The Holy Grail War Blessed by the Gods

If they cannot even defeat this sun in the underworld from the outside, how can those who enter the underworld possibly defeat the powerful dark sun? Instead, all they will get is defeat and destruction.

So we can only try here; if it doesn't work, we'll have no choice but to retreat.

"Mother, unleash all your power! This is not the time for pity. You must erase everything that should exist without hesitation."

Jingu calls for power, for the power of the mother he truly identifies with, and to awaken a genuine cry.

Chapter 156 Tour

As a weapon created by the gods, Kingu's body is his best weapon.

However, unlike Enkidu, who considers himself to be the son of Tiamat and a new human, he does not believe that he comes from the gods of the past.

However, the essence of the power that King can use is ultimately the same. His power itself comes from his body. It's just that the Magic King used the Holy Grail to give this body, life, and consciousness anew.

The immense energy transformed into a form that the world could not comprehend, and terrifying magic surged from the earth, transforming into a wedge that could pin down and pierce the opponent.

The pitch-black sun rising from the underworld is undoubtedly a huge threat, but what about the one that rises from the ground in response?

This chain, which could even bind the heavens, did not choose the path of human use according to the wishes of his friend Gilgamesh, but instead went the opposite way, clearing away all obstacles in the way of his mother Tiamat.

Thus, this weapon transformed into a manifestation of Tiamat's wrath, used to sweep away humanity on earth, or rather, the old humanity as Kingu knew it.

On the other side, Gorgon did not continue to squander his power with his Mystic Eyes, but briefly acknowledged the fact that he had become a monster.

Gorgon's Noble Phantasm, Forced Sealing of the Temple of Ten Thousand Demons, is such a product.

The Thousand Demon Eyes are a skill possessed by Gorgon herself, because the Demon Eyes not only appear on Gorgon's own face, but also on every strand of her hair that has turned into a snake.

Already the highest level of Mystic Eyes, with both its quality and quantity greatly improved, it indeed possesses greater power than ordinary Noble Phantasms.

The Forced Seal of the Temple of Ten Thousand Demons is a treasure belonging to Gorgon. It is what she gained after giving up the last vestiges of her goddess status and reaching her final tragic end.

It briefly materializes the thing of that monster (8) Gorgon (7) to dissolve all life within its range (2). It is an enhanced version of Medusa's Noble Phantasm in Rider form, and it can be released directly without any preparation time.

Unlike Gorgon, who had become a goddess through the Holy Grail and the power of Tiamat, Gorgon, who had only fallen into monster form, had already unleashed a Pandemonium capable of dissolving even the son of a great god.

Now, with the roaring magic, it's not just living things that are to be melted; even inorganic objects cannot escape the fate of being dissolved.

The ruined city vanished in an instant. The remaining rubble of buildings, submerged by the flood, and the remnants of things that hadn't yet fallen into the earth on the torn ground, were completely and utterly gone.

Only two Noble Phantasms, now unleashed, carrying terrifying magical power, surged from the ground into the underworld, seeking only to destroy the slowly rising black sun.

The two magical powers had no desire for anything around them; being melted or destroyed was merely a matter of passing by.

But after all, it was a full-force attack from two enemies at the god-like level. How could Nippur City possibly have the ability to resist such power?

Not to mention here, even the absolute monster battle line built on the ruins of the distant ruined city of Babylon is doomed to perish under the light of Gorgon.

That dark sun is ultimately still in a state of death, and has not truly gained its own rebirth.

The dark sun, orbiting in the underworld, is indeed the master of this newly created world, but it is still far from becoming the true sun that illuminates the first solar era.

It governs only this broken, false, newly born underworld, but this underworld is excessively fragile.

The space beneath the city was merely created through manipulation of earthquakes, and the nature of the underworld was achieved through the skill of constructing fortifications, thanks to the inherent advantages of the Sumerian Age of Gods.

Even so, it still takes more time to truly complete the task and make a real underworld appear here, and we've come back to the original problem.

The sun, bombarded by magic, has not yet shown any problems, but the underworld illuminated by the sun is now showing signs of disturbance.

The seven gates began to show signs of damage, as if they could not withstand such a tremor.

Because the sun has already flown out through the seven gates, and the power it has acquired also comes from this, when the sun is shaken, the first things to be shaken are these seven gates that form the foundation of the underworld. ⑧

The mountains on the ground also trembled, and many of the newly piled-up peaks, no more than a hundred meters high, had already begun to collapse. ⑤

The river, which had been restrained from its cataclysmic flood and transformed into a flow into the underworld, began to rage uncontrollably, no longer bound by its normal course, and wreaked havoc on the land. ⑦

"My sun, is it still unable to cross the underworld? Chaotic river, restore order!"

Manju lamented, regretting that the dark, incomplete sun could not truly rise into the sky. ⑥

According to the normal process, the sun will pass through the underworld, rise from the underworld, ascend into the sky, pass through the sky, and finally set back into the underworld, completing the cycle that the sun undergoes. ③

In this way, the sun has completed its task on this land and can fully perform all its duties. ④

Manju could only stop looking at the dark sun that had risen after he had ripped open his own heart, and instead returned to the temple, where he could speak out within his own sanctuary. ④

That dark, incomplete sun, once shot down from the sky, is now merely a replay of a past event in the underworld.

But Manju possessed more than just this one sun; he turned his gaze to the great river that had become raging due to the sun's tremors and the catastrophe of the underworld.

Manju, through the power within the temple and the authority of the ruler, separated and channeled all the surrounding forces, preventing the river from becoming completely uncontrollable.

A raging flood is not the problem, but a completely uncontrollable flow of water cannot be used.

On the contrary, Manjushri needs water to maintain its ferocious posture; the great flood of the Nile, too, can transform into the orbit of the sun.

Manju still needs to put the boat that crossed the Nile on the water, but there's no time to make a sun boat now, so he'll just continue using his current body.

Manju dug his eyeballs out of his face again. Since the eyeballs that Sekhmet had transformed into were originally the sun, there was no need for him to do anything more.

"It's a bit of a pity. There weren't that many usable parts on his body; only two were sold. But with this appearance, he can't leave the temple. Even though it was a sacrifice, a crippled king still evokes a sense of resentment."

Manshu disliked the mutilated appearance, the blood-soaked look, which resembled a living sacrifice.

He returned to his seat, but the dripping blood only made the scene inside the temple seem somewhat gloomy.

Perhaps the temple should be remodeled into a pyramid in the rainforest; it would look more fun.

The gods on the temple murals no longer sang joyfully, but instead showed sorrowful expressions and began to sing songs of grief and indignation.

But the sound made Manju uncomfortable, so he rebuked them before the battle horns sounded again.

"This is a sacrifice made for victory, not for survival. What kind of singing was that? I'd rather go outside."

Finally, the pitch-black sun could no longer withstand the bombardment of the two treasures, the Temple of Ten Thousand Demons and the Ode to Creation. The mountains on the ground collapsed along with the sun. The King of the Leopards, who ruled over the mountains, fell from the sky and crashed to the ground, flattening all the peaks except for the high cliff in the center that held up the temple.

The seven gates of the underworld were shattered one by one, and it seemed that the foundation of the underworld had been directly destroyed, and this underground cavern was about to return to its normal appearance.

Kingu and Gorgon were not going to give their opponents any breathing room. After releasing their Noble Phantasms, they immediately unleashed their Noble Phantasms again.

In any case, the two of them possessed a considerable amount of magical power, which could even be described as inexhaustible. The only thing they needed to pay was a negligible burden.

At this point, what does using magic and suffering matter? As long as this city and its master are crushed into dust that no longer exists, that's enough.

However, Kingu, who had just unleashed his Noble Phantasm, discovered something amiss: the seven gates to the Underworld, which formed the foundation of the Underworld, had been destroyed, but the traces of the Underworld had not disappeared.

Jin Gu could naturally recognize the origins of the seven great gates that appeared in this underworld, since they came from the underworld of Sumeru, and Ereshkigal was a member of the Three Goddess Alliance.

Therefore, King Gu could understand that the underworld appeared beneath this city, which was clearly a small underworld modeled after the Sumerian underworld, and it had just been completed.

The mountain ranges formed by the countless small hills that appeared in the underworld also played a stabilizing role in this underworld, and their aura seemed to originate from the same source as the rising black sun.

However, the elements that constitute this underworld have clearly been destroyed, including the seven gates, the mountains, and even the sun that rises in the underworld.

But the concept of the underworld has not disappeared, so what else in this underworld has not been destroyed?

Only the central mountain supporting the temple, the Ekol Temple itself, and the great river flowing into the underworld.

Is it that river? Jin Gu wondered, but there was no time to think about it any further.

With their Noble Phantasms now converged here, their targets will naturally not be anything else, but directly towards the central core.

No matter what other things are arranged here, as long as the central temple is destroyed and the actual master of the temple is killed, then it doesn't matter what is used.

Jingu and Gorgon shared this thought, so although they felt some doubt, they didn't dwell on it, nor did they have time to. Instead, they headed towards the only remaining high cliff. (9)

Out of sight, Manjushri tossed the eyeball he had gouged from his own face into his hand, sending it flying out of the temple gates and down the trickling stream at the temple entrance.

The eyeball eventually flowed into the river with the stream, floating on the surface and drifting downstream. (4)

An ordinary eyeball, the size of which, floats along the riverbed without close observation; who would notice such a thing without careful observation? (8)

Therefore, even Jingu didn't notice this for a moment, allowing the eyeball to quickly swim across the entire underworld along the raging river. (4)

“Come and praise me, so that this is not the last time you sing hymns for me, so sing them to your heart’s content!”⑵

Manju sat on a chair deep within the temple and addressed the gods who were still singing. (9)

No matter how fast this raging flood was, it would still take some time for it to flow through the entire underworld, but the terrifying magical bombardment from Gorgon and Kingu's Noble Phantasms was already right above Manjusaki's head.

He cannot die here before everything is finished, nor can the temple be destroyed; otherwise, all our efforts will have been in vain. (5)

"Enlil, you are everywhere...!"

So the gods continued to sing of Enlil, exhausting all their strength and draining the meager divinity they were endowed with.

Manjus then began to sing another name, "Let the sun rise from here." Q

"Shamash, when you rise above the towering mountains, when you rise above the mountain of death!"

However, this sun, rising in response to Manjusaka's voice, was not as powerful as before; it was merely a simple sun composed of magic.

Rising from the palace, the power connecting the mountain and the temple resists the force descending from the heavens.

"After the first sun was shot down, is this all the sun can rise again?"

This sun was indeed fragile; it shattered the moment it was bombarded, and cracks spread rapidly across its surface.

"That's not it."

Manju, inside the temple, heard Gorgon's deafening voice and laughed in denial, but no one could hear it anyway.

Manjusaka doesn't have much time left to gain, because the river is almost at the end of its cycle, and the eye that follows the river, as the sun, must also complete its pilgrimage to the underworld.

When the fragile sun was shattered like glass by the two Noble Phantasms, true light rose from the other side, and the incoming light blocked the two Noble Phantasms.

"When?"

Jingu stopped what he was doing and turned to look at the blazing sun rising from the other side.

The sun rose from the raging, ceaseless floodwaters, and a large amount of water vapor rose with it, bringing with it a scene of rising clouds and strange light, making it even harder to see what was happening there.

　⒏〓'⑸∠⑦℃liu⑥ˉ≥㈢∶｜4『÷4㈡YuHanqUn： But Jin Gu could know that they had probably failed.

Chapter 157 Reconstruction

Having emerged from the raging flood, the sun has little chance of being stopped. It has completed its journey through the underworld and is now ready to rise from there to the present world.

The scorching sunlight brings not only unbearable heat, but also visual distortions and changes that come with the light.

The bodies made of clay, the weapons constructed by the gods, all felt a melting sensation, a sensation far more terrifying than the dissolving sensation brought by Gorgon.

Gorgon's Noble Phantasm targets life more effectively, and is less effective against inorganic matter.