"Saint Graph Parameters."
The parameters appeared in front of me on a screen projected from the Saint Graph.
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•Parameters•
Strength: EX
Endurance: EX
Agility: EX
Mana: E
Luck: E
NP: EX
Od Quantity: 14
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Four EX ranks were truly something incredible. But it's no surprise considering who I am now.
All the Gods in Shuumatsu no Valkyrie are physically very powerful.
Although it's not clearly shown in the arena, because that would completely ruin the manga's battles if the arena were destroyed with any random attack from the fighters.
This kind of thing actually has a name. It's a term that's much better known in English. If I remember correctly, it's…
Hm… what was the name of that term for this kind of situation again?
It wasn't hard to say. But since it's in English, I sometimes forget it and take a while to recall.
"Hm… Plot… Plot… Plot Twi. No, it's not Plot Twist…"
The name given to this term is actually very similar to Plot Twist.
This term also starts with the word Plot at the beginning.
Plot Twist is a radical change that wasn't expected or foreseen in stories.
Like the ending of Naruto. That was truly a completely radical change that no one was expecting.
Aliens in a ninja anime? Who could have expected that?
The other term, the one I'm trying to remember, was a term about a situation where someone extremely powerful doesn't destroy something they should easily destroy with their power level.
Like the world, or even the universe, if the character truly has confirmed universe-destroying power.
It started with the word Plot at the beginning, it was Plot Am… hm? It seems like it's something like that.
Is it Plot Amo? No, it's not like love… but the word love is very similar to the name of this term in English.
Hm…? I think I remembered the term.
It's actually Arm…
"Oh, yes. Plot Armor. That was the name of this specific term. The term in Portuguese is *Armadura de Enredo*. The word armor in English sounds similar to the word love in Portuguese. That's why I always forget this term."
Many works have Plot Armor, especially those with extremely high destructive power scales. Like Shuumatsu no Valkyrie, Fate from the Nasuverse, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball Super.
And a bunch of other anime and manga with destructive power levels at least on a planetary scale.
Plot Armor is heavily used in various types of works, but it's mainly used in those with lots of battles or works that have absurdly high power levels within them.
For example.
In Dragon Ball Z, we had Piccolo demonstrating enough power to completely destroy the moon, and that was with less than a thousand in total power level.
And later, those levels got even bigger, to the point of being irrelevant.
Nowadays, in Dragon Ball Super, a few punches could destroy the entire universe. But even later, when they're much more powerful than before, they don't come close to doing that using their full power, and Planet Earth isn't, well, destroyed with the exchange of punches or some random Ki blast with absurd power levels casually thrown at Earth.
Ki blasts that nowadays have thousands of times the power level needed to completely destroy the moon and Planet Earth in Dragon Ball Z.
The same happens in the Nasuverse when an Anti-Planet Noble Phantasm is casually fired and barely destroys the islands and mountains it hits, turning the area into barren land.
The main reason this kind of thing happens is that… well, it would be the end of the story if the world or universe it's set in were destroyed.
Plot Armor is a plot device where a fictional character, or some other entity within the work, repeatedly and inexplicably avoids causing damage due to their importance to the story's continuation.
Authors often use statements about what characters can do, and even without showing visual feats of characters destroying the world, universe, or similar things… because the author can't destroy what's important for their story to continue.
And in Shuumatsu no Valkyrie, it's not much different from other works that heavily use Plot Armor and statements to establish their characters' power levels.
There are several author statements that some characters can destroy the world and much more.
But there are no concrete visual feats of such a scale of power because the world is too important for the work, the story, to progress normally.
A good example is Zeus in Shuumatsu no Valkyrie.
It was stated by Shiva that Zeus could devastate or destroy paradise, the heavens, in his Adamantine form.
But what was the size of the heavens in the world of Shuumatsu no Valkyrie?
In Shuumatsu no Valkyrie, the world has three layers, three Realms.
The Heavens, Earth, and the Underworld, called Helheim.
And if we consider that the three Realms of Shuumatsu no Valkyrie are the same size as Planet Earth, since the three Realms are the Heavens, Earth, and Helheim,
Then Zeus could potentially destroy the world.
But… the world of Shuumatsu no Valkyrie is composed of three layers.
Which could imply something on a universal scale for the Heavens and Helheim.
Like Planet Earth, located at a point in the vast universe, being one of the three layers of the Shuumatsu no Valkyrie world.
Honestly, I personally prefer not to think about anyone's power scale.
Thinking about these things just gives me an unnecessary headache.
Especially those works that don't make their power levels clear from the start and then keep varying the power levels within the work.
And that makes the whole issue of power scaling even more confusing.
But here in the Nasuverse, it's more about Hax than brute strength anyway.
So it doesn't matter much to think about power levels in the Nasuverse. Besides, it's not as big as it really seems or as people make it out to be.
Although the entire story told by Nasu is just a massive case of forced plot in the end, where extremely powerful enemies never take their fights seriously, and in the end, they're defeated by some random weakling with a super broken ability that, for whatever reason, is only useful at that moment and forgotten until that broken ability is needed again.
There are so many examples that it's exhausting to list them all.
In Fate, in the Extra universe, there's BB, who's in love with the protagonist.
And just for that reason, she didn't kill Hakuno with her supposed omnipotence in the Moon Cell.
Although BB's omnipotence is just a translation error. She wasn't omnipotent as people who don't know about that translation error thought she was in the CCC timeline of Fate Extra.
I remember in the Japanese translation, it was "Can Do Almost Anything" as a demonstration of her power in the Moon Cell. And it wasn't that supposed omnipotence from the English translation they made when they translated the game.
The plot in Fate was so obviously made in favor of the protagonist.
Even Kiara, after absorbing BB, only didn't kill Hakuno because BB was in love with the protagonist, Hakuno.
BB stopped Kiara from killing Hakuno because BB was in love with Hakuno in the CCC timeline.
Although I can give a pass to this since both BB and Hakuno were NPCs who gained a life of their own in the Moon Cell, so to speak.
Since in other timelines, the story is a bit different from CCC, which is what people are most familiar with in the Fate Extra world.
However… the same things keep repeating when Fate has a protagonist and their enemy is an extremely powerful existence.
Like Shirou pulling Mana out of nowhere to maintain UBW in Fate Stay Night. Since Shirou…
…No, forget it. I don't want to know about any of that, and I don't even want to know about that cuck Shirou doing the impossible.
I also don't accept that author's excuse in another work to canonize Rin passing part of her Magic Crest to Shirou in UBW.
Even that Mana Transfer in the original doesn't make sense. Although it's better than what they did in the anime and movies.
The original is good, but it's also to blame in this matter.
Just remembering those Shirou fanboys overseas, doing a bunch of idiotic calculations to come tell me that Shirou has way more than 30 units of Magical Energy. Seriously, that still gives me a huge headache.
Those guys are only not worse than the Gilgamesh fanboys.
They should just accept reality and not make up a bunch of stupid stuff using unreliable words from that cuck Emiya Shirou from the Hollow Ataraxia VN.
And don't even get me started on that protagonist in Fate Grand Order.
I've lost count of how many near-omnipotent beings in name have been defeated for some stupid reason they came up with.
Although saying near-omnipotent in name is just a way of saying they were invincible to everyone fighting against them in the Singularities.
Somehow, all the extremely powerful enemies always hold back until the protagonist defeats them, or someone shows up to defeat them in the middle of the story.
What's happening in Fate Grand Order can't even be called Plot Armor anymore, with how many enemies don't take their battles seriously at all and then wait for someone capable of defeating them to show up before they start taking their battles seriously.
It's something similar to Fate Stay Night and Shirou's fight against Gilgamesh.
Nasu always uses the method of the enemy, like Gilgamesh, not taking things seriously and losing to someone weak in the end because of it.
I can use Shirou as an example for these situations.
But Shirou really wasn't the only one to beat Gilgamesh, who ended up dying pathetically in the VNs and in his own route in CCC.
The guy was the only character who died in his own route in CCC.
I don't blame him for that, but it's his route, after all.
Even though there are several ways for a powerful being in Fate to be defeated,
Nasu insists on weak, powerless humans defeating all these near-omnipotent beings within his verse.
Although it doesn't matter much, given the small fact that the verse has a really large and well-constructed story from start to finish, with Plot Armor being overused with some explanation that's too stupid for the supposedly omnipotent character not to have destroyed the world or the protagonist without thinking twice about it.
But it's better I leave that aside. I have nothing to gain from thinking about things that are beyond absurd compared to what's logically possible in the Nasuverse.
Back to my main issue on this topic.
My Mana and Luck were really very low compared to all my other Parameters.
Mana isn't a surprise to me despite this whole situation.
Shuumatsu no Valkyrie never showed anything like Magic or any other type of energy being used in the work at any point.
Or the author just didn't make it clear that the Gods use some kind of unique energy, but other than that, the use of some mystical energy in Shuumatsu no Valkyrie wasn't clearly shown.
Although, when Nikola Tesla received his Volund, the ability of the Valkyrie Göll,
It was described as a power that lives in her runes, Great Magical Power or the Bearer of Magic.
That was something briefly mentioned by Brunhilde as her ability, Göll.
And it was with this supposed Great Magical Power that Tesla's armor was created through the Volund.
Göll herself also served as the raw material for that armor to be created through the Volund.
And as if that wasn't enough, all those lightning bolts from Tesla were powered by Göll's Life Force.
I wonder where the science was in all of this?
The Valkyrie turned into armor.
The Valkyrie's ability was Great Magical Power, which was a somewhat stupid name for a work that doesn't use magic.
Beyond the whole idea of creating Tesla's armor being something scientific, the final result wasn't achieved with the power of science.
It was just the Valkyrie linked to Tesla's soul that transformed into armor based on what Nikola Tesla wanted her to transform into for him.
In the same way that the other Valkyries also transformed into the weapon of choice for the humans.
And I'm not even taking Adam's brass knuckles into account.
Thinking about these things and everything else related to them,
I remember some really strange things happening.
Didn't Zerofuku use his spine, flesh, and blood to create his divine weapon in the middle of the arena before the battle started?
And wasn't it because of that that his axe could also absorb misfortune like he could?
Didn't Hajun also use a part of his arm to make a sword?
Didn't Hades fuse Poseidon's Trident with his Bident?
Many think what Hades did was some kind of Matter Manipulation power. But it didn't really seem like that.
It was said at the start that the Gods created their own divine weapons. Is that how they created them? With some power capable of Matter Manipulation or Creation.
If that's the case, then…
"Science my ass."
Hm… why did I suddenly say that? That's a weird thing to say.
Well, it doesn't matter why I said that weird thing out of nowhere.
But now that I'm thinking about it more clearly,
The technology of the Gods in Shuumatsu no Valkyrie was extremely advanced, right?
So how could that armor be something that could really surpass the Gods?
The Gods in Shuumatsu no Valkyrie even had those regenerative capsules and other medical machines that, by chance, looked like they came out of Dragon Ball.
I don't think soul injuries would be possible to heal. But who knows what will happen in the future of Shuumatsu no Valkyrie.
I don't have those memories after the eighth round very clear.
But I have some strange memory fragments that didn't appear in the anime or manga.
It's not very clear, so it's better not to get a headache thinking about it now. Maybe one day I'll have those complete memories of Beelzebub in the future.
But back to the initial focus on Tesla's armor.
Tesla's armor was really kind of irrelevant if people take into account all that extremely advanced technology of the Gods.
The plot sometimes just makes things much more complicated and confusing.
But it wasn't my place to question the author's obvious mistakes.
It's just that my current situation doesn't allow me to ignore these little details.
But it's better I leave that aside and accept that Tesla's armor was amazing, and that the Gods of Shuumatsu no Valkyrie, with all their advanced technology, couldn't have already made Tesla's armor or created a similar one long ago.
Yes, that's right, just accept Umemura's plot holes without questioning. It's the best thing to do in this situation.
"Now… hm…"
My Luck must be very low because of the life Beelzebub led in the Shuumatsu no Valkyrie world.
Carrying Satan inside your body is definitely a lot of bad luck in any world, isn't it?
But in compensation, my physical Parameters were really very high.
My Parameters are so high that they don't have a defined limit by my Saint Graph.
In fact, when physical Parameters are high, Luck is usually lower.
The opposite is also true, actually. It was normal, as far as I still remember, for Servants' Parameters.
Having very low physical Parameters makes Luck increase.
But well, it wasn't exactly a surprise that my Luck is so low.
In fact, my physical Parameters being so high makes sense if you think about who I've become.
The Gods in Shuumatsu no Valkyrie were actually physically much stronger than the Gods of the Nasuverse and many other beings within the Nasuverse.
However… the Gods of the Nasuverse could even be compared to the Gods of Shuumatsu no Valkyrie using their Authorities.
Only with an Authority could a Nasuverse God truly move at the Speed of Light and have near-unlimited Physical Strength and Endurance temporarily.
But without possessing their Authority, the Gods of Fate aren't much different from the more common Servants in their physical aspect.
Grand Servants can be comparable to Gods.
They can also easily move at the Speed of Light and have near-unlimited Strength and Endurance. Mainly because of their larger Saint Graphs compared to regular Servants, who only have a Spiritual Core.
Regular Servants? They're just fighter jets armed with a Tactical Nuclear Bomb. In Nasu's own words.
Strength? Hm. They can definitely lift a few tons without difficulty.
Endurance? Even a piece of paper with Magical Energy can harm a Servant. As Nasu himself described.
Although, if there's no Magical Energy, even a nuclear bomb couldn't harm a Servant because a Servant is a Spiritual Entity.
Agility? As Nasu said, Servants are like fighter jets. But they rarely break the speed of sound running.
Like humans, they can run at a certain speed, but their reaction speed and the speed at which their limbs, like their arms, move when attacking can reach the speed of sound.
Servants have their maximum established speed at 3 to 5 times the speed of sound.
In other cases, 5 to 15 times at most, and that's only using a Command Seal.
Just like a human can reach a speed of up to 64.7 kilometers per hour in a hundred-meter sprint,
A human can even break the sound barrier by cracking a whip.
Using speed to gauge how fast Servants are is simple.
Just look at the original work and Fate material.
And besides a few citations in Fate Grand Order, Fate Stay Night, Fate Zero, Fate Strange Fake, and Hollow Ataraxia,
There are a ton of citations about Servants' speed in all these original Fate materials.
With some of these citations being controversial due to all the alternate timelines in the Nasuverse world.
However, the maximum base speed of a Servant is between 15 to 20 times the speed of sound using a Command Seal.
And that alone was enough for Servants to surpass their living selves or their original selves in the Throne of Heroes.
As demonstrated by Archer Hercules, who came close to his power in life with a speed close to 3 times the speed of sound.
Rider Medusa with her Pegasus, the Noble Phantasm Bellerophon.
Medusa has great speed, one of the highest in the entire Nasuverse, at 400 to 500 kilometers per hour.
Medusa is as fast as a supercar, but that's only possible with her Noble Phantasm.
Artoria couldn't even keep up with Medusa's speed using her Noble Phantasm, Bellerophon.
Even though Artoria had her Instinct at the level of Future Prediction,
Artoria isn't capable of counterattacking someone at that speed with her Instinct that can predict the future. Which, honestly, is something completely ridiculous.
Another incredible feat is from Alexander the Great in the Fate Zero timeline.
With his Noble Phantasm, Gordius Wheel,
Alexander the Great, or Iskandar, reaches an incredible speed of up to 400 km/h.
Artoria needed a motorcycle to keep up with Alexander using his Noble Phantasm, Gordius Wheel.
It's also worth mentioning that Artoria could die if she crashed the motorcycle at that speed. Which is also something very ridiculous.
But it makes sense since Kuzuki, Medea's master, managed to throw Artoria at a speed of a mere 200 kilometers per hour and nearly tore her head off by ripping her neck with a precise punch to Artoria's head.
Kuzuki's fists were really powerful enough to kill Artoria with punches.
But even Artoria could still reach the incredible speed of sound if she put in a bit more effort.
She would need to unequip her armor, use Invisible Air, the air she normally uses to hide Excalibur, and then use Mana Burst.
Artoria needed all of that to reach the speed of sound.
It's also possible for her to achieve it in close-range combat with her really good footwork and enough Magical Energy to maintain high-speed combat and quick short-range movements at the speed of sound.
There's also Hessian Lobo in Fate Grand Order, who moves at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour.
Artoria Alter struggled a lot against Hessian Lobo's incredible speed of up to 200 kilometers per hour.
Although in the end, she defeated Hessian Lobo. Not alone, of course. There were other Servants fighting too, as in almost all Fate Grand Order battles.
But the greatest speed feats in Fate only belong to Noble Phantasms and a few Servants who came close to their power in life, like Hercules in his Archer version in Strange Fake, who approached his living capacity as a Servant thanks to an abundant supply of Magical Energy.
Tomoe Gozen's Namah Samantavajranam Ham flies at the speed of sound.
Although it's not a particularly special arrow, it's still Tomoe Gozen's Noble Phantasm.
Arrows fired by Arjuna also have a similar speed, being faster than a modern rifle, which is above 3.5 times the speed of sound.
But Arjuna needs to use his Mana Burst to fire his arrows at that speed, as precisely described in Fate Grand Order's CM3, the original material.
Napoleon himself brags a lot about being able to move at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour.
Although Napoleon isn't capable of moving at that speed on rough terrain and so on, as he himself says when boasting about this incredible speed feat.
Gilgamesh also praises Kingu in Fate Grand Order's Babylon Singularity for being able to move at Mach 3, or 3 times the speed of sound.
Kingu in the Babylon Singularity was almost equivalent to Enkidu in life.
Which again establishes the speed of top Servants at least 3 times above the speed of sound in life, as shown by Kingu and Archer Hercules.
So much so that Artoria's speed rivals a fighter jet, an F-15 Strike Eagle, which travels at about Mach 4.
But this was never shown in the VN or novel in a real fight, only the description is a comparison to a fighter jet without even specifying the model. And that was just with her footwork.
Besides the one time she reached the speed of sound with her Mana Burst, Invisible Air, and Excalibur as a boost, there aren't really many comparative feats, other than those she really can't keep up with at 200 kilometers per hour.
But since Artoria was still alive in Fate Stay Night, that was her speed in life.
It's also worth mentioning that Nasu said she, Artoria, is as powerful as Gilgamesh.
Which puts top Servants like Artoria and Gilgamesh on a scale of up to 4 times the speed of sound when they were alive in their mythological and folkloric legends.
But although Gilgamesh has a ship faster than the Speed of Light in CCC, for whatever reason, people conveniently forget when they place Gilgamesh hundreds of thousands of times faster than the Speed of Light with those absurd claims that Gilgamesh is multiversal, that Gilgamesh moved from one star to another hundreds of times faster than the Speed of Light.
But Gilgamesh's Light Ship is as fast as light, nothing more, nothing less.
Not to mention there are no scenes of him with his ship at that moment, so…
People are usually dumb for not looking into how something works.
Gilgamesh could only have been thrown out of the Reality Marble and then returned after entering the reality bubble right after being thrown out of it by BB in CCC.
It's just a matter of looking at the actual scene and not using a dubious statement from some moment to explain something that has a simple explanation from another moment that isn't connected to that moment.
Fate wasn't made for people who don't understand basic concepts.
In the end, what Servants have that's strongest and fastest, aside from Authorities that allow Divine Spirits to truly have Light Speed, are the Servants' Noble Phantasms.
Cú Chulainn's Noble Phantasm, Gáe Bolg, has a speed of Mach 2, twice the speed of sound, which is just 2469.6 kilometers per hour.
With NLBW, Shirou reached God Speed in his fight against Hercules.
Which is simply and literally Mach 1, the speed of sound, 1234.8 kilometers per hour.
Although Shirou says it's faster than the speed of sound, everyone knows that Shirou's monologues shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone. They're mostly Nasu's jokes in Shirou's monologues.
But it was the speed of sound. Since that's the base speed of the attack.
If you also take into account the limitations of Shirou's human body, then it was even slower than the base attack of Hercules' Noble Phantasm, which was at the speed of sound, that Shirou used and reached Mach 1 in his attacks with that copied Noble Phantasm from Hercules by UBW.
Which is something everyone knows. Copies made by UBW don't have the same power as the original Noble Phantasms.
They're just copies that will never reach the same power as the originals.
Archer's Hrunting in Hollow Ataraxia has a speed of up to 4 times the speed of sound. Others also say it's up to 6 to 11 times the speed of sound, and others say it's even up to 15 times the speed of sound.
Although its description is that it reaches Mach 10 in Fate Hollow Ataraxia's CM in a straight path, without curving toward its marked target by Hrunting.
I also can't forget Achilles' Noble Phantasm.
In Volume 4, Chapter 4 of Apocrypha, his chariot was moving at the Speed of Light.
It's a Noble Phantasm, and because of that, the amount of Magical Energy is very high for a Servant to maintain, so Achilles obviously couldn't always use that speed to crush his opponents, and he wouldn't even use it because he's a battle maniac.
Although Gilgamesh, Hercules, and other Demi-Gods in Fate could possibly have Light Speed when they were alive, with their Authority.
Since even Karna, when alive, had his father's Authority.
But all this takes into account the timelines of Fate Stay Night, Fate Zero, Fate Strange Fake, Fate Apocrypha, Fate Grand Order, and Fate Hollow Ataraxia.
Fate Extra CCC… is a special case and shouldn't be taken too much into account for the entire Nasuverse.
There are some Servants who can be faster with their Noble Phantasms too.
But one in particular is something truly terrifying in the Nasuverse.