Aos ("Shield of Achilles")
Grade: A+
Type: Barrier Noble Phantasm
Range: 0
Maximum capture: 1 person
The shield is called the World Shield for short. It is Achilles' trump card. The 18th Canto of the Iliad spends more than a hundred lines describing this shield. It is a divine weapon made by the god of forging Hephaestus himself. The world he lived in is reproduced on it in a very small state, and the outer edge is surging with sea currents because of the sea god.
Since it is a shield, it is naturally used for defense, but the aggressive and offensive Achilles has also developed a new use for it. That is what he is using now, which is to deploy the treasure and rush forward, and crush the enemy with a very small world. This is a method that Hephaestus, the forger of the shield, has never thought of.
As an A+ grade defensive treasure, the World Shield has extremely strong defensive power, and can almost completely block all attacks on people, armies, and even cities and national treasures. And because the world is projected on it, those who are against it are against the world. How can human power resist the world? Even if it is just a small world.
Therefore, this attack method can be regarded as an integrated attack and defense. This is also the best way that Achilles came up with to break the "God Thunder Barrier" that is impossible to defend against!
Accompanied by Achilles' cry, the world engraved on the shield began to move and suddenly expanded. In front of the shield, a tiny world unfolded, reconstructing space and time.
"Wake up, Black Assassin!"
Achilles was sure to win this attack.
Facing this almost unsolvable attack, Shinji was not panicked at all. Every step of Achilles was within his calculations, and the World Shield Assault was naturally within his expectations. This was not only because he was a Moon fan who was familiar with the settings of various Heroic Spirits, but also because Chiron told him all the information about Achilles before the battle, including the effects of Achilles' Noble Phantasm and how to deal with it.
The only way to deal with the World Shield head-on is to rely on the Anti-World Noble Phantasm. This is a kind of compatibility restraint, just like Achilles restrained Siegfried. The World Shield and the Anti-World Noble Phantasm have extremely poor compatibility and can easily disintegrate this small world. However, the Anti-World Noble Phantasm is so rare that there are only a handful of known Heroic Spirits who possess it, and Shinji is not one of them.
Therefore, Shinji can only use a non-frontal method - dodging.
The world of World Shield is a small world after all. It is not the big world that humans rely on for survival, nor is it the "inherent barrier" that manifests the mental landscape. Although it is solid and terrifying, as long as you do not enter the scope of the world, no influence or crushing will exist.
Of course, with Achilles' swift feet, if he wanted to play "tank-like running", basically no one could avoid it. But this has a prerequisite - on the ground. Both "Comet Running" and "Human Speed" are limited to land. After all, Achilles cannot fly, and "Comet Running" cannot walk in the air no matter how fast it is.
Shinji is different. Although he cannot fly, he has "feather shoes" - at the moment before the magnificent small world arrives, Shinji steps hard on the branch where he is hiding, and his body flies into the air.
Achilles didn't think much about it and jumped up, obviously intending not to give Shinji a chance to catch his breath.
However, this wishful thinking was ultimately doomed to fail.
According to the physical fitness of the demigod Achilles, both his jumping ability and climbing speed are better than Shinji's. It's a pity that Shinji, wearing feather shoes, can fly freely in the air.
When Achilles thought he had succeeded, Shinji suddenly did a small circle in the air, and as the former's eyes changed from full of confidence to astonishment, he went behind Achilles, flipped his hand, and the Thunder of Indra that killed the famous horse "Pedasos" appeared in his hand, piercing Achilles' back.
This is another shortcoming of the World Shield. The small world that reorganizes the rules of time and space only unfolds in front of the shield, and there is no defense at the back. In fact, this is also the shortcoming of all shields. They can only defend the front, not the back.
At the critical moment, Achilles showed amazing reaction ability. He used his waist to pull his body up a little bit, and at the same time turned his body over. He used his waist to drive his shoulders, and his shoulders to drive his arms, waving his shield in the air and spinning, he blocked the murderous "Thunder of Indra" at the critical moment.
"Beautiful!" Shinji exclaimed sincerely.
This scene was unexpected, but reasonable. Since Achilles was named "the fastest man", his dynamic vision and reaction ability were undoubtedly at the top of human history - if he had speed but his dynamic vision could not keep up, he would only see intermittent and messy pictures. And if he did not react well, it would be even worse. In modern society, nine out of ten traffic accidents are related to speeding. The result is self-evident.
This kind of dynamic vision and reaction speed cannot be easily defeated by a little trick.
Shinji obviously didn't think of taking down Achilles like this. The moment Indra's Thunder left his hand, his body rose again, and Ishtar's spear thrust straight forward, his target still being Achilles' back. At this time, Indra's Thunder was continuously releasing lightning. Although it could not shake the defense of the World Shield, it forced Achilles not to move the shield away.
With Indra's thunder in front of you and Ishtar's spear behind you, how can you resist
Achilles obviously guessed Shinji's plan. He kept the shield still with his left hand and raised the javelin with his right hand, his movements exactly the same as Shinji's.
The black-gold war spear and the simple javelin collided in the air. First the javelin was blocked, and then it bent in an arc, carrying the black-gold war spear and both of them bounced into the air.
This was undoubtedly Achilles's skill. Achilles had one hand against Shinji's two hands, and Shinji had gravity acceleration, so Achilles should have been at a disadvantage. In fact, Achilles was indeed at a disadvantage at the beginning, and the dart that was swept away was the best proof.
However, after the spear was deflected, Achilles used the "+" in his "B+" strength without hesitation, doubling his strength instantly, and used this doubled strength to hit Shinji by surprise. If Shinji's strength was not B, and he used "Magic Release" in time, the result would not be that both spears fell out of his hands at the same time, but that Shinji would have lost his spear unilaterally.
Although the long-planned shot did not fully achieve its goal, Achilles could accept such an outcome. Without the two divine treasures, Shinji had no way to break through the defense of the "Brave Flower" because of his mortal body and lack of "divinity". He could let go and attack as much as he wanted.
Before Shinji could offset his falling momentum, Achilles swung his fist and hit Shinji's head hard.
The carefully planned pincer attack was broken. Although Shinji was a little surprised, he was not at all panicked. Having practiced with Chiron countless times, he was already accustomed to such situations.
His left hand reflexively caught the oncoming fist, and his right hand cut the wrist, and then moved down along the arm, grabbed Achilles' chest, and threw Achilles heavily to the ground with all his strength. Finally, he stepped on the chest of someone who was acting as a cushion, and then jumped away, and did not forget to taunt him after landing.
"Get up, don't lie on the ground pretending to be dead. I know this little injury is nothing to you."
PS: Achilles also had a history of failure in pursuit - he failed to catch up with Hector, and the two ran around Troy, but in the end Hector still ran away. This was mainly because Hector's agility was not much worse than Achilles', and Troy had the protection of the sun god. Under the accumulation of buffs and interference from friendly forces, Achilles simply failed to catch up, and was made very uncomfortable by Hector's guerrilla warfare many times.