Was I Set Up? (Continued)

I can't quite remember what happened after that.

However, as he got closer to a certain direction, a particular consciousness became clearer and clearer, to the point that Rovey's consciousness was severely disturbed. So, at a certain point in time, he couldn't help but suddenly faint, and when he opened his eyes again, he was here.

There seems to be a hint of conspiracy in this.

Thinking of this, Rovey looked around. He was in a dense forest, and the air was filled with the fragrance of earth and a peculiar smell of blood.

Upon closer inspection, it is clear that the surrounding land and forest are indeed in a state of chaos. Many thick trees have fallen, seemingly cut in half by some kind of sharp blade, and there are many marks on the ground indicating that they have been torn apart by wild animals or slashed by knives.

It was obvious that a fierce battle had taken place here not long ago.

And it is a battle between humans and wild beasts.

Judging from this situation... the one fighting the beast must be the girl in front of him who awakened him.

So, how long have I been asleep? What went wrong while I was submerged? How could I not even notice something like this? And more importantly...

Artoria, where did they go?

Thinking of this, Rovey's face darkened. They had just reunited, and now they were gone again. Anyone would go crazy if this happened to them.

Even he felt a pang of discomfort, but as uncomfortable as he was, there was still a way to deal with it.

Although Artoria is alive and he can't think of a direct way to find her, Nitocris is different. She is Servant has signed a contract with him. Since his Command Seal and the contract are still in effect, it means that she is alright.

His Command Seal weren't the simple Command Seal from Chaldea that only provided support and enhancement; they were genuinely binding and had transmission capabilities, meaning—

"Issue the command in the name of the Command Seal to bring Nitocris back to my side."

Rovey raised his hand and, without hesitation, used the Command Seal on the back of his hand to issue the order.

--call out!!

A blinding red flash followed, and the crimson Command Seal vanished instantly from the palm of the hand. Special magical power had taken effect; however—

"..."

Looking at the Command Seal mark on the back of his hand, which had disappeared but had not brought the person he wanted to see back to his side, Rovey fell into deep thought, and his expression immediately turned ugly.

However, his actions weren't due to wasting a Command Seal —a trivial matter. Rather, it was because Nitocris hadn't been brought back by the Command Seal, which meant that she was likely in a different world than him, and that she had probably ended up in another world.

Although Command Seal possess the ability to forcibly transfer objects, this transfer is limited; it cannot be done across worlds or across special Age of Gods barriers.

After all, this is ultimately just a product of Magecraft, and it's hard to achieve a miracle at the level of True Magic.

It is currently known that Nitocris is unable to respond to the Command Seal, presumably because he has been isolated in another location.

"Well..."

Realizing things had gotten complicated, Rovey sighed helplessly, but instead of complaining, he began to think about what to do next and where he had ended up.

"What happened?"

The purple-haired girl in front of him looked at him with some doubt. She had been listening to Rovey talking to himself since earlier, which made her wonder if there was something wrong with the young man who had just woken up.

"No, it's nothing, I just feel a little dizzy and I've gotten lost from someone important."

Rovey thought for a moment, then asked the girl in front of him, "But could you tell me exactly where this place is?"

"Mesopotamia, this is a fir forest infested with Demonic Beast. It's really lucky that you were not eaten after fainting here."

'Actually, it's because you've always protected me that it's all this time, isn't it?'

Rovey instinctively wanted to answer, but seeing the girl's distant words and eyes, he silently swallowed his words.

"Now that you're awake, let's get going."

Uncomfortable with prolonged contact with people, the purple-haired girl pulled her hood up again to conceal her beautiful face, carefully hiding the scythe behind her back. She then pointed in a direction and said, "Leave that way, human. There's an aura of human gathering in that direction; it must be a human settlement. Heading in that direction should make you safer."

After giving her instructions, the purple-haired girl turned around and slowly walked towards the dark path on the other side of the forest.

Rovey: "Where are you going? Why don't you come along for a while?"

"I hate humans, I'm not used to walking with people, and also, don't talk to me easily, it will bring misfortune."

The purple-haired girl turned her head, glanced at Rovey, and then continued to leave.

Clearly, she was serious about what she just said.

'If you truly hate humans, then why did you come to save me?'

This was what Rovey was thinking, and he also didn't forget to express his gratitude to the girl in purple.

However, by the time he said those words, the other person had already disappeared, and it was unclear whether he had heard them or not.

It seems the other party doesn't care about these things.

After seeing her disappear, Rovey stopped caring about it.

At this moment, he finally knew where he was.

—Mesopotamia, a period more than 2,600 years ago.

The girl I just saw was indeed closely related to Medusa, and those eyes that caught my attention were the real Mystic Eyes of Petrification. However, she was Medusa's juvenile form, the Lily form. Although I forgot her name, knowing her true identity was enough.

With the location she gave him, Rovey knew exactly where he was without even thinking.

The Seventh Singularity, right?

Mesopotamia, right?

They just left the set of The Sixth Singularity and they're here again?

What's even more outrageous is that he didn't participate voluntarily this time; he was clearly arranged by some force.

Otherwise, he would have encountered a storm in the Imaginary Number Space on his way out of the Sixth Singularity, and then coincidentally brought him to this world. What a coincidence! He couldn't believe it was such a coincidence.

There is no such thing as chance in this world; everything that happens is an inevitable result.

I'm sure I've fallen into some kind of conspiracy.

But—who is it?

Goetia?

Did he plot against me to prevent me from running away? And force me to keep playing along with him?

Indeed, it's not impossible.

However, things have become very troublesome now. His Seventh Singularity's teleportation speed is too fast. He moved so quickly that he just got home from Chaldea and will probably have to go through a few interludes before he can come here, while I have already arrived ahead of time.

Is it asking them to save Human Order, or is it asking them to save Human Order themselves?

If it were anyone else in this situation, they would probably have panicked, but Rovey remained calm.

Don't panic, because panicking won't help. Instead of panicking, think about how to solve the problem.

The first priority is finding the right people; not a single one can be missing. This is the most important thing.

And then—

"Let's find an opportunity to return this to King Gilgamesh first. Although it's probably not the one I know, I remember this thing is quite important."

Because he was in the Mesopotamia Singularity, Rovey immediately thought of King Gilgamesh Gilgamesh who had faced him head-on before everything began.

Before leaving, he gave himself a clay tablet covered with dense writing, but because the writing was from the Age of Gods, it was difficult to understand. Moreover, it was a unique encrypted script of Gilgamesh, which even Merlin could not decipher.

But one thing is certain: since Gilgamesh so highly, it means this clay tablet must be extremely important. Therefore, Rovey decided to return it to him first, so he could use it to help find the person later.

After all, Gilgamesh and Merlin both possessed Clairvoyance, allowing them to see many things. The Mesopotamian Plain was simply too vast, and searching aimlessly would take an unknown amount of time to find Artoria, or Nitocris and the others, not to mention the possibility that they might not even be in this Singularity.

With his Clairvoyance to help, it would definitely be much more convenient than searching randomly on my own.

So, without hesitation, after determining the strategic direction, Rovey rubbed his still aching head and left the dense forest alone.

——

Stepping out of the dense forest, Rovey found a high hill in the boundless wilderness.

The cool evening breeze brushed past his ears, clearing his drowsy mind.

He now gazes from the mountaintop at the vast plain, wanting to take in the view of the sea and determine the direction he must take.

The vast wilderness and grasslands, stretching in all directions, Gilgamesh under the tinged red sunlight. In the distant north, the outlines of forests and hills emerged. To the south, the sea shimmered, the walls of towns could be faintly seen in the east, and to the west, the sky stretched endlessly, tinged with fiery red clouds.

It is beautiful and magnificent, but not entirely.

The deserted landscape suggests that this wasteland has descended into chaos.

The surrounding scenery was devoid of any human or Demonic Beasts; there was only pure desolation.

Finally Rovey turned his gaze to the easternmost point where the only remaining traces of human habitation remained.

As expected, that should be Uruk.

With his eyesight, he could roughly see a huge wall erected on the other side to block the dark red tide in front of him. That was the Demonic Beast Front, the place he was heading to.

Now that we've found the location, all we need to do is continue moving forward along the hill.

Only...

[——Aaaa, aaaa, aaaaa!!]

Listening intently to the strange, intermittent sound echoing in his ears, Rovey frowned slightly. Although the song was indistinct, he could still discern the sorrowful emotion it contained.

Tiamat?

The moment before he heard the voice, he immediately guessed who the person behind it was and called out their true identity.

That is Tiamat, the Mother of Creation, just like Goetia, one of the seven Evils of Humanity.

This was also someone Rovey suspected and feared. Based on his memory, he strongly suspected that the figure who attacked him in the Imaginary Number Space was this guy.

But he couldn't understand how she was able to find him and attack him with such precision.

After all, the Imaginary Number Space was so vast, and he had cast a concealment spell on himself; unless one searched carefully, there was no way to find him. Even though Tiamat was the Mother of Creation, her size was ultimately insufficient before the Imaginary Number Space.

I glanced at the distant horizon, where a strait and the ocean meet.

Although it appeared perfectly normal, just an ordinary stretch of sea, Rovey could sense that she was about to return. The sound was the prelude to her return; it was Tiamat's creation song. However, he didn't understand why the creation song was being conveyed to him, especially not directly through his Voice of Heaven, or Apocalypse.

This ability was used by him to communicate with the one in heaven, and he could also communicate with animals, Demonic Beast, or spirits in nature. It was a high-end version of Jeanne's skill, an inherent skill that the Holy Son attribute came with. It was very useful in normal times, but now he had to actively turn it off.

He also tried to communicate with the being above, hoping that this irresponsible father could give him some guidance or enlightenment, but he was only met with silence. At this moment, the only one he could communicate with was the mother of this world.

[Aaaaa? aaaaa...]

Suddenly, a melodious and sorrowful song began to echo in my ears once again, replacing the original apocalypse.

The sorrowful voice began to affect Rovey's emotions, and the murmur of the creation song made Rovey's mind tremble uncontrollably.

He could even sense a gigantic figure, radiating a black sheen, calling out to and breathing into the world above the dark ocean.

Rovey understood that it was Tiamat's true form, the initial form of its daughter of destiny, the final boss of this Singularity, and also the mother and enemy that humanity had to face!

But why would the Christianity's communication methods connect to Tiamat's communications? Is it an international phone call?

Although turning an irresponsible "father" into a beautiful and gentle "mother" sounds nice.

But you have to experience it for yourself to understand what it's like to hear a mother's voice and feel it. It's like Nero or Elizabeth giving a concert right next to your ear—it's a heavenly sound that makes your soul tremble.

Rovey took a deep breath, lifted his foot, and slowly walked towards the distant Uruk.

On the way, he tried to turn off the [Voice of Heaven], but he couldn't turn it off no matter what he did. Instead, his mother's voice became clearer and clearer.

[Aaaaaa...]

Moreover, seemingly sensing that Rovey wanted to cut off the connection, Tiamat's voice immediately became more tense and sorrowful, which forced Rovey to slowly stop turning off the Voice of Heaven, and Tiamat's sorrowful voice gradually subsided.

He realized that he had indeed established contact with Tiamat, and that she seemed very lonely and wanted someone to talk to.

So, where did this empty-nest mother come from?

"Okay, be quiet. I won't turn it off as long as you don't keep singing in my ear, okay?"

[Aaaa. aaa...?]

"The idea is for you to talk less and listen to me. If you speak less, your voice isn't good music for your child."

[Aaa, aaaa...]

"Don't worry, I never lie."

They continued their journey while exchanging information. After stabilizing Tiamat, Rovey encountered many of the Demonic Beast mentioned by the purple-haired girl along the way.

They are entirely red, with the bodies of lions, but with tails resembling pythons, making them look extremely fierce and terrifying.

These creatures are the greatest enemies of humanity in this Singularity; they are the Demonic Beast within this Singularity, currently roaming the wasteland and beginning to ravage the surviving humans.