Shirou Emiya is determined to kill all the cursed spirits and evil spirits

Relying on the agility he inherited from the owner of this Noble Phantasm, Emiya was able to seize this moment.

"Secret Sword——"

"——Yan Fan!"

In an instant, three sword lights appeared like moonlight, covering the sky and the earth.

The real distance between him and Gojo Satoru is only two meters, but there is a barrier of [infinity] between them, which means that no matter how fast the attacks from the outside world are, they cannot reach the real end.

Then just get rid of that pursuit of speed.

That nameless heroic spirit, in his lifetime, had only aimed to reach the pinnacle of swordsmanship, doing nothing but swinging his sword. Then, over the course of countless years, his swordsmanship finally reached a certain level.

A slash is made from the real world, followed by two overlapping slashes at the same time, ignoring the concepts of time and space, thus creating a slash attack from three directions.

It was the [Multi-Dimensional Zelretch Phenomenon] that surpassed the elements of speed, dexterity, and feints. The nameless martial artist, unaware of sorcery and magic, had, despite his limitations, reached the realm of [Second Magic].

The distance between the sword blade and Gojo Satoru is [infinite], but this sword skill can reach the level of transcending space.

Bah————!

Finally no longer restricted by the [Infinity] shield, the sword blade fell without hindrance.

Perhaps it was almost at the same time, or perhaps it was after that—Gojo Satoru's figure suddenly retreated dozens of meters away as if he had been frightened by something terrifying.

He was visibly stunned there, even raising his right hand to place it on his neck.

There were no traces of anything there, yet blood was oozing out of nowhere.

"This is really... dangerous."

"Ha, hahahahahaha... If it weren't for Emiya-kun's holding back, I'm afraid half of my head would have been cut off. Although that's still within the range of being quickly healed by the reversal technique."

"I'm sorry, it was wrong of me to have been so playful before..."

Placing his fingers on the eye mask, Gojo Satoru gently pulled it off, revealing his gorgeous eyes.

"In response, I will also show you the secrets of the technique!"

Volume 1: Chapter 42: Slashing the God of War's Sword

Gojo Satoru realized that the attack that easily broke through [Infinity] was not a special ability, but a technique.

Although there is more than one way to break through [Infinity] in the field of magic, they all use the principle of mutual cancellation of magic, or simply the special ability.

But this attack was different. The sword was just a long sword without any special features, but that kind of sword skills had reached the 'realm of God' by relying on the skills.

Gojo Satoru had never heard of such a thing as being able to break through the limitations of space with just skills.

Secret Sword Swallow Returns...is this the technique created by the legendary Sasaki?

It is said that it was completely lost after his defeat by Miyamoto Musashi, but I didn't expect it to actually exist.

Then, in response, the secret that Gojo Satoru wanted to reveal was—

"[Field expansion]."

"It incorporates elements of barrier techniques. Essentially, it uses mantra power to materialize the [Life Realm] into reality, infusing it with a spell. It expends a vast amount of energy to construct a Life Realm around it, imbued with the spell."

"The magician can gain buffs within the domain, and the magic spells cast on the domain will definitely hit."

"By the way, the so-called [Realm of Life] probably refers to the place where the spirit appears after entering the heart."

Why do we say that the spirit enters the inner world instead of directly describing it as the spiritual world?

That's because everyone has an inner world, but not everyone has the [innate realm].

Gojo Satoru kept his eye mask pulled down with one hand, while holding the other hand upright in front of him, with his index finger and ring finger overlapped.

"In the realm of magic, [Field Expansion] is undoubtedly a profound secret. The few sorcerers who have mastered it can only use it once a day."

"But it doesn't matter. The only thing that can cancel out a domain is the domain itself. Often, when this secret technique is used, the battle is almost over."

"so......"

Before Gojo Satoru could finish his words, he received additional information from Emiya.

"So I have to end the battle before you can successfully perform the spell, right?"

"Trace on!"

Without giving Gojo Satoru another chance to speak, Emiya projected dozens of sword rains that poured out.

From the other party's explanation, Emiya roughly understood that the so-called "field expansion" and "inherent barrier" were two things that had a lot of overlap.

The only difference is that the former is a specialization of the sorcerer's own technique, while the latter is a complete manifestation of the mental world, and the ability it possesses depends entirely on the caster himself.

Making the spell engraved in the field a sure hit might not sound too powerful, but what if that spell is the type that puts anyone at an absolute disadvantage once it comes into contact with it?

Like the [Ao] just now, Emiya didn't have the confidence to stop it easily, but Gojo Satoru seemed to be able to launch such an attack at will.

But whether it's [Domain Expansion] or [Inherent Boundary], they all have to have the same conditions without exception...

That is - the caster and the unit they want to cast the spell on must be within a certain distance.

Emiya wasn't sure about the exact distance limit, but just keep as much distance as possible.

Boom boom boom——————

With the mountains and forests on both sides as the boundary, the road from Gojo Satoru's feet to Emiya's side was indiscriminately covered by the rain of swords.

Such an attack will definitely not hurt the opponent, but it can only interfere with the opponent's vision and actions.

Emiya quickly retreated several hundred meters away, raised his longbow and aimed at the battlefield again. He happened to see Gojo Satoru jumping high, trying to get rid of the interference and regain control of the situation in this way.

He would never miss when shooting from the air at this distance.

"Calad bolgⅡ (pseudo-spiral sword)!"

What cut through the sky was a crimson spiral as fast as lightning.

"Buzz!"

"Spiral Sword?"

The sword arrow first stopped in front of Gojo Satoru without any warning, but as soon as he saw the shape of the long sword clearly, the fantasy collapse was activated in the next second.

boom---!

All the mountains and forests within a hundred meters were razed to the ground.

Knowing that this could only delay time, Emiya wanted to continue changing positions, but Gojo Satoru's figure suddenly popped out from the fire and smoke, and arrived above him in the next moment.

It seems that [Cang] doesn't need any physical object as a push point for resistance when it starts to move, or maybe this guy can even use the air as a pedal?

At this moment, Gojo Satoru had already thrown off the eye patch on his face, but his right hand still maintained the strange posture just now.

"That's a surprisingly powerful attack, but I won't let you dodge it again."

Pull the opponent into the bottomless inner zone, forcing the opponent's brain to repeat "perception" and "conduction" countless times in order to "stay alive", thus generating a large amount of invalid information, causing the brain to lose function and can only stand and wait to die.

However, in order to prevent irreversible damage to Emiya's brain, he would only expand the Infinite Space for 0.2 seconds.

The brain will be flooded with almost half a year's worth of useless information, and will only be paralyzed for one day at most.

This is Gojo Satoru's territory—

"The field unfolds..."

Gojo Satoru noticed a strange lead-colored stone ball at Emiya's feet, but he paid no attention to it. Because at this distance, Emiya had no chance of escaping.

“——Infinite Space!!”

White light spread from around Gojo Satoru, which was a sign that the domain was successfully activated. It could be said that the enemy would definitely be captured.

It’s just that the domain spell should have been formed the moment it was activated, but why?

Why did Gojo Satoru see the white light when those areas were formed, and the action of reaching out to summon the stone ball to his hand?

It is obviously impossible for so many actions to occur in the moment when the field unfolds, but it just happens to violate the rules of time.

After Emiya summoned the stone ball in Gojo Satoru's eyes to the top of his hand, a thread of electric current connected with his palm, and the surface of the stone ball also began to surge like a magnetic field change, finally forming a short sword with a star ring as the handle.

But Gojo Satoru could only sit back and watch all this happen.

After Gojo Satoru said the word "secret", Emiya had already thought of the next fighting method, and everything he did in the battle was just for this moment.

This is simply the importance of information gap.

Turning sideways as if throwing or punching, Emiya pointed the blade on the back of his hand at Gojo Satoru in the sky and shouted the true name of this Noble Phantasm.

Its name is——

"Answerer Flagalac (Backlight Sword, Slashing the God of War Sword)"

In this vision where time almost stands still, the area that had originally been transparent to the body began to countercurrent.

As for the dagger in Emiya's hand, it turned into white light and rushed out, piercing Gojo Satoru's chest.

Volume 1: Chapter 43: I'm really sorry for not being able to let Emiya-kun fight with his full strength

boom--!

As the slash ended, the spherical object behind Emiya's hand fell to the ground...

Together with Gojo Satoru.

"This is the short sword wielded by the sun god Lugh in Celtic mythology. It's one of Lugh's three sacred weapons, along with the divine spear Brionak and the magic bullet Taslan."

"The official name is the Sword of the God of War, which strikes first after striking last."

"It goes against time, and it breaks the last one to attack, hence the name of the sword of reverse light."

Just like Gojo Satoru before, Emiya also imitated the other party and introduced the Noble Phantasm he was using to the other party.

On the one hand, this decisive skill will lose its concealing effect after being used once, and on the other hand, the Backlight Sword does not actually need to completely hide its information.

Because its role is like the sword of Damocles hanging over the enemy's head -

"Reversing time? That's quite a tricky ability... So a Noble Phantasm like this must have prerequisites for activation, like some other techniques, right?"

Even though a beam of light pierced his chest, Gojo Satoru still insisted on asking this question.

"Yes."

Emiya nodded.

"The Backlight Sword's special effect activates when the opponent activates their Ace Card, turning back time to before the Ace Card is activated to deliver a fatal blow... That's why it's called the God of War's Sword, which strikes first after being struck."

The so-called "Trump Card" is not limited to the enemy's Noble Phantasm, but any attack that the opponent believes can cause a decisive reversal.

If not, how could it be called a conceptual system?

Even if you want to fight against it, you must have an ace that also possesses the power of rules.

For example, the Gáe Bolg can also reverse cause and effect, allowing the result of piercing the enemy's heart to be achieved before the stabbing action is performed.

The Sword of Backlight could indeed launch a slashing blow before the Noble Phantasm was activated, but it could not correct the cause and effect of 'the heart being pierced' that was changed by the magic spear.

The reason why Emiya was able to obtain and project this knowledge related to the Noble Phantasms was because after coming to this world, the information gradually seeped into him as if it was supposed to exist in the body of the Heroic Spirit Emiya.

Maybe there are not only Heroic Spirits Emiya, but also the 'Emiya Shirou' he once dreamed of...Emiya himself doesn't know why this situation has occurred.

What's strange is that, although the scope of projection magic is clearly limited to Noble Phantasms based on the concept of "swords", Emiya also felt the experience of projecting the piercing Deaththorn Spear.

There are actually quite a few causal Noble Phantasms like this that Emiya can project, but after thinking it over, he decided to use the Backlight Sword.

Besides being able to negate the effects of [Field Expansion], the final slash also had some controllability, as its concept was 'strike first after last', rather than 'pierce the heart' like the magic spear.

As the user of a Noble Phantasm, Emiya can control the target and angle of his slashes to a certain extent.

Even though Gojo Satoru himself said that his recovery ability was quite impressive, Emiya did not directly pierce his heart.

"This completely unreasonable concept-type Noble Phantasm is truly unfair..."

As Gojo Satoru spoke, bright red blood was even flowing from the corner of his mouth.

"But having said that, I still have something to teach Emiya-kun... Look."

Gojo Satoru placed his palm in front of his chest and in a very infernal way made Emiya look at the circular gap that he could even see behind him.

"Unlike non-magicians or even low-level cursed spirits, truly powerful cursed spirits and enemies don't have many conventionally defined weaknesses."

"Even if their hearts are penetrated or most of their body tissues are cut off, they can still survive."