A New World

Of course, Sefar actually intended to absorb all of humanity along with the gods. In other words, his target was civilization itself, and both gods and humans were components of civilization.

Gods are born from humanity, gods are strengthened by humanity, and humanity thrives under the protection of gods. This mutually beneficial relationship was disrupted by Sefar.

A powerful being from Outer Universe, whose armor is highly resistant to attacks from gods. This is because no matter how much a god's attack emphasizes its concept, it cannot escape the characteristic of "civilization." Sefar's armor is designed to counter the existence of "civilization."

Finally, just as Sefar was about to annihilate all the gods, the planet made a choice. Based on the prayers of the many beings on the planet, it forged the Star Weapon, also known as the Star Sword, which was the Excalibur that had fully unleashed its power!

At that moment, that familiar aura, that familiar power, was held in the hands of the mysterious human man, and he was using it to grill meat!

This scene greatly shocked Ishtar. For a moment, Ishtar wondered if there was something wrong with her connection with this body, causing her to have this strange hallucination.

Then she saw that all those people looked up at her; some were indifferent, some were curious, some were wary, and some were surprised, but none of them were afraid.

"Rin Tohsaka?" Mephistopheles was the one who was surprised. He looked at the newcomer's appearance and didn't expect to run into an acquaintance here.

However, he quickly realized he had made a mistake. Even though the appearance was the same, he could tell from the other person's characteristics that the other person was not the one he knew.

"The domain of Venus, the characteristics of a goddess, and the features of a Servant..." Mephistopheles narrowed his eyes. "She seems to be Demi-Servant Mash Kyrielight, born from the union of a human body and a deity... And judging from these features, could it be Ishtar?"

"That power is indeed Ishtar." Artemis nodded gently from the side. She had already recognized that the other party's power originated from the goddess Ishtar in Sumer mythology.

"How lazy! Couldn't they have just redesigned the character properly? Why did they have to use the old character's face?" Mephistopheles muttered under his breath, then his smile returned as he picked up the grilled meat. "Have you eaten?"

Ishtar:...

A human who can remain so calm and composed even after realizing their own identity is no ordinary human.

Ishtar could tell that the human clearly possessed the characteristics of a Servant, but he was just a human, definitely not some kind of Demi-Servant like herself.

Moreover, the Servants present, whether it was the Demi-Servant or the Knight Servant in black armor, all possessed exceptionally powerful Spirit Origin. Not only their Spirit Origin, but also the magical power surging within their bodies was immense.

Even the magical energy emanating from that ordinary human woman who was supposed to be the Master was not something a typical human would possess.

Two Grand- rank Spirit Origin, neither of whom are Grand Servant, plus two humans of considerable strength, a god, and the rest are all Servants. By all accounts, this is a powerful force capable of instantly disrupting the current balance of this world and even becoming the fourth major power.

If this force chooses to join one of the parties, it will gain an overwhelming advantage, which will have a significant impact on the other parties and may even force other forces to unite.

At this moment, Mephistopheles had already turned his attention away from Ishtar. Although she had the same face as Rin Tohsaka, Mephistopheles wasn't interested. Instead, he picked a few more fruits and handed them to the quiet Jack the Ripper.

"Here, have one, it'll make you grow up!"

He was acting like he was trying to abduct a little girl.

Jack the Ripper took the fruit, glanced at Ritsuka Fujimaru, and only swallowed it obediently after the other nodded. It was good to eat it now to enhance one's power, especially for a Servant, as such an effect of enhancing one's Spirit Origin was extremely rare.

After all, the existence of Spirit Origin is like a reservoir. If the Spirit Origin is not large enough, the amount of water it can hold will be very small. In this case, no matter how hard you train and condense magic power, it will be of no use because the upper limit is already locked.

Heroic Spirit reason why Grand Spirit Origin are so powerful is that they have the largest capacity among Grand Spirit Origin, and can even contain the full power of a typical God.

This special crystal fruit, possessing characteristics of several different divine powers, combined with the concept of the most ancient things from the beginning of creation, has a unique ability to enhance the Spirit Origin. Even if it cannot make the Spirit Origin surpass the Grand, it can maintain the same level as the Grand without any pressure.

Ishtar was stunned. Just now, she had seen an ordinary Servant, who could even be described as weak, instantly transform from a weak being into a being with a Grand- rank Spirit Origin!

Furthermore, the magical power within her body increased significantly, which meant that while enhancing the strength of her Spirit Origin, she also incidentally increased the opponent's power, expanding the reservoir's capacity while simultaneously adding some water.

This action also drew her attention to those strange, glass-like fruits.

She landed, not even having time to speak to anyone, walked to the bushes, picked a fruit, and holding it in her hand, Ishtar's expression turned serious.

Why does this mysterious fruit, which should have just been created, have a concept similar to "the most ancient thing"?

Could it be?!

Recalling the sudden arrival of divinity and the power that seemed poised to change the very fabric of the world, Ishtar looked at Artemis: "Was this created by your power?"

"I was just conducting an experiment," Artemis honestly admitted. "Because I'm not very familiar with my powers, I was just testing them out here. After all, once the history here is restored, everything will be back to normal, and it won't have any impact on the world itself."

By allowing history to be restored, Ishtar immediately grasped the key point. She looked at the group of people again, the visitors of all time. "So, you've come here to deal with us?"

To restore history, one must naturally erase the existence of errors. Therefore, everyone in this era, regardless of good or evil, is wrong.

Even if we only eliminate the Root of everything—the guy who messed around with the Holy Grail —once that guy is eliminated and history begins to be corrected, all the beings of today, whether gods or humans, will disappear. After all, this part of history was wrong, and it will naturally cease to exist after it is corrected.

Ishtar has her own choices and her own purposes. She doesn't intend to truly harm humanity, but she wants to follow her own plan and not someone else's.

She herself was like this, Feathered Serpent was like this, and Hades was the same; they all had their own purposes.

Even the giant serpent now obsessed with taking revenge on humanity has its own ideas about how humanity can survive in some way.

Therefore, at this moment, it all comes down to who has the strongest ability; whoever has the strongest ability will succeed.

If Ishtar were to judge, she felt that this group of suddenly appearing visitors would succeed.

Unless these goddesses unite to fight against them, none of them will be a match for this group in a one-on-one contest of power.

So, should I cooperate with them, or with that group of goddesses?

Ishtar pondered.

Then, she saw Mephistopheles exclaim "Ah!" and, amidst the puzzled gazes of the crowd, immediately begin the summoning ritual.

Then, a woman with short golden hair, golden eyes, and wearing magnificent armor appeared from the void. The oppressive aura and sacred presence surrounding her clearly indicated her identity.

Gods!

Especially when Ishtar saw the lance in the other's hand, she was certain it was a weapon capable of pinning the world down!

It wasn't just about pinning down the surface of the world; the gun itself also exuded the aura of creation!

Another world-shaking power?!

Are the powers of creation now commonplace?

Ishtar gazed at the descending goddess, a woman who resembled a war goddess with a serious and indifferent expression. She only glanced at Ishtar before becoming wary.

Relying on her contractual connection with Mephistopheles, the Lion King quickly identified the allies present. She then stared at Ishtar and asked, "Are these enemies?"

"We're not enemies. I called you out to ask if eating this fruit would be beneficial to your Divine Core," Mephistopheles said, pointing to the glass fruit.

Although he holds the status of Phase deity and even relies on the spread of those stories to continuously improve Lion King, too few people know this story now, so the effect is not very significant.

The power of the Phase God is naturally unrelated to the Divine Core, and their upper limits are completely different. However, in terms of increasing power in a short period of time, the Phase God's path of relying on legends to increase strength is not as good as directly increasing the Divine Core itself.

Unless, of course, he can spread this myth to hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in an instant.

Therefore, relying on the supreme feminine power to enhance the Lion King's Divine Core, who is female, may be a possible path, an option that is not yet confirmed but has a certain possibility of success.

"My Divine Core has been constantly improving," the Lion King said. Upon hearing this, Mephistopheles immediately reached out and grabbed the other's wrist. This action, which resembled that of an old Chinese medicine doctor taking a diagnosis, surprised Ritsuka Fujimaru.

Mephistopheles sensed the power within the Lion King's body and confirmed that, as the Lion King had said, the strength of his Divine Core had increased significantly compared to the past, surpassing that of a high-ranking god and advancing towards the level of a mythological Divine Core.

Just as Mephistopheles was considering whether or not to let the Lion King eat the fruit, the Lion King opened his mouth first and swallowed it.

The magic within the glass fruit—these things are not the point. Divinity was stripped away, transformed into the most basic power, and then integrated into the Lion King's own power. Storms and thunder were well-matched, while the power of the moon goddess occupied the largest portion, yet was diluted the most.

On the contrary, the least numerous powers of creation and destruction resonated most with the Lion King at this moment, and he absorbed them all.

The Lion King himself was selective about what he absorbed.

After these were integrated, the Divine Core underwent a leap-like change, transforming by the number of a kalpa in just an instant!

Creation and destruction, such is the cycle of an era in the universe. At this moment, the Lion King's Divine Core finally broke through and stepped into the level of a chief god!

In fact, it continues to improve, striving towards the level of a creator god!

This should have been impossible, but at this moment, the Phase God, the chief god of Phase, the god-king, the creator in myths and legends—these descriptions resonated with the Primordial Shakti power within the fruit, producing such a bizarre change!

Ishtar was dumbfounded. If the fact that the Servant's potential had increased to the Grand rank, and even slightly improved her current strength, surprised her, then seeing a high-ranking god suddenly become a main god, and even advance towards becoming a creator god, was more than just shocking. It was as if she had witnessed the creation of the world.

At that moment, looking at the fruit she had picked, she found herself in a dilemma.

Should she take a bite too? Would it cause any negative changes? But seeing others improve so quickly, she was really looking forward to it!

Just then, the group turned to her again. The only man, Mephistopheles, greeted her, "So, goddess Ishtar, would you like to have a proper chat with us?"

What will we talk about? How to destroy this era, correct all the mistakes, and make everything in this era disappear?

"If I were to say I could give you a few, well, how many gods are there in this era?" Mephistopheles inquired.

Ishtar was silent for a moment, then raised her finger. Mephistopheles asked in confusion, "Five?"

"I, Quetzalcoatl, also known as the Feathered Serpent, my sister Underworld Goddess Ereshkigal, Gorgon, Goddess of Beasts who controls them, and Mother Goddess Tiamat who is still in slumber."

"What a jumbled mess of mythology! This would require rewriting an entire book..." Mephistopheles muttered under his breath, then said, "What if I told you I could give you a world, a Divine Realm where you could exist without affecting the real world?"

The Lion King glanced at Mephistopheles, a hint of a smile flashing in his cold eyes.

She knew that Mephistopheles was about to start his scheme again.

Chapter 227 The New World

A very interesting theory is that the capacity of a single Type-Moon universe is finite, or rather, its energy is finite. Therefore, the number of parallel universes derived from a single universe is also finite because there is not enough energy. For this reason, it needs to be pruned for future development.

However, it has never been said how many of these single-type universes will continue to develop. As long as the number of universes resulting from this single choice is large enough, it is very likely that it can continue to increase. In other words, it is possible that even the Infinite amount of time would not be enough to fill the large universe, or multiverse, that encapsulates these single universes.

At this moment, in a sense, it can be roughly understood that this single universe is approaching the Infinite.

Of course, this is a precise way of saying that it is close to the Infinite, but it does not mean that it is the Infinite.

Is the act of creating entirely new Phase and then overlaying them onto existing Microcosm based on the Microcosm itself?

Undoubtedly, yes.

But does this Phase occupy space within the Microcosm itself?

The answer is different from the one above; it is negative.

It's like constructing a mirror world within a multiverse, and then placing this mirror world onto a single Microcosm. Because of this, the volume of the Phase can far exceed that of the original world. And because of this, the Infinite existences that cannot be contained within the entire universe can be contained within the Phase.

Therefore, after Mephistopheles's first experience of creating a new Phase using the Holy Lance, and now with Artemis's help, not to mention that he has also integrated a portion of Shakti's power, creating a new Phase is no longer as difficult as it was the first time.

The difficulty lies in maintaining the Phase, but now we have Venus, the goddess Ishtar, in front of us. We just need to put her in and let her maintain it. In addition to her, there is Feathered Serpent from the Americas and Gorgon from Greece. If we also put Tiamat in, a completely new Phase will be born.

So the current task is to persuade Ishtar to stand with us. If she doesn't, then we'll fight until she does.

Ishtar fell into thought. The other party's words surprised her. A Divine Realm that could allow gods to exist without even affecting the real world—it sounded very familiar.

"You mean something like dividing the world into an inner and outer world, with the divine beings entering the inner world and wandering the Sea of Stars, while the outer world is left to humanity?"

Isn't this the original development? Gods and fantastical creatures retreated to the inner layer of the world, leaving the outer world to humanity, and using the Holy Lance to pin down the outer layer, severing the connection between the inside and outside.

If that's really the case, there's no need for anyone's help. Besides, after the erroneous history of this world is corrected, both humans and gods will disappear, making it impossible to return to the inner side of the Sea of Stars.

There will still be someone named Ishtar inside the Sea of Stars, but not just the one she is now.

But Mephistopheles shook his head. "No."

He thought for a moment before saying, "It's a completely new world. If you want, it can be bigger than the current world, and it will be freer. Even Tiamat can play her game of creating life there."

As Mephistopheles finished speaking, he glanced at the Lion King beside him. The Lion King understood immediately and handed the Holy Lance to Mephistopheles.

Then, Mephistopheles began to circulate his magic, drawing upon the knowledge he had gained from Shakti in the distance to invoke the power of the Prima Materia.

"By the cycle of the four realms, I swear to recast authority in the void of Ain Sof!"

"My right hand holds up the Metatron's Wheel, causing the seventy-two holy names to transform into the Infinite extending straight line—behold! That lightning path that runs from Kether to Malkuth has endowed all values with equal divinity!"

"My left hand grips Samael's Reverse Blade, condensing the flames of the fifth element into an absolute singularity—listen! The Throat of Belial trembles with the collapse of a billion possibilities, and the prime of the end manifests here!"

"Using the Rose Cross as the axis, let the branches of the Inverse Tree of Life overlap with those of the Upright Tree of Life!"

"At this moment, Thoth's Silver Hammer strikes the Eye of Horus, and the triple veil is torn apart in the storm of Tefnut —reveal! The geometry of Merkabah bears the dark side of Sariel's moon, the fragments of the Tower of Babel are reassembled into Jacob's Ladder, and Sophia's tears are rising upstream along the third pillar!"

"Using the Hermes' Staff as a conductor and the ROTA Wheel as a base, let this primordial thunderbolt—'LIGHTNING OF AIN SOPH'—through the twenty-two paths, forge chaos into the newborn Tarot, The Fool!"

At that moment, a special force began to descend from the top, following a special path, and patterns like lightning appeared in the air.

Ishtar felt an immense power, a power so vast yet so concentrated. She was certain that if that power were to strike her, her body would be destroyed in an instant!

The Lion King sensed the Creation Lightning summoned by Mephistopheles this time. Compared to the last time, this Creation Lightning was much more powerful, a qualitative change. If the past was 1, then now it was 10, or even 100!

This primordial force is interacting with the world we are in now, as if it is replicating it. As the void is torn apart, space begins to slowly stabilize. Through that crack, everyone can see the world that is being born inside.

Rivers, the earth, and the mountains, trees, and flowers that begin to appear on the earth.

Seeing this, Medea laughed, "Your Creation Lightning is becoming more and more proficient. It seems that this contact with Shakti has made you much more familiar with the power of Prima Materia, and you have truly mastered a part of the power of Creation."

"After all, it's the power of the Primordial Shakti, containing the Trimurti, which has indeed been of great help to me." Mephistopheles nodded, then looked at Ishtar and asked, "Shall we go in and take a look?"

Ishtar hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "Then let's go see, human, let me see what kind of world you've created!" For a moment, Mephistopheles felt as if he were seeing Rin Tohsaka in her tone.

However, he knew it was an illusion; the person in front of him was definitely not Rin Tohsaka!

At most, she's just a god who has taken over Rin Tohsaka's body in this world.

This feeling made him somewhat uncomfortable.