Chapter 261

【His cheat-like Noble Phantasm would no longer be effective.】

【"Words are useless, Kaguya."】

【The youth said calmly.】

【"Breakthrough, if it weren't for the chasm-like barrier between self and non-self, reaching the level of eternal stability."】

【"Our self would have long since dissipated in the endless cycle."】

【"Hmph."】

【Kaguya snorted coldly, non-committal.】

【But her attacks became even more wild.】

【That Nii-chan.】

【That Nii-chan who experienced almost the same experiences, yet blocks my path to the ideal...】

【Indeed unforgivable———!!!】

Their battlefield was mostly in the starry sky, occasionally passing over high mountains, flying over oceans, flashing by, perhaps both tacitly avoiding the Earth.

But even so, the aftermath of just a flash caused a near-extinction-level disaster.

The creatures of that parallel world were even once pushed to the edge of extinction.

The entire Japanese archipelago was erased from the earth as if by an eraser, raising a tsunami nearly three thousand meters high.

It wiped out the Federation's mainland of that world in one fell swoop, shattering the central mountain range stretching for thousands of miles, rushing into the Great Lakes region, and flowing back into the ocean.】

The unimaginable cruel disaster directly left the real Earth speechless.】

The Federation people were so scared their faces turned pale, lingering in fear.】

Japan accepted it calmly.】

Used to it.】

Two aurorae shuttled through the void, traveling between worlds, descending upon parallel Earths.】

Even if they deliberately avoided it, there was always a moment they couldn't avoid.】

The next day.】

When the morning sun rose again.】

The moment the great beings were fighting, they shuttled through the void, causing that peerless power to begin to vent wantonly the moment it descended into a foreign land.】

Time seemed to freeze.】

Silently, high hills, rivers, cities... everything on the earth was erased in the first instant.】

The gorgeous radiance was like the most terrifying horn of destruction.】

The crust was peeling off, followed by the mantle a hundred times thicker, peeling off layer by layer, revealing the scorching liquid layer, and even the core...】

Then...】

The planet... was pierced.】

People watched blankly as the European continent on the other side of the planet was blown away, trembling.】

The stars were shaking, the planet was exploding, Gaia was wailing, everything was heading toward the end under this ultimate power.】

All of humanity watched the end of that other Earth with bloodless faces.】

If they hadn't been a bit luckier, perhaps that would have been their fate.】

For a long time.】

Someone asked with a trembling voice, face bloodless: "Have they become stronger?"】

You know, destroying a world and destroying a planet are never the same concept.】

A little boy can destroy a small city.】

A Tsar Bomba is equivalent to thousands of little boys.】

A million Tsar Bombas are enough to end human civilization in one blow.】

But even if it were multiplied by a million or ten million times, it would still be so small to a planet.】

And now...】

A planet.】

Just like that... gone?】

The next moment, people's questions had an answer.】

【"Nii-chan, did you give up your 'self' to stop me?"】

【On the wreckage of the planet.】

【Kaguya's unbelievable, shrill voice echoed.】

【"Kaguya, as the outflow of the Root, you are returning to the Root at every moment, and at the same time, you are becoming stronger at every moment."】

【The youth responded indifferently.】

【"If you don't reach the other shore, achieve the three realms of Nothingness/Emptiness/Zero, and become an awakened one, how can you be stopped?"】

【Compared to before, the voice no longer carried emotional color, like the calm narration of a Buddha.】

【The universe is the Buddha's country.】

【This is the cosmology of this universe called the Moon World.】

【Because it is vast and boundless, it is also called the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds.】

【In modern times, those who pursue the path of awakening and run around to save all living beings are also collectively called Bodhisattvas.】

【Like Kaguya as a Beast.】

【But in more ancient times.】

【Only those who run around to save all living beings (all sentient things), dedicate themselves, possess existence on a cosmic scale, and manage the Three Thousand Worlds are called Bodhisattvas.】

【That is the awakened one who has transcended the records of the Root and reached the other shore, or... the Awakened One.】

【They must have the vow to save all living beings, must protect with everything, transcend intellect, and thus find it difficult to possess the self in the eyes of mortals.】

【And this Holy King is perhaps the existence closest to the other shore among many dimensions.】

【Because he had already taken that step, he just pulled back.】

【And now...】

【The awakened one under the Bodhi tree opened his eyes and stood up slowly.】

【Merging with the Holy King of reality.】

【"Like Kaguya's destined ending, falling into a state equivalent to death?"】

【Someone muttered.】

【Many people retorted: "What exactly is the so-called self? It's just an illusion of us mortals. Every seven years, even we ourselves are completely replaced."】

【Some people looked at the furious Kaguya, their expressions strange, but they didn't dare to speak.】

【Everything has an ending.】

【With the extreme sublimation of the two transcendents, they seemed to break through a certain boundary and completely entered a realm that is unknown.】

【Disappearing from people's vision.】

【Only the occasionally shaking void and vaguely visible light showed that they were still in a battle that seemed eternal.】

【Sensing that perhaps the final result would come, everyone didn't dare to close their eyes, didn't eat, staying hungry; didn't go to the restroom, holding it in.】

【Staring dead at the Sky Curtain,】

【Waiting.】

【Waiting for the ending of everything.】

【Who knows how long, when people finally couldn't hold it anymore.】

【*Bang~~*】

【The unfathomable battlefield cracked open a seam, and a silver fragment stained with blood fell from the firmament, vaguely visible that the world was also Earth.】

【Also Fuyuki City.】

【They even saw that somewhat familiar face, with an aristocratic temperament, picking up the fragment in confusion.】

【Soon.】

【As if absorbing some information, he showed an expression of ecstasy to the point of distortion, waving the fragment out of control: "Nayotake, this Holy Grail War is already in the pocket of me, Shinomiya Gaan!!!"】

【Not caring about this fragment, people's hearts sank.】 ===== CHAPTER 262 =====