#574Chapter 574: Artillery Fire Can Purify the SoulAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 574: Even Artillery Fire Can Purify Souls
"How magnificent!"
Aoko gazed into the distance. As someone whose actions were chaos itself, she found everything happening before her quite enjoyable, and once again felt that the trip had been well worth it.
Fortunately, she hadn't refused this job, otherwise, wouldn't she have missed seeing this scene for her entire life?
Aoko's title of "Designated Sealing" was truly not for show; she had genuinely touched upon a forbidden zone of life. Her puppet creations were in all aspects indistinguishable from the human body. Even she herself couldn't answer whether the "Aoko" currently in everyone's sight was a puppet or not.
Even if her current body were to die, a backup Aoko commander would immediately activate. Moreover, she was the type of existence that completely disregarded her original self; as long as an individual with the same personality, consciousness, and knowledge continued to exist, the death of her original body was of no consequence to her.
From this perspective, Aoko had, in a sense, already achieved a form of immortality.
But some things, even true immortals might not encounter, such as the scene before them.
The others, hearing Aoko's words, also nodded involuntarily, though their inner thoughts varied.
Regardless of what others thought, Rin Tohsaka was already squatting on the ground, holding her head, her eyes vacant, muttering continuously.
"Cleanup... Cleanup..."
Rin Tohsaka, who had taken over the role of the land manager of Fuyuki City from the Mapo Tofu priest, had clearly been dead for a while.
"Hey, hey, hey! Isn't this too much of a foul? Is this guy really unrelated to that Golden Sparkle?"
Cú Chulainn, who had been greatly looking forward to a battle with Cheng Tian, had a significant portion of his fighting spirit extinguished.
Cú Chulainn loved to fight, yearned for battle, but there was a prerequisite: a "hearty and exhilarating" knightly duel.
Although Cú Chulainn himself possessed the ability 『Protection from Arrows』, which allowed him to dodge various projectiles to the maximum extent, including modern artillery bombardment... However, while he could evade energy bodies and physical shells, the shockwaves and flames of explosions would still inflict the same damage.
From this perspective, Cheng Tian's King's Military Arsenal, which only had bombardment and no throwing, might be more threatening to Cú Chulainn than the King of Heroes' Gate of Babylon.
What was originally just an ordinary mountain cave, only wide enough for two cars to pass at most, had been completely blasted open by artillery fire. Black humanoids and black mud were scattered everywhere.
It was clear that they were indeed damaged by Cheng Tian's King's Military Arsenal, and primarily by those fake artillery pieces materialized from malicious information.
Currently, Cheng Tian had activated 8 vehicles, consuming a total of 200 MP. As for the ammunition itself, it used the vehicles' own reserves. As long as Cheng Tian didn't close the Gate of Babylon, continuous ammunition expenditure would not cause further MP consumption.
The fake malicious information artillery itself had very weak damage, because they were not specific intelligent humanoid individuals and could not carry more information; they were mostly mere empty shells.
For ordinary Heroic Spirits, a little magic resistance would automatically resist them.
But precisely these black humanoids from Angra Mainyu's circle below were also ridiculously weak. The fake shells that were ineffective against ordinary Heroic Spirits could, coincidentally, harm them.
The ground full of innocent souls and treasure chests explained everything.
However, it wasn't over yet.
"Fire the hole!"
As the Oni Gauntlet recycled the innocent souls, a glowing red Shock Orb appeared out of thin air and was thrown from Cheng Tian's hand, falling directly into the deepest part of the cave where the black humanoids were most densely packed.
The sphere exploded, and the shockwave spread, causing a large number of black humanoids to fall simultaneously.
The black humanoids that died under the impact of the red Shock Orb burst into treasure bags of various sizes, occasionally mixed with treasure chests containing gold and silver coins.
It could be said that the most terrifying aspect of these black humanoids was their sheer numbers, a terrifying quantity capable of easily exhausting most Servant players to death.
However, they hadn't even fully deployed before encountering Cheng Tian, being spawn-camped by artillery rain. No matter how many times they respawned, they died.
At this point, Cheng Tian also discovered that, in terms of the authority to seize souls, he was indeed inferior to the local contaminated Holy Grail. However, with the continuous explosion of innocent souls, both the amount of black mud emerging and the number of black humanoids respawning were visibly decreasing.
The Evils of the World materialized in the form of black mud, meaning it could quickly contaminate living beings and Servants through physical contact. But materialization also meant it could be touched. Any attack method with sufficient destructive power or magical power would cause delay and interference to the black mud.
Of course, under normal circumstances, it would only be interference, unable to go further. The Evils of Humanity cannot be eliminated. But it unexpectedly encountered someone like Cheng Tian, who specialized in soul attacks.
Any unit that was eliminated would have a chance to trigger 『Soul Salvation』, and as long as the effect was triggered, innocent souls would inevitably drop.
These black mud and humanoids inevitably contained fragments of Angra Mainyu's soul. This led to its soul being forcibly weakened a little every time an innocent soul dropped.
Not only that, Cheng Tian could also use these innocent souls to replenish the airborne ammunition boxes consumed by the King's Military Arsenal, successfully achieving a strategy of fighting to sustain the fight!
Through accumulation, the source of the black mud finally felt pain.
The black mud, which seemed capable of infinitely spawning monsters, actually retreated, like an octopus actively retracting into a jar, pulling all the black mud that should have continued to gush out back into the mountain, leaving only a dilapidated, vastly expanded, pitch-black cave entrance.
This scene was like saying—come in if you dare!
"Oh?"
Looking at the pitch-black cave entrance, Cheng Tian's eyebrows, hidden beneath his mask, couldn't help but twitch.
This cowardly yet stubborn attitude, how familiar it felt... Cheng, who suddenly thought of something, had a look of sudden realization.
"Needs a good beating."
Leaving behind such a strange remark, Cheng Tian took a step forward, and then his entire being vanished... Enzō Mountain, underground cavern.
This place was like an independent Different Space, with a vast cavern inside, and in mid-air, there seemed to be something like a sun from a Japanese-style painting, at the center of which a cup shape could be vaguely discerned.
The black mud that had just gushed out of the mountain cave flowed from here.
And the Bio-Qiuqiu, who had entered a step earlier, was looking up at the sky with its back to the cave entrance, motionless.
"Where is Kirei Kotomine?"
Cheng Tian's voice sounded from behind Qiuqiu.
"Eaten."
The Bio-Qiuqiu, without surprise, answered and turned around.
Though a bio-automaton, Qiuqiu's chest now bore a new mark, seemingly a fusion of the Yamata no Orochi and the Holy Grail, indicating that her body had become a new vessel for the black mud.
"Now, am I worthy?"
"Mm-hmm, quite, quite."
Cheng Tian perfunctorily replied to his clone, while raising his hand under Qiuqiu's suddenly wary gaze. The Heavenly Eye on his forehead glowed faintly—
Overlord + Hundred Demons' Night Parade... Double activation!
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