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

Chapter 433 The plan to eliminate the singularities was set by the Demon King!

Blackbeard was still somewhat disoriented due to his injuries, and should not have been able to notice anything amiss. In fact, most people would have died if they were sunk into the deep sea like this.

However, he is a Servant. Unlike living people, Servants do not need to ingest oxygen, do not need to worry about water pressure, and are not worried about being eaten by fish. The simple transformation into a spirit eliminates all these troubles.

But the problem is, why are there no creatures in this water? He remembered that he had drifted to the northern part of the West Sea before being knocked away by that iron-fisted woman, probably near the calm zone between the West and North Seas? Shouldn't there be plenty of monsters underwater in those calm zones?

Alright! Blackbeard Teach considered himself a wise and powerful veteran pirate who had roamed the seas for most of his life. Although he probably couldn't compare to the abstract and powerful Emperor of the Sea, Shanks, whom he had met a few days ago, the mileage he had accumulated through his voyages far exceeded the meals any young upstart had ever eaten. Blackbeard instinctively sensed something strange beneath the deep sea.

Gulu gulu...

Large and small bubbles rose rapidly from the seabed below.

Bubbles? Teach's gaze stealthily probed the dark, boundless depths, his beard swaying like drifting seaweed in the water. He wondered if the sea monsters were hiding on the seabed. But why were they all huddled there without making a sound?
Driven by an almost reckless curiosity, Blackbeard sank even lower, sinking deeper and deeper like a drowning man, as the dark and boundless abyss gradually filled his vision.

That was... a gigantic human body.

Blackbeard Teach thought he was seeing things underwater, that his injuries were causing him to hallucinate—because for a fleeting moment he saw a female body on the seabed, comparable to an endless mountain range, stretching for who knows how many kilometers! It was enough to trigger megalophobia in anyone who stared at it!
He shook his head vigorously, and the image of the giant below disappeared again.

Nevertheless, Blackbeard still felt a strange sense of unease. He didn't think it was just a hallucination; it might be real, or it might be the result of mental interference. But there were very few beings that could trap a Heroic Spirit in such a large-scale illusion... Regardless of the possibility, Teach knew that his small frame was definitely not someone he could afford to mess with.

Blackbeard then struggled violently, trying to get back to the surface of the sea.

But from deep within came a woman's seductive laughter, which sounded alluring, yet he couldn't laugh at all, because the woman's voice was mixed with a strange, violent roar...

The sound seemed all the more eerie and terrifying in this context, given the image of a female body larger than mountains!
Teach's alarm bells grew louder. Despite his injuries, he could only swim and change direction as quickly as possible. As a storm navigator, he had never unleashed such astonishing swimming skills—and then a thunderous boom exploded in his ears! Beside him, the spot where he had just been standing was pierced by a huge black shadow!

The enormous, pillar-shaped black shadow shot into the sky, stirring up a massive amount of seawater and triggering a violent underwater current. Blackbeard Teach was instantly thrown by this current and flew an unknown number of kilometers away!

"That is……!"

As Teach was seriously injured and coughing up blood, he took a moment to look back, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

The female body had vanished; it seemed to have been just an illusion. The dark shadow wasn't a female body at all, but rather a tentacle-like limb of a grotesque, monstrous beast that drove people mad.

Black, jagged columns formed by densely packed red tide algae surged from the seabed, resembling a living mountain range covering the seabed, composed of coral reefs, dense forests of flowering trees, and jet-black scales, or perhaps a giant, limbless, world-devouring fish that slowly awakened from its slumber of countless years, with a single tentacle reaching out and gently waving up an endless tsunami.

The thunderous roar revealed its fury and its howl as it tried to break free from the bottomless, dark abyss. However, three immense elemental powers suddenly emerged from the west, south, and north, traversing layers of ocean currents! These forces formed a stubborn interference, disrupting the intricate structure of the underwater space and attempting to suppress and seal the terrifying, dark mountain range once more, so that it would disappear into the darkness again.

However, the female voice that Blackbeard had heard earlier rang out again.

"Seeking enlightenment above and liberating all sentient beings below—"

"Seeing one's true nature and attaining Buddhahood, the special wish of the pearl—"

"I vow to attain the supreme Buddhahood and the Tao..."

The faint, yet strange, chanting echoed outwards. A sudden burst of light appeared, and a violent torrent of magic erupted, instantly becoming an aid to the giant beast's struggle within the seal.

It roared and tore at the surrounding turbulent elemental forces and ancient sealing matrix. Powers comparable to those of powerful gods clashed with each other, the water flow twisted and compressed and then exploded wildly, like a tsunami being compressed to the extreme and causing a cataclysmic disaster. At the same time, the sound of something breaking was heard, almost drowned out by the dense thunderous explosions.

The underwater space immediately erupted with astonishing distortion, and the killing range between the elemental forces used to apply the seal and the behemoths expanded rapidly at a terrifying pace.

Faced with this earth-shattering battle of gods, Blackbeard fled without looking back, but it was too late. He saw his limbs stretch out like shriveled, twisted noodles, his vision blurred with strange double images, and the space around him distorted wildly... Then, a Japanese woman with a face and figure resembling a bodhisattva, who looked like a professional mastermind, opened her eyes...

It's over! Blackbeard's fantastical adventure has been abruptly cut short!
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Shadow Border.

"Ok?"

While observing the "key" inside the seal, Nuwa suddenly looked up and noticed that the enormous dragon claw in the sealing chamber had trembled for a moment.

"Little Mashu, did you see that?"

"Huh? What does Miss Nuwa mean?" The pink-haired girl, who was engrossed in recording data, looked completely bewildered.

“That suspicious ‘key’ just showed signs of activity, if I’m not mistaken.” Nuwa stared intently at the enormous dragon claw that occupied the vast space from the ground to the ceiling through the thick glass wall, without the slightest relaxation. “Little Mashu, be careful. According to intelligence, this thing has some kind of mental interference mechanism.”

"It should be fine... right? I've heard about Reggie Love, but 'The Key' doesn't seem interested in anyone other than her."

“That would be for the best,” Nuwa sighed softly. “None of these strange things are benign. The demonic pillars that invaded Chaldea last time were the same. They were bizarre and inhuman in appearance, and they also harbored great secrets, which meant we had to be on guard at all times, rather than simply eliminating them.”

Mash recalled the sudden invasion of Chaldea headquarters that day, when the enormous pillar-shaped monster that suddenly appeared in the control room really startled her.

"If I remember correctly, the Demon God Pillar we captured was codenamed 'Floros,' right...? Has Miss Nuwa not given up on researching it yet?" "I wouldn't say we've given up, it's just that there's been little progress. We've researched everything that could be researched. The most we did recently was try to see if we could 'turn an enemy into a friend' and use this thing as our own fighting force."

Nuwa flicked her sleeves, conjuring a virtual scene in the air. In it, towering mountains stood tall, the sea surged, and divine thunder and rain poured down from the sky like punishment. The demon god pillar with crimson eyes was silently locked on the peak, as if it were in a deep sleep.

Mash stared at the familiar, densely packed eyeballs that sent her sanity soaring, and an unnatural expression crept onto her face. She seemed to have developed a psychological aversion to them due to her previous encounter, and was somewhat reluctant to accept the appearance of the Demon God Pillar. Mash swallowed hard, carefully choosing her words, "As a fighting force for our Chaldea… wouldn't that be a bit too… extreme…?"

"Don't worry, it won't become part of our fighting force, because it failed!"

Nuwa said, "The last time we tried was when a Roman goddess of love came to Chaldea—that one named Amor, right? I asked her to try to control the spirit of the demon pillar, but Amor just smiled and said, 'This demon pillar doesn't understand love, and it's disgusting,' and then left without looking back... If it doesn't understand love, it doesn't understand love."

Mashu nodded with a look of relief, thinking to herself that even if the Demon Pillars understood love, Amor probably wouldn't use her powers on such monsters, since she had already made it clear that they were disgusting.

She cautiously examined the illusion conjured up by Nuwa. "So, right now, this Floros is still locked in the Chaldea seal by Miss Nuwa?"

“Chaldea? No, of course not,” Nuwa denied. “Of course, such a thing is carried with you at all times.”

"Huh, such a large sealed space... how can it be carried around? And why?"

"The principle is nothing special, just a little bit of divine magic from China. As for why—do you remember how the Demon Pillars invaded Chaldea last time? We can't let such a serious accident happen again."

“Mash, if you’ve ever been familiar with any fictional movies or TV shows, you’ve probably seen how important items placed in a fixed location are easily stolen due to a single oversight, leading to all sorts of events, right? So, instead of that, why not carry it with you? If there’s any unusual activity, it’ll be easier for me to deal with it or destroy it immediately—after all, it’s better to leave the enemy with nothing than to have my base attacked without any defenses.”

Mashu, still somewhat bewildered, suddenly realized what this was all about – a prudent approach!

Just as she was about to say something, a communication came through from the outside.

"Huh, Emiya-senpai? And... Miss Prierati?"

"Are you still inside the cabin? I didn't see you participating in the activities." Emiya asked over the communicator, his voice accompanied by a whooshing sound, as if the weather conditions on the other side were unusually bad.

“Yes, senpai. ...An event?” Mashu nodded, then paused, “I-I think I forgot to check the notice! This wasn’t on the schedule before we left!”

"Of course not, it was purely a 'spur-of-the-moment' idea that Plerati added!"

"Hehe! If you don't come, you'll miss out on the grand prize!" Plerati laughed in the wind and rain.

“Mash, don’t worry, she’s just messing with you! The first phase of the ‘fishing’ activity is over,” Emiya said. “You can come if you want, or not if you don’t. It’s all pretty much the same pure competitive activity… Oh, by the way, I called to ask if there’s been any activity with the ‘key’ on your end?”

Nuwa's tone was serious, "Yes! If I'm not mistaken, it was just trying to contact something outside, but we had already set up a tight seal, so it couldn't respond in time... Shirou, are you asking this because something happened outside?"

"I guess so! The main thing is that the weather suddenly turned bad, and even the doldrums had storms. Then Captain Drake said that her 'key' also made some strange noises, as if it was transmitting power to some area of ​​the void."

Emiya wiped the water off his face in the wind and rain. "Da Vinci is still investigating the specifics. Constantine is busy with the dragon vein arrangements and can't find the time, so I came to ask you."

Nuwa immediately agreed, "Understood. Mashu and I will use the Shadow Border's equipment to detect singularity data such as magnetic field data."

"Oh, wait a minute, there's more!" Plerati suddenly stopped Nuwa, who was about to leave, "Our event still has the most important second phase, and we need to prepare some small props! Hehe, we'll need to trouble this fairy Nuwa!"

"Ok?"

Nuwa pointed to herself, "Is there anything else specifically named me? Aren't Constantine and Da Vinci on your side?"

Moreover, she didn't want to have any interaction with this dark magician, not because he was a perverted historical male who had switched genders to female like Leonardo da Vinci, but because Nuwa felt at first glance that this guy had ulterior motives.

“Yes, it’s a Demon God Pillar! I heard that only you have this kind of thing, and my two colleagues can’t give it to you!” Plerati said with great seriousness.

"No, this is too risky! If it appears, it will attract attention over there."

"What are you saying, Nuwa? Do you mean that without that invincible Demon God Pillar, we wouldn't attract the Demon God King's attention?"

Plerati argued confidently, "And I don't need you to release it. I just need to take a slice, add a little bit of biological and illusionary modifications, and that's how we create the hypothetical enemy for the Heroic Spirits to train in the second phase of the Ascension experiment!"

"You mean... using the fake Demon God Pillar as a test subject?" Nuwa was slightly taken aback.

Our Chaldea released a bunch of Demon Pillars in the Singularity?

Are we the masterminds behind the burning of humanity, or are the Demon King and his ilk the culprits?

Emiya also sensed something was amiss. "Singularities aren't just for us; there are other third-party Servants and Yaobikuni present. Wouldn't this easily lead to misunderstandings?"

When the nun peeked out from behind the Black King's sealed corpse, she exclaimed, "Good heavens! So many Demon Pillars! Chaldea and the Demon Pillars are in cahoots? The plan to eliminate the Singularities was actually devised by the Demon King?"
(End of this chapter)