FGO Singularity 1950 Germany- The Road to Paradise

by ColinHayworth

A story in an alternate WWII singularity where its mystery still reigns and the mana were unusually dense for its age. It has allowed all those who were beyond 1900 to become heroic spirits as long as their deeds are beyond any comprehension of human beings. And now this is where all those who remains to reach the truth of what happened

16. Court of the Crimson King

Warning: This fanfic dealt with probably controversial themes and you may find it not suitable for you. If you still decide to read, then stay strong and brace yourself for what you are about to read. This story here happens in Arc 2 and thus may contain some spoilers.

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Chapter 16: Court of Crimson King

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The rain still falls, the sounds of conflict evergoing. The sounds of water splashing from each step of his can be heard. But there is only one thing certain in his mind. He has to take down the mastermind while he still can.

"Azure Soldiers, inbound!" Arnold thought as he picks up the enemy's signal.

Taking out his sawn-off and getting into position, waiting for the enemy to approaches his location. The moment the chance is within his grasp, he quickly jumps into action and assesses the squad that he is about to fight.

"30 Azure Soldiers, accompanied by a Panzer. This should be quick." Arnold thought as he plans his next move.

The soldiers opened fire on him without hesitation, Arnold quickly fired his shotgun right at the two closest Azure Soldier and they soon get splattered into gore and blood clouds the moment the shotgun pellets reached them. Quickly reload the gun while evading the oncoming ballistics, he slowly whittles down their numbers one by one with one shell at a time.

The Panzers fired its cannon at him and he quickly jumped into one of the derelict buildings nearby, the shell's explosion shattered the entrance of the building he jumped into and blocked that way. The remaining soldiers quickly open fires on the building as each bullet easily pierces through the broken concrete.

"So you trying to corner me then, huh? I hope you are into bondage because this will be the last thing you ever felt!" Arnold said loudly within his mind but not saying it out loud for anyone to hear.

He quickly fired the grappling hook through the wall itself and that thing managed to latch onto the Panzer itself. He could felt the shaking of the chain as he could easily tell that the soldiers tried to shoot the chain off but since Adamantine can even resist a Servant's attack, what can a puny attack of an Azure Soldier amount to?

Quickly accelerating his speed as he quickly runs into the wall with a force that shatters it on impact and not even stopping him at all. He then utilizes the momentum he gained and quickly letting it do the rest of the task. The chain quickly moving along with where he was as it tore through the derelict buildings' wall effortlessly. He then burst through the wall while still holding onto the sawn-off. Spinning around the Panzer's position, the chain quickly caught onto the Azure Soldiers and tie them into the Panzer.

With just one round alone, he managed to bind all remaining Azure Soldiers into the Panzer although it is still trying to kill him. The next few rounds are him building up more momentum by running even faster and use it to bind the Panzer's armament from able to aim.

The moment he did so, he quickly slows down his speed until he reached a complete stop. With the Panzer and the rest of the Azure Soldiers bound into it, he begins to press the retract button so that the claw will try to retract back to him but the thing here it is buried within all of those chains and begins to squeeze those bound victim of his.

Think of a watermelon and you putting rubber bands on it. At first, it is alright. But once you keep putting more, the more force it will assert on the watermelon. Once you reach the breaking point, the watermelon will split into half. The same is applied to the Panzer and the soldiers tied into it. One thing will happen for sure is that he will have a bloody mess afterward.

The sheer force of the chain ripped the Panzer and the remaining Azure Soldiers in half and the moment it no longer binds anything, the grappling automatically retracted back to his sawn-off and a bloody mess made out of bisected bodies was left as the aftermath. Soon, they dissipated into azure ashes and gone with the wind itself.

"Good riddance..." Arnold thought as he decided what to do next.

The moment he thought he is safe, he heard something approaching him. He looked at the surroundings and saw fighter planes quickly pursuing his position. Arnold quickly jumped out of its way before it fires on him. After getting out of temporary danger, he knew that they would quickly return to hunt him down and he has to be prepared to do so.

Preparing his sawn-off and waited for the enemy's fire to come. His body tenses for any change in the atmosphere, or even airflow, he knew better to trust his instinct within any moment like this.

The sounds of gunfire approached, he quickly pushes all of his strength into his feet and jumped up as high as he can. Burst through the roof of the building, he could see the five fighter planes flying towards him. Even if they are driven by feral rage and killing intents, they sure did well for a pilot that is if he knows what is the qualification of a good pilot in the first place.

Quickly firing his grappling hook at the closest plane, the moment it latched onto something, he will let the grappling hook do the rest of its job. With the speed that the planes are approaching him, it is more correct to say that the plane struck the claw instead of the claw struck the plane. But nonetheless, it latched onto the plane and quickly drag him along with it.

Despite being WW2 fighter planes, those things were too fast by any standard. Reaching Mach speed easily without any visible percussion, those planes were enchanted to have far greater performance despite clearly incapable of doing so normally.

"Damn it... I... have... too-" Arnold tried to speak while gliding through the air at Mach 3.

He then pressed the secondary trigger so that he can pull himself towards the fighter plane. Just as the sawn-off pulling him towards it, something burst through the fighter, any planes nearby it also received that same fate. Within not even one second, the squadron was wiped out. Guess that when it comes to Servant in combat, anything done in more than a second is unsatisfactory.

Now freefalling 800 meters above the ground, Arnold tried to calm himself down first before getting onto anything. Clearing his mind up, he quickly focuses on that one verse of his poem. The same one that saved Alfin's life.

Swore my vow that I heard the angels cry-

And it seems that it is no longer necessary for him to chant the full verse anymore since even that one sentence from the beginning is enough to evoke that same angel wings from before. Slowly descending, the moment he reached the ground, the angel wings dissipated into nothing.

Seeing the surroundings, he met the familiar face from before and it seems that they have already gotten into combat already.

"Arnold, where were you this whole time? Although I find it more surprising that you actually managed to find us". Gudao said while he commanding his Servants to repel the Azure Soldiers.

"Considering that you just left me behind at the mansion without telling me, that's kind coming from you alone. Now, can you tell me what on this accursed earth is going on right now?!" Arnold said to Gudao

"While you two are still sleeping, Kiritsugu during his scouting of the area managed to pick up incoming signals of sorts. Seeing that there isn't going to be anything good with them, he decided to warn us in advance and we together laid out a plan to counter. But considering that the mastermind isn't willing to reveal themselves in front of us, the best option is to sieving down the possibility." Gudao said.

"Just in case you want to know, we have also brought Silbern with us and when the attack initiated, we sent it back right to where Alfin and you are. Guess that your appearance here means that you received the message, right?" Shirou said before he decapitates another Azure Soldier.

Arnold doesn't know what to say but nod. However, he finds that Alfin isn't here yet. It is either that he somehow outran her or she has a different idea of what to do compare to them.

"I hope that she isn't trying to pull out some Wunderwaffe that is capable of mass destruction. The P1500 is more than enough to bring down a nation to its own knee. Or in this case, it was Germany". Kiritsugu said.

That was a double meaning joke, the fact that Alfin used it against the Overwatcher which by technicality belongs to Nazi Germany and that weapon in history has also brought down the nation's economy with its sheer cost alone if built. But to Alfin, fallacy is nothing to her.

But what should they do now? With no lead in order to plan out for future passage, they are nothing but mice stuck in a maze. Arnold tried to jump to the top of a building nearby so that he can scout the area for any lead that might help him.

A large explosion went off in a distance, Arnold knew that there is only one meaning... Alfin is fighting something. By this point, he might as well associate explosions with her since she is the only Servant here using high explosives as attacks.

"Everyone! Head towards where the explosion occurred! Alfin is fighting against someone!" Arnold said to everyone below.

"You heard what he said, we need to move! Now!" Gudao commanded his Servants to follow his command.

Quickly mobilizing towards where the battle is happening, the Azure Soldiers also started to concentrate and mobilize to their path as if they are deliberately hindering their progress.

"Everyone! Don't hesitate to open fire on those abominations!" Gudao commanded his Servants to attack arbitrarily.

Both Shirou and Kuro traced their bow and quickly unleashes their hail of arrows on the approaching Azure Soldiers, each with a speed that outspeed the highest firing rate machine gun. To compare them like a storm is still very much understating. However, among those approaching soldiers, there are a few which are equipped with ballistic shields and blocking the arrows they are firing like nothing.

They formed an indomitable phalanx line and quickly advance towards them. Those heavily armored soldiers with each of them have one arm holding onto the shield while the other is a shotgun. One thing though... It is not what one would thought to belong in normal history. The shotgun is built entirely out of composite material with a closely more modern design. The triple rotary barrel replaced the conventional single barrel gun allowing it to achieve far greater firing rate, theoretically... That is until they started to pull the trigger.

As if the shotguns held in their hands are machine gun, a hailstorm of pellets soon followed and effortlessly deflected the hail of arrows that the siblings fired at the advancing Azure Soldiers. Shirou and Kiritsugu quickly realized the danger they are in and begin to chant in unison.

Trace on! Time alter zeroth stagnant

A wall of timeless blade formed ahead of them, the only use they have is that they withstood attacks that are otherwise too much for Servants alone to deflect, and they do it exceptionally well. With all of his allies behind it, they need to quickly devise a plan so that they can potentially breakthrough the phalanx.

"We need to do something about this now!" Shirou said to his Master.

Arnold thought while the deafening clashes between buckshot and blades clashing with each other. He started to think of a way to make it out of this situation. He made it out of an enemy-occupied trench alive, he believes that he could do the same in a situation like this. Thinking about all of the power of his allies he had right now, he decided to put his faith in this particular one.

"Kiri, can you apply time alter effect on this?" Arnold said as he shows the assassin a bundle of dynamites.

"What are you intending right now?" Kiritsugu asked.

"Just do it! Give it the highest modifier you can!" Arnold said to Kiritsugu.

Kiritsugu grunted before begrudgingly apply his time alter on the bundle of dynamite. Focusing his circuit and mana flows, he quickly enchanted it.

time alter deci accel

The bundle of dynamite suddenly become blurry as if the thing is moving in a different plane of reality. Arnold quickly connects the dynamite with a detonator and quickly threw it as hard as he could. Due to moving ten times faster than normal, the thing ended up moving faster than the Azure Soldiers' cognition and thus completely overlooked it.

"Now!" Arnold said as he pressed the detonator.

The blast also moved ten times faster and thus the force of knockback also multiplied by ten. Staying at such close proximity to the explosion without a doubt would disrupt the formation and giving him the time required to act. He quickly jumps out of the wall and it is just as he expected, the shielders are disrupted and disoriented from the blast. Quickly taking his chance, he used the underslung grappling hook shot and firing it towards the shield of the closest shielder.

The moment the claw latched onto it, he used all of his might in order to forcefully disarm the shielder and take it for himself. With the shield in his hand, the disrupted soldiers quickly turn their guns on him and relentlessly firing at him. Just at the last moment, he managed to shield himself with the shield he has taken for himself.

To be fair though, there are some really glaring holes in his plan. He is basically betting on which is more powerful, the shield or the gun? And fortunate enough for him, the shield outlasts everything else.

The opposing soldiers as if driven only by their feral rage alone, completely ignored everything else but to keep firing at him even if the shield doesn't even have a single dent from all their shots in the slightest. The rest of his allies who were hiding from behind the wall quickly giving him firing supports and taking out those Azure Soldiers while they are still focusing on Arnold.

"Caladbolg!" Both siblings chanted their arrows' name before letting it loose. With just some slight enchantment alone, they managed to pierce through the shield of those heavily armored soldiers. Impaling multiple of them and the backline like shishkebab, they didn't put enough mana to make it explode in impact but powerful enough to penetrate through their armor.

Kiritsugu takes out his T-Rex Hannibal rifle and while chanting the time alter spell. The moment he pulled the trigger, the bullet pierced through multiple of them with ease and gutted them through the torso. That's just the sheer destructive power of just one bullet of his alone.

Pierce quickly jumped out and fired his Chimera's Stinger at the soldiers, the sheer firing rate shred through their ranks like nothing. Soon enough, they quickly divert their aggro towards Pierce and fired at him relentlessly. Normally, a Servant wouldn't be able to handle getting shot repeatedly like that but Pierce doesn't follow that norm.

His armor's strongest ability, Crisis Core. Now allowed him to completely nullified any attack that is kinetic based as long as he moves slowly or standstill. Bullets bouncing off like harmless confetti while Pierce is relentlessly firing his gun towards them. With the attention completely changed from Arnold to Pierce, he then realized that what he did was just reckless. Pierce could easily take them on, none of their attacks could dent his armor at all. Pierce could easily whip out his Desperado to deal with the shielders swiftly if he wanted to. They would break through this blockade eventually anyway...

But looking at the chaos unfolding from the distance, beyond the ceaseless stream of Azure Soldiers pouring in. He noticed that the conflict between Alfin and anything that she might be fighting against right now can only intensify more and more. He realized that time isn't with his side and thus he decided to use his ace, now.

Quickly swapping the barrel of his sawn-off for the high-caliber version. With the Blasphemy placed in, he took out the 4 gauge shells in his back pouch. The sheer radiating power of it alone is tremendous that Pierce could felt it but not willing to say it out loud. Loading them into the Blasphemy, he discards the shield and aims that thing with only one hand towards the blockade in front of him.

"Out of my way..." Arnold said with a determined voice.

He then pulled the trigger and the torrent of ballistics shred through the Azure Soldiers like nothing. Not even the shield of those heavy soldiers are able to withstand the sheer firing power of the Blasphemy. Think of a blast created by an artillery shell fired from the Big Bertha, and then multiply it by a few hundred and you will get what happened to what you saw in front of you. Complete annihilation.

Pierce who stood nearby him can't fathom what just happened right in front of him, all of it was too sudden. The whole battalion of Azure Soldiers was suddenly wiped away like nothing, the only remaining trace one can even fathom is the lingering azure ashes in the air.

Arnold still held onto the Blasphemy, with a stern eye look to the front. Despite not showing it, he wanted to wince from the sheer pain his wrist being suffered from firing such a thing like that one-handed.

"Arnold! Are you alright?" Desmond approached Arnold while trying to check his wrist for anything wrong.

Arnold can't try to hide it at all and thus just let the medic sees what happened. His wrist completely bruised and dislocated from trying to firing it one-handed, it is a miracle that his hand didn't fly off already.

"Dear Lord, let me treat you quickly.". Desmond said as he takes out anesthetic and injects it into Arnold's hand and then relocates it back to where it is supposed to be, he then bandages it carefully and that is when Desmond called it done.

"Uhm, don't you think you should splint it up?" Arnold asked.

"This medical gears of mine are blessed by the Lord, you will heal much quicker than you can imagine and you will forget that you were injured from the first place.". Desmond said to Arnold.

Arnold doesn't know what to say about it but if it works then he will not question it any further. He then quickly puts his stamina into his feet and quickly moving towards where he believes is where Alfin is right now. Everyone then quickly follows him and ensure nothing could stand in their path once again.

As the sounds of chaos started to become even louder as he approached where the battle is taking place, he worries about Alfin's wellbeing that he can't afford to waste another second on trivial stuff. Pushing his feet to the limit, he tried to cut down the distance as fast as possible. But something inside him started to scream, something bad is going to happen and-

Trace Overedge!

Shirou chanted the spell on his twin blades and they became the wings that deflected a bullet that would otherwise burst into his head at cleanly, too fast that he can't otherwise perceive in time. The red bowman managed to pick up something and quickly deflected said attack right at a moment notice. The wings then shattered like glass as it dissipates into thin air.

"Are you alright?!" Shirou said to Arnold.

Arnold swore that he skipped a heartbeat just now. He wanted to thank Shirou for saving his life just now but he simply giving a nod before keep proceeding ahead. While everyone keeps following Arnold, Larry's expression became furrowed, he knew there is only one person with such a familiar attack like that. As if being pissed off is the only emotion he knew, he mumbled beneath his breath.

"That shit-eating little shit..." Larry said beneath his breath.

Soon, Arnold managed to make it the scene of the battle. Needless to say though, everything is completely ruined around here except for the combatants in it. It was just how he though, Alfin got caught into combat against someone. A man wore WW2 German soldier attire with a standard issued hat that might remain with him since the beginning of WW2 itself. Wearing body armor and gauntlet for some protection. The guy has short, dark and unkempt hair with some spike shooting outwards in parts of his bang. Has a muscular like body with a handsome face and seems to be at his prime of 19.

The assault rifle in his hands is definitely not belong to the current timeline at all. It is no wonder that the calculation for the Lost Depth of this place is on par of Lostbelt. The history here was too significantly altered that stuff like this shouldn't remotely exist. Forged in entirely composite materials and black steel with the design might have taken and evolved directly from the Stg44. The stock of the gun has a spare magazine in it for emergency reload and storage, the underslung launcher of unknown use with foregrip that he can't decipher just yet. A sniping scope installed on top of this gun with a chain pendant of sorts warped around it, he could tell its magnification level can be changed depends on the situation.

A weapon that was heavily customized to the point that it is considered overkill but considering the man is radiating Spirit Origin signal, he could safely ascertain that it is a Servant that she is fighting against but who exactly and what was he famous for exactly?

"Your next line is "I will fucking pulverize your corpse into ash and use it as gunpowder!"." The opposing Servant said to Alfin confidently as if he could tell what she is thinking at a moment notice.

"I will fucking pulverize your corpse into ash and use it as gunpowder!" Alfin yelled with such a wrathful voice that it would instill dread in anyone who heard it.

However, the moment she realized that the opposing Servant guessed what Alfin is going to say correctly words by words, she became hesitant for a brief moment. Taking advantage of it, the opposing Servant quickly pulled a whirlwind kick right into Alfin's face and the sheer force knocked her straight into a building and broke through multiple buildings in the process.

Arnold can't help but wince in grimaces at that kick, but it is suddenly interrupted when he felt something is looking at him intently. Within that brief moment, he evaded the bullet moving at him at the speed of Mach 75 while quickly getting his T-Gewehr out in the evading process. When he managed to situate himself at the crouch position at the end of his evading procedure, he fired it at where he suspected is where the sniper most likely is.

Just like what he expected, the moment he fired the T-Gewehr, the marksman jumped out of the building before the bullet tore what is remained of it. The marksman then rolls on the ground in order to dissipate kinetic force evenly although said force won't even be enough to harm him either way.

The duo stands in front of the Chaldean Servants, despite being seemingly outnumbered, they show no signs of fear at all. It was as if they are still having the situation under their control.

"So, these are our troublemakers who make our jobs a living hell. I hope all of you proud of what you have done so far." The SS Archer said to the Chaldean with a shit-eating grin. Seeing it would easily make anyone feel irritated in an instant.

"Guess that the clash between us inevitable, huh? Not that I am surprised considering what all of you did before reaching here." The SS Assault follows up.

"Quit it already, we outnumbered you by 5 times. If you have a death wish then go ahead and fight us." Kiritsugu said irritatedly.

"Oh, we will fight alright, just that we make this a fair game, with everything at our disposal." The SS Archer said mockingly before he snaps his finger.

Azure Soldiers quickly flooded into this place from all directions, ranging from all kinds of possible equipment that fills in different roles in a tight-knitted army. Realized that the duo in front of them planned all of this so that they will surround everyone here and take out in one fell swoop. And while the Azure Soldiers still mobilizing to this place, Alfin walked out of the building that she crashed headfirst in. Coming out with an extremely irritated expression, when she get nearby everyone else, the Azure Soldiers completely blockade this whole area.

The riot shotgunner completely surrounded them, and behind are many more soldiers armed to teeth with machine guns. Like waiting for their execution, the air started to become significantly tenser the longer things stood this way.

"Damn it, I didn't detect their signal at all.". Kiritsugu thought as their sudden appearance is unusual.

"Anyway, if all of you somehow managed to break through this blockade then you shall then have the right chase after us. If you can in the first place, see ya! Runaway!" The SS Assault said before he jumped to the roof of a closeby building then running along with the rooftop of other buildings.

The SS Archer sighed before he also follows the SS Assault, leaving the Chaldean up to their fate.

With the Azure Soldiers encircled them, they can't act rashly or they will be riddled with bullets before they could act. But there is one thing that completely overtaken the sheer tension is Alfin's bottled up wrath till now. She took another step and the Azure Soldiers quickly raised their guns and aim at the Chaldean.

Even at gunpoint, it doesn't change the fact that she is pissed, another step is taken and the Azure Soldiers started to relentlessly fire at the Chaldean without any second conscience. They thought that the end has reached them but it never came.

All of those ballistics stuck in the air surrounding the Chaldeans as if something forced to be that way. The Azure Soldiers keep firing at her thinking that she just extremely resilient but not knowing that their shots didn't even reach her.

Her eyes changed to the color of ember, the palm that she pushes forward is completely ablaze. Arnold only sees such a side of her like this twice and that was a long time ago but now everyone is seeing that other side of her, the truly determined part of her that only during the greatest of crisis that she would evoke.

The ballistics around them started to set ablaze in flame and they turned into molten metal that it would completely corrode through anything in its way. She then redirects them toward anywhere else but her and any ballistics get caught into that wall of flame also became part of it.

Begone

The moment she uttered it, the blazing wall surrounding the Chaldean quickly blast towards the encirclement like a fragmentation bomb that just detonated. The molten bullets easily blast through the armor of all of those Azure Soldiers like nothing as the encirclement started to rupture from that moment.

Soon, the only thing surrounding them are just azure ash. They were in peril just second ago and now there is literally nothing left between their path. They already know that Alfin is capable of reflecting all ballistic attacks as if they were her but to know that she could do something like this if she wanted to then why did she got her ass handed to her just now?

Alfin's eye returned to that hazy blue color, her anger is gone too and then she calmly answered.

"The guy ambushed me and I got my ass handed to me in CQC combat. You know that I am actually not that agile when it comes to close-quarter combat like this so forgive me that I got all of you into this trouble, okay?" Alfin said sincerely.

That part is true, her true power lies on heavy firepower from her guns but what good does it have when she can't even throw a proper punch? The moment any enemy got close to her, she is pretty much in deep trouble. Because of this, Arnold decided on one best decision he has right now.

"Alfin, why don't you come with me in our pursuit for them. My speed should make it easy to pursue them while your firepower will allow nothing on our way can stop us. What do you think?" Arnold said to Alfin.

Alfin tried to process what Arnold just said. After she gets what he tried to say, she spent no second nor hesitation to agree with him.

"Thanks. I shall follow you then". Alfin said to Arnold.

Arnold then looks toward the direction that the enemy duo moved and then jumped in that path. Alfin followed the suit and following him. The rest of the Chaldean just now wondering what on earth just happened a few seconds ago.

"Should we follow him, Master?" Shirou asked his Master.

"OF COURSE WE ARE! Why are we just stand here and do nothing? Follow him, now-" Before Gudao completed his sentence, he got cut off the moment he noticed something flying towards them.

"It is a ballistic missile! Fall back, now!" Pierce said the moment he discerned it.

The rest got no choice but to get away from where the missile might land, it could be the same one that created the massive crater back in the fight against Desert Fox. But something about it doesn't feel right at all like there is something misplaced about it.

The thing impaled into the ground but that is all of what it did, nothing. There's nothing happened at all. Shirou carefully approaching it in case it is a slow-timed bomb that can create a huge catastrophe. Using his Hawkeyes, he analyzed it carefully for any potential danger inside.

"Huh? There's... no payload at all...". Shirou said as he finds it strange for a missile with no payload.

But on further checking, he realized that it contains something else, a tank of... condensed air? He tried to analyze the air tank inside until he realized the air density inside. The missile is not intended to blow up but in fact, it will create a massive gust that would blow everyone away and separate them from each other.

"Everyone! Fall back! Now!" Shirou tried to warn everyone else but the missile has activated the moment the words came out of his mouth.

A massive gust was created and it pushed everyone nearby into the sky as if they were paper. But the thread of fate binding each other is still strong enough to prevent everyone from being split up individually but rather that there might be a chance for it to be in groups.

From this point onward, every split up individual will be facing up a trial to prove that there might be still a chance for them. Because after all, to survive the final destination at their end, they will have to prove themselves that not even towering enemies can defeat them.

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Nine Lives

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"Waah!" Illya screamed as she was tossed into the air with an altitude of 1000 meters and separated from her family, she can't even recognize where she actually is.

Using her magical girl power, she landed safely on the ground but the idea that she is completely separated from her family unsettled her. Being alone while facing up an army as large as a tidal wave is completely horrifying to her even if she can overpower them with some efforts.

"Wah... What to do now?" Illya said to herself as the only sounds of rain completely makes her felt unnerved.

And then she heard something, the sounds of helicopters approaching her location. That is what she found truly strange. Even if helicopters existed as some form in WW2, they are heavily combat-inapplicable. But considering things have changed drastically, she can't really vouch on that fact anymore.

And she was right to think so, even in the hazy fog and obstructing rain, the monstrous size of what is being carried by multiple Chinook helicopters despite not supposed to exist in this timeframe are approaching her. The thing is then suddenly dropped into the ground and the fleet proceeds to move away from the location.

"Wah! What is that!?" Illya said as fears started to overtake her.

With a towering size over 30 meters, bipedal and what looks like 'wings' hanged by its side. The jet black color is hardly mistaken in a gray rain of bleak and hopeless and the everlasting thunders. And when she thought things just can't get any worse, its eye lighted up signifies its activation.

"Eh?" Illya said as she gasps in horror.

It would have been one thing if it is large and slow but this thing doesn't follow any trope in stuff and shit. It rushes towards her as if it wanted to eat her alive. As if it wanted to devour her own soul and feed it to the already bloody tainted void in itself.

Illya steeled her conviction, she knew that being panic and scared won't save her in a time like this. If the only person who can save her is herself then she better get over it and does what she must. She is a Heroic Spirit, the one who managed to reach the realm of heroes and can proudly call herself so. Why does she being such a scaredy-cat right now?

"Fine! If that is how you wanted it then I shall make you regret your own existence!" Illya yelled at the charging humungous mechanoid.

Quickly jump into action, Illya quickly evaded the first attack of the mechanoid itself. She quickly examined the thing as fast as she could. Bipedal, back-mounted missile clusters launcher, 'wing'-mounted autocannons and a long tail connected to it, that is what she could examine at the brief moment and it might have a lot more tricks in the bag.

Quickly using her Cheerful-type Mystic Code, she fired multiple beams of prana at it but it doesn't seem to do any proper damage against it.

"Of course that it would be able to block those puny attacks of mine. But if that is the case then I need to make an even stronger attack!" Illya said as she keeps the distance between her and the mechanoid.

Whenever she laid eyes on that mechanoid, she can't help but remember the fight against the same mechanoid that the Desert Fox rode in. The parallel is undeniable that she decided to dub it as 'Metal Gear' even if the appearance isn't the same.

With prana charging up at the top her stick, it soon took the form of a comet. She then pushes all her strength into the stick and prepared to fire the concentrated prana at the Metal Gear.

"Stardust Comet!" Illya yelled as she threw the prana comet right at what she assumed is the head of the Metal Gear.

The comet blitz through the rain and struck the head of the Metal Gear with a loud impact that managed to knock it back by some distance, what remain of the attack itself is the pink-tinted residual from what is left of the comet itself. The attack did work if the huge dent on the head is any indication but it only serves to enrage the Metal Gear even further.

The thing activated its left 'wing' and turns out, it is a huge missile battery. It begins to fire them relentlessly at Illya as if it wanted her dead now. With the hail of missiles flying towards Illya, she can't help but yell in panic as she tried to avoid the missiles from hitting her.

Skillfully threading through the gap of attacks, she managed to avoid the missiles from hitting her but it wasn't just that either. It started to charge something if the aura of energy forming around the head is any indication.

"Wuh? What is it trying to do-" Illya tried to say before she realized what it tried to do.

A massive beam of plasma fired towards her, she begins to startle in panic and tried to evade the attack as soon as she can. Thank God that her instinct acts faster than her voice because that would have been an otherwise fatality. The Metal Gear fired that beam for multiple times as Illya avoid them all after learning the attack first hand.

"Damn it, this thing won't let me have any chance to charge up my attack. But I can't use any other non-charged attacks since the Metal Gear's armor won't allow any of it to harm it." Illya thought as she tried to find a different solution to this crap right now.

And then an idea flashed in her mind, there is one trusty weapon that managed to make serious damage on those armored mechanoids if she remembered correctly.

"That's it! But I don't know if it works or not-" Illya said as she keeps the distance between her and it as started to fire its autocannons at her.

If one tried to bet that she can deflect them with her Mystic Code, tell them that they are so stupid that they have negative intelligence. That thing even if it can deflect one shot can't possibly tough enough to brave another.

"Berserker! Include!" Illya yelled that knowing that there is no other choice, she quickly formed the stone sword-axe that her caretaker Heracles used.

Using it to block the incoming bullets, she braced for whatever impact might happen. But surprisingly, it actually worked well as a shield for not a single bullet managed to make a dent on the sword-axe. Taking advantage of this newfound knowledge, she quickly charges toward the Metal Gear with all her might.

The moment she got into the blind-zone of the autocannons, she pulled an overhead smash with the sword-axe into the head of the Metal Gear with all her strength behinds. In the next second, an earth-shattering blow was sent straight into the head of the Metal Gear with such a force that the armor plate on its head shattered on impact.

The thing screamed as it received such a powerful blow like that to the point that Illya has to instinctively pull back in order to avoid having her eardrums ruptured. But after she learned that there is a way to take the Metal Gear down, she decided to bet on one gambit alone. The Berserker Class Card that she has with her since day one.

Channeling her mana into it, she quickly chanted one spell in order to bring her caretaker's power into her and borrows it for this fight.

Berserker! Install!

The Berserker whom she has in mind is Heracles, the legendary Greek hero who completed the Twelve Labors, his feats were renowned far and wide even to the modern age. Even if he is a Berserker right now and having his speech heavily impaired, he still having your back no matter what.

The blinding light shrouds her as the power of the Class Card drawn into her. Invigorate with newfound power, her appearance altered. Now with the power of Heracles flowing in her, her strength alone would sunder the earth itself.

With a rage that would surpass a hurricane yet with a gentleness of a soft feather, the berserker's madness never allows the very little girl whom he took care for so long to suffer and blinded with his rage. A purposed soul is a weapon that makes a person carries themselves with greatness without letting madness blinding themselves into self-destruction.

"Here I come, do you have enough ballistics in stock?" Illya said as she charges forward to the Metal Gear.

The Metal Gear once again yelled with an ear-piercing scream, as it unleashes its arsenal on her. The autocannons fired at her like a stream of a restless river but the sword-axe that she used to cover herself easily blocked them all.

The missiles were fired but she easily ran past them and even slashing them down with her weapon, soon enough she started to get really close to it and it decided to think that it is a good idea to headbutt her. Foreseen its action, she quickly prepared her stance and the thing charged at her like a mad bull.

However, you never underestimate the strength of Heracles, no matter what. With his strength at her disposal, she parried the attack as if it was nothing and the thing got staggered just by doing so. Right when it is still being staggered, she quickly jumped to its head and then put all of the strength she has into that smash.

The sickening sounds of metal smashing were soon followed, that attack would have been a straight-up killing blow yet the head is somehow intact although heavily damaged. It screams in agony and quickly jumped away across the city blocks to get away from her.

Illya quickly realized its attack pattern and begins to adapt to whatever it might do. She keeps pursuing it as she acts according to whatever it fires at her. Covering her face with her weapon if it uses the autocannons, slashing her way through the missiles if that is what it intends to use against her.

However, there is virtually no way for her to counter against the plasma beam it might fires when she got closer to it but thanks to the fact that she heavily damaged its head to the point it can't even use the plasma cannon for more than 5 seconds. It does a few sweeps before it just started to sizzling from overheat. Illya then quickly once again reaching its blind-spot where none of its weapons can reach her properly. Right at that moment, the Metal Gear started to spin itself around tried to whip her with its own tail.

But once again, her ability is too great for such a flimsy attack like that. Without even focus, she parried it perfectly in time and staggered it briefly in the process. Taking advantage of it, she jumped and slashed it as quickly as she could despite the heavyweight of her weapon. Within that brief 2 seconds, she slashed away the Metal Gear's tail to the point it can't even reach the ground anymore.

It yelled in pain when suddenly loses its tail like that, to think that someone actually decided to program the thing to yell in the first place completely baffled her but that doesn't matter when her only task is to take the thing down as fast she could. It once again jumped away from her in the opposite direction to where she was looking.

This battle is a test of mental endurance, as long as she can act accordingly and perfectly, she won't be having much trouble against it. But one minor mistake and it will cost her dear life. She will have to keep a level-headed mind if she wanted to make out of here alive.

Illya once again charging towards the Metal Gear with everything she has. Well, you will realize that there isn't much to describe when your enemy only has three ranged attacks and it is always on constant cycle with virtually no change at all. Effortlessly reaching the Metal Gear once again, she slashes its feet with her weapon repeatedly and tries to destroy it as fast as she could whether with her sword-axe and or by kicking directly at it.

The Metal Gear then pulled its left foot up as if trying to stomp her as flat as paper, she realized what it is trying to do and thus prepared for the impact and put up her stance properly. It came down really fast but not fast enough to outwit her. She parried even the stomp in time and makes it stumble, taking this advantage once again, she prepared an overhead smash and jump towards its 'thigh' and smashed it with all she has.

The sound of sickening impact followed as the left leg of the Metal Gear became heavily damaged from that smash alone. The thing yelled loudly and then jumped away from her once again, but the moment it tried to land, the crippled leg makes it stumble and unable to land properly on its two feet and thus it is forced to waste its precious time trying to stand properly.

Taking this advantage to her once again, she rushes through the battlefield between them with virtually nothing to hinder her. The moment the Metal Gear is able to stand up properly, Illya has already reached near it. She keeps lashing out against the feet of the Metal Gear as it started to become torn apart from the slashes she did on it.

The Metal Gear tried to stomp on her again but when it did so, Illya parried effortlessly. Something within the Metal Gear might have become broken and thus just act completely irrational like this, not that she won't take advantage of it either way. Pulling another earth-shattering blow, she broke the right leg of the Metal Gear with a sickening strike that it even makes the soul of others shiver at just the sound alone.

The thing screamed loudly that it overwhelms the rain splatter itself, seeing no other alternative remain, the Metal Gear activated its right 'wing' and it turns out to be a foldable thermal edge. It then jumped away in one final ditch despite having both legs crippled to get away from her. Illya then continues her pursuit and quickly rushes toward the Metal Gear.

The Metal Gear swung its thermal blade and Illya blocked it with Heracles's sword-axe. Sparks flying everywhere from the moment she clashed as both of them push all their power into their weapons. Illya's vast strength that she borrowed from Heracles allowed her to push even more of it than how she normally thought. She then pushes the thermal blade away with all her strength so that she can advance towards it once more although the Metal Gear swung it back as soon as she took a step.

Decided to finish this all up, she instead grabbing the whole thermal blade itself. With her one hand, it held onto the blunt part and the sword to brace for the thermal edge. Channeling all the strength of the legendary hero into her, she let out a heartfelt cry as she started to lift the entirety of the Metal Gear up from the thermal edge and throw it over her shoulder into a height of 20 meters.

She then jumps onto the blade of the Metal Gear while it is still in midair and slashes the thermal edge itself with Heracles's sword-axe repeatedly while running across it. When she finally reached the joint that connects the right 'wing' and the Metal Gear itself, she made a final jump and dived straight into it. In the next second, she severed the wing itself as the impact soared its shockwave across a vast distance.

The Metal Gear then smackdown into the ground with its severed wing exploded due to energy discharge. Illya triumphantly landed on her two feet as the Metal Gear motionlessly on the ground. Soon, only the wind and the rain remains of the aftermath.

"Dear God, that thing is finally dead. Guess I could take dispel the Class Card now, I guess?" Illya said as she tried to disengage the Class Card she is using.

However, before she did so. Something inside her is screaming as if Heracles is warning about something. She can even hear his roar trying to tell her not to disengage now. Hearing the scream from within, she turned back towards the wreckage of the Metal Gear and then suddenly, its eyes started to flash up. It lunged towards her and before she could do anything, she suddenly got clamped between its jaw and unable to move.

"Berserker! Include!" Illya said as she tried to break through its grasp by breaking the jaw that is clamping her with the sword-axe.

Within one strike, the thing then tossed her away by a huge distance and she helplessly tried to stop her flight but to no prevail. She then collides with a building and still pierced through it and then landed on the ground. The Metal Gear has also pursued and jumped straight to her location despite only having its crippled legs. And guessed how it started the battle? A hail of missiles, a fucking hail of missiles that is.

Illya stood on her two feet, this time she is pissed. She has enough of this Metal Gear making her life even worse than a hellhole. This time, she will destroy it once and for all. Preparing the humongous stone sword-axe again with her stance ready, the Metal Gear roared and quickly fired the plasma cannon installed within its mouth and sweep the ground in front of it. Due to both of its legs crippled, it can't remain in a straight posture but rather aiming down to the ground.

Such a simple attack pattern like it can be dodged rather easily, just that fuck up that jump alone would cost dearly. Illya then quickly timed her jump so that she can avoid being hit by the plasma beam. Thankfully due to the initial damage, the thing can't fire the plasma cannon for long before have to quickly disengage or the thing will blow up due to overheating.

The moment her chance comes, she quickly swung her sword-axe repeatedly into the Metal Gear's face. The armor platings shatter apart with each hit of her into brittle scraps, the damage started to accumulate quickly as its internal working and sensors started to become heavily damaged to the point that it is visually impaired.

Within that one desperate attempt, it tried to headbutt her but sometimes one really should draw the line between practical and desperate because it just nailed its coffin with that attack. Illya parried that attack decisively as it staggered and she then pull a spin smash into the head of the Metal Gear. Right the moment of impact, the head got shattered to the point its plasma core is visible. Realized the possibility of defeat, it then jumped to the back and unleashes the rest of the missiles at her in the last-ditch attempt.

The amount of missiles being fired at her is staggering but she let none of it stop her from what she intended to do. Focus her mind and letting her inner spirit finding tranquility, she then quickly dashes towards it and then hopscotched from each missile to missile without fail. The Metal Gear not realizing that it is in fact bridging her path towards its destruction and before it could process anything, she has already reached it.

The perfect chance for her has come as she left towards the left 'wing' of the Metal Gear, raising her weapon and reached for the Noble Phantasm of Heracles himself. She will put an end to this with one decisive technique devised by Heracles himself during the lengthy battle against Hydra. This technique is, in fact, applicable to every weapon but its best is when used with a bow. But to her, even this primitive weapon alone would already fulfill its job no matter what.

Nine Lives, Shooting Hundred Heads. An all-purpose Noble Phantasm capable of adapting and changing how it appears depending on the target and the circumstances of its use. This technique is made as an ultimate counter against an enemy that resurrects no matter how many times it was killed and by exterminating as many times as it took no matter how they resurrect.

"NINE LIVES!" Illya chanted the name of the Noble Phantasm as she swung her weapon with the full might of the hero she called to.

Nine swift slashes that are so fast and consecutive that it is seen to be overlapping. In a mere instant alone, she pulled his Noble Phantasm and managed to use it for herself. The Metal Gear at the receiving end can't handle the power that is being discharged at and the entirety of the armor plating on it shattered to the point revealing the internal mechanism and wirings, bare frame, the left 'wing' got severed in an instant and gone to who knows where. It then collapses into the ground and became motionless afterward.

Illya still not convinced that the thing is dead and still drawing her weapon. Prepared for anything it might pull on her as she gets closer to it, she will slash this thing down to the very core if it is still indeed alive. Just when she lowered her guard slightly when enough time passed, the broken Metal Gear suddenly lunged at her again and tried to clamp her at what is left of its jaw. Illya due to being too close to it and thus once again got stuck in its jaw but due to her natural defense alone with the Class Card and the Metal Gear is running on fume and what is left of it. It just seems that Illya could easily break through its grasp anytime.

Illya strikes the jaw once and the thing then threw her into a tall building that was closeby. Illya braced for the impact so that she won't just penetrate through the building like cardboard boxes and instead stop the moment she impacted on the wall. With the Metal Gear on its last leg, it begins to fire whatever has left on its arsenal in which case, the back cluster missiles, and the nearly-broken plasma cannon.

"So this is what you wanted then I hope you can only found peace in oblivion!" Illya said as she quickly gets out of the crater and quickly runs vertically down the building. The Metal Gear slowly moved towards the building she is running down while unleashing anything it has left on her. With the building that she is running down on crumbling from the missiles and plasma beam being unloaded towards her. The moment she reached near the ground, she puts all of her strength into the feet and leaped straight towards the broken Metal Gear at godspeed.

Prepared her weapon, she puts all of the strength she has from her caretaker into the blade, she will use Nine Lives to its full potential and power so that she will ensure the destruction of the Metal Gear for once and for all.

Nine Lives!

She swung her weapon the moment its range reached the Metal Gear. It wasn't just nine slashes but it started to exceed more and more, ten, thirty, sixty, more... She slashed the Metal Gear, one hundred times within a single breath of her. All of it was so fast that it overlaps with each other. The moment she phased through the Metal Gear, she quickly braced the ground with her two feet and her left arm. The right arm still held onto the sword-axe and won't let go.

The Metal Gear from behind her crumbled to nothing, the hundred-slashes of her basically annihilated it into oblivion. Soon, it is gone with then everything became unnervingly silent with the rain itself.

The Class Card then disengaged and she returned to the appearance of a magical girl, the card is now in her hand again and always there for her should she need its help. She looked around her, hoping that there is someone will come out to say that thank god that she is fine but... it is still that same sounds of rain, nothing has changed at all.

All around her is unfamiliar sight, she doesn't even know where she is, she can't communicate with anyone since they are all got separated. She falls to her knee with a rolling tear in her eyes. She felt powerless, she only wanted her family but even that still taken away from her.

"I won, but... what now?" Illya said.

She still kneels there but she doesn't pity herself anymore, she instead prays for her family's safety, even if they won't see or heard it. She just hopes that her words will somehow reach them even in the rain of colorless future.

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Destiny Severing

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Meanwhile at Kiritsugu and Irisviel

"Honey!" Iri said as she still held onto her husband tightly even when both of them flying through the air.

"Don't worry! I'll handle this!" Kiritsugu said as he quickly takes out something from his back.

He quickly takes out a parachute bag which somehow materialized in thin air. Decided to spend no more second wasting at trivial stuff, he quickly pulled the parachute and soon their flight through the air is halted. Kiritsugu looked around for anyone but he got blown away from everyone for too far that he can't really discern anything at all.

Like entering uncharted areas, he can't even make the simplest guess of where both of them are. It is still the same city but definitely not where he scouted, the fog around here makes his vision severely impaired although he can still make out the surroundings even if slightly.

Both of them landed and it is on the top of a building. He steps to the edge and looked down to discern the height but he just can't see the bottom ground at all. Hell, they might have landed on top of the tallest building around here.

"Kerry? I think we landed on something that does definitely not belong to the proper timeframe here." Iri said as she realized the symbol on the rooftop of the building.

Kiritsugu walks toward his wife and sees what she tried to get at. One big white 'H' and a large circle around it, he realized what it can only mean. Helicopter port...

Helicopters indeed exist even during WW2 but they are usually too unreliable for the battlefield at the time. Kiritsugu can even tell that this port is at pristine conditions and shows signs of being used at a time then it can only mean one thing.

Out of all of the places they could land, it is fucking enemy's territory. Kiritsugu quickly realized this and begins to act according to what he hypothesizes could happen.

"Iri, get close to me, now!" Kiritsugu said to his wife.

Irisviel obliged without asking anything, she knew what her husband meant when he told her to get near him. Quickly held onto Kiritsugu from his back and as tightly as she could, the heavenly embrace of her soothes away his mental stress and allowed Kiritsugu to attain greater focus and awareness of surroundings. Plus, it negates one of the most critical demerits in his skill. The Luck leeching aspect that would have otherwise killed the others at for the success of his mission.

The sounds of rotors spinning can be heard, Kiritsugu quickly looked around for anything that is creating that sounds until he realized just how deafening it started to become. It wasn't just one helicopter, it was... a large fleet of them coming to this location. Kiritsugu quickly takes out his WA2k rifle with its thermal sight on. He looked through the scope for anything peculiar and he is right, a Chinook helicopter is approaching his position and it seems to carry something along with it.

He whips out a Stinger rocket launcher and quickly fired towards the Chinook helicopter, hoping that it would ditch away whatever horror it might be going to bring. But he was too hopeful as the missile suddenly collided with something surrounding the Chinook helicopter. A force field... of course... of course that they would take that into account.

Now it has reached above his location, it then dropped the container that it carried all along right above him. Kiritsugu avoided getting squashed by that container but what truly unnerve him isn't what just happened just now but rather, the content inside it. The dreading aura it gives off, he knew something like this can only go so well...

Thud! Thud!

The sounds of something punching the container with so much force that it dented the wall itself. Kiritsugu takes out 'Natalia' and prepared for whatever may come. Irisviel begins to chant her Noble Phantasm preemptively so that she can make sure that both her and her husband will at least survive a fatal blow if unexpected events happened.

The container broke open like a claymore mine detonating and Kiritsugu blocked all the fragments that threatened to harm him and his wife. The inside... is an android. Kiritsugu squinted so that he can try to assess more from just its shadowy figure alone. Its eye then quickly flashed as if signifying its activation and it then raised its two blades with one in its two arms.

"So an android imitating swordsman, huh?" Kiritsugu said as he looked at the android ahead of him.

And when he thought he knew what it truly is, the android in front of him raised more of its arms behind each other as if it was Buddha. In each hand is a blade and there are eight of those arms.

"Oh, you fucking kidding me!?" Kiritsugu cursed at the android when it raised its eight blades against him.

And when Kiritsugu thought things couldn't get worse, its blade begins to electrify and as electric currents started to run within it. Realized that the opponent that he is going to fight is a monstrosity of its own kind. Having no choice left, steeling his determination once again, he raised his own blade against it.

Words of God: For this part, play DESTINY - Yakuza 6

"So you want a fight then, hope you will reflect that on yourself, in pieces!" Kiritsugu said before quickly jumps into combat.

The eight-armed android then also approaches him menacingly and then it quickly rushes toward Kiritsugu with the rocket-propelled muzzle installed on its back. When the thing is approaching Kiritsugu at high-hypersonic speed, he quickly blocked what would have been an 8-simultaneously slash with his blade alone. When all of those blades landed on Natalia, Kiritsugu gathered all of his strength into the blade and quickly pushed away all eight blades at the same time resulting in the android become staggered. Taking that sheer moment that would have lasted half a second alone into his advantage, he chanted.

time alter nona accel

Time froze, raindrop ceased to fall in his vision, the sword android in front of him also stuck in that staggered stance, open itself to incoming damage. Both Kiritsugu and Irisviel felt tremendous pain but after using such high speed-multiplication like this multiple times has pretty much rendered them to tolerance to such pain like this. Focus everything he has into the blade, he swung it true as it instantly severed apart the two arms of the android in front of him as 'blood' started to spew from the gaping wounds as its arm limped to the ground along with the blades held by it.

Quickly disengaged the time alter quickly after that, the thing then suddenly staggered back when it realized two of its arm got severed before it could even feedback the damage. Its hydraulic fluids leaking everywhere in a color like blood-red as it stained the whole ground wherever it stood in its 'blood'. It 'yelled' as if what Kiritsugu did is an anomaly that should have been impossible.

Kiritsugu doesn't care about what does that android have to say, it wanted him dead and he will make sure that it regrets its whole decision of trying to kill him in the first place. He then proceeds to dash towards the android and quickly slashes it as fast as he could.

"Cybernetic muscle fiber, extreme reflexes, high-frequency blades, speed adaptation sensors. They surely knew how to build a killing machine." Kiritsugu said as he gives it a mocking remark.

He quickly slashes the android in front of him repeatedly but turns out, its body and the blade have high enough magic resistance in order to avoid getting auto-severed by his Natalia but it can still receive damage from his blade's attacks. While as tough as it is, it isn't that withstanding when it comes to taking attacks from time alter. Just that he needs to find a perfect opening when it is susceptible to attack.

The android then swung all of its blades around, in which Kiritsugu respond by sidestepping its attack while still remaining in close-quarter around it. Skillfully slashing it with Natalia, he swung his blade two times in quick succession and then charging up the third slash where he quickly 'unsheath' his blade towards the android with a powerful blow.

That blow pushed the android back and then it became enraged the moment it got its footing back. It then swung its blade madly around like lawnmower razor at a speed that it caused a huge change in airflow alone. Kiritsugu prepared for another slash but immediately got blocked the moment it reached around the swinging field of the android. Kiritsugu attempted again by swinging in a different direction but he still got blocked nonetheless. Iri seeing her husband struggling to break through the mad swinging of the android, she decided to quickly lend him a hand.

"Kerry! Let me help you!" Iri said to her husband.

Letting her hand weaves through her hair, she chanted something as part of her hair threads started to disconnect and turned immediately into swords with durability comparable to steel, while it may not have the attack power of Natalia, a repeated strike would suffice.

Assembling her blades around Kiritsugu and it started to spin around him. Wherever he goes, the circle of blades will remain with him in the center even if he moves. She then focuses to the best of her ability and the blades quickly spin so fast to the point it looks like a circular saw that illuminates in white light. Kiritsugu takes advantage of it and quickly charged forward to the android while the steel thread blades still spinning erratically around him. As he got closer, the spiraling edges around him clash with the maddened swings of the android as it forced the android to use all of the six blades it has to block it.

The clash between them ended up creating a massive amount of sparks that the amount that is created when wielding looks like a pebble to a mountain.

Soon, the android can't handle the constant suppression of the spiral edges and quickly got staggered when Kiritsugu forced his way even further. When that chance comes to him again, he quickly chanted the time alter spell again.

time alter nona accel

Time froze once again, Kiritsugu mercilessly cut away two more of its arms as fast as he could before the forceful time recorrection would tear him and his wife apart. Right after when he has done so, he quickly disengaged time alter and time flow returned to normal again.

The android suddenly yelled once again when two more of its arms are gone, the thing then started to swing its blades even with more force in it at Kiritsugu and he doesn't know if he can still block it or not and he would rather not risk himself to test it. But because it is putting more strength into each blow of it, the android sacrificed a bit of its speed for significantly increased attack power. Perhaps if he could taking advantage of that slight demerit into his advantage, he will otherwise have to up his game if he doesn't want to receive a bloody end in his path.

Seeing that there is no other choice, he begins to chant the lowest level of time alter, the one that he used for so much time even back when he was alive as a normal person.

time alter double accel

Multiplies his time flow by two, this multiplication won't harm him that much unlike the others but this is the best for general uses of time alter. Moving drastically faster and it also applied to his wife, he quickly lands as many attacks as possible. His wife assists by firing her steel thread swords in volleys at the android. Moving at twice the speed of what they could normally, the couple not only managed to land even more attacks but the multiplication of time also increased their damage substantially.

With each slash of his blade, the impaling of her swords, all of them spills the 'blood' of the android even more. As if it started to become even more enraged than how they normally could think of, it then swung its sword towards where the couple are which they moved away before it even started to swing but the moment the blades collided onto the helipad, it makes a huge crack that coursed throughout the rooftop. If Kiritsugu wonders if he could still block it, he already received the answer already. It is "no you can't, you fucking dumbass".

The helicopters that escorted it started to mobilize around this place as they begin to fire their armaments at Kiritsugu and Iri, machine guns, missiles, whatever, those helicopters are trying to assist the android on taking them down.

Realized what the helicopters are trying to do, Kiritsugu quickly evaded the line of bullets but the helicopters are still aiming at him while ignoring everything else. This results in some of the helicopters' attack landed on the android instead and thus damaged it, albeit slightly. Kiritsugu however only finds the helicopters more of a nuisance and he will have to take them down if he wanted to focus on the android without interference. He could easily deflect the bullets and slash the missiles down but to do that while something that is perfectly capable of killing him is getting nearer? Miss him with that shit.

Getting away from the android enough, he instantly whips out his Stinger launcher and locked his target on the closeby helicopter and fired it without hesitation. The helicopter tried to move away from the rocket but what good use does dodging something clearly capable of homing in a target and the distance is only 10 meters? Yeah, good luck dodging that.

The helicopter then blew up into flaming wreckage and then crashes to the ground. While he is doing so, the android got closer to him and walking menacingly towards him. Unfortunately for the android though, Kiritsugu has faced way too much hardship in order to be psychologically threatened by walking alone, he then quickly jumped away from it and then reloaded the Stinger quickly so that he can take down the rest of the helicopter fleet. Rinse and repeat, the fleet of helicopters that escorted the android are nothing more but a heap of burning wreckage.

The moment he is done with the helicopters, the android then suddenly lunged towards him and prepared an overhead smash right at him. But with his speed remaining far supreme, he easily evaded it like a leaf blown by the wind. Right after the android missed its blow, Kiritsugu pushes all of his strength into one sheathed blow that ruptured through its cybernetic nanotech muscle fiber. Staggering from that blow as the hydraulic fluid can't stop leaking, Kiritsugu prepared to slash away two more of its arm until the thing suddenly just jumped off the building.

"What?" Kiritsugu thought as it started to act completely unorthodox.

Still not letting his guard down and prepared for anything the android might do. Literally in the next moment, the android jumped straight to the rooftop of this extremely high tower while carrying a steel crane, the kind that is used to build skyscrapers. The android then yelled with an ear-piercing scream and then swung the entire crane as if it was a stick in a human hand. With such ridiculous swinging speed, Kiritsugu has no choice but to block it and really, a single blade can't block an entire crane like that. And when the crane finally hits him, the force that the crane struck him was too great that he got hurt tremendously but not fatal, his feet didn't have enough friction to stop his momentum and thus he got knocked away to the side and falls off the building with his wife.

"Kerry!" Irisviel said as she quickly applied her healing on him as fast as she could.

With the wounds on Kerry's body fade away, she quickly used her hair and applied her magecraft to it. The moment she determined to be the perfect chance to use it, she quickly separated parts of her hair and turned them into an extremely long rope and quickly threw them to the top of the building. The moment it latched on, she pulled both of them back to the top.

Returned back to the top, Kiritsugu landed on his two feet and then suddenly kneeled from the sudden shift of his spirit. But his eyes not disconnecting away from the android in front of him in the slightest. The android swings the crane at him with such ridiculous speed again but Kiritsugu won't fall for it once more. Pushing his mind to the limit, he quickly chanted his spell as fast as he could.

time alter nona accel

Time froze once again, his focus shifted towards the crane that the android is about to hit him with. He then quickly using a sheathed slash into the crane as the blade severe it automatically without effort. All of this before a real second could pass and then he disengaged the time alter and soon things flowed back to normal.

By evading through the severed part, part of the crane flew away due to being disconnected and while the rest is too short to reach Kiritsugu. The moment he passed through the crane, he quickly zeroed in and then pulled an upward slash that would have otherwise bisected a person entirely but instead staggered the android and makes it let go of the crane instead. Seeing the perfect chance come to him again, he quickly activated his time alter.

time alter nona accel

Within the frozen time, he then slashes away the two more arms of the android, leaving it with only one pair of arms left. He then disengaged and quickly remain his distance away from it.

The android registered the sudden shock and suddenly started to shake violently as if it is having a seizure while its hydraulic fluid is leaking everywhere.

"Kiri? What is it doing?" Iri asked her husband.

"Beat me, I don't even know what the fuck is that thing really, even till now.". Kiritsugu replied to his wife while still remaining in battle stance.

While they are looking at the seizuring android in front of them, they heard something that is emitting from the android itself.

Warning! Warning! Critical damage registered to neural network. Requesting Overdrive Protocol...

"Shit!" Kiritsugu said as he quickly rushes forward so that he can finish off the android before it becomes something even more monstrous.

Request authorized. Initiate Overdrive Protocol.

The moment before Kiritsugu's blade managed to reach it, a blast of aura was immediately released and knocked him back in an instant. Surrounding the android is an aura of pure red like blood itself. It was as if the thing is on full-blown bloodlust right now. Its body seems to be emitting electricity in the color of red around it even if it is plain impossible to do so.

"For fuck sake!" Kiritsugu cursed for he could have ended the whole fight swiftly had he killed it the moment it is still having a seizure.

Now, this is an enemy of a whole new level than before. All gloves are off, all bars are removed, one will live and the other will die. This is an ultimate battle where everything will account for the outcome of this fight. Kiritsugu raised his blade once more and the android in front of him is raising its two blades now illuminate in blood-red.

The android now charges toward Kiritsugu with its the rocket muzzle in the back pushing it towards him at Godspeed. Kiritsugu quickly blocked the attack with Natalia and the force applied to him pushed him back by a considerable distance before the android jumped away and lunged at him again in the mid-air. Kiritsugu took a deep breath and then chanted the time alter again to give him an edge against the overdriven android.

time alter triple accel

Placing his bet on the most cost-effective gambit he has right now, the speed of both him and his wife increased tremendously but not without a huge pain that is also burdening both of them but considering what they did, this isn't anything special anymore. With increased speed awareness, he perfect-parried the android in a frame of about mere thousandth of a second.

The moment it got staggered, he quickly slashes the android as much as he could. With the tripled speed, no matter how the android may try to slash him like hell just breaks loose, Kiritsugu skillfully evaded all of it while landing punishment against the android. The moment it tried to get away from him, Irisviel quickly creates many steel-thread blades above the android and unleashes them all down on it like a storm on it.

The android just keeps slashing at his afterimages as it keeps mistaking it for him while Kiritsugu keeps on slashing things and forcefully cancel out momentum by sheer focus alone and thus keep 'stunlock' the android from moving. The combination of Iri's suppressing attacks and Kiri's continuous slash down on the android managed to prevent it from even making a proper attack.

However, it started to become electrify more and more and Kiritsugu decided to fall back before something bad would happen to him and his wife. Just as he thought, the android discharged a massive blast of energy and also resulted in a massive gale that pushed Kiri back by a distance. The killing machine then jumped away from him and out of the building itself. However, it didn't fall, it just levitates there as if gravity no longer has any effect on it. The android then moves away as it seems to raise something up.

"Dear... Lord..." Iri said as she realized how much debris the thing is pulling up to the sky.

Derelict buildings, ruins, even destroyed armors and so much more, so much that it could blot out the sky if it weren't for the fog covered majority of his and her vision but they knew that it is the force that it is without a doubt reckoned. The android is too far away from him to slash his Natalia at it and considering it can even tank Natalia's attacks, none of his ranged armaments can probably harm it either way.

Focusing and mentally prepare himself for whatever to come, raising his blade at the android in a distance. Knowing that whatever it might do, he has to counter back no matter what.

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The android then tossed all of the ruins it managed to pick up at him y some unknown force, electromagnetic? Who knows? But all of them moving at such ridiculous speed that even nona accel doesn't make them slow at all to him compared to his surroundings without somehow being crumbled at their own speed. Without further ado, he quickly slashes all of the rubble that came towards him with each cleave cut the whole thing cleanly like a hot knife through butter.

With such extreme speed that he is performing, the barrage of rubbles being thrown at him is only made manageable thanks to extremely high time alter modifier. He can't even fathom what kind of stuff he is cutting through right now, sometimes a boulder, sometimes a broke down Panzer or even burning wreckage of a helicopter and even an entire building. Just is there a limit to whatever that thing decided to throw at him?

The moment that it decided to done throwing shit at Kiritsugu, it suddenly boosted into the air. Kiritsugu then quickly disengaged from nona accel and his movements became a lot more awkward due to the sheer pain he felt from moving at nine times speed. Iri's healing soothed the pain and stress away but constant abusing it makes him felt that he will not get out of this fight in one piece.

"Kiri!" Irisviel tried to warn him about something approaching him rapidly.

Heeding his wife's words, he quickly jumped out of his location immediately and the android slammed right at where Kiritsugu was a second ago and also discharged a huge amount of energy in the process results in a blast that would have otherwise injured him gravely. The moment the blast is just remaining residuals, Kiritsugu quickly rushes in and prepared to slash the android with his weapon.

But... it isn't that simple anymore. The moment his blade is about to land on the android, it automatically splits itself to avoid his slash, as if no longer bound by molecules bond, no matter how Kiritsugu tried to slash, in any way or how fast it is, it just automatically split its body just to avoid his cuts.

"Impossible!" Kiritsugu said as the android suddenly can split itself apart into multiple parts.

And even if the arms aren't connected directly into the body, it still swings madly at Kiritsugu which he has to quickly takes care of. Iri quickly created as many swords as she could and even throw them from its blind spot but does little to help her husband.

"Kiritsugu! Try to focus on something that it can't split apart, you won't get anywhere at this rate!" Iri said to her husband.

The sheer tension of the battle started to make him pulling leap of faith within his judgment and the fact that he is an assassin which means he isn't mean for direct combat in the first place, but after hearing what Iri said, he decided to quickly strategize what he should do. And then a brilliant flash appeared in his mind as he quickly placed his high-rolling bet on the clock-handed gambit.

time alter nona accel

Speeding time to the point that everything just seems to be stopped, he then prepared his blade into the stance that every Eastern swordman always has to master, The simple overhead slash that all of them spent so long to master. Simple to do but really hard to push it to the zenith. Focusing his mind into one place that it couldn't split apart, the head.

With one true blow that moves with a speed that easily went beyond Mach 9000 in real-time, the head flew off while the body as the rest of it falls apart like Jenga. Kiritsugu also disengaged quickly the moment he pulled the slash and he quickly gets to the android head as quickly as he could. He then grabs it and then started to chant time alter once again.

time alter square accel

The moment time sped up, he quickly knees the head repeatedly with each blow hard enough to crack a Servant's head with the multiplier that he is on right now.

"Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! " Kiritsugu cursed with each time he knees the android's head.

And keep in mind, Kiritsugu has A+ in Speed parameter thus makes him easily one of the most agile Servants in Chaldea. And being sped up by four-time normally, what you would hear in real-time can only be compared to an extremely loud jackhammer attempt to drill the bedrock.

With each knee, 'blood' splatters. How they managed to compact so much of this into a head alone is just completely impossible physically and they would bet that the majority of this android's weight is just its blood.

"Fuck you-" Kiritsugu about to knee the head again when it suddenly jerks off Kiritsugu's hand and quickly rolled towards the pile of body parts and reassembled itself in a mere instant.

Kiritsugu tried to slash it but it quickly moves away from him and moves out of the edge of the building itself as it once again pulling shit up to hurl at them.

"Not again..." Kiritsugu said as he quickly prepared his stance once more for what the android is about to do.

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It seems that whatever it hurled at him must have a trace of metal of sorts in it like rebars within reinforced concrete and stuff for example... But there is only one thing one would need to know though, one mistake and that piece of concrete moving at Mach 9000 is going to splatter him and thus he can't allow any mistake in the first place. Slashing through the ceaseless barrage of ruins and rubbles being thrown at him, each cut perfectly everything hurled at him apart, it doesn't even in one certain way, he could swing his sword randomly and it would still achieve the same level of effect. Butchering his way through the rubble being hurled at him to the point he even diced them into mere fragments as they soon just fall to the ground when an equal force was reapplied.

The moment it stops hurling random shit at Kiritsugu, it quickly leaped up to the sky. Kiritsugu already knew what it is about to do and thus quickly disengage time alter moves constantly so that the android can't precisely aim at him. Just like how he thoughts, there is some little inaccuracy in its combat algorithms but that little inaccuracy matters a huge deal to him since he just barely got out of its energy blast when it discharged the moment it landed.

Kiritsugu prepared to aim at the head again but something isn't right. It started to exhaust something into the surroundings and making his vision worse than it already is.

"Shit! Smokescreen!" Kiritsugu said as he tried to put on his guard while preparing for any potential ambush.

With his vision limited down into a mere twenty centimeters around him, he puts himself into a state of extreme alert. Letting his own instinct and reflex to act freely in this situation, he also quickly chanted his time alter in order to deal with the android much swifter.

time alter triple accel

With his time accelerated, even if the enemy is right in the face, he could still make a saving throw by blocking it. Having two sets of eyes to monitor things really help because getting backstabbed or flanked is one of the worse kinds of reasons to get killed.

"Kiritsugu, at the back!" Iri said as her head was turned around to her back.

Kiritsugu wasted no moments and quickly parried that sneak attack from the android before it quickly moves away from him and fades into the smoke around it.

"Kiritsugu! Left flank!" Iri said to her husband as she detected the overwhelming presence heading here from the direction she mentioned.

And once again, he parried another attack from it before it just disengaged immediately before he got a chance to attack it. This pattern of attack just went on for who knows how long, frontal, left flank, right flank, back attack. At this point, Kiritsugu has enough with this kind of bullshit and thus took the matter entirely into his hands.

Preparing his stance once again before he performs a spinning slash but not to cut his surroundings but in fact using the flat part of his blade in order to clear the surroundings. With a single swirl of his blade cleared the entire smokescreen around him and revealed where the android is rushing towards him. He then quickly sidesteps its attack before following up with a powerful blow.

time alter square accel

The moment he evaded the slash that the android about to land just now, he quickly chanted the time alter spell and quickly follows an overhead slash immediately. The blow landed squarely on the android's head and staggered it immediately. Not enough to disconnect the head from the body but enough to give him a good enough time frame for attack.

He then quickly dropkicks the android as it got pushed back to the edge before falling off the building. Given what he just did, if that thing can still levitate, he'll cut its 'wings' off so that it can have a taste of being fallen from grace.

But... that thing didn't come back on its own. Kiritsugu baffled as there is one helicopter that somehow managed to slip away from his detection and the android is held onto it by its right arm. It moved away from Kiritsugu and begins to unleash its payload of missiles at him. Kiritsugu quickly retaliates with his Stinger as his missile flying towards the helicopter. The missiles avoided getting collide with each other but now heading towards its firers.

The Stinger missile quickly approaches the helicopter and-... The android slashed it...

"Of fucking course..." Kiritsugu grunted as the helicopter's missiles approaching him.

The missiles collided with the building and soon the edge that Kiritsugu and Irisviel are standing on quickly fall apart as both of them fall to their death if not acting fast. Seeing the emergence of the situation, she quickly uses the other magecraft that she is also specialized in other than healing. Chanting some words while her hand weaves through her own hair, hair threads quickly moves through her hand like a loom that is making textiles as each thread turned into something.

Familiar magecraft, the creation and forging of matter created by her crafts. Her weapon used is a thread that is extremely thin, long, and flexible that she can use to create instantaneous homunculus that can attack her enemy while capable of being turned into various forms and shapes. It is more of a means to secure safe escape more than direct combat but her Servant's modifier turned the ability into something capable of fighting against Servants in vast quantities without costing much.

The thread itself can be substituted with her own hair and there are many times she used it like that. It is still a mystery how her hair remained unchanged despite using her own hair as a catalyst for so many times. Not that it matters to her anyway.

As both of them are falling, the thread she created from her hair quickly formed into a large bird that resembles a phoenix, makes sense considering her power is the anchoring of the souls into the world so that she can prevent their untimely deaths. Quicky commands the bird for herself, it quickly grabbed her and soon fly straight into the building while moving up towards the top.

"It seems that the helicopter has also pursued us too." Kiritsugu said as he is being held onto by his wife who is also being held onto by her phoenix.

Missiles flying towards the inside of the buildings as it blew everything apart inside. The phoenix still flying towards the top and ignoring the ongoing chaos around it. Shrapnels, explosions, there is only one thing that is driving it, Irisviel's will. Moving swiftly through the steel supporting frame that is placed across the inside, Irisviel fired her steel thread swords in order to destroy them so that it won't block her way anymore.

Who knows how long they flew up to the top? A minute or two? They don't even know. They only focus on one thing alone, to take down the android for once and for all. Soon, they finally see it, the ceiling. In about just a second left, they are going to hit the ceiling head-on if they still going at this speed.

time alter nona accel

Kiritsugu chanted his time alter and quickly slashes the ceiling apart with Natalia, lines of slashes started to visibly form on the ceiling's surface as they then quickly burst through it as he disengaged afterward and reached the top quickly.

The moment they came face to face with the helicopter, it quickly fires the missiles toward the phoenix but it swiftly evaded in a nick of time.

"Iri! Tell the phoenix to destroy the helicopter, now!" Kiritsugu told his wife.

Heeding his words unconditionally, she quickly commanded the phoenix to let her go before it dives straight into the helicopter at such a speed that the android can't react in time. The helicopter exploded on impact when the phoenix struck it and the force of the explosion pushed the android towards Kiritsugu who is still in midair when that happened. At that point, it is nigh of the time for the permanent shutdown of the android, for once and for all.

time alter hex accel

Whether by some dumb virtues that both of them still held onto Avalon and Excalibur even now because there is no way for them to survive the excessive use of time alter like this in the first place. But nonetheless, Kiritsugu accelerated his speed to 16 times normal and he is about to send this android into particles.

Slashing with his Natalia with such an ungodly speed that not even the android could split itself even by a micrometer. With his blades moving at subrelativistic speed, virtually nothing can withstand his blade at all. Thousands of slash being unleashed while time is moving so slow that even a slug moves immensely faster by millions of times than the flow of times right now.

Whether by his sheer rage and wrath alone, to slash that thing straight down to molecules is just overkill at this point but whatever flows in Kiritsugu's boat is fine with him no matter how ridiculous it is.

He then disengaged and the android from before has been slashed into oblivion, like fading away and forgotten. Soon, the only thing remains is the clearing of winds itself, signaling the conflict has ended. Both Kiritsugu and Iri then staggered from the sheer pain and reliefs as they both fell to the back and looked up to the foggy sky above them, letting the rain relieving the torment they went through.

"It's... over..." Kiritsugu breathes heavily as he lies on the surface of what was once called a helipad.

Lying there while the rain still showers on them, having no idea of where to go or even the slightest clue of where they are. They are truly alone right now, much like falling to the depth of the empty ocean with the only closest person to you being the only companion in this lonesome world.

"Kiri... Will they be okay?" Irisviel asked her husband.

Kiritsugu doesn't know how to answer this particular question. He doesn't promise something that he can't fulfill. He knew damn well that he can't answer something he has no information to vouch for.

But... he still held onto that hope. The hope that his children will able to overcome their hurdles just like them. He let out a silent prayer before his eyelids closed itself.

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"Desmond! Brace yourself!" Larry said to his friend who is helplessly tried to control his flying path but doesn't seem to do much at all.

Both of them then collided with a building and scatters the dust upon their landings. But other than that, they seem to be fine for having a hell of unwanted flight like that.

"Larry! Are you alright?" Desmond asked him after he managed to find him after digging up the rubble that landed on Larry.

"I'm fine. Trust me, I had far worse fall in my entire life back when I was alive. This is nothing." Larry said as he grabbed for Desmond's hand as his friend pulled him up.

Standing amidst the unknown and being separated from everyone is already bad, who knows what kind of stuff that the Nazi is willing to pit himself up against?

"Desmond, something is approaching..." Larry said to Desmond as he can discern that sound that he is hearing right now

He looked at the fleet of choppers from the distance approaching this location. Carrying a container of sorts inside. His heart is screaming repeatedly as it tried to warn him of something horrible is going to happen if he still stays here.

The container is dropped in the area in front of him. The air became tense the moment it stood there motionlessly but felt like a bomb slowly ticking to its detonation.

Desmond slowly approaching the container, trying to not breakdown from the intense fear swelling up inside. He may run valiantly towards the land of death but that doesn't mean he could cast off the fear of death. To not fear death is to be inhumane.

Larry also followed Desmond, not wanting his friend to face this ominous threat alone. Stepping alongside his friend and bravely facing the whatever threat may do, he won't turn back on his allies no matter what.

When both of them made it near where the container is, they checked if there is any way to open it but there seems to be nothing at all. Suddenly, something inside punched the container with such force that it created a huge shockwave that pushed both Larry and Desmond back and a huge dent on the container itself. The next strike burst open the container and knocked both of them by a large distance away.

"Larry! Are you alright?" Desmond said as he tried to pull his friend back on his two feet.

"I'm fine! But what the hell on this accursed earth is that thing!?" Larry said as he grabbed Desmond's hand and quickly get back on his feet.

On their back stood a figure, surrounding it are blazing in flame and destruction. A man with an extremely muscular figure wearing heavy armor that clad from toe to head. The Nazi insignia is already a clear sign that it belongs to the Nazil He doesn't know if it is an Azure Soldier or a cyborg or an android that is donning human skin but what he can guarantee for sure that it is mean business.

It then suddenly chase after them with unreal speed, Larry quickly moves first and tried to get Desmond away from the cyborg that is pursuing them. Unfortunately though, too late. The cyborg swung its arm at Desmond and the poor medic got flung away like a ragdoll from the impact into a distance and quite high into the sky.

"Desmond!" Larry said when his friend got knocked out like that.

Larry quickly turned his attention towards the cyborg and he tried to use his Suomi on it but the bullets just bounce off the moment it lands on the cyborg. It then rams at him with the shoulder and he got staggered to the ground from the sheer force being applied. The cyborg then grabbed his head as Larry tried to break through its grip.

The cyborg then headbutts him with an extreme force that its shockwave created from the impact shook the surroundings. Larry being dazed by a powerful blow to his head then suddenly got punched squarely on the face and then he fell to the ground. The cyborg then tried to follow up but Larry acrobatically pulled himself up and tried to retaliate against the cyborg but all of his attacks got swat off effortlessly.

The cyborg then arm locked Larry the moment he tried to pull the next punch on it and the cyborg then proceeds to punch him in the face against. Larry quickly evaded the oncoming blow by tilting his head at the right time and many of them were near-miss as those blows graze on him.

Infuriated by Larry's persistence, it then grabbed Larry by his neck and lifts him up in the air. Larry was desperate as he attempts to break free of its grip by struggling his way through but to no avail. The cyborg proceeds to toss him high up in the sky and the sheer force applied on him making him spinning erratically with virtually no control of himself. The moment he reached the terminal height that the force could bring him and then fall to the ground, the cyborg then kicked him right into his gut like a ball the moment he almost reaching the ground and suddenly he got blown away into many buildings and shattered all of them in process.

Rising up from the rubble and ruins, his body is in great pain from what just happened but he ignored it anyway. His eyes are burning with a flame that incinerates anything within his sight. The cyborg then continued to walks toward him as if to continue the execution that Larry is trying to delay.

Larry then rushes first and landed a punch on it before it could attack first. But the moment the cyborg punch, the sheer power from that attack alone ruptured the air its path. Comparing that to Larry's is like comparing a punch of the most professional martial artists to the one belong to a toddler's tantrum. Larry can pull many attacks before the android could pull one but any careless mistake and he will pay a price that not even his life would be enough.

The cyborg then tried to kick Larry and Larry by his instinct tried to block the attack. By some pure dumb luck or his actual strength is far greater than how he thought, he actually successfully blocking that kick with his arms alone which broke the sound barrier by a hundred times in the distance that only covered the leg alone.

The moment he successfully blocking that kick, the cyborg begins to charge up as if it is trying to lunge at him. Knowing damn well what would happen if that shit actually got him in its grasp, being in deep shit isn't gonna cover all of the trouble he would get in so. Quickly moving away from it while the cyborg is pursuing him, that thing is still surprisingly fast despite looking so bulky but Larry can still evade it with no trouble.

The cyborg and then begins to charge up its leg before making an extremely powerful stomp that created a localized earthquake, Larry still trying to balance himself and not staggering from the earthquake. Focusing his movements and maximize the efficiency of his motions, he still managed to attack the cyborg even when he is still in close proximity of the attack.

Larry doesn't even know if any of his attacks actually do anything to the cyborg. It is really hard to tell when the thing sunders the earth with its sheer strength alone. But even then, standing still is an even worse option than fighting back against it. Focusing his strength and he quickly punches toward the cyborg right in its face.

However... it didn't work like how Larry expected. The cyborg blocked his entire fist with its hand. With his fist within its palm, the cyborg crushed Larry's fist with a single squash of its palm. Blood spewed everywhere and his entire hand's bones completely crushed, Larry can't help but grunted in pain when his palm is now suddenly a bloody pulp. The cyborg then proceeds to punch Larry once again right at the center of his face squarely, again. The sheer force of the impact knocked him away by a huge distance as he landed face first and skidded a long distance into the ground.

His face burning up from the sheer friction applied, he quickly pulled himself up and looked at the crushed left hand of his. The fire in his eyes started to burn even greater as if the fuel of that flame are intense emotions. The cyborg then charges toward him and quickly swings its arm at him but Larry evaded all of them without showing anything in his face but an expression of pure scorn and loathe.

The moment it tried to punch him, Larry used both of his hands to stop the punch right dead in its track. Despite his left hand is completely fractured, as long as it still connects to his body, it will regenerate soon enough. While the pain would have normally even brought a Servant down to their knees, his face still remains as stone-cold as a mountain.

Both of them pushing back against each other, both of them refuse to yield. The cyborg quickly tried even harder to push its punch even further but Larry pushes the whole thing away in a mere moment. The cyborg decided to follow up with an uppercut but Larry deflected it before it could even be pulled and also followed it up by shining its face with his elbow. It then tried to kick him in order to break his calf but Larry kicks it right back at the same time then follows up with a roundhouse kick.

He then proceeds to leap towards it and prepared to punch it with his right hand but the cyborg raised both of its arms and block it before the punch could reach its face. Larry then takes advantage of it and quickly grabbed it by the shoulders as he pulled himself up in order to knee it right in the face. The knee landed squarely on the cyborg's face as it staggers back from the sudden attack.

The cyborg quickly regained its composure and charge towards Larry before swinging its arm at Larry's head. Larry managed to evade it but he couldn't block the following-up uppercut in time and thus staggered and soon the cyborg grabbed him by the neck, again.

Larry grips the cyborg at his throat although he is the one being lifted up right now. The cyborg then begins to grab his arm as to rip it apart from its grip but in doing so, Larry managed to push the grip of the cyborg back, and thus what they are gripping is each others' hands. The cyborg then pushing him back, causing a massive disorienting grinding sound along with a large amount of spark to appear just from the sheer friction of their feet alone.

Seeing that Larry is still persisting no matter what, it begins to attempt to headbutt him. Larry seeing that it is trying to do something and quickly do the same thing. Their head clashed with each other with such great force that its shockwave ended up shook the whole area apart. It is a miracle that Larry's head is somehow intact despite clashing with such great force like that.

Their hands are still gripping each other, the cyborg still pushing him down and soon he knelt down when the cyborg is slowly overpowering him through the raw strength. Right after that, the cyborg then knees him in the face and then following it up with a right hook. Dazed from the swift blow of the cyborg, it mercilessly following up with a left hook straight into his temple.

With his back exposed to the cyborg, it then grabbed his hair and then slammed his face into the ground with the force that cracked the ground in a radius of a dozen meters. It then forcefully pulling him up in the delirious state of his and then let loose a haymaker into Larry's face with so much force that it could level a whole city with a single blow. And when that isn't enough, it then decided to kick him with a force that shattered his ribcage and knocked him away by nearly a hundred meter as his limp body tossing against the ground.

Larry's face still refuses to show any signs of pain, he then tried to pull himself up but the injury he sustained makes his combat ability severely weakened. This isn't gonna end well for him no matter how things may go. The moment he managed to stand on his two feet, the cyborg is already nearby him. As if to add insult to injury, it then decided to smash his head into the ground once more.

Larry tried to crawl, but the cyborg stomped on him. Then again, again and again... It keeps stomping him for who knows how much time has passed. And when it decided to finish him up by stomp on him with both feet at the same time. With each stomp shatters the sound barrier and its shockwave are deafening. And Larry just went through all of it and still somehow alive.

It then walks away from him, thinking that the target is doomed to its death. Thinking that it is only up to a matter of time before Larry would fade away into earthly dust. But boi, how wrong they are. What the cyborg just has seen, aren't even a fraction of his actual power.

The flame in his eyes are ablaze, the pain and torment only to fuel the fire of determination even further. Loathe, hatred, despair, wrath, disgust, contempt, all of them started to swirl around his heart like a vortex, with power like a dying star. And his body is the Dyson Sphere that draws out them and brings them into actual force, actual action.

It turned back towards him and walked forward, thinking that it will finish up what it started. Larry smirked as he cracked his knuckles, although he only has one functional fist, he won't let any of it to stop him from what he has to do.

It then charges toward him first as it swings a left hook at him but Larry just simply tilted his head as the blow literally missed him by a sheer hairbreadth. Larry's physical condition can only allow him some really basic attack patterns. A punch, two roundhouse kicks, and repeat. But even then, each blow has so much force behind that it caused a large shockwave with each blow that he somehow managed to land even during his horrible physical condition.

The cyborg then pulled itself together and unleash a war cry that somehow created a blast of concussive condensed air that can even harm Servants. But Larry just fucking tanked them head-on with his face and unfazed by what would literally be thousands time stronger than the strongest storm condensed into a single attack.

It then stomped the ground and created a massive gust and also created a localized earthquake in the process. Even in the most precarious situation that he can get it, he still unfazed by anything that the cyborg threw at him. The flame in his eyes burns even greater as his hatred started to consume any sense of self-preservation and limiter that prevents him from doing anything that might severely physically maim him.

As if his stubbornness started to infuriate it even greater, it then charged towards him as it then threw a devastating right hook into him but Larry only use one hand to block it. The force is so great that Larry is pushed back by a few meters as his shoe skid against the ground.

He coughed out blood, pushing himself into the limit isn't something he really should do right now. He is trekking on the path of no return, he might be going to permanently maim himself if he still goes on like this. But... turning back isn't something in his dictionary, at all.

His right arm started to pulsating of something, a dark aura emanating through it makes it as if it is the arm of a sinner he is having. To be fair though, the guy might consider himself a sinner already. He charged towards the cyborg and then punches it right in the chest with all he has. The cyborg doesn't even flinch from the blow but Larry started to punch the cyborg repeatedly with a speed that is too fast for human eyes. Each blow has enough power to create shockwaves from the sheer impact alone.

Larry after throwing his barrage of fists for a half a minute at the cyborg, then landed it with a punch immensely stronger than the rest. But it seems to do nothing much against the cyborg for it doesn't even flinch at all from the attacks from before.

Something inside burns even harder, like hellfire that devours anything thrown into it. A flame of hatred that burns even heaven itself. The dark aura emanating both of his arms started to become even more condensed like they being tainted by the most hellish flame.

Larry then proceeds to throw his fists at the cyborg even harder, the shockwave now is four times larger than even the cyborg. The attack rate of his has immensely increased to the point that the previous attempt looks like a flintlock gun compared to this electric driven Gatling. The cyborg then started to flinch from unable to handle all of the power behind it. Larry then focuses his strength into both fists of his and quickly punches the cyborg with both of his fists. The power of said blow managed to push the cyborg back by... half a meter.

The cyborg still looking unharmed but Larry knew that he is making progress. There has to be a limit to this thing and he knew that he is getting closer to it slowly but surely.

But... it seems that not even the cyborg used all of its latent power. Something started to spread from its heart and power is emanating through it. The cyborg then punched the ground with a force that it caused a massive crack with a radius of a hundred meters. It seems that something is boosting its strength even further than how they could think of.

Larry doesn't care, he then charges toward it again and punched it with his dark aura hand. The cyborg, however, is unfazed from the said blow before it punches him and he is now suddenly flying through the air, again. He landed on the ground with his body laid on defenselessly, something inside him really broke and it can't mean well to him. The cyborg approached him again and now it is on top of him.

It then threw a left hook into his face and then a right hook into the same place. It then started to throw all of these devastating hooks with the speed started to increase over time. Sparks flying through the air like fireflies with each punch of it. The rate is intensified, the power is also intensified too. It seems like the end for the poor Larry whose seems to be heavily beaten up despite still remaining emotionless no matter what.

It then stopped its repeated barrage of punching and instead went for the final blow. It raised its fist up and Larry watches it as it darkens into the color of despair. If that thing could speak, it would probably say:

Die, you piece of shit.

An atomic-like blast went off, its sheer force of that final blow somehow managed to atomize air into nuclear fission and created that devastating explosion. It seems to be the end for the poor Larry whose effort ultimately didn't matter in the end. If one would think so...

Meanwhile at Illya's location

"What the!?" Illya said as she was suddenly shocked by a deafening blast of shockwaves that reached her

She then quickly jumped to the top of the closest building and witness the mushroom cloud from the distance. No matter one would try to justify, no one can see a nuclear blast and then just suddenly went "Oh, Okay..." like that. Illya's feeling started to turn into dread as she knew that this isn't going to fly for her.

"Oh no... Something happened!" Illya said as she gasps from the sight of the nuclear explosion.

Her mind quickly turned toward her family or even her allies, she started to fear the possibility that the Nazis have managed to find a way to take out her allies. As if overwhelmed from intense fear, her body refused to move despite that she knew damn well that she has to do something, but how?

Meanwhile at Kiritsugu and Irisviel's location

"What the! What just happened-" Kiritsugu said as he got up suddenly from being startled from an extremely loud noise that suddenly bombarded his eardrum.

He gazed at Irisviel's expression only to see the only thing on her face is disbelief. He then looked at where Iri is looking at only to be bombarded with that same disbelief itself.

He looked at the mushroom cloud that is clearly visible despite the fog. It is really hard to ignore something this cataclysmic even if they try to divert their attention away.

Kiritsugu tried to stand up but his body refuses to move properly, even walking is a burden to him as he can't even take a step without spending so much effort just to move his legs. He doesn't even know why the hell does his body is so sluggish right now.

"Kiritsugu, our mana reserve were heavily drained after that fight. Even if I wanted to move, my body refused to follow my order no matter how hard I tried.". Iri said to her husband.

Kiritsugu ignores what his wife said to him, he can't turn a blind eye to this, not when others' lives are at stake. His improper movement soon punishes him as he then falls face flat into the ground. Iri can only look at him while wanting to curse herself for being so useless right now.

Kiritsugu clenched his fist, is he truly powerless in this whole predicament right now?

Back at Illya's location.

"Illya! Pull yourselves together!" Her Cheeful-type Mystic Code came to life as it quickly tried to get Illya's mind together.

No response, she is too baffled and disbelief to hear whatever Ruby has to say. Ruby then tried to pinch Illya's right by at her cheek just to make focus at it.

With the sudden jolt of pain, Illya's attention then diverted to Ruby. Wanting to payback for doing it to her, she tried to grab her Mystic Code back but it keeps evading her grasp no matter what.

"Illya! You need to think straight now. Even if the idea that some of us may have died, you still have to salvage this whole situation no matter what." Ruby said to Illya

Her tears won't stop flowing no matter what, the turmoil of emotions inside her is clouding her judgment from making proper actions. Who can blame her? She is only ten years old at heart. To push all responsibility on her like this is just cruel.

Suddenly, she noticed something within her sights, a... beacon? She then wipes those tears of her away as she approaches the beacon and managed to find the most crucial item that belongs to her Master. His communicator.

Suddenly filled with joy when she was in a state of near-despair just a while ago, the feeling is completely cathartic to her as she quickly opens the communicator for herself.

"Master! How is the situation?! Our observation feeds were suddenly gone spiral out of control just a while ago and- Oh..." Da Vinci said as she didn't realize who it was on the other end.

"Da Vinci-chan! How is the situation!? Is everyone in the Chaldean team alright?" Illya said to her as she is desperate for information.

"Well, according to the life signal feeds, I could confirm the safety of everyone else in your family but the other who aren't connected to our Master by contract? Not so sure..." Da Vinci said to Illya.

Illya sighed that she learned the fact that her family is still alright but she started to worry about the others who are likely to be in danger. If that nuclear explosion from the distance means anything, the chance that the same explosion can happen is really likely to happen to her and the others. If the communicator is in her hand right now then what on earth is her Master using in order to keep the communication with the Shadow Border.

"The communicator might have been gotten out of our Master's pouch during the flight and landed nearby you. But even then, that doesn't mean it is impossible for us to communicate with each other. It would be more accurate to say that he can't initiate the call with us but we have to do so instead. It basically becomes a one-way call that can only be initiated by us in the communication quarter" Da Vinci explained.

That's another burden that she can relief off, her Master is fine even without the communicator. But then an idea flashes through her mind. Whatever is capable of creating a nuclear blast can't be anything weak. She needed a weapon with a strength that is capable of fighting against it on even ground. Her mind quickly processes anything within her memory that can recall something powerful enough.

A faint image flashed through her mind, the image of her brother before he became a Servant. That unforgettable red hair of his, his unbounded hospitability and innocence. All of them were gone when he has forsaken himself for his ideals and paid the price for it. But that image reminded her of someone, someone who can potentially create a weapon devastating enough to counter against a force on par of a nuclear bomb.

"Sengo Muramasa!" Illya yelled so loud that Da Vinci startled because of it.

"The swordsmith who created the Muramasa you may ask? He is currently stationed in the second base in Wandering Sea right now but what do you want with him?" Da Vinci asked.

"I wanted him to create a copy of Muramasa or at least a powered down of it. Something tells me that in order to face against the force that can easily create a nuclear explosion in a single strike alone required a blade that can even cleave through all physical and metaphysical matters. A blade to cleave even karma and destiny itself." Illya said as she tried to make a sounding excuse in order to have it.

"I don't know, Illya. I don't think there is a chance that there is anybody who is still alive being near that blast. I think you should-" Da Vinci tried to convince Illya before being cut off by her.

"No! There is still someone alive there, I could feel it in my heart. If we were to give up at the insurmountable odds, we would have been doomed from long ago. There are so many times that our history came close to its destruction that I can't even count anymore. If we give up right now, that would be to spit on our efforts this far! Isn't Chaldean supposed to make even impossibility a reality no matter how insurmountable fate may up against us?" Illya said to Da Vinci at how pessimistic she was.

Da Vinci became silence for a while and then she opened her eyes and said to Illya:

Okay, I shall direct the channel to the Wandering Sea. Hope you can convince him...

Illya became hopeful as her eyes shined with sparkles in it. The channel that the communicator connected is now transferred directly into Muramasa's workshop. Soon, a man with red hair came into contact with the communicator and shows his face for her.

"Grandpa!" Illya said cheerfully.

"Oh for the love of, can you stop calling me your grandpa?! I may act grumpily like an old man but that doesn't mean I should be addressed as one. But either way, what do you want?" Muramasa said to Illya.

"Can you recreate the Muramasa for us? The situation begs for one right now!" Illya said to the swordsmith.

"Why do you need a katana in WW2? That weapon was discarded for ranged weaponry but let me guess, some of you are adamant on suicide and wanted to go out with a bang, right?" Muramasa said jokingly to Illya.

"Uh, no!? Seriously, this is no time for jokes. We need a Muramasa right now!" Illya said to the man in red again.

"Do you have any divine eastern swordsman or woman?" Muramasa asked.

"No?" Illya said.

"Then you aren't having a flying chance in hell to use that because the Muramasa will straight up kill you if you aren't of the divine.". Muramasa said to her harshly.

"Then can you at least make a watered-down version of Muramasa? I believe that it would still be powerful enough and not-" Illya tried to say to Muramasa before he said back to her immediately the moment he processed the word " watered-down"

"Kid, I don't know if you are trying to joke or not but when it comes to swordsmithing, I always strive for the apex, no lesser than that. That thing is hard-wired into my consciousness so don't even expect to make me stoop so low to follow your request." Muramasa said it straight to her without any roundabout.

"But..." Illya tried to speak but the denial started to seep into her words.

"Sorry but I can't do this ridiculous request of yours, you either deal with it yourself or go kill yourself in the attempt to use full-power Muramasa.". Muramasa said straight to her like a boulder flat into her face.

Illya started to cry, she weeps as she doesn't want to face the prospect that she really is useless in the end. Sengo seeing her like this decided that he is too harsh with someone who simply fighting what is beyond their control. If anything, he should have fully understood that even before she said she needed the Muramasa. The swordsmith closed his eyes for a bit before he sighed. And then he decided to oblige her selfish request.

"Fine, I shall then swallow my pride for a bit and oblige with the watered-down Muramasa for you.". Sengo said reluctantly for a bit.

Illya's hope reignited again when Sengo agreed with her request.

"By the way, I just wanted to make sure that the person who is going to receive this Muramasa is a worthy person. So can you tell me who is that person is?" Sengo asked.

"Does fighting in three wars consecutively count?" Illya bluffed sarcastically.

Sengo the moment he heard that bit, he then stood there thinking for a while and then just laughed. Knowing the person who is going to receive it, he surely has no dissatisfaction knowing that the person who is going to receive it will put it into good use, much like how Musashi Miyamoto did.

Afterward, she heard the sounds of a hammer landing on the anvil, the sounds of furnace's flame crackling. The old man puts a lot of his passion and effort into swordsmithing and thus he is easily able to create powerful swords like that. Soon, he finished Illya's request and presents her the watered-down Muramasa she requested.

"Here you go, the Muramasa blade that you asked for. Because I spent less time to forge this blade and thus it is only roughly one-hundredth the power of original Muramasa but considering how powerful the original is, even this thing is on par of a Noble Phantasm. Don't worry, this thing won't kill you for swinging it." Sengo said as he presents to her the katana that edged with the scarlet color of blood.

"Wow! Are you going to send it over now?" Ilya asked.

"What? Do you think a WW2 soldier can use a katana properly? As much as I hate to say this but I am going to send this over to Sion first so that she can make it so that even a modern age scrub can use it to the fullest potential. But nonetheless, I have upheld your conditions so all is fair, okay?" Sengo said to Illya before he is gone from the communicator's camera, soon it just turned off and she then returned to Da Vinci.

"So, how did things go?" Da Vinci asked.

"It's fine, I guess? I got a glimpse of it but I don't know how Sion will modify it at all." Illya said to Da Vinci.

"Who knows, being among the last magus in Wandering Sea pretty much earn her name like that. And plus, isn't she got the authority to use one of the seven weapons that could potentially end the world that we know?" Da Vinci said.

"Da Vinci, we received something from the Wandering Sea. Do you know what this thing is?" Sherlock Holmes said.

"That fast already? Don't worry, Holmes, I'm about to rayshift it over to Illya's location.". Da Vinci said as she quickly moves away from her position.

"Wuh?! How do I even draw a rayshift circle?! I'm not even my Onii-chan or Master, how do I suppose to know?!" Illya said in a panic as she tried to find even a faintest idea of how to even draw a rayshift circle.

"Illya, you know that you can rely on me to do it, right?" Ruby said to her from the behind.

"Thanks for covering me! I just wish that you spent a lot more time being supportive instead of being a pervert and taking pictures of me in the most embarrassing position while my Onii-chan is around." Illya said as if she has no dignity left in her.

"I would very much prefer if you could cut away the rest of the sentence but the first four words but okay, here goes nothing.". Ruby said as she created a piece of mana chalk and draws the rayshift circle on the ground. Soon enough, the moment the circle is completed, it begins to lit instantly and when the light is gone, a sheathed katana is right in the center of it.

The Muramasa, a blade that inherited its maker's violence. The original blade combined with the perfect blend of magecraft and science giving it an ominous and eerie red color as if it bloodlust could control its wielder and turn them into the deadliest swordsman to roam the land. The most important part built into the sheath itself seems to have a magazine poking out of it, Illya unsheathed the thing a bit and checked what is exactly then suddenly sheathes it back again.

"Hey, girls! You seem to be curious about the customized Muramasa in front of all of you, right? Well, let me gives you a quick rundown on this customized blade, shall we?" Sion said enthusiastically.

Illya stood there while waiting for what Sion would say, what she uncovered would definitely have her purged if it weren't for the circumstances that humanity fell into right now.

"From what Muramasa told me, the blade you are holding right now is a downgraded version of the Tsumugari Muramasa which already held immense power on its own. You could swing it around without the fear that it would suddenly kill you. It might not be able to severe karma but it would do short work of anything else really." Sion said with a straight face.

"You know how much you hurt my pride right there, Sion. My swordsmithing isn't just making swords, it is an art and my workshop is its sanctuary. You don't understand each blow that I have given shave to my blades, you don't understand each drop of water I doused on the white-hot steels itself. You basically had no right to say anything about my swordsmithing and-" Sengo gets nearby Sion and then went on with the rant when she said that it might not be able to severe karma.

"But either way, see the magazine poking out of the sheath? I basically custom-tooled the whole thing myself and outfitted it with the most deadly weapon that I could possibly lay my hands on, ladies and gentlemen, the Black Barrel sheath, the same kind of weapon that I applied to Mash's shield so that she can obtain even greater firepower. The general design is the same as always, pull the trigger and its power will allow you to pull a light-quick draw." Sion said while Sengo still went on ranting about her remarks of his blade.

"Uh? Don't you mean lightning-quick?" Illya asked if she heard it wrong or not.

"Nope, I mean it literally. Timing it correctly and you can pull a relativistic unsheathing slash and watch as your opponent splits apart in two. Just hope that your arm is strong enough to withstand the after force, okay?" Sion said as if she literally has nothing further to do with it.

The connection to the Wandering Sea is cut off afterward. Illya can't seem to get what on earth just flew through her mind

"Sion installed the Black Barrel into the sheath itself, one of the seven superweapons capable of destroying the world that we knew. I... I truly have no word" Illya said as the only thing in her mind is just 'WTF'.

Illya then slaps her own face so that she can clear the cloud in her mind. She then gives the sword to Ruby and then commanded it to give it to anyone who might be still alive in the area where the nuclear blast occurred. That chance might be ridiculously slim but she knew that there won't be anyone alive if she declared that nobody is alive anymore. With Ruby moving towards the ground zero with the Muramasa binds into it. However, before Ruby started to truly go, it turned back around to ask.

"Hold on?! Why don't you follow me too?" Ruby asked.

"Look, I am not exactly in the best shape after that fight against the Metal Gear. Hell, I might be more of a weight on you in this current state of mine. About what if there is more enemy came to finish me off, don't worry. I could mask my Spirit Origin signal so that I could stealthily evade them". Illya said confidently albeit tired.

"Understood then.". Ruby said before taking off on her own.

Moving as fast as it can, Ruby when getting closer to the ground zero, she noticed someone right beneath the ruined buildings, quickly moving towards that person, Ruby then checked to see who it is only to find out that it was Desmond who was knocked away right at his first contact with the cyborg. He seems to be alright, for a person who is so close to their death.

"Mr. Desmond, are you okay?" Ruby asked.

Desmond slowly but surely pulling himself up from the ruins that covered till the horizon. Despite looking heavily beaten up, he can still stand on his two feet.

"Yeah, I'm alright... Just... need to get myself up so that I don't stumble from this awkward stance of mine." Desmond said as his movements look awkward due to how badly he got tossed from the blast created from the nuclear fission.

"Are you sure that you're fine because your limping body sure tells me otherwise!" Ruby said to Desmond.

"I'm fine! I have to find my friend, I can't leave him like this." Desmond said to Ruby.

"How can you be so sure that he is still alive? The guy is at ground zero when the detonation happened!" Ruby said as if she denies the absurd possibility of the survival of someone there.

"Trust me, the guy is far tougher than how he let on. Even if he is going to hold a dying star in his hand, he ain't letting it go if he believes it is the right thing to do." Desmond said as he picks up his pace.

Soon, they managed to reach towards the crater where the nuclear blast occurred. Dear lord, it is huge. And surprisingly, Larry is still somehow alive despite being at the literally ground zero when the nuclear detonation happened. If being bombarded with the heat of the sun's core didn't even kill him, just is there anything left on this earth could kill him?!

The cyborg is still on top of him, probably being dazed for right at the ground zero and unable to handle the force of what just happened. Looking at the situation right now, they need to find a way to break Larry free.

"I don't know, the guy doesn't look like he could even stand on his two feet. But should I somehow managed to approach him, I could give him the rapid healing injection that can fix the entire Servant's body as if nothing has happened.". Ruby said with a bit skeptical about whether or not she could get near him without drawing the cyborg's aggro.

"Wait, you have something like that?" Desmond said in surprise.

"It is a special injection that my owner, Illya concocted along with many other Caster Servants. It is mainly used for emergencies like when our Master ran out of Command Seals or things went too hectic for our Master to keep up. Ta-dah, the Deus Ex. One single injection and you're as good as new, it cures literally anything even your fractured body and near-death and fatal conditions." Ruby said as she presents an injection needle out of nowhere and it containing a green fluid inside.

"But there is one thing though, how do we draw the cyborg away?" Ruby said as she ponders before Desmond took the blade that was bind into her.

He unsheathed the blade and the mere sound alone draw the cyborg towards him, it then looked at him as it steps closer.

"Damn it, Desmond! What did you just do!?" Ruby said to Desmond as his rash action just doomed any chance of avoiding it.

"Don't you see it already? This is your chance to get near him, now!" Desmond said as he grabbed Ruby and tossed her right at Larry's motionless body and he then quickly threw the sword along with.

But the cyborg doesn't seem to notice the Muramasa that Desmond has thrown to Larry as it jumped to his position and walking menacingly closer to him. Desmond steps back in fear, he has virtually no means of fighting back, and thus he is ultimately defenseless against it.

The cyborg grabbed him by the throat with its right arm and then grabbed his right arm with its left hand. It started to grip even tighter as if it would disconnect his arm from his body from its sheer gripping strength. As if that wasn't enough, it started to pull his right arm away from his body. The feeling of his muscle being ripped apart from his body makes him screams in pain as it quickly overwhelms his mind.

"Guh..." Desmond wanted to break free of its grip but knowing his weakness, he got no choice but to face what would be the consequence of his action.

His arm was literally ripped off from his body as blood started to leak everywhere. Desmond wanted to scream but his mind was in too great stress for any coherent thought. The pain overwhelmed his vision as blood started to seep into it as everything within him is fallen into disarray. Desmond thought he is going to meet his end here but something suddenly happened.

A crimson slash rends through the back of the cyborg. It then turned back and dropped Desmond into the pool of his own blood and right on his own arm. Larry is back with an even greater vengeance while holding the Muramasa with both of his hands.

The cyborg tried to punch him but the Muramasa deflected them back before it could even land properly. With vigor swirling inside him, all torments relieved, with rebirthed strength of his, he will take down the cyborg with all he has.

The flame inside of him is snuffed but in place of it was nothingness. Larry's eye was empty as if he has nothing but loathe and hatred to the cyborg. To him, that thing dared to harm his friend and thus it got no right to ever sees him fighting evenly with it. He wanted it to die, at all cost!

His mind analyzes every bit of information as fast as it could, cutting down his required reaction time into as low as he could. He focused on how the cyborg could deflect such a strong attack like this until he realized. The hardening of the cyborg's body isn't instantaneous, it required a really small amount of time to transfer whatever is in there that allows such hardening in the required place like that. If he has an attack that could move far faster than how it could transfer those hardening, he will be able to deal damage to it.

"Larry! Use the Black Barrel's trigger!" Ruby tried to tell him about the Black Barrel built into the sheath that he could use.

Even if he isn't going to say anything, he heeds its words regardless. Preparing his stance while waiting for the perfect moment to come, right after he blocked the next swing of the cyborg, he quickly sheathed the blade and then pulled the trigger of the Black Barrel itself. A blast of energy pushed the blade out of its sheath but Larry's grip tightened to the point that the blade will follow where he swings, not where the Black Barrel would take it. In a mere moment alone, the blade cut through the cyborg's arm and its armor like a hot knife through butter as it splatters its blood and seems to start to leak some sort of liquid out of it. It is red but unusually dark as if something is mixed within it.

Ruby takes a closer look into it and then suddenly shuddered as she analyzed and learned how the cyborg was so durable in the first place.

"It's... nanomachines! They invented nanotech ahead of us!" Ruby said in a panic.

It took roughly 36 years after WW2 just for nanotech to finally invented. The Nazi somehow managed to invent this ahead of everything else and using it to the fullest extent if this cyborg means anything.

The cyborg roared and then its severed arm suddenly started to regenerate on its own. It charges toward Larry with the shiv that was created from the severed arm of it but Larry quickly deflected that attack and jumped back into the ground zero crater. The cyborg pursued him and leave the broken mess called Desmond behind. However, Ruby stayed with Desmond to make sure that the guy isn't going into a slow death and try to save him with the best of its capability.

Back to the main focus, the cyborg's arm is completely rejuvenated but it seems that he has also learned something else. There is still a limit to its capability, keep going on and he will prevail.

The cyborg started to direct its nanomachines to go from defensive to full-blown assault. Its body started to have an aura of blood-red matching with his Muramasa. Ever have so much power that you can literally create volcanic eruptions with just your fist alone? That's what that cyborg is about to do.

It punched the ground in the direction towards him and the literal force of the impact created volcanic shockwaves that are rushing towards him. Quickly react as fast as he could, he managed to evade those volcanic waves that moved towards him at subsonic speed. While he is at it, he quickly approaches the cyborg and slashing it with the Muramasa with unbelievably proficiency and skills as if he knows the blade beforehand already.

The cyborg punched the ground directly beneath it and cracks started to form around it and stretched even towards his location. Larry can tell that if he stands right above the crack he will have a face full of magma right into his face and guess what? He was right about getting hit with a volcanic eruption if he did indeed stand on the crack. But the cyborg charged towards him at hypersonic speed during the eruption blast. It used the volcanic blast as a smokescreen in order to make the anticipation of its movements a lot harder to track.

Larry raised his blade and blocked that sudden attack in time, it then follows up with a kick and then a right hook. Each blow also created shockwaves that move with the speed of sound but seeing how Larry still persist, it decided to focus the power into its fist and turned it ablaze, the burning aura vortexing around it is a huge red flag that told Larry to move away from it as fast as possible.

Trusting his instinct, he quickly moves away from the cyborg as fast as he could and then the cyborg punched the ground with its blazing fist. The power of that impact created an array of spirals of flames as they stretched across the whole crater creating a blazing wall that severely limits his moving ground. The cyborg then rushes through the wall of flame as it tries to grab him but Larry moves way too fast for it to catch him.

Using that chance, he quickly chips in some attacks right into the cyborg with his Muramasa while it is still trying to stabilize its stance and quickly try to get away from it when it is about to attack him even more. It then begins to focus the power into its own heart and then discharges all of them at once resulting in a massive aura blast that shook everything with greater power than when it was before when it is still in defensive stances.

Seeing that Larry has gotten away from the blast, it quickly tried to snatch him as it moves with the speed of sound but Larry just sidesteps its charge casually as if that thing is as predictable as the nose on his face. Right when the cyborg is right in front of him, he quick-draw his Muramasa and the lightning-fast crimson slash staggered the thing immediately.

Right when his chance came, he quickly slashes the cyborg as fast and as much as he can. Each blow wasn't just thrown randomly, it was deliberately aimed carefully as if Larry is a master swordsman, not just a soldier who fought through hell.

He then tosses his left shoe into the sky with his left foot and then he tossed the Muramasa along into the sky by a short altitude, he then placed his left hand on the ground with the shoulder positioned right above his wrist. Right when the Muramasa about to land, he catches it right between the toes in his left foot.

And right at that moment, he begins to handstand and started to spin horizontally around himself while the Muramasa that he held by his foot slashes the cyborg repeatedly. Moving with an unreal speed along with an unbelievable dexterity, he is making an airflare technique while still remaining vertical without unnecessary tilting while lashing the Muramasa on the 'cyborg' like a crimson hurricane.

The cyborg got out of its staggering state and Larry quickly break out of his dance afterward. The cyborg became enraged of the prospect that it managed to get hurt and then it started to focus its power into its fist as it sets ablaze. The cyborg then pulls a left hook with the blazing fist on Larry as he raised his blade and blocked the fiery punch itself.

Sparks flying like a volcano erupting when the cyborg's fist impacted on the Muramasa. The cyborg then pouring even more power into its fist as it started to burn brighter like the sun. Unable to keep blocking with the Muramasa, the blade flew off his hand and landed a distance away from him. Larry quickly turned towards the blade then back to the cyborg quickly only to see it is about to pull a right hook on him.

As if the void within his heart managed to get even darker, Larry swung his right arm and locked the shoulder of the cyborg while evading oncoming punch immediately. When things suddenly didn't go to how it expected, the cyborg became confused at what Larry just did and the guy quickly punches the cyborg repeatedly and ruthlessly with each blow could sunder the earth into its side and despite wearing armor, it didn't do anything about the impact that Larry dishing out as fast like his profanity. As if it didn't allocate the nanomachines in time. The shock of pain despite being something completely foreign to it now suddenly become a thing that it was forced to shove down into its nerve. He then lands the finishing blow by swinging his right arm into its face and knocked it back.

The cyborg then roared again when Larry makes a clown out of it and quickly charged its blazing fist and thrown it right into Larry's face. Larry also does the same as he throws his right hook that would follow into a jawbreaker if lined up correctly. Those two about to land their attacks on each other's face, Larry within his milliseconds managed to evade the blazing fist as it grazes slightly on his cheek while his jawbreaker landed a satisfying crushing blow right into the cyborg's face as he can feel something broke inside of it.

The cyborg got launched from Larry's jawbreaker as it slides against the ground. It then stands up back on its two feet before it roared once more in rage as it became clear that it is being played like a fiddle by Larry. It leaped at him and tried to stomp him with its foot, Larry skillfully evaded it as the cyborg's landing immediately caused a massive shockwave that cracked the ground by a large radius. It then begins to punch the ground in the direction towards him so that it can take him out with the volcanic shockwaves while he is still rushing towards the Muramasa.

Swift and agile, he leaps and bound through all of the rushing tides of volcanic flame as the Muramasa is getting far more closer to him. The moment he managed to reach back towards his blade, he quickly raises it back towards the cyborg. The cyborg, however, has a different idea than fighting him closely. It decided to leaps toward the surface area above the crater. It seems to be picking something up, a massive chunk of the earth was forcefully ripped out of the ground and the cyborg is holding it above it.

Larry preparing his stance once again, the burning hatred inside wants the blood of that cyborg to extinguish that burning flame of intense negative emotions that are threatening to burn him apart. His own feral rage is starting to overtake any form of reasoning he has, he stares intently towards the cyborg, wanting to rip it apart with his own hand.

The cyborg threw the chunk of earth towards him at hypersonic speed and Larry swings his Muramasa with such precision at it to the point that the boulder got split into two. He cut one chunk and another just approaching him right behind it. He just slashes through them with a 'just get over it already!" kind of mood that the only thing he felt is angst and loathing. Soon, he cut through 'last' large boulder and right behind it is, surprise surprise... it's the cyborg.

Larry then focuses for a brief moment as he decisively strikes his blade right squarely at the face of the cyborg and thus dazed he cyborg right in the chance that lasts only by a one-thousandth of a second. Taking advantage of the fact that he dazed it, he quickly grabbed it and spins erratically around himself and tossed the cyborg into the crater wall with so much force that the cyborg penetrated through the wall and created a massive hole in it. The hole itself soon collapsed on top of the cyborg in literally a second later and buried the cyborg in its rubble.

And then a blast of shockwave unleashed by the cyborg blown all of those away, the thing is looking mighty pissed because Larry just somehow managed to make it look like even more of a fool than the last one. Rubble falling like rain on this burning ground zero as the cyborg walks toward Larry as the only thing now driving it is feral rage itself.

It rushes toward him even faster than before as it reaches Mach 1000 right in a mere moment, Larry quickly acts when suddenly facing the sudden change itself by blocking with his sword but unfortunately, the force of the cyborg's blazing punch was once again too great that Larry's grip is not enough to keep his blade in his hand as the Muramasa once again got tossed from his hand. Not even he is able to handle the sudden surge of force as he is also got launched away and landed on his back.

Seeing him being in a defenseless position, it then leaps toward him and prepared to stomp on him with all of its might. Larry noticed it quickly and pulled his legs back and launched himself straight towards the cyborg while it is still midair. He quickly planned out a precision strike as he aimed straight into the chest of the cyborg just as when it is about to fall. With his feet strike directly into its chest, he then quickly reposition himself in midair and then he dropkicked the thing right back to the ground. The cyborg then impacted the ground and skidded by a considerable distance.

It quickly gets back on its own two feet and roared at him again, Larry wasted no time but and landed right at where his Muramasa landed. The cyborg then begins to charges toward him as if it wanted to crush him whole. Larry then getting into his crouching stance with his finger right on the Black Barrel trigger, preparing for another quick-draw attack but this time, he has another different idea.

He pulled the trigger and the blast of energy discharged from the Black Barrel pushed the blade forward with the initial acceleration speed of Mach 4000, he then directs the blade upward as its force pulled the cyborg and him upward along with the rending slash itself into the sky above. With the force like a tidal wave and both of them in midair, Larry then slashes the cyborg repeatedly while it was up in the air. He then follows up with one finishing blow with an overhead slash as it strikes the cyborg down into the ground again. That single powerful upward slash is called 'Tidal Wave' if Larry would think of a name for it in the first place.

Larry landed a bit away from where the cyborg landed. With an impact that cracked the ground once more, the cyborg then pulled itself up once more and roared once again. There is no form of coherent reasoning remain within it, it is pure distilled rage and wrath that seems to be driving it right now. Its attacks became more savage and ruthless as it wanted Larry dead as much as Larry wants the cyborg dead. As it started to trade even more tactic-based power into raw power alone, it is started to become more of a berserker than anything else and even Berserkers class Servants aren't this level of madness except for the chosen few when met up with some niches.

And of course, it is also meant that its surroundings awareness started to be hampered from the sheer rage of itself. It couldn't even tell if Larry is behind it or at its flank. Sheer raw strength alone isn't the answer for every type of combat and Larry is a man of both strength and tactic from what he displayed for everyone else. From such predictable attacks even at close quarters, Larry easily evaded them and flank all of it easily.

The moment he got to its back, he placed his hand on the trigger again and prepared for another power move of his. This time, he will invent another one if it required. He pulled the trigger once more and the Black Barrel activated itself and discharged a blast of energy in order to push the blade forward at lightning speed, literally.

With a swing of his blade, a torrent of crimson slashes move straight towards the cyborg and rends through it as it tore through its body apart. Larry's guess was right, there is indeed a limit to how much the nanomachines can handle. Through heavily sustained combat like this, the power of the nanomachines without a doubt will be exhausted eventually and thus open it to be vulnerable to attacks that it has otherwise found impervious to.

The cyborg roared once again and it leaped towards the surface area. Ripping out a chunk of earth and hold it above its head. Same stuff from before, just cutting down them all and strikes directly at its face when it came charge at him right behind those chunks of earth. Larry slashes those chunks of earth easily but their speed started to mount even faster than before, if he could make a guess, those chunks of earth are moving at 1% of Speed of light. The fact that he could slash them down with sheer concentration of his willpower alone tells just how highly reflexive he is. Focusing his mind to even slash one boulder is already putting a great strain into his mind but his willpower kept him going even in the worst possible state.

He cut through the last chunk and the cyborg is right behind it, prepared to turn him into a bloody paste when it expects him to be heavily mentally stressed. It rights about one thing, he is stressed, that is true. But there is one thing though, it wasn't his limit yet! Larry strikes the cyborg right into the face with his Muramasa and dazed it once again. The moment it gets near to him, Larry then catches it and quickly spin around and threw it into the crater wall, again. The impact was so powerful that the cyborg caved into the wall by a huge degree that the whole thing soon collapsed on it.

The cyborg then unleashed a huge blast of shockwave once again as it the blast tossed all of the rubble into the air. The thing tried to approach Larry but the damage it sustained is too grievous for optimal combat. The warning inside it keeps blaring about how critically damaged it was but the cyborg has lost all sense of sane reasoning and now are just madness incarnated.

It rushes towards him, prepared to swing its blazing fist at Larry. Larry meanwhile calmly raises his blade to overhead and closes his eyes while controlling his breathing while that cyborg rushing in like a bullet train without stopping. Right when it is about to swing, Larry casually deflects it to the point that the very thing he finds himself struggling against is suddenly like a child-play to him. The cyborg staggered when its blazing punch was deflected and when it looked at Larry again, it roared and quickly using the other arm to punch him. Larry in which response by causally deflect the other blazing punch with such casualness that it is impossible to believe.

The thing staggered once more and then roared like a starving beast as it rushes towards him as if wanting to eat Larry alive. Larry then quickly opened his eyes and pulled the Black Barrel trigger and quickly letting the blade loose on his opponents. In a mere moment alone with Larry's arm moving so fast that it became afterimage, he landed multiple slashes on the cyborg that he loses count the moment he even tried to count how much he slashes. Staggered from the barrage of slashes it went through, Larry then charges forward with the Muramasa and impaled it with his blade.

The blade punctured through its gut and blood floods out like a geyser. The cyborg's combat stress has started to heavily hamper its combat effectiveness to the point that a simple gut stab managed to harm it. It looked down at the Muramasa now punctured through its gut, it then roared once more and then swung both of its arms at Larry as if to crush Larry's throat apart. Larry then uses both of his hands in order to grab both of its arms. Like an uncontested test of will, both the cyborg and Larry refused to yield but Larry decided that this battle needs to end decisively and thus he headbutts the cyborg with great force that it became dazed and falling back.

Taking advantage of it being stunned, he pulled the blade out and then aims carefully at one certain location that he could guess to be the weakness. Larry noticed the bulging part of its chest that seems to be beating heavily and thus he swings his Muramasa repeatedly right at it and soon the moment he cut through the flesh, a blinding light shines out of it. Seeing that his chance to finish the cyborg for once and for all come, he quickly burst through it with his right hand into the wound and managed to touch something in there.

He then put all of his strength into his right hand and then forcefully ripped out its heart with its 'arteries' along with it while still connects to the cyborg The heart is without a doubt mechanical creation and made specifically in the laboratory. Without any sheds of caring left, he puts all of his strength into the palm that is holding the beating 'heart' of the cyborgs and then crushed it with all of his might.

The moment he did so, he created a massive geyser of blood that was so much that it reached towards the sky, painting the whole ground zero in its blood. Larry still holding the remains of the crushed heart and watches as the cyborg fell to the back. It is dead, no doubt about it. And then azure flame started to erupt from the chest wound then started to spread from there. Larry drops the crushed heart away when the azure flame started to reach his palm. Like witnessing Ragnarok once more, his eyes are still as uncaring of what he did towards the cyborg as he stares at the burning carcass of it in contempt. Soon, the whole body dissipated into ashes and that is only when Larry would then turn away.

The void within his heart disappeared, with no reason left to cling onto his hatred and loathing, the life returned to his eyes, and then he realized about one thing, his friend. He then quickly jumped towards back the surface area and looked for his friend. He then sees a figure with a flying wand in his sight and then quickly approach them.

Just like what he expected, it is Desmond and there is Ruby who is flying alongside him. By some miraculous fate, Ruby somehow managed to reattach Desmond's ripped arm back into him.

"Thank god that you're okay! Does your arm working properly?" Larry asked his friend.

"Thanks for this wand over there that I don't have to use another prosthetic to replace my lost right arm, you know? And of course that my right arm can still move properly although I felt really weird to lost something then suddenly have it back like this.". Desmond said to his friend.

Both of them then give each other the bro hug while Ruby makes sighing noise. Despite the bloody battle just unfolded, Larry has managed to overcome the largest hurdle, for now. Is everyone alright? That they can't tell but they knew that if Larry can make it through then he believes that everyone else can.

And so onward, onto the final 'death sentence'.

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Twin Blades of Heaven

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Everyone else in the group who wasn't separate from each other is now landing right at one certain point. Where? Who knows? But one thing is for sure though is that this time, they won't be as man-power lacked unlike the rest from before. But that might mean a bigger hurdle to overcome that everyone has to act accordingly with each other if they wanted to survive.

"Master! Reach for my hand!" Shirou said to his Master.

Gudao quickly glided himself through the air and managed to grab his Servant's hand as he then pulled him closer and quickly changed his stance into bridal carrying. Gudao looked around and saw Kuro, Pierce and Richard who are flying in the same direction as him.

Gudao then looked forward and then sees that he is reaching the ground. Shirou landed gracefully without even damaged the ground. His sister is the same too. Richard also did the same while piggyback carrying Pierce.

All of them have landed safely but something doesn't feel right to them. A vast empty plain surrounded by dense fog, if the rain didn't hinder their vision enough, now this fog started to add more fuel to the flame. But even if their eyes can't tell anything, the overwhelming presence told that they should be prepared.

All of the Servants present here raised their weapons, they don't particularly know who they will be fighting against but they knew that whatever it is, it is no simple enemy.

"Shirou, use your Hawkeye to see if there is anything hidden here, check the ground even if you have to.". Gudao told one of his Servants.

Shirou heeding his Master's command, his eye turned into the color of cold steel as he gazed into anything that he may find suspicious. Before he actually finds anything though, they were suddenly hit with a tremor that shook the whole place. Cracks started to appear on the plain as if something is rising from within it.

"Everyone! Move!" Gudao said as he warned everyone of the imminent danger.

The cracks started to move faster towards them and the ground started to collapse. Soon, the collapse started to reach them and the ground they are running on also suffer the same fate. Servants, however, don't follow what is humanly impossible to dictate them as they started to scotchhop along the broken ground that is falling. Shirou grabbed his Master since it is impossible for him to keep up with something like this. Pierce activated his grappling hook and fired it towards the edge that he assumed to be safe. His Servant despite his appearance is also unusually agile that he could keep up with Shirou and Kuro.

Soon, they all together got on the safe ground. No more collapse but when they looked back at where was once an empty plain is now replaced with a huge hole and coming out of it is a...

"Metal Gear..." Kuro mumbled as she witnesses its absolute size.

How do they describe this? Shirou's Hawkeye allows him to analyzes anything with perfect detail as long as his mental capacity allows. The thing is hexapedal with additional armaments built into its front. The two plasma cannons on top and the two retractable thermal blades built into it. The thing is set on autopilot and there is no cockpit at all inside and thus they can assume there is no other enemy Servant are present at all. One more thing, it is huge, so huge that the first one they fight looks like a toddler compares to this.

But there is one question now, how do they exactly beat it? The latest encounter with a Metal Gear is pretty much a disaster with no words to describe how bad things would have turned out if all their cards weren't aligned properly. This is like trying to punch a steel wall when you can't even lift your own fist.

But just what is exactly anything left for them? There is no running but only to step forward. To runs toward hell even if it is the last place you wanted to be in.

"Everyone? Prepare to combat!" Gudao commanded his Servants to fight.

Words of God: For this part, play Strike Force Heroes - Rose at Midnight

The reason that he can't join is that if Servant can't even fight the Metal Gear properly, just what is exactly the chance that he could do so? The same thing applies to Pierce, as powerful as his armor is, he has no suitable armaments in order to deal any meaningful and will only hinder the Servants if joined.

Both Shirou and Kuro joined the fray, Richard takes out his Gatling Gun and prepared to aim at it. The Metal Gear then proceeds to roar and then begins to attack them.

Protruding its blades, it then begins to prepare to raise its blades up as it flashes with a light that pierces through the fogs before it slammed down on them. Richard just simply getting out of its range and then fires his Gatling Gun towards it and the siblings do the same but all of them just bounce off the armor plating on collision.

The Metal Gear then slams it dual blades into the ground with such force that it is surprising that the ground is still intact from that slam. Both Shirou and Kuro narrowly avoided getting hit by the blades and they realized that those thermal edges are stuck into the ground. Both Shirou and Kuro take advantage of this moment and quickly slash their Kanshou and Bakuya into the thermal edge. Applying all of their combat skills with the twin blades, they quickly landed many attacks on quick succession while not wasting any of their movements. But despite all of it, they don't seem to do any real damage at all.

The blades started to lift up and then repositioned themselves into the side before sweeping from side to side. The siblings and Richard noticed and quickly jumped through the gaps between the blades and with only a hairbreadth left to getting hit. It then started to sweep its blade to the side once more and they once again jump through. Both Pierce and Gudao look in anticipation as tensions started to scale exponentially that they can't believe it the battle that is unfolding in front of them.

Raising its blade once more, the Metal Gear then slams them into the ground with the force that would embed them into the ground. Fortunately, everyone managed to avoid getting hit by that attack, and the sibling once again rushes in order to attack the thermal edges with all they could. But even then, it seems like they are only grinding the blade against the thermal edges and not actually damaging at all. Shirou felt the frustration started to pent up inside and then decided to use one technique that he self-improvised for Kanshou and Bakuya.

Trace Overedge!

With the twin blades turn into the wings of angel and demon, he then slashes the thermal edge on his side as hard as he could. With one single rending slash, the blade then dissolved into glass fragments and then dissipates into the thin air. He then looks at where he used the Overedge blades and then the sudden revelation slapped him into the face as if it tries to tell him that things have truly gone with his favor.

The blades, it did pierce through the thermal edges. If none of his normal attacks could work then this is the only chance they could have at dealing the real damage. Quickly connecting to his sister telepathically, he quickly tried to advise her.

"Kuro! Use the Overedge! it might be the only way to inflict actual damage!" Shirou told his sister.

Kuro upon hearing what her brother has to say. She quickly then pulls multiple slashes within just minimal body movements alone and then proceeds to change her stance so that she can follow up with a rising slash of Overedges.

Trace Overedge!

She then slashes the thermal edge of the Metal Gear upward and looked down to see the damage she inflicted with that slash is far more visible than any of her last attempts.

The Metal Gear received the damage feedback and then retracting its blades back, it then positioned itself and then placed one of its foot right in front of Shirou and Kuro. Right at that moment. the sibling rushed towards its foot and then quickly slashes it as fast and hard as they could but they don't know if there is anything that is actually registered into its feet or not but if they manage to sever the foot away, they would destabilize it one by one and slowly.

But like literally anything that was built as the armor of this particular Metal Gear, not even the feet of it could be damaged without resorting to powerful attacks like the Overedge blades. Within his rapid attacks on the Metal Gear's foot, he finds that keep retracing his Overedge for only one powerful attack is just inefficient to him, it is powerful but it would shatter within one attack. He needs something, something that he has enough fundamental understanding of, something that holds a special place in his heart and mind.

Within that lapse of memory, he saw something inside of his long-forgotten memory. The first blade that King Arthur used, the first weapon he managed to trace perfectly and used it to the fullest extent he capable of. Right at that moment, he grasps toward its reach and holds it with his own hand. The blade started to shine brightly as it illuminates the darkness within his mind.

Caliburn

And then formed within his hand is an ornate golden sword with inscriptions written into the blade. A sword that represented a king's authority. It is weaker than the Excalibur but not as mana consuming like it. The weapon is lost in proper history and to be never seen again but Shirou's vision of it when he first found it through Artoria's memory managed to recreate it to the borderline of perfection. That's how he managed to trace the first sword and he keeps going like that for what would span to be an eternity for who knows how long.

But now, Shirou charging the blade up with his mana as it started to shine brightly. He then swung it with all of his might at the Metal Gear's foot and watch as the blade cleaves through its armor platings easily to the point that it puts up no resistance at all. The sword sears a burning wound into its feet and the damage that the Caliburn inflicted is so great that the feedback overwhelmed the Metal Gear's logic drive. The thing suddenly staggers and then ceased to move.

"Kuro! This is your chance!" Shirou told his sister.

The sister nodded, she then leaps and threw two pairs of twin swords at the leg below the knee joint. The blade intersected right at the lower part of the leg and then branched out from there. She then leaps toward it while holding another pair of twin swords that she projected the moment she landed on the ground. Putting the pair in her hand to overhead and the two pairs that she threw are now returning towards the leg once again. Right at that moment, she chanted.

Trace Overedge

And at that moment, the two pairs that she threw along with the one that she held over her head turned into the amalgamation of wings of angels and demons. All six blades collide on the feet of the lower leg at the same time as they ripping the armor plating apart and caused huge internal damage from the sheer impact alone that the leg is as good as crippled. All six blades then shatter into glass fragments and dissipate into the thin air.

Even if the foot isn't going anywhere, it would still be going to support the Metal Gear. They knew what to do next, to severe the entire leg away.

"Kuro! Now!" Shirou said to his sister as he runs along the crippled leg of the Metal Gear.

Kuro followed him and running just right behind. They then reached the knee joint and jumped over it and they together chant their spell simultaneously at the same time

Spirit and technique, flawless and firm

They together threw a massive amount of Kanshou and Byakuya right at the same time. The amount that they threw at that one time alone exceeds hundreds and they are about to intersect at the 'thigh' of the Metal Gear at once. Just before they did so, they chanted once more at the same time.

Our strength rips the mountains

Our swords split the water

Our name reached the imperial villa

All of those thrown Kanshou and Bakuya instantly turned into their Overedge version right before collisions. Right in the next moment, the Overedged blades shred through the armor platings like nothing before all of them then shatters into glasses once they fulfilled their duty. With the armor plating gone, its thigh exposed and vulnerable to damage. Shirou then grabbed his sister by her ankles as Kuro then traced another pair of Kanshou and Bakuya and hold them over her head. Pushing all of their strength once more into each other, they chanted the final verse in that poem.

Two of us can't hold the heavens together

The Kanshou and Bakuya she is wielding turned into the wings of angel and demon once more as both of their strength combined and its saturated power cleaved through the thigh effortlessly without any external help. With one of its legs gone, its foundation became unstable as it tilted and collided headfirst into the ground ahead of it. The sibling meanwhile landed safely and quickly rushes toward the head of the Metal Gear so that they can inflict as much damage as they could.

With their blades rends through the head while Richard just keeps shooting at it point-blank with his Gatling Gun. All of them are trying to cause as much damage to its terminal as possible since it might be able to reposition itself once rebooted. The Metal Gear then creaking with sounds as it pulled itself back up. Before it could get up high enough, Richard aware of what it is trying to do and thus decided to give it one parting gift.

"Oh, no you don't!" Richard said before he whips out a bundle of dynamite out of his jacket.

He then ignites them and impales it right into the 'eye socket' of the Metal Gear. Or more exactly, the external sensor of itself. The dynamites then detonate and blew open the head apart but it doesn't seem to falter at all. It roared once more as it started to activate its two plasma cannons mounted on top of it. However, that isn't the worse of it yet. Something emerged from the cliff and it seems to be a pair of quadrupedal mechanoids of sorts.

Shirou then used his Hawkeye in order to analyze them as they lunged towards him. Within that brief span of less than a second, he managed to obtain the majority of the information around them.

They are a full mechanized canine-based mechanoid, cladding entirely in highly-enchanted steel with something mixed into it, he won't attempt to analyze it unless he risks what would happen to Alfin would apply to him. Its bone-crushing jaw could crush an entire Servant torso into a bloody pulp if not handled correctly.

After attaining what he needed, he then quickly fall back and traced his bow and fired at it with a Caladbolg right off the bat. The collision that occurred afterward pushed the thing back by a good distance back to the cliff but not enough to kill it. There aren't enough ground between him and them so that he could charge his shot properly.

"Onii-chan! Look out!" Kuro said to her brother.

Shirou noticed the plasma cannon has completed its charging and then quickly fired the cannon right at the ground ahead of its. Shirou managed to skillfully evade the attack and Kuro and Pierce pulled each of their respective Master out of danger. Those full-metal canines, however, weren't as fortunate and got evaporated by the plasma cannons that the Metal Gear used.

Right after that, the cannons became overheated and it then switches back to the thermal blades afterward. It then repeats the same pattern of attacking with the thermal blades that they have seen from the beginning. But this time, they won't be struggling anymore, they knew what to do now. Using only Overedges to attack, they make each blow with those blades count. If that wasn't enough, they resort to Caliburn which does a good job of dealing enough damage to cleaves through the thermal edges effectively. But before they could use it for long, the Caliburn dispelled itself after roughly a minute due to it is not supposed to exist in the twentieth century.

With enough damage sustained on the thermal lades, the Metal Gear then proceeds to reposition itself and placed one of its feet on the ground that the sibling and Pierce are standing on. Shirou and Kuro rush toward it first and then tries to slash it as many times and as fast as they could. The Metal Gear, however, decided to not stand still and it pulls its foot up before stomping the ground, causing a quake that disbalance everyone beneath.

Getting back to their stance quickly and lunges toward its feet once more but this time, they won't let the Metal Gear keep acting like whatever it likes. Both of them traced the Caliburn with one in each of their hands. The blades started to shine brightly as they pump their mana into it as much as they could. Right at the moment that they got close, they together cleave through the foot of the Metal Gear in an X-shaped pattern as the sheer power alone courses through its foot and towards everything else and overwhelmed its logic drive.

Shirou then threw a pair of Kanshou and Bakuya and the pair of blades fly towards the lower leg and intersected right there, but of course, it didn't make any dent on the platings but it still moves towards the back and then returned once more. He then jumped towards it and traced another pair of Kanshou and Bakuya and put it in the overhead position.

Trace Overedge!

He then put all of his might into the blades he held in his hand as they strike into the lower leg of the Metal Gear right at the same time that the thrown Kanshou and Bakuya intersects at where he throws them towards in the first place. With the power of Overedge being used to its fullest potential, the blades cleave through the armor plating with no resistance.

Smashing apart the lower leg and crippled it, Shirou then quickly running along the crippled leg and traced another pair of Kanshou and Bakuya in his hand and once he reached the knee joint, he made a huge leap of faith and turned the blades into Overedge version as he reached the terminal height of his jump. Just as when he is about to dive right down, he connected the pommels of each of his twin swords as the weapons became a dual-bladed melee staff of heaven and hell. Dark energy radiates from the blade as the vision of the memory of his alternate self started to flood into his mind as they overlap his vision.

Soaring Heaven!

Braving through them as he focuses his mind towards one goal alone, his determination clears away the shadow of his doubt and uncertainty as he slams the melee staff on its thigh and severed it in mere instant alone with a single whirl of light and darkness. Not even its armor plating prevented it from happening as another leg of it then falls into the fiery pit of hellfire below. Shirou then jumps on from the severed leg as he makes his way out of the pit. He managed to use it, the blade that belongs to the version of him that he scorns the most without suffering too greatly from it. No corruption, no broken limp, nothing... He moved beyond the worst possibility of him and done so without any harm.

With its two frontal legs gone, the Metal Gear loses its balance and crash head-on with its face first. Seeing that their chance of putting an end to it came close, Shirou and Kuro then grabbed it by one of its thermal blades, intending to lift it out of the pit itself. Severing the legs isn't enough, they need to destroy the mainframe. Considering that it was in the middle of that pit with no ground for them to reach.

"Master! Give us the power!" Shirou told his Master.

Without any hesitation, Gudao channeling mana into his right arm as the red seal on his hand started to shine brightly.

"By the power of my Command Seals. Shirou and Kuro! Takes down the Metal Gear with all the strength you had!" Gudao said as he shows the seal on his hand for everyone else to see.

The Command Seals on Gudao's shined brightly before snuffed away along with a good portion of the seal itself. He expended two out of three seals he has. Although he can recharge one per day, using it precariously can have dire consequences when it is truly needed.

Vigor swirling through the sibling's bodies, their strength suddenly boosted to sky-high to the point that they are comparable to Berserker Servants. With newfound strength within their limited time, both Shirou and Kuro let out their cries as they lift the entirety of the Metal Gear that might weight millions of times greater than them from its thermal blade and then tossed it aside like a piece of junk. The moment the Metal Gear crash-landed, it raised a huge dust cloud that reached the sky.

Still holding on to the thermal blade, both the sibling then tried to pull the blade itself out of the Metal Gear. Feeling their muscle tender ripping apart from the sheer strength they weren't meant to have. They cried together in unison as the next pull ripped the thermal blade out of the Metal Gear as it flings into the air and then both Shirou and Kuro catch it in time. The thermal blade that they are lifting right now is 30 times bigger than them and through their teamwork, Shiou and Kuro somehow managed to use it as a weapon as the Metal Gear swung its other blade at them.

"Left swing!" Shirou said as both of them swing the thermal edge in the left direction to block the Metal Gear's swing.

A blast occurred the moment two blades collide on each other which pushes each other back by a considerable distance. Regather their stance, they prepared the blade on top of the head and prepared for another swing.

"Right swing!" Kuro said this time and both of them swing the thermal edge in the right direction.

Another collision soon followed up and created an explosion that shook the atmosphere to its core. Both the sibling getting tired of swinging this thing repeatedly but they knew that they have no choice left on the matter.

The Metal Gear swing at them once more and the sibling quickly swings the thermal edge once more at it. They collided with each other and sparks created from the clash between them are falling like rain as both sides refuse to yield no matter what. The siblings cry in agony as their bodies are being pushed to beyond the limit of what they were meant to be.

Their cry echoes into the surroundings as their conviction started to put its feet down and helped them to push forward no matter what. The thermal edge that both Shirou and Kuro are using slowly being pushed towards closer to the Metal Gear more and more. And with the final push, the blade slits through the opponent's edge and slides right into its arm and severed the other blade from it right afterward.

With nothing else to attack with, it then started to charge up its plasma cannons so that it could erase the siblings out of this world. Seeing the contingency of the situation, Shirou and Kuro quickly heave the thermal sword once more and this time, they prepare for an upward slash. Swinging the sword quickly, the blade cleaves through the ground itself as it quickly reaching towards the Metal Gear.

The collision impact happened right just before the Metal Gear fired its plasma cannons and quickly disrupt the flow of energy and the unfired energy discharged in an unsafe way and blew the entirety of the plasma cannons apart. Being suddenly flung upward into the sky, it helplessly swinging its limps around as the thought of anything can toss it into the sky is unfathomable in the first place.

Both Shirou and Kuro then drop the thermal sword and then quickly rushing towards its location, right when they are right below it, they jumped together towards it. Shirou grabbed his sister by her arm and threw her upward so that she can receive a boost from him. Flying at godspeed towards the Metal Gear, she turned around and prepared for one decisive strike. When the chance comes, she quickly pulled a roundhouse kick squarely into the Metal Gear's surface with such force that it became heavily dented just from the sheer impact alone. The sheer force applied also pushed the Metal Gear once more sky-high into the air, the shockwave resulted from the impact cleared the entire area surrounding her of a radius of 100m.

Just this alone isn't enough, she needs to rack it up even more but she can't even reach her brother from below there. She needs something that can allow her to reach her brother. Something...

A sudden line of thought flashed through her mind. Reaching towards the land of blades within her mind and search for anything that she could use. Something that caught her attention, something belongs to the first Heroic Spirit. A chain flashes beneath the moonlight as it soars through the wind. The world that she inherited from her brother's ability. Although she can't bring her inner world out like her brother but she very much can still access the place and look for anything she needs.

Grabbing the chain and shifting her mind back to reality, with the very thing in her hand. She threw it towards her brother while it extends itself indefinitely.

Enkidu!

The Chain of Heaven, the weapon that was made by the Divine to supposedly chain down Gilgamesh when he rebelled against the Divine. However, Enkidu himself was befriended by Gilgamesh and became the best bud who fight and enjoys life together. The chain has higher effectiveness against those who have Divinity but can still be used against non-Divine Servants.

Shirou grabbed the chain when it reached him and Kuro yanked the chain towards her and pulled him up. With her help, he is now reaching towards the falling Metal Gear again, and this is his chance to follow up. Preparing his stance once more, he somersaults kick the Metal Gear with a force that is equal to what Kuro did. With its falling once again altered and just keep flying even higher.

Shirou traced the 'Enkidu' once more and this time is to pull his sister up so that she can continue to chain the Metal Gear up. Rinse and repeat. At this point, the Metal Gear looks more like a hunk of junk that an actual weapon of mass destruction, having been stripped off all of its combat armaments, the thing can only wait for its death.

Both Shirou and Kuro are now falling but this will be their final blow. Using the chain of Enkidu once more. This time, they will fire them towards the thermal edge that was left on the ground until now. Using all of the strength they could muster, they pulled those things toward them instead of pulling themselves toward it. With the huge thermal blades moving towards them, one for each sibling. They together swing them at the Metal Gear as it is falling with as much force as they could inhumanely gather.

The thermal blades cleave through the Metal Gear in an X-shaped pattern and in the next moment, the Metal Gear split into parts as they falling down towards the ground. The moment they landed, they exploded violently into smithereens and soon it just burning wreckage remain in the aftermath.

The siblings landed on the ground, although... it was a rough landing. They used all of their last ounce of strength just to make sure that they could take down the Metal Gear at all costs. They lay there on the crater that was created from the landing impact and everyone quickly comes to check if they are alright.

"Archer! Do you repeat!?" Gudao told his Servant.

No answer, both of them lie there while completely motionless. No signs of fading, their Spirit Origins are still stable if he can tell from their condition. Richard jumped in and check their pulse and he can confirm that they are still fine. It is just that they pushed themselves too far that they dwindled their mana reserve.

"What do we do now?" Gudao said.

"We wait, carrying them while they are still unconscious will be just a hindrance for us.". Pierce said.

Their hands are tied, although they made it out of the predicament, it isn't without a price. Having two fewer Servants in combat-capable condition means that they can't risk themselves to get out of this place either. Stuck in a place that is in nowhere without any means to check if things are alright or not. They felt anxious, knowing what could happen to their other allies who are separated from them.

All bets are on, all those who are separated are safe... for now.

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Extraction Pursuit

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"Alfin!? What just happen!?" Arnold said as a burst of gale suddenly encroach him while he attempts to stand his ground.

"I don't know! There's something really unusual about this gale like it was artificially made!" Alfin said while trying to keep herself from being blown away by the gust.

They stood together who knows how long, the fact that they didn't get blown away by it is a miracle in itself. Soon, the gust died down and things returned to silence.

"What happened?" Alfin said as she finds it confusing to have a sudden gust like that.

"I don't know but we are still fine regardless. Don't forget that we have two suspects to pursue.". Arnold said before he continues running.

Alfin also follows him too, she can't brush it off her mind that something isn't fine happened. But knowing that she went too far to return, she decided to moves forward and no turning back.

Words of God: For this part, play Raze 3 - The Meeting

Running on top and jumps from each ruined building. She noticed that the Azure Soldiers have also somehow appeared suddenly without being detected like just appeared randomly without anything to tell ahead.

"Combat initiating, prepares your weapon, now!". Arnold said as he drew out his magnum revolver.

Alfin preemptively draws out her STG-44 although she has far stronger weapons, using unnecessarily excessive firepower will only make things more detrimental than it already is.

"Jump!" Arnold said as he leaps from the rooftop of a building and collided through the wall of the next building that he jumped into and create a hole through it.

Alfin also followed him and jumped into the same hole on the wall. Running across the abandoned hallway within this rundown building, she noticed that some Azure Soldiers are present here and they opened fire as soon as they noticed them. Arnold uses the magnum revolver and aimed carefully while still running at full speed. Within the time frame of as little as a thousandth of a second, he blasted all of their heads with his revolver before they could react in time.

Seeing a dead end in front of him, Arnold still charges forward and burst through the wall itself and jumped towards the next building. Alfin just simply do whatever he does because it seems that he is more knowledgeable when it comes to this kind of pursuing combat like this.

Alfin leaps through the hole and across the gap between two buildings, Arnold who is running ahead of her told her to look forward. She heeds his words and noticed that the two targets that they are pursuing right now are moving away from them.

"We need to pick up the pace!" Arnold said as he picks up his speed and runs even faster.

This time, what is ahead of him is a huge road with a width of 40m and they looked down only to find that the fog blocked their vision and they can't seem to discern where the ground is or how high they are right now. If he makes any mistake, it will cost him precious time. Gathering all of his might into his feet, he jumped all the way across the 40m and landed right on the other side. Alfin also follows suit and tried to do the same. At first, it seems that she will make it alright but she started to slow down and begins to fall right before she reached the other side.

Arnold noticed that she is going to fall to the bottom and quickly grabbed her hand before she falls toward the ground. After pulling Alfin up, both of them sighed in relief that things could have turned very bad if she falls.

"Dear Lord that you're alright. I wouldn't imagine what would happen if you fall." Arnold said as he sweeps the dust of her dress.

Now that he thinks about it, she was more of an authority-like person rather than that a soldier who fights directly on the frontline. It is obvious that she won't be that agile in the first place. He thinks about it more carefully and decided on one thing.

"Alfin? Why don't you climb onto my back? Your firepower would help me tremendously and I could easily cover your mobility weakness." Arnold suggests her as he crouched for her to climb onto.

Not even a word of protest, she just nodded in agreement before climbing onto his back so he could piggyback her. After climbing onto Arnold's back, Alfin held onto him tightly so that she won't accidentally fall off. Arnold then checks to see if she secured herself and once he ascertains it, he quickly continues running as if nothing happened.

Running through another ruined building. This time the amount of enemy concentrated here is staggering, there is no running through in one piece. It also begs him the question that how on earth did those two can mobilize their troops so fast like that in random places like this. How they managed to know well where he is running is also a mystery that he can't answer.

"Concentrated enemy unit spotted, firefight imminent. Prepare to engage!" Arnold said as he running across the large hallway that is filled with all of this kind of enemy.

Alfin focused her power and her eyes turned into the color of ember, she seems to channel something as he can feel a presence of power can be felt approaching them. The Azure Soldiers who stayed on guard for this entire time then proceeds to open fire towards him. There is no evading in a tight environment like this, that's what he thought until...

Something pierced through the floor itself which seems to be two obelisks made entirely of pure concentrated steel. Those pillars actually blocking all of their attacks and both Alfin and Arnold split up and take cover behind the pillar.

"Enemy units encountered. They are armed with automatic weapon and shotguns, take caution!" Alfin said as she seems to be able to discern what the enemy is using without even look at them.

Arnold switched out for his shotgun and begins to fire from behind the cover, the shrapnel from each of is shot pierces into them and the closest ones that are nearby taking the damage. Alfin meanwhile throws the gun in her hand into the air and controlled it telepathically for herself so that she won't need to risk peeking out of her cover.

*BOOM!* An explosion occurred right at the pillar that Arnold took cover, he is fine and the polar still stood but seeing the damage inflicted, he knew that they are serious about packing serious firepower right now.

"Alfin! One of them has explosive weapons! We need to do something about this now!" Arnold said as he still fires his shotgun from the cover.

Alfin heeds his words about the emergence of the situation. She then took out the weapon that was made from the collaboration with Pierce and Larry, the Final Conda. Controlling it telepathically as it floats in midair and moving out of the pillar's cover, she then firing them as the blazing hail of molten explosive ballistics sweeps out the entire hallway they were in. They knew they should have been much more decisive from the beginning but who knows the extend of what those Azure Soldiers can do?

The moment that Arnold can assure that the place is secured, Alfin jumped onto his back again and they together running through the hallway and escaped the building once more. Seeing that they are getting closer to the duo that they pursued. Both Arnold and Alfin together then rushes toward them so that they can catch them immediately. Well, if it was that simple, to begin with.

The duo then leaped from the building and it seems that they are about to jump into the next one if that is what they could guess. But, the duo instead of bursting through the wall and keeps running on whatever floor they are about to enter, they decided to do something else. That spiked hair Servant plunges his feet into the wall and then running on it by plunging his feet deep enough to create cracks across the wall itself. The shit-eating grin one then used his two knives in his belt and plunged them into the wall and climbed against the wall quickly with it. Both of them are doing fast enough that both Arnold and Alfin can't believe what they are doing.

"Follow them!" Arnold said as he leaps toward the wall and tried to use his pickaxe to climb against the wall itself.

The spiked hair SS turned his head back and noticed that Arnold and Alfin are trying to pursue him and his buddy and thus he decided to whip out his assault rifle and placed his hand on the foregrip. Suddenly, a sight sprung open from the side of the gun as if the just triggers something. Without further ado, he fired the underslung attachment below the assault rifle's barrel.

Arnold squints his eyes to see what it is exactly and soon he got the answer immediately afterward. A rocket, a rocket is moving at hypersonic speed and flying straight into his face. With his body acted on its own and let go of the grip he has on the building and started to fall, the spiked-hair SS then pressed something again and the rocket detonated by itself resulted in a huge explosion with its fireball almost reached Arnold had he not let go fast enough. The SS and his buddy then proceed to move on without caring to check if it actually got Arnold or not.

"Damn it!" Alfin groaned as she quickly fired a blazing chain as it quickly reaches toward the hole on the building's wall that was created from the SS Assault's rocket.

The moment the chain latched, it quickly pulled both of them up towards the hole, Arnold looked up and sees that the duo is also entering the building from a much higher floor. He also noticed that his pickaxe his hanging by itself from the ledge nearby the hole and the moment he reached it, he used one of his hand and grabbed it as soon as he could.

The moment his feet landed on the floor, he begins to charge forward through the dark hallway. Who knows how large this building is but he knew that the enemy duo is right above him right now. He gazed into Alfin's eye and she nodded in understanding. Focusing the mana flow inside her, she quickly created 8 MG42 in quick succession in a single moment and then aimed all of them upward telepathically.

The barrage of bullets was soon unleashed as they effortlessly pierced through the ceiling and even through multiple floors and rushing towards the enemy. Brass cartridges falling like rain as both of them running towards the darkness inside.

Meanwhile in at the duo's position

"Guess they lost track of us, huh?" The SS Sniper said to his buddy as he runs down the hallway.

"Quite a special and persistent bunches too. I doubt that rocket of mine did kill them though since it would be really anti-climatic if that actually did them in." The SS Assault said to his buddy as he also runs through the dark hallway.

"So what do we do now?" The SS Sniper said.

"To the extraction point, we let the toys we received to do the rest of our job. Not that we actually have much chance when we are just boiled down to 2v10 and that's when we are buttfucked to the oblivion." The SS Assault said.

They still keep running but they felt something is horribly wrong like something is approaching them, a bad omen of sorts. The SS Assault can't bear this feeling anymore and decided to pull his friend to him as he is the one who is running ahead.

In just about a moment later, the hail of bullets tore apart the ground where the SS Sniper was. If the SS Assault has any been later, the man who is fighting alongside who would have been turned into grounded beef. Seeing the hail of bullets rushing towards them, both of them quickly gather their paces and moves as quickly as they could before the whole place collapse on them.

"Screw this!" The SS Assault said as he quickly draws his assault rifle and fired them down into the ground as if to return fire for attempting to kill his friend,

The bullets pierced through the floor and quickly made their way back to the floor that Arnold and Alfin are in. Arnold despite running in near-dark atmosphere managed to evade the oncoming attacks that are aimed towards him in his general direction.

Bullets fly, the amount and firepower they are displaying are staggering. The building's structure can't handle the power that it was forced to endure as even a single bullet can tear the building's inside apart. The building started to collapse on itself as the damage quickly coursed through it.

Both sides refused to yield no matter what. Both of them acrobatically evade any incoming bullets that they only have what it can count like a hundred-thousandth of a second in this tight space to avoid getting hit by them. They keep running for who knows how long, this building whose size is 500 meters wide but to them, they were lost in the void and will never find the light again.

Within this blind chaos, the only path they had left is forward. Keep moving forwards, there is nothing else that can show them an alternative way out.

The SS Sniper decided that he has to do something about this deadlock. He can't let this conflict to drag out his escape any longer. He then pressed something in his Kar98k and the rifle in his hand transmogrified into something completely different. A futuristic railgun with its electric railings radiating with energy. He pulled the bolt back and insert a bullet into it then push the bolt back to where it belongs. He then grabbed something out of his pocket, a cylinder of sorts and it seems to radiate an azure light of sorts. He then proceeds to grab the wires that were connected into the cylinder and then connected them into his scope.

The moment he did so, the scope suddenly blared up into life as its functionality is completely changed. The scope turned into a see-through sight that allows him to pin-point his enemy even through solid matters, presence concealment, and even high-end magecrafts that were made to hide its user.

He looked down into the sight while still running away from the collapsing hallway. The sights show clearly where Arnold and Alfin are and he could have used it from day one but decided not to since he wanted to do as little as he could while still technically passed off as done. But the pair that he is fighting against right now pissed him off to no end and decided to go serious against them.

With power charging into the railgun and illuminating the dark hallway, he wanted to pick the perfect moment to shot both of them down in one single shot. However, something unexpected happens, the girl within his scope seems to notice that he is aiming at her, but how?! Upon seeing this unexpected development, the SS Sniper lost his cool and pulled the trigger too early. And just like that, the girl within his scope quickly used her blazing chain and quickly pulled both Arnold and her out of danger zone immediately the moment she noticed and he just missed her

The beam fired from the SS Sniper's railgun evaporated everything within its path but its intended target has already escaped. Its blinding pillar of light penetrated and pierced through the darkness with its blinding light. Meanwhile, Arnold and Alfin who are being pulled towards the end of the building and due to them doing so in a hasty manner, Alfin got little control of her chain and thus, both of them slammed into the wall face-first.

And right after that, the wall gave up and both of them still having momentum in them then quickly falling out of the building and begins to freefall towards the ground. In just about a roughly second later, the SS duo also jumped out of the building right when the whole place collapsed on its own.

Unlike Arnold and Alfin though, they have something for themselves already. And when the pair from below looked up only to realize what the duo's intention was, to begin with. Extraction... They were intending to escape this place and letting this place overrun with an endless amount of Azure Soldiers. In the end, the end justifies the means to them.

A helicopter is flying above them and the SS duo has grabbed the landing skids. It then soon begins to move away from the place and to leave whatever they used to deal with the rest of the situation.

Alfin wanted to take them down right now but at the same time, prioritize her lover's safety first. Quickly grabbing a parachute from her imaginary weapon arsenal. Comparing to Arnold, she is like the library of Alexandria compare to Arnold's single bookshelf. Once she did so, she used it immediately to slow their fall and so that they can calm themselves down. Meanwhile, the helicopter is casually moving away as if the whole situation is in its bag right now. That fact alone pissed Alfin immensely that Arnold can felt the slumbering wrath within her started to become agitated.

Using the power that she learned from Shirou, she traced the railgun that shot down the Metal Gear immediately. This time, her target is a helicopter, not the Metal Gear. Pumping her mana into the railgun and despite the helicopter has moved away by a huge margin from its extraction and the fact that she only has ironsight, she still fired the railgun.

The beam fired from the gun then immediately reaching towards the helicopter. The shot that she did so is scarily accurate that it doesn't fit her at all. Nonetheless, the shot reached the helicopter and activated its defense mechanism as it deployed a force field to protect itself form whatever may try to harm it.

Well, it tried. The power of the railgun, in the end, is too great for the force field as the beam ruptured through it and damaged the rotor immediately. Smokes quickly coming out and the helicopter started to spin erratically and uncontrolled, it seems that the idea of nothing can break through the force field is shattered immediately right after that.

The trail of smoke left behind by the crippled helicopter as it tried to sustain its flight but met with only failures. The thing then crashed into something from a distance but the smoke it left behind marked wherever that place is.

"You know what to do, Arnold?" Alfin said to Arnold.

Arnold nodded but he knew something isn't right. There is something inside her that is swirling unstably, like a mess of negative emotions that keeps chain reacting with each other and make it even worse. He doesn't know how to speak about this but it felt like a time bomb waiting to be detonated.

Knowing that there is nothing else that he can do, he decided to head towards the crash site and checks if there is anyone who is still alive there or not. The chance that they might have run away by now is high but if that is the case, he can trace their steps and continue to pursue them.

It seems that they didn't plan from here, after all, the path towards their crash site is completely empty and without anyone to stop them in their way. Something about this doesn't feel right, it feels like he is walking closer to an ambush that he has no mean to counter.

"Arnold!" Alfin yelled to Arnold when she finally found the crash site.

He jumped to the higher ground immediately and noticed the helicopter wreckage on the rooftop of a building. There are two people walking out of it and they seem to be not greatly injured but seem to be pissed when their escape vehicle got shot down like that.

"Damn it! I can't believe that they have something that can penetrate through our helicopter's force field like that." The SS Sniper said as he threw a fit.

"Can't expect the unexpected, guess that we will have to call out for another one or we will have to use the-" The SS Assault said nonchalantly despite he got the bad end of the stick more than SS Sniper.

"Forget about that, we will only use it when we got in crisis. Do you think that the Furher will let it slide when we literally just run away like this?!" The SS Sniper said right in the face to SS Assault.

"Bruh, The Furher literally let everything slide for the last few years already. Everyone used the- Hey! They're here! Run!" The SS Assault about to say something important until he noticed that both Arnold and Alfin are observing them. Right after that, both of them quickly run away as fast as they could.

"Damn it! Should have acted sooner!" Alfin grunted.

Arnold quickly getting back on his two feet and begins to pursue the duo. The chase back on once again.

The SS Assault quickly drew his assault rifle and begins to open fire on him. The deceptive appearance of it hides its absurd firepower, the gun itself firing so much bullet that even an MG-42's firing rate felt like firing a flintlock musket to a machine gun. Arnold quickly tried to jump out of its way but the SS Assault keeps aiming at him to make sure that it would drive Arnold away.

Realizing that he can't pursue them from directly from behind, he quickly jumps off to another building across the road and Alfin quickly creates many machine guns and kept them afloat telepathically and then begins to return fire toward the duo.

Each bullet collides with each other and deflects themselves immediately, like a storm of metal clashing themselves into a deafening symphony. Lead falling like rains and sparks fly everywhere like the rain where this battle is occurring. Each collision has so much power discharged to the point its shockwave is about a hundred times bigger than the bullet itself.

While the deadlock between Alfin and the SS Assault is still going on. The SS Sniper decided to use another ace within his sleeve. He redirects the wiring from the scope into the gun itself. The railgun suddenly illuminates even brighter and he then proceeds to flip the sight railing along with its scope to the side which revealed something right beneath it. The moment he did so, a reflex sight beneath it sprung open and sight railing turned into an energy counter which measures how much power the gun itself has right now.

He then aims at the foundation of buildings where Arnold and Alfin are running along now. Arnold, however, noticed it and quickly grabbed the T-Gewehr within his imaginary armory. He quickly aimed down by the iron sight at squarely at the SS Sniper's head. Without any hesitation, he pulled the trigger but something unbelievable happened.

The SS Sniper tilted his head by a bit and evaded the bullet just by enough for a graze by the hair. The T-Gewehr bullet was moving at massively hypersonic speed and that SS Sniper just evaded it casually as if nothing happened. That smug little shit sure didn't lie about his skills!

And then the SS Sniper pulled his trigger and the beam sweep across the whole place as it razes through multiple city blocks across a vast distance. With the foundation destroyed, the buildings that Arnold was running on begins to collapse. Aware of the emergence of the situation, Arnold begins to pick up his pace and running as fast as he could. Forcing more power into his feet, the speed that it is forced to move begins to go so fast that it became nothing but a blur. And right of the bat, he leaps across each building with the amount of time he has left can't even be counted to a second.

And surprising enough, the duo is also keeping up with the pair no matter what. In order to break through this deadlock, the SS Assault quickly used the underslung rocket launcher and fired one rocket towards her, the thing somehow threading itself through the barrage of bullets and the SS Assault immediately remotely detonate the rocket and disrupt the deadlock they were in.

Right when his chance comes, he quickly grabbed his friend by the coat and quickly runs in a different direction. Arnold noticed it and he decided to quickly jump across the road once more so that he can continue to pursue them.

Now suddenly behind them once more, he quickly tried to catch up with them but all of these endless runnings started to sap his sanity. He wanted to finish this already but those bastards are far more persistent than how he thought they could be. Still returning fire to each other, they keep racing with no destination in mind. Feeling each drop of rain as cold as nuclear winter embracing on their skins as they run through the ruined landscape of what was once a German city.

With only each other as targets in their minds within this endless pursuit, they ignored even the nuclear blast that just occurred in the distance away from them. They were too locked in combat with each other that a nuclear blast doesn't faze them at all.

The SS Sniper grabbed something out of his pocket, a card of sorts. It is illuminating in azure color and then he dropped it on the ground where he just run through. Suddenly, a battalion of Azure Soldiers appeared out of nowhere. They quickly formed their formation quickly with the riot shielders get to the frontline and the others position themselves into place.

Arnold and Alfin noticed the roadblock in front of them. So that's how the enemy duo managed to mobilize so many Azure Soldiers at once like that without being detected. They just straight up teleport all of them with the cards being designator, the cards by themselves don't radiate any mana and thus can't be detected unless a high-tier Caster managed to analyze the purpose of these cards.

Both of them knew that fighting this roadblock will cost them so much precious time that the duo might have escaped the moment they were done with this roadblock. Quickly seeking any alternative path, Arnold looked at the large building from across the road and quickly used his modified sawn-off and used the hook shot so that he can sidestep this whole fight.

With the Hookshot latched onto the building, Arnold pressed the secondary trigger once more as it pulled both of them towards the building. Bracing for the landing, he placed his feet on the vertical surface of the building and proceeds to run on the building's wall itself and thus just ignored the SS Sniper's plan entirely.

With each leap from the building, he used the hook shot installed right under his shotgun so that he can latch himself once more into the building's surface. Quite needless to say that the duo from the opposite running way noticed them. Quickly drawing their weapons out, they opened fire on Arnold and his girl. Ballistics and laser, they bombard on the buildings that just happened to be in Arnold's path. But even then, it isn't enough

Alfin also recreates the machine guns she has and also unleashes them on the duo below and once again was this deafening symphony was played. There has to be a decisive way of ending all of this instead of just senseless runabout like this. The amount of power used in this conflict goes beyond just a battle, it is the entire war or even more.

"Well well, let's see how well you can fare when you are running sideways on something vertical that is about to collapse!" The SS Assault said as he aims the underslung rocket launchers at the buildings' foundation.

Even the underslung rocket launcher was deceptively huge in ammo capacity. And consider the fact that both of them are running parallel to each other, the SS Assault will destroy any buildings that he has to use to run on just by aiming his rocket launcher ahead of him and just pull the underslung trigger.

Buildings and buildings started to collapse rapidly, once again thrown into this wringer once more, he is forced to keep moving as fast as his feet can take when time is running down and boiled to not even a second left per building before they completely collapse. Arnold thought that he couldn't keep this on any longer

However, their conflict was suddenly interrupted. The duo probably planned this ahead as a combat helicopter quickly approaching Arnold and Alfin. They swore they could hear the mocking snide of the duo before they suddenly speed up and went in a different direction than before. With that helicopter quickly closing its distance and begin to open fire on Arnold and Alfin. And right in the heat of the moment, Alfin grabbed something within her imaginary armory and instinctively threw it towards the retreating SS Sniper but based on how he reacted, it is a miss and probably not something lethal, to begin with since there is no aftereffect.

"Keep running! Don't stop!" Alfin said to Arnold the obvious.

The situation became far more chaotic than how they expected, Alfin quickly tried to retrace the railgun from before but the panic feelings that are building up inside her is making her unable to concentrate properly.

"Alfin! Do something already!" Arnold said to Alfin as he keeps evading the hail of bullets.

Arnold tried to use the T-Gewehr against it but the bullet just gets deflected the moment it reached its vicinity by the force field surrounding it. Meanwhile, he doesn't even know how long he ran on the vertical surface like this.

"Damn it, is there really nothing that can break through the force field without Alfin's railgun?" Arnold thought as he quickly leaps from the building's surface into one across the desolated road.

Bursting through the window and landed on his two feet without any repercussions, the helicopter outside still pursuing him and unleashing its machine-gun barrage on where he landed immediately. Quickly gather on his two feet and moves as fast as he could, he quickly tried to run away from the barrage that is sawing through the derelict building like butter.

"The force field will activate the moment anything it can detect as a threat came close to its proximity. Just is there anything-" Arnold tried to think of a way while running through the empty hall as the whole place is crumbling down at any moment. But an idea flashed through his mind immediately.

What exactly does it detect as a threat? If it means anything remotely immediately damaging like ballistics, thrown weapons, or unregistered personnel then perhaps what he thinks of could work.

Quickly drew his sawn-off once more and this time he fired the underslung grappling hook towards the rotor and surprise, it actually worked! It didn't detect the Hookshot as something dangerous at all and it just simply latched onto the rotor without damaging it initially. Seeing the chance came for him, he quickly jumped out of the window and landed on the ground immediately.

The helicopter tried to change its facing direction before firing at him, Alfin quickly created an obelisk of pure steel that raised from the ground up and blocked the incoming barrage of bullets with it. Arnold then pressed the secondary trigger once more and this time, he will pull the helicopter towards him. The helicopter tried to resist but Alfin then drops off from Arnold's back and also assists him in pulling the helicopter down. With the strength of two Servants, there is one of two things that it will give out first. The helicopter itself or the rotor which the chain latched onto.

"Gaaaaaaaaaah!" Both of the yelled at the same time as they tried to forcefully bring down the helicopter.

And finally, the rotor snapped and the helicopter then quickly falls toward the ground, it then exploded from the moment of impact and then turned into a burning heap of scraps. After they confirmed that there is nothing left alive in there, they together breathed in relief of how close they were to die.

"Thank God that we're okay, but damn it, they literally picked the perfect time to cut us off the track. Got to say this though, they were smart, that much is true." Arnold said as he breathes in.

"Arnold? Something is approaching us..." Alfin said to Arnold as she turned around to see a battalion of Azure Soldiers approaching them.

Not that they actually posing a threat to Alfin since she has no reason to limit her power in the first place here, she quickly just summon those blazing portals and sends out the cannons and fire them all towards the oncoming mob. Needless to say though, she decimated them all in one fell swoop. But it is strange though, this whole area was devoid of Azure Soldiers until now and she can sense more of them nearby. But what she found suspicious is that the cluster of those energy readings is assembled in a line.

"Arnold, I think I did something just now.". Alfin said as she goes ahead.

Arnold doesn't understand what she meant just now but he still decided to follow her no matter what. They also encountered many hordes of Azure Soldier like this on the way but Alfin just annihilates them with her overwhelming firepower alone. And soon, they found one conclusive evidence. The knife that stuck on the floor and there are some sorts of leather cloth sticking out.

It was found inside the building that they have last seen the duo from before. They inspected the knife and then looked at the large gaping hole that seems to go through even multiple buildings over a large distance.

"I think that we know where they go now, but if that's the case, prepare to meet with fierce resistance.". Arnold said as he swallowed his breath from the thought alone.

Alfin's knife throw cut into the side bag that the SS Sniper wore and now it just drops these cards everywhere he goes. Who knows when would he notices something amiss but they at least know the basic path that they can go now. By detecting the energy readings from the cluster of Azure Soldiers, they can plan out the basic direction of where the duo went. If they met with anything that tried to fight back then they are going the right way.

They looked at each other and then nodded in understanding. They then went together through that hole which will lead them to their final confrontation. But the path itself isn't just simply a race to the finish line, but rather a path filled with trails and treacheries. They will have to endure a lot before reaching their final destination, for there is another person who has their duty fulfilled. And he will be back with even greater vengeance.

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Critical Annihilation

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"Phew, guess we finally lost them, right?" The SS Sniper said as he slowed down to catch his breath.

"Yeah, hopefully, they won't somehow manage to track us down by sheer mistake that we make that we aren't aware of time." SS Assault said jokingly.

The SS Sniper decided to search for the communicator inside his bag only realize what happened. The bag... it was cut, all of the designator cards got dropped during his escape duration. The only thing inside is the battery and the communicator.

"D'oh!" SS Sniper groaned in the realization that he fucked things up.

"Well, it seems like we are still being pursued. Considering the performance they displayed, any Azure Soldier got deployed by those cards are probably rekt by now" The SS Assault said.

Both of them sighed, there's no avoiding anymore. Suddenly, the radio communicator in his hand blared up. Quickly answering the call, he found out that there is another Servant who is deployed here.

"Severloh, is there anyone here?" The voice from the other side said.

"Dear God! Why were you here at a time like this!?" The SS Sniper said.

"I received reports that many of our WMD were destroyed considering the fact that the last feedback from them was roughly an hour ago. It seems that we have underestimated our foes this time. I was assigned to this mission to assist to ensure this mission isn't compromised.". Severloh said.

The SS Sniper grunted, aren't the EKS supposed to eliminate any old-age Servants? But apparently, age doesn't equalize into power at all. They need to improvise a new plan. A better one than this.

"Severloh, will you help me this time? Pretty fucking please?" The SS Sniper asked.

"Mathias... That's why I'm here in the first place. I'm could assure you that you won't be getting ganged upon considering how far apart from all of the enemy Servants are. The two that are pursuing you might be an issue but trust me, I shall impede their progress as much as I could." Severloh said in reassurance.

Mathias then turns off the communicator and then turns toward his buddy. Knowing that they fucked everything big times, they decided to discuss before acting their net move.

"I'm gonna be real with you here Joseph. No matter how bad things can get, just promise me that you won't abandon me, okay?" Mathias asked.

"Bruh, if you think that I will abandon you, you might as well expect this sky to collapse in the next second. Whoops, nothing happened. Even if the whole world may turn its back on you, I will still be there to cover you no matter what." Joseph said to his friend.

Both of them then fist bump each other. Too bad they were on the other side because their brotherhood is just exemplary.

"So where do we go now?" Joseph asked.

Mathias shrugged as he then looks around the place for an answer. He turned his gaze around the cold surrounding and finds one certain landmark that he finds it hard to ignore.

"Was that cathedral ever there before?" Mathias said as he finds something strange in his sight.

Both of them then looked at the cathedral on the small mountain from the distance. There is something strange about it that they can't quite put their fingers on. They patrolled the fourth ring many times and this is the first time they even saw that cathedral.

"You know, we might as well get to the place. There might be something there." Mathias said.

Joseph nodded and both of them heads toward the place. Leaving their faith on Severloh, they don't know if the man would uphold his side of promise but it is better to have a blind faith than a bare truth of darkness.

Meanwhile, at Arnold and Alfin's position

"This is the 32nd battalion that you just annihilated, are you sure that we are on the right path here?" Arnold asked.

"Trust me, they are arranged on a pathway. If those two were smart, they would make sure they leave absolutely no trace at all but here is all of those Azure Soldiers that just got summoned here." Alfin said.

And once more they follow after the trace of that dastard duo, if they found anything that just opens fire on them immediately without question, that means they are on the right path.

"By the way, Alfin. Do you ever having the feeling that somebody is observing you and all of what you do without you knowing?" Arnold asked.

"You better be not serious about it or we probably get into deep shit because of it.". Alfin said in irritated tone because Arnold's instinct just never go wrong when it required.

They together leap onto the highest building they could find and then observing the land surrounding them. If only they could find everyone else but the senseless pursuit pretty much split them entirely from the whole group. The land surrounding themselves is uncharted areas where despite being city are still looking extremely desolated.

"I wonder what happened in this place. To have the populace to suddenly disappear like this is unusual." Alfin said.

The mana level here is pretty much in the realm of the age of God, the only reason none of those mystical creatures emerged here is that it is still human's plane of existence and the fact that they would be easily exterminated by the stationed Azure Soldiers here. Did the whole populace die because they can't handle the sudden spike of mana level? There's no way that he would ever answer a question like that.

"Alfin? I think I saw something approaching?" Arnold said as he saw a flash of azure light from the distance.

Right when he noticed it, he quickly realized the oncoming danger and quickly grabbed Alfin and jumped off the building as fast as he could. Soon the whole top of the place disintegrated into nothingness.

"What just happened!?" Alfin said as she and her lover are freefalling.

"I don't know! But it has to be something dangerous!" Arnold said as he quickly positions himself.

Before they could realize it, the whole building that they used to scout is gone too. They landed on the ground and moves away as quickly as they could. If anything that can happen, getting hit by it is instant 'game over'.

There's one thing he realized is common with any of those Third Reich's Servant. Their beam attacks seem to be azure primarily. It can be meaning one thing, they use the same source for their power but he could be wrong and just grasping at straws.

"What do we do now!? Where was that came from!?" Alfin said in a panic as she is suddenly going up against another force of nature.

Arnold started to think back about what transpired during the fall, he noticed where those azure beams came from, it was... a cathedral.

"Alfin? You saw that cathedral from the distance?" Arnold asked.

"Yeah? You telling me that-" Alfin said before getting cut off by something approaching,

Both of them jumped away from the hiding spot as an azure beam razed through their previous position and anything on its path. Arnold was right, the firing direction is indeed coming from the cathedral! But there is one thing though, the potency of that attack was staggering like he could tell that a simple railgun alone isn't enough. It is most likely came from a high-power direct energy weapon. Consider the fact that all of the Third Reich's Servants decided to take off the glove at this point, it is no longer surprising anymore.

"We need to get there, now!" Arnold said.

"How?! I'm not going to run out there and risk getting evaporated by that annihilating beam!" Alfin said in protest of what Arnold suggests.

And her cover is blown away once more by that azure beam and she has to jump out once more. Realizing just how stupid the idea of staying is, she decided to agree to Arnold's plan.

"So how do we get there?" Alfin said.

"The fact that they knew where exactly we are means stealth is out of the question. We will get there with the fastest mean we have." Arnold said before he grasps for something in his mind.

And then a motorcycle quickly appeared out of thin air, she remembered the last time she rides this with Arnold and then understands what he means.

"Get on, they might try to fire another shot of us." Arnold said as he gets on the motorbike.

Alfin quickly nodded and gets onto the motorcycle, Arnold felt a great disturbance within the atmosphere and quickly throttles his bike as fast as he could. Plowing into maximum speed in a mere fraction of not even a second, he quickly makes a sharp drift that tilted both him and his bike near the ground. In literally the next moment, the azure beam that is fired at him grazed his hair by a millimeter.

The moment he got out of danger, he quickly drives as fast as he could towards the cathedral in the distance. That's where the firer is and he could ascertain it.

Driving his motorcycle through the ruined landscape, they probably didn't expect him to have a vehicle like that at all. Moving swiftly through the gaps between each of those attacks, he is getting closer to the cathedral by each second passed.

Alfin assisted him by summoning the artillery cannons and firing them ahead so that she can create a path through the abandoned buildings if the situation must. Both of them compliments each other greatly that the only way to even have a chance to kill them is to separate them from each other.

Meanwhile, at the top of the cathedral.

"Severloh! They are approaching this place fast, none of our attacks are landing at all!" The young man next to the Beast said,

The gun that Severloh is using isn't even looking like anything remotely close to the MG-42, it looks like an entirely different weapon on its own. It has a triple barrel bunched together and each is shrouded by a deep coolant tube that gives off azure tinted light. The whole thing is made entirely out of composite materials and most advanced metal they capable of mustering up.

It has a carrying handle and so that it could be picked up and used without needing to put into stationary tripod although unrecommended to do so. To the side of it is a battery, one that looks like an unnecessary huge disk and it seems to be spinning by itself around the center. There's also an exhaust pipe that seems to be used to exhaust the heat to prevent the gun from imploding on itself due to overheating. The only similarity is the stock, the trigger grip, anything other than that is just something that's never there in the original MG-42 design.

"Then we will have to resort to greater measure, Jager." Severloh said to his allies.

Severloh then focuses on the switch right on top of the gun's main body. There are four modes that it has, Safe, Concentrated Burst, Barrage, and another one that seems to be deliberately written over with lines.

"Severloh, what is the last one there?" Jager asked.

"It's best that you don't know. And I wish that I will never use that mode, no matter what." Severloh said as if he has seen hell for himself before he switches to Barrage mode.

The moment he did so, the gun no longer firing in concentrated beam anymore but it is now firing like what all machine guns do. A barrage of projectiles was unleashed and it rains down upon the land below them. A rain of azure that erases anything that it lands on. Each beam disintegrates anything it touches no matter what it is.

Meanwhile...

"Arnold, watch out!" Alfin said as she noticed the change in Severloh's attack.

Arnold pushed his reflex to the limit but even then, he can't ascertain his safety and Alfin's. There is just too much for him to handle alone. He can dodge a powerful attack but certainly not a hail of endless amount of them.

A beam with its trajectory aims directly at him, Arnold wanted to turn in another direction but doing so would just get him hit by the others. Arnold doesn't know what he should do anymore as the sense of impending death approaches him even closer.

But it never came, he was surprised that something actually managed to block it. He turned back towards her and noticed that she is firing something out of the blazing portals she summoned. Upon further checking, she fires steel spikes right at the beam that would hit him.

Then he realized, the concentrated beam would obviously powerful in itself but a barrage would make sense as to why she can clash it back. The potency of each shot was reduced tremendously to trade for the firing rate and thus even her steel spikes could clash them back. It is a process of annihilation. After all, she just needs to fire a spike that has enough mana to counter against that shot directly. But considering how much of all of it at once, it puts a great strain in her mind.

They managed to get closer to the cathedral thanks to Alfin's assistance. The barrage has pretty much swept clear of anything that is not them in its path at this point and it is clear that Severloh will have to take up his game to the next level if he wanted any chance against them.

"Severloh! Don't tell me that-" Jager said as he noticed what Severloh is trying to do.

"Tell no one of what I have to do here. You are going to see the full capability of the Mourning Star in just about a next second." Severloh said with a bit of regret in his tone before he pulls the switch to the 'crossed-out' one.

The gun's battery suddenly illuminates brightly as it is being pushed to its limit. Electric currents started to run through the barrels of the gun as it becomes saturated with power.

"Also, I didn't lie when I said this thing has potential energy outputs of a dying star.". Severloh said before he pulled the trigger.

In the next moment, the Mourning Star fired its beam in the most powerful mode possible. A blinding energy blast that is so bright that it makes daytime looks like night compared to it. The sheer power it fired also erased away the crossed-out part of the gun and beneath it is one sentence.

Critical Annihilation

For when you want that one person deader than dead and accept no substitute.

Meanwhile, just a half minute ago, back to Arnold and Alfin's position. They noticed something is amiss when the beam ceased coming towards them. They would wish to consider it as, out of ammo but considering their experience with everything here, they knew that something bad is really going to happen. And boy how right they are.

"Arnold, I think you should make a sharp turn, now.". Alfin said in a deadpan tone for her fear started to overwhelm any other emotions.

Arnold decided to heed her words because there is literally nothing else he could do to shake off the feeling of dread that is haunting him right now. The moment he turned, a huge beam just almost hit him and he turned to see as it razes through the terrain like nothing. It then impacts on the mountain a long distance away from him and watches as the beam melts the entire mountain down in a blink of an eye.

"Oh for the love of!" Arnold said in a panic as he realized the beam is starting to gear itself towards him.

The beam slowly moves toward Arnold and Alfin as both of them tried to go as fast as they could to avoid getting evaporated by that beam. They quickly move through the tightly packed urban area where roads and alleys are few and between. They even resorted to brute force through buildings but that is a little price to pay compared to getting hit by that azure beam of pure destruction.

"Alfin, we can't keep running around in a circle like this. We need to find a way like now!" Arnold said to Alfin.

Arnold is right, if they don't resolve this soon, the beam will annihilate pretty much anything in the fourth ring and that includes his allies who are being separated right now. He needs to be decisive and quick or there will be nothing left of what he loved.

"Alfin, you fire an artillery shell at the highest building that you managed to detect at its foundation in a way that it would take us toward the cathedral!" Arnold said to her.

Alfin nodded and she quickly looked for anything that could possibly break them out of this situation. With just a simple quick glance, she detected one that could easily help them achieve their objective.

Quickly summon artillery through the blazing portal she created, she fired one right into its feet and the building started to tilt in the direction towards the cathedral. Arnold took notice and quickly drifted through multiple buildings in order to align himself with the path and then he quickly throttles his motorcycle to full speed as it quickly moves toward the makeshift ramp that they created.

And soon they quickly take off and fly towards the cathedral. However, Severloh has already aimed the Mourning Star closed enough and all he needs to do left is just to aim upward.

"Arnold! There won't be enough momentum!" Alfin said as the bikes started to fall off while the beam is raising up towards them.

"Jump!" Arnold said as both of them leaped out of the motorcycle for even a meager hope of success but all it does is to stall for the inevitable.

Even all of what they did this far, all of the possible unfair advantages they have, they are still unable to make their way out. Death is approaching even closer and soon it will be his end.

Arnold's mind went into a state of epiphany, not knowing what to do anymore after he just threw all of his decks for the hope of victory only to see that he was still unable to do so. There is one single verse in his poem that saved Alfin's life, perhaps it would do the same to him?

Swore my vow that I heard the angels cry

And as he Alfin's held onto him tightly, the beam soon engulfed both of them, and death was the only thing that is ascertained to them.

"Did we do it?' Jager asked Severloh for confirmation.

Severloh then proceeds to let go of the trigger but something unbelievable happened. Arnold and Alfin, they are still there unfazed from an attack that could erase the whole mountain. It was as if the beam didn't even contact them at all but how?

Arnold is carrying Alfin in bridal style, again. The angel wings once again appeared as he floats midair. The whole scene was so out of this world that Severloh and Jager can't believe what is unfolding in front of them. Severloh within his fear of something worse might going to happen if he stands still and do nothing and thus fired the Mourning Star in Critical Annihilation mode at them once more.

But even after an earth-shattering attack like that, they still persist, as if that attack was just used to fire at nothing. For the first time, Severloh experiences true genuine fear when seeing something that can't be hit by the Mourning Star.

"Spirit Phaze!" Arnold yelled as he dived towards Severloh at godspeed before anyone could react.

Right in the next moment, he collided head-on into Severloh and knocked him away like a ragdoll. Alfin quickly jumped and kicked Jager right into his face before he could react. And apparently, Spirit Phaze collision is actually a lot more painful than how it looks because Severloh seems to be lying on the ground while holding on to his gut while wincing in pain.

Jager then quickly pulled himself up and run towards Severloh. Alfin seeing what he is trying to do and draws her golden pistol and open fire on him.

"Not so fast!" Alfin yelled as she opens fire on Jager.

But lucks decided to have it in Jager's side as he evaded all of them and the moment he reached Severloh, he pressed something that he takes out of his coat. Soon, a blinding flash and a disorienting sound soon followed and the two of them are gone without a trace.

"Damn it, at least we finish all of these swiftly.". Alfin grunted when the enemy managed to run away from them successfully.

Their main objective is to make it to the cathedral, Severloh and his buddy just happened to get caught up in this.

"Guess this is about time we finish this mess for once and for all, huh?" Alfin said.

Arnold nodded in agreement, there is still one thing he doesn't understand. Just what is exactly the angel wings on him mean? Why does he have one and while does he became intangible physically when activated? At that time, he was too enamored by the newfound power that he just let his heart do the rest.

"Either way, let us enter the place and settle the deal with that annoying duo. Especially on that spiky-haired bastard for serving my ass on a plate," Alfin said in an annoyed tone.

Both of them jumped down to the ground and they are now facing the entrance of the cathedral. There is something ominous about this place but what do they have to judge, pretty much everything else here is ominous. They made it this far into the fourth ring and still no signs of any normal person here.

Both of them looked at each other once more and then nodded in unison. They together pushed the door wide open and inside is what you usually found in a church, just much bigger. However, there are two certain people here that stands out completely from the place. Right in the furthest part of the cathedral is a large organ and Mathias is sitting in front of it while Joseph is standing beside him.

Both of them looked at Arnold and Alfin with nothing to read in their facials. There is only one thing that has in all of their minds, to finish this conflict for once and for all.

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Double Trouble

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"!" Mathias's thought shifted instantly as Arnold suddenly landed in front of him within a split second. He quickly falls back immediately as Joseph joined the fray and halted the pickaxe swing with his bare hands alone.

Joseph then took grips of the pickaxe as he begins to spin around while Arnold still held onto it like a whirlwind before letting go and the momentum threw Arnold into a wall. Joseph then quickly follows up and tried to choke Arnold before punching him with enough force to flung him into a pillar.

A bullet almost hit Joseph in his feet and he looked up to see Alfin's levitating in the air and with machine guns alongside her prepared to fire.

"Mathias! Get to the upper floor! Now!" Joseph telepathically speaks with him.

Mathias from the back nodded before he jumped into the upper floor. Arnold who got stuck into the supporting pillar noticed and quickly pulled himself out and jumped to the upper floor along with Mathias. The two confronted with each other as the floor below turned into complete chaos as ballistics flying everywhere.

Mathias draws his Kar98k as it transmogrified into a railgun immediately. Arnold quick draws with a magnum revolver in order to retaliate as his opponent about to attack. Both narrowly missed each other with their shots as they evaded it with all of their wits on. Arnold took advantage of it and closing in on Mathias and attacks him while he is still trying to reload the gun.

Pulling a lightning-fast roundhouse kick that is aimed at the temple, Mathias's own reflex quickly reacts and narrowly evaded it. The guy may do something else but he ain't losing his sights on his enemy. Arnold quickly follows up on his attack but Mathias evaded them all like nothing. Seeing how the opponent evading his incoming attacks, he decided to change his pattern by charging forward and then kicks the railgun in Mathias's hands upward.

The guy may take notice of the attacks directly on him easily but he didn't seem to apply that for his weapon as Arnold disarms him easily in a matter of second. The moment the gun landed, Arnold stomped on it with one foot to prevent Mathias from retrieving it. However, there is one thing that Arnold didn't expect at all. Mathias never really need to touch his gun to retrieve it. The guy snapped his finger and the gun suddenly propelled itself to Mathias automatically which Arnold also slipped from the sudden movement of it.

With the gun back in his hand again, he quickly tried to shot Arnold while he is still lying on the floor. Quickly reacting to the situation, Arnold quickly rolled and evaded the oncoming onslaught of attacks and getting back on his two feet again. Mathias then begins to flip the sight railing to the side as it switches to energy mode. Considering that both of them are in a tight place like this, there is no avoiding getting hit by Mathias's next attack.

Seeing that there is no choice left, Arnold quickly charges toward Mathias as quickly he could, and right before the man in front of him could pull the trigger, Arnold chanted the verse of that same poem. Angel wings quickly sprouted metaphysically on his back as he flies forward at godspeed towards Mathias. Mathias pulled the trigger and an azure beam fired from the gun itself. However, Arnold phased through the beam entirely as if it didn't affect him at all. The beam then goes on continuously and blasts a huge hole through the marble wall itself.

"Spirit Phaze!" Arnold lets out his cry as he charges toward Mathias.

Suddenly getting caught in confusion when Arnold just ignored his attack entirely altogether and don't know what to do. Arnold then collided head-on into Mathias right into his gut and knocked him with enough power that Mathias got thrown into the wall and make a huge dent in it. Arnold then landed on his two feet and grabbed Mathias by his collar and lifts him up.

Despite being in a hell of a lot of pain from being hit by Spirit Phaze, Mathias doesn't bother to spend any ounce of his strength to scream. He quickly headbutted Arnold with one singular hit that dazed him immediately and he then proceeds to pull a mid-air somersault and kicked Arnold right in his chin. Upon that impact, Arnold's grip of Mathias got broke off as he falls to the ground but quickly pulled himself back up acrobatically.

Both of them wipes the blood of their mouth and looked intently at each other. Both of them then charge toward each other once more to continue their battle.

Meanwhile, Joseph is running on the wall to get away from Alfin's machine guns barrage. The only reason this cathedral hasn't collapsed since the first second of their battle is because of the huge amount of mana seeped into the infrastructure of this place, granting it the durability to withstand even Servants' attack.

Joseph then jumped down to the ground floor and then he started to kick the benches toward Alfin as if they were balls. Alfin evaded them and then smashes the last one with a steel edge she created the moment it reached near her and disappeared just as quickly as when it was used. However, there is one more thing that she didn't notice. She slashed something alongside the bench.

And then Joseph is suddenly right in front of her face and he smashed her right on top of her head into the ground. The moment he landed, he grabbed her by her head as he then swings her into multiple pillars as he ran across the hallway. All of them are hard enough to shatter the marble pillars upon collision.

Right after he is done smashing her face into the supporting pillars. He then proceeds to throw her through the large ornate window right behind the large organ that is used for religious ceremonies. The window shattered as she collided with it and got thrown into the yard outside.

Alfin then rolled on the ground and then skids for a little while before stopping. She coughed out blood and winced from the pain she got. Joseph meanwhile jumped through the huge hole in the window that he created and landed on the ground so he can continue the beatdown he has on her.

Alfin tried to stand up from the sheer pain that she is feeling right now. But before she could get her stance properly, Joseph rushed in and punched her into the gut and knocked her away by a huge distance at high speed. And he somehow managed to go even faster than the speed she is flying and then he kicked her upward into the sky.

Right when she is midair and unable to control her air control only to be hit with a continuous onslaught of strikes from Joseph who somehow managed to go faster than how she could believe. Because all of those strikes came from all possible directions, she is basically left with virtually no way to defend herself. And upon the last blow that pushed her even higher into the air, Joseph appeared right above her as he pulls an overhead smash into her gut and knocked her into the stone brick ground below with a force that created a huge crater in the process.

Joseph then landed a distance away from where the Alfin impacted on the ground, thinking that he crippled her. However, Alfin lunged at his face with a speed so fast that he couldn't react in time despite being a CQC specialist. Her eyes are filled with bloodshot as she is being filled with wrath and rage of being tossed around like a puppet.

She then grabbed his face and slammed him repeatedly towards the ground as she flies through the yard and then plows his face against the stone bricks to the point she razed a path during her flight. The moment, she reached the cathedral's wall, she then proceeds to slam Joseph despite her petite body with a force powerful enough to crack the whole surface itself with the collision point created a crater. The shockwave released easily matches the force of a storm that could raze a whole city down.

However, Joseph is far tougher than how he may appear as he then grabbed Alfin by her head before turning the table on her once more. His face is bruised from the beatdown that Alfin just gave him but other than that, he is still kicking no matter what. He then threw her away from him into the sky as he coughed out blood from the punishment he received.

Alfin then started to levitate in the air as she quickly creates multiple machine guns to open fire on her enemy below. Joseph saw what she is trying to do and he quickly stomped the ground and a large chunk of the stone brick floor was rooted up. He quickly grabbed it and just right at the moment Alfin unleashing her barrage of ballistics at him.

Using the chunk of the stone brick floor as a shield as he applied Reinforcement on it. The thing managed to stand up against the ceaseless barrage of bullets that Alfin is raining on him but he knew that he has to break this deadlock or else.

He then roundhouse kicks the chunk of bricks at her and when it is flying towards her, he drew out his assault rifle and used the underslung rocket launcher as a follow-up. She destroyed the chunk of bricks easily but Joseph remote detonated the rocket and shot her down into the ground.

"Kid, I'm afraid that you have left me no choice but to use this.". Joseph said as he draws out five azure tarot cards.

He then threw it towards her and Alfin instinctively puts on her guard but those cards are flying in a different direction and way from her. Joseph lets out a mocking smirk before cracking his knuckles and anticipating his next move.

The moment even one azure card landed, Alfin suddenly felt a sharp pain entered from her gut, her mind overdriven from the sheer adrenaline that is pumped into her blood. She saw it clearly, Joseph who was away from her about 100 meters away is suddenly right nearby her with his fist gutted right into her. She doesn't know how fast her mind is being driven right now but considering how almost everything else ceases to move, the rain, the particle, everything but her and Joseph. It is safe to assume that the guy has somehow managed to move at relativistic speed.

And it wasn't just one, the moment the other cards landed, she got hit by the other one before the pain even registered. She then realized it, the cards, Joseph moves near-instantaneous to where ever this card landed. He threw five cards and... Dear God...

Moving in a pentagram pattern, Joseph strikes Alfin five times in a row with all of them so ridiculously fast that they overlapped each other. And when the pain finally registered, she felt completely overwhelmed by it. To be ripping apart by the boundary of life and death, it is a sensation that no one would wish the other to felt no matter how cruel they are.

She felt every bone in her body fracture, she wanted to collapse, she wanted to die so that she can no longer felt the pain that she is being forced to endure. The life in her eyes started to fade as she felt her spirit is getting weaker.

But...

She refused...

Still standing up despite her body is on verge of death. Joseph meanwhile still looking at her to check what is she trying to do. The tension is rising so high that even a weave of their finger could cut the fabric of reality. And then, something unexpected happens.

Alfin lets out a demented laugh. It was as if she has nothing left to lose. She turned back to him and while still giving that psychotic smile. Her eyes turned completely blood-red as if she lets her wrath consumed her completely as it gives out a scarlet flash.

Joseph for the first time felt unnerved by the sights he is witnessing. He is the kind who is unphased even in the face of certain death and can even make light of it like nothing. But here, he truly felt that he is about to go up against something even worse than death itself. He wanted to shook this feeling off but they refused to do so no matter how he dictates them.

Decided to ignore the swelling dread inside, he charges forward to finish off Alfin for once and for all. However, before he could even get anywhere close to her. She activates one of the Noble Phantasm that is unlisted so far, a one that is so dreaded that it is deliberately left out even when True Name revealed.

Auschwitz's Ashes

A dark miasma started to form around her and spreads out rapidly, Joseph not knowing what he is about to enter and keeps charging forward mindlessly until he breathed in it.

It is stagnating and full of malice. The moment they got into his lung, Joseph tried to cover his mouth and nose and he also quickly though about halted moving immediately.

"This... What on earth is this miasma!? It felt so stagnant! I can't breathe..." Joseph thought as he is suffocating on it.

Knowing how bad things can get if he doesn't finish this immediately, he decided to charge forward and pulled a left hook with all of his might put into it. However, the miasma wasn't limited to just impede its opponent's sense alone, his movement felt so sluggish as he felt his strength is sapped more the more time he spent in this miasma. When his fist finally reached her, Alfin just simply blocked it with one hand alone. That's how Joseph goes from a menacing threat into an absolute joke.

He looked into her blood-red eyes, it is filled with scorn, hatred, and madness. He wanted to avert his eyes from continuing to witness it but with Alfin grabbed one of his fists, he has no possible way of running away.

Alfin then proceeds to slam him into the ground by swinging him by his fist. The impact was powerful enough to create a crater the size of his height. She then repeated this process multiple times and during all of them, Joseph landed face first.

And when she decided to have enough, she then proceeds to toss him into the broken cathedral wall. The damage that was inflicted on it already putting it near the verge of collapse and with Joseph being tossed into it just add more damage to it. The force that Alfin used to throw Joseph like that was unbelievable as her base strength wasn't anything exceptional in the first place.

Joseph tried to stands up on his two feet but Alfin really started to do a number on him and when he tried to refocus, Alfin is basically already near him as she lunged towards him like a predator about to devour its prey. She grabbed him by his neck as both of them burst through the wall simultaneously. Wherever she goes, the miasma also follows her.

Mathias and Arnold were dueling against each other while that happened and Alfin interrupted them by running through the place while deliberately smashing Joseph into as many things as she could. The supporting pillars, walls, anything... Her bloodlust reached its climax as she wanted nothing more than to slaughter Joseph like an animal.

Both Mathias and Arnold were surprised about what is unfolding right in front of them and then it hits them, the miasma. They started to cough and feeling suffocated from the sheer malice and despair that both of them can felt from the miasma itself.

"Gas mask, I need a gas mask!" Mathias said out loud as the guy searching desperately in his side bag for anything like it.

Arnold is also doing the same although not saying it out loud. Holding his breath as long as he could while the miasma is sapping his strength inside him more and more. Searching for anything that could help him but tried as much as he could, he has literally nothing that could resemble a gas mask. Within that last-second desperation, he grabbed something unexpected that is being stored inside the armory at that time.

The poppy.

Suddenly having a huge weight lifted off from him, no longer that sense of suffocating and the seeping despair and hopelessness. The poppy... it somehow managed to cleanse him of that miasma.

He then looked at his opponent while still holding onto his poppy. The guy is desperately trying to cling onto his dear life, Arnold basically wins and he could just finish this guy off but he decided not to. He may be an ass but he is not low enough to kick a person while they're down.

And when that isn't enough, Alfin charged through this place one last time and then jumped straight upward and burst through the ceiling. Once they reached the terminal height, she proceeds to slam him down against the ground at the height of 100 meters.

However, during those onslaughts of attacks, Joseph managed to reach for his pocket and got an azure card out of it. And when she about to slam him downward, Joseph threw the card towards the window edge. All he hopes is that the card reached the place before he got turned into a bloody paste on the ground.

There is going to be one of the two following things that could happen. The card reaches the window edge first or he against the ground. Time is running out fo they guy as he is being pushed down faster and faster. He felt so tensed that he can't even breathe, not that he could when there is the miasma around Alfin like that.

Whether he does believe in greater powers or not, luck has smiled with for now as the card managed to reach the window edge first. It shattered upon landing and Joseph also quickly disintegrates away from her grips and then reappeared on the window ledge. He lets out a breath of relief that he managed to get away from her and the fact that he got to breathe again is something he will never trade it for anything else.

He watched towards the yard below and sees a huge dust cloud created from her collision against the ground. The moment the dust died down, she looked towards him apathetically before creating many blazing portals and aims directly at him.

Joseph quickly realized what is going on and tried to get into his stance despite feeling horribly exhausted. Blazing chains quickly lunged itself out of the portals as they quickly tried to pursue him. He quickly running across the window edge and jumped to the ground when he knew that he will be cornered if he remains here

Knowing that CQC is out of the question, he drew out his assault rifle and opened fire on Alfin, knowing that there isn't anything else he could do against her and... Alfin raised her arm forward and the bullets that Joseph fired just stopped in its track and right in front of Alfin.

"God damn it.." Joseph thought as he realized that he is truly helpless in this situation.

Alfin then tossed all of those bullets back with such extreme speed that they were set ablaze from sheer friction alone. Joseph avoided those attacks as those bullets razed a whole section of the yard itself. At this point, Joseph just wanted to raise his hands and give up but knowing what she would do, he would get ripped apart like a piece of paper no matter what he does.

Those chains keep appearing out of the most unexpected direction in her attempt to ensnare him. Seeing what Alfin is trying to do, Joseph quickly takes out another card and threw it a distance away from him. The wind would then just brings that card wherever it wanted to. It could be landing anywhere but it definitely can't fly outside this courtyard.

And just when he thought it couldn't get worse for him. White-hot spears started to pierce through the ground and approach toward him in an attempt to impale him. He keeps running away from her but he can't hide from her wrath at all. And when he thought could loosen up a bit, a white-hot spear impaled through his calf from behind him.

"Gah!" Joseph grunted as the burning agonies deep inside the afflicted calf course through his body.

And right in that moment of defenseless, the burning chains quickly ensnare and forcing him to kneel as they pulled him down. With the overwhelming agonies that are tearing him apart, Alfin approaches him and looked down on him as if he is some convict that is awaiting his death. He is looking extremely miserable as if there is nothing left but suffering for him.

Alfin then summoned a whole array of autocannons, just to make sure that there will be no remain of him afterward when she is done. Joseph looked in disbelief, is this how he will be ended? Like a convict that is going to end miserably?

Just when he thought this is the end for him, he felt a sudden sensation of something. Something that managed to break through the agonies that he is feeling right now. Right when Alfin opened fire on him, his body disintegrates into nothingness and then reappeared somewhere else. Somewhere that his azure card managed to land, anywhere that isn't where he was right now.

He appeared again and he is still in the courtyard but at least he doesn't see her anywhere near him. He looked at the dust cloud that was raised in the distance when Alfin opened fire those autocannons. He sighed, at least that he is out of the danger for now. But he wouldn't put it past her that she will just let him go like this.

Joseph grunted as the seared and cauterized wound of his calf and not to mention those burn wounds around him created when he got ensnared by those chains. The fact that he got away from her, for now, is nothing but short of a miracle.

Taking out another azure card in his pocket, it was probably the last one he has right now. He just hopes that he and his friend could get out of here together, that is all he wanted in the end. To live for another day.

The moment he tossed the card, a burning chain burst through the ground from behind him as it quickly ensnared him by the neck. It pulled him into the ground and four more chains appeared and bind all of his limps into the ground. As if it wasn't enough, the burning spears quickly protrude through the ground and impaled right into his wrists and heels. At this point, death is anything but certain for him.

The dreading presence approaches him, he looked into her as he screams internally in the inside. To see intense hatred up close like that is a memory that he will never able to erase no matter what. To look into her eye is to stare straight into a turmoil of twisted negative emotions, anger, hatred, loath, scorn, rage, there just no amount of words in the dictionary that could tell all of the raging feelings inside that turmoil of emotions. It was as if she is wrath incarnated, a vessel for pure undistilled rage.

Alfin then leaped up towards the sky and created a huge crater in the process. He looked into the sky and sees that she jumped into an altitude of 500 hundred meters. Not even an execution is this unnerving to him. So many things ran through his mind during the whole time this unfolded, the agonies of being impaled through multiple places, the burning pain that the chain is doing to him while frying every nerve of his limps. The dreading feelings of what Alfin is going to do to him.

The moment she reached the terminal height of her jump. She took out something from inside that blazing portal of her while looking down on him with disdain and grudge. She took a huge missile out of it, and there is something written on it.

Fritz X

There is no doubt about it, it was one of the Wunderwaffes for being the world's first precision guided-weapon. With her being driven entirely by rage alone, who knows how much destructive power that the missile is currently having right now. She yelled as she threw that thing down on Joseph. With literally only seconds left before death and no more way to escape. He sighed, that's all of what left he could do. He stared towards the missile as it rushing towards him, he felt oddly serene despite facing closer to death like this.

He remembers about the card that he threw, he aimed it at the top of the cathedral but it would take a miracle just for it to land anywhere on it. Not that it matters to him anymore, all he really could do left is to wait for his end. Memories flooded into his vision as it tried to desperately finds any way to resolve this predicament but there really is no answer when you got pinned down and crippled like this

Suddenly, he felt something, time slowed down to the point that the rain appeared to stop entirely. He noticed that the tip of the finger is beginning to disintegrates. He realized that he is being teleported, the card actually landed. He closed his eyes as the missiles are just about to land on him as he knows that he will get out of here soon.

Reappeared once more at the top of the cathedral, he hardly able to move when both of his heels got impaled and his wrists got pierced through like this. He just glass that he managed to get away from her now and the fact that he managed to land the card right on where he wanted. Right soon afterward, a huge explosion occurred as the whole courtyard got erased in a mere instant, the shockwave is so powerful that the whole cathedral started to shake unstably.

And when that isn't enough, he noticed that the ground started to collapse. It soon reaches the cathedral as the foundation started to collapse along with the ground itself. Joseph being completely paralyzed with the burning agonies in all of his limps decided to close his eyes and accept whatever outcome may reach him. All he could really wish for is that his friend would make it out of here.

Meanwhile, inside the cathedral. Both Arnold and Mathias are still duking it out only to be interrupted as the ground started to collapse, they tried to get away from it but only to be swallowed into the void below them. Soon, the whole mountainside collapsed along with the cathedral itself.

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Joseph opened his eyes and sees that he is leaning against the wall, he wanted to move but his limbs refused to do anything he tells it to do. And then he saw her, the girl he fought from before lying on top of the rubble unconsciously. But he doesn't sense any malice and hatred from her anymore, he let out a sigh of relief to know that there is a limit to her wrath's duration or he will get buttfucked otherwise. Now, he just has PTSD when it comes to her.

But what to do now? He still has the emergency teleporting device but he doesn't exactly have what it required to press it which is a functional arm and he lost all of them right from before.

And then he saw it, his friend Mathias who is still fighting back against Arnold but none of them are using their firearms at all. It devolved into just pure brawling and fistfights. He doesn't know what exactly transpired during the time he got knocked out cold but the only thing that seems to be clear here that both of them are still fighting even when they are at the lowest depth right now.

Despite not at their best anymore, each of their blow trading against each other is still more than capable of breaking the place more and more. Each collision created shockwaves that shook the place. Water started to flood into this place as ripples spread from each of their movement.

Mathias charges forward and pulled a left hook but he suddenly found himself punching at nothing. With his opponent not within his sight, he became confused as to where did he go until something placed its hand on his shoulder. With the sudden jolt that spreads through his body, he suddenly felt his knee getting smashed apart from his back as he suddenly got thrown flying into the water face-first.

He grimaced in agony as his knee bleeding out and tainting the water with his blood. He looked back and sees that Arnold is behind him which is unreal because it is like he just phased through him and then attacking him from behind.

Arnold steps forward so that he can finish this charrade for once and for all. However, Arnold didn't notice the smirk on Mathias's face as he quickly getting back on his two feet despite having one of his knees completely shattered. And right at that unprecedented moment, Mathias slammed Arnold's face with a canister of something that he whipped out of nowhere.

The moment the canister got slammed into Arnold's face, it started to exude out a gas-like substance of sorts and Arnold'yelled in agony as he cries tears of blood when he felt his eyes being torn apart.

Mathias took advantage of this moment as he quickly pulled a roundhouse kick with the remaining uninjured leg of his as he puts as much force into it as possible. Arnold while being as blind as a bat due to the injury his eyes sustained, he quickly pulled his fist back and punches as hard as he could wherever his instinct told him to.

Their attacks collided resulting in a huge blast of shockwaves that soared across the depth of this crater. It is so powerful that even Joseph can feel it and Alfin woke up from the shockwave that shook her inside. An unconteseted fight with no side willing to back down.

Arnold felt something inside the arm he used to punch feels wrong, and then it hits him. His whole right arm fractured from the sheer intense force that it is forced to subject to, even if his whole arm is fractured, his fist still strive forward no matter what.

Mathias smirked, thinking that victory is in his side only to realize that Arnold quickly turned the table on him immediately. Angel's feathers started to form around his fist as he forced himself forward no matter what. Soon, cracks started to form around Mathias's leg as it quickly spreads out and reaching his main body along with blood seeping through it. Mathias screams in agony as he couldn't believe this turn of event is happening to him.

Arnold continues to push forward and in the next moment, Mathias's leg got splattered into a bloody mess as he got knocked into the crater's wall and landed near Joseph. Feathers trail behinds where Arnold's fist has gone before they dissipate into thin air.

"Tough luck, huh? Are you fine?" Joseph said as he tried to smile for Mathias.

"Do I look fine to you?" Mathias said through the agony that is overwhelming him right now.

"Heh... Can you press the escape device for me? Both of my arms are ruined... And by the way, I would just going to say this to you. You just only made it through the prelimanary" Joseph said.

Arnold tried to moves toward them but he is in no condition to even fight, let alone killing anyone. At this point, he just wanted this conflict to end now. How it ends doesn't matter to him.

Both of them teleported away and created a deafening noise and disorienting flash. Afterward, they are gone without a trace. Arnold knelt to the ground and sighed, he just glad that this is over. The next time they meet will be long and not belong to any foreseeable future. Holding his fractured right arm, Arnold wonders just what did he do to get such a power like this. He is a soldier, that is what he knows for sure but he is sure that he isn't anything biblical in the first place.

"Arnold! Are you okay?" Alfin quickly approaches him and check his condition.

Arnold does not answer anything, he tried to open his eyes but dear Lord does it burn so hard when he tried to do so.

"Arnold, please lies on the ground so that I can try to check what is wrong with your eyes." Alfin said to him.

Arnold decided to heed her words and thus he decided to lay himself on the ground while his head lies on her lap. Alfin then checks the affliction done on his eyes and she suddenly gasped when she saw the wound done on him. However, he doesn't know if she seems to know what to do because she decided to place her hand on his eyes and chanted something.

Suddenly, he felt a bright light somehow reaching through the ruined vision of his and suddenly, he no longer felt any more pain. He opened his eyes and sees her figure although a bit hazy, he can still see it is clearly her.

"Look... What you just got hit with is not your average tear gas. Not even tear gas would mutilate your eyes that badly. And I am even surprised that your eyes are still recoverable at that." Alfin said.

"What did I got hit with?" Arnold asked.

"You know about the Holocaust? Where 6 million people died there? They were ruthlessly slaughtered and I shall spare you from all the details that happened there but what you got hit is the mustard gas that is used in the gas chambers there. The same kind, downright into molecular structure. The only difference there is that it got mana-charged to harm even Servants." Alfin said straightforwardly.

"So then... how did you managed to extract it out of my eyes?" Arnold asked.

"Do you forgot my True Name already? Just remember that I am still Hitler at my heart and thus anything I have my hands on, I could easily retract with ease. It just that it is only thanks to you that I am still seeing the light of the next day." Alfin said.

Arnold understood that, while Alfin's personality pretty much deviated away from the would-be of actual history's Hitler, he shouldn't ever forget that she is still very much that person.

"Now let me tends to your arm. I might not be a medic like Irisviel or Desmond but I shall do my best for you." Alfin said.

Alfin then takes a bandage and a splint out of the blazing portal she created and no, it is not burning at all. She placed the splint along his arm then wraps it around it and then injects some anesthetic into it. Arnold felt the pain soothes by a huge margin as he lets out a sigh of relief.

"I give it about 30 minutes before your arm completely fixes itself. So you have nothing to worry here." Alfin said.

"By the way, when did this place become so foggy?" Arnold asked.

"And you asked that first instead of wondering how can we get out of here?" Alfin said.

He is right though, rain would be one thing but fog for some reason is here despite they are getting closer to the eye of the storm. If there is any fog, it would have been blown away by the storm already yet here it is.

Suddenly, Alfin stared straight into the sky as if she noticed something is approaching here. Arnold remembers that she has the power to shift her perspective into the different directions which allows her to look at something despite it literally behind a huge ass obstacle.

"Alfin, what is wrong?" Arnold asked.

"Something is approaching, we need to get out of here, now!" Alfin said as she rushes around to find anything that could help them get out.

"Huh?" Arnold said in surprise.

"Do I need to tell you how much are we in deep shit right now? This place is 150m deep and none of us can't just jump that high since our strength is sapped to the point that is a Herculean Task." Alfin said.

"What did you see?" Arnold asked as the tension started to rise once more.

"A red biplane, that's it. But it is carrying something that when I analyzed it with the spell that Shirou taught me, I realized just how close we are to death and the true intention of that duo we fight earlier." Alfin said as she keeps searching for anything in this desperate time.

"But why us? And what did they intent to do with us?" Arnold asked.

"Think about it, it is only us who actually enabled everyone else to make this far. They may have pulled their slacks and their immense strength helped tremendously. But none of them have any Anti-Fortress Noble Phantasm except me, if it weren't for me, none of them would have make it through even the first wall without suffering casualties or cost too much time in their efforts to do so." Alfin said as she finally caught attention of something.

The catheral organ, it has also collapsed into this place. Although completely ruined, its sheer size and the amount of metal it has, this thing is a perfect catalyst for her. She can use her power to consume the whole things to replenish her mana and recreate the one thing that could get them out together immediately.

"Wait, just where do I place in this whole mess to begin with?" Arnold asked.

"Not even I know. I can even argue that you were caught in this mess because you followed me and always got on the wrong end of the stick all of the time because of it. But there is something about you isn't normal, like how you temporarily became an angel? Pretty sure no known Heroic Spirit can do that, and if they could, they would be too much for the Throne of Heroes to contain anyway. Either way, time is running out for both of us and after this conversation end, we will have only 2 seconds at best so hold on tight." Alfin said while turning the whole organ into mana dust as they flows into her.

"What?" Arnold said before he suddenly got enveloped in a bright light and can't seems to sense anything else anymore.

In just the next second, they quickly flew off this place just as when something was dropped into it. A bright azure flash appeared afterward in the next second as it quickly annihilates anything surrounding it. To be fair, nothing of value was lost from the destrution of the place seen it was desolated and ruined when they made it there in the first place.

Arnold opened his eyes and felt extremely crammed, like being shoved into a tight corner. He looked around and sees that he is in something and saw the sky moving backward. He then realized it, both of them are flying. He looked at the control panel and bewildered at how complex it was that he can't possible keeps up with all of these counters and buttons and switches. And then he sees her, controling whatever they are riding on with such skills that he can't fathom

"Alfin, where are we?" Arnold asked as he finds himself a different place.

"Welcome to the first jet fighter in the world, Arnold. One of my Wunderwaffes. Armed to teeth and moves ungodly fast, only a select few NPs could ever hope to match this. The Messerschmitt Me-262." Alfin said.

Realizing what she meant, he knew that fighter planes did exist back in his era but to see so much things in display compare to the simpler built of it is quite jarring to say the least.

"So what do we do now?" Arnold asked.

"What else? To hunt that old geyser down for luring us to our own execution. Hate to say this though, he is smart for attempting to split us apart from each other so that we can become destabilized and get finished off separately. Although he should have known that we are a lot more capable than how he assess us and we are still very much powerful even when alone. Are you prepared for this? Because there is no turning back left!" Alfin said boisterously.

"What?!" Arnold said in surprise for he hasn't processed whatever is going on right now.

"Too late!" Alfin said before she switches on the main thruster as the jet fighter begins to rush towards the red biplane in the distance.

Raw skills versus technology, whoever wins is up to fate to decide. But Alfin's beating heart keeps roaring more for the lust of wrath itself. She knew damn well that she will not allow herself to succumb to it once more. At least to hold off from it as long as she could.

And so the Baron has finally peeked his head out and smirked for the duel in the court of his will finally begins.

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Path of Hatred

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Words of God: For this part, play Two Steps From Hell - Star Sky

Alfin opened fire first as the bullets soar across the dark gray sky towards the Red Baron. The man noticed it as he quickly directs his plane out of harm's way. Both of them weaves through the cloud while leaving a silver line from behind them. Bullets flying through the sky as the hazy clouds still raining down upon them no matter the altitudes they are in.

Chasing each other's back so that they can shot each other down. Despite the Red Baron's plane is from WW1, Servants are about their metaphysical nature and thus his can move just as fast as any jet fighter like her. It was an even fight if it shows anything like that.

Both of them keep up with dogfighting each other. Trying to find a way to approach others from their back so that they can blindside them. But Alfin is fighting against the man who mastered aviation warfare during its infancy. His skills with his plane are without a doubt unparalleled to her and will pose a massive challenge just to find any chance to shoot him for her.

When Alfin managed to finally have a chance to have him on her crosshair, she unhesitantly pressed the firing button and thus the man also quickly moves out of the way but not without having a few shots landed on his plane. However, the damage is illegible at best.

They keep going on with the dogfight like that, the trails of white smoke they leave behind can be visibly seen from anywhere at all. Kiritsugu and Irisviel who are on top of the tower noticed it first and wondering what is going on right now. And then Larry, Desmond, Ruby who are looking at the lines that keep threading itself in the sky. And then Illya who is looking at attentively as if it was a once in a lifetime phenomenon. Richard, Pierce, Gudao and recently awoken Shirou and Kuro managed to even notice it despite the dense fog right now.

They keep writing billions of lines up in the air, it became such a mess that even the Gordian's knot looks far simpler. With only one goal in each other's mind, to pursue and shot down each other, anyone who does so first is the loser. Meanwhile, Alfin's mind is going through millions of calculations of pathing and which path she should take. Her visions turn red briefly at times for only a brief moment and then became normal again. It keeps repeating like that at a time and sometimes even multiple times at short notice

She felt something is going wrong with her mind, she keeps earing the voice screaming at the depth of her heart. She ignores it as she focused her sights on the Red Baron once more and tried to open fire on him no matter what. She stubbornly wanted her enemy to get shot down no matter what.

"Alfin, let me help you with this one. Open the hatch!" Arnold said as he drew his shotgun out of the pocket.

Alfin just does what Arnold said without thinking about it once. She flips the switch as the lid sprung open. Right at that time, the Red Baron just got right behind them and returned fire at her. Arnold then quickly jumped off the fighter plane as he collides with the Red Baron's plane. Weaving through the bullet hail and he managed to reach the Red Baron through his dexterity alone.

He managed to cling onto the plane's wing but the Red Baron decided to spin his plane erratically in an attempt to throw him off, Arnold desperately holding onto it as he felt the whole world turning upside down on him. Soon, he found himself completely nauseated and his grips on the plane are slowly being loosen. The pilot inside then drew out his revolver and aimed it squarely into Arnold's head.

However, during his distracted moment, Alfin managed to slow down and get nearby the Red Baron without his notice. She quickly tiled the plane and giving Arnold the push required. She then bumped the wing of the Baron's biplane from the bottom and the force pushed Arnold up to the top and also makes the pilot accidentally dropping the revolver to the ground. The moment he got to the top of the plane and stabilized himself, he quickly draws out his shotgun and before he could do anything, the Baron quickly makes a sharp dive as he thrusts the plane towards the ground.

Arnold who wasn't prepared for such a move like that quickly used the secondary trigger and fired the grappling hook towards the biplane. Fortunately for him though that it managed to latch onto the plane itself. However, he is pulled to everywhere it goes and he has no control of wherever the thing is heading.

Alfin noticed it and quickly dives alongside with the biplane. She tried to pursue the Red Baron but such a sharp dive like this can't be good at all. She reads the altitude meters as the thing drops sharply faster than Achilles running away from Penth. Soon, the Red Baron in front of her disappeared into the fog as she desperately tried to pursue that phantom. Soon, she entered all that could be left to see is a pillar of smoke that she left behind.

With the fog started to cover the ground, she decided to trust her instinct and decided to pull the control rod back so that she can halt the diving process. Feelings the blood and adrenaline rushing through her veins. Soon, she managed to fly in a really low altitude with only two meters above the ground while the fog limits her vision down to not even 2 meters away from her. The stakes are high as she could crash into something at moment notice but she then realized that something isn't right. She looked at the radar and notice that he is right behind her!

The Red Baron then opened fire on her right when it was at her back. Due to the tight place that she is in, she can't turn or slow down or anything at all. There is no way for her to attack back properly like this. Seeking any possible solutions she noticed the landing gear switch and think for a moment. Right at the next moment, a bullet almost grazed her and she quickly flicks the switch immediately as the landing gear quickly activated as she then lows down her plane while still going at full speed. The moment it touched the ground, the friction alone snapped the landing wheel as it got flung to the Red Baron from behind.

The Red Baron realized what is approaching him and quickly makes an abrupt turn for it. Although he avoided the head-on collision, the wheel still managed to dent his biplane by a considerable amount when it struck his plane's wing. It seems that what she just did is unacceptable to him as he yelled at her for doing something like what she just did.

The Red Baron then looked back to see that Arnold is still trying to cling on to him. He quickly decided to get rid of him forcefully as he deliberately flies near buildings then turning abruptly so that Arnold will get pendulum swung into the buildings. With each swing that Arnold got thrown into, each of those buildings got seeped quite a huge amount of mana and thus they were so durable to the point it is hurt like a normal person get smashed against the concrete. And if that isn't enough, he decided to run straight into the building so that Arnold would have to let go at some point.

The Red Baron, or more exactly, Manfred von Richtofen. The man who made a name for himself and an actual baron at that as the most skilled aviation fighter in WW1 and when it was at its infancy. The guy just keeps flying at anywhere and keeps swinging Arnold against any building that is still standing. Arnold wanted to pull himself toward the plane but the pain of being constantly thrown around started to get onto his nerve. The plane flew over many people that Richtofen didn't notice at all. Shirou, Kuro whom he came across didn't shot him down in instant is because they were too exhausted to do any real combat. Kiritsugu and Irisviel noticed the red biplane before it came crash through the ruined tower that they were standing on. Flew over Illya who was bewildered at what she is seeing. And finally Desmond and Larry as they looked confusedly at what just flew over them at the time.

Soon, both of them fly out of the foggy area when it is proven to be too risky to continue to do something like that. Both of their planes are smoking from the damage that both of them done on each other, it is quite a feat that Alfin managed to fight equally against somebody with far greater skills than her.

She looked at the red biplane and noticed something isn't right. She looked carefully and saw that modified sawn-off that Arnold used still cling onto the plane but she doesn't see him anywhere at all. Her mind instantly shifted to the worse possibility that her lover is-

"No, I need to reassure myself. He might just let go of the gun and might still be fine. Just keep calm and fulfill what you are supposed to be doing and- What am I even kidding!? Why I am still trying to fool myself that everything is still fine!? You bastard! You'll pay for what you did to Arnold!" Alfin tried to calm down upon realizing what happened to Arnold and then given into her rage.

She quickly pursues the Red Baron as fast as she could. Chasing him through the ruined buildings of the city below them. Both of their conditions are far from okay and if anyone made anymore fuck-up, that person will end up in the blaze of defeat.

They continue to dogfight despite anymore and they will cross the line of no return. The sounds of autocannons being unleashed, missiles from her jet fighter being fired but Richtofen seems to understand how those missiles work as he always managed to evade them although for most of the time, he got really close to be blasted into smithereens.

Through each of their shot, their blood splatters their plane even more, even if they didn't take any direct hit. The sheer tension and rising stakes keep making the contingency of the situation escalates exponentially with each second passes.

Both of them looking really bad right now, Richtofen's biplane engine is smoking like no tomorrow and her is just having no short amount of damage on it along with the windshield on the verge of shatter. They keep chasing and dogfight each other as if it is the only thing in their mind as they race through the desolated city Berlin's final front.

Alfin groaned as adrenaline and rage rushing through her body, bloodshot started to appear in her eyes as rage started to overtake her even further. Blood dripping from the grazed wounds that she suffered. Soon, she no longer relies on reason anymore as the pure unadulterated wrath and hatred became the one behind the wheel.

Burn those pages for me

I cannot erase those times of sins

I cannot be loved so set me free

I cannot deliver your love

Or caress your soul so

Burn those pages for me

I cannot embrace the touch that you give

I cannot find solace in your words

I cannot deliver your love or caress your soul

Their pursuit to kill each other continues to create even more of those silver lines on this war-torn sky. At this point, the whole sky looks like being scribbled entirely out of white pencil on a dark grey paper.

Alfin looks intently and focused to a deadly degree. If looks can kill, her gaze alone will create another Holocaust. Her eyes are filled with intense rage and burning hatred that could scorch this earth apart, Meanwhile, Richtofen squinting his eyes while the sky is tearing apart itself because of their fight. He doesn't know how this will drag on for how long but his mind is formulating a plan to finish off this whole fight when the chance comes.

Both of them continue to unleash their armaments against each other, not caring for the collateral destruction of their missed shots landed on anywhere aren't them at all. Both of them yelled as tension intensifies and reaching the apex. However, this time, Richtofen decided to play his ace, now.

And instantly, a squadron quickly appeared as they quickly burst through the fog itself. Painted in colorful palettes to the point it is jarring and eye-hurting if stared at for long. They quickly assembled and assists Richtofen in any way they all could.

Suddenly being pit against 5 opponents at once. Not even superior technology would help when you got ganged on like this. Being fired from all the sides, she refuses to accept her fate no matter what. She held the trigger while her eyes turned completely blood-red, signifies that she has turned completely into wrath incarnated. Bullets rained like a storm as she desperately struggles to fight back against this 1v5 situation where her chance of turning the tide is near zero.

Ammunition started to dwindle, her blood splatters across the control interface, she yelled nonstop as she held the trigger with enough force to crush the whole control stick apart. All of them started to play in front of her as her time perception slowed down.

Everything is moving so slow, she can see her blood flying in the air, seeing the windshield shatters apart, seeing brass cartridges falling out like rain, seeing the whole jet fighter of her being torn apart by the overwhelming suppressing firepower, seeing the ammo counter slowly reaching zero when it used to have about five-digit worth of ammo in the beginning, seeing the nuts and bolts scattering from the damage it is being forced to sustain. And finally, feeling the last bullet of her fired.

When there is no longer anything being fired, she broke out of her madness's grip and noticed that the ammo counter reached zero while everything else around her is trying to kill her. With nothing left that she can do, she let go of the trigger and breathed deeply in while her vehicle is being torn apart by her opponent, so much for trying to pay back.

She felt oddly serene despite being literally at the death's door as she looked at the outside and feel the wind grazing over her. She closed her eyes as if accepting her death, during that time, she remembers everything that happened until this point. The bonds she made, the day she revealed who she truly is, her opening up to Arnold and his confession for her.

Arnold...

The moment she received that epiphany. She felt something is cracking up inside of her as her gaping wounds started to drip blood on her pretty face. She tried to wipe those blood away but instead of wiping the blood, it wiped the last restrain she has over her feelings. She loved him too much that she can't accept her death no matter what. She refuses to die here no matter what.

She started to let out a deafening cry that pierced through the surrounding noise and then she made a forceful turning with the tattering jet fighter of her and making a suicidal charge towards Richtofen. That move of her completely caught him off guard as he didn't anticipate that she would charges toward him head-on despite she is flying through the torrents of bullets.

She then rips off the lid of the jet fighter and climbed out of it, whipping out the golden pistol out of her imaginary armory and then the moment comes. The jet fighter collided into the biplane and rips it apart in half. It didn't strike the main body but Alfin jumped out of it at the last moment and aimed her pistol right at Richtofen's chest.

DIE

A single shot was fired, as the biplane having lost half of its body, it can only be destined to crash. Alfin meanwhile used up the last of her willpower before she closed her eyes as she descends into the ground below her at the altitudes of 30km above the ground.

Richtofen held onto his chest as it started to bleed profusely, she struck him at his conceptual weak point and started to feel worse already. But it is not the end for him yet, it needs to be much more powerful than that to even taking him down. While it may hurt like hell, he can still make it back even if he has this wound.

Just as when his broken biplane phased through the cloud. Suddenly, he is in a new one, good as new like nothing happened. The thing here is that he actually has two planes, this one is the Focker Dr.I, the one that was used in the final mission of his. And thus he is most likely at his worst right now and can be open to danger but there is nothing here left and thus he has nothing to fear.

"Report to HQ, we have confirmed the neutralization of one Servant. Requesting re-" Richtofen tried to speak through the communicator only to sense something approaching him.

A large bomber plane suddenly burst through the cloudline as it quickly approaching him and its pilot is Alfin, once again! She came back with vengeance greater than before as she quickly draws out the blazing portals and created a large array of weapons alongside the plane. Richtofen noticed and assembled his team once more to take down the bomber.

The whole battle unfolded as both sides unleash all of what they had once more. All gloves are off, no holding back anymore. The sheer firepower between the two of them is so staggering that it is like a war compressed into one singular battle. Explosions filled the sky, ballistics raining down like a storm. Both sides started to take heavy damage as Alfin's bomber being shredded apart from the storm of bullets that it is being forced to endure. The Flying Circus with each member being shot down the further they remain in combat. It appeared that this is a mutual destruction of both sides until...

Arnold stepped out from the back fin of the bomber plane, his clothes are in tatters as bruises and wounds filled across his body. But other than that, he still very much okay compare to Alfin and Richtofen right now. He started to run on top of the bomber plane while ballistics are hailing down upon him. Time slowed down for him as he strifes with each step of his against the tide of fate.

The moment he reached the head of the bomber, he takes out his T-Gewehr directly from his imaginary armory as he aims the gun decisively at Richtofen and crouched for better accuracy and stance. He only has one chance and he can't allow himself to screw it all up at this far. Feelings the gale rushing against him, each bullet nearly grazes his body, his mind drives toward only one target and only one conclusion alone. His eyes see true as he aims the ironsight directly towards the bullet wound that Alfin inflicted prior to this fight.

He pulled the trigger and the bullet soars across the torn sky at hypersonic speed, weaving through everything else as it made its way towards Richtofen. And in the next moment, Richtofen felt a huge ache as he felt something pierced through his chest. He looked down only to see a huge gaping wound right on his chest. At that moment, he realized what just happened to him as he lets out his words.

Ka...putt...

Right at the moment afterward, both sides no longer attack each other anymore. All of them started to descend towards the ground with the only thing remain is the requiem of silence. Arnold became speechless and don't know what to say at all, he didn't expect himself to finally do it at all. He looked at the red biplane as it descends towards the ground the bomber plane he is on is also doing the same.

He sighed as he steps forward and jumped into the cockpit and then sits on the co-pilot seat nearby Alfin. She looks a lot calmer than before now that Arnold is with her once again. Slowly, they burst through the cloudline and the blazing wreckage that is called their plane slowly reaches toward the ground. The weather has cleared up slightly a bit and thus the burning trail behind the plane shows where it will crash land. Pretty much everyone who was separated from each other now knows where to rendezvous as they quickly mobilize toward it.

In just an hour later, everyone reached the crash site and sees the plane has also skids quite a considerable distance during its crash landing and destroyed a part of the urbanized area. They reached the wreckage and saw Arnold completely unhinged at what just occurred while Alfin completely fainted when she finally has done the crash landing process. She looked so peaceful that it is quite easy to forget that she is Hitler.

"Man, quite a day for what would be like the possibly largest scale conflict right there," Gudao said as he tried to catch his breath.

At least everyone can have a rest after this and have a good time for once that they managed to make it through this fight with no casualty.

A chilling gale flew through the atmosphere, Larry suddenly gazed back at where he thought the gale came from. There is something about it that isn't right to him, like a sense of familiarity yet distant. Like a sense of nostalgia but also accompanied by a feeling of dread. He stares at something in the distance away while everyone is talking as if he got separated into his own world.

"You just have to be back now, huh?" Larry whispered to himself and for nobody to hear.