Chapter 608

Sizzle~~

A scorching blue arc of electricity exploded, circling in his palm like a cheetah.

Clearly.

Magecraft is this supreme power.

……….

"Hahahaha, it is precisely because it is unreachable that it makes one want to grasp it completely in one's hands."

On the great sea.

Ten thousand miles of waves, azure waves dozens of stories high, one after another.

Having hammered a battleship-sized Sea King to death with his bare hands, Whitebeard, a burly old man whose sharp ambition was like a blade, laughed excitedly.

"Is it actually the embodiment of the concept of 'ideal'?"

"It is worthy of the name of absolute protection."

……..

A boundless, crystalline ice field.

Facing the surging, violent blizzard, a tall woman in a military uniform with ice-blue hair smiled cruelly, lifted her high-heeled military boot, and then stomped down fiercely.

The head of the alien remnant leader under her foot exploded like a watermelon.

Amidst the blood spraying into the sky, the woman, wreathed in cruel freezing air, revealed a bloodthirsty smile.

"Ideals?"

"My ideal is more war, more slaughter, stronger opponents, trampling and crushing everything, hahaha~~~"

An aura as fierce and domineering as a brutal dragon species was almost materialized.

Within a radius of hundreds of meters, the empire's elite soldiers were trembling in this terrifying aura.

"I'm tired of this boring world..."

The woman kicked the corpse away and looked back with bloodthirsty eyes like a tiger or wolf: "So, when can the gate to other places be opened?"

…….

"The greater the ideal, the more impossible it is to touch the radiance of Avalon."

Mutual Aid Society.

Yukino Yukinoshita sighed with a complex expression: "Because it is the ideal itself."

As the Master who stepped into Avalon in the Fifth War sky-curtain, no one knew the essence of Avalon better than her.

Shizuka Hiratsuka looked at the sky-curtain, lit a cigarette, and didn't know what she was thinking: "In European mythology, fairies have always been existences that fulfill all the protagonist's wishes, like Cinderella's godmother, the fairy in the woods.

And the fairy land, Avalon, symbolizes wishes—the ideal itself."

She shook her head: "I should have thought of it sooner."

A group of people didn't speak.

They just looked at the light with longing eyes.

Everyone saw something different, but it was the existence they longed for most and found most unreachable in their hearts.

Only Haruno Yukinoshita looked at the other her, who was behind the heavenly wall that was radiant and blocked even the demon gods, and sighed softly.

"As expected, you are not me."

The woman named Haruno Yukinoshita had no ideals, no self, and even less obsession.

She was just a hollow doll, trying hard to imitate and play the perfection in others' hearts, running every day mechanically.

Such a person as her could not possibly awaken Avalon, which represents ideals...

Haruno curled up a practiced smile, put her hands behind her back, and circled around Mai Yingdao: "Ya ya ya, as expected, in the end, we still have to rely on the excellent little Haruno."

Mai Yingdao squinted at her, then frowned and raised a question: "If Avalon is the ideal itself, then... can people without ideals ignore Avalon?"

Haruno's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly.

I suspect you are pointing at me.

"People without ideals?"

Others were stunned, then waved their hands in unison: "Impossible, as long as one is human, one must have cravings; ideal is just a collective term."

Besides, Avalon is the embodiment of a concept, it's not like it doesn't have strength.

In terms of strength, it's also EX-rank.

Could there be a Servant capable of breaking through EX-rank Noble Phantasm defense who has no ideals? Uh... hmm...

Many people were silent for a moment.

Damn it, with the situation where one Servant is more outrageous than the next, it's really hard to say.

After all, Avalon is the strongest known defense that even the Five Magics cannot touch, but beneath the unknown iceberg, who knows how much there is.

For example, Brother Luo Shu?

"Stop talking, Sister Haruno might not even be able to withstand this hurdle."

Kurumi said calmly: "The magical energy required to activate a Noble Phantasm is not something a mortal can bear, and this is a defensive Noble Phantasm, it doesn't have the function of clearing enemies; if support doesn't arrive, they will still die."

………

As expected.

Amidst the longing and fearful gazes of countless people.

Countless dreamy lights and shadows overlapped, and the golden heavenly wall, which seemed to contain all the holy and beautiful things in the world, gradually weakened and faded away.

……

【"Hey, stop looking, do you have any other trump cards?"】

【Haruno shouted excitedly.】

【The cracks all over her body had healed at some point, and even her body seemed brand new, flowing with a holy luster.】

【I have to say, even she couldn't calm down when she thought that such a brilliant and shocking defense came from her own hands; she was incredibly proud and excited.】

【Even the suffocating feeling brought to her by that mysterious and powerful Caster who called himself Li Shuwen seemed to have faded a bit.】

【If she could sustain this light wall for longer, she would even dare to challenge that golden guy and the Caster.】

【Uh, okay, still wouldn't dare...】

【After all, these two are too deep.】

【Who knows what outrageous things are in the Golden King's treasury.】

【And that Caster, from the divine martial arts at the beginning, to the later summoning of the Babylonian mythological beast, to the terrifying Noble Phantasm he took out at the end that made the world wail just by existing...】

【I have no idea how many more trump cards he has, or even what terrifying level his true strength is at.】

【It's too unknown and mysterious.】

【The golden sheath inlaid with blue enamel sank into her chest, and Haruno's exhausted body went limp, staggering before standing steady.】

【"Trump cards?"】

【Mai Yingdao finally recovered from the light that seemed like the embodiment of ideals, and smiled lightly: "At this point, how could there still be trump cards, but..."】

【She looked up at the hazy "sky": "... support should be arriving soon."】

【With this eighth Servant being so unscrupulous, how could the heroes of the mythological era and the mages who maintain the principle of seclusion in the modern era sit still?】

【Although it's been less than five minutes since the mutation, it's enough for Servants to arrive.】

……

【"Unforgivable!!!"】

【On the head of the sea demon.】

【The young girl, who was also attracted by the gorgeous light, had a livid face and showed murderous intent for the first time.】

【"To actually interfere with Abby's will without permission... why won't the big sister just obediently go die!!"】

【Just the agitation of her mood directly caused this hazy world to turn gloomy.】

【Air vortices formed, rose, and expanded into tornadoes that reached the sky and the earth, slowly rotating with her as the center.】

【Boom!】

【A blast sounded, and visible air waves spread out.】

【Scarlet lightning as thick as a building spread for more than ten kilometers, illuminating the young girl's cold face. In her hand, an extreme scarlet light bloomed, blooming layer by layer like petals, emitting a terrifying threat that made even the sea demon uneasy.】

【"Big sister, please don't struggle, otherwise it will be very painful."】

【Under the sweet voice was malice that made one's hair stand on end.】

【The suffocating pressure as if before a natural disaster spread instantly.】

【"Are you kidding me? Just a change in mood directly led to a change in celestial phenomena? What is she? Gaia's own daughter?"】