Ozymandias’s expression shifted faintly.
From within, he watched cracks slowly spread across one side of the temple, destructive power leaking through now and then.
It was Ea’s power—proof that his temple was about to be breached.
Ozymandias tilted his head, unable to understand.
Why could someone cast away so many weapons, each barely inferior to Divine Constructs, so easily?
Since he had the resolve to abandon those weapons, why not seek a method that would cost him less?
That man has Divinity. I can—
No. That would not work. He is not a god acknowledged by the World. My power would have no special advantage against him.
Ozymandias lowered the hand he had raised and looked at the temple on the verge of being broken through completely, his thoughts drifting.
After my Great Temple is breached, can the temples I seized from every god in this pantheon serve as assets against the enemy?
The thought crossed his mind, but reason quickly gave him the answer.
No. This enemy is strong, and he understands how to sacrifice certain things to expand his gains.
What about the five hundred and thirty-two sphinxes scattered around the area?
No. They would not pose any real threat to him.
Then—
“Fuhahahahaha!”
Seeing that the temple was about to be breached completely, Gilgamesh could not help bursting into laughter.
“How long do you intend to cower in there, mongrel?! Shall I send a hearse for your mother next?”
The madness hidden within Gilgamesh—the madness of this body, suppressed ever since he had crossed over—was finally released in full.
“TEAR IT OPEN, EA!”
The crimson light blazed even brighter, pushing through the temple’s internal structure layer by layer.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
At last, the temple collapsed.
The temple that had not even had time to unleash its full power collapsed.
The instant it caved in from within, every other structure was swept away by the crimson light, as if it truly had been made of nothing but stone.
Gilgamesh stopped Ea’s rotation, his sharp eyes falling on the shattered dregs of the temple below.
Something was buried there.
“Pfft!”
A hand reached out from the debris that could hardly even be called ruins, and Ozymandias sat up from within it.
At that moment, he no longer looked calm and composed—at least, not under all that dust.
His expression, however, remained as impassive as ever.
He rose from the ground and looked at the two people flying in the sky.
“Nice work, Goldie!”
Ishtar pumped her fist, the power of Authority within her seeming to stir restlessly.
After being replenished by the Holy Grail, she could fire as many more shots as needed. If not now, then when was she supposed to finish him off?
Just as she was about to grasp the concept of Venus in her hand again—
BOOOOOM!
She was swatted away, launched at supersonic speed with a deep, subwoofer-like rumble.
Gilgamesh lifted his eyes and saw an unidentified creature several dozen meters tall standing in the air, slowly lowering its hand.
Its skin shone with the brilliance of a star map, the ever-shifting celestial bodies upon it seeming to proclaim the laws by which the world operated.
Massive golden ornaments adorned it, declaring its inviolable dignity.
Gilgamesh turned and looked toward the two identical giant beasts approaching from afar.
Three starry-sky sphinxes.
“So gods truly are ill-suited to battle after all.”
He sighed.
Even a goddess who presided over war could be caught off guard at close range like this. As for the other gods—
“SCREEECH!”
Vimana spun, nimbly evading the claw one starry-sky sphinx swiped at it.
Gilgamesh frowned.
“Very well. It seems I misjudged you beasts, whether or not creatures like you can boast eighteen generations of ancestors.”
He looked down at Ozymandias, who had already risen and straightened himself out on the ground.
“So you mean to pit these beasts against this king, Ozymandias?”
The man on the ground looked up in confusion.
“Ozymandias? I know no such person.”
“Hm?”
Gilgamesh raised an eyebrow.
“You know him not? Are you attempting to—”
WHOOOSH!
Another claw swept in, carrying a biting rush of wind.
He hurriedly controlled Vimana and dodged.
When he looked again, the three starry-sky sphinxes had already surrounded him.
“Very well. You mean to settle this with battle before you deign to speak.”
Golden ripples appeared in the sky and descended from above, divine weapons once more showing their tips.
Gilgamesh revealed a dangerous, brutal smile, his voice carrying killing intent.
“Excellent. That suits this king perfectly!”
…
Beside the Euphrates River, six figures stood together.
Two of them were talking, one was listening, and the remaining three were staring blankly into space.
“So your group was almost entirely wiped out at Gilgamesh’s hands?”
A silver-haired girl in a military uniform questioned Harumi Kiyama, who stood before her.
“Yes. This Gilgamesh is different from the information we know.”
Fear of Gilgamesh showed on Harumi Kiyama’s face, her expression timid.
“At the very least, I’ve never heard of Gilgamesh being able to use Excalibur.”
“I see… What do the rest of you think?”
The girl in the military uniform looked thoughtful as she asked the people beside her.
“Boring. Don’t disturb me.”
A girl in a red dress who looked about fourteen replied, then patted her enormous, obviously unnatural chest.
Then she walked off to one side and started spacing out.
The girl in the military uniform shifted her gaze to a boy in a red school uniform.
“Don’t look at me. I don’t know anything about the intel.”
He waved a hand with dead-fish eyes, looking as if he could not care less.
Finally, the girl in the military uniform looked toward a solemn-faced girl wrapped in a quilt.
“Miss Artoria, please don’t refuse. Right now, we need to solve the problem.”
“Mm.”
Artoria nodded. She and the girl in the military uniform were of the same mind.
“I once encountered Gilgamesh during a Holy Grail War. I have some understanding of his fighting style, and I can tell you about it.”
“However…”
Remembering that Goldie, whose mouth seemed to have been forcibly smeared with honey, she looked disgusted.
“My impression of him is not very good.”
“I see…”
The girl in the military uniform nodded, then turned back to the others.
“Everyone, does no one else have anything to say?”
“…”
Silence fell.
“Haah…”
She sighed.
This was a temporary team. Before coming to this world, none of them had ever met one another. They shared only a single common mission.
But these people seemed completely uninterested in that mission.
Harumi Kiyama looked at the helpless girl in the military uniform and felt this veteran was rather underwhelming.
But no matter how she looked at it, that did nothing to change the girl’s determination to get the team in order.
“Everyone, I imagine none of you are rookies carrying out a mission for the first time, and your abilities are beyond question. So why can’t you even do something as simple as give your name?”
“Why don’t you say your own name?”
The boy in the school uniform turned his head.
“Naturally, I will. You may call me Altair.”
Altair gave her name.
“…I’m willing to cooperate.”
The boy turned around.
“Kiyotaka Ayanokoji.”
“It is an honor to carry out this mission with you.”
Altair tossed her shaggy hair and smiled at Kiyotaka Ayanokoji.
“Shalltear Bloodfallen.”
The girl followed with a sentence, then fell silent again.
In the end, everyone looked toward the hooded figure in a coat who had not spoken a single word from beginning to end. They could not even tell the person’s gender.
They were gazing out at the majestic river.
“Will you not say something?”
Artoria spoke, her expression carrying a trace of wariness, as if she had sensed some indescribable threat from this person.
“I…”
The figure hiding their face turned back and realized no one had come near them.
“I don’t remember what my name was. But you may call me this…”
“Doctor.”
T/N: WHAT THE HELL IS THIS TEAMMMMMMMMMMMM
altair
shaltear
AYANOGOD
Artoria(?)
DOCTOR???
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