Sister Toosaka Rin

After finishing the story, Tousaka Kiyoshi asked, "How do you feel about this story?"

The Winter Saint looked a little confused: "Should I be sad at this time?"

Toosaka Kiyoshi held his forehead with his hand. The Winter Saint had no reaction at all after hearing such a healing story of Magical Girl Madoka Magica.

But soon he felt that this was normal. Although the Einzbern family's artificial humans had their own personalities and emotions, the Winter Saint was not the real Winter Saint. She was just the management system of the Holy Grail modeled after the Winter Saint. Even if she had a preliminary understanding of self-awareness, it was normal that she could not understand human emotions.

It’s like, even if AI has human emotions in the future, the system that provides AI calculations will not have emotions.

Seeing Tosaka Kiyoshi's reaction, the Winter Saint nodded as expected: "Sure enough, the decision I made in my heart just now was correct."

Tousaka Kiyoshi was puzzled: "What decision?"

The Winter Saint stared into Tosaka Kiyoshi's eyes and said word by word: "Once your reincarnation system is successfully established, I hope you can let me enter it."

Toosaka Kiyoshi was puzzled: "Why? You are now only one step away from mastering the third law. If you succeed, it will be easy to create a physical body for yourself, and then you will gain eternal life."

"If I enter reincarnation, I will lose my previously accumulated memories and can only start over as an ordinary human being. If I want to achieve today's achievements again, it will depend on luck."

The Winter Saint nodded: "I know what you said, but I have been studying in your space for so long, but I still can't cross the last threshold. I think it's possible that I don't have the qualifications to become the third magician."

"What are the qualifications for a third magician? I think first of all one must be a human being. The soul is the most important thing for a human being. But I am not even a human being. How can I become a third magician who controls the materialization of souls?"

"If you are heading in the wrong direction, all your efforts will be in vain, so there is no point in continuing to work hard in your space."

"I want to be reborn through the reincarnation system, become a real human being, and understand human emotions. Only then can I take the last step and become a true magician."

Tosaka Kiyoshi frowned: "The soul is not only the most important thing for humans, it is the most important thing for all living things. What if your guess is wrong? The risk is too great."

The Winter Saint replied without hesitation: "I am willing to take the risk and take responsibility for my decision! And even if I fail, I will have gotten rid of my identity in the Holy Grail system and become a real human being. This is enough for me."

"If you insist on doing this, I will help you. But let me tell you in advance, after reincarnation you will lose all your memories, and even your personality will be very different each time. Can you accept that you will no longer be yourself?"

The Winter Saint smiled gently and said, "My current personality is modeled after the real Winter Saint. When did I ever have a self?"

“When you say this, you already have yourself.”

The Winter Saint was about to say something else, but she found that Tousaka Kiyoshi turned his head and looked at the horizon.

There were rumbling thunder and strong winds in the sky, and figures were approaching rapidly in the storm.

The magic sword Levadin appeared out of thin air in Tosaka Kiyoshi's hand: "Why don't you go back and hide? I won't have time to take care of you when the fight starts."

The Winter Saint shook her head. "With you as their opponent, they shouldn't care about me until they destroy you, right? It would be more dangerous for me to be together with Jörmungandr, who may have woken up at some point."

Tousaka Kiyoshi stopped trying to dissuade him: "Okay, remember to take care of yourself."

The Winter Saint immediately hid far away. The figures rushing over from the horizon had an aura no weaker than Jörmungandr. She didn't want to be killed by the aftermath while watching the battle.

Only when she was away from the center of Iceland did the Winter Saint feel safe.

At this moment, she suddenly discovered that a second sun appeared in the sky without her knowing.

Under the setting sun, the blood-red sky was illuminated by the sun as if it were noon.

Soon the Winter Saint realized that she was wrong, this was not the sun.

The burning fireball in the sky slowly stretched out like a curled up human body, and finally turned into a huge fire giant that was probably several thousand meters tall.

The twilight of the gods has officially arrived at this moment.

Under the temptation of ownerless filth, those who did not come were gods who were not contaminated by filth, or were less contaminated. It would be fine to let them go.

Therefore, Kiyoshi Toosaka, who was controlling the fire giant, didn't bother to count the gods who came and attacked them directly.

As the fire giant roared, a scorching wave of fire swept across half of Iceland, even dyeing the half of the sky that was not dyed red by the sunset red.

The gods' counterattack came immediately. The earth trembled in the battle. The mountains began to collapse just from the aftermath of the battle. The huge waves hundreds of meters high were like small splashes of water around the fire giant. The raging storm almost blew away the snow on the entire island...

The Winter Saint realized that she had underestimated the battle between the gods, so she immediately moved away from Iceland. She only felt a little relieved after retreating hundreds of miles away.

Hundreds of miles away, scenes comparable to natural disasters were unfolding in the sky over Iceland.

Thunderbolts tens of kilometers long flashed in the clouds; the frost that suddenly fell was instantly melted by the surging flames; the molten rock from the ground tore through the earth and the sea, rushing up to a height of a thousand meters, like a giant pillar of fire connecting heaven and earth...

The red flames swept across the land and sky, gradually forcing the gods to retreat; the boiling blood of the gods poured down, dyeing the sea red; the legendary artifacts appeared one after another, but they had no effect on the fire giant that brought destruction.

Wherever the Winter Saint looked, there was violent energy and scenes of destruction, as if the end of the world had come.

The strange phenomenon in the sky attracted the attention of all Nordic people. They had never seen such a scene before and could only think that it was a war between gods.

Because the scene was so horrifying, they couldn't help but worry that the war among the gods would lead to the destruction of the world.

So countless humans knelt on the ground in fear and trepidation, praying that the war between the gods would end soon.

Kiyoshi Toosaka, who was at the center of the war, was so bored that he wanted to yawn. Although the various strange phenomena in the sky and the earth seemed to be magnificent, the battle between him and the gods was one-sided.

No matter how the gods struggle, as long as the fire giant swings the magic sword in his hand, a large number of gods will fall.

He had thought that there might be some beings in Norse mythology that were as powerful as the dragon he had killed before, but the fact was that even the God King Odin was somewhat inferior to that dragon.

Although Jörmungandr was bigger than the dragon, he didn't think Jörmungandr would win if they really fought.

Its overly large body would become a burden in battle, and its own defense capabilities were not very high, making it a completely sitting duck that could not avoid attacks.

Less than half an hour later, this seemingly evenly matched and back-and-forth battle came to an end.

As a result, none of the gods who were lured by filth survived. Most of them were burned to ashes by the flames and scattered into the sea on the spot, practicing a sea burial.

Only a small number of them left behind mutilated bodies, which are now floating on the sea.

Because the battle was so grand, all the large marine creatures in the surrounding waters were scared away, so their bodies were preserved.

When the fire giant disappeared, the strange phenomenon in the sky gradually faded away, and soon everything returned to calm.

The blood-red sunset gradually sank into the sea, and the night sky thereafter became the same as usual, with nothing unusual.

The battle among the gods finally ended. The humans who had been kneeling on the ground raised their bodies, thinking that their prayers had taken effect, and danced excitedly on the spot.

After the battle, the Winter Saint returned to Iceland and found that the surface of the island was completely covered in flames. She looked at Toosaka Kiyoshi in confusion.

Toosaka Kiyoshi, who was counting the artifacts he had obtained this time, looked up and explained, "Too many people died here. It is no longer suitable for living things to survive. I will use fire to purify it."

The Winter Saint nodded slightly. She indeed felt the power of purifying evil from the flames on the ground, just like the purification ritual of the Holy Church.

After the explanation, Kiyoshi Toosaka continued to count the artifacts he had seized, such as Odin's Kungunir, Thor's hammer, the mistletoe sword Mistin, the holy sword Gorum, etc.

This made him even richer as he already had ample weapons.

But now, with the way he fights, weapons no longer play a decisive role.

At this moment, the voice of world consciousness suddenly sounded in Toosaka Kiyoshi's ears.

Tonosaka Kiyoshi was stunned: "You want me to go to Asgard? But I don't know where it is."

"You can show me the way? Okay, I'll go there then."

"But why do you insist on me going there?"

"You'll know when you get there? Okay, okay."

After Tousaka Kiyoshi finished communicating with the world consciousness, he patted the Winter Saint on the shoulder and said, "Let's go. We're going to Asgard."

"Asgard, the realm of the gods?"

"Correct."

"But the fire here..."

"There is no other life on this island right now, and there is seawater all around, so it won't spread to other places. We just have to wait for it to die out on its own."

"Ok."

The persuaded Winter Saint flew north with Kiyoshi Toosaka, landed on Greenland, crossed the Arctic Circle, and arrived at the northernmost coastline of Greenland.

On the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean, a colorful bridge of light extends from the sea into the void. This is the entrance to Asgard.

Chapter 193 Skadi in the Lolita Period

Kiyoshi Toosaka stepped onto the Rainbow Bridge and reached the end where it disappeared into the void. He could feel that there was an entrance to a different space right here.

And one can also feel that someone has deliberately reinforced the entrances and exits here. Without the correct method, it is difficult to enter. I think it must be the lock on the gate put by the gods.

As for the key, it should be among the spoils he seized, but there were too many things and he was too lazy to look for them, so he simply destroyed the nearby space and broke into the house violently.

After entering Asgard, Kiyoshi Toosaka and the Winter Saint discovered that this place was not as magnificent as they had imagined.

Perhaps for the houses inhabited by people in Northern Europe, they can be called luxurious, but they are at most heavy, and there is a huge gap compared with the "heaven" and "god's world" in later film and television works.

After careful observation, Kiyoshi Tousaka and the Winter Saint discovered that the buildings here more or less showed traces of human involvement in this era, and they understood everything.

Even their own divine domain was created by enslaving humans. It would be more appropriate to say that these Norse gods are Norse slave owners.

Walking on the deserted road of Asgard, Kiyoshi Tousaka chatted with the world consciousness in his heart.

"Are all the Nordic gods dead? Why can't I see a single person here? After all, it's unlikely that the gods' children would be contaminated by filth, right?"

The world consciousness explained: "The filth transmitted through reproduction has evolved the ability to hinder the reproductive function of organisms in the process, so many gods that were planned to be born do not exist now. There may be a few underage sons of gods in Asgard, but the gods have not returned here for many years, and those children should have starved to death."

Tousaka Kiyoshi was shocked: "Then the Norse gods are quite miserable. Even if I didn't come, they would have no descendants. But even if they are dead, there should be corpses, right?"

Afterwards, Kiyoshi Toosaka searched several houses specifically, but did not find even a single body.

Then he thought of the fact that humans would eat each other when extremely hungry, and gave up searching.

There are beings in this era who have inherited the power of heaven and earth. Although they claim to be gods, they are just humans who have mastered great powers. They can die of old age or long-term hunger, and are no different from humans.

On the contrary, gods are born because of human belief and will never die as long as the belief does not disappear.

But immortality also has a price. Gods born from faith will be bound by faith. From the moment they are born, they exist to respond to human prayers. They have no thoughts or will of their own, just like machines.

Gods will grow old and die, humans will progress, faith will fade, and such an era naturally cannot be maintained for long.

Tousaka Kiyoshi shook his head, stopped thinking about those unnecessary things, and asked the world consciousness: "Where should I go next?"

He didn't even know what he was doing here.

"Go to the hall in the center. There is a secret room unknown to the gods of Asgard."

On the way to the main hall, the world consciousness explained to Kiyoshi Toosaka the origin of this space.

Asgard is not a divine realm opened up by the gods, but a buffer zone created by the world consciousness in order to create its own human body.

The human body itself has its own consciousness, and the world consciousness creates the human body only to experience life through the perspective of the human body in order to achieve the purpose of fine-tuning the world's macro-development direction.

Although Kiyoshi Toosaka can help it summarize and analyze and give suggestions, it still prefers to base its suggestions on what it sees and hears.

Furthermore, it knew that Toosaka Kiyoshi came from another world and could not stay in this world forever. Sooner or later, it would have to rely on itself.

When a human body is born, it will cause violent fluctuations in the surrounding space, probably like the spacequake in Date A Live.

That is why the world consciousness created this alien space. Later, it was discovered by the Norse gods, and the spatial coordinates of the entrance were fixed, so it was named "Asgard".

To some extent, this is also the fate of this world. It is for this part of fate that the world consciousness deliberately placed the entrance to Asgard close to Northern Europe.

At this point, Kiyoshi Toosaka understood what he had to do, which was probably to bring the human form of the world consciousness out of Asgard.

Tousaka Kiyoshi asked curiously: "What does your human body look like?"

"She'll be someone you're very familiar with, but her personality and other aspects will be very different from what you remember. I hope you can get along well with her."

After the World Consciousness said this, Toosaka Kiyoshi became even more curious. However, no matter how much he asked, the World Consciousness chose to remain silent.

In the ineffective communication with the world consciousness, Kiyoshi Toosaka and the Winter Saint came to the main hall in the center of Asgard.

The sound of Kiyoshi Toosaka's footsteps echoed in the empty hall. The surrounding walls were engraved with the deeds of the gods in the past, as if the glory of the gods still protected Asgard.

Following the guidance of the world consciousness, Kiyoshi Toosaka came to a wall. Behind this wall was a secret room hidden by the world consciousness, which even the God King Odin did not know about.

In order to prevent others from opening the wall by accident, the world consciousness did not design a mechanism to open the wall, so Kiyoshi Toosaka planned to break it by brute force.

Just as he was about to punch, a crisp voice suddenly rang out from the side.

"Who are you?"

The sound is as clear as a mountain spring and as pure as an elf in the ice and snow.

Toosaka Kiyoshi turned around and saw a girl who was about 1.40 meters tall and about twelve or thirteen years old.

The girl had long purple hair and wore a pure white dress. She held a 40-centimeter-long staff in her hand. Her wine-red eyes were looking vigilantly at the outsider who appeared in Asgard after many years.

Kiyoshi Toosaka was a little annoyed because he hadn't met any living people in Asgard, which made him relax a lot and he didn't even notice anyone approaching.

In his mind, he asked the world consciousness: "Didn't they say that all the children here have starved to death?"