Chapter 686

They could fully imagine what kind of terrifying battle that was; a single slap from those massive hands would be a terrifying nuclear explosion that shattered even space, dealing a heavy blow to the authority held by the gods...

At this moment.

Many brothers on Earth were silent for a while before sighing deeply: "It is precisely because of this that the Olympian gods could not tolerate Heracles."

The giants who launched Ragnarök in mythology, attempting to bury the Olympian gods.

They were not the elves or dwarves found in those fantasy works.

They were the sons of Uranus, the Ancient King of Gods, and Gaia, the Primordial Goddess; they were the ancient gods of the original divine court.

Each one was an existence that surpassed the heavens, and even the Olympian gods could not match them, yet Berserker actually participated in the war and even rewrote the fated Ragnarök.

How absurd is that, really?

How could that old thing Zeus not be wary?

Even if he was his own son, he had too many sons—they were all over the mountains and plains, from seventy or eighty percent of the ancient Greek heroes to the oxen pulling the Great Emperor's chariot; they were all his sons, how novel~~

"That can't be right, wasn't Berserker killed by Hera, the Queen of Heaven?"

"Bullshit, if Zeus hadn't tacitly approved, could Hera have succeeded? If he gives you face, you're the Queen of Heaven; if he doesn't, you're just a mascot..."

"That's right, once Berserker died and ascended to godhood, Hera immediately reconciled with him and even married Hebe, the Goddess of Youth, to him in order to win him over, and then... Berserker, a tycoon who hammered second-generation gods while alive, just faded into the ranks of the gods."

"Sigh, if Berserker hadn't died but had ascended to godhood in the flesh, how strong would he have been?"

The veterans sighed with emotion.

When they first watched the Fifth War, Berserker gave them too much shock.

If someone else said they killed gods with strength, they wouldn't believe it, but when it came to Berserker, none of them doubted it.

"I even suspect that letting Berserker become a god was to prevent him from becoming a Heroic Spirit, but it seems it failed; the little loli Alaya still has some skills."

"Alaya: Hmph, hmph, hmph, I... I didn't want to save him at all."

"Holy crap, such an ancient tsundere face."

"Ah~ I'm healed."

"A person cannot... at least, one shouldn't."

"Stop talking, Brother Luo Shu has already gone back to sleep; it seems there's nothing tonight... like hell there isn't~~! Holy crap, the moon is shattered this time, how is Shijo Gaan going to smooth this over?"

Sky Curtain.

【"Hi, hi, hi—! I know, I will handle it immediately. Yes, yes, yes, I will definitely limit the scale of this Holy Grail War.

The shattering of the moon is just an illusion by this Caster; that was just a nobody. Don't worry, everything is under my control."】

【Shijo Residence.】

【Shijo Gaan nodded and bowed repeatedly, yet his tone was quite confident, waving his hands with ease and composure.】

【After hanging up the phone, he slumped onto his chair like a collapsing mountain, cold sweat breaking out instantly as he stared blankly at the moonlight outside the window.】

【Just two minutes ago.】

【That full moon, which had shone upon the earth for hundreds of millions of years and seemed to exist since time immemorial, had shattered.】

【It was split in two by a sword light rising from the earth, and then shattered like a mirror, plunging the world into darkness for a full eleven seconds.】

【Never mind here, the whole world could see it.】

【Such an absurd thing might fool the laymen in the Diet and the Federation, but as the head of a fourteenth-generation mage family, he certainly wouldn't be that stupid.】

【That was simply killing the concept of the moon for the Earth at that very moment.】

【What was even more terrifying was that even though he was only half a city away, he hadn't felt the slightest fluctuation of magical energy.】

【The information contained in this left him feeling somewhat dazed.】

【A long time passed.】

【In the silent, dark hall, a faintly trembling voice echoed.】

【"Caster........"】

【"....... Who on earth are you... ah~~!"】

……

【"The moon... the moon has disappeared?"】

【Riverside.】

【The boy named Kaito Kuroba was breathless for a long time before he turned his head sluggishly, pointing at the sky and shouting in a breakdown.】

【"Did you see that, Rider? The moon really just disappeared."】

【A large hand covered his head, and a familiar, deep voice that sounded like a roar rang out: "Of course. Don't panic, kid; it's just a conceptual erasure."】

【"Conceptual erasure?"】

【"That's right, just think of it as a Noble Phantasm."】

【The King laughed loudly, his sturdy, tower-like body tensing slightly as his eyes stared deeply at the bright moon: "It seems Caster is a much stronger rival than we imagined."】

……

【Even though it was the middle of the night.】

【At this moment, the entire world, people in countless nations, were plunged into clamor.】

【A fanatical atmosphere permeated, and many people swore that this was a revelation from God, symbolizing that the Final Judgment of 2012 was about to arrive.】

【While the leaders of various countries were busy and overwhelmed.】

【In the forest surrounding the abandoned factory.】

【A girl with soft pink hair and a very curvaceous figure leaned behind a sturdy tree, covering her mouth tightly, her eyes contracting in disbelief.】

【There was a beauty in the way her worldview had been shattered completely.】

【Recently, her classmate, Rikka Takanashi, had become even stranger; whenever others asked, she would always mysteriously put her hands on her hips and say that she was going to lead the unrecordable boundary line—Heroic Spirits—to win the war and save the world from disaster.】

【Emmm....】

【Originally, she didn't believe a word of it; it was probably just the legendary 'chuunibyou,' after all, Takanashi-san did indeed look the same age as a middle school student.】

【But last night, she had seen it vaguely.】

【She saw two girls about her age or a year or two older cutting through the night sky with shining azure electric arcs.】

【It directly caused a crack in her worldview.】

【And those two individuals, who were undoubtedly from the mysterious world, said that word—Heroic Spirit.】

380. Traitor Gin: You'd have weak knees too if it were you.

【Carrying a trace of curiosity and disbelief, she, who possessed extremely strong initiative today, couldn't suppress her curiosity (and death-seeking heart), so she followed that recently mysterious Takanashi-san all the way here somehow.】

【And then.....】

【In the girl's brain, filled with abundant imagination, she recalled that beautiful sword strike that had shattered her worldview and left her mind completely blank.】

【Her heart was excited and terrified to the point of collapse.】

【She wanted to scream but didn't dare; she felt fear, yet also longing; she felt like approaching, yet it was out of reach.】

【Divergent thinking and powerful imagination caused countless ideas to emerge in her mind.】

【Is this a legendary god? So all the strange things recently are actually gods waging war?】

【Who could this handsome young man be?】

【Susanoo from Japanese legend? Odin, the Great God of Norse mythology? Or Zeus from Greek mythology, or some other Chief God?】

【So powerful, with such intense majesty, he must be a famous god from mythology, right?】

【So gods have never disappeared, but are walking the earth in various identities? Perhaps they have traveled with some famous figures and played among mortals.】

【Could some of the famous people I know be their incarnations?】

【Complex thoughts and a tangled mess of absurd brain-holes kept emerging in her mind, and suddenly her eyes widened.】

【Wait.】

【Such a powerful existence, such an incredible god........ would he really not have discovered her?】

【Is it really possible to hide just by hiding behind a tree?】

【Even if he isn't a god, he is some kind of great existence that transcends common sense, right?】

【Although her academic grades were disastrous, it didn't mean that she, a new-generation actress who had shocked the industry with acting skills that made it hard to distinguish truth from falsehood, lacked self-awareness.】

【How could that be possible?】

【Would he forgive my disrespect? Would he take his anger out on Miku and the others?】

【A girl named Ichika Nakano felt a surge of terror.】

【That was the powerlessness of a weak mortal facing an irresistible, grand object.】