My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

Tokiomi Tohsaka understood the plans of the Church's higher-ups.

Therefore, his hope that the church would step in and deal with that god was dashed.

Perhaps out of apology for the church's retreat, Kotomine Risei explained, "The church speculates that the god's powers are devouring, and...destruction. Moreover, his status is extremely high, and he is very likely the main god of the Far East."

"Is that so? Then we can basically confirm her identity." Tokiomi Tohsaka was quite familiar with the mythology of the Far East. Through the analysis of her powers and status, he immediately filled in the blanks with Hui's identity.

"Tokiomi, what should we do next?" Kotomine Risei asked.

Tokiomi Tohsaka pondered for a moment and said, "The only way to win now is to concentrate the power of all Masters."

“As the overseer, I have the right to change the rules. I will mobilize all Masters to defeat the Berserker.” Kotomine Risei volunteered.

“Wait a minute, Father. If we do this, won’t we anger them and cause them to attack the church?” Kirei Kotomine looked at his father.

Tokiomi Tohsaka explained, “My dear disciple, you can rest assured about that. Zouken Matou, as a qualified magician, must be well aware of the consequences of offending the Church. After all, no matter how strong a Servant is, they can't protect him forever.”

"I understand, teacher." Although Kirei Kotomine still had a bad feeling, he stopped talking after seeing that his father had agreed with Tokiomi Tohsaka's words.

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Chapter 384 Stagnation

Although Kirei Kotomine verbally agreed, he still left the church afterward.

Tokiomi Tohsaka's idea was not wrong. If it really was Zouken Matou, he would never dare to attack the Church of the Holy Church. He would even stop Kei from massacring Osaka because exposing the existence of magic would weaken "mystery" and would be jointly attacked by the two major world powers, the Mage Association and the Church of the Holy Church.

Things that are beyond human scientific common sense, or supernatural, are considered "mysterious".

"Mystery" is something that becomes weaker the more people know about it.

Secular things are ineffective against the "mysterious." For example, if something possesses a high degree of "mystery," then bullets and even missiles will be ineffective against it. It's not that it has high defensive capabilities, but rather that it's simply ineffective. Generally speaking, the older something is, the more likely it is to possess a high degree of mystery. Modern magicians using modern magic to deal with the "mystery" of thousands of years ago may be completely ineffective.

Both the Magic Association and the Holy Church have a function of preventing "mysticism" from spreading among ordinary people and dealing with potential threats.

If Zouken Matou hadn't gone mad, he would never have dared to offend two of the world's greatest powers at once.

Therefore, Kotomine Risei couldn't wait to issue a summons to all Masters early in the morning.

Once all the Master's familiars had arrived, they made no attempt to conceal their intentions and issued the order to subdue Kei.

They didn't even try to avoid the Matou family's familiars.

This consistent ecclesiastical ideology of the Holy Church led Ryomaro Kotomine to adopt a condescending attitude towards other secular magicians.

However, none of them expected that Hui's Master was Matou Kariya, a half-baked magician with only a superficial understanding of the mystical world, and who was also a madman who only had one month to live.

Kariya Matou had no interest in anything mysterious or about the church.

Upon learning that the church was summoning all the Masters to attack him, he immediately asked Hui for his opinion.

In Hui's eyes, however, the idea of ​​punishing and destroying was exactly what he wanted, as it would be perfect to eliminate them all at once.

However, before that...

That church that issued the order to attack has no reason to exist anymore.

"Which direction is that church in? Do you have a map?"

"Have."

Although Matou Kariya didn't understand why Hui wanted the map, he still gave it to her.

Then, he saw Hui look at the map, come into the courtyard, and draw a long sword from the golden ripples that appeared behind her.

"Hey, Hui, you wouldn't be thinking..."

Seeing Kei's posture, Matou Kariya immediately understood what Kei was thinking.

"What, is it not allowed?" Hui asked, tilting her head.

Matou Kariya was silent for a moment, then said coldly, "Go do it."

Upon hearing this, Hui smiled, gripped the longsword, and instantly unleashed [Annihilation Strike].

This longsword is called the Sword of Glad. Its ability is "Slow Down," and it is also an E-rank Noble Phantasm. The so-called "Slow Down" means slowing down the opponent's speed in battle.

It sounds impressive, but the reduction is not significant, only about six or seven percent.

Spending a lot of mana to unleash a Noble Phantasm only slows down the opponent by about six or seven percent, so it can only be used as a surprise attack.

This is typical for E-rank Noble Phantasms; as the lowest rank, they are not inherently powerful.

However, that only applies to other Heroic Spirits.

With a "whoosh—!!" sound, silver-white cracks appeared on the blade of the Glad Sword, and a huge magical force descended here, disregarding time and space.

This was the first time Matou Kariya had seen Kei unleash his Noble Phantasm at such close range.

In that instant, he wondered if he was hallucinating, but suddenly the whole space felt thick and time seemed to slow down.

The longsword in Hui's hand was covered with silver-white patterns, making the whole sword look like a lightsaber from Star Wars.

At that moment, Matou Kariya realized that it wasn't just his imagination; the entire courtyard was indeed "frozen."

yard.

Birds soaring across the sky, streams chasing each other, leaves swirling and dancing... all defy logic, remaining motionless, like amber.

At this moment, time seemed to stand still.

Kariya Matou's only remaining thought was... that he was going to die.

Fortunately, this phenomenon only lasted for a moment before Hui shot the silver light in her hand toward the direction of the Holy Church.

A silver light streaked across the sky, leaving a dark trail in its wake—a sign that space had been torn apart.

At this time, the small courtyard where Tong Yanye was located finally emerged from its stagnation.

"It's so cold." Matou Kariya, who was still able to move, suddenly shivered. It turned out that his body was already covered with a layer of ice.

Not only him, but the entire courtyard was covered with a layer of white frost. No matter how hard Matou Kariya tried to recall, he couldn't remember when the frost had appeared...

The unusual sight in the sky above Fuyuki City naturally attracted the attention of countless residents who looked up to watch. However, the silver light was too fast, only flashing through the air in an instant. Everyone only saw a light flash across the sky in the blink of an eye, leaving only a black trace that disappeared into the distance.

What exactly it was remains unknown, and countless people have begun to comment and discuss it heatedly.

Suburbs of Fuyuki City.

Church.

Kotomine Risei was still inciting his Master to attack Satoshi, completely unaware that he was about to face a great calamity.

"...I am now using my special oversight authority to temporarily change the rules. All Masters must immediately cease all combat activities and focus all their efforts on annihilating the Berserkers."

……

These are the Command Seals left over by Masters who were eliminated in past Holy Grail Wars…

However, just as he was getting into it...

boom--!!

The Sword of Glad struck the Holy Church directly. The barrier surrounding the church was as fragile as paper in the face of this attack imbued with rules, unable to even stop the Sword of Glad.

Kotomine Rise only saw a flash of silver light before his eyes, and then knew nothing more.

Because at that moment, the entire hill where the church was located was completely still.

The Glad Sword, which originally only had the ability to [Slow Down], was upgraded to [Stillness] under the blessing of [Annihilation Strike].

This moment.

Within a one-kilometer radius of the church, everything ceases to move, not even molecules, atoms, or electrons; this is a forbidden zone for all energy.

Here we find the theoretical absolute zero, or 0 Kelvin.

Within a one-kilometer radius of the church, the air is turning into "night" at a visible speed.

It was a strange scene; it was a bright and sunny morning, but it felt like nighttime here.

It turns out that even light cannot escape from the absolute zero range.

The stagnant scene you see now is not the real situation inside; it's just a reflection of light that escaped at the moment the [annihilation strike] struck.

The actual situation inside is chaos, because the entire region has no internal energy. Therefore, objects inside will disintegrate into individual scattered atoms, similar to the feeling of a house made of building blocks falling apart.

Once the light that had escaped earlier dissipates, this place will eventually become pitch black.

The church is located on a hillside on the outskirts of Fuyuki City. At this moment, it is a kilometer away from the church, outside the range of the attack, and the temperature is an astonishing 2 K, or -271.15 degrees Celsius.

This place has long since become a dead zone; trees, grass, birds, reptiles... all frozen into ice sculptures. Scattered on the ground are irregularly shaped solids—solid oxygen, nitrogen, and water vapor...

In some ice pits where the ground has sunken, a colorless liquid seems to have a life of its own, forming a thin film that climbs up the pit walls.

This is the wall-climbing phenomenon of superfluid liquid helium. When the temperature drops rapidly to below 2.17K, liquid nitrogen may not turn into a solid, but remain in a liquid state. However, at this time, the internal friction coefficient of liquid nitrogen becomes zero, thus becoming a superfluid.

The entire mountain has become a forbidden zone for life, consisting entirely of solid ice containing nitrogen, oxygen, and other gases. The air here is rapidly liquefied and frozen, and the surrounding air is forced here by atmospheric pressure.

The cold began to spread, and the visible rapid freezing phenomenon quickly spread across the suburbs and moved towards the city, like a white grim reaper reaping lives on the ground.

People who realized what was happening began to run away, but it was all in vain. Countless people who were running away remained frozen in their escape positions and died.

The temperature plummeted to -180 degrees Celsius, turning skyscrapers into ice castles. However, the steel and concrete inside became extremely fragile under the low temperature and quickly collapsed and shattered into steel fragments under gravity, smashing countless human-shaped ice sculptures on the ground to pieces.

Fortunately, the freezing effect stopped after affecting about a third of Fuyuki City.

The reason is simple: the Sword of Glad has burned out completely...

The residents of Fuyuki City, survivors of the disaster, stared blankly at the sky.

It's just the beginning of October in Fuyuki City... and it's starting to snow.

Chapter 385 Inquiry

The original site of the Fuyuki Church has become a scorching wasteland.

This is the absolute zero region, which exists only in theory.

According to the second law of thermodynamics, heat will spontaneously transfer from a hotter object to a colder object.

Therefore, the area centered around the Fuyuki Church became a black hole of heat, frantically devouring the entire city of Fuyuki, the entire Kanto region, the entire Japan, and even the massive amounts of heat from the nearby western Pacific coast.

...The wind picked up.