#617 - What a scary magician
“Curse? No, this is the Gae Bolg, the Spear of Piercing Barbed Death that reverses cause and effect.
You are the Child of Light from Ireland!”
Seeing the Lancer's technique, the female swordsman, also a Heroic Spirit, immediately recognized the true identity of this Heroic Spirit.
There is an unwritten strategy in the Holy Grail War.
That is, Heroic Spirits will try to hide their identities at the beginning.
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Because once their identity is recognized, the abilities of their Noble Phantasms can be deduced through mythology, thereby devising ways to counter them.
And the summoned Heroic Spirits, unless they have been summoned in previous Holy Grail Wars and met each other, do not know each other.
After all, although everyone is a hero, they are not heroes from the same era.
“Tch, I was recognized.”
Cu Chulainn retracted his spear and clicked his tongue:
“But it doesn't matter, no one can escape this spear of mine, so I'll send you off together, it'll be one less competitor!”
Despite being recognized and his technique being seen by the opponent, he was not worried at all. He had enough confidence in his strength and technique.
Wasn't that powerful magus just now also taken care of by his spear?
“Mr. Maple, how are you?”
Seeing George being pierced through the heart by the spear, Shirou Emiya immediately picked up a reinforced branch he found nearby and bravely rushed out, protecting George.
He is no match for the Lancer, but he must protect Mr. Maple who saved him.
However, another figure stood in front of him.
“You take him to the side to heal first, leave the Lancer to me.”
Standing in front of Shirou Emiya was the female swordsman. She clasped her hands together, and an invisible, formless long sword appeared in her hand.
Since the opponent wanted to eliminate her here, she might as well eliminate the Lancer here and reduce a competitor.
“Um... I'm fine, how about you guys step back first, and come on after I lose?
Otherwise, it would make people feel like we lack chivalry and are ganging up on him.”
Just as the battle between the swordsman and the lancer was about to break out, a leisurely voice sounded behind them.
“Mr. Maple... you... you're okay?”
Shirou Emiya stared dumbfounded at the hole in George's heart, which was repairing at a visible speed, and exclaimed in surprise.
“That's impossible, I clearly hit him!”
The female swordsman and Shirou Emiya stepped aside. Cu Chulainn looked at George's intact chest, his pupils shrinking.
“Sorry, I'm a tree, and trees don't have hearts. At most, you just made a tree hole.”
George took two steps forward and smiled as he beckoned to the lancer.
“Come on, let me see what other tricks you have.”
The opponent's instant-kill technique with the law of causality did break through his defense and pierce his body.
But this kind of pure physical attack, even if it takes effect, cannot cause any damage to him.
Not to mention that his clone is a tree, and trees don't have hearts at all. Even if the clone is in human form, piercing the heart is not fatal to him.
Even if the entire body is broken down into cells, with his current recovery ability and magical ability, he can quickly regenerate.
Unless his soul is directly annihilated or sealed, he is an immortal existence.
“So you really are a tree. Humph, my employer is a coward, using Command Spells to order me to retreat immediately if this trick fails. It seems I can only clean you up next time.”
Cu Chulainn did not continue to attack, but instead put away his spear and jumped onto the roof.
“Are you running away?”
The female swordsman frowned and questioned.
This question obviously hurt Cu Chulainn's pride. He turned his head with a cold face:
“Run away? I'm just leaving temporarily, but if you dare to chase after me, then be prepared to die!”
After saying that, he jumped up and was about to leave.
“Bang!”
Unfortunately, the next second, he seemed to crash into a transparent glass, and was bounced back into the yard.
“What's going on?”
Cu Chulainn flipped over and stood up, touching his forehead where he had been hit, a look of confusion on his face.
George took two steps forward and smiled:
“Sorry, I just set up a barrier around the yard. Without my permission, no one can leave this yard.”
“Since you're seeking death, then I'll grant it to you!”
Cu Chulainn was furious when he heard this, injecting all his magic power into the spear, jumping up into the air, and striking a throwing stance:
“You are a tree and have no vital points, then I will evaporate your entire body, die—Gae Bolg Alternative!”
If his Noble Phantasm is activated alone, it is a sure-hit attack based on causality.
But the prerequisite is that he needs to take a stance and cannot be interrupted in advance, and it must also be within the attack range.
When facing an enemy who can repair injuries, or whose ordinary injuries are useless, then he needs to use the second ultimate move of the Noble Phantasm.
At this time, the Noble Phantasm switches from targeting an individual to targeting an army. Although it no longer has the effect of being a sure hit based on causality, it has become a terrifying blow that is enough to destroy a city.
However, this blow will also exhaust all of his magic power.
The red spear, carrying enormous energy, shot down from the high altitude towards George below.
The huge sense of oppression made the female swordsman frown, and she tightly gripped the transparent long sword in her hand, ready to step forward to help after George failed to receive the attack.
And Shirou Emiya, as an apprentice magus, couldn't even breathe, his body stiff.
“This kind of attack is meaningless.”
Faced with such a terrifying blow, George shook his head instead.
For him, the causality-based sure-hit technique just now was quite valuable for research.
This kind of technique that focuses on destructive power is trash. He has too many magics that can achieve the same effect, and even far exceed it.
“Stop!”
Just as the red spear was about to touch George's brow, George gently uttered a word.
And as his voice sounded, the spear was like it had been hit by a body-binding curse, and it actually froze directly in mid-air.
As for the huge red energy in the spear, it directly dissipated without a trace.
“It seems that's all you've got, then let's end this.”
Sensing that new Masters and Heroic Spirits were rushing over not far away, George grabbed the red spear, flashed to the lancer with a face full of disbelief.
“Stupefy!”
The modified Stupefy spell hit the lancer, temporarily taking him into his small world.
Although the red spear is a Noble Phantasm, it is also metal, and metal is under his control.
And why did the huge energy on the Noble Phantasm disappear?
Of course, because he knows the Qi Body Source Flow and Devouring Magic, this kind of energy attack is ineffective against him.
“What a terrifying magus!”
The female swordsman looked at George's understatement of resolving the lancer's attack, and even knocking him unconscious and taking him into an unknown space, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
You know, even she, facing the lancer's two moves, would find it difficult to resist if she didn't know the information.
