“Your Majesty, why not look at the treasure first?”
Kurumi Tokisaki could only force herself to say it.
There was no helping it. Even knowing this would most likely offend him, they could not just leave like this, could they!?
No way!
They had not come to offer this treasure because they truly meant to hand it over to Gilgamesh. They were here to ask for help!
If they left it behind and walked out now, wouldn’t that mean losing both the bait and the fish?
At that thought, Kurumi could only remind herself deep down that intelligence was often unreliable.
By their original estimate, Gilgamesh at this point in time should not have had Clairvoyance yet. They had assumed he only acquired it later, during his Wise King period, after shifting into the role of a mage.
As for something like Sha Naqba Imuru, they had all believed it was something one could only obtain after sublimating into a Heroic Spirit.
But now…
“Oh? Very well. Then open it.”
Gilgamesh sounded utterly unconcerned. The stern seriousness from earlier was gone.
Though he had no idea why these two, who should not have appeared here, had shown up anyway, that was something he could think about later.
When he had first seen Kurumi Tokisaki, he had honestly thought he had walked onto the wrong set.
As for the other one…
Gilgamesh’s crimson eyes shifted to Shirou Emiya.
To be honest, he could not quite tell who this man was supposed to be.
If all he had to go on was red hair, then even Gilgamesh was helpless. Besides, this man… or perhaps this boy had not said a single word since entering.
How was he supposed to identify him like that?
His mana reserves were fairly large, though.
Wait…
Gilgamesh turned his gaze toward Siduri and saw that her expression had not changed.
Just then, as Kurumi was about to open the chest, Gilgamesh abruptly cut in.
“You two… are bolder than I gave you credit for…”
Anger entered his voice, and the mana around him began to surge, spilling outward and sinking into the earth.
As though something had shaken it loose, the entire temple hall began to tremble faintly.
That was only on the physical level. The real situation was far more dangerous.
“How is this possible?!”
Faced head-on with Gilgamesh’s mana, both Kurumi Tokisaki and Shirou Emiya went pale with shock. Even Siduri broke into a cold sweat as she turned back toward Gilgamesh on the throne in astonishment.
When did my king… come to possess this level of mana?
Kurumi and Shirou felt it even more sharply.
This much mana is beyond human. Even for a demigod, this is absurd!
A wind rose from nowhere, and the tremors in the temple grew stronger. Merely releasing mana was enough to interfere with matter to such a degree.
“Your Majesty.”
Kurumi endured that vast, tsunami-like pressure of mana.
“How have we offended you?”
At those words, Gilgamesh gave a mocking smile.
Vwoom.
A golden ripple appeared, and with blinding speed it fired a sword of on par with Noble Phantasms.
Only then did Kurumi truly understand just how insane this Gilgamesh, rumored to be a tyrant, really was.
“Tch.”
She sprang away in a panic.
She had no choice but to dodge. Even this kind of attack was more than her Astral Dress could withstand, and even switching to her true body would not help.
After all, she was not a Spirit known for defense, and the sword Gilgamesh had fired was no ordinary weapon.
BOOM!
The blade struck the ground. Though it was a cutting weapon, the moment it pierced the floor, it blasted open a huge crater.
Kurumi, who had been targeted, managed to evade it, and Shirou was flung back by the shockwave as well.
The principle behind it was simple enough. If one merely threw a weapon outright, then even a Noble Phantasm would not display that much power.
So the instant he obtained Gate of Babylon, he had automatically received the basic firing methods Gilgamesh himself had developed for launching Noble Phantasms.
Of course, Gate of Babylon handled most of the work involved in firing them, but Gilgamesh himself still had plenty of room to manipulate the process.
By disrupting the mana inherent in a Noble Phantasm and artificially creating a “mana detonation” during launch, he could accelerate any launched Noble Phantasm in proportion to the amount of mana it contained. In other words, the higher the rank of the Noble Phantasm, the greater the force behind the shot.
Under his control, it could also produce a small-scale explosive or piercing effect on impact, and even be combined with the effects of Noble Phantasms that possessed “passive attributes.”
A Noble Phantasm that could slash out flames could produce an effect similar to a grenade. One with a freezing effect could immobilize an enemy far more thoroughly. In effect, that was equivalent to a limited release of a Noble Phantasm.
And because this work was also being carried out indirectly through Gate of Babylon, Gilgamesh’s workload was minimal—practically as effortless as breathing.
High efficiency, little effort, tremendous power!
That was Gate of Babylon!
And the way he naturally used Gate of Babylon in this regard even surpassed the original Gate of Babylon itself!
“And you still ask how you’ve offended me?”
When Gilgamesh repeated Kurumi Tokisaki’s words, killing intent entered his eyes.
Then, from blind spots outside the field of vision of both Kurumi and Shirou, a sword shot at each of them.
“What?!”
They barely dodged in time, only to find that the blades had merely sliced the corners of their clothes.
In the next instant, their expressions changed completely.
Siduri’s did as well. Raising her hand, she pointed at the two of them in anger.
“Why are you hiding your power?! With this level of mana, were you planning to assassinate King Gilgamesh?!”
Hearing that, Kurumi Tokisaki smiled bitterly.
“Captain, this was a terrible decision…”
That was right. What the launched Noble Phantasms had cut through was not just the hems of their clothes, but also the spells on them that had been used to deceive detection.
Those spells were precisely why they had been treated as harmless people with no mana.
At the start, they had only intended those spells as a means of concealment, mainly in case negotiations broke down and they needed to take advantage of the enemy underestimating them to escape.
But now those very spells had become the biggest fuse for the breakdown in talks!
So this was what people meant by unintended consequences. Unfortunately, not the good kind.
“King Gilgamesh, we have no intention of assassinating you.”
Kurumi Tokisaki gave Gilgamesh a lady’s bow.
There was no helping it. A moment ago, she had already seen that the outside of the main hall was surrounded layer upon layer by Uruk’s guards, and this was also the temple where all the priests of the city lived.
No matter how she looked at it, there was no way they could win!
“We hid ourselves because we truly had our reasons! Please, King Gilgamesh, judge clearly!”
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A/N: Some readers mentioned the issue of Gilgamesh’s clairvoyance.
How should I put it… the setting here is that Gilgamesh obtained EX-rank Clairvoyance during his Wise King period, while in his other periods it had not yet fully taken shape.
T/N: heheh wiseking also mana detonation isnt the same as broken phantasm its weaker in scale 😛
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