Hogwarts and the Holy Grail War

“Saber, now!”

Ethan roared, and the armored rebellious knight was surrounded by red magic power. He rushed into the field like a god from heaven, and the greatsword in his hand, which was wrapped in red lightning, directly chopped down Tarasque.

boom!

Although the slash failed to stop it, the full-strength blow changed the trajectory of the Tarasque like a baseball swing, causing it to pass by Ethan, allowing Ethan to fully deal with the Phantom Dragon Nine Seals (wrong) that fell from the sky.

"Heh." Hercules smiled confidently. Even if you can let your servants change the trajectory of Rider's Noble Phantasm, but facing your own that can automatically track and shoot to kill hundreds of heads, how can you change its trajectory?

Although I am looking forward to a head-on confrontation with you, let's end it here. The Master's victory is the most important.

The shooting of the hundred heads looks like nine lasers, but in fact it is only one attack, but this attack contains nine attacks. Even if you can take the first few attacks, the remaining attacks are enough to tear you apart.

Previously, Ethan had only thought about trying to take on the Hundred Heads Shooting that Hercules released in the form of melee weapons, and he had never thought about taking on the Hundred Heads Shooting that was released in the form of bows and arrows. Unless you have a move similar to the Twelve Trials, which has the effect of resurrecting multiple times.

So he suddenly retreated a distance, and after confirming that the trajectory of shooting the hundred heads would move with his position, he calmed down and turned into a stream of silver light and flew away into the distance.

"You want to escape? But it's useless. Your method of movement can't escape the tracking range of the Shooting Hundred."

Hercules obviously saw through the nature of Ethan's movement and shook his head, not sure whether he felt contempt or pity for Ethan's panic.

"I didn't say I wanted to run away. That's not my style."

Ethan's voice sounded from beside him. Hercules quickly turned to the direction where the voice came from, and three light arrows shot out from the longbow in his hand in an instant.

Ethan didn't know when he reached the other end of the tower crane and was running towards him. He showed no fear at all when facing the light arrows he shot. He just gently turned sideways to avoid them when they were about to touch him, and then continued to run towards him.

The dragon-shaped laser under the tower crane turned back almost instantly, following behind Ethan and biting him tightly.

"Are you trying to knock me down before you get hit, so as to cancel my Noble Phantasm attack? But you won't have time to do that. Not to mention that even if I withdraw, the Hundred-Head Shooting Shot that has already been launched will not disappear."

Although he still couldn't figure out Ethan's thoughts, seeing Ethan getting closer and closer to him, Hercules just calmly punched back. But at the moment when his fist was about to touch Ethan's body, Ethan turned into a puff of white smoke and disappeared.

"Defeat you? I don't have to go to that extent."

Ethan's voice sounded behind him again. Hercules was startled. Before he could take out his weapon, Ethan used the Seven Days Lock of Love to hold his body tightly.

"You!" Hercules instantly understood Ethan's thoughts, and the next second, a dragon-shaped laser knocked the two of them off the tower crane.

Chapter 212: A Substitute is a Good Thing

Ethan's idea was simple. Since he couldn't stop the shooting of the hundred heads without the Twelve Trials, he could just find a meat shield with the Twelve Trials to defend against the arrival.

So he was gambling, gambling that the tracking mechanism of Shooting the Hundred Heads was not that smart, gambling that Hercules could not detect his thoughts in the first place.

Fortunately, he made the right bet. The extremely short distance transmission did not make Hercules notice anything unusual, and the shooting of hundreds of heads did not become disordered because of the loss of target for a moment. He did not deliberately bypass Hercules who was standing in the middle, but treated him as an obstacle between himself and the target and shot him through directly.

Three seconds passed, or perhaps even longer, and the two people who were tightly held together fell to the ground, creating a big hole more than one meter deep.

"What a ridiculous tactic..."

Hercules stood up and looked helplessly at the fist-sized wound on his chest. The red light emitted from his body was quickly healing the hideous wound.

The Hundred-Head Shooter just now hit him directly in the chest. It was worthy of being his own treasure. It actually took away nine of his lives. Now, unless he leaves the battlefield to recuperate and replenish a large amount of magic power to restore the number of twelve trials, it will be very bad for him to take two different fatal blows without dying. However, he still had to pretend that he had only lost one or two lives, so that at least Ethan would be afraid.

"I don't want to do this recklessly. I'll get scolded again... But if I don't do this, I won't stand a chance of winning, so I have to give it a try."

Ethan slowly stood up, rubbing his sore back and smiling bitterly.

His condition at the moment was not much better. Although most of the damage from shooting the hundred heads was blocked by Hercules, some of the aftermath still spilled over onto his body. Coupled with the considerable impact from falling from a high altitude, his body could be said to be in a state of tatters.

But he is Ethan, this little injury is nothing.

So, under the gaze of Hercules fucking old Rozier, Ethan took out three ampoules from his pocket, unscrewed the bottle caps, raised his head and drank the green liquid inside. The injuries on his body healed rapidly under the stimulation of the medicine, and his physical condition instantly returned to full.

I won’t pretend anymore, I’m just a drug addict.

Hercules wanted to say that you, young man, have no martial ethics. If you can't win, you just exchange injuries, and then take medicine. You are really shameless. But he thought again, it seems that the effect of his Twelve Trials, which can directly revive the dead eleven times and also has the effect of injury immunity, is even more shameless than Ethan's behavior of taking medicine.

That's okay, let's just pretend nothing happened.

"Ohhhhh! This feeling... the power is rising, the will to fight is burning, my magic power is about to overflow!"

Feeling the strength brought by the gradual recovery of his injuries, Ethan felt so high that he gestured to himself twice with his thumbs, making a sound of invincibility.

At this time, with Xiao Mo's entry and Hercules, who had been watching from the side, being forcibly pulled into the field by Ethan, the situation changed.

The Tarasque that was previously knocked away by Martha has been called back to her side. Now the battlefield is divided into two parts. On one side, Xiao Mo is fighting against Martha and Tarasque, while Ethan is fighting against Hercules.

With only two chances to revive left, Hercules did not dare to be careless. He did not engage in hand-to-hand combat with Ethan like last time. Instead, he kept his distance and kept shooting arrows at Ethan, intending to limit the means of combat to long-range attacks.

Through the brief observation before, he, who has been through many battles, has also summed up some rules. The short pre-swing required for the teleportation method used by Ethan should be linked to the teleportation distance (Ethan: ah, right, right). As long as his attack is fierce enough, he will have no time to concentrate on teleporting to his side. And even if he wants to move directly to approach him, he can use the airtight rain of swords to make him retreat.

In other words, the situation is now very clear. Ethan has been tied down by himself, while Rider and his dragon are coordinating their attacks. With the combat power of his Saber without releasing her Noble Phantasm, it is only a matter of time before she is beaten to death.

If he wants to break the situation, he can only let Saber release the Noble Phantasm. In that case, although the situation will no longer be favorable to him, he can use the Noble Phantasm's true name as intelligence to infer Saber's identity and further formulate strategies. No matter which choice he makes, his side will not lose.

As expected, on the other side of the battlefield, under the combined attack of flash bomb + pig charge by Marda and Tarasque, Xiao Mo's eyes and body suffered damage that they should not have suffered. At this moment, she only regretted that her mother did not add a sunshade film to her helmet.

Even if you know the move list, you can't defend against the opponent's unreasonable and cunning combo. I tried to get close to her several times, but every time I just rushed to Marda's face to use the sword technique of New Year's Greetings, I was hit in the face by a flash bomb and blinded by it, and then I was hit by a tail swing and flew far away.

My own anti-magic power can only make me immune to magical damage, and holy light is a purely physical attack on me, so I can only be blinded by it again and again, and there is no way to break it.

You said she should close her eyes in time and use her intuition to detect the enemy? How is that different from being blinded by the flash?

Damn it, it's so spicy! (Throws Clarent)

On the other hand, Martha, seeing that she had a great advantage, took advantage of the fact that the magic power increase of the Command Seal had not yet disappeared and released her Noble Phantasm again, intending to end the battle in one go.

"Tarasque, the dragon of sorrow who does not know love!"

The Tarasque, with its fiery red lotus flames, rushed towards Xiao Mo. Due to the extremely close distance and large attack range, Xiao Mo had no time to dodge and could only use the Clarent in his hand to desperately block the Tarasque's rotation and impact. The sword and the rotating shell rubbed against each other, emitting dazzling sparks and a creepy friction sound.

Changing the attack trajectory from the side is different from blocking from the front. The former only requires a little skill, while the latter requires more absolute force suppression.

Even though Xiao Mo had been under the blessing of magic power, the Sword of the King, which had not been able to release its true name, was ultimately defeated by the power of the treasure. So she and the Tarasque that crashed into her crashed into the wall of a warehouse not far away, smashing the bricks that made up the wall into pieces, and rushed into the warehouse.

"After taking such a blow, your Saber is probably like a candle in the wind, unable to fight anymore, right?"

While drawing the bow and shooting arrows, Hercules took the time to glance at the warehouse that was almost demolished and crumbling, and said lightly.

"Not always."

Ethan used a standard Royal Guard blocking move to deflect the flying light arrow and smiled slightly:

"Who do you think my Saber will be?"

"It can't be a coincidence that it's some dragon slayer in history, right?"

Hercules said casually, and then he saw the uncontrollable smirk on Ethan's face, and the calmness and composure on his face immediately disappeared.

It can't be such a coincidence, right?

boom!

A hole appeared in another wall of the warehouse, and the Tarasque spun out and crashed headfirst into the compacted sand—it had been knocked off its feet.

Tarasque pulled his head out of the soil, shook it to shake off the sand and dirt, and looked at the warehouse with ventilation on both sides with a look of horror.

The next second, Xiao Mo's clear roar came from the warehouse:

"Fantasy Great Sword Balmung!"

A torrent of blue magic composed of true ether shot out from the ruins and hit the lion head of Tarasque, swallowing it directly, and even the indestructible shell behind it was pierced effortlessly.

Tarasque's shell is actually one of Martha's treasures: the invulnerable Dragon Shield (Tarasque), which serves as a solid barrier to protect herself and her teammates. After the real name is released, it can even be immune to physical attacks for a short period of time.

Although it was in a state without releasing its true name just now, its defense is not comparable to ordinary defense methods. The magic torrent just now was able to penetrate it directly, which is enough to show the destructive power of this attack.

"This..." Hercules looked at Tarasque's headless body turning into spirit particles and dissipating. He was a little dazed and the frequency of his attacks began to decrease.

"Congratulations, you got the answer right, but there is no reward."

Ethan dodged two beams of light by moving sideways and backward, then clapped his hands perfunctorily and gave false praise.

This was his plan to deceive the world. First, he let Xiao Mo show his face and pretend to be defeated by Tarasque, so that he could take the opportunity to create a confined space where no one except Tarasque could see Xiao Mo. Then, he let Alanna, who had never appeared in front of the enemy, send Siegfried's spirit base shadow to Xiao Mo, let him release the treasure, and let Xiao Mo shout out the real name of the treasure, so that the enemy would make a wrong judgment that Xiao Mo's true identity was the dragon slayer.

After all, in their view, it was only because their Saber was unable to defeat Tarasque in hand-to-hand combat and was in danger of being beaten out of the battle that she was forced to release her Noble Phantasm, thus exposing her true name.

It's a simple sleight of hand, but it's enough to fool enemies with information blind spots.

Who would have thought of the existence of Alanna, a cheating contestant? The unfinished summoning would not be recorded by the Holy Grail, so even if they controlled the Holy Grail, they would not be able to detect her existence.

I had asked her to stay hidden and not show up just so that she could play a crucial role in a situation like today.

Well, actually I was more worried about her safety.

As for why the dragon slayer Siegfried is a woman?

Emmm... Isn't it normal that a king who is associated with dragons, has a famous sword, and has a wife in historical records is actually a woman?

Isn't that right, Altria?

(Brother Zheng, I really didn’t mean anything to you. If you have something to say, please talk it over nicely. Put down your ship-slashing sword!)

As for why his personality became so noisy...

It's reasonable for a servant to let go of his airs in order to live a second life, isn't it?

Isn't that right, Blackbeard?

With a crackling sound, the half warehouse that was in danger of collapse finally couldn't bear it anymore and turned into a complete ruin. At the same time, the armored knight carrying a big sword rushed out of the ruins without any damage, and without hesitation, he fought with Martha holding the holy staff again.

Without the Tarasque as a means of support, Marda's Holy Light and Strength B seemed inadequate in Xiao Mo's eyes. Even though Marda had the skill "Miracle" that could make the impossible possible at a critical moment, and the skill "Waterside Saint" also had a buff that could increase her attack power in the seaside environment, but under Xiao Mo's full-power brute force suppression, she felt a sense of frustration that she was defeated by one person's strength.

"Although I want to keep it hidden until the end as a trump card, after all, its weakness is obvious. However, based on the name of the Noble Phantasm just now, it is only a matter of time before you can guess its true name."

Ethan spread his hands and said helplessly:

"So in order to prevent any unexpected events, I can only take the initiative, ciao~."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ethan took half a step forward and disappeared from the spot in a puff of white smoke.

The next moment, in the battle between Xiao Mo and Martha, Ethan appeared between the two like a ghost, turned around to block Xiao Mo and attacked Martha first.

As if he had expected it, Xiao Mo quickly retreated two steps after seeing Ethan appear, and handed the battlefield over to Ethan.

"This is a necessary way of fighting in order to win. I hope you won't blame me."

As Ethan spoke, he blocked the holy staff that Martha threw at him with one hand, and then raised the hand holding the holy staff sharply, exposing Martha's middle part in front of him.

In his other hand, he quickly condensed a two-meter-long spear of light, and then thrust it forward fiercely, piercing directly through Martha's spiritual core in her chest at zero distance.

"I'm sorry, Sister Martha. I didn't want this to happen. But I have reasons to win, you should understand, right?"

Ethan muttered as he watched the spear of light that had pierced Martha's chest slowly dissipate, revealing the hideous wound.

"Really? You're really fierce. I'm the one who loses."

Martha showed a relieved smile on her face, and her body turned into blue spirit particles and slowly dissipated:

"It would be great if the next time I'm summoned, my Master could be someone like you."

"Rest in peace, Saint Martha."

Ethan made the sign of the cross on his chest with a heavy face, as if praying to the saint who had left. Then he turned around and pointed his index finger at Hercules with a Dio-like expression:

"Now that I've dealt with Martha, it's your turn next, Hercules!"

"You guy..."

Hercules looked gloomy and walked slowly towards Ethan.

He had been prepared for his teammates to be forced out tonight, but he had never expected the situation to take a turn for the worse so quickly. Ethan and his dragon slayer Saber had beaten Rider out so quickly, something he had never expected.

This child must not be kept!

Chapter 213 How to describe heavy rain without mentioning the word "rain"?

"Hoho, you don't even choose to escape?"

Seeing that Hercules had no intention of continuing the long-range attack and was walking towards him, Ethan continued to chant:

"Your teammates have been eliminated by me, and I have killed ten of your twelve trials, but you still didn't choose to escape, but continued to approach me?"

"If I don't get close to you, how can I find your weakness and defeat you?"

Hercules replied calmly, secretly surprised in his heart, he didn't expect that he could accurately predict the number of people he had been shot and killed. Or was he just guessing, trying to accidentally hit the target and make himself lose his composure?

However, he probably hadn't expected that the life he lost yesterday would be restored so quickly. If he really wanted to continue fighting, this extra life should be enough to become a chance for a comeback.

Ethan and Hercules slowly approached each other, passing each other at a very close distance. At the moment their shoulders touched each other, they turned their heads to look at each other at the same time, with a raging fire of fighting spirit burning in their eyes.

Xiao Mo on the side had no intention of intervening in the fight between the two gods. He just stood at the edge of the venue and watched with a big sword.