#552Chapter 552 Am I just a part of your play?AI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 552: Am I just a part of your PLAY… Let's re-examine Cheng Tian's process of killing the King of Heroes.
First, it was Gilgamesh's own absolute arrogance.
The arrogant casual-clothed Gilgamesh wasn't wearing his golden armor, and coupled with his black mud incarnated body, his physical strength data was almost at its lowest point in all previously appeared FATE derivative works. In terms of Heroic Spirit data, his Endurance was only C-rank.
And Cheng Tian's single Midnight Blessing feminization not only forcibly turned him into a female Gilgamesh, but also caused his 55 Strength attribute, which was in an extreme breakthrough state, to temporarily swap with his 40 Agility attribute. This led to his HP, which was originally 11,000, plummeting to 8,000 points instantly.
It's worth noting here that, under normal circumstances, Cheng Tian's Midnight Blessing would barely affect Gilgamesh, even Gilgamesh at his lowest historical ability value.
Midnight Blessing indeed doesn't require additional judgment and will inevitably force all units to feminize. However, Gilgamesh's 80 Charm attribute is far higher than Cheng's current one, so the feminization duration should theoretically be negative thirty-plus seconds.
Of course, this value wouldn't cause Cheng Tian to suffer a backlash and turn into a big sister for thirty seconds, but Gilgamesh's feminized state would last at most one frame.
However, Cheng Tian used Midnight Blessing during Time Stop, which forcibly extended this feminized state, which should have only lasted one frame, for nearly 20 seconds.
His Strength dropped from an extreme breakthrough back to the level of mortals, while the World's fist, due to Cheng Tian's main body data buff, achieved an extreme breakthrough level.
At the same time, although Gilgamesh himself was very unwilling to admit it, and even extremely disgusted, he could not deny that he possessed the highest level of divine adaptability among all Heroic Spirits.
This also meant that when he was feminized, he gained the additional tag of "Goddess."
Cheng Tian's title of "Goddess Conqueror" immediately lit up.
The effect of this title was that leg strikes against goddesses were more likely to cause fractures and severed limbs, and these special effects would also bring a certain damage bonus.
Finally, and most crucially, was the World's form of existence.
As a product of the highly fused and materialized soul and spiritual power, the World's fist, which seemingly only had physical strike capabilities, actually also possessed the ability to strike the mysterious side, it just manifested as a fist.
A Servant Heroic Spirit, in theory, as long as its Spiritual Core remains intact, can self-repair through magic power replenishment. But the World's fist, every punch, would deliver imperceptible vibratory strikes to the Servant's Spiritual Core.
And when these continuous vibratory strikes, lasting 20 seconds, erupted simultaneously the moment Time Stop ended!
This was like a resonance strike specifically targeting the Spiritual Core. The moment time began to flow again, Gilgamesh's Spiritual Core had already shattered into dust.
Now, he was just a broken shell whose remaining black mud within was insufficient to sustain his form of existence.
To the outside world, this was the moment Gilgamesh and Enkidu had just finished their Noble Phantasm clash, and even the natural phenomena were still present. But for Cheng Tian, it was already over.
Gilgamesh, who had already sensed his false life flowing towards its end, almost instantly perceived the method Cheng Tian used to kill him, as he felt the sudden blossoming pain and death in his body.
Time Stop, an ability that could truly slay gods.
If he had retained the Star of Omniscience and Omnipotence, he could have prepared countermeasures against Time Stop in advance.
However, there were no ifs.
His thoughts spun, finally condensing into a look of appreciation and a sigh from the bottom of his heart—
"A death… not in vain."
Almost at the same time, the Shadow Servant of Enkidu, who was also affected by Time Stop on the ground, received a series of surrounding information. His body visibly returned to black and white and began to turn into a complete phantom.
Because Enkidu was recreated from Gilgamesh's memories and information, when Gilgamesh died, his existence naturally could not be maintained.
Even though his best friend died in front of him, and he himself was disappearing, Enkidu merely chuckled softly and looked up at the sky again.
At the same time, Gilgamesh, who was also only experiencing a brief resurgence, looked towards the ground.
"A small victory."
The ethereal Enkidu smiled like a blooming flower.
"Hmph~ It won't be this easy next time."
The collapsing Gilgamesh had a tsundere expression… Why do I suddenly feel like I've become a part of these two's PLAY?
Cheng inexplicably had this thought in his head.
However, the matter wasn't completely over yet; there was still one crucial thing.
Above the high heavens, invisible to ordinary people, a pitch-black object suddenly appeared. This object exerted an almost irresistible, immense suction force on the fragmented Servant soul of Gilgamesh, whose Spiritual Core was shattered!
Undoubtedly, this was what all participants of the Fifth War yearned for—
The Holy Grail! Or rather, the Black Holy Grail, which had been thoroughly polluted by All the World's Evil!
In the normal Holy Grail War process, the souls of deceased Servants would be recycled by the Greater Holy Grail as an energy source for activating the Third Magic, ultimately making the Holy Grail a true wish-granter.
And even the polluted Black Holy Grail retained this function of recycling souls.
Since Gilgamesh, who successfully incarnated through the black mud curse of the Black Grail, remained in this land, he was inevitably also to be recycled by the Black Holy Grail.
Of course, whether it collects him is one question, and whether it can be used is another.
Cheng Tian clearly remembered that Gilgamesh was a very rare existence capable of completely resisting the erosion and assimilation of the black mud. Most Heroic Spirits might become puppets of the Black Grail, but Gilgamesh would not.
Uh, it felt a bit like Vegeta resisting Babidi's magical control with his proud self-esteem.
But at the same time, Cheng Tian also remembered that there was a record of Gilgamesh, as a summoned Servant, being dissolved by the Black Grail's soul, which should have been the Black Sakura route.
But this Black Grail clearly meant, "If I can't use it, Cheng Tian shouldn't even think about using it!"
The King of Heroes' soul fragments simultaneously felt opposing suction forces from the Black Grail and the Oni Gauntlet.
For no reason, Gilgamesh, who was experiencing soul tearing, suddenly thought of a story called "Two Mothers Contending for a Child."
"Damn it! You damned local tyrant!"
In the end, Cheng was still no match for the home-field advantage, watching the departure of the King of Heroes' soul fragments with a mournful expression… then his face changed instantly.
Because a wonderfully ornate golden treasure chest, dropped by Gilgamesh, had appeared before him.
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