Chater 101. People of Fuyuki: This gas leak is really strong this time, huh~ (sarcastic)
[In just an instant, the sky over Fuyuki was covered by a layer of dark red clouds, blood rain falling down.]
["RUMBLE…!!"]
[Amidst the storm and the raging vortex winds, the vast city had sunk into something… chaos beyond recognition.]
[Two figures fought all the way to the edge of the city, Fuyuki had long since been reduced to flat rubble, craters like meteor impacts everywhere, as if this arena was too small to contain the fierce battle between two great heroes!]
[Walls collapsed, ruins everywhere, heaven and earth resounded with violent explosions, besides that there were no other sounds.]
[To the two Servants locked in deadly combat, five hundred square kilometers was just a fingertip's distance.]
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This brilliant and ultimate blaze of war was enough to drown all of human civilization!
From the moment reality began to tremble, all of humanity was shaken as they watched the Celestial Curtain, where those two, like descending gods, were so powerful it was unimaginable, constantly flashing, the aftershocks alone could easily flatten mountains and shatter cloud layers—truly rulers of heaven and earth!
Like a natural disaster rampaging.
Trampling the earth!
In reality, all supernatural beings felt their hearts turn cold—a yokai, a vampire, an evil spirit… all were like mobs, able to be crushed in an instant.
Only a Great Yokai or a True Ancestor had a bit of power to hold out for a brief moment.
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"What kind of earth-shaking power is this, Saber has gotten stronger once again."
Above the sea of clouds, Shuten Douji sighed with emotion, she admitted that she herself was completely no match for the two fighting there.
As she spoke, she gracefully raised a delicate arm to embrace Ibaraki Douji, both joyful and regretful as she tilted her head back and drained a cup of sake.
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The camera kept zooming in, the images inside the Celestial Curtain were so clear they made people feel a bit terrified.
[Amid the rubble, facing the giant black shadow roaring as it charged forward, black Saber coldly raised the evil holy sword, blood-colored patterns blooming with light that made hearts tremble, a massive amount of mana gathered at the tip of the sword, transforming into a light cannon and firing out.]
[BOOM BOOM!]
[A black torrent column compressed the air as it exploded, creating rolling shockwaves, like a black dragon roaring straight ahead.]
[This beam of light was too dazzling, too brilliant, it left behind almost nothing but afterimages.]
[Clouds billowed, the air for several hundred meters on both sides was torn apart along the light cannon's path.]
["BOOM!!"]
[The light beam struck as if hitting a thousand-meter-tall majestic mountain, the air violently shaking.]
[Berserker's pupils contracted, midair he took the full brunt of the light cannon, wanting to borrow the force to resist but had no footing, in an instant like an artillery shell blasted fiercely outward, crashing into the neighboring city.]
[In the blink of an eye, he flew several dozen kilometers, leaving behind a long, clear black streak along the way.]
["RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE…!!"]
[That towering figure slammed into the neighboring Fukushima Prefecture, gouging out a crater hundreds of meters deep in the middle of the bustling road.]
[Countless clouds of dust billowed, in an instant the number of dead and injured exceeded one thousand.]
[Many citizens of Fukushima were stunned stiff, very quickly followed by panicked screams and fleeing.]
[Immediately after, black Saber coldly gave chase, the battle continuing to explode!]
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["They've already left Fuyuki!!"]
[Outside the city of Fuyuki, those at the military base were all stunned, furiously roaring.]
["Weren't we told the ritual would only take place inside Fuyuki, that it absolutely couldn't go beyond Fuyuki!"]
["I… I don't know anymore…"]
[On the other side, the person in charge from Clock Tower was speechless, already scared stiff.]
[Motherfucker, this time it's a huge mess.]
[Their Clock Tower, the Burial Agency, it's said there exist entities that can oppose a Servant, but that's talking about third-rate types like Hassan of the Hundred Faces. (Note: Isn't the Burial Agency an organization belonging to the Holy Church?)]
[Facing King Arthur or Heracles—this kind of power that can annihilate an entire superpower nation.]
[If the Wizard Marshal doesn't step in, even if the entire Clock Tower dies, no one will save them.]
[Moreover… he, the Magician of the Second Magic, is the big boss of the entire Clock Tower across countless parallel worlds, while the Clock Tower of this world is no different from a local branch of an international corporation spread globally, even if it dies, no one would bother to care.]
[Watching the two rampaging wildly in Fukushima through the projection screen, the people at the military base could only give bitter smiles.]
[Motherfucker, are these two Servants really planning to collapse several cities?]
[Please no… how the hell are we supposed to cover this up.]
[There will definitely be many "persons in charge" dragged out and beheaded.]
[And then... everyone stood frozen in horror.]
[They're coming.]
[Two blazing auroras, one red and one black, were charging this way, their speed so fast it was like flashing lightning, with each collision sending out ripples of invisible shockwaves, tearing the heavens and earth apart.]
[Shit!]
[The base commander—Admiral Mike—was nearly scared out of his mind.]
["Quick, quick… block them, block them for me!"]
["Sir, we can't block them..." The Japanese official beside him trembled.]
[Don't even mention them, even the armed forces of the U.S., in front of these two great Servants like moving calamities, were just a pile of trash crushed at will.]
["If you can't block them, at least force them to change direction!"]
[Admiral Mike roared, his bloodshot eyes filled with terror.]
[If black Saber and Heracles charged this way, just the aftershocks alone would wipe them all out.]
[Immediately after, under the panicked orders of the Japanese officials, fighter jets, bombers, interceptors shot up into the air from airbases, steel war machines rumbled up from the ground, missile silos readied to fire.]
[In just an instant.]
[Ten thousand cannons fired simultaneously.]
[The strongest military force of humankind at this moment bared its fangs and claws!]
[BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM…]
[Countless missiles, traveling at several times the speed of sound, exploded across the far side of the Servant battlefield, mushroom clouds rising, instantly sweeping the earth clean, annihilating an entire urban area.]
[One hundred thousand lives—regardless of age or gender—in an instant turned to ashes.]
[And the purpose, was merely to distract the attention of the Servants.]
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Reality was stunned.
"What the hell!! Are they really this ruthless?!"
"Motherfucker, just for the safety of a few bastards in the base, they straight-up slaughtered a hundred thousand people?"
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Reality.
The Japanese official glanced at the face of the American representative beside him, forced a smile, and looked into the camera to explain: "It's all the fault of the Servants, it has nothing to do with America, these sacrifices are all meaningful, all for the greater good."
Whether the public believed it or not didn't matter.
Later, the media would handle it, they'd tell everyone that the public had already believed it.
But the key point was…
Did this method work?
The answer: It worked!
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Inside the Celestial Curtain, the destructive force vaguely equivalent to an A-Rank Noble Phantasm, like an explosion attracting the attention of Heracles in his Mad Enhancement state, in that instant when he turned his head, black Saber suddenly struck him down!
In an instant transforming into a sharp black sword, slicing through an entire mountain, stabbing deep into the earth.
[Did it really work?]
[The officials in the base were overjoyed.]
[Finally, they had drawn the attention of the Servants elsewhere.]
[Go.]
[Get out now!]
[Just as the officials and soldiers exhaled in relief, a figure wrapped in pitch-black aura slowly floated up.]
[That dark figure slowly raised her sword, adjusting her direction.]
[What was she planning to do?]
[Seeing black Saber on the screen raising the Cursed Excalibur, the people in the base went insane; that direction would no doubt impact them, and under the mental oppression of such absolute power, their wills completely collapsed…]
["This is God's judgment!"]
["Everyone's going to die, the apocalypse is here!"]
[Inside the base, soldiers who were already overwhelmed by the godlike presence began screaming and going mad.]
[She raised her sword, sounding the death knell of doomsday!!]
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From behind the screen, witnessing this earth-shattering scene, the comments on the Observer Network surged like a tidal wave.
Everyone was both indescribably thrilled and deeply panicked.
"Blackened Artoria is freaking amazing, this is the kind of power our legendary King—the Britons—should have!"
"Is this what they call: villains are three times stronger, justice is ten times weaker?"
"Nuh-uh, not just three times, compared to the Saber in Yukino's hands, she's at least dozens of times stronger!!"
"Don't say that out loud, if Yukino hears it, she'll probably cry."
"I suspect if Saber keep fighting like this with Heracles, Japan will be wiped out in less than half a day, and this secret Holy Grail War will become a global event everyone knows about."
"This gas leak cover story is getting a bit too intense..."
"Fuyuki's gone, is Fukushima next?"
"Clock Tower's pathetic, from the way they're described, they can only handle trash-tier Servants like Hundred-Faced Hassan; they're not even as good as Yukino, at least Yukino can fight Archer."
"Hey, that's still pretty strong okay? If Servant Yukino goes all out, even young girl Yukino herself can't handle it."
"More accurately, none of the Holy Grail War Masters this time can actually go toe-to-toe with a Servant; only Raku Sou—that cheat of a guy—managed to kill Heracles once, and even took down a Divine-class Gorgon."
"Wait, isn't the real highlight Magician Kisschu Zed Smitch or whatever? I remember this guy was mentioned in Land of Steel."
"It's Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. The big boss of the Clock Tower across countless parallel worlds."
"If our world built a Clock Tower, could we lure him over too?"
"Dude, don't jinx it! I don't want any gas leaks spilling over into our world!"
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[In the area near Fukushima, residents in other cities were a bit puzzled, feeling the ground beneath them seem to tremble slightly, quivering faintly from some distant source.]
["Hey, you guys, look over there, I think there's an earthquake."]
["An earthquake? That's totally normal."]
["We're in Japan, you know, earthquakes are norm------"]
["Oh shit!"]
[At that moment, countless people in other cities looked up in horror.]
[At the edge of the sky, two beams of light clashed fiercely among the clouds, violently tearing apart the thick clouds, and within them, a black figure gently raised her hand, a black-purple pillar of light piercing the heavens.]
[Then…]
[It fell.]
["BOOM BOOM BOOM...!!"]
[Like divine punishment, a single slash tore through the entire Fukushima province and the military base like cloth, splitting over ten thousand square kilometers of land in two.]
[Countless skyscrapers, highways were instantly wiped out, vaporized in the beam of light.]
[Accompanied by earth-shattering explosions and wave after wave of collapse, a great abyss over seventy kilometers deep was formed, endless, bottomless, like a scar on the sky.]
[One slash, nearly one million dead!]
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Reality.
The entire world fell silent.
Everyone stared at the cut that split Fukushima province, the city neatly cleaved into two halves, stunned, speechless.
One slash!
Just one slash!
Nearly a million living people vanished between heaven and earth, without leaving even the slightest trace.
Before this, they had never directly…
Directly felt—under a Servant's sword, how small and insignificant mortal humans truly were.
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Note: +1,000,000 credit society to the author in this chapter.