Or, why don’t you find another savior?

Hold on...hold on!

Don't be consumed by your mother's consciousness, bypass all emotions and try to get in touch with her inner self!

Then, his consciousness was suddenly pulled into the deep sea.

Chapter 2: Dialogue of Power ()

Shiomi had entered this place twice in her dreams.

Now is the first time that my consciousness has come into contact with this deep sea while I am awake.

He guessed that this was both the Sea of ​​Life where Tiamat slept and the Sea of ​​the Heart that reached directly into her spirit.

That light in the distance that seems out of reach yet within reach is where Tiamat’s consciousness resides.

I tried my best to get closer, and although it was slow, the distance was indeed shortening.

The closer he got, the more he felt that his thoughts and mind no longer belonged to him. Anger, sadness, pain... negative emotions like these assaulted Shiomi's spirit.

The consciousness of the Original Mother Goddess is too vast, far from something he can easily touch.

"Well……!"

It is different from the pain of using power to fight power, but it is the warmth of returning to the origin of life.

No matter what joys and sorrows you have, they can all be accepted; no matter what sins and mistakes you have, they can all be forgiven.

Return to mother's arms, start from scratch with mother, and recreate mother's world.

This kind of consciousness assimilates Shiomi's spirit without leaving a trace, suggesting that he give up resistance and extremely painful struggle, so that he can be relieved of responsibility and find the answer to life.

Human life will eventually fade away, but if a person overcomes death, there is no end waiting ahead.

Where will this person's life go?

The questions that Shiomi had subconsciously ignored now came up, circling and asking questions along with the warmth that was about to engulf his soul.

No thinking, no hesitation...

You must refuse, you can only refuse.

When the thought of rejection loosens even a little, it will be swallowed up by the sea of ​​mind in the next second, and like those Lahmu, it will become a terminal embodying Tiamat's consciousness.

This is the result of returning to the mother's arms. Perhaps you will still have your own emotions and thoughts, and still have your original memories, but in the end you will only become an existence without individual will.

Different from the collective unconsciousness, the individual's self-consciousness...isn't it the most precious thing as a human being?

Going against the flow of spirit, Shiomi was getting closer and closer to the light. Just a little bit... just a little bit more, and he would be able to touch the inner world of Tiamat.

As long as we can achieve our goal here ahead of time, we won't have to leave the difficulties to our companions who are guarding Uruk and waiting for the results here.

But it really doesn't work...

Xiomi sighed in her heart.

It has reached its limit.

Only one step away from the light deep in Tiamat's heart.

But his will to resist had reached its limit.

As long as he took this step, he would be able to touch the heart of Tiamat and be swallowed up in an instant.

The hand...reached out to Shiomi.

"Come here."

In the light deep in his heart, a calm and gentle voice spoke to him.

Involuntarily, Shiomi stretched out her hand.

Even though he knew this would lead to destruction, he still stretched out his hand uncontrollably.

What am I…doing?

Xijian stopped in a daze. He felt that he had suddenly forgotten a lot, even... everything.

Everyone, everything.

At the moment when the two hands were about to touch, suddenly a powerful force grabbed him around the waist and dragged him back.

The consciousness connection brought by the power was suddenly interrupted, and Shiomi suddenly opened his eyes.

"…You pulled me back, Altria." He realized how dangerous his situation was and sincerely thanked Altria for her intervention.

"Both you and Rahmu have stopped." Artoria held Shiomi with one hand and controlled the pterosaur with the other. "Even Tiamat's actions have come to a halt..."

Then, with her intuition as a goddess, Altria immediately realized that Tiamat was trying her best to erode Shiomi's spirit, so she stopped all other actions.

She roughly pulled Shiomi back to consciousness by making direct contact with his body.

It wasn't that Shiomi was just one step away from touching Tiamat's heart, but that Tiamat was just one step away from engulfing Shiomi's spirit with her will.

Rather, it could be said that being able to resist to this extent without being swallowed up meant that Shiomi had improved a lot compared to yesterday.

"As expected, her mental defense is extraordinary. If we want to make contact with her, we must weaken Tiamat." Shiomi held down the arm that Altria had placed on him.

He looked up and saw Quetzalcoatl waiting for something.

Lahmu still did not act, and Tiamat had not yet started to act again immediately. The dense forest that hindered her action was still there.

"please!"

Shiomi, covered in blood, stretched out his red palm and tried his best to summon the Axe of Marduk to the highest position.

“Nice——!”

Quetzal immediately drove the pterosaur straight up, then jumped up, grabbed the huge axe in the air and spun it.

The weapon that once killed Tiamat now reappeared, causing the Primordial Mother Goddess to feel the crisis. She stared in the direction of Quetzal and instantly opened three layers of barriers.

One glance was enough to tell that it was a scale that could not be reached by even the greatest magecraft of humans, and that only the Noble Phantasms of top-level servants and gods could penetrate it.

"As expected, she is the goddess of creation. Isn't it so easy to accept?" Gilgamesh appeared behind Tiamat, on the other side opposite Quetzal. "To the Mother of Earth, I should respond according to the principles of heaven!"

He had already held the Sword of Lie in his hand, and the sword began to rotate as he spoke, shaking the sky in that area.

Tiamat sensed the movement here, and her huge horns suddenly lit up, firing countless light bullets from them straight towards Gilgamesh.

With such a dense number of bullets, Gilgamesh, who had activated his Noble Phantasm, was unable to block them all with his treasures, and light bullets kept brushing against his body.

Lahmu finally took action and began to slowly gather behind Tiamat to prepare to block her.

"Take it! 『Star of Creation of Heaven and Earth』!"

The Sword of Separation was swung down heavily, and a huge magical power that could tear apart the heaven and earth swept out, and Lahmu was torn into pieces like mud.

Tiamat, who should have had difficulty turning, actually changed her posture by relying on the magic power released by her horns and directed the three barriers towards Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasm.

The first layer of the barrier began to crack the moment it came into contact with the Noble Phantasm. Gilgamesh covered his waist which was pierced by the light bullet when he released the Noble Phantasm. With a proud smile, he accepted the treatment from Hakuno Kishinami through the magic channel while using the treasure to strengthen the unfinished attack.

The two barriers were shattered one after another, but even so, Tiamat only made a sharp sound.

"It's a good opportunity to take care of the beginning and not the end!"

After accumulating power through rotation, Marduk's Axe flew out and hit one of the pair of huge horns behind Tiamat, who was caught in a dilemma.

A huge explosion of light engulfed Tiamat's body.

Chapter 72 Dragon Body Spiritual Foundation

The pterosaur hovered at a safe distance and caught Quetzalcoatl as he fell back.

Gilgamesh also landed on the Vimana, covering his bleeding abdomen with his free hand. He looked quite uncomfortable, but he managed to avoid death.

After all, he was a servant, and his spiritual core was not injured. He obeyed Bai Ye's request and transformed into a spirit body.

After confirming that both were safe, Shiomi looked towards Tiamat's location.

The attack just now had caused more than half of the Rahmu to disappear, and the sky suddenly became empty.

The thick smoke dissipated and the high-pitched long whistle sounded again.

"AaaaaAaaaa————!"

Tiamat's body, which had been floating upright, fell into the dust and crawled on the mottled ground.

One of the pair of huge horns that exuded magical power and supported Tiamat's levitation and posture adjustment was hit accurately by Quetzal using the Axe of Marduk.

Although it did not break completely, it did deprive Tiamat of the ability to fly.

"In this way, we can temporarily delay Tiamat's actions and buy more time for Uruk..." Shiomi breathed slightly.

His body, which had not yet recovered, had been repeatedly damaged by the power. Now, facing Tiamat, he also knew that although the same power was essentially worlds apart.

The reason why he was able to recover quickly in the past was simply because the injuries, although fatal, were not particularly special in nature.

Tiamat, who has not lost her ability to move at this moment, is the best proof to the contrary.

He raised his wrist to contact Chaldea, preparing to let Romani convey this matter to his companions in Uruk.

"Wait a minute... Tiamat she--!" Artoria stared at Tiamat's figure and let out a low cry of surprise.

Shiomi was also stunned: "Let the 'Chaos Tide' cover the whole body..."

Tiamat, who had obviously suffered a severe blow and was temporarily unable to take action, suddenly caused the "Chaos Tide" to create a huge wave more than ten meters high.

The black mud followed the will of the Mother of Creation and wrapped around her body.

"It's terrible. The return of the Tiamat spirit base to the Age of Gods has suddenly accelerated and has already reached the Jurassic period!" Romani's urgent voice rang out in the wind. "The spirit base expansion project has stopped. Confirm that the magic furnace core has been continuously restarted. The dragon body transformation... is complete!"

By the end, Romani's voice was filled with anxiety:

"The one before you is undoubtedly God!"

"Already... I know it without even looking." Xi Jian was now sweating coldly.

Perhaps everyone in the Chaldea Control Room can only glimpse the changes in the spiritual base through radar monitoring.

However, Shiomi and the others who were at the forefront could most intuitively feel the pressure emanating from Tiamat at this moment.

Can't win, no way to defeat.

It is such an existence.

Not only that, after transforming into a dragon, Tiamat, who was crawling on the ground, was growing wings.

As the goddess of the earth, Tiamat would never touch the sky, but at this moment, she overturned the existing truth.

The drooping hair now rolled up violently, as if melting into the dark clouds in the sky.

I am the only one in heaven and under heaven.

According to legend, when the Buddha was born, he took seven steps in all four directions, and the verses he chanted appeared in Shiomi's mind at this moment.

There is no better way to describe the image of the Original Mother standing between heaven and earth at this moment.

"We have come this far. We can no longer hesitate about what to do next." Quetzal flexed his arms. "I will leave it to you guys from now on."

"Me too--" Altria also stood up.

"No, you have to protect your Master and the Moon King~." Quetzal dissuaded gently.

"Are you planning to--" Shiomi knew what this meant.

"What are you dawdling about? It's coming!"

Ishtar's urgent voice suddenly sounded.

The gate of the sky opened, and after Venus appeared, it turned into a concept and fell into her hands.

At this time, Tiamat, who had returned to her dragon body, accumulated a huge amount of magic power in the blink of an eye towards the crowd, and spewed it out as an attack.

A blow brought by the individual magical power far exceeding that of all life and heroic spirits on earth.

"I can't care about the rest!" Ishtar's eyes shone with golden light, "Mountain-shaking Star Salary!"

Almost at the same time, Ishtar gritted her teeth and fired her most powerful Noble Phantasm, which collided with the magic power gushing out of Tiamat's mouth.

However, he fell into a disadvantage the moment of contact and was pushed forward little by little.

"Even if you are my mother, you have to stop here!"

A voice of unwillingness to admit defeat sounded, and even she herself didn't know why she was fighting to such an extent.