Unlike her previous relaxed and casual attitude, this time Jibril's slender body trembled slightly.
Condensing such enormous energy to the limit was something that required full effort even for Flügel.
As compensation, the power obtained this way was considerable enough.
Lancelot and Guinevere, who had still somewhat looked down on the opponent, now had completely grave expressions.
"To actually possess this scale of energy, this is more than ten times?!"
At the tip of that light spear, Lancelot sensed extremely dangerous aura.
She knew Jibril had a lot of energy, but hadn't expected this much.
Even steel protection couldn't possibly preserve her life under this level of energy difference.
She had a premonition that if she faced this strike head-on, she would certainly be completely pulverized and evaporated along with the mountain ranges behind her, and even an entire continent.
Such a massive difference couldn't be made up through authority advantages alone.
Energy capable of breaking continents had far exceeded the range her spiritual core could bear.
"To condense magical power to this extent, this is already technique reaching the sacred realm, even approaching authority level!"
Guinevere's pupils also flickered with intense shock.
Although the Flügel before her was completely ignorant about magical power utilization, in terms of precise magical power control, even ordinary Heretic Gods might not compare to her.
Extracting all energy from one's body, then bursting it out all at once - this technique seemed simple but was almost impossible to achieve.
Even the strongest Heretic Gods almost couldn't exhaust all divine power within themselves in one strike.
Yet the opponent had done it.
Not only could she project all her power out, she could even control it.
Without exaggeration, this level of control had approached the realm of authority.
The opponent seemed born for constructing this technique. After condensing all power in this extreme way, Guinevere was absolutely certain that the Flügel girl before them could really achieve piercing continents in one strike.
Such a strike was definitely not something normal Heretic Gods or Campiones could withstand.
Even Lancelot, who had received [Sword Codex] protection, couldn't.
"Ryuga-sa... Master, Master!"
Unable to hesitate, although she wasn't completely convinced by this new master, at the crucial moment, Guinevere still lowered her head, wanting to seek a solution from Ryuga.
"Uncle's power cannot handle this attack, please understand!"
Not wanting Lancelot to die meaninglessly, she frantically issued a warning.
Facing this warning, the usually strong-willed Lancelot rarely didn't object.
She didn't mind continuing to charge forward, but couldn't let her master misjudge the battlefield situation due to her meaningless competitive spirit.
"I know."
Ryuga's answer made Guinevere slightly relieved.
Since he knew, he should have a way to deal with the enemy before them, right?
She didn't notice that facing external enemies, she unknowingly began viewing her new master as someone to rely on.
Not just her - everyone in the chat group was currently holding their breath, watching Ryuga with complete focus.
If Ryuga lost to the Flügel before them, the model the chat group had built up to now might change completely.
Everyone in the group might be shrouded under Jibril's tyranny.
Except for Jibril herself, no one wanted to see Ryuga lose.
Fortunately, Ryuga's expression was as calm as always, allowing them to maintain confidence.
Under everyone's incredibly expectant gazes, Ryuga stated his countermeasure with incomparable calm.
"Saber, it's yours!"
"Yes! Master!"
Altria stepped forward with determined expression, her golden ahoge moving without wind.
"Ah?"
Seeing this scene, Guinevere was immediately dumbfounded.
[Tohsaka Rin: "?"]
[Kanae: "?"]
[Erica: "?"]
"Master, this is..."
Lancelot also couldn't understand for a moment.
In terms of combat power as Heretic Gods, although Altria was stronger than her, it should only be by a little, right?
Having Altria tank the enemy's full output - wasn't this sending her to die?
Jibril obviously thought so too.
After maintaining the formed light spear to its limit, she ignored Altria and aimed Sky Strike at Ryuga.
"I acknowledge that you possess qualities equal to gods. Let me use this strongest Sky Strike to grant you defeat!"
Ryuga didn't respond to this declaration.
Instead, Altria continued stepping forward.
"I take this body as a sword, serving my Master. Before defeating me, you have no right to make Master act."
"Boring!"
Hearing this same line as Lancelot's, Jibril didn't even bother to acknowledge it, raising both arms high.
The light spear condensed with all her body's power shone with dazzling radiance, the concentrated power shooting out directly.
"Boom——!!!"
The light pillar capable of cutting continents pierced through, the vast attack engulfing all enemies before her.
"Be sure to survive! I have great expectations for you, Campione-sama!"
While exhausting all her power in a killing strike, while sincerely hoping the opponent could survive - for Jibril, these were two non-conflicting emotions.
Although she didn't think the opponent could survive Sky Strike's power.
Just as she watched the battlefield before her with expectant eyes, thinking Sky Strike could devastatingly destroy these small fry, a resolute voice appeared along with a golden light torrent.
"This is a battle to save the world!"
"This is a battle for survival!"
"This is a battle to protect human reason!"
"This is a battle against evil!"
"..."
At first, the golden light torrent was very weak, like a candle flame that might extinguish at any moment under Sky Strike's impact.
But each subsequent voice made the golden light torrent explode with several times more power, gradually expanding that weak candlelight.
By the eighth voice, the golden light torrent could already contend with Sky Strike.
By the ninth voice, the golden light torrent could already counterattack.
Finally, Altria wielded the Sword of Promised Victory in her hand, or rather, what should now be called the Star Holy Sword.
"This is a battle of honor!"
"In the name of the Star Holy Sword's wielder, I release ten of the thirteen restraints. For my Master Ryuga, I shall subjugate the great enemy of the stars before us!"
After defining Jibril as an outer enemy of the stars, borrowing the energy supply from the Magical Grail, Altria burst out all her current power at once.
"Boom——!!!"
The collision of light torrent against light torrent made the entire Moon shine like the rising sun.
People in Earth's nighttime regions quickly discovered that the Moon overhead suddenly emitted sun-like radiance, almost capable of illuminating the entire night sky.
Finally, the golden light suddenly surged, covering everything so people could barely open their eyes.
Several seconds passed before this astronomical phenomenon finally disappeared.
Those with telescopes wanted to observe what exactly had happened.
Looking carefully, they found that telescopes weren't even needed. People familiar with the Moon's surface patterns could see with naked eyes that irregular cracks had suddenly appeared on the lunar surface.
Noticing this, people were immediately horrified.
What had happened on the Moon to cause such massive changes to this satellite's surface?
Even the world-ending meteorite that destroyed the dinosaur age couldn't cause this level of damage, right?
On the Moon.
"Master! Mission accomplished!"
Having completed her task of protecting her Master, Altria reported back with meticulous attitude.
Although nothing showed on her expression, anyone noticing her constantly spinning ahoge would know she was actually very excited and wanted praise.
Ryuga never stinted on praise for his subordinates.
"Well done, Saber!"
Hearing this, Altria's ahoge perked up, her sacred green pupils filled with joy, though her mouth remained very modest.
"Without Master's Grail magical power support, I couldn't have unleashed the Star Holy Sword's full power."
"That was clearly my Grail... ah no, I mean, what's mine is Master's!"
Guinevere muttered, then realized she'd spoken aloud and frantically looked at Ryuga, anxiously explaining.
Seeing the obviously much more obedient Guinevere, Lancelot shook her head without helping.
"I didn't expect you, Altria, to still have such power. Worthy of the knight bearing King Arthur's name!"
She was shocked by the power Altria had displayed.
From what Altria had said, this Star Holy Sword had thirteen seals total, and she'd only released ten.
With just over half the power being this strong, if all seals were released, wouldn't it be able to directly destroy the entire Moon?
Looking at it this way, the so-called Star Holy Sword's power was completely on par with the Salvation Divine Blade, possibly even surpassing it.
[Tohsaka Rin: "Meow meow meow? This wins? But Ryuga-sama hasn't even acted yet!"]
[Tohsaka Rin: "That's right! I originally thought Master would have to act personally, but didn't expect Altria alone would be enough?"]
[Erica: "I thought Master would act personally, but didn't expect Altria-senpai alone would be enough?"]
[Madoka: "I completely didn't expect this result."]
[Tohsaka Rin: "Indeed, I was actually worried about whether Ryuga-sama could win before, now I see I was too naive."]
[Tohsaka Rin: "Although I'm not qualified to say this, but for Ryuga-sama, even Tier 4 seems somewhat 'just so-so'."]
[Kanae: "Normal power rankings obviously can't evaluate Ryuga-sama anymore."]
[Kanae: "But am I the only one curious about how that newcomer Jibril-san is doing?"]
[Tohsaka Rin: "I'm curious too, didn't she say she was certain to win before?"]
[Tohsaka Rin: "@Jibril."]
[Erica: "Going for the kill, Rin you're so scary, but I like it!"]
[Erica: "Daring to offend Ryuga-sama, serves her right!"]
United in righteous indignation, Erica directed the livestream toward the battlefield.
After the smoke cleared, everyone quickly saw the massive ravine on the ground - a scar observable on planetary scale.
At the deepest part of the ravine, a figure very similar to Jibril but obviously much smaller was lying in an embarrassed heap.
Seeing this Flügel who looked only about six or seven years old, everyone was stunned.
[Erica: "A little girl?"]
[Tohsaka Rin: "How did she get beaten back to child size?"]
To be continued...
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