Chapter 28

Her individual consciousness had long been driven mad by this dark world. Even though a tiny amount of rationality remained, attempting to control her body and recover, it was unfortunately...

That minuscule rationality was quickly overwhelmed by the negative emotions accumulated in the darkness.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The pain of being persecuted by her own clan, the pain of being targeted by enemies, the pain of losing what she held dear—all of it accumulated endlessly in this darkness, transforming into rage and killing intent towards everything.

"Senju!"

"Uchiha!!"

"Ninja!!"

Only these three nouns continued to cycle through her consciousness. Then, at a certain moment, the pitch-blackness before her was suddenly split by a line of white light. The next moment, dazzling white light completely replaced the dark, gloomy world.

But at the same moment, the madness and killing intent that had been dormant in this dark wasteland found an outlet.

The instant she opened her eyes, her pupils, which looked as if they had been soaked in a blood container and then removed, possessed a cold killing intent akin to that of a demon or asura.

And deep within her pupils, a three-ringed, petal-like pattern, resembling a pinwheel, appeared without warning. It then rapidly rotated and converged.

"Amaterasu—!"

Her body instinctively unleashed this terrifying pupil technique capable of destroying everything. Black flames spread rapidly in the direction her gaze fell.

"This is a bit too enthusiastic for a welcome."

At the furthest reach of her blood-red pupils, a strange figure stood there. She couldn't recognize the person's identity, but... that didn't matter to her at this moment.

Having had her sanity destroyed by centuries of darkness, she couldn't be bothered with who that figure was.

Controlled by this overwhelming madness, all she wanted now was to kill every living being she saw.

"That is our homeland, which can heal all wounds and all resentments."

"Manifest—!"

That was the Noble Phantasm of Galahad, the strongest knight who ranked among the calamities.

It was the Noble Phantasm symbolizing the strongest defensive stance of the Knights of the Round Table... no, of all of Camelot.

"Lord Camelot—!"

Silver-white city walls rose from the ground, the ideal city that would never fall, blocking the surging black flames. One was the flame symbolizing the burning and destruction of all, the other was the final fortress protected by the Knights of the Round Table, the ideal city that would never fall.

As the black flames continuously tried to penetrate deeper into the castle, the silver-white city walls would flash with dazzling divine light, repelling all harm.

"Uchiha Hikari."

Standing on the front line directly facing the black flames, Shirou's gaze was remarkably calm. He had already made some guesses about this individual who had received the Beacon.

An individual harboring hatred for both Senju and Uchiha could basically be ruled out as someone from after the era of ninja villages. Before the era of ninja villages, there were too many possibilities. Excluding minor characters, Mr. Emiya could only think of the matriarch of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Hikari.

After all, he only knew of one named character.

And now, after she had emerged by splitting the mountain, seeing this little girl unhesitatingly unleash a pupil technique that was most likely Amaterasu, Mr. Emiya was almost certain of her identity.

"Uchiha... Uchiha!!!"

As if hearing the surname Shirou spoke, a ferocious expression of rage suddenly appeared on the delicate girl's face. A hoarse whisper, like that of a hellish demon, emanated from her strained vocal cords.

"As expected, Uchiha lunatics who can't be reasoned with. I'll just have to beat you down first."

As his words fell, Shirou's figure suddenly vanished from his original spot. However, the dynamic capture ability of the Mangekyo Sharingan was far from ordinary. The moment Shirou's figure disappeared, the ultimate weapon of the Uchiha once again pinpointed his location within a thousandth of a second.

No... it was more accurate to say that she had never lost him from her sight.

"Projection, begin—!"

The Red Dog of the Plains and the Spiral Sword, the ones he was most accustomed to using, were quickly projected into his hands. Following that, hundreds, even thousands, of projected Noble Phantasms appeared behind him, aiming at Uchiha Hikari's location like a torrential downpour.

"Fantasy Collapse—!"

Under a special technique mastered by Shirou Emiya, the falling projected Noble Phantasms transformed into terrifying explosive charges. As the rain-like Noble Phantasms covered all possible escape routes for the Uchiha's ultimate weapon, and were about to detonate simultaneously, The ultimate weapon from the Warring States period keenly sensed this danger.

Without any hesitation, the Mangekyo Sharingan, like a pinwheel, began to spin rapidly within Uchiha Hikari's pupils.

In just a thousandth of a second, a deep crimson chakra skeleton enveloped her entire being. Then, within a few breaths, 'flesh' began to accumulate on that skeleton, and finally, the deep crimson chakra formed a monstrous giant coiled upon the earth.

The Third God's power—Susanoo.

The manifestation of the Uchiha clan's ultimate strength!

"Cool!"

Serval and Asta, watching from the sidelines, were instantly captivated by the majestic giant form composed of energy the moment they saw the Susanoo. Mei's pupils, however, flashed with a look of excited wonder.

"This kind of power, does it truly exist only within dominant genes and possess extreme universality?"

She had recently succeeded in her first super-transformation surgery, merging Honkai Beast genes with human genes to create the first Flame Chaser. And this Flame Chaser had achieved a brilliant victory in their very first battle, successfully defeating the Herrscher of Flames.

However, Honkai Beast genes were extremely unstable. In fact, before Kevin, the first Flame Chaser, even lay on the operating table, hundreds of people had already perished in this surgery. Without utilizing tens of thousands of volunteers as sacrifices, it was impossible to summarize valuable patterns from the different rejection reactions that occurred when different Honkai Beasts were combined with different human bodies.

Kevin's success was serendipitous, and it allowed Mobius to witness the realization of her hyper-evolutionary surgery. Instinctively, she pursued a gene that was more universally applicable and held greater evolutionary potential…

And now, This gene appeared before her without any warning.

"Chakra, no matter what, I will obtain it!"

Chapter 058: Do You Dare Defy Me, Who Possesses Four Creation Engines? (10/10)

"As expected of the Susanoo that my brother likes the most, it's so cool."

Although all attacks were blocked by the Susanoo, Mr. Emiya was so excited he could have sprouted a flag. His youth was spent with Naruto Shippuden, and the Susanoo, a signature skill of the Uchiha clan, was arguably the most stylish ability in the entire series, with both strength and aesthetics on full display.

When Madara Uchiha manifested the complete Tengu form, it could obliterate mountains with a single strike and even divide continents into new landmasses. Especially during the Third Great Ninja War, if you didn't have a Tailed Beast as a mount or a high-level ride like the Susanoo on the main battlefield, you weren't worthy of standing on the battlefield.

"Fighting against the Susanoo, ordinary things just won't cut it."

Seeing Uchiha Hikari summon her own mecha, Mr. Emiya felt it would be remiss of him not to go head-to-head.

"Then let's bring out something interesting! Arise, Creation Engine!!!"

The Creation Engine slumbering beneath Everwinter Peak had been thoroughly analyzed by Shirou at some point. Now, fabricating a few Creation Engines on the spot wasn't a significant problem for him.

With booming roars, the massive automaton, originally used for planetary environmental modification and later augmented with various armaments by the City Builders to become a war machine, manifested before them.

"...So many Creation Engines?!"

A total of four massive automatons appeared around the Susanoo, encircling the mountain where Uchiha Hikari was sealed. The Susanoo, only about thirty to fifty meters tall, stood before the four Creation Engines, each hundreds of meters tall, and couldn't even tilt its head up to catch a ray of sunlight.

"Have fun with her."

Issuing commands to all the Creation Engines, they simultaneously raised their heavy mechanical arms and smashed down towards the Susanoo within the encirclement.

BOOM——————!

With each heavy punch that fell, terrifying shockwaves capable of stirring up mountains and seas were generated.

Centered around the four Creation Engines, terrifying hurricanes capable of causing large-scale tsunamis suddenly swept up.

The earth trembled, and the mountain that sealed Uchiha Hikari had long since turned into a pile of rubble.

And the Susanoo, cornered within the encirclement and continuously attacked by the four Creation Engines, possessed almost no power to resist.

Its absolute defense, which could previously withstand Tailed Beast Bombs, rapidly developed numerous cracks under the onslaught of the four super-giant mechs.

Until, at a certain moment, the divine technique symbolizing absolute defense completely shattered. The ultimate weapon of the Uchiha clan didn't even have time to unleash any further defensive techniques before it was about to face the crushing blow of the incoming quadruple iron fists.

"Am I going to die?"

Perhaps due to the desperate situation of being on the brink of death, unexpectedly, this ultimate weapon managed to regain a sliver of rationality. Its gaze fell upon the relentlessly approaching giant mechanical fists, and it revealed a smile of acceptance, abandoning all resistance, closing its eyes, and preparing to meet its fated demise.

"Are you awake?"

Abruptly, A voice sounded from her ear.

She slowly opened her eyes and saw a stranger, an orange-haired youth, gently embracing her before landing on the ground.

"I am Shirou Emiya. If you have any recollection, you might remember me. I've called out to you unilaterally more than ten times before."

"...That... voice."

Uchiha Hikari, belatedly understanding, let out a hoarse sound from her parched vocal cords. Then, as if giving up resistance, the chakra within her ceased to surge. She closed her eyes, deactivated her Mangekyo Sharingan, and two streams of blood slowly seeped from the corners of her eyes.

"Your body is incredibly weak."

This girl's weight felt like it wouldn't exceed forty kilograms. With Shirou's current arm strength, the weight of an adult wouldn't feel heavy, but such extreme thinness was truly rare. He even suspected that if she exerted even a little force, her body would break, leading to death.

"Is it over?"

When Shirou transferred Uchiha Hikari, cradled in his arms, from the Aurora Curtain to the location where Elysia and the others were, the pink-haired fairy rushed forward and gazed at the little girl in Shirou's embrace.

The Uchiha clan was famously known for producing handsome men and beautiful women. Although her beauty was somewhat diminished by her rather simple and thin attire and her disheveled, elegant appearance, Elysia, being a connoisseur of beauty, immediately recognized that this weapon of the Uchiha family, with a little grooming, would be a cute girl no less lovely than Asta and Lynx.

"This child... she must have suffered a lot before."

Her pale features, skin so translucent that her veins were almost visible, and her emaciated figure due to severe malnutrition – just looking at her, Elysia could understand the kind of life this child had endured.

"Her exceptional talent led to the jealousy and ostracism of her clan members. After her parents died, the clan forcibly stripped her of her name, using her as a weapon known as 'Nameless'."

"Uchiha Nameless. Her real name is Uchiha Hikari."

Upon hearing this name, Miss Elysia felt another sharp stab in her heart. The blessing bestowed upon this child by her parents was so beautiful, yet it was cruelly taken away by others, only for her to be sealed within a dark mountain...

"Damn it! I hate hearing things like this the most! Shirou, let's go drag all her clan members out and beat them up!"

"That won't be necessary. We don't know how long she was sealed for. We'll need to go to the major nations of this world to find out if any of her clan members are still alive."

If it were during the Naruto Shippuden era, the Uchiha clan would have been virtually wiped out, leaving only Sasuke Uchiha, Itachi Uchiha, and the half-human, half-beast pure monster Obito Uchiha.

Among these three, only Sasuke Uchiha could be considered a relatively normal person. The other two were typical pure monsters: one not only killed his own parents but also indiscriminately slaughtered his own kin, regardless of gender or age. The other was even more extreme; simply because his first love was gone, he wanted to destroy the entire world, and his first act upon reaching the surface was to kill his teacher and his teacher's wife.

(Nuo Li's)

"Shirou Emiya."

After everyone had finished examining Uchiha Hikari, Mobius quickly walked up to him while everyone else was distracted. Her gaze fixed intensely on him.

"You just used the power of the Herrscher of Reason, didn't you, Doctor?"

"Your insight is quite sharp, Doctor."

"So, you can..."

Mei's eyes were filled with burning intensity, her gaze seeming as if she wanted to devour him whole. Mr. Emiya couldn't help but take two steps back and warned, "Doctor, you don't intend to use me as a guinea pig, do you?"

"That's not important! Shirou! If you can use the Herrscher of Reason's power, you can replicate all high-precision experimental equipment at any time, right! Since that's the case, you must come back to the laboratory with me now. We must race against time to replicate all the equipment over there in this place. I can't wait to research that thing called 'Chakra'!"

Chapter 059: Mei: I Must Jump Ship Immediately! (1/5)

"With your power and Vill-V's mechanical talent, you can create even better 'laboratory equipment.' M-Continent has always been holding back my research progress on high-precision equipment. Those idiots, I've tolerated them for a long time!"

"Even though the Honkai is right in front of everyone, those idiots from the Flame-Chaser are still obsessed with power struggles. For those petty gains, they constantly suppress, win over, and divide talented individuals."

"Every country has planted its own people in this joint organization, with various forces arising endlessly... How can I focus on research with these vermin?!"

As if venting her long-held dissatisfaction, Mei's expression was extremely gloomy. She wasn't a particularly generous person to begin with, but she had to feign cordiality with those from the Flame-Chaser due to the need for funding and authorization for her research projects.

But now...

With Shirou's appearance, all the "resources" from the Flame-Chaser could be easily overcome. The "creation" function of the Herrscher of Reason was enough to crush the industry on M-Continent.

She was among the first batch of scholars involved in the research of the Herrscher of Reason's core. At that time, based on the various test results of the Herrscher of Reason's core and its reaction to human civilization's weapons during the first Honkai event, she had roughly deduced the Herrscher of Reason's abilities.

To put it bluntly, if such power fell into the hands of someone like Vill-V, humanity might have faced annihilation during the first Honkai event.

However, if one could master the power of the Herrscher of Reason