Darnic had already seen the sudden situation at the Ruler's location through his familiar.
Although he didn't know exactly what had happened, the Red Faction's Caster seemed to have provoked everyone present. He had actually been dragged back by that newly appeared Servant and then had his head chopped off by the Red Saber with a single sword strike.
However, this also ruled out the possibility that the Servant who stole the greater grail was Caster.
"Red Faction Assassin?" Darnic's face was as calm as water, and he began to use command spells to strengthen Vlad III.
At the same time, Gordes, who had not yet had his command over Saber revoked, was also forced by Darnic to use a command spell to strengthen Siegfried.
Fiore was also ordered by Darnic to use a command spell to strengthen Chiron.
In any case, there was only one goal: the Red Faction Lancer and Rider must die here!
They had to reduce the Red Faction Servants' combat power to the absolute minimum!
Then, they would charge up to that Hanging Gardens and take back the greater grail!
Achilles' expression was very bad right now.
His warhorse had been cut down, which had already reduced his combat power by a portion. Coupled with consecutive bitter battles and no timely replenishment of magical energy, his own combat power was now only at seven or eight tenths of its original state.
And his opponent was Chiron, the teacher who had personally taught him the fundamentals of various tactics.
If not for his heel being protected well enough, he would likely be lying on the ground, unable to get up, after being beaten by Chiron by now.
Good grief, and now the opponent had been strengthened by command spells on top of that.
As for his side, his master didn't react at all!
Never mind using command spells for strengthening, he hadn't even provided a significant amount of magical energy.
Little did he know, the only masters on the Red Faction side who remained rational were Amakusa Shirou Tokisada and Shishigou Kairi.
And Shishigou Kairi had unilaterally abandoned the Red Faction camp, while the only remaining Red Faction master, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada, had cast his gaze toward the Ruler, having no time to bother with his side.
Therefore, aggrieved or not, he still had to fight seriously.
"...Shirou, I told you, that Caster is more trouble than he's worth; keeping him is just a disaster." Semiramis frowned as she stared in the direction of Morgan and complained to Amakusa Shirou Tokisada beside her, "Now look, he's brought a huge problem upon us."
"The Enchantress Morgan... is it?" Amakusa Shirou Tokisada also wore an expression of 'the master is doomed.'
"Who else could it be but her." Semiramis sighed, "The female Magus who has an unbreakable karmic bond with that Mordred in the backtracking of memory time, who even has the ability to take the initiative, seize the ownership of Caster's Noble Phantasm, and drain his magical energy to extend her own existence—it could only be that Morgan."
"How strange, didn't they say Morgan hates King Arthur? Why didn't they fight?" Amakusa Shirou Tokisada muttered.
"I don't know about that." Semiramis shrugged, "But as the rebellious knight who sent Camelot to its doom, didn't Mordred not fight King Arthur either? Maybe it's some kind of Camelot style."
"Also, Shirou, don't keep staring at that woman, she'll notice you." Semiramis reminded him.
"When did you get the illusion that I hadn't noticed your presence?" A strange voice suddenly sounded in their ears, "Especially when you are on such a conspicuous city in the sky without any concealment magic, and after I appeared, you even very rudely fired a shot in my direction."
"Morgan..." Semiramis looked around with a grave expression.
"Ah, don't mind it, I'm just communicating with you remotely through magic. I'm still on the ground right now, not hiding somewhere in this dangerous garden."
"And as for why I'm communicating with you two... naturally, it's not because I have any friendly intentions."
"I was just a bit curious about the existence of this garden, so I came to investigate."
"Then, did you find anything that satisfied you, Lady Morgan?" Amakusa Shirou Tokisada suppressed his emotions and revealed a gentle smile on his face.
"Hmm... how should I put it, very crude magical means, and the restrictions are too strong. Although it has some reference value, it needs to be torn down and rebuilt."
A complex feeling of 'a kindred spirit' suddenly welled up in Amakusa Shirou Tokisada's heart.
He actually viewed the Hanging Gardens the same way.
However, as an aerial artillery platform, it was still considered qualified, which was why he had spared no effort to pour all his savings and time into it.
But... the combat record wasn't very pretty.
The first shot fired was returned by the opponent, instantly blasting a huge hole in the Hanging Gardens.
If it weren't for the Hanging Gardens having self-repairing magic formulas, this place would probably have fallen.
"Well, I've lost interest. You guys continue playing, I'm going to go cuddle with my cute little sister." Morgan's voice gradually began to become ethereal, "Next time we meet face-to-face, it might be your death day."
Amakusa Shirou Tokisada's brow began to twitch uncontrollably.
He was angry inside, but he didn't dare to let it out easily.
Semiramis didn't have as many scruples as him; she stomped her feet in anger, causing the ground to shake three times.
"Hmm? Shirou, the situation with Lancer and Rider seems a bit bad." Semiramis suddenly narrowed her eyes and looked at another battlefield, "The Black Faction must have used command spells; the combat power of those three Servants has suddenly increased quite a bit."
"command spells, huh. Then let's use ours too." Amakusa Shirou Tokisada turned and walked toward the interior of the garden with an ugly expression.
He needed to hypnotize those Magus to use the command spells.
"Assassin, please induce Berserker to move as much as possible toward where the Black Faction Servants are." Before his figure disappeared behind the building, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada issued an order to Semiramis.
"Are you going to sacrifice Rider?" Semiramis's mouth curled slightly, "He has lost his warhorse now. If he wants to escape Berserker's self-destruction zone, there's a risk of being caught in it, you know."
"You underestimate Rider's foot speed too much." Amakusa Shirou Tokisada turned his head and said to Semiramis, "His speed isn't something accumulated by a warhorse."
After saying this, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada disappeared behind the building.
"...Getting more and more tactless, that guy Shirou." Semiramis kicked away the pebbles at her feet, feeling somewhat unhappy.
But under her deliberate guidance, Spartacus's forward route showed a slight change.
Originally, Spartacus's path was a straight line, so everything blocking this straight line was swept away by his sword.
But from some point on, his running direction took a big turn of over a hundred degrees.
And he himself seemed completely unaware of it.
Achilles and Karna felt the power suddenly surging within them, and their eyes gradually became sharp.
"I don't intend to retire here, because I still have things I haven't finished doing." Achilles stared at Chiron and said.
"Is it Archer?" Chiron saw through Achilles' thoughts at a glance, "You want to take her back from the Ruler's group?"
"No." Achilles shook his head with some regret, "If Big Sister was snatched away, then using 'take back' to explain it would be fine."
"But unfortunately, Big Sister chose to join the other side voluntarily after understanding what they were going to do."
"Since it wasn't forced, how could I possibly do something like forcibly taking her into my own hands!"
"It's just that Big Sister and I still have an unfinished competition."
"...Slightly, it makes me feel that my education of you wasn't too much of a failure." A hint of a smile appeared on the corner of Chiron's mouth, but not much.
"Chiron, my dear friend, and my strong enemy." There was no confusion in Achilles' eyes, "Round two, it begins!"
"Ah, come on." Chiron faced him as calmly as ever.
The battle, which was much more intense than before, broke out again.
And unlike the one-on-one fight that was banging and crashing endlessly, Karna, who had also been strengthened on the other side, didn't waste any words and directly displayed the martial power of the 'Golden Trio'.
Vlad III's wooden stake attacks were all ignored by Karna directly. Anyway, that thing couldn't even pierce his skin, let alone his armor.
Attacks that couldn't even scratch him, was there anything to care about?
Instead, Siegfried's attacks could make Karna take him a little more seriously.
"Damn it! Damn it!" Noticing the difference between himself and Karna, Vlad III bit his lip until it bled.
"In that case, a zero-distance thrust should be able to pierce your skin!"
"Boom—!" The idea was good, but not realistic.
Vlad III was just about to have a face-to-face, zero-distance thrust with Karna, but before he could get close, the explosive flames from Karna blasted him away.
Even with the local bonus of the Lord of Transylvania, in front of that Son of the Sun, he became pale by comparison.
"master is already urging me. It's a pity, I don't have much time to continue with you." After blocking Siegfried's attack, Karna said with some regret, "So, please retire here."
Magical energy was surging, and in a short time, Karna had accumulated enough magical energy to make the few Servants present break out in cold sweat.
Noble Phantasm?
He was going to use a Noble Phantasm?
Vlad III immediately began to continuously set up wooden stakes around himself.
O Brahma, Cover Me (Brahmastra Kundala)!
Too late!
Siegfried gritted his teeth secretly.
In terms of releasing a Noble Phantasm, he was a step slower than the opponent.
At this moment, it was too late to think about releasing a Noble Phantasm. By the time his own magical energy accumulated to that point, the opponent's Noble Phantasm attack would probably have already pierced him.
That's right, Siegfried could clearly perceive that the opponent's Noble Phantasm attack could pierce his Armor of Fafnir.
What he had to do now was to escape.
Although he couldn't escape the range of that Noble Phantasm attack, if he only endured the aftermath, he wouldn't be killed!
"Damn it—!" Seeing the magical energy surging over there, even starting to materialize, Daniel couldn't help but curse, "Jeanne! Prepare to release your Noble Phantasm! Morgan, use transfer magic to move Jeanne to a place five hundred meters in front of the castle that will be affected by that attack!"
Hearing this, Morgan didn't say a word and directly used transfer magic to move Jeanne away.
"Eh?" Although Jeanne was a bit confused, fortunately, she had become accustomed to listening to Daniel's instructions recently, so her body ignored her subjective consciousness in the first instance and began to unfold her flag to release her Noble Phantasm.
Luminosite Eternelle!
"Ah? What's wrong? Why are you protecting that castle?" Mordred looked at Daniel with a confused face and asked.
"The point isn't the castle." Daniel scratched his head and urged everyone to rush to where Jeanne was, "It's the underground a few hundred meters away."
"My companions, Shalltear and Aura, as well as the greater grail they are guarding, are right there!"
It wasn't clear how the situation in the battlefield area was, but the attack range of Karna's Noble Phantasm was extremely wide.
Except for the area guarded by Jeanne, the rest of the area had been burned to scorched black.
[High-Tier Teleportation]
Following two flashes of light, Shalltear and Aura appeared ten meters behind Jeanne with flushed faces.
"So hot, so hot!"
"What happened! Why did the underground suddenly become so hot! I thought I was about to be roasted!"
It seemed that although the aftermath of the attack was blocked by Jeanne, some of the heat transmitted underground was still sufficient.
At the very least, it was heat that even Shalltear and Aura couldn't withstand, forcing them to use teleportation magic to move to the ground to dissipate the heat within seconds.
"It really is you two, Miss Shalltear, Miss Aura." Jeanne looked at the two who suddenly jumped out behind her with some helplessness.
She only remembered after releasing her Noble Phantasm that Daniel had two more subordinates sent to guard the greater grail.
No wonder he was so anxious and rushed to teleport her over.
"Ah, it's Jeanne." Shalltear looked at her with a conflicted expression, "It seems that the heat that almost roasted me and Aura just now was just the aftermath blocked by you. Thank you."
"No, no need to thank me." Jeanne replied, "It was your master who was worried about your safety and asked someone to transfer me over to help you block the aftermath of that Noble Phantasm attack."
"Is it master!" Stars immediately flashed in Shalltear's eyes, and she held her cheeks in a contrived manner, "Yay I was actually worried about by master, we are really useless"
"So, that heat just now was the aftermath of the aftermath blocked by you?" Aura glanced at Shalltear with disgust, then moved a few steps to the side and looked at Jeanne to ask.
After getting a nod in response, Aura looked at the scorched black ground affected by the aftermath with a look of frustration.
"No wonder master didn't want us to attack. If we were to face the user of this attack, I wouldn't be able to hold on for a single move... Shalltear could hold on for a few moves, but there's no possibility of surviving either."
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