I really didn't want to burn it.

Li Ang glanced at his shoulder, where faint red marks were seeping out.

"Was this power also enhanced by Goetia? Compared to our previous encounter, it's like night and day! Damn it, if only I hadn't been injured..."

"As expected of the master, the speed is not inferior, but the strength is not enough. It seems that the previous injury has not fully healed."

After their first encounter, the two quickly analyzed each other's situation.

Realizing she had the upper hand, the maid decided to capitalize on her numerical advantage to end the battle quickly, as the longer she dragged it out, the more likely Chaldea would provide support.

So, after several head-on clashes with Li Ang, the maid directly used all her magic power.

"..."

Behind her, Linggetia's lips moved silently once more, and a flash of magic illuminated the maid's entire body, causing the swords in her hands to ignite with golden flames.

"Ah!"

A slash of golden flames flew toward Li Ang, who was retreating rapidly.

"Tsk."

Li Ang spat, held Thor's hammer horizontally in front of him, and bolts of lightning crackled from his body. A large amount of lightning surged outwards from him and Thor's hammer, rapidly converging towards the hammerhead.

"Mj?lnir! (A thunderous storm!)"

As Thor's hammer was swung, a pillar of azure lightning formed, meeting the golden flames.

The two enormous energies collided, causing a violent explosion. The powerful shockwave from the explosion thoroughly destroyed the already crumbling Temple of Time.

Facing the raging winds of the explosion, Li Ang did not retreat but advanced, raising his demon-slaying sword and launching it towards the center of the explosion.

The maid on the other side had clearly made the same decision, and she broke through the smoke and dust to attack her master.

The two longswords clashed again, and the collision of pure power cleared away the magical diffusion caused by the previous explosion, making the already unstable space even more chaotic.

Li Ang and the maid, who unexpectedly meet at the center of the explosion, exchange knowing smiles as they confront each other.

Then, blue and gold rays of light streaked across the sky at high speed, bouncing off and colliding again.

"Pure killing intent, this girl is serious."

Li Ang unconsciously frowned; he was now in an overwhelmingly unfavorable situation.

"Master, if you continue like this, you'll only lose here!"

The two were separated again, and a new standoff began.

The two longswords in the maid's hands merged together, and golden and red magic intertwined.

"Fusing Goetia's magic with your own? Aren't you afraid of self-destruction?"

Li Ang looked at the maid warily and said.

"As expected of the master, you are knowledgeable and experienced, but you underestimate her stitching skills!"

The maid stood upright in the air, lightly waving her longsword as she spoke.

"That's really impressive. Let me see it for myself."

Li Ang answered the maid calmly, while his eyes observed the current situation on the battlefield out of the corner of his eye.

Leonardo da Vinci has joined the battle against the mother fox, fighting alongside Kirshtalia and the others against Koyanskaya. However, da Vinci's weapons have been destroyed, preventing him from fully utilizing his abilities.

Kirshtalia was in the same situation; his face was ashen, and he seemed to be struggling just to stand there.

Tamamo-no-Mae is a complete fighter, but unfortunately, she's just a support character and can't deal any damage at all.

Mashu, on the other hand, shielded Ritsuka within the defensive perimeter, protecting her firmly.

Ying Zheng was distracted from the main battlefield by various other magical beasts controlled by the fox, leaving him no time to attend to anything else.

Thus, the entire battle essentially became a solo show for the Grand Berserker.

Logically speaking, as the trump card of the Counter Force against Beast, the Grand Servant should at least be evenly matched with Beast, if not easily defeated.

However, the reality was that Debit's Grand Servant could only barely resist Koyanskaya's tail and was unable to break through the defense.

In contrast, Koyanskaya seemed completely at ease, adopting an attitude of not dodging at all and simply standing still to deal damage.

It's unclear whether Koyanskaya was originally this strong, or whether her transformation was due to Leon's influence.

"With our current strength, it seems impossible to defeat them. The best outcome is to stall until Chaldea can perform a spirit particle transfer, right?"

Li Ang was somewhat helpless when he came to this conclusion.

"I can only gather as much information as possible about their strength. Let me test their limits after stitching together the Beast!"

With this in mind, Li Ang decided to launch the first attack.

The swords flashed, but without using lightning for a wide-range attack or any strange magic, Li Ang and the maid were engaged in a most primitive swordsmanship contest.

When you are at a disadvantage, you should naturally ask the other party to introduce you into the area where you are currently most proficient.

The maid's swordsmanship was taught to her by Li Ang himself. Li Ang was very familiar with her techniques and she was the only breakthrough he could find at the moment.

As Li Ang's maid and bodyguard, the maid's swordsmanship is all about speed, using the fastest speed to defeat enemies and return to her master's side to protect him before anything happens.

From the very first day of practicing swordsmanship, the maid adopted this as her fighting style. As a result, her swordsmanship is very direct, and there are very few roundabout attacks.

Especially after confirming that she had an absolute advantage in strength, the maid took the fighting style of overwhelming others with force and quickly defeating her opponents to the extreme.

In contrast, although Li Ang used a heavy weapon like Thor's hammer, due to his injury, he relied more on skillful techniques to resist and find weaknesses in his opponent.

Although the two sides seem to be evenly matched at the moment, the maid knows very well that Li Ang's mental exhaustion is far greater than her own. If the battle cannot be ended quickly, Li Ang may be the first to give out and she may find a weakness.

"Master, this shouldn't be all there is to it, should it?"

The maid thought to herself.

The two were constantly shrinking their fighting range, with less and less room to maneuver, and the danger level of the battle was constantly increasing. Success or failure was just a matter of a moment!

"This is bad! DD is forcing me to use my Noble Phantasm, which consumes my mana."

After narrowly dodging the attack, Li Ang realized that he was in a very bad situation.

"Everyone, the spirit transfer is ready again! However, the other side has interfered with the program's operation using a barrier, so we need to find a way to open the barrier to allow the transfer to proceed!"

Just when Li Ang was at his wit's end, Medea's voice rang in the minds of Li Ang and his group.

Chapter 364 Each Person's Backup Plan

"Break the barrier?"

Several Chaldea members who were knowledgeable about magic were taken aback.

"Uomo Univsale! (The Almighty!)"

Without hesitation, Da Vinci immediately activated her Noble Phantasm for analysis.

Although he lost his weapon, Leonardo da Vinci could still use the analytical abilities of his Noble Phantasm to perform analysis.

However, the results of the analysis did not please Leonardo da Vinci.

"It actually sealed off the entire space... Ordinary attacks simply cannot break through the barrier's seal."

Leonardo da Vinci felt a headache coming on.

"Leave it to me, I'll break the barrier!"

Watching the battle in the sky, Mash gripped her shield tightly.

"Senior, I'm leaving the support to you!"

Mashu placed the shield she was holding on the ground, and the shield unfolded its structure, revealing a hidden black gun barrel.

Red magic began to condense, and the black gun entered firing mode.

"Mash, get ready! We can do this."

Sensing her junior's determination, Ritsuka raised her right hand, preparing to use a Command Spell.

"Everyone, I will break the barrier. Please seize the opportunity to transfer your spiritual particles."

Mashu's voice reached everyone present.

"wrong!!"

The immense magical power gathered by the shield and black spear drew Li Ang's attention, but what attracted him even more was the smile of the maid opposite him.

"Stop, Mashu!!"

Sensing that something was wrong, Li Ang shouted anxiously.

Li Ang's distraction was caught by the maid.

"Chance!"

The longsword in the maid's hand emitted a dazzling light.

"It's over, Master!!"

The longsword, imbued with immense power, thrust straight towards Li Ang. Where the sword passed, layers of lotus blossoms rippled, as if it were about to tear Li Ang and the surrounding space apart.

The sound of space being torn apart reached his ears, and the fluctuations generated by the burst of magic stimulated every nerve in Li Ang's body, giving him a strong sense of crisis.

"Oops!"

Li Ang instinctively dodged backward, managing only to hold his weapon horizontally in front of his chest.

Bah!

The crisp sound of the knocking echoed throughout the Temple of Time and Space, and the immense force sent Li Ang flying like a bullet.

A pair of wings made of runes suddenly unfurled behind Li Ang, as he tried to use them to stabilize himself.

Finally, after several backflips in the air, Li Ang crashed heavily onto the imperial steps.

Although Li Ang immediately got up and assumed a defensive stance, his hands were trembling uncontrollably.

Bah!

The maid promptly launched a second attack on Li Ang, this time with even greater force than the first.

As Li Ang was repelled, two long furrows were created by the violent friction between his feet and the ground.

"puff--"

A mouthful of blood spurted from Li Ang's mouth, leaving a trace of crimson blood at the corner of his lips.

"Damn it—this time we're doomed."

Li Ang tried his best to straighten his body and maintain his fighting posture.

"What a pity, Master. You still lost."

The maid came up to a spot a short distance in front of Li Ang and said with an appreciative tone, "What a pity, you're going to be supported by me for the rest of your life."

"Well done, DD. You've really grown up."

Li Ang said, his voice trembling slightly.

"Playing the emotional card won't work, Master."

The maid replied emotionlessly.

"Is it too late?"

Leon glanced sideways in Mashu's direction.

A slender, white hand pierced through Mashu's chest, causing the magical power gathered in Mashu's body to go berserk as she prepared to fire the black gun.

And Li Ang was familiar with the owner of this hand.

"Matou Sakura".

Looking at Matou Sakura, who clearly has the appearance of a little girl but wears a cold smile, Li Ang felt a headache coming on.

[So the reason we didn't see her in Fuyuki City back then was because that fox had already found her. Host, the phantom behind her is Sesshouin, isn't it?]

"Ah, that's the nun."

Li Ang wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and replied casually.

Whether Matou Sakura directly fused with Sesshouin Kiara or first got together with Kama and was then sewn into Sesshouin Kiara, Li Ang couldn't tell for the time being.

But he knew that, in either case, Matou Sakura was definitely not so easy to deal with.