That protagonist is trash; I could do better!

"Humph."

Even with his eyes closed, King Gilgamesh could not hide his irritation.

Chapter 488 Official Debut

In this chaotic world, the laws of heaven and earth were torn apart, and the sky and the earth were submerged by storms. Hurricanes with a radius of tens of kilometers connected the sky and the earth, and the dust they stirred up blotted out the sun.

Rumble!

The world was plunged into darkness, with only the occasional super thunderstorm illuminating the chaos.

Hall looked up at the sky, where a magical barrier blocked the bullet-like pebbles that were being shot at him. Dust obscured his vision, and what was once a coastal area had become a desert. The soil was turned upside down, revealing a dirty and messy seabed. The seawater was either evaporated or swept away by this sandstorm that was sweeping the world.

A single, simple battle turned hundreds of kilometers of land, from the coastal area to the plains outside Uruk, into a desolate wasteland.

Both sides were surprised by the strength displayed by the other.

Hall's demonic eye remained fixed on the Demon King Goetia on the throne. The reason for his surprise was not because of the Demon King Goetia's performance, but because "he can exert this level of strength without using the light belt. He truly deserves to be the face of Type-Moon's combat power."

If Gilgamesh is the ceiling on the first floor, then the Demon King Goetia is undoubtedly the ceiling on the second floor.

This is still based on the premise that he does not use the light belt.

"If the Demon King Goetia truly accomplishes a feat surpassing even the gods, using the heat gained from burning humanity to travel back 4.7 billion years, witness the birth of stars, evolve the stars himself, and create perfect, immortal beings..."

Hall pondered in silence, thinking that in an instant, Getia should be able to become a resident on the third floor, at a level similar to that of an enlightened being.

On the outer edge of the world, before the throne of the Temple of Time.

The Demon King Goetia remained calm and indifferent, grinning to reveal his ferocious fangs, his smile full of mockery: "Stranger, so what if you borrow the power of the Mother of Origins?"

"You are human, and this identity determines your fate: fragile and insignificant, tragic and pitiful."

"It is nothing but destruction."

"Beg for help! Speak out your fears! It's time to drown in the sea of ​​misery! Hahahahahahahahahaha!"

In response to the arrogant attitude of Demon King Goetia, the Demon Pillar extending from the halo once again displayed a twisted form, its eyes wide open as they wrapped around its body. Curses overflowed from the cracks in the Demon Pillar's body, covering it and writhing downwards.

The eyeballs within the cracks of the Demon Pillar exhibited contradictory qualities of reason and madness, murmuring words that were sometimes angry, sometimes insane, sometimes indifferent, sometimes rational—

They use a language never before encountered by humans, and sounds that the human physiological structure cannot produce to declare—

"The time for choice has come; knowing all, I sigh at everything."

"Incineration Barbatos".

"The time for drifting has come. Heat source detected, moving body found, target confirmed."

"Civilization Style Buddhist Knot"

"The time for exploration has come. Now we cannot understand you mortals who forgive and respect one another, yet seek solitude without compassion or mercy. We understand that the other shore is where you will be put to death at the source of death."

"Incineration Harpas".

"The time for awakening has come. Intelligence room, court in session. Expose the past, destroy the future."

"Incineration Style - Floros".

Although it was reciting prophecies that no human had ever heard before, its rationality allowed it to understand the meaning of its voice, but just being able to understand it required a great deal of mental effort.

Even if an ordinary person doesn't die on the spot from hearing these sounds, they will suffer brain death and become a vegetable.

Hall frowned. The whispers of the Demon Pillars were mixed and intertwined, their voices rising and falling. Not to mention that they were sounds that human physiology could not produce, they were communicating using the methods of higher-dimensional life forms.

Humans can hear the voices of the Demon Pillars not because they actually speak, but because this is the only way humans can understand and perceive their existence.

Dozens of writhing demonic pillars extended from the halo to the barren land, their growth seemingly slow but actually rapid, each pillar exceeding tens of kilometers in length, and their spirit origins far surpassing those of Servants.

While observing Hall from all directions, they were also eager to make a move. Several demon gods had already suffered losses at Hall's hands, because if it weren't for the fact that their true forms were dealt with on the spot by Hall in the Temple of Time.

"anger."

"calculate."

"Measurement."

"statistics."

"wipe out."

"start up."

"Unanimously passed, all are equal, and you are granted equal destruction."

"This world will come to an end."

"They all disappeared."

"To behold your destiny, to know your limits, to accept your destruction—that is all there is."

Each of the Demon Pillars stared at Hall as if he were a lamb to be slaughtered.

Human reason has been burned away; there is absolutely no possibility of resistance from humankind.

Hall was just one of the insignificant humans.

Hall was speechless as he listened to the Demon Pillars' murmurs. His Demon Eyes calculated the scale of the Demon Pillars' spirit origins. The Demon Pillars, which were quite cute in the game, were hideous and eerie in reality. Each one exuded an alien feeling that was hard for humans to accept. "It's so noisy. It feels like I've entered a duck farm."

The Demon Pillars all possess god-level spirit origins, requiring multiple top-tier Servants to work together to defeat a single Pillar.

"The arrival of the Demon Pillar in this world means that the Demon King Goetia has fixed the existence of the Temple of Time in this world."

Does this mean a formal declaration of war?

"Just right."

Hall calmed himself down, and the smile on his lips grew even more excited.

Snapped!

He clasped his hands together, and the magical energy within his body circulated and formed a circular array, thus connecting with the foundation of alchemy.

呲呲!

Hall's magic eye emitted a rainbow of light, devouring immeasurable magical power every second to complete the calculations required to activate the spell.

Alchemy is the manipulation of the flow of matter and energy.

Through the bond of the contract, Hall uses alchemy to control Tiamat, the mother goddess of creation, and thus manipulate the primordial paradise.

They will then bring the planets that have been eroded by the original paradise under their control and forge a divine throne.

The destination reached was the summoning formula created by Hall.

—The Divine Descent Technique.

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South wall of Uruk.

As Fujimaru Ritsuka and her Servants stood on the city wall, they could already see the enormous figure of Tiamat, the Mother Goddess of Creation, but everyone's attention was drawn to the aura emanating from a more distant place.

Quetzalcoatl's expression was solemn, and he remained silent.

"The aura of the Demon God Pillars, and even stronger than what we encountered in the Singularity! The number...dozens of pillars!?" Fujimaru Ritsuka was the first to react.

In every singularity she had experienced before, she would encounter a single demon god, and even just one demon god would cause her great suffering.

Every demon she sensed now was more powerful than the one she encountered in the singularity, and some even contained familiar auras.

Fujimaru Ritsuka simply couldn't imagine the scene of dozens of Demon God Pillars appearing at the same time, nor could she imagine how she could defeat dozens of Demon God Pillars.

"Is the Demon Pillar right after Tiamat? What should we do?"

"If only the doctor and da Vinci were here! They would definitely have a solution..."

Just as she was struggling with this decision, her detection magic sensed an even stronger spiritual origin reaction.

Servant!

Moreover, each Spirit Origin reaction felt both familiar and unfamiliar to her. It was familiar because she had sensed the aura of these Servants before and knew their identities, but it was unfamiliar because their Spirit Origin reactions were much stronger than she had ever known.

"This is!?"

"Impossible! They are..."

Chapter 489 The Contractual Servant

To summon a heroic spirit, a corresponding vessel must be provided; the same applies to gods.

If heroic spirits are products born from human reason, then deities are the brilliance of stars, the tentacles of Gaia, the planetary consciousness.

Before the decline of the divine age and when human reason was established, every deity possessed power far exceeding that of heroic spirits.

Human magic is incapable of summoning the true form of a Heroic Spirit, so as a second-best option, a system called the "Servant" system was created.

As for gods, when the age of gods has passed, even if a spiritual foundation is provided for a god, the inherent characteristics of such a being will lead to rejection by physical laws.

The higher the divinity, the more so.

At the end of the Age of Gods, the laws of physics were not yet fixed, but it was still quite difficult to summon high-ranking deities. The High Priestess of Uruk had to go through a roundabout way to summon Rin Tohsaka's body from a parallel world to serve as a vessel for Ishtar.

Now that humanity has collapsed and the brilliance of the stars is shrouded in darkness, Tiamat, who possesses the three spiritual origins of a star-headed being, a creator goddess, and a beast of original sin, has rewritten the rules of the world, creating a paradise for the pre-divine era when the life system was still unstable.

It's less of a summoning and more of a creation.

"Return to the origin, born from Paradise, given life in the name of Tiamat, those who obey this principle, respond to me!"

Hall chanted the incantation loudly, and as Tiamat's Master, he used the Sea of ​​Life's Origin of Infinite Magic Power and the Spirit Origin of Planetary Scale to summon all the Servants who had made contracts with him.

It's not the state of a Servant, nor a split spirit, but rather a complete rewriting of the information recorded in the Throne of Heroes.

If we understand Heroic Spirits as a bunch of data, then the true Heroic Spirit summoning system created by the Counter Force is to copy the data of Heroic Spirits. Dr. Roman's use of his first Noble Phantasm is to delete the data.

What Hall did was cut up the data and fix the Heroic Spirit's original information onto the seat he created.

The restless demon pillars sensed the anomaly, and their crimson eyes, which covered the pillars, began to throb restlessly.

"An unknown reaction was detected."