"Who are you?"
"Me..? I'm your enemy, what else?"
As he spoke, he fired another round of gunpowder bullets at Ferdinand, only for its impact to be absorbed by the ink-like shield. At the same time, the caster mercenaries unleashed their arts at him, providing cover to the others.
"Team A1 to A5, corner him. Team A6 to A9, guard the backlines. Team A10 to A12, continue providing cover!"
The Blacksteel mercenaries moved in a very organized manner.
The shielders brought out their pistols and tried shooting at him to distract his attention.
'Tsk. I didn't have a bomb, what a pity.' He thought. 'I eliminated some when I sprayed an entire round of my rifle, yet I'm still disadvantaged right now.'
Earlier on, he's behind them. Only when he saw that most of them got distracted did he attack. He used the walls on the side as a path to circle straight to their front before dealing damage to them.
'Unfortunately, that Ferdinand do have a reason for his confidence.'
When he sensed the ink barrier that Ferdinand used, he felt that it's familiar. It's somehow similar to the remnant will of the Alien God that he annihilated hours ago.
'Poison with poison, I see. Though, I bet that it won't end well.'
Snapping out of his thoughts, he summoned a transparent rainbow wing behind his back. He first used it to block a salvo of bullets before using it to fly in the sky.
"He's... flying."
"He's a Sankta..! Back off, he'll aim for our weak spots!"
Ferdinand, who saw this, was surprised considering that flying is extremely tiring for a Sankta. Mostly, they could last for a minute or two in the air before being knocked out.
'Is that somehting else? A device? A new power? Or...'
He realized that his enemy might have a power outside of their understanding.
*****
[Private] Shiro: "I'm having quite a hard time here, but nonetheless manageable. Watch out for Surtr."
[Private] Kal'tsit: "Nothing happened as of the moment."
Kal'tsit looked at the Sarkaz girl beside her. For some reason, she felt the similarities between her and Theresa, the current "Demon Lord" of the Sarkaz.
(Note: Demon Lord is the title for Kings of Sarkaz.)
Putting those thoughts aside, she recalled Shiro's examination results. At first, she was shocked that he possessed a 40% assimilation rate towards originum. What's even worse is that his heart is completely assimilated by it.
However, she was even more surprised when she saw that the originum inside his body didn't multiply at a fast rate - it behaved quietly like an obedient child.
When she examined him of the side effects of it, he mentioned having none. He didn't have any splitting headaches, blindness, or any disabilities that was brought by it.
This is simply a miracle in this world. But, she'd already seen the existence of "Chat Group", thus she's much less surprised with it.
'Immeasurable fighting experience, has no qualms when it comes to killing, and easygoing.'
She tried matching his personality with the other people that she knew in the past, but she found no - scratch that. There's a match, but she met with him a year ago, back in Babel.
This only meant that someone with exceptional skills such as Shiro is unknown, which is simply confusing.
'I'll check Higashi's archives later.'
*****
The sounds of empty clips falling in the ground resounded in this small tomb. Blood marks littered the golden floor, a sign of how intense this battle is.
The severely wounded retreated along with the lab coats who used their professional knowledge to prolong their lives, but corpses can still be seen lying motionlessly.
"Fire!"
"Director?!"
Liskarm was startled when Ferdinand ran suddenly to the coffin, but before she could react, a massive explosion happened in the place where Shiro was in.
The Energy Section researchers that he brought with him is not just for a stand-in. As they've researched many things tilted to energy, they could recreate Combined Arts, something lost in the long river of time.
"Combined Arts?! Wait, Franka!"
Franka soon followed to Ferdinand, with her rapier glowing blue. With her current strength, she estimated that she could block Shiro as her charged rapier could even pierce through heavy armors.
"Good arts."
As expected, he came out of the thick black smoke. His rainbow wings are gone, but he landed accurately just in front of Ferdinand.
Suddenly, shadow tentacles attacked him and tried to entangle him. However, Shiro's magic circuits glowed as he applied Reinforcement to his arms and legs, breaking the grotesque black tentacles.
After that, something spread out within him, making Ferdinand's movements slow down for a moment.
Taking out a black sword from somewhere, Shiro slashed it towards his ink barrier. The moment that he saw it getting sliced down like butter, he tried his best to slightly avoid the incoming sword.
Ferdinand stepped slightly to the right, barely avoiding it. His ink barrier regenerated rapidly as it repaired the tear created by the black sword.
"What was that sword?"
"This? It's my trusted weapon."
Shiro unknowingly made a nostalgic expression under his hood. When he was about to strike at Ferdinand again, someone blocked it.
Clang-!
His sword was deflected but at the price of Franka's rapier cracking at a fast pace. At this moment, it looked like it could only withstand another single blow.
"Director, no, our employer." She looked at Ferdinand who is behind her and said, "It's time to retreat. Your safety is at risk here, no?"
Even at the face of danger, she's calm. Her tone carried a bit of playfulness in it, something that impressed Shiro. After all, he felt that she's being genuine here, not acting.
"Franka!"
"Liskarm, bring our employer out of here."
"But what about you?"
"I'll buy time. You'll attack us right? Mister?"
"Haha, you got me. Go bring that idiot away and try to block this." Shiro replied to her. "My objective is only to stop him, after all."
Hearing this, Ferdinand's eyes became sharper as he realized the identity of his enemy.
"You're Kal'tsit's companion?"
"You've finally guessed it. If you die, at least you now know your killer."
Shiro still haven't revealed his appearance, but he is satisfied that Acahualla won't be dragged into this anymore.
Injecting some aura to it, Shiro's power exceeded the '102' Physique and Agility that he got after all the buffs that he applied to himself. This is the only reason as to how he matched up with someone comparable to a Great Knight.
"Receive this blow, interesting woman."
Their blades clashed once again, creating a loud sound of metals hitting each other.
"Director-!"
During all this, Ferdinand threw Liskarm away using his shadow tentacles as he ran straight to the chained coffin. His and Shiro's eyes met, with Ferdinand showing a smug face.
He was about to run past him, but Shiro pulled out one of his trump cards in time.
'Eternal Sovereign's Throne.'
Just as he was about to order these 'shadows' to touch the coffin, his surroundings changed.
'What happened?!'
"You simply failed, that's it."
Shifting his vision, he saw Shiro sitting on a huge black throne with golden linings in it. What he wore became different as well. It is a slim black armor filled with different red lines that served as an enhancement to it
Meanwhile, his luxurious robe transformed into white cloth in some parts of his armor. Though it looked impractical compared to plate armor, its defense can even surpass the likes of it.
He could also change his head gear from a hood made up of cloth or a metallic one that covered the entirety of his head.
(A/N: His Armor is similar to Proto Saber)
Franka and Liskarm also noticed him as they got confused as to what happened. However, their attention was caught on the boy sitting on the black throne.
'Hah. If I failed in this mission, my Reality Marbles would be a joke.'
After all, Reality Marble is a different space altogether. Meaning, the ones dragged into it would be in a different space, just like Iskandar's Ionion Hetairoi and EMIYA's Unlimited Blade Works.
Ferdinand would have no chance of reaching the coffin if he dies here.
"Welcome to my world! I do hope you enjoy your stay here."
"Who are you?"
"Me..? I'm your enemy, what else?"
As he spoke, he fired another round of gunpowder bullets at Ferdinand, only for its impact to be absorbed by the ink-like shield. At the same time, the caster mercenaries unleashed their arts at him, providing cover to the others.
"Team A1 to A5, corner him. Team A6 to A9, guard the backlines. Team A10 to A12, continue providing cover!"
The Blacksteel mercenaries moved in a very organized manner.
The shielders brought out their pistols and tried shooting at him to distract his attention.
'Tsk. I didn't have a bomb, what a pity.' He thought. 'I eliminated some when I sprayed an entire round of my rifle, yet I'm still disadvantaged right now.'
Earlier on, he's behind them. Only when he saw that most of them got distracted did he attack. He used the walls on the side as a path to circle straight to their front before dealing damage to them.
'Unfortunately, that Ferdinand do have a reason for his confidence.'
When he sensed the ink barrier that Ferdinand used, he felt that it's familiar. It's somehow similar to the remnant will of the Alien God that he annihilated hours ago.
'Poison with poison, I see. Though, I bet that it won't end well.'
Snapping out of his thoughts, he summoned a transparent rainbow wing behind his back. He first used it to block a salvo of bullets before using it to fly in the sky.
"He's... flying."
"He's a Sankta..! Back off, he'll aim for our weak spots!"
Ferdinand, who saw this, was surprised considering that flying is extremely tiring for a Sankta. Mostly, they could last for a minute or two in the air before being knocked out.
'Is that somehting else? A device? A new power? Or...'
He realized that his enemy might have a power outside of their understanding.
*****
[Private] Shiro: "I'm having quite a hard time here, but nonetheless manageable. Watch out for Surtr."
[Private] Kal'tsit: "Nothing happened as of the moment."
Kal'tsit looked at the Sarkaz girl beside her. For some reason, she felt the similarities between her and Theresa, the current "Demon Lord" of the Sarkaz.
(Note: Demon Lord is the title for Kings of Sarkaz.)
Putting those thoughts aside, she recalled Shiro's examination results. At first, she was shocked that he possessed a 40% assimilation rate towards originum. What's even worse is that his heart is completely assimilated by it.
However, she was even more surprised when she saw that the originum inside his body didn't multiply at a fast rate - it behaved quietly like an obedient child.
When she examined him of the side effects of it, he mentioned having none. He didn't have any splitting headaches, blindness, or any disabilities that was brought by it.
This is simply a miracle in this world. But, she'd already seen the existence of "Chat Group", thus she's much less surprised with it.
'Immeasurable fighting experience, has no qualms when it comes to killing, and easygoing.'
She tried matching his personality with the other people that she knew in the past, but she found no - scratch that. There's a match, but she met with him a year ago, back in Babel.
This only meant that someone with exceptional skills such as Shiro is unknown, which is simply confusing.
'I'll check Higashi's archives later.'
*****
The sounds of empty clips falling in the ground resounded in this small tomb. Blood marks littered the golden floor, a sign of how intense this battle is.
The severely wounded retreated along with the lab coats who used their professional knowledge to prolong their lives, but corpses can still be seen lying motionlessly.
"Fire!"
"Director?!"
Liskarm was startled when Ferdinand ran suddenly to the coffin, but before she could react, a massive explosion happened in the place where Shiro was in.
The Energy Section researchers that he brought with him is not just for a stand-in. As they've researched many things tilted to energy, they could recreate Combined Arts, something lost in the long river of time.
"Combined Arts?! Wait, Franka!"
Franka soon followed to Ferdinand, with her rapier glowing blue. With her current strength, she estimated that she could block Shiro as her charged rapier could even pierce through heavy armors.
"Good arts."
As expected, he came out of the thick black smoke. His rainbow wings are gone, but he landed accurately just in front of Ferdinand.
Suddenly, shadow tentacles attacked him and tried to entangle him. However, Shiro's magic circuits glowed as he applied Reinforcement to his arms and legs, breaking the grotesque black tentacles.
After that, something spread out within him, making Ferdinand's movements slow down for a moment.
Taking out a black sword from somewhere, Shiro slashed it towards his ink barrier. The moment that he saw it getting sliced down like butter, he tried his best to slightly avoid the incoming sword.
Ferdinand stepped slightly to the right, barely avoiding it. His ink barrier regenerated rapidly as it repaired the tear created by the black sword.
"What was that sword?"
"This? It's my trusted weapon."
Shiro unknowingly made a nostalgic expression under his hood. When he was about to strike at Ferdinand again, someone blocked it.
Clang-!
His sword was deflected but at the price of Franka's rapier cracking at a fast pace. At this moment, it looked like it could only withstand another single blow.
"Director, no, our employer." She looked at Ferdinand who is behind her and said, "It's time to retreat. Your safety is at risk here, no?"
Even at the face of danger, she's calm. Her tone carried a bit of playfulness in it, something that impressed Shiro. After all, he felt that she's being genuine here, not acting.
"Franka!"
"Liskarm, bring our employer out of here."
"But what about you?"
"I'll buy time. You'll attack us right? Mister?"
"Haha, you got me. Go bring that idiot away and try to block this." Shiro replied to her. "My objective is only to stop him, after all."
Hearing this, Ferdinand's eyes became sharper as he realized the identity of his enemy.
"You're Kal'tsit's companion?"
"You've finally guessed it. If you die, at least you now know your killer."
Shiro still haven't revealed his appearance, but he is satisfied that Acahualla won't be dragged into this anymore.
Injecting some aura to it, Shiro's power exceeded the '102' Physique and Agility that he got after all the buffs that he applied to himself. This is the only reason as to how he matched up with someone comparable to a Great Knight.
"Receive this blow, interesting woman."
Their blades clashed once again, creating a loud sound of metals hitting each other.
"Director-!"
During all this, Ferdinand threw Liskarm away using his shadow tentacles as he ran straight to the chained coffin. His and Shiro's eyes met, with Ferdinand showing a smug face.
He was about to run past him, but Shiro pulled out one of his trump cards in time.
'Eternal Sovereign's Throne.'
Just as he was about to order these 'shadows' to touch the coffin, his surroundings changed.
'What happened?!'
"You simply failed, that's it."
Shifting his vision, he saw Shiro sitting on a huge black throne with golden linings in it. What he wore became different as well. It is a slim black armor filled with different red lines that served as an enhancement to it
Meanwhile, his luxurious robe transformed into white cloth in some parts of his armor. Though it looked impractical compared to plate armor, its defense can even surpass the likes of it.
He could also change his head gear from a hood made up of cloth or a metallic one that covered the entirety of his head.
(A/N: His Armor is similar to Proto Saber)
Franka and Liskarm also noticed him as they got confused as to what happened. However, their attention was caught on the boy sitting on the black throne.
'Hah. If I failed in this mission, my Reality Marbles would be a joke.'
After all, Reality Marble is a different space altogether. Meaning, the ones dragged into it would be in a different space, just like Iskandar's Ionion Hetairoi and EMIYA's Unlimited Blade Works.
Ferdinand would have no chance of reaching the coffin if he dies here.
"Welcome to my world! I do hope you enjoy your stay here."
