Crossover Anime: Starting with Adopting the Homeless Melon God

At the same time, Artoria also completed her power-up.

"In the name of the ever-victorious king, I will surely bring you victory!"

“Excalibur—!”

Like the first rays of light released by the rising sun dispelling the darkness, golden beams of light burst forth in a fan shape, unstoppable!

To Iskandar's astonishment, it pierced through his entire army formation and even blasted a huge gap in the boundary of his mental world.

With just one strike, six or seven thousand heroic warriors were reduced to ashes.

Even he himself, if he hadn't instinctively pushed the speed of the Divine Wheel to its maximum to dodge the attack, would probably have been reduced to ashes in that blow.

"No wonder even the so-called Ancient King couldn't defeat this little girl. That sword strike was astonishing! And the attack range of her anti-city Noble Phantasm can even be fan-shaped? This is going to be tricky."

Iskandar, who was originally full of confidence, was suddenly shattered by the curry stick.

Ordinary light-based anti-military Noble Phantasms can only attack in a straight line. Although the unit damage is stronger, the killing range is much smaller.

According to his estimate, after careful research and dispersing the general's formation as much as possible, Artoria and Lancelot's Noble Phantasms could only take away one or two thousand people at a time.

In that case, even if it comes down to attrition, he might not necessarily lose.

But he hadn't even seen Lancelot's Noble Phantasm yet, while Artoria's Excalibur was truly beyond his expectations.

Although the cost of this attack was enormous—after the attack, Artoria's mana, which was originally at full blue, was reduced to less than a quarter—Kitagawa Yu still had two Command Seals in his hand, plus Lancelot's Noble Phantasm, so it was unlikely that he could outlast Kitagawa Yu.

With that thought in mind, Iskandar made up his mind almost immediately. He and his chariot transformed into a giant ball of lightning, charging towards Artoria, who had not yet recovered, with a deafening roar.

This was undoubtedly very dangerous, but as the King of Conquerors, he never lacked the courage to fight to the death with his enemies!

However, his reaction was exactly what Kitagawa Yu had expected.

In a battle of attrition, despite Iskandar's superior numbers, he actually possesses three Servants, eight Command Seals, and he and Elena, whose strength is no less than that of ordinary Servants. Iskandar's chances of winning are actually much smaller.

Close combat is not Iskandar's forte either; after all, he is an emperor and a commander, but not a particularly outstanding warrior.

Therefore, Iskandar's only chance of winning is to seize the opportunity when Artoria activates her Noble Phantasm, and then unleash his own Noble Phantasm, 'Distant Devastation and Domination,' to launch a surprise attack at incredible speed.

Kitagawa Yu had even simulated the situation with Artoria and the others on the way there. If Iskandar continued to suppress them with a relentless rain of arrows and then launched an attack after Artoria had used her Curry Stick once, they would indeed be in great danger.

At that time, Lancelot was most likely too late to unleash his Noble Phantasm, Unbreakable Lake Light. Relying solely on his own attributes and martial arts, trying to withstand the attack of the A+ rank anti-army Noble Phantasm, Distant Devastation and Domination, would be no different from an ordinary person taking an RPG with their bare body.

Faced with this situation, they discussed it for a long time and could only come up with two solutions: one was to have Lancelot sacrifice himself and stand in front of Artoria.

Whether this method can completely block the damage is hard to say, but it will at least have some effect.

The other option is to have Medusa activate her Noble Phantasm, using her Petrifying Eyes, to intercept Iskandar.

Iskandar's speed of ravaging and dominating from afar is fast, but it can't outpace the speed of sight. However, although Iskandar's magic resistance is only D-rank, which is terrible, his luck is as high as A+ rank.

Medusa possesses the highest level of Mystic Eyes and has extremely high luck. In addition, with the Noble Phantasm Goddess's Embrace enhancing her Mystic Eyes, she can definitely petrify Iskandar. However, it is unknown how long it will take for the petrification to take effect.

If they are not able to be interrupted in time, they will still suffer the damage caused by the distant ravages and domination.

Of course, another option is for Kitagawa Yu to simply take Avalon and charge in. However, Iskandar, unless he's completely stupid, will definitely separate him from Artoria; otherwise, with the strongest armor, Iskandar wouldn't be able to fight at all.

In that state, Artoria was like a super turret hiding in an immortal fortress, practically invincible.

As they expected, Iskandar immediately separated Kitagawa Yu and the others from Artoria and her group.

Iskandar's mental world was simply too vast; the distance from the border to the central battlefield was far too great for him to cover in time.

So normally, at this point, the only option is to gamble on whether Medusa's Mystic Eyes can petrify Iskandar first, interrupting his Noble Phantasm's distant ravages and domination.

However, Kitagawa Yu didn't want to gamble with luck; what he wanted was Artoria's absolute victory.

Faced with the lightning-streaked Divine Wheel rushing towards him, Lancelot suddenly switched from holding his sword with both hands to one hand, while simultaneously opening his left hand to aim at the Divine Wheel.

The next second, seven layers of dazzling purple light shields, like cherry blossoms in full bloom, blocked the three of them and met the impact of the Divine Wheel.

That's right, this seven-layered cherry blossom-shaped purple light shield is Red Archer's most relied-upon defensive Noble Phantasm, the Seven-Layered Heavenly Ring.

This Noble Phantasm possesses absolute defense against projectile Noble Phantasms, and its own defensive power is sufficient to withstand A+ rank anti-army Noble Phantasms. In the parallel world of FGO, it successfully withstood Jeanne Alter's A+ rank Noble Phantasm 'Roar, My Wrath'.

Although Archer didn't appear in this Holy Grail War, it's okay, Kitagawa Yu still has Gilgamesh.

By agreeing to release Gilgamesh back to the Throne of Heroes after everything was over, instead of keeping him imprisoned in the Imaginary Space, Kitagawa Yu successfully traded the prototype of the Seven Rings of the Sky, which is the Shield of Ajax in Greek mythology, from Gilgamesh.

Iskandar's last resort was thus neutralized, and he had essentially walked right into a trap.

With a deafening roar, the seven layers of purple light shield shattered one by one under the impact of the Divine Might Wheel, falling and withering like cherry blossom petals. However, when it broke through to the seventh layer, the power of the Divine Might Wheel was finally exhausted, and it had to stop.

At the same time, Medusa's petrifying eye seized the opportunity to activate.

Iskandar's expression changed drastically as he realized something was wrong, but he was quickly turned into a stone statue by the power of the Petrifying Eye.

However, the divine ox pulling the chariot was unaffected, perhaps because it was a Noble Phantasm, and even tried to pull Iskandar away with great intelligence. Unfortunately, Artoria flashed and jumped onto the chariot, mercilessly severing Iskandar's head with her curry stick.

This wasn't cruelty, but rather a sign of her respect for Iskandar's strength!

In a one-on-one situation, even with Avalon in hand, it would take her a tremendous amount of effort and a long time to defeat Iskandar.

After all, even if she had the Red Dragon Heart and could regenerate her magic power on her own, she would still need to activate the Curry Stick a dozen or more times to deal with these 50,000+ heroic warriors.

Most importantly, given Iskandar's speed, she simply couldn't catch him if he wanted to escape. Therefore, Iskandar was definitely a powerful and respectable opponent for her!

Chapter 186 The Golden Light Blooms Once Again

"Click——"

With Iskandar's death, the mental world formed by the Army of Kings shattered like a broken glass.

The remaining ten thousand or so heroic warriors who were still alive also turned into sand along with the mental world, and finally disappeared without a trace.

The group then returned to the mountainside.

"Take it easy, Waver. Of course, if you really want to follow your Majesty in death, I can actually help you."

Weber saw that the man in the distance looked dejected and walked over to him, patted him on the shoulder, and comforted him.

But clearly, Waver wasn't comforted by his words. Instead, he shuddered and involuntarily took three steps back, looking at Kitagawa Yu with a horrified and wary expression as if he had seen a ghost. He thought to himself, "This guy is a devil, isn't he?" and "Who wants to die with that arrogant, brainless Rider?"

Perhaps because they didn't spend as much time together as in the original story, Waver's feelings for Iskandar, if described in terms of romance, would be at the budding, unrequited, or affectionate stage, slightly less than the 'confession' stage in the story.

Furthermore, in the story, Waver also chose to continue living when facing Gilgamesh, because only by living could there be hope and the possibility of reuniting with Iskandar.

If he dies, he may not be able to join the King's Army and stay with Iskandar forever.

"I won't give up so easily. The Jewel Sword, right? The Second Magic, right? That's my next target! Now that I've defeated Kenneth, next time I'll create the Jewel Sword and travel to a parallel world to continue the Holy Grail War. Next time, Rider and I will definitely win."

Weber clenched his fists, lowered his head, and muttered to himself.

Meanwhile, Artoria was sadly saying her final goodbye to Lancelot.

“My king, you should not be sad, but happy for me, because after waiting for thousands of years, I can finally atone for my sins, even if it is only a part of them, it is enough to make me extremely happy.”

"I understand!" Artoria tried to suppress her sadness and raised the curry stick in her hand.

"Don't worry, my friends, one day I will bring you true salvation."

With a flash of sword light, blood stained the ground like flowers. Lancelot, with a satisfied smile, transformed into specks of starlight and quickly dissipated.

At the same time, the Lesser Grail within Matou Sakura's body finally absorbed six Heroic Spirits, and the passage between it and the Greater Grail was completely opened under the power of the Greater Grail, which had sensed this connection.

Right above Yustiza's statue, a dark hole that was initially only obscured by a ping-pong ball gradually opened and slowly expanded.

An incredibly malevolent aura emanated from the dark hole, sending chills down everyone's spine, except for Kitagawa Yu and Artoria.

"Yu? Yu, what's wrong?!"

"Their consciousness was pulled into the inner space of the Greater Grail."

A voice suddenly came from the shadows in the corner; it was Kiritsugu Emiya and Maiya Hisau, who had just arrived.

At this moment, Kiritsugu Emiya had a gloomy expression. Feeling the evil aura that even he felt a trace of fear, he finally believed what Yu Kitagawa had said earlier: the Greater Grail had indeed been twisted by an evil will and was completely broken.

Even if the Greater Grail still retained its wish-granting function, he did not believe that an evil Greater Grail would save the world and bring about a permanent peace, freeing the world from war and death.

Now all he wanted was to destroy the Greater Grail as quickly as possible to prevent the hole from expanding further and the evil-corrupted, muddy magic inside from flowing out.

Unfortunately, his servants had already died in battle.

However, even if Demon King Nobunaga were still alive, with the power of his Noble Phantasm, he might not be able to destroy the Greater Grail without any counter-effect.

So now we can only rely on Artoria.

"Will Yu be in danger?" Chitsuka, Elena, and Matou Sakura all showed worried expressions.

However, they didn't know how to bring Kitagawa Yu and Artoria's consciousness back, so they could only guard their bodies and wait anxiously.

At this moment, amidst a boundless sea of ​​flowers, Artoria and Kitagawa Yu stood before 'Yustissa'.

If it weren't for the faint, ominous aura that could be sensed, Kitagawa Yu would have thought that this was Avalon, the Inner Sea of ​​Stars where Merlin was located.

Of course, this Avalon is not the same as that Avalon. Merlin's Avalon is a real place, while Artoria's Noble Phantasm Avalon is a conceptual weapon formed from a beautiful yet sad dream that is out of her reach, which is why it has the ability to avoid any harm.

"Alright, winners, you should now be clear about the rules and rewards of the Holy Grail War, so please state your wishes!"

"Yustissa" said with a smile, but behind the smile was a hint of urgency, as if she couldn't wait to complete the final ritual and let her power descend into the world.

“Any wish is welcome,” 'Yustisa' continued.

"Whether it's traveling through time to go back to the past and changing Camelot's fate of destruction—"

Through the contract between the Heroic Spirit and the Greater Grail, 'Justisa' accurately stated the wish that Artoria had forged in accordance with the Holy Grail's summons.

Then she looked at Kitagawa Yu.

"—Or... uh... your wish is to save Artoria? Then I can send you back with her and grant you unparalleled power, so you can help her and save her, right?"

“Powerful? How powerful can it be?” Kitagawa Yu thought to himself as he cooperated with 'Yustissa's' performance, trying to figure out how to free his and Artoria’s consciousness from this space.

On the other side, Artoria was taken aback upon hearing this, and couldn't help but turn to look at him, a strange expression on her face.

"He risked his life to participate in the Holy Grail War really to save me?"

Does he like me that much?

"But why? I've never seen him before."

Kitagawa Yu had no idea that Artoria was thinking these things, and seeing this, she thought that Artoria was wavering.

"Believe me, I will definitely help you fulfill your wish in the future!"

Artoria was taken aback for a moment upon hearing this, then smiled and realized that Kitagawa Yu must have misunderstood.