Giles called himself the North Saint Cleaning Master, but because this title was only famous on the Miris continent, Shirou wasn't familiar with it.
More than that, he was more worried about the poison Giles used on his dagger when he stabbed his skin.
Although it was basically impossible to kill someone with just a little poison, if the other person's poison was very strong, it might affect his fighting.
In fact, Shirou already felt obviously weak. The strange itching from where he was poisoned made him gradually lose feeling, and even his senses began to become dull.
If Shirou's own quality wasn't tough enough, his Sword Saint level fighting spirit wouldn't have allowed him to keep himself up. It's likely he wouldn't even have been able to stand.
It could only be said that North God Style's moves were so bad, these guys use all kinds of sneaky skills, which made them really hard to guard against.
If Shirou's sheath Avalon was still usable, he could at least use the healing magic circle in the sheath to heal himself a little, but Avalon had already been used to its limit before. The magic crystals Shirou had just gathered couldn't be replaced right away either.
With no other choice, he had to fight the other person while dealing with the poison.
"Tsk tsk, as expected of a Sword Saint of Sword God Style, you can still stand after getting poisoned by the Demon Continent's strong poison. Even in small amounts, that poison is enough to make adult beastmen pass out."
Giles smiled cheekily. He looked very confident, not only because he had poisoned Shirou, but also because he himself had the strength of a North Saint.
With one going up and the other going down, he wasn't afraid of Shirou, as a poisoned Sword Saint, putting up any resistance.
"..."
And Shirou naturally didn't plan to waste words with Giles.
He had already confirmed the situation, of course he knew he only had one choice now, and that was to kill him before the poison took too much effect!
The moment their eyes met, they had both made their intention to kill the other clear.
Giles moved faster. He knew that a poisoned Sword Saint was still a Sword Saint. Their strengths weren't equal. Even with the poison, if the other person exploded with power, the Longsword of Light's speed might be something he couldn't block or even defend against.
After all, among Swordsmen of the same level, Sword God Style is always the strongest style, which everyone knows.
Therefore, Giles took action first. His body suddenly lowered. His whole body was like a cat, quietly lowering his center of gravity, and suddenly exploding with a ghostly speed.
"North God Style Phantom Slash!"
Giles suddenly exploded. He swung the sword in his hand from the rear right, but the actual effect was a visual displacement, which made people misjudge and mistakenly think the sword was coming from the rear left.
But in fact, both were feints. The real attack was in the front, a fair and solid front attack.
Real within the unreal, unreal within the real.
This is the most common attacking method of North God Style.
Shirou naturally wouldn't be easily fooled by Giles's movements, but he didn't directly break through the other person's weaknesses to counterattack.
For Shirou, being poisoned was already an unchangeable fact.
If the battle dragged on, the poison would explode further, even spreading to the limbs of his body, which would mean he was destined to be unable to resist.
Therefore, if Shirou wanted to win, the only way was to kill North Saint Giles directly as quickly as possible.
Then, he had to consider the skill that could achieve a sure kill.
And other than projection, Shirou's only sure-kill skill was the magic release he copied from King Arthur Artoria.
Using his advantage of being able to release magic and fighting spirit at the same time, that was the only way to win!
"Boom!"
Shirou drew the magic sword Wind Break from his waist, magic and fighting spirit exploding at the same time.
But he didn't take action right away.
Because he found that Giles was actually holding a beastman child in his hand at some point. The other person seemed to have expected this scene, so he had prepared a hostage in advance.
As a North Saint, Giles could be said to be the greatest master of North God Style.
He could use any despicable and dirty means without hesitation.
Most importantly, he was very well prepared. Even knowing that Shirou had been poisoned, he still used the trick of using a hostage, which could be said to be extremely cautious, not wanting to give any flaws.
It just so happened that this kind of trick was really disgusting.
Faced with the beastman child that Giles threw out, Shirou had to give up the original idea of head-on attack, which caused a flaw in his actions for a moment.
Giles then decisively seized this flaw, using the reaction force of pushing the child out, jumped to the right, and raised a seemingly ordinary long sword, throwing the weapon straight at Shirou's face!
"Clang,"
Faced with this attack, Shirou could only block with his sword.
But because of this, the original rhythm was completely disrupted.
Every move needed for Longsword of Light was defended by Giles alone, and couldn't be used.
"Hehe, I can tell you seem very uncomfortable, but that is also natural."
Giles, while laughing, didn't hesitate to catch the flying back long sword, "After I knew you were a Sword Saint on the ship, I had been studying the skill of breaking Longsword of Light. It's not hard, after all, Sword God Style, as the strongest swordsmanship style in the world, has already been studied by countless people. Naturally, the strongest mystery, Longsword of Light, also has countless ways to break it."
"However, most people don't have the ability to break Longsword of Light. In terms of pure skill, the reason it is the strongest is because it is something impossible to explain even if we research it. However, I am still a North Saint, as long as I make enough preparations, even Longsword of Light is not impossible to break through. The characteristic of North God Style is exactly like this, as long as you get enough preparations in advance, even if the opponent is a Sword God, it is not impossible to defeat him!"
Giles spoke confidently.
Then, he didn't hesitate to raise his sword and rush towards Shirou, but even so, in the process of moving, he suddenly took out a short sword from his waist with his left hand, and stabbed it towards Shirou's chest and abdomen.
But even so, this move was still a feint.
Giles actually raised his right foot, and a short blade actually flew out from the heel of his shoe, and the short blade was clearly poisoned.
The skills of North God Style are true and false, and it is impossible to tell the difference.
Ordinary people would definitely be confused by this kind of skill, and would not be able to make a decent counterattack at all.
Shirou also had no way to make an effective response. In a flustered defense, he suffered another wound on his body, and the poison was further deepened.
"Hehe, North God Style is interesting, right? Unlike your Sword God Style, which only advocates frontal attacks, our style has all kinds of strange moves. Don't think it's over yet."
Giles laughed loudly, as if victory was in his grasp.
In fact, from what could be seen, all the forms of the battle in front of him had indeed tilted towards Giles.
But was that really the case?
"That's about enough."
Faced with Giles's muttering to himself, Shirou's expression was still calm.
He glanced slightly at the beastman child in the distance, and after confirming that the current distance could no longer affect the child over there, he looked at Giles again.
"What did you say?"
"Unfortunately, even if you think you have prepared enough, you still won't win."
"Kid, are you crazy?"
Giles didn't care about Shirou's reaction, thinking that he was just talking nonsense after being poisoned for too long and starting to become dizzy.
But Shirou obviously didn't plan to talk nonsense. He just silently put the magic sword Wind Break back into its sheath at his waist, and at the same time took out the Sword of Assured Victory from behind.
"That sword..."
Seeing Shirou's movements, Giles frowned slightly, sensing something out of place.
But he didn't retreat.
In the past, he would have left directly at the slightest disturbance.
But this time was different. His anger towards Shirou made him have to kill this hateful kid.
After all, Shirou was like someone who single-handedly ended his plan to capture the beastmen. Not only could he not take away all the slaves he had originally captured, but all his subordinates were killed as well.
Giles had to kill Shirou to vent his anger, so as not to leave in a grimy manner with nothing to gain.
This was also the main reason why he didn't take advantage of the night to escape, but instead came to attack Shirou.
"Kid, today I'll let you know that the consequences of liking to be a hero are often dying on the side of the road like a stray dog!"
Giles said, unfolding the movements of North God Style again.
But Shirou had completely ignored all of his reactions, just silently gathering magic on the Holy Sword in his hand.
Just now, Shirou actually had plans to use the Sword of Assured Victory, but Giles's behavior of using the beastman child as a hostage made him unable to use a treasure with such exaggerated explosive power.
However, there was no need to worry about that now.
Giles, due to overconfidence, had been tricked by Shirou into such a remote place.
Then there was only one thing left to do -
"Projection Loading! Magic Release! Full Power!"
As Shirou gathered all his magic on the Holy Sword in his hand!
The sword in his hand suddenly bloomed with golden light!
"What!?"
Giles never expected that Shirou would use such a strange trick. The intuition of a North Saint finally came into play, but he was already unable to escape!
"Boom!"
As Shirou swung the Holy Sword in his hand with all his strength.
An amazing light that almost illuminated the entire forest bloomed out.
"Bang!"
When the earth's vibration and the sound of the Holy Sword shattering fell, this fierce battle also came to a complete end!
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