I really didn't want to burn it.

Ritsuka grabbed Mash's arm and bombarded her with a barrage of questions.

Mashu pulled the shield from the ground with slightly trembling hands and replied, "I'm fine, but Leon is still there fighting Goetia. We have to hurry and help him!"

"The meteor shower has stopped. It seems the people of Qin are still quite useful."

Looking at the now calm starry sky, Ophelia gave a somewhat insincere compliment.

"Let's go! The enemy is Beast I. It's a bit dangerous to leave only Leon and his few companions to face them! I don't want to save a race that has been completely wiped out."

Kirshtalia urged.

"Yeah! Let's go, everyone! If we're all together, there's nothing to be afraid of, right?"

Ritsuka raised her right hand.

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At the center of the throne in the Temple of Time.

Goetia held up with one hand, gazing silently at the distant Earth.

"Although you blocked one round of my Noble Phantasm, it was completely useless. I'll be able to unleash a second round soon. So, what are you even doing here? Wouldn't it be better to just find a place to wait for your death?"

Goetia suddenly spoke up.

"Don't joke around. What have I spent all this time for? I'm not going to give up halfway until the very last moment."

Leon appeared behind Goetia, clutching his right shoulder. The shield he had just used was lying to the side, covered in scorch marks.

"Hahaha~~~"

Goetia burst into wild laughter.

"Why are you still talking about this useless stuff? Do you want me to reminisce about your past?"

"..."

Leon stared at Goetia without speaking. He needed to seize every second to heal his body with magic in order to prepare for the battle that was about to begin.

"How utterly boring! I've had enough of humans long ago, and now... finally... finally I can wipe them out! Li Ang! Go and be buried with the humans!"

Goetia fired a beam of light at Leon.

Li Ang dodged to the side, but just as he was about to retaliate, his wounds were aggravated.

"hiss--"

In the very second that Li Ang paused, Goetia appeared before him and reached out his hand—

"Stop!! Who gave you permission to touch my Imperial Advisor?!"

A furious roar came from afar!

Immediately afterwards, a mercury-made throwing knife shot straight at Goetia's back like lightning.

"Little tricks."

Goetia put his hand behind him, and a defensive barrier quickly opened.

The throwing knife collided with the barrier instantly.

Bah!

It was just a small throwing knife, yet it created a huge shockwave at the center of the impact, as if it were trying to suck Goetia in.

"Humph."

Getia was not fooled by this impressive feint attack. He raised his arm and caught Ying Zheng's sword as it was aimed at him.

The magnificent mercury longsword confronted Beast's body, sparks flying everywhere from the violent collision of magic, like two chainsaws clashing at full power.

"Ha, I thought you were just a smooth-talking emperor."

Goetia scoffed dismissively.

"You'll soon find out if he's the kind of emperor you're looking for, you barbarian."

Ying Zheng used his right hand to brace the hilt of the mercury sword that was attacking Goetia, preventing it from being pushed away. Meanwhile, his other hand pressed against Goetia, and blue magical particles burst forth from his body.

"Ok?"

Goetia, who should have been invincible and immune to harm from Servants, finally succumbed to Ying Zheng's impact, and cracks began to appear on his arms.

"Tsk!"

Sensing that he might lose his arm if he didn't find a way to pull it back, Getia had no choice but to use brute force to push Ying Zheng away.

"Naive! It's not over yet!"

Ying Zheng performed a backflip in mid-air, his mercury wings spreading out like the wings of a black bird, the silvery-white light dazzling in the air.

Ying Zheng once again transformed into a cyan figure and charged towards Goetia, but this time he did not confront him head-on. As he approached Goetia, Ying Zheng turned his body, and his mercury sword arced through the air to dodge Goetia's block, then slashed horizontally towards Goetia's waist.

Goetia never expected Ying Zheng to be so agile, and was struck hard by the mercury sword.

"what!"

Although not cut in two by the sword, Goetia was sent flying several meters backward by the violent impact of the strike.

If this guy were human, that attack would have definitely made the antlered immortal spit out blood.

"Interesting, you beast, it seems you've expended quite a bit of energy just now," Ying Zheng said with a mocking laugh. "It seems my imperial advisor isn't as incompetent as you made him out to be. Really, if I had known you were in this state, I wouldn't have been in such a hurry."

Ying Zheng could sense from that sword strike that the opponent's magic power was clearly insufficient, which meant that the opponent had run out of mana when unleashing their ultimate attack.

Ying Zheng suspected that when Goetia used her Noble Phantasm, she never expected to be stopped and released it at full power.

And that was it. Leon and Mash desperately blocked this guy's Noble Phantasm, and Goetia's magic power was mostly depleted.

Of course, even a Goetia whose magic has been depleted is not someone that ordinary people can deal with. Apart from a bug-level existence like Ying Zheng, ordinary people would not be able to damage him even if they knew that this sika deer was out of mana.

Chapter 359 Doctor: Stop, Goetia

"Ah Zheng, did you come by donkey cart? That's so slow!"

As Ying Zheng helped him up, Li Ang complained to him in a low voice.

"I think it should be fine without me, this silver spear with a wax tip..."

Ying Zheng let out a cold snort.

"Hehe, I guess only you would say that."

Li Ang knew very well that ordinary attacks could not harm Goetia's main body.

Despite the game requiring players to empty their health bars, according to the storyline, Goetia simply disappeared naturally after the doctor self-destructed.

From beginning to end, Chaldea did not cause Goetia even the slightest harm.

"Huh, are you alright?"

Ryougi Shiki came to Li Ang's side and carefully protected him, while coldly looking at Goetia.

"Li Ang!!"

At this moment, Ritsuka, Kirshtalia, and others also appeared beside Ryougi Shiki.

"Goetia! Your ambition to destroy humanity will be stopped by us!"

Perhaps feeling that she had plenty of allies, Ritsuka acted very boldly.

"To think that I could be injured... Impossible. Even a Grand-rank attack could not be so unimpeded."

Goetia ignored Ritsuka and murmured to herself.

Li Ang did know roughly what the situation was like in Goetia.

Goetia's absolute defense differs from Tiamat's. Tiamat's defense is purely about being thick-skinned, while Goetia's defense is conceptual, stemming from the [Anti-Summoning] power granted by the Beast class.

Li Ang suspected that Ying Zheng's attack was effective because his own spirit origin was not entirely part of the Type-Moon's suppression record.

Even so, Ying Zheng's sword strike only forced Goetia back.

Given Goetia's current condition, Li Ang doubted that even if Ying Zheng were to chop it down 100 times, he might not be able to kill the sika deer.

"It seems you are not a Servant recorded in Valhalla."

Recalling how his powers were only partially activated when the Mercury Sword attacked his body, Goetia had a rough idea of ​​what might have happened.

"That's strange. Since you're not a Servant from Valhalla, and you don't have Chaldea's methods for recording Spirit Origins, how were you summoned?"

After catching his breath, Getty looked at Leon and Ritsuka in surprise, his eyes full of confusion.

"I didn't give you a reason, did I?" Li Ang replied coldly.

"Hmph, I bet you don't know either. Although you made history, you're basically an amateur when it comes to magic."

"I don't care if you're an expert or a novice, as long as I can take care of you, that's enough!"

Hahaha~~ Hahahahaha!!!

Goetia suddenly burst into maniacal laughter.

"I see. It seems you were thoroughly fooled by that wild woman."

"Shut up! You antler-wearing immortal!"

Knowing that Goetia was talking about Koyanskaya, Leon angrily interrupted him.

Being manipulated by that vixen is absolutely a disgrace to Li Ang.

Having spent his entire life with women, Li Ang was somewhat ashamed when he suffered a setback in the most powerful Tang Dynasty.

[Actually, it's not a problem. If you look at it from another angle, the only man in the world who can make Beast's legs form an M shape is you~]

The mourning system added insult to injury with schadenfreude.

"Damn system, if you ever get rid of me, I'll definitely celebrate by setting off 10,000 firecrackers while I'm being fined by the city management!"

Li Ang unleashed a vicious curse upon the mourning system.

【Host, you're really stubborn.】

The atmosphere in the funeral system's speech was filled with joy.

"Goetia, you'd better surrender!" Ritsuka pointed at him. "We now have the strongest magician, Mr. Kirshtalia, and the most powerful Servant, His Majesty the First Emperor. Do you think you can still win?"

"That's absolutely right."

Li Ang coughed twice and replied, "As the ancients said, 'Those who obey Heaven prosper, those who defy Heaven perish.' Today, my Great Qin is worth millions, and Chaldea has a thousand heroic spirits. Yet you demons are like fireflies among rotten grass; how can you compare to the bright moon in the sky?"

Ying Zheng rubbed his temples: "He's doing it again..."

Li Ang pretended not to hear Ying Zheng's complaints and continued reciting his lines: "Goetia, if you surrender and lay down your arms, you will still retain your throne in the temple. Wouldn't world peace be wonderful?"

After saying that, Li Ang even imitated Wang Situ and gave Getia a thumbs-up.

"Shut up! Shut up! Li Ang! You... someone like you..."

Goetia roared in fury, his red pupils flashing with an eerie, ferocious light, the light from the magic patterns on his limbs shining even brighter, and the core in his chest beginning to swell like a wide-open eyeball.

"Let me show you the moment when your journey ends, the end of human history, and my great work of rebuilding this star is completed!"

As the Goetia incantation was chanted, an even larger magic circle appeared out of thin air behind him. The powerful magic surging in the space caused the Temple of Time to tremble violently, as if the entire space was about to collapse.

Li Ang, Ritsuka, and the others were startled by Getia's outburst. They hadn't expected her reaction to be so intense, to the point of breaking down their defenses.

"What a joker."

Li Ang pursed his lips, noticing the strange patterns all over Getia's body, and the open eyes.

When the Demon Pillar activates its Noble Phantasm, it will open up the seams all over its body, revealing its internal eyeballs.

Goetia is clearly at this very critical juncture.

"Ah Zheng, attack him the instant he uses his Noble Phantasm, and hold him off!"

With his playful demeanor gone, Li Ang began assigning tasks for the battle.

"Kirshtalia, while Ying Zheng is holding him off, just drop a meteorite on him!!"

Goetia's [Anti-Summon] is indeed bugged, but that doesn't mean the opponent isn't without weaknesses. Powerful non-Servant attacks can undoubtedly be effective.

Honestly, after removing all the miscellaneous abilities, it's really a question of how much combat power Goetia actually has left.

It's worth noting that in the game's storyline, Goetia in his Human King form actually fought Ritsuka, a normal human, to a standstill.