Shirou directly used the Water God Style's secret skill, Still Water Sword, and successfully blocked Ghislaine's Wild Wind Sword Art.
The reason he was able to do this was because Water God Style was naturally the Sword God Style's natural enemy.
Although at the Sword God and Water God level, there was no longer much difference in skill between the two, in duels between Sword Masters at the King level and below, Water God Style was generally a bit stronger than Sword God Style in most cases.
After all, Water God Style's ability to strike after the opponent, naturally counters Sword God Style's quick attacks.
No matter how fast the Sword God Style's sword speed is, if it can't break through Water God Style's defense, it will be easily countered by Water God Style. And because Sword God Style only has offense and lacks defense, it can't effectively counter Water God Style's parries.
Of course, Shirou's basic strength is still lower than Ghislaine's, so even if he can use Water God Style's secret skill to defend against Ghislaine's attacks, he can't cause any further damage to her.
But it still allows him to gain an advantage in the fight against Ghislaine.
"You actually learned Still Water Sword Art. Did Paul teach you that?"
Ghislaine thought Shirou learned Water God Style from his father Paul, but she quickly dismissed this idea. Because Paul's Water God Style is only at the Advanced level. Even if it's infinitely close to the Saint level, he still hasn't learned any of the Water God Style's secret skills.
There's no way Shirou learned it from Paul.
Shirou didn't hide his knowledge from Ghislaine's confusion, and calmly said, "I learned it from a fight with the Dragon God. In the fight with that guy, Orsted used Water God Style's secret skill and easily blocked my and Eris' swords."
"The Dragon God's technique?"
Ghislaine was quite surprised when she heard this, but she wasn't too surprised.
Because she already had extremely high expectations for Shirou, and felt that it was understandable for him to do anything.
Learning Water God Style's secret skill from a fight with the Dragon God is completely imaginable.
After realizing that Shirou knew Water God Style's secret skill, Ghislaine also abandoned the purely wide-range, but lacking in offense, sword techniques she was using earlier.
Water God Style is a style that is extremely good at defense. Even the fastest and widest-ranging sword moves can be easily neutralized by this style's secret skills.
Because Water God Style's techniques are just like the name of its style.
Water God, Water God, its core is the word "water."
Whether it's Still Water Sword or other secret skills, they are like flowing water. Not only are they free and shapeless in their swordplay, but they also have extremely strong perception, and can easily capture all attacks coming towards them.
Powerful Water God Style Sword Masters can even parry any damage coming towards them, and even easily reflect a magician's magic back.
The only way to break Water God Style's sword techniques is to use absolutely powerful, absolutely violent moves to forcibly break Water God Style's defense.
And that level of sword technique can only be achieved by the highest level of Sword God Style's sword techniques.
That's why the Water Gods and Sword Gods of each generation have always had mixed wins and losses.
The reason is that some generations of Sword Gods have mastered the strongest secret sword techniques, but some generations of Sword Gods cannot master the true secret skills of Sword God Style.
If the Sword God Style's sword techniques cannot break through Water God Style's defense, they cannot defeat Water God Style's masters.
Shirou just used Water God Style's Saint-level secret skill, so if you want to break it, you must use a sword technique above the Saint level, that is, a King-level sword skill!
"Hoo..."
Ghislaine thought to herself, and almost didn't hesitate.
She breathed a sigh of relief and took the starting stance for Iaijutsu.
As Sword God Gal Farion's personal disciple, Ghislaine's most proficient Sword God Style technique is undoubtedly Iaijutsu.
Of course, her Iaijutsu skills are definitely not at the Sword God's level, but even so, it is still the peak of her own martial arts.
"Don't let your guard down next, Shirou."
Ghislaine said this.
Shirou didn't know what to expect, but in the next instant, an shocking wound appeared on his right arm. If he wasn't wearing the armor given to him by the Sword God, it would have been cut off in an instant.
"Puchi!"
It was like the sound couldn't catch up with the movement. Even though a wound had already appeared on Shirou's body, the feeling of pain and the sound of blood splattering didn't come until much later.
"What happened?!"
For a moment, not only Shirou, but all the Sword Masters below the Sword King level at the scene showed confused expressions.
No one saw what happened just now.
Why is Ghislaine still standing in place, not moving, while Shirou, who is still far away from her, has a wound on his body?
This ridiculously strange scene shocked everyone.
"This is the Sword King level Longsword of Light..."
Compared to the others, Shirou's reaction was much calmer.
Because a long time ago, when he first met Ghislaine, he had already seen Ghislaine use this incredible sword technique.
When the speed of the sword is fast enough, not to mention sight, even hearing, touch, perception, and all senses of the body will lose their sensitivity.
Just now Shirou could try to use the Dragon God's techniques to block Ghislaine's sword, but now, even if he uses the Dragon God's extreme techniques, he can't keep up with Ghislaine's movements.
The secret skill of Sword God Style is the ultimate speed.
By maximizing a single speed to its limit, it can create an almost incomprehensible godlike speed, and this godlike speed sword technique also has extremely strong destructive power.
The armor Shirou is wearing is a special armor given by the Sword God, which can absorb magic and aura. This means that the armor restricts his movements, but also gives him extremely strong defensive capabilities.
But Shirou, who is wearing this armor, was cut by Ghislaine with one sword.
If the other party's sword was more accurate and hit a vital point directly, Shirou would probably have been defeated instantly.
It was no longer possible for Shirou to win.
For a time, all the Sword Masters at the scene had a negative attitude towards Shirou, and didn't think he could defeat Sword King Ghislaine, who was going all out.
Including Ghislaine herself.
The only two who didn't think so were the Sword God and Shirou himself.
From the beginning, the Sword God had an interested expression, as if he never thought this battle would end with such a boring result.
As for Shirou, he indeed still had trump cards he hadn't played.
Even when facing a Sword King going all out, he still didn't have the option to easily admit defeat!
"Pa!"
Ghislaine struck again.
Her sword speed was the same as before, so fast that it was almost invisible to the naked eye.
Shirou still couldn't react at all, and another wound appeared on his body.
However, unlike before, this time Shirou's wound was much shallower than before, and the location was also much less important, just a minor injury that wouldn't affect his movement.
Most people think that Ghislaine was holding back, and didn't really want to hurt him in the trial assessment.
But only Ghislaine realized that something was wrong. She didn't consider holding back at all in her attack just now. She even went further and swung at Shirou's vital points.
But Shirou seemed to be able to predict her moves out of thin air. He dodged at the same time she swung her sword, avoiding a fatal wound.
Ghislaine couldn't understand, and thought Shirou might just be lucky, so she tried swinging a few more swords.
But the result was the same as before.
Although the sword successfully wounded Shirou, the wound wasn't serious. Some swords were even successfully blocked by the armor, causing no damage to Shirou.
In confusion, Ghislaine finally noticed where the problem was.
During another sword swing, she discovered that her sword tip didn't touch Shirou. But this wasn't because Shirou dodged, but because her sword was affected by some external force when it arrived near Shirou, and was bounced away at a crucial moment.
This situation was really unbelievable.
But Ghislaine realized that she wasn't completely unfamiliar with a similar situation.
She once heard her teacher mention the Dragon God Orsted. As one of the people who understood Orsted the most in this world, the Sword God described Orsted's most powerful characteristic, which was that Orsted, as a Dragon God, possessed a special Dragon Saint Fighting Spirit.
When that fighting spirit is wrapped around his entire body, no attack can break through Orsted's defense, and it will be directly bounced away.
"You don't mean to tell me you even learned Orsted's Dragon Saint Fighting Spirit?"
Ghislaine asked in disbelief. She was truly shocked this time.
"Dragon Saint Fighting Spirit? What's that?"
But Shirou clearly hadn't heard of Dragon Saint Fighting Spirit.
Because Orsted didn't use magic or fighting spirit at all when fighting him. He used his strong dragon physique to take the hits head-on.
So Shirou didn't witness this exaggerated ability of the Dragon Saint Fighting Spirit.
However, Shirou's technique just now was indeed similar to Dragon Saint Fighting Spirit, but the inspiration came from Servant Siegfried's Evil Dragon Blood Armor.
Due to the Sword God's restrictions, Shirou couldn't wear the Evil Dragon Blood Armor for battle. So he tried projecting the Evil Dragon Blood Armor onto the armor he was wearing in advance, to create something like enchantment.
Since it was something similar to reinforcement magic, Shirou successfully completed it, and combined it with his previous skill of releasing magical energy, to create an effect similar to Dragon Saint Fighting Spirit.
Since the Evil Dragon Blood Armor ignores most damage, Ghislaine's attacks wouldn't cause damage if they didn't reach the corresponding level.
Even if they caused damage, the effect would be greatly reduced.
Plus Water God Style's moves.
This made Shirou like a mobile fortress. Even for Sword King Ghislaine, it would be extremely difficult to break through his defense.
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