Where Was the Counter Force?

A skyful of blades, spears, swords, and halberds poured down on Lin Xiao like a raging storm.

Rin was so frightened that she stopped breathing.

"Those are all Noble Phantasms?"

Clang, clang, clang!!!

Before everyone's horrified eyes, those Noble Phantasms seemed to strike an invisible wall just short of Lin Xiao's body!

Not only did none of the Noble Phantasms pierce Lin Xiao, they shattered inch by inch, eventually turning into a pile of scrap metal that clattered to the floor!

"What?!" Gilgamesh, standing atop the cross, abruptly widened his eyes. "You actually resisted this king's treasures with your bare body?!"

"Your treasures? What do you mean, your treasures? Do you even know how to use them?"

Lin Xiao slowly rose to his feet. He lifted his head and looked at the golden-haired man standing on the cross.

"I don't like people standing higher than me. Especially blondes with such terrible tempers."

The instant he finished speaking, Lin Xiao's legs fiercely kicked off the ground!

Boom!!! The chapel's sturdy marble floor instantly collapsed into a massive crater! Lin Xiao's body appeared before Gilgamesh in an instant!

"So fast!!" Gilgamesh's pupils contracted sharply. By the Hero King's instincts, he sensed an unprecedentedly lethal threat!

"Enkidu!!!" Gilgamesh frantically poured out his magical energy, and countless golden chains shot out from the void, tightly binding Lin Ye's limbs!

These were divine-binding chains that could restrain even gods. The greater the target's divinity, the more unbreakable the chains became!

"Hmph! Bound by Enkidu, even if you're a chief god, you won't be able to break free—" Gilgamesh had just begun to sneer smugly.

"A god?" Lin Xiao looked at the chains wrapped around him, a mocking curve appearing on his lips. "Have you misunderstood something? I'm not some lofty god."

"Break!"

Lin Xiao merely gave an extremely casual tug! Snap! Snap! Snap!!!

Enkidu, supposedly capable of binding even gods, instantly shattered into a skyful of light specks before the violent Earth's Light, like cheap plastic rope!

"Impossible!!!" Gilgamesh finally lost his composure. In terror, he drew out a strange cylindrical weapon entwined with a red storm—

Ea!

" mongrel! This king will—!"

"You don't have the chance."

Lin Xiao gave him no opportunity to release Ea. He swung his left arm in a wide arc, gathering a dazzling crimson glow, and viciously slapped Gilgamesh across his arrogant, handsome face!

Ultra Slap

Slap—!!!!!

That slap unleashed a shockwave! It even blew away half of the Kirei Church's heavy roof!

Pff!!! Gilgamesh shot through the altar like a meteor, smashing deep into the ground.

Watching Gilgamesh get slapped out of existence, Kirei Kotomine realized that tonight had brought an absolute executioner he could not defeat.

"It seems the Holy Grail's descent will have to come early. Still, I should make an attempt."

Kirei Kotomine tore open his priest's robes. Extremely evil black mud was churning within his chest.

It was the mire of Angra Mainyu that he had forcibly drawn over from the Greater Holy Grail beneath Mount Enzo!

Kirei Kotomine guided the black mud toward Lin Xiao like venomous snakes!

Yet as Lin Xiao watched the surging black mud, the mockery in his eyes only deepened.

"Angra Mainyu? You dare call yourself the radiance of the earth's equal with such paltry low-level negative energy?"

Lin Xiao slowly raised both arms and crossed them before his chest.

Hummm—!!!

An incomparably brilliant crimson aurora gathered at his head, then transformed into a red waterfall of light dozens of meters wide and crashed down!

Gaia Photon Ice Blade!

Boom—!!!!!

The light struck the surging black mud directly! That black mud, supposedly capable of corroding everything, was instantly vaporized without a trace!

"Since I'm cleaning up, I might as well clean up thoroughly."

Guided by Ultraman Gaia's will, that violent photon energy did not dissipate. Instead, it drilled with extreme precision into the underground magical ley lines!

Like surging crimson lightning, the light followed the ley lines across more than half the city and directly struck the true body of Fuyuki's Greater Holy Grail deep beneath Mount Enzo!

Far away at Mount Enzo, several kilometers away, a deep rumble suddenly shook the ground.

That polluted, defective wish-granting machine was completely vaporized into nothingness before the light from Earth's origin!

"..."

Kirei Kotomine stared blankly at his empty chest. Amid the ultimate radiance, the false priest turned into a handful of ashes that scattered in the wind.

"Ding!"

[Detected that the host has crossed the ley lines and completely purified the "polluted Fuyuki Greater Holy Grail's true body"!]

[The Holy Grail War has completely ended! All surviving Heroic Spirits have gained the right to independently materialize physically (magical energy supplied by the Light of Gaia)!]

Amid the ruins, Red Archer watched the crimson glow gradually fading from the sky and sharply drew in a breath.

"Hey, hey... You've got to be kidding. It's all over, yet Alaya is as quiet as a quail?"

As an agent of the Counter Force, Red Archer understood better than anyone that after an outsider Adventurer like Lin Xiao caused such a massive disturbance, the world's defense mechanism should have retaliated long ago.

But to his shock, when this world's Earth's Will came into contact with the Light of Gaia on Lin Xiao's body—a power of the same origin, yet even purer and more immense—it actually took the initiative to open its authority to him. It even helped him suppress the rejection of humanity's will, Alaya!

"No wonder he could trample the magecraft system underfoot..."

Red Archer looked at Lin Xiao and let out a bitter laugh. "This world's nature is practically worshipping him as its father..."

At that moment, the light completely receded.

Lin Xiao turned around and looked at everyone behind him, all unharmed. Finally, his gaze settled on Illya, whose hand Rin Tohsaka was holding.

With the Greater Holy Grail destroyed, according to the original setting, Illya—the artificial human who served as the Lesser Holy Grail's vessel—would not live for more than a year due to the end of her mission and her genetic defects.

Lin Xiao walked over to Illya. Under the little girl's somewhat fearful gaze, he crouched down and gently placed the hand that had just ended the Holy Grail War atop her silver-white hair.

"Big brother..." Illya looked a little lost.

Hum.

A wisp of exceptionally gentle Miracle Light flowed from Lin Ye's palm into Illya's body.

The genetic defects that had drained her life in order to turn her into the Holy Grail were thoroughly reshaped by that light, restoring the vitality a normal human girl should have.

"The Holy Grail is gone, and I took care of your short-lived curse while I was at it."

Lin Xiao rubbed her hair, then stood with a soft smile. "Don't spend all day thinking about killing people from now on. As Shirou's older sister, you should act like one. Live well."

Illya froze upon hearing that. Feeling an unprecedentedly light and warm heartbeat within her body, tears suddenly spilled uncontrollably from her eyes as she threw herself into Lin Ye's arms.

"Waaah... Thank you, big brother..."

The Holy Grail War had ended.

So someone might ask: what about that blue spinning spearman?

Cú Chulainn had originally been lurking in the shadows outside the chapel, but then he saw the Hero King get slapped straight into the ground.

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He slowly pulled back the head he had poked out, without the slightest hesitation. "I'm outta here!"

The first ray of dawn crossed the horizon and fell upon the ruins.

Facing the morning light, Lin Xiao stretched lazily and looked at everyone.

"All right, job's done."

"Emiya, stop staring blankly. Since everyone survived, go home and make breakfast. I want a double serving of omelets."

Shirou stared blankly at Lin Ye. Then his eyes grew hot, and he nodded heavily.

"Yes! Mr. Lin Xiao!"