Anime: Blue-Eyes Baby Dragon, picked up by the Knight King

"But the human race has never needed a savior."

"Therefore, the one who appeared before us was not the savior at all."

"It's the devil, it's the beast."

"It's a monster called [Savior]."

"The essence of human evil is human love, and the human love she holds is precisely the obsession of [saving humanity and saving human history at all costs]."

"Fujimaru Ritsuka—she has finally reached this level."

Chapter 302: Cancer of Humanity

Merlin's staff cracked softly, a hairline crack spreading along its length. A rainbow of magical light seeped from the crack, like trapped starlight finally finding its way out. His fingers trembled slightly as he gripped the staff, his knuckles turning white from the strain.

Fujimaru… Ritsuka? His voice was low, with a rare hint of hesitation.

The girl standing in the center of the crowd slowly raised her head.

Her orange hair was no longer as fluffy and soft as before. Instead, it seemed lifted by some invisible force, floating gently in the air. A pale golden halo flowed through the ends of her hair, like melting stars. Her pupils had dissolved, replaced by two swirling pale golden vortices. With every blink, fine stardust fell from the corners of her eyes, condensing into tiny crystals on the ground.

"Senior! Your spiritual base..." Mashu's voice abruptly stopped. Her fingers unconsciously loosened, and the heavy shield clattered to the ground. Her violet pupils contracted sharply, reflecting a horrifying sight—countless translucent threads oozing from Fujimaru Ritsuka's pores, wriggling like some living thing, only to disappear into thin air.

Those threads are not physical entities, but connections from some higher dimension, as if there are Ritsuka Fujimaru from tens of millions of parallel worlds transmitting some kind of power through them.

Mashu's heart was beating violently and her throat was tight: Senior...what are you absorbing?

Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't answer.

The ground began to crystallize.

What the hell is this?! Mordred kicked the gravel at his feet, and the gravel turned into crystal clear crystal in mid-air, reflecting an eerie light.

With Fujimaru Ritsuka at its center, the asphalt road shimmered with the iridescence of mother-of-pearl, as if reshaped by some force beyond the laws of physics. The wreckage of cars on the roadside cracked and creaked, and sharp clusters of quartz grew wildly from the cracks in the steel, like some alien plant greedily absorbing nutrients.

This is not the dragon clan's spiritual realm, nor is it a magician's barrier.

Rather, it is a more primitive and fundamental rewriting of the rules - just like during the Cambrian explosion of life, the first cell suddenly decided that the whole world should become like it.

Gen Chisei pulled out the Spider-Sword expressionlessly and stabbed his own thigh without hesitation.

Blood gushed out, the excruciating pain confirming it wasn't an illusion. Even more terrifying, the crystals were devouring all the sounds. The crows' cries, Mordred's curses, even the crackling of the flames were rapidly fading, as if the entire world had been silenced by some invisible force.

In absolute silence, Fujimaru Ritsuka slowly spoke.

Her voice was no longer the clear, young girl's. Instead, it was a triple-layered voice, as if she were speaking from countless parallel worlds simultaneously:

Humanity...must be saved.

Even if... it was from their own hands...

Gawain's holy sword suddenly unsheathed itself, the blade vibrating wildly and emitting a sharp humming sound. It pointed uncontrollably towards the sky, as if surrendering to some higher being.

Everyone looked up—

The clouds twisted, forming a vast Fibonacci spiral, like some cosmic symbol of life. From the center of the vortex descended an amber beam of light, within which floated bronze gears, steam pistons, integrated circuit boards... It was the embodiment of all the technologies of human civilization, yet as cold and silent as a tombstone.

Merlin's staff cracked again, and he looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka with a wry smile.

The girl took a step forward.

click-

The moment her canvas shoes touched the ground, all metal products within a radius of 100 meters instantly melted into liquid. Silvery-white metal droplets floated in the air, and then strangely reorganized themselves and condensed into the words of the "Declaration of Human Rights", each letter of which shone with a cold metallic luster.

This is not destruction.

But what is more terrifying than destruction is evolution.

Stop her! The Knights of the Round Table finally reacted.

Gawain's Rotating Sword of Victory, Tristan's bowstring, and Gareth's Holy Lance all shone brightly at the same time—

Then, everyone froze in mid-air.

Their Noble Phantasms are mutating.

Bright red poppies bloomed on Gawain's sword, with dewdrops on the petals; emerald green vines grew from the bowstring of the elf Tristan, and the vines wrapped around his arms; Gareth's holy spear was twisted and deformed, and a pure white lily bloomed on the tip of the spear.

Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't even look at them, but just said softly:

Weapons…should not be directed against fellow citizens.

Mashu's breathing almost stopped.

She looked at the senior in front of her who was both familiar and unfamiliar, and her heart seemed to be tightly gripped by an invisible hand.

No... that's not right... she murmured. This isn't salvation... this is...

The next second, she rushed towards the crystallized area.

"Mashu! Don't go over there!" Merlin yelled, but it was already too late.

Mashu's tears evaporated into blue phosphorous flames as soon as they left her eyes, but she still held Fujimaru Ritsuka's waist tightly. The armor on her arms turned red and softened due to the high temperature, and her skin felt a burning pain.

Wake up! Her voice was almost hoarse. You said... saving is not taking away the right to choose!

Miraculously, Fujimaru Ritsuka paused.

She stared down at Mashu, a familiar tenderness flashing in her golden swirling pupils.

At this moment, the crystallization process was briefly delayed.

Merlin seized the opportunity and immediately chanted the most ancient rune. Rainbow light gushed out from the cracks in the staff.

It's no use. Fujimaru Ritsuka's voice suddenly became clear again, as if he had briefly regained his humanity.

She reached out and stroked the ends of Mash's burnt hair, her movements as gentle as if she were touching fragile foam.

But I allow you to...try.

This sentence became the final weight that broke the balance.

boom--!

The ground beneath Fujimaru Ritsuka's feet suddenly collapsed, forming a pitch-black hole. Countless bronze chains shot out from the void, trying to 547 wrap around her body - this was the world's own rejection reaction, just like white blood cells frantically besieging invading cancer cells.

However, when the chains came within three meters of her, they all rusted and disintegrated at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually turning into ashes and dispersing.

When the last bit of chain ash fell, Fujimaru Ritsuka had already floated into the air.

Her jeans and hoodie were disintegrating, the fabric fibers dissolving into points of light before reconstituting into a sacred robe woven from pure light. Twelve halos, inscribed with the totems of various civilizations, unfolded behind her. On the outermost halo, inscriptions from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, and the Records of the Grand Historian emerged clearly. The flowing words seemed to carry the weight of the entire history of mankind.

Humanity...will be saved, she declared, her voice filled with divine mercy and cruelty.

In the name of evolution.

The final scene freezes on Mashu's hand stretched out in vain.

Fujimaru Ritsuka transformed into a streak of rainbow light, piercing through the swirling clouds, leaving behind DNA-shaped cloud trails wherever he passed. These trails quickly expanded, eventually forming a global membrane, enveloping the devastated planet like a mother's hand.

Merlin's staff finally broke completely.

He looked at the sky where snow had begun to fall—those snowflakes were hexagonal memory crystals, each one freezing a moment of salvation—and whispered a closing sentence that no one could hear:

BeastVII...the cancer of human nature.

Chapter 303 The True Savior

High in the sky, high above the planet.

The giant dragon born from light floated in this vast universe, looking at the behemoth in front of it, which was extremely small in the universe, but at the same time extremely important.

A band of light has appeared on the outside of the planet.

This is a huge band of light that looks like a planetary ring - but as we all know, the Earth does not have a planetary ring.

Therefore, the essence of this light band is actually a "recording tape of human nature."

Its composition is very complex, including familiar old friends such as "all the evil in the world", as well as concepts that are unique to humans such as "miracle", "hero", and "courage".

"This is human nature, an absolute defense circle."

Shirataki praised the scene before him, saying that it was definitely one of the most beautiful scenery he had ever seen.

——At the same time, this is also that girl. No, it should be said that this is the true "body" of Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was once a girl but has now transformed into a "beast".

"She's no longer human."

"Even now, she is not even alive."

Chosen by the [Tree of Evolution], she was no longer truly human. Instead, she was a symbol of humanity—or rather, a specimen of the very concept of "humanity," nailed to the branch known as the [Human Domain].

Just like the Black Emperor was once nailed to the branch called [Dragon Domain].

At the same time, because she has become a concept, all attacks from this world will no longer be effective against her—all the glory of this world will be imposed on her along with the eternal sin.

Now "she" is truly "invincible" and "the strongest".

……

on the ground.

Mashu knelt in the center of the crystallized ruins. Her shield had become translucent crystal, sealed within it countless struggling humanoid shadows. Those were the saved humans—their bodies were being reassembled within the bands of light, their consciousnesses forever frozen in the moment of redemption.

Senior... why

A teardrop fell onto the crystal shield and was instantly assimilated into a pale blue prism. Mash suddenly began to cough violently, and the blood she coughed up condensed into rubies in the air, tinkling and rolling all over the ground.

Merlin propped himself up with his broken staff. His once flowing white hair was becoming withered at a visible rate. He smiled wryly and looked up at the sky.

Because of despair,'

"Mashu. When a person has seen the world end too many times, even hope becomes a curse.

As if in response to his words, the band of light suddenly contracted dramatically. The remains of Tokyo Tower were uprooted, its steel skeleton disintegrating into elementary particles in mid-air before reorganizing into a massive bronze clock. The numbers on the dial were inscribed in the scripts of various civilizations, while the hands were composed of countless tiny crosses.

thump—

Bells rang out across the globe. The Statue of Liberty's crown of flame suddenly went out, revealing patterns reminiscent of the Mayan calendar. The stained glass windows of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris began to flow, reassembling the pattern of a DNA spiral. A section of the Great Wall of China's stone walls peeled away, revealing steam engine parts embedded within.

This is a tampering beyond the laws of physics and a sign that human history is being forcibly brought to a halt.

The band of light suddenly erupted with a supernova-like intensity. When the glow faded, Fujimaru Ritsuka's figure quietly hovered in low Earth orbit. Her hair, already ankle-length, flowed through with bronze-colored streams of data. Twelve rings of light formed a genetic chain behind her, each node gleaming with the flames of a different civilization.

The most frightening thing about her were her eyes.

Those eyes, once as warm as the sun, now saw the pitch-black background of the universe in the left eye and pure white nothingness in the right. When both eyes gazed at an object simultaneously, that object would violently oscillate between existence and non-existence.

The waters of Tokyo Bay suddenly boiled, and countless marine creatures leaped from the water. Their scales and shells were inscribed with cuneiform characters. These characters glowed, as if some ancient contract had been activated.

It has begun. Merlin's staff is completely shattered, and human history is being rewritten.

Fujimaru Ritsuka raised her right hand, and a singularity condensed at her fingertips, which contained the stone tablet of "The Epic of Gilgamesh", the bamboo slips of "Records of the Grand Historian", the parchment of "The Declaration of Independence"... All the original carriers of human history were concentrated here.

All concentrated at her fingertips.

【Anti-humanity】.

The power of the beast - note that the "anti" here does not mean opposition, but means "positive and negative".

She is reshaping the human logic of this planet.

Suddenly, a dragon roar was heard in the sky, shaking the entire planet.

Black Emperor Nighold - as the overlord of the previous era, the first and last Dragon King, his existence itself is the greatest irony of human nature.

So, he must disappear.

It can only disappear.

"..."

The emperor's roar resounded through the heavens, as if he were about to launch a final counterattack. But this was no longer his planet, no longer his era. All the things he had once been so proud of were now worthless on the planet's main surface.

His will vanished with the wind.

——But he did not die.

Or, to be more precise.