[221] Getting Serious

"It's truly... beautiful."

Under the night sky, DIO looked at the distant battlefield bathed in radiance and said, "The power displayed is truly beautiful... Louis, don't you think so too?"

"Well... what should we do?" DIO's Master, Louis Schmidt, sighed and asked, "Do you possess such power?"

"No, it's useless." DIO straightforwardly admitted this fact, then smiled, "But—I say 'now!' I indeed don't possess such power right now, but... it's only for now! Louis, there are still three days... three days until that time comes, and then I will put an end to this war directly!"

"Three days..." Louis Schmidt still didn't understand.

This man had been incessantly talking about some event. What would happen in three days?

However...

"DIO... you said you and that Ozymandias aren't the same person, right?"

"Oh? What do you mean?"

"You see, your voices sound completely identical... and both are in Egypt, both are Riders..." Louis Schmidt said, looking at DIO's expression to see if there was any change.

"No, there's no connection." DIO said, furrowing his brows slightly.

...

"Hey, Master." Covered in blood, Mordred walked over, having put away her armor.

"All covered in blood... how did it go?" The master wearing black clothes and black sunglasses, a necromancer, asked.

"I ran away." Mordred said, smiling. "That guy... is simply a monster. I can't think of a way to kill him, so I ran away."

"A monster?" Kairi Sisigou, looked puzzled. "How so? Explain it to me."

"Simply put... I cut off his head three times, pierced his heart twice, used my Noble Phantasm to evaporate his entire body once... and he still lived. Truly... " Mordred said, touching her own head. Earlier, a bullet had pierced through her helmet, leaving a bloodstain on her forehead.

So, she fled.

There was no hope of winning if the battle continued.

On the other hand, even though she only occasionally had the opportunity to harm the Servant she was fighting against... there was no way to find a method to kill him at all. It was clear that he had some way of resurrecting, and this had become quite apparent.

"Can't die?" Kairi Sisigou was a bit puzzled. "Wouldn't destroying his spiritual core be enough?"

"That's what it seems like..." Mordred sighed. "But, that guy just stood there motionless, and when I attacked, I didn't know where his spiritual core was. He took my Noble Phantasm head-on, seemed to die, and then, in less than a moment, he revived... I don't know what to do. It's the first time I've seen such a monster."

"Hmm? Could it be something like Heracles' Twelve Labors? Do you need to kill him twelve times?" Kairi Sisigou speculated.

"I don't know. Anyway, I ran away." Mordred wiped the blood from her forehead, the only blood that was hers. The rest was all from the Servant she was fighting against.

"If he's not someone who needs to be killed multiple times... he feels a bit off." Mordred added.

"I see..." Kairi Sisigou thought for a moment. "Anyway, leave this matter to that Queen."

...

"Roar!"

"I see, so this is your Berserker, Mevis." Barthomeloi Lorelei looked at the summoned Berserker by Mevis and nodded, "He looks like an ancient general. What's his name?"

"Lü Bu... that's his name."

Barthomeloi Lorelei barely raised an eyebrow. "Oh... fortunately, it's a Berserker. Let him go and probe the other side of the Dead Apostle. Now that we can confirm on the Church side that Gilgamesh has been summoned, there should be one or two Servants on the Dead Apostle side as well, right? Let Berserker go and probe, with Archer providing support!"

"I understand." Mevis nodded, then said to Berserker, "Did you hear that? Go and probe the Servants on the Dead Apostle's side. If possible, kill them. It doesn't matter even if you kill them."

"Roar! (I'll kill those guys who dared to come near!)" Berserker roared and rushed out.

"Well, I'll be responsible for support, right?" Archer smiled as he walked out.

"Yes, Dead Apostles are all proud beings. If you can kill so many Dead Apostles, and even gather some high-ranking Dead Apostles together... among those Dead Apostles, there must be some existence beyond the ordinary ones. Find them, kill them. That is your mission."

"Oh, I understand." Archer nodded and then turned into a spiritual form. "Well then, I'll go now."

"Then... let's go and see Rider next..." Barthomeloi Lorelei slightly relaxed and said.

"Saber has arrived, and it's said that she encountered an undying monster. Then, Assassin and Caster..."

"Have Saber wait temporarily for further orders, as for Assassin and Caster... well, just handle them as you see fit." Barthomeloi Lorelei waved her hand, "Call that Layard and his Servant and come with me to see Rider."

She didn't care about Assassin and Caster.

Because... not only were those two Servants ones she couldn't defeat, but also because... those two Masters were not from her faction.

All the other Masters were under her command, or were Masters related to her.

But those two were different.

One was a democratic faction's Master, and the other was a neutral faction's Master...

Since they didn't obey her orders, there was no need to use them. Anyway... the current configuration was already sufficient.

Saber - Mordred, Lancer - Enkidu, and Archer - Arash.

These three Knights were top-notch.

Then there was the Pharaoh Rider, equal in strength to the King of Heroes - Ozymandias.

And general from Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Lü Bu.

Now, they had drawn the best cards!

...

"How does it feel, Gilgamesh?" Kirei Kotomine looked at Gilgamesh, the Servant he summoned, and said. He was Gilgamesh's Master and the one in charge, while the others were mainly responsible for the fight.

Not that there was much else to do.

"Haven't you figured it out?" Gilgamesh smiled and said, "This king's mood is quite good indeed."

"Reunion with an old friend? Or is it that Rider..."

"Both." Gilgamesh sat down in his seat, looking seemingly in a good mood, and said, "I truly didn't expect to meet Enkidu in this era and then... that Sun King is quite impressive. He has the qualification to make this king draw out EA."

"So, can you win?"

"...Kirei, you're getting more and more impudent. Will I lose? Normally, that's indeed possible, but now it's different... now this king has truly gotten serious!"

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