Shirou Emiya doesn't want to work overtime

"It was just a clamp, and he wasn't even injured, so how could there be a blood feud————"

Looking at Shinji Matou like this, Shirou Emiya couldn't help but complain in his heart.

At that time, he just restrained Shinji Matou, and didn't do anything else. He was just like an angry child, so Shirou Emiya didn't know where to start complaining.

However, this kind of self-centeredness, privilege, and personality that always looks down on people around him are indeed very similar to the personality of Shinji Matou that he knows.

"Humph! Come and fight in an upright manner! I must beat you to the ground with claws and teeth! When you lose, you can only wail alone!"

With such harsh words, Shinji shook his seaweed hair with his hand, and the expression on his face quickly calmed down. He glanced at Shirou Emiya with great displeasure, and then left.

"An upright duel"

It was the first time that Shirou Emiya heard such words from Shinji Matou.

Such words seemed to have nothing to do with the man named Shinji Matou.

But seeing his extremely confident eyes, which were filled with the desire to win, Shirou Emiya seemed to understand that this was indeed what he said.

"Is your first opponent Matou Shinji?"

Rin Tousaka also appeared beside Shirou Emiya at some point, looking at Matou Shinji who had already left with a faint smile.

"Well, do you know him?"

Shirou Emiya was not surprised, because he heard footsteps coming from the stairs.

"Well, in the memories given by this academy, he and I don't get along well--"

Rin Tousaka did not reply to Shirou Emiya in a roundabout way.

Because the time for the preliminaries was only four days in total, the other memories were stuffed in by Mooncell, and these memories were still retained by the magicians who passed the preliminaries.

However, in Rin Tousaka's memory, Matou Shinji had never taken advantage of her.

"But you don't have a Servant yet. What will you do when the decisive battle comes?"

Tousaka Rin seemed to be naturally worried about how Emiya Shirou would face the next battle.

She seemed to have forgotten that she and Emiya Shirou were actually enemies.

"Let's take it one step at a time--"

Emiya Shirou could only scratch his head and respond to Tousaka Rin.

He didn't know how big the gap between him and the Heroic Spirit was now.

He didn't know what the outcome of this battle would be.

But he could only take one step at a time, and he couldn't know what the outcome of this battle would be.

If there was anything he could do now, it would be to find out the real name of Matou Shinji's Servant.

After all, many Servants can easily find his weaknesses once their real names are known.

Of course, this is only a possibility. In most cases, it is not so easy to find their weaknesses.

Just like the Holy Grail War he participated in at that time, Arthur did not have any special shortcomings and was extremely excellent in every aspect.

And Karna is even better. Until now, Shirou Emiya has not been able to think of any way to defeat Karna.

Even if he releases the strongest holy sword that he can project, he may not be able to defeat Karna.

"Really, there is no plan at all--"

Rin Tohsaka covered her face helplessly and shook her head. However, it was obviously Shirou Emiya's own battle, but she seemed to be more nervous than Shirou Emiya.

"Ding ding ding!!!"

At this moment, the terminal in Shirou Emiya's pocket made a sound.

"The first code key has been generated, please go to the first floor of the arena--"

Shirou Emiya quickly read the information in it.

I didn't expect that I had to go to the arena to find the code key just after knowing who my opponent was.

Chapter 540 January Sea of ​​​​Thoughts

Labyrinth.

Shirou Emiya is not unfamiliar with this word.

It can even be said that it is very familiar.

In the time of Dungeon Dan, Shirou Emiya did not know how many times he had faced the maze that could trap adventurers.

He had also killed countless monsters.

But the maze that appeared in front of Shirou Emiya, which Kotomine Kirei called the arena, really shocked him.

Thousands of feet above the sky, the deep blue sky was like an endless curtain, covering the entire endless ocean.

The joyful cries of the seagulls flying in the sky could be clearly heard, and the brilliant light shone down from the horizon and fell at Shirou Emiya's feet.

The surging waves kept hitting the cliffs like a giant beast, and the collisions again and again shook Shirou Emiya's mind.

Broken cliffs, towering stone pillars, and steep stone gates.

The scenery here, under the shining of the azure light, was like a scene that could only appear in myths, which made people feel indescribable.

Countless huge sails collapsed on this island.

Wine barrels, strange poles, and even cannons were deeply embedded in the cliffs and on the ground, making the whole scene look extremely complicated.

The ocean that could swallow everything was also constantly hitting the islands.

This was the arena where Shirou Emiya was at the moment, and it was also the place where he and Shinji Matou would fight in the future - the Ichigetsu Sea of ​​Thought.

Everything here is too real, so real that the gentle sea breeze makes Shirou Emiya feel no falsehood.

He never thought that the maze in this world would be like this.

So open and so magnificent.

After all, the maze seen inside the dungeon is dark, compact and full of crisis, and Shirou Emiya has never felt anything else.

The purpose of the dungeon is to kill adventurers, and it will not do these things that have no meaning to killing adventurers.

Dozens of monsters also appeared from the surrounding rocks, from the ground under their feet, and from the broken sails the moment Shirou Emiya arrived here.

Staring at Shirou Emiya with a very ferocious look.

In his hands, a pair of black and white guns with blades were quickly projected.

Shirou Emiya felt that he had never encountered such a rare number of monsters.

After all, when he was in the dungeon, even the monsters he had to face in the first few floors were at least counted in units of hundreds.

However, judging from their momentum, the strength of these dozens of monsters is definitely not as weak as the monsters in the first few layers of the dungeon.

At least they are at the level of the deep-layer monsters.

After all, the enemies these monsters face are servants, which are not comparable to ordinary people.

Even a magician can easily deal with the monsters in the first few layers of the dungeon, not to mention the servants who are more powerful than magicians.

Of course, this kind of thing is not absolute.

However, this Holy Grail War itself is a battle of the weak and the strong. Only one of the 999 magicians can leave alive. If you can't even survive the attack of such a monster, then you should be eliminated early.

"Roar--!"

"Zi--!"

The irrational roar and the sound of electricity that seemed to have discovered the target of attack came from around Emiya Shirou.

The monsters generated here are not like those in the dungeon. There are only beasts, and there are also creatures similar to machines that attack Emiya Shirou.

The wild cat-like beast that emerged from the cliff in front of him let out a heavy roar, landed on all fours, and its muscles deformed. It suddenly bounced and pounced towards Shirou Emiya.

Facing the monster that pounced on him, Shirou Emiya quickly raised the gun in his hand and aimed it at the beast's eyebrows. The bullet turned into a silver beam and flew towards the monster's forehead with great accuracy.

"Bang!"

With a muffled sound, the bullet sprayed out from Shirou Emiya's gun, tearing the air without exception and piercing the forehead of the cat-like monster.

However————

"Roar——!"

The monster that pounced in the air not only did not lose its life, but instead roared with pain, its eyes flashed with anger, and it burst out the claws in its hands and waved them towards Shirou Emiya.

"Clang——!"

The loud collision sound was transmitted in the air.

Accompanied by sparks that suddenly exploded like fireworks.

Facing the extremely angry claw attack, Shirou Emiya promptly raised the double guns with blades in his hands and blocked it.

Then, before the monster in the air swung the second claw attack, under the gaze of its viciously shrinking pupils, a silver arc of light passed through its neck.

"Puff!"

The sound of flesh being torn apart sounded in front of Shirou Emiya at this moment.

The monster's neck was instantly cut by the blade.

But before Shirou Emiya was ready to attack other monsters, a strong sense of crisis enveloped Shirou Emiya.

He also suddenly seemed to remember something at this moment.

The second claw attack, which was supposed to lose its power and stagnate, suddenly appeared beside Shirou Emiya at this moment, tearing the air and viciously aiming at Shirou Emiya's neck.

"Swish!"

At this moment, the long battle made Shirou Emiya make a judgment immediately, and his body fell down in the direction of the claws.

In his hands, the two guns, one black and one white, flashed with a cold luster. Under Shirou Emiya's trigger, the bullets poured down from under the monster's body like rain without any mercy.

At this moment, countless bullet holes penetrated its abdomen.

The next second--

"Ah--!"

The monster let out a tragic howl, and then the whole body quickly lost its luster, turned into a burst of blue light, and dissipated in the air.

"Because it is data, there are only weaknesses, but no fatal weaknesses?"

Shirou Emiya, who fell to the ground, quickly stabilized his body, stood up again, and looked at the monster he had just solved with a serious face.

At the moment when he cut off the monster's neck, he suddenly remembered that this world is a computer world in a sense, and these monsters and these scenery are all made up of data.

If it was a monster in the dungeon, it would have been almost dead if it had been shot through the head.

But this monster seemed to be unaffected and continued to move.

If it was a data entity, then even if I cut its neck, it would not be fatal!

When thinking of this, Shirou Emiya also noticed the sharp claws waving towards his neck, and he quickly reacted and dodged.

The monsters that appeared here are probably more difficult to deal with than the monsters of the same level in the dungeon, and even more difficult to deal with than the monsters of a higher level to some extent.

Because there is no way to kill them with one fatal blow, if you want to kill these monsters, you must inflict a certain amount of damage.

Chapter 541 Matou Shinji, who is full of superiority

"Is this the test for the Master?"

For Shirou Emiya, these monsters are not difficult to deal with, but he needs to spend more ammunition to deal with a monster than in the dungeon.

If they are single, the difficulty of these monsters is not as strong as the higher level of the dungeon, and they can even be easily slaughtered by the higher level.

But if they can form a large group of monsters like the dungeon, it will be a nightmare for adventurers.

These monsters can not only use their bodies to collide, but also have different characteristics and different attack methods like the monsters in the dungeon.

The mechanical monsters can even fire bullets and electric currents to attack.

They are not particularly different from the monsters of the same level in the dungeon. The biggest difference is that even if they are severely attacked, their bodies seem to be unscathed.