Why are all of us who transmigrated at the same time demons?

Faced with the summoned Servants with Chinese backgrounds, Loran's aura suddenly became fierce and savage. The indomitable fighting spirit of the War Lord Chi You, who conquered all directions, soared to the sky. The sense of suppression from the depths of his bloodline caused the Servants' strength to drop sharply.

As for the heroic spirits from the Far East, Takemikazuchi's thunderous might and Futsu-no-Mitama Sword completely suppressed their proud martial arts.

On the other side of the battlefield, the scorching sun and dazzling lightning were flashing, and the Indian heroes were engaged in fierce battle with the northern army's gods and demons. Karna's golden armor gleamed amidst the cannon fire, and Arjuna's divine bow continuously shot out streaks of light.

Loran laughed loudly, his figure reshaping in the divine light. Clad in white robes and golden armor, wielding a divine bow, he was none other than the heroic figure of Rama, the Last King!

Loran's voice carried the unique compassion and majesty of Rama: "Let me, in this form, send you off to your next life!"

"Sun Wheel, submit to death (Vasavi Shakti)!" Karna, without hesitation, aimed the lightning-infused, one-hit-kill spear bestowed upon him by Indra at Loran and hurled it with all his might! This was a technique powerful enough to slay gods!

Faced with this devastating attack that tore through space and flashed with the lightning of certain death, Loran (the Last King) neither dodged nor evaded. He condensed energy in his hand into a light blade that resembled a sword but was not a sword, and was wrapped in the dual contradiction of "salvation" and "end". He then fiercely slashed down at the spear of lightning!

"The sword that saves the world is also the blade that destroys it!"

The light blade and the lightning spear collided without a spectacular explosion, only a mutual erosion and annihilation of the rules! The concept of "deadly strike" contained in the lightning spear was forcibly neutralized and disintegrated by the contradictory concept of "saving the world/destroying the world"!

Karna's strongest Noble Phantasm failed to work due to its attribute being completely countered! He himself was also injured in his Spirit Origin due to the destruction of his Noble Phantasm, and his brilliance dimmed.

"Karna!" Arjuna, enraged at the sight, charged forward in his chariot, firing his Gandhib Bow repeatedly. Arrows imbued with the power of the god of destruction rained down on Loran like a meteor shower.

"Son of Indra, your confusion and sins are meaningless before the absolute 'mission'." Loran (the image of the Last King) wielded his light blade, and where the sword flashed, Arjuna's arrows seemed to encounter an invisible barrier, deflecting and shattering.

The blade of light even slashed directly at Arjuna's soul, interrogating the contradictions and shadows within him, causing the Pandavas hero to freeze instantly and his mind to tremble violently.

Immediately afterwards, Loran's gaze swept over the other Indian-type Heroic Spirits who were trying to surround and attack, such as the Five Sons of Bendu, including Tenacity and Brutus.

"The Divine Blade of Salvation! Unleash it!"

In the blink of an eye, Loran had arrived in front of the Persian camp.

"Warriors of Zoroastrianism, witness the might of your god of war!"

In the divine light, Loran transformed into the ten-armed Veleslana, his ten avatars appearing simultaneously. The Persian heroes stared in disbelief as their war god descended in an even more perfect form.

Finally, Loran confronted the Egyptian heroes.

"People of the Nine Pillars, look to your Lord God!"

The divine form of Horus, with its falcon's head and human body, appeared, and the oppressive aura of Horus terrified all the Egyptian heroes. The power of the sky god completely suppressed the divinity of the Egyptian heroes. Although the pharaoh claimed to be the incarnation of Horus, the real Horus had now appeared before them.

The entire battlefield has become Loran's personal training ground!

He is like a god with a thousand faces, freely switching between Norse thunder, Celtic glory, Babylonian creation, Greek sun and moon, Eastern war god, Far Eastern thunder god, Vishnu incarnation, Persian war god, and Egyptian god-king. Each form precisely restrains the corresponding Heroic Spirit system, demonstrating an absolute understanding and mastery of the essence of divinity.

The five Northern Army Schools, led by God and Demon, perfectly carried out their extermination mission, crushing and annihilating the heroic spirits who were trying to regroup or flee in disarray.

The brilliance of the Noble Phantasms shone brightly, only to be extinguished by the even greater divine power. The roars and cries of the Heroic Spirits intertwined, and the dissipating radiance of their spiritual particles surged ever more densely towards the horizon like a reversed galaxy.

Gilgamesh's Ea, Ozymandias's Radiant Grand Composite Temple, Artoria's Excalibur, Karna's Sun Wheel of Obedience to Death... all the top-tier Noble Phantasms that attempted to resist ultimately failed to change the course of the battle under the combined attack of Loran's endless and perfectly restrained divine transformations and the Northern Army's gods and demons.

Finally, the last Heroic Spirit—perhaps Hercules who fought to the very end, or perhaps Arjuna who attempted a final gamble with the Beast Lord's artifact—completely shattered its spirit origin before the divinity that Loran had evolved, a divinity beyond its comprehension. It transformed into the most dazzling pillar of spiritual light, soaring into the sky!

The battlefield suddenly fell into dead silence.

Only countless magnificent and tragic streams of spiritual particles, like rivers flowing into the sea, formed an unprecedented and immense torrent of energy and information, surging majestically towards the heavens and returning to the Throne of Heroes beyond that world!

At this very moment when all spirits have returned to their seats and the flow of information is at its most surging!

Loran's eyes flashed with a sharp light; this was the moment he had been waiting for!

Taking advantage of the brief passage created by the "return of countless heroic spirits"—comparable to the opening of a hole in the magical power accumulated over hundreds of years in a dozen Holy Grail Wars—and the cover of a massive flow of information, he highly condensed his true spirit into an invisible point and went upstream against the current!

A leap! A brief moment of transcendence!

On a strange plane beyond the world, he "saw" the ever-flowing river of the "Type-Moon" world and felt the infinite attraction emanating from the "Root" that contains the source of all laws.

His inner world resonated with his roots at the deepest level.

The stagnation and disharmony within the inner world were swiftly purified and integrated under this supreme perspective. Inner and outer energies converged, heaven and humanity interacted, and a return to simplicity and authenticity was achieved!

The barriers that had long hindered him were suddenly breached in this direct dialogue with the roots of the world!

The exterior scenery is now completely stable!

However, this act of "smuggling" and forcibly fitting into the source immediately provoked the world's most intense rejection! An indescribable force, like the weight of the entire world, pressed down, not as an attack, but as a pure "rejection"!

Loran's true spirit was mercilessly "pushed" away by this repulsive force, like a pebble bounced off the surface of water.

The next moment, his consciousness returned to the real world, and he regained control of his body on the Luoyang city wall.

There was no vomiting of blood, no serious injury; only a slight fluctuation in his aura upon returning to normalcy, which then became more profound and restrained, his connection with the entire world becoming incredibly close and clear.

He slowly opened his eyes, his gaze calmly sweeping over the empty battlefield outside the city, where only traces of battle and the lingering spiritual light remained.

All was silent; all the spirits of the fallen heroes had returned to their seats.

Loran felt the perfect harmony within his body, which had a trace of profound connection to the origin, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

“Warm-up is over.” He murmured to himself, his voice seemingly resonating with the heavens and earth. “Next step: to fully realize the Dharma body of my own path.”

Chapter 280 Type-Moon: Target Dharma Body, Projecting into Myriad Worlds

For Loran, the breakthrough in the external realm was essentially just the completion of the initial integration of his primordial spirit, physical body, and inner world power, forming the basic step of creating a unique "Dharma Form."

From then on, the path leading up to the "Dharmakaya" realm was a smooth road for him, the founder of this path, with no insurmountable obstacles.

For him, the creator of this method, there is no distinction between the first and second heavenly ladders; it is simply a natural process that requires time and resources to refine and steadily advance.

However, a smooth road does not mean a worry-free future.

The most terrifying aspect of the new path pioneered by Loran is that he "artificially created" a "Great Source" within his own body that is constantly growing and has unlimited potential!

This inner source of the universe is not static, but under his continuous cultivation and enlightenment, it is gradually evolving and sublimating towards a goal that would drive all those in the know in this world crazy - that is the ultimate mystery of the Type-Moon universe, the beginning and end of all things, the source of all laws and phenomena, which can be called the "root" of the universe's source code!

Although it is currently only a tiny prototype, containing only a trace of insignificant "root" qualities, this "possibility" itself represents a "certain" future in the Type-Moon universe, which has almost infinite parallel worlds and is like a chaotic ball of yarn, and is enough to shake the foundation of the world!

It's like forcibly dropping an anchor that will inevitably point to a certain destination into an ocean of randomness and probability.

The ultimate goal of countless magicians in this world, who exhaust their life's work and even go so far as to unleash bloodshed (such as the Holy Grail War), is to reach the "root," grasp the fundamental cause and effect and laws of the world, and thereby possess the power to create and destroy the world.

The two major inhibitory forces of the world—the "collective of primate unconsciousness" Alaya consciousness and the "planetary will" Gaia—are like the immune system of the universe, constantly and tirelessly preventing any individual from touching the root.

Whether it's causing them to fail at the last minute or directly dispatching "Guardians" or natural avatars to physically eliminate them, these are all means by which the Counter Force maintains "normality".

Loran's actions of using the massive information flow of the returning Heroic Spirits as cover to allow his True Spirit to leap out and briefly contact the Root, thereby laying the foundation for a perfect inner vision, were tantamount to slapping the two major suppressive forces in the face!

Moreover, his ambitions far surpass those of ordinary magicians.

The ultimate goal of the "Dharmakaya" path is to achieve "the other shore," reaching a supreme state where one's existence rivals or even surpasses the multiverse.

At that time, he will no longer be the will of a mere planet, but will be elevated to the will of the entire Type-Moon universe!

Man-made roots create their own other shore!

Such delusions are a thousand times more arrogant than any attempt to reach the root of all things throughout history, and their danger is incomparable!

The Restraint Force may not be able to fully glimpse Loran's ultimate ambition that transcends the world's understanding, but his previous actions of frantically "fleecing" the Throne of Heroes, forcibly contacting the Root, and causing the worldline to deviate significantly from "pan-human history" have already attracted their highest level of attention and hostility, like a lighthouse in the dark.

It is foreseeable that the counterattacks from the Counterforce and the Throne of Heroes will follow like a raging storm.

"Tsk, isn't this another kind of 'Creation Tribulation'?" Loran sat cross-legged deep in the Southern Palace, a cold smile appearing on his lips.

Meanwhile, news of the earth-shattering, fierce battle in the Sanchuan Valley outside Luoyang City, which resembled a reenactment of an ancient myth, was spreading throughout the world at an astonishing speed.

Although the feudal lords may not have been familiar with concepts such as "heroic spirits" and "treasures," the earth-shattering, bizarre scenes, as well as the overwhelming power displayed by the several steel behemoths under the emperor's command that resembled gods and demons, were enough to terrify all who heard of them.

The emperor's overwhelming "martial virtue" once again deeply shocked every feudal lord with ulterior motives in the most direct and violent way.

Above the imperial city of Luoyang, an invisible pressure seemed to shroud the four corners of the earth, awaiting the arrival of all the feudal lords to submit and pay homage.

But Loran had no intention of simply waiting passively or meticulously refining the Dharma image. A new, more efficient inspiration had already taken shape in his mind.

That is to imitate the method of the "divine sword from beyond the heavens" in a certain universe, and use the "parallel world interference method (second method)" that he has initially mastered to replace the function of a certain cosmic artifact called the "Haotian Mirror" fragment, actively project it into various worlds, enlighten "others and self", and thus obtain the "legendary" characteristics that should only be available in a higher realm in advance!

His first step was to use the cause and effect carried by the identity of "Liu Xie" that he used to enter this world to find and enlighten the emperors of the Han Dynasty from Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, in different parallel worlds and make them his "other self"!

This move is of paramount importance. Liu Xie's existence is the initial connection he established with this world, his "root" in this life.

If these "Liu Xie" variables scattered across infinite parallel worlds are not brought together and unified, it is hard to guarantee that enemies will not use this identity to their advantage in the future, interfering with and attacking him from a causal perspective.

As for those historical emperors of the Han Dynasty? Since he assumed the identity of Liu Xie, the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, it would be inappropriate to have a bunch of "ancestors" pointing fingers at him out of thin air.

So, taking advantage of the opportunity to enlighten "others," he gathered and integrated all the Han emperor's marks scattered throughout the myriad worlds, regardless of whether they were wise or foolish, from Liu Bang to Liu Hong!

Since we're already here, the fate and destiny of the Han Dynasty should be solely in his hands!

Once the intention was made, from within Loran's true spirit, strands of divine light separated out, following the mysterious connections of bloodline and cause and effect, and through the profound mysteries of the Second Law, crossed the barriers of the world and were projected into countless parallel universes.

Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang's decisiveness in slaying the white snake, Emperor Wen Liu Heng's forbearance, Emperor Jing Liu Qi's stability, Emperor Wu Liu Che's expansion, Emperor Zhao Liu Fuling's precocious intelligence, Emperor Xuan Liu Bingyi's experience among the common people, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu's rebuilding of the world, Emperor Ming Liu Zhuang's continuation of the past and the future, and even the incompetence of Emperors Huan and Ling... The imprints of the Han emperors in different times and circumstances were found, covered, and integrated by Loran's divine inspiration, and transformed into the "other self" that carries his will.

As this process continues, Loran's origins are strengthening at a visible rate, and his perception of time and space is becoming increasingly profound.

Although he has not yet officially entered the Dharma Body realm, he has already begun to possess some of the characteristics of a "legendary" great power, and his existence has begun to be distributed in multiple related world lines simultaneously.

With his strength soaring once again, Loran was no longer content to remain in a corner of the world.

His Northern Army's Five Schools of Divine Demons and the Tiger Army, newly trained and equipped with the new generation of "Hercules Divine Demon" individual armor, began to set off in all directions from Luoyang as the center.

Goal—To unify this world!

Since you have already resolved to attain the Dharmakaya and reach the other shore, wouldn't it be too beneath you if you couldn't even fully control the planet beneath your feet?

In this era, there should only be one voice: the imperial edict from Luoyang!

Chapter 281 Type-Moon: Speedrunning the Holy Grail War (Part 1)

Consciousness synchronized, perception extended.

In Fuyuki, a small seaside town in the far east of Japan, a man in a dark red suit and with a fine mustache sits in the study of a classic and luxurious Western-style mansion.

He, Tokiomi Tohsaka, was staring in astonishment at his own reflection in the huge floor-to-ceiling window.

"Hmm? It's actually this body..." Deep within her consciousness, Loran's true self was slightly surprised.

Unlike some universes where "other selves" exist naturally, in this Type-Moon universe, Loran is a pure outsider, without an innate "other self" scattered throughout parallel worlds. Previously, he merely enlightened "other selves" under the identity of "Liu Xie," but ultimately he was not the true "me."

Therefore, he adopted a more proactive approach—using the Second Law he had just mastered and a certain transcendental characteristic of the Throne of Heroes, he scattered fragments of his true spirit into various parallel worlds, creating a new "other self" that was born from causes and conditions and existed independently.

The "other self" before him, formed from his true spirit, is none other than Tokiomi Tohsaka, the current head of the Tohsaka family, who is known as the "Cook of This World" in Type-Moon and is the most orthodox of the three founding families of the Holy Grail War, yet also the one who lacks the most crucial "technical power."

"The Fourth Holy Grail War...has it already begun?" Tokiomi Tohsaka—or rather, Tokiomi Loran—gently swirled the wine glass in his hand, the crimson liquid rippling with a translucent luster under the cool moonlight.

He quickly read through the remaining memories of this body and its current situation.

"Tsk, that golden Pikachu, the oldest fat tiger, the King of Heroes Gilgamesh, has already been summoned?" Tohsaka Loran couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

Based on his understanding of that king's personality, expecting him to obediently follow the rules of the Holy Grail War was like hoping a sow could climb up the meticulously pruned pine tree next to him.

That was a completely lawless and self-centered person.

"This body... is extremely weak, the quality of its magic circuits is also lackluster, and the Tohsaka family's magic crest is even more crude." Loran sensed the new body and commented without any politeness.

However, a bold and efficient idea immediately arose in his mind: "But precisely because of this, perhaps we can 'borrow' that willful king to quickly end this pointless ceremony."

Meanwhile, in the streets of Fuyuki City late at night.

Gilgamesh, the oldest hero-king, is dressed in an expensive modern casual outfit, adorned with dazzling gold earrings and a necklace, strolling through a modern city filled with the atmosphere of "hybrids" as if inspecting his lost territory.

His eyes were filled with undisguised disgust and disdain, and he felt a deep sense of nausea at this era that had lost its mystery and was filled with "fakes".

The so-called Holy Grail War? It's nothing more than a boring game to reclaim what he owns.

He answered the call more to "protect" his own treasure (the Holy Grail was unilaterally considered his private property), and to crush those madmen who dared to covet the king's wealth.

His master, Tokiomi Tohsaka, is seen by him as a rigid, boring guy who only adheres to the outdated etiquette of a magician.

On the contrary, the twisted and empty soul of the disciple named Kirei Kotomine gave him a long-lost "pleasure," and he was planning to go and "guide" him to see what kind of despairing flowers could bloom.

Just as he was figuring out how to have some fun, an overbearing and irresistible force suddenly swept over his entire body!

"It's a Command Seal! That bastard Tokiomi Tohsaka dared to use a Command Seal to forcibly summon me!"

Gilgamesh was instantly enraged. As the supreme king, what he could not tolerate most was being ordered around like a servant!

Space distorted and shifted, and the next moment, he found himself in the dark and oppressive underground workshop of the Tohsaka residence.

The flickering candlelight illuminated the figure standing before him, Tokiomi Tohsaka, whose expression was cold and whose eyes held no reverence but rather a sense of... condescending scrutiny.

That look enraged Gilgamesh more than any offensive word!

"Tokiomi Tohsaka!" He practically gritted his teeth as he called out his name, a dangerous glint in his crimson snake eyes, and a powerful magical pressure emanated from him as if it were a tangible force. "You'd better give me an explanation that can quell my rage! Otherwise, I won't hesitate to let you, this lowly insect, experience firsthand what 'the wrath of a king' truly means!"

However, faced with this intimidation that could drive an ordinary person to the brink of madness, Loran merely glanced at him indifferently, as if he were looking at a noisy Chihuahua at his feet.