"..."
Shirou stared wide-eyed, watching the place he had been standing just moments ago get torn apart by an amazing sword strike. He hadn't been able to react to what was happening at all. If his mind's eye hadn't made a quick judgment and his body hadn't moved in advance, there was no way he could have reacted in time.
It was only then that he saw the Sword God had somehow appeared behind him and was making a drawing motion, but the sword was still in its sheath.
When did the Sword God swing the sword?
Was that really an attack that the human eye could see?
Shirou thought back to what had just happened, and a mix of complicated feelings arose in his heart.
He had seen the Dragon God Orsted use god-level Sword God Style when they fought before. He thought the Dragon God's skill was already as good as it could get, and that the Sword God's sword couldn't be any faster. But in fact, the Sword God's sword was even faster than the Dragon God's!
Shirou didn't even notice when the Sword God moved. The sword just came down.
"Oh, you dodged it."
The Sword God seemed very surprised that Shirou was able to dodge that sword strike. A smile spread across his face. "Okay, it seems there's a reason why Ghislaine thinks so highly of you. I have to admit, even if you're just an incredibly ordinary person, there are some things about you that are different."
"..."
Shirou didn't feel any joy at the Sword God's approval.
He was feeling a pressure he had never felt before under the Sword God's gaze. It wasn't as helpless as facing the Dragon God, but it was still an unbearable amount of pressure.
And that was only because the Sword God was only using Sword King-level fighting spirit. If he used his full power, the speed of that sword strike would have been so fast that Shirou wouldn't have been able to dodge it at all!
He absolutely couldn't let the Sword God get close!
That was what Shirou thought.
But as soon as he had that thought, Shirou realized something scary: the Sword God, who had been in his sight, had suddenly disappeared.
Faced with this terrifying situation that words couldn't describe, Shirou didn't have time to think. He immediately used his clairvoyance.
Using the clairvoyance to search in every direction, ignoring any angle, he finally found the Sword God. But it was too late when he saw him. The Sword God had somehow used super-fast movement and suddenly appeared behind him.
"Snap!"
An amazing sword energy came from behind him!
Even before the sword energy touched his body, blood started to spread out from his skin!
Shirou could even clearly feel some kind of invisible thread wrapping around him...
"!!!"
Without time to think, Shirou could only do his best to project weapons to get out of the current situation!
"Projection, start!"
Without time to think, Shirou almost instinctively projected the weapons he knew best: Kanshou and Bakuya.
The twin swords appeared in his hands. At the same time, he opened up a defensive area at an extremely fast speed.
It was Servant Emiya's swordsmanship, and it was also Shirou's own best swordsmanship. It was the swordsmanship he had slowly refined over a long period of time and gradually turned into his own!
"Bang!"
Shirou's swords crashed into the Sword God's sword!
The collision between them created obvious waves, and an amazing power poured out like a flood, eventually turning into an invisible storm in an instant!
"Oh?"
The Sword God finally showed a different expression. He didn't expect Shirou to be able to block his sword.
But he didn't stop there. He continued to swing the sword in his hand again and again with storm-like speed, using Longsword of Light.
As the Sword God said before, he was only using Sword King-level fighting spirit.
But even with just Sword King-level fighting spirit, his swordsmanship had still reached the peak of Sword God Style. Just his skill alone was enough to overwhelm Shirou.
However, maybe because he had fought the Dragon God before, especially since the Dragon God was also the kind of person who suppressed magic and fighting spirit and only used absolute skill to fight, Shirou gradually found a rhythm in the fight after getting used to this high-intensity battle and gradually caught up with the Sword God's movements.
"Oh?"
When the Sword God saw Shirou blocking his attacks more and more skillfully, a surprised expression finally appeared on his face. He then further increased his sword speed. Sword King-level fighting spirit exploded out, and attacks from Longsword of Light suddenly came from all directions out of nowhere.
"Crash..."
Although he couldn't see them with his eyes, Shirou could see sword energy coming from all directions in his mind's eye.
Shirou realized that he couldn't block this kind of attack with swordsmanship alone. The only way was to use something other than swordsmanship!
As soon as he thought of that, the projection ability activated!
"Trace, On!"
"Shoot Hundred Heads!"
Shirou directly raised his right hand. The powerful noble weapon that had once killed the Red Dragon and pushed back the Dragon God appeared in his hand and became a real skill that started to explode!
The secret skill of the great hero Heracles, a skill that could be used in nine directions at the same time!
Shirou was projecting it into his own hands at this moment!
"Bang!"
"Bang!" "Bang!"
The black giant ax, swung by Shirou, simultaneously launched attacks in different directions, and even had extra attacks to strike the Sword God!
After a long battle, Shirou had finally gotten used to the intensity of fighting the Sword God and started to change from passively defending to actively attacking.
"Good swordsmanship!"
Seeing Shirou's projection skill, the Sword God Gal Farion praised him instinctively.
Even though he saw through the fact that Shirou's swordsmanship wasn't something he had researched himself, but rather something he had stolen through some kind of trick.
But that didn't stop the Sword God from praising the myth-level skill of Shoot Hundred Heads itself.
In fact, the skill of Shoot Hundred Heads was at least at the level of Longsword of Light, even in Sword God Style. It's just that the two had different focuses. Shoot Hundred Heads focused on a powerful burst of energy, while Longsword of Light focused on a light-speed sword that could be swung in any situation.
In short, when Shirou unleashed Shoot Hundred Heads, his speed successfully caught up with the Sword God, not only blocking all of the Sword God's sword energy, but even successfully touching the Sword God himself, pushing him back!
However, Shirou knew that he couldn't defeat a god-level opponent with just the skill of Shoot Hundred Heads.
His experience from fighting Orsted before made him realize that he couldn't take any chances when fighting god-level opponents. He had to use his strongest abilities as much as possible to overcome these superhuman powerhouses!
So, as soon as Shoot Hundred Heads ended, Shirou immediately started projecting again, and this time it wasn't a weapon he had projected before, but a completely new projection!
"Projection, start!"
"Gáe Bolg!"
As Shirou started projecting again, a scarlet-red spear appeared in his hand. The pure dark-red spear tip gave off a beautiful and terrifying blood-like glow.
Shirou usually only projected sword-like weapons.
This seemed to be because his origin was the sword itself, so he had a better compatibility with sword-like weapons.
But that didn't mean Shirou couldn't project things other than swords.
In fact, Shirou's projection covered almost everything. He could even project things that were completely unrelated to swords, but it would take more magic power.
In the past, Shirou usually didn't project noble weapons other than swords, but after Shirou tried to forge Demon-Breaking Red Rose for Ruijerd before, he found that he was also becoming more skilled at projecting spears.
From that time on, Shirou realized that forging could also improve his projection level.
As long as it was a weapon that had been forged, when projecting it again, he could greatly reduce the consumption during projection and could also project it at a faster speed.
Shirou suspected that this was related to sword magic and Unlimited Blade Works. After all, he couldn't even do normal projections when he first came to this world a long time ago, but after learning sword magic, he gradually became able to project some familiar weapons.
As he forged more weapons as Muramasa and even spread them throughout the world, his projection became more and more proficient.
So, everything might be connected.
Whether it was sword magic or forging weapons, they were all invisibly improving Shirou's projection ability.
In short, Shirou couldn't project spears before, but after he forged a noble weapon-level spear, he could project them.
In addition, Shirou had learned the Superd tribe's spear techniques from Ruijerd before. Now, he didn't hesitate to project the strongest spear in his mind, the spear that always hits its target, Gáe Bolg!
That battle with the Dragon God made Shirou understand a lot. The most important thing was that skills shouldn't be limited to a single concept!
The truly strong should master all the power they can master!
"Snap!"
The scarlet-red spear was held in Shirou's hand. Without any hesitation, he directly released the true name of this noble weapon and activated its strongest effect.
"True Name Release, Pierce with Death Thorns!"
As Shirou released the spear, the spear in his hand suddenly gave off amazing waves and, like a soaring dragon, started to turn into a straight line without Shirou's control, rushing straight towards the Sword God!
"Oh?!"
The Sword God didn't care about Shirou's actions because he didn't think a young man like Shirou could use any powerful spear techniques.
Because a person's energy is always limited. While learning one skill, another skill often can't reach its peak.
The Sword God was like that. Although he had god-level swordsmanship, he could be said to be completely ignorant of other skills.
This could be said to be the limit of humans.
The only ones in this world who could break this limit were those special beings.
Among them, there was only one being whom even the Sword God looked up to.
That was the Dragon God Orsted.
Only that Dragon God possessed almost all martial arts, all skills, and even the swordsmanship of Sword God Style had reached a very high level.
No one knew how the Dragon God did it. The fact was that only the Dragon God possessed the pinnacle of almost all the martial arts that existed in this world!
So, the Sword God never expected that Shirou, a human, could do the same as the Dragon God, possessing different ultimate martial arts at the same time!
It wasn't until the scarlet spear tip was about to reach him that the Sword God suddenly realized how exaggerated the power of this spear was!
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