Jobless Reincarnation: Emiya the Great Hero Must Show His True Skills

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"Well then, I'll go first."

Kyrie Irvine took a deep breath, and his entire being unleashed an unprecedented burst of power.

Just from that burst of power, Shirou felt immense pressure, and he had to concentrate completely to keep up with his opponent's movements.

The armor on his body restricted his battle aura, limiting his strength to the upper level of the Sword God style. To fight a Sword King with the strength of the upper level was a pipe dream for anyone.

Shirou has no other choice but to fight!

Chapter 271 Shirou Unleashes the Secret Technique of the Water God Style! Is this kid a Water Saint?

The duel between Shirou and Gilead began in near silence.

Neither side made an immediate move, maintaining a calm and uneventful situation.

The swordsmen who witnessed the battle held their breath, knowing that if the battle didn't happen, it would be like the calm before a storm, without any waves. But once the two sides started fighting, it would be a thunderous offensive that would not stop in the slightest.

"Okay, I'm going!"

As if making a declaration, Kyrie Irvine suddenly assumed a fighting stance.

In the next instant, in everyone's eyes, Kyrie Irvine's figure seemed to have vanished without a trace, its speed far exceeding what the naked eye could perceive.

Shirou also couldn't see Kyrie Irwin's movements, but that didn't stop him from responding.

After all, Shirou has fought countless opponents whose movements he can't keep up with at all, such as the Dragon God, the Sword God, and Kyrie Illidan. They all have speeds that Shirou, a mere Sword Saint, cannot reach, making them opponents that he would normally be completely unable to handle.

However, after fighting against such powerful opponents many times, Shirou's biggest takeaway was that when facing such strong opponents, it is not necessary to let your eyes see the opponent's movements.

Even attacks that are invisible to the eye are not impossible to dodge!

"Snapped!"

As if teleporting, Kyrie Il appeared behind Shirou like a ghost.

Whether or not Shirou is wearing the armor given to him by the Sword God, he could never keep up with the opponent's movements; that level of speed.

However, Shirou did not remain unprepared. The instant Gilead approached him, or rather, before Gilead even got close, he retreated, rolling backward without any grace to dodge Gilead's sword, which swung at speeds exceeding the speed of light.

"Oh?"

Seeing this, Gilead couldn't help but show surprise.

She had considered what methods Shirou would use to catch or block her sword, and even imagined what kind of magic he would use that she had never seen before.

Giren never expected that Shirou would be able to dodge his sword so easily, and in such a simple and unadorned way, as if it had just rolled past the tip of his sword.

Kyrie Irving couldn't accept this, thinking it was just a coincidence, so he launched another attack that was beyond the reach of the naked eye, but Shirou dodged it once again.

This time, not only Kyrie Irwin, but all the swordsmen who witnessed the duel were stunned.

They had already discerned Shirou's movements; he was far slower than even an ordinary sword saint, let alone comparable to the Sword King.

However, Shirou was able to dodge the sword of the Sword King, Kyrie Irwin, despite his slow movements.

Many swordsmen found this result hard to accept and even began to suspect that Gilead had thrown the game.

But such suspicion is completely unfounded, because Giren's sword aura and killing intent are obvious. No one could doubt that such a sword would deliberately miss, or just be able to dodge it.

If Kyrie Il could do that, she wouldn't be the Sword King, but rather the Sword Emperor or the Sword God.

Therefore, many swordsmen had to admit that Shirou might have relied on some special means to dodge Kyrie Il's sword despite being far weaker than him overall.

However, the swordsmen's opinion of Shirou did not improve as a result; on the contrary, it became even lower.

Because Shirou hasn't shown any decent swordsmanship skills yet, neither his magic that shattered Nina's sword nor his unexpected dodging techniques seem like the performance of a qualified swordsman, and he can't gain the recognition and affirmation of other swordsmen.

"It seems this is how you've grown, Shirou."

However, after Kyrielight missed his target once again, he showed a pleased expression, clearly approving of Shirou's performance.

Although she still didn't know exactly how Shirou was able to identify her sword, she understood that Shirou must have put in unimaginable effort to achieve this level of skill.

Indeed, Shirou was able to dodge Kyrie Il's sword not only because of his ability to see into his mind, but also because he discovered a very unique fighting technique in the Dragon God's fighting style after recalling it.

That is, when the Dragon God is fighting, he seems to use all his senses to pay attention to the opponent's movements, rather than just relying on his eyes.

This can be judged from the fact that the Dragon God was able to easily dodge all the attacks from Rigel, Alice, and Shirou himself, without even looking directly at them.

After realizing the Dragon God's fighting techniques, Shirou tried to imitate the Dragon God's movements.

This is not something he started doing recently, but rather something he has been relentlessly imitating ever since his battle with the Dragon God.

At first, Shirou was not used to this method of judging the enemy's specific attacks by feeling rather than looking with his eyes.

However, since he already had the skill of "Mind's Eye" as a foundation, and through long battles, he gradually became more and more familiar with the combat styles and skills of various schools.

Shirou gradually developed the ability to judge the enemy's movements using senses other than sight.

With this ability, he was able to capture the slashes of a Sword God-style swordsman of the Sword King level without even looking at him, and even make a judgment in advance and dodge Kyrie Irwin's fatal slash by relying on his mind's eye.

Shirou calls this ability an enhanced version of the Mind's Eye, which combines the Mind's Eye of the Heroic Spirit Emiya with his own experience and intuition, greatly improving the effectiveness of the Mind's Eye.

"Kacha!"

After dodging Kyrie Ian's attack once again, Shirou swung his sword backhand.

Although his sword speed was too slow for the Light Blade due to his armor, he could only barely manage to unleash a slash at the level of the Silent Blade.

However, because the attack was executed so perfectly, completely shutting down all of Gilead's movements, Shirou's sword strike successfully repelled his opponent.

"Clap!"

Although Gilead was not injured, he was forced back by Shirou's sword.

This scene shocked everyone, who were completely baffled as to how Shirou had managed to do it.

"..."

Shirou silently gripped the Phoenix Dragon Sword in his hand, never relaxing for a moment and maintaining a highly tense posture.

In fact, his judgment was quite correct.

Although Kyrie Ion was forced back, he quickly charged forward again thanks to the speed of the Blade of Light.

Moreover, since his previous slashes had failed to reach Shirou, Kyrie Io chose to unleash his full power this time, unleashing hundreds of slashes in an instant.

The wide-ranging slashes covered almost the entire area, completely sealing off the place where Shirou was located!

Faced with such a move, Shirou remained calm and raised the Phoenix Dragon Sword in his hand slightly, then assumed the stance of the Water God Style.

"Mingjingzhishui!"

Shirou's movements were very slow, but the slowness revealed an indescribable sharpness.

At this moment, he is imitating the water goddess Reda, with whom he had a brief encounter. During that battle, Reda had shown him the secrets of the Water God Style.

The secret sword Swallow Return that Shirou swung was easily caught by the Water God with his ultimate technique, as if the place had turned into a windless land.

Shirou has never forgotten the Water God's sword strike all these years, and often, when no one is around, he will repeatedly imitate the Water God's movements.

At first, he was indeed unable to make the exact same movements as the water god.

He wasn't very familiar with the techniques of the Water God Style, so he hadn't made any significant progress.

However, after the battle with the Dragon God Orsteed, Shirou gained a deeper understanding of the Water God Style by observing the Dragon God's movements when he used the Water God Style Secret Technique.

The reason for this is that the Dragon God himself was merely imitating the secret technique of the Water God Style, making similar movements.

Disassembling the original is certainly very difficult, but if you only disassemble the imitator's movements, the difficulty becomes much smaller.

In particular, when the Dragon God unleashed the Water God Flow Secret Technique, he didn't add even a trace of fighting spirit or magic power; it was purely a display of skill.

It's like a top master demonstrating every step of a top-level martial art using the most basic techniques. Even the most foolish person could understand it after watching, not to mention that Shirou himself is a master of piracy.

The way the Dragon God chewed the food and fed it to Shirou allowed him to grasp the technique almost instantly, and he also learned the secrets of the Water God Style.

Right now, facing Kyrie Il's lightning-fast swordsmanship that covers almost the entire area, Shirou directly countered with the secret technique of the Water God Style, the Sword of Still Water!

When that whirlwind-like sword technique erupted, Shirou simply swung his sword once.

But that sword seemed to simultaneously receive all the slashes from all directions, forcibly stopping the raging wind with an extremely exaggerated level of skill!

Vanish into nothingness!

"The Sword of Still Water?"

Some knowledgeable swordsmen immediately recognized Shirou's swordsmanship and were all dumbfounded, never expecting to see the secrets of the Water God School in this Sword God School dojo, the holy land of swords.

The moment this profound technique was revealed, many swordsmen immediately realized that, regardless of Shirou's level of sword god style, he was at least a water saint!

The fact that the mighty Water Saint actually came to participate in the Sword Saint's assessment undoubtedly made many swordsmen feel strange, and they couldn't help but look at the Sword God in the distance.

They felt that the Sword God would not tolerate disciples from other sects coming to his dojo to challenge him, and would kick Shirou out immediately.

Unexpectedly, the Sword God not only did not do that, but instead had a smiling face and showed no dissatisfaction whatsoever.

This undoubtedly left everyone present with a bewildered expression.

Chapter 272 Dragon Saint Battle Aura? No, this is the Evil Dragon Blood Armor!

Shirou directly used the secret technique of the Water God Style, the Sword of Still Water, and successfully blocked Kyrie Illya's Gale Sword Technique.

The reason why this can be done is because the Water God Style is the natural enemy of the Sword God Style.

Although at the level of Sword God and Water God, there is no significant difference in skill between the two, in most cases, when swordsmen at the King level or below fight, the Water God style is generally stronger than the Sword God style.

After all, the Water God style's ability to strike late but arrive early naturally counters the Sword God style's speed attack.

No matter how fast the swordsmanship of the Sword God style is, if it cannot break through the defense of the Water God style, it will be easily countered by the Water God style. Furthermore, because the Sword God style is all offense and lacks defense, it will be unable to effectively counter the Water God style's counterattacks.

Of course, Shirou's basic strength is still inferior to Gilead's, so even if he can use the secret technique of Water God Style to defend against Gilead's attack, he cannot cause further damage to him.

But this still gave him the advantage in his fight against Gilead.

"You actually learned the Still Water Sword Technique? Did Paul teach you that?"

Kyrie Irwin thought Shirou had learned the Water God Style from his father, Paul, but she quickly dismissed the idea, because Paul's Water God Style was only at the advanced level. Even though it was infinitely close to the Saint level, he had never actually learned any of the secrets of the Water God Style.

Shiro could not have learned it from Paul.

Shirou didn't hide anything from Kyrie Illusion's lack of understanding and calmly said, "I learned it from the battle with the Dragon God. In the battle with that guy, Orsteed used the secret technique of the Water God Style and easily blocked my and Alice's swords."

"The Dragon God's technology?"

Gilead was quite surprised to hear this, but not at all unexpected.

Because she had extremely high expectations for Shirou, she felt that she could understand whatever he did.

It's entirely conceivable that someone could learn the secrets of the Water God Style from a battle with the Dragon God.

After realizing that Shirou knew the secrets of the Water God Style, Kyrie Illusion also abandoned the sword technique that was purely wide-range but lacked offensive power.

The Water God Style is an extremely defensive style. No matter how fast or wide a sword technique is, it can be easily neutralized by the secrets of this style.

Because the techniques of the Water God School are just like the name of its school.

The essence of the Water God is the word "water".

Whether it's the Still Water Sword or other profound techniques, they are all like flowing water. Not only do they move freely and smoothly in terms of swordsmanship, but they also possess extremely strong perception, easily capturing all attacks coming towards them.

A powerful Water God Swordsman can even deflect all damage coming at him, and can even easily reflect a mage's magic back.

The only way to break the Water God Style swordsmanship is to use an absolutely powerful and violent technique to forcibly break through its defenses.

That level of swordsmanship can only be achieved by the highest level of swordsmanship in the Sword God School.

This is why the water gods and sword gods of all ages have always had their share of victories and defeats.

The reason is that some generations of sword gods mastered the strongest ultimate sword techniques, but some generations of sword gods were unable to master the true essence of the sword god style.

If the swordsmanship of the Sword God School cannot break through the defense of the Water God School, then it is impossible to defeat a master of the Water God School.

Shirou has just unleashed the Saint-level secret technique of the Water God Style, so to counter it, one must use swordsmanship above the Saint level, that is, King-level swordsmanship!

"call……"

Once Gilead thought of this, he hardly hesitated anymore.

She exhaled lightly and assumed the starting stance for Iaijutsu.

As the personal disciple of the Sword God Galfarion, Kyrianu's most proficient Sword God style technique is undoubtedly Iaijutsu.

Of course, her iaido skills are certainly not comparable to those of the Sword God, but even so, they are still the pinnacle of her own martial arts.

"Don't let your guard down from now on, Shirou."

"That's what Gilead said."