"Excalibur."
It was as if the heavens themselves had split apart. An eternal pillar of light descended, bright enough to erase all shadows and poised to annihilate everything beneath it.
"Day Tiger."
Li Chong's eyes flashed like lightning. His right hand compressed violently into the shape of a raging tiger as the surrounding air let out a deafening roar. The attack tore through the sky with a heaven-collapsing force.
The hurricane that ford was no longer rely wind. It beca a natural disaster, mighty and unstoppable.
At the sa mont, the entire sky was streaked with blazing blue light.
"Kahaha."
Lucien's athyst eyes burned with fury. The massive sphere of blue energy between his hands trailed a long blazing tail like an eternal teor as it surged forward and smashed into Li Chong with overwhelming power.
"Damn it… pfft…"
Facing the combined ultimate attacks of Lucien and Artoria, Li Chong was driven backward in a straight line. Blood poured uncontrollably from his nose and mouth.
The Day Tiger rapidly shrank in size. At most, it would last another minute before being completely shattered.
"Heaven Concealing Star."
Li Chong's expression turned vicious. With his left hand, he clawed downward toward the sky.
In the next second, the entire heavens turned crimson.
A massive Mars appeared, expanding while burning with rolling flas as it descended.
At this instant, the air raid sirens once again echoed throughout Fuyuki City.
At the sa ti, Illya, Rin, Shirou, and Archer, along with Kirei Kotomine and Cú Chulainn within the church, and even Gilgash, dea, and dusa locked in battle, all lifted their heads toward the sky.
The atmosphere raged endlessly. This teor was even larger than the last one.
The entire night was set ablaze in red.
"Die… all of you!"
Li Chong laughed maniacally as he resisted both Lucien and Artoria at once.
Lucien's hair whipped wildly in the violent wind. He stared up at the rapidly descending teor and finally stopped holding back the ki surging within his body. He poured everything into the Kahaha.
"Die, you bastard!"
Lucien stepped forward. In the next instant, the Kahaha expanded explosively, completely crushing and shattering the Day Tiger. Li Chong let out a furious roar as blood burst from all seven orifices.
But just then, Lucien's hair stood on end.
A chilling premonition spread throughout his entire body.
"Gae Bolg."
High in the distant sky, Cú Chulainn appeared without warning. The blood-red spear in his hand was wrapped in terrifying energy, causing the surrounding air to rumble violently.
A crimson torrent erupted and swept everything in its path, cutting straight toward Lucien.
"Artoria."
Lucien had no intention of dodging. The Kahaha in his hands continued to press forward, forcing Li Chong back relentlessly.
At the sa ti, a Command Seal on the back of Lucien's hand vanished.
He forcibly ordered Artoria to block it, and if she could not block it, then to use her own body to stop it.
Lucien was unwilling to give up this chance to kill or at least critically wound Li Chong.
Artoria said nothing.
She swept the blazing beam of light horizontally and slamd it directly into the crimson torrent.
Above them, the teor continued to descend at terrifying speed. If it was not destroyed, the entirety of Fuyuki City would be erased from existence.
Everyone at the very center would face an unprecedented, absolute destruction.
Yet at this mont, Lucien and Li Chong, Artoria and Cú Chulainn, dea, dusa, and Gilgash were all locked in a deadlock.
"Haha… this is truly unexpected!"
Behind Gilgash, the sky was densely packed with golden vortices. Weapons of countless forms rained down like a storm of bullets upon dea and dusa.
For a ti, neither of the two won could even draw close.
Gilgash lifted his gaze toward the falling teor. A golden vortex appeared to his right, revealing a golden, gear-like key Noble Phantasm which he grasped without hesitation.
As the gears rotated, an enormous expanse of crimson crystalline light spread across the sky and then rapidly contracted.
A bizarre Noble Phantasm appeared. Its entire body was jet black, inscribed with glowing red runes. When Gilgash seized it, reality itself seed to twist. The surrounding space fractured and split apart violently.
dea and dusa both felt overwhelming danger at once. They retreated instantly and stared at Gilgash with extre caution.
"You all have the right to die by this sword of mine."
"Ea, release."
"Enuma Elish."
The gears rotated as the sword separated into three spinning sections.
The entire world turned blood-red.
Endless lightning spread through the sky. The very heavens began to crack and collapse as the power of both creation and destruction tore reality apart.
The earth split open into bottomless abysses. An eternal torrent surged upward from the depths and crashed into the falling teor. The colossal star of destruction was wiped away almost effortlessly, disintegrating into dust before the naked eye.
After erasing the teor by force, Gilgash raised the Sword of Rupture high and pressed it downward like a god passing judgnt.
dea, dusa, Cú Chulainn, Artoria, and even Lucien all changed expressions in shock.
This man intended to erase everyone present.
"Damn it."
Even Li Chong felt terror for the first ti, as he too was within the attack range.
Dinsional layers collapsed in waves. Infinite destructive power swallowed the battlefield.
Extre light engulfed the world.
A mushroom cloud rose into the sky.
The annular shockwave tore across the land like a moving landslide, erasing everything in its path. Even distant areas of Fuyuki City were affected. Nurous towering buildings collapsed and shattered under the overwhelming force.
When the light finally faded, the cetery that had once been at the center of battle was completely gone. In its place remained only an imnse crater.
Gilgash stood proudly at the edge, his cold eyes filled with absolute disdain for the world below.
"As expected of Gilgash."
From the distant ruins, Lucien walked forward calmly, as if nothing had happened.
He even brushed the dust from his shoulder.
"How is that possible?"
For the first ti, Gilgash was genuinely shaken.
How could Lucien be completely unhard?
Under the Sword of Rupture, even a god could not endure such destruction.
"You made things very troubleso for ," Lucien said calmly. "It was not easy becoming dea and dusa's Master. I did not even get the chance to cherish them, and they were killed by you just like that."
He looked at the two Command Seals that had vanished from the back of his hand. A trace of lancholy and regret crossed his face.
At that critical mont, he had used his Command Seals to forcibly draw dea and dusa in front of himself through spatial transfer, turning them and Artoria into three layers of living defense.
That was why Lucien stood here unscathed.
He could not afford to be critically injured. In this battle, weakness ant death.
So he sacrificed dea and dusa without hesitation.
Originally, after this operation, he had planned to enjoy a little ti with ti.
Now, that opportunity was gone forever.
"Cough… cough…"
Not far away, Artoria pushed aside heavy rubble and forced herself up on one knee, gripping her sword as she coughed up blood continuously.
At the very last instant, she had seen Lucien use his Command Seal to pull dea and dusa in front of him, while she herself beca the final shield.
Both dea and dusa were dead.
She, too, was gravely injured.
Cú Chulainn had vanished at the last mont, clearly summoned away by Kirei Kotomine using a Command Seal.
Li Chong's fate was unknown.
Which ant that among everyone present, only Lucien remained completely unhard.
Gilgash's face was cold and arrogant. More golden vortices began to form behind him as he prepared to strike again.
A kukri appeared in Lucien's hand. At the sa ti, Artoria struggled to her feet.
The battlefield was on the brink of erupting once more.
Then, suddenly, Gilgash tilted his head, as if hearing a voice whispering into his ear.
The golden vortices behind him vanished instantly.
He took one deep look at Lucien and Artoria, then disappeared without another word.
Lucien frowned slightly.
He closed his eyes and released his perception across the battlefield. Only Artoria's ki responded.
There was no trace of Li Chong, nor any of the others.
Li Chong might have perished.
Or he might have escaped.
Lucien searched every corner of the ruined land, attempting to find Li Chong's corpse.
In the end, he found nothing.
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