Kojiro Sasaki, this name is like thunder among the people.

As the most famous swordsman in the late Warring States period, Sasaki made the Notai sword, which was rarely used by other swordsmen, according to legend, his swordsmanship has become a transformation realm, and even the only defeat in his life, and his death at the hands of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi at that time was also caused by the other party's use of treacherous tricks, it can be said that in terms of swordsmanship alone, Sasaki has almost reached the peak of this way, at least in Japanese history, no one can beat it.

But the heroic spirit who fought with the knight king in front of him,It's not the real Sasaki Kojiro.,This heroic spirit's personality is simply straightforward to the point of staggering.,Not only said his real name.,Even the nameless swordsman in front of him.,Just because of his life's hard work to learn Sasaki's fame and extinction:Yan Hui,And was named Sasaki Kojiro by later generations.,And in this way, incarnated as an overhead heroic spirit.,Such things are unreservedly said before the battle with our side.,Although for the battle,,This is not the secret that can determine the outcome of the battle., However, the ability to tell his secrets to his enemies in such a way without caring still made Artoria, who pursued the way of knighthood, admire, and therefore, despite the absolute superiority of our side, Saber insisted on fighting alone, and responded to the unnamed swordsman's defeat with the justice of knightly duels.

But now it seems that the blonde girl, who is always full of confidence and strength, has gradually fallen into the disadvantage.

As an unnamed swordsman promoted to an overhead heroic spirit, the long knife in Sasaki's hand is not a divine weapon that is enough to fight against the holy sword of the King of Britain, and it is not even the lowest level of treasures, it is just a love knife that accompanied the swordsman for a lifetime, and it is just a mortal soldier created by an ordinary blacksmith, but with such an ordinary weapon, the heroic spirit of the assassin rank not only tied with Saber with the swordsman rank in the head-on battle, but even gradually had a tendency to suppress the latter, A large part of this is due to his sword skills.

Artoria's sword skills are naturally powerful, that is honed on the battlefield for many years, from the enemy's corpses to practice killing skills, each sword is simple and effective, the move is deadly, there is no waste, such a battle in the battlefield life and death confrontation naturally has the upper hand, but Sasaki's swordsmanship is a completely other level of things, that is not just a combat technique, and has even been sublimated to the realm of "kendo", I know very well that as a heroic spirit, Sasaki does not have his own treasure, his swordsmanship is "treasure", With a skill to confront the Heroic Spirit's Noble Phantasm, it was no surprise that Saber was defeated by Sasaki in swordsmanship.

In the quiet of the night, the silver-white flash cut through the air again and again, leaving a sharp explosion, in front of the narrow mountain gate of Liudong Temple, the narrow blade and the invisible sword clashed violently, and the resulting wind blade even cut off all the nearby grass stems, Saber had already suffered some injuries in the battle with Hercules before, although I later recovered most of my magic and injuries because of the glorious aura of my cottage, but in the case of suppression in swordsmanship, that little hidden secret wound has been magnified exponentially, Almost visible to the naked eye, the movements of the girl in the silver-white dress gradually slowed down.

And, maybe it's my hallucination, but the "Kojiro Sasaki" in front of me is too strong, right?

This is definitely far beyond the strength of the original book, it stands to reason that even if Sasaki can overpower Saber in swordsmanship, it is impossible to gain the upper hand so quickly, and the current situation of Saber is much better than in the original book, it should not have shown decline so quickly, but even if I don't know anything about swordsmanship, I can also see from the comparison of the current state of the two that Saber's physical strength has been consumed most of it in battle.

"Huh-" An arc-shaped silver flash once again blocked the blonde girl's lightning-like side attack, and the moment the latter's body adjusted its center of gravity as a result, Sasaki suddenly changed the trajectory of the blade in mid-air at a seemingly incredible angle, and slashed the bamboo pole towards the opponent's shoulder with a non-pausing V-shaped angle, in the face of such an unstoppable attack, Saber could only jump sharply, dodging the fatal blow at the same time, but also completely confirmed that he had fallen behind.

"Saber" Emiya has been watching anxiously from the side, but due to Saber's resolute attitude before the battle, he can only watch the battle with all of us, and now seeing that his servant is not in good shape, he immediately shouted, I believe that as long as Saber is threatened again at this time, this stupid boy can rush up and fight with Sasaki regardless of his own strength.

"Don't come here," the blonde girl gasped, but still firmly, "the fight isn't over yet"

"You're a formidable enemy," Sasaki said in a tone of sincere appreciation, "and in fact, I didn't spare my hand, and I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to defeat you even if I tried my best to fight for some special reason." ”

"Perhaps, but there are no assumptions in a duel." After resting for a few seconds to regain her strength, Saber raised her head again, and at the same time shook her arm slightly, a movement she had repeated two or three times just now, "This, is this your special ability?" Toxin? Or is it a magic interference? ”

"Who knows," Sasaki re-grasped the long knife in his hand, holding it across his eyes, "In short, it will be very effective against the Heroic Spirit, and a protracted battle will not be good for you." ”

In the next second, with the sound of a burst of air piercing, the two sides fought together again, still the duel beyond the limits of the human eye, the two blurred figures were almost entangled and colliding like a wind, and in such a battle, I also constantly assessed the strength of the two.

Although they are in a low-demon and imbecile world, as an existence directly related to the origin of the world, the individual strength of these heroic spirits can also reach the level of low-level Xiling apostles, and their ontology in the Valhalla may even be able to confront the junior commanders at the level of Xiling Sergeant Chief, of course, this refers to the pure ** quality of the firefight, if it is a master officer who is fully armed and carries a photon cannon and can call for fleet support at any time, it is estimated that no heroic spirit can bear it.

With such combat power, and as long as Valhalla is not destroyed, all of them will not die, so it's no wonder that Sandora will strongly support my "Heroic Spirit Abduction Plan".

"Qiang—"

With a loud metal crash, the bamboo pole that was about to hit the target was once again blocked by the invisible sword, but this time, Saber failed to launch another victory chase as he had done several times before, but quickly retreated two steps, and then held the sword in front of him, gasping violently.

There were no scars on his body at all, but it was as if he had lost the strength to lift his sword.

At this time, I also saw an abnormality, it seems that with the continuous confrontation with Sasaki, Saber's physical strength is also rapidly decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the flexibility of his body is getting worse and worse......

Like poisoned? Thinking of the word "toxin" mentioned by Saber just now, this is the first thing that comes to my mind, but a heroic spirit like Sasaki will use poison in battle?

So, is it magic interference?

I don't remember where Sasaki will have such an ability in the setting, although it is a common ability as an Assassin, but I still know that Sasaki's ability to really meet the assassin rank should be an infiltration approach technique such as breath blocking, and as for toxins and magic interference, they are not things that he may have mastered as a samurai.

Perhaps because of his personality, or perhaps because he was afraid of our watchful eyes on the side, after repelling Saber, Sasaki did not choose to pursue, but put the long knife at his side seemingly casually, and stood in front of the mountain gate and calmly looked ahead.

"Saber, how are you?" Emiya finally couldn't help but rush forward and tried to support the girl, but the latter still forced himself to stand up straight, and then turned his head and smiled apologetically: "Disappointing everyone, this Heroic Spirit's ability is very strange, it can constantly reduce the opponent's agility in melee combat, whether it is attacking or being attacked, as long as there is contact, this ability will take effect." ”

Sasaki watched coldly in front of him, even if the defeated Saber secretly informed his companions of his ability in this way, he was not moved at all, he was already ready, and at the same time to face so many enemies, even if there were only two heroic spirits who could be used as combat power, he was ready to take out all the hole cards.

With a cautious expression, Saber slowly retreated to our side, while Archer, Emiya, and Rin Tosaka stepped forward, alert for a possible enemy attack, but the man with the long knife in front of him was unmoved, just stood there like a statue, as he had stated before: My only mission is only to prevent you from passing through this gate.

As for Saber who came back, I could clearly see that her body was stiff, especially her right shoulder, which was almost immobilized, and it was quite difficult to even swing.

"Ah Jun, do you feel it?"

Sandora's voice sounded in my head, and I nodded solemnly, "Very obvious." ”

"Saber, I'm sorry, can you show me your arm?"

The blonde girl guessed that I might have a solution to the problem in front of her, and she didn't hesitate, and after disarming the armor, she directly tore off the right sleeve with her still flexible left hand, and immediately, the girl's white and slender arm appeared in front of my eyes and Sandora's eyes, but what was more striking than the white skin was the crystalline body that spread out like blood vessels and was emitting a strange blue light.

The crystalline body tissue replaces the normal flesh and blood, and it is completely fused with the girl's arm, no wonder her movements are so stiff, if it is an ordinary heroic spirit, I am afraid that the entire half of the body has been crystallized at this time.

Psychic energy erosion, Rider and we were injected with a lot of spectral energy because of the ability of tears, and as a result, almost the whole person turned into a crystal statue in a few seconds, so I am no stranger to this special damage caused by the Heroic Spirit after being polluted by spectral energy, Sandora was not present that day, but by sharing it with my heart, she also knew the situation at that time.

Sasaki's attack has ghostly energy

How is this possible?

As far as we know, apart from us, only the Protos of the New Federation of Eden (the race of the survivors of the old Kpru) have come into contact with the skin of this energy, how can an ordinary heroic spirit in the realm of the low-demon and imbecile world master this energy? What's more, for regular Heroic Spirits, the ghost energy that invades their bodies is simply more terrifying than poison

The spiritual power spread, and the energy fluctuations in every inch of space in the entire Yanagito Temple were presented in front of his eyes, and the focus of his observation was locked on the heroic spirit named Sasaki.

It was his long knife—on the edge of that long knife, there was a faint ghostly energy wandering

"Sandora, the psychic force field, has put all the irrelevant personnel into an absolute coma." I confessed to Sandora through a spiritual connection, and walked forward.

"Although I don't know what kind of coward your master is, he is still hiding in the shadows in this situation, but now, let me be your opponent."

"You?" Sasaki showed a look of surprise, "An ordinary person? ”

I didn't speak, but moved my wrist to get ready to punch, but the next second the voice in my head stopped my movements, and after listening to the summons from Avalon, I had a laughing and crying expression on my face, and then I looked up and said to Sasaki, "Oh, then someone else will fight with you." ”

The voice fell, turned around and left.

Everyone: "......"

"Are you insulting me?" Sasaki's angry voice sounded behind him, with an undisguised murderous aura, I can understand his anger, in fact, I am also very depressed when the opportunity to flirt with a child is snatched away, but who let a certain cold weapon fighting master suddenly take the initiative to ask for help?

The sudden sound of metal colliding from the darkness interrupted Sasaki's angry questioning, "Click, click", there were regular sounds, I knew that it was the sound of metal arthropods scratching on the ground, it was Vega, after seeing the scene of Sasaki and Saber fighting through the Avalon monitoring system, Sister Scorpion really itched, and took the initiative to ask Ying to fight this heroic spirit with superb fighting skills, in the words of Sister Scorpion, although the absolute strength is unsightly, but purely from the point of view of skills, Sasaki's swordsmanship is still quite interesting.

In the event of such a thing, the fanaticism of the armored scorpion is definitely no less than that of Pandora's enthusiasm for war.

To be honest, I really can't understand Vega's enthusiasm for this kind of battle, it feels like a huge gap in the values of the world and the world, but the little scorpion is usually a stuffy gourd, and rarely takes the initiative to ask me, this time she can take the initiative to speak just to have a discussion with this human, so it is nothing to satisfy this little wish.

"You see, it's not a landing capsule this time."

I shrugged my shoulders and said to the guards who were looking around blankly, and they all gave a horrified "oh" together.

"Isn't that another photographer, in other words?" Tosaka had a helpless look on his face, and rubbed his hand on his forehead, "You have to give a good human society...... Ah, what's that?"

Less than five meters away next to Sasaki, a deep black vortex suddenly appeared in the air, and the sound of metal crashing like footsteps came from there, and it became clearer and clearer, under everyone's attention, the first thing to poke out of the vortex were two exaggerated war knives that were even longer than the bamboo poles, lingering with electric light, and then appeared in front of everyone, a beautiful woman with a cold and plump upper body, and a hybrid "monster" with a hideous and terrifying mechanical scorpion body on the lower body.

The mechanical scorpion with a huge war knife in his hand walked out of the portal unhurriedly, just standing there, it made every nerve in Sasaki's body send out a sharp alarm, this is a reaction that can only be felt in the face of a death crisis, the woman in front of him, or the monster, is exuding a pure sense of killing, and the people present, whether it is Sasaki who has experienced countless duels in his life, or Artoria who has been on the battlefield for many years, or Red A with blood on his hands, will not be strangers to this feeling, A pure killing machine, every hair, every cell, is precisely designed as a weapon killing machine, and this is the first impression they have of Vega after a short period of shock.

Not paying any attention to the different lines of sight around him, Vega turned directly to my side after breaking away from the portal, and then "snapped" a Xiling military salute that was standard enough to be used as a textbook: "Imperial armored scorpion, Vega reports here, fight for victory, sir"

"That's your chosen opponent, free to attack."

"Click-click-" Two metal crisp sounds, Vega's tail swung slightly, and then slowly turned to the direction of Sasaki, the atmosphere of the scene was instantly depressed to the extreme, Sasaki, who had been very calm and calm before, also oozed a slight sweat on his face at the moment, the bamboo pole was tightly held in his hand, he opened his body slightly, bowed forward, and made a stern posture, the strange creatures in front of him with a hideous shape more than two meters high were covered with an unsettling smell of blood, if it wasn't for the mission, He really wanted to evacuate now - although it was Sasaki's greatest wish to fight a strong enemy, this wish did not include such a strange "final weapon" in front of him.

"You can't beat me," Vega's mechanically reverberated voice rang out without emotion, as she looked at the Heroic Spirit in front of her, "but I'm intrigued by your fighting skills. ”

As soon as the words fell, Vega suddenly collided with the two knives in his hand, and immediately, all the energy sparks that lingered on the blade dimmed, and the fusiform metal shell on Vega's tail, which had been in a semi-open state and emitted a faint red light, was also closed.

"I don't use any special attacks, and I use exactly the same amount of force as you," Vega said in a factual tone, "So, let me see how much I can surprise me with the fighting skills honed by your primitive race."