Chapter 195: The Island Turns into a Purgatory!
As if confirming Ouranos's words, at the same time, on Orsa Island, violent flames shot up into the sky.
The blazing divine light seemed to be reaching for the heavens, directly destroying everything and turning it into dissipated, illusory aftershocks.
"..."
Adventurers across the island all felt an almost explosive pain at the same time, as if thousands of needles were coming out from within their bodies, piercing them all over.
The lower the level of the adventurer, the more severe the pain they experienced.
Some even suffered more than just spiritual damage, with a thick smell of blood emanating from their bodies.
"Souls... souls are being disassembled..."
Some Elf mages perceived the situation the adventurers on this island were facing. They clearly felt that the soul of every adventurer on the island was being attacked, as if an internal part was being forcibly destroyed by a violent force from the outside, causing the soul to shatter.
This overly violent method was an extremely massive blow to ordinary adventurers. It was precisely because of this that the adventurers on the island had such a reaction.
After all, the pain brought about by the collapse of the soul was unimaginable. The feeling was like a part of the body being forcibly torn off and then forcibly muddled together—an extremely inexpressible sensation.
For a moment, all the adventurers on Orsa Island, regardless of which faction they belonged to, had completely given up on their mutual struggle.
The adventurers realized that some more exaggerated force was influencing and interfering with everyone on this island, and it was no longer the time to fight each other.
However, even if they realized this, it was difficult for the adventurers to change anything now.
Due to the previous War Game, the adventurers of Shirou's faction and the adventurers of Ouranos's faction had engaged in an unprecedented melee.
The combat power of both sides was now consumed to the limit, and they had almost no means to deal with an external blow.
However, under normal circumstances, since Orsa Island could be said to have gathered the most powerful group of adventurers in the entire world, all the capable adventurers had gathered here.
So there would generally be no external threats appearing on Orsa Island.
But the adventurers on Orsa Island had not at all anticipated that the Heavenly God Ouranos would personally set up a scheme for them, arranging an unprecedented chaos.
The Orsa volcanic fire ignited by Hestia's Authority directly turned the entire Orsa Island into a huge melting pot.
The souls of all adventurers were ignited by this exaggerated melting pot. The souls were gradually crushed and collapsed under the extreme high temperature, turning into embers and residue.
In such chaos, most of the adventurers had completely collapsed due to the burning of the Divine Fire.
Only a very small number of adventurers were still able to take action at this time.
The two in the best condition were undoubtedly Shirou and the knight Leon.
"What happened?" Leon's eyes widened instantly.
He had originally wanted to use his martial prowess to determine the winner with Shirou, but he did not expect the entire island to suddenly be ignited.
"Hestia's Authority has been activated."
Shirou, on the other hand, immediately perceived the truth.
Previously, to awaken Shirou, Hestia had transferred a large amount of her divine blood to Shirou, forcibly giving him half of her Authority.
As a result, when Hestia's Authority was awakened again, Shirou also immediately perceived the situation and realized the fact that Hestia was being manipulated.
After all, Shirou did not believe that Hestia would ignite a Divine Fire with her own will, and he did not believe that Hestia would do something like burning the entire Orsa Island and the adventurers on it.
"This must be Ouranos's plan." Shirou's mind raced.
He recalled everything that had happened since the War Game began and spoke quietly. "If we want to stop Ouranos's plan and prevent the entire island from being ignited, we must quickly find Hestia and awaken her."
"I see, then I'll help you!"
Leon did not hesitate at all and chose to stand on Shirou's side.
Because for Leon, this War Game was an unjust war from the start.
That's why he had many opportunities to attack Shirou's faction's base during the battle, but he didn't take any similar action. Instead, the moment his strength reached its peak, he chose to come and have a one-on-one duel with Shirou.
This all revealed Leon's just demeanor as the Pinnacle of Knights, that he would never take advantage of someone in a weakened state, and even less would he casually become an accomplice to an evildoer.
In short, with Leon's assistance, Shirou undoubtedly received a great help.
After all, it would be too difficult for him to find the hidden Hestia on the entire Orsa Island by himself.
Having Leon search with him doubled his manpower.
"Let's split up and search." Shirou quickly made a decision.
"I'll go back to my faction's base to search and find comrades who can still move. You also go to your base to find people to help. To prevent the adventurers on Orsa Island from all being burned by the Divine Fire, we must find Hestia as quickly as possible."
"I understand."
Leon nodded.
After making a plan with Shirou, they immediately separated and headed in different directions on the island.
According to Shirou's idea, he thought that although most adventurers would be unable to move under the pressure of the Divine Fire, high-level adventurers should still be able to survive.
But what Shirou never expected was that when he returned to the base, he found that almost all the adventurers there had collapsed.
It turned out that besides him and Leon, two adventurers who had reached Lv.9, ordinary adventurers were simply unable to withstand the Divine Fire that covered the entire island. Shirou even saw Bell's figure among them.
Although Bell was now a Lv.4 adventurer, he still couldn't stay conscious in the face of the all-shattering Divine Fire, and he lay on the ground with a splitting headache.
"I have to hurry..."
Shirou was about to take action, but suddenly, he felt his heart stop for a moment.
He initially thought it was an illusion, but he quickly realized that the 'Eternal Flame Authority' from Hestia within him had been ignited.
Yes, since Hestia's Authority ignited the entire Orsa Island, it was impossible for this other part of the Authority in Shirou's body to be separated.
However, this was a bad thing, but it was also a good thing.
The bad thing meant that Shirou's soul also began to burn, but the good thing was that Shirou could use this opportunity to find Hestia's whereabouts in one fell swoop.
"Boom!"
Shirou continuously leaped across the island, reaching the very center of the island at an almost transcendent speed.
To his surprise, Hestia was not hidden. Her figure was simply standing in the center of the island.
However, the Hestia at this moment felt quite eerie. At the very least, Shirou could not feel any of her past warmth from her.
Instead, she was filled with an unimaginable coldness and cruelty.
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