Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

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772. Hmph! You dare to challenge a Gold Saint without even understanding the difference in strength!

Just when you think this servant is that person, he suddenly tears open his pants—ha, didn't expect that, did you? Actually, I'm XXX!

Then, just when you finally find a way to counter this hero, he tears open his shirt—ha, you didn't expect that, did you? Actually, I'm still XXXX!

Okay, this kind of spirit origin fusion, and then using a real name for a real name, is already commonplace in the Fate/stay night scene.

But one thing is absolutely certain—there is no single avatar that can reach this level of strength!

Looking at the huge illegal building overhead, Tsurugi didn't say a word for a second.

Galaxy Star... that won't do, Lightning Speed... that won't do either, Athena... that's even more unacceptable!

Forget it, let's go with something cool!

Lushan Rising Dragon Strike!!!

Roar! ! !

With a roar of a celestial dragon, what the people in New York below saw was a blue dragon over a thousand meters tall appearing in the void!

The dragon surged upstream, charging upwards to meet the barrage from the goddess of love, and instantly tore apart the pink torrent of light.

At the same time, the dragon instantly coiled around the so-called glorious temple of the goddess, and then with a forceful tug, the once invincible temple of the gods collapsed and crumbled!

One strike, just a single, insignificant strike.

The great temple, which no one could do anything about, was destroyed—it wasn't even a speed bump!

The American magicians who had been hiding and waiting for the end of the world stared in disbelief at this scene, unsure whether to feel hope or despair.

But without a doubt, the sheer absurdity made them feel extremely unreal, and then it suddenly dawned on them—

"That guy is just playing us for fools!!!" the alchemist from the Atlas Academy cursed through gritted teeth.

Now that things have come to this, everyone can see that Tsurugi was just playing them for a fool!

Or rather, he wanted to watch them go through all the trouble of peeling off their superhuman skin, only to find a Saint Seiya hidden underneath—he just wanted to enjoy their fall from heaven to hell!

Absurd, bullshit, unbelievable

How could the Holy Grail War possibly summon such a Servant? So, were they just being fooled from beginning to end?!

Tsugumi: Congratulations on taking down the first layer of my health bar after all your hard work—now, it's time for Phase 2!

At this moment, Tsurugi really had no interest in playing with them anymore.

"Go to hell, I'll settle the score with you later."

He said coldly, and casually unleashed a light-speed punch. In the next instant, countless rays of cosmic energy traveling at the speed of light flew to all parts of the world!

Atlas Academy, Wandering Sea, Europe, Washington, USA, Antarctica...

Beams of light descended from the sky, precisely and efficiently turning them into dust.

Those who had fought against him, or the remaining magicians who hadn't been killed, and all the other nonsensical things—except for a very few who were truly helpless and whom he didn't want to kill—were all reduced to ashes under the brilliance of this punch.

He didn't care about saving the world or anything like that; he just wanted to kill them all and be done with it!

This wasn't even a source of amusement for him, just like casually swatting a bunch of mosquitoes—it didn't give him any sense of accomplishment!

Tsugumi stared expressionlessly at the crumbling, shattered Great Temple, which had transformed into spiritual particles. Amidst the countless fallen ruins, a figure emerged.

Although she was possessing Semiramis's spirit origin, Tsugumi recognized her at a glance.

"You've finally appeared! Why aren't you hiding anymore, my dear rose?"

The goddess, residing in Semiramis, looked at Tsurugi and spoke in a cruel and possessive voice.

"I thought I had to kill all of humanity before you would show up."

The goddess before me is Aphrodite.

Or to be more precise—it is the Aphrodite of this world.

Just as the mythical world of Tsurugi once had a connection with it, this world's Origlotes is also connected with Aphrodite.

But this is no longer the simple love relationship found in orthodox mythology!

It's worth mentioning here that the virtues of the gods in Japanese Western mythology—compared to their Greek origins—seem to be more morally upright, with the Olympian gods of the moon appearing to be more so.

They viewed humans as reeds, but reeds that truly needed protection and care. Compared to the gods in most orthodox myths who completely disregarded humans, they undoubtedly seemed better.

But—that's just how it appears.

Their personalities are actually far more abnormal than those of the gods in the original mythological world!

If the Olympian gods of the original mythological world are like a group of Greek nobles who have gained divine power, then these gods transformed from robots after losing their physical bodies are perfectly integrated into the local characteristics of the moon, and are standard Japanese neurotic gods.

—Just kidding. It was the same before I lost my body, but this Aphrodite in front of me is the ultimate example.

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—Just kidding. It was the same before I lost my body, but this Aphrodite in front of me is the ultimate example.

It's hard to understand why a goddess of love and beauty would despise love and beauty, and believe that love and beauty are actually means of domination, rather than normal praise and admiration for them.

You can understand love as a physiological impulse driven by hormones, after all, she's a robot, and Tsugumi can understand that. But this Aphrodite therefore behaves completely unlike a goddess, let alone the goddess of love.

She's like a paranoid and mentally ill person, and there's absolutely no element of love in this world, Tsurugi, and her story.

In short, Aphrodite suddenly appears and confesses her love to him, but her way of expressing her love is to try to pack him up and treat him like a figurine—because she believes that something so beautiful should be kept by her forever.

But Tsurugi fought back and beat up her intellectual form. Enraged, she transformed into her true form, and Origrotes, despite being seriously injured, elbowed her again.

In the end, it was Ares who stepped in to smooth things over, only ordering the execution of Origlotes instead of sending him to Aphrodite as a figurine to be tormented forever.

You're asking about Athena? The Athena of this world is even more of a riddle-maker, anyway, Tsurugi is too lazy to delve into the complicated parts of this world's memories.

Even so, Aphrodite left behind a curse, just like Ishtar did with Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Whenever someone in the mortal realm summons Origrotes, she will reappear to cause them trouble.

Honestly, although Tsugumi really disliked Aphrodite who wanted to have sex with him, she was still a hundred times better than the thing in front of him!

Tsugumi didn't say anything, but this guy started having fun on his own. Seeing that Tsugumi had no reaction, he immediately activated his Beauty Power.

She plans to bewitch Tsugumi while he's still a Servant, take him away, and then torment him until he dies!

"Every corner of Lingzi belongs to me!!!"

"Rejoice, for love is domination; rejoice, for beauty is domination! Surrender, humankind!"

"You, of the Chaotic Star—"

Yea!

Tsurugi slammed the incoming alluring divine power into pieces, then expressionlessly stepped forward and stomped on her face.

"Aaaaaaah! How can you be so powerful even as a Servant? This is unreasonable, this is impossible, I'm not reconciled!!!"

"If this demigod's frail body weren't insufficient to bear my power, if it weren't for—"

Without saying a word, Tsugumi tossed a Holy Grail to her.

Aphrodite stared blankly at the Holy Grail in her hand, then at Tsugumi, and suddenly understood what she meant.

But you think he'd be grateful? LOL, she was furious and felt deeply insulted, so she immediately used the Holy Grail.

"What an utterly foolish idiot to have delivered such a miraculous object into my hands!"

Aphrodite raised the Holy Grail high and said in an excited yet cruel voice...

"In that case, confront my true form—Origrotes!!!"

In an instant, the miraculous light of the Holy Grail enveloped her, and when it dispersed again, it revealed a completely different figure.

She was a goddess somewhere between a young girl and a woman, with fiery red hair that had an eerie gold underside. The thin gauze dress she wore did not appear seductive, but rather simply beautiful.

The beauty of that face needs no further explanation; its arrogance and frivolity are palpable, as if one can immediately discern the desire for conquest it contains.

"Well, Origrotes, after a thousand years, are you moved by my beauty again?"

Aphrodite flashed a seductive smile, but Tsurugi glanced at her, then looked at a massive steel sphere in the distance and said calmly.

"So that's your true form? A sphere?"

The Olympian machines were interstellar fleets from outer space, and Aphrodite served as one of their units.

She is a large terminal for intellectual education and a spiritual intelligence warfare attack machine—in other words, her true form is a super learning machine and an occasional hacker.

Aside from the fact that Earth itself gave her the right to use her powers, what she actually possesses is simply the technology to manipulate spiritual particles.

"I'll give you three moves, then I'll kill you." Tsurugi held up a finger to her, her face expressionless.

Aphrodite's previously pleased expression instantly turned gloomy, and she laughed in fury at Tsurugi's appearance.

"Very well, son of Helios! Whether you live or die, you are the same person I despise. Since that's the case, I will grant you a miserable and wretched death!"

The next moment, in an instant, countless telekinetic missiles swept towards Dongjiang like a tsunami.

But faced with this tsunami-like onslaught, Tsurugi remained unfazed, letting the attacks rain down on his Gold Cloth.

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The numbers aren't enough!

As the swaying missile dissipated, Tsugumi stared silently at Aphrodite before her. Though she didn't speak, the utter contempt in her expression only fueled the machine god's growing rage.

"It's nothing! Just an organism that has only just learned to walk on two legs!" Aphrodite, enraged and humiliated, decisively abandoned her useless powers, activated the functions of her true form, and concentrated all her power into a single burst.

No, to be precise, these were two moves, because at the same time, she also fully activated all the functions of the Machine God's true form.

"Codename Pandemos, input confirmation—Enemy intelligent life form confirmed. Spiritual intelligence warfare commences—You are of the chaotic stars! I will utterly shatter your heart!!!"

As the Machine God's main body activated, the spiritual particle analysis of Tsugumi in her Saint Seiya form immediately began, but only for a few seconds—

The enormous mecha-god itself emitted bursts of electricity and crackling sounds, while Aphrodite, acting as the humanoid terminal, was on the verge of a breakdown.

"How is this possible? Your body—how can that be flesh?!" she screamed hysterically.

Are you kidding me? Where would a carbon-based life form come from that could connect its physical body to a level capable of withstanding the Big Bang? Can that thing even be considered carbon-based?

"I don't understand. We Saint Seiya train our bodies." Tsugumi clenched her fist, looked at the machine god in front of her, and grinned.

"Just kidding. I can do the other things too, but I'm going to use the fists you despise the most to smash you, this fancy little thing, until not a single molecule is left!!!"

"Hmph, you don't even understand the difference in strength, yet you dare to challenge a Gold Saint? Take my Lion's Fang!!!"