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The inhibitory force won't affect him! Or rather, Alaya can no longer influence him.

Kurokawa Kazuya possesses a portion of Alaya's power.

Gaia does not possess such means.

In other words...

"Was it just bad luck? Or... did the Counter Force affect you without you realizing it?" Kurokawa Kazuya walked in with a smile and looked around. "You should have a way to prevent yourself from being affected by the Counter Force, right? Araya Souren... Well, of course. Since you're targeting the Root, you must have such a method, otherwise you would have unknowingly killed yourself... So, did that method fail? Or... is all of this just a coincidence?"

"roar------!"

boom--

Pfft!

"Berserker...but this power is really weak—!"

The forced binding of the demonic eye was instantaneous, and then the arm pierced through the chest, tearing apart the spirit core.

"It's happened so many times, how should I put it... I've gotten quite used to it, these pseudo-Servants and stuff."

Most Servants possess considerable magic resistance, especially the Three Knights.

Caster might have lower magic resistance, but they still have ways to defend against the Mystic Eyes.

While his Mystic Eyes were useful in the actual Holy Grail War, they weren't as invincible as they are now.

and...

Things are different now.

These pseudo-Servants all had terrifyingly low magical resistance, at most D or C... Although it prevented his Mystic Eyes from lasting, a moment was enough.

In just a moment, Kurokawa Kazuya could crush his spiritual core.

so...

"No matter how many of these things there are, it's all...no...I take back what I said."

Kurokawa Kazumi's lips twitched slightly, and he took two steps back...

What?! Here...

There are too many fake Servants!

All around, Servants gathered, and there were probably eight of them!

Including the one that was taken down earlier, there are nine in total!

Chapter 357 Solution

"It seems it has already been launched."

Araya Sōren took a deep breath.

Other things may not pose a threat to Kurokawa and Mizo.

However... the Servant I summoned specifically to deal with the Counter Force can now come in handy.

Its origin is stillness!

This is very important, and it is the foundation upon which this magic trick is made possible.

The Spirit Foundation Plate was kept in a stable state, and ten Servants were summoned in this state. Except for the first one who was killed when he went to test Kurokawa and Miya, the others were still alive.

He used his magic to keep these Servants who were originally only supposed to live for seven days.

but...

Unable to engage in combat.

It could only remain still there, completely motionless.

Once it begins to act, it will all disappear after seven hours.

Furthermore, they can only stay inside this building and cannot go out.

But that's enough...

Ten Servants, even if they are all pseudo-Servants, are not something a single human could handle!

"Hmm? Servant?" Araya Souren said, then suddenly realized something, a bead of cold sweat dripping from his forehead: "Could it be... me who's affected by the Counter Force?"

......

Since the goal is to address the root cause.

Magicians naturally possess a certain degree of ability to resist inhibitory forces.

Let's leave Gaia aside for now.

Almost everyone is an Alaya, which means... you have to resist yourself!

Otherwise, putting aside the possibility of not reaching the source, even if one is already very close, and just one more step would allow them to reach the source... if they don't have the corresponding ability to resist the hidden influence of the suppressing force...

One wrong step and the whole game is lost.

It could directly lead to your entire being being implicated.

Normally, he wouldn't feel any difference between his actions and his usual behavior, but in reality... in this situation, he would subconsciously overlook something, or notice something wrong with what he was looking at.

It was still a choice I made myself, but it was the worst kind of choice.

The result is predictable, isn't it?

die--

There was nothing else.

Araya Sōren naturally also has methods to counteract the inhibitory force and prevent it from affecting his subconscious.

However... the repeated summoning of Heroic Spirits caused him to excessively contact the inhibitory force.

Valhalla and the World Record Belt are inherently deeply connected to the Counter Force.

Even summoning what could only be described as the remnants of a heroic spirit excessively depleted his abilities, causing him to be unknowingly affected by the suppressive force.

In other words...

It was just a coincidence that Kurokawa Kazuya decided to take a walk in this kind of weather... no, perhaps it wasn't even a coincidence.

He desperately needed a downpour to calm his racing heart, which had been pounding non-stop since yesterday.

and--

Araya Sōren is affected by the suppressive force.

His actions were no different from usual, except that he left home a little earlier, and coincidentally, he ran into Kurokawa Kazuya on the road he was on.

It just so happens that way.

boom--

A huge stone slab came crashing down on him.

Like Darius III, whom Kurokawa Kazuya had encountered before, and the one he had killed, he was not strong individually and his magical resistance was not high.

My own magic eye can completely render it immobile.

but--

Even if one or two of them are unable to move, he is still at a disadvantage.

If it comes to a head-on confrontation, he might not even be a match for one of them.

"As expected of Araya Sōren..."

Wiping the blood from his forehead, Kurokawa Kazuya took a few steps back, his high-level anti-magic power unintentionally destroying the magic barrier behind him.

but--

Being irrational is, after all, being irrational!

The same level of strength can produce completely different results depending on whether one has intelligence or not.

They jumped down to the second floor using the broken ceiling.

He immediately used a Mystic Eye to control the pseudo-Heroic Spirit who jumped up, then his Stand crushed his Spirit Origin. He then turned around and ran away, jumping to the first floor from another spot that had been destroyed earlier.

With such a simple method, he had already killed four Servants.

So being brainless is just simple.

If these people had any brains, Kurokawa and Miyako would have no choice but to use D4C to escape first and then bring reinforcements over.

As for who to get help from?

There were so many Servants in the world of 2004. Although they couldn't stay in that world for long without magic power, clearing out a few pseudo-Servants was as easy as fighting Dragon Fang Soldiers.

but--

It's good to have a little bit of fighting every now and then to relax your muscles and bones!

"Ok?"

Kurokawa Kazuya, who was preparing to jump from the first floor, suddenly changed his expression.

Unlike before, a Servant is now lying in ambush at that gap!

"Ora————!" Kurokawa Kazuya, who was getting a little carried away with the fight, shouted. His Stand suddenly appeared behind him and punched the spear that was coming towards him!

boom--

Looking at the last four Servants who had surrounded him, Kurokawa Kazuya smiled: "I see. So you've finally come to your senses and started controlling your Servants? But... it's too late!"

bang bang-

The stand-in blocked one person's attack.

Golden and black light emanated simultaneously from Kurokawa Kazuya's pupils.

In an instant, one Servant lost all five senses, and another stood frozen in place, unable to move.

Kurokawa Kazuya took a hit from the fourth Servant, the longsword piercing his chest, but—he also crushed the spirit core of the Servant he had restrained and rendered immobile.