Chapter 1304: You Only Have One Chance
Endless crimson light illuminated the entire digital world, with sacred magical energy permeating every fiber of everyone's being.
"We did it!"
Aoko had leaped through these few seconds to arrive at this moment. Witnessing the scene, she excitedly pumped her fist, visibly relieved.
After the barrier shattered, Eiji and the others appeared on the ground.
He scanned his surroundings, and when he saw Arcueid lying unconscious in the ruins, along with the severely wounded Minamoto no Raikou and White Saber in the distance, as well as the near-death Aoko and others—
His expression instantly turned icy.
"Goetia, how dare you do this!"
Gritting his teeth, he raised the crimson holy sword high.
"Time, reverse!"
A formless, intangible wave swept through the entire digital world.
Immediately after, the shattered buildings gradually restored themselves, the palm prints on the ground vanished, and the barrier enveloping the surroundings quickly reformed.
By the time Goetia regained her senses,
She had already returned to the moment just after defeating Tiamat.
"True... time reversal? How... is this possible?"
She stared blankly at the spot where Tiamat had just disappeared from the light membrane, muttering in utter disbelief.
Even the Fifth Magic couldn't reverse time so freely and arbitrarily!
Because recklessly manipulating time could rapidly accelerate the entropy increase of the solar system, bringing about heat death prematurely to the solar system's universe!
This was exactly the possibility Aoko had mentioned—the potential destruction of the solar system!
Yet Eiji had reversed time so effortlessly and casually!
"Huh?"
In the perfectly intact courtyard, Arcueid looked at herself in surprise.
"Why has my condition returned to how it was two days ago?"
Her state had instantly recovered to its peak from two days ago, before she had let Eiji drink her blood!
Minamoto no Raikou and the others were also astonished to find their injuries completely gone.
"Senpai! Thank goodness!"
Mash hugged the bewildered Fujimaru Ritsuka, her face tear-streaked.
"...It seems the outcome is decided."
Atilla looked at her now normally-sized self, remained silent for a moment, then spoke with certainty.
"The moment that sword was completed, Eiji-san had no rivals left in the solar system."
Hakuno Kishinami nodded naturally.
Of course.
This was under the premise that Mooncell was serving as his computer.
With Mooncell handling the aftermath, he could reverse time without any reservations, accomplishing what only Magic could achieve—and with even greater power!
With Mooncell as his computer, it's no exaggeration to say that Eiji's strength had surpassed the limits of the Root, making him unrivaled within the solar system!
"The result of this grand contest is already clear."
Morgan returned to the living room and sat down gracefully.
"Indeed, the overall situation is settled."
Merlin and Scáthach both wore expressions of profound emotion.
They had witnessed the birth of the strongest weapon in the solar system!
In the sky.
"Goetia, I'll give you a fair chance at a decisive battle."
Eiji stood in the void.
As he spoke, he removed the ring from his finger.
Without Mooncell as his computer, the holy sword of the Annihilation in his hand instantly lost much of its imposing aura.
"Make your move! You only have one chance!"
"..."
Goetia remained silent.
She didn't know how to express the violent turmoil in her heart at this moment with words.
She could only respond with action.
The rules of the Seventh Beast Crown were fully engraved upon the world. The Golden Cup continuously spilled endless mud as the Greater Grail manifested behind her, transferring infinite magical energy to her.
In that instant, a Human Order Cannon more powerful than any before was born in her hands.
The dark magical blast grew thick enough to cover the entire sky of the digital world. This several-kilometer-wide magical cannon shone as brilliantly as the sun!
"BOOOOOOOOOOM——————!!!"
This devastating strike, fierce enough to shatter a planet, descended from the sky under Goetia's watchful gaze.
Countless spells entwined around it.
Whether they reversed causality, destroyed souls, or seduced minds... every conceivable spell she could imagine was imbued into this single attack.
The atmosphere was crushed away, turning the entire world into a vacuum.
The remaining participants desperately fled toward the outer edges of the light membrane.
Facing this sun-crashing-down-like attack, Eiji remained unmoved.
He simply raised his sword.
Pushing his demonic power to its limits, with the holy sword's assistance, his ability to manipulate causality fully erupted, effortlessly nullifying the causality reversal.
The essence of the ability to alter rules lies in understanding those rules, then changing the undesirable parts.
Because understanding rules requires immense computational power, it normally depends on supercomputers to achieve.
Now that Eiji had severed his connection with Mooncell, he naturally couldn't use that supercomputer.
Therefore, he now had to rely solely on his own brain to comprehend the rules.
For ordinary people, this would be nothing short of a fantasy.
But for him, whose soul had reached a rarity even on Earth, it wasn't impossible.
Moreover, Eiji didn't need to understand too much.
He only needed to memorize one universal pattern.
Memorizing that pattern by rote, then applying this single pattern whenever needed—this was the foolproof method.
"Aside from me, no supernatural power exists in this world!"
With those words.
The rules changed.
The world transformed accordingly.
The majestic magical cannon that resembled the sun vanished like a mirage. The Golden Cup turned into an ordinary golden chalice, and the Greater Grail lost its luster, both falling to the ground together.
The rules forcibly engraved by the Seventh Beast Crown were immature.
They didn't alter the world's fundamental rules but temporarily replaced them with her own, only to be eventually rejected by the world's original rules.
But the rules of the Annihilation holy sword were different. The rules determined by the Annihilation would naturally replace the world's original rules, becoming the eternal truth of this world from now on.
For example, if Eiji decided that one plus one equals three, then for countless years to come, one plus one equaling three would be the world's truth—unless he capriciously changed the rules back, which would likely require the terrifying computational power to grasp the entire universe in his palm.
However, the other requirement for the Holy Annihilation—a massive amount of magical energy—was also a troublesome issue. But for the current computer world, which had shrunk to a mere five kilometers in diameter, altering the rules of such a small world wouldn't require much magical energy.
Goetia's cheek twitched violently, and a torrent of curses surged in her heart.
She finally understood how to express her feelings at this moment.
"Holy shit, there's a cheater!"
Years of effort couldn't compare to a cheater activating their hacks in an instant!
Eiji thrust his sword forward.
Goetia let out a muffled groan.
With her heart pierced, she instantly lost all signs of life and collapsed to the ground.
An immense, blank Spirit Origin surged toward Eiji.