35: Chapter 35 High-Level Writing
"Wait... what about the rest of them?"
PD watched the parents who had lost their children wailing on the ground, and a sudden, ominous premonition welled up in his heart.
Gawain looked coldly at the thousands of wailing refugees remaining.
"The rest of these people are all heretics."
"In the name of the Lion King, I grant you a merciful destruction."
Swish—!
The longsword in Gawain's hand swung down violently!
Following his action, the group of silver-armored Knights of the Round Table behind him, who should have represented justice and protection, seemed to transform into emotionless killing machines. They drew their longswords directly and charged into the unarmed refugees like tigers into a flock of sheep!
Blood instantly stained the yellow sand in front of the Holy City!
The shrill screams, the crying of infants, and the sound of bones cracking as the elderly were trampled by warhorses intertwined into a hellish requiem!
Silence.
PD's livestream, as well as all the players across the entire network currently experiencing this plot, were completely stunned.
"What... the hell is this doing?!"
"Slaughtering civilians?! These are the Knights of the Round Table?! This is the army under King Arthur who represents justice?!"
"Are they crazy?! Since when do knights turn their swords on unarmed refugees!"
The worldviews of the Blue Star players were subjected to an extremely brutal shock at this moment.
They had always thought that the main storyline of this chapter was to fight alongside the Knights of the Round Table against monsters.
Who could have imagined that the opening greeting they received would be the "embodiment of justice" in their hearts carrying out a unilateral slaughter of humanity!
"Stop! You bastards!"
PD's eyes widened in the VR, and looking at those refugees being cruelly murdered before his eyes, a strong sense of indignation surged in his chest.
"System! Hurry up and activate battle mode for me! I'm going to kill these hypocrites!"
As if it had heard his call, the tactical grid unfolded with a boom in the desert!
The system's deep red warning box popped up:
[Holy City Main Gate Defense Battle]
[Enemy Leader: Sun Knight Gawain]
"Gawain, right? Knights of the Round Table, right?! I'll beat you so hard your own mother won't recognize you today!"
Furious, PD threw all of his strongest trump cards without reservation.
[Mash] stood at the very front.
[Zhuge Kongming] took his position on the high platform!
[Jeanne dArc Alter], [Gilgamesh], [Artoria] appeared for the finale!
He did not hesitate in the slightest; Zhuge Liang's skills were fully activated, instantly filling Gilgamesh's SP!
"Mongrel! All of you, go to hell!"
Accompanied by Gilgamesh's arrogant roar, the anti-world Noble Phantasm [Enuma Elish (EA)] was launched directly!
The red-gold storm covering the sky, carrying earth-shattering power, bombarded Gawain, who stood in the center of the battlefield!
In previous main storyline chapters, this combo could even directly blast away more than half of a Boss's health bar!
"Go to hell, you gorilla!" PD roared.
However, at the very moment that the earth-shattering Noble Phantasm storm was about to consume Gawain.
Gawain slowly raised his head, facing the blinding sun in the sky.
Above his head, an extremely special golden buff icon began to flicker with dazzling light.
The system's cold, cruel prompt appeared:
[Knights of the Round Table Privilege Unlocked: Blessing of the Nightless!]
[Gawain's exclusive passive: [Numbers of the Saint] activated!]
[Environment check: Blazing Sun.]
[Effect: Gawain gains a massive attack boost and gains 80% physical/magical damage reduction!]
"Boom—!!!"
The red storm of the sword of rupture smashed fiercely against Gawain's body.
The smoke and dust dissipated.
PD and the viewers in the livestream almost had their eyeballs pop out of their sockets!
Gawain, who had taken the full-level Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasm head-on, not only did not fall, but didn't even move his feet an inch.
The extremely thick health bar above his head had only dropped by a layer of health that was almost invisible to the naked eye!
"What the hell?! 80% damage reduction?! "
"What kind of perverted mechanic is this?! Physical and magical immunity? How is this different from invincibility?"
Before the players could recover from their shock, Gawain moved.
He gripped that [Excalibur Galatine] burning with solar flames with both hands, and without any flashy charging, he just casually unleashed a basic attack toward Mash in front of him.
"Swish—!"
A crescent-shaped terrifying flame sword energy, carrying an extremely high temperature that seemed to be about to bake the screen, instantly tore through the earth and swept across!
"Bang!" A muffled, earth-shaking sound rang out.
In PD's desperate gaze.
His kouhai, who had been tempered through a thousand battles and had withstood the attacks of countless Bosses, was like paper in the face of this extremely casual flame basic attack!
The shield shattered!
The health bar was instantly cleared!
Moreover, this terrifying flame sword energy also carried an extremely wide-range AOE effect, directly sweeping to the rear high platform, burning the full-HP Zhuge Liang into ashes as well!
"F***—!!!"
PD sprang up from his gaming chair, his entire being plunged into extreme terror and madness.
"A basic attack with full-screen flame AOE?! One sword stroke killed my two max-level Servants?!"
"What kind of monster is this?! Is this value even something that can be produced in this world?!"
In the face of this unreasonable dual crushing of mechanics and values, the few remaining remnants of PD's troops couldn't even touch the corner of Gawain's clothes before they were all sent back to their hometowns, one sword stroke each, by this monster bathed in the blazing sun, just like cutting melons and vegetables.
Hum—! The screen went black.
[Mission Failed]
That night, it wasn't just PD.
Millions of players across the entire network who were full of confidence and had brought max-level lineups into Chapter 6 encountered the most inhumane beating of their gaming careers in front of the Holy City gates.
No matter what lineup they changed to, no matter how much money they threw at it, that blond knight standing in the blazing sun was like an insurmountable wall of sighs.
80% permanent damage reduction, and a perverted AOE basic attack that almost instantly kills a Defender.
On the Youxing Network Forum, the players who were bragging about how "FGO tower defense is too simple" a second ago were now crying their hearts out:
"Trash devs! Come out! Tell me how to beat this!"
"Can't even move him! My Jeanne dArc Alter wife just polishes his armor! One sword from him and I lose three!"
"Help! I've been camped at the door by this gorilla from the Nightless City all night! Someone save me!"
Within just two short hours of Chapter 6 opening, the name [Gawain], accompanied by the title "Nightless City Gorilla", directly dominated the number one spot on the hot searches of all Blue Star game forums in an extremely terrifying, spam-like manner!
The "era of suffering" belonging to players from another world officially drew back its curtain of despair under the sanction of the Knights of the Round Table.