Chapter 159: The Big Bang From an Entire Pantheon and the World Tree
The Umbral Star...
Noah's memory of this term was actually quite distant, but he had played the FE game before, so he was somewhat familiar with the setting of the Umbral Star.
The Umbral Star was said to be a special observation device created by an alien civilization.
Although it was generally called the Umbral Star Velber, in reality, the main body of Velber was always regarded as the core of the Umbral Star. Surrounding the core was armor composed of multiple Starships.
Among these multiple Starships, each one carried a Umbral Star Vanguard.
Among them, Titan Altera was the vanguard carried by Starship Velber 02.
If it were just the Titan, Noah, holding the Excalibur, could actually handle it. But if this time it wasn't just the Titan, but also Velber and other vanguards taking action, then things would become complicated.
But...
"Let's wait and see first. Hopefully, it won't be the Umbral Star itself descending directly."
[You are unusually concerned about this matter]
[Then, while investigating the source of the golems' appearance, you also investigate the situation outside the star]
[With the joint efforts of you and Mary, the source of the golems' appearance is discovered first]
[In spring, the golems begin to invade, and Mary then discovers that although these golems seem to be born from the earth, it's actually because a special combination of information entities is scattered from the sky. These entities contain the will of the Titan, so when they land on the ground, they turn into these stone-like 820 golems]
[The golems do not come from the earth, are not natural products, but come from the sky, or beyond the sky]
[After directly suppressing these golems, because there hasn't been much effective progress in observing beyond the star, you decide to use the Heroic Spirit summoning ritual to leave a few Heroic Spirits to handle the issue of the City of the Huns, and then go beyond the star yourself to check the situation]
[You discuss for a long time with others about which Heroic Spirits to summon, and ultimately decide to summon some native Roman Heroic Spirits, allowing them to benefit from the homeland bonus]
[So the Heroic Spirits you ultimately plan to summon are————Emperor Nero, Emperor Caesar, and Emperor Romulus]
[Nero is the Nero from your impression, with a face almost identical to Artoria and Morgan, leaving both Morgan and Artoria stunned, and Nero is clearly quite surprised as well]
[For some reason, Caesar descends as a Saber, while Romulus, because Grand Servants normally do not appear, and under normal circumstances, a Heroic Spirit of such extraordinary caliber as the Divine Ancestor would not appear, descends in the form of a Lancer]
[With these three emperors, who benefit from the Roman homeland bonus, guarding Rome, you are clearly much more at ease]
[The three emperors also hold a very high opinion of you, even feeling astonished by your existence]
[As Heroic Spirits, they can sense the absurdly high Divinity on you, and they each hold a very high evaluation of you]
[They tell you to rest assured and go find the real enemy, as Rome will be guarded by them]
[Afterward, you directly rush toward beyond the star, arriving at the exterior of the star]
[Beyond the stars, you can no longer benefit from the enhancements brought by the Will of Britain. However, as an embodiment of the Mediterranean Pantheon, such Divinity grants you the full capability to survive beyond the stars.]
[Moreover, the endless supply of vitality provided by the World Tree equips you with the fundamental tools for interstellar voyages.]
[Yet, you did not have to search for long beyond the stars. Shortly after emerging, you spotted that object continuously orbiting the Earth.]
[It did not appear to be the main body of Velber, but rather a smaller Starship.]
[However, unlike what you knew, this Starship did not generate a domain; it simply orbited the Earth on its own.]
[As you approached the Starship, you realized that although the domain was not expanded, it was enveloped around the surface of the ark. This endowed the already indestructible Starship—capable of withstanding faster-than-light travel—with a durability akin to the shell of a world.]
[Inside]
[Singer, activate]
[Faintly, you seemed to hear a very faint voice from within the Starship.]
["Save... save me..."]
[The voice was too faint, blurred to the point of being indistinct, as if the signal were being interfered with or deliberately blocked.]
[You remained near the Starship, inspecting it for a long time, and discovered a startling truth.]
[The Starship was not operating according to its original mode of action; instead, it seemed as though it had been bound here by something.]
[It was as if the Earth were flying a kite.]
[The Starship was trapped here, forced to orbit the Earth endlessly, which prompted it to activate its domain for self-protection.]
[Without entering the Starship, this was all you could uncover. Thus, you directly invaded the domain of the Starship, attempting to pass through it and enter the ark.]
[Singer, activate]
[The domain of the Starship became incredibly complex after compression and sedimentation. Yet, this complexity, resembling a dislocated maze, could not confuse you, for you could still faintly hear that tiny, blurred, yet undoubtedly present voice.]
[Following the voice, you navigated through the intricate domain, but just before entering the Starship, you were halted.]
[What stopped you was not something entirely unknown to you, but Attila, whom you had encountered once on the ground.]
[However, she was now enveloped in a Black Air Current, her eyes glowing red, incessantly muttering about destruction, and she attacked you directly.]
[You fought her and found that her combat power had significantly increased under the influence of the domain and the Black Air Current.]
[Moreover, due to her inherent nature as a being of the Earth, Excalibur could not activate against her under normal circumstances.]
[But by targeting the Starship with Excalibur, you successfully harnessed the power of the Holy Sword.]
[The domain of the Starship was destroyed by you, and its doors were forcibly blasted open. As you entered the interior of the Starship, the previously faint voice became clear.]
["Save... save me..."]
[This voice seemed like a cry for help, but the moment you heard it, the Starship began directly extracting Divinity from your body. The existence emitting the voice, infused with your Divinity, gradually grew from a vague humanoid shape into a recognizable form.]
[It looked exactly like Attila—or rather, it was meant to be the same existence.]
[She is the Umbral Star Vanguard, Titan Altera.]
[She drew power from you and seemed about to say something, but before she could speak, black energy surged from her body. Then, like Attila, she launched an attack against you.]
[Once again, you raised Excalibur, activated the Crown given to you by the Pantheon, and unleashed Excalibur's full power release toward her.]
[However, because you had used Excalibur's full power release twice in rapid succession, even with the Crown's enhancement, Titan Altera, under the protection of the Starship, was only severely wounded—not directly pierced through.]
[You had already used the Crown, and Excalibur would not allow a third consecutive full power release.]
[In this situation, you self-destructed.]
[The full-force detonation of an entire pantheon, though an attack born of civilization, combined with the endless vitality you drew from the World Tree, directly overwhelmed the Titan.]
[After being overwhelmed, the overflowing Titan exploded, and the Starship was destroyed.]
[You died.]