After traveling through the long Spiritron tunnel, what entered Rin's sight was a desolate and dilapidated residential area. Judging from the style of the residential area and the text on the nearby road signs, this should be Japan around the year 2000.
Gudako shook her head to dispel the dizziness caused by traveling through the Spiritron tunnel and enthusiastically picked up a newspaper blown up by the wind from the ground, reading it word by word with her poor Japanese skills.
Mash and Fujimaru Ritsuka came behind Rin hand-in-hand with Olga Marie.
"Elder Sister! Is this the Singularity? There doesn't seem to be anything strange about it?"
"vice director, haven't you noticed that this place is too desolate and dilapidated? Even if this were a slum, being a bit dilapidated could be explained, but there isn't a single hint of human presence or sound here."
As a young lady born with a silver spoon in her mouth, Olga Marie's face turned red upon hearing Fujimaru Ritsuka's words, and she immediately put her hands on her hips, about to show Fujimaru Ritsuka her 'authority' as the vice director.
However, before Olga Marie could speak, she was stopped by Rin.
"Fujimaru, even though you're usually lazy in various trainings, it seems you have some ability at critical moments!"
Hearing this praise from Rin, though he wasn't sure if it counted as praise, Fujimaru Ritsuka scratched the back of his head and lowered his head in embarrassment.
Then Rin, seemingly intending to test this 'Person of Destiny' from the original story, snatched the newspaper from Gudako's hand and handed it to Fujimaru Ritsuka.
"See if there's any useful information in here."
Having her newspaper snatched by Rin, Gudako did not dare to vent her anger at Rin's 'arrogance'. She just stood there with her head lowered like a deflated balloon, fiddling with her fingers, and the side ponytail that was originally perky also drooped lifelessly.
Taking the newspaper, Fujimaru Ritsuka, with the advantage of being born in Japan, easily finished reading the newspaper that Gudako couldn't understand for a long time and obtained some useful information from it.
"Director, the release date of this newspaper is December 27, 1999, and based on its condition, it was printed at most less than a week ago. The content mentions 'vampires' multiple times, I'm afraid they are Dead Apostles."
"Is that all?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka scratched his head, trying hard to recall the various series of knowledge he had learned at Chaldea. He pointed to the stars in the sky, then showed an inconspicuous advertisement in the newspaper to Rin and said.
"Director, also based on the stars in the sky, we should be on Honshu Island in Japan. All the advertisements listed in this newspaper are for shops in the Tokyo area. Combining this information, I conclude that we are currently in Tokyo, Japan, around the year 2000. For some reason, a large number of Dead Apostles appeared here, leading to the near-extinction of humans in this era, making it a Singularity."
After listening to Fujimaru Ritsuka's analysis, Rin nodded to him with satisfaction.
"Then based on your analysis, what do we need to do now?"
"Based on the knowledge I learned at Chaldea, if all humans in this era were extinct, then this Singularity shouldn't exist. That is to say, there are at least some humans surviving here. Our first goal now should be to find them!"
"Fujimaru, you are indeed as excellent as Reines said. Then next, you, Gudako, and Mash will form a team to find the surviving humans of this era, while Olga Marie and I will go find a way to restore communication with Chaldea."
The three people who received the instructions immediately responded to Rin with serious expressions.
"Yes!" X3
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After separating from Gudako's trio, Rin walked casually along the desolate street with Olga Marie.
Suddenly Rin stopped and turned to speak to the puzzled Olga Marie.
"You must have many questions! It's okay, Olga Marie, ask if you want to. There are no Director or vice director here, only an Elder Sister and a younger sister. Don't worry about these formalities."
"Elder Sister, did Lev really betray us?"
Rin, who thought Olga Marie would ask about some plans or goals, couldn't help but roll her eyes upon hearing this.
"Is that gloomy guy Lev so attractive to you? Tsk, although it's unfortunate, it's true. Disappearing after the explosion and trying to send me away before the explosion started..."
Before Rin could finish, she was hurriedly interrupted by Olga Marie.
"Elder Sister, is it possible that Lev was... by the real mastermind?"
"I hope it's as you think! Anyway, we'll wait and see the final result... take care of yourself, something is coming!"
The sisters' conversation came to an abrupt halt as a rustling sound from the nearby rooftops and alleys reached their ears. Rin casually took out a few gems and held them in her hand.
Because she had Rin's company and care all the way, unlike the flustered Olga Marie in the original story, she now displayed the true level of a young lady from the Astronomy Department. Several Three-verse magecrafts were formed around Olga Marie in a short time, poised and waiting for the enemy to appear.
Soon, over a dozen Ghouls with slightly decaying skin appeared before Rin and Olga Marie. At the first sight of the Ghouls, Rin's Jewel Magecraft and Olga Marie's Celestial Magecraft struck the emerging Ghouls without mercy.
For the now-wealthy Rin, the gems she casually took out were each a top-quality item of immense value in the ordinary world. The power they burst forth with as disposable items could probably take down an average Servant if they were unprepared, let alone mere Ghouls.
And the Three-verse magecraft used by Olga Marie was no simple existence either. Theoretically, Three-verse magecraft can cause damage to a Servant with Magic Resistance B. If it were a Servant like Hundred Personas who has no Magic Resistance, a single strike could probably take out one of his clones.
The Ghouls that suddenly rushed out were easily torn apart by the two 'Magus' and turned into dust, but the battle was not over. It seemed these dozen or so Ghouls were just an appetizer; more Ghouls emerged endlessly from rooftops, alleys, and various shadows, surging toward Rin and Olga Marie like a tide, just like a zombie horde in a zombie movie.
Watching the surging horde, Rin curled her lip in annoyance. She took out a ruby, which would be considered top-tier even in the magical world, from her bosom with some heartache, cast a spell on it, and threw it at the horde.
Soon, the Innocentius was generated from the gem as the origin, roaring and intercepting the incoming Ghouls, allowing Rin and Olga Marie to calmly use the Innocentius as cover to pick off targets.
On the other side, the Gudako trio also encountered the same situation as Rin; a massive horde of Ghouls was crazily rushing toward the three of them.
Gudako, who had also summoned the Innocentius, looked unhappily at Fujimaru Ritsuka as he calmly retreated into a nearby small residence under Mash's cover, and shouted, increasing her magical output to make the Innocentius even larger.
However, Gudako did not notice that after the Innocentius became larger and the temperature higher, the rune strips she had scattered nearby were already beginning to show signs of scorching due to the high heat.
Personally, I think the first Singularity 'Burning Fuyuki City' doesn't have much worth writing, so I have adapted parts of the Tsukihime background as the first Singularity. Subsequent Singularities will appear after magical adaptation based on the original work.
I hope everyone supports it!
Nero Chaos!
The battle continued. It seemed as if most of the people in this city had been turned into Ghouls, and an almost endless army of Ghouls continued to attack Gudako and the others.
If the guess was correct, even if only one-tenth of the population of this city of tens of millions had been converted into Ghouls, it would still amount to millions. Even if Gudako and the others were left there to kill them, they wouldn't be able to finish off millions of Ghouls.
In just a few minutes, the base rune paper of the Innocentius was completely destroyed by the impact of the Ghouls and the high temperature of the Innocentius. Seeing the Innocentius disappear, Gudako remembered the teachings Rin had given her when she taught this magic.
"Gudako! Don't use rune paper just to save a little money. No matter how you optimize paper, fragility and flammability will always be its greatest drawbacks. If you encounter a sudden battle and don't have time to set up rune paper, the rune paper you throw in a hurry will not only limit the upper limit of the Innocentius but also be easily burned away by the enemy's fire magic. Even if you manage to set it up, it's just a matter of a large-scale fire magic. So, it's better to learn to use gems as a medium like me..."
After recalling Rin's words when she taught the Formula, Gudako patted her forehead in annoyance.
"Ahhh! Why didn't I listen to Master!"
"Gudako, don't get distracted during battle!"
Mash swung the huge shield in her hand, fiercely swatting away a Ghoul that was launching a surprise attack on Gudako, and then flashed to protect Gudako.
At the same time, Fujimaru Ritsuka drove an off-road vehicle out of the small residence he had just entered, stopped next to Gudako, and shouted.
"Gudako, get in the car!"
Gudako, having no time to think, scrambled into the off-road vehicle, and then, under Mash's cover, the vehicle began to accelerate continuously and headed into the distance.
Mash, having completed the cover mission, abandoned her entanglement with the 'army' of Ghouls and, relying on her Heroic Spirit-like body, quickly chased in the direction the off-road vehicle had left.
On the other side, Olga Marie was bent over, panting, looking at the endless stream of Ghouls not far away, and angrily raised her hand to gather a Yin Qi Bullet and fired it.
Meanwhile, Rin, while calmly maintaining several Innocentiuss, was also casually casting various magic at the Ghoul army. One could only say that the dragon factor was overpowered.
"Olga Marie, if you are tired, you can take a break first. No need to rush; we still need to stay here for a while."
Hearing Rin's words, the panting Olga Marie went to a nearby corner, leaned against the wall, and sat on the ground, gasping for breath. It seemed Olga Marie was so exhausted that she didn't care about her image as a young lady at all.
"Elder Sister, I don't understand why we have to keep entangling with these guys here. You could clearly take me and fly away from their encirclement."
"Of course it's to wait for the forces that created these ghostly things to appear! This number of Ghouls is definitely not something a single Dead Apostle or Ancestor could create; it must be the product of some organization. Moreover, that organization probably created so many Ghouls to deal with other forces! We just need to beat this organization that created the Ghouls until they feel the pain, and they will naturally come to us with information!"
"Your idea is very interesting!"
Suddenly, a voice entered the ears of Rin and Olga Marie. The'sisters' turned their heads and saw a tall man with gray hair standing on a utility pole not far from them.
"Nero Chaos?"
"It is I. However, you seem to have misunderstood one point. What we bring to the door is not information, but... death!"
Accompanied by Nero Chaos's words, a pitch-black, hideous monster emerged from Nero Chaos's body and roared as it charged at Rin.
Rin scratched her head nonchalantly.
"Death, huh?"
Then she punched the head of the monster that had charged in front of her.
At the moment Rin's fist made contact with the monster, an extremely strange feeling instantly transmitted to the eyes of those who saw this scene. The monster actually seemed to pause the moment Rin's fist touched it. Especially for Nero Chaos, this feeling of pause seemed to last for a full few seconds in his perception.
But in fact, Rin just punched the monster away, taking less than 0.01 seconds.
The reason for this was precisely because of the spell'Source of Power'. This spell had not been turned off since it was first demonstrated in front of Touko to reinforce Reinforcement Magic a few years ago. And in these few years, Rin also often practiced her Eight Extremities Fist when she had nothing to do, which caused Rin's power to reach A+++ when she used Reinforcement Magic to perform Eight Extremities Fist, and it had even begun to interfere with certain laws. Perhaps if she continued like this, it might not be impossible for Rin to perform brand new 'magic' with Eight Extremities Fist one day.
Nero Chaos's pupils shrank. Feeling something was wrong, he immediately summoned several more 'beasts' to charge at Rin, while he immediately fled into the distance.
"Want to run?"
Rin shouted lightly, instantly stepping on the ground and turning into an afterimage, rushing out of the encirclement of monsters and arriving beside Nero Chaos. At the same time, those few monsters also instantly exploded into a pile of rotten meat.
Facing Rin who appeared in front of him instantly, Nero Chaos's shoulder squirmed, and an arm thicker than a human waist stretched out, clenched into a fist, and struck at Rin.
Rin easily blocked this punch from Nero Chaos, raised her knee to block the whip kick Nero Chaos secretly kicked over, and then stepped on Nero Chaos's toe with one foot, delivering a heavy Iron Mountain Lean to Nero Chaos's chest, causing Nero Chaos to vomit a large amount of blood.
Nero Chaos, kneeling on the ground, raised his head and glared at Rin with a fierce look.
"Damn it! I..."
"Slap!"
Rin slapped Nero Chaos across the face, forcing the second half of his sentence back into his stomach. Then she raised her hands high again, swinging left and right, and gave the stunned Nero Chaos a series of slaps.
Olga Marie watched Rin slapping Nero Chaos left and right, and for the first time, she had a clear understanding of the three words 'Demon Rin' that were rumored in the outside world.
It seemed like she was a bit tired from hitting him. Rin shook her slightly aching palms and said.
"Alright, tell me the information I want!"
Nero Chaos, who had swollen into a pig's head, glared fiercely at Rin with eyes that were thirty percent terrified and seventy percent hostile, and spat a mouthful of blood at Rin's feet.
Seeing that Nero Chaos did not intend to cooperate with her, a little devil-like smile appeared on Rin's face.
"I heard that your immortality among the Ancestors is also among the best? Then let me test if this rumor is true!"
Saying that, Rin snapped her fingers at Nero Chaos. A pillar of fire rising to the sky ascended with Nero Chaos as the center, causing Nero Chaos to let out a painful wail.
Next was freezing, wind blade cutting, earth burial, and a series of 'cruel' methods were applied by Rin on Nero Chaos.
A full three hours later, just as the sun was about to set, the tough guy Nero Chaos finally collapsed. Lying on the ground shivering, he began to vomit everything he knew from his mouth.
The Last Bastion of Humanity and the Crisis - Long Live Humanity!
Accompanied by the sound of the car engine panting, the out-of-fuel car slowly stopped on the road.
"What's wrong?"
"Out of gas!"
Gudako turned her head to look at the car's dashboard and found that, sure enough, the fuel gauge showed that the fuel level was at the bottom.
"That's really unlucky! It's getting dark soon, and we don't even have a place to stay. Those Ghouls will definitely be more active at night!"
At this time, Mash, who was sitting on the roof of the off-road vehicle, jumped off, knocked on the window outside the driver's seat, and pointed to the distance.
"Senior, Gudako, look!"
The two looked in the direction Mash was pointing, and saw that the direction Mash was pointing was now blazing with fire!
"Mash! That direction isn't the direction the Director and the others went, right?"
"Senior, the Director and the others went west, and that side is the southeast direction."
Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the fire and said decisively.
"Since the Director and the others have been ruled out, there must be something in the fire. Let's go and see!"
"En! Senior."
Gudako heard Mash agree and curled her lip boredly, 'Tch, the two of you are obviously in cahoots!'
"Alright!"
At this time, the place where the fire was burning was bustling with people. A large group of humans was working together, continuously pouring gasoline into a trench that was burning fiercely around this area.
At the same time, gunshots rang out from time to time from the wall built with sandbags, bricks, furniture, etc., and Ghouls were hit by bullets from time to time in the darkness outside the burning trench.
This seemed to be the last bastion of humanity in this Singularity.
In the center of this area, in a typical Japanese-style courtyard, the leaders of this group of humans were gathered together to discuss the future path of humanity.
"Sister Aoko, we can't hold on much longer with our various supplies. Moreover, the few search teams we sent out during the day have no news. I'm afraid..."
Ciel on the side pushed her glasses and said to Tohno Shiki.
"Shiki, now it's not just an external problem; I think the key is internal. Those American troops are already quite restless, and the vast majority of ordinary people have complaints about us leading them. If it weren't for the help of the Church to appease them, I'm afraid we would have started fighting among ourselves long ago."
Aozaki Aoko held her forehead with a headache, thinking to herself, 'Touko, if you were here at this time, how good would it be.'
In the darkness, Lev touched the hat on his head and said humbly to the Black-Winged Duke beside him.
"Lord Gransurg, the enemy who is stopping the Great Moon from descending on Earth has arrived. Can we abandon this bait?"
The Black-Winged Duke looked at the blazing last bastion of humanity in the distance, turned his head, and said to Lev.
"Remember the consequences of deceiving us!"
Then, the Black-Winged Duke spread the wings on his back and said to the nearby army of Dead Apostles.
"Go! Raise the curtain to welcome my Lord!"
The nearby Dead Apostles heard the Black-Winged Duke's order and let out a roar that shook the sky together, then turned into black shadows and began to attack the last bastion of humanity with the tidal army of Ghouls.
On the rooftop of a high building not far from the last bastion of humanity.
"Meilian Solomon, are you not going to make a move? If humanity perishes, I'm afraid the next one will be the Millennium Castle!"
"Rita Rozian, don't underestimate humans too much! No need to rush; let's wait a little longer."
At the same time, humans also discovered the movement of the Ghouls. A large number of US troops stationed in Japan and Self-Defense Force personnel within the bastion rushed to the walls of the bastion and began to shoot continuously at the tidal Ghouls. Ordinary people were also fully mobilized at this time to start delivering ammunition to the soldiers on the walls.
Magus and 'Ability Users' also stopped caring about any secrecy laws and came to the wall together to start casting spells continuously. Faced with the crisis, humanity finally let go of their prejudices and united as never before.
Soon, in the last bastion of humanity, several armed helicopters rose first, followed by the sound of artillery fire and tanks starting. These 'treasures' that had been hidden by humans finally revealed their true colors.
Aoko, who rushed to the front line, pulled a Magus who was commanding and asked.
"What's going on!"
"Magus! Ghouls! Endless Ghouls and Dead Apostles are attacking us!"
Hearing this, Aoko pushed the Magus away and leaped onto the 5-6 meter high wall in one stride, ignoring the Self-Defense Force personnel who were shooting with terrified expressions, and arrived at the outermost edge of the wall.
Sure enough, as the Magus said, tidal Ghouls and Dead Apostles were rushing out from all directions.
But fortunately, at the time of building this bastion, they had received help from US military officers and had spent a great deal of effort to clear everything within a few hundred meters of the wall.
And this open area of a few hundred meters brought the last glimmer of hope to humanity.
The Ghouls and Dead Apostles that rushed out of the building complex had nowhere to hide after arriving in the open area and had to face the powerful firepower of the human side before they could reach the wall after rushing through the burning trench.
However, weapons and ammunition would always run out one day. Moreover, at that time, only one regiment of the US military and a remnant of the Self-Defense Force had been incorporated by Aoko. How long could the weapons and ammunition they carried last?
As time passed, 3 hours later, the firepower on the human side had dropped significantly, while the number of Ghouls was still endless. Many humans now showed expressions of despair on their faces.
Even many humans began to behave crazily. Some soldiers actually jumped off the high wall, held their guns above their heads, and rushed towards the Ghouls while shouting surrender.
However, they seemed to have forgotten that this was a war between two species. Soon, these soldiers were torn apart and eaten by the swarming Ghouls.
The tidal Ghouls didn't care about the flames burning on their bodies and kept crossing the burning trench.
American Captain James looked at the Ghouls within reach under the wall, picked up the cross pendant hanging in front of his chest, kissed it with a serious expression, then took out a bayonet and stuck it on the gun that had run out of bullets, turned his head to look at the ordinary people who were in a panic, and the Magus and ability users who were still persisting in casting spells, took a deep breath, stepped one foot on the edge of the wall, and said to his panicked comrades.
"Brothers! What are we?"
The surrounding panicked US soldiers heard James's roar and reflexively replied.
"Warriors!"
"Then what are we afraid of? If we have no bullets, don't we have knives? If we have no knives, don't we have fists? If we have no fists, we at least have a good set of teeth! Let those monsters see what we humans are capable of! Long live humanity!"
The nearby US troops and the Self-Defense Force, after hearing James's encouragement, had a glimmer of a smile on their faces, took out bayonets or daggers together, and looked at the Ghouls climbing onto the wall with a fighting spirit.
"Anyway, we are going to die! Then let's die in battle!"
"Long live humanity!"
"Everyone, see you at Yomotsu Hirasaka!"
James watched the Ghouls about to climb over the wall, taking out a photo of his child and wife from his jacket pocket with a look of nostalgia in his eyes. Then, without hesitation, James crumpled the photo into a ball, stuffed it into his mouth, and let out an indistinct roar, thrusting his bayonet at a Ghoul that had climbed the wall!
"Humanity... long live...!"
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