Although Archer is just a Servant, Kishinami Hakuno himself is not an orthodox magus. His attitude towards Servants is more like partners who fight together rather than familiars.
When facing the injured Archer, the first thing she thought of was not the impact of her Servant's weakened strength on the upcoming battle, but her real concern for the Servant's injury.
"Just like facing your previous opponents, do what you are best at and organize the information you have obtained, Master—"
Seeing the relieved Kishinami Hakuno, Archer couldn't help but smile knowingly. He sat on the chair arrogantly again and spoke to Kishinami Hakuno in front of him.
Even if you find your opponent's weakness in a book, it does not mean that you have the ability to exploit this weakness and defeat the enemy.
It's like after learning Achilles' real name, knowing that hitting his heel can break the powerful blessing of immortality, but actually doing it is an extremely difficult thing.
They know their weaknesses better than you can get from searching for information.
We will also be more careful about prevention.
Leo directly revealed the real name of his servant Gawain, and everyone understood Gawain's weakness.
But even so, Leo came to the fourth round of battle as an absolute winner.
After Emiya Shirou paid almost everything he had, he was able to barely break Gawain's [Digital of the Saint].
"Sorting?"
Hakuno Kishinami nodded. After every battle with the enemy, she and Archer would analyze the enemy's real name and methods here.
"This time, our opponent is Emiya-kun, and to some extent, your past, Archer."
"Archer, you are superior to Emiya-kun in terms of combat experience, but inferior to Emiya-kun in terms of the quality of your projected Noble Phantasm."
"No, now I should add one more thing. I haven't reached his level of archery. Although I don't know the reason, I can feel that he has a teacher to teach him."
Archer listened to Kishinami Hakuno's analysis and supplemented it.
Archer initially thought that Shirou Emiya's archery and swordsmanship were the same as his own, and that he had figured them out through his own continuous research.
Unexpectedly, Shirou Emiya actually had someone else teaching him archery.
He could even feel that the archery skills of the teacher who taught Emiya Shirou were at a very high level.
"At this stage, if we engage in a fight with Emiya-kun, we must avoid the use of Noble Phantasms and long-range conflicts."
"Because of the existence of evil spirits, if you don't use the treasure, such a small-scale conflict will not cause effective damage at all, and you can't even get any intelligence."
Hakuno Kishinami continued to analyze.
Everything now is just as Archer said at the beginning. Because of the existence of the evil spirit, the originally bright situation has become so serious.
"If we want to force out more information before the decisive battle, the use of Noble Phantasms is inevitable!"
Kishinami Shirakuno frowned and looked straight at Archer. The current situation was indeed very tricky, even more difficult than the enemies he had encountered before.
After all, in the previous battles, almost all of the opponents could be dealt with as long as their real names were known.
"Aren't you going to use your Noble Phantasms sparingly?"
Archer couldn't help but raise his brows when he heard what Kishinami Hakuno said, but then he changed his mind and realized that he had already expected that he would have to deploy his final Noble Phantasm in the final battle.
After unfolding, all the treasures inside will be read and analyzed by Shirou Emiya in full view, and finally become one of the treasures that Shirou Emiya can project.
There won't be much disadvantage in hiding your Noble Phantasm again.
After all, Archer couldn't think of any treasure that could easily kill Shirou Emiya with one strike.
As for Gae Bolg of Cuchulainn.
When he saw Toosaka Rin, he could feel the presence of the gun.
And since Shirou Emiya defeated Toosaka Rin, he naturally also possessed this weapon.
It can even be said that Shirou Emiya survived the hands of Cu Chulainn, the owner of this Noble Phantasm, and won the victory, so it seems that he did not see any surprising effect from using this Noble Phantasm.
"Yes, it's just to see who can force out more information in the end."
Hakuno Kishinami nodded. They were forcing Shirou Emiya to use more Noble Phantasms, and Shirou Emiya was also forcing Archer to use more Noble Phantasms.
The two are relative, not to mention that for both Archer and Shirou Emiya, the more Noble Phantasms they can project, the stronger they will be.
"In other words, the next battle strategy is to continue to confront them head-on?"
Seeing how Kishinami Hakuno had gone from being confused in the first battle to being able to think of ways to deal with the enemy on his own, Archer couldn't help but feel moved.
"It's more than that."
Hakuno Kishinami nodded, then shook his head.
"Archer, Emiya-kun is not a Servant."
"!"
Archer suddenly understood, because in these two battles, Emiya Shirou had been too intense, causing Archer to subconsciously overlook a fact.
Shirou Emiya is now a human.
He couldn't be like the servants, who could stay awake and fight tirelessly as long as they had magic power. His injuries couldn't be healed easily.
Although with the help of that treasure, he was able to recover quickly.
But the Knight King is not present in this Holy Grail War.
"Emiya-kun, it must have cost a lot to defeat Leo. The last time we saw him, he was still in the infirmary, with layers of bandages wrapped around his body."
Hakuno Kishinami said this with some reluctance, because now that things had come to this, Archer also understood the next battle strategy.
"Continuously engaging in high-intensity battles will not only force him to use more Noble Phantasms, but will also further deteriorate his physical condition."
Archer already understood how the battle would proceed.
He would not be stingy with his treasures.
High intensity fighting, the intensity of the previous two conflicts was not high enough.
Chapter 655 Before the Decisive Battle
Time does not stand still, nor does it go back.
In just a blink of an eye, it was the day before the final battle.
“Clang clang clang clang clang clang clang!!!!!!!”
The sound of steel colliding with steel continued without interruption from inside the dark castle.
A fierce battle broke out rapidly under the illumination of the flickering lights.
Two silver figures flew backwards from the air as if they had been hit by an extremely powerful impact, and then stood steadily on the ground one after another.
【1】
As the two separated, numbers appeared in the eyes of everyone on the field.
The first round of conflict is over.
"Bam—!"
However, there was no time for the rest of the people present to catch their breath.
The floor shattered like a spider web in an instant.
That was the damage caused by a powerful kick.
"drink--!"
"ha--!"
Two almost identical figures rushed forward in the storm, rushing towards each other at a speed that was difficult to see with the naked eye.
“Sizzle, sizzle—!”
During this process, scarlet lightning flashed.
“Bang, bang, bang, bang—!”
During this process, red flames were burning.
Two silver figures that turned into thunder and fire met in the blink of an eye like meteorites colliding with each other.
"Qiang——!"
Amidst the loud clashing sounds, the knight's sword flashing with scarlet lightning and a long sword with a very special blade shape burning with flames stirred up a terrible gust of wind, even shattering the ground beneath their feet.
"Chi chi chi chi!"
Amid the sound of the air cutting, the scarlet knight's sword turned into a violent slashing attack, like lightning and thunder, attacking like an overwhelming force.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
In the whistling sound of the strong wind, the long sword that was as red as magma turned into an afterimage, like a series of fiery red flashes, covering the front like a storm.
"Clang, clang, clang, clang!"
The next moment, the two swords, both of which had scarlet sword bodies, collided countless times, causing a series of crisp collision sounds and waves of surging air.
A red arc of electricity burst out.
The scorching flames exploded.
The two figures fighting on the ground were engaging in a fierce battle with an extremely terrifying offensive.
Wherever the two men passed, they shattered everything.
This astonishing offensive and defensive battle, which forces one to devote one's whole heart and soul to it, has lasted from the moment the two met until now.
"clang--!"
Following another fierce collision, Archer's body was violently blown away by the violent shock wave in front of him, and his body kept sliding backwards.
With the help of the magic power released by the shining royal sword, Shirou Emiya is even more powerful than Archer.
However, at this moment, Archer didn't care about his numb hands at all, and a pitch-black longbow appeared in his hands.
In just a moment, Archer caught the jet-black sword arrow on the bowstring.
“Swish, swish, swish, swish——!”
The sword arrows that were locking onto Shirou Emiya like a hound cut through the air and rained down on Shirou Emiya, who was holding the shining royal sword tightly.
“Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, sizzle———!”
Suddenly, the terrifying thunder rapidly increased and condensed into a substantial beam of light on the sword in Emiya Shirou's hand.
The terrifying fluctuations of magical power caused a slight palpitation in the heart of Shiranami Kishino, who was standing far away.
Under the bursting beam of light, all the sword arrows that were flying towards Shirou Emiya like a rainstorm were destroyed without leaving any trace.
Then, the beam of light surged again and shot towards Archer, who had just stabilized his body.
“Bang bang bang bang bang——!”
With continuous explosions and the red beam of light shooting out, everything in sight quickly began to shatter, collapse, and disintegrate, becoming unrecognizable in an instant.
"call----!"
Archer, wearing shattered silver armor, flashed out from the terrifying red beam and quickly stabilized his body.
It's not that Archer took the blow from the brilliant and glorious Royal Sword that released the Noble Phantasm, but that the blow did not reach the level that it should have when the Noble Phantasm was truly released.
In such a short period of time, given Shirou Emiya's current physical condition, he had no way of immediately pouring a large amount of magic power into the brilliant and shining royal sword and expanding it to the maximum extent through amplification.
This was simply a matter of releasing the magic power that had been poured into the sword through the amplifying effect brought about by the brilliant and shining royal sword. The power was just enough to destroy the projected red plain hound.
No matter how many times they are shot down, the Akabara Hounds, having already smelled the scent, will chase them endlessly.
So instead of shooting it down, destroying it would also be possible to prevent these sword arrows from hitting their targets.
If not for this, even with the protection of being haunted by evil spirits, Archer would not have been able to dodge so easily.
【2】
The second round ends here.
In front of him, under the explosion of the scarlet beam of light, everything around him was destroyed, and thick smoke continued to rise, blocking his vision.
"laugh----!"
All that could be heard was a sound of breaking air, and Emiya Shirou, with red lightning flashing all over his body, tore through the thick fog, like a flash of lightning, charging forward suddenly, and appeared in front of Archer in the blink of an eye.
However, at this moment, Archer's mouth slightly smiled, and the silver armor covered his whole body again.
