"Oh, our contestant Shirou has projected sixteen Noble Arts at once! Is he going to blast Takezou Momoya into dust?!"
"I won't be blasted into dust!" Looking at Shirou and the sixteen Noble Arts standing around him, Takezou Momoya's eyes burned with fighting spirit. "As long as
it's not fire, there's nothing to fear!"
"I'll show you the power of my armor!"
"Charge!" With the determination to wash away his past humiliation, Takezou Momoya launched a desperate charge, vowing to use his armor to block all blades. He had this confidence!
"Perhaps, I might even win!" Takezou Momoya thought as he charged.
"Is that so? Is that your determination, senior? That's really good!"
"But these are useless. No matter how sturdy the armor, in front of me, it's no different; it's merely thin paper!"
"Take this, senior! This is the judgment of a thousand blades!" As Shirou's words fell, the sixteen weapons behind him shot out rapidly. Amidst the sound of rushing wind, even though Shirou hadn't adjusted the projection speed to its maximum, the distance between them was
instantly covered.
"Here it comes!" Raising the shield on his armor, sheltering himself behind it, Takezou Momoya's eyes filled with delight. He had seen these Noble Arts before; after all, Shirou copied the Noble Arts of Hagun Academy students. As a seasoned third-year student, Takezou Momoya naturally knew some of the original owners of these Noble Arts. Therefore, he was very excited. Because the original owners of these Noble Arts couldn't break through his defense, could they break through it now?
Unfortunately, Takezou Momoya didn't understand. The difference in the weapon's owner results in vastly different powers. Amidst the constantly circulating air current, the projected weapons came into contact with Takezou Momoya's shield. It was at this moment that Takezou Momoya's pupils constricted. The sound of Noble Arts colliding didn't come. The sensation of mutual impact didn't come. What came was only a sharp stinging pain. His arm was pierced!
"Ah!" Intense pain surged, but before he could fully wail, the next moment, even more intense pain followed. His limbs, torso, except for his head, Takezou Momoya, clad in armor, was instantly riddled like a sieve. Looking at Takezou Momoya, who stood still in the center of the arena, riddled with weapons and bleeding profusely, after a moment of silence, the staff nearby finally reacted and quickly went on stage to provide aid. At the same time, the surrounding audience finally cheered.
"Oh my god, sixteen Noble Arts flashed by, and Takezou Momoya's armor was instantly shattered."
"The cowardly Takezou Momoya was instantly defeated with one move!"
"What kind of strength and dominance is this!"
"This is the pride of our school, the Copying Swordsman Shirou!"
"Copying Swordsman, Shirou, Hagun's strongest!"
"Copying Swordsman, Shirou, Hagun's strongest!"
"Copying Swordsman, Shirou, Hagun's strongest!" Amidst the cheers of the surrounding crowd, Shirou raised his right hand, responding to the cheers of the audience.
Then he saw Edelweiss waving at him in the stands.
Waving back at her, Shirou then looked at Takezou Momoya being carried out of the arena by the staff.
Armor-type Noble Arts were indeed useful, but the weapons he projected all contained the concept of severing, which was his true ability. In the face of the concept of severing, no matter how strong a wall or fortress, it was useless. Defending with a shield and armor in front of him was the dumbest decision. But this was the consequence of lacking information. However, he hadn't used any harsh moves and hadn't aimed at the opponent's vital points. As long as Takezou Momoya was promptly sent into a regeneration tank, his injuries would quickly disappear.
Under the witness of all the spectators, Shirou received the medal representing Hagun Academy's participation in the Seven Stars Sword-Art Festival from the teachers present. Afterwards, Shirou kept his speech short and quickly ended this small ceremony. Then he ran outside.
"Seriously, couldn't the medal ceremony wait until everyone was together at the end? They have to do it individually, wasting my time!" Although Shirou's movements were swift, the medal ceremony still delayed him by a few minutes. After meeting up with Edelweiss, who he had arranged to meet outside beforehand, the two quickly ran to another training ground. With their incredible speed, they soon arrived at Ikki's match venue.
"Looks like we arrived just in time!" Standing in the corridor, finding an empty seat, Shirou looked at Ikki and Touka Toudou constantly clashing in the center of the arena, and couldn't help but smile. They were truly competing in swordsmanship. Although Touka Toudou's swordsmanship wasn't as good as Ikki's, with the amplification of magic power, she, with all attributes surpassing Ikki, could still barely suppress him. If Ikki caught a flaw, he would immediately counterattack. In the realm of swordsmanship, Ikki was definitely the strongest presence in Hagun Academy.
Even Shirou couldn't defeat him in pure swordsmanship.
In the original work, when Stella's swordsmanship was seen through by Shirou during her sword duel with Ikki, Stella was instantly defeated. If Ikki hadn't activated Itto Shura at that time and couldn't break through her defense, Stella would have lost even more miserably.
"But this situation should be ending soon. The two of them are about to face their final confrontation!"
Edelweiss, the world's strongest swordsman, instantly saw through their levels and said so.
"That's right, Touka Toudou's swordsmanship is too far behind Ikki's. Even with the compensation from magic power, it's no use!" The reason for this was that Touka Toudou herself was a magic knight who perfectly combined swordsmanship as her primary focus and her anomaly as a supplementary one. For her to unleash her strongest power, she had to enter the realm of close combat.
That was her battlefield. But that was also Ikki's battlefield. In the original work, Touka Toudou had no intention of dodging Ikki's strongest attack because she couldn't dodge; that was her strongest domain.
Besides responding to Ikki, more importantly, it was her own conviction. For Touka Toudou, if she didn't even dare to face close combat, where else could she fight? For swordsmen of their caliber, conviction was even more important. If a loss caused her to lose confidence, that would be a true disaster. So, the collision of their strongest ultimate techniques was inevitable.
"I will shatter your strongest with my weakest!"
"Itto Shura!"
As Ikki roared in the arena, a massive amount of magic power emanated from him. Although this magic power seemed very little to Shirou, for Ikki, it was enough!
"Raimei!" The magic power of the two continuously gathered; this was the final strike they were about to perform. As the two charged, Shirou and Edelweiss simultaneously noticed. Ikki, who was originally slower than Touka Toudou, accelerated again in his charge. As he accelerated, his body also inexplicably began to crack and bleed! And this was evolution. The evolved Ikki, and the evolved Itto Shura. Its name was Itto Rasetsu!
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