Another week passed, and Chaldea had already remained in the North American Singularity for quite some time.
Washington, too, had fallen completely quiet. Aside from Arjuna's restlessness, everything seemed peaceful.
The mindless Celtic warriors still spent their days brawling, the civilians still lived in fear, Cu Chulainn, the Mad King, still killed a few people every day to limber up, and Queen Maeve's parades still forced those people to put on smiles.
Meanwhile, east of Washington.
"Can you sense it, Miss Lawrence?" Cold sweat covered Fujimaru Ritsuka's face as he looked at Lawrence, still shaken.
"...Yes." Lawrence wore an equally grave expression and nodded. "That kind of dark possibility. Even though I've already left the stage, I can recognize it immediately."
What Lawrence meant was already very clear.
It was the aura of the Demon God Pillars—the filthy things with magic power so dark it reached the utmost extreme, the tentacles of that so-called King Solomon, who was actually a Beast.
Because they were too far away, Lawrence could not sense their exact number, but one fact was certain: there was more than one Demon God Pillar, just as there had been in the London Singularity and the Ocean Singularity.
The strength of the Demon God Pillars had been assessed through battle after battle. Even under Lawrence's buffs, it took an extraordinary Servant to kill one alone, and the risk was immense. To rely on a single Servant to fight multiple Demon God Pillars required someone in a state like Oceannus's.
But everyone here knew that what had happened with Oceannus in the Ocean Singularity had been far too exceptional.
With Lawrence and Doris giving their full buffs, and Oceannus standing atop the sea itself, Oceannus in that state had possessed magical energy nearing the third planetary rank. The devastation