Loreleija's title of "the pinnacle of modern magicians" is indeed not undeserved.
She analyzed that the battle between Shinji Matou and Scathach would last for ten days, and the two actually fought for ten days.
No sleep, no rest, no drinking, no eating.
Apart from occasional conversations and exchanges, and when both sides are hit and unable to move, they must take time to recover, otherwise there will be no interruption.
This is by no means an exaggeration, and there is even some understatement.
The inability to move here does not only refer to situations where the body is paralyzed or impacted, but more often refers to injuries that can kill instantly, such as a damaged heart, chopped off legs, or an exploded head.
According to incomplete statistics, the hearts of both sides were pierced no less than a hundred times, the total number of limbs destroyed exceeded a thousand, they were headshot dozens of times, and more than a dozen times people were killed without a trace left.
As for the damage to arteries, veins, and vital organs, it was too numerous to count. If one had not locked his blood with the Shadow Country, and the other had the third magic to constantly reshape his body, the two would have died thousands of times, instead of fighting each other like this.
Kill until the mountains collapse and the earth cracks, kill until the sky darkens, kill until the space shatters.
They killed their way from the center of the Shadow Kingdom to the city wall, and then made a big circle and killed their way back. The entire land of the Demon Realm was searched by the master and his apprentice, and countless dead souls were affected.
They were first awakened by the sound of fighting, and then shattered by the aftermath, reduced to ashes, with no possibility of survival, and they didn't even have time to utter a cry or wail.
Perhaps these dead or undead were extremely powerful when they were alive. However, no matter how powerful they were, they could not be compared with the ruler of the entire magic world and the controller of soul magic, and their only fate was to be reduced to spirit particles.
During these ten days.
For the first time, Scathach truly used all the accumulation of thousands of years from beginning to end.
His most proud spearmanship, as well as various other weapon techniques accumulated over time.
The original runes of god-level from Northern Europe, and the various magics learned by observing the world.
There is also the wisdom of the abyss that is gained by placing oneself outside the world.
Whether it is known to the world or unknown to the world, as long as it can be used, we will use it.
In contrast, Shinji also used all his strength to fight back.
Knowledge imparted by Scathach.
Knowledge imparted by Chiron.
Yustisa, Orange, Weber, Kenneth, Lorelaia, etc., everything I learned from them.
Something obtained by communicating with the "Throne of God" and the "Throne of Heroes".
The highest crystal of Einzbern, the third magical creation, the Holy Grail.
The heroic spirits of the five great heroes.
These are foreign.
The inner one is even more indispensable.
The body has thirty-two magic circuits.
The innate attribute is "water".
The direction determined at the birth of the soul is the "origin" accumulated over thousands of years - "transformation".
The third magic among the five great magics. This is a system that is much larger than any magic or martial arts. Even after five years as a magician, Shinji still doesn't dare to say that he can perform magic perfectly.
Everything within the scope of common sense and things beyond the scope of common sense were integrated by Shinji and turned into his strength, supporting him to "deceive his teacher".
After ten days of fierce fighting, this battle of "bullying the teacher" finally came to an end.
The Shadow Kingdom was torn to pieces and riddled with holes, and even the space was becoming increasingly unstable.
Shinji's most relied-upon source of magic power, the Holy Grail costume, also showed signs of damage and exhaustion. After all, he was only the third magician, not the second magician, and could not draw infinite magic power from the nearly infinite parallel worlds.
More importantly, after such a long and intense battle, Scathach and Shinji's spirits have reached their limits.
The spirit here does not refer to quantifiable mental power, soul power, etc. Both of them have sufficient reserves in this regard, but it is an unquantifiable mental state such as fatigue and concentration.
No matter how detached you are, how you master magic, and how you are in a magical world, this aspect is inevitable.
Their roots are always people.
Unconsciously, the rhythm of attack and defense slowed down. Although the gun was still as fast and the sickle was still as fierce, the sharpness between the attacks was getting less and less, and the reactions between the beginning, development, turning points and endings were not as exaggerated as at the beginning.
The number of breaks in battle also increased.
After a mutual exchange of vital points, Shinji leaned on the ground with his sickle blade and grinned provocatively:
"Master, your attacks are getting easier to deal with. Before, when Gou Ge said you were old, I didn't believe it and insisted that you could do it. Now it seems... what Gou Ge said does make some sense."
Scathach snorted twice, but did not hit anyone directly like before.
"What's even more embarrassing is that you, a young man, can't even compare to me, a BBA."
"Because I'm still young. Compared to you, my two lives combined are just like a baby."
"Haha, baby, a baby fighting with an old man for ten days and ten nights, don't you feel awkward?"
"Uh... it's really awkward. Okay, you win this round."
In fact, similar scenes have occurred many times in these ten days. At the beginning, it may have been just evaluation and analysis of each other, but later, when the mutual understanding reached a certain level, it became another battlefield.
It's always been said that trash talking is part of the battle.
"I don't know how long this fight can last."
Scathach sighed softly. She was well aware that it was becoming increasingly difficult for her to control her body. Shinji might be a little better because of his magic, but it was also limited.
"There's not much time left. The next time will be your defeat."
"Why are you so confident all of a sudden?" Scathach was a little surprised. They had been fighting for ten days without a clear winner, so there was no reason for him to be so confident.
"Because the conditions are ready." Shinji straightened his back, and the sickle in his hand turned into spirit particles and dissipated.
"Conditions?" Scathach sensed danger, but didn't know where it came from. The decline in her state seriously affected her reaction.
"The instability of the Shadow Kingdom, your fatigue, the distance between the moon and the earth, and the time required to be deployed to the outer world—"
"That's - uh!" Scathach finally found the source of the danger.
A rainbow composed of the three primary colors of red, yellow and blue quietly gathered in the depths of the moon, gradually broke through the ground, rose into the air, and streaked across the deep universe like a meteor.
Iris smoothly crossed a distance of approximately 384,000 kilometers and entered the Earth's atmosphere, but did not slow down and fall to the ground. Instead, it directly broke through the barrier of the world in the atmosphere and broke into the outside world of a different level from the real world.
Finally, pass through the cracks of the turbulent Shadow Kingdom and descend on the battlefield where Scathach and Shinji are!