The infinite sword system has been mastered, and you say this is the dragon clan?

Chapter 287 Chaldea, project launched!

Emiya felt as if he was falling.

In the core of the light body, in the suddenly opened conceptual universe, countless twinkling stars passed by, turning into a dazzling background in the galaxy-like pattern.

In a sense, the conceptual universe is also a feature of Type-Moon. It is not a physical universe, but more like a certain "cosmic view" or a cosmic design.

So it doesn't necessarily follow the appearance of the universe in reality.

There are many examples of this, such as Goetia in FGO, which transformed the Grand Temperament Temple using the magic circuits of Solomon's remains. This is a conceptual universe called the "Beast Realm." Mythology also has a wide variety of cosmologies, such as the nine worlds of Norse mythology and the seven heavens of the biblical universe.

But this conceptual universe in front of us looks very similar to the deep space in reality!

"Hiss..." Emiya looked at the countless stars flying across the distant deep space and marveled in his heart.

Humans always feel nostalgic for certain things, such as the distant and brilliant starry sky above their heads.

The fall continued due to the inexplicable gravity.

Flames crackled and roared, and even the massive Fire Giant could only fall in vain in the vast expanse of deep space. The Giant's shell might have slightly altered its flight trajectory by blasting flames, but unfortunately, it was difficult to discern its correct direction in the vast expanse of space.

The downward momentum intensified. The scene shifted rapidly, and judging by the celestial bodies' movement, their speeds were even more rapid: the first cosmic velocity, resisting the planetary gravity. The second cosmic velocity, escaping the planetary gravity. And finally, the third cosmic velocity, escaping the sun's gravity. In a short period of time, an unimaginable number of stars flew by.

This level of acceleration was nothing to the God Slayer Emiya, but he found it incredible that the conceptual universe could expand to an astronomical scale in an extremely small space.

...Emiya's intuition told him that he must not allow this thing to continue to unfold endlessly.

"BB, are you still there? Can you analyze it? What the hell is in there?!"

"Hi! Thanks for your concern, Senior. I've just done a thorough comparison of existing data and am almost getting to the bottom of it!"

When Emiya called to the side, a girl suddenly appeared and held his hand with a soft little hand wearing a white glove. Her long purple hair was blown away by the crazy airflow, and even the hem of her skirt fluttered in the air.

"Hehe! This is where the deepest and most core secrets since the YAMAL incident and the outbreak of the Electronic Holy Grail War are located!"

"Senior, do you still remember how Friedrich von Roon, suspected of being Odin's host, tampered with the Greater Holy Grail's vessel, 'Star Maria', causing everything to go from bad to worse?"

"We already know that the other party seems to be interested in creating a natural pseudo-deification mechanism like the Light Body, a hypothetical god of the earth. However, we know nothing about his design concept and production methods."

"But now! BB-kun can clearly draw the conclusion—!"

"That person's concept was to create a conceptually closed universe. Senior, you should know that while the universe has no boundaries, it is not infinite. That person input this design into the core of the Greater Holy Grail. When the Black King descended and his spiritual will triggered a mutation, this design remained at the very core."

"When this blueprint was successfully unfolded, this is the scene we witnessed—as for why it was successful, a detailed explanation would be a bit tedious."

"...BB-kun can only roughly assert that the formation of this conceptual universe is related to ancient memories from the birth of the planet itself. I'm afraid we'll have time to analyze it in detail after the incident is resolved. Now, please pay attention! The 'heart' at the center of this conceptual universe!"

Emiya's eyes instantly locked onto the red Void Star flashing in the distance.

It is like the imagined super god, the only beating core of God in the center of this universe.

He inexplicably thought of the astrological magic spell of the Animusphia family, the founder of Chaldea in FGO - the celestial body is empty, the empty space is the void, and the void is filled with gods.

"Although this conceptual universe is magnificent and will be unstoppable once it's formed, it's still a fantasy in the design stage. Shatter that core, and everything will be over!"

"Ohhh! That's it, right—!"

Emiya gathered a fierce, blazing flame. The doomsday flames of the divine sword Levatin roared fiercely in the void, silently transmitting an unimaginable amount of heat. With his free hand, he gathered a massive longbow, nocked the doomsday sword, and took aim.

That light still shone in the deepest void, without making any counterattack.

This is understandable. This is an unfinished experimental design drawing, leaving only a conceptual universe of fantasy. All the life impulses are concentrated in the central core, as if it contains the impulse of life.

It reminds one of the Black King's soul egg... but compared to this, the crimson core is more like a celestial egg that has condensed all the light and heat.

Emiya gazed at the ominous glow and without hesitation, shot the ultimate arrow, the flaming sword from the end of myth.

Black tyrant, witness the power that shatters stars!

A flaming aurora shot out, piercing the void in a brilliant straight line. Following the bottomless gravity of the fall, it struck the red heart.

And so, the vision was filled with a crimson tidal wave. The cold, empty conceptual universe welcomed the majestic and grandiose flames of doom that swept across the airspace. The cold world was transformed into a red warmth, the twinkling starlight was gradually obscured by the extreme heat, and everything eventually returned to nothingness.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

"That weird gravity is gone!"

When Melyuchina brought everyone down from the sky, some people exclaimed.

But if you look around carefully, you can still feel that everyone's reactions are different.

Some people are laughing happily as another catastrophe of the Doomsday Incident has passed, but more people are waiting for the judgment of the next disaster in confusion and panic, or have sadness on their faces, feeling grateful for the departure of familiar people.

For example, the blonde Valkyrie Slude now has a slightly gloomy expression.

Her sister, the Valkyrie Hildre, had been forced to leave the world because she had been overloaded with power for too long and her spiritual foundation had been severely damaged before.

As a mechanical tool, Valkyrie Slud shouldn't feel sad about this. Death is just the fate of a warrior.

However, after spending a long time with other humans, Slude was unexpectedly infected by a bit of human touch. She knew that this gloomy atmosphere contained a mood called sadness.

Nono and Eri also stood by Slude's side, offering a moment of silence. Slude's departure was inevitable. Even if she were given enough magical power, the damage to her spiritual base caused by overusing her powers would still be irreversible.

This moment of silence is not only for Valkyrie, but also for humans like Chu Tianjiao who died in this catastrophe.

Not all people died because of the collection of events and had a chance of survival. Some people lost their lives on the YAMAL, and Chu Tianjiao fell into the galactic picture of the conceptual universe, and the result was also not optimistic.

...If Emiya fails to resolve the situation.

"It's okay, he'll definitely come back." Nono heard Erii encouraging the others and herself. The girl seemed to have inherited Uesugi Kenshin's spirited temperament and comforted everyone with her optimistic attitude.

"Well, definitely."

Nuonuo stood up and turned to look at the place where the light body dissipated and the core mutated.

In that place painted with the magnificent starry sky, the dangerous gravity layer has disappeared, and the extremely distant stars swallowed up Emiya's figure not long ago.

And now, the fantastical Milky Way suddenly burst out with a brilliant and dazzling aurora. Upon closer inspection, it seemed as if the scorching sun was rapidly expanding, with rolling heat waves rushing towards one's face. Immediately afterwards, the starry sky scene was filled with light and completely disintegrated!
“—He succeeded!”

Eri shouted excitedly at the first moment. When Nono heard her say that, it seemed a bit premature to jump to conclusions at first, but if she continued to look carefully, she could see Emiya returning hand in hand with the baby with purple hair flying.

As the two men walked out, the white world of light immediately dimmed.

"Welcome back, great hero who saves the world!"

Nuonuo and the other two were incredibly strong, so they leaped off the dragon's back in a single bound and ran over to greet them. However, Regisleve, Xia Mi, and the others were a step too late. Then, many of the YAMAL's young and beautiful female passengers, all of them wealthy and well-off, followed the boisterous Su Xiaoqiang and bravely followed...

In short, the girls came running over chattering and surrounded Emiya. For a moment, the whole place was filled with colorful flowers competing for beauty.

"Stop for a moment... I'm fine, don't check. I'm just a little tired. Let's finish the follow-up as soon as possible and go back."

Emiya felt like there were at least a dozen hands groping him from different directions, and he deeply felt that the female hooligans who took advantage of the inspection to take advantage of him were no less skilled than any male...

"Everyone, please disperse. If nothing unexpected happens, the world outside should have returned to normal."

A girl in pink pajamas raised her hand among the other girls, "Excuse me... is Mr. Chu back?"

The girl's thoughts were simple. Chu Tianjiao had saved her, so she bravely came over to ask about the whereabouts of her savior.

"Chu...?" Emiya quickly realized he was referring to Chu Tianjiao. There wasn't another person with the last name Chu on the entire cruise ship. He turned to look at BB. It seemed the BB had collected and analyzed a lot of data during his time in the conceptual universe, so it wasn't like he'd come up empty-handed.

Unexpectedly, BB was actually a little discouraged, "Senior, the data collected from that core is incomplete."

"what?"

"It must be the triggered spatial transfer technique that Friedrich had set up in advance. Although BB-kun copied most of the data, a small part was transferred away... Mr. Chu's luck isn't very good. He may not be able to come back."

BB's statement was simple and straightforward, almost a final conclusion.

After Chu Tianjiao fell into the realm of the conceptual universe and was absorbed as data, he happened to become the part taken away by Odin's spell.

"...Oh, I see. Sorry, thank you for your help anyway." The girl's face turned noticeably sad. She politely thanked them and stepped back, giving the "good position" close to Emiya to someone else.

Before Emiya could comfort the other person, his vision was occupied by a new face. Nono took his hand and whispered that he was tired and needed to replenish his magic. Eri, who had good hearing, came over and became curious about what magic replenishment was.

Xia Mi asked Helver and the Orluen maid team to do their job diligently and exclude other irrelevant girls as much as possible. She herself came over like a eunuch and said auspicious words to Emiya, boasting about her own merits and hard work while guarding the rear.

Reggie Love watched the girls fighting for the right to speak, and hesitated for a moment, feeling that she had no say. Instead, Su Xiaoqiang pulled her cousin Marianna over and squeezed in, using the name of gratitude to chat with some words to get close to her.

Emiya: "..." He originally wanted BB to analyze the data of that conceptual universe field and combine the analysis to obtain useful intelligence, but looking at this scene, he seemed inexplicably tired.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

"...So that's how it is. The situation in the north was resolved by the God Slayer."

A few days later, Frost, the acting head of the Gattuso family, left a letter of secret communication with Angers.

He had already noticed signs of unusual behavior among the elders within the clan in recent days. These inexplicable personnel changes seemed insignificant at first glance, but combined with the YAMAL incident, he could surmise that the timing of the two events coincided significantly.

By now, Frost had come to understand that as acting head of the clan, he was essentially a tool, tucked away in plain sight, completely unaware of the top secrets. The clan elders valued him less than Pompey and Caesar, father and son.

The evidence is that with the resources and power that they can mobilize, it is actually very difficult to uncover the secret action forces deployed by the elders outside, and they cannot even find the slightest hidden clues.

Of course, Frost didn't act too blatantly, lest he be forced to fall out with the elders before the investigation was complete. Furthermore, Frost knew full well that as a tool, he was far inferior to the elders in terms of control over the family.

If you want to go further and break through the difficulties, this strength is not enough.

"...But, unless it's absolutely necessary, I don't want to rely on the secret party." Frost locked Ange's letter in the drawer with a gloomy expression.

However, a sudden accident disrupted his plan.

"Pasi?"

Frost looked up and saw Percy suddenly coming in, with a puzzled look on his face.

"Acting head of the family, the head of the family is back." Percy replied with a confusing sentence.

“…Who? Him?”

Frost almost thought he had heard it wrong. Pompey Gattuso, the playboy who was out picking up girls all day without caring about anything?
"Yes, he hopes that before he returns, you can take a look at the 'Great Project Plan' he sent. As long as you support him, he can completely hand over the position of head of the family to you."

"...?" What crazy talk was this psychopath saying? Frost wondered if he had the right to inherit the family. If he became the head of the family, what would happen to Caesar? Was that even reasonable?

But Percy didn't care about that. He had already clicked the remote control, started the 3D projector and played a video.

The office lights dimmed instantly, and what greeted Frost's eyes was a vast starry sky. The starting point of darkness exploded, and huge star clusters formed in a few hundred millionths of a second. Primordial matter diffused at a speed close to the speed of light. The dimensions of time and space began to expand, and the universe was officially born...

The Earth began to form, volcanoes erupted, and primitive ocean life evolved...

"Can you fast forward? I don't have that much time to waste with him!"

Frost thought to himself that he really couldn't stand this lunatic.

The scene fast-forwarded, and Pompey Gattuso, dressed in a white suit, adjusted his camera and smiled. "Hey, brother! Thank you for your patience in watching the beginning. I believe that after watching the video, you will definitely be interested in my project called Chaldea!"

(End of this chapter)