As Emiya Shirou stood firmly on the rooftop, a heavy rainstorm enveloped him. It was early summer, yet the rain's icy temperature felt like shards of broken knives slapping Emiya Shirou's face.
The city's largest hotel, boasting forty-four floors and standing nearly 250 meters high, had an open-air swimming pool on the top floor. Now, due to the heavy rain, the water surged out, submerging half of Emiya Shirou's ankles.
The sudden downpour defied scientific weather predictions, rendering them inaccurate in the face of the abnormal weather caused by the Honkai.
Emiya Shirou, frowning, silently invoked the power of the class card deep within him: [Class card: Archer - Install].
In a burst of fierce light, armor and holy cloth, foreign to Emiya Shirou at this time, appeared on his immature body. The holy cloth, driven by the fierce wind, rolled wildly, providing some relief from the rain.
Emiya Shirou, equipped with enhanced vision after obtaining a part of "that heroic spirit's" power, scanned the city despite the obstructive downpour.
Although his vision now extended from a few hundred meters to four kilometers, it still fell short of capturing all the details of the vast city.
Fortunately, before disconnecting, the monitoring screen had recorded the Honkai Eruption's location information in the local storage disk. Emiya Shirou could still retrieve the information, allowing the CPC to grasp the specific area where the eruption occurred.
The Honkai Energy fluctuated was 421HW, with an estimated affected area of 600 meters in diameter. It was still possible to control the disaster before it spread further by defeating the monster in the central area.
The closest Fire Moth team, the fifth team still in the country, was en route, but their arrival time remained unknown. Regardless, Emiya Shirou couldn't ignore the disaster unfolding before him.
At this moment, Emiya Shirou spotted a blurry pure white shadow. Although a small dot from his location, comparing its size with surrounding buildings revealed a monster over twenty meters tall.
Emiya Shirou's pupils contracted, and he swiftly locked onto the target's location.
Without hesitation, he tilted towards the building's edge and rapidly descended. His falling body transformed into a flash of fluorescence, turning into spirit form.
Emiya Shirou ran straight towards the Honkai Eruption's epicenter at the highest speed he could achieve.
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In the VIP suite's bedroom, Elysia was awakened by dull thunder. She sat up uneasily, barefoot and without time for slippers, searching for Emiya Shirou. Her lonely and childish voice echoed through the empty living room.
"Emiya...Emiya——?"
"Emiya, where are you?"
"Mom? Where are you...?"
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As Shirou Emiya approached the disaster scene, his expression turned ugly. Within a 600-meter radius of the monstrous creature, not a single living person was visible. Most people, without the chance to fight back, had already succumbed to death.
The Honkai Beast stood in a brief state of stagnation as if a machine that hadn't been switched on.
The purpose of Honkaimon is to kill humans, not to cause endless destruction. However, under normal circumstances, in order to kill nearby humans, they are irrational and will turn everything nearby into rubble.
But this monster soon found a new target. The residents of the city away from the area of the Honkai energy eruption, Its head-shaped organ shone slightly with a circular light.
Just as it was preparing to move forward and rush to other parts of the city to kill humans indiscriminately, two projectiles wrapped in red light crossed several kilometres in the blink of an eye. Leaving a large area of void in the heavy rain, they mercilessly penetrated its feet.
"——?!!!" Despite being a monster without vocal organs, when its legs were pierced, violent sound waves spread out, shattering glass and causing the downpour of rain to flee from the point where the sound originated.
The monster's body disappeared from where it was in the next moment. Three-point two kilometres away, Shirou Emiya, who had just shot the monster's foot through with his arrow, couldn't help but be slightly startled.
Although Shirou Emiya in the spiritual state can ignore most physical interference, he cannot interfere with the outside world while maintaining the spiritual state. Therefore, only in the physical state can he launch sniping operations on his target objects.
It wasn't that he didn't want to shoot the monster's head directly, but according to the information provided by the Fire Moth, the so-called Honkai beasts have no normal physiological structure at all, The thing that looks like the head is not the fatal point of the monster.
To defeat the Honkai beast, the best and only way is to find the "so-called "core" constructed of pure Honkai energy.
He originally planned to take away the monster's ability to move and force it to stay in place, but he completely failed to calculate that for the monster that could float freely in mid-air, the so-called "bipods" were just a decoration.
In less than a millisecond, the monster's figure disappeared from the spot, and a biting chill shot up his spine.
'Time Alternation? Or a long-distance spacial jump?' Regardless, Shirou Emiya sensed a strong killing intent, and immediately made the most correct choice driven by the fighting instinct possessed by "that heroic spirit".
"Trace (Projection)——!!!" He casually abandoned the bow in his hand, performed seven steps in a row, and instantly projected the weapon that "heroic spirit" was most familiar with into his hand.
Along with the ear-piercing roar, the dazzling firelight penetrated the violent storm in the night. Although he barely blocked the white spear that the monster was holding, which was almost longer than a telephone pole,
Emiya Shirou was still caught by it. This unexpected blow knocked him down unreasonably.
"Tsk...!!!" in the midst of falling from the roof of the building directly below, Emiya Shirou instantly transformed his body into a spiritual form again and quickly adjusted his posture the moment he landed on the ground.
Fortunately, the so-called Honkai beast is irrational and only knows how to kill and destroy, having no decent fighting skills at all. If it were any opponent recorded by "that heroic spirit", at that moment, the opponent would probably have more than ten openings to kill him.
Maintaining the state of his spirit form, Emiya Shirou rushed out of the building with lightning speed. He didn't know why this time, the monster did not use the teleportation power it demonstrated before. Instead, it raised the white spear and jumped at the place where Emiya Shirou was.
"Hmph——" Shirou Emiya snorted coldly and threw out the black and white swords in his hands without hesitation.
The black and white blades were aimed at the spear tip, drawing two sharp intersecting trajectories in the heavy rain and strong wind.
The staggered cross trajectories flashed past the tip of the spear. Although the monster was not pushed back completely, the fierce force succeeded in forcing the point of impact of the spear tip.
With a dull loud noise, the spacious and deserted highway was shattered like a fragile piece of tofu. People in the building turned on the lights after hearing the violent movement, and figures one after another appeared at the windows, then instantly fell into sluggishness.
"——!!!!!!" The target changed. Although it was irrational and had no advanced combat skills, Honkai beast did not have a specific goal from the beginning.
As long as it's a human being, it doesn't matter who it is. Kill them!
However, it is precisely because of this inflexible judgment. The moment the monster changed its target and prepared to kill the surrounding humans indiscriminately - it sealed its fate.
"I am the bone of my sword." In mid-air, Emiya Shirou drew the bow in his hand to a full circle in one breath.
"Caladbolg——!!! (Pseudo·Spiral Sword)" The bowstring tightened to the limit and let out an unbridled roar.
Heavy rain, strong winds, and even space itself were instantly distorted by the "arrow". A violent roar swept through.
The arrow carried the tornado that pierced through everything, leaving a deep dark cave on the ground. At the same time, it also easily tore the white monster into pieces.