This is truly a beyond-visual-range sniping attack.
When you feel the wind tearing the air, it is too late. "Death" is compressed into a point and approaches rapidly.
At this moment, no matter what means were used, there was no way to avoid or resist this arrow that exceeded the speed of sound—at least not as far as Rin knew.
However, Servants are born to transcend common sense. At the moment the arrow approached, Gilgamesh calmly materialized his armor and deflected the arrow with his left arm.
That's right, he pushed it away. Because of the seemingly random push, the arrow deviated from its trajectory, brushed past the side of the jade throne, and exploded into a ball of fireworks behind the sky boat.
"... Whoa whoa."
A few drops of red liquid oozed out from between Gilgamesh's fingers and fell to the ground along with the golden fragments. The Hero King's most trusted heavy armor failed to completely offset the power of the arrow, and the entire arm armor shattered, and the hand that blocked the arrow was also injured.
"Archer, are you okay?" It was only at this time that Rin reacted and asked with some concern.
"It's okay, just a scratch."
Gilgamesh looked at his arm with a calm expression and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"An amazing archery skill. It seems that you are more than just a bastard."
...
"Blocked? Then—"
As he spoke, Karna had already shot a second arrow, which was slightly slower than the first but more threatening.
Gilgamesh was watching this, and Karna was also analyzing Gilgamesh, and adjusted the type of arrows according to his response. If Gilgamesh dared to resist in the same way, the solar flame in the arrow would explode directly.
Luvia told him to play freely, so he would not show mercy.
...
In the sky, Gilgamesh, who was aimed at by the arrow, also became serious at the same time.
The evaluation of "not a bastard" means that the Hero King affirms his opponent. Taking a bastard seriously is an insult to the King. Naturally, the restriction of "not a bastard" does not exist, and he can show his majesty as a king to his opponent.
He calmly snapped his fingers with his exposed arm, and the damaged heavy armor disappeared, and a brand new armor was attached to his body. It was still a gorgeous golden armor that could blind people, but the style had changed, from a heavy plate armor to a more complicated chain mail.
Along with the mail, there was also a magical artifact made up of several discs. The discs automatically floated in the air, rotating back and forth above the jade throne, with fine lightning flashing back and forth on the surface. When the second arrow approached about 20 meters away, the flashing lightning suddenly ignited.
Instantly, countless small lightning bolts scurried through the air, forming a dense electric net that fell from above. One of them seemed to hit the arrow, and the blow that should have been fatal was dispersed and dissipated in the air before it touched the target.
The shockwaves from the explosion swept across the entire Sky Boat, but did not cause any adverse effects on the two people on board. The newly replaced mail armor seemed to have a special design for defense against shocks, and naturally opened up a safe zone in the storm, protecting Gilgamesh and Rin.
"Come on, let me see what kind of pleasure you can bring to me!"
The Hero King clapped his hands on the armrest, and a sad smile appeared on his handsome face.
Karna saw this extremely proud attitude and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.
"Roman is right—that's not an easy opponent to defeat."
However, no matter how powerful the enemy was, it was not enough to make Karna retreat. He was such a determined person that even if he was cursed with countless curses and surrounded by enemies, he would not waver at all.
What he had to do was simple, just one thing - continue shooting arrows.
The Brahma bow was fully drawn, and arrows continued to tear the atmosphere, sometimes one, sometimes several. The target of the arrows was no longer limited to Gilgamesh on the throne, but covered the entire Sky Ship Vimana.
Even if it can't kill you in a short time, destroying your vehicle and making the enemy fall from the air is also a good choice - there is no doubt that the arrows shot by Karna have such ability. Vimana is a treasure recorded in Indian mythology, and Karna is not completely ignorant of it.
However, this tactic still ended in failure.
No matter how powerful an attack is, it must hit the target to be effective. An attack that misses the target will have no effect.
In order to counter Karna's unparalleled archery, Gilgamesh opened dozens of defensive treasures at once and perfectly shot down all the arrows.
Although the offensive treasures also suffered considerable damage from the arrows, Gilgamesh would replace each one as his treasure trove was inexhaustible, so he did not have to worry about loss.
Seeing this, Karna put down his bow and waited quietly for the enemy to arrive.
If he was alive, he would not stop shooting so easily. But now he is not alive, and every arrow he shoots consumes the magic power of the master.
Karna remembered clearly that Luvia's order was to defeat the enemy's servants - only servants, not the masters. Obviously, Luvia had to deal with the enemy's masters herself, and if she consumed too much energy, she would inevitably drag down the masters.
Although the cost of the enemy servants opening so many Noble Phantasms should be much greater than that of their own under normal circumstances, such a number of Noble Phantasms itself is abnormal. Before seeing through the opponent's true colors, the archers who remain calm to the end will not rush in for the sake of success.
Without arrows that were comparable to mortars, Tianzhou's flight was no longer hindered. A distance of twenty kilometers passed in a flash, and the golden spaceship fell from the sky.
"What a gorgeous debut, this style... hehe."
Luvia, who had been sitting under the tree, finally stood up, laughed at herself, and walked to Karna with graceful steps.
As if in response, Gilgamesh and Rin also walked down the spaceship and stood ten meters away to look their opponents in the face.
"You are the ones who issued the challenge, so you are not going to back down now, are you? There is no such good thing in the world."
The King of Heroes' aura was so powerful that even without any special targeting, Luvia felt heavy pressure. It was a more domineering and condescending feeling of oppression than Lorelaia who reigned in the Clock Tower.
However, this heavy pressure not only did not scare Luvia, but made her eager to try.
To summon such a powerful Servant, the Tōsaka family must have made sufficient preparations and must be determined to win this Holy Grail War. But it all ends here, because I will put an end to them here, just like I did seventy years ago.
Thinking of this, Luvia glanced at the Servant beside her. Looking at his tall and sturdy figure that remained as firm as a rock even under Gilgamesh's unscrupulous oppression, her expression and voice were full of confidence.
"Of course we won't back down. We didn't do that seventy years ago, and we won't do that now. The Edelfeldt family is not the Tosaka family, who only resort to dirty tricks and hide behind others."
PS: The fight has begun, the fight has begun, the three-target civil war, the red and blue fight each other. It's a pity that Mushroom didn't make the sequel of UBW, the scene where Rin and Luvia fought for the dormitory in the clock tower and ended up demolishing the front desk, otherwise it would have been more like déjà vu, and Luvia was teased, and Shirou came out to save the situation.