Chapter 55

The surging magic power like a roaring fire formed a raging wave that could be seen hundreds of meters away.

At the moment when a hundred meteors completely destroyed more than 80% of the enemy's fleet, the warships belonging to the fifth team immediately reacted.

They should have immediately covered the figure that appeared from the enemy ship with artillery fire.

However, when the torrent of magic power filled with death pressed into everyone's field of vision, everyone who watched this scene directly was caught in a short-term rigidity.

In the next second, the roaring magic power rolled up and the torrent of magic power that was originally filled the air was swallowed up by a slender scarlet magic spear.

The magic instantly converged into a long "thread" and completely wrapped the scarlet magic spear.

"Gae—"

piercing—

A faint, emotionless voice.

Following Shirou's "key" that unlocked its real name, he injected the magic spear that was excited because it smelled the scent of prey—

"—Bolg"

—Death Thorn Spear

—It was like a hound that was let off the leash.

The red light that was originally restrained flashed an extremely violent lightning of death, drawing an irregular wave in the atmosphere.

The young man with dark blue hair narrowed his pupils slightly.

It should be clear that his pupils lost their humanity but when the pupils reflected the red lightning that rushed towards him, a trace of indescribable fear flashed across his eyes.

Although the creature lost its so-called "humanity" this puppet without a soul is still a creature.

Therefore, after he realized that the strange red lightning was trying to deprive him of his life in a way that he couldn't understand.

The apostle who had just gained power did not hesitate to choose the correct means of escape in his cognition.

The dark blue-haired youth raised his palm, exhausting all his remaining strength to spread out all the objects he knows of in front of him while he controlled his body to quickly escape.

Before today, this young man with dark blue hair was just an ordinary person no different from others.

Therefore, even though he has obtained special abilities that are incomparable to ordinary people, the personality that dominates his physical actions has been forcibly replaced by a cold program that only exterminates but due to the limitations of his memory, he is still just an ordinary person who is relying on a powerful force.

The "thugs" who come to destroy everything are far from being "warriors".

The so-called thugs will always only bully the weak, but as a "creature" that has lost its "humanity", its survival instinct has not disappeared because of the deprivation of humanity.

Therefore, when this dark blue-haired young man smelled the breath of death from the red flash that pierced the air, the first choice he made subconsciously was to avoid that dangerous thing.

No matter how weird the lightning of death violates the laws of object movement, as long as it can't hit itself, it is meaningless.

However, at the moment when the young man made this judgment—his figure that had just exited for a short time suddenly froze in place.

The young man's pupils trembled slightly, following the intense pain, he moved his gaze down.

He should have been blocked by the huge pile of iron walls in front of him, it should have been impossible to hit him with the "death lighting".

It should have been just like real lightning, with a certain understanding it can be avoided

'Why? What happened?'

How did this thing bypass his defenses—before he thought and understood all this, the magic light instantly bloomed and penetrated the youth.

The moment it hit the heart, thousands of thorns stretched wantonly, mercilessly destroying the inside of the target's body.

"…cough."

Only once, the young man who had been pierced spat out a small mouthful of blood.

It was originally impossible for a human being to just cough up a mouthful of blood after getting their heart pierced.

However, the heart that was supposed to spurt out blood due to the shattering stopped immediately the second it was pierced.

The blood flowing in the veins settled down and the young man who was frozen in mid-air stared blankly and fell.

At the same time the remaining enemy warships in the air also gradually began to disintegrate because the creator lost control.

Seeing the scene where the young man was killed by the magic spear without any resistance, Shirou couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief while also falling.

Not only him, but even Himeko and Olga who were turning back also showed a somewhat relaxed expression.

Although there are as many things they wanted to ask, at least for the time being, this Honkai incident is—

Wait.

Just two seconds after she relaxed, Himeko's expression froze suddenly.

'Why? Even though the enemy is dead, the warship's remote communication system hasn't responded yet?'

Realizing an extremely terrifying possibility, Himeko almost subconsciously wanted to roar.

However.

The momentary slack caused her to miss the only chance to sound a warning.

There was no warning, no signs at all.

An invisible force suddenly emerged from the young man's falling body.

Domineering Honkai energy spread out unreasonably and the ground was torn apart by q spiral object that broke through the ground.

The silicon object with a diameter of tens of meters, while catching the falling youth also extended from the surface to the sky.

It broke through the atmosphere, broke through the volcanic ash, like the legendary Tongtian Tower that stretched infinitely towards the endless sky.

The first to be hit hard was Shirou, who was closest to the young man.

Even though he barely unfolded Rho Aias in front of him the second the spiral object broke through the ground he skipped too many steps of projection.

He was caught in the blink of an eye.

The shield that was taken out was easily shattered under the spiral thing that suddenly appeared.

"Hmm—" Shirou who was thrown away couldn't help but let out a distressed voice.

"What is that-???"

It wasn't only him as everyone who saw this strange scene had the same confusion and horror.

The top of the giant spiral tower that envelops the young man has been deeply submerged in the volcanic ash scattered in the air

The height that can be seen with the naked eye alone exceeds 10,000 meters but the spiral tower's scale is probably even more exaggerated.

It is undoubtedly the creation of the Honkai.

Judging from the surface texture of the giant spiral tower, its material is almost the same as the shells of the Honkai beasts Shirou saw before.

'But... what is the scope and scale of this despair?!!'

While thinking a violent shock impacted him from behind, Shirou frowned.

Shirou who was attacked by the strange giant flew upside down.

After hitting the mountain range, he broke the huge valley into a gap of more than 100 meters.

Fortunately, as long as there is no special energy mixed in, pure physical force can have little effect on him as a servant.

Therefore, even if he endured the impact enough to shatter the body of an ordinary person, it only made his brows slightly wrinkled.

Compared with this kind of thing, Shirou is more worried about the weird tower that suddenly emerged from the ground.

—No, although it is a tall tower, compared to a man-made building, the thing that connects the sky and the earth is more like an organ extending from a living creature.

Shirou bit his lips slightly, he knew that this strange giant tower that suddenly appeared was not good.

When that thing appeared, the fleet group belonging to the fifth squadron had already attacked that thing that was so conspicuous that it didn't even need to be aimed at.

But even though it was directly hit by railguns or even miniature nuclear bombs, the huge spiral tower didn't even move at all.

Could it be that it was because I killed that man that...

The dark blue-haired young man certainly doesn't know the power of the Noble Phantasm released by Shirou,

But in the same way, Shirou and the vast majority of people in this world still don't know the essence of this world.

The Noble Phantasm released by Shirou, the magic spear called Gae Bolg, is the ability to forcibly play with cause and effect.

As long as the real name is liberated, the target locked on by the magic weapon will inevitably pierce the heart.

The trajectory of the magic spear reaching the heart is just an additional action to prove this fact.

—But Shirou didn't know what the result of playing with the nature of causality at will in this world-dominated "cocoons" would be.

In this world, the fate of all human beings is predetermined.

On this planet, there is an entity that manipulates destiny called the "Cocoon of Finality".

In addition to the ability to reset the planet on a 50,000-year cycle, this fate-manipulating mechanism called the "Cocoon of Finality" will impose restrictions on the fate of all human beings on the planet.

If Shirou had an ability called "Future Vision", he would probably be able to see the inevitable fate of human beings in this world.

All human beings in this world, their time, experiences, and inevitable results are manipulated by an invisible "thread".

As long as that "thread" still exists, human beings in this world will always walk along the predetermined path stipulated by the "Cocoon of Finality".

For human beings entangled by the "thread" released by the "cocoon", that "thread" is their unchangeable destiny which no one can escape.

Therefore, from a certain point of view, all human beings in this world have been affected by a certain ability that is extremely similar to Gae Bolg from birth.

What Shirou and most people in this world cannot know is that Gae Bolg intervened in the fate of the blue-haired youth and forcibly engraved the result of "heart-piercing" into the fate of the blue-haired youth—

The mechanism that manipulates the fate of the planet itself—

The "Cocoon of Finality" also realized that the "thread" it put on the blue-haired youth was forcibly modified, and spontaneously launched a defensive action.

Although these beings who were later named "Herrscher" had completely different abilities, they couldn't be found by human beings in a normal way.

However, according to common sense, according to the iron rule that "Honkai will gradually become stronger with the development of civilization", the order in which the Herrscher descend also represents the "upper limit of output" they can reach.

The later the Herrscher is born, the larger the scale of the Houkai energy that can be controlled.

Except for the era of "Shiyuan" which is still unknown, this young man with dark blue hair who appeared first should be the one with the lowest "output scale" among all Herrscher.

—However, the Noble Phantasm used by Shirou on the blue-haired youth caused this iron rule to be broken by the "Cocoon of Finality" itself.

In the giant spiral tower, the unspeakable Honkai energy turned into a fountain of life of a different nature.

It poured into the body of the blue-haired young man whose vitality had been completely discarded without hesitation and a jaw-dropping healing process was in progress.

The heart riddled with holes was repaired first, and the blood-red lines engraved on the body like maggots attached to the bones—the incurable curse was forcibly erased, the vitality in the eyes reappeared, and the lungs that were pierced together with the heart were restored.

Broken ribs were also re-grafted.

At the same time, a very modern combat uniform gradually appeared on the blue-haired youth.

He looked up in the dark environment and then glanced at his palms and body.

An insolent smile gradually appeared on his face.

Weak vibrations came from all directions.

Obviously, those dirty things from the outside world have noticed that this is a hotbed of their own rebirth.

The young man slightly turned his pupils engraved with a circular pattern and locked on to a certain direction, raised his hand—

boom—!!!

The light beam with high heat and strong impact while breaking through the "hotbed" also easily pierced through a certain warship that was attacking the spiral tower.

"It really...brought me unimaginable pain."

The blue-haired young man whose whole body was equipped with material different from ordinary cloth, supported the edge of the gap he just blasted while looking around,

In the end, he fixed his eyes mixed with hatred and madness on the mountain range that was shaken by Shirou.

"Are you...have you made up your mind to die?"