Chapter 449

【"It seems life in a parallel world is quite difficult too…"】

【Looking down at the new terrain at the edge of the horizon, Shirogane Meguri, who had gathered with Yukinoshita Haruno, felt a tingling sensation across her scalp.】

【Not to mention their numbers, the mere existence of a single god is already transcendently powerful.】

【And yet, they possess such an understanding of humanity that cuts to the bone, along with schemes laid out over ten thousand years.】

【Compared to the parallel world, the lack of peace in their own world really counts for nothing.】

【In the breeze under the night sky.】

【Yukinoshita Haruno did not speak; her slender fingers toyed with a cigarette, but her gaze was involuntarily fixed on the magical projection.】

【Watching that man who stood like a towering mountain, her gaze held a hint of envy…】

【Envy for such clear-cut good and evil, such simple stances; one only needed to move straight ahead, and it would definitively be the blade of justice.】

【Whereas the love, hate, and grudges between people, where right and wrong are hard to distinguish—even she found it difficult to discern.】

【She envied even more that dashing spirit, that grand passion that held even the Omnipotent Grail in its eyes.】

【But all of that belonged only to heroes, only to those brilliant figures of the past and present.】

【And she had known for a long time…】

【The young lady's cold gaze turned toward the bright moonlight.】

【The woman named Yukinoshita Haruno was, after all, nothing more than a mortal.】

【No matter who it is, even if it were a close friend or beloved, as long as they stand in her way to seize the Holy Grail, she will kill them without mercy.】

257. The entire audience suffocated, the strongest divine beast—Bull of Heaven!

【"Master, he… is he actually such a hero?"】

【On the roof of a love hotel in the distance.】

【Amidst the hazy lights, Lancelot, dressed in modern casual wear, muttered in utter disbelief.】

【This Holy Grail War really kept catching him off guard.】

【Ten minutes ago, he saw that dashing king with golden hair and green eyes, shattering the fluke of hope in his heart.】

【He was both excited and scared to death.】

【Excited enough to want to rush out, place his neck under the King's sword, and receive the King's judgment.】

【Yet filled with guilt, he had no courage to stand out and face the King.】

【Perhaps it would have been better if he were still that mindless pitch-black knight. ~】

【As a man called the First Knight, when he saw the golden king draw the invisible sword, he forcibly overcame his fear, and with resolve, prepared to rescue his Master from the King's sword.】

【He was stunned.】

【What did he see? What the hell did he see?!!】

【That Master of his, who loved to twist the knife in his wounds and sprinkle a little chili powder on top, was actually suppressing the King in battle…?】

【No one knew the King's strength better than he did.】

【That was the King of Miracles who crushed the last Dragon God, the Uncrowned Knight who thoroughly ended the Age of Gods.】

【Even among the gathering of heroic spirits, he was a top-tier existence.】

【And yet, he was actually being suppressed by his Master?】

【Others might not know, but he knew his Master was not a Berserker, but a Caster!!】

【"Master, what exactly are you?"】

【Lancelot looked at the man in the distance who looked down upon the entire field, his face full of complexity.】

【As someone who could be considered first-class even among heroic spirits, and who had even fought against the last of the gods.】

【He could naturally tell that perhaps Li Shuwen's identity was fictional.】

【But there was no doubt that the layers upon layers of divine remnants and curses entwined around his Master were undoubtedly genuine.】

【With his Master being this strong, he, who could be considered a top-tier Servant in any Holy Grail War, felt a bit lost.】

【"What an honor this is, Master."】

【The purple-haired youth looked into the distance and sighed softly.】

【What great luck; to have met the King in life, and to meet a lord like Master after death.】

【Perhaps the style is different, but hidden beneath that cynical exterior is definitely an unparalleled spirit and will.】

………

A certain Great Age of Discovery world.

Ten thousand li of blue waves, endless surging tides.

"Hahahaha, what heroism, what a heart-yearning sight.."

On a magnificent pirate ship, an old man wearing a white coat, with a towering build and muscles like forged steel, laughed loudly, his eyes revealing extreme yearning and longing.

The ocean of the other world is also very vast.

The heroes of the other world are as dense as clouds.

Even though he is called the "Living Legend" and "World's Strongest" in this world, at this moment, he feels like a frog at the bottom of a well.

………、

A certain Ninja Continent.

Watching the shining heroes, many ninjas could not help but yearn and long for them.

Even the young ninjas, not yet deeply brainwashed, began to think.

Both are professions that master force for slaughter; why do they seem to live in hell, and why don't they even know who the heroes of the past few decades are?

They have no history, no past; everything teaches them to become numb, cold-blooded tools.

But they are also human; they also crave flowers, applause, and hope to be remembered by history.

So, whose problem is it, exactly…?

………..

Sky Curtain.

The wild mythical battle began once more; even the knowledgeable people of Earth felt dazzled and mesmerized.

【"Clang, clang, clang, clang————!!"】

【Giant swords reaching for the sky shot out horizontally and vertically.】

【The continuous roaring explosions seemed to connect into a straight line; patches of gold lit up like a brilliant sun, and the rolling heat waves squeezed and exploded, turning a radius of tens of thousands of meters into a vacuum.】

【'Hahahahaha, a long-lost feeling! Not bad."】

【An incomparably brilliant golden explosion; without any prelude, patches of magnificent and gorgeous golden ripples spread out densely, as if infinitely replicated, forming magnificent wings connecting heaven and earth.】

【It even illuminated hundreds of li of sea area into gold, with patches of wings (golden ripples) ready to fire.】

【High above the sea, the Golden King opened his arms, his madness unbridled, laughing hideously: "You are really not bad! Caster———!"】

【Boom!】

【Ten thousand cannons fired at once, beams of aurora cutting through heaven and earth, bombarding wildly.】

【In an instant.】

【Magnificent water columns rose up.】

【Connecting heaven and earth, shocking and magnificent to an unbelievable degree.】

【Even after unleashing such unparalleled firepower, it was not over yet.】

【A golden ripple suddenly expanded, covering the sky and earth, directly swallowing the ripples filling the sky, forming a grand ripple with a diameter of over a thousand meters.】

【Amidst the rumbling sound, a scarlet mountain peak emerged from the ripples.】

【No.】

【That was not a mountain peak.】

【That was…….. the tip of a sword.】

【The King of Gold extended his arm and pressed down hideously.】

【Everything seemed to slow down; one could even clearly see the magnificent giant sword slowly pressing down.】

【Before it even got close, the wind pressure first caused the sea level within several kilometers to collapse layer by layer.】

【But everyone knew it was an illusion.】

【It was an illusion caused by the giant sword being too magnificent.】

【Finally.】

【At the moment that mountain-like sword tip touched the sea level, everything seemed to freeze.】