Chapter 86: We aren't exactly world-ending demon kings

As the dream shattered, the Heroic Spirits present all awakened.

They looked at Angra Mainyu in the center of the massive crater blasted out by the nuclear bomb and drew their own Noble Phantasms.

They prepared to engage the opponent in a final battle to the death.

It was also the final battle of this Holy Grail War.

By using the hole opened by the souls of the Servants, they would banish Angra Mainyu.

And Angra Mainyu, startled awake from a sweet dream, became completely berserk.

The body that was originally a giant dragon transformed once again into a mass of constantly writhing black mud.

The black mud frantically gnawed at the inorganic matter on the ground, devouring it, and an endless stream of twisted monsters was produced.

They launched an attack toward the surrounding Servants.

Outside of Fuyuki City, the spread and infection rate of the Blacklight Virus accelerated once more, from Fuyuki City to Kanbuki City, then to Dong Jing, Kyoto, and Chiba...

The Blacklight Virus spread at an unimaginable speed; in an instant, the Island Country of Japan, save for a very few special existences immune to infection, was consumed.

Whether animals, humans, or plants, all were being infected by the virus.

They charged with all their might toward the city of Fuyuki.

In the sky, countless grotesque birds dove down in swarms, attacking the group of Heroic Spirits who wanted to advance or even activate their Noble Phantasms.

"We can't go on like this. If we continue like this, before we can even banish the opponent, we will be worn to death."

Clearly, these Heroic Spirits had not yet reached the level where they could ignore sheer numbers.

The impact caused by the endless zombies and zombie monsters was inevitably immense.

"King's Army!"

"Advance! Toward the far-off horizon!"

Iskandar drew the sword at his waist and launched a charge toward Angra Mainyu.

The divine bull, treading on lightning, charged through heavy obstacles, directly dragging Angra Mainyu, along with the entire battlefield, into the Reality Marble.

"Now, it is time for soldier against soldier, general against general!!"

An army of fifty thousand, fifty thousand soldiers, charged forward following Iskandar.

They cleared away the countless tides of corpses.

"Archers, spearmen, fire!"

Iskandar's rough voice resounded throughout the entire battlefield; the entire Reality Marble, under the encouragement of the King of Conquerors.

The soldiers threw their long spears and fired their bows one after another, and for a moment, the tide of zombie monster birds in the sky was halted.

"Ahhhh————!!"

Watching her monsters being wiped out one by one, Angra Mainyu could not help but let out a shrill scream!

And what followed were more and more monsters born like a tidal wave.

At this moment, Angra Mainyu no longer looked like an Evil God, but more like the Black Goat, Nicholas Shub.

Devouring matter, giving birth to endless monsters.

And each monster was slightly stronger than the one birthed before it.

The infectivity and contamination of the virus also accelerated gradually with the iteration of the virus.

So, could it be that the status, authority, and Beast's Reason of this Beast of Progress were referenced from the Outer God Nicholas Shub?

No wonder it felt increasingly like Cthulhu mythos.

As the infectivity and contamination of the virus increased, even the soldiers of the King of Conquerors, Iskandar, began to show symptoms of infection.

But the Grand Servants were still able to barely resist by relying on their Grand Spirit Foundations.

"This is not good."

Iskandar's expression was grave, and he looked at his soldiers with a somewhat stern face.

"By the Command Spell, I command thee, purify, virus!"

Just as Iskandar was troubled for a solution, Waver extended his hand and used a Command Spell to remove the virus infection.

If the Greater Grail and the Lesser Grail had the ability to accumulate magical energy to realize wishes.

Then the Command Spell, as a crystallization of magical energy, also possessed properties similar to a wish-granting machine, though the direction of the Command Spell's wish was limited to ordering Heroic Spirits.

However, this did not affect the fact that the Command Spell was relatively omnipotent; whether it was providing magical energy, restoring status, or some specific amplification, all were possible.

It was not limited to ordering Heroic Spirits.

What Waver was using now was the purification of the infection brought by the virus.

For a moment, the situation reached a stalemate again, but the other Heroic Spirits would not let this opportunity pass.

Before anyone knew it, the figure of the Old Man of the Mountain, King Hassan, had appeared behind Angra Mainyu.

"The oracle has descended..."

"Can you hear it? This bell, the evening bell has tolled!"

The sound of a bell from nowhere rang out, seemingly announcing the arrival of death to Angra Mainyu.

But it also seemed as if it were announcing his own death.

A flash of sword light slashed across Angra Mainyu from an unknown time and place, yet it caused no damage to Angra Mainyu.

What did this strike from the Old Man of the Mountain cut away?

But the only thing that could be certain was that he had already cut away his own existence, his own Grand status!

"The name of Grand is not what I require; the proof of the strongest need only be entrusted to this one blade!"

Thus, the first Heroic Spirit to exit this Holy Grail War of all-Grand participants appeared.

The strongest Assassin, Grand Assassin, the Old Man of the Mountain, King Hassan.

"Ahhhh——————!"

An indescribable screeching sound rang out; Angra Mainyu now understood what she had lost.

The strike King Hassan had just delivered, cutting away everything he possessed, had severed her immortality, her incomplete Beast authority, and her ability to consume inorganic matter.

Although it was only temporary and she would recover in mere moments, there were still three Grand Heroic Spirits present waiting to engage her in battle.

No, to be precise, it was four, it was five.

Artoria, rich in humanity, held the Holy Spear, Scathach brandished two crimson magic spears, and even behind Gilgamesh, countless Noble Phantasms surged forth, ready to be launched.

Among them, the most eye-catching was that most ancient nuclear warhead.

And Merlin was even using Illusion to provide support.

"Draco, remember to, at the critical moment later..."

"I know, it is to help my kin."

Before Su Nian could finish his sentence, Draco interrupted.

Did he really think she didn't know where this kin of hers came from?

They were even born from the same place, yes, from within this All the World's Evils beneath the blown-up Ryudou Temple.

It would not be an exaggeration to call them sisters.

Although she was somewhat displeased, since it was her father's command, she would listen to it to some extent.

"No, what I mean is, help the Heroic Spirits banish Angra Mainyu at the very end."

"After all, we aren't actually trying to destroy the world, are we?"

"We aren't some kind of world-destroying Demon King."

Just as Su Nian said this, Dekola could not help but roll her eyes; not a world-destroying Demon King?

Look at the Earth now, look at what Japan has become?

A few days from now, how many living people will be left on the entire Earth?

She had never seen anyone more extreme or terrifying than Su Nian.

(End of chapter)