Zelretch walked out of the light portal with Touko and White Princess, arriving at the battlefield. Simultaneously, in the sky not far away, accompanied by thunder, King of Conquerors was also driving his chariot, carrying Mordred and Lily, rushing towards them.
"Touko! Why are you here?"
Touko, floating beside Rin with the help of magecraft, watched King Arthur and Six Authorities battling below. She lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and then said to Rin.
"To clean up your mess, though it seems I'm a step too late..."
At this moment, Zelretch stared and scanned the battlefield below, speaking up to interrupt the conversation between Touko and Rin.
"Rin, do you remember the contract you signed with True Moon?"
"You mean saving Six Authorities..."
Receiving the hint from Zelretch, Rin suddenly realized. Only then did she understand what True Moon's previous deal was really about.
Then, Rin and Zelretch said in unison.
"True Moon does not favor Six Authorities, believing he will die!" X2
Zelretch hurriedly turned his head and pleaded with Arcueid.
"White Princess, could I ask you to go down and help Six Authorities?"
Arcueid looked at the three Magi beside her, nodded reluctantly, and then turned into an afterimage, rushing towards the battlefield below.
"You are all trouble!"
Rin and Zelretch were not idle either; they immediately deployed magecraft and began casting various support spells for Arcueid, who had intruded into the battle below.
The battle below changed instantly due to Arcueid's participation.
Six Authorities, having received support from White Princess, broke the previous stalemate due to her intervention. Taking advantage of the gap while White Princess entangled King Arthur, he quickly unleashed a certain ability and split into two. One of them quickly joined the battlefield to save Arcueid, who was about to be sliced in two by King Arthur's sword, while the other instantly arrived at the hillside where Aika was located and charged towards Aika.
Facing this situation, Aika frowned her willow-leaf eyebrows in dissatisfaction and glanced at Rin, who was floating in the sky, before elegantly dodging the attacks of Six Authorities in succession.
"It's useless. I have seen all your attacks in advance."
Just as Aika said, it was as if every attack Six Authorities launched at Aika was predicted by her in advance. No matter how fast the speed or how great the power, it was easily dodged by Aika, and she would even seize certain gaps to counterattack using magecraft.
Six Authorities, who was attacking Aika, looked grim as he chopped through the acid arrow flying towards him with a hand blade. He looked at the skin on his hand that was already corroded and creaking, then moved his magical energy to disperse the acid remaining on his hand.
"Marble Phantasm!"
Accompanied by Six Authorities' shout, a massive pyramid suddenly appeared out of thin air above Aika's head, smashing down towards her like a meteorite. At the same time, Six Authorities also attacked Aika at his fastest speed, not letting Aika cast spells to escape the falling range of the pyramid.
Aika, who had been continuously dodging Six Authorities' attacks, still spoke to Six Authorities in that cold, aloof tone, saying calmly.
"It's useless."
Then, while dodging, Aika looked up at the pyramid about to fall onto her head. A flash of rainbow light shone in her eyes, and a twisting force, very familiar to Rin, suddenly erupted, completely distorting the space where Six Authorities had materialized the Marble Phantasm. Then, the pyramid vanished into thin air, crashing into the distant seawater and kicking up monstrous waves.
Rin looked at the ability Aika had used in disbelief and exclaimed.
"Mystic Eyes of Distortion!"
That's right, what Aika used was indeed the Mystic Eyes of Distortion, and it was even stronger than Fujino's Mystic Eyes of Distortion, strong enough to even distort space.
Zelretch stroked his beard and said to the surprised Rin.
"There's nothing strange about it. In her current state, Aika should already be connected to the Root quite deeply. I'm afraid there isn't much of her own personality left. Not to mention a pair of Mystic Eyes, even if she were to hand-craft a Noble Phantasm or cast all Five Great Magics simultaneously, I wouldn't be surprised. The current Aika is almost half the Root itself!"
Hearing Zelretch's explanation, Rin also remembered the original text of Fragments of Blue and Silver she had seen in her previous life. It seemed Aika really possessed such abilities, perhaps even stronger ones. If Aika didn't suppress her connection to the Root, she would completely be the Root, or rather, a puppet operated by the Root.
At this moment, Aika seemed to be growing increasingly impatient with Six Authorities, who was attacking her, and a bone-chilling killing intent began to appear in her eyes.
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