Chapter 521: Despairing Salvation + Kaioken, The So-called Power!
[You used a special item, Secret · Dead Sea Scrolls]
[Key Item · Spear of Longinus missing]
[Key Existence · Apostle missing]
[Ritual fully deployed failed...]
[Ritual... Abnormal]
[You activated the 3rd Tier Destiny · Mandate Deprivation. You bestowed Character · Gilgamesh with the new property · Adam. Property compatibility: 56%]
[You bestowed Noble Phantasm · Sword of Rupture Ea with the new property · Tree of the World. Property compatibility: 73%]
[You bestowed Character · White Mask with the new property · Lilith. Property compatibility: 59%]
[Ritual · Human Instrumentality deployed. Effect significantly downgraded]
...
A series of prompts refreshed on the Space panel like a waterfall.
"You lowly mongrel, how dare you..."
"What is this?!"
The entangled consciousnesses were still deeply blending. White Mask used the Dead Sea Scrolls, treating herself as that sacrifice, or rather, using her incomplete personality as a propellant.
She dissolved her own Wall of the Heart and actively fused with Gilgamesh.
White Mask felt a trace of regret in her heart. Under the effect of her 3rd Tier Destiny · Mandate Deprivation, this ritual should have been more perfect.
The reason she didn't rush to kill the various Servants and Masters, even leaving Juro, Cannibal Flower, and those guys alive,
was to be able to perfectly deploy the most flawless bounded field.
She could use the powerful Heroic Spirit Servants, together with the Reincarnators and Master magi, to gather exactly 10 coordinate individuals, including the fusion of herself and Gilgamesh.
Ultimately forming the shape of the [Kabbalistic Tree of Life], deploying just like in EVA, initiating a nearly perfect Human Instrumentality Project, instantly reversing and dissolving the Wall of the Heart of all humans globally in one go.
Turning all humans into LCL water (orange juice), and thereby allowing herself to thoroughly step onto the divine seat, becoming a... God that transcends human individuals, Apostles, and demigods!
Even in the Infinite Dimensional World, that kind of existence couldn't be called invincible yet, but completely transcending ordinary lifeforms would give her the possibility of plundering all powers in this world.
She would also ascend to the heavens in a single bound, almost completing the entire [Stairway of Spirit and Flesh].
It was just a pity that Void Shiki appeared...
Thump, thump...
Beneath the sea of "orange juice," violent heartbeats sounded like fetal movements. In the next moment, a huge figure was gestated from the soup of life.
That was a snow-white human shape, with short hair, its face half delicate and beautiful, half heroic, and still constantly squirming and changing.
Just by standing up, its body had already exceeded ten thousand meters, towering directly into the clouds, the clouds floating beneath it.
White Mask had to lower her head. Those eyes had turned ruby-like at this moment. Because she was incredibly huge, the humans remaining in the city who hadn't accepted blending into the soup of life because their Wall of the Heart (Ego) was thicker, clutching their heads, could look up and see the crystal-like structure in those eyes at this time.
Those were the eyes of a demigod, completely devoid of human emotions.
White Mask continuously lowered her head. In the next moment, an invisible bounded field appeared, but in a flash, it was pierced by the intense force field in front of White Mask.
Crack~ Smash!
The huge bounded field above Fuyuki City shattered. White Mask's overly huge face directly overlooked from a position hundreds of meters above Fuyuki City.
The ruby-like eyes turned slightly, looking straight at the man whose fluorescent white long hair was flying in the wind.
"Mercenary Tao, hasn't a guy like you always been seeking the so-called [Heart]?"
"Countless hearts have now all blended together, joining the Instrumentality. You can naturally feel it..."
White Mask's voice rang directly in Kaito Shirogane's mind. This wasn't an ability like magic, nor was it a mental influence.
But the power of the mind. Now that the entire Fuyuki City was completely covered by LCL water, the fused White Mask could affect almost any individual within it at will.
That mental-power-specialized Reincarnator codenamed [Cannibal Flower] was already tottering at this time, clutching her head, the bounded field outside her body becoming increasingly dim.
Once the bounded field shattered, her Wall of the Heart would disappear at any time.
In this kind of environment, only those non-human individuals had a unique advantage.
Because they were not living beings themselves, but Heroic Spirits manifested based on [Class].
The pitch-black giant Berserker · Heracles stood in place, reached out his hand, and fished out that white girl's robe and that white fuzzy hat from the ocean of the soup of life.
The giant abruptly roared at the sky.
And in the sky on the other side, a purple ray sped away from Fuyuki City like a laser. Rider · Medusa wanted to send the pitiful girl · Matou Sakura away before everything became unsustainable.
But even with her speed, everything in sight was an orange ocean.
It seemed all humans had already perished under this strike.
Void Shiki stepped on the orange ocean, her kimono still spotless. Holding that short knife with a reverse grip, she walked step by step towards that white giant.
"Miss Void Shiki, you should know very well, right? Your mission... failed."
Kaito Shirogane spoke. He still looked down at his own hand. In this hand, there wasn't the power Heracles had displayed in that instant just now.
Transcending the constraints of the Class, transcending the influence of Mad Enhancement, even instantly breaking free from the madness of fighting him.
Void Shiki's footsteps paused slightly. She saw that the radiance of a [Savior] had already clearly manifested on this Mercenary Tao. Even though that radiance was quite different from the glory of other saviors, it was indeed a [Savior].
Void Shiki looked down at the knife in her hand, then looked at Mercenary Tao again. The lines of death on the other party's body had decreased significantly, and the points of death had mostly dimmed and disappeared.
Correspondingly, she no longer had the blessing of that Counter Force.
Now, the other party was the chosen one.
The corners of Void Shiki's mouth twitched twice. She suddenly revealed a weird smile. In the next moment, with a bang, she turned into a puddle of orange juice.
Kaito Shirogane understood that smile. That was probably a silent mockery.
It's just unknown whether she was mocking herself, or the Counter Force that handed the savior of this world to him, or... mocking the [Root].
Kaito Shirogane didn't care.
He only felt that at this very moment, his power was terrifyingly strong beyond imagination.
And as that layer of bounded field shattered, [Mantra] deployed again.
Unlike the others who all clutched their heads, resisting the impact of various imperfections in their hearts, no illusions or scenes appeared before Kaito Shirogane's eyes.
He didn't suffer any temptation either.
Neither did the father and mother who lacked companionship in the past appear to earnestly coax him, nor did past teachers and classmates come out to preach.
Not even the imperfect fantasy objects from the green pains of his youth were there.
Kaito Shirogane just stood above the ocean of orange juice like this, maintaining an ego so complete it was almost proud.
"Human Instrumentality, that kind of thing... I don't need it."
Whoosh~
Like a gust of wind blowing past, and as if a wave of Qi rising from Kaito Shirogane's body.
In the next moment, the huge "tentacles" behind Kaito Shirogane sweeping towards the sky seemed to plunge into the void in an instant.
[Despairing Savior Mode, Activated]
[You felt the Counter Force · Gaia]
[You felt the Counter Force · Alaya]
[You obtained the Divine Protection of Gaia—On the planet, you will obtain an extra enhancement to immortality and super-speed regeneration traits. You will be immune to the influence of destiny-side, time-side, causality-type related abilities]
[You obtained the Divine Protection of Alaya—When attacking a target recognized as an enemy of primates, your attacks cannot be dodged and cannot be evaded]
Golden Qi seeped out from Kaito Shirogane's body surface, like a layer of golden "membrane." In the next moment, it began to rise like clouds and mist, like flames, and then...
Boom!
The golden Qi soared into the sky.
Intense power surged in his body. Under the infusion of overly powerful Qi, his muscles became almost comparable to the hardest alloy in the world. No, far beyond that.
His heartbeat completely disappeared; the speed was so fast that the sound could no longer be perceived at all.
Amidst the rushing blood, blood vessels shattered extensively. The epidermis was burned by the scalding fresh blood, and then the blood was similarly evaporated into a red mist.
In the next moment, everything flew towards the sky.
The gold and red airflow, like a pillar of light, violently soared into the sky from the ground of Fuyuki City, from the ocean composed of LCL water.
The white giant incarnated by White Mask staggered backward. The white hair, wrapped in the mist, flew towards the sky.
Creak, creak, creak...
A sound like the tautening of cables and gears on a giant ship erupted from within that white giant.
That was a physical body tyrannical to the extreme, emitting a natural deterrence to the surroundings when moving.
[You used the ability, Kaioken]!
Despairing Salvation obtained a perfect two-fold bonus, and after the Despairing Savior actively activated, it obtained another bonus;
And at this moment, via Kaioken, everything doubled again.
Kaito Shirogane's eyes kept twitching. The overly surging power constantly impacted within his body, making him feel a thrill of almost being completely dominated by power at any time.
Yes, at this very moment, Kaito Shirogane felt that he only needed to let go of his reason and let that peerless violence wrap his subconscious, and he would incarnate into the most brutal fighting machine, completely intoxicating himself in [Power].
"Phew~"
Kaito Shirogane exhaled. The continuous and powerful aura instantly sprayed towards the space hundreds of meters in front of him. In the next moment, the LCL water was completely frozen.
Kaito Shirogane tilted his neck.
Bang!
An explosion of unclear meaning appeared in the air.
The overly violent power, in the instant his neck twisted, completely squeezed and popped the air tens of meters away, generating a shockwave.
In the sky, various expressions still appeared in White Mask's eyes now.
She hadn't perfectly fused yet, but all consciousnesses, including her own, were expressing doubts at this time.
What exactly is going on with the human below...
That smell, that feeling, that sense of existence...
It completely doesn't seem like a [Human].
Kaito Shirogane slightly lowered his head, slowly inhaling. A massive amount of Qi in his chest reacted with the scalding blood.
In the next moment, he suddenly raised his head and let out a terrifying roar.
"Ha!"
Boom!
A mushroom cloud instantly exploded. A blazing white shockwave, with him as the origin, directly swept outwards beyond Fuyuki City.
Rumble!
The city exploded in an instant.
Saber, who was protecting Emiya Shirou and cautiously rushing towards the urban area of Fuyuki City, looked up in astonishment. She immediately drew her sword, and golden light lit up.
In the next moment, they were swallowed by the peerless shockwave.
Boom!
Everyone was blown flying like a small boat in the ocean waves.
The forest outside Fuyuki City collapsed with a bang, the mountains shook, and dust obscured everything. The huge giant bowing its head in the sky also fell towards the ocean accompanied by a rumbling commotion.
(End of Chapter)
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