My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

Seeing this, Artoria felt emboldened. She thought that Kiritsugu Emiya wanted to use a Command Spell to help her obtain the Holy Grail, so she endured the excruciating pain, pulled the sword from her leg, and stood up.

However, Kiritsugu commanded, "...Saber, use your Noble Phantasm to...destroy the Holy Grail!"

“What…” Artoria was stunned, thinking she had misheard.

She was a million times unwilling to destroy the Holy Grail.

However, the holy sword in her hand began to gather magic and transform into light due to the command spell.

"Stop! Stop it!" Artoria shouted back at Kiritsugu Emiya.

Emiya Kiritsugu seemed not to hear Saber's words and continued using Command Spells: "Reporting back with the third Command Spell..."

Artoria's hands had already gripped the holy sword uncontrollably, and she slowly raised it...

"Why? Kiritsugu! Why you of all people... why?"

Ignoring Artoria's question, Kiritsugu Emiya continued coldly, "Saber, destroy the Holy Grail!"

"stop!"

At Artoria's shout, the raised holy sword slashed down fiercely.

The Holy Sword can transform the wielder's magical energy into light, increase its momentum through convergence and acceleration, and then release it like a laser beam from the tip of the sword as it is swung downwards, thereby destroying everything. It is a true "anti-city Noble Phantasm," and its power depends on the amount of magical energy converted.

With the blessing of the two Command Seals, the light emitted by this sword illuminated half of the sky above Fuyuki City.

Rumble...!

Everything before Artoria's eyes turned into a sea of ​​light. The immense destructive power set the surrounding wooden structures ablaze, and half of the auditorium, from floor to ceiling, from its decorations to the steel and concrete inside, was completely wiped out!

After the attack, a large amount of smoke and dust rose up on the scene, and the hurricane generated by the backflow of the squeezed air almost blew Kiritsugu Emiya away.

A short while later.

The smoke and dust cleared.

The Civic Center was broken in half at the location where Artoria was standing. The stage, seats, curtains, walls... all disappeared, leaving only a stretch of scorched earth hundreds of meters long, emitting billowing heat.

However, within this scorched earth, there was a luminous shield emitting a soft white light.

Inside the light shield was Hui's perfectly intact figure.

With a "crack!", a ring on Hui Xiu's long middle finger shattered into countless starlight.

As the ring shattered, the light shield dimmed and vanished completely in the blink of an eye.

Hui is not the owner of this Noble Phantasm. If he wants to use this Noble Phantasm, he can only use it once in a destructive manner with the [Annihilation Strike].

Hui was greatly inspired after seeing Goetia's stylish look with ten rings on both hands.

They found many rings that could instantly cast spells from the Gate of Babylon.

However, Hui didn't wear that many; she only wore one on the middle finger of her left and right hands.

The reason I don't wear rings on all ten fingers is twofold: firstly, it doesn't look good, and secondly, my ring finger has special significance, so I can't just wear a ring on it casually.

Emiya Kiritsugu looked at the perfectly intact Holy Grail and fell into despair.

He looked at Hui, trying to persuade her with words: "Berserker, the Holy Grail cannot give you great power; it will only bring disaster to the world!"

Upon hearing this, Hui looked at Kiritsugu Emiya for the second time; the first time was in the warehouse district.

Under Kiritsugu Emiya's expectant gaze, Kei said, "Whether it's possible or not depends on the person using it."

After speaking, under Kiritsugu Emiya's horrified gaze, Hui raised the Holy Grail high and began to use the [Annihilation Strike] on it.

"Holy Grail, grant my wish, open the passage to the Root."

In an instant.

The Holy Grail shone with unparalleled brilliance!

The Greater Grail beneath Fuyuki City was fully activated, and the entire surface of Fuyuki City began to emit a bright light, turning the once dark city into daylight.

Looking down from the sky, you can see a giant magic circle covering the entire city of Fuyuki.

There are three obvious nodes on the magic circle, in order: the Tohsaka family, Ryudouji Temple, and finally the Civic Center.

The original fourth node, the Church of the Holy See, was shrouded in darkness.

At the point where the Civic Center is located, it is particularly bright. The small Holy Grail in Hui's hand is like a key, reflecting the light of the Great Holy Grail. Then a beam of light rises from the sky and slowly opens a huge hole in the sky!

Chapter 415 The Vortex of Origin

The night seemed to be pierced by a needle, revealing a hole several meters in diameter, the inside of which was pitch black, even darker than the original dark sky.

This hole was opened by the Lesser Grail using the power of the Servant returning to the Throne of Heroes, and it is also a hole in the Root Vortex located on the outer side of the world.

The clouds surrounding the hole were an eerie blood red, and an ominous aura enveloped the hearts of the people below.

The aura emanating from the hole, which evoked a sense of dread in humans, made even Kiritsugu Emiya and Artoria, unaware of the true situation, sense that something ominous was about to happen.

Sure enough, with a "whoosh!" sound, a large amount of black mud gushed out from the hole, endless and like a flood, quickly submerging the area of ​​the four guild halls and then spreading to other places.

The black mud is highly corrosive; wherever it passes, it leaves behind scorched earth and devastation.

For a time, the fate of Kiritsugu Emiya and Artoria was unknown.

At this moment, Hui was suspended in the air, riding on a black phantom. The cold wind howled, and a few rays of moonlight pierced through the gaps in the clouds under the cool night sky, sprinkling onto Hui's beautiful face.

Hui glanced at the scene of destruction on the ground and then paid no more attention to it.

This wasn't her fault.

This black mud is probably a kind of inhibitory force, a safety measure to prevent humans from reaching the source.

If anyone's to blame, blame the forces of restraint, which are the Earth and all of humanity.

"Sure enough, the feeling intensified as we got closer." Hui's face was sickly, and a desperate longing emanated from the depths of her soul, like a hungry wolf smelling the scent of a fat sheep.

The origin refers to a certain "place," which is believed to exist "somewhere" outside the universe.

This "outside the universe" does not refer to distance, but rather to a transdimensional meaning.

Therefore, magicians don't think about taking a spaceship from Earth to the edge of the universe; instead, they open a passage to the source through the study of magic and sorcery.

After most of the black mud has flowed out...

Hui controlled the black phantom and with a "whoosh!" it plunged into the hole.

The moment she entered the hole, "buzz~" Hui's ears were suddenly completely silent, and her eyes were plunged into darkness, as if she had entered an abyss.

There was no light, no air, only pitch blackness. However, Hui "saw" a hazy and dazzling scene before her, magnificent and grotesque, like a painting that had been haphazardly crumpled together.

It has an abstract, intricate, three-dimensional aesthetic.

However, there was a stain on the scroll that looked like ink, slowly gathering towards the hole.

They are black mud that has just surged into the inner part of the world.

At this moment, Hui Cai suddenly realized that the black mud that had flowed into the hole was less than one ten-thousandth of the total.

The black mud seemed to possess consciousness; it did not approach Hui, nor did it show any intention to attack, maintaining an attitude of non-interference with Hui.

This is not the root, but the gap between the world and the world beyond.

This hole was originally meant to lead to the Root, but the Greater Grail has been corrupted. No matter what wish is made, the Greater Grail will prioritize fulfilling the will of the Black Mud that descended into the world, and only then will it grant the wish of the victor.

Without the barrier of the world, Hui felt that she was closer to the origin, not in terms of physical distance, but in terms of concept.

Just as Hui was pondering how to reach the source, the small Holy Grail in Hui's hand began to emit a strong light, enveloping Hui and causing her to disappear into the gaps between worlds.

Hui felt another flash before her eyes and found herself in absolute, deathly darkness where she couldn't see her own hand in front of her face.

This does not belong to the category of physical space, but rather to the category of conceptual space.

More precisely, if the material world is a three-dimensional space, then this place is infinitely reduced in dimension, where matter cannot exist, and even the "points" that constitute a one-dimensional space cannot exist. It transcends the boundary between reality and fantasy, and belongs entirely to an illusory dimension!

This is the original "1".

Hui felt very strange at this moment. There was no gravity, no wind, no air, and she didn't even have the concept of up or down...

However, Hui felt herself falling.

It felt like a long time had passed, yet it also felt like only a moment had gone by!

With a "thump," Hui felt as if she had pierced through some membrane.

Suddenly, Hui's feelings changed again.

I, who should have been falling, suddenly "stopped".

Of course, Hui didn't know the specifics, she just felt that way.

Suddenly.

Hui discovered that her vision was no longer completely dark; there was light ahead.

The light seemed to have been there all along, but Hui only noticed it then, and it seemed to appear abruptly, catching Hui's attention. Hui couldn't tell exactly what was going on.

Hui naturally looked up.

In an instant,

Hui seemed to see a gigantic vortex stretching for an immeasurable distance, perhaps tens of light-years, or perhaps hundreds of light-years...

The shimmering light flowing within the vortex, when one tries to examine it closely, suddenly goes black, and all consciousness is lost.

Hui felt as if she could see the first life cell that appeared in the ocean 30 billion years ago, the first multicellular life, the first organism to take to land... and now life all over the earth;

I saw microorganisms, animals, plants, mountains, continents, the Earth, the sun, galaxies, supernova explosions, black holes swallowing everything... even the annihilation of the universe;

It was as if I had seen the history of life on Earth, countless astronomical phenomena, and everything in the world in an instant.

This is the root of the problem!

This is the root of all phenomena and causes in the world, the beginning of everything.

This includes matter, concepts, laws, space, time, phases, parallel worlds, planets, multiverses, life, death, and so on.

Its sheer volume of information can overwhelm the human brain in an instant.

Human souls of this caliber either revert to their original form upon contact with it, or are devoured by the source, becoming nothingness and returning to the source.

The so-called magicians in the Type-Moon world are nothing more than beings who, after approaching the Root, hastily stabilized their magic and then fled in disarray.