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Tu Shan Hong Hong
【Artoria Pendragon (Alt)】
【???and】.
195 Unexpected Encounters with "Colleagues"
That cold, emotionless system notification, filled with an apocalyptic atmosphere, was like a Damocles' sword swung down from a higher dimension, instantly severing the grim atmosphere in the apartment that was about to begin "sweeping away the trash."
Gu Chuan, who was about to set off for the "Future Technology Building," suddenly stopped.
His golden eyes, which had long been completely dominated by absolute indifference, were now once again tinged with a rare and intense sense of unease and agitation, a feeling known as "humanity."
It's like a king who's about to stomp on a filthy rat scurrying around in his kitchen, when suddenly he receives a damned emergency military report from the border: "A million enemy troops are pressing in!"
“—Tsk.”
He made a clicking sound, full of displeasure and meaninglessness, "Three, four, three."
However, Rin Tohsaka's reaction was even more intense than his!
When she heard the words "Type-Moon world" and "Lossbelt Britain," two words that were all too familiar to her, words filled with ominous and taboo connotations—
Her pretty face, which was always full of confidence and pride, turned deathly pale in an instant!
"--A Lostbelt?! And it's a Star Destroyer?!"
She let out a gasp filled with shock and disbelief! Her jewel-like red eyes contracted violently at that moment, filled with an unprecedented emotion called "fear"!
"Rin? What's wrong?" Nami was the first to notice that something was wrong with her. "Is that place called the Lostbelt dangerous?"
"It's more than just dangerous!"
Rin Tohsaka's voice trembled slightly, almost uncontrollably!
She used the fastest and simplest language to explain to all the laymen present, who knew nothing about this, the despairing meaning that this word represented.
"—The so-called Lostbelts are the erroneous F world lines that were cut off and discarded in the normal history of mankind! They are dead ends that should not exist, full of distortion and contradiction, and destined to lead to destruction!"
"And a planet-destroying crisis, as the name suggests, is a true apocalyptic catastrophe possessing the power to completely destroy the planet we stand on."
! ”
Hearing her explanation, which was filled with despair, everyone present gasped.
The atmosphere in the apartment instantly became incredibly heavy.
"—Ten minutes?"
Gu Chuan, however, quickly recovered from that brief moment of displeasure and regained the absolute calm and rationality befitting a "king".
He glanced at the red coordinate point on the holographic map, which was still flashing and very close at hand.
Then, decisively, a new instruction was issued.
"—Aili."
"Yes, Master."
"From this moment forward, utilize all your computing power to conduct 24/7, top-level surveillance of the Future Technology Building. If the target shows any unusual activity, report to me immediately."
"—Najshitan."
"Yes, Master."
"You and everyone in NghtRad, enter the highest level of combat readiness. Be ready at any time to cooperate with Ellie's orders and carry out the most direct physical elimination of the target."
“—Understood.” Najenda replied crisply and decisively.
Faced with an imminent and even greater crisis, the "thief" hiding in the shadows has been downgraded from "trash that must be removed immediately" to a "minor problem" that can be temporarily set aside.
Just as Gu Chuan was methodically arranging the follow-up plans—
In the center of the apartment's living room, that empty space suddenly began to distort violently!
A vast, cold, ominous, and deathly dark magical power, like a flood bursting its banks, surged forth wildly!
next second.
Accompanied by a crisp "click" sound of metal rubbing against the ground.
A petite, yet exuding an absolute, regal majesty that was impossible to look directly at, dark figure appeared silently before everyone.
She wore a heavy, jet-black full-body armor in a Gothic style, completely covered in ominous black dragon scales.
In her hand, she tightly gripped the same British holy sword, once a symbol of "ideals" and "victory," which had also been thoroughly corrupted by dark magic.
Her face, so identical to Artoria's—perfect, doll-like in its exquisite detail—lacking any human emotion.
Only one thing remained, cold and indifferent, as if it had already seen through the emptiness of the world.
Her golden, vertical pupils, like those forged from the purest gold and belonging to a "dragon," slowly swept over every girl present who was stunned by her sudden appearance.
Finally, her gaze fell upon the only black-haired man who, like her, exuded an aura of "kinghood."
"—Sant, Sab."
She introduced herself in a cold, emotionless, mechanical voice.
"As the system commands, I am here to report for duty."
"—Artoria Pendragon (Alt)."
Rin Tohsaka looked at the man before her, a man she knew all too well, a cold-blooded "tyrant" who had been thoroughly corrupted by the black mud during the Fifth Holy Grail War. Her red eyes were filled with unbelievable and complex emotions.
Gu Chuan looked at the system panel, where the "Black Sab" avatar was already lit up, and the last one, still gray and full of mystery, was the "???".
His golden eyes narrowed slightly.
"--interesting."
"It seems that this doomsday game, 5.2, will be more exciting than ever before."
[Countdown complete.]
[World coordinates locked.]
[——“Walking Together in the Apocalypse”, officially launched!]
The cold, impersonal system notification sounded again.
next second.
A dazzling, blinding white beam of light, brimming with spatial teleportation energy, descended from the sky in an instant, completely enveloping Gu Chuan, Rin Tohsaka, Honghong Tushan, and the uninvited "Black Knight King"!
The light faded.
The living room returned to calm once again.
All that remained were a group of girls, bewildered and receiving new missions, and that solitary red marker, still flickering ominously and maliciously on the holographic map.
196 The Rain Witch and the Prophecy Child
When that white pillar of light, powerful enough to distort space and time, slowly dissipated.
A cold, damp air, filled with the smell of decay and despair, instantly filled everyone's nostrils.
Gu Chuan slowly opened his eyes.
What comes into view is a gloomy, oppressive world completely shrouded in perpetual rain.
The sky was leaden gray.
The endless, cold rain, like the world's ceaseless, sorrowful tears, falls ceaselessly from the thick, dark clouds.
The earth was a muddy, desolate wilderness.
No color of "life" can be seen. Only bare, twisted trees, washed clean by the rain, resembling the skeletons of the dead, and the rotten remains of unknown creatures, scattered everywhere in the mud.
This is the erroneous "F" that has been completely and thoroughly cut off by the normal history of humankind.
Lostbelt Britain.
"...Such...suppressive magic..."
As soon as Rin Tohsaka landed, she instinctively frowned. Her keen senses as a "genius magician" allowed her to clearly perceive that every inch of soil and every corner of the air on this land was permeated with a vast, suffocating, twisted magical power filled with "curse" and "despair."
She even felt that the magic circuits within her body were becoming somewhat sluggish and obstructed under the influence of this enormous and corrosive magic.
"—It is sadness."
Tu Shan Honghong, who was standing to the side, had her usually calm and serene golden vertical pupils now showing a rare hint of solemnity.
Her fluffy, adorable fox ears twitched slightly.
She can "hear".
She could hear this land weeping silently.
She could hear the most desperate cries of those countless weak souls, filled with resentment and pain, that had vanished in the wind and rain.
This world is slowly heading towards death.
Among all the people, the most silent was the uninvited "Black Knight King".
Alt, just standing there quietly.
Her golden, vertical pupils, those of a "dragon," swept indifferently over this land she had once devoted her entire life to protecting, a land that had now become unrecognizable and distorted.
No one knows what she is thinking.
She was like a cold, unshakable, pitch-black statue, radiating an absolute majesty and nothingness that made people afraid to approach.
Gu Chuan then slowly closed his eyes.
He used his supreme perception, belonging to the "ruler," to touch the "rules" of this sad world that was slowly dying.
He sensed it. (Group/Flirting (Part Two) Umbrella Zero Nine Passes Away)
He sensed an absolute and unquestionable "royal power" that enveloped all of Britain, like a net from the heavens.
And that, from the deepest part of the world, that immense, purest malice called "calamity," powerful enough to drag everything into the abyss of destruction.
at this time--
A series of terrified screams from young girls, and wild, malicious roars, suddenly came from behind a small hill not far away, shrouded in a thick curtain of rain!
"—Go and take a look."
Gu Chuan said calmly.
No one objected. They followed Gu Chuan and quickly headed towards the direction from which the sound came.
Soon, they witnessed a scene filled with "despair".
A blonde girl, dressed simply like a country girl in a white dress, who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, was being trapped in a muddy ditch by three extremely terrifying monsters that exuded an ominous aura!
The three monsters had twisted, black bodies that resembled rotting, withered wood. Green, cursed flames burned on their bodies, and they constantly emitted chilling roars filled with pure malice!
That is the unique "calamity" in this Lostbelt, formed from the "curse" and "resentment" of the earth—Moc!
"Don't... don't come here!"
The blonde girl clutched a rather simple, wooden staff tightly in her hand. Her pretty face, covered in mud yet still undeniably beautiful, was filled with fear and stubbornness!
She tried hard to use her still-unskilled, most basic magic to resist.
But that faint, firefly-like light seemed utterly vulnerable in the face of those three ominous "calamities."
It seemed that she was about to be completely torn to shreds by one of the "Calamities," its black claws as sharp as blades—
A sword light, deeper than the night, colder than death, and pitch black, descended without warning, as if by teleportation!
puff--!
No one even saw how she drew her sword.
Those three seemingly powerful and ominous "calamities" were like butter sliced by the sharpest, invisible razor; instantly, they were cleaved in two by the dark sword light filled with destructive energy!
The green will-o'-the-wisp went out.
Its black body turned into countless black ashes, dissipating into the cold rain.
Artoria Pendragon (Alt) slowly withdrew the Excalbur Morgan, a sword that had long been utterly corrupted by dark magic.