Three days after the last Banquet of Kings, the Red Faction, along with the Mage's Association and the Holy Church, launched a full-scale attack, revealing almost all of their trump cards.
Top-tier Heroic Spirit emerged Servant, and even the old monsters hidden within the Mage's Association and the Holy Church couldn't resist taking action in the end. The battle escalated continuously and became extremely fierce.
However, compared to the Mage's Association and the Holy Church, the Black Faction is in a much better position. With the many backup plans provided by Wang Hao, as long as the true spirit is still there, even if the soul is destroyed, it can still be resurrected.
Often, the moment someone is killed in battle, Wang Hao uses a contingency plan left on each person to recall their true spirit and soul, and then uses Human Body Alchemy to clone and reshape a body.
Although this reconstructed body is not as good as the original and requires a certain adjustment period, the ample time provided by the time barrier is enough to make up for this shortcoming.
Therefore, Black Faction not only did not suffer major losses, but also honed itself through the intense battle, with each player growing at a remarkably fast pace.
Finally, the existence of the time barrier was discovered by Amakusa Shirou, the Mage's Association, and the Holy Church, shocking them and fueling their greed.
As Sage, Amakusa Shirou naturally had no greed, but that did not prevent him from recognizing the power of the barrier at that moment.
Combined with Black Faction's inherent strength and the power of that mysterious Eastern Heroic Spirit, Black Faction is poised to grow stronger with each battle.
At first, they had the upper hand, but now the two sides are evenly matched. The Black Faction's Heroic Spirit have become much stronger and now possess the power to contend with them. Even if they fight the three sides at the same time, they will not be at a disadvantage.
If this trend continues, their defeat is only a matter of time.
Having understood this, Amakusa Shirou weighed the options for a long time and finally decided to engage in a deeper strategic cooperation with the Mage's Association and the Holy Church, and then go all out in a final battle to defeat the Black Faction.
Although he disliked these underhanded methods, he had no choice but to resort to them in order to fulfill his great ambition of saving humanity.
Of course, it won't be easy to forge a deep partnership with those old foxes in the Holy Church and the Mage's Association, even though the current situation is far from optimistic. So it will take some time, during which time the war will continue.
" Gudao, continue!"
In the midst of the brutal battlefield, Kariya Matou, transformed into a ten-meter-tall giant, roared and swung his greatsword fiercely, sending the monster released by the Mage's Association flying towards his junior brother Gudao.
This monster is extremely troublesome. Not only is it powerful, but it can also self-destruct, and the explosive force is quite terrifying.
He was almost killed by this monster last time, and now the monster he's fighting is about to self-destruct, so he has to quickly send it flying towards the enemy.
Hearing his senior brother's call, Gudao didn't waste any words. He opened his arms and tightly hugged the monster that was being blasted at him. Then, like a martyr bravely going to his death with a bomb on his back, he charged headlong into the enemy's rear.
"Boom!"
Finally, the monster self-destructed, creating a massive crater several kilometers in diameter at the epicenter, annihilating everything within it.
The resulting shockwave swept across tens of thousands of meters, causing secondary casualties.
At the same time, a huge figure was blown out from the center of the explosion; it was Gudao, who had charged in carrying the monster.
Seeing that Gudao's figure had swelled up even more, Gudako couldn't help but complain.
"What a pervert! Luckily, I didn't exchange cultivation techniques with him back then."
Mash and Olga Marie, who always maintained a close connection, nodded in agreement.
When they first heard that powerful figure say that Gudao had obtained the strongest cultivation technique, they were filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred, and some even considered exchanging cultivation techniques with him.
Fortunately, their rationality suppressed this crazy idea.
Yes, it's a crazy idea.
From the monstrous smile of that powerful figure that day, they could indeed guess that the Gudao inherited might have some hidden pitfalls, but they never expected that the pitfalls would be so large and so deep.
That technique was indeed very powerful, and it focused on cultivating the physical body, ultimately forging an Invincible physique.
However, it has one drawback that is not really a drawback: it causes the body to keep growing, growing indefinitely.
That powerful figure may have taken inspiration from Spartacus's Noble Phantasm and Heracles 'Noble Phantasm God Hand, allowing Gudao's body to gradually become immune to such attacks, while simultaneously absorbing and converting the energy contained in the opponent's attacks, causing her body to continuously grow larger and stronger.
When the energy accumulates to the limit that Gudao can contain, it can be released in an instant, creating powerful damage.
This transforms Gudao into a super tank and Berserker on the battlefield, seemingly invincible and growing stronger and more dangerous the more the battle progresses.
Now even enemy Heroic Spirit are Servant avoiding Gudao and Kariya Matou, unwilling to fight against these super-powerful tanks.
Even Karna, who had previously been very interested in Kariya Matou, gave up on fighting him. Ever since Wang Hao optimized Kariya Matou's techniques by comprehending the secrets from the God Hand, he quickly adapted to his Yang Spirit. According to his calculations, even if he unleashed his ultimate Noble Phantasm, it would be difficult to kill him.
This made their battles quite boring, so after fighting for a while, Karna decisively found another opponent.
Anyway, he didn't want to fight that scoundrel.
" Mash, Marie, this Holy Grail War should be coming to an end soon. Go all out and try to gain as much combat experience as possible."
After glancing at the battlefield situation, Gudako gave a shout, spread her wings, and transformed into Daoliu, rushing into the enemy's position and wreaking havoc, annihilating the ugly monsters summoned by the enemy.
Upon hearing this, Mash slammed the large shield on the dining table in her hand, and a giant city wall spanning a hundred miles appeared, blocking all the enemy monsters and allowing her own warriors to launch an attack at their own pace.
Olga Marie, not to be outdone, transformed the Autumn Steed Sword into Projection of the World Tree, providing beneficial buffs to her countless soldiers while simultaneously conjuring True Magic power to attack the enemy's wave of monsters.
All of this did not happen within Romania territory; if it did, Romania would have to be erased.
All of these wars took place within a special, Reality Marble, a semi-independent space.
This was naturally Wang Hao's doing; he copied the Mirror Dimension from the Sorcerer Supreme in the Marvel movies and even used the World Tree as the array's core.
Even with Gilgamesh unleashing his full power on Ea, it would be difficult to break through, so this Holy Grail War did not actually cause any substantial damage to Romania.
After nightfall, both sides ceased fighting again. The witch White Jeanne Alter, who had been defeated by Siegfried and the Saintess Jeanne d'Arc Alter d' Sieg, glared coldly at the two of them. Abruptly, she did not utter a single harsh word as before, but silently withdrew from the battlefield.
However, this silence only made Sieg and Saintess White Jeanne more worried, and they had a vague sense of foreboding.
Unfortunately, this Holy Grail War and the will of the witch Jeanne d'Arc Alter are beyond their control. They can only take it one step at a time and hope that Jeanne d'Arc Alter will change her mind at the last moment, rather than becoming more and more entangled.
Where on earth did Gilles go?
Upon returning to Millennia Castle, Saintess White Jeanne' Arc, as before, immediately went back to the command room and retrieved all the surveillance footage of the war. Unfortunately, after watching it several times, she still couldn't find Fleet Admiral Gilles.
Gilles had disappeared from the battlefield seven days ago and had not been seen since, which made her very uneasy.
She knew very well that her former general had gone mad because of her death and was capable of anything.
Now that they've been missing for seven days straight, they must be plotting something terrible, which is definitely not a good thing.
Sure enough, Saint White Jeanne's unease came true a day later.
The powerful figures from various factions, who were discussing the final battle plan, all turned their gazes to the southeast, where an extremely evil and terrifying aura emanated. Just sensing that aura gave them splitting headaches.
Wang Hao immediately tore through space to reach the source of the aura. The Grand Duke and the others also hurriedly filed out through the spatial rift. However, when they saw what caused this source, everyone couldn't help but gasp.
Cthulhu?
Looking at the colossal creature standing in the Black Sea, Wang Hao's expression also became solemn.
This colossal creature, spanning hundreds of miles, is roughly humanoid, but its head is shaped like an octopus, and it has a pair of deformed wings on its back, making it very similar to the Cthulhu Old God in mythology.
Cthulhu is an incredibly vast pantheon, an existence even older than the gods of mythology, which hid in the Spirit Sea after being defeated by the ancient gods.
Gilles ' Noble Phantasm, the Noble Phantasm of the Prelati's Spellbook, is designed to summon deep-sea monsters and, theoretically, could summon the Cthulhu Old God.
Not to mention that the Black Sea itself is legendary as the Sea of Death, which can greatly enhance the Prelati's Spellbook. Coupled with a full seven days of preparation time, it is not impossible to summon an Cthulhu Old God.
What troubled Wang Hao was that the aura of the Cthulhu Old God in front of him was completely at the Taiyi Realm level, which in this world would be equivalent to the God King Realm in various mythological systems.
Although his cultivation had recovered to the Early Taiyi Realm, dealing with such a behemoth would still be quite difficult, not to mention that he had to control the scale of the battle to avoid destroying the entire world.
" Gilles!"
Sensing the Sisi trace of Gilles's aura within the Cthulhu Old God, Saintess White Jeanne felt a deep sorrow.
Because she knew that her former subordinate was dead, and even the Heroic Spirit itself within the Heroic Spirit Divine Throne no longer existed.
The Cthulhu Old God summoned this time was too powerful, enough to overcome the power of the Counter Force and pull out and devour Gilles's true form, thus allowing this terrifying being to fully manifest in the world.
"Hey, hey, hey... This is way too overpowered! Master, were the sea monsters you encountered in your parallel world memories this exaggerated?"
The King of Conquerors, riding the Gordius Wheel, twitched the corner of his lips, truly unsure how to evaluate this Holy Grail War.
The appearance of Wang Hao was already abnormal enough, but now this terrifying, world -Destroying the World monster has appeared.
If every Holy Grail War was this terrifying, then even countless parallel universes would be doomed.
"The sea monster in my memory wasn't this big!"
Meanwhile, Waver, who was at the Mage's Association headquarters, smiled wryly, realizing that things were really getting serious.
Although the enemy Wang Hao is very strong, he is a rational person and it is basically impossible for him to destroy this world, but the Cthulhu Old God is different.
That is the true God of Destruction; if it were to be fully revived, the entire world would be destroyed.
"Ahoge... I mean, King of Knights, can your holy sword destroy that thing?"
Seeing that the Mage's Association, the Holy Church, and the Red Faction's Heroic Spirit had all arrived, Wang Hao turned his gaze to Ahoge King, but after receiving a sharp look from the other party, he ultimately did not utter the full name of Ahoge King.
The Cthulhu Old God are extremely powerful, definitely at the Taiyi Realm, making them very difficult to destroy. Aside from his own trump cards, the only thing he could think of was Ahoge King's Excalibur.
In the Nasuverse universe Excalibur is a star-forged sword, specifically designed to protect Earth and humanity. When fully unleashed, it possesses attack power equivalent to the Taiyi Realm.
"I'm sorry, I can't!"
The Ahoge King answered decisively; that's just her personality—if she can do it, she can do it; if she can't, she can't.
Although her Excalibur powerful, when fully unleashed, it can rival even the strongest beings at the Divine Realm, and its attack power is in no way inferior to Gilgamesh's Ea.
However, the Cthulhu Old God in front of her was far beyond her ability to cope with; even if she unleashed her full power, it was questionable whether she could even injure it.
"I knew it wasn't!"
Although somewhat disappointed, it was within Wang Hao's expectations.
In Nasuverse, Excalibur is known as the Star-Forged Sword, and its wielder, King Arthur, is known as the Swordsman, the ultimate protector of the planet and humanity.
However, there are several versions of King Arthur. In the version of Prototype Saber King Arthur, the character is male, and the other character is the true wielder of the Holy Sword, possessing the real Star-Forged Holy Sword.
Compared to that, the one in Ahoge King's hand was just a knock-off version, and its power was far inferior.
He had only been testing the waters with a glimmer of hope, but the result disappointed him.
"Looks like we still have to use that thing!"
With a sigh, Wang Hao called out to the four people behind him, including Gudako, " Gudako, you guys come here for a moment."
All eyes turned to him; they knew very well that Wang Hao was the strongest here and the one with the best chance of fighting that monster.