Jobless Reincarnation: Emiya the Great Hero Must Show His True Skills

"Yes, for some unknown reason, the god seems to be isolated outside this world. Usually, he only meets us through dreams. To see the real god, one needs to break through the barriers of this world, but that is something that mortals cannot achieve."

As old Rudius clenched his fist, the surrounding space became tense as he focused his mind, and the room began to move automatically without any wind.

Sensing the old man's magic, Shirou realized even more that Old Rudeus's strength was not to be underestimated. Even compared to his current self, the difference was not significant, making him an absolute powerhouse.

Even with such power, Rudeus still felt despair at the existence of gods, which shows how difficult it is to kill a god.

Old Rudeus continued, speaking to himself, "I've spent a long time studying magic, becoming a mage comparable to the Ankylosaurus. I can now freely control both gravity and lightning magic. Yet, even so, I can't reach the realm of gods and men, and I can't avenge Shirou and the others. However, I believe it's simply because my abilities are insufficient. According to my research, magic in this world is omnipotent. Anything that exists in imagination can be realized through continuous study, including time travel magic..."

As the old man spoke, his face suddenly turned deathly pale, as if something in his body was about to reach its limit.

He had dark circles under his eyes, and his lips were stained blue.

But he still didn't stop talking, and even spoke at a faster pace: "When I realized that I couldn't defeat the gods head-on, I started looking for other ideas. In any case, I didn't want to die like this. It would be too unacceptable to die so pathetically without even being able to protect someone who needed to be protected."

As old Rudius spoke, his gaze grew sharper, but one could see his pupils gradually losing their luster, his limit approaching once again.

"So I kept researching and finally discovered the magic of time travel. I thought that as long as I could go back to the past, back to this moment before everything happened, I could stop the conspiracy of the gods and men! In the end, I succeeded, but I also failed. I succeeded because the time magic was indeed activated, but I failed because I paid a huge price. I don't have much time left to live."

"Therefore, I must tell you everything I have thought about throughout my long life, Shirou. Please stop me, stop that foolish me who is still being deceived and blinded by gods and men, stop him from doing the foolish thing of releasing the transfer magic circle. At the same time, please live well. Only if you live will the Grerat family continue to exist, and only then can the family members unite together."

As Rudius the Elder spoke, his complexion grew weaker and weaker, but his eyes grew brighter and brighter.

Because he had witnessed the Grellard family, which had fallen apart after Shirou's death, he felt a deep sense of emotion when he saw Shirou still alive. It was as if nothing had happened, and the warmth of the past was still within reach.

But he also sensed his life was ending, so he used his last strength to speak:

"Finally, let's talk about Aisha. Laplace's soul has possessed Aisha. We should try not to spread this news. Although the gods and humans will definitely make some underhanded moves, the less time Aisha's existence is exposed, the better. Once it's revealed that Aisha has become Laplace's body, the Grerat family will face at least two formidable opponents: the Dragon God Orsteed and the Ankylosaurus King Percius. They both aim to kill Laplace and will not allow Aisha, who is possessed by Laplace, to live in this world."

"Brother Shirou, you need to gather powerful allies to fight against Orsteed and Percius before the gods and men expose everything. Only by bringing together enough strong people to help you can you avoid being completely isolated and helpless like what I went through."

“In this process, Shirou, you can even consider relying on the god. Although it is all his scheme, the reason why the god went through so many twists and turns is probably not simply to kill you, Shirou, but to make you an enemy of Orstide or Percius, so that he can achieve his goal.”

"Although he is a pure villain, the situation that the Grerat family is about to face is so terrible that they must rely on every bit of power they have to get through this most terrible calamity."

"..."

Old Rudius spoke, word by word, about his thoughts and reflections throughout his long life.

These are probably things he has considered countless times and thought about for a long time, things he would need to say if he could go back in time and change everything.

Moreover, Rudius the Elder never mentioned giving up on Aisha from beginning to end.

Perhaps it's because old Rudeus witnessed Shirou's unwavering belief in protecting Aisha at all costs that Shirou's thoughts wouldn't be swayed, or perhaps he himself developed the desire to do anything to protect his family.

Shirou didn't interrupt Rudeus's words from beginning to end.

Because he was already convinced that the other person didn't have much time left to live, and that everything the other person wanted to say was their last wish in life.

Indeed, after recounting all this, old Rudius seemed utterly satisfied, and on his deathbed, he murmured:

"It's so nostalgic to discuss how to fight with you, Shirou-nii... Ever since the Asura Cataclysm broke out, I've been consumed by guilt and even forgot that I was supposed to fight alongside you, Shirou-nii. I couldn't be of any use in the battles against Ankylosaurus and Orsteed. That became a lifelong regret for me. Fortunately, I've been given the chance to change everything. If I could, I would love to step onto that battlefield with you and fight side by side with you... But the time has come."

"Although we couldn't fight side by side, everything you said was a great help to me. Thank you, Rudy."

Shirou looked at the old man, whose consciousness was already blurred and who seemed to be about to fall into a deep sleep and let out a silent sigh.

Rudius, upon hearing that familiar address, smiled contentedly and spoke with genuine emotion:

"I am the one who should say thank you, Shirou-nii. When I first came to this world, I was so fragile and confused, and I almost followed the same path again. It was you who guided me and became my role model, which prevented me from losing my way again and kept me aiming to become like you. Although my life has been full of failures, I have never given up pursuing the path you left behind. The words you said to me before the duel with the Dragon God Orsteed have influenced my entire life since then... If it weren't for that, I would probably have completely fallen and become a villain who abuses his power."

"That's not true. It's all thanks to your own efforts."

"Effort is important, but the direction of effort is even more important. You guided me in the right direction and on the right path."

The old man looked at Shirou with longing eyes, but at that moment, his gaze suddenly wavered and lost focus.

His hands fell limply to his sides, and he wearily began to speak: "However... I haven't received your guidance yet... I'm still a foolish and confused coward... I hope you, Shirou-nii, can guide me once again, and tell that ignorant me what is most important, what is worth sacrificing my life for, and what I must do... Although everything will change, and the future will be different, I hope that version of me can understand the same things as I do, and not go down the wrong path..."

After the old man finished speaking, he moved his body and slid off the chair.

Shirou was startled when he saw this and quickly went over to find that the other person was unconscious and had no breath.

When Shirou touched the other person's body, he was even more shocked. The old man's body was unbelievably light compared to his sturdy appearance.

Roughly weighing it, it might be less than forty kilograms.

Shirou carefully lifted the other person's long robe and found that there was nothing underneath, meaning that the other person's body was completely hollow.

It seems that time magic failed to bring old Rudeus to this era completely, only preserving a part of his body, which is why he was on the verge of death as soon as he appeared.

The reason the other party has been able to talk for so long is probably because of their indescribable and terrifying willpower, which has allowed them to hold on until now.

"..."

Shirou let out another long sigh, picked up the old man's body, and thought about burying him in a suitable place later.

Just then, he noticed that the old man had a thick notebook in his hand. The notebook looked very old and had been used for a very long time.

Shirou opened the notebook and found it filled with lines of diary entries, briefly recording the events that happened to Rudeus each day.

The diary was recently written and contains mostly trivial matters. However, the more you read through it, the more complex and weighty the content becomes. It is basically the conversation between the old man and Shirou about the future, but the diary entries are more detailed and even include the other person's personal thoughts.

Shirou then turned to a page, which happened to be about his death in the battle against Orsteed.

The diary entry was very brief, just one line: "Shirou is dead. Everyone is very sad. They have almost run out of tears."

Although it was just this one sentence, the diary entries went completely blank for a full six months.

It was as if, during those six months, everyone in the Grerat family had become zombies, and nothing worth recording happened.

Shirou then closed his eyes and shut the diary.

He needs to find some time later to read this diary carefully.

Before that, he needed to deal with the old man's body, and then check on Rudeus and Aisha.

If what old Rudius said and everything recorded in this diary are true, then he should be able to sense something from those two men.

Whether it's Rudeus, the apostle of gods and men, or Aisha, possessed by the demon Laplace.

If he didn't want the Grerat family to fall into despair, and if he didn't want everything that old Rudius had said to happen, he had to take precautions in advance!

Chapter 369 The Grellat Family Meeting! Facing the Impending Disaster!

In the capital's incinerator.

Under the cover of night, Shirou sent old Rudeus's body to the incinerator for cremation. He carefully packaged the ashes, intending to take them back to the Grellard family home in the magical city and bury them in a good place.

During the cremation of the elderly man, Shirou once again reviewed and summarized everything that had happened that night.

First, he was convinced that the old man was indeed Rudius himself.

Because when he passed by Rudeus's room before, he found that Rudeus's room had a diary that he used to record his daily writings. The style of the diary was exactly the same as the diary that old Rudeus had. However, due to the difference in time, Rudeus's diary looked very new, while old Rudeus's diary had become tattered due to the long passage of time.

After confirming that the other party was indeed the future Rudeus, Shirou began to ponder other questions.

The most important question is whether Rudius can be trusted in the future.

Although Shirou is certain that the other party is indeed from the future, this alone is not enough to confirm that the other party is trustworthy. It is also possible that the future Rudeus has been deceived by a god or some other being, traveled back to the past, and wanted to ruin what was originally a correct development.

While this might sound alarmist, given the current chaotic situation, Shirou had no choice but to be extremely cautious and not trust anyone easily.

Therefore, to convince old Rudius of his words, it is necessary to confirm that the information provided by the other party is correct.

This confirms that Aishah was indeed possessed by the demon Laplace.

Although Shirou did not experience the war between humans and demons four hundred years ago, he learned from various sources just how brutal that war was and how severe the pain that the demon god Laplace brought to the world was.

Once people find out that Laplace has possessed Aisha, countless powerful individuals will likely want to kill her. They won't care whether they kill the demon god Laplace or just an innocent girl. After all, for most people, exchanging the life of an ordinary girl for the death of the demon god Laplace is far too worthwhile.

But this was clearly unacceptable to Shirou.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have fought to the last moment against the Eindsworth family for the sake of his sister Miyu's life.

The god likely knew Shirou's personality, which is why he deliberately allowed the reincarnation of the demon god Laplace to possess Aisha. The other party paid a huge price and made so many complicated moves, so the goal he wanted to achieve was definitely not something simple. We must deal with it carefully.

……

After cremating the body of old Rudeus, Shirou returned to the inn where he was staying.

The old man's body was missing many parts; he had no abdomen, and there was a large hole below his ribs, where only bones and skin were visible, with almost no internal organs inside.

Therefore, even after cremation, the remains would weigh significantly less than those of an average person.

Shirou opened a cabinet in the room and carefully hid the jar containing the ashes.

His next destination was his younger sister Aisha's room. Before going there, he used his clairvoyance to observe Aisha's room.

The reason he did this was not because he didn't care about his sister's privacy. If he could, he would certainly like to knock properly before entering. However, the problem was that Aisha seemed to possess the soul of a demon god.

Laplace is ranked fourth among the great powers. Even if he lost his body and only his soul remained, weakened to the extreme, Shirou, with his strength at the bottom of the rankings, would not dare to confront him head-on.

Therefore, Shirou first activated his Clairvoyance to observe Aisha's room, hoping to make contact with the demon Laplace without directly confronting her.

To his surprise, when he looked around Aisha's room, he was astonished to find that there was no one there.

Shirou was stunned at first, then immediately looked around Rudeus's room and found that it was also empty.

In an instant, the information about the future that old Rudeus had mentioned surfaced in Shirou's mind.

Aisha, possessed by the demon god Laplace, will activate the transfer magic circle beneath the capital city with Rudeus, causing a large number of demons from the Demon Continent to appear in the capital city, resulting in a terrifying disaster known as the Asura Cataclysm that engulfs the country.

Although this disaster will not directly kill the Grellat family, Aisha's actions are tantamount to declaring war on the world, which will eventually lead to the Grellat family being the enemy of the world and ultimately causing the tragedy to unfold.

So, without even thinking, Shirou immediately activated his Clairvoyance to search for Aisha and Rudeus's location throughout the entire capital.

He soon found the two in an underground ruin in the royal capital of Ars.

Because the royal capital Ars was once an important fortress for the human race in their fight against the demon god Laplace, and even became a front-line fortress in the later stages of the war, the city is full of relics from the war between humans and demons.

Whether out of remembrance of war heroes or considerations for cultural preservation and tourism, the successive administrators of the capital have chosen to preserve the remnants of the war intact, including many excavated underground artifacts.

This not only made the royal capital Ars a world-renowned and distinctive city, but also left the demon god Laplace with an important contingency plan.

During the war between humans and demons, Laplace frequently built hidden teleportation magic arrays on various continents. Some of these teleportation magic arrays were eliminated by humans in time, but many escaped human detection. The largest of these was located in the war ruins of the capital of Asra. Because the buildings were preserved from the war, the entire magic array was completely preserved.

Aisha and Rudeus have now arrived at the outer side of the underground ruins.

Ka is an ancient ruin. Even in the daytime, it is pitch black, and one needs fire magic to see the way.

Because it is a man-made road, the road itself is not steep, and can even be described as flat. However, some sections are blocked by fallen rocks, and magic is needed to level the road before it can be passed.

The two walked for a long time until they saw a cave entrance.

Aisha said with great certainty, "It's in that cave up ahead."

"Is this really the kind of place?"

Rudius hesitated and muttered to himself.

He received a divine revelation during the night, instructing him to bring Aisha to this underground location and activate a switch on a certain ruin.

The god didn't explain the reason for this matter in detail, only telling him that opening the underground ruins would completely eliminate the hidden danger of a certain demon god's resurgence and ensure that no disaster would occur.

Although Rudeus is not a righteous ally, he has always followed Shirou and has gradually been influenced by him.

If he could save countless innocent people with his own hands, it would be a small achievement for him.

Perhaps I'll even get praise from Shirou.

Of course, the reason he came here so unprepared was because the gods had given him a lot of advice in the past, and every piece of advice had ultimately made things turn out for the better.

This gradually caused Rudius to lose his guard against the existence of gods and men, and he began to unconditionally believe what the other party said.

"Aisha, how did you know there was something here?"

Rudeus looked curiously at Aisha beside him. Although he had been separated from his two sisters for a long time due to the Great Transfer, he had lived with them in Buena Village for a period of time when they were young. So, in a sense, he was closer to his two sisters than to Shirou, with whom he had hardly ever had any contact.

"Well, could you call it intuition?"

Aisha was also somewhat confused. "In my head, a voice was telling me to come to this place."

"A sound..."

Rudius didn't think too much about it, assuming it was a divine intervention guiding Aisha.

He then entered the cave with Aisha and found a huge altar before them.

The altar is surrounded by a huge hollow completely covered with mushrooms and moss. Two carved and decorated pillars stand beside it, as if supporting the place. In the middle is a pedestal that looks like it was made of stone, and behind the pedestal are murals with intricate carvings.

Although the mural was covered with a jumble of patterns, it was too dark to see anything clearly.

The most eye-catching thing at the scene was the huge magic circle in the middle. The magic circle looked very dim, and due to the long time that had passed, many parts of it had even decayed.

It's simply impossible for an ordinary person to activate such an ancient magic circle.

But Rudeus's magical talent was so extraordinary that even with an incomplete magic circle, he figured out how to activate it after a little research.