"Roar—!!!" A dragon's roar carrying immense pressure erupted from Sieg's mouth, making the entire massive Aerial Garden tremble. The roar was even capable of harming Heroic Spirits, but the Black Faction and Jeanne d'Arc were under the protection of Hades and the Twin Gods, so the roar did not harm them in the slightest.
However, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada was in a bad way. The tachi in his hand, Miike Tenta, vibrated and hummed continuously within the sound waves of the roar. After all, it was merely an ordinary sword that Shakespeare had strengthened into a Noble Phantasm using his Enchantment skill; it could not withstand the roar of a Dragon Kind infused with such immense power and immediately shattered in Amakusa Shirou Tokisada's hand.
Amakusa Shirou Tokisada looked at the Miike Tenta that had shattered into several pieces in his hand, tossed it aside, and said:
"It seems the one residing within your body is a high-ranking Dragon Kind of a very high level. To deal with you, I must use my trump card."
"Right Hand - Evil Eater!!"
"Left Hand - Xanadu Matrix!!"
Amakusa Shirou Tokisada shed his upper garments and haori, revealing his muscular physique. Both wrists flickered with different lights: his right hand emitted black light runes mixed with blood-red light, while his left hand emitted blue light runes radiating a holy white glow.
[Right Hand - Evil Eater]
[Left Hand - Xanadu Matrix]
[Rank: D]
[Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm]
[Range: 1]
[Maximum Targets: 1 person]
[A Noble Phantasm formed from the pair of arms that once repeatedly performed miracles to give hope to believers walking a difficult path. It can connect to any magic foundation, acting as a Skeleton Key to use any magecraft. Simultaneously, the right and left arms respectively activate abilities similar to the 'Mind's Eye (True)' and 'Mind's Eye (Fake)' skills, strengthening his Baptism Chant. The right arm is primarily responsible for combat support such as precognition, while the left arm is responsible for self-strengthening. It also possesses an anti-aging effect. Amakusa Shirou Tokisada analyzed his own magic circuits; while magic circuits usually become fixed organs once they gain a switch, his magic circuits constantly mutate by the second, sometimes even changing in number.]
Relying on the sharp intuition of a Dragon Kind, Sieg immediately understood that the runes emitting two different lights on Amakusa Shirou Tokisada's hands were a Noble Phantasm. Although its rank was low, his intuition told him that the Noble Phantasm was dangerous.
"Like Jacob's Ladder, granting light to my dreams. Connecting to the leylines, piercing through the world."
Amakusa Shirou Tokisada slowly floated up, closing his eyes as he chanted the incantation for the Noble Phantasm's release. Spheres of white and black light appeared in his palms, which he then threw out.
"Twin Arm - Big Crunch!!"
The two spheres of light, carrying the auras of a white angel and a black demon respectively, flew out instantly in the shape of a DNA double helix. When the two collided, they fused together, forming a miniature celestial black hole.
[Twin Arm - Big Crunch]
[Rank: A+]
[Type: Anti-Army Noble Phantasm]
[Range: 1~200]
[Maximum Targets: 500 people]
[By connecting both arms to the leylines, the magic circuits in both arms are loaded with excessive mana and go berserk. It is a destruction-type Noble Phantasm that refines simulated dark matter to erode everything in its surroundings. Because it requires an enormous amount of mana, it is normally unusable as a Noble Phantasm. To fully drive this Noble Phantasm, a mana supply path in some form other than a Master must be established.]
At this moment, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada was using the infinite mana of the greater grail as a supply. Therefore, the power of the black hole he created was even more massive than the mana he had accumulated over sixty years.
"Roar of Life's Beauty!!" The dragon sword in Sieg's left hand erupted with an energy impact filled with vitality and dragon power, contending against the black hole created by Amakusa Shirou Tokisada. If Amakusa Shirou Tokisada's Noble Phantasm was meant to erode all things, then Sieg's attack was meant to restore all things. It was uncertain what would happen when these two opposing energies collided.
The Life Stream Dragon was the most unique existence among all the guardian dragons of the underworld. Its ability, much like its name, symbolized the flow of life, possessing the power to resurrect the dead in an instant; furthermore, it could gather energy from the air and the earth to convert into life force. In the underworld, the Life Stream Dragon was synonymous with hope, treating every living being in the world with the love and mercy of a Great Mother Earth.
The erosion of darkness and the restoration of life, two forces akin to light and shadow, clashed and maintained a strange balance.
It appeared that way, but the erosion of Amakusa Shirou Tokisada's Noble Phantasm was gradually being suppressed by the life force of Sieg's attack. Although the mana of the greater grail was nearly infinite, dark matter was extremely difficult to control, requiring massive amounts of mana to manipulate, and thus the consumption rate was exceptionally high.
Furthermore, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada's wish would lead to the destruction of human civilization and could even cause the world to perish. Thus, the two great Counter-Forces of the Type-Moon world, Gaia and Alaya, intervened. They granted their power to Sieg, making the vitality-filled Roar of Life's Beauty even more powerful.
Sieg's attack directly annihilated the black hole and even pierced through Amakusa Shirou Tokisada. He looked at the large hole through his chest in disbelief as blood flowed continuously, then he fell to the ground. Looking up at the ornate ceiling, he laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "I never expected that the plan I spent sixty years on would end in such failure."
Sieg also deactivated his Dragonification, his eyes closing as he fell forward. Seeing this, Hades immediately caught Sieg.
Hades looked at Amakusa Shirou Tokisada, whose saint graph was shattering and was about to return to the Throne of Heroes, and murmured, "Your dream is over, pseudo-saint. Your wish may seem beautiful, but it contains immense harm. Go back to where you belong."
After speaking, Hades turned and walked toward the greater grail. Looking at the greater grail filled with golden light, a mocking smile appeared on his face as he said:
"Magi are truly foolish, going to such lengths to obtain this greater grail just to reach that void known as The Root."
At this point, Hades recalled the scene of the Holy Grail in another parallel world being corrupted by All the World's Evil (Angra Mainyu)—a disastrous sight of raging fires, panicked people, and flowing black mud.
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