Chapter 498: Not an Enemy, [Human Instrumentality Project]!

Bai Cangshu confirmed once more that this world was indeed a Derivative World, but this guy before him, those eyes, and that threat of death radiating in a way that could ignore his own Immortality...

Without a doubt, this should indeed be Ryougi Shiki.

Bai Cangshu was merely surprised for a moment, then his figure drifted down from the streetlamp.

Since he knew he was entering the Type-Moon World, Bai Cangshu had naturally considered the possibility of such a composite worldview.

"You recognize me too?"

There was not much surprise in the woman's voice; instead, it carried a certain composure of "so that's how it is."

Bai Cangshu closed his eyes and opened them again; they had transformed into the appearance of a blue sky and white clouds, and intense Soul waves radiated from his body.

The corners of his mouth opened unconsciously, as if endless Greed Sin was about to awaken.

Mystic Eyes of Death Perception... even within the Infinite Dimensional Space, they could be counted as one of the top-tier Magic Eyes.

If he could kill this woman here, with his own Luck, there would likely be a certain probability of obtaining them.

And...

Although Ryougi Shiki's Magic Eyes were powerful, what supported that terrifying power of instant death was nothing more than martial arts and swordsmanship that had just barely reached the Superhuman level.

The various techniques and secret manuals of the so-called Retreat Demon Four Families, excluding the Magic Eyes, were actually not that terrifying.

As a Martial Artist who had brought his martial arts to an extremely high realm, Bai Cangshu was confident he could avoid Ryougi Shiki's blade, unless...

"Mm, I know you. To be precise, I like those eyes of yours. If it's convenient..."

Bai Cangshu was never a person who would hesitate or stagnate; once the desire to have something arose, he would take action to obtain it.

The moment his voice sounded, there was no sign of cracking on the ground, and the air only emitted a soft "pfft" sound; his entire person had already appeared beside Ryougi Shiki like a phantom.

His palm was shaped like a blade, and ink-black Haki had coiled around it in an instant; at the same time, behind his elbow, purple-red Killing Intent Wave flowed.

Hum~

It was like the chirping of cicadas, and also like the flapping wings of countless insects.

With the boost of 50+ base Strength and Constitution, the lethality of Bai Cangshu's hand-blade had long surpassed that of ordinary swordsmanship-type Reincarnators, and with the addition of Haki and Killing Intent Wave, he could easily kill high-tier Reincarnators in seconds.

Ryougi Shiki's physical level was only that of an ordinary person; even with such a great weapon as the 【Mystic Eyes of Death Perception】, there was absolutely no possibility of Survival given the absolute gap in speed and strength.

Pfft!

The scorching white air wave was like surging seawater, cut open abruptly in front of Ryougi Shiki; she calmly held her short blade upright, blocking it in front of herself.

And Bai Cangshu's hand-blade stayed quietly before that short blade.

The Force bursting from Bai Cangshu's ink-black hand-blade, carrying the air with it like a scorching white sword energy, struck directly against the short blade using the remaining momentum of this slash.

The short blade did not move at all, as if it hadn't even encountered an obstacle.

That Force and impact, which could have shattered a building, were sliced open smoothly, passing by both sides of Ryougi Shiki's body and into the alley behind her.

The scorching white air tail-force was still roaring, whipping up a violent wind that made Ryougi Shiki's short hair and Bai Cangshu's long hair dance wildly.

Crack.

Bai Cangshu stepped back half a step with his left foot, the ground instantly shattered by the leaked Force.

The 【Six Eyes】 in his pupils also seemed to reveal a look of admiration.

"It's actually you..."

Bai Cangshu looked at the woman wearing the red coat; the corners of her mouth seemed to have a faint smile, and her expression remained calm.

At this very moment, that calm smile already contained a completely different meaning in Bai Cangshu's eyes. Ryougi Shiki was indeed no match for Bai Cangshu even with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, but 【Root Shiki】 was completely different.

In the Type-Moon World, almost all mages and thaumaturges pursued the power known as the 【Root】.

The 【Root】 was the beginning of everything, the truth, and the synthesis of all factors in this world; it hid all the 【Cause】 of the world.

The slight vortex radiated by the 【Root of Vortex】 constituted all the Thaumaturgy of this world.

Only those who reached the 【Root】 could comprehend the true ultimate truth.

Even setting aside the philosophical desire to explore truth and the origin of the world, those who had reached the Root and returned could master incredible 【Magic】.

Note, this 【Magic】 was the Magic defined by the Type-Moon World, different from how Reincarnators in other worlds called every spell driven by Magic Power "Magic."

In the Type-Moon World, there was a clear boundary between Magic and Thaumaturgy; simply put, anything that could achieve an effect through any non-mystical method could not be called Magic, but only Thaumaturgy.

For example, the various Thaumaturgy currently used by these thaumaturges—cutting Thaumaturgy, flame Thaumaturgy, freezing Thaumaturgy—because of the development of human technology, humans could long ago achieve the results of burning, freezing, cutting, etc., through technical means.

Therefore, the means of causing these effects through Magic Power could only be Thaumaturgy.

And Magic was a Miracle that could absolutely not be achieved by other means.

Under this standard, the Thaumaturgy and Magic of this world were not immutable; in ancient times, human technology and cognition were very backward, so there existed a large number of Miracles and Magic, but with the development of technology, more and more Magic turned into Thaumaturgy, and mystery began to fade.

Nowadays, only the Five Great Magics completely surpassed Thaumaturgy and touched the Root.

First Magic, creation from nothing;

Second Magic, parallel world interference;

Third Magic, materialization of the Soul (Heaven's Feel);

Fourth Magic, negation of reality, completely concealing one's own existence;

Fifth Magic, probably a Magic that could even destroy time and order.

The reason these few types of Magic were Magic was that these abilities either touched the Root, or they were the Magic obtained after a thaumaturge entered the Root, power obtained from the truth of the world.

Unluckily, the woman in front of Bai Cangshu, Ryougi Shiki, was actually a rare existence in the Type-Moon World whose true personality was connected to the Root, or rather, Ryougi Shiki herself was an existence that flowed out from the Root.

Once that true personality known as 【Root Shiki】 awakened, the other party would transform into something that possessed almost the same characteristics as the Root.

"Do not mistake your enemy, evil... Savior..."

Ryougi Shiki, or rather Root Shiki, walked past Bai Cangshu step by step, having neither the intention to fight Bai Cangshu nor to explain.

Bai Cangshu tilted his head slightly, watching this guy whose physical body was at most at the level of an ordinary person walk past him with those precious Magic Eyes.

But his right hand opened, and in the end, he did not make a move; the light of the Six Eyes in his eyes had also extinguished, and he recalled in his mind the scene that had appeared before his eyes in that instant just now.

He had slashed out with a hand-blade, not because he sensed the other party's short blade appearing before him and stopped because he would be "killed" first if he continued the slash.

Rather, during his slashing motion, a terrifying scene appeared before his eyes; in the scene, he stood above the empty Fuyuki City, the humans below had completely vanished, and everyone had turned into liquid, merging together.

In the sky, a massive void appeared, the source of the world known as the 【Root of Vortex】 seemed to appear above the void, and a woman wearing a gold-trimmed white robe was slowly passing through the void to enter the Root.

This scene was so real that the silent world made Bai Cangshu stop.

More importantly, he could roughly understand what this scene represented...

It was not evil arts, not Magic, nor was it some kind of sacrifice.

That was the ultimate pursuit of another world—the 【Human Instrumentality Project】!

(End of this chapter)