A black, ferocious giant axe was almost smashing into her face.
[Skill [Oath under the Snow] effect activated]
[When having an intimate bond with the protected target, all abilities are super-domain enhanced, ability value growth accelerates, ability value limit breaks, magic and skill effects are super-domain enhanced, skill effects increase according to the number and strength of bonds]
[Skill [Uchide no Kozuchi] effect activated]
[Temporarily increase level by one, Lv.2-Lv.3]
[Magic [Unlimited Blade Works] effect activated]
[Projection weapon [Nine Lives] axe form]
[Skill [Roadless Valhalla] effect activated]
[Temporarily gain development ability [Crush] I]
[Temporarily gain development ability [Mad Enhancement] I]
[Temporarily gain skill [Bravery]]
[Temporarily gain skill [King's Order: Ninth Labor]]
In a hurry, she raised her simple sword to collide with [Nine Lives], and then Aisha, seeing the second-level weapon bent and cracked by a single blow, realized something was wrong, 'Damn, if I get hit by such an attack, I will definitely—'
With the axe form of [Nine Lives] in his right hand, Emiya instantly knocked Aisha off balance, then stepped forward and threw a straight punch with his left hand.
[Oath under the Snow], [Uchide no Kozuchi], [Crush], [Mad Enhancement], [Bravery], [King's Order]... Numerous enhancements and corrections were added to Emiya's punch.
The heavy punch violently hit Aisha's exposed abdomen, the intense pain making the Amazon warrior's body curl up like a boiled red shrimp, crumpling to the floor.
Aisha's mind went blank, and in her dizziness, only one thought remained, 'It's over, my body is going to 'break' because of the Amazon's instincts...'
Aisha struggled to get up, only to be met with an even more ferocious, natural disaster-like violent attack.
Even though she was a powerful Lv.3 warrior, and an Amazon known for her strong physique, she could not resist this overwhelming violence.
'No, precisely because I am an Amazon, I will definitely lose to him...'
More than one rib was broken, her right arm was twisted completely out of joint, her whole body covered in severe bruises... Yet the more she was crushed, the happier Aisha smiled.
'As long as it's an Amazon, it is destined to be unable to defeat the strongest hero, this is our destined 'fate'...'
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[King's Order: Ninth Labor]
— Increases the user's strength, endurance, agility, and gains additional attack power when fighting Amazons.
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This skill is the manifestation of one of the "Twelve Labors" of the greatest hero in Greek mythology, Hercules. Hercules' ninth labor was to seize the belt of the Amazon queen Hippolyta.
Hercules crushed all the brave and skilled Amazon warriors, even capturing Queen Hippolyta, who eventually offered him [King's Order].
This great feat was sublimated into Hercules' Noble Phantasm, and because of [Roadless Valhalla], it was temporarily added as a skill to Emiya.
And at this moment, what he was doing was exactly seizing the golden belt (Haruhime Sanjouno) of the Amazon country (Ishtar Familia).
The enhancement of [Uchide no Kozuchi], and the act of "replicating mythology," allowed Emiya to project an unprecedented [Nine Lives], and further touched the power of the strongest tier of heroic spirits.
Emiya single-handedly raised [Nine Lives] horizontally, just by swinging it, the wind pressure of the heavy axe shattered the paper windows of the attic, the edge of the weapon just slightly touched, and the side wall collapsed with a bang.
Aisha's right arm hung weakly, her left arm barely protecting her front abdomen, the already ruined weapon fell to the floor, she closed her eyes in despair, smiling to welcome the giant axe slashing from the side.
The axe blade of [Nine Lives] stopped just before hitting Aisha, after a while, Aisha opened her eyes in confusion, and Emiya responded with a heavy punch.
The punch hit Aisha's cheek, knocking her out.
In less than five rounds, the famous [Beauty Elite] Aisha Belka of the labyrinth city was thus defeated by Emiya.
Aisha didn't even get the chance to use her magic [Hell Kaios].
If Emiya were still Lv.2, then with the absolute suppression of level, and the combat ability that belongs to the upper level even among Lv.3, even if Emiya's [Oath under the Snow] took effect, and temporarily gained the skill to counter the Amazon tribe by projecting [Nine Lives], Aisha could still have a fight, and even hoped to have a fierce battle with Emiya.
The effect of level suppression is so exaggerated, especially among high-level adventurers. At Lv.1, monsters often have the advantage over adventurers of the same level due to their physical superiority, but by Lv.2 and Lv.3, the situation reverses, high-level adventurers are usually far stronger than monsters of the same level.
However, because of the enhancement of [Uchide no Kozuchi], Emiya's level was temporarily elevated to Lv.3, equal to Aisha's level, and there was no longer any level suppression, the difference in combat power between the two was clearly exposed.
Aisha's ability values were actually not bad, her strength, agility, endurance, dexterity, all these physical abilities were quite good, and she gained development abilities every time she leveled up, in addition to having a powerful magic.
It's just that Emiya's combat power was really too beyond the norm.
'Time, just less than a minute has passed, [Uchide no Kozuchi] still has fourteen minutes of effect,' Emiya stood in the attic with half of the wall collapsed, looking towards the distant palace.
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The highest floor of the palace, towering over all buildings in the pleasure district.
No gold and silver headbands, earrings, necklaces, chest ornaments, bracelets, and anklets. What could be called clothing was only the belt and loincloth, and then a few straps covering the ample breasts. Including the tender limbs and slim waist, the brown skin exposed without reservation, a posture that tempts men. Boasting the beauty of a country-toppling beauty, even more so, the beauty of a goddess.
In the dark room with all four sides open, the cool evening breeze gently blowing, she looked towards the center of the city, as if glaring at a hated enemy.
The place where she was now was higher than any place in the pleasure district.
But this still could not satisfy her.
This was because in the center of the city stood a white-walled giant tower reaching to the sky, as if mocking her.
She glared fiercely at the highest floor of the giant tower.
Resenting the silver-haired goddess Freya, who should also be there at this time, the same as her, a "goddess of beauty."
"Why can you stay there? Why is it you, not me, who is reigning?"
That goddess always looked down on her from the highest position.
From the highest position in this city, seeing herself as one of the many.
With her beauty and the status of the strongest faction in the city, the goddess reigned over the apex of Orario.
She took all the most beautiful praises of the city... no, the world, for herself, looking down on herself.
With a thought almost like a curse, the beauty of the goddess Ishtar twisted.
Ishtar's hostility towards Freya was one-sided.
From the moment they met, she, also a "goddess of beauty," had been hostile to Freya.
Was it the disdain of the same kind, or jealousy that Freya possessed what she did not, Freya did not know. But the fact was that she hated Freya, repeatedly trying to push Freya aside and take her place.
As for Freya, she did not take her to heart.
She repeatedly picked fights, Freya just laughed them off, sometimes even finding it fun, a way to kill time. Freya's perception of her was just that, not particularly disliking her.
Such an attitude only made Ishtar's heart more angry and twisted, to the point that she had completely forgotten the original intention of coming to the lower world, only targeting Freya as the sole goal of the Ishtar Familia.
"One more day... just wait and see, Freya..."
Haruhime and [Sesshou Seki], plus another secret weapon she had prepared... Ishtar was ready to give Freya a "surprise."
At this moment, a rapid alarm sounded.
Ishtar was startled, "This is... Haruhime has a problem?"
"Someone come!"
"Ishtar-sama, I am here," The tall and thin human male Tammuz immediately came to the goddess's side.
This Lv.4 second-tier adventurer was the second strongest in the Ishtar Familia after [Man Killer] Phryne Jamil, and also the nominal vice-captain of the Ishtar Familia. However, he always served by the side of the goddess Ishtar, the actual duties and powers of the vice-captain were entirely handled by Aisha.
"Where is Haruhime now?", The goddess Ishtar inquired.
"Haruhime-sama should be entertaining guests, the man she has been serving recently is the rising star of the labyrinth city, Emiya Shirou of the Hephaestus Familia," Tammuz replied, "The current alarm... should be that man breaking Haruhime's collar."
"What is Aisha doing, and where is Phryne, where has that stupid woman gone?"
"No, it's not good, Ishtar-sama...", An Amazon woman rushed up, she was a Lv.2 battle prostitute of the Ishtar Familia.
"Captain, Phryne, she's fighting with [Gale]!"
"[Gale]?"
Both Ishtar and Tammuz were stunned when they heard this name.
Tammuz thought for a moment, then remembered, '[Gale]... could it be that elf from the Astraea Familia... why would she attack Phryne, and, has she leveled up to Lv.5?'
The Amazon girl who came to report hurriedly said, "Captain, it seems that [Gale] is suppressing Phryne..."
Ishtar's face grew darker, "...Tammuz, you go and eliminate the intruder."
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A few minutes earlier, at a tavern on the edge of the pleasure district.
"I smell the scent of a young man!", An Amazon burst into the tavern.
It was a giantess over two meters tall... no, a female giant. The brown short arms and legs exposed under the red and black hunting outfit were not a metaphor, they were completely four large muscles.
Not only was her height astonishing, her width was also very thick, the whole presenting a stocky figure, her limbs and torso completely out of proportion.
The most exaggerated was that big face.
Oily black short hair, coupled with squirming, rolling eyeballs and a mouth split open to the side, it was not pleasant to say, but just like a toad.
She was the leader of the Ishtar Familia, a first-class adventurer of Lv.5, the [Man Killer] Phryne Jamil.
This extremely capricious first-class adventurer did not participate in tonight's gathering of the Ishtar Familia, but instead wandered in the red-light district, looking for prey.
Men caught by Phryne would be forcibly fed drugs and dragged to bed without any explanation. That woman would consume them regardless of how the prey cried, and the final result was that the men could only wait to become crippled.
Because of such behavior, she earned the title of [Man Killer].
So much so that the goddess Ishtar strictly forbade her from approaching any brothel area, Phryne could only wander in the outskirts of the red-light district, resulting in these areas becoming famous "no-go zones" for men.
"Hehehehehehe..."
The tavern door was easily destroyed, the female giant, an Amazon woman, let out an unpleasant laugh, stepping into the room.
She effortlessly kicked away round tables and chairs, heading straight into the tavern.
Then, because she saw some scene, the corners of her mouth split upwards, revealing huge teeth, her whole face broke into a smile.
Her cheeks squeezed out a bunch of ugly wrinkles that could hardly be called dimples, that smiling face gave Kashima Ouka goosebumps.
"Isn't this the [Martial God's Son] of the [Takemikazuchi Familia. Croak… I like it!!!"
In the tavern, the tall and handsome Kashima Ouka turned pale.
As a senior adventurer who had just earned a title, the leader of the Takemikazuchi Familia was somewhat famous throughout the labyrinth city, but he never expected that a first-class adventurer of Lv.5 would also be paying attention to him.
However, the reason the other party was interested in him was not because of his level or title, but because of his physique and face.
If possible, Kashima Ouka really wished not to be remembered by such a person, he resolved that no matter what, he would never approach the red-light district again.
Phryne let out a loud giggle again, her eyes sparkling brightly.
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