Grandpa Muramasa! This is the perfect chance to forge the holy sword—the monster's attention is on Gilgamesh!
Tia shouted in her heart to Senji Muramasa, thinking that if the sword was ready and given to Lancelot, he might be able to stay.
But Muramasa shook his head.
"If it were earlier, I would have said no problem. But now… you still haven't noticed the change in King Arthur's sword, have you?"
Senji Muramasa reminded her.
Tia, exhausted from the mental strain of a god's manifestation, had retreated deep into her consciousness, focusing only on the giant octopus. She hadn't noticed Arthur's situation at all—until Muramasa said this.
She froze for a moment, then suddenly realized that the current conditions might fulfill the requirements to unlock the thirteen seals of King Arthur's Star Holy Sword.
Whether or not the being possessing Gilles de Rais was truly Cthulhu, one thing was certain: this creature was pure evil. Otherwise, the Will of the World wouldn't have sent someone to kill it. If it were just an ordinary god descending, would they really send a God Slayer personally?
By now, the people who had gathered to watch along the riverbank were all lying on the ground like corpses. After the god descended, even Tia felt crushing mental fatigue, let alone ordinary people—they all collapsed together.
If he doesn't break this collective sleep, people will undoubtedly die in their slumber.
We don't know if distant places are affected yet, but there's no doubt Fuyuki City has taken the worst hit. Even if this isn't enough to call it a world-saving battle, it's definitely a fight for survival.
This god could withstand Ea's full power, which means it's far stronger than I am.
But a one-on-one fight is out of the question.
Not fighting for selfish reasons, not breaking the laws of humanity, not turning against spirits, fighting against evil, fighting alongside a hero, not fighting against the good—those conditions are all met.
That means at least eight seals are unlocked.
What's left are: fighting for truth, fighting for honor, and one unknown seal—Tia didn't know if that could be fulfilled.
"What I want to talk about is the sword's seals. The holy sword you want—if it's just something that can fire a light blast strong enough to one-shot that god's projection earlier, then no problem. My Noble Phantasm alone can do that. But this is the Star Holy Sword—a weapon forged by planets in the inner sea of stars to destroy things that can destroy planets."
Grandpa Muramasa, you can't forge it? Tia asked.
"That's not it. I can forge it now. With the title of God Slayer personally granted by the Will, I can break my Saint Graph and make a sword with the exact same power as the true Star Holy Sword. But there's one condition: I must personally understand the true essence of the Star Holy Sword. Otherwise, what I make would just be an overpowered light cannon."
Tia instinctively thought: I just wanted a holy sword that can shoot a light blast and keep Lancelot here. I never even thought about the sword's essence. But she didn't dare say that to Muramasa.
Only after thinking that did Tia realize—they share the same body right now. Whatever she thinks, Muramasa knows.
"Tia, you really… have no ambition! You'll never forge a weapon that truly belongs to you this way! At best, you're just copying what others made! You'll always be beneath them! I will never allow my descendants to fall to such weakness!"
Senji Muramasa, after sensing what Tia was thinking, scolded him loudly without holding back.
Tia was startled and quickly agreed.
"Ahh…"
Muramasa let out a helpless sigh, but in the end, there was nothing he could do about Tia.
At that moment, since he couldn't harm the god, Lancelot had been staying near Tia. But suddenly, he vanished from Tia's side and reappeared behind King Arthur in the next instant.
At the same time, phantom figures of the other Knights of the Round Table appeared behind King Arthur.
Tia understood immediately—the Round Table Conference had begun, and the thirteen seals of the Holy Sword were being undone.
The god, however, was unable to attack King Arthur because Gilgamesh kept him occupied. Even a tentacle that tried to burst out from the water was instantly cut off when Gilgamesh shot a Noble Phantasm into the river.
Meanwhile, Gilgamesh kept firing Ea from time to time, just like before, unleashing it without chanting its true name to save mana.
He had already realized that this god belonged to a system completely different from Earth's deities. Otherwise, Ea at full power should have been enough to destroy him. Perhaps if his true self as a Servant descended and wielded the real Ea at full strength, it could finish the job. But now, as just a Servant, facing a god not of Earth's system, he couldn't kill it.
Senji Muramasa also began moving closer to King Arthur.
"To forge the true Holy Sword of the Stars, I must touch it at least once."
Tia wanted to stop him. The sword was about to be unsealed and unleashed—charging in now was no different from sticking your head in front of a gun. But that thought too was caught by Muramasa.
"Tia, the moment the Holy Sword is released, I'll let my soul slip free from your body and touch it. The forging will only take an instant. After that, my spirit core will shatter and I'll return to the Throne of Heroes for good. My role was to use my God-Slaying EX skill and my Noble Phantasm, Tengen Swordsmith, to cut that god in two. But instead, I hope you will take the sword forged with my God-Slaying EX and my Noble Phantasm's power, and make it your own Holy Sword! Even if you still want to keep the Knight of the Lake, it doesn't matter. His Noble Phantasm, For Someone's Glory, might not surpass the Holy Sword I'll forge. In fact, his Noble Phantasm might even allow this sword to recognize two masters at once. Hahaha!"
Tia felt deeply moved by Muramasa's words.
He was just… some far-off descendant, yet his grandfather was willing to go this far just to fulfill his wishes.
"Tia… you are my descendant. Of course I'll look after you!"
At that moment, King Arthur's thirteen seals on the Holy Sword were fully undone. A golden aura spread from the blade in an instant.
Seeing this, Gilgamesh immediately piloted Vimana away.
The others also quickly retreated far from the area.
Lancelot, who had been caught in the process of the seals breaking, finally snapped out of it. Though he desperately wanted to stay and witness the reappearance of the Sword of the Stars with Arthur, he suddenly noticed Tia still moving closer. Alarmed, he rushed over, grabbed Tia, and tried to carry him away.
(End of The Chapter)
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