Enuma Elish shredded the reality, ripping a hole through the titanic room.
A red, magical pillar of utter destruction obliterated Evil Gilgamesh and kept going far, disappearing at the horizon, finally leaving the planet's atmosphere and vanishing into space.
As the usage condition of My House, My Rules wasn't met, the Skill's execution came to an abrupt stop.
However, abhorrent changes had already occurred on the battlefield.
Crrrrrrrk!
Something shifted on the destroyed ground, glitching.
Step after step, it blurred in and out of existence.
Dark Sakura — The Shadow — The All Evil — now fully contained in one physical form.
However, even though it represented an utterly terrifying existence, there was something wrong with it.
Black substance was flaking off Dark Sakura like tongues of fire.
It was like whatever made it whole and kept it alive was now missing from it.
If it kept going on like this, then it wouldn't be long before The Shadow itself ran out of the fuel maintaining its existence.
On the other side, two Riders and two Lancers were engaged in a bloody battle as well.
Despite them matching the strength of their original forms, all the Evil Servants were bound to disappear.
A Heroic Spirit, good or evil, just couldn't exist without a Master in the Holy Grail War.
"Hahaha…" the Evil Lancer, donning black armor, laughed, attacking the blur-armored one. "Look what you have become! A mere pawn! Why hold yourself back?! Answer me!"
Behind him, pink-black blurs flashed against the blackness as the two Riders engaged with each other.
"Kekeke…" the Evil Rider cackled. "Should I call her… Should I — summon her…"
Just as a chill ran down both Rider and Lancer's spines, their Evil Counterparts suddenly paused, black dots of light flaking off them, making them frown.
The moment their existences began vanishing, though, a mass of blackness spread under them.
With a loud crunch, the blackness devoured them.
Standing in the middle of everything, Dark Sakura made chewing sounds, digesting the Evil Heroic Spirits to sustain herself.
Then, turning her neck unnaturally, she looked over to the disappearing Evil Saber and let out a grin.
Unlike Rider and Lancer, the two Sabers hadn't attacked each other.
The Evil Saber hadn't even moved, much less needed to be said about acting out against the original one.
Just as Dark Sakura decided to devour her for nourishment, her dress — her Magic Circuits — The Shadow — lit up, a set of patterns manifesting on the back of her hand.
The Command Seals!
Almost instantaneously, the Evil Saber's erasure paused, turning her into a known existence across different timelines — Saber Alter!
Of course, these changes were happening too fast, along with the others.
…
Black coughed blood as Berserker stumbled back.
Before executing the Skill, the Ad Infinitum and Lucky Intuitions had calculated that the plan wouldn't reach completion.
Kai had never worried about the imposed Rule of Good and Evil Not Existing Together affecting him.
People like him were inherently evil. So — what division?
The same went for Kirei Kotomine, who had watched everything happening with a puzzled face, not knowing what was happening to the Heroic Spirits.
Also, knowing that his plan wouldn't reach completion, Black had gone and combined the rejected Rule — All Evil Must Perish — with Nothing Is Impossible.
If My House, My Rules had remained active, then it would have definitely impacted Black, Berserker, and Kirei, along with all Evil Heroic Spirits.
In their absence, though, the All Evilspoken by Black attached itself to the only existence that represented All Evil — Dark Sakura.
And, as even the Counter Force believed that without a Ruler-Class Servant's interference it was impossible to eliminate The Shadow, he met the Nothing Is Impossible's stringent condition.
That's why, despite her existence connected to the Root, Dark Sakura was vanishing.
For a moment, even Black was shocked as he saw how ridiculous the effects of his two Skills were, if combined.
Still, it was incredibly hard to eliminate all variables.
Black and Berserker had been actively using Master Telekinesis, throwing the Ability between them several hundred times per second, just to keep the structure up, pulling everyone within the House Common Room.
And this on top of using the Ad Infinitum to momentarily constrain even the likes of Enkidu, Overlord, and Gilgamesh.
So, when Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasm — Enuma Elish — tore apart everything, Black and Berserker experienced a majestic backlash, temporarily blackening their vision. Even the AI within them had to reboot because of the rebound.
By the time Black and Berserker recovered, things had taken a much different turn.
…
In the sky, Ainz Ooal Gown looked around through the Black Cruciforms plunged in his eyes, but couldn't see a hint of the white-suited man with the Video Camera.
It didn't matter, he decided, nodding to himself.
With a great urgency, and seeing the Dark Sakura gaining Saber Alter as her Servant, the Overlord lifted the shaft in his left hand.
A black aura flashed around her, and Dark Sakura's mind jolted, making her pass out. Then, she disappeared and reappeared next to the Overlord.
For Ainz Ooal Gown to succeed in his endeavor, he needed The Shadow to remain alive till the end of the Holy Grail War — even if it meant dooming this timeline.
And what did it matter if this timeline ceased to exist?
All the people he cared about — all his loyal followers — were already safe, ruling the timelines that he had conquered.
So, becoming a black speck of light, Ainz Ooal Gown shot through the sky — and ran away.
…
Up in the sky, Enkidu narrowed his eyes.
The moment he saw the Death Mage taking away his target, a golden light shone around him.
"Wait!" Gilgamesh shouted. "I…"
Enkidu looked over his shoulder and smiled, and then became a ray of golden light, chasing after the black one.
Cursing, Gilgamesh boomed out of existence, determined to fight with Enkidu.
And, on the blackened, burned, and destroyed grounds, only a few players were left.
On one side were Black and Berserker.
Opposite them was Rider, holding good Sakura in her arms.
Lancer stood in front of Kirei, huffing and puffing, his grip tightening on the red spear.
Still confused, but determined to save her Master, Saber held her sword up, her eyes narrowing at them.
And, between everyone, a dozen feet up, hovered Zouken's Inheritance.
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