Jobless Reincarnation: Emiya the Great Hero Must Show His True Skills

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His keen insight came into play at the crucial moment, allowing him to take evasive action in advance!

"Boom!"

The next instant, Alster descended from the sky like a bulldozer that could destroy everything, leaving a terrifying crater in the area where Shirou had been standing.

Witnessing this scene, Shirou broke out in a cold sweat.

He couldn't imagine that if he had been even a fraction slower and been hit by the Dragon God's attack, he would have been instantly defeated and turned into mincemeat!

This is a battle against a god-like being!

Not a single wrong step can be taken!

Chapter 255 An Unbeatable Opponent!

“He actually dodged it?”

Orsteed stood on the shattered earth, looking at Shirou with a surprised expression, as if he had seen something quite unexpected.

From his perspective, Shirou couldn't possibly have dodged that attack.

After all, compared to the Dragon God Orsteed, Shirou's existence was like a locust fluttering on the ground. Faced with an absolute difference in strength, the latter had no ability to resist at all.

The name of the Dragon God signifies that Orsteed is one of the strongest beings in this world.

Its strength, ranking second among the seven major powers, makes it capable of crushing all its rivals in the world.

Even when Shirou is in his Heroic Spirit form, the difference between the two is still enormous.

While Shirou possesses a multitude of abilities in his Heroic Spirit form, his strength was already stretched thin when facing the Water God, who was not even among the great powers. Now, facing a true powerhouse, and a Dragon God who is among the top powers, he is no different from an ant.

However, in terms of strength alone, Shirou can indeed only be considered an ant, but the actual battle process is not determined by pure strength.

Otherwise, most battles in this world would simply be decided by arm wrestling, with the winner determined by who has the greater strength.

In reality, true combat is never about pure strength or speed.

There are things far more important than these that determine the outcome of the battle!

"call……"

Shirou took a deep breath, recalling the dragon god's attack on him just now.

That is undoubtedly the Sword God Style, and a Sword God Style with an extremely high level of swordsmanship, far faster than Kyrie Illusion, who taught the Sword God Style swordsmanship to Shirou!

As a dragon god, it is indeed incredible that Orsteed knows the Sword God Style invented by the human sword god, but Shirou doesn't have time to think about why the other party knows the Sword God Style.

Compared to the mystery surrounding Orsteed, Shirou is currently only focused on how to defeat him!

"Clap!"

In the distance, Alsteed suddenly moved again.

Its extremely fast movements far exceed what can be captured by sight.

After realizing that even his Clairvoyance couldn't detect Orsteed's movements, Shirou simply gave up trying to observe her with his naked eyes and instead focused all his energy on Emiya's special skill—Mind's Eye!

Yes, the reason Shirou was able to dodge Orsteed's incredibly fast Sword God Style was because of his special insight.

This is the insight that Emiya cultivated through training and practice, enabling him to calmly assess his own situation and the enemy's abilities even when at a disadvantage, and to find a way out. This "battle theory" is based on the intelligence he has obtained, predicting the opponent's actions, breaking the situation, and avoiding danger.

Over the years, Shirou has experienced numerous battles and rigorous training, further refining the Mind's Eye skill of the Heroic Spirit Emiya, raising it from its original B-rank to a B-level standard.

It is precisely because of this ability that he was able to dodge even the Dragon God's attacks, which were completely invisible!

"Snapped!"

With the help of his keen intuition, Shirou instinctively made a dodge move.

"Boom!"

The area where it originally stood was reduced to ashes once again.

At the same time, Shirou also fired several arrows without turning his head.

The reason for using only bows and arrows as an attack method instead of directly projecting Gan Jiang and Mo Xie to engage in close combat is because of the lesson learned from Alice's previous experience.

The Dragon God Orsteed is suspected of possessing an extremely high level of Water God Flow skills.

If you rashly engage in close combat with him, the result will inevitably be that you will be defeated by his parrying and counter-attack using the Water God Style in the blink of an eye before you can even react.

It can be said that the more actual the battle, the more shocked Shirou became by the power of the Dragon God.

The opponent not only possesses the ultimate Water God Style, but also the god-level Sword God Style, in addition to having an almost indestructible body.

This makes the Dragon God itself like a mobile fortress, impossible for anyone to defeat head-on!

For this reason, Shirou had no choice but to use a bow and arrow as his weapon, constantly pulling back and forth while creating distance, looking for an opportunity to win.

"Snapped!"

"Crack!" "Crack!"

The arrows in his hand were released continuously like a meteor shower.

Shirou would shift his position after each volley of arrows to avoid being hit by the Dragon God's direct attack.

However, although he was agile enough and had keen perception, he gradually began to struggle.

After all, even if the Dragon God's attack misses, it will still put immense psychological pressure on Shirou.

The longer the battle continues, the greater the sense of oppression becomes.

In the end, they may even lose the courage to fight.

Fortunately, Shirou's will was strong enough, and the belief in protecting his sister was deeply rooted in his mind, preventing him from being defeated by fear.

Even so, achieving victory remains incredibly difficult.

Facing an opponent as terrifying as the Dragon God, it's simply impossible to find a chance to win without paying a price.

So Shirou stopped in his tracks.

For the first time, he abandoned his escape and chose to confront the existence of the Dragon God directly.

"..."

Seeing Shirou stop, the Dragon God Orsteed looked at him with great interest and said, "What, aren't you going to continue with your strange fighting style?"

Even the Dragon God was impressed by Shirou's resilience as the battle continued.

After all, most people would be overwhelmed by this level of combat and would either give up or be defeated by a minor mistake.

However, Shirou has stubbornly persisted until now, as if his opponent has turned his personality and will into a cold and ruthless machine, launching a precarious attack with an absolutely cold attitude.

Orsteed admired Shirou's willpower and even felt a little reluctant to kill such an interesting human.

But he was still an apostle who utterly hated gods and men.

We must never allow any of God's apostles to live in this world.

This is the principle of the Dragon God.

Therefore, even though he was very interested in Shirou, the Dragon God did not hide his killing intent at all and made an attitude of wanting to completely crush Shirou.

Conversely, Shirou has also realized that it is impossible to defeat the Dragon God through a war of attrition.

Orsteed's body was as strong as steel, and no amount of arrows could cause him any damage.

While the illusion collapse that just occurred could affect Orstead, it greatly depleted Shirou's own magical energy. One Dream Summon was not enough to sustain a battle for that long.

Therefore, if Shirou wants to win the battle, he must resort to even more extreme measures.

Even if doing so might cost him his life, he absolutely could not run away—

"Projection, start!"

In an instant, the twin swords Gan Jiang and Mo Xie appeared in Shirou's hand.

Furthermore, compared to the usual Gan Jiang and Mo Xie, Shirou this time directly projected an enhanced version of the pair of swords, resembling crane feathers.

After wielding two swords, Shirou charged directly at Orsteed.

"Magic to create weapons? Does such magic even exist in this world?"

Orsteed paid no attention to Shirou's attack, but instead admired Shirou's behavior.

Shirou didn't care about Orsteed's attitude. He just rushed towards him, his twin swords drawing an arc in the air and creating huge waves.

"too slow."

Orsteed commented on Shirou's swordsmanship, and with a single punch, he shattered both of Shirou's projected swords.

An overly simplistic attitude is like tearing a piece of paper into pieces.

Of course, this result was within Shirou's expectations.

The instant his twin swords were shattered, he drew from behind his back a treasure he had prepared beforehand—the Sword of Victory.

Although it is the weapon of the knight Gawain, this holy sword is by no means low-level. It is a sister sword to King Arthur's Excalibur!

When Pope Milis returned it to Shirou, the latter would never have imagined that he would use this weapon at such a time!

"Holy Sword, Release!"

Shirou already knew that ordinary attacks could not defeat Orsteed, and that using a powerful projection would require a long time to prepare.

That would only leave a lot of openings.

Therefore, the only chance is the treasure he already carries, the Holy Sword of Knight Gawain!

If this holy sword were released at its maximum power, even Orstid wouldn't be able to completely block the impact!

The instant Shirou had this thought, he noticed that Orsteed suddenly snapped his fingers with his left hand.

The next instant, a small square window, fifty centimeters in size, rose up from beside his feet. It was a beautiful silver window decorated with an ornate dragon pattern.

"Open up, Qianlongmen."

Alsterd murmured those words, and then the window opened.

At the same time, Shirou unleashed the full power of the Holy Sword's magic like a torrent.

The dazzling light tore through everything, but was completely absorbed the moment it crashed into the small silver window!

"boom!"

The torrent of magic was swallowed up as if by a giant beast, causing no harm to Orstid before vanishing into nothingness.

"That's...magic?"

Shirou was dumbfounded.

He never imagined that such peculiar magic existed in this world, capable of directly absorbing all the magic power of a holy sword.

However, the power of the Holy Sword was not so easily lost.

After absorbing all the energy, the strange magic created by Alsted seemed unable to withstand its power, emitting a crisp sound and cracking open.

At the same time, an explosion occurred near Alsterd.

However, the scale of the explosion was far less than the normal power of the Holy Sword.

Its power has been greatly reduced!

"A holy sword capable of releasing light waves... I seem to have heard similar rumors before. It was made by a human blacksmith named Muramasa. Do you know that Muramasa?"

"..."

Shirou was speechless in response to Orstide's words.

The fact that the sword of victory was completely caught was somewhat beyond his expectations.

Now, even he felt like he had run out of ideas.

Right now, he only has one chance of winning. Although he is very unwilling, he probably only has one choice: to use the true trump card of the Heroic Spirit Emiya - Unlimited Blade Works!

Chapter 256 Infinite Blade Works, Just One Step Away!

Unlimited Blade Works.

The ultimate projection technique that Emiya spent his entire life reaching was a technique called Reality Marble, which was enough to give Emiya, who did not have his own Noble Phantasm, the possibility of becoming a powerful Heroic Spirit.

The essence of the barrier is to create a huge hill covered with countless swords, with endless yellow sand and gears rotating infinitely.

The interior of the Reality Marble is a world like an ironworks filled with weapons, flames, and giant gears. Countless swords are preserved with their blades stuck in the ground. Moreover, most of the weapons stored there are Noble Phantasms of Heroic Spirits, whose ultimate killing power can be copied and identified through projection magic.

Most of the Noble Phantasms are swords, and while armor is also possible, it would require two to three times the magic power of a normal projection.