Chapter 936
"Let Lady Artoria fight alongside you."
"You are... Hope!?"
Shirou was surprised to find that the girl's voice he was talking to was Hope's.
"Yes, Shirou... I'm so glad you're safe and sound. I've been so worried..."
Shirou interrupted, "We can talk about pleasantries later. Hope, what are you doing there?"
Hope replied, "I've come to Camelot too."
"Next, I will temporarily take Miss Artoria's place as the Miko for the ritual."
"I just can't do anything with you guys..."
Shirou sighed.
At the same time, Artoria also unleashed her Noble Phantasm, which was uniquely hers.
This is Noble Phantasm that even Morgan didn't possess.
"This is a harbinger of what is to come."
A land of hope, the ruins of paradise. Without anyone calling you, you too will reach for the stars.
For whom does destiny exist—around Caliburn, the Star of Hope Embracing You!!!
That was the radiance of the stars that unfolded to protect Shirou.
It possesses properties similar to the scabbard (Avalon), completely blocking the cursed breath of Cernunnos that surged towards Shirou.
Even after the breathing completely stopped, the protective barrier did not show even the slightest crack.
"I'll leave the rest to you."
Artoria's heavy breathing came through her telepathic message.
"Ahh."
Shirou nodded solemnly.
"Holy sword, draw your blade!"
Shirou wouldn't waste the opportunity Artoria had specially created for him, and decisively drew his most prized and strongest sword.
Artoria Avalon appeared behind Shirou like a ghost, and they exchanged a knowing glance.
As the unified brain of the planet's defense terminal, the Holy Sword Fairy will assist its master in connecting with the infinite world.
Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions, trillions, and even thousands of kilos of light overlapped together.
The infinite starlight resonated, then vanished—all returning to Shirou's body.
In the past, when Shirou was alone, the Infinitely Overlapping Shadows of the Holy Sword Works could not maintain their form and would manifest as a rampaging beam of light.
To solve this problem, Shirou came up with the ultimate solution—
That is to make itself the framework for a stable holy sword.
In other words, Shirou himself became Excalibur.
Volume 11: 545 No Moon... no, "Nameless"
It's like it's been branded onto the planet; it's so visibly present.
An unusual figure appeared in the sky above the Fae Kingdom.
With this figure as the origin, a spacetime turbulence connecting the universe and the earth was formed on the surface.
That figure was different from both fairies and humans.
That was a collection of concepts unknown to the inhabitants of the Fae Kingdom.
Pan-Human History, people have referred to such incomprehensible phenomena as "gods."
The form in which that figure existed inevitably evoked images of ancient deities depicted in murals.
No matter how powerful Heroic Spirit or spirits may be, they are still within the realm of human understanding.
But that can already be considered a cosmic phenomenon.
The Principle is the same as that of the Vortex Sword, which embodies the concept of creation; the damaged spatial faults form rampaging tornadoes.
However, unlike the Vortex Sword, that figure did nothing.
He neither released any power nor intended to destroy anything; he simply stood in the sky.
"He" simply exists there, and the surrounding landscape is distorted by the unparalleled gravitational currents.
Infinite mass and infinite gravity are compressed into the small human body, naturally resulting in this outcome.
Even so, that man— Shirou— still maintained his individuality.
His appearance and demeanor were slightly different from usual.
Long silver hair cascaded down her back, and her bare right arm radiated a golden starlight.
Anyone who knew him would be astonished; his handsome face appeared utterly cold due to a lack of emotion.
"That is..."
Bavag, who had escaped from Camelot with her mother, stared in astonishment at the distant sky.
That's undoubtedly Shirou.
Just as my mother said, Shirou is still alive. That's wonderful.
But why... did Shirou become like that?
She looked at the Queen beside her, puzzled.
Morgan squinted; it was the first time she had ever seen Shirou like that.
To be honest, I was surprised.
However, she immediately understood Shirou's current state and then murmured something.
"... I see."
"What? What?"
That was Shirou's ultimate form as the Holy Sword Wielder, Morgan explained.
By connecting, resonating, and overlapping with infinite Parallel World, Shirou gained the approval of all the Holy Sword of the Stars.
In order to harness this power, he also transformed his own nature into Excalibur.
When Shirou first drifted to the Fae Kingdom, he researched methods to prolong life for his and Morgan's cause of saving the world.
Although he ultimately failed to defeat time, Shirou unexpectedly mastered the technology to modify his own nature.
Today, he has applied this technology to the integration of Excalibur.
Although it's a bit cliché, in the parlance of Pan-Human History, he would probably be the God of the Holy Sword.
Its name is "Nameless" --
Excalibur was the last to be born in an infinitely diverse array of Parallel World.
"..."
"Nameless" surveyed the area below with its golden eyes.
Below him is Cernunnos, the beast god who is the Origin the Island of Britain.
Once a gentle and kind ancient god, he was transformed into Calamity of Curse intent on destroying the planet out of hatred.
"▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇----!!"
With a roar from Cernunnos, tens of thousands of Cursed Hand attacked "Nameless".
Each of the Cursed Hand was larger than the calamity that appeared in Norwich, its sheer size enough to crush a town.
However, even with all its might, Cernunnos's Cursed Hand couldn't get close to its enemy.
It was torn apart and destroyed by the spacetime turbulence surrounding "Nameless".
"▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇----!!"
Cernunnos let out a furious roar of defiance.
A stronger and denser curse power was awakened within him.
The hatred and resentment accumulated over twelve thousand years will not dissipate so easily.
The next instant, even more Cursed Hand rose from the ground.
But--
"..."
"Nameless" slowly raised his right hand, which was overflowing with golden light.
He simply flicked his wrist casually; by any measure, it couldn't even be considered an attack.
A flash of golden light.
It happened so suddenly that no one could understand what had happened.
"Nameless" gently waved his right hand with his five fingers together.
Then, the slash, compressed from hundreds of millions, trillions, and even thousands of Excaliburs, pierced through the sky, the earth, and the world.
A beam of starlight, starting from the fingertip of "Nameless," slices through Cernunnos, then circumnavigates the globe close to the Earth's surface, finally converging in the South Pacific Ocean near New Zealand in the Pan-Human History.
"------"
In an instant, the overwhelming Cursed Hand was swept away.
"Nameless" has removed the concept of physical destruction from the strike just now.
Therefore, this is not a torrent of stars that burns everything, but a divine strike solely against the curse.
The dazzling light illuminated the Fae Kingdom's night as if it were daytime, dispelling all the swarming curses.
The battle against the world-ending calamity ended in an instant.
After the core of the curse within him was purified, Cernunnos stopped moving and stood motionless in place.
"Nameless" descended to an altitude level with the head of Cernunnos.
Although they were close, Cernunnos showed no sign of taking further action and instead faced him silently.
"Cernunnos, I have something to give you."
"Nameless" spoke first.
Cernunnos shifted slightly, as if in response.
After the curse within him was purified, the Calamity of Curse, which had been a corpse, regained some of its former consciousness.
He stared intently at "Nameless," who had placed his outstretched arms in front of him.
"What we collected was almost entirely residue, so it was almost all newly made..."
Within the embrace of "Nameless", the starlight formed a certain shape.
It was the remains of someone wrapped in white clothes.
The Miko of Cernunnos
The girl was dismembered by the fairies and used as a prototype for humans in the Fae Kingdom, so no remains were left.
This is a body that Shirou created using Einzbern technology, by collecting all the remnants of the Miko left behind in the Fae Kingdom.
Some might consider this a desecration of the girl, but Shirou doesn't think so.
If the Beast Miko were still alive, she would certainly approve of this approach.
"▇▇▇▇▇▇▇..."
For the first time, Cernunnos let out a roar that was not filled with hatred.
He slowly extended his enormous hand.
"Nameless" gently placed the Miko's body on the hand of the Beast God, which was resting before him.