"The Knights of the Inquisition of the Templar Church, Lizbeth Stolindobarry, with the Holy Shield in hand—"
"I, the unknown person who hides my identity, respectfully invite you to—"
"—Fight against heresy!"
"—Teach me!"
Before he finished speaking, the two men rushed forward at the same time.
The ten-meter distance was shortened in the blink of an eye, and Lizbeth's right fist collided with Shinji's right fist without any hesitation.
With a dull sound, Shinji's body flew backwards as if he was hit by a speeding car.
This is not a strategy, nor an illusion, but something that is really happening.
Shinji and Lizbeifee each threw a punch, and then Shinji was blown away.
On the other hand, Liz Baife just stopped for a moment, as if she had stepped on the brakes in an emergency, then stepped on the accelerator and rushed towards Shinji.
This means that Lizbeife's power is far superior to Shinji's. If it weren't for this, she would never have such a crushing effect. Fortunately, her movement speed was not fast, so she didn't catch up with Shinji who was in a state of stiffness immediately, giving the latter some time to respond.
Shinji was not panicked after being crushed by a single punch. He had expected this result long before the two fists collided. The thing that impressed him most about Liz Baife was not her title and record, nor her personality, but her arm strength.
Shinji clearly remembered that when he was "playing" with Lizbeif in his previous life, she once said that she could punch out an average of 2T (tons). Although Shinji was proficient in physical skills and could use enhanced magic to break through the limits of the human body for a short period of time, he could not punch out to this extent.
You know, the weight of Japanese family sedans is mostly between 1.2-1.8T, so what Shinji said before about the humanoid Gundam is not an exaggeration at all.
"Even if the punch just now didn't hit 2T, it must have hit 1.5T. Fortunately, I was prepared and deflected most of the impact in time, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to win this fight."
After silently evaluating Lizbeifee's punching power, Shinji formulated the next strategy.
At the ankle part covered by the cloak, spirit particles gathered and materialized into a pair of feather shoes. The pure white wings spread out, and the resulting lift enabled Shinji to complete a somersault, changing from facing the sky to facing the ground.
While doing a somersault, Shinji raised his left hand and threw two rune stones at Lizbeife who was chasing him. Although Shinji had been avoiding using his left hand because the relic had just been implanted, he could no longer care about that.
Facing the oncoming rune stone emitting obvious magical fluctuations, Lizbeife raised her shield, apparently relying on the shield to block Shinji's magic.
Rune stones shattered, flames burst out, and lightning raged, but these attacks that were enough to kill people instantly did not break through the defense of the shield, and could not even slow down the shield knight's steps.
Lizbeif's shield is a treasure-level conceptual weapon passed down by the church as a secret treasure, named the Formal Apocrypha Gamaliel. The surface of the shield is engraved with two passages of God's blessing, and its defense against both physical and mystical forces is extremely amazing. Not to mention just two rune stones, even a carefully prepared great magic cannot break through the defense of the holy shield.
It is worth mentioning that the defense of the Aegis is not limited to the shield itself. One of the two rune stones, "Thursaz", has a part of the lightning from Thor's hammer extending out of the shield, but it is still bounced off.
At this time, Lizbaifei, who was running all the way, had caught up with Shinji. She still maintained the posture of holding the shield and rushed forward with both herself and the shield.
At the critical moment, Shinji increased the magic power supply to the Feather Shoes, and successfully avoided the collision of Lizbeife's holy shield under the effect of the upward force.
Although the charge was avoided, Lizbeife was not discouraged. She bent her knees and, propelled by a bouncing force that was stronger than her fists, turned her body into a cannonball and aimed at Shinji in mid-air.
As the humanoid cannonball was fired, the ground supporting the gun mount was naturally dented and cracked by Lizbeth's steps.
Shinji, who had been watching Lizbeife's movements, was prepared and dodged the bombardment of the human cannonball by changing direction in mid-air.
At the moment when the two passed each other, Shinji threw out two rune stones again. This time it was not a direct attack like fire or lightning, but an indirect attack. Shinji, who also had a divine shield, did not believe that the defense of the divine shield was really impeccable.
As it turned out, Shinji's assumption was correct.
There were two runes. One was to use negative energy to corrode the human body, making it weak in a short period of time, but it did not break through the conceptual defense of the Holy Shield. The other was to apply pressure to the air within a certain range, making it heavy and thus slowing down the enemy's actions. This rune worked.
"So that's what's going on." Looking at Lizbaifei whose movements were affected, Shinji made a preliminary assessment of the defense mechanism of the Holy Shield.
The Holy Shield is just a shield, and all visible and invisible defenses rely on it. Although it can resist attacks, it cannot ignore all interference like "Avalon". It is still restricted by various laws and will be affected by the environment. For example, if a steamroller is used to roll over Lizbeif, the shield will not break, but Lizbeif will be crushed to death.
But seeing through it doesn't mean you can crack it, because Liz Baife's body is too strong. An average of 2T punches, not to mention the burst of skills, this data panel is more than enough to be a Saber in the Holy Grail War, a veritable humanoid Tyrannosaurus.
Such a strong body coupled with a semi-invincible holy shield completely turned Lizbeif into a tank. She didn't need any complicated skills or flexible tactics, she just needed to charge forward with the shield and overwhelm the enemy with her strength to defeat most enemies.
And Liz Baife's subsequent actions confirmed Shinji's guess. She only had a few tricks.
Charge, Shield Bash;
Charge, boxing;
Charge and kick.
But such a simple trick forced Shinji to run around the field without any ability to defend himself.
Of course, there was still a chance to fight back, but Lizbaifei relied on her strong body to withstand all the range control magic without revealing a single flaw, which made Shinji complain bitterly.
"This is a complete coward! It's really troublesome, even more troublesome than Araya. I hate opponents like this the most. Do I really have to try to use my Noble Phantasm to attack? But if I do that, my identity as the 'God of Death' will definitely be exposed, and maybe my true identity as Matou Shinji will be revealed. Wait, Araya?"
Thinking of the person he had plotted against not long ago, Shinji couldn't help but turn his gaze to his left hand.
There, reside the sacred objects of another great religion.