Don't use Type-Moon references in Oregairu!

Having grown accustomed to endless magical power, the magical power within her body suddenly decreased in that instant.

"Manjushri's Wisdom Sword Great Divine Power! Heavenly Demon Rain!"

From the void, from that seemingly non-existent dreamscape, a barefoot fox-eared celestial witch emerged, unleashing an endless storm of steel that pierced through the barrier of magic like a drill. Most were annihilated, but the final blade held in the celestial witch's hand plunged into Gaia's chest.

228. The False Mother Goddess of All Things, the Crimson Dragons and Serpents of the Seas

Using astronomical instruments to suppress the enemy Gaia's power, and then empowering many teammates, he uses two powerful figures on the surface as a distraction, while secretly creating a dream world where Yui Hihama hides.

Constantly calculating the success rate and accumulating magic power, she unleashed the Noble Phantasm [Heavenly Demon Rain] at the most crucial moment, breaking through Gaia's defenses at the most ingenious time. This was Yui Yuigahama's highlight moment as a cameo assassin!

At the moment of the stab, Yui Yuigahama felt that she had succeeded.

The tangible sensation of being stabbed, the feel of the blade cutting through steel, and the sensation of powerful magic shattering the opponent's body in a spiral—all these made Yui Yuigahama... wait!

Her joyful expression froze. In a fraction of a second of reaction time, her intuition vibrated, warning her to run!

Time seemed to stand still as Gaia's body crumbled inch by inch, yet she managed a smile in her final moments.

A sigh seemed to resound in everyone's hearts, without any vibration of air, a pure dialogue of thoughts echoing in everyone's minds:

[How tragic and lamentable that nascent human intelligence has been utterly destroyed. Perhaps, before even grasping the throne of all things, we will return to our original state as "us." Then, let us hope that as time flows on, "I" will still see traces of you.]

Everyone stood there dumbfounded, watching Gaia's body dissipate in the storm of spiraling, radiating magic, and the scene fell into a deathly silence.

However, even under the influence of the astronomical instrument, the heart, temporarily transformed into a spiritual state, beat wildly like mortal flesh and blood.

Magic surged violently within his body, as if he were facing an invincible foe at a critical moment of life and death.

He is coming.

The enormous red moon hanging overhead trembled, and the half of the sphere facing them cracked, with blood-red light surging from the deep fissures.

"Like... breaking free from the hatching eggshell?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka looked up at the crimson moon; even the starlight in the sky could not compare to its deep red glow.

The detached shell was not captured by this land full of black and gray rocks, but instead swirled upwards, obscuring a third of the starlight and transforming into a beautiful yet terrifying halo.

Within the remaining half of the sphere, He, who had been curled up, straightened up.

He was completely naked, without any clothing to cover himself, and from his face to his body, everything conformed to the most perfect proportions in nature; even magnified to the size of a satellite, he remained flawless.

Beneath His perfect waistline, one could vaguely see dragon-scale-like scales hidden beneath the shattered moon, and only then did one realize with a start that He seemed to have a lower body resembling a dragon or snake.

Golden streaks of hair flew through the air, only to transform at the very end.

Whether they are dragons and snakes, the heads of beasts, or strange plant shapes, even without biological heads and mouths, they still sing praises to the appearance of a great being.

"For whom is the Almighty God, who is now, who was, and who is forever? The eternal King of Glory, all things will fall to you. Your glory will reach the cradle. Your glory will ride the light of time and reach infinity."

The black object that He held in His hands was both infinitely large and infinitely small, heavy in a non-physical sense like a tiny universe.

The strange black dot was constantly swirling, and with each expansion and contraction, it dragged the entire space, including the plain, into an ever-deeper realm.

Without any prior notice, as Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others struggled to cope with the sudden and overwhelming weight, a name popped into their minds:

The False Mother Goddess of All Things, the Crimson Dragon and Serpent of All Seas.

"Are you kidding me?!"

Even with her intuition constantly warning her, Yukino Yukinoshita gritted her teeth, stubbornly refusing to give up: "Even if it were the real Great Mother Goddess, let alone you, a fake Mother Goddess, I still wouldn't give up."

"The raging tsunami fills the heavens and earth, burying all that is not of my will into the abyss! Judge the great sins under the summer sun! [Great Tsunami - Elegy for the Seven Sins]!"

Even as she continued to fall, starlight continued to fall along the passage. The support from the stars gave Yukino Yukinoshita the strength to summon a real tsunami.

In this space where the constraints of physical laws are becoming increasingly indifferent, a tsunami powerful enough to sink island chains and submerge continents roars in.

The flood enveloped the great Mother Goddess and her throne, and in the raging torrents, the heads of all beasts and creatures were constantly being cut off and pulverized.

The vortex's ferocious power shattered the plains to a depth of nearly a thousand meters. Under the relentless attack, even Yukino was unable to attend to the condition of her teammates.

Having barely regained some of her strength, Artoria summoned her beloved horse and, riding on the starlight, carried the exhausted Yui and Kasumigaoka Utaha onto it. She then stood in mid-air with Fujimaru Ritsuka and Abigail, watching the battlefield from afar.

"Is there any chance of victory?" She gripped the Holy Lance, which she had just retrieved after finding an opening, filled with unease.

The other party didn't even retaliate, like a dead body devoid of a soul.

"...I was going to say no, but I think I see a glimmer of an opportunity."

Fujimaru Ritsuka narrowed her eyes, countless patterns flashing within them.

Ultimately merging into the tsunami, Yukino, transformed into an ideal fluid, accelerated continuously, becoming a giant star dragon that fiercely bit the false mother goddess of all things, then violently tore at her limbs.

The Melt virus, which has already been mastered, is continuously transferring large amounts of completely dissolved magic power to Yukino, allowing this giant dragon, which is entirely composed of tsunamis, to launch a continuous and ferocious attack.

But she only felt her heart sinking lower and lower.

It's useless, completely useless.

The tsunami's vortex severed Wanxiang's hair, and the water dragon bit her limbs and head, with crimson blood gushing out like lava from a volcanic eruption.

But in the next moment, all of this was like a videotape being rewound, returning to its original state.

The False Mother Goddess of All Things possesses an immortality that is completely incomprehensible. Death and injury are like phenomena that are not allowed to exist in Her; they completely vanish in an instant.

My spirit can no longer hold up...

Even with an abundant supply of magical energy, Yukino Yukinoshita still paled and withdrew from the state of using her Noble Phantasm.

She looked at the enormous Mother Goddess before her in despair. Her eyes were lowered, and even the chanting beside her did not stop despite the attack of the giant sea dragon.

The crimson light continued to shine, traversing the ever-deepening passage and countless spatial rifts, until it arrived in the present world.

At that moment when the light shone upon the world, the hearts of everyone in the world seemed to stop beating for a moment, as if they had been squeezed.

The superhumans on the front lines paused in their movements.

The strange creature they had been fighting against underwent a terrifying transformation under the red light.

If the strange occurrences encountered before always had a [prototype] as a reference, and some corresponding methods could be found based on its possible origins, then the strange occurrences before us have clearly undergone a change.

The snow woman sprouted limbs of earth spiders from her back; the eyes of a flying killer whale turned into the mouthparts of a squid; half the body of a death knight grew from the flesh and blood of a chimera; the behemoth ravaging the earth grew pale limbs of Daddy Long Legs; and the hundreds of legs of the centipede monster destroying the buildings turned into withered human hands...

Countless bizarre creatures constantly merged with other bizarre shapes that had appeared before and had never appeared before. Some of them collapsed directly, leaving behind only glittering extraordinary materials in their place, allowing many extraordinary and ordinary people who were driven to the brink of despair to survive.

But more often than not, they successfully transformed with the support of a massive base, acquiring more and more bizarre abilities, tearing the superhumans who were on the verge of victory to shreds.

The best among them even generated a radiating force field, withstood a large amount of enchanted firepower from the official forces, and gradually transformed the surrounding environment into another world.

Sasagawa Yagokoro spat fiercely and used the last bullet in his pistol to blow up the monster in front of him that was generating a radiation field.

He leaned wearily against the wall and looked at his teammates.

"Three seriously injured, five slightly injured, and supplies have dropped to 40%... Although I haven't fully broken through my limits yet, I'm still considered second-tier combat power. Even so, our team is nearing its limit. Boss, if you guys don't push harder, we're going to be finished."

He looked back at the crowd, where several selected support members cautiously stepped forward, ready to help them.

The Chaldea team may have been inside for a short time, but nearly 12 hours have passed outside.

During these 12 hours, many cities were on the verge of falling, with only places like Gayo, where powerful individuals with implanted artificial spirit cores were in a relatively better state.

The city shelters that the authorities had prepared for in advance opened one after another, taking in a large number of ordinary people. However, even so, some shelters still experienced disasters.

Whether it was man-made disaster, strange occurrences, or a den of demons, many shelters collapsed.

The situation in Chiba City is somewhat better, as Chaldea still has some resources to bring some of the survivor teams to the vicinity of the mansion for resettlement.

But what was initially thought to be a sure thing was completely disrupted by a sudden and bizarre turn of events.

Wait, the person coming over...

"I hope I can survive." Sasagawa Yagokoro smiled bitterly as he loaded his bullets and pointed them at the arriving temporary rescue team.

Just as they were trembling with fear, thinking that Sasagawa Yagokoro had gone mad, their companion tore off his fleshy shell and transformed into a monster with countless skeletal limbs, charging towards the members of the action team.

“Monster…you shouldn’t have attacked at this distance.” Sasagawa Yagokoro laughed as he saw the blond figure hurtling towards them like lightning in the distance.

"One minute? Half a minute? Even this crippled body can make all of you weirdos fail! Get the hell away from my little brother!" Sasagawa Yagokoro ripped off his coat and charged forward, howling.

In this world, the living continue to resist.

In order to drive away the strange creatures that invaded the temple, a high monk sat cross-legged and set his own spiritual body on fire, transforming into an angry image of a deity.

A knight shouted that honor was his life, and under the leadership of the final round table, he rushed towards the strange creature that had crawled out of the Rhine River like a moth to a flame.

A hermit shaman, with tears in his eyes, along with many intelligent animals on the grassland, used their flesh and blood to block the demon that was burning the earth.

A young, ordinary person piloting a new-era aircraft, unable to escape the clutches of a resurrected ancient creature, roared and pressed the self-destruct button on a rudimentary nuclear spirit engine.

Humans, animals, and plants alike have all gained new power thanks to spiritual particles, yet they are unwilling to submit to so-called fate.

Their faint roars stirred the very sea of ​​consciousness within all living beings. The instinctive cries for survival could be heard even in the deepest depths below.

The false mother goddess who gave birth to the throne of all things sighed, as if questioning the stubbornness of all beings.

[To be reduced to chaos, to die at the hands of competitors—that is the most natural thing in the world.]

[Once the Throne of All Things is completed, you will understand that this is simply how things should be. All you need to do is struggle and fight, revealing your true nature amidst the carnage. That is the meaning of life.]

[The strange will ultimately become the outflow of my power; it is a challenge, a trial, giving you the opportunity to surpass yourselves, and the motivation to become stronger.]

[Strive on, all beings! In battle, abandon civilization and community. Before facing death, only personal strength can make you stronger!]

As the prepared ruler of all things, He does not need to express His meaning with words, yet He has already enabled those below Him to understand His meaning.

His innocent feelings filled those who were still conscious with anger; they could not comprehend the malice of this seemingly holy being before them.

Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the false Mother Goddess in front of him, completely disregarding what the guy thought.

Ultimately, what this guy wants is to return the world to an age similar to the Age of Gods, where humans, monsters, and other plants and animals compete for the right to survive entirely based on individual strength.

She viewed organizations and groups as rotten and degenerate, only hoping for as many people as possible who surpassed her own group and race, completely disregarding the power of civilization.

“How ridiculous…” Fujimaru Ritsuka’s gilded eyes were already locked on the false Mother Goddess in front of him. He shook his head and sighed.

"To bring the bizarre born from civilization, resentment, and cognition into one's own domain, and then use them to test and train individuals, is essentially nothing more than cultivating a transcendent being? Don't be ridiculous."

"As the ruler of the Throne of All Things, you will surely unleash a calamity powerful enough to destroy everything in the world, even if it means the extinction of all life on Earth. If there is no transcendent being in this era, you will wait for the birth of beings in the next era."

"Whether it's human civilization, the age of dinosaurs, or even if Earth is reduced to wasteland, you don't care at all. For you, who is completely independent after taking control of the Throne of All Things, it's just a change of skin, isn't it?"

Indeed, indeed!

Countless dragons and snakes, countless beasts and humans, and countless plants and animals all unanimously affirmed Fujimaru Ritsuka's guess.