Chapter 478

Since the Holy Grail has summoned him to this battle, and if a fictional narrative is allowed to become a part of the Heroic Spirit associated with mythology and human history—

So, Alice would hope that Familiar himself is far less mysterious than that of the mythological era, he is at least an incredibly romantic figure in Human History and should possess a certain degree of antiquity.

"Demon King Nig" is one of the representative works of the Weimar period's golden age of poetry and the Sturm und Drang. This narrative ballad holds a lofty position in the Europe poetry, literature, opera, and symphony world. Several famous musicians, including Beethoven, have composed "Demon King," with Schubert's version being widely regarded as the best.

Indeed, the Witch believed in Goethe and people—human beings—who shaped him and whose fantasies about romance extended throughout Germany and even Europe, and in writing them down. Moreover, the Witch believed that human fantasies based on the concept of reason were in no way inferior to heroic legends.

The first creation of the Demon King was the Denmark folk song "The Elf King's Daughter," which should actually be called "King Ai," not "Demon King." This misunderstanding is precisely a manifestation of humanity's infinite possibilities in art during that period.

Whether it was a fictional Demon King from Germany mythology or Elf King from Denmark, both emerged from Goethe's work, a writer who made significant contributions to the natural sciences, based on the concept of 'human attitude towards nature'.

How could Demon King kills children, with such a background, possibly be the innocent and pure Elf King?

But the Witch knew that, just as it wasn't Prometheus who gave fire to humankind, plunging them into endless war, the opposite was true: the Original Sin that cause conflict always originate from humanity itself.

Modern Witch no longer condone crimes like 'taking someone else's Servant without permission,' and therefore are no longer afraid to touch him.

Since he is my Servant, and he is willing to fight to the death even if he is covered in wounds, then the Witch is willing to move forward with him, and one day she also wants to hold that dream in her hands.

But just as Alice thinking this, the Demon King on her body whispered, "I'll decide."

To the Witch, the Demon King's words were as brilliant as the Stars.

In fact, when Novia felt the Od bursting out from the Alice and flowing into him, he was a little startled. After all, it really seemed like she would do anything if he just nodded.

Then, watching the green aura rising from the surrounding Nasu, she used Alice's Od to draw an arc in the air, and the silver -Alice Yuju kicked the wall, leaping high into the air and transforming into an arrow that rushed towards it.

"I did deal with a fly before."

Boom!

With his Alice fist piercing through Nasu's flesh, which was as strong as that of a lower god, and stabbing hard into his eyeball, he pulled out his Od- filled hand and then kicked out his foot, shattering it upon contact with Nassus's swaying neck, separating his head and body.

And so, the Persia Divine Beast Nasu fell straight down, eventually turning into a tiny dot and disappearing into the area of Clock Tower filled with buildings.

Meanwhile, communications also appear to have been restored.

Someone used Magic Circuits to contact the silver -Alice, Novia immediately recognized her as Erice herself. However, the situation was a bit strange, and there was no image of her.

"Did you lure the tiger away from the mountain, Erice?"

"Is that the Demon King? The image... can't you see it...?"

Erice's voice was very muffled. This was very unusual, because Magic Circuits are generally unaffected by distance, and the Bounded Field Marseille Mosaic City wouldn't be like this either.

I'm stuck on a bridge, unable to get out.

On the bridge?

"I don't feel like I've left London either. When Fran and I were attacking that guy, I don't know when we suddenly ended up on a bridge."

Did they suddenly find themselves on a bridge during the attack on Nasu? Could it be the Chinvat Bridge in Persia?

"I've also tried contacting Lucius or Chitose, but it seems that if I say anything detrimental to the enemy, the conversation is automatically deleted. It's really a headache, so... I'm just having a casual chat with you right now."

"Yeah."

"I imagine this is somewhere in London, a place so refreshing and beautiful it's almost sickening. The water here Gilgamesh and beautiful, even more beautiful than the Yomi."

Erice didn't move on the other end of the conversation. Instead, she stayed in one place and talked to the Demon King who was Alice. However, her voice sounded weak and listless, as if she was talking in her sleep.

"Oh right, I remember now... It was about a while ago. To be honest, I'm really happy. It was when you said you'd protect me. I never expected that you, who usually seems so smart, could be so silly sometimes."

"I just hope to see Erice become a person who reaches a certain level of interpersonal skills."

"Hmm... yeah. Haha, it's that silent me... I thought to myself, if that me who never cried or laughed, always like a blood-soaked doll, could really be there one day... Listen to me, don't come looking for me. I couldn't protect Mom, not a single one..."

What else is on the bridge?

Even without seeing the images, Novia could guess what was going on.

Rapid breathing and sluggish response.

This state indicates that Erice, has fallen into hemorrhagic shock, but is still barely keeping conscious using medication or Magecraft.

"Well, it's nothing... I just got a minor injury, it doesn't hurt much. It's good that you and Kuonji are alright."

Her voice, like a musical instrument out of tune, rose and fell wildly. "You used to say that as long as you're alive, good things will happen to you... Thanks to that... I ended up all alone in a place like this... Now that I think about it, you Demon King... you're actually quite good at talking..."

"Erice."

Novia continued in a surprisingly calm tone, quite out of place with the atmosphere, "Actually, I also know a bit about the Magic Bullet Shooter."

Let's turn back time a little.

"Death, are you Sorrow?"

Before Erice, who had fallen into the trap, lay immense brutality.

The current of World of the Dead, caused by the collision with the Authority the Yomi in a foreign land, rose to the point where it seemed to engulf the bridge. Erice leaned against the wall, watching quietly.

But the impending death— Asto Vidatu, the Persia embodiment of death—no longer cared about cooperating with Moriarty.

Because it sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit outside the Chinvat Bridge, it had to arrive before her to take away the death before it; otherwise, if something else happened, it would be disastrous for destroying this world filled with vain prosperity.

In Persia mythology, Asto Vidatu, who is equivalent to the embodiment of the concept of death, hardly cares about the Underworld. He leaves the Demon Vizaresh or the Holy Spirit Daena to guide souls. Astuvidat is only responsible for settling accounts with the souls of the wicked in the Last Judgment.

Many Death God participated in the Global Holy Grail War, but ultimately failed to prevent the birth of New Era. It was at that time that Mot proposed a collaboration to the five Death God, to destroy this false New Era for the sake of humanity itself. Asto Vidatu, as a concept, ultimately agreed.

Human death is the origin of humanity's progress toward the Future; if a person dies and disappears, it disrupts the foundation of humanity's existence in the world of the chief god Ahura Mazda.

If this situation is ignored and humanity continues to live in this predicament, it will inevitably lead to unimaginable and enormous disasters.

That's why Asto Vidatu, as Mot had said, came to take away the final death.

As the Deity that appeared in the Last Judgment in Persia mythology, its violently overflowing Od was enough to completely destroy the Detective City of London, thus demonstrating its Violence and irreversible nature of death.

However, some people will not let it go on like this.

"Magic Bullet Shooter".

This bullet far surpassed any divine bow or weapon, shattering the completely distorted space with Comet- like thrust. Its trajectory negated the irreversibility of Asto Vidatu's death, twisting wildly and transforming into a divine Divine Aura that threatened to overturn the boundary between life and death.

The embodiment of death, only then belatedly looking at the person standing before it.

As the embodiment of death and the most powerful servant of the evil god Angra Mainyu, Asto Vidatu felt it acutely—

The person before me had the aura of the Holy Spirit Daena.

Chapter 496 concludes the New Covenant with the Old Testament.

White.

It's only available in white.

In this space where life and death are the juncture, a dazzling light, almost white, enveloped everything.

Silence reigned all around; time, as defined by the Planet, had ceased to flow.

In the Underworld Judgment ground centered on himself, Asto Vidatu noticed that he was staring at a silver-haired human whose aura resembled that of the Persia Holy Spirit Daena, yet the human figure, much smaller than himself, was more dazzling than the Daena he remembered.

The presence emanating from that unknown human seemed to declare that he was the center of this place.

Asto Vidatu naturally understood that without some skill, one could not get close to this place.

So he compressed the remaining Persia Divine Aura in this place into a storm of extreme force, accompanied by smoke that engulfed everything around him, turning everything that came near into fragments of space and incorporating them into his own Underworld, thus demonstrating the warning of the Apocalypse.

Even a supreme god, standing in the Underworld, would not escape unscathed from such an attack.

Even if a human surpasses Daena's power, they are still just a human, and will likely soon turn into fragments, becoming the walls that wander on the Chinvat Bridge.

However--

A fiery storm, emerging from behind the human, continued to approach relentlessly.

"Come to think of it, I've only just remembered that I've seen you before."

During the Holy Grail War in the Snowfield, Novia, who had healed the Pale Rider Master Tsubaki Kuruoka, came to a place where many Underworld coexisted. He naturally caught a glimpse of this Persia Death God by chance, and perhaps even Mot saw him as well.

The pure fire that once permeated the Supreme Brahman, pierced through a violent Gale of divine Apocalypse, and its powerful aura surged toward the dark, formless Asto Vidatu. Asto Vidatu tried to dodge, but the overwhelming flow of concepts and Authority —piercing, penetrating, crushing—manifested itself within it with a thunderous roar.

An unconscious fear.

Besides Daena, this person also possesses... an ancient divine aura that resonates throughout the Middle East and even the world.

Mithra, the primordial god.

Mithra, originally the god of covenants, gradually evolved into the Sun God, the god of light, and eventually the War God.

In the Persia region, before the Zoroastrianism underwent religious reforms to become a monotheistic religion, there were only three gods known as Ahura: Ahura Mazda and Apam Napat.

Ahura means "the Lord".

The Avesta Yasht refers to it as 'the most noble and great Yazata,' 'a Supreme Being equal to Ahura Mazda.'

In the timeline where Novia did not establish Holy Church earlier, the religion centered on Him confronted the Christianity of the Roman Empire in the third century. Although Emperor Constantine Great, who legalized Christianity by issuing the Edict of Milan, only formally converted to Christianity and was baptized and canonized on his deathbed, he had previously claimed to be the manifestation of the Sun on earth, capable of dying and rising from the dead.

Julian, Constantine's nephew and the last Faith emperor of the Roman Empire, claimed that all the Rome gods were manifestations of the Supreme Being Sun God, essentially a single god of the same origin, and proclaimed himself to be an incarnation of Him.

Christmas was originally the day of His Birthday, Saint Augustine of Christianity said that Christmas in the Lord El-Melloi II had an unpleasant relationship with Heterodox Faith festivals.

Mithra is the etymological Root of the Christianity Messiah and the Buddhism Maitreya.

There are also doubts.

This person also possesses an aura compatible with that of Yama, the India Death God.

This is... a mixture?

Although Asto Vidatu is the embodiment of the concept of death, he is not a thoughtless 'program'.

The atmosphere of India, the symbol of Mithra, the savior of mankind, Daena, who leads mankind forward—all these elements combined naturally reminded him of Yama, the most talkative of the six Death God. Yama would praise Him daily like a human, or pull the Death God present aside and tell them His deeds.

The instant Asto Vidatu thought this—

Like Gale of fire, it poured down.

"The Lord of the Himalayas, Kavia...?"

It is an ancient Deity from India, which later evolved from Hinduism and became the Aspected God of Maitreya in Buddhism.

When the battle came to a head, Asto Vidatu was powerless to reverse the outcome, yet he still uttered his final words to the Deity who had arguably defeated him.

Because Yama had told Asto Vidatu that it was the pride of their India Age of Gods —every action it displayed was compassion that transcended the world, the sum of all kinds of love, and it freely displayed divine power that was enough to allow an army of ten thousand men to continue the civilization of the earth in prosperity.

"That deceitful Holy Grail is about to overflow... We must not let it come out."

Asto Vidatu didn't know if the other party could understand.

Despite the difference in their status, that of an ant and Giants, at least his words could reach the ears of the god Yama had described to him as being like Ahura, provided he fully accepted the essence of the other's Od.

"That is also an ancient god of covenants..."

It was only upon seeing Novia that Asto Vidatu suddenly realized the meaning of 'He'.

Perhaps Novia, who was possessing the body of Alice, understood those words, which is why that scene briefly appeared in his field of vision.

The sky was blood-red, and the wind carried curses and groans.

The black mud resembled a pulsating ocean, with mounds of rotting corpses sinking into its Black Mud.

Amidst the black mud and rain, the pitch-black 'Sun' stood tall in the sky.

What appears to be the Sun is not the Sun, but a 'hole' filled with endless, deep darkness. Its immense mass seems to crush everything, and beneath it everything is boiling—not evaporation in the physical sense, but some kind of more fundamental collapse.

Asphalt-like Black Mud covered everything, with fragments of Bronze and inscriptions on clay tablets floating in the liquid, as if the entire city were sinking into the seabed of Ugarit in the 14th century AD.

Immediately afterwards, a black liquid resembling asphalt gushed forth from the 'Sun,' carrying with it the stench of decaying Bronze. The liquid condensed into a towering Throne of fire, and the Black Mud, like flames, unfolded before Him like Judgment case.

Book of Daniel chapter 7 (Old Testament):

I (Daniel) looked, and behold, a throne was set forth, and on it sat the Ancient of Days, whose clothes were as white as snow, and whose hair was like pure wool. The throne was a flame, and its wheels were raging fire.

The Book of Revelation, the most celebrated book in the New Testament, borrows heavily from imagery in Book of Daniel chapter 7 of the Old Testament.

The prophet Daniel dreamt that four winds arose suddenly on the sea, and four strange beasts appeared, until "the Ancient of Days" appeared as an old man with White-Haired Goddess, sitting and walking to Judgment the four beasts. The fourth beast was burned at the stake, and the other beasts were stripped of their Authority, until—

Novia noticed.

This is clearly just the 'past' that Asto Vidatu saw; the guy looking at him here should be looking at Asto Vidatu.

But He kept staring at Theia, smiling as if he were a very gentle person.

Unsurprisingly, the world went dark.