Kiritsugu Emiya knelt on the ground, turning his head to look at the phantom of The Enlightened One behind him in confusion.
"Why are you showing me this!"
"Humanity does not need your salvation. Humans are not immortal beings, nor can they become so. If they were to become such, then with their current spiritual state, destruction is the only path in their future."
"That's impossible!"
"If there were no joys or sorrows, would humans still be human? Feel it for yourself!"
Saying this, The Enlightened One opened his palm, which transformed into a world, and sucked Kiritsugu Emiya into it.
Then, Kiritsugu Emiya arrived in the perfect world of his dreams, where everyone was happy, everyone was free from illness and disaster, free from pain and suffering, without war, without desire, and naturally without joy or sorrow, because everyone was already happy.
One year, two years—Kiritsugu Emiya lived in this world for hundreds of years, until he eventually pulled the trigger on himself. Then, appearing beside The Enlightened One again, Kiritsugu Emiya stubbornly stepped onto The Enlightened One's palm once more, beginning to reform his dream world in his own way.
Once, twice—it was unknown how many times it had been. When Kiritsugu Emiya prepared to step onto The Enlightened One's palm again, The Enlightened One withdrew his hand and gave a great shout.
"Foolish child, wake up!"
Waking as if from a dream, Kiritsugu Emiya looked at The Enlightened One before him with a heart like dead ashes, sitting numbly on the ground.
At the same time, a calm Kirei Kotomine appeared beside The Enlightened One through a golden vortex. Kirei Kotomine first performed a Buddhist salute to The Enlightened One and then turned to look at Kiritsugu Emiya, though his eyes clearly conveyed the sentiment, 'I didn't expect you to be this kind of person, Kiritsugu Emiya.'
Just as Kiritsugu Emiya had watched the first half of Kirei Kotomine's life, the first half of Kiritsugu Emiya's life had also been watched by Kirei Kotomine.
"Between the two of you, one is good by nature but does not understand what is good, while the other is evil by nature but blindly pursues pleasure in a daze. However, Kiritsugu Emiya, you are not as good as Kirei. Although he is evil, he is not a great evil; under the influence of others, he can even perform good deeds with an evil heart. You, however, perform great evil in the world with a heart of good. One of my purposes in descending in the Saver class this time is to awaken you!"
Then The Enlightened One waved his hand, and a scene of the entire planet burning in a raging fire appeared before the two of them. Meanwhile, in the starry sky, countless unspeakable, distorted monsters were eyeing the planet greedily.
"This is the future scene of your timeline. Your world line has fallen into a battlefield between The Root and the Demon Gods. As those caught in the vortex, you should follow the master of this place, Rin Tohsaka!"
Kirei Kotomine and Kiritsugu Emiya turned their heads together to look at The Enlightened One, their eyes clearly saying, "Why don't you help solve this? Aren't you the Savior?"
"My power is insufficient to help you. I fear that the moment I appear in the physical world, I would be expelled from this world. Likewise, after my descent, my precognition was blocked, and I can only see this far. The further future is completely beyond the reach of this Servant avatar's ability. However, Rin Tohsaka is the key in the war between the counter force and the Demon Gods—you must remember this!"
After saying this, the image of The Enlightened One disappeared. In the Spiritron World outside, two Bodhi Fruits grew on the branches of the Twin Trees. With a gentle breeze, they fell to the ground and transformed into Kirei Kotomine and Kiritsugu Emiya.
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Returning to the battlefield of The Enlightened One.
Gudako let out a piercing scream, and then a mass of thick, eerie magical energy surrounded her, making her transform into something like the legendary Crawling Chaos.
The Enlightened One frowned as he looked at the bizarre 'monster' before him. The halo behind him expanded, and billions of golden mana bullets flew out, covering the sky as they struck toward Gudako.
At this moment, Rin, who was watching the battle in the Throne of Heroes with the Servants currently belonging to the sanctuary, murmured to herself, seemingly having formed some guesses about the origin of the system.
"Is it the system's defense mechanism? It seems the fellow who gave me the system really values me! The system didn't even trigger when I messed with it like that, but as soon as The Enlightened One stimulated it slightly, the defense mechanism opened!"
Chloe, who had just joined the Throne of Heroes, poked Martha's slender waist and said,
"Big sis! That guy probably didn't even use a tenth of his power against us earlier!"
Countless pitch-black, distorted tentacles rose into the sky from the shadow behind Gudako to meet the falling rain of light. Then, a massive roar erupted. Rin, meanwhile, managed to teleport Kirei Kotomine, Kiritsugu Emiya, and the others, along with Irisviel and Illya, to the foot of the mountain where the Throne of Heroes was located before they could die again.
After the massive roar, the tenth floor, the Seat of the Summit—which was as large as a modern city—completely collapsed, turning into countless fragments that fell onto the ninth floor.
Floating in the sky, The Enlightened One looked at Gudako, who was falling with the debris to the ninth floor, and pressed his palm down. Following his movement, the countless fragments began to gather, forming a 'Five-Finger Mountain' that pressed directly onto Gudako as she landed on the ninth floor.
Pinned under the mountain, Gudako was entirely covered in eerie magical energy. She let out a scream and then spat a mana cannon from her mouth, piercing the Five-Finger Mountain while striking toward The Enlightened One.
However, Gudako's counterattack was useless against The Enlightened One's Bodhi Tree Enlightenment. The Enlightened One effortlessly blocked it with his enlightenment, then expanded the halo behind him and sat upon a lotus throne, continuously chanting sutras.
As The Enlightened One spat out golden lotuses, the seven weapons outside the inner small halo began to glow brilliantly, transforming into seven'Strikes of Mercy' that shot toward Gudako. In the original work, a single'Strike of Mercy' transformed from one weapon had knocked Nero down to the absolute bottom of the Spiritron World, 380,000 kilometers away from the Caelum. When the weapon landed, the massive explosion blew away the surface of the earth and the structures upon it, changing the terrain of the bottom layer into a tomb-shaped 'Limbo,' an attack that sealed Nero in a death-like state for nearly a thousand years.
Now, to deal with this bizarre Gudako, The Enlightened One did not hesitate to fire seven'Strikes of Mercy' at once, attempting to break the eerie coat of magical energy on Gudako's body.
The pillars of light, possessing immense power, pushed Gudako all the way down, instantly penetrating the entire Holy Grail ritual site and blasting her into the first floor of the ground. Not only that, but it also formed a massive crater on the ground with a diameter of over a hundred kilometers and a depth of dozens of kilometers.
At the bottom of the crater, Gudako lay amidst the lava. The damaged magical energy coat on her body writhed and then became whole again. Then, Gudako shrieked as countless tentacles extended from her shadow and plunged into the lava.
Outside, Da Vinci was nervously watching the screen full of warnings. She quickly jumped down from the command tower, pulled open the hatch to the passage leading to the underground spiritron computer, and ran frantically toward the hall where the spiritron computer was located.
"Hey, hey, hey! Rin, you've played it too big this time! You didn't say that little thing inside you was this kind of creature!"
At this moment, on the underground spiritron computer, flesh-and-blood tentacles actually began to grow out of the mechanical machine. Simultaneously, eerie bloody water kept falling to the floor, transforming into monsters with distorted bodies.
Da Vinci, having just burst into the hall where the spiritron computer was located, looked at the scene spiraling out of control. She took a deep breath and slammed her fist into the emergency button at the hall's entrance.
"You've really gotten me killed this time, Rin!"
As the button was pressed, several magic-metal doors over three meters thick instantly dropped in the passage Da Vinci had entered from. At the same time, passages opened throughout the hall, and puppets manufactured by Touko for defense poured in, engaging the bizarre monsters and tentacles in battle.
Having come unprepared, Da Vinci could only take out some Mystic Codes she usually carried for auxiliary experiments and rushed toward the spiritron computer's console with the help of the puppets.
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