That protagonist is trash; I could do better!

The Demon Eye completed its analysis. Hall's charred right hand clenched lightly, and a strange power extinguished the flames, unleashing a blinding white light that spread like ripples, eroding the surrounding space.

"This is!?"

The moment Jeanne Alter's gaze was taken away, she felt as if the world around her had undergone a complete transformation.

What came into view was no longer a burning wasteland, but a world on the verge of destruction.

The sky was as red as blood, or like a vast, bottomless abyss, with a black sun hanging on the far horizon.

The barren desert cycles through a process of decay, with matter being stripped away bit by bit, falling into the dark red sky, and being swallowed by the black sun.

"A forbidden spell that erodes reality, a Reality Marble!" Jeanne Alter looked up solemnly and saw Hall standing between heaven and earth, the burning flames and the spear that pierced his body all gone.

Jeanne Alter noticed that Hall before her was decisively different from before, like a cold piece of metal.

Human personality cannot be compared to the accumulation of hundreds of millions of years of origin. When Hall uses the power of origin, existence itself will be affected.

Chapter 214 Stillness and Motion

No, even a bounded field cannot alter reality!

Just now, the fire of hatred had indeed burned Hall's body. Not to mention his physical body, his spirit and even his deeper soul could not have escaped unscathed.

Hall stood unharmed before her.

Jeanne Alter gripped her black banner spear tightly, looked up at Hall and asked defiantly, "What have you done? Why are you still standing in front of me?"

Hall stood in the void, his red eyes coldly looking down at the saintess on the ground, and said indifferently, "It's just resetting my body's time to the state before I suffered the Abomination Fire. It's a little trick to reverse cause and effect. Because your Abomination Fire has a very strong curse characteristic, it's impossible to do without a complete understanding. In other words, your Noble Phantasm is nullified against me."

Jeanne Alter scoffed disdainfully: "How can you say such big words when you were just burned half to death?"

“Ruler, here’s a piece of advice: either burn this world to the ground with your vengeful fire, or kill me before it completely collapses, or you will never be able to leave here.”

Flow has two properties: stillness and motion. Hall's proper nodal also inherits these two concepts. Previously, Hall's proper nodal was based on the concept of stillness, but this time it is completely different.

[A world in constant decay], in which all matter will naturally collapse and disintegrate until the mass of the entire world disappears and the heat reaches absolute equilibrium, like the universe entering heat death.

Before Hall can be eliminated or the inherent barrier destroyed, the movement of the universe will enter the next cycle, and after heat death, a new Big Bang will naturally follow.

Although that's what it says, in reality it's just about withstanding an impact equivalent to the energy of a small world, and its concept and power are equivalent to the maximum output of the Ea sword.

If you can pull out a defensive Noble Phantasm of the level of "Ideal Land Far From the World", you can easily block it. "Small World Surrounding the Sky" can also be used with the premise of self-destruction.

Of course, before that, the enemy needs to be able to withstand Hall's magic attacks within the inherent barrier.

Just like Shirou Emiya's "Unlimited Blade Works," once activated, it can even rival Gilgamesh's "Gate of Babylon." When the Reality Marble is activated, it provides Howl with a tremendous boost in power. Grand magic spells that would require considerable preparation in the real world can be used freely here.

Magic surged into Howl's hand in a whirlwind, transforming into a longbow, which was not aimed at Jeanne d'Arc Alter on the ground.

The arrow points to the sky, and the moment it is released sounds the battle horn.

Jeanne Alter leaped into the air, the ground beneath her feet cracking open. Before she even reached Hall, she looked up in astonishment and saw the blood-red sky filled with twinkling stars, their light suddenly blazing.

boom!boom!boom!boom!

Arrows rained down, striking the earth and raising clouds of dust—all from the arrow Hall had just fired, blocking Jeanne d'Arc Alter's path.

Jeanne Alter hurriedly raised her banner and spear to block the arrow, but was blasted to the ground by the arrow and quickly retreated to dodge.

"You can't hide for long."

Hall remained calm, his radiance condensing into a jade greatsword. As he swung it, countless sword energies scattered, leaving numerous wounds on the ground as he followed closely behind Jeanne d'Arc Alter.

The dazzling magic restrained Jeanne Alter's actions; on the other hand, the power of magic must be reflected in quantity rather than quality.

This way, even if Jeanne Alter uses her Noble Phantasm to counterattack, it won't have a significant effect.

"Just a magician's trick."

Jeanne d'Arc Alter circled at high speed, fully utilizing her A-rank agility to evade the sword energy and arrows. She raised her black banner, and a wave of abominations flowed from the ground, arriving directly beneath Hall and whipping up a firestorm that soared into the sky.

boom!

Hall's eyes narrowed slightly, and a huge sphere resembling a black hole appeared beneath his feet. The sphere exploded the moment it came into contact with the Abomination Fire, scattering from the sky and extinguishing all the Abomination Fire that came into contact with it.

If you treat the fire of hatred as a powerful curse, then you can create something with the opposite magical properties to extinguish it.

At the same time, one energy sphere after another was born around Hall, scattering and flying away like stars hanging in the sky. Their color changed from dark to light, and each energy sphere transformed into a magical object fixed in the sky, aiming at the ground like a magic cannon constantly firing spells.

"How annoying!"

Jeanne Alter was extremely agitated. Hall's magical attacks came from all directions, relentlessly. One second she used her flag to deflect all the spell bullets, and the next she was caught by a rain of arrows.

Unfortunately, the Abomination Fire, which combines offense and defense, is now hardly a threat to Hall.

Hall's words had shaken her resolve, and a kind of unseen revelation told her that Hall wasn't simply trying to scare her.

The longer she delayed, the stronger her sense of crisis became.

The earth collapsed at an accelerated pace, forming small platforms that floated towards the sky. In the distance, the black sun seemed to grow larger, perhaps because it was getting closer.

The soaring flames of hatred engulfed the magically created light cannons, and the volume of the flames suddenly expanded, spreading in the form of a fire storm, shielding the magically launched projectiles from the sky.

"Tsk, the Ruler class is more effective against Caster than Saber." Hall clicked his tongue in amazement, raised his right hand, and different elements converged and compressed into a silver-gray True Aether spear. The moment it was thrown towards Jeanne d'Arc Alter, it split into dozens of spears that surrounded her from different angles, creating a very gorgeous visual effect.

Some of it was blocked by the flames of hatred, some was knocked away by Jeanne d'Arc Alter's banner spear, and the rest struck her body without causing serious injury.

This is considered one of Hall's strongest Magic offensive weapons.

Even within the Reality Marble, Hall still found it extremely difficult to defeat Jeanne d'Arc Alter, who was of the Ruler class.

The incompatibility is ridiculously bad.

Putting everything else aside, the EX-level Magic Resistance alone is enough to declare the defeat of Caster-type Servants.

C-rank magic resistance is basically immune to most attacks from modern magicians, while A-rank magic resistance is quite troublesome even for Medea, a disciple of the goddess of magic from the Age of Gods, and can negate the forced command of a Command Seal.

EX-level magic power means that unless it's a Noble Phantasm-level attack, it's impossible to harm Jeanne Alter. Even if a Noble Phantasm is activated, the damage or impact will be greatly weakened.

Therefore, what Hall needs to do is stall for time and wait for the completion of the Realm Ritual called "The World of Continuous Decay" so that a world-class destructive impact can be unleashed in one go in order to have any chance of winning.

Neither of them can do anything about the other.

Hall had difficulty breaking through Ruler Jeanne d'Arc Alter's anti-magic defenses, and Ruler Jeanne d'Arc Alter was also basically unable to get close to Hall due to his bizarre and varied magic suppression.

From a macro perspective, Hall has an absolute advantage. As long as he can delay and wait for the concept of the inherent barrier to be completed, neither EX-level magic resistance nor the Abomination Fire with the ability to reflect attacks can withstand the impact of a world.

Chapter 215 Self-Transformation

[Revelation] This sounded an alarm bell in Jeanne d'Arc Alter's heart, but this strong sense of foreboding was accompanied by a deep sense of powerlessness.

No matter what method she used, no matter how many times she tried, Jeanne Alter could not find an opportunity to get close to Hall.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A dense barrage of magical beams struck Jeanne Alter's side, causing a violent explosion. Jeanne Alter's agile figure burst forth from the swirling dust, raising her hand and wielding her black longsword to cleave through a magical beam.

Gradually, Jeanne Alter got used to the deafening explosions and began to feel the quiet around her.

She couldn't stop moving for a moment, otherwise she would be firmly held by the fixed magic spell in the sky, and even with EX-level magic resistance, it would be difficult to escape from multiple powerful magic attacks.

The magic spell fixed in the sky was like a hunter's hound. Jeanne Alter's attention was mostly focused on the hunter, Hall. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Hall raise his right hand and generate a miniature sun with a radius of several meters. When she met Hall's gaze, she felt the mockery of a hunter toying with his prey.

hateful!

hateful!

What a disrespectful jerk!

Jeanne Alter watched as Hall, standing in the void, clenched his right hand, and in an instant, the miniature sun emitted a blinding light.

The next moment, Jeanne Alter's pupils contracted sharply, and her eyes reflected a stream of light composed of thousands of beams.

Swish~ Swish~ Swish~ Swish~

Countless magical beams of light emanated from the miniature sun, seemingly possessing their own will, aiming at Jeanne d'Arc Alter's body and instantly engulfing her, piercing through the surrounding earth as well.

呲味味~

The heat alone simmered the surrounding soil into a liquid state, but it still couldn't penetrate the EX-level magic defense layer.

Hall's Mystic Eyes clearly saw that when the beam of light hit Jeanne Alter's body, it was neutralized by a strange force. The energy, which was enough to instantly evaporate a Servant's Spirit Origin, barely suppressed her ability to move.

Too weak, it will be neutralized by Jeanne d'Arc Alter's EX-level magic resistance.

If it's too strong, its energy will be absorbed by Jeanne d'Arc Alter's Noble Phantasm and reflected back at it.

This is the strongest proof that Jeanne Alter is ranked at the top level.

Hall's relentless magical harassment finally enraged Jeanne Alter.

Despite the overwhelming force of the beams of light, she struggled to her feet and unleashed her fury: "Roar! My wrath!"

The raging flames of hatred poured forth with Jeanne d'Arc Alter's roar, and at that very moment, Hall manipulated the miniature sun to stop disintegrating its own heat.

The burning flames spread and expanded, with Jeanne d'Arc Alter at its center, who had raised the black banner to the earth. The silver-haired saint raised her chin and stared at Hall in the sky with a cold expression, her golden eyes cold and deep: "I finally understand. My power is simply no match for your bounded field."

Hall remained unmoved. As long as Jeanne Alter continued to unleash her Noble Phantasm and release the flames of hatred, there was no need to attack. In any case, she couldn't break through his defenses, and it would not only waste mana but also result in being attacked by the reflected force. He smiled coldly and said, "It's not wise to only realize the situation now. You don't have much time left."

In less than ten minutes, this world will come to an end and be reborn. The energy and concepts generated by the birth of a new world will become weapons to tear apart the flames of hatred.

Jeanne Alter confidently stated, "That's enough."

What are you planning to do?

Just like you said, we'll burn you and this shitty world you created together!

Is it just bluffing?

Hall said calmly, "I'm looking forward to it."

Amidst the flames, Jeanne Alter's狰狞 smile deepened, and her body was enveloped by an unusually powerful magical force—the privilege granted to the Ruler class, namely the power of Command Seals.

"In the name of the Command Seals, let us reform!"

Judging from the astonishing magical reaction, Jeanne Alter was not joking.

Hall raised an eyebrow, a hint of doubt in his eyes. What was she planning to do? Jeanne Alter was a Servant created by Hall himself, and based on his understanding of her, Jeanne Alter should have no ability to resist.

No, Hall can only access the power of the Spirit Origin. The Spirit Origin is the container, and the Heroic Spirit is the content. As long as the content is powerful enough, it can break the container's constraints.

Hall himself has personally proven this point.

"Ahhhh!"