I had to give Avalon props. Watching Rin hike up a mountain after spending half her day taking my cock up her ass without even flinching was a thing of beauty. Another thing of beauty was the seals I'd managed to work off of Excalibur, having cleared off those placed by the weaker Knights of the Round Table while my master slept to recover from the previous night's fights.
An interesting process, I meditated with the sword in my lap and entered a subreality that housed the divided will fragments of the various people that sealed the sword. The process of releasing my sword was similar to moving up a tower one floor at a time with each floor being guarded by a powerful knight.
At least powerful by someone else's standard. I'd cleared the first two seals today, and noticed a distinct elevation in difficulty between Gareth and Gaheris despite them both being benchwarmer Knights of the Round. My best guess is that the final Seal imposed by Arthur will have me facing the full power of Excalibur. I don't even think my current peak Dio power is ready for that shit. Not even close if I am being honest.
The fight will be glorious.
The fight against Kojiro wasn't glorious. At all.
Despite Kojiro being literally the fastest Servant summoned with A+ agility, none of that mattered as he was forced to hold the line up the stairs to the Ryuudou Temple, so I walked up to him, he hit me with his very best two in one sword strike combo that failed to even get through my skin as he sent both strikes to the sides of my unhelmeted head, and I put Excalibur into his chest and carved his heart out.
I only got one ability from Kojiro, and boy was it broken as hell. Knowledge of the Sowa basically induced amnesia on anyone seeing my attacks, preventing them from understanding and predicting my techniques. I could perform the same attack one hundred times in a row, and my enemy would be no closer to predicting the last as he was the first.
It doesn't sound like much considering the reaction speeds of the people I fight on the reg, but the mind forms predictions much better than it reacts. By becoming conceptually unpredictable my foes essentially drop 4/5ths of their Fight IQ. Only a greater ability like Artoria's (and now mine) A rank Instincts can counter that shit. OP Please nerf, oh wait… it's mine now. Forget I said anything.
Hell, if I get Heracles's Mind's Eye Fake: B I'd be completely fucking broken even without busted stats. Precognitive danger sense feeding into autoselect best action with complete unpredictability. Eat your heart out Spider-Man.
Medea tried to get tricksy up in the temple courtyard with some Illusions and subtle curses but with my Magic Resistance: A and the Atronach it didn't take and I chucked Gae Bolg into her tits through a wall for old time's sake.
Putting the dick spear through a new gloryhole to a paizuri wasn't my intention coming into this fight… I swear. It just lined up like that.
Medea's creepy bae actually tried to carry her away as I came through the door and got a pair of chain daggers in his lungs as reward for his loyalty. I let him drown in his own blood before he had to see me open his girl up and eat her heart.
High Speed Divine Words: A wasn't a super pick up with my still D ranked Mana score, but it it did mean I was now tied for first place with fastest magic caster in the setting. I also picked up the Argon Coin, an EX rank Noble Phantasm that summons a dragon… that no one can use because summoning dragons is banned. I was ready to be disappointed until the coin and Avalon flashed a dual showing of radiant glowing light and I was left holding the Golden Fleece.
Vitakinesis to the point of full resurrection, immunity to divine level poisons, and a chlorokinesis aura that makes nearby plants grow healthy and bountiful.
I threw that fleece over my shoulder like a half cape and got ready to call it a night. Rin was looking extra breedable right now, and I am not one to deny such things. Especially after picking back up my divinity after eating Cu Chulainn. Divinity: B worked like a can opener in Fate, peeling through various defenses, but it also rekindled my connection to Ormagoden the Eternal Firebeast, Cremator of the Skys, Destroyer of the Ancient World. The power of Fire, Blood, Noise, and Metal once more entwined with my fleshy body and with it came an undeniable increase in horny.
Bonk. Bonk all you want you fools. This is the cock that will pierce the heavens.
I was dead set on reclaiming ownership of those luscious cheeks when I felt a stinging pain in my chest. Dafuq is dat.
Okay, I am coughing up blood anime style. Something happened.
A munching sound from behind me revealed Hassan of the Cursed Arm, his super gross demon arm fully exposed as the huge hand pressed… IS THAT MY MOTHER FUCKING HEART! To his mouth. The munching was the bastard pulling a Dio on Dio.
"Oh Christ!" I shouted, "Did anyone ever tell you you're already an asshole!"
Hassan's response was to clutch his head with both his normal hand and his freaky demon hand and scream. Like a little girl. Making it twice as disturbing coming from a lanky stretched out serial killer like that.
"Oh that's right." I smirked as my chest pain faded away completely.
New heart in under fifteen seconds. Neat.
"You're an intelligence leech." I chuckled, "Enjoy going from 95 to over 1500. Feel every once of that hyper intelligence explode to life in you."
Then he started weeping, rolling across the ground wailing in sorrow.
"Now he's going through all his life choices, evaluating everything he has ever done and left undone under the cruel lens of a mind that knows better." I laughed at his suffering.
Finally, after a good long while. He laughed. He laughed without any heart or energy to it. A completely defeated laugh.
"Everything is emptiness, meaningless, blackness. We are alone. There is nothing else." he stated before I thrust my sword into his chest and carved his? Mine? Someone's heart out.
"Nihilism is best done by professionals, bitch." I smirked, then ate someone's heart and picked up some sweet new powers.
Servant: Dio (Archer)
Parameters
Strength: A+(51—>59 Surpassed Grail War Imposed Cap)
Endurance: A++++ (61 —>67 Surpassed Grail War Imposed Cap)
Agility: C (39) —> A(53 Surpassed Grail War Imposed Cap)
Mana: D(22) —> C(32)
Luck: A(52 —>62 Surpassed Grail War Imposed Cap)
Noble Phantasm: EX
Skills
Divinity: B
Magic Resistance: A
Independent Action: A
Aim: A
Battle Continuation: EX
Charisma: A
Monstrous Strength: B
Mana Burst: A
Instinct: A
>Presence Concealment: A+<
>Protection From Wind: A<
>Throwing/Retrieval: A<
>Self Modification: C<
Thick Skin: C (Nullifies Strike and Projectile Damage C rank and Below)
Blood Rage: A (Upon Entering Battle can temporarily +Strength and ++Endurance, becoming incapable of feeling pain and regenerating rapidly at the cost of massively increased prana consumption)
Noble Phantasms
Cannibal King: EX (Servants do not dematerialize upon death, allowing Dio to consume them to pilfer 10% of their true stats and possibly take Skills and Noble Phantasms. Upon Master kill, the servant quickly loses energy until left as a normal human performance wise)
The Atronach: A (50% of incoming magic attacks are converted to usable energy)
Dragon Piercing Shot: A (Anti Fortress, launch one Energy Beam style attack)
Proto Excalibur: C-EX
Avalon:EX
Gae Bolg: Soaring B+ (The one that explodes, not the one that auto stabs hearts)