I am afraid that this little fight of ours ends here young magus." suddenly the air was filled with a strong dose of killing intent as Rider showed just how serious she was now before moving her right hand towards her blindfold.

"Normally I would never use this so early in the holy grail war however your 'exceptional' abilities have forced me to use it, after-all it would be against my masters wishes if you were to be left alive" as the purple haired servant said Shirou's mind went into overdrive as he had an idea as what Rider was talking about. 

Based on the serious tone of her statement there was a high possibility that she was planning on using her noble phantasm against the faker. A noble phantasm is the symbol of a servant's power, a weapon or ability that the hero was said to have wielded in life. Such examples include legendary weapons such as King Arthur's Excalibur, Cu Chulainn's Gae Bolg, or the Kusanagi no Tsurugi wielded by Yamato Takeru. As well as abilities that they possessed in life like the invincibility gained by Siegfried after bathing in the blood of the dragon Fafnir, or the petrifying gaze of the Gorgon Medusa.

      However because of these facts using anoble phantasm for a servant is risky since it could risk exposing the hero's identity to the enemy, however for some servants it was worth the risk. And since Shirou has no idea who Rider is then he won't have any ideas on what noble phantasms she is likely to have, meaning that he would have to wait and see what it is, so he decided to prepare the Honorable Shield of the Alphebetto trace just in case. As the servant grabbed the blindfold covering her eyes and ripped it off the killing intent suddenly grew more intense as the faker saw the image of a strange runic symbol on her forehead, however he couldn't for the life of him figure out what it means since he doesn't recognize the symbol from any of his studies in Rune-craft. Suddenly Riders eyes opened to reveal pearl colored eyes that had square ovaries that seemed to draw him in as they were the most beautiful things he had ever seen and he would admired them more if he wasn't assaulted with a sudden compulsion that left paralyzed. At first he thought that the servant had cast a sort of binding spell on him and activated as many circuits as he could handle in order to dispel it, however no matter what he tried the paralysis wouldn't go away as he had trouble moving even a little bit. As Shirou looked towards his hands he saw that his skin as hardening as if his very skin was..turning…to…stone.

      Suddenly the realization on what was happening to him hit like a sack of bricks as he recognized what was happening and flooded as much prana into his body as possible in order to dispel the enchantment that Riders eyes were doing to him. Which seemed to work as he just barely managed to dodge the servant's attack in time and tried to move away from her gaze but had trouble moving as it was like moving through a thick swamp.

"I'm surprised that you're still able to move magus, not many people I exposed my eyes too had a high enough magic resistance to resist them" the purple haired woman said as she kicked him hard in the stomach which sent him flying.

However Shirou managed to brace himself for the impact and landed on hisfeet away from the servants location and mentally went over what was happening right now, even though the high amount of mana he was flowing into his body right now was managing to fight of the effects of Riders eyes he still felt an extreme amount of pressure on his body like he was wearing several kilos worth of weights. Meaning that as long as Rider was looking at him he was slower and weaker than he was supposed to be even with Prana Burst enhancing his abilities above what humans could achieve. Which was definably taking effect as trying his best just to stay alive as he was forced onto the defense in order to endure Riders relentless assault, at first he thought about going back to his fake opening style but decided against it as it seemed that the servant was fighting much better than before since she released the seal on her eyes.

        Suddenly as he was thinking that Rider managed to find herself an opening and proceeded to aim one of her nails to the side of Shirou's neck as the Emiya tried his best to react in time, however it was for not as the servant managed to succeed as her nail made contact with his skin. Only for her face to develop a slight frown as her weapon was stopped before it could dig deeper into the fakers skin, however the strange part was that there was a large clang sound like the sound a sword makes when striking a piece of metal armor.

"How strange" Rider said as she pulled back her weapon only to see that her nail was slightly damaged from the impact.

"It seems like I cannot piece your neck with this, in that case" Seeing no other option at the moment Rider decided that a different approach was in order and rushed towards the retreating magus and kicked him as hard as she could that sent him flying.

Normally it was almost impossible for someone to control where they were going to land after being sent flying from an enemy's attack but Shirou managed to achieve this through some quick thinking on his part and moved his body into a specific position and let Rider's leg do the rest. Which seemed to work on his pat as he was sent crashing through the open door of his tool shed and slammed hard on the stone floor, as he laid there massaging his back from the first class flight via Air Rider he went over the information that he knew about Rider's eyes. Which were a specific type of mutation inherit in magi called Mystic Eyes, which were artificial sorcery traits that were brought into being through altering the circuits present in a magi's eyes in order to produce a specific effect, such examples of these includeMystic eyes of binding, Whisper, and combustion.

       However that was not the only way to get them as there were multiple cases of even normal people with no formal training in the mystic arts developing mystic eyes of their own, however these types tend to have either inhuman ancestry or demon hunter bloodlines like the Tohnos and Nanayas. What Rider had was an extremely rare set called the Mystic eyes of petrifaction, a very powerful pair of eyes that allow her to turn anyone or anything living in her line of sight into stone, out of all the mystic eyes known to the magus association her eyes were ranked as Jewel. And out of all of the heroic spirits recorded in legend that Shirou knew of there was only one in particular that allowed her to turn her enemies to stone just by looking at them, the legendary Gorgon of Greece Medusa, a monster that was slain by the hero Perseus who then used her severed head to turn the legendary Kraken to stone and was finally offered to the Goddess Athena as a gift. As Rider approached the faker's downed body in order to finish him off the heir of Emiya managed to choke out while coughing.

"Man you really are a heroic spirit Rider, I think you just cracked a few of my ribs with that last kick" When Rider heard this she raised an eyebrow at the person who was at her mercy.

"You seem to be unusually calm for someone who is about to meet his end, normally someone else in your position would be begging for their life right about now"

"Mostly because they would have already been turned to stone by your Mystic eyes of petrifaction, though I have to admit that for the legendary gorgon Medusa your legend wasn't very accurate in regards to your appearance." Shirou said which caused Rider's eyes to widen at being exposed right away even though he had only seen her eyes once.

"I see" Medusa said neutrally "so you were able to figure out my true identity, but it is a pity that you wouldn't be able to use that knowledge" normally Rider would have decided to drink Shirou's blood since she was running low on prana and he had plenty to spare of the amount she can sense was any indication, however because she was currently using her eyes to petrify him his hardened skin would make it harder to sink her teeth in so she decided to end his life right away. After all there was no way she was just going to obey that worm Shinji to kill him slow and painfully since he didn't use a command seal. As the gorgon raised her chain nails ready to strike the downed magus and end his life she said.

"Any last words?" intending to let him make peace with himself before returning his soul to Akasha. Shirou on the other hand had another idea in mind from what Rider had in store from him and said

"just a few" before opening almost all of his circuits as he could and projected a sword between Rider and himself

"Dagaz, Thurisaz" he shouted as he poured as much prana as he could into the rune blade, making it dangerous, deadly, and Broken. The projected weapon that he used was one of his elemental arrows that used the light element (which was a sub category of fire) in order to release a burst of light that helps to illuminate dark areas or be used as signal flares, however when Shirou floods it with much more prana than it could handle the light intensifies making the broken light arrow the equivalent of a magical flash grenade. Which was exactly what Shirou needed as the strong burst of light illuminated the tool shed and caused Rider to cover her eyes in pain, fortunately the faker closed his eyes just before the sword exploded and since the paralyzing effect of theMystic eyes of petrification wore off since Medusa was covering her eyes the faker was ready to punch the servant out of the shed with a Prana Burst enhanced fist. Realizing that it would take the gorgon long to recover Shirou activated as much of his circuits as he could and poured all of the prana they produced into the summoning circle that was on the floor which caused it to come to life as the activated array came to life.

"Let fire and steel be the essence."

"Let stone and the archduke of contracts be the foundation."

"Let red be the color I pay tribute to. Let a wall be risen against the wind that shall fall."

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