#551Chapter 523: Desperate to Save the World, the King Fist, the so-called power!AI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 523 Despair Salvation + Kaioken, The So-Called Power!
[You used a special item, Reverse Dead Sea Scrolls]
[Key item, langinus's spear, missing]
[Key existence, Apostle, missing]
[Ritual failed to fully unfold… ]
[Ritual… abnormal]
[You activated the Third-Order Heavenly Mandate: Deprivation of Fate. You bestowed the character Gilgamesh with a new attribute: Adam. Attribute compatibility: 56%]
[You bestowed the Noble Phantasm, Ea, with a new attribute: World Tree. Attribute compatibility: 73%]
[You bestowed the character White Mask with a new attribute: Lilith. Attribute compatibility: 59%]
[The Human Complementation Project ritual unfolded, its effects significantly degraded]
… …
A series of prompts refreshed like a waterfall on the spatial panel.
"You despicable fellow, how dare you… … "
"What is this?!"
The entangled consciousnesses were still deeply merging. White Mask used the Dead Sea Scrolls to make herself the sacrifice, or rather, to make her incomplete personality a catalyst.
She dissolved her own Wall of Hearts, actively merging with Gilgamesh.
White Mask felt a hint of regret in her heart. This ritual, under the effect of her Third-Order Heavenly Mandate: Deprivation of Fate, should have been more complete.
The reason she hadn't rushed to kill the various Servants and Masters, even sparing Chrollo and "Mandrake", was precisely to fully unfold the most perfect barrier.
She could use powerful Heroic Spirit Servants, as well as Reincarnators and Master Magicians, to gather 10 coordinate individuals, including her merged form with Gilgamesh.
Ultimately, they would form the shape of the Kabbalah Tree of Life, just like the unfolding in EVA, initiating a nearly perfect Human Complementation Project, instantly reversing and dissolving the Wall of Hearts of all humans worldwide.
She would transform all humans into LCL fluid (orange juice) and, by doing so, completely ascend to godhood, becoming a God, an existence beyond individual humans, Apostles, and demigods!
Even in the infinite dimensional world, such an existence couldn't be called invincible, but completely transcending ordinary life forms would give her the possibility to plunder all power from this world.
She would also ascend to heaven in one step, almost completing the entire Ladder of Spirit and Flesh.
It was just a pity that Root Origin appeared… …
Thump, thump… …
Beneath the 'orange juice' ocean, a violent heartbeat, like a fetal movement, pulsed. The next moment, a gigantic human figure was birthed from the soup of life.
It was a snow-white human form with Short Hair, its face half-delicate and half-heroic, constantly wriggling and changing.
With just one Get up, its body had already surpassed ten thousand meters, directly towering into the clouds, with the cloud line floating below her.
White Mask had to lower her head. Her eyes had now turned like red jade. Because of her immense size, the humans remaining in the city, whose Wall of Hearts (Self) was thicker, covered their heads and had not yet accepted merging into the soup of life. When they looked up, they could see the crystal-like structure within her eyes.
Those were the eyes of a demigod, completely devoid of human emotion.
White Mask continuously lowered her head. The next moment, an invisible barrier appeared, but in an instant, it was pierced through by the intense force field in front of White Mask.
Crack ~ Bang!
The gigantic barrier above Fuyuki City shattered, and White Mask's overly large face directly overlooked Fuyuki City from a few hundred meters above.
Her red-jade-like eyes slowly rotated, meeting the gaze of the man with the shimmering white, flowing hair.
"Tao Pai Pai, you, of all people, haven't you always been seeking the so-called 'Heart'?"
"Countless hearts have now merged into one. Join the Instrumentality, and you will naturally be able to feel it… … "
White Mask's voice directly resonated in Bai Cangshu's mind. This was not a magical ability, nor was it a Mental influence.
Instead, it was the power of the mind. Now, the entire Fuyuki City was covered by LCL fluid, and the merged White Mask could almost freely influence any individual within it.
The Reincarnator codenamed '"Mandrake"', who specialized in Mental power, was now on the verge of collapse, clutching her head, and the barrier around her body was growing dimmer.
Once the barrier shattered, her Wall of Hearts would also disappear at any moment.
In this environment, only non-human entities possessed a unique advantage.
Because they were not inherently living beings, but rather Heroic Spirits manifested based on their Servant.
The pitch-black giant Berserker, Heracles, stood in place, reaching out into the ocean of the soup of life and retrieving the white maiden's long robe and the white wool hat.
The giant suddenly roared to the sky.
And in the sky on the other side, purple rays like lasers were rapidly speeding towards beyond Fuyuki City. Servant, Medusa, wanted to send the poor maiden, Matou Sakura, away before everything became irreversible.
But even at her speed, all she saw was an orange ocean.
It seemed all humans had already perished in this single strike.
Root Origin stepped upon the orange ocean, her kimono still spotless. She held the short sword in a reverse grip, walking step by step towards the white giant.
"Root Origin, you should be very clear, your mission… … has failed."
Bai Cangshu spoke. He was still looking down at his hand. In this hand, there was none of the power that Heracles had just displayed in that instant.
It transcended the Servant's restraints, transcended the influence of madness, and even instantly broke free from the obsession of fighting him.
Root Origin's steps paused slightly. She saw that the glow of a Savior was clearly visible on Tao Pai Pai, even if that glow was somewhat different from the brilliance of other Saviors, it was indeed a Savior.
Root Origin looked down at the knife in her hand, then at Tao Pai Pai. The death lines on his body had significantly reduced, and most of the death points had faded and disappeared.
Correspondingly, she no longer had the blessing of the Counter Force.
Now, he was the chosen one.
Root Origin's lips twitched twice. She suddenly revealed a strange smile, and the next moment, with a bang, she turned into a puddle of orange juice.
Bai Cangshu understood that smile. It was probably a silent mockery.
It was unclear whether she was mocking herself, or the Counter Force that entrusted the Savior of this world to him, or perhaps… … mocking the Root Origin.
Bai Cangshu didn't care.
He only felt that at this moment, his power was unimaginably strong.
And as that layer of barrier shattered, the Mind Net unfolded once more.
Unlike others who clutched their heads, resisting the impact of various imperfections in their minds, Bai Cangshu saw no illusions or images before him.
Nor was he subjected to any temptation.
Neither did his once-absent parents appear to earnestly persuade him, nor did past teachers and classmates come to lecture him.
Not even the imperfect fantasy objects from the awkward pains of his youth appeared.
Bai Cangshu stood above the ocean of orange juice, maintaining a self so complete it was almost arrogant.
"Human Instrumentality, that kind of thing… … I don't need it."
Whoosh ~
Like a gust of wind blowing by, or perhaps a surge of qi rising from within Bai Cangshu's body.
The next moment, the gigantic 'tentacles' unfurling towards the sky behind Bai Cangshu seemed to instantly plunge into the void.
[Despair Salvation Mode, activated]
[You sensed the Counter Force: Gaia]
[You sensed the Counter Force: Alaya]
[You gained Gaia's blessing — On the planet, you will receive an additional increase in immortality and super-regeneration. You will be exempt from the influence of fate-related, time-related, and causality-related abilities]
[You gained Alaya's blessing — When attacking targets identified as enemies of humanity, your attacks cannot be evaded or exempted]
Golden qi seeped from Bai Cangshu's body, like a golden 'membrane'. The next moment, it began to rise like clouds and mist, like flames, and then… …
Boom!
The golden qi shot straight into the sky.
Intense power surged within his body. His muscles, infused with overly powerful qi, became almost comparable to the hardest alloys in the world—no, far beyond that.
His heartbeat completely vanished, and his speed was so great that no sound could be detected.
As his blood surged, blood vessels ruptured over large areas, and his skin was scorched by the hot blood. Then, the blood was also vaporized into a reddish mist.
The next moment, everything flew towards the sky.
A golden-red stream of qi, like a pillar of light, burst forth from the ground of Fuyuki City, from the ocean formed by LCL fluid, and shot straight into the sky with a roar.
White Mask, in her white giant form, staggered backward. Her white hair was swept up by the mist, flying towards the sky.
Creak, creak, creak… …
A sound like the tightening of giant ship cables and gears erupted from within the white giant's body.
That was the natural deterrence emitted by an extremely powerful physical body when it moved.
[You used the ability, Kaioken]!
Despair Salvation received a perfect two-fold boost, and after Despair Salvation was actively activated, it received another boost;
And at this moment, through the Kaioken, everything doubled again.
Bai Cangshu's eyes flickered continuously. The overly surging power constantly impacted within his body, giving him a sensation of almost being completely dominated by power at any moment.
Yes, at this moment, Bai Cangshu felt that he only needed to abandon his rationality and let that unparalleled violence carry his subconscious, and he would transform into the most brutal fighting machine, completely immersing himself in 'power'.
"Hmph ~"
Bai Cangshu exhaled. The powerful, continuous qi instantly jetted out into the space hundreds of meters in front of him. The next moment, the LCL fluid completely froze.
Bai Cangshu tilted his head.
Bang!
An explosion of unknown meaning occurred in the air.
The overly violent power, at the instant his neck twisted, completely burst the air for tens of meters, creating a shockwave.
In the sky, White Mask's eyes still showed various expressions.
She hadn't perfectly merged yet, but including her own consciousness, all consciousnesses were now questioning.
What exactly was going on with the human below… …
That scent, that feeling, that sense of presence… …
Completely unlike a 'human'.
Bai Cangshu lowered his head slightly, slowly inhaling. A large amount of qi in his chest reacted with the hot blood.
The next moment, he suddenly looked up and let out a terrifying roar.
"Ha!"
Boom!
A mushroom cloud instantly exploded. A scorching white shockwave, with him as the origin, swept directly towards beyond Fuyuki City.
Rumble!
The city exploded in an instant.
Saber, carefully escorting Emiya Shirou towards the Fuyuki City downtown, looked up in astonishment, immediately drew her sword, and a golden light shone.
The next moment, she was engulfed by the unparalleled shockwave.
Boom!
Everyone was blown away like small boats in a tidal wave.
The forest outside Fuyuki City collapsed with a crash, mountains trembled, dust obscured everything, and the colossal giant bowing in the sky also fell towards the ocean amidst the rumbling.
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