A certain crossover anime's nuclear-powered sword immortal

"Well, don't underestimate this little guy; he can be quite useful in a crisis," Merlin said.

"Alright then." Mashu finally said.

Can only compromise.

"Can't you summon it directly using a Command Spell?"

Shirou suddenly asked, "Can't your Command Spells do something like this?"

"Huh?" Gudako paused for a moment, then suddenly realized and slapped her forehead, sticking out her tongue. "Oh dear, I forgot for a second, hehe~!"

Chapter Twenty-Three: I'm Going to Be Drained

"..." Mashu was speechless for a moment.

"That should solve the problem, right?" Merlin said with a smile.

Then, the group split up to search.

Shirou wandered around a house but found nothing.

As dusk settled, Shirou, seeing that it was almost time, began his return journey to the initial gathering point.

As they approached, they suddenly heard Mashu calling out.

"Senior! What's wrong? Senior, say something!"

Shirou quickly walked over and found Mashup supporting Gudako, who had fallen into a coma.

"What's wrong?" Shirou walked over and knelt down to check on the girl's condition. "She's fine, she's just temporarily unconscious."

“That’s great…” Mashu was relieved to hear Shirou’s words. “When I came back just now, I suddenly found you lying here, senpai.”

At that moment, as if she had heard Mashu's voice, Gudako's tightly furrowed eyes trembled slightly, and then she slowly opened them.

"Senior!" Mashu exclaimed in surprise, "Are you alright?"

"Hmm... It's Mashu. I'm fine," Gudako replied with a smile.

Just then, Merlin returned and suddenly saw the mud tablet that Gudako, who was being supported by Mashu, was holding in her arms.

"That thing you're holding, is it the Destiny Tablet?"

Merlin asked her with some curiosity.

Do you remember what happened before you lost consciousness?

Upon hearing this, Gudako immediately began to recall.

“I remember… I arrived at a very dark place and encountered many spirits. I originally planned to use a Command Spell to summon Mash to help me, but the old man I met in Uruk suddenly intervened and saved me, telling me that the place I had mistakenly entered was the underworld, and then sent me back. After that, I fell into a coma…”

"Hmm... So that's how it was in the era when you could travel directly from the surface to the underworld. How interesting." Merlin understood the whole story after hearing Gudako's explanation.

Gudako picked up the "Destiny Tablet".

"This is what that person gave me... Oh right, he told me his name, I think it was... Jusudera!"

"Jusudra... or someone with similar duties to Jusudra, after all, it's not a name that can be fabricated on a whim."

Merlin analyzed, "But if the Underworld still exists... then what about the gathering of the three goddesses that my clairvoyance saw..."

"Merlin?" Gudako looked at Merlin, who was muttering to himself.

Suddenly, Roman's somewhat urgent voice rang out from the communicator on the girl's wrist.

"Watch out! A large magical reaction is rapidly approaching you!"

In that instant, golden light shone in the sky, and the light cannon flew towards them at lightning speed!

Seven rings, resembling cherry blossom petals, suddenly lit up in front of Gudako, blocking the several beams of light.

"This is...!?" Gudako looked behind her in surprise, only to see Shirou lower his raised hand, and the cherry blossom shield disappeared.

"It's the goddess Ishtar!" Mash exclaimed, pointing to the sky.

Standing high in the air, Ishtar looked down at the four people below and spoke arrogantly.

"Finally found you! I heard you were asking the ranch owner all sorts of questions about me, right? Asking about the goddess's holiday routine? There's a limit to how oblivious you can be!"

"Oh dear, it seems you're afraid of having something to hide and being found out. You feel ashamed that people know you're a jewel thief?" Merlin mocked.

"What—" Ishtar's expression froze for a moment, then her voice suddenly rose, "That's not true! First of all, I never attack humans for money!"

"Huh? Didn't you steal the gem from the humans?" Gudako asked, puzzled.

Ishtar immediately retorted.

"I only took the rightful reward for defeating the monster! If you were to save humans for free, you would quickly become corrupt!"

Upon hearing this, Gudako tilted her head.

"So, you've provided free assistance before?"

Gudako's question left Ishtar speechless, and her cheeks flushed red.

"In short, I will definitely punish you with divine retribution!"

As he spoke in a fit of rage, the giant blue longbow floating beside him condensed into arrows of light.

"You've treated me like an idiot twice in a row. You'd better pay for your sins!"

"Hey, wait! We have no intention of being your enemy!" Gudako quickly said.

"It's too late! Consider the treasure you possess as compensation for me!"

Ishtar is completely

It gave the opportunity to launch an arrow of light.

Upon hearing this, Gudako exclaimed in surprise, "You really are a robber!"

An arrow of light descended from the sky and struck the suddenly appearing cherry blossom shield, reducing it by six layers. Only the last and hardest layer remained unbroken by the arrow of light.

"Oh? It blocked it?" Ishtar glanced at the cherry blossom shield with some surprise. "But it's nothing special. The next attack will destroy your shield!"

"As expected, this shield can only go this far..." Since it was the lowest-level barrier artifact among his own barrier artifacts, Shirou didn't have much hope and simply waved his hand to remove it.

"Hey, Shirou, watch out!" Gudako warned him worriedly when she saw that Shirou wasn't going to defend himself at all.

"It's alright," Shirou said with a smile.

"Tch! You really know how to talk a good game, huh? How dare you look down on me like that? Prepare to die!"

Ishtar was immediately annoyed by Shirou's dismissive attitude of not intending to defend against her attack, so she quickly gathered up another arrow of light and fired it out.

boom----!

The arrow of light shot down and struck Shirou's body, causing a violent explosion. Gudako, Mashu, and the others, who had already moved away, screamed in alarm upon seeing this.

"Orihara-senpai!" ×2

The rising dust obscured everyone's vision. While Gudako and Mashu looked anxious, Merlin suddenly noticed something was wrong and his expression turned to surprise.

"Wait, he seems to be alright...!"

The two girls quickly followed Merlin's gaze and looked in the direction where Shirou was. After the dissipation of the drifting dust, the red-haired boy's figure still stood there.

"You withstood my attack and are still unharmed... It seems I need to exhaust you completely!" Ishtar said with a cold laugh.

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"Hehe, it doesn't matter if all three of you goddesses come at me at once," Shirou replied confidently.

Upon hearing this, Ishtar immediately snorted coldly.

"Hmph! Let's give it a try!"

Immediately afterwards, she suddenly dropped down and kicked Shirou.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Capturing the Goddess of Venus

As a goddess, Ishtar's attack was extremely swift; even Mash, a Demi-Servant, only caught a glimpse of her afterimage.

However, Shirou caught Ishtar's confident attack in an instant, grabbing her ankle and then forcefully throwing her towards the ground, his hand raised in front of her widening eyes.

Even Ishtar felt a terrifying force that she could not resist, and her body was uncontrollably thrown towards the ground!

Bang————!

Ishtar, who crashed face-first into the ground, flew quite a distance before coming to a stop after hitting a wall.

"Thank goodness she's a goddess, she's alright even like this." Shirou looked at Ishtar, who was swaying as she stood up, and was somewhat relieved that Rin hadn't been hurt.

"You bastard... I will never forgive you for such disrespect towards the goddess!"

Ishtar was furious at being treated this way.

But at this moment, the sky was gradually covered by night, and the whole world was plunged into darkness.

Noticing that the sky had suddenly darkened, Ishtar immediately scoffed with a displeased expression.

"At this time..."

At that moment, Shirou's figure was already approaching her, and Ishtar, realizing this, quickly leaped into the sky.

"Hmph~ If you can't fly, then don't even think about catching me!"

With a rather smug tone, Ishtar raised her right hand, and the blue greatbow beside her immediately displayed arrows of light.

"Just stay on the ground and die!"

Shirou simply chuckled.

"You are really confident."

As he spoke, a platinum-gold greatsword appeared in his raised right hand—the weapon Shirou had taken from the 'Last King'—the "Savior's Blade"!

Although it is called the "savior's sword", its actual design is that of an exquisite greatsword that can be called a work of art.

"What...is that?!" Ishtar, who had sensed the powerful divine energy contained within the platinum greatsword in Shirou's hand, stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

This "savior sword" is now in Shirou's hands, and its power has been brought to its fullest potential.

"Never mind, take this!" Ishtar didn't intend to waste any more time and directly launched the arrow of light towards Shirou below.

Whoosh!

The arrow of light, hurtling down at breakneck speed, tore through the air and hurtled toward Shirou with unparalleled momentum!