Chapter 35: End of Fuyuki Zero War
"For the time being, stay here. I'll return after I take care of a few things." Masato said to Irisviel as he surrounded her with a barrier.
Irisviel simply nodded and said nothing else. She couldn't get over the fact that Kiritsugu was willing to kill Illya for the sake of his dream.
Masato remained silent as well, aware of her inner thoughts. He reasoned that once everything was done, he could spend his time slowly trying to cheer her up.
He turned around and vanished, reappearing at the location of the Grail.
He could see Artoria and Gilgamesh fighting, if such a thing could be called fighting, in the hall. In the fight, Gilgamesh completely overpowered her.
It was mostly Artoria yelling at Gilgamesh for being... annoying. Masato couldn't blame her for this. After all, if someone unexpectedly asks you to marry him and then claims that he is informing you of his decision rather than asking you for yours, anyone would be irritated.
'Well then… how should I approach this?' He pondered internally.
He saw the Grail floating behind Gilgamesh. Masato narrowed his eyes. He really wanted to use <<Consumption>> on it, but the restriction of only on beings prevented him from doing so.
He couldn't use it on Angry Mango because he needed to be in physical contact with it first, and second, the great essence of Angry Mango would be saved within his body.
Masato had no idea what sort of side effects he'd experience.
"I, Emiya Kiritsugu, command you with my Command Seal. Saber, destroy the Holy Grail." Kiritsugu appeared some distance away from Gilgamesh and said.
"Kiritsugu?" Artoria's eyes widened as her sword suddenly erupted in power.
"What are you doing, Saber?!" Gilgamesh shouted.
"No, this..." Kiritsugu activated his other seal with the same command before she could say anything.
"Stop it!" Remembering what Masato had told her about the Grail, she knew that if it was destroyed, the Evil of Mankind would leave the Grail.
"You cretin!" Gilgamesh snarled and turned to face Kiritsugu, and shouted, "You dare to interrupt me?!"
Artoria raised her sword and pointed to the sky before lowering it and releasing her beam, which was heading straight for the Grail, but then...
Boom!*
An explosion occurred as a result of a collision between the released beam and something that stopped it.
"What?!" Kiritsugu was taken aback.
"I'm sorry, but I can't have you destroy this because I still need it."
Kiritsugu clenched his teeth, fully aware of the speaker's identity.
"Masato!" Artoria yelled, a sigh of relief washing over her.
"Aster Pendragon..." Gilgamesh looked at him and asked, "Did I grant you permission to use the Grail?"
"Heh! You should understand it at this point, Gil, I don't care about your permission," Masato sneered as he looked at him. "In the first place, how can you ask for my wife's hand in marriage?"
"What nonsense are you talking about, mongrel?"
"No, I am not!" With a red face, Artoria denied it, but neither Gilgamesh nor Masato looked at her.
As the dust settled around the explosion, a simple... bike appeared in front of the Grail, preventing the beam from destroying it.
"A bike?" Gilgamesh and Kiritsugu were perplexed, while Artoria was baffled as to how a bike could stop her most powerful attack. A bike stopping an Anti-Fortress attack was simply unfathomable.
"Are you scared now? Meet my ultimate heavenly sovereign devour flying walking sleeping killing bike! And defensive... That was something I forgot to include."
A spear was thrown in his direction, which he deflected with his bike. He turned to Gilgamesh and said, "Ma, no need to be so angry, I was joking, joking."
Even though he said that he had a sly grin on his face as he looked at Gilgamesh. It infuriated Gilgamesh even more.
"But…" Masato's pupils divided as he looked at him.
Gilgamesh glared at him and inquired. "What did you do?"
He could no longer feel his connection to the Gate of Babylon!
"There isn't much." Masato responded, "I just Kill your connection with the Gate. After all, you'd undoubtedly interrupt, and I can't have that."
"You cretin...!"
"All right, then, let's get started." He said this while looking at the Grail.
"As the ruler of Mana, I command you; bear my will and execute it." Suddenly, Fuyuki City began to shake as purple chains began to emerge from the ground.
"Chains?" Artoria, Kiritsugu, and Gilgamesh watched in silence as the chain began to coil around the Grail, eventually completely encircling it.
The ley lines connected the ends of these chains.
"Absorb." Masato clapped his hands as the chains greedily began to absorb and pour everything from the Grail into the ley lines.
He needed a vessel to hold such a large amount of Mana because he couldn't do it on his own, and Gaia assisted him in connecting with the ley lines.
Masato wanted to make a key, but the amount of Mana required was enormous. In fact, it was the concept he was going to impose on the key that demanded so much Mana.
Historical Singularity – A concept that would converge the world's history to a halt at a single point.
"W-what is he up to?" Kiritsugu stuttered as he looked at Masato, absorbing everything from the Grail.
The Grail lost its sheen and fell to the ground after an unknown amount of time.
"The mana... and everything from the Holy Grail was extracted?" Artoria inquired.
Masato could sense an absurd amount of mana from the connection with ley lines.
'All right, let's do it.'
'I'll leave the flow of energy to you, Judecca,' he thought and said to Judecca.
'Affirmative. Master, leave everything to me.'
When he heard it, he took a deep breath before the chains began to move in front of him. As mana began to pour out of them, they took the shape of extended roots.
<<Construction Creation>>
Masato stated as the massive amount of mana absorbed from the ley lines began to form in the shape of a golden key, a strange looking key.
"That's…" Gilgamesh's eyes widened in surprise, as if he realized what Masato was up to. "You dare to touch my treasure, mongrel."
Artoria appeared in front of him as he took a step forward.
"I don't want you to bother him, King of Heroes."
"Do you understand the ramifications of blocking me, little girl?"
Artoria frowned as she heard him address her in this manner. "Now that my contract with Kiritsugu has expired, I am my King's sword. You'll never get to him if you don't face me."
Gilgamesh was amused when he heard it and exclaimed, "Hahaha! So a King descended to the level of serving under someone else?"
"At least I'm serving someone deserving of me, as opposed to you, who's serving a human."
"Mongrel, hold your tongue. If you don't want to die."
Just then, in the shape of a pillar, a massive influx of mana rose into the sky. It attracted the attention of both Artoria and Gilgamesh.
They turned to look at Masato, who was sweating and grinning as he stared at the key floating in front of his eyes.
"It worked..." Masato exclaimed with delight, "Hahahaha! Goddammit, it worked!"
He raised his right hand and grasped the handle, which was encrusted with golden blocks. The information appeared in his vision as soon as he touched it.
{
[Key to Babylon: EX]
Rank: –
Information: A key designed to connect to the treasury of Babylon, but due to the concept of <<Historical Singularity>>, it holds every treasure that history has to offer.
<<Historical Singularity: This concept will converge the entire world's history into a single point, containing everything from the past, present, and future of world history into that one point for the user to use.>>
}
'It really worked... I can't believe it...' He had some doubts about whether it would work or not, but who knew?
After all, he was tampering with the world's time and space continuum. To accomplish such a feat, a tremendous amount of energy is required.
Masato raised the key and rotated it, as if opening a lock, ignoring everyone's reaction.
Click!* A sound of something opening resounded before the key vanished from his hands like a mirage and a notification appeared in front of his eyes.
{
Ding! You've made contact with the Gate of Babylon. Because of the Concept engraved within it by The Gamer, it will now begin to create every weapon available in the world.
Time Limit: 00:729:59:59
}
'That… is a lot of time.' Masato internally said while looking at the screen, 'How much is it? A month? I can tolerate that much.'
He literally had nothing to do in this world after doing what he came here for, except maybe spend more time with Irisviel, Illya, and Sakura; but he can do that in the next world as well, so he really had nothing to do in this world.
Masato thought he could hold out for one month.
'And I was planning on finishing the Hollow Dungeon anyway.'
He returned his gaze to Gilgamesh and Artoria after swiping away the notification.
"Are you okay?" She inquired as she noticed him standing there silently staring into the void.
Masato smiled and shook his head, "I'm fine." He smirked at Gilgamesh and asked, "Now, King of Heroes, which way would you like to die?"
"By my supreme heavenly sovereign devour flying sleeping killing defensive bike or waiting for your mana to vanish with your manifestation or... Let me devour you?" he smirked. "Though you wouldn't have much of a choice in the first place."
As he finished, ignoring Gilgamesh's angry morphed face, a shadow extended from him and engulfed Gilgamesh as he glared at Masato.
"I, King of Heroes, have declared that I will definitely kill you with my own hands, Aster Pendragon!"
"Meh!" Masato brushed off his threat, saying, "When we meet again, I don't know if you can even stand before me on equal footing, let alone beat me."
Gilgamesh was completely absorbed and vanished from the world as a result.
{
Ding! You've slain an enemy Servant – Archer!
+51,488,185 XP.
You've gained 800 SP points that have been distributed in your status!
Name/True Name: Masato Oosuki/Aster Pendragon
Class/Servant Class: The Gamer/Grand Saber
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Race: Human/Demi-Servant/Divine Spirit
Level: 33
HP: 15500
Strength | SSS++ | 350 SP
Endurance | SSS++ | 310 SP
Agility | SSS++ | 310 SP
Mana | EX | 800 SP (65, 600 MP)
Luck | A | 65 SP
SP: 54
PS: After all stats hit EX, the Host can integrate the Tier system.
}
'Well… ain't that beautiful to see.'
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