Unlimited Blade Works of the Raging Dimension 42

Title: The Attacker in the Water

While the battle on the Night Raid side was raging fiercely, Shirou also encountered some minor issues.

Susanoo had activated his trump card, only slightly weaker than Esdeath in terms of combat strength. Aside from other things, the two weapons on Susanoo, Yata no Kagami and Ame no Murakumo, were fully comparable to ordinary Imperial Arms. Combined with his strong close combat abilities and immortality, even Esdeath in the original work had to use Mahapadma to defeat him once.

For Shirou, close combat had always been his weakness. This wasn’t a matter of martial arts, but purely a difference in physical fitness. Although he himself didn’t care about this and often engaged in close combat, now, he had a bit of a headache.

“Your strength is truly extraordinary.”

Turning his head to avoid the slash, Shirou praised Susanoo. He had now performed Reinforcement Magecraft, but even so, there was still a considerable gap in strength.

“…”

Susanoo didn’t respond, but continued to close in and attack, not giving Shirou a chance to create distance.

“That person is a strong enemy that even Esdeath could defeat. Susanoo, your mission is to hold him back and not give him a chance to distance himself. Compared to other aspects, his close combat is his weakness.”

Susanoo remembered his master’s instructions, showing his meticulous character as an Imperial Arms, firmly completing the task, attacking swiftly and not giving the enemy a chance to breathe.

“You won’t answer? You’re really meticulous. But I have to show some real skills. It seems I need help over there.”

As he spoke, the air currents around Shirou suddenly gathered towards the two swords in his hands, causing a gust of wind to blow through the hair of both parties involved in the battle.

“Hm?”

Feeling the air currents, Susanoo had a bad premonition and increased the speed of his sword swings, but it was futile. Although Shirou wasn’t as strong as Susanoo, the gap wasn’t that large anymore, and it was still possible to block Susanoo’s attacks.

Under the influence of the Imperial Arms, the air currents quickly gathered towards the two swords in Shirou’s hands. A large amount of air was compressed onto the two swords. The high-density air even refracted light, making the original appearance of the two swords somewhat unclear.

Feeling that the air above the two swords had been extremely compressed, Shirou increased his attack. He crossed the two swords and exerted all his strength to push Ame no Murakumo away at a certain angle, buying a second.

Taking advantage of this time difference, his two swords stabbed directly towards Susanoo.

*CLANG!*

A clanging sound was heard, and Yata no Kagami behind Susanoo blocked in front of him, strongly protecting him from Shirou’s attack.

But at this moment, a smile appeared on Shirou’s face.

“Release it.”

The high-density air above the two swords suddenly burst, and the strong air current produced a powerful thrust. Shirou’s body quickly distanced itself from Susanoo like a jet.

“It seems the end of the story has been decided.”

Susanoo stabilized his body.

At this moment, Shirou was floating in the air in the middle of the lake, supported by the air current, with his bow and arrow aimed at Susanoo.

Although Susanoo couldn’t defeat him, it would be difficult to hold him back if he insisted on doing so, so Shirou decided to end the battle quickly.

‘I’ll use this to face you.’

The spiral sword was once again placed on the bow, and the tip of the sword pointed towards Susanoo.

‘What is that thing, an Imperial Arms?’

Feeling the faint aura emanating from the spiral sword, Susanoo couldn’t help but feel nervous, but his expression didn’t change at all. Instead, he showed a bit of relief.

*SWOOSH!*

Seeing the opponent’s expression, Shirou was slightly surprised, but his hand didn’t stop moving. The spiral sword suddenly shot towards Susanoo. If this attack hit, combined with Broken Phantasm, with such power, Susanoo might be destroyed. But he suddenly felt that something was wrong with the lake beneath his feet.

*BOOM!*

A surge of water gushed from the lake, and a large amount of lake water turned into a powerful water dragon. With the force of the impact, it directly hit the spiral sword that had been fired, pushing the spiral sword away from its original trajectory, albeit slightly. But it was enough for Susanoo to avoid it.

That wasn’t the end. A large amount of water sprayed out from the lake like a wall and merged in the air, forming a closed space that completely isolated Shirou from the outside world.

“Hm? Interesting.”

Shirou raised his eyebrows and looked around. Even his perception didn’t detect that someone else was hiding nearby. This method and approach were indeed commendable.

*WHOOSH!*

Susanoo broke through the water wall, entered the space, and tangled with Shirou again.

“It seems all this has been planned for a long time, whether it’s the choice of location or the arrangement of the battle. Is this strategy the result of Najenda’s work?”

“I don’t know, but you need to know that you can’t get through this easily now.”

*CLANG!* *CLANG!* *CLANG!*

The exchange of words was accompanied by the clashing of swords. In this closed space, a battle between top-tier warriors took place.

*SWOOSH!* *SWOOSH!* *SWOOSH!*

Shirou’s bow didn’t stop since the exchange, and red arrows were fired from his hand with the density of a light machine gun, covering the area in front of him.

Susanoo wasn’t relaxed at all. He held Yata no Kagami in front of him and emitted sword energy streams from Ame no Murakumo in his hand, destroying the arrows fired from various angles.

Yata no Kagami had the effect of reflecting flying weapons, but it was no longer useful here. Shirou’s extraordinary archery skills and Broken Phantasm made it very difficult for Susanoo to deal with. The reflection function of Yata no Kagami was completely suppressed. Sometimes the arrows exploded before they hit Yata no Kagami. The tremendous impact even injured Susanoo’s body.

However, the situation changed again.

A water dragon shot out from the water wall, disrupting the rhythm of Shirou’s attack.

“What?”

He quickly adjusted his attack and once again pushed back the high-speed Susanoo. Shirou looked around suspiciously, trying to detect the attacker’s position, but it was futile. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t detect anything.

At this moment, the water wall surrounding the entire area changed again, and large water currents began to rotate rapidly.

“The water wall has changed. What does this person want to do?”

Looking at the surrounding water wall, Shirou had a bad premonition.

Sure enough, water jets shot out from the water wall one after another. They were water spears shooting out at high speed. With extremely high pressure and speed, they were even sharper than ordinary swords. If someone touched them, they would be split in two. Now the entire space was filled with these water columns, without a single dead angle.

Susanoo could ignore such attacks with his automatic repair function, but Shirou couldn’t, because his body wasn’t that abnormal.

At this moment, Shirou was surrounded.