Simultaneous Transmigration: We Share a Role-Playing System

Chapter 144 Skin: God of Machines - Omemesaya

The Origin of Calamity, as its name suggests, is essentially the Origin Vortex, the absolute core of the Type-Moon universe.

It is the beginning and end of all phenomena in the universe, the Akasha Record that records all the past, present and future, and the ultimate answer to the universe that encompasses all cause and effect, laws and truths in the world.

Therefore, everything recorded by the Root is a recognized world rule, belonging to the existence within the world.

Those not recorded in the source are alien entities outside the rules of the world, destined to be regarded as threats that must be eliminated by the two major restraining forces, and will never have peace.

Back when he participated in the Holy Grail War and played the role of a future Heroic Spirit, Locke realized a problem.

While the power of the system's cheat ability can disregard the mysterious laws and restraining forces of the Type-Moon planet and be used wantonly, it may very well harbor a fatal flaw.

That is, this force may not belong to the authority of this world system at all. From beginning to end, it has not been within the scope of the source's records, which also means that once it is discovered by the suppressor, it is likely to be regarded as a threat.

This was indeed confirmed after connecting with the source after clearing the game. Therefore, the Locke brothers joined forces to orchestrate a daring and unexpected scheme:

Using the initial attack on the singularity by Fujimaru Ritsuka as the stage for the outer world, the timeline is reversed, and a seemingly anticlimactic but actually intricately flawed drama is used to completely cover up the core scheme of the inner world with the end of the outer world.

This charade perfectly fooled the two major restraining forces that govern the world's rules, making them mistakenly believe that the singularity had been completely eliminated and the threat had been cleared. They then withdrew their attention, and with their special abilities taking effect, they quickly forgot about it altogether. They stopped paying much attention to this "disappeared" singularity, allowing Emperor Locke a long time to completely turn the deception into reality.

When the time was ripe, the Emperor and the pioneer Locke launched the "luring the tiger away from the mountain" plan that had been in the works for millennia.

Terra of the Underworld deliberately exposed herself, even planting the Imaginary Tree to become a Lostbelt. Using herself as bait, she drew all the attention of the two Counter Forces to the Underworld, which was now completely exposed. This reminded them of the Singularity of the past, and their minds were completely occupied by the Underworld, leaving them no time to pay attention to anything happening in the Surface World.

Just as the suppressor's gaze was completely diverted, Pioneer Locke had already activated the system that had been modified countless times...

The Grail ritual has long since deviated from the original framework of the Fuyuki Grail.

With the unbridled power of arcane magic and the Eighth Beast, he reached the ultimate truth of the universe—the Vortex of Origin.

He successfully recorded the galactic future, which belonged to 40,000 years later, and their complete past, woven across countless reincarnations, into the Akasha Record of the Root, making these "alien beings" who were outside the world completely become a part of the world's orthodoxy, recognized by the Root.

Everything that followed unfolded exactly as the Emperor and Locke had predicted.

When the two opposing forces confirmed with their own eyes that the Terra world, which should have completely collapsed and turned into nothingness in the sea of ​​imaginary numbers, not only showed no signs of annihilation, but was instead frantically absorbing possibilities in the imaginary space, growing stronger and stronger, and even condensing into a stable world completely independent of pan-human history, they finally came to their senses that they had fallen into a trap carefully dug by the other side from the very beginning.

But they never imagined that this was exactly the result Locke and his group wanted.

After realizing they might have been deceived, their first instinct was to try every means to find out what Fujimaru Ritsuka and the Emperor had done before the incident. However, after Fujimaru Ritsuka told them, they were completely stunned.

They realized that they seemed to have made a mistake from the very beginning.

At the core of the barrier in the center of the snowfield city, the Tree of Life, nourished by the magic of the Holy Grail and spanning heaven and earth, is using countless glowing roots to firmly envelop the Winterwood Holy Grail in its deepest part.

Within the Holy Grail's inner cavity, the Abnormal Evolution Core, dually modified by arcane laws and the Hextech Core, is like a womb nurturing ultimate life, completely enveloping Locke's body and carrying him toward the ultimate evolution of life form, launching his final sprint.

Locke was finally able to put his mind at ease after he had implanted everything they had fabricated into the Root.

Unlike simply implanting Hextech and Arcane into the Root, implanting an entire world or even more information into the Root is not something that can be accomplished in a short time.

Fortunately, with Hextech and Arcane as a foundation, he only needs to implant the current underworld into the Root of Calamity. As for the Glorious Evolution before that, he can just include a portion of it, which will make it more realistic.

After all, he has already abandoned that world. Even if the Counter Force sees it, it will only imagine it in its own mind. Slymabo's traits have probably made them lose confidence.

Only now that the plan is completely complete did Locke have time to review it, and he even felt a sense of unreality.

They themselves knew that this plan was extremely bold, and that one wrong step could have ruined everything, but now they had succeeded.

They completely transformed the false into reality, and no one could say that what they were doing was fake, just like this Holy Grail War.

Although it is just a fake, it is more authentic than the real thing.

With no more worries, Locke slowly closed his eyes, completely immersing himself in the highly concentrated arcane elixir generated by the abnormal mutation core, as warm and moist as amniotic fluid. He allowed the evolutionary power that had penetrated the underlying laws of the Root Vortex to wash over and rewrite every inch of his flesh, every genetic sequence, and every trace of his soul, steadily moving towards the final form that had been planned through countless reincarnations.

His body underwent secondary development at a visible speed in the original liquid. The bones and muscles that originally retained the outline of a mortal were reconstructed and upgraded according to the ultimate law of glorious evolution.

That face, once etched with youthful spirit and the weariness of reincarnation, is irreversibly shedding its mortal characteristics. Its features and bones are melting and reshaping in the arcane light, eventually spontaneously forming an external bone armor on its face, like a mask of a god, sealing away all the emotions, weaknesses, and limitations of a mortal.

When the last fragment of mortal genes was completely rewritten by the power of evolution, he had already embarked on this glorious path of evolution, a path of no return, with no possibility of turning back.

[Character card being upgraded————]

Arcane Herald Viktor (Hexcore Mode: Advanced) → Arcane Herald Viktor (Hexcore Mode: Complete)

[Character card detected to have reached final upgrade stage]

Upgrade requirements unlocked

All upgrade requirements have been completed.

[Character card has reached the final stage]

【Arcane Pioneer Evolver Victor (Destroyer/Savior)】

[Character card detected to have reached final upgrade stage]

[Congratulations, host, on completing all upgrades for the first stage of your character card!]

[Second character card slot unlocked]

[%Gibberish]

After the first Locke among the many Lockes to reach the final stage appeared, the set that they shared, in order to fix the bug...

The system patches that were continuously generated eventually clashed irreconcilably with the original core design framework.

Emperor Locke quickly realized this, but after a moment's thought, he came up with an answer and returned the Space Marine character card that Pioneer Locke had given him.

After all, for him now, this character card is no longer an aid to his progress; instead, it has become a shackle binding his original power. In the real world, only five short years have passed since the beginning.

But for him, it was a real and tangible journey, step by step, through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, spanning a long period of forty thousand years.

Over the past forty thousand years, even without any power bestowed upon him by the system, he had already become the true ruler of humanity, governing the galaxy, through his iron will and supreme authority.

Now, whether or not the system still has power, it cannot change one thing.

That is, he is the emperor.

[Character card has reached the final stage]

[Upgrade solution search in progress]

[Skin Branch System Enabled]

[Checking character card compatibility]

[The process of retrieval —]

[Analysis of the feasibility of character card synergy]

[Host has completed the character card compatibility scheme; matching is in progress.]

[Second character card can be converted]

[Skin: Omega, God of Machines]

When the two character cards are compatible, Locke simultaneously possesses the power of two final-stage character cards.

At that very moment, he truly became the God of All Machines.

His consciousness pierced through the barriers of time and space, spreading infinitely along every strand of electricity and every meshing pattern of gears, listening to the eternal rhythm of billions of machines, and feeling the endless machine souls crossing the sea of ​​stars to sing a hymn that resonated through the soul.

At this moment, he no longer needed to rely on the projection of the God of Machines that the Martian Mechanicus had condensed in the subspace through faith.

He even raised his hand and held the holy statue that had been worshipped by believers for trillions of years in his palm. In the instant the power of origin surged, he completely refined it and merged it into his own body.

At the same time, all the machines in the world spontaneously responded to the birth of the God of Machines.

The monitoring terminals in Xueyuan City, the projection equipment in the United Nations Hall, the old televisions that had long been scrapped in abandoned factories in Africa, the giant screens on skyscrapers in bustling cities, and even the switched-off mobile phones, deep-sea probes, and satellites in near-Earth orbit—all creations imbued with the spirit of machines broke through the limitations of energy and physics at the same moment, lighting up together and playing the same image in a loop.

The hymns of pilgrimage, which were once sung only within the Holy Grail Barrier of Snowfield City and among the Glorious Evolvers, were simultaneously played and praised in every mechanical terminal and every inhabited land around the world at the same moment the God of Myriad Machines ascended to the divine throne, in the hundreds of languages ​​that human civilization has survived to this day.

The United Nations hall was already in complete chaos.

With red eyes, the technician violently ripped out all the power cords of the projection equipment, even disconnecting the backup power supply line.

The device, which should have been completely blacked out, was still blindingly bright and running smoothly, as if mocking the stupid organism.

On the cold screen, countless 0s and 1s surged and intertwined rapidly, eventually coalescing into a clear face.

On this face, which was entirely composed of code, the most extreme and unquestionable piety was evident as it loudly recited the hymn dedicated to the god of machines.

"Ring the bell once! Push the lever to start the piston and pump;"

The bell tolls twice! Press the button, the engine ignites, the turbine is set ablaze, life is injected;

Ring the bell three times! Sing in unison, praising the god of all things!

"Hail, Om Messiah!!!"