Upon seeing the magus wearing a white robe, holding a staff, and bowing slightly while cradling the "dragon egg" (which was actually flowers), the Demon God clenched his fist. He had been played! Damn it!
The magus performed an ancient British noble courtesy. "Greetings, everyone. I am the Court Mage of Britain, Merlin. I shouldn't be late, right?"
After speaking, Merlin turned toward Artoria and Morgan. As for his relationship with Aslan, he would put that aside for now. Perhaps he didn't have much to say to this Witch, but the King he served was right here. Even if she wasn't the King holding the Holy Sword, she was still his King. Therefore, a greeting was necessary.
Artoria nodded in response. Holding the Holy Lance, she identified more as the King of the Holy Lance who watched over the beautiful scenery from the Ends of the World, protecting the world, rather than just the King of Britain. She viewed her former identity as the King of Britain as lesser now. Moreover, all that was in the past; the current Britain was not the Britain she once ruled.
That acknowledgment was enough.
Merlin then looked at the furious Demon God. "So the Seventy-Two Demon Gods look like this. I didn't expect such a massive Demon God to have such a childlike heart, actually holding flowers in his hand How wonderful"
At this moment, the atmosphere of the entire area changed completely. Although this guy Merlin indeed had some issues—not only did he not understand the human heart, but his personality was also extremely terrible—wherever the Magus of Flowers, Merlin, stood, it was not hell, but an earth filled with hope.
[I have been played]
These words were imprinted directly into the Demon God's mind. "You Heroic Spirits! This ends here——!!"
Although he hadn't ignited the Human Order yet, and although they hadn't retrieved that man's body to truly use that man's Noble Phantasm, simulating it roughly shouldn't be a problem. In that case, he would use the power of the magecraft to resolve the Heroic Spirits before him!
"Fall before the power of the Demon God!!"
The Demon God raised both hands. Magical energy gathered in his palms. The compressed magical energy turned into a black hole, seemingly absorbing everything around it. When this magical energy reached its peak, a powerful force would erupt outward. Originally, it should have been fired directly using the incinerated Human Order as ammunition to burn everything, but now he could only absorb the surrounding magical energy as much as possible, especially the magical energy of the leylines, to perform a powerful magical energy explosion.
"You are right. It is time for this to end!"
Da Vinci, who had been preparing her Noble Phantasm all along, raised her head at this moment. A smile appeared on her face. She aimed her weaponized arm at the Demon God. In the palm of her hand, a magical energy crystal resembling quartz was flashing with light.
"After spending such a long time, I finally found the method to suppress you. Thank you for not taking the step of qualitative change and remaining a collection of magic formulas. 72 types of formulas and various combinations pieced together... Fortunately, you can generally be divided into nine categories. I have finally calculated all of the nearly 400 million combinations!"
Hearing Da Vinci's words, the Heroic Spirits and the Demon God present couldn't help but open their mouths wide. Is this magus's brain a supercomputer? To calculate all variations and their countermeasures in such a short time... even for a Noble Phantasm effect, this was too terrifying.
However, to some extent, her natural wisdom and Noble Phantasm provided Da Vinci with the conditions to create possibilities out of impossibilities. Moreover, Da Vinci also belonged to the "Pioneers of the Stars" (Star of Creation). She was a person who opened up an era, a person who achieved great deeds surpassing gods with humanity. Just like a certain woman who shot down the sun and once pried off a core of Poseidon's absolute defense with her own ability.
It wasn't impossible for this universal genius before them to have a brain surpassing a supercomputer.
So, marvel to your heart's content. Sigh with emotion. That expression of disbelief would surely bring a smile to the faces of the Pioneers of the Stars, for wasn't this a form of praise for them?
This is humanity. The humanity that the Demon God before them wanted to eliminate. Clearly, they seemed to fall into predicaments countless times. Clearly, in the calculations of these Demon Gods, everything seemed destined. Yet, humans repeatedly created flashes of brilliance that broke their calculations.
"It's rare for me to get serious. Since the opponent is the legendary Demon God, it won't tarnish my title as the Universal Genius!"
This sentence made the Demon God freeze for a moment. They had their arrogance, so they never thought that someone would consider fighting a Demon God as something that could potentially be embarrassing. That's right, Da Vinci had her own pride. At the same time, wasn't this sentence a counterattack because the Demon God's previous disdain for humanity had made her very unhappy?
"The Three Wise Men of the East. The Great God of Northern Europe. The Fruit of Wisdom. My wisdom, my universality, surpasses all wisdom! —— [Uomo Universale] (The Universal Man)!!"
In the next moment, the magical energy crystal opened directly, then surged rapidly around the Demon God, turning into six rings of light. They locked firmly onto the Demon God's limbs, neck, and waist, then expanded outward. In this instant, the magical energy the Demon God was compressing was abruptly interrupted.
Strictly speaking, the power displayed by [Uomo Universale] at this moment was actually the severance and interference of magic formulas. It was just that the data constituting the Demon Gods had long been lost in the passage of time. If Da Vinci had understood those ancient magecrafts beforehand, perhaps the activation of the Noble Phantasm could have been even faster.
At the same time, the light of magical energy began to scan the Demon God before her. Finally, at the Demon God's head, the shadow of a heart emerged. Because all magical energy was interfered with and severed, at this moment, this heart could no longer be moved at will.
Da Vinci stood up and took off her glasses. Those eyes flashed with the light of wisdom, locking onto the Demon God before her with extreme seriousness. "It's over, 72 Demon Gods."
Napoleon also sat directly on the ground at this moment. The cannon in his hand vanished without a trace. He breathed a thorough sigh of relief, finally seeing the light of victory before his magical energy was exhausted and he disappeared.
Merlin bowed slightly. "For the sake of my timely appearance this time, let's write off my sins during this period. Now, it is time to welcome the final victory before the world stabilizes."