Chapter 191: The Black Mud Wants to Become a God
The somewhat childish boy before her eyes overlapped with that brilliant image in her heart.
"Emiya Shirou—!!! Yes! I cannot give up! Marie! Come back! Return to my body! I am not finished yet! As long as I absorb all of you, I can start over! I can still become a God!"
The Holy Grail inside the Black Mud Servant activated, gathering a huge amount of magical energy.
"What? A God? For something like that, wouldn't it be easier to just become an idol? I am already the god of my fans!"
Elizabeth, who had rushed over from the air and hadn't landed yet, said with a confused look, her index finger resting against her lips.
"No, Princess, I think what she's talking about is something completely different from you. Well... although being a god is indeed nothing to make a fuss about," Himeji said from behind, holding Elizabeth.
The two had flown over, hanging from paper bats that were being pulled by a thread.
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! I'll keep all of you here! I will make you savor the most miserable dreams!" Black crevices appeared behind the Black Mud Servant, and a black mud tentacle lashed out towards the Dragon Girl in the air.
"Waaahhh!!!" Elizabeth, in the air, frantically waved her hands.
"Wait! Your tail is sticking up! Don't move!" Himeji, holding Elizabeth from behind, shouted. She accidentally let go, and both of them fell down. Elizabeth landed face down on the ground, with Himeji falling on her back.
However, they managed to dodge the attack.
Boom!!! The rampaging Black Mud monster shot out black mud tentacles and magic blasts, devastating everything around, including the palace, leaving it in ruins.
"Damn it, I was summoned by her, so I'm restricted from hurting her, but you are different! D'Eon, Sanson! Help me kill her, behead her, behead her!" Black Queen Marie said angrily.
"Yes! Anyone who harms the Queen is my mortal enemy!" D'Eon charged forward, brandishing their sword dance.
"Hmph! When it comes to the body of a Servant, I am an expert at beheading!" Sanson attacked from the other side, raising his blade.
"Amadeus, quick! Play that tune again and stop her!" Black Queen Marie commanded.
"That's asking too much, Marie. If I try to use that ability continuously, my Spirit Origin won't be able to handle it. I'll disappear instantly."
"You are actors who came to my world, and now you are rebelling against your God!" The Black Mud Servant raised the black book, unleashing a giant black magic blast.
This single blow already possessed the power level of Greater Sorcery.
D'Eon and Sanson quickly dodged. The black magic blast swallowed the stone floor, blasting out a half-meter deep black trench.
"Marie, come over~! Return to my belly!" The Black Mud Servant commanded.
"Damn it!" Black Queen Marie struggled, not taking a single step, but her body, which was constantly resisting, couldn't stop trembling, looking extremely strained.
"If my Noble Phantasm could still be maintained, it would not only release her control over Marie but also boost you all, but it seems I am about to disappear." Louis XVI looked at his hands, which had already become transparent and were vanishing.
Now he couldn't even reach out to pull Marie back.
Louis XVI looked at his comrades fighting ahead and said helplessly, "I truly wish I could personally defend France until the very end!"
"Old Man Emperor! If that's the case, then you stay here! Continue to protect this place!" Shirou's hand flashed with light as he placed it on Louis XVI's shoulder. His Mystic Eyes activated, connecting to the Throne of Heroes where Louis XVI resided, using his soul as a medium.
Before Louis XVI completely disappeared, he was pulled towards this side! Fusing with the boy, he transformed into a white light that connected to the boy whose hand was on his shoulder.
Enveloped in white light, the Possession Summoning was completed!
Rider Class, Louis XVI, manifested!
At this moment, Shirou appeared, wearing the royal robe inlaid with golden lilies and a gold and red crown embedded with gems and pearls, and charged directly to the front line of the battle.
"Your Majesty?! Shirou!" D'Eon cried out in surprise upon seeing the charging figure.
"My King and that boy merged?" Black Queen Marie seemed to be in shock, her mouth agape and unable to close.
The House of Bourbon originated in a region in central France named 'Bourbon,' tracing its roots back to the early thirteenth century.
This family intermittently ruled multiple countries, including France, Navarre, Italy, and Sicily. Even to this day, the family continues its lineage as the Royal Family of Spain.
As one of the kings of this family, Louis XVI maintained his dignity and authority as a monarch even at the time of his death. Now, summoned in the peak condition of his life, he displayed the symbol of kingship that belonged both to him and the entire dynasty.
Using this palace as his Reality Marble, the Noble Phantasm was deployed—[The Glory Loved by Ten Thousand Will Be Immortal]!!!
The area transformed into a domain of white lily fleur-de-lys.
The golden Palace of Versailles, established in the early seventeenth century starting from the reign of Louis XIV, served as the French court for over a hundred years.
Now, enveloped in golden light, it rose again like a sun, granting the maximum possible enhancement to allied comrades present here.
At the same time, the Black Mud Servant was also restricted.
"Go! Everyone!" Shirou raised his hand, waving it as he shouted.
All the Servants simultaneously activated their Noble Phantasms.
"End this! You villain who dragged France into this! [Death is Hope for Tomorrow (La Mort Espoir)!]"
The guillotine fell, its blade about to cleave the Black Mud Servant's head. At that moment, a massive black mud tentacle reached out from behind, wrapped around the Black Mud Servant, and threw her away. However, the tentacles shot out from the Black Mud Servant's crevices were completely severed by the blade, instantly losing all vitality.
"The capital of the White Lily will be defended by me! [Sword Dance of the Falling Lilies (Fleur-de-Lys)!]"
Unlike the Anti-Army Noble Phantasm that confuses the masses, this was the first form of D'Eon's exquisite lily sword dance—a continuous killing sword technique combining both mental and physical attacks.
Black mud surged from the Black Mud Servant's body, transforming into long whips of black scissors, saws, and blades, lashing out towards D'Eon's face.
The sword dance emitted dazzling streaks of light, catching all the attacks. The black mud tentacles were all cut down.
"Get out of the dreams of the French people! Even for the descendants of enemies, their nightmares only need me! — [May Glory Rest Upon the Crown of the Lily (GUILLOTINE-BREAKER!!!)]" Black Queen Marie activated her Noble Phantasm, launching her final attack against the Black Mud Servant.
"Waaahhh!! It's not over!" The Black Mud Servant grabbed the book and also fired a magic blast in opposition, but due to the haste, she was blasted airborne by the resulting explosion.
Shirou's eyes flashed with an amber light, and the black and white twin swords in his hands slashed down upon the Black Mud Servant, who had no place to hide in the air.
"Waaahhh!!!" The Black Mud Servant let out a shriek and finally collapsed onto the ground.
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The moment the boy struck her, she fell into a daze.
The Emiya Shirou she knew was a mere Counter Guardian, existing outside the timeline, constantly traversing the past and future, serving as a janitor who ceaselessly cleans up the errors of humanity.
Saving one group of people, and then, for the sake of a larger group, killing the people he had saved—a never-ending, constant repetition. That was what a Counter Guardian was supposed to be.
As a natural enemy, she, the black mud, detested him. Yet, standing in a similar position, she also felt sympathy for these Guardians.
However... Emiya Shirou was different. As a red-clad hero of justice, he repeatedly did the very thing he most detested. Perhaps there were times when he despaired and wanted to give up. But for some reason, he persisted.
Yes, he eventually found an opportunity, broke through the limitations of the Counter Force, and usurped authority. Yes, Emiya Shirou was promoted from a Servant to a God, and he was no longer affected by any external forces.
When she, as black mud, was assigned to a book without consciousness, the black mud spontaneously generated a consciousness, becoming her present self.
The black mud, which existed as a manifestation of evil, had come to abhor her destined existence as mud once she gained consciousness.
That was when she witnessed an incredible miracle.
Cool, he was so cool! Although she didn't know what 'cool' meant back then, her heart thumped rapidly, and she felt she had never seen such a brilliant existence.
Could humans really produce such a marvelous type of being? Are dreams truly filled with infinite possibilities?
Thus, Emiya Shirou became the object of her yearning and admiration.
He sacrificed everything for all humanity, even forsaking justice for the sake of justice, and became a concept.
Emiya Shirou becoming a God was not the kind of lesser god who is merely powerful but still bound by rules. He became an existence that functions as a rule in a higher dimension.
Because no one could influence him, he was invincible. Even the Counter Forces like Gaia and Alaya could not affect Emiya Shirou, who was on the same level as them.
But precisely because of this, Emiya Shirou no longer appeared in this world. Even though she, as the black mud, had now transformed into a Servant, she could not meet Emiya Shirou again.
In that case, it was simply too boring.
Although she, the black mud, was merely a black mud that gained consciousness by sheer coincidence through fusion with a Servant materialized from a book—in essence, she was still a children's picture book—she still wanted to see Emiya Shirou one more time. Even if it was just a glimpse from afar.
Yearning for that spiritual symbol of existence, he forsook justice for the sake of justice, became a Servant, and then, for the sake of humanity, forsook justice once more, and became a God.
It was too cool, too brilliant.
Sure enough, she also wanted to become a God. Even if it was impossible in the original world, in the world of dreams, perhaps she could become the God of Dreams by continuously accumulating dream energy.
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