I am Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes.

A chilling magical power suddenly spread.

“…Then let’s go!” The spear behind Sirin was also pointed in Jill’s direction.

A heavy atmosphere instantly filled the air.

……

The world of Hakoba.

“By the way, Otto, there’s something I’ve never understood…” Chenxi glanced at Otto, “Why did you insist on going to that world to get the Kamen Rider Driver?”

“Oh… that… it’s just curiosity in a way.” Otto answered Chenxi’s question, his gaze still fixed on the distant City of Radiant Flames.

"curious?"

Chen Xi glanced at Otto with some surprise.

“The one who made that driver is said to be a genius physicist… so I’m very curious,” Otto said.

Geniuses... can be lonely sometimes.

Otto was a true genius in every sense of the word.

So, his curiosity about that genius... seems understandable.

"Then, after getting that driver and all sorts of blank full bottles, I had a bold idea." Otto snapped his fingers lightly. "That is, to modify a bottle that can contain the power of the fantasy species."

The original bottles could only hold organic and inorganic matter, and the fantasy species were limited to the phoenix and the dragon.

After my modifications, the limitations of the driver were eliminated. Transformation no longer requires combining organic and inorganic components; even if the abilities of the two sides are conflicting or incompatible, they can still fuse and transform!

Otto grinned. "That brat has no idea how good things he's gotten. I've filled over forty bottles with the power of fantasy species and given them to him, including some top-tier ones... Plus, he has about ten empty bottles. I also gave him the bottle that can control that thing called... uh, Danger Trigger, though... I made a few minor modifications."

"Modify?" Chen Xi asked with a hint of curiosity.

"The power inside that bottle... it was originally supposed to be the power of the rabbit and the tank, but I modified it into the power of Draig and Albion..."

Otto wore a smug smile. "Moreover, that driver doesn't rely on any danger level to operate; instead, it adaptively absorbs energy based on the host's carrier!"

Chen Xi stared at Otto, then smacked her lips and blurted out a sentence.

"Otto, you're a fucking genius!"

……

"Bang!" The golden longsword landed on the snow, splashing up countless snowflakes and pebbles.

The golden figure, leaving afterimages, rushed directly towards the purple figure in mid-air.

One after another, dark gold spears flew towards the golden figure. The purple figure clearly wanted to increase the distance between herself and the golden figure, but she obviously couldn't.

Gil changed direction in mid-air once again, drawing runes to accelerate himself as he rushed towards Sirin.

"Damn it... mere humans!" Sirin's face was filled with shock and anger.

"Standing before you is Gilgamesh, the oldest hero-king in human history! Don't underestimate him, Herrscher!" Gil roared, his figure instantly appearing behind Sirin.

Space jump!

“What…!” Sirin’s face showed astonishment.

Without hesitation, Jill swung the Demon Slayer sword at Sirin.

The Demon Slayer slashed at Sirin's back, easily breaking through the Honkai energy binding her and spraying blood everywhere.

Jill took another step forward, wanting to continue her pursuit of Sirin.

At this moment, the chill that had once made Jill furious reappeared.

Without hesitation, Jill dodged the bullet with a spatial jump, and the bullet passed right through the spot where Jill had been standing.

A clown dressed in white and wearing a white hat stood on the snow, his emerald green eyes beneath his mask gleaming with a chilling light.

A giant dragon, appearing from nowhere, caught Sirin, who had been wounded by Jill, and then rose into the sky—

It quickly disappeared from Jill's sight...

Chapter Fifty-Nine - God -

Jill landed back on the ground and turned to look at the clown in white.

The clown let his right arm hang down, making the gun in his hand particularly conspicuous.

Ordinary ammunition would never be able to make Jill feel that kind of chilling crisis.

Gilles himself has several trigger-based Noble Phantasms that can block things like "flying objects," although their levels are not very high, but they should still be at least C-rank level 1.

If it can break through the defense of a C-rank Noble Phantasm, then the power of that attack should theoretically be at least B-rank, right?

Or rather... it should be an attack with special effects, right?

"...What do you mean by this?" Jill's eyes were icy. "Just for your so-called plan?"

The clown adjusted his hat. "That's right."

"..." Jill didn't speak, but in the golden ripples, a jet-black pistol fell into Jill's hand.

Jill raised her hand and pointed the modified pistol at the clown's head.

The atmosphere instantly became incredibly heavy.

"The reason that child became a Herrscher... is actually you, isn't it?" Gilles' voice rang out. "Is this what you wanted, Otto Apocalypse?"

The look in the emerald eyes beneath the mask shifted to one of shock.

“…Interesting. I’ve never seen you before, yet you know me?” said the Joker—or rather, the current Archbishop of Schicksal, Otto Apocalypse.

Jill didn't continue speaking, but slowly moved her feet. "Your purpose in stopping me is simply to obtain something from the documents so you can use it to revive Kallen, isn't it?"

Otto narrowed his eyes. "You... you know quite a lot."

“Yes, I also know that you were willing to sacrifice some civilians to save Kallen… but Kallen, after learning the truth, slapped you in the face.” Gil’s eyes held a hint of mockery. “Like this time, Sirin escaped. When she returns, she will be even stronger. How much sacrifice will she cause? Even if you resurrect Kallen, do you think the saintess of the Kaslana family will forgive you?”

Otto looked at that youthful face and gave a low, cold laugh. "You wouldn't understand..."

“I know better than you!” Jill said, her eyes cold.

Otto then remembered that the boy in front of him, according to himself, was "the oldest hero king in human history".

And that king also had a close friend.

My one and only true friend in my entire life.

And the King of Heroes' closest friend... seems to have died as well...

Gil's crimson eyes held only a trace of coldness. "Otto, for you, all these five hundred years of effort have been for the purpose of resurrecting Kallen, haven't they? How important is this to you? How important is it?"

Otto's eyes widened. "How important? There are too many words to describe it..."

He raised his dark blue pistol and pointed it at Jill. "To sum it up, it can be summed up in one sentence..."

"My life continues to exist in this world for this purpose!" Otto's tone became impassioned. "Anyone who stands in my way is my enemy!"

The Archbishop of Destiny, who had lived in this world for five hundred years, told Gilles his determination in hysterical words.

……

At this very moment, Sirin, who had been taken away by the giant dragon—a Honkai Beast belonging to the Second Herrscher's familiar—had broken through the atmosphere and arrived on the moon.

"Damn it...it hurts so much...what's with that sword..." Sirin lay on the lunar surface, groaning softly.

It wasn't actually Estelle's problem, but rather the characteristics that Gil's energy gained from the power of the Destructive Factor after his soul fully awakened.

Now, the energy that Jill carries is highly destructive. Whether it is "divine power" or "magic power," any damage it causes will be difficult to heal.

Enkidu and Ester, who have a contract with Gil, will not be affected by the destructive factors in Kamui or magic.

The giant Honkai Beast—that is, Sirin's familiar, Benares—nudged the girl with its large head and let out a few strange cries.

"What... even you are leaving me..." the girl asked, letting out a soft moan.

That pitiful look was enough to touch the hearts of many.

But this very girl is the Herrscher who brought a catastrophe called "Honkai" to the world...

At that moment, the girl suddenly heard a voice.

(Don't be sad... You've come this far... True power is right before you.)

The voice made the girl turn her head.

Keep in mind that this place is outside the atmosphere, in a "vacuum" state of space.

Sound cannot travel through a vacuum, so where did this sound come from?

Celine began to look around.

It looks like a temple that has decayed over a long period of time.

Broken stones were scattered everywhere, but even so, it was not hard to see how magnificent and grand this temple had once been.

At that moment, something inevitably caught Celine's eye.

It was a huge golden crystal placed right in front of us, in what seemed like the center of a grand hall.

The golden crystal was surrounded by countless stones, making it look incredibly mysterious.

Remembering what the voice had said, Sirin lifted her foot and walked towards the golden crystal.

“There are so many words on the stone pillar…” Xilin was attracted by the words carved on the stone pillar and couldn’t help but reach out her hand towards it.

At this moment, the golden crystal seemed to sense something and emitted a dazzling light.

Celine instinctively covered her eyes, trying to block out the blinding light.

But the next moment, Sirin realized that the scene in front of her had changed.

The once magnificent temple was gone, replaced by a pure white world.

There was nothing there, no heaven or earth, and nothing at all except Sirin—

If that's really the case.

"Who?!" Her Herrscher-like senses made Sirin turn around and look at the place that had previously been empty.

There appeared a figure sitting on a throne with a high back.