They've already fought their way through the Holy Grail War, and you still call them dragons?

Both Emiya and Uzumaki had stern faces, trying hard to ignore the "death rattle" of their fellow humans.

At this point, unnecessary grief and mourning will only distract attention and waste the great opportunities created by teammates.

They used the Yamata-no-Orochi's body, which was as strong as a mountain and exposed in the sea of ​​blood, to jump forward quickly.

As we reached this point in the journey, the surrounding black fog began to gradually turn into an ominous blood-red color.

The tangible torrent of blood flowing all around finally converged under the bright red tree-trunk-like pillar supporting the throne, as if transporting endless life force just to hold up the supreme throne stained with the blood of the untouchables.

The distance was gradually shortening, and Ugly Gozen drew out his blade and aimed it at the towering pillar.

“…It’s too late for you.”

At this time, the god stood steadily on a high place, gently shaking his sleeves, and rotten maggots fell from the cuffs of his moon-white robe.

She seemed to be dancing on a high and narrow platform, her crimson hair was as red as blood, and her pale face began to gradually become more rotten.

"Izanami" sings and dances, as if performing a traditional Noh play.

The themes of Noh often involve humans and ghosts, and performers need to wear masks that symbolize their corresponding identities.

But God herself is supreme, and she needs no mask.

Her face itself is becoming "Yellow Spring-like", becoming more and more like the great god Huangquanjin!

“All the happiness in the world is like a fleeting flower in the shadow of the moon. Only loneliness and pain are always with us in the depths of the underworld.”

"The survival and struggle of this world are but a grain of sand in the vast universe of the mortal world, which will be reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye. Everything will eventually pass away, only death will live forever!"

"Open it here, Yaxun Palace!"

After the brief song and dance, the god lifted up his sleeves, revealing his colorful funeral clothes that looked even more eerie. A trace of divine aura emanated from him, causing the surrounding space to begin to change dramatically.

"My temple, my pillar of heaven, has spun a net of the underworld, which will capture all the pitiful living beings!"

A surge of dark frenzy.

Rumble!

Ugly Gozen ignored her and directly drew his sword to chop down the terrifying thunder that was piercing the sky. However, the tangible darkness instantly expanded, transforming into countless black tides, absorbing and devouring the thunder. Then, with the pillar as the center, it violently released it in all directions!

Emiya heard a term that sounded unfamiliar to him, "Yashiron-den?"

Ugly Gozen's face was solemn. "Could it be the Yaxun Palace mentioned in the myth?"

According to Japanese mythology, Izanagi and Izanami first plunged the Heavenly Jade Spear, a gift from the gods, into the sea, stirred it, and then lifted it up. The water dripping from the spear tip condensed into an island. Once the island was formed, the two gods then erected the Heavenly Jade Pillar and built the Yahiro-den (Hashimon-den) on top of it.

Thus, this place became the temple where Izanagi and Izanami united to create the land.

In other words, this is the original temple of creation!

The heaven and earth roared, and the two rows of towering bronze pillars that originally did not exist in Nezu Shrine trembled in the environment where the divine energy spread. They glowed faintly during this emergency activation ceremony, and were coated with a layer of white jade luster, as if recreating the mythical Jade Pillars of Heaven!

Emiya, who was anxiously observing the changes around him, soon discovered this scene. It turned out that those pillars were not decorations, but components to activate the temple device!

These pillars stand on the surface, taking deep roots, and at the same time, they surround the battlefield with clever distribution. The regularly arranged tall pillars are connected with each other's magic power, and their spirits resonate with each other, condensing the originally light black fog into a substantial dark barrier!

The sky disappeared and the earth disappeared!

The trembling pillars suddenly disappeared, and the surrounding background turned into a boundless darkness. The team fighting against the gods was like brave warriors who were isolated and helpless, with no chance of survival, trapped alive in the dark barrier.

"Master, we can't delay any longer! He seems to be successful!"

After saying this, Ugly Gozen closed her eyes. She was trying to feel whether her Bull-Headed Heavenly King Great Envoy could be officially summoned.

"No, not yet," Emiya stared intently at the god on the platform, projecting a black longbow in his hand. "If this guy already had the divine core, he wouldn't need any external help to construct a venue of this level, and he wouldn't be so easily suppressed by us."

The real Izanami is at least at the level of the Mother Goddess of Creation. The scale after completion is even much different from the average eight million gods. How could it be possible to make such a big fuss but little results?

"I am the bone of my sword——"

Emiya chanted only one sentence, and then completed the instant projection at a speed far exceeding any previous one...

Essentially, this is because when the Unlimited Blade Works mental landscape is constructed, its projection process is greatly shortened, and the steps become to directly take out a new copy through the backup in Unlimited Blade Works.

Then he placed the projected "Dojikiri Yasunari" on the bow and aimed at the approximate position of "Izanami" in the darkness.

"Whoosh!"

The pseudo-canonical treasure broke through the air and collapsed on the high platform, blasting out a dazzling and huge fire, comparable to the explosion of a large-scale cluster bomb. It was like a huge spherical ball of hot fire, which instantly evaporated a large area of ​​black water flowing from "Izanami".

The next second, with the help of the situation opened up by Emiya and the conspicuous light, the huge thunder that Ugly Gozen slashed out with his sword also followed closely. The thick and violent electric currents densely woven into a net, covering every corner around the throne of God, vowing to blast all death and foul air into scum!

"……it's useless!"

"Izanami" sneered, and the huge electric current and fire eventually dissipated, but the breath of God did not weaken in the slightest.

Her body's "Yellow Spring" transformation deepened, even her throat becoming rotten, causing her voice to become rough, hoarse, and unpleasant. However, despite her seemingly rotting and smelly corpse, her divinity had undergone a further qualitative change.

Because in the myth, Izanami who entered the underworld was corrupt and covered with maggots.

Perhaps, the closer one is to the mythical state, the higher the divine defense will be.

The god also kindly added, "Yashimono is my temple. It is my true body, my anger and resentment, my incarnation of the underworld, and the great cornerstone that erodes the world."

"In other words, when I ascend to godhood, the temple will be my statue, the proof of my status as the Mother Goddess of Creation. I am the temple, and the temple is me!"

"Do you think the steps to becoming a god are simply to transform and elevate the body and soul? That's completely wrong. Myths from ancient times have documented that temples are essential for rituals. This is the true meaning of myth!"

Spiritual reshaping is the core of the White King's ascension to godhood. She first used a lot of killing and spiritual abilities to control human public opinion and behavior.

This has created a Nibelung-like environment in the modern world, suitable for spiritual reforging. Based on this, it accumulates power like gaining a "fame bonus."

The second step is to secretly use and gradually control the Holy Grail Alchemical Matrix to create the Nibelungen that erodes reality, and expand the scope of erosion outward by controlling the earth veins of the entire Tokyo.

At this point, the entire Tokyo became a natural place for the White King to maximize his spiritual reforging.

The third step is to select a group of human souls harvested through mass killings to become hundreds of ghosts and monsters, and spread them out to create more killings and collect soul materials for her.

The remaining souls, along with the Servant souls, were sent back to the World Tree as sacrificial material. These souls were mentally brainwashed and became the carriers of mythological information, the "basic data package" for adding the Throne of God to the "server" of the World Tree.

And finally, she herself would choose the place to ascend to the gods, transform the site, build and prepare the temple.

Is it possible to complete the ascension ceremony simply by sacrificing a large number of souls? How is that possible!

If one wants to bring the alchemical technique of spiritual recasting, which utilizes human myths and legends, to its fullest potential and become the Supreme God, then one must prepare it exactly according to the rituals of human mythology.

In fact, among the elements in real mythology, "sacrifice" is an indispensable way to reconcile and transform power in human concepts, and "temple" is a place for sacred activities and rituals that must have been established in ancient times.

The so-called beginning of mythology is the opening of the temple ceremony.

The so-called ascension to the gods is the process of transforming the entire temple into a divine body and statue, and completely sublimating into a higher-dimensional god!

Then, "Izanami" openly spread out the moon-white sleeves and rotten arms that had just been torn by the fire and lightning to the two people below. The cloth and skin that had been burned to ashes were restored to their original state as if time had gone back.

"Hahaha! I've clearly warned you before, yet you still attack me now—what a pity, it's too late, too late! I am inseparable from the temple, waiting for the final step to leap over the throne door!"

"What!" Ugly Gozen didn't expect the result to be like this.

In other words, must we treat the temple as Izanami's true form and defeat it together? Like just now, attacking either the Yamata no Orochi or Izanami herself would be futile?

Emiya wasn't terribly shocked. Instead, he had a connection to something based on Izanami's words...

The Crown Temple of Time.

In FGO, the Demon King Goetia, who appeared as the final boss of the first part, disguised himself as King Solomon and caused a disaster called the Human Burning. His base is also known as the "Crown Time Temple".

This is because King Solomon is a Servant who holds the qualifications for the Crown, and the Crown Time Temple is a microcosm created based on Solomon's magic circuits, an inherent barrier independent of the timeline and the world.

The Demon King is completely integrated with the Demon Pillar and the Temple of Time.

Izanami had just mentioned that she would become one with the temple, completing the ritual of ascension. In other words, this barrier space would soon become her own, a kind of living, inherent barrier...

That's trouble.

Judging from the phenomenon just now, the result of the integration of the two will be that if the god himself is killed, he will be resurrected by the temple, and if the temple is destroyed, it will be restored because of the existence of the god himself.

In order to completely eradicate this existence, three conditions need to be met: destroy the temple, destroy the god himself, and cut off the connection between the two.

Fortunately, since "He" himself said that the two had not yet fully ascended to godhood and the inherent barrier of the living body had not yet been completed, then Emiya had a tricky way to sever the connection between the two -

Keeping the original plan unchanged, he used his infinite sword skills to lock up the God's true form!

In this way, the two exist in different "worlds": for God, the temple does not exist, and for the temple, God does not exist.

"Avenger, do you feel like you can summon that now?"

Emiya spoke quickly. He didn't explicitly say "Gyuto Tenno-no-no-Kami-sama," but Uzumaki would surely understand the implication.

"……able!"

“In the name of the Command Seal—!”

As Emiya spoke, he jumped up with both feet and stood on Ugly Gozen's floating shoulder armor. The latter immediately understood his intention, and lightning quickly condensed in circles under Emiya's feet and around his shoulder armor, like a bright and flashing electromagnetic acceleration ring.

"—Use all your strength to release your Noble Phantasm!"

Boom!

Lightning exploded, and the sudden flash of electricity was extremely dazzling. At the same time, Emiya's figure broke through the sound barrier in an instant and rushed straight towards the platform where the god was.

Then, Ugly Gozen smiled brilliantly beneath his visor:

"Obey my Lord's command! Since this place has become a hellish hell, filled with ugly, wriggling insects—Bull King Reversal, Evil and Unrighteous! Disappear! Be gone!"

"Why struggle so desperately——"

Shen originally had a fearless attitude. She saw Emiya rushing straight towards her, but so what?

No matter how close the distance is, it's just a matter of seeking death!

However, the next moment, her expression changed. Outside the temple's barrier, there was a huge guy violently attacking and trampling the temple!

Damn it, it was the big guy summoned by the servant just now. Even if this thing destroyed the temple, it could not interrupt the process of ascension to the godhood. The temple would automatically repair itself due to integration, but!

There's this Emiya in front of him, rushing towards him with a fearless look. They might be planning something bad!

"Hmph, no matter what tricks you come up with, you won't succeed. Huang Quan, devour all living beings!"

The god opened his arms, his sleeves spread out to face the cold wind.

A huge amount of darkness suddenly erupted from his body. It was a terrifying area attack that would kill any living being that came into contact with it. It almost went straight to Emiya's head, and was even going to cover him, and kill Ugly Gozen who had activated his treasure!

"Shoot a hundred heads—"

Nine well-prepared arrows illuminated a patch of darkness within. They transformed into long, trailing flames, even passing right by Emiya, piercing the torrent of darkness! Clearly, the judgment of the living was no match for the Noble Phantasm of the dead.

Well done, great Greek hero!

Emiya praised silently, and he stomped his feet hard. Flames shot out and flashed under his feet, like a temporary flame accelerator, which made him break away from the gliding shoulder armor that was flashing with lightning in an instant and fly towards the platform at a faster speed!

And Izanami's face, pale with panic, was getting closer and closer.

Very good, the capture range of the inherent barrier, infinite sword system is about to be reached. Emiya pointed his sword at the spirit and chanted the spell:

"I am the bone of my sword——"

Come on, you fake and shoddy Mother Goddess of Creation, come and go to jail in this small world with me, a person who is good at making counterfeits!

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Rumble, rumble!

Nuo Nuo was shocked by the deafening thunder.

Not long ago, she followed Charlotte and Xia Mi to a leyline node near Nezu Shrine.

According to Charlotte, controlling the earth veins is the first experiment, and the success rate is hard to say. In order to get as close to success as possible, it is best to choose the nodes of the earth veins near the battlefield based on the principle of proximity, so that the servants participating in the battle can be more directly affected.

After choosing a location, Nuonuo and Charlotte witnessed with their own eyes how Junior Sister Xia Mi transformed into a master of earth escape and dug a super cave several hundred meters deep in the ground in just a few seconds.

...No, Junior Sister, who the hell are you? How did you do that just now? Nuonuo was full of suspicion, because Xia Mi's movements almost became afterimages, and she couldn't see clearly at all.

However, Charlotte, who grew up in an alchemy family, seemed to have some guesses. A trace of disbelief and shock flashed across her face... He was so familiar with the earth, could he be the king of earth and mountains?

However, Charlotte wisely did not speak out at this critical moment. She chose to remain silent, and together with Xia Mi, they raced against time to seize control of the earth vein and try to operate it.

So, Nuonuo once again watched the two's inexplicable earth vein manipulations... This time, it wasn't that she couldn't see clearly, but she completely couldn't understand it. Or perhaps it was that, except for the top alchemists in this world, no one else could possibly understand it.

"Amazing, worthy of being..."

Under Xia Mi's guidance, Charlotte completed the tampering of permissions and the reconstruction of the flow, so the little sister subconsciously admired her and wanted to praise her, but she thought it was not appropriate to expose the other party as the Dragon King in person, so she stopped herself in time.

"Hey, it's nothing! You're still young, little sister, and there's a lot of room for improvement!"

Colonel Xia Mi patted Miss Charlotte's head gently, as if he was accidentally bullying the little girl because of her height.

In fact, she was also amazed at Charlotte's talent in alchemy, which was only slightly worse than her own.