Skills and the aesthetics of pursuit
Grade: C
Let the enemy take the initiative, and then you can take the initiative after confirming the enemy's actions.
Legend has it that Atalanta became famous after her adventure on the Argo and hunting the Calydonian boar, and countless suitors came to her. Atalanta, who had made a vow of purity to the moon goddess, was not tired of it and decided all the suitors by winning or losing the race.
If you win, I will marry you; if you lose, I will shoot you.
As a result, Atalanta let her opponents run away first every time, but she never lost. In the end, a suitor borrowed the power of the goddess and used a treacherous trick to win the victory.
Although she is not as fast as Achilles, who is known as the "fastest human", she is still one of the few people with super speed in human history. When her skills are activated, her movements are faster than Chiron!
Although she has not reached the level of predicting the future, Atalanta can still fight back against Chiron with the effect of her skills of being the first to arrive after being struck later.
Using the "Leaping Arcadia" to move and dodge, and using the "aesthetics of pursuit" to fight back, this is exactly the capital that Atalanta used to hold her own against Chiron.
However, it is just a way to avoid defeat, and it is impossible to further gain the upper hand or even win.
Chiron's hard power was stronger than Atalanta's, and he had no weaknesses. After chasing and shooting for such a long time, Atalanta did not find any opportunity to take advantage of.
Slightly delaying Chiron's movements, Atalanta continued to wander through the forest, as she always did.
This wandering seems aimless, going wherever she goes, but if you look down from above and draw a route map, it is not difficult to find that she has a clear purpose - to reunite with Achilles.
If one person cannot kill the prey alone, then he will join others to hunt together. This is the most normal thing for a female hunter who does not care about pride and honor.
The first person she thought of was her friend's son, Achilles, who called her "big sister". This old friend's son had many treasures, strong strength, and a very rogue immortal body. By joining forces with him, Atalanta was sure to deal with the difficult Black Archer behind her. Even if she added the Black Assassin, they were no match for the two.
Therefore, as soon as Atalanta realized that she could not defeat Chiron, she began to approach Achilles in a planned manner. This is an impossible task for most servants. While the two archers were still shooting arrows at each other, Achilles had been taken away from the battlefield by Shinji, and had long been beyond the perception range of ordinary servants, and even beyond the range of Archer's job skill "Clairvoyance".
To find Achilles in such a situation, one must have a ruler with an extremely large perception domain, or have some special skills, treasures or techniques. Atalanta happens to be the latter.
Atalanta has an ability called "Wild Perception", which is not reflected in the Servant Panel, but it is one of Atalanta's most important skills. This is an instinct she has trained in endless hunting, and this instinct is strengthened to the maximum with the addition of the beast ears and tail obtained by the curse.
Because of this ability, her hearing, vision, smell, touch, and intuition are far beyond the scope of humans.
Can't see people? Can't sense magic
It doesn’t matter, I can still follow the smell and find it.
Many people know that dogs have a very sensitive sense of smell, but few people know that cats also have a good sense of smell. With feline ears and tail, Atalanta can easily smell the direction of Achilles.
Just as the smell was becoming stronger and was about to locate Achilles, a gentle voice suddenly sounded in Atalanta's ears.
"Archer."
"What's wrong, Father?" Atalanta's ears moved slightly and she recognized the owner of the voice - Father Shirou.
The current situation of the Red Team is very strange. Except for the Saber group acting alone, the remaining Masters except Father Shirou are all missing. They only say a word or two through the Master-Servant Contract when giving orders. Atalanta and the other five servants don't even know what their Masters look like.
In this decisive battle, their master handed over the command to the only priest Shirou who showed up in the name of unified command. For this purpose, Semiramis also used the power of the sky garden to build a wide-area communication network centered on Shirou.
"I want Spartacus to attack the ruler. Please guide me."
"But Black Archer?"
Hearing Shirou's order, Atalanta glanced at Chiron behind her reflexively and shrank her body at the same time.
A silent arrow that blended into the night passed over the animal's ear. Because it was too close, the feeling of the arrow grazing its fur made Atalanta's tail stand up.
With Black Archer chasing her closely, she had no way of freeing her hands to complete Shirou's orders.
"Don't worry, the assassin will come to your aid. Just listen to me and lie down now!"
Without giving it time to think, Atalanta leaned forward, pressing her entire body, including her tail, against the ground.
Chiron, who was following behind, was feeling strange, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a purple glow cutting through the sky. The terrifying magic contained in it made him feel a fatal threat.
At the same time he turned over to dodge, a purple magic beam swept across, leaving a horrible scar on the ground. And this was just the beginning, there were more and denser magic beams coming.
Point shooting, scatter shooting, continuous shooting, sweeping shooting, explosive shooting, and artillery bombardment, the storm-like attack forced Chiron to hide here and there, jump up and down, but he was unable to fight back, which was extremely frustrating.
By the time he finally managed to survive a round of attacks, Atalanta had turned into a small dot - a small dot with A-level "Clairvoyance".
Run away
No, the situation is not so critical that I need someone to cover my escape. With her strength, she can definitely cooperate with the attack just now and counterattack me.
But she didn't do that, which means... she has more important things to do, like supporting her teammates or implementing some tactical strategy.
No, I can't let her leave like this.
The far-sighted sage took a deep breath, pulled the bow in his hand to its full length, and injected the huge amount of magic power provided by the android battery into the arrow without regard for consumption.
However, before the arrow was shot, a new round of magic technology fell from the sky again.
In desperation, Chiron could only swing his bow and shoot the arrow into the air, which hit one of the magic beams.
Magic power as thick as the earth and the enchanting purple clusters both exploded, exploding into a brilliant two-color firework in the dark sky.
The diffused fragments of magic illuminated the forest at the edge of the battlefield, illuminated Chiron's solemn face, and also illuminated the pair of blue-gray wings soaring in the sky.
"What is that-?" Chiron hadn't known when a hint of pink appeared in his vision.
PS: Ta Miao: Let’s run. I’ll let you run first. If you win, I’ll marry you.
Achilles: Sister, you said it, so I’ll let you go first.