Arknights' Lock of Heaven

Or rather, she simply didn't want to control it.

Destruction was her goal.

In Xia Yu's eyes, Talulah was an ambitious person. In her previous life, some people had proposed the theory of possession, saying that Duke Koschche possessed Talulah.

Xia Yu didn't want to care about any of this, whether it was the Originium Arts that possessed her or her inherently dark ambition.

Talulah's actions told Xia Yu that she was not fighting for the infected as she claimed.

On the contrary, she is pushing the infected group into the abyss.

Rhodes Island could see this, Ines could see this, and even the Patriots noticed it.

Unfortunately, he realized it too late. The Reunion Movement had already been engulfed by the fanaticism incited by Talulah and was already beyond saving.

With his body riddled with wounds, all he could do was restrain the shield guards under his command.

These infected people who have been incited cannot understand reason.

Xia Yu expressionlessly pulled the long sword from the chest cavity of a Reunion soldier and looked at the surrounding corpses.

He tried to reason with them.

Unfortunately, these people don't want to reason with each other.

We've arrived at the second warehouse marked on the map.

29 Tiamat PTSD

Fortunately, this time we didn't leave empty-handed.

The Originium reserves in this warehouse are used to maintain the normal operation of the city. Chernobog has been traveling in the wilderness for a long time, and it is estimated that some of the stored Originium has been consumed, so Xia Yu did not put it as her first target.

But after discovering that the original target warehouse was empty, he immediately changed his plans and headed towards the warehouse.

After defeating the Reunion Movement thugs, Xia Yu spent some time absorbing all the Originium in an entire warehouse.

Although some of them were consumed, there are still more than 70,000 refined Originium Ingots.

This relieved him.

The Holy Grail is no longer empty.

Since coming into this world, he has always felt somewhat uneasy.

The Holy Grail was his greatest asset in surviving the world of the Absolute Demonic Front, a world teeming with gods.

You could say that his life was given to him by the Holy Grail.

However, the Holy Grail has already exhausted all its magic in order to bind Tiamat, the creator goddess.

The empty Holy Grail could no longer give him a sense of security.

Although this divinely created body was extremely powerful, enough to rival most enemies, Xia Yu always felt a void in her heart because it lacked the vast, ocean-like magical power it once possessed.

From frugality to luxury is easy, from luxury to frugality.

But now it has finally recovered a little.

More than 70,000 Originium were thrown in, and a thin layer of magic finally accumulated at the bottom of the Holy Grail.

The Holy Grail in Xia Yu's hand was not a mass-produced item made by Goetia, but the original Holy Grail, representing miracles, from Gilgamesh's treasury, known as the Great Grail of Uruk.

It is naturally of a higher grade than the Holy Grail of the Goetia and the three starter families.

Otherwise, the power of miracles could not have been used so smoothly to cure Oripathy.

More than 70,000 Originium stones were thrown in, and when they were converted into magic power, they only formed a thin layer in the Holy Grail.

But in any case, it's enough for me to unleash two of Ishtar's Noble Phantasms.

Even Quetzalcoatl's solar calendar stone is not out of the question.

After all, it was a Noble Phantasm of a main god, and the magical power required to load her spirit origin alone was more than that of Ishtar.

EA and curry sticks are both usable now.

Now, Xia Yu stands atop the warehouse, looking at her hands through the iconic white mask of the Reunion Movement.

It's time to expand our gains.

-

"Amiya, how far along is the Doctor's awakening procedure?"

The worried voice of Instructor Dobermann came through the PRTS.

"I knew something was wrong in Chernobog, there are riots everywhere now..."

“It’s estimated that it will take another two hours to wake up,” Amiya said through gritted teeth, looking at the familiar face inside the pod. “Please hold on. If it gets too much, send out a distress signal…”

"A signal? Besides the teams on missions, do we have other support?"

"Dobermann asked, puzzled."

“Hmm,” Amiya recalled that night, the view from the highest heavens.

He will definitely show up!

-

"again……"

Xia Yu wasn't in a good mood.

This is yet another warehouse that has been emptied.

He missed again.

At this point, all ten warehouses on the outer perimeter have been explored.

Only the six warehouses that supported the operation of the entire city yielded some results, while the four warehouses he had placed high hopes on as reserves were all empty.

The combined harvest from all six warehouses amounted to only 370,000 Originium...

Although this is already a huge sum of money, no one, whether it's the Doctor from his previous life or the people of Terra, could refuse such a massive income.

Even the emperor of the Ursus Empire would take a second look at the net income of 370,000 Origin Stones in a single day.

But for Xia Yu, that wasn't enough.

Far from enough.

His enemy was an unknown god, and the suffocating sense of oppression from the previous encounter with Yamat still lingered in his mind.

Although he knew he would definitely not be able to face an enemy of the level of a creator god, and that even if the Chains of Heaven were strengthened, there would still be a limit, wanting to kill a creator god on his own was nothing short of a pipe dream.

Even ten more Holy Grails wouldn't be enough!

Tiamat was practically killed off by plot. If Ereshkigal hadn't secretly expanded the Underworld into Uruk's underground long ago, who could have defeated her?

It can be said that everything was in the right place at the right time, and that the miracle was achieved by seizing that one in ten thousand opportunity.

But the mind is something that cannot be controlled by human reason.

I know I probably won't face an opponent like that, but I still feel a little uneasy after seeing Tiamat.

Many times, even Xia Yu didn't know what she was panicking about.

But overall, I feel very insecure.

Is it possible that Xia Yu has developed Tiamat PTSD?

After all, that earth-shattering power is no joke.

Unless an extremely weak local god, who doesn't even need to use his Noble Phantasm, suddenly jumps in front of him and he gets a beating, perhaps the symptoms can be alleviated a little.

But where can you find such a weak god? In a world like Terra where everyone is a mini-superhuman, the local gods are usually not that weak.

Let's think about something more practical.

Humans are never satisfied.

When he ran out of magic power, he thought that if he still had enough magic power to unleash a Noble Phantasm, then he could go anywhere in the world.

I've now earned 370,000 Originium, enough to unleash a dozen or so Noble Phantasms, but it still doesn't feel like enough.

After all, I had planned to earn at least 500,000 yuan before I came here, and now...

Xia Yu looked towards the location of the core city of Chernobog.

"I remember in Talulah's storyline, she drove the Core City to Lungmen to cause trouble, right?"

“So,” he stroked his chin, “there must be Originium reserves there? And the sarcophagus is there too…”

-

To be fair, Xia Yu really admires patriots.

His disciplined guards alone were far superior to the thugs under other cadres who only knew how to burn, kill, and loot.

They were also oppressed infected people, the snowfield guerrillas who once struck fear into the hearts of anti-smuggling teams.

Under the Patriots' command, they formed two extremes compared to the infected who were tolerated by Talulah.

Their discipline was so good that even some of the military and police officers who were still struggling to hold on would bring civilians to the areas they were guarding.