Thanks for the invitation. I'm in Type-Moon, inheriting the legacy of Zi-O.

"Don't even think about it!" Artemis immediately drew her bow, and the silver arrow once again hurtled towards Heracles.

The sniper shot landed precisely on Hercules' head, and a violent explosion instantly engulfed the berserker's body.

"Hmph, in that case—what?!" Orion nodded approvingly, but then he discovered a shocking scene. The teddy bear's mouth gaped open as it stared blankly at Hercules, who emerged unharmed from the black smoke.

"Asterius's arrow didn't work?!" Unharmed, without even a pause, Heracles still charged towards Nianzhuo with all his might.

"—!" Then, Nian Zhuo also noticed the unidentified black cube rushing towards them.

What would you do if you saw a huge, black, unidentified object spinning and flying towards you?

I am indifferent to turbid thoughts.

"I'm just running away! You better get out of here!" Then, without bothering to kill the girl in front of him, Nian Zhuo quickly sheathed his sword, kicked Medea in the stomach, and flew backward.

After catching a glimpse of Hercules out of the corner of my eye, the system's warning kept echoing in my mind.

"Warning...Warning..." Nian Zhuo's head was buzzing, but seeing the duck that was about to be caught just like that, Nian Zhuo felt inexplicably happy.

"Nice, I finally made a joke that people can understand!" Although he thought this to himself, Nian Zhuo's eyes never left Hiscules from the moment he saw him.

Just as Nianzhuo had guessed, after discovering that Nianzhuo had left his attack range, Hercules stopped advancing without hesitation. To Nianzhuo's astonishment, he stepped off the ground and used the momentum to leap towards Medea, who was flying backward.

"Forget it, let Newton die." The moment he landed, Nian Zhuo felt a sharp pain in his chest. "Damn it, it's happening again!"

Then, Hercules, with movements completely unlike those of a madman, gently covered Medea's back and gently placed her on the ground.

"Phew, thank you, Hercules." Brushing off the dust, Medea returned the same grateful smile as before. "If it weren't for you, I might never have met Lord Jason."

"—." He nodded silently, his mountain-like body placing Medea beside him.

“It’s just like Asterius and Euryale… Do all the Greek berserkers like lolis?” Nian Zhuo scratched his cheek, but his body tilted slightly, like a beast poised to pounce.

"As expected of someone who shattered two eras, their strength is truly remarkable." Just now, Medea realized that Ritsuka and the others had shattered all three magical barriers she had set up on the ground when she was knocked away.

"If it's only this bad..." Ritsuka breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Mash's magical cannon attack was enough to block it and posed little threat to Asterius. "It should be manageable...!"

However, the girl's next words plunged Ritsuka into an icy abyss.

"So I'm sorry, Hercules." The girl smiled as she looked at the giant standing beside her. "I really can't stop them by myself, so I really need your bravery to step in."

"——————!" Then, the tall, pitch-black giant let out a triumphant battle roar.

The giants' fighting spirit was ignited, but Ritsuka and the others' feelings cooled down.

Hercules, the great hero of Greece, has joined the war!

How am I supposed to win this game... The enemy has a giant right in front of us!

When the black giant joined the battle, everyone's hearts were in their throats.

Hercules' axe blade proclaimed destructive violence, but even more astonishing was his dance-like lightness of movement, completely incongruous with the berserker's brutality.

"Damn it..." Nian Zhuo gritted his teeth and gripped the Time Gun Sword in his hand under his mask, his forehead already covered in sweat. "What kind of monster is this... Even if I can foresee the future, I can't suppress him. In fact, his counterattack has put me in a difficult situation..." Then, the clock hands above his head started to turn again.

"Hey! What's going on?" In reality, Nian Zhuo looked at his worried reflection in the mirror and couldn't help but urge him a couple of times. He was then forcibly pulled back by Hercules' actions in reality. "I'm about to collapse!"

"I'm doing it! I'm doing it! Can you stop rushing me?" No wonder they're the same person, even their personalities are exactly the same. However, the person in the mirror has no intention of joking at all. "Listen carefully, the opponent's next attack is—watch out!" Then, he quickly deleted the scene in front of him and pushed Nian Zhuo away to regain control of his body.

Having just taken control, 'Nianzhuo' hurriedly rolled to the side.

Then, Nianzhuo saw Hercules wielding a huge axe blade in both hands, chopping up the entire plank of the ship where Nianzhuo had just been standing.

"—!" Seeing Nian Zhuo roll to the side, Hercules instinctively raised his foot and struck again.

"Ugh—!" By raising the long blade of the Time Limit Sword and the Time Gun Sword, Nian Zhuo barely managed to block the opponent's kick, but he still had to take a few steps back to dissipate the remaining force.

"I'm telling you! Are you blind?!" In his mind's eye, the Nian Zhuo in the mirror roared at his real self, pointing at the furiously howling Hercules. "Please, don't count on this ability to foresee the future! The two are on completely different levels. Knowing the other's moves will only increase our pressure!" As he spoke, the mirror version of himself hurriedly manipulated his body, swinging his golden sword again to clash with the purple magic cannon. "Anyway, I think we should be thinking about how to run now!"

"I'm thinking about this right now!" Nian Zhuo bit his finger, looking at the attack of the future Hercules presented in front of him. "But how can we fight against that guy with our martial arts skills that we haven't even had for a year! Anyway, I'll leave the analysis to you and the fighting to me!" With that, Nian Zhuo pushed his reflection in the mirror aside and regained control of his body.

Then, an equally enormous black shadow rushed over and blocked Nian Zhuo's path.

"Asterius!" Nianzhuo was startled when he saw the berserker wielding two axes. "What are you doing here! Where are Mash and the others?" Then, his gaze passed over Asterius and Heracles and saw Mash, Drake, and Artemis restraining Medea under Ritsuka's instructions.

"Relax." With difficulty, Asterius uttered the words, his eyes bloodshot as he swung his double axes. "I will be his enemy." As he spoke, his massive double axes struck Heracles' equally powerful axe blade.

The two berserkers stared into each other's crimson eyes and let out terrifying roars.

“Asterius and I are here to support you. After all, you were the one who knocked him into the cabin in the first place, right?” Euryale didn’t care about being tired. Her slender arms kept pulling on the golden shortbow in her hand, trying to put more pressure on Heracles.

"Tsk..." Nian Zhuo gritted his teeth in resentment, leaning on the blade in his hand to stand up again. "Damn it... Even with the power of the second-stage Time King, it's still not enough—" Without time to think further, Nian Zhuo had no choice but to charge at Hercules again.

"—!" Asterius's painful cry rang out at the same time. His old wound reopened, causing him immense pain. Just then, Heracles seized the opportunity. He pushed aside the double axes with his massive axe blade and swung it down at Asterius, aiming for a fatal blow.

"Don't even think about it!" Then, the silver figure appeared above Asterius's head, stepped on Asterius's shoulder and pushed him behind him. Nianzhuo gripped the hilt of the greatsword with both hands and collided head-on with Heracles's axe.

"Ugh—!" With a muffled groan, Nian Zhuo was finally not sent flying instantly this time.

The combination of the Time Limit Sword and the Time Gun Sword brought about an increase in both power and quality, finally giving Nian Zhuo the ability to contend with Hercules. At the same time, Euryale, not far away, also released the bowstring.

However, Hercules didn't even glance at it, letting Euryale's arrow strike his temple with a heavy thud.

However, it was not Hercules' head that exploded in the end, but Euryale's arrow, which shattered upon impact with Hercules' head.

"How could this be...!" Biting her lip in frustration, Euryale fired three more arrows, hitting their targets perfectly but failing to inflict any damage. Instead, they only increased Heracles's berserk state.

"Could it be that the opponent possesses physical enhancement magic?" Mary stared at the scene on the screen, silently clenching her hand, adorned with the bright red three-stroke Command Seal. "After all, he's a great hero who has passed twelve inhuman trials; it's understandable..."

Indeed, one of the side effects of Hercules' Noble Phantasm, The Twelve Trials, is that it transforms his body into a tenacious armor, nullifying all attacks of Rank B or lower (including Rank B), whether physical or magical.

For Euryale, whose strength and durability are only E, this full-force arrow is like an ordinary person's body enduring an attack that seems to have less force than a mosquito bite.

“But now it’s time to use my wits!” Nian Zhuo then suddenly pulled the trigger on the sword, and the entire blade was filled with golden light. “Come on, this attack is one of my trump cards!” Then, Nian Zhuo swung the combined blade.

"King Giri Giri Slash—!" Nian Zhuo forcefully pressed down on the opponent's axe blade, forcing Hercules to take a few steps back.

Then, Nianzhuo raised the sword high, and the words "ジオウサイキョウー" appeared on the sword.

However, the originally purple characters now appear somewhat ethereal, as if they might shatter at any moment.

"Saikyo! Finish Time!" Then, Nianzhuo took a step forward and swung his golden sword down at Hercules with all his might—

"—Just kidding." Looking at Hercules dodging to the side, Nian Zhuo revealed a knowing smile hidden behind his mask. "This time it won't be a single blow."

Then, Nian Zhuo suddenly took another step forward, and the purple characters on the sword seemed to become clearer as Nian Zhuo swung his sword.

“This time, it’s a series of strikes—!” Then, Nian Zhuo suddenly closed in on the retreating Hercules and swung his sword horizontally.

"—!" As if by instinct, Hercules stepped on the ship's deck with a creaking sound, then forcibly changed his direction and twisted his body to retreat again.

"Tch—!" In his mind's eye, Nian Zhuo in the mirror gritted his teeth as he watched his opponent choose to retreat again. "If he had jumped up, he clearly wouldn't have been able to dodge the next attack—!" However, even he in the mirror didn't dare to hope for too much.

After all, the reason why Nian Zhuo chose to unleash a series of attacks instead of a single, all-out strike was because he foresaw the future outcome.

They anticipated Hercules' actions and subsequently took appropriate countermeasures.

Even so, Hercules' response left Nian Zhuo and the others somewhat helpless. While they could see through the opponent's future actions, the opponent had completely countered Nian Zhuo's countermeasures.

"Haaah—!" As the attack continued to close in, Nianzhuo gripped the golden greatsword tightly with both hands and delivered a diagonal slash.

"—!" He murmured again, then Hercules' waist suddenly bent downwards, his whole body leaning back at almost a 90-degree angle, causing Nian Zhuo's third attack to miss.

"This guy is not only incredibly strong, but also damn agile...!" Nian Zhuo continued forward, and the purple characters on the golden blade of his sword became increasingly clear.

After the diagonal slash came a side upward slash, followed by a spinning slash, and then a chopping slash... This was the first time Nian Zhuo had suppressed the black giant, relying on the opportunity created for him by Asterius.

Even so, Nian Zhuo failed to inflict serious damage on Hercules, merely shaving off some of his hair and leaving a cut on his arm from the sword energy.

Every attack Nian Zhuo launched was blocked by his opponent as if he had anticipated it, and the opponent even launched a counterattack while Nian Zhuo was in the middle of his attack, making Nian Zhuo feel extremely troubled.

Finally, the golden blade reached its full size, and at the same time, the purple characters were fully revealed.

"This is the strongest attack!" Nian Zhuo took the final step and finally revealed a victorious smile.

Hercules' towering figure was his only weakness. Nian Zhuo had now cornered him, and in this narrow space, his massive frame could only passively take hits. This time, Nian Zhuo had finally driven Hercules into a desperate situation for the first time.

Then, the golden blade came crashing down, seemingly intent on splitting Hercules in two.

"Die!" Seeing the other person staring at his sword, Nianzhuo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, the upper half of his golden sword suddenly shattered. The fragments grew brighter and brighter before Nian Zhuo's eyes.

“Wh…what…” Nian Zhuo could hardly believe what he had just seen. “How…how did this guy find out…”

Through weapon combat, Nianzhuo discovered that the quality of Hercules' axe blade was simply incomparable to his own Time Limit Sword or Time Gun Sword.

However, his sword energy was different; it was formed from Nian Zhuo's own magic power and could be shredded by Hercules.

The upper half of the long blade formed by King Giri Giri Slash is made of magic, so it's not surprising that it could be shattered. What is strange is...

"How did this guy know?" Even though the upper half was broken, the blades of the real Time Limit Sword and Time Gun Sword were still below Nian Zhuo, and they struck the black giant with the horizontal axe blade.

Just now, Hercules, seeing that he could not dodge the attack, fortunately gathered all his strength into his weapon and launched a final horizontal counterattack, successfully hitting the boundary between Nian Zhuo's golden sword magic and the real blade, successfully cutting off half of the golden sword energy released by Nian Zhuo.

Only Nian Zhuo remained, using the real blade to leave a long wound on Hercules.

【Shrewdness (fake)】：B

A dangerous avoidance ability honed through numerous difficult adventures, based on intuition and a sixth sense. Even when madness takes away reason, this almost instinctive skill remains effective. Against a skilled swordsman like Artoria Pendragon, it won't be fooled by half-hearted feints, making it a troublesome skill for opponents.

Despite its enormous size, its agility is also at the highest level, making it extremely difficult to catch up.

Nian Zhuo was able to catch up with Heracles thanks to the increased agility brought by Zi-O II, but he was completely helpless against the opponent's skill-based abilities.

Seeing that he had finally inflicted considerable damage on Hercules, Nian Zhuo quickly retreated, shaking his somewhat numb hands.

“Well, although I don’t know what happened, with a gash from the chest to the abdomen, he should be dead by now…” Nian Zhuo looked at Hercules confidently, expecting to see the dullness in the other’s eyes.

However, what they saw was Hercules leaping up, and blood spilling out.

"No way!?" Ignoring his pride, Nian Zhuo hurriedly ran to the side, but a violent impact came from behind, sending him flying.

Hercules' roar echoed throughout the entire ship.

Nianzhuo had already had countless intimate encounters with the ship's planks, rolling over and lying on the ground, struggling to grip the planks. He looked up at the roaring Hercules and muttered, "How...how could this be..."

The wound was huge and horrifying, even oozing blood, yet the berserker was still alive and able to unleash a full-force attack like before.

If Nianzhuo hadn't looked up to confirm something instead of aiming for a cool pose, then it wouldn't have been the ship's planks that shattered, but rather Nianzhuo's already overburdened spiritual core.

"Does this guy even have a skill like [Battle Continuation]?!" Nian Zhuo felt that the impact of Hercules alone today was almost equal to the sum of the previous two singularities. He could only grab the already scattered Limit Sword and Time Gun Sword to stand up.

[Battle Continuation]: A skill that allows the user to continue fighting even when critically injured or near death. It also reduces the mortality rate of the wounded. While Cu Chulainn's Battle Continuation represents a resilient spirit, Hercules' represents the ability to survive. His Noble Phantasm, "God Hand," which allows resurrection even after death, has an exceptionally good synergy with the increased difficulty in dying from Battle Continuation. The best effect comes from combining a strong physique with this skill.

The consequence was Hercules's monstrous immortality; even with wounds that would have bled an ordinary person to death, he remained alive and kicking.