"Crack!"
Opposite Artoria, Frey snapped a spatial prism that had grown from the air, transforming it into a long spear held in her hand.
At the same time, the Sky Queen's wings behind her radiated a sacred white light, then flowed as if alive.
Frey had already seen Snow Empress's threat.
But this strange female swordswoman named Liya gave Frey no less pressure than Snow Empress.
'One after another, where does he find such subordinates?'
Frey envied Bai Luo; she didn't have such luck to encounter excellent talents like Snow Empress and Artoria.
"Here I come, Sky Queen!"
Artoria ignored Frey's distraction. She gave a reminder, then prepared to launch her attack.
"Hmph!"
Frey snorted, not paying too much attention.
She was serious now and wouldn't be caught off guard by Artoria's storm of slashes like before.
"Who do you think I am?"
"I am…"
Before she finished speaking, Frey felt a chill rush towards her face!
"What?!"
A light blue haori came into view, a black scarf tied around her neck fluttering in the wind, and a golden-haired girl wielding a katana pierced through the air like a phantom, appearing before Frey.
"Clang!!!"
Frey swung her spatial spear, hastily blocking what could have been a killing blow.
Even so, Frey was still shocked and utterly surprised by this suddenly appearing girl.
When did she appear, and from where?!
The speed of this sword strike was so fast that even Frey almost failed to react.
"Transformation?"
"Or an illusion?"
Unfortunately, Frey clearly had no time to think.
Because after the first strike, the second, and an even more terrifying third strike, followed in quick succession.
"First step: Super Sonic, Second step: Interstice, Third step: Absolute Blade!"
"Mumei Sandan-Zuki (Nameless Three-Stage Thrust)!"
Three flashes of a blade descended, and Frey only felt a large number of white feathers fall from her wings.
She successfully blocked the opponent's attack.
But the tearing pain faintly coming from her wings told her that she did not block these three strikes without cost!
The defense of her feathers, harder than the world's most robust alloy, was breached.
Her wings were injured.
"Damn it!"
Frey angrily manipulated space magic, and countless spatial blades tore apart the girl in the light blue haori.
But!
The girl hit by the attack rippled like water, like a phantom, and vanished into thin air right before Frey's eyes.
"This?!"
Frey wanted to say that it was an illusion, a trick.
But the power of those three strikes just now was fresh in her memory: 'That force, the feeling of colliding with my spear, was definitely not fake!'
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
While she was thinking, two more figures appeared before Frey.
These were two girls who looked almost identical to Artoria.
One white, one black, with two knight swords flanking her from left and right.
"They appeared again!"
Frey moved quickly. She blocked the black sword with one hand, while simultaneously raising her leg, transforming into a bird's claw to block the other white sword.
"Where did you two come from?"
The girl holding the black sword had her eyes obscured, black armor covered in blood-red patterns, and her entire body was filled with an evil aura.
In contrast, the pure white girl on the other side wore white armor like a dress, revealing her twin swords, and the knight sword in her hand emitted a sacred light.
It was hard to imagine that the same face could display such two extremes.
"Did you block it?"
"Then, what about this?"
The two girls had no intention of chatting with Frey.
They combined their strength, striking at Frey, but she anticipated them and leaped backward, soaring into the air.
"Naive!"
"Opportunity!"
The Black Knight's demonic sword and the White Knight's holy sword each unleashed black-red and golden-blue light.
"Not good!!"
Realizing what they intended to do, Frey immediately crossed her hands in front of her, while also spreading her wings to envelop herself.
"Caliburn (Sword of Promised Victory)!!"
"Excalibur Morgan (Sword of Promised Victory)!!"
One black-red, one golden-blue, two pillars of magical light surged like a torrent, as if to devour everything.
[Sky Ruler · Mirror Space]
Frey's wings glowed with flowing light, becoming as smooth as mirrors.
The combined magic cannon merely paused for an instant upon hitting them, then refracted like a mirror, surging towards a distant tall mountain.
Mountains crumbled, one, two, three...
Then!
"Boom!!!"
A massive mushroom cloud rose from the distant land.
The power displayed by the fused magic cannons was not only powerful in terms of destructive force but also a qualitative change in magic.
Within it, there was the principle of Explosion Magic that Artoria had obtained from Bai Luo.
Thus, the already incredibly destructive magic cannon now became a super-nuclear level spell.
It was fortunate that this was Snow Empress's Inherent Barrier.
If it were outside, countless innocent lives would have died under this single attack.
"So, so powerful…"
"What terrifying destructive power!"
The tengu, as spectators, were stunned by the power of this magic cannon.
Although A-rank monsters could unleash attacks capable of shaking mountains.
But shaking mountains was too far off compared to the world-destroying scene before their eyes.
"Is this the aid Elder Feng invited for us?"
"I heard she's a relative of Lord Hong Maru."
"So strong, too strong!"
"To be able to ally with such a powerful individual, I agree to this marriage!"
"…"
Amateurs watch the excitement, professionals watch the technique.
The Snow Empress roughly compared her strength with Artoria's.
Then she came to a conclusion—she couldn't win!
"I feel like she's completely out of my league!"
The Snow Empress truly understood what it meant for fortunes to turn.
In the Type-Moon World, the Snow Empress saw Artoria as weak as a dog.
Now, Artoria could abuse her like a dog.
"The Cardinal World is visibly biased, huh."
What's wrong with Soul Beasts? Did Soul Beasts eat your rice?
Why are Heroic Spirits nobler than Soul Beasts?
Artoria's initial magic essence of 100,000 was far beyond what the Snow Empress could even touch.
"Go, Sister Liya~~~"
Unlike the Snow Empress, whose thoughts were racing, Egui Peng happily cheered Artoria on.