Archer was about to say that Wang Xiaoming couldn't attack when Wang Xiaoming directly kicked him, causing him to vomit blood on the spot.
“Okay, I miscalculated. You can attack. I didn’t expect that. I thought you couldn’t.”
Being kicked by Wang Xiaoming with his iron-framed boots, Archer's chest caved in. It hurt, it hurt so much!
Archer wanted to slap himself from a few seconds ago. If he was going to show off, he should have waited. Showing off now was a bit too much, he was risking his life to do it.
“Archer!”
At this moment, Lancer, who had been stunned and dazed, finally reacted. Seeing Archer vomiting blood, he quickly asked.
“I’m not going to die yet.”
Archer replied while vomiting blood.
“What exactly is going on? Why did you come back from outside? Shouldn’t you have been summoned away by the Command Seals?”
Lancer could also see that Archer's sudden disappearance earlier was due to being summoned away by the Command Seals. At the time, he thought he had been sold out by Archer, leaving him alone to deal with Wang Xiaoming. He was afraid that he would have to ask his Master to use a Command Seal to take him away. But a few seconds later, he saw Wang Xiaoming suddenly draw a magnificent golden greatsword.
Seeing that sword, a name immediately popped into his head: Excalibur!
This was King Arthur's golden sword. It was indeed magnificent enough, and it looked very powerful!
Then he watched Wang Xiaoming swing the sword at the air. He thought Wang Xiaoming was going to use his weapon against him, but after swinging it, he was fine. Instead, Archer, who had already been summoned away by the Command Seals, suddenly jumped back, kneeling on the ground with both hands to receive the sword. What was that all about?
Then he thought of a possibility, or rather, the only possibility.
Noble Phantasm!
“His Noble Phantasm effect, when did it activate? Is it related to that sword? Excalibur... could it be a contract? When was it signed!”
Faced with Lancer's question, Wang Xiaoming just grinned.
“Guess, guess right and maybe there will be a reward.”
Just like the great god Odin's declaration, Gungnir, in Norse mythology, it is said that as long as you swear on the tip of Gungnir, the oath can never be reversed and will surely be fulfilled. Could it be that Excalibur has a similar effect?
Lancer wasn't sure, but he was very worried that this situation would happen to him.
“I’m not sure what his Noble Phantasm effect is, but I already know how to break it.”
Even though Archer was spitting blood, he was still showing off when answering Lancer. Of course, he looked a bit miserable.
“Oh? You guessed it? Then how are you going to undo my effect?”
Wang Xiaoming asked curiously, Archer's face was full of pride.
“Undoing your Noble Phantasm's effect is very simple, just like this!”
While speaking, Archer contacted Rin Tohsaka again, asking her to summon him with a Command Seal. During this time, Rin Tohsaka had run several hundred meters away again.
After receiving Archer's request, Rin Tohsaka used a Command Seal again.
“In the name of the Command Seal, Archer, come to my side unharmed!”
Archer reappeared next to Rin Tohsaka, and the Command Seal's magic healed him once again.
But this time, after landing, he didn't say anything about Unlimited Blade Works, but directly activated his projection.
“Durendal, On!”
A short dagger that looked like lightning appeared in his right hand. He held the dagger and stabbed himself directly.
“Rule Breaker!”
The moment the dagger stabbed him, his contract with Rin Tohsaka was broken, and he became a free Servant.
“Wait, Archer, my contract with you!”
Rin Tohsaka didn't recognize this thing, she was stunned on the spot.
“This is the effect of my weapon, it can sever contracts.”
Archer immediately explained.
“Caster planted some kind of magical contract on me, so he could directly control me remotely. I can only break the contract to get rid of control, but I am not a magician and cannot find where the other party's contract point is. Directly severing all the contracts on my body, the contract with you, Master, can be signed again, no problem.”
“Okay, so that’s how it is. I’m relieved that you said that.”
Rin Tohsaka patted her meager chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
“Now, get out of here quickly!”
Archer picked up Rin Tohsaka again, preparing to escape.
But after he picked up Rin Tohsaka again, his body involuntarily carried Rin Tohsaka back to the original place.
After a burst of frantic running, he dropped Rin Tohsaka and slid back to Wang Xiaoming again, clasping the golden blade with his hands.
The bewildered Archer looked up at Wang Xiaoming with a smile on his face. He didn't understand why this was happening.
And Wang Xiaoming gave him a bright smile.
“Welcome back, Archer.”
748. Archer's Red A Suffers a Miserable Exit
Archer was completely bewildered.
Why, why was this happening? He had already used Rule Breaker, severing all the contracts that might exist on his body, even the Master-Servant contract with Rin Tohsaka had been severed. But why could the other party still control him? How was this possible?
Originally, he was very confident that he could break the other party's Noble Phantasm, after all, all Noble Phantasms were based on magical contracts. But now, he was really bewildered. Even Rule Breaker couldn't break the contract. Was this King Arthur too overpowered?
Wasn't it true that once a contract was established, it could never be avoided? If the other party got the first move, wouldn't it be impossible to play? They were both King Arthurs, why was the King Arthur he knew only able to hold a sword and look around, and had no other functionality besides having high magic resistance and strong attack power? This King Arthur could be so awesome, beating them three up with his bare hands, and even being able to pull out their hearts with his bare hands, and even had an incredibly strange Noble Phantasm.
Was this really a Caster? Was he sure he wasn't some Berserker with strange abilities!?
Of course, as an Archer who was extremely skilled in close combat and even originated from swords, Red A was not qualified to evaluate others.
“Archer, how do you feel now?”
Faced with the bewildered Red A, the smile on Wang Xiaoming's face became more and more brilliant.
“Have you thought of a way to break my ability? If you haven't thought of it, I can give you another chance. After all, your Master still has one Command Seal left.”
Disappearing twice from in front of him meant that Rin Tohsaka had used two Command Seals. Wang Xiaoming didn't know if Rin Tohsaka had wasted a Command Seal according to the original plot to tell Red A not to talk nonsense, but at least Rin Tohsaka had already used two Command Seals, leaving only the last one at most.
After the last Command Seal was used, the Master-Servant contract would lose its effect. But if Rin Tohsaka didn't use a Command Seal, Red A would be dead anyway. So, what choice would Rin Tohsaka make? No matter which of these two options she chose, it was over, unless she could create a third option.
But the current situation was that Rin Tohsaka had no way to choose to save Red A one more time with a Command Seal.
Red A had used Rule Breaker on himself. He hadn't had time to re-sign the contract with Rin Tohsaka, and he was anxious to take Rin Tohsaka away from here, only thinking about running away. As a result, he hadn't run away, and he had come to Wang Xiaoming. He had no choice, his ending was only one!
“No, I don’t think I have any chance to escape.”
Red A knew what his ending would be. As an experienced old fox, he knew that he had no way to struggle.
He couldn't escape, all he could do now was to try to resist a little while his body was unable to move.
That's right, just try to resist a little.
“Iamtheboneofmysword.”
“体 は 剣 で 出来 て い る . （This body is made of swords）”
“Steel—poof—”
Red A still wanted to chant to use his Noble Phantasm, Unlimited Blade Works, but before he could act, he was pierced through the chest, his heart directly ripped out.
This guardian of Alaya fell just like that.
He shouldn't have participated in the Holy Grail War in the first place. He fell on the first night of the Holy Grail War. On just the first night, two participants had already been eliminated.
Wang Xiaoming retracted his left hand. He didn't retrieve Red A's heart. Red A's heart was just ordinary, with nothing special to retrieve. It was just a very ordinary heart, so there was no need to retrieve it. Crushing it was enough.
When his heart was emptied, Wang Xiaoming retracted his sword. Red A no longer needed to maintain his posture, but now he no longer had the ability to continue existing.
Even Archer's Independent Action skill couldn't allow him to continue existing now.
Therefore, after his heart was pierced, there was no possibility of any struggle.
A bleak smile appeared on Red A's face, and then in peacefulness, he dissipated into magical energy.
Archer was eliminated just like that.
Lancer stood beside him, dumbfounded, watching Archer disappear, then appear, then disappear again, then appear again, until now, right in front of him, his heart was ripped out by Wang Xiaoming, just like Saber before. Was this Caster so ferocious? Why did he like using his left hand to rip out hearts!
No, the current focus should be that Archer was also dead! First Saber, then Archer, now only he, Lancer, was left of the Three Knight classes! The glory of the Three Knight classes all depended on him!
But when he thought of the bizarre scene of Archer disappearing then appearing then disappearing then appearing again, he understood that this Caster possessed extremely strange abilities. Although he said he could use Rune magic, he couldn't completely figure out this kind of thing!
Therefore, Lancer decided.
“Master, please be ready to use a Command Spell to summon me back at any time.”
“Hmm?”
In the distance, a certain man who received the order was somewhat puzzled.
“What happened?”
“Although I came to probe the situation of other Servants, now, it seems I've probed a big problem.”
“Oh? What big problem?”
“This Holy Grail War's Caster is a little strong. He has already single-handedly taken out Archer and Saber. Now I am confronting him, but I probably am not his opponent, so in a necessary situation, I hope Master can use a Command Spell to save me.”
Lancer liked fighting, but he didn't like being controlled in battle. Did they really think Lancer liked suicide? Those were all suicides under control. Otherwise, the previous Lancer wouldn't have issued a curse when he died.
Especially since Cú Chulainn's personality preferred evenly matched battles, and then finding opportunities to kill the opponent in life and death.
“I understand. Fight with peace of mind. Contact me directly when you need it, and I will immediately use a Command Spell to call you back.”
After receiving his Master's promise, Lancer relaxed slightly, but he couldn't relax too much.
Archer's death was too bizarre, inexplicably controlled. He couldn't understand how it was done at all. Even though he had been watching Wang Xiaoming, Wang Xiaoming didn't chant any Noble Phantasm release incantations, just took out a sword and swung it. Even if that sword had the effect of a vow like Odin's Gungnir, you should at least say a vow for me to hear, like saying: Archer, come to my side.
But you didn't say a word and suddenly swung your sword, and then Archer came back. He even swung it twice. The second time, Archer still disappeared with a confident look that he had seen through your ability, but in the end, he still returned here in confusion. This was completely unreasonable.
Must be careful, careful, and more careful!
Lancer rotated the spear in his hand and came to Wang Xiaoming. He held the spear with both hands, squatted slightly, and posed in a stance ready to thrust at any time.
“Lancer, are you ready too?”
Wang Xiaoming looked at Lancer's stance and asked with a smile.
“Ah, I'm already ready. As a warrior, it won't do if I don't fight well. I will fight well until the very last moment!”
Lancer responded with a smile.
“Very good, then let me see your resolve!”
74 Einzbern
Resolve, what resolve? What I can do now is to try as much as possible to probe what abilities you have!
Even the most pretentious person wouldn't really rush up to fight you 1v1 at this time!
But, in order to be able to fight when we meet next time, the probing that should be done must be done. If I don't probe it out this time, I will still die when we meet next time!
Looking at Wang Xiaoming, who seemed very relaxed in front of him, Lancer swallowed hard and gripped the blood-red spear in his hand.
There is only one chance for failure. After one chance, Master must use a Command Spell to summon me back, otherwise I may die here directly like Archer. I don't want to have my heart ripped out, that kind of death is too suffocating.
Take a deep breath, stare at every detail of the opponent's movements, and then!
Lancer's eyes widened, and his A+ agility was brought to the extreme. He disappeared from the spot in an instant. Two footprint-shaped pits appeared in the cement on the ground after he disappeared.
Lancer appeared again, directly behind Wang Xiaoming, holding the spear in his right hand, rotating his body and stabbing fiercely at Wang Xiaoming's back.
Wang Xiaoming twisted his body in place, even retracting his sword, using the armor on his back to directly scrape against Lancer's spear, causing the tip of the spear to scrape out a spark on the armor, directly cutting away. Wang Xiaoming took advantage of this missed shot, directly stuck to Lancer's chest, and directly rushed up with his shoulder, a back slam hitting Lancer's chest hard.
This slam directly knocked the air out of Lancer's lungs, causing him to fly backwards on the spot.
But at the moment Lancer flew out, Wang Xiaoming directly raised his hand and grabbed the other party's spear. Although Lancer was knocked away, his fighting instinct made him hold on to his weapon tightly, without letting go at all. So Wang Xiaoming directly used Lancer's spear to pull him back.
However, Lancer didn't do nothing after being pulled back. Instead, he forcibly adjusted his body posture during the process of being pulled back, enduring the pain of being hit in the chest, forcibly set up his posture, and turned around to kick Wang Xiaoming when he came back.
Although I can't use weapons, but empty-handed, I can kick you with my feet!
Facing Lancer's kicking foot, Wang Xiaoming directly turned his left hand into claws, stabbing up in a hand-sword posture.
Lancer saw Wang Xiaoming's left hand that had pierced through Archer and Saber, his face changed drastically. He reversed his body halfway through the kick, forcibly twisting his body, letting his foot miss Wang Xiaoming's left hand, preventing the other party's claws from directly piercing through. He didn't think his sole was harder than Saber's armor!
