I really didn't want to burn it.

"You are beings from a higher dimension, yet you are forced to live among humans. You feel ashamed of this situation, which is why you have launched the destruction of humanity—only in this way can you escape your state of enslavement!"

"To kill all of humanity just for this reason?"

Mashu felt an overwhelming surge of anger.

As an artificial human, she cannot live to adulthood, and it is precisely because of this that Mash cherishes every life.

Goetia's behavior of wiping out the entire Earth's population at the slightest disagreement completely crossed her bottom line.

"Humanity is so hopeless, what harm is there in killing them all?"

Goetia's words were so cold, almost devoid of any warmth.

Leonardo da Vinci asked, "Were your actions not stopped by any inhibitory force?"

"Of course it's allowed."

"How could the inhibitory force possibly agree to such an absurd thing!"

“Let me explain this,” Koyanskaya said, raising her hand. “As far as the Counter Force is concerned, it doesn’t matter what human reason is; its primary concern is ensuring its own continuation.”

You mean Gaia?

“Earth has been targeted by an external enemy,” Koyanskaya said with a smile. “Fortunately, the enemy needs human ‘help’ to enter Earth. In order to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the situation, the Counterforce simply annihilated the human race.”

"How...boring."

Li Ang vowed that if Gaia appeared in front of him, he would not stop until he had rubbed her breasts up by a cup size.

Ritsuka and the others might not have realized it, but Leon could guess that the external enemy Koyanskaya was referring to was definitely an alien god.

As for the so-called need for human "help," it most likely refers to Lostbelts and Imaginary Trees.

From Gaia's perspective, choosing to destroy humanity to save himself is clearly not a problem. Gaia has long disliked humanity anyway; since he can't solve the problem, he might as well eliminate the humans who caused it.

What bad intentions could Ms. Tanaka possibly have? She just wants to survive.

"So, the destruction of humanity was actually determined by the restraining force!?" Ritsuka couldn't help but ask back.

Although Ritsuka was just an ordinary magician, she understood what the Counter Force meant.

However, Goetia ignored Ritsuka's question and finally stopped.

"How pathetic, Fujimaru Ritsuka. You've spent countless hours and gone through all sorts of hardships, only to end up with a result that was already decided by the highest god."

"Alright, that's enough said, it's time to end this!"

Goetia didn't explain anything further; she had already said everything that needed to be said, and now it was time to send humanity on its final journey.

"Know the truth of our great deeds, our ideals, and the meaning of our birth! Humanity will burn out, this planet will be reborn, and all life will become a thing of the past!"

Goetia spread his arms and floated into the air. He looked up at the sky above the Temple of Time, and the magic core in his chest, like the core of an Angel in EVA, emitted a purplish-red light.

A beam of light emanating from a purplish-red crystal pierced the sky. In an instant, the beam split into countless branches, transforming into a lush tree of light.

"Praise be to us! We are called Goetia! The Human Order Burning Style Demon King, Goetia!"

Each branch of the Tree of Light transformed into a meteor shower of light and began to fall, making the night sky above the temple resemble a magnificent meteor shower.

However, the meteor shower's target was not the ground of the Temple of Time, but the Human Principle, which had been burned to the point of being like a candle flickering in the wind!

Farewell, humanity!

Goetia sang this aloud.

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Outside the Temple of Time, a singularity in the Tang Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, Junyi County has sent feedback that they have accepted the people transferred from this side and are properly settling them in."

An excited atmosphere began to spread among the operators aboard the Penglai.

What a terrible night! First, I had to subdue the black dragon, then I had to rush to Bianliang for help. Not only did I work all night, but all sorts of other problems kept popping up, leaving me no time even for a cup of tea.

The successful evacuation of the people of Bianliang was the first piece of good news they all heard, finally giving these Qin soldiers hope.

"Yes, I understand."

Ying Zheng nodded slightly, a smile appearing on his face, but he quickly pursed his lips again.

"Inform me immediately of any information you have regarding Li Ang's whereabouts!"

"Yes!"*N

Li Ang, who was supposed to be helping to arrange the people at Junyi, failed to arrive at the other side on time, which gave Ying Zheng a bad feeling.

"Could they have been captured by Chaldea?" Ying Zheng tapped the armrest of his chair, speculating.

Considering that Mashu and Li Ang disappeared together, Ying Zheng felt that this possibility could not be ruled out.

"It's not like Li Ang can suddenly only love that girl and elope with everyone else, is it?"

Ying Zheng glanced at Li Ang's harem in the corner of the bridge out of the corner of his eye, and made a malicious guess.

"Your Majesty the First Emperor."

Ryougi Shiki suddenly appeared beside Ying Zheng with a gloomy expression.

"Ah? Ahh!! I believe Li Ang would never do such a despicable thing!"

Caught off guard, Ying Zheng blurted out what was on his mind.

"This has nothing to do with Li Ang." Ryougi Shiki's tone was very serious. "What's coming?"

"What? What is it?"

Ying Zheng was completely baffled by this seemingly random statement.

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"I don't know, but I instinctively feel fear!"

Upon hearing Ryougi Shiki's words, Ying Zheng's eyes narrowed.

"Your Majesty, an urgent report!!"

A soldier cried out in terror!

"Say!"

Ying Zheng had a bad feeling.

"Look in the sky!"

The soldier pointed upwards in terror, and everyone instinctively looked up at the sky.

Above the sky, opposite the sun, countless stars formed a meteor shower, radiating bright light.

The whole scene was eerily strange, because it was already morning, but the starry sky was far more conspicuous than the sun!

"That wasn't a shooting star."

Ying Zheng frowned as he spoke. Thanks to his Cast class, Ying Zheng immediately saw the problem with these stars.

"Not a shooting star?"

Upon hearing this, the Qin soldiers exchanged puzzled glances.

Li Ang's harem, on the other hand, had solemn expressions. They were either gods or magicians, and knew far more than these soldiers.

Such an unusual phenomenon is undoubtedly magic, but magic that can achieve this level is simply unheard of.

"Your Majesty, what is that?"

"I don't know either."

Ying Zheng's answer stunned everyone once again.

I don't know, what kind of answer is that? Aren't you an omniscient and omnipotent emperor?

"I am not Li Ang, how could I be omniscient and omnipotent!"

Ying Zheng laughed and cursed, but it quickly turned into a sigh.

"I can sense the presence of these meteors, but..."

Ying Zheng glanced at Ryougi Shiki and continued, "They have no magical fluctuations, as if they don't belong to this world."

Being able to see, feel, and confirm that something is a product of magic, yet being unable to perceive the magic itself, is not good news; in fact, it is quite unsettling.

The appearance of something so bizarre at this time is definitely not a good thing.

"Maintain constant monitoring and report any unusual activity immediately."

"Yes!"

After giving the order, Ying Zheng stood up from his seat.

"Ryougi Shiki, you come with me. Remember, bring that sword."

Ying Zheng extended an invitation to the Two Rites.

At the same time, on the streets of Bianliang.

"Oh dear, this is really a big problem."

Pepe said to Debit.

"Everyone knows this."

Looking up at the unusual stars in the sky, Debit said irritably.

"It seems the captain has failed."

Pepe said, looking very disappointed.

So, are we breaking up?

Debit withdrew his gaze from the shooting star and looked at his teammates beside him.

Pepe tapped her chin with her finger, looking slightly troubled, and said, "If it were just Kirshtalia, I wouldn't care~ but Ophelia, she probably wouldn't abandon her captain, right?"

"Perfect, let's travel together."

Debit stood up and dusted himself off.

"Yoyo~"

Pepe looked at Debit in surprise, her eyes conveying the message, "So this is the real Debit."

Debit rolled his eyes at Pepe: "What do you take me for? We've been colleagues for so long, it's not appropriate to just look at each other. Besides, I also want to know that fox's real purpose."

"Go! Go! Let's go find Ophelia first, then we'll set off together!"

"As long as Group A works together, nothing can stop us!"

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Inside the Temple of Time.

The light from the meteor shower shone on everyone's faces, creating an overwhelming sense of cataclysmic destruction.

"What the hell is that?"

Mashu had a premonition that this meteor shower was far more powerful than the meteorite from before, and even she, who had been strengthened by both Li Ang and her senior, would not be able to stop it.

"Ars Almadel Salomonis."

Li Ang gritted his teeth and said, "Goetia, or rather King Solomon's third Noble Phantasm, [The Time of Birth Has Arrived, With This, All Things Are Corrected], is an existence that transforms all human history into heat."

Perhaps fearing that Mashu wouldn't understand, Leon continued to explain.

"A collection of hundreds of millions of rays of light, the true form of the light band in the singularity that proclaimed the end of humanity, which is the halo you have been looking up at."

"Each of these rays possesses the power of a high-level siege weapon, and there is nothing on the entire Earth that can surpass the heat of this weapon."

"So how do we defend ourselves?"

Thanks to Li Ang's explanation, Mashu was successfully frightened.

"Tough it!"

Leon took a deep breath and picked up Mash's other shield.

“Listen up, Mashu. Right now, the only ones standing between this thing and humanity are us. Do you understand what that means?”