Chapter 90: Entering and Exiting the Root (Physical Meaning)

"For real?"

Alaya also realized the crux of the matter: if one could truly leave the Throne of Heroes to play around.

Then it wouldn't be impossible for her to forgive Su Nian's offense.

"Not sure, but we can try."

Su Nian stroked his chin and said somewhat uncertainly; in any case, there was no harm in trying.

The World Line he had arrived at was already his own territory, and Su Nian did not want the two Counter Forces of his World Line to keep courting death.

Although he had delayed the end of the Steel Land by several hundred years, things like artificial intelligence have no hearts.

They would not necessarily remember his kindness and would continue to do what they were meant to do.

Su Nian highly suspected that if he were to accidentally leak some power and bring a sense of threat to the Gaia and Alaya of his own World Line.

Would the other party come together to do something like this again?

"Anyway, I can't stand the Counter Forces of my World Line one bit."

The feeling of being rejected by the world is truly not pleasant at all.

Hearing Su Nian's words, Gaia and Alaya smiled somewhat awkwardly; they knew better than anyone what Counter Forces were like.

"Let's talk about this later. By the way, in which direction is the Root?"

To be fair, Su Nian felt that one of the reasons why the vast majority of those who reached outside the world via holes never returned might be because they got lost.

Outside this world, in a place that transcends the timeline, there is simply no direction, right?

"You don't know the direction of the Root?"

Alaya asked in disbelief; that is to say, someone as strong as Su Nian had actually not awakened his own origin, was not some existence like a Magus, and had no Root Fragment in his body?

But this is simply impossible, right? Normally speaking, everyone's origin is decided from the moment of birth.

As for Magi, they are those who can use magic only after entering and exiting the Root.

And Divine Spirits are existences that have Root Fragments in their bodies; they are essentially tentacles of the Root, tentacles of Gaia.

It can be said that in the entire Type-Moon World, there simply does not exist an entity unrelated to the Root.

Precisely because of this, they would never encounter the problem of not being able to find the direction of the Root; the pull of one's origin is enough to point the way.

"Of course, if you want to go, there is a passage to the Root in the Throne of Heroes."

Gaia said very casually; after all, for an existence of Su Nian's level, entering and exiting the Root is just like going home.

Moreover, in a sense, the difficulty of coming to the Throne of Heroes is probably much harder than going to the Root.

Entering and exiting the Root is generally managed by the Counter Forces, not by them.

They cannot manage anything.

Saying this, Gaia waved her hand and opened the passage to the Root.

Then Su Nian entered the Root without the slightest hesitation.

"Inside the Root, isn't this a bit too empty?"

"I thought there would be something interesting to see."

Looking at this scene of nothingness, the Root of Vortex which symbolizes absolute nothing and yet seems to be the existence of all origins, Su Nian muttered to himself subconsciously.

"Forget it, never mind that. Let's find Sakura's origin first."

Searching for a specific origin from within the Root of Vortex is not an easy task.

But fortunately, the Root does not refuse any plea; within the Root, any wish will be satisfied, and any thought will be realized.

As long as you can withstand the gift of the Root.

Just like Yog-Sothoth, He will not refuse anyone who prays for knowledge, and will always generously grant infinite knowledge to everyone who prays for it.

The Root is the same; of course, if you cannot withstand the gift of the Root, you will be directly dissolved into the Root.

However, Su Nian did not indulge in this illusion of omnipotence.

"It feels inferior to the Gift of the Little Garden Central; it's too fake."

Su Nian shook his head. The Gift bestowed by the Little Garden Central would not be taken back once granted, unlike this Root, which counts for nothing inside the Root itself.

Only what you take out counts as yours.

However, this also brought convenience to Su Nian; with a sufficiently firm thought, he quickly found Sakura's origin.

Of course, Su Nian did not forget Aika, but as a Huang Nu born with a link to the Root, in a sense, she could completely perform self-convergence.

It was just that when Su Nian asked Sajyou Ayaka, Sajyou Ayaka showed a rather terrible expression.

"I don't want those bitches to fight over Prince-sama with me!"

For this reason, Sajyou Ayaka specifically concealed the information that she had found the Prince, just to avoid being discovered by other Sajyou Ayakas.

Moreover, for Sajyou Ayaka, converging the self is a rather cruel and bloody process; after all, not every Sajyou Ayaka will necessarily acknowledge another Sajyou Ayaka.

The final result is the craziest slaughter to vie for that one and only Sajyou Ayaka.

Sajyou Ayaka is different from the other Root Shiki; that Root Shiki was born from her origin 【Nothingness】, and she can completely be said to be the consciousness of the origin 【Nothingness】. She can be said to be unique, or it can be said that every World Line where Ryougi Shiki exists has a Root Shiki.

It's just that Root Shiki is lazy; she doesn't care about anything and just sleeps, lacking a self-consciousness like Sajyou Ayaka.

After finding Sajyou Ayaka's origin, Su Nian converted it into a Spirit Status without any resistance, determining the one and only Sajyou Ayaka.

And the Sajyou Ayakas of other worlds were merely existences as Avatars of the individual Sajyou Ayaka.

And only then was it Sakura's origin.

Looking at the countless miserable World Lines extending from Sakura's origin, and the very few World Lines where she obtained happiness.

Su Nian took a deep breath, trying his best to suppress his anger, and then.

He used the technique he learned from Algol to find the History Conversion Period belonging to the individual Sakura, which was also the major encounter node of her life.

Then he stepped in, just like when he first arrived in the Type-Moon World, caught the falling Sakura, and then burned Matou Zouken along with all the worms to ashes with a single fire.

At this moment, Su Nian had almost effectively saved every Sakura who had been sent into the worm nest.

However, Su Nian did not think that much, after saving Sakura.

In order to minimize the impact on History as much as possible and avoid the backlash of Pan-Human History, Su Nian could only say with regret that he would come back next time to finish off the old worm.

Sakura belongs to the supporting cast and is not important in the World Line of the Holy Grail War; she is merely a tragic character.

Therefore, to cover up the traces of History, Su Nian created a great fire, and Sakura went missing in the fire at the Matou Residence.

In reality, she was taken in by Su Nian; as for Sakura's historical existence in other worlds later on, he would just return her once she reached adulthood.

(End of this chapter)