"I just clamped him for a moment, and I wasn't even injured. How can there be a blood feud——"
Looking at Shinji Matou like this, Shirou Emiya couldn't help but complain in his heart.
At that time, he was just restraining Shinji Matou and didn't do anything else. He was just like an angry child, making Shirou Emiya complain without knowing where to start.
However, this kind of self-centered, privileged, and contemptuous personality of people around him is indeed very similar to the personality of Shinji Matou whom he knows.
"Humph! Come and fight in an upright manner! I will beat you to a pulp! If you lose, you will only be able to wail alone!"
With such harsh words, Shinji shook his seaweed hair with his hand, and the expression on his face quickly calmed down. He glanced at Shirou Emiya with great displeasure, and then left.
"A fair duel"
It was the first time that Emiya Shirou heard such words from Matou Shinji's mouth.
This kind of words don't seem to fit the man named Matou Shinji at all.
But seeing his extremely confident eyes, which were filled with the desire to win, Emiya Shirou seemed to understand that these words indeed came from his mouth.
"Is your first opponent Matou Shinji?"
Toosaka Rin appeared beside Emiya Shirou at some point, and looked at Matou Shinji who had already left with a faint smile.
"Well, do you know him?"
Shirou Emiya was not surprised at all because he heard footsteps coming from the stairs.
"Well, in the memories of this academy, he and I didn't get along well—"
Toosaka Rin didn't beat around the bush when responding to Emiya Shirou.
Because the pre-selection period was only four days in total, the other memories were stuffed in by Mooncell, and these memories were still retained by the magicians who passed the pre-selection.
However, in Toosaka Rin's memory, Matou Shinji has never taken advantage of her.
"But you still don't have a Servant. What will you do when the decisive battle comes?"
It seemed natural for Toosaka Rin to worry about how Emiya Shirou would face the upcoming battle.
He seemed to have forgotten that he and Emiya Shirou were actually enemies.
"Let's take it one step at a time—"
Emiya Shirou could only scratch his head and respond to Toosaka Rin.
He also didn't know how big the gap was between him and the Heroic Spirit.
I don’t know what the outcome of this battle will be.
But he could only move forward step by step, and he had no way of knowing what the outcome of this battle would be.
If there is anything he can do now, it is to find out the real name of Shinji Matou's servant.
After all, there are many servants who can easily find his weaknesses once they know his real name.
Of course, this is just a possibility. In most cases, it is not so easy to find its weaknesses.
Just like the Holy Grail War he participated in, Arthur had no particular weaknesses and was extremely good in every aspect.
And Karna is even more powerful, and until now Shirou Emiya has not been able to think of any way to defeat Karna.
Even if he released the strongest holy sword that he could project, he probably wouldn't be able to defeat Karna.
"Really, there is no plan at all—"
Toosaka Rin covered her face helplessly and shook her head. However, it was obviously Shirou Emiya's own battle, but she seemed to be more nervous than Shirou Emiya.
"Didi di di di!!!"
At this moment, the terminal in Emiya Shirou's pocket made a sound.
"The first code key has been generated, please go to the first floor of the arena--"
Emiya Shirou quickly read through the information.
I didn't expect that I would have to go to the arena to look for the code key just after I found out who my opponent was.
Chapter 540: One Moon and the Sea
maze.
This word was not unfamiliar to Emiya Shirou.
It can even be said to be very familiar.
During the time in the dungeon, Shirou Emiya had faced countless mazes that could trap adventurers.
He has also killed countless monsters.
But what appeared before Emiya Shirou now, the maze called the arena by Kotomine Kirei, really shocked him.
Thousands of feet above the sky, the deep blue sky is like a boundless curtain, covering the entire endless ocean.
The joyful cries of the seagulls flying in the sky could be clearly heard, and a bright light shone down from the sky and landed at Shirou Emiya's feet.
The surging waves kept hitting the cliff like a giant beast, and the repeated collisions shook Shirou Emiya's mind.
Broken cliffs, towering stone pillars, and steep stone gates.
The scenery here, illuminated by the azure light, seems like a scene that can only appear in mythology, which makes people feel indescribable excitement.
Countless huge sails collapsed on the island.
Wine barrels, spears, and even cannons were deeply embedded in the cliffs and above the ground, making the entire scene appear extremely intricate.
The all-consuming ocean is constantly pounding the island.
This is the arena where Shirou Emiya is currently standing, and it is also the venue for his final battle with Shinji Matou - the Ichitsuki Sea of Thought.
Everything here is too real, so real that even the gentle sea breeze makes Shirou Emiya unable to sense any falsehood.
He had never imagined that the maze of this world would be like this.
So open, and so grand.
After all, the maze that Shirou Emiya saw inside the dungeon was nothing but dark, compact and filled with an omnipresent sense of crisis.
The purpose of the dungeon is to kill adventurers, and it will not do things that have no meaning in killing adventurers.
The moment Emiya Shirou arrived here, dozens of monsters began to emerge from the surrounding rocks, from the ground beneath his feet, and from the broken sails.
He stared at Shirou Emiya with an extremely ferocious expression.
A pair of guns, one black and one white, with blades quickly appeared in his hands.
Shirou Emiya felt that he had never encountered a situation where only such a small number of monsters appeared.
After all, when he was in the dungeon, even the monsters he had to face in the first few floors were at least counted in units of hundreds.
However, judging from their momentum alone, the strength of these dozens of monsters is definitely not as weak as the monsters in the first few floors of the dungeon.
At least it is the strength level of deep-level monsters.
After all, the enemies these monsters face are servants, who are simply incomparable to ordinary people.
Even a magician can easily deal with the monsters in the first few floors of the dungeon, not to mention the servants who are more powerful than the magician.
Of course, this is not absolute.
However, this Holy Grail War itself is a battle of the weak being preyed upon by the strong. Only one out of 999 magicians will be able to leave alive. If one cannot even survive the attack of this monster, then he or she should be eliminated early.
"Roar--!"
"Zi——!"
An irrational roar and the sound of electricity as if a target had been found came from all around Emiya Shirou.
The monsters generated here are not like those in the dungeon. There are only wild beasts and machine-like creatures attacking Shirou Emiya.
A wild cat-like beast came out from the cliff in front, let out a heavy roar, and fell to the ground with all four limbs. Its muscles deformed, and it suddenly bounced and pounced towards Emiya Shirou.
Facing the monster that was pouncing on him, Shirou Emiya quickly raised the gun in his hand and aimed it at the beast's brow. The bullet turned into a silver beam of light and flew towards the monster's forehead with great precision.
"Oh!"
With a dull thud, bullets flew out from Shirou Emiya's gun, tearing through the air without exception and piercing the forehead of the cat-like monster.
However----
"Roar--!"
The monster that flew in the air did not lose its life. Instead, it roared in pain, its eyes flashing with anger, and swung its sharp claws towards Emiya Shirou.
"Qiang——!"
The loud sound of collision spread throughout the air.
It was accompanied by sparks that suddenly exploded like fireworks.
Facing the extremely angry claw attack, Shirou Emiya raised the double guns with blades in his hands in time to block it.
Then, before the monster in the air could swing its second claw, a silver arc of light flashed across its neck as its pupils shrank viciously.
"Pfft——!"
At this moment, the sound of flesh being torn apart was heard in front of Emiya Shirou.
The monster's neck was instantly cut by the blade.
But before Shirou Emiya was ready to attack other monsters, he was overwhelmed by an intense sense of crisis.
At this moment, he suddenly seemed to remember something.
The second claw strike, which should have lost its power and stagnated, suddenly appeared at the side of Shirou Emiya, tearing the air and fiercely slashing at Shirou Emiya's neck.
"call out--!"
At this moment, the long battle allowed Shirou Emiya to make an immediate judgment, and his body fell suddenly downwards in the direction of the sharp claws.
In his hands, the two guns, one black and one white, flashed with a cold luster. When Shirou Emiya pulled the trigger, bullets poured down from under the monster's body like rain without any mercy.
Countless bullet holes pierced through his abdomen at this moment.
The next second—
"Ow-!!"
The monster let out a terrible howl, and then its entire body rapidly lost its luster and turned into a blue light, which dissipated into the air.
"Because it's data, there are only weaknesses, but no fatal weaknesses?"
Emiya Shirou, who had fallen to the ground, quickly stabilized his body, stood up again, and looked solemnly at the monster he had just defeated.
At the moment he cut off the monster's neck, he suddenly remembered that this world is, in a sense, a computer world, and these monsters and these landscapes are all made up of data.
If it was a monster in the dungeon, having its head pierced by this shot would almost be a declaration of death.
But the monster seemed to be unaffected and continued to move.
If it is a being made up of data, then even if I cut off its neck, it would not be a fatal injury!
When he thought of this, Shirou Emiya also noticed the sharp claws waving towards his neck, and he reacted quickly and dodged.
The monsters that appear here are probably more difficult to deal with than the monsters of the same level in the dungeon, and to some extent, they are even more difficult to deal with than monsters of a higher level.
Because there is no way to kill them with one fatal blow, if you want to get rid of these monsters, you must inflict a certain amount of damage.
Chapter 541: Matou Shinji, Full of Superiority
"Is this the test for the Master?"
For Shirou Emiya, these monsters were not difficult to deal with, but he needed to spend more ammunition to deal with one monster than in the dungeon.
If they are dealt with individually, these monsters are not as difficult to deal with as those at a higher level in the dungeon, and they can even be easily killed by those at a higher level.
However, if a large group of monsters like the one in the dungeon could form, it would be a nightmare for adventurers.
These monsters do not just charge with their bodies, but like the monsters in the dungeon, they have different characteristics and attack methods.
Those mechanical monsters can even fire bullets and electric currents to attack.
There is no particular difference between them and the monsters of the same level in the dungeon. The biggest difference is that their bodies appear to be unharmed even after receiving extremely serious attacks.
