The infinite sword system has been mastered, and you say this is the dragon clan?

Chapter 197: Divine Sword: Kusanagi Sword!

The flipping notebook rustled in the breeze, and the pages vibrated slightly in the air.

As the others discussed, Eri lowered her head and began to carefully record the story of Daedalus and the Great Labyrinth in her notebook. Then she paused, bit the pen and thought for a moment, then wrote and drew on the back page, casually creating an abstract minotaur image with crooked lines.

It was not until Emiya tugged at her sodehaka twice that the girl raised her head and continued to follow the others in exploring the huge city.

Emiya and Hercules led the way, and the ancient city unfolded like a picture scroll of the kingdom of God. A giant tower that was much taller than Tokyo Tower stood in the center of the city, its spire reaching into the sky, as if to pierce through the sky.

The true appearance of the mountain-like buildings is also clearly displayed before our eyes. The metal roof rises to form a mountain shape and is covered with iron-black tiles engraved with cirrus clouds and dragon beasts. Hundreds of meters long metal sickles hang from the four corners of the houses, with black wind chimes interspersed between them, but it is incredibly silent.

Since Aso Makoto came in, he has hardly ever opened his mouth. Such an ancient and majestic architectural style may have only existed in fantasy movies in the past. No relics of civilization in reality may be so magnificent.

Whether it was the angular patterns carved out of rocks or the cold and severe decorations made of a combination of silver, black iron and bronze, they all challenged her inherent understanding of the ancient times and repeatedly verified the fragmentary words of Emiya and Hercules about the "Age of the Gods".

There really was a highly developed civilization in ancient times that may have already existed!

Whoosh-!
"Master, watch your step." Mochizuki Chiyome suddenly swung out the sickle, and the flying chain was entangled with metal wires and hooks, lightly hooking the belt around Asou Makoto's waist, barely catching the falling girl.

The brick slab where the female student had just stood collapsed silently, and the bronze gear disc hidden inside the city was rotating faintly, causing the area below to be filled with black and purple thorn traps in the blink of an eye.

"Ah!" Asou Makoto was hooked by the sickle and moved aside to the ground. She realized it belatedly and exclaimed softly. She finally realized clearly that this city was not a dull and dead thing, but more like a cold guard that would actively attack invaders.

Emiya also pulled Eri away from the tiles that would move on their own, and said in a vigilant tone, "We just encountered this kind of thing when we entered the city, so this city will take the initiative to defend against outsiders?"

Hearing this, Hercules looked into the distance, observing the entire city's layout, entrances and exits, as well as the battlements of the outer city walls and the spires that resembled lookout facilities.

"Not necessarily. I looked around. There are wide avenues and different areas that are divided normally. There is also a square shaped like a Colosseum and a central spire in the city center... Although the place is a bit larger, it is still a city, not a fortress to defend against enemies or a maze to trap people. It is impossible to completely prevent the flow of people."

"There are special circumstances, right?" Emiya also looked up. The spikes on the tall houses reflected cold light. The copper bells hanging on the corners of the eaves suddenly began to jingle without wind.

It seems like it is sending some warning signal.

"Yes, like... during wartime."

Om-!
Just as he finished speaking, there seemed to be a startling muffled roar erupting from deep within the distant city, and the slate bricks under his feet began to vibrate slightly. At this point, even Aso Makoto, who knew almost nothing about this strange divine city, felt that something was wrong.

"Watch your feet!"

Hercules, who was the first to react, tied Fingel tightly behind his back with the Nemean lion skin, and the shaking of the floor became more violent.

The great hero's rough toes exerted force instantly, and he jumped onto the roof with a few leaps and bounds. The tiles under his feet made a crisp crackling sound, and Finkel behind him subconsciously uttered a mumbling sound like a dream due to the bumpy ride.

"Hold on tight!" Emiya skillfully embraced Eri and then jumped onto the roof. Chiyome held the sickle in her hand as she jumped up, and the power was immediately transmitted along the chain, throwing Masao Shin into the air.

The latter's expression was probably a mixture of being caught off guard and not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and he complained loudly: "Don't toss the Master around like a sandbag or pillow, Assassin!"

"Sorry, it's an emergency, I just have to make up my mind!"

"Something is coming! Everyone be careful, this place may not be safe either, be ready to move at any time!"

Seeing that everyone had landed safely on the tiled roof, Emiya once again looked at the floor that was shaking and undulating like waves. He glanced around. The wide Shinto road was shaking violently, and the whole city seemed to have come alive.

Until a certain moment, the tremors of the city suddenly reached a critical point, and further changes occurred. The streets arched like the back of a giant beast, and some houses even began to break and deform, or shift strangely, gradually exposing the gloomy underground foundation under the city, and a dark mixture of solids and liquids gushed out from the cracks in the ground.

The horrific truth buried deep underground is finally revealed! That is... a large number of bones and corpses! This is a city built on a huge number of dead people!
The ancient giant city with overwhelming divine power turned into a nightmare-like den of death in the blink of an eye.

Emiya's eyes were fixed on the thousand-year-old corpses or skeletons. They were wearing armor, but their eye sockets and body surfaces were filled with a rich black color.

It was black mud. Under the dim light, the shiny black mud was flowing between the cold corpses. As if it had life, endless black mud emerged from it, like the Styx flowing upstream.

It turns out that the source of the black mud... is all here!
"It's just like the hell in Tartarus." Seeing such a vast and shocking scene, even a knowledgeable hero like Hercules couldn't help but murmur softly.

As an Archer, he possessed an unparalleled vision. He moved his eyes again, quickly searching for an open area that had not yet been affected.

Hercules stretched out his hand and pointed in a direction to everyone, "Go around the black mud from there, then turn right and go to the square in the city center. There is no movement in that place!"

"it is good!"

Emiya and the others did not dare to delay for a moment. Both the Shinto and the streets began to twist like giant pythons. Countless black muds carried corpses and collapsed the buildings, like a dark giant standing on the ground, rampaging and trampling everything.

Emiya picked up Eri and flew between the rooftops. As he nervously watched the movements of the black mud frenzy, he finally understood where those shadow servants and the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons came from.

After the black mud underground gushes out from the cracks, it will not only form a huge fountain, but will also transform the remaining corpses into dark and eerie shadow servants or monsters!
These corpses with ghostly lights flickering in their eye sockets were engulfed and soaked in the mud. Then, through some mysterious process, they were mixed and reorganized by invisible hands into a completely new form of existence. They were reborn from the black mud and rose into the sky in the guise of demons!

Whoosh!
Several swiftly flying sickle-weasels opened their skeleton-like skinny claws, cut through the air, and pounced forward with a ferocious look, but in the blink of an eye, Hercules drew his bow like lightning, and the arrow left the string, and then there was a crisp sound of crackling - no matter what kind of flying creature it was, it would only end up being killed in front of Hercules' bow and arrow!
In his heart, Emiya was amazed at this miraculous archery skill, but unfortunately he didn't have the time to observe and learn it. He picked up Eri from the waist, spun her half a circle in the air, and put her on his back. A katana was instantly projected and handed to her:
"Eri, is it okay to leave it to you?"

The girl smiled and nodded, the cool wind causing her hair to flutter around Emiya's shoulders, quietly and gently rubbing against his ears.

The bronze tiles on the corners of the eaves cracked in the surging black mud, making a crisp sound similar to the breaking of bones. Emiya instantly jumped into the air, and the girl on his back raised the blade.

call--!
The sword swung out a silvery white semicircle, and the field of judgment formed a wind of death, spreading in a limited direction. The shiny black mud that crawled up from under the roof and gnawed the tiles disintegrated into debris the moment it touched the field. There was a thunderous movement from underground. The army of the dead transformed by the thousand-year-old corpse ghosts was still constantly transforming and being born in the gushing black mud.

The people supported each other. Hercules used bows and arrows to kill enemies in the air, while Eri's Death Judgment and Chiyome's Snake Curse cleared away obstacles along the way.

"Master, be careful, the roof is about to collapse!"

Just when everyone had successfully taken a detour and were about to reach the city center square, Mochizuki Chiyome suddenly shouted to Aso Makoto who was running, reminding her that the tiles under her feet had already become brittle due to the black mud.

As an ordinary person, Makoto Aso's reaction ability could not keep up with her teammates with super physical fitness. So when she was dragged to the new roof, she staggered a few times almost by inertia. As a result, she accidentally stepped on empty air and was about to fall into the endless sea of black mud.

Whoosh whoosh—

Chiyome was quick-witted and quick-handed. She quickly threw out thirty-six shurikens and kunai, which were nailed into the beams under the broken tile roof. The interlaced silk threads were cleverly woven into a fine steel mesh, which stopped Asou Makoto's fall in time. Then she reached out and threw out the knuckle that bound the girl's body, and pulled Asou Makoto up again.

However, at this moment, something strange happened suddenly!

The black mud rose up at high speed like a giant beast, and everyone heard the sound of its heartbeat at the same time, which seemed to be able to spread throughout the city, like an engine with amazing horsepower.

"What is that... another dragon?"

Masao watched the change that was happening so close with horror. A hideous and huge corpse dragon head poked out from the black tide, and the creaking sound of the thousand-meter-long dragon bones rubbed against each other intertwined into a symphony of hell. It was obviously not yet complete, and the ghost fire was still beating in its bony and empty eye sockets.

Death rushed towards me, and the rotten and icy breath right before my eyes made me tremble.

"boom!"

Hercules took the opportunity to shoot another thunderous arrow, tearing through the thick night and piercing the corpse dragon's head. There was a loud bang, and the dragon of death and decay lost its head, and tens of thousands of broken bones poured down like a rainstorm.

The Chiyo-chan brought Aso Shinto to her front, drew out her ninja sword and sickle, and swung them, clanging and knocking away all the bone fragments stained with black mud. At the same time, she advanced safely.

But before one crisis is over, another one arises.

The Chiyo female team at the back got down safely, but Hercules at the front encountered a new dragon beast attack. Another wave of huge corpse dragons seemed to have been lying in ambush on the way to the square, waiting for the invaders.

But Hercules showed no fear.

His performance was so fierce that he seemed like a god descending from heaven. Even with the fur of his own divine beast tied to his back, carrying his master Fingel on one side, and facing numerous enemies attacking from the front on the other side, he was still invincible in the world!

boom! boom! boom!
Arrows were fired continuously, with a force like thunder, sweeping out a terrifying sound of wind, and pierced through more than ten giant dragon corpses under the twilight sky, shattering the skulls of the ancient dragons one by one.

"Be careful!" Emiya suddenly remembered the anomaly of the first encounter with the dragon and hastily warned, "Some dragons may be extremely immortal. We must find the 'core' to defeat them--!"

Before he finished speaking, Hercules had already seen three of them actually poking out from the dark mud again. Their bones regenerated rapidly, and then fresh flesh and blood rapidly filled their huge skeletons in the form of threads. In the blink of an eye, they were restored to their complete form, wrapped in divinity!

One glance can lead to the conclusion: the concentration of the spirit on these three heads is higher than that of the giant dragon at the city gate. They are obviously more powerful, but they have been hiding and not showing any power just now. Now they are tricking and attacking us by surprise. It is simply despicable and shameless, and has no moral ethics!

However, Hercules obviously didn't have the time to complain about this. He focused his eyes and used his mind's eye skills (mind's eye·false + mind's eye·true) which were much stronger than Emiya's. Whether it was his physical reaction or his sixth sense, Hercules could choose the most correct action in a rapidly changing and complex environment.

Boom!

The huge dragon head spewed out thick hot streams of molten lava. Hercules stomped on the roof to avoid the attack and shot three arrows at the neck of each dragon at the same time.

This time, due to the improvement of his divinity, the enemy obviously could not be shot in the head with one blow. This time his arrow only blew a huge blood hole at the position of the dragon's neck, and a column of blood immediately gushed out.

The next moment, Hercules turned sideways and jumped to the left, because he heard Emiya's shout behind him: "Archer, get out of the way... Release the Noble Phantasm, slay the evil, and slay the dragon!"

As a result, the blue ice and fire wave almost passed by him, and finally fell on the black mud tide and the disaster dragon that was like the sea surface, instantly igniting the mud and scales at the same time, and freezing them at the same time! In an instant, the blue cold wave and the scorching fire swept across the battlefield at the same time!
There was a flash of surprise in Hercules' eyes - the giant dragon with the god of disaster was burned black and roared in pain, and then the mud all over its body was frozen by the extreme cold, and this coldness continued to spread inside and outside the mud tide... In other words, the Dragon-Breaking Platform actually took advantage of this humid water environment, significantly amplified the effect, and restrained the opponent's offensive!
What a clever response!
Hercules was astonished by Emiya's move. He had originally thought that since the situation had deteriorated rapidly, he might as well hand over Master Fingel to the other side, let them take the Master away, and stay to deal with the enemy alone, but he did not expect that his teammates were obviously also extremely talented people.

White light?

At this moment, Hercules, who had leaped into the air, noticed a strange light flashing in the square in the distance.

Is it the reflection of the metal surface of the central tower? No, how could such a bright natural reflected white light be produced in such a dark sky?
"No! Don't come over here!"

The moment his mind and eyes raised an alarm, Hercules threw Finger, who was wrapped in the fur of a mythical beast, towards Emiya. The next second, a mighty white light from the square descended on him.

That was not light at all, but a slash, a flash of the extremely sharp sword! No mortal sword could ignore the laws of physics and create an extraordinary and silent long-range slash, only the sword could do it!

At this life-or-death moment, Aso Makoto had no idea what was happening. Only Emiya and the other two noticed this silent and terrifying sword.

The edge of the sword swept across Hercules' bronze skin - there was no clanging of metal colliding, no muffled sound of flesh being torn, his body had no power to resist at all, and was cut neatly in half, shocking everyone present.

The moment Emiya caught Finkel, he saw the surging mud tide, along with the land and road blocks in the distance, all being cut along a straight line tens of kilometers long, revealing a terrifying abyss.

At this time, in the direction of the square, eight giant beasts with majestic looks finally emerged from under the ground.

(End of this chapter)