Boom!!!
"That's messing with me!"
Jalter watched as the Holy Grail, which she had intended to personally deliver into Rin's hands, suddenly exploded in mid-air without any external attack, and she couldn't help but curse.
Without the Holy Grail, that broken "faucet," to restrain it, the black mud of the curse surged out even more uncontrollably. Jalter stood calmly in the black mud, which flowed like lava; for her, such evil cursed matter was merely a supplement.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah! Damn it, don't bother me!"
Jalter roared with fury, turning the battle flag in her hand and plunging it into the black mud before her. Her battle boots, planted on the ground beneath the black mud, vibrated, and with one hand, she lifted a pitch-black humanoid from the black mud... The highest mystery of this world was held in her palm, connecting to the deepest core of the Holy Grail from the soul level with the Heavenly Garment. The Third Magic: chalice · Soul Materialization, at this moment, fell into Rin's hands. From then on, Rin was the new Third Magus!
Under the effect of the Third Magic, her originally collapsing soul was completely sublimated, refined, and could even transcend the body to interfere with the material plane solely in soul form.
A true miracle, a shore that humanity could never reach no matter how much they sacrificed, Rin had now stepped onto it!
The pure white, luxurious dress was neither suitable for Rin nor for combat. Under the 'freely transforming' magic formula left on it, the dress transformed back into battle armor. Rin faced the King of Heroes' divine weapon, which split heaven and earth, with calm composure, her fighting spirit soaring and showing no fear.
Gilgamesh, holding EA, which was now fully released and ready to strike, smiled calmly, looking at the reinvigorated Rin.
"Your radiance is indeed not so easily submerged."
"Of course, otherwise wouldn't you be very disappointed?"
Rin held the god-slaying spear in one hand, now transferring the noble phantasm to her left hand. Her right arm was wrapped in a crystalline jewel chain, which was the materialized Jeweled Sword after its transformation.
"Although I won't be disappointed, it makes this King even happier. As a queen, you have perfectly fulfilled your duty to please the King."
"I'm so troubled by your constant self-talk! This is the end, Gilgamesh. I'm sending you back to the Hall of Heroes, and I never want to hear your self-talk again! Let me tell you again, I! Like! Girls!"
After a hearty laugh, Gilgamesh's expression turned serious as he raised EA in his hand, and the magic power that shook the starry sky and universe surged and roared!
"At this moment, this King has brought forth all my treasures. In this heaven and earth, only you are worthy of this King's treatment. Tohsaka Rin, return with this King to the Hall of Heroes to be with me forever!"
Hearing Gilgamesh's declaration, Rin was so startled that her twin-tails stood on end!
"No need!!!"
At this moment, there was no need for more words; life and death would be decided now!
"Enuma Elish: The Star of Creation!!!"
The sky screamed, and the vast sea roared!
A majestic beam of magic power, shaking the laws of the universe, surged forth. As Gilgamesh swung his sword, as far as the eye could see, large areas of space shattered and vanished into nothingness like broken glass. The night sky was torn apart, countless stars dimmed, the sea surface was cut open, and endless seawater plunged into a void that even the vast ocean could not fill!
The destructive energy that shattered worlds surged and roared towards Rin. There was no escaping, no avoiding; the entire battlefield space had been sealed by this single sword strike. The god-slaying spear in Rin's hand could annihilate and penetrate all existence in the world, conceptually described as destroying "the only one" of all existences, whether living, non-living, or any object, including demonic beasts, phantasmal beasts, divine beasts, humans, shields, armies, cities, barriers, gods, and so on. However, "the world" was uniquely not included in this list.
At this moment, the god-slaying spear, which purely targeted the existence of objects in the world with its destructive offensive, could no longer contend with the Sword of Rupture, EA. It was not that its power was inferior to EA, but rather that their targeted domains were different.
Rin hung the god-slaying spear on her back.
"Illusory Projection: Parallel Replacement!"
Rin's right hand once again reached into the crack of the parallel world. Since the target was the world, then a noble phantasm that defined the world was needed!
Rin drew a light from the crack of the parallel world! A five-meter-long, intensely dazzling white light. If one endured the blinding light and looked closely, they would find that the light enveloped a knight's long spear used by medieval knights.
"The Lance that Shines to the Ends of the World: Rhongomyniad!"
King Arthur's Holy Lance, the storm anchor that binds the stars, the wedge that pins the physical laws of reality to the world. This noble phantasm itself is not quite correct to say it came from Illusory Projection: Parallel Replacement, because this noble phantasm itself is a projection. Its true body is the Holy Tower that stands at the end of the world and supports it; the so-called Holy Lance is merely the shadow of the Holy Tower itself. Thirteen seals are imposed on its shaft, barely constraining it to exist in the form of a noble phantasm.
To release this noble phantasm, more than half of the seals must first be undone. If all seals are released, the Holy Lance will immediately collapse, summoning the true body of the Holy Lance, "The Holy Tower Standing at the End of the World," the pillar that maintains the world's surface.
Where the Holy Tower stands is the end of the world!
Once this Holy Lance, which can no longer truly be called a noble phantasm, is fully deployed, the entire world will be negated, except for the place where the Holy Tower stands! The Holy Tower materializes, and the world has reached its end!
Boom!!!
The brilliant light illuminating the night sky pierced through the firmament; the Holy Spear of Light, after Rin loudly proclaimed its True Name and released it, directly dissipated into nothingness, and a pillar of aurora that penetrated the starry sea and cosmos erupted!
The pillar of light that protected the world and maintained human history was pulled out, the world was being denied, and human history was shaking. A more brutal torture than the sword that split the world was inflicted upon the world!
Violence met violence; the pillar of light that denied the world clashed with the world-splitting power of creation. There was no earth-shattering roar, no tsunami-like energy aftermath—just splitting, collapsing, shattering! A cry of pain, as if from the world itself, echoed across this battlefield. The target of the attack, from the very beginning, was no longer the individuals or their bodies, but the world in which they resided!
"Crack—ping!"
Repelling and offsetting each other, large areas of space were destroyed, countless spacetime holes were torn open, and the void inside spacetime devoured and crushed everything pulled into it. If the two world-tearing forces continued to wax and wane against each other, even the entire world would be completely destroyed! This was a situation that the counter force itself absolutely could not allow!
The world itself was under attack, and the world's counter force erupted. It was as if an invisible pair of giant hands were smoothing out footprints in the sand; the rupturing and expanding spatial rifts were forcibly suppressed and smoothed over, and the shattered world was forcibly reset, everything returning to its original state.
However, it was not over yet... Behind Gilgamesh, the Gate of Babylon fully opened! A golden wall, connecting heaven and earth, appeared. Tens of thousands of noble phantasm gates opened, and countless shining noble phantasms extended their sharp edges. Unlike the casual projectiles before, all of the noble phantasms began to glow brightly, signaling their release!
"I said, at this moment, all treasures shall be brought forth. EA is but one of them. Comprehend the origin of civilization, the treasury of human civilization!"
Gilgamesh is a collector of treasures... "I have collected all treasures in the world" is Gilgamesh's catchphrase, but this is no mere metaphor. He gathered all prototypes of technology produced in his era, claimed them as his own, and sealed them away. Therefore, rather than saying they are treasures stored by Gilgamesh, it is more accurate to say they are the "original source of human wisdom" itself.
These are the crystallization of human civilized wisdom, the origin of all civilizations. The development of human civilization originates from Gilgamesh's treasury. Therefore, the King of Heroes can possess all treasures, discern all treasures, and use all treasures! This is the King of Heroes Gilgamesh's final noble phantasm: the original source of human civilization!
Countless tens of millions of noble phantasms were all released! The endless radiance illuminated the entire world! These are the ultimate treasures of all civilizations that humanity has accumulated from ancient times to the present. Their collection is equivalent to the manifestation of the entire world's human history. This civilization of human history declared war on Rin!
"I anticipated this move as soon as I saw you unleash the 'Omniscient and Omnipotent Star.' In the end, you still had to use the power of the future."
A mercury sphere the size of a dragon's eye appeared in Rin's open left palm; this was MIKU, compressed and miniaturized. MIKU then transformed into a thin stream, flowing along Rin's arm and finally into the glowing Engraving on Rin's left arm. Immediately after, a second Engraving from future Rin dissipated after a momentary flash of light.
In Rin's palm, a glowing emerald green orb appeared. It was an emerald green orb about the size of a baby's small fist, born from nothingness yet exuding vibrant life, like a burgeoning seed ready to sprout.
"Although it can only be used once, this is undoubtedly the best stage! Come, the final reverberation of humanity from the end of the world!"
Boom!!!
The mysterious Seed of Life erupted! Azure spiritual roots spread and grew with almost the speed of thought, extending upwards to the sky, rooting themselves in the cosmos, and reaching downwards to the ocean floor, plundering the planet's essence. An energy vortex formed around this mysterious seed, drawing in the scattered life energy from the air. Infinite energy particles were devoured and plundered by this seed.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."
The seed, plundering this world, was like a beating heart. The grand, soundless heartbeat reverberated through every corner of the entire world! Whether human, bird, fish, plants, trees, or beasts, all living beings who heard this heartbeat realized that a terrifying existence that should not be born was about to come into being.
Everything was completed in an instant. The seed, having plundered the entire planet and world, obtained sufficient nourishment. The sky-shrouding roots spread out in an instant and then retracted in an instant. A ball of light, filled with the vast energy of the planet, floated before Rin. A blue demonic sword extended from this ball of light.
Rin gripped the hilt with her right hand. The moment the demonic sword entered her grasp, its blade erupted with endless azure demonic light, and the blade extended wildly, stretching, stretching, and stretching again! A blade tens of kilometers long, reaching up to the starry sky!
This is the demonic sword from the end of the future world, from the land at the planet's demise, a manifestation of human nature. Its meaning is: the sword that destroys the planet to save humanity.
"This is the end of human civilization! Star-Devouring Demonic Sword: Emperor's Slash!!!"