However, before the arrow could touch Tiamat's shadow, it was easily swallowed by the Chaos Tide, and the backlash sent Kama flying away.
"How is this possible..."
For the first time, there was a slight shake in her voice, but more than that, she could not accept it.
'How could there be such a huge gap between one Beast and another?'
"Get back!"
At that moment, Alvin's low shout suddenly came from behind her.
He grabbed Kama's arm and quickly pulled her backward. The place where they had been standing was pierced through by a pillar of chaotic light.
Cold sweat had already appeared on Alvin's forehead. The White Dragon Furnace Core was running overtime.
Merlin raised his staff and spread out a barrier, barely sealing the Imaginary Number rift for the moment. At the same time, he shouted toward Alvin in the distance, "Alvin, we have to close that Imaginary Number rift as soon as possible!"
Originally, Kama had only opened a small crack into the Imaginary Number Space. But now, that opening was gradually expanding.
If this continued, it would not take long before Tiamat's true body descended into the real world through the rift.
"Let's work together and close the rift first!", Alvin turned and shouted at Kama.
"Shut up!", Kama shook off Alvin's hand. Behind her, a giant wheel of desire spread out and covered the sky.
In the next moment, tens of thousands of pink arrows poured down like rain, shooting wildly toward Tiamat inside the Imaginary Number rift.
However, before those arrows could even reach Tiamat's true body, they were completely swallowed by the power of the Chaos Tide and quickly disappeared into the air.
Tiamat slowly raised her eyes. A sound that was half song and half sigh spread outward. Inside the Chaos Tide, countless pink arrows suddenly turned around and blasted toward Kama with twice the destructive force.
Alvin reacted quickly and grabbed Kama into his arms before retreating at high speed. At that moment, he really wanted to complain.
"Tch! Why won't you stop trying!"
If not for the fact that the body she was using belonged to Matou Sakura, he really would have turned around and left by now.
Crack!
At that moment, a cracking sound suddenly came from Merlin's seal.
Then more and more cracks appeared.
Until finally, under everyone's shocked gaze, the seal completely shattered.
An Imaginary Number gate large enough to hold countless people was rapidly expanding at a terrifying speed.
The foundation of the temple turned into quantum dust and collapsed downward.
And descending along with it was Tiamat's enormous true body.
Kama looked up at the giant beast in the sea of stars, it was no longer within the category of a "living creature," but more like the embodiment of the world returning to "nothing."
This was the Mother Goddess of Creation who had always slept within the Imaginary Number Space, the one called the "Principle of Regression."
Usually she looked absent-minded and easy to fool, but when her true body descended, even Merlin's face turned pale.
"This is really going to become a disaster...", he muttered.
———
[Chaldea]
This was a special organization funded by many countries. Its main duty was to protect the continuation of human order. Simply put, it existed to prevent humanity from going extinct.
It stood within a snow mountain over 6,000 meters high. Normally, not even a bug could be seen there.
However, one minute ago, the calm inside Chaldea was completely broken by an alarm from the observation station.
Clatter!
The doors of Chaldea's monitoring room automatically opened, and the girl named Fujimaru Ritsuka hurried inside.
Mash held her shield and was already standing beside Doctor Roman. She stared seriously at the holographic image ahead. Her fingers unconsciously dug into her palm, but the pain did nothing to ease the tension in her heart.
As Chaldea, the organization that had saved human order countless times before, Mash and Fujimaru Ritsuka had already visited multiple Singularities and corrected abnormalities in human history.
When it came to saving humanity, Chaldea could already be called highly experienced.
Even so, everyone inside the monitoring room was extremely tense.
"What level of Spirit Origin reaction is this?"
Mash stared at the holographic image. After a long silence, she finally spoke, her voice carrying a slight shake.
Doctor Roman looked at the violently shaking holographic image and stayed silent for a long time before speaking.
"A 'sea' that existed before creation."
"A sea?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka walked forward, confusion in her eyes, "What exactly is that?"
"To be exact, it is the Principle of Regression that returns all things back to their 'origin.'"
Doctor Roman frowned slightly and said softly, "But logically, she should still be sleeping inside the Imaginary Number Space. Why would she appear in Fuyuki City. What exactly happened there?"
A light flickered in Mash's eyes, "Fuyuki? If I remember correctly, the Holy Grail War is held there every ten years. Could it be that some Master accidentally opened the gate to the Imaginary Number Space?"
Doctor Roman did not answer. His expression was serious and heavy.
"The Chaos Tide's expansion speed has already exceeded calculated values by 1200%. At this rate, Fuyuki will soon be completely covered by the Chaos Tide."
His hand unconsciously tightened as he spoke in a low voice, "We have to find a way to send the Mother Goddess back into the Imaginary Number Space..."
That said, a terrifying being with a Spirit Origin too large to calculate, and one that had descended into a modern city like Fuyuki... was there really still a way to send her back?
While Doctor Roman's mind was still racing, Fujimaru Ritsuka gently placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Doctor, there's no time. Start the Rayshift. No matter what, we need to go to Fuyuki first to find out what happened."
Doctor Roman looked at the girl with a complicated expression and sighed.
"This time will probably be harder than any of the previous ones..."
Even so, they could not just give up now, Doctor Roman took a deep breath.
"Beginning Rayshift!"
"Target... Japan, Fuyuki City!"
———
The Chaos Tide swept across the temple with pressure on the level of creation itself. Crystals of desire exploded one after another across the ceiling, and pink-purple fragments drifted downward like dying fireflies.
Along with them, Kama's calm state of mind, which she had worked hard to maintain all this time, also shattered.
"My desire crystals..."
She stared blankly at the ruined temple, then unconsciously clenched her right hand.
"They're just leftovers from an old era... don't get carried away!"
Behind Kama, the wheel of desire rapidly expanded. Tens of thousands of Sanskrit arrows wrapped in peach-colored flames shot into the sky and rained down toward the giant beast in the center of the chaos.
However, the instant the arrows touched the Chaos Tide, they vanished like snow falling into lava, disappearing before even an explosion could sound.
Tiamat slowly lowered her head. Within her chaotic irises was Kama's tiny figure.
"Aaaaa!"
The siren-like song pierced through dimensions. The sharp sound made Kama cover her ears without thinking. At the same time, Tiamat's giant claw tore through space and struck toward her. Kama barely dodged it when the dragon tail wrapped in starlight swept across again, crushing the temple pillars along the way into quantum dust.
"You think you're the only one who can use 'Rules'?"
Kama suddenly activated Imaginary Number magecraft. Her right hand tore open an Imaginary Number rift, trying to send Tiamat back into the Imaginary Number Space.
However, the Imaginary Number Space that should have swallowed everything twisted and collapsed the moment it touched Tiamat's scales, as though the universe itself refused to contain such a huge and terrifying existence.
Crack!
In the next moment, Tiamat's giant claw crashed down with the full weight of her enormous body.
Kama's crystal armor shattered instantly, and her body smashed through several stone pillars like a kite with its strings cut.
Even though the main body had no "reason," Tiamat seemed to hold a natural anger toward Kama, probably because she had personally seen how this woman treated her child earlier.
She did not stop there and slowly walked toward Kama.
"That's enough!"
Just as Tiamat was about to reach her, Kama struggled to support herself and suddenly raised her head to glare at Tiamat.
"I am the embodiment of 'love,' a supreme god, you—"
Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly felt her body rise into the air.
It was Tiamat. Her dragon tail had wrapped around Kama's body. Carrying the weight of the Chaos Tide and her massive body, she slammed Kama heavily into the ground, then violently smashed her toward the other side again.
Boom!
A huge crater burst open across the temple floor. Kama's silver hair spread messily across the scorched ground as she stared blankly at Tiamat's giant shadow that covered the sky. Then the light in her eyes gradually faded, and she lost consciousness.
Silence.
The temple fell into a strange silence.
Even Alvin was stunned.
He knew there were differences between Beasts, but he had not expected the result to be this one-sided.
"Aaaaaa!"
After dealing with her enemy, Tiamat did not stop. She raised her head and released a song that seemed to pass through the entire city.
More and more Chaos Tide poured out from the cracks in the ground, as though it would swallow the entire world.
Alvin immediately reacted and quickly stepped forward to pick up the unconscious "Matou Sakura."
At the same time, Merlin raised his staff and sent everyone into the air to avoid being touched by the Chaos Tide.
Most Heroic Spirits who touched the Chaos Tide would have their sanity affected and become children of the Mother Goddess of Creation, Tiamat.
There were still Masters present. If they were contaminated by this thing... the consequences would be unimaginable.
"This can't go on... Alvin, we need to think of a way to wake Mother up!"
Merlin anxiously looked toward Alvin.
"If she leaves this temple... Fuyuki will soon be swallowed by the power of the 'Principle of Regression'!"
Alvin held Tohsaka Rin with his left arm while holding Matou Sakura's waist with his right to stop the sisters from being touched by the Chaos Tide.
After hearing Merlin's words, he raised his head and looked at the giant creature standing at the center of the Chaos Tide.
"If I had a way, I wouldn't be standing here staring with you right now."
Tiamat's true body had already descended through the Imaginary Number rift. Although Alvin could tell that she was trying very hard to seal herself in order to avoid destroying the world, even so, the magical energy she released was still terrifying.
They were both Beasts, but there were still differences between Beasts.
Crack!
At that moment, a breaking sound came from the temple.
Slowly, the breaking sounds became louder and louder. Merlin's expression changed slightly.
"This is bad... we can't let Tiamat leave this temple!"
Tiamat was still inside Kama's temple. Once the temple collapsed, her true body would descend directly above Fuyuki.
For this city, this was far more than simple "nuclear peace."
Even as Merlin said this, Kama's temple continued to let out groans under the pressure of Tiamat's Spirit Origin. The Chaos Tide poured from the cracks in the ground like lava melting everything.
Just as the temple was about to completely collapse, a golden flash suddenly appeared in the air.
Sajyou Manaka's golden hair danced wildly within the Chaos Tide. She raised her right hand to her chest, and golden thorn-like barrier patterns suddenly spread outward from beneath her feet, quickly covering the entire Chaos Tide within the temple.
The extending thorns pierced into the surging Chaos Tide, and strands of black magical energy began to be absorbed by them.
A light flickered in Alvin's eyes as though he had already realized something. He turned and shouted toward Merlin:
"Hold 'Mother' back a little longer!"
Contained within the "All the World's Evil" was the rule-based power of the Greater Grail... and right now, Sajyou Manaka was stripping it away from the Chaos Tide.
"You really know how to order people around, Alvin!", Merlin raised his staff despite himself.
In an instant, countless pink flower petals gathered inside the temple and surrounded Tiamat completely in the blink of an eye.
An illusion capable of putting people to sleep.
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