At last, the godly giant octopus let out a breath of relief—it no longer had to deal with that annoying Gilgamesh.
Gilgamesh's arsenal was endless, like stars in the sky. The constant blasts of Ea drove the giant octopus crazy, and worse, they had really hurt it. With each strike, its wounds grew deeper.
The injuries weren't fatal, but they weakened its fighting ability and ruined its mood. As a result, the god kept unleashing waves of stronger and stronger mental hypnosis.
All of Fuyuki City was suffering now. The entire city, except for the battlefield near the Mion River, had fallen silent, and the effect was spreading outward. Aside from a few powerful magi, no one was still conscious.
But when the giant octopus suddenly saw Arthur's Holy Sword of the Stars, it let out a terrified scream.
"The Sword of the Stars!"
Its shrill cry was so horrible that it felt like people's eardrums might burst.
Then, as Arthur swung the sword, a beam of light wider than the three-hundred-meter-tall octopus engulfed it in an instant.
At the same time, Muramasa's soul left Tia's body and dove straight into the pillar of light.
Tia was being carried away by Lancelot, when suddenly Lancelot froze—not because of the overwhelming light behind them, but because he saw something impossible.
In Tia's arms… a Holy Sword had appeared—the Sword of the Stars itself!
Shocked!
Lancelot's heart trembled so much that words failed him. At that exact moment, his two Command Seals ran out, and he reverted to Berserker without even noticing.
But Tia noticed clearly. Lancelot turning back into Berserker meant he was about to disappear.
That can't happen!
Without hesitation, Tia placed the Holy Sword in Lancelot's hands and leapt from his arms.
In the next instant, Lancelot came to his senses and realized what he was holding. Before he could speak, his instincts took over and he gripped the sword tightly, activating his Noble Phantasm, For Someone's Glory.
The moment he grasped it, he realized what he had done. But because of the Holy Sword, his body, which was on the verge of fading, was suddenly bound to Tia again. Even more, he was forcibly shifted back from Berserker to Saber.
The Holy Sword could only be wielded by a Saber. So, with Lancelot about to disappear as Berserker, it was as if he had been resummoned as Saber by Tia. But this bond wasn't through Command Seals—it was through the sword itself.
Just as Muramasa had said, the Holy Sword, infused with his God-Slaying EX skill and his Noble Phantasm's power, and forged through Tia as Muramasa's vessel, was bound to Tia the moment it was created. Now, with Lancelot's Noble Phantasm, the sword had become his Noble Phantasm as well. In this way, Tia's wish had really come true.
However… Muramasa had also added eleven seals to the sword, imitating the thirteen of the original.
To truly connect with the sword's core, one would need to build a direct bond with it.
Without relying on anything else, I must create my own original Noble Phantasm that can heal people's hearts.
Without relying on anything else, I must create my own original Noble Phantasm with anti-personnel power at rank C.
Without relying on anything else, I must create my own original Noble Phantasm with anti-army power at rank B.
I must uncover the secret of the demon-slaying short sword and forge its true form myself.
I must uncover the secret of the demon-slaying spear and forge its true form myself.
I must personally forge the true Noble Phantasm staff of Medea, Pain Breaker.
I must personally forge a true demon-hunting fire blade.
I must personally craft a divine chariot.
I must personally forge the Red Rose that breaks curses and the Yellow Rose that brings death.
I must personally forge the indestructible Light of the Lake.
These eleven seals are indeed seals, but in nature they are completely different from the thirteen seals of the Sword of the Stars.
The thirteen seals of the Sword of the Stars must be unlocked through another Round Table conference whenever facing a great evil enemy.
The eleven seals set by Senji Muramasa were made to train Tia.
Each seal came with some words of guidance for Tia. Every time one was undone, it showed that Tia had already grasped the power at that level.
Tia, of course, saw these eleven seals but muttered to herself how outdated they were. What age was this, still using these old-fashioned seals? Wouldn't something like Gray's holy spear system be better?
Now she had to break each one by one—so troublesome…
Clearly, Senji Muramasa saw through Tia's nature of being lazy without motivation, so he deliberately set it up this way. If he hadn't, and instead gave her something like Gray's spear, Tia would never bother to raise her blacksmith skills. At most, she'd only train when she couldn't forge a weapon she wanted.
"What are you spacing out for, blacksmith!" At this moment, Gilgamesh's voice came from above.
Hearing Gilgamesh's voice, Tia snapped back to herself and realized that the giant octopus hit by the Sword of the Stars wasn't dead yet. Its body had been vaporized by nearly ninety percent, leaving only part of its head—still about thirty meters tall, just like the divine projection from before.
That remaining head grew into a new octopus, again with countless tentacles.
Lancelot stood with the holy sword in hand, eyes serious, facing the monster charging forward.
"Sir Lancelot! Careful! Don't kill it! It didn't survive my Sword of the Stars. It was completely destroyed, but then revived by using the dreams of everyone sleeping in Fuyuki City! We have to break its mental hypnosis!" King Arthur shouted.
Lancelot had been ready to fire another blast but turned pale at Arthur's words. He raised the holy sword to fight the octopus head-on instead, also protecting Tia behind him.
Arthur himself was very weak, drained of magic. He even looked somewhat transparent now. It was clear the holy sword's released power had consumed nearly all of his mana. If this Arthur hadn't been nearly his true self, he might not have been able to destroy it even once.
"Hmph! Just waking the sleeping people? That's nothing difficult!" Gilgamesh flew down from the sky.
He pulled Medea Lily's Noble Phantasm staff from the Gate of Babylon and tossed it to Tia, telling her to use its true name to dispel the hypnosis over all of Fuyuki City.
After all, this was the true Noble Phantasm itself. Its range and power to remove curses and mental effects far outclassed anything Tia could have forged.
Earlier, she had only targeted Arthur alone. Now she had to spread its power over the entire city.
"Pain~~Breaker!"
Raising the staff, Tia shouted the name.
(End of The Chapter)
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