So, this is the best he can do? A weapon surpasses any he have seen before in this world. A weapon that could cut through an B-rank Demonic Beast as if it was made of butter and could even kill A-rank threats with minimal Reinforcements.

And yet, it is still not good enough.

(New Title Unlocked: Divine Blacksmith)

The battlefield was absolute chaos as more and more Demonic Beasts poured endlessly from the sky, with Archer doing everything he could to destroy, distract, dodge and disengage from them all, while simultaneously clutching Rani to his chest with one arm.

Each of the Demonic Beasts had stats comparable to that of a Servant, and were neither unarmed or wholly unacquainted with their weapons, most having some form of Divine level Weapon Art or Magic skill. The entire thing reminded Archer of a vague memory of Alexander the Great's Reality Marble. Something that even Servants won't want to be on the receiving end of.

Magic and arrows rained down upon them from those creatures created lucky enough to have a means of ranged attack. Less because it kept them safe from Archer, and more because they didn't have as much to fear from their mother.

The B-rank monsters were difficult to deal with as they swarmed all over him, but in the last few weeks, Archer had created magic blades strong enough to injure them when fired, making dealing with individuals nothing more than a drain than an immediate threat. It was the A-rank threats that were the true danger up close, as anything short of his best weapons swung with considerable strength wouldn't do much more that leave flesh wounds on the creatures. Something that was proving difficult while holding onto Rani.

This probably would have been more of a problem, if Lolth could aim for shit. It seemed not to care at all how many of its children it killed, probably because it could just summon more. After swinging at Archer again and again, only to have the Servant dodge each and every attack, the Divine Beast had decided to rely on magic to try and deal with the problem.

The [Darkness Bomb] rose up into the sky, a sphere the size over forty feet in diameter, which exploded in the air, breaking into thousands of smaller blasts. And by smaller, Archer meant balls the size of a small car. With the attack being less aimed than merely thrown out, it was just as much of a danger to the Spider God's own summons as it was to Archer.

"Steel is my Body and Fire is my Blood." Archer chanted as he called up copy after copy of a specially made weapon he had created to deal with magical attacks. The [Anti-magic Mithril Sword] had a very unusual enchantment on it that caused a bend it space that created a mana dead zone in a ten foot radius around it. Each time the magic bombs came into contact with one of the swords, there would be a flash as the spell destabilized and exploded in midair.

All around him, the Demonic Beasts were being caught up in friendly fire, with even A-rank monsters being simply erased by the [Darkness Magic].

*Whoosh*

Archer ducked, letting an arrow pass behind his left shoulder. It had been fired from one of the dozens of archers who were trying to keep him in their sights, even as the world was falling apart around them.

[Divine Bow Arts] Lv3. Good enough to hit a bullseye from a mile away, with bows capable of firing heavy projectiles at twice the speed of sound. Any human would have been dead in an instant from just one such sniper, but Archer managed to keep track of all of them while at the same time, while guarding himself from the rain of death, killing the Beasts that tried to swarm him and dodging the lunges and swipes from the mother spider herself.

Archer's [Eye of the Mind] was showing its worth as he managed to keep himself afloat in that sea of danger, though he deeply regretted not having access to [Parallel Processing] as his traces became sluggish as more and more things demanded his attention.

Feeling pressured, Archer traced a copy of the "Thundering Sword" in the air above him before dropping the weapon he had in his right hand and using the hand to cover Rani's ears, even as he reinforced his own to guard against what was coming.

*BOOM!*

The weapon exploded, not in a burst of flame, but in a blinding flash of light and a deafening noise.

Using the moment of destruction, Archer bolted at full speed towards the bow-spiders, covering the distance before the sword fully crumbled away and the light it admitted faded.

Tracing Shiroko in his right hand, he quickly lobbed the head off of one of the spiders before tossing the blade at another, lodging it in the monster's head. He managed to get four of the snipers down before the rest of the horde had managed to locate where he had gone.

But even as he killed them, more rained down from the sky to take their place.

The battle was endless. No matter how many of them he killed, Lolth could simply summon more, and killing the Divine Beast was simply an impossibility. Kuroko and Shiroko, blades that could be considered on par with a low E-rank anti-unit Noble Phantasm, couldn't even scratch the creature's surface, even if Archer [Broke] them. The pair could barely handle the A-rank Demonic Beasts, and the mother had at least quadruple their stats, even if one didn't take into account it's utterly broken skills raising the stats even further.

With its high Divinity and Magic Resistance, most conceptual weapons would be worthless against it, as its reason was simply of a higher order.

The only way Archer could beat something like this was if he had the unlimited Mana gifted to Counter Guardians by the world itself, with which he could force a miracle and trace Excalibur.

This battle was getting them nowhere fast, with Archer being able to avoid damage and Lolth being too ridiculous to damage.

This would normally be where Archer would smirk knowingly as his opponent wasted its mana with all of these summonings and large scale AOE attacks. Hard as its body was when fully reinforced, once it was out of mana, Archer might even have a shot at taking it down with one well timed and aimed Noble Phantasm. But for some reason, Lolth didn't seem to be running out of Mana at all.

It was the children. Every time one of the 'smaller' spiders died, its Mana would be reabsorbed by the mother, and while an A-rank Demonic Beast took over 1000 Mana to summon, each of them had over 3000 Mana. It created a vicious cycle as Lolth regained her strength by killing and resummoning her own kin.

So despite throwing around powerful magic like it was free candy, the monster was never going to run out, and even if Archer had a larger Mana pool to start out with and was pacing himself, using no more swords than was absolutely necessary, his reserves would run out first.

{Let me use [Support Magic] to sustain you.} Rani suggested using her telepathy, as Archer deflected a spear before slipping by its wielder, using it as a living shield against oncoming attacks.

(No, keep all of your focus on getting us out of here.) Archer said quickly. [Support Magic] wouldn't make a difference. Even if Archer's parameters all magically tripled, he still wouldn't be capable of solving the underlying problem, and with the cost of [Support Magic] scaling with the strength of the target, it would suck Rani dry just trying to support his Servant body. The [Angelic Magic] had already taken far too much out of her.

After everything was said and done, Archer had enough Mana to keep this up for twenty minutes. If Rani couldn't get them out by then, it was all over.

{An exit route has been secured.} Rani informed him.

(Wait, really?)

{That is correct. However, in order for this system to pull us out, we will need to stand still.}

(Alright, just give me the signal whenever you're ready.)

{...for ten seconds.}

(...Please tell me you are shitting me.)

Ten seconds? Standing still in the middle of this chaos for ten seconds? She might as well have asked for ten years.

Nothing short of Avalon or a similar Divine Construct would be capable of defending them for ten whole seconds if they attracted Lolth's eye. Nothing that Archer had forged thus far would even come close to blocking her attacks for that long, and the limited pool of Noble Phantasms he could call on under his current conditions didn't provide anything that came close.

Defending was out of the question, but how about distractions? Could he manage to keep them all misdirected for ten whole seconds? The odds seemed bleak. But if he could buy even a few seconds, then perhaps he could stagger Lolth long enough to get out if he threw everything he had remaining at her.

He didn't have many other options. It was between this and continuing to fight, hoping that they could last long enough for a better solution to be found, all the while draining Archer's not unlimited Mana pool.

Archer filled Rani in on the plan before tracing yet another "Thundering Sword", causing another massive flash and bang. Quick as he could, Archer made himself scarce, moving to a less populated position and putting Rani down.

"I have created over a Thousand Blades." Archer stated to the world, manifesting up the swords to clear away the nearby enemies in order to give them space as Rani started the extraction process.

The snipes were the first to spot the pair and started to fire on them, forcing Archer to stand his ground and deflect the arrows as best he could, requiring him to merely accept a few to his less vital areas as he focused himself and drew on more and more of his mana, ready to burn it all at once. "Unknown to Death, Nor known to Life. Have withstood Pain to create many Weapons."

Four seconds. It had only taken Lolth four seconds to locate them, and now her and her army were starting to move. It was now or never, so Archer called on a sword, on that felt close to him, though he had never understood why.

The Golden Sword of the Victorious.

"Sword of Selection, grant me power and cleave through the wicked!" Archer said as he put more and more of his mana into stabilizing the trace, forcing the world into recognizing his version of reality as true. Making it accept the legend that he knew by heart. The long blade glowed with golden light, radiating power and majesty. As the Divine Beast raised its own hands and fired a powerful [Darkness Lance] towards Archer and Rani, the Servant thrust forward Arturia's sword. "[Caliburn]!"

The burst of mana shot forth from the blade, so powerful that the blade itself cracked, easily pushing through Lolth's own attack before slamming into the Spider God. The light from it was nearly blinding, but that didn't stop Archer's Clairvoyant eyes from seeing everything. B-rank and even A-rank Demonic Beasts caught in the blast were simply turned to dust, their defenses being insignificant in the face of Caliburn's raw power. However, the same could not be said for the Goddess of Decay.

Lolth might have been slightly stunned and even made to take a step back, but the wound it suffered was only a burn that covered a good deal of its upper torso. An injury that was rapidly healing as Archer watched.

However, the stunned look didn't last forever as the Spider Queen let out a furious roar, preparing itself to counter attack.

{Two… One… Exiting the Between World..} Rani said, pulling the pair away as the Divine Beast was charging its next attack.

Archer watched and understood. In this world, where the Age of Gods still continues, there were powerful enemies.

He was going to need a bigger sword.

"What do you mean it isn't good enough!?" Gallus said, looking at Archer as if the man had spoken blasphemy. "It is a Godblade! How could it not be good enough!?"

[It isn't a Godblade.] Archer mumbled as he looked over his newest creation. The beautiful silver blade shone like the light of the moon reflected on a pool of water, its Orichalcum gold runes glowing along its surface. It was a weapon that vastly exceeded all those he had made before, on the level of a C++ Rank Noble Phantasm. It was a weapon that could even cut through an A-rank Demonic Beast's defenses, without the need for Archer's Servant levels of strength. During the full moon, it was the equal to Caliburn under it's optimum conditions.

But it still was simply not powerful enough. Not when you consider that the S-rank Divine Beasts exist. Even this blade was almost useless against them.

Lolth had been weakened from thousands of years spent waiting for her reincarnation. She'd also been unarmed when her stats declared she should have had a spear. Meaning the still active S-rank threats would be even more powerful, and not by a small margin.

The blade was strong, but he would need better.

Name: The Sword of Dreams: Lumiose

Race: Pseudo Godblade (Discarded Godblade)

Attack:6000 Mana: 0/10000 Durability:10000/10000 Mana Channel: SS+

Skills:

Principle of an Element (Mirror): Lv7, Moon Phase Empowerment: LvMax, Bestow Moonlight Magic, Fortify Resolve, Moonlight Absorption, Gather Hopes, Mark for Leadership, Self-Repairing

Special Skill:

Moon Beam Blade

"Not a Godblade? How could this not be a Godblade?" Gallus said as he looked over the blade, his eyes going misty as he did, his [God's Eye] not able to see the weapon's stats properly because of its pseudo divine nature.

[Because it isn't. The power in this blade comes from its design and the Moonlight Dragon's Magic Core. There is no true divine power in the blade.] Archer said as he mentally bit his lip. [It was impossible to make a Godblade from these materials to begin with.]

After creating Lumiose, Archer's [Magic Blacksmithing] reached its max level, and with it, came the secrets to how to create a 'Godblade'.

[The only way to create a true Godblade is to use parts from a Divine Beast. Only with divine materials can the weapons channel true divine power.] Archer grumbled. [I'm stuck in a catch 22. In order to create a Godblade, you have to use the materials from an S-rank Divine Beast, but in order to stand a chance at killing such a monster, you need a Godblade.]

"Kill an S-rank threat?" Gallus said in shock. "You aren't honestly thinking of trying something so ludicrous, are you?" Archer didn't reply, causing the Dwarf to sulk. "Forget it. Mortals can't fight against Divine Beasts. The only cases in history when mortals ever successfully defeated a Divine Beast was over a thousand years ago when ten S-rank Adventurers all banded together, and all ten of them using Godblades. Much as I would like to see you create a true Godblade, it isn't worth dying over."

[...You're right.] Archer said, not being honest with the Dwarf. He couldn't risk the man squealing to Fran. Even her resolve might not survive the truth.

After they returned from the near disastrous mission to the spider dungeon, Archer looked around to research the still active S-rank Divine Beasts. After all, with the Blessing of the Goddess of Chaos, it wasn't unlikely that the monsters wouldn't get triggered if they got too close.

Most of the S-rank Divine Beasts that still lived within the mortal realm were passive beings, spending most of their time napping, and only really targeted Demonic Beasts for food, as human-likes just weren't large or tasty enough. While these creatures could destroy entire continents in an afternoon if they were annoyed, they rarely ever moved.

However, there was one notable exception.

Monster created by a race of Dragonkin, who lived in the southern continent, using parts of the Evil God's body. The S-rank Evil Being, the Abyssal One. Apparently, even the Gods found it difficult to kill that abomination, and instead sealed it away in a barrier that stretched over nearly the entire continent, where it has been for over a thousand years.

Normally, Archer would say that means it isn't really their problem… except for one detail. The Abyssal One was a Divine Beast famous for possessing the extremely rare 'Auto-Death' ability.

Archer wanted to tell himself that there was no way. That this couldn't possibly be the key to the Black Catkin's Evolution. However, his gut told him this was probably the case. He just couldn't figure out why.

Maybe he was wrong. Their current plan shouldn't change. Getting Fran to level 45 had to come first, and if they found out that it truly was necessary… If they couldn't make a Godblade strong enough to do the job, they would just have to steal one... That wasn't going to be easy.

Matters for the future. They planned to leave in three days. Hopefully the girls would be ready to say their goodbyes. Until then, Archer would continue to look into things.

Lumiose was not strong enough to defeat a Divine Beast, but it would still function, for now.

Gáe Bolg (and conceptual weapons at its level) don't effect Divine Beings or individuals with Divine Protection.

It is the unstoppable force/immovable object thing. When two opposing ideas clash, the stronger one wins out. Gáe Bolg can't pierce Berserker's God Hand, because God Hand is a stronger conceptual existence. Similarly, it wouldn't work on any higher being, because they are a more powerful conceptual existence.

Conceptual Weapons aren't all powerful. Otherwise Archer would have just stabbed himself with Rule Breaker to escape his fate. Most won't work against a true Divine Beast, even a weakened one.

So stop suggesting that Archer just use these things, because they simply wouldn't work. And for fuck sake, don't say he should just trace Excalibur or some other Divine Construct. If he can hardly even trace normal Noble Phantasms, what the hell makes you think he could make Excalibur?

I'm starting to wonder why there aren't more Percy Jackson stories in which the main character is a Half-Blood, but not from a god, being the child of a human and some kind of Monster/Spirit. Since then the unnatural parent would probably be the one in the picture, and they won't be offered the safety of Camp Half Blood by birth right.

Joking Starting Premise: Shirou is reincarnated as a Half Dark Elf, abandoned by his mother because Dark Elves are like that, and picked up and raised by a Huldra (A creature from Norse myth that is basically what you'd get if you crossed a satyr and a succubus, being guardians of the forest but also sucking out vitality from men's &&&&s. They look basically like normal women with bark on their backs and cow tails.) He is brought back to an apartment complex where all of Mythologies biggest Man Eaters have banded together in order to survive and raise their half-breed kids in the modern world when the more monster like monsters are trying to eat them. All of them working as 'escorts' in order to fulfill their needs.