Chapter 491: A Ruckus in Heaven (Fantasy Limited Edition)

Under a collapsed nest, how can any egg remain intact?

When the city gate catches fire, even the fish in the moat suffer—not to mention a situation where the sky itself is falling...

No one can escape.

Sitting and waiting for death is no good plan, and not many intend to just watch the sky fall with their eyes wide open; they must do their best...

Therefore, after confirming the basic facts were true, and confirming the situation was serious beyond measure—

All of Gensokyo swiftly went into motion.

For a time, the countryside presented a scene of bustling activity.

Some contributed people, some contributed strength; everyone relied on their own interpersonal connections and past friendships to launch a massive "Summon Help" project as much as possible.

—After all, this time was obviously an ultra-high-difficulty raid, the kind where no matter how many people came, it wasn't enough.

—It was no longer the kind of incident from the past that could be solved by just a few people of the Player Character Party.

The Heavenly Realm, Hell...

The Immortal Realm, the Demon Realm...

The news spread like it had grown wings, swiftly transmitted to every hidden and mysterious corner with the speed of wind and lightning.

Related emergency intelligence was accurately diffused across multiple fantasy-side worlds through the abilities of Great Youkai and gods.

It was just that—the other fantasy-side worlds were equally complex.

Gensokyo, despite being a symbolic existence of the fantasy-side worlds in many people's cognition, was not the absolute center of the fantasy side.

Regions not recognized by the technology of humans from the Outside World were equally numerous.

—For example, relative to Hell, there was also Old Hell;

—For example, Bhava-agra was only a part of the Heavenly Realm;

—For another example, there were multiple different Immortal Realms...

Gensokyo relied on the Youkai Sage's peerless ability to cleverly establish itself upon the Boundary Line.

This Boundary Line was like an invisible bond, separating Gensokyo from other worlds while granting it a unique geographical advantage on the conceptual level.

But it only intersected with a part of those regions.

Just like an island in the vast sea, it had countless connections with the surrounding archipelago.

But this connection was limited.

It could not know all the secrets of the surrounding archipelago, nor could it expand its influence without restriction to every corner.

—Moreover...

—The preparation time was also limited.

Under such urgent circumstances, wanting to persuade those fantasy-side worlds that had rarely negotiated or contacted in the past to join within a short time was undoubtedly unrealistic.

After all, to make all of Gensokyo, so many powerful non-human existences, act in unison within a non-existent brief time...

This was truly something harder than ascending to heaven.

If relying solely on anyone's own power, it was absolutely impossible to achieve this goal.

Now it was merely borrowing the ability of Kaguya Houraisan, the Former Moon Princess, and regulating and amplifying it through Yukari Yakumo's ability—

before barely achieving the purpose.

However, behind this, there inevitably existed a series of processes operating like precise gears.

Through the elixir blended by Eirin Yagokoro...

The overlapping cooperation of other people's special abilities...

All these added together allowed Princess Kaguya's ability to continue functioning, striving for more preparation time.

And being able to do this was because Kaguya Houraisan's ability was a time-based ability.

And it was very special; compared to Sakuya Izayoi's simple and direct easy-to-understand kind, it was more usable than the time-stop type ability that better fit conventional cognition.

In Gensokyo's words, it was "the ability to manipulate eternity and an instant".

Eternity was a world without history, where the future would never arrive forever. Even if there was activity in that world, it was the same as stopping time.

In the world of eternity, any change was rejected.

And an instant was, relative to eternity, a moment of time.

She could gather an instant humans could not perceive, and use it to act.

The time gathered from an instant also flowed within time, but humans could not perceive it at all; using this time, one could create multiple different histories.

This ability was undoubtedly extremely useful at this critical moment.

To the Outside World, perhaps it was merely a brief instant.

However, for the large forces gathered in Gensokyo, many days had already passed, as if they had experienced a long and arduous journey.

But after all, one thing had to be admitted.

That was, applying the ability to so many people at once, among them many individuals far stronger than herself, was too great a drain for Princess Kaguya.

It was difficult to sustain, and could not last long.

So—

After calculating carefully and using up all the preparation time as much as possible.

At the critical moment, the gathered large forces assembled on Youkai Mountain.

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Giving up on persuading those fantasy-side worlds that were too unfamiliar and had no friendship, they instead made maximum use of the limited preparation time.

The result was naturally very gratifying.

You must know, Youkai Mountain was the most representative great mountain in Gensokyo; usually when mentioning the mountain, it referred to this Youkai Mountain.

The mountain's existence was extremely ancient, far older than the history of the humans living in Gensokyo.

There were rumors that this mountain was actually Mount Yatsugatake before Sakuya-hime destroyed it, the original form of that sacred mountain, where the Goddess Iwanagahime dwelled.

As a sacred mountain comparable to Mount Fuji, and even surpassing it in some respects, the scale of Youkai Mountain was unimaginable.

The continuous, undulating mountain range was like a giant dragon winding and coiled upon the earth, its momentum magnificent.

But under the night sky, the Lake Suwa in the mountain presented a different scene.

The lake surface was very wide, surrounded by mountains everywhere, the moon hung in mid-air, leaving its radiance on the lake surface.

By the lakeside, however, the crowd was dense and endless.

Countless people gathered here, the chattering voices like a tide, wave after wave surging, appearing especially noisy and clamorous, lively and boisterous.

"So many people..."

"Oh, Reimu, Reimu where are you..."

"Are we ready to depart? How are we going to get to the moon surface..."

"Hey! Who stepped on my foot! Nisou Kay!"

That voice, not the slightest bit melodious and graceful like orioles and swallows, but rather like countless parrots gathered together, chirping and quarreling endlessly, making one's ears almost ache from the shock.

Looking at the momentum emitted by these people, it was even more astonishingly powerful.

After all, with such a huge quantity, even the weakest among them were people with certain abilities like Marisa Kirisame.

And among the top strong experts were not lacking various Great Youkai, gods, Sages, and so on.

"If we could have gathered this many people back then, who knows, the Moon Capital might be Gensokyo now..."

Changing into a purple Western-style dress, the long skirt and golden hair fluttered in the night wind.

The Seventeen-year-old Girl surveyed the scene before her eyes, the tone as if entwined by the threads of time, hiding a hint of indescribable sighing.

I don't know if she remembered the past, that battle where the youkai of the earth attacked the moon surface, reminiscing about those glorious years of the past.

"Reisen, are you ready!"

Eirin Yagokoro glanced at the Seventeen-year-old Girl, but did not argue with her about these things at this time.

This Moon Sage turned her head to look at the rabbit-eared girl behind her.

"Yes—"

The Moon Rabbit Girl raised her head and puffed out her chest, nodding hard.

After adapting during this period of time, she seemed to have walked out of the previous psychological shadow, and was very well in command of a new power.

That was the hundred thousand great army that moved in synchronization behind her with her movements.

They stood straight, like a neatly arranged Great Wall of steel, every posture showing iron-like discipline.

Of course, actually this was just a group of unconscious copies.

According to detailed investigation, the copied Moon Rabbits indeed had not developed any consciousness, all their words and deeds were determined by implanted programs.

And after seizing the relevant control rights—

Reisen as the main body could just through synchronization, control this Lunarian Army.

After all her ability was the ability to control the degree of madness, its essence was interfering with the spirit, manipulating the wavelength hidden within anything.

Therefore Miss Merry through her own Nano Intelligence, after doing a certain handling, handed over all control rights to this rabbit.

At this moment, the hundred thousand great army almost occupied almost half of the lakeside, well enhancing the momentum.

And they were all motionless, like statues, their expressions indifferent as cold ice that never changes for a thousand years.

Especially compared with the lively crowd beside them—

Not to mention how their combat power was, at least they looked very intimidating, that professional momentum, as if it could make the air freeze.

"That's good... Princess, please hold on a little longer, it will be ready soon."

Eirin Yagokoro said softly to Kaguya Houraisan.

This Former Moon Princess, at this moment looked sickly, her complexion was also rarely somewhat pale.

For an immortal and indestructible Houraisan person, this situation was not common, especially considering there was Eirin, a person with divine medical skills, by her side taking care...

This made it even more incredible.

"It's fine, I can still hold on!"

The beautiful girl weakly waved her hand, but the words spoken were somewhat boastful.

"Next is preparing to open the channel between earth and moon here?"

"Yes, through the reflection of the full moon, letting Yukari Yakumo invert the Realm, we can land on the moon surface in the shortest time..."

Eirin Yagokoro nodded slightly.

"Also fortunately for 'us' of 'now', this night has never passed, so it just provided sufficient conditions..."

Although somewhat mistaken, even with a feeling of too much coincidence.

But objectively speaking, it was indeed so.

This long night was too long, always not ending.

As long as the False Moon is removed, letting the real Moon Phase reappear, that is the true Full Moon, and the timing of action...

—was just at that instant.

"Alright, everyone prepare!"

The Seventeen-year-old Girl took out a Megaphone from the gap, put it to her mouth, coughed once, reminding everyone.

"I am going to prepare to open the channel."

She also did not expect that simply giving a speech could make this group of fellows become disciplined and orderly.

So she very straightforwardly stretched out her hand, her slender Finger waved.

A huge pitch-black Crack appeared on the lake surface, quickly spreading along the reflected Moon Phase.

At the same time—

A fierce Youkai Wind blew up.

It was a strange phenomenon caused by a Great Youkai no longer concealing itself, freely and recklessly releasing its own Youkai Power fluctuations.

One, two, three…

Countless Youkai Winds roared as they blew between Heaven and Earth.

Amidst the vast and endless long wind, only one voice rose above the sound of the wind—

"Let's attack the Moon Capital together and turn it upside down!"

(Chapter End)