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Chapter 116 The Strongest Emiya in History (8K! Please give me a monthly ticket! Please subscribe automatically!)
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With the successful activation of the summoning magic, Athena's memories - the fragments of her past memories that led her to participate in the Human Incineration Incident and caused such a farce, also flooded into Shirou's mind.

It’s not a complicated story if you say it’s complicated, but it’s not simple either if you say it’s simple.

Athena is not an independent deity, but a fusion of multiple individuals. From a human perspective, this kind of patchwork seems outrageous, but it is very common among the gods.

Rather, it is the very few gods that can exist completely independently.

It is no wonder that Jason said based on his experience: "It is impossible to completely understand the gods, or to have a completely good relationship with a certain god. The correct approach is to 'try to deal with her only on the friendly side.'"

Because of the Earth Chicken Eating Contest in the super ancient times, the ultimate result is that many gods today are literally mortal enemies with their past selves.

This alternative way of killing myself is considered a tradition in the Type-Moon world.

Athena is not Medusa. She is the ancient goddess Metis, the Roman goddess Minerva, and Athena, the queen of the labyrinth, but not Medusa.

But she is indeed a god who has an inseparable and complicated relationship with Medusa.

Just as there are always five of the Four Heavenly Kings.

The three Gorgon sisters, the basilisk sisters who were both gods and monsters, were not three people at the beginning.

To be more precise, Gorgon was not originally the name of a specific god or monster, but the name of a certain ethnic group. They were naturally and inevitably involved in the ultra-ancient Earth chicken-eating competition - running away is useless, and you cannot survive without fighting. Not all species have the same special status as humans.

In those days, the identities of gods and monsters were not so clearly distinguished. The various gods and monsters were not only contestants, but also materials used to strengthen the winners - whether they were directly devoured or stripped of the materials to make weapons.

The original Athena was the eldest sister of the Gorgon sisters, or a mother-like existence. She was the first "Gorgon (basilisk)" born from the divinity of the earth and also the "God of Basilisks (Earth Dragon)".

She wasn't called Athena at that time.

But——the current Athena has forgotten her original name.

No, it should be said that the current Athena can hardly be considered the original 'real name unknown' goddess of the earth.

The end of the super ancient war - there is no real end.

Because in the endless fighting with no end in sight, even the conceptual foundations of the world, such as the earth, ocean, and sky, are contestants in the war.

The earth and the ocean are competing for who should dominate the planetary world, the ocean or the earth. The gods in the sky have no direct contact with the earth and the ocean, and therefore have a huge advantage, but the sky itself also hopes to create a gaseous planetary world.

The final result of the battle can be described as anticlimactic.

In order to become stronger, various forces gave birth to their own prosperous and powerful civilizations in the process. These civilizations may be simply unlucky by coincidence, or perhaps they are some kind of inevitable attraction.

The existence of the "peacemaker" has overwhelming power and a strong ability to restrain the civilization of the gods. It can even be called the "white giant" of mythical scavenger. It has come to the earth from the other side of the Milky Way.

It's called 'Planet Hunting'.

No one knows the existence of the "wandering planet". Is it a super civilization wandering in the universe, or a scavenger that manifests some cosmic rules?

The predatory planets released the "Planetary Soldier" to the Earth. It was the nemesis of the gods' civilization. The prosperous and brilliant mythological era was nothing more than simple food in the eyes of the Planetary Soldier, who was called the "White Giant".

It's not even a question of whether they can win or not, but a question of whether they can win or not - the gods were not defeated by the white giants, but were slaughtered and eaten by them.

The ones who have the best chance of competing with them are the wanderers from other universes - the Olympus Mecha civilization.

It is hard to say whether it can win, but at least when facing the white giant, the real mecha god can fight with it, instead of using all its strength to strike it, and then be directly absorbed by the white giant - not only will it recover blood, but the more it absorbs, the more it will continue to evolve.

The mechas can also engage in hand-to-hand combat with them using their mechanical bodies.

But accidents still happened. Ares, the god of war among the Twelve Mechas, was the unlucky guy who first encountered the White Giant. Ares's mecha body was directly destroyed, and his weapon, the Sword of the God of War, was taken away. The sword was also the key to the satellite orbital artillery group that controlled the Mechas, and it was also taken away by the White Giant.

The biggest problem is that without Ares, the Mecha Gods' biggest trump card, the 'Combined Mecha God', cannot be used.

The final outcome of that war was the death (or more accurately, the eating) of countless gods, and almost all the survivors suffered great damage in strength. The Olympian Mecha-Gods, led by Zeus, at the cost of the complete destruction of their original Mecha-God bodies, dragged themselves to the planet to cooperate with humans, selected the Holy Sword User, and then defeated the White Giant with the Holy Sword of the Star.

The era of super-ancient mythological wars was thus greatly accelerated, and the mythological era that conforms to the general impression of modern people began.

Although the super ancient war is over, a new competition for survival has begun among the gods on the desolate earth after the white giant was conquered.

On the devastated Earth, the gods need more divinity in order to survive.

Of course, this war did not last too long and was not too intense. Compared with previous super-ancient wars, the end of this survival competition could be seen very easily.

There were even many gods who simply chose to merge with each other rather than fight each other - after all, everyone was dying.

Athena, the goddess of machines, and the snake goddess of the Gorgons can probably be considered the result of friendly fusion.

If it weren't for the friendly fusion, Athena would not have become the guardian of snakes.

But there is a serious problem here!
Athena, the machine goddess, has a good relationship with the Gorgon, but they have different attitudes towards humans.

Athena loves humans, but the Gorgons are just the opposite. When the era of the super-ancient mythological war ended, the Gorgons, whose numbers had drastically decreased, were no longer a "powerful race", but had become a simple "terrible monster".

As a monster race directly bred by the planet, the Gorgons' attitude towards humans is instinctive disgust - even 'fear'.

Perhaps because of instinctive disgust, or because of the accumulation of past resentment - or perhaps because of humans' desire for 'materials', the conflict between basilisks and humans has become increasingly intense.

Some of these Gorgons overcame these instincts, and finally integrated into the post-mythological era where gods and humans prospered together in the form of beautiful idols - lower goddesses. It can be said that these Gorgons have basically lost their monster characteristics. Except for the ability of some petrifying magic eyes, their appearance is basically the same as that of human girls, and they will never grow up.

They are forever beautiful, will never grow into monsters, love humans, and are loved by humans. In a sense, they have become a new species.

But there are still goddesses who cannot do this, and even among the descendants of these goddesses, atavism has appeared - the new goddesses have to painfully cut off with them and regard the atavistic children as monsters.

This is the reason why many monsters in Greek mythology are protected by certain gods.

Of course, no matter how miserable their birth is, monsters are still monsters. Since they threaten the human survival circle, they must be conquered.

The Gorgons turned to their goddess Athena for help.

But they discovered in despair that the goddess was no longer their support, their mother - their eldest sister (the real mother is the earth itself, so the snake goddess is more like an 'eldest sister' in their eyes).

Athena in the post-mythological era is a collection of multiple divinities, most of which are partial to humans, and the part of the snake goddess occupies only a small part.

The angry Gorgons believed that it was the terrible and evil human goddess who devoured their "eldest sister" and took revenge on the gods and human heroes.

This action was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, because it was an era when demigod heroes appeared frequently. Gorgon relied on his gifted petrifying eyes, so even if he could kill as many heroes as possible, more heroes would continue to emerge.

The Gorgons especially killed many heroes who were favored and protected by Athena.

That was the time when Athena's identity crisis was the most serious. She was the mother of heroes and the eldest sister of the basilisk. She had to be careful and it was extremely painful no matter which side she stood on.

But Athena ultimately stood on the side of humans - her divinity, at the time, had mostly taken on human form (even most of the Gorgons had actually turned into female gods in human form).

The only kindness Athena showed to her sisters who were no longer her sisters was that she personally took charge of the task of conquering and annihilating the Gorgons. She gave the Undying Blade (Sword of Athena) to her most loyal hero at the time, Perseus, with the intention of completely destroying the monster blood of the Gorgons.

The snake monster prayed to his own god (eldest sister), but what he got in return was "betrayal".

So, they naturally believed that the real 'eldest sister' had long been betrayed and devoured by Athena.

Although Perseus was also sad about this, he still fulfilled his duties.

After all, even if there was no mission from the goddess, as a hero on the human side, it was his responsibility to defeat monsters in order to protect humanity.

This is not a question of whether or not to do something, but something that Perseus must do. He will feel sad and compassionate, but he will not stop, because when the monster kills people, when innocent lives are lost in her hands, there is no turning back.

It should have all ended there.

However, after the mythological era in which humans and gods danced together ended and the gods completely withdrew from the main stage and the era of human rule arrived, Athena, who no longer lived with humans for a long time, began to have some new ideas.

When the burning of human logic appeared, the cause and effect of human history became contradictory, and the logic became a mess, Athena thought: This is an opportunity.

She felt she could do something.

If she could take part in this and reshape history, perhaps she could create a new history in which there would be no conflicts between her children (humans) and her sisters (basilisks), and create a perfect new human being.

With this thought in mind, Athena decided to take action and find back her real name that she had forgotten, which belonged to the Snake Goddess in the primitive times.

In order to reverse the future and rewrite the tragedy, Athena decided to return to the original state.

The reason why she is particularly concerned about Shirou is because Athena herself has not yet come to an accurate idea of what a 'perfect new human' should be like, so she wants to find and collect 'high-quality humans' that she thinks have 'reference value' in this process.

Of course, the battle mania attribute is also at work here.

".It's really embarrassing."

When Athena was successfully awakened, Shirou learned the reason for her actions. The goddess also knew the past that supported Shirou in his fight until now. The girl-like spirit couldn't help but hold her forehead:
"As a goddess, your most private past has been peeped into in such a crude way. Your modesty as a virgin goddess has been completely tarnished. You are really a sinful man. Why are you so skilled at doing this?"

"Don't say something that sounds so weird!" Illya next to her refuted Athena!

Athena just smiled and asked Shirou: "So, young man, what do you think? Do you think I am wrong to think that I am wrong?"

"I don't know. I even want to say that you did nothing wrong. If I were in your position, I might make a similar choice. But" Shirou just told the goddess his thoughts truthfully: "Even if I knew, I would still stop you, because this is not a matter of whether or not to do it, but something that must be done."

Magical girl Illya looked at the conversation between Athena and Shirou in confusion.

The 19-year-old Illya in the celestial world is particularly proactive and has strong mobility in this regard.

Listen to what they have to say and find out what happened?

It's too troublesome, where do I have the time now?!

On the lips!

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Illya was using her spiritual power to replenish her magic, as if she wanted to cover up the scent that Athena had left behind not long ago.

Of course, her goal is to communicate with Shirou and obtain the information he got from Athena.

It's really a convenient means of exchanging information.

This is really hard for the magical girl who can't keep up with the speed of the car: "Why can you do such a thing without hesitation? I thought before that you are actually Chloe, right!?"

However, neither Illya nor Athena seemed to care much about the matter itself.

"Yes, this is not a discussion of right or wrong, or whether or not to do something. This is something that must be done, and I am the same."

Athena said:

"This is my weakness. I cannot love humans and completely break away from snakes at the same time. I cannot determine the answer to the question 'Who am I really?' I have always been dreaming, dreaming of a perfect story with a happy ending for everyone.

This is my stupidity.

However, now that this farce has come to this, the goddess's willfulness should end -

After all, this is something that 'must be done'. Although the source has nothing to do with me, it was because of the flaws in my actions that it had the opportunity to appear - as 'Athena', I naturally have to clean up my own mess."

As she spoke, Athena opened her arms towards Shirou, posing for a hug:
"Hold me, Shirou."

Shirou and Illya: "Is this the time to suddenly make dirty jokes?!" (Note: In Japanese, '抱' means something like that)
The magical girl couldn't help but say, "You said that on purpose, right?!"

"Hmm?" Athena tilted her head, "Yeah."

Then he took the initiative to hug Shirou's shoulders.

Almost at the same time, the angry anti-evolution beasts once again launched an attack on Shirou, Illya, and Athena!
The instinct for survival - not only Shirou has it, but it has it too!

It is refusing Shirou and the others to take away its core - its 'heart'!
A massive amount of planetary memory is coming again!
The magical girl was at a loss as to what to do: "No, didn't Gaia help us? Why can he use the power of the planet?"

This was also Shirou's question.

Ruby gave the answer: "Just think about it, Gaia can help us solve the problem directly. It is true that she helped to awaken Athena, but that does not mean she will favor humans. If you must say, she does not want to get involved in the dog-eat-dog behavior among humans such as the Human Reason Burning, right?"

Ruby's complaints were a bit too harsh and blunt.

The magical girl felt herself choked: "Well, come to think of it. Miss Tanaka did say that she didn't care about the extinction of humans. She was only helping me, not humans." (Note: Tanaka is a mysterious girl who appears in "Magical Girl Illya". She is the incarnation of Gaia's knowledge and helps Illya deal with the problems of humans and Pandora's Box in Magical Girl Illya)
Shirou didn't dwell on such details: "Anyway, just take Athena out."

Controlling the Infinite God of War and holding Athena, Shirou's eyes swept across the numerous planetary memory monsters, trying to find a suitable breakthrough to reunite with Olga Marie and the stars.

This place is the interior of the anti-evolutionary monster, and the spatial structure is also chaotic and changing. Except for Athena as the anchor point, other directions are difficult to identify.

After all, this is inside the body of a paradoxical monster, a monster that shouldn't exist, a space that shouldn't exist.

After all, the concept of anti-evolution is untenable. Evolution itself is neither right nor wrong. It simply represents a state of change.

Why the non-existent monster existed was still a mystery. No one and no god knew, and they could only guess that it had something to do with the celestial world. But at least they knew that it was only because of Athena, the anchor point, that it could appear in the world.

Just then, Athena whistled.

The neighing of Pegasus, the sacred pegasus born from the blood of the basilisk, came from the other side of the world, and the star spirit turned into light and came to Athena.

"Follow that direction!"

Break out!
It is wrong to still be unwilling to give up, because it has no heart of its own, and therefore has no real thinking ability. Therefore, for this monster of unknown origin, there is no "giving up" option at all. It is just acting under the drive of instinct.

Instinctively I don't want to die. No, it's more like I don't want to 'disappear'.

How sad.

It's not even 'born into this world', but a pathetic beast that 'appeared into this world'.

Not living in the world, but acting solely on instinct.

Shirou controlled the 'Dragon Demon in his heart' that was materialized with his mighty power, and the beast, still driven by instinct and persistently imitating Shirou, continued to materialize the planetary memory of the Dragon Demon's form.

Even if at first glance the data on paper appear to be the same.

But without a 'heart', it is impossible to drive the Mithra's light wheel, and it is impossible to drive the light of salvation!
[Break out! Shirou has awakened Athena, and the next step is to lead her out of the body of the monster king Typhon! ]

[Shirou's 'Front-on Breakthrough (Dragon Demon·Conqueror's Light Wheel)!': 1D1000=774]

【???'s 'interception': 1D1000=280】

"This level can't stop us!"

The dragon demon in Shirou's heart attacks in the form of a savior dragon, and its absolute power shatters Wuxin's empty shell memory once again!

An overwhelming gap in strength!

Shirou brought Athena and Illya and successfully reunited with Olga Marie and the Celestial Spirits outside, and then fought his way out of Typhon's body in one breath.

With Nezha's help, although there were many unexpected events along the way, the final ending was good.

Both Illya breathed a sigh of relief.

The only person present who was so nervous that he wanted to hide behind Hercules was probably Jason, who was glanced at by Athena's sharp eyes from time to time.

all in all!
Everyone is happy, everyone is happy! Now, the story of singularity F has come to an end.

Typhon's huge body began to disintegrate.

After all, it is impossible for anti-evolutionary beasts to appear in the age of human reason.

The history of mankind is constantly changing, and whether it is becoming stronger or weaker, it is a kind of evolution. Evolution does not mean 'becoming stronger', but means 'adaptation'.

Natural selection means survival of the fittest - not survival of the 'strongest'.

Although the burning of human principles has occurred, in the final analysis, it is just the Demon King who is "recompiling human principles". Although human principles will be "subverted", they will not be "eliminated".

Human principles still exist.

Therefore, anti-evolutionary beasts cannot exist and should not exist.

Without Athena as an anchor, it naturally fell apart.

It doesn't mean 'destroy', but 'disappear'.

"Perhaps we can call it 'Anti-Evolutionary Beast Typhon Illusion'?" Leonardo da Vinci stared at the observation data and gave it a code name. "In addition to solving the problem of human incineration, investigating its origins may be the key to our next work."

indeed.

The problem of the anti-evolutionary beast cannot be said to have been completely solved. It just "disappeared" because it lost its anchor point and became "unable to appear in this world."

It still exists, but is limited by the state of 'not being able to appear'.

On the other hand, if the right opportunity arises in the future, it may still appear again.

If you want to solve it completely, you must find out the truth and figure out why this thing that "should not exist" was created.

The only clue at present is the celestial world research experiment conducted by the old director of Chaldea.

"I will take on the responsibility of cleaning up the mess and investigating the problems behind this." Athena said to Shirou, "As for the duel with you, I will leave it for later. As a goddess, I have made a promise with you."

Jason on the side couldn't help but mutter: "Ah, what a troublesome guy."

Athena glared back fiercely!

Jason was trembling with fear! He wanted to cry but couldn't, and he kept slapping himself: "Why can't I control my mouth!"

Perhaps any normal person would find what Athena said troublesome.

But Shirou is not a normal person either.

"As long as you don't threaten my companions and simply want to duel - I'll wait for you. I'm looking forward to it too."

Shirou said without hesitation:
"I have a similar agreement with Miss Musashi. By then, I will become stronger and be able to control my power more smoothly."

Athena smiled: "Is that so? It's a pity. I haven't completely given up the idea of doing something for my 'sisters'. But just consider it as a reward. I will try not to be so radical. Finally..."

[Athena's 'Sneak Attack!': 1D100=74]

[Shirou's 'reaction': 1D100=19]

If you think about it carefully, it should be that the girls don't have any malicious intentions when doing these things, which is why Shirou is always caught off guard.

A kiss as light as a dragonfly touching the water.

It's not about communicating with spirits or replenishing demons.

"This is... the kiss of a goddess."

It was just pure contact.

"This is the reward for being a goddess and being saved by a hero - I will bring you the results of my investigation the next time we meet."

The goddess smiled:
"By the way, if you have the opportunity to meet my 'sisters' in the future, please consider my request - if they haven't done anything bad, then help them a little. Don't let them hurt humans again. Don't let humans hurt them either.

Finally, although it cannot be called compensation, let me assist you in launching the anti-spirit transfer and send you back."

But, at least it's over now.

Everything about the Fuyuki singularity ends here.

Although the girls each have their own complicated feelings.

Ritsuka was a little tangled, and couldn't help but mutter in his heart: Oh, I gave up one seventh of my life to get out, but along the way, if I think about it carefully, isn't Shirou kissing everywhere? Is this strategy not right? If I think about it carefully, is there something strange about this?

Custer was the most innocent: "Boss, I'm glad you're okay. Let's go back and have dinner first, and then we can talk about the rest after dinner."

Aku Hinako was distracted, and no one knew what she was thinking about.

Olga Marie had a bitter face, wondering how to deal with the mess left by her father.

Things are not really over yet. After returning to the Chaldea base, there are still countless things waiting to be dealt with.

Although the atmosphere seems like the "finale" of a comic or novel story, what follows is literally "the story has just begun", right?

But no matter what, as Typhon's huge body gradually disintegrated - because the ten thousand meter body was too huge, it would take a long time to disintegrate.

When the Holy Grail that it had swallowed was exposed to the air, all that was left for Shirou's salvation team to do was to recover the Holy Grail, initiate an anti-Spirit transfer, and bring it back to Chaldea.

We’ll talk about the future journey later.

At least now, after finishing these, the young heroes can have a temporary rest - or "repair" time.
France during the Hundred Years' War
Rome during the heyday of Nero

The Atlantic Ocean during the Age of Exploration
Victorian London

America during the Revolutionary War
Jerusalem of the Crusades
Ancient Babylon in the Age of the Last Dharma

Different times, different mysteries, and different adventures are waiting for challenges.

But now, let's take a good rest - huh?

No.

Although the problems within the Fuyuki singularity have come to an end, the things that happened within the Fuyuki singularity have not yet completely ended!
Before Shirou's eyes, the latest record of the narration suddenly flashed - or should I say 'warning'!
[Faced with this situation, the mastermind behind the explosion in Chaldea, what is his thought?]

[1. According to the original plan, sanctions were taken against the last descendant of the Animusphia family (Olga Marie)]

[2. Having witnessed Shirou's performance, he fell silent and did not take action]

【1D2=2】

Shirou: "?"

Shirou tensed up immediately!
Although according to the narration, the mastermind behind the Chaldea explosion seems to have no plans to take action for the time being. But this itself is also a kind of intelligence reminder to Shirou!
It's a warning!
Are there enemies lurking in the dark?
At this moment, Shirou suddenly felt the gaze of Erlang Shen, that is, Li Shimin: ".Your journey has just begun."

He suddenly said this to Shirou.

Before Shirou could figure out what he was trying to imply -

[The incident at the Fuyuki singularity has become so serious that it will definitely attract the attention of the Demon King.]

[Since Shirou has now replaced Mashu's identity, it is assumed that the Demon King's attitude towards Shirou is 'friendly']

[Additional judgment: Does the Demon King intend to interfere? ]

[1. The Demon King continues to stay in the Grand Temple of Time and overlook all living beings]

[2. The Demon King has taken action]

【1D2=2】

Shirou: “???”

[The Demon King has taken action. His purpose is——]

[1. Take Shirou away]

[2. Eliminate Olga Marie]

【3. Complete destruction of Chaldea】

[4. All of the above]

【1D4=4】

Shirou: "!?"

Is the door blocked by the BOSS?

"Everyone be careful! It looks like things are not over yet!"

Shirou was about to remind his companions, and at the same time he felt fortunate: Fortunately, the enemy chose this time to come, and now there are many strong reinforcements around. If they wait until the heavenly army has left, or even returned to Chaldea, and then directly attack the Chaldea base, it will be troublesome -

However, new narration records continue to emerge!
[Goetia activates the power of the beast——'Counter-summoning']

[Begin to forcibly expel all 'summoned units' on the field at this time]

"!?"

Shirou suddenly felt an unknown pressure, and with it came a painful feeling as if someone was trying to forcibly separate his body and soul!
←to be continue!

(End of this chapter)