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-Town of Fuyuki.
Lawrence and his group watch in interest as Karna and Shiki exchange blows. The environment was already replaced with a much bigger one, it turned into a plain hills with many trees. This way the two can release whatever they wanted without caring for their surroundings. "I guess having items made Shiki advantageous at this fight huh?" he commented seeing Shiki pressuring the strong Servant.
This is a scene which is impossible even in the common sense of magus, being able to fight a weak Servant might already be a miracle but here is one modern girl casually blocking the heavy blows of a First Class Servant. There is no doubt that anyone would be baffle if they see this. "Lawrence~ you should have restricted her use of it!" Anastashia pouted at Lawrence saying that.
He scratched the back of his head not refuting Anastashia's words, it was true after all. The battle was chaotic as Lawrence initially expected, if he had compare this fight to somewhere then it would be Karna vs Siegfried in Apocrypha. Each of their strikes keep slicing hills as if they were nothing, some simple kick are managing turn trees into dust.
Luviagelita was came with them had her mouth open all the time, this might be the second time she has seen a Servant fight however this was more catastrophic than the first one! It broke all of her thought about Lawrence's group. They are not the incompetent filths who are trying to grab her sister's legs anymore! In fact, doesn't it look reversed?
Karna nimbly dodged Shiki's as he thrust his spear towards her head. The force behind that simple thrust failed the environment for it crumbled. Shiki calmly dodged the thrust as she made a counterattack, she focused on the wrist that was holding his spear and gave it a handchop. Karna flinched when he sensed that attack, his reaction was simple, he immediately retracted his hand.
That was a great decision for him as that handchop sliced through the ground creating an unending incision on the earth. Karna stared at it still unbelieving that a modern human could do something like that, he would have to compare it to the gods in his pantheon. Because Karna was distracted for a second, Shiki was not reserved and instantly gouged his left shoulder creating a small wound on it.
Karna hurriedly backed down holding his shoulder and raising his attention, he was caught off guard there, he doesn't want that to happen again. "So the legend is true huh? Your armor's capability shackled it reputation. Intriguing, I wonder if your armor is better than this green sword of mine" Shiki commented.
She raised the Butterfly and waved it towards Karna. Although Karna doesn't know what that sword is, it still gave him a little fright. Karna bolted to Shiki letting his instinct devour his body, his attacks became more fierce and Servant would have a hard time getting of that assault alive, however Shiki's actions was breaking the common sense!
Whatever Karna is throwing, she would respond by simple movements dodging the attacks with no difficulty. The crazy thing is that it looks unnatural, as if she was not controlling her body and it was just moving on its own. "Powerful attacks are useless if they won't connect right?" Shiki said letting her body be controlled by the Butterfly.
The wind was easily helping her body moved in an abnormal way avoiding Karna's assault. "Strange weapon" Karna commented as he finally used skills on the fight. He opened his hand as flames emerged from it, the flames rushed towards Shiki however just like before she effortlessly dodge it! No matter how fast the flames, Shiki just easily dodged them. Karna saw that his small flames was doing no damage to Shiki forcing him to change tactics.
Karna gathered the small flames merging them to create a large fireball. It is harder to dodge as the area of effect would be large plus the explosion is not something that can be avoiding by dodging. With this thought on mind, Karna let the flames flew towards Shiki who was still nonchalant. "Just because you enlargen the size doesn't make it much better" she said.
The fireball came infront of Shiki and exploded leaving her with no place to dodge. The explosion caused the land to be ravaged, hills turning molten lava from the intense heat as the green hills became black from the ash. It doesn't depict the peaceful scenery it had at first, it became a scene of Apocalypse. Much scarier than nukes falling at one place.
The dust finally dispersed, what Karna saw shocked him and his master. There Shiki was standing patting the dust from her clothes but if they observe carefully, there was no visibly wound or tore in her clothes. The fact that she survived was already baffling but her being unharmed? Out of expectation. "Didn't I say? If I will it then you have no chance of hitting me. Even if you use your Noble Phantasm, nothing will change" Shiki said as if mocking his efforts.
"What is this…?" Karna muttered fairly bewildered by the sword, he tried thinking of any Heroic Spirit who possess such sword yet none came out. "Initially, this sword only has small percentage of evasion but if what Lawrence mentioned is right then this weapon became a conceptual one and its ability is to dodge anything. Only the likes of Gae Bolg can hit me" Shiki explained.
Nero squealed in joy hearing its features, she was astonished when she saw Shiki avoiding all attacks of Karna which she believe hard to do, now that she realized it was the effect of Butterfly, her happiness soared. "Umu! As expected, such an useful sword must belong to an Emperor! There is no doubt with that!" Nero nodded her head satisfied with this discovery.
She feels like it was unfair if she at least don't reveal its capability considering how broken the sword was, it would bore her if that happens. "Evasion… let me try it" Karna murmured, he cleared his stance ready to release one of his Noble Phantasm, he will check whether the girl was just stating bullshit or not.
Karna using his Uncrowned Martial Arts, hit the potential weak points of Shiki. Everytime his lance dropped, it would cause natural disasters to descend. But even with all of that, Shiki is still managing to dodge everything he was throwing. This astounded Karna as he never really thought that it was possible, he now wonders if Shiki is invincible in the battlefield.
Shaking those unnecessary thoughts out of his head, Karna backed away and dropped his shoulder. He placed his hand on his face before taking off the cover on his right eye. "Brahmastra!" Karna called out the name of his Noble Phantasm. Red light gathered on his eye before it turned into a full blast beam that raced towards Shiki. Shiki felt her hairs standing up from that attack so without hesitation, she used her own reflexes to dodge the attack.
She has a feeling that she won't be able to dodge the attack if it was released but to the surprise of the two combatants, the Noble Phantasm vanished midway from being formed. Karna was the most dazed because he is aware of that proposition. Due to a curse, Brahmastra could not be used against someone with greater ability than him.
If calculated properly then any of Karna's Noble Phantasm would not really surpass of that Shiki's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. Therefore it is only normal that Brahmastra won't affect Shiki. Though Shiki's thoughts about the ability is also true because Brahmastra will pursue the enemy just like Gae Bolg. Not much fierce like that barb though.
"You are greater than me?" Karna asked in puzzlement. Artifacts is not really considered own strength by Brahmastra so Karna was confused to why it didn't emerged. "I don't know what you consider as strength, but if I had to guess then it must be skills. I do indeed have a skill that makes me above anyone else" Shiki said smiling lightly.
She caressed her dagger before using its ability to do short teleportation arriving at Karna's front. Shiki pierced Karna's shoulder with one fast thrust. After doing that, she instantly returned to her previous position looking at his shoulder. "As expected, something like that won't damage you huh? 90% nullification is indeed troublesome" Shiki commented.
There was no major injury to where Karna was pierced, instead there was just a small slash on it making Shiki amazed by how useful it was. Well, Shiki would still prefer the Butterfly instead of that armor because it guarantee a miss to any abilities except surehit. Sure-hit abilities are also rare, so any weakness of it are nulled. "Are you ready for the 2nd round?" Shiki asked seeing that flames are already covering Karna's body.
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A/N: Sorry if I could only post one chapter a day, I temporarily stopped writing after finishing Fate/Zero arc. I still need to stack chapters