The moment Shirou and Paul's swords clashed, they almost simultaneously took a step back and gathered their fighting spirit as quickly as possible to unleash the Silent Flash.
"Bang!"
It was as if the air was shaken, and the flow of the atmosphere was forcibly twisted by human will.
Shirou and Paul began to fight at speeds that the naked eye couldn't follow.
At this moment, the power that the two of them were purely exploding from their bodies was already comparable to magic, creating explosive air waves in the air.
"Boom!"
Sword met sword in repeated collisions, the speed of the blades so fast that it was like the spread of sound, constantly grinding against each other at close range.
Both of them were using the Sword God Style's Silent Flash.
And the essence of the Sword God Style is the sword of absolute attack. Both sides abandoned any defensive actions, aiming at each other's weakest points to attack.
"Snap!"
"Snap!"
"Snap!"
Continuous cracking sounds rang out.
Paul realized that Shirou's Sword God Style had indeed completely caught up to him, and there was no chance of winning with the Sword God Style alone.
So, in the process of continuing the fight, he suddenly stretched his palm forward. The weapon that was originally swung with extreme speed suddenly slowed down by half, and began to condense into a strange shape like a flowing form. Finally, at the moment when it was about to collide with Shirou's sword, it suddenly changed its arc.
"!!"
The moment he felt Paul's sword change, Shirou stopped the Silent Flash and decisively opened his eyes.
As a Swordsman, he knew very well that he shouldn't be obsessed with using one ability in battle. So, although he usually focused all his attention on the Sword God Style, he had also learned a little about other styles besides the Sword God Style.
Because of this, he realized very clearly that Paul had abandoned the Sword God Style swordsmanship at this moment and switched to the Water God Style's techniques.
Unlike the Sword God Style, which pursues absolute offense, the Water God Style's goal is absolute defense.
It is based on the absolute perception of all objects, and through the perception ability of a near-absolute domain, releases the power to counter the enemy's attacks.
Compared to the Silent Flash, the Water God Style's higher levels don't have clear secret techniques, but its ability is no less than the Sword God Style.
In the battles between the Sword God Style and the Water God Style throughout history, the victories and defeats have always been evenly matched. There is no absolute restraint between the two sides, it purely depends on the strength of the user.
"Snap!"
As Paul changed his thinking and used the Water God Style, Shirou suddenly felt his sword being sucked away by something.
It was clearly his own sword that he swung, but the actual effect was like being pulled away by an invisible force, deviating from its original trajectory.
This is the Water God Style?
Shirou's pupils contracted slightly. Although he understood the concept of the Water God Style, it was his first time personally experiencing the Water God Style in actual combat.
Paul's movements were clearly not as fast as the Sword God Style, which was impossible to resist, and could even be easily captured. But his sword was like encountering an impenetrable net, firmly shrouded in it, unable to struggle or escape, like a trapped butterfly.
After blocking Shirou's weapon, Paul gently tossed the sword upward, and then turned around with an unreasonable posture, directly smashing Shirou with his heel!
"Bang!"
Faced with this technique that was not swordsmanship at all, Shirou couldn't react at all and was directly knocked away. Even the sword in his hand was easily swung away by Paul.
He also used the North God Style...
At this moment, Shirou finally realized how powerful Paul, who had reached the upper level in the Sword God Style, North God Style, and Water God Style, was.
This is not simply three different swordsmanships reaching the upper level, 1+1+1=3. It's that when the opponent uses different styles at the same time, the different styles are constantly switched during the process, cleverly transformed, and combined with his years of experience as an adventurer, resulting in a multiple increase in combat power.
Paul might have Saint-level skills...
Shirou clearly realized this through actual combat.
At the same time, Paul, who was far away, saw that Shirou had lost the sword in his hand and relaxed a little. He was not so obsessed with winning this battle.
Because he knew very well that even if he won the battle, Zenith might not forgive him, but he just wouldn't leave with Shirou like this.
But what exactly should he do next to gain Zenith's forgiveness?
Paul had no good ideas in his mind at all, which even affected his on-the-spot reaction and judgment. He forgot that Shirou had only lost the sword in his hand, and had not yet lost the match.
"Trace, on."
At the moment when Paul's mind was full of the consequences of cheating and how to solve the problem, Shirou began his chanting the moment he got up from the ground.
"Boom!"
As the earth began to produce a strange buzzing and vibration.
Blazing flames formed clanging twin blades in his hands!
"Hmm?"
Under such a loud noise, Paul had no choice but to refocus his attention, and in the next moment, he discovered that Shirou in the distance was holding two short swords, which were slightly shorter than ordinary weapons, and rushing towards him.
"This is?"
Paul knew about Shirou's Sword Magic, and also knew that the other party could create new weapons out of thin air with magic when he lost his weapon.
It's just that he had never seen Shirou use such unique weapons. The two swords each showed a specific arc, like two pairs of crescent moons.
Although it was an unfamiliar weapon, Paul was not flustered. After all, since he was able to defeat the opponent with the combination of Water God Style and North God Style just now, he would be able to defeat the opponent a second time.
Relying only on the Sword God Style, Shirou would never be able to win against him without an absolute level gap.
And Paul naturally wouldn't give Shirou the opportunity to create weapons with magic this time. He would use absolute strength to end this battle the moment he stripped away the opponent's weapon.
"Snap!"
As Paul got into position, he once again made preparations to use the Water God Style.
As the sword of absolute defense, the Water God Style can strike later and counter all opponents in any situation.
Therefore, he was confident that no matter which direction or angle Shirou attacked from, he could defend and resolve it through the Water God Style.
"Clang!"
In fact, when Shirou's sword slashed over, Paul easily blocked it.
Because after changing weapons, the opponent's sword speed was far from being as fast as the Silent Flash of the Sword God Style, and it could even be said to be quite slow.
Paul thought that Shirou's mentality was affected by his previous defeat, so he started swinging his sword randomly and using his abilities.
But what happened next far exceeded his imagination.
At the moment of colliding with Shirou's blade, Paul clearly used the Water God Style to parry, and was preparing to counter along with the parrying action.
But to his surprise, Shirou simply abandoned the weapon in his hand the moment his weapon was parried. He had no extra reluctance, and no fluctuations at all, allowing the twin swords to be knocked away by Paul. And at the moment of approaching, he raised his hands again -
"Trace, on!"
As two more weapons appeared in his hands, Shirou once again approached in the form of melee combat, and started a new round of collisions with Paul.
"What exactly is this?"
Paul was dumbfounded. He had never seen Shirou's skills, nor had he ever seen such a unique skill in this world.
In fact, during the previous swordsmanship training, Paul had already discovered that Shirou had been hiding his strength.
The other party put all his energy into the pure Sword God Style, making people ignore his abilities other than the Sword God Style. But in fact, Shirou's Sword God Style was just his most ordinary skill, the simplest embodiment of his essence as a mortal.
And once he gave up the Sword God Style, Shirou's real ability would be revealed, and he would explode with an incredible, alternative talent.
"Crane Wing!"
Suddenly, Shirou's movements suddenly stopped. He held the twin blades that were projected out again in his hands, and rushed in front of Paul at an extremely fast speed.
Paul instinctively parried for this.
"Mind and Skill, Mount Tai Ascends!"
"Mind and Skill, Yellow River Crosses!"
Shirou's figure suddenly spun around. In Paul's surprised eyes, he dodged his slash with an extremely exaggerated movement, and came to his close front through the gap in his swordsmanship.
Realizing that Shirou's actions would bring great danger, Paul was so frightened that he immediately retracted his arm and made a parrying action using the posture of the Water God Style.
But Shirou clearly reached such a close distance, but not only did he not attack further, but he directly threw the two short swords in his hands into the air.
At this moment, Paul finally noticed Shirou's real actions. The two short swords that he had just knocked away, combined with the two short swords that he threw out again, the four short swords kept flying in the sky, forming a strange chain, blocking all the positions where Paul could dodge.
At the same time, Shirou's hands once again began to project, and the third pair of twin swords formed in his hands, and made a sudden thrust forward in an unavoidable posture!
"Uniquely Named, Separate Heaven Receiving!"
"Two Heroes, Sharing Fate Separating!"
As the last chanting words were uttered, Shirou swung all his weapons in one breath, and even the air made an astonishing tremor at this moment!
"This is, Crane Wing Triple Attack!"
Shirou perfectly unfolded a series of crosses, and slashed a flash towards Paul's full-of-holes body!
Paul didn't have time to react to this, but he didn't give up. Instead, he pulled out the second weapon hanging from his waist in the limit process!
"Crack!"
With the amazing storm unleashed by Paul's two-sword style, all the weapons projected by Shirou were shattered by Paul.
After fully releasing all his strength as an S-class adventurer, Paul did show a technique that Shirou couldn't match in an instant.
However, the technique he showed at the last moment left him no time to deal with Shirou's last blow that emerged from the shadows!
"Bang!"
At the end of all the projected swords being smashed, Shirou used the sword blade projected by his last mana to rest on Paul's chest, symbolizing the fact that he had won the final victory.
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