So the question is - with such a strong learning ability, why is it that after studying with Scathach for such a long time, his ability is only this high
Two reasons.
First, when learning from Scathach, you are laying the foundation. Basic training may not have an obvious impact on improving your strength, but it is extremely important for future development.
Second, Shinji was a human at that time, but now he is a Servant. Teaching skills to humans requires teaching by example, but teaching skills to Servant does not require such trouble.
One of the reasons why the two skills "Divine Wisdom" and "Devil's Wisdom" are called cheating skills is that they can grant the skills you know to other servants - pay attention to the word "grant".
In other words, as long as Chiron or Scathach is willing, as long as you want to learn, it only takes a short time for you to get the skills you want from the two teachers. Although these skills do not contain the user's own realm and experience, and the level is not as high as the original version, it is enough to make the servant's strength take a huge leap.
However, most of the servants are Heroic Spirits, and most of them have their own pride. They usually don't ask other servants for advice. You can't let two legendary teachers beg you to learn, so these two big bug skills have never been fully utilized until Shinji appeared.
He became a servant through a backdoor, so he is not a hero and does not have the pride of a hero. As long as Chiron is willing to teach, he is willing to learn as many skills as possible, because it is always good to have many skills.
During these two days, Shinji was like a sponge, absorbing everything Chiron taught him crazily, and his own strength was improving by leaps and bounds. Now, even if he didn't rely on the Noble Phantasm to face Achilles, he wouldn't be defeated so quickly.
Shinji used his left hand, which had already stopped bleeding, to take off the last item of the "Assassin's Three-Piece Set" - the crossbow. He loaded a crossbow arrow with his right hand and aimed at the rooftop from a distance.
What he learned was much more than "Pankrasin". There were many more magical skills lost in the long river of history, including the archery that made Chiron famous.
Magic power is continuously injected into the crossbow arrow. This is a combination of magic power release and archery - powerful shooting.
The moment Mordred poked his head from the roof, a crossbow arrow shot out.
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The Black Assassin and the Red Saber fought back and forth in a thrilling manner, but their Masters continued to confront each other.
It’s not that we don’t want to fight or dare not fight, we just compare the intelligence in our minds with the enemy in front of us to gain more guarantees for victory.
Fiore knew that Lion Jie Jieli was a freelance magician and had more combat experience than herself.
Lion Jie also knew that Fiore Fulvig Thousand Worlds Tree was the genius who would be the next head of the Yugdomilenian clan.
—The magic this person uses is necromancy. However, it is not just a simple method of turning the dead into ghouls and using them. For example, the gun in his hand...
—The magic this little girl uses is necromancy and ergonomics... I think it's called some kind of connection-enhancing magic costume.
The sound of Mordred hitting the wall suddenly blew away the tense atmosphere between the two. The sound of the armor hitting the wall was particularly clear in the silent night, and it also caused the tension between them to burst out.
Lion Jie drew out his sawed-off shotgun with practiced movements, while Fiore decisively took to the air.
Pull the trigger—the bullet made from the cut-off magician's finger can track the magician's breath and attack the opponent's forehead.
"—The Guardian's Tin Arm, meet the order."
The magic bullet aimed squarely at the opponent's head, which was absolutely impossible to dodge. Facing the magic bullet that had no other outcome except piercing the opponent's forehead, the arm that stretched out from her back grabbed it without hesitation.
It was only a brief moment that Shi Zijie was stunned. He retreated with an agility that was inconsistent with his sturdy figure and hid in an abandoned low-rise building.
At the same time, the two metal arms that Fiore had extended from her back separated along their midline. The arms she was controlling changed from two to four. Two of them stabbed into the stone floor in place of her feet, while the other two pointed toward the front of the lion, opening their jaws like a snake making a threatening gesture.
"—Iron Arm of War, firing order."
With a sound similar to that of bullets, "light bullets" shot out from its opening. The "light bullets", which were no less powerful than bullets, instantly smashed the ground around the lion's feet into pieces.
"Oh, damn. That arm can do anything!"
Lion Jie, who was hiding behind the stairs, complained casually and took out bullets from his waist bag to reload his shotgun.
The cursed bullet emphasizes killing people, but its penetrating power against objects is not very good. It will take a while for it to penetrate a shelter that is several dozen centimeters thick.
After firing a decoy shot, Shishi Jie took out the processed owl eyeball and threw it through the gap between the cars. After connecting his right eye, he began to observe the other party. First, he re-examined her magic costume.
According to the personal information that Lion Jie had obtained beforehand, she should have the disadvantage of being unable to move her legs due to the deterioration of her magic circuits.
However, in front of such a costume, such defects are not a problem at all. To her, the magic costume is just like an extremely excellent pair of hands and feet. Although it is only subsonic, since it can easily catch the magic bullets it shoots, it also has an unparalleled advantage in precision movements.
- Its self-defense reaction speed has also reached near perfection, and is probably enough to rival the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid of the maid-type puppet carried by the "Princess" of the El-Melloi family.
Even so, since one is mercury and the other is a metal arm, it would be difficult to deal with attacks like the Broadsword Mine that attack the area rather than a point.
"Is this what you are using?"
Lion Jie took out the magician's heart from the inner pocket of his coat. This organ, which has the magician's teeth and nails buried inside, is the most suitable weapon to use against magicians. The scattered teeth and nails contain the magic power of resentment, and once they invade the body, they will produce an effect similar to "Gandr". However, probably because it is already dead, the effect is several times stronger than that.
Simply put, teeth and nails will rot and dissolve once they penetrate the skin.
After pulling out the muscle fibers that served as a safety device, the heart that had stopped beating instantly began to beat. Lion Jie had already grasped her location through the owl's eyeballs. Lion Jie was still hiding behind the stairs, using the rapid airflow to throw the heart grenade to a perfect position.
"Woo!!"
If there was one mistake that Shishizhe made, it was that he had used this move in a small-scale battle with the androids, so Fiore had seen it. After thoroughly examining the recovered android corpse, she deduced its power and effect from its state of decay and realized that this was a deadly attack method.
"—The thunderous lead arm, crushing!"
The metal arm that supported her body in place of her right leg suddenly deformed into a flat spatula-like shape, instantly crushing the heart that rolled over from above. The teeth and nails that should have been scattered in all directions by the impact of the explosion were pressed down, and could not hurt Fiore's body at all.
However, for Shizijie, it was more important to seize this moment. He ran to the turning platform between the first and second floors as fast as he could and directly destroyed the window with his gun.
The finger bullet that attacked from another angle still failed to break through the protection of the "Tin Arm of Protection", and the "Iron Arm of War" also adjusted the shooting angle at the same time. Fiore did not make any operations from beginning to end, and it was completely an automatic response of the arm.
This is the power of the "Connection Enhanced Magic Suit".
Fiore was unable to move, so she wanted to design a magic suit that could replace both legs and automatically protect the owner according to the situation. She got inspiration from Kenneth's "Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid" and forged four prosthetic limbs with a special alloy that allowed magic power to flow more easily, and each prosthetic limb was attached to an animal spirit.
Unlike the "Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid", the "Connection Enhancement Magic Ritual" only memorizes the minimum action mode. After all, it is an animal spirit that cannot think too complicatedly. Therefore, it is slightly inferior to the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid in terms of attack power. On the other hand, in terms of protecting the master, the animal's reflex nerves are fully utilized, and it is almost impossible for ordinary rituals to break through the defense circle formed by four prosthetic limbs.
Like the "Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid", the "Connection Enhancement Magic Suit" also has two modes of operation: active operation and passive operation. The former is more flexible, but the burden on magic power is not insignificant. The latter reduces the consumption of magic power.
By the way, Fiore treats her four prosthetic hands as pets and names them Asta, Blanca, Comet, and Wolf respectively, but this secret is only known by Colles - no, now there is also Shinji who has read the setting collection.
Ahem, that's a bit off topic. In short, it is impossible for Lion Jie to hurt Fiore with his combat uniform designed based on modern weapons.
At the beginning, Lion Jie could still fight back with "finger bullets" and "heart bombs", but before long, he could only hide here and there relying on the terrain of the corridor - it was not known whether Fiore suppressed him too hard or Lion Jie did not have enough ammunition.
Finding that the enemy refused to come out, Fiore couldn't help but frown, hesitated for a moment, and began to approach the corridor.
PS: There is a passage in Chiron's "Divine Wisdom" additional settings, which roughly means that Sieg can also learn it after he transforms into Ultraman, but three minutes is too short and he can't learn much. Erye doesn't have this concern and can learn it casually. Three minutes is too short, thirty minutes or an hour is not short at all. After all, a Holy Grail War lasts only ten days or half a month.