You are very strong, but my painting style is better than yours!

Iori also rallied and unleashed his final Noble Phantasm: "[Kaiken: Ama-Kurakumo no Tsurugi]!"

Thunder illuminated the whole world!

The power and strength of the God-King transformed into a unified entity of destruction. Dazzling light swept across the sky, like a thousand dragons winding and twisting in the thunder. Gale and water vapor formed dark clouds, materializing the mythical super storm, stirring up an endless sea of ​​fire, destroying the sky and the earth together, turning them into a scorching hell!

Thunder and fire, like dragons and snakes intertwined, erupted, and an incomparably dazzling white aurora engulfed everything—

The world instantly dimmed!

Everything seemed to turn black and white, then even the outlines of objects gradually blurred, and all sound disappeared, leaving only a deathly silence in my vision and mind...

After an unknown amount of time, a soft cough reached her ears, prompting Ritsuka to slowly open her eyes:

The young martial god stood firm on the half-melted ground. His condition was far from good; there were hardly any intact patches of skin left on his body. The extensive burns made him look like a demon crawling out of hell.

But correspondingly, Karna looked even more disheveled...

After losing his golden armor, Lancer's defenses were almost nonexistent. He was already charred and torn apart by the aftershocks alone—but he showed an unexpected smile on his face.

During the battle with Karna, Iori's Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi clashed with Karna's God-Slaying Spear. Both weapons possessed the attribute of "Divine King's Lightning," which subtly weakened the intensity of the conflict. Otherwise, at such close range, it would have been difficult to even leave behind a complete corpse...

The energy released from the clash of Noble Phantasms completely destroyed this land, even melting the edges of the crater once again, and it is now truly on the verge of being leveled.

"Looks like we're going to die together..."

"This ending... isn't bad."

Karna smiled gently, relieved. His magic was completely exhausted and his spiritual core was damaged. He could no longer hold on and calmly accepted death. His body turned into spiritual light and gradually dissipated.

Iori turned around and looked at Ritsuka apologetically: "I'm sorry to have troubled you, Master of Chaldea. I never expected it to end like this."

“Berserker, you…”

"It seems the Holy Grail War ritual ultimately failed... No wonder, given that too many beings have emerged that deviated from the original framework, and besides, Einzbern's wish was somewhat absurd to begin with..."

"Could it be that you knew you would fail, but you did it all for your Master..." Ritsuka hesitated, unable to finish her sentence.

Iori smiled slightly and turned to walk towards the now dimmed Greater Grail.

At that very moment, a cherry blossom petal drifted down from beside his ear...

Drop drop! ! !

Ritsuka's communicator suddenly started ringing frantically, and an anxious female voice came through.

"Ritsuka and Mashu, can you hear me?!"

"Da Vinci-chan?" The orange-haired girl and the Demi-Servant naturally recognized the voice; it belonged to Da Vinci, the technical expert of Chaldea.

The usually calm and collected shrewd businessman was now very impatient: "Get ready, the spirit transfer is about to begin!"

"What...spiritual particle transfer?" The two girls looked bewildered. "What's going on? This singularity isn't—"

"That singularity has been successfully repaired and is returning to a normal world—at least that's what our instruments are showing."

"[Chaldea] and [Sheba] can't be wrong... You must return immediately, or you will be obliterated by the 'world's corrective force'!"

"This……"

Ritsuka hesitated for a moment, but still chose to believe in Leonardo da Vinci, and took one last deep look at Iori's back.

"Okay, let's begin the transfer!"

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Have the 'guests' left?

"It seems so... How does it feel?"

Iori entered the Greater Grail, looked at the back of the woman in the gorgeous robes, and asked, "This body is very convenient, isn't it, Sera?"

With a joyful smile, Sera slowly turned around. Her eyes, clear as jewels, were not lifeless like those of ordinary androids, but rather full of emotion. Her gaze towards Iori was filled with an indescribable tenderness.

But seeing Iori's current miserable state, she couldn't help but feel sorry for her and said guiltily, "If it weren't for me, you wouldn't be..."

“This is a necessary price to pay.” Iori shook her head. “This battle was inevitable no matter what, so don’t overthink it.”

Even if you say that... then let me make up for it.

Sera moved lightly to Iori's side, raised her hand and hesitated for a moment, then boldly touched the burn marks on Iori's cheek.

"While the physical body has infinite possibilities, it also has a fragile side. But if it is also endowed with the nature of a spiritual body, which is what religions often refer to as 'the unity of body and spirit,' then it will be perfect."

"Sera?"

“I’ve said it before, all my power belongs to you, and that naturally includes the culmination of miracles—the Third Law: The Heaven’s Cup!”

Chapter 155: Immortality! Undying and Indestructible! Soul Power! (4K)

Iori told Ritsuka a little lie... or maybe more than one.

He might have held back in the final battle, but to be honest, it wasn't easy either—his strength did indeed decline sharply after severing his connection with the Greater Grail.

After all, when fighting Karna and the others, he didn't have any extra mythical bonuses, and his spirit origin had burned up most of it in order to draw on divine power.

Furthermore, the singularity was not fully repaired. The data changes detected by Chaldea led Da Vinci to mistakenly believe that spacetime was self-repairing, causing him to hastily transfer Ritsuka and Mash away... This was a trick played by "Dark Chaldea" after Iori and Merlin communicated.

In fact, because the Greater Grail was not completely destroyed, this singularity will continue to exist for a short period of time.

Ritsuka will come back later, but from her perspective, it will just be clearing up some "side quests".

Speaking of which, there are quite a few challenges left for her, such as the two witches whose fates are unknown, Amakusa and the Empress who seem to have escaped, and Atalanta who has the ability to act independently and therefore will not return to the Throne of Heroes for the time being.

In addition, Sera abandoned her mission as the "Minor Grail." When she made a wish to the Major Grail, the Servant's soul residing within her escaped with magical power and is probably now a Shadow Servant or Phantom in some corner of Romania...

It has to be said that Iori is incredibly dedicated as a "temporary worker"!

Not only did they take good care of Ritsuka and help her complete the main storyline, but they also prepared so many little surprises for her. She won't have to worry about not having anything to do for a while!

Ahem! Let's get back to the Greater Grail.

Originally, Sera was supposed to sacrifice herself to open the "hole" connecting to the outside world, but she abandoned the Einzbern family's long-cherished wish and instead made a wish to the Greater Grail, using its immense magical power to redeem herself.

It's important to understand that the core of the Greater Grail is the Winter Maiden's magic circuit, and its underlying command is "massively popularize the Third Law." The sublimation of the individual soul is also included within this command, so fulfilling Sera's wish is a trivial matter.

But during this process, the remnant consciousness of the Winter Saintess may have sensed something and made a request to Sera:

This Holy Grail War has spiraled out of control beyond repair, and the entire system will likely come to an end. But even so, she still hopes that the will of the "Third Mage" can be passed down, at least so that the world will remember the existence of the "Einzbern".

This can only be achieved by having the last Einzbern homunculus, Sera, inherit her magic circuits!

Once, the Winter Saintess was born as a vessel for the Third Law, but due to her own physical condition, she was unable to widely apply it and was therefore regarded as a failure.

She could also use the Third Law to save herself, but in order to achieve greater efficiency, the Winter Saintess sacrificed herself, allowing someone to make her magic circuits into the core of the Greater Grail.

Transforming from a fragile human form into a stable, functioning device is a necessary sacrifice made in order to "save all of humanity".

More than two hundred years have passed, and the choice between life and death once again confronts the android girl. But this time, Sera does not become the "Holy Grail," but instead makes a choice completely opposite to that of the Winter Saintess—

Betray fate, and achieve your own destiny!

Sera did not refuse the Winter Saintess's request, perhaps because she still harbored some special feelings for "Einzbern":

Even if she was merely created as a tool, that magical family was undoubtedly the origin of her life.

The reason that golden pillar of light existed for so long was not only to fulfill Sera's wish, but also to transfer the core magic circuits into her body.

Now, she has not only successfully materialized her soul, but has even mastered the Heaven's Cup!

However, her third spell, like the Winter Saintess's spell, is extremely "expensive," requiring several years or a massive amount of magic power to complete once.

Furthermore, she can only activate the Third Law, but all steps are autonomously operated by the magic circuits, and the specific principles behind it are not clear.

Of course, these problems can be solved later. The most important thing is that Sera became the second Saintess, and the remains of the Greater Grail just happened to contain a lot of magic power!

hum! ! !

A dazzling pillar of light shot straight into the sky, but this time it wasn't a dazzling gold; instead, it was pure white, like a stairway to heaven. Even the falling spiritual particles gathered into feather-like shapes, with a faint cyan aura swirling within. Ice-blue magic circuits rapidly unfolded in the void—

Enveloped in radiance and bathed in immense magical power, Iori, with her eyes closed, suddenly felt disoriented, as if her soul had been ripped away. She simultaneously experienced two perspectives: two humanoid figures with similar outlines facing each other, one a mortal being, the other seemingly composed of bluish-white flames, their faces obscured.

As time passed, the flickering flames gradually solidified, taking on the same shape as the physical body.

hum! ! !

Another wave of dizziness washed over him, and an irresistible torrent of magic engulfed his soul and body simultaneously, drawing him into a deep and dark realm of ignorance within an endless spiral...

At this moment, there is no distinction between body and soul; there is only a pure consciousness that sees a celestial body like a black hole on an infinitely distant boundary line.

For some reason, just looking at it makes it seem like you understand everything, but if you think about it seriously, you can't remember anything, and even your "self" is teetering on the brink of collapse!

--call!

Iori suddenly opened her eyes and subconsciously raised her hand as if to touch something, but after grabbing nothing, she froze in place, and after coming back to her senses, she had a lost and disappointed expression.

Sera looked at him with surprise and lingering fear: "What happened to you? I could feel that your soul detached from the base of the [Heaven's Feel] for a moment just now. I almost thought something had happened to you..."

"Hmm...maybe it's because of my special constitution that the ritual went wrong, it was quite dangerous."

Iori, still somewhat dazed, rubbed her hands together and gave a perfunctory reply, not intending to tell Sera what she had seen.

However, he wasn't lying. If he wasn't mistaken, that thing might indeed be the "Vortex of Roots" from the Type-Moon universe, and it was extremely dangerous...

It's fortunate that he didn't touch it directly, but only peeked at it from afar; otherwise... whether he could have come back would have truly been a matter of fate!

As for why his consciousness ventured into such a dangerous place... who knows? It was probably just bad luck.

After all, this is Type-Moon, and there are far too many unreasonable things happening here.

"Are you okay?"

Seeing that Iori remained silent for a long time, Sera asked with some concern, "Was the ritual successful?"

"...Ah, it seems to be a success. The performance of this body still needs further testing, but to share my direct experience..."

Looking at her brand-new Shinigami armor, with all the injuries from the battle gone, Iori could feel the unique firmness of her body when she clenched her fist slightly, as well as the overflowing magical power within her. She couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth slightly.

"An ageless body, an indestructible soul... and the power of death!"

Indeed, both spirit and body have limitations; only the unity of spirit and body is truly suitable!

"I'm having such a blast right now"—Iori's lips twitched as she struggled to keep from saying those words.

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【The Threads of Wisdom: The Death of the Minotaur】

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【Ariadne's Line】

(Noble Phantasm against oneself)

• Absolute intuition; will not be blinded by fabricated illusions; can quickly find key clues even in a chaotic mess.

• If one end of the “thread” is tied to someone else, then no matter how far you go, you will eventually be able to follow the “thread” back to that person.

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Have you ever seen me at my peak?

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(We Type-Moon also have our own Susanoo Gundam!)

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