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

However, to practice the concept of "emptiness" in a sword strike, one must reduce complicated operations and focus on one strike.

This is a truly unsolvable challenge, as unsolvable as wanting the horse to run without eating grass. It's like Party A slapping down a request, "Give me a colorful black or a dazzling white!" It's also like "I want ten pounds of lean meat, cut into sauerkraut, without any fat on top! I want another ten pounds of all-fat, without any lean meat on top, cut into sauerkraut too! And then I want another ten pounds of golden cartilage..."

In short, Emiya's actions highlight his desire to have everything. No wonder BB was so surprised after hearing Emiya's plan. If this can be accomplished, Emiya's swordsmanship will be unprecedented and unmatched!

But Emiya didn't think it mattered. With BB's reminder, he already had a basic understanding of the so-called "emptiness".

The concept of "emptiness" is to reduce the superfluous and become the only one. This is precisely because we need to achieve the sword that cuts off the cause and effect of past karma.

Why is that?

Try to recall the purpose of combat. Generally speaking, combat is about defeating the enemy. To defeat the enemy, the steps required are generally a complex process of probing, gathering intelligence on the enemy, figuring out their attack patterns, counterattacking, overcoming stalemates, finding a flaw and delivering a fatal blow, and so on.

However, with so many steps, how many cuts are needed in total? That must be an extremely large number.

So, is it possible to cut it down and reach the target with a single blow? A so-called one-hit kill?

Of course, reaching this level is too profound. It is no longer a severance of cause and effect, but rather a reversal of cause and effect.

For the time being, Emiya gave up the idea of ​​achieving success overnight. He lowered his requirements. For example, he only wanted to cut off a certain advantage of the opponent, some decisive advantage, such as the connection between the Holy Grail or the earth veins, and set this as the target of his sword.

This kind of blow that severs the connection between things can indeed be called an attack that severing cause and effect and cutting off past karma.

The realm he had grasped actually had a corresponding outstanding field in this world's alchemy—"causal separation," the field of severing and modifying closely linked causal relationships. Whether it was severing causality, connecting causality, or even reversing causality, all of these could be applied in this area.

...It can be seen that people cannot be generalized. At one point, under extreme circumstances, Shirou relied on his own understanding to instantly reach a new realm that he had never understood before.

Boom!

Thunder roared incessantly, casting shadows on the inverted islands, and the scene in the Night Food Plain grew increasingly chaotic. The current developments fully aligned with the conclusions reached by BB, Chaldea, and other parties through close monitoring—the leyline disturbances were intensifying, and the boundary between the Nibelungen and the mortal world was becoming increasingly ambiguous.

Silently, several space cracks with floating light suddenly opened up.

[Here it comes! —Senior, did you see it?]

BB suddenly said. At the same time, she conjured several virtual observation screens before Emiya's eyes. The hidden cracks, the Tokyo coordinates behind them, and the real-time scene were all clearly marked.

"Very good! I saw it, I saw it all!" Emiya gasped, Susanoo seemed unwilling to give in to the giant who was showing a disadvantage, the black divine flame was burning fiercely, and he had no intention of letting the opponent know that he was not in his prime.

At this moment, his pupils seemed to emit a terrifying divine light in the darkness. With his top-notch swordsmanship, he tried to madly squeeze out the power and observe the mysterious cause and effect relationship. At the same time, he swung his sword at the snake god and the space crack.

Having pointed out the information and provided computing power, the girl beside him had done everything she could. She blinked and looked at Emiya. Normally, Emiya's "killing two birds with one stone" strategy was completely unbelievable. No normal person would be so radical, but there was nothing she could do. After all, she was just a fragile AI, unable to defeat anyone.

So, brave Emiya-senpai, you will create a miracle for BB-kichi, right?

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Abbas opened his eyes in a daze, and the scene of burning flames lingered in front of his eyes for a long time.

Strange...what had happened to him before? Abbas recalled the memories that stung his mind and caused severe pain in his heart. He recalled the strange looks that Mashu, Director Caesar, and his colleagues in Chaldea had given him.

It was a burning look as he looked at a monster or an enemy. Abbas felt like he was alone at that moment. He was no longer an elegant jungle tiger but a despicable villain who assisted the tiger... He was the parasite of the Demon Pillar.

Crackling, burning...

The sound of scorching flames brought Abbas' thoughts back to the present.

What did he see?

He saw hell.

This is the hell that I have trapped myself in since I was young.

The orphanage building collapsed in the sea of ​​fire. The seven brothers who were once as close as brothers to him assassinated the old director who truly loved Abbas himself, and left with the money, heading for the colorful world in the unknown distance.

And I was left here forever.

Because he had made an irreparable mistake. Simply because he didn't trust the dean, he passed on the secret of the gold bars that the dean had told him to the brothers, which led to the dean's death. And he actually ran away out of cowardice at the time, making the tragedy ultimately irreversible...

From that time on, Abbas vowed to abandon his cowardly self and live as an upright man and a partner of justice, even if the price of embracing this ideal was to drown himself.

Suddenly, Abbas's face changed. He saw the seven brothers reappear in the burning orphanage. They were going up and down the stairs in the room, and the old man's figure was swaying among them.

Then everything in the field of vision changed again. The running old men and young men disappeared, and they were replaced by the cruel scene of the Demon Pillar wantonly releasing its terrible magic power and slaughtering people everywhere in the city.

Snapped.

He stepped into the burning courtyard gate almost without hesitation.

"Hey, there's hell ahead."

Faintly, he seemed to hear someone behind him reminding him in a deep voice. The voice was weak, humble and timid, just like his ugly self in the past.

"That's what you're missing."

After retorting, Abbas chose to face the hell in the sea of ​​fire without hesitation.

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"Mashu! Four o'clock!"

Minamoto no Raikou used the powerful Indra's thunder to kill off the incoming wave of demons, but the monsters continued to emerge, with flesh and branches surging everywhere, and in the distance, all kinds of cold arrows were flying from all directions with missile-like firepower.

Clearly, the Heroic Sword Masters and the flesh-and-blood demons of the Impure Land City had changed their strategy. This time, they were using a massive wave of attacks, determined to fight to the death if they couldn't win. This drained the Chaldean forces to the point of not making any progress, leaving them stranded and struggling to cope with attacks from all sides.

"Hah!" After hearing Minamoto no Raikou's reminder, Mashu suddenly changed direction and swung her shield to one side. The impact of the super dining table shield was so powerful that it could always knock many enemies away with one blow.

"This won't work! Mashu, can you at the Chaldea Observatory provide information on the fleeing enemy or the best possible location?"

She was very worried about the whereabouts of the evil sorcerer Ashiya Doman, but now he didn't come out again.

Hearing Minamoto no Raikou's question, Mashu quickly replied, "Yes! The enemy we encountered previously possessed a considerable degree of spiritual reflexes. It's estimated to be about 5 kilometers away in that direction..."

"Very good!" Minamoto no Raikou interrupted, "I'll help you clear the way! Mashu, you go first, I'll be there soon!"

There was no choice at this point. Minamoto no Raikou, despite his unparalleled martial prowess, was fearless in the encirclement, but Mashu was inexperienced and her performance on such a large battlefield was still a bit naive. A better plan would be to get her out of here. Judging by Mashu's ability to defend against the Demon Pillar's bombardment, her survivability was actually quite good.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Genji general condensed a mighty thunder on his long sword and blasted it rapidly in the direction Mashu said. Explosions continued, and flesh and blood turned to ashes in the blink of an eye. A straight black tunnel appeared in front of Mashu!

"quick!"

"Yes!" Mashu didn't waste any words and used her legs to fly away quickly.

Then Minamoto no Raikou drew his bow and arrow, shooting out several brilliant flashes of lightning, and began to snipe at the enemy's rain of fire in mid-air.

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"Damn it! Ugh—I'm so unlucky!"

Ashiya Doman was a little exasperated, his face was filled with anger, but more of it was filled with boundless fear.

Takeda Shingen, who was treated as his bodyguard, was already under his control. He gave him the precious horse "Black Cloud" to ride, which made Ashiya Doman's running speed theoretically extremely fast.

As for why we say theoretically?

Because actually...

Boom!

The space opened up without any warning, and the terrifying black flames suddenly fell from the sky, like a violent rain of black flames like the sea!

In the blink of an eye, the vast city buildings and the ground were completely destroyed by the flames. Ashiya Doman and the Hummer he was riding crashed head-on into it, and with a "pop" sound, no trace of his body was left.

"..."

The paper shikigami is reduced by one again.

Ashiya Michiman had a gloomy face as he looked at the black sea of ​​fire in front of him, which was like a Jedi and a dividing line, and his mood seemed to have fallen into the abyss.

Why is this happening?

He had clearly noticed before that most of them should be pure spatial illusions from the Night Food Source and were essentially harmless.

For some unknown reason, various real space cracks have been opening up since a while ago, and the ending is needless to say.

The black divine flames that Emiya released accidentally and deliberately were wrapped in a thick power of authority, which was absolutely not something that ordinary servants could resist. Ashiya Doman was almost always burned to ashes in the first encounter.

What on earth was going on? Was I really just unlucky?

"Let's go! Change direction!"

Ashiya Doman made a prompt decision and led the heroic swordsman into Rufeng again.

Rumbling--

Soon, an explosion occurred in front of him, followed by screams. A fleshy monster with long cylindrical eyeballs was burned by black flames until the outside was charred and the inside was tender.

Ashiya Doman: "..."

Is there anyone else as unlucky as me?

Chapter 329: All kinds of martial arts, this is the severing of cause and effect!

Aaaaa——

The flesh of the Demon Pillar burned by black flames squirmed and let out a sharp and piercing howl. Its huge columnar body quickly shook off the skin and bloated flesh, as if it was cutting off its tail to survive, and gave up the part of the tissue that was entangled by the black flames.

Ashiya Doman looked at this abnormally tenacious vitality with a changeable look in his eyes... This strange monster seemed to be just like himself, having the misfortune of crashing into an area that happened to be covered by space, and then encountered the black divine flame head-on.

However, the monster Demon Pillar seemed to be lucky. Unlike Ashiya Doman, who was submerged in the sea of ​​black flames and died instantly, it must have a good level of insight and dodged in time to avoid the attack.

"Hmm, magical substances, strange existences, it seems that the alien god Satan has never told me that such life forms exist in the world!"

Ashiya Michiman observed at his leisure.

Since this demon pillar monster could also be burned by the black flame, it meant that the opponent's ability was not much greater than his own. In addition, he had prepared enough Shikigami and was not afraid of death. Ashiya Doman thought to himself that he was not afraid of this strange monster at all.

"What a shame..."

Under the sorcerer's astonished gaze, the demon pillar Flauros spoke in an unidentified voice filled with anger and arrogance. "It must be the damned Godslayer deliberately interfering from another world. Humph, Chaldea is truly a formidable enemy that my king must eradicate."

The flesh and blood were churning disgustingly, and lines of blood and layers of flesh began to recover and regenerate. It was obvious that after being transformed into the Demon Pillar, Flauros's immortality was greatly enhanced, which made Ashiya Doman, who was standing by, marvel at it.

"Oh my, oh my, there are such unusual high-level beings in the world?" Ashiya Doman slowly approached. "And it sounds like you, like me, are suffering from being sniped by the enemy?"

"? ...Are you the Caster of this singularity?"

The Demon Pillar Flauros instantly put away his arrogance and secretly extracted a considerable amount of magic power and attack techniques from his body, because he felt the evil and abnormal aura emanating from Ashiya Michiman.

The other party seemed to be setting something up. The aura was identical to that of the entire transformed Tokyo City: a chilling aura of death and blood-red demonic energy. The two auras merged seamlessly, as if Tokyo City had become this person's workshop or lair. Furthermore, this unique arrangement likely involved the "Root of Imagination."

That was the information that Floros had been trying to find out in this singularity.

It had been lurking in the body of Abbas, a member of Chaldea, and was not in a hurry to come out, just to follow the clues and figure this out.

Combined with the existing information, it is not difficult to imagine that this Caster in front of him has a close relationship with the alien god who planned to plant the "Root of Fantasy". It is just unknown whether he is a loyal subordinate of the alien god or simply a person summoned to work.

"That's right! I'm a humble, unknown sorcerer from the Heian period. Hmm, you can just call me... Limbo. During this Holy Grail War, I was fortunate enough to receive a revelation from our Lord Satan. Using my heterodox techniques, I disrupt order, pile up bones, collect souls, and build a foundation. And so on..."

"However, ever since the arrival of the people from the Observatory (Chaldea), Lord Satan's script has been disrupted. My Lord, it seems you're also interested in the imaginary world of this alien god?"

"Are you interested in joining us? We can join forces to explore the truth about alien planets. Together, we can accomplish our mission and capture everyone at the Observatory. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"

Ashiya Doman spoke with enthusiasm and a smile, as if he truly wanted to cooperate. However, to both sides, these words were seen as just a temporary measure and a piece of lobbying.

"...Limbo?" The Demon Pillar Flauros certainly knew that the so-called Limbo was the place where mortals lived after death in Christian legends. Souls that had not been sentenced but were not blessed to live in heaven with God stayed there.

However, as Catholic doctrine changed, Limbo was considered the first level of hell, where guilty souls were judged.

It’s quite interesting. He calls himself the first level of hell, Limbo, and his leader happens to be called Satan?

Floros suddenly felt like laughing.

"Forget about joining. How can the great cause of us demon gods be compared with your alien planet?" As a murderer who also attacked human nature, Flauros was unwilling to fall behind.

It is important to understand that even if colleagues are not enemies, they are at least first-class competitors. If they do not have an opponent that is currently obstructing them, they will not be able to cooperate with each other.

What's more, the boss of his own family is wearing the superficial identity of King Solomon, intending to perform a feat comparable to that of the Creator God, and to be on par with God in reshaping the world and creating stars again.

One calls himself God, the other calls himself Satan. Now they are truly competitors in every sense of the word.

"It's a good idea to fight the God Slayer together. Humph, I need to report to my king."

Flauros was thinking secretly that since the intelligence about the alien god had reached this point, further progress would still need to be made, so it would be necessary to report to the Lord Demon King and the other demons to see whether to reinforce the other pillars depending on the situation.

At the same time, we must also assess the influence of the alien god on the plans of all the demons and calculate the possible threats it may cause.

On the other side, Ashiya Doman's approach was almost the same: You want to call someone? Coincidentally, I thought so too.

"Then, allow me to report to Lord Satan."

A sharp look flashed across the eyes of both sides (Demon Pillar:?), and they must eliminate the God Slayer Emiya, a serious off-field factor, as much as possible!

As for the other people from Chaldea, such as the sub-servant Mashu and the masterless servant Minamoto no Raikou, they were simply ignored by the two guys.

Humph, everyone under Emiya is a mere ant, ant, and rotten fish and shrimp. Who do you think you are?