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But although this attack was terrifying, if Archer had done this through a Noble Phantasm, Saber would have been more cautious, but would never have been so surprised. But what if the other party did not?

At that close distance, Artoria could clearly read the changes in Archer's body.

His magic power was constantly being concentrated and invested, blooming violently at an explosive speed. Saber was very familiar with this ability to create terrifying strength by aggregating large amounts of magic power.

To be more precise, she is still using the same techniques until now.

"Is that... the release of magic power?"

"Exactly."

Looking at Saber, who was injured but still hadn't lost her fighting spirit, Archer nodded with satisfaction.

"This sun flame is a testament to my magical qualities, just like your wind."

Is this the problem?

Saber's expression became more serious, and she quickly stood up and got into position again.

Unleashing such destructive power with magical energy could only mean that Archer's core output was even higher than his own. It was certain that this guy must be a demigod, but this was not what surprised Saber.

They are not in their previous lives, but have come to the world as servants. Their level of power is closely related to their Masters, just like her performance in the hands of Emiya Kiritsugu and in the hands of Toosaka Rin is completely different. The same is true for Archer. Even if he has that level of strength, if he wants to output it at full strength, judging by the magic power of modern magicians, he will be directly sucked dry by Archer in less than ten seconds.

But judging from the other party's relaxed look now, he doesn't seem to worry that the previous attack will cause any burden to the Master. What kind of monsters are he and his Master?

"What's wrong, Saber? Are you afraid? If so, just give up and let me chop off your head. Although we shouldn't expect fairness in the Holy Grail War, this battle between you and me can't be called evenly matched, whether it's between you and me... or between masters."

Archer said calmly. His expression was neither arrogant nor conceited. He was just speaking the truth from his own perspective.

He could see through Saber's heart. Although the other party's beliefs were approaching extremes, they had not yet been fully implemented. It was impossible for her to surpass him in this level of awareness. What's more, there was the difference between the masters. The little girl just now was indeed excellent, but she could not be compared with his own Master.

Now, I don't need to worry about any consumption of magic power. I can always face the enemy with the strongest power. Even the class I descend into is the most suitable Archer for me.

No matter what, Archer could not see Saber's chance of victory.

"You can't escape now. Even if your Master uses the Command Spell, I can reach you at this distance in a moment with my full strength. So, Saber, you have no way out. Unless you cut off my head, you will undoubtedly die here tonight."

Looking at Archer who was always calm, Saber raised her head slightly, with an inexplicable determination flashing in her eyes. She took a deep breath, raised the tip of the sword slightly, and clenched her other hand in front of her chest, as if she was holding something tightly.

"No need to say more, Archer, - that's exactly what I meant!"

Chapter 249: Toosaka Rin's Failure

Facing Saber's arrogant words, Archer, who had the upper hand, remained expressionless. Although he was somewhat curious as to why Saber could still be so confident despite such a huge disparity in strength, this did not stop him from continuing to pull the God-given bow in his hand to its full length.

The heroic spirit named Karna was never an arrogant enemy, and even among the saints of noble character, he could be considered humble.

Although Archer always tells only half of the story, which causes many unnecessary misunderstandings among his enemies, he does not lie.

After understanding Saber's power and skills, Archer still did not change his pre-war assessment and even became more certain that he would win. Of course, there was a reason for this. Saber has not yet realized that even if she has a trump card that can reverse the situation, she can't beat him.

Because there is a fundamental gap between the two that cannot be bridged.

At the same moment Archer raised his bow, a strong wind gathered like a tide, and Saber once again raised the holy sword that was shining with golden light under the night sky, and soared into the sky as before.

"boom--!"

Just like being run over by a chariot, the ground stepped on by Saber was covered with dense, spider-web-like cracks. However, the miserable wails of the broken earth had not spread before they were buried by the war drums played by the surging atmosphere.

After gathering strength again, Saber suddenly turned into a blurry phantom, speeding through the air with no support from the strong wind. Her speed was three times faster than before. The invisible air waves continued to stir up waves, leaving a deep gully behind the place where Saber stepped, as if she had used her sword to draw a tide full of fighting spirit and murderous intent, which was going to wash away everything.

What greeted Saber was an overwhelming, blinding red.

The moment the bright flaming arrows left the golden divine bow, in the blink of an eye they transformed into red flames that seemed to burn everything in the universe to ashes. They rolled and leaped, and the overflowing high temperature continued to radiate, devouring everything around them.

When Archer also used magic release, even though the speed was much faster than before, Saber's progress was still difficult.

The roar of the red beam under the silent sky was like a roaring dragon. Even compared with the white dragon containing the power of the archipelago, its power was no less.

For a moment, Saber's sight was completely useless. She could not hear Archer's voice, nor could she see his trace. Even if she used all her five senses, she could only see everything made up of dazzling red, and the arrows that kept attacking at a speed that was almost connected end to end, turning into scorching beams of light whistling towards her.

In this situation, even the strong wind brought by the magic power cannot serve as a shield. The more condensed light beams can easily cut and tear apart the defenses brought by the magic power.

All she can rely on is the holy sword in her hand.

Fortunately, compared to commanding the army on a chaotic battlefield while taking the situation into consideration, this situation where you only need to rely on the sword in your hand is more conducive to the use of intuition.

Since my consciousness cannot keep up with the attacks around me, I might as well let my intuition control my body.

Thinking this, shining light exploded from Saber's hand.

She rushed into the imperceptible sea of ​​fire, running wildly, letting her body swing the holy sword in her hand according to instinct, adding deep meteors flashing again and again to the monotonous red with cold sword marks. Every flicker of starlight was accompanied by the disappearance of flaming arrows. Although the attacks from the red waterfall were still endless, Saber still reached the peak of red flames.

Looking at the dignified figure rushing to the end of the flames, Archer's mouth curled up in admiration.

The Holy Sword of the Stars was the pinnacle of armament, but judging from its current performance, although it still had some shortcomings, the performance of the Knight King did not disgrace it.

"I'm glad that my first battle is against an opponent like you...but from now on, I'll really go all out. Don't die, Saber."

There was a hint of joy in the archer's eyes, and then he drew his bow like a full moon.

Since Saber, as the weak one, did not change his strategy, as the strong one, he should not have any chance of escaping.

Different from the magic power released before to increase the output frequency, the roar of the divine bow was replaced by a more oppressive and crisp sound like something shattering.

The beam of light forged by flames continued to condense and expand in his hands, and it evolved to be alive. It alternated between light and dark, flashing a divine light that could completely banish the night.

Saber, who was about to reach the end of the stopped red wave, frowned slightly. She could sense that the pressure from her intuition was increasing as the arrow gathered. The closer the distance and the smaller the range, the greater the power that could be exerted by the magic power.

It was just like she was knocked away when she rushed in front of Archer just now, and even her armor was shattered.

Saber knew that she could not imitate Archer's delicate manipulation, but this did not prevent her from understanding that the power of this attack would be no less powerful than that of a military-level Noble Phantasm. If she could withstand this attack, she would probably be out of the game in an instant.

If it had been the last time she was summoned, Saber would have only two choices: either run away with all her might, avoid the center, and withstand the aftermath of the attack with all her might, or release the holy sword in her hand and use a treasure to fight a treasure.

But no matter which choice she makes, it means that her previous efforts to shorten the distance will fail, and she will be back to the situation where Archer shoots and she gets beaten, until she wears out her Master.

Fortunately, she also has a trump card this time.

Thinking of this, Saber's actions changed.

"boom--!"

In an instant, the flames flashed like lightning, winding in the air, like a wandering dragon rushing out from Archer's bow, roaring and opening its big mouth, swallowing up the atmosphere, light, and even the little stardust left by the holy sword.

The sky even returned to silence at this moment, but Saber knew that this also meant that the arrow of fire was about to pierce her heart, so she took a deep breath, letting the magic power flow and churn in her body, turning into a surging gale again, covering her figure while leaping forward and actively crashing into the arrow in front of her!

Archer frowned slightly, he didn't think that a hero with such fighting spirit would die just like that, so he raised the divine bow in his hand again, staring at the flames that exploded in the air and roared and swept across.

The gorgeous sun flames burn the atmosphere, burning all tangible things, using them as nutrients to bloom and blossom.

——However, the figure that rushed out from the center of the flower of fire was completely unharmed, and there was not even a trace of extra burn marks on the armor, which was still pure silver in color.

Riding on the strong wind created by the torrent of magic power, she rushed over again!

Facing Saber's attack, Archer's face showed no fluctuations, only an expected understanding, but his expression also became slightly more solemn.

Even if she could have blocked the attack unscathed, she would have at least been forced to stop attacking and defend. However, Saber's speed was obviously at a level that could only be achieved by continuing to release the magic power she had previously released. In other words, was Saber also accelerating during the defense process just now?

But such a situation could not be explained by any defensive treasure, unless she was in another dimension and could take both defense and offense into consideration at the same time.

"Archer! I'm here to defeat you!"

Wielding the shining holy sword in her hand with ease and ease, at the moment when she was about to succeed, Saber's tone inevitably became excited, and the huge magical power wrapped around her body clearly revealed the murderous intent in her heart.

Then, in the deep sky soaked in light, thunder suddenly sounded.

Saber turned into a brilliant bolt of lightning, shooting towards Archer like a cannonball. The gust of wind behind her, which had become a substance, also disintegrated at this moment, as if shattered by an explosion of explosives. Grim and dense scars began to spread in the void, and a white shock wave also spread out, driving away all the remaining fire in the air.

But in this situation, even Archer only had time to hastily block it.

The gushing magic power wrapped around the bow, turning into a blazing red flame that ignited the bowstring, allowing the dazzling flaming arrow to form again, piercing through the void and pointing directly at Saber's head with a terrifying whistling sound.

Looking at the oncoming arrow, Saber tightly grasped the holy sword in her hand, and just turned slightly to let the holy sword that was already in position behind her cut straight through the eye-catching red. The process was so fast that Archer even had the illusion that Saber was like a straight sword.

Everything is going smooth!

Saber thought to herself and let out a sigh of relief.

The archer should still be able to land one hit, but that's about it.

At this close distance, his magic power would be touched by his own sword before it could reach its peak. After all, a head-on close combat with Saber, who had the best all-round attributes, was not the most suitable tactic for Archer.

As one of the three knights, Archer possesses excellent clairvoyance and the advantage of long-distance. As long as he controls the distance well, even Saber will be defeated.

Not to mention that Archer's firepower burst was so terrifying that the distance that could normally be crossed in a flash took an extremely long time to be blocked by the opponent's burst.

If you are fighting with others and Archer is standing at a sniper point, there is a possibility that you will be killed instantly if you are not careful. Even if you escape the attack by chance, you can only hide in the trump card and wait for the Master to rescue you with the Command Seal when you cannot get close to the enemy. There is no other way.

But from another perspective, Archer is also very vulnerable at close range. When the enemy gets close, even the great hero in front of Saber, who has convinced Saber, cannot achieve the continuous shooting like before.

As long as Archer can withstand these ordinary arrows and hasty release of magic, he will be helpless.

Sure enough, as Saber expected, when the distance between the holy sword and Archer was so close, the burning ring of fire spread out again. At this moment, Archer was like the sun hanging high in the sky.

The scorching heat seemed to have a form, having passed through Saber's armor and pierced her skin, but... it was still within the tolerable range!

Saber's rock-like figure did not retreat at all. She shuttled through the dancing flames and knocked away all obstacles in front of her. Her magic resistance was of the best A-level. This level could not stop her from swinging the sword!

"I win, Archer!"

Saber swung the holy sword in her hand with all her might, and as she unleashed her power without reservation, even the air was torn into turbulent torrents. But even so, there was no trace of panic on Archer's face. He just calmly watched the holy sword standing at the top hit his golden armor given by the sun god.

"clang--!"

The clanging sound of metal colliding reached the sky.

Saber's face froze for a moment, and the huge recoil force from her hand made her the one who was shaken away.

She had clearly put all her strength into this attack, with the added bonus of magic power, but she was the one who was shaken away?

That seemingly extremely fragile golden armor actually has such power?

"That's why I said that you will undoubtedly die here tonight, Saber." Archer looked at all this with a matter-of-fact expression. "There is already a gap in strength between us, and when the gap in Master is even greater, this gap is so big that you can't make up for it no matter what. No matter what the situation is, there is no possibility that you can defeat me."

As a top-level Heroic Spirit and one of the famous Three Golden Targets, this is enough to show how high Karna's upper limit is.

In his epic, when his opponent was a great hero favored by the gods and gifted by heaven, while he was just a weak and humble man who bore countless curses, the King of Gods who was watching the battle still felt from the bottom of his heart that he would win and had to personally go down to take sides with the great hero.

But even so, his enemies still had to rely on a surprise attack when his curse came true to achieve victory, which shows how deeply Karna's power was deeply rooted in people's hearts.

At this moment, the golden armor on his body is the powerful defensive treasure that even the king of gods is worried about - the sun wheel, transformed into armor.

Under the protection of this armor, all interference will be weakened by 90%.

Such confidence allows Karna to move without being affected even if he is hit by an A+ grade anti-military weapon. Moreover, the golden armor has a strong immortality. As long as it is still on Karna, even a fatal injury like a shattered spirit core will be repaired.

Under normal circumstances, in order to avoid excessive consumption of the Master's magic power, Karna would only open it when he was attacked, but now his Master is the Princess from the Origin, who provides him with a constant supply of magic power, so now the Golden Armor is always at full power and does not need to be turned off at all.

In this fully-on mode with abundant magic power supply, the ability to reduce damage and recover is even further enhanced, making the Golden Armor enough to ignore any damage. In combination with the healing function, if Karna is willing, he can even resist the release of the city-level Noble Phantasm, because the damage caused by the enemy's attack will ultimately not be able to keep up with his recovery speed.

Only a few percent of Saber's attacks can actually hit Archer, which is impossible to break through the golden armor that already has amazing defensive properties, let alone hurt Karna's body.

After testing Saber's level, Karna realized that even if he stood still and used his Noble Phantasm to get hit, it would be very difficult for Saber to kill him.

Regardless of whether it is a duel of Noble Phantasms or a contest of skills, she will always be superior to Saber and can outlast Saber.

This fundamental gap can never be made up unless Saber's Master is also replaced by a monster.

Having said that, Archer did not underestimate Saber.

"You were unable to release your scabbard immediately after being repelled by your own full force, Knight King. You are an excellent warrior, but you are still lacking in the ability to carry out your beliefs."

There wasn't a trace of pity in Archer's eyes, only a hint of regret.

Although being too famous can bring added popularity, in the Holy Grail War, the leakage of information often means approaching death.

The legend of Avalon was too dazzling. When Archer saw Saber rush out of his flames unscathed, he understood Saber's trump card and took advantage of the situation to set this trap, taking advantage of the opponent's carelessness when he was sure of victory and defeating the enemy with one blow.

"Goodbye, it was a pleasant duel, Saber."

When Saber was shaken away, he put his hand on the bowstring again.

And at this moment, a cold light flashed on the distant scenery reflected by the glorious divine bow.

In the glow of the star-like flames, a hint of scarlet that made his spine shiver was approaching.

Because of his extremely powerful clairvoyance, Karna instantly saw through the true face of the scarlet shadow, which was a spear.

A scarlet magic spear pointed directly at his heart!

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Toosaka Rin rolled on the ground without any ladylike manners, looking breathlessly at the prison in front of her which was made up of several layers of barriers made of gems. She had no time to care about the linked familiar and continued to observe the situation on Saber's side.

Because she is facing a bigger crisis now.