[Hereafter] Chapter LXV: Rome Eternal
Added 2022-08-15 14:24:42 +0000 UTCWhew. This fight scene was a pain in the ass. Let me tell you, ironically, the fight scene fought me more than they characters fought each other. Part of that was the super enclosed space, which limited who could go where and how quickly, and part of that was Romulus having a really weird gimmick.
Maybe I really should have watched some videos of Hashirama fighting.
Whatever the case, this wound up going on for quite a bit longer than I originally thought it was going to, so have 6.4k's worth of a "final" battle. With where we are now? Three, maybe four chapters left of Septem. Four is me being generous, though. We don't have that much left to go through for the plot.
EDIT: Moving down.
Comments
Took a break for a bit, finally coming back to this to catch up. That ending had me in tears, well done.
cystrom
2022-09-11 03:10:08 +0000 UTCAn interesting change to his second Noble Phantasm, becoming a closed space ala Achilles' Dual Field as opposed to a defensive (and reverse guillotine in some cases) wall based on the walls of Rome his brother died for.
Marc Beans
2022-08-15 16:31:59 +0000 UTCYes Gifted, I realize that, but I was focusing on the idea that the stats are deceptive because despite “merely” having above-average stats, he was doing as well as he was in addition to the whole “more real” thing.
Marc Beans
2022-08-15 16:29:35 +0000 UTCIt doesn't help the team's position that he's basically sitting in the heart of a city-sized territory optimized just for him.
Caractacus
2022-08-15 15:48:21 +0000 UTCI'd say if anything it makes them more...real. They become the embodiment of something. For example...let's say you draw a square. That could be any servant. But if you then make it a cube, it becomes more real. More solid and defined. Enhanced. It rises above what it once was to something more.
Gifted-Monster
2022-08-15 15:24:02 +0000 UTCThat’s certainly cool. ‘ Not in the literal sense, because if he was immune to damage then he would have just stood there and let everything bounce off of him, but it was becoming increasingly obvious to me just how much of an advantage it was for a Servant to be summoned into a time and place where their legend was the strongest. His stats weren’t the highest ever, but it was almost like he was more there, more real, and because of that, he could keep up with a whirlwind like Aífe who should have been outpacing him.’ So a Servant boosted by their cultural sphere has deceptive stats, huh?
Marc Beans
2022-08-15 14:49:18 +0000 UTCMan, after all this they're gonna need a good rest. I'd say...tree-fiddy days? Ba dum tiss.
Gifted-Monster
2022-08-15 14:47:47 +0000 UTC
