Chapter 362: The Dimensional Holy Grail War (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)

"Is that the Flame Emperor himself acting?"

Martha gazed at the translated image, her face clearly uneasy:

"Even this powerful attack can't break through?"

"But as predicted, these beings each have their own trump cards." Xiang Weng called up the scene of Xiao Yan's appearance—the moment he reaped all life to extract the essence of living beings:

"Even if their recovery is inferior to the Fallen God, they still hold hidden cards. If we were to deploy all of Chaldea, we likely couldn't break through such power…"

"Failure. Exact numerical modeling failed. Every World Devourer's character model must be reconstructed."

"Because he inverted and became a demon who uses heaven and earth as a furnace and all life as medicine," Siegfried said regretfully:

"I truly wish to see what he was like before his inversion—what kind of upright man he must have been."

The reputation and power of the Unfallen Flame Emperor began to rise rapidly.

Meanwhile, since no sample of the inversion infection existed, Chaldea grew even more wary of whether this corruption might spread across this universe.

"If one can come, ten or a hundred can come too. It's unlikely the root cause is treating you as invaders."

While everyone was talking, space twisted like a vortex, and before them appeared Ishtar Rin, Jane, and X.

"So they don't have any info on him?" Jane the Star of Disaster asked. "Looks like you've had direct contact."

"Let you go in personally."

Emiya Shirou's forehead glistened with sweat—he couldn't tell when exactly it ended, but during that time, Tohsaka Rin had grown increasingly distant from her original "top student" image.

X immediately tore off the opponent's disguise; after a round of "friendly" exchange, the opponent "agreed" to provide loan guarantees for the cause of saving the universe.

Those blue eyes met Long Penglun's gaze, so close that he could even smell the shampoo in the other's hair.

It was clearly Lu Mingfei's own past that he had witnessed firsthand… that Tokyo love story…

Uh…

Why hadn't anyone noticed it before?

"If I must describe it, you'd guess He isn't the inversion itself."

"Could it be… that Ishtar Rin is a male deity from the Servant universe…?"

"I've said it already! It's a misunderstanding!" Long Penglun said helplessly:

Long Peng spread his left hand, and dozens of three-dimensional magical symbols appeared, scattered across different spaces—numbering in the hundreds. These were the dimensional anchor points he had previously deployed, though some now glowed gray.

Martha froze, suddenly recalling Tenzan Lixiang's description of a strange adventure before vanishing from a room:

The spirit Su Lin and the surrounding Servants wore twisted or suppressed smiles…

Although Tohsaka Rin had only just stepped out of the room, she clearly heard that remark.

As if responding to my wish, the moment the magical array was drawn on the ground, a crimson spear pierced toward my heart.

"So all this is his fault?!" Tohsaka Rin grabbed Emiya Shirou by the collar and smiled:

"You're now effectively fixed to this main trunk—solid enough." Zhong Li touched the void, and a red dot appeared on a junction point of the sandbox:

In short, it was extremely strange.

Even an instant is eternity…

"What kind of monster is this thing?! How could a universe contain such a being?! There's no hope! There must be hope!"

"Why not just come back with me to the Azure Silver Galaxy?"

But…

"How could I?" Emiya Shirou tossed the notebook into the subspatial vault and locked it: "I only wished for his happiness—I've seen his leap."

"Isn't that the masked Archer-san?" Jane the Star of Disaster exclaimed, startled by the sight of Su Lin's face:

"Compared to the unfamiliar Chaldea, I'd rather be more distant from him."

Kiriya Sakura covered her mouth and whispered: "Did sister get it handled? Right, senpai?"

"I'm talking about the Fallen God," BB said:

"That big oaf sneaks into your bed every morning—you never feel it's too close? Don't you mind?" Tohsaka Rin studied Emiya Shirou closely and smiled:

"Now we shift to defense. Use the Emperor's Weapon to envelop that planet. Though they've ruled it out, they can still do other things."

The artificial darkness, Anna, who crossed the cosmic space, had already been destroyed. The only way to reach this place is through leap, and leap requires vast amounts of Altoru elements.

"No, this being is beyond description, indescribable… yet possesses an absurdly lofty rank, almost like Astarte, the origin of the primordial universe…" Universe Ishtar Rin frowned, then suddenly felt a lack of vocabulary.

That person…

"Based on the results observed through Lu Mingfei's time reversal and the information provided by Emiya, a divergence occurred in the worldline after seventy-seven days."

The weakened poster shattered instantly under a single thrust.

"I heard your plan…" Jane the Star of Disaster glanced at him. "You're looking for a chance to bring the Master back to the Servant universe under legitimate pretenses, right?"

"Universe Ishtar Rin!" Tenzan Lixiang's eyes lit up and said:

"So we must leave this worldline and temporarily divert everyone's attention," Meng Qi smiled:

Even if you earned a lot during the time before Tenzan Lixiang left, your expenses still far exceed your gains.

"To break the world barrier, I borrowed a loan from the corporation—I'll be paying it off in ten-year installments!" Universe Ishtar Rin scanned the surroundings:

"It must be only Him—the force that seeks to turn chaos into order and order into chaos, embracing all things with a blasphemous tolerance."

The Holy Grail is the legendary artifact capable of fulfilling any wish of its possessor. The Holy Grail War is the murderous ritual to summon and seize that Grail.

Emiya Shirou had no way to deal with Tohsaka Rin—her leaps of thought had already left him behind.

The value of the main trunk far surpasses any single worldline. One advantage is this: no matter how long the prolonged war lasts, at least the future worldlines need not fear annihilation like an Anomaly Belt.

"They've really arrived!"

"That feeling of being trusted was like a ray of winter sun piercing into Emiya Shirou's heart—even if the whole world turned against him, someone still stood by his side."

Golden mana wove into a three-dimensional scene. Everyone gathered around a vast sandbox, its surface covered in tree-like branches and main trunks.

Jane the Star of Disaster assured them:

"The matter is complicated; you can't ask the party involved here, Mr. Emiya, for details."

"Emiya Shi, you understand his meaning—so are they now planning to go to the Root and explain the ambiguity?"

After all, the Root must also abide by fundamental laws.

"He'll definitely find out you lied—even as a ghost, he won't spare you!"

Jade Pure Palace

You walked under the guest table, picked up the box of returned movie discs, and put them into your backpack.

"This really is a movie filmed in another world, but due to some force majeure factors, it ended up this way."

"Holy Grail War!"

"By the way, won't this affect your counterparts in other parallel worlds?" asked Emiya Shirou.

In the instant moonlight poured into the warehouse, the figure appearing behind him struck the spear from the other's hand.

"Therefore, I support the eighth plan: first, create a false timeline through spatial opening, then interfere with other parallel worlds along that main branch via convergence, and bind all these timelines onto the same ship."

Emiya Shirou watched the two leave, his brow slightly relaxed, a faint smile unconsciously curling at his lips.

Although I already had some understanding of you...

"Aren't these the Servants from this universe? Ahh… if their spiritual bases are this weak, there's hope—even without another you, there's a way. Fighting such monsters is impossible; their spiritual bases are restricted, and the residual primordial god power within them was already used up the last time he was sent back."

A figure with the same face as mine.

The will to survive increased geometrically.

"At that moment, besides this snow-white man, several other silhouettes unexpectedly appeared in my heart..."

Everyone turned to look at Emiya Shirou, who had just entered through the side door with Tohsaka Rin and others, waiting for him to speak.

"Is that so? The movie summary and analysis left by Tenzan Lixiang clearly shows evidence favorable to them," said Tohsaka Rin, narrowing her eyes, one hand pressing against the wall, forcing Emiya Shirou to lean back against it.

"I don't care that he's become a lolicon—but Ryūhō Lun, aren't you just trying to trick me into helping you devour the cosmic origin?"

"For now, we don't need to consider the Servant Universe. The seventh thing we must do is break through the whitelist restriction—and if you get fully whitelisted, remember to bring back the Greater Holy Grail."

"Currently, this world can no longer perform the Heroic Spirit summoning ritual using the Holy Grail." Emiya Shirou stared at the face leaning toward him, trying to pull his head back—but there was only a wall behind him.

He spun around quickly—this is...

X: "Of course. I went back specifically to get reinforcements."

"According to this logic, the original Emiya Shirou from Illya's timeline went to another world and was caught in a cataclysm. The one who once saved countless worlds has now returned to this world to devour the cosmos and save his beloved."

"Emiya Shi, it seems your fellow male side characters have limited your growth. Why not just turn all other timelines into Illya's line?"

"What nonsense are you talking?!" Emiya Shirou blushed and turned his gaze away. "I already told you—it's just a movie!"

"Hahaha, how sneaky—you didn't even give us a chance to explain to the Root, so..."

'Will I die here...?'

"Tohsaka... this... too close."

"Here we go~"

"Ah, before you say anything—I don't trust my brother Su anymore; I'm just worried something unsportsmanlike might happen..."

"So I need you to use the Jewel Sword for some assistance."

Zhang Chuanyan's words echoed the concerns of everyone present.

"Monster... who are you talking about?" asked Tenzan Lixiang. "The one who uses fire?"

While the eight were struggling over the restaurant business, the red-robed masked Archer, serving as culinary consultant, came to inspect—and then...

The crimson spear pierced through; at the last moment, Ryūhō Lun smashed through the windshield and stumbled into his own magical workshop.

"For example, make the Holy Grail War of this world a whitelist entry for the Throne of Heroes."

"Monster! Tenzan!" Ishatarin appeared and sprinted toward Tenzan Lixiang, her face filled with unmasked terror.

"Then, through the Seventh Method, travel to other parallel worlds. The advantage is greater flexibility, without needing to deploy large-scale alchemical matrices."

That's just like Merlin's personality.

"Worry not," said Ryūhō, pulling out a transparent card containing knowledge he had exchanged for from the Type-Moon World.

"You're not guilty... Su Lin Mama..."

"For now, leave him be," said Tohsaka Rin, withdrawing her hand with unexpected ease.

"My apologies," said Ryūhō, closing his notebook with a smile. "Have you considered the Fantasy Carnival, Master of the Sword Sect?"

"Sakura!!!"

"Then let's vote—Emiya Shirou has one veto right."

Interstellar bounty hunters seeking corporate credit require guarantees from individuals with high social status and assets.

It has no effect on a monster saturated with magical energy.

"Most likely a countermeasure by the Counterforce—or perhaps another powerful being from outside the solar system," Xiōng analyzed possible scenarios.

"But the biggest problem now is the Servant Universe," said Zhang Chuanyan, arms crossed.

'To be struck by something like...'

"I refuse."

"So what does this have to do with me... this world must be insane..."

"......" Heroic Spirit Su Lin: "Why are you the one they're coming to? The things this guy did clearly involve you."

Emiya Shirou glanced to the side—his smile instantly froze on his lips. "Emiya, what are you doing?"

"He..." Emiya Shirou forced a weak smile. "He wouldn't want you to get cut down by a cleaver, right?"

Emiya had appeared beside him without notice, holding a thick notebook, writing and reading aloud in a broadcast-style narration, like a voiceover.

"You helped me create the Jewel Sword, so if you need help, just say so—but..."

As if touching a landmine topic—or perhaps because Xingxing Jian had said something strangely off.

Why did the focus shift from consuming the universe to questions about a game route?!

"When Lord Haotian and the Underking fused into the Fallen Underking to combat the Inverted, they originally imposed constraints upon themselves—but these were nullified by the Dimensional Demon Man," said Elmero VII, extinguishing the cigarette in his hand.

"What exactly are the circumstances of those three ultra-scale spiritual bases?" asked the research technician.

"It is an established fact that he lost the possibility of creating worldlines before obtaining the chat group; the Suppression Force could only refrain from interfering with his creation of branching timelines after acquiring the chat group—though whether it acted or not is another matter."

"Come to think of it, you'd have been unable to borrow the spiritual-substrate currency needed to purchase sufficient Artoria elements (fuel) without the credit guarantee provided by the version of him from another universe."

"Ah, sorry—that's another universe; I mistook him for this restaurant group's culinary consultant."

Flashing through his mind were the names of the victims broadcast on the television.

"Don't worry too much—even though Ishatarin says she won't, we'll see this through to the end... Hmm, I've said too much already; could you introduce us to the crisis elements from that other universe?"

Tohsaka Rin slung her bag over her shoulder and walked into the house with Sakura Matou smiling beside her.