Stray Chapter 4: Strange karma

Xia Ran is not unfamiliar with the scene in front of her that should happen at the end of time and space. She even has a subtle feeling that her liver is aching, or it is an illusion.

But that's a long, long time ago, and it's not very human.

Whether it's the joy of shipping, or the grief of sinking...

He recognized what that space was. A huge three-dimensional magic circle centered on planetary magic, a singularity outside the usual time axis, was a small world, a conceptual universe, and the entire "domain" was the universe. Miniature sandbox.

Just as the magic workshop is to the magician, the location of the workshop is the magician's position——

The so-called workshop is a "other world" created by magicians to sharpen and strengthen their magic. If the magic sigil is an organ created inside, the studio is a new world created outside.

The so-called workshop is the end of the heavenly law that magicians have spent years, decades, and sometimes even generations accumulating. For magicians, the workshop is like a camp. It is their first and last trump card. It is the accumulation of magic institutions, which eventually forms something like a magic fortress.

As its master magician, within his own position, he can greatly improve his own strength by means of preparation, while the enemy's magic or mystery is correspondingly restricted to a certain extent.

Amplifies your own abilities.

Limits the enemy's play.

Well, nice and easy to understand.

And above the ordinary magic workshop, there is a temple-level position, that is, an upgraded version of the workshop... And this "domain" is being attacked by many heroes who protect human rights and the last master of human beings. , which is the ultimate manifestation of it.

—The Temple of the Crown of Time.

A small universe created with a magician's magic circuit as a base, and can even exist outside the time axis. As long as there is magic power, it can always exist as an inherent enchantment...

The owner of this unprecedented magic workshop is the King of Magic Solomon... Of course, this statement is not accurate.

It should be said that it is a collection of the seventy-two demon gods under its command "Getia", an existence formed by occupying the corpse of King Solomon, the beast of original sin that holds the principle of "compassion". It is a magic with a will that is woven to gain access to true wisdom, and that wants to use all human history to reach the origin.

On the premise of knowing the hopelessness and ugliness of human beings, Solomon did not choose to correct, and finally accepted death.

But the seventy-two demon gods he used did not agree. They came to the conclusion that human beings and the future were worthless, and the ending of fear was eliminated. Therefore, Goetia, who was a collective, resumed his activities after the death of King Solomon, through the remains of King Solomon.

Reset the purpose of serving human beings, proving that you are the absolute highest existence on this planet, reaching the extreme point that even Solomon could not reach, that is, opening the great cause of becoming a god.

Getia sent the demon gods into the future, and inserted several breaking points into the course of human history, causing human reason to collapse. However, this is at best a means, not an ultimate goal.

Because it doesn't do it to kill humans, it does it to use humans.

What it seeks is to trace back the life of 4.6 billion years before the birth of this planet, to experience the moment when the "celestial body" in this field was born, and to recover all the energy at that time. own.

In other words, make yourself a "new celestial body" and create a new world without death. However, time travel of this scale is beyond the reach of human beings, and even Gaetia is still out of reach.

It's just like the Temple of the Crown of Time, in its essence, is still a magic workshop.

The essence of magic, to put it bluntly, is to make possible things possible with personal power and spend a lot of time and energy to make them possible. While magic can make things seem to happen in an instant, it actually requires a lot of preparation beforehand.

Similar to science in a way, although the methods are different, they are the same in that something must be done in order to achieve a goal.

Therefore, although Goetia has no way to directly achieve this goal, after three thousand years of planning and preparation, it can still have the opportunity to successfully activate this spell.

What is indispensable for flying to the past is enormous energy, so in order to obtain the energy to fly to the past, in order to witness the birth of celestial bodies, in order to control all these moments and infinite adjustments.

A plan of this scale requires a huge amount of magic power. After careful calculation, if all the human history from its birth to the modern 21st century is converted into magic power, the magic power obtained is enough to make it start time travel. , leap to the beginning of the star.

Therefore—

It is not because of hatred that humans are destroyed. The reason for burning humans is only for this reason, but it is just the fuel for the actual activation of their spells.

It's a pity, just like in the story, evil can never win. Now that the base camp of the Temple of the Crown of Time has been attacked, it means that its singular points in the history of mankind have been eliminated one by one, and the enemy has rushed The face came to Getiah.

Xia Ran thought so calmly... After all, it's okay to be calm, he can only watch like this now, and can't do anything.

There is only thinking and perception, nothing else, and he doesn't know what state he is in now, although he has also thought about whether he has a record on the Throne of Heroes and is about to be summoned by the "protagonist" , this will happen.

But over time, he overturned this conjecture.

It doesn't mean that he will never lend a helping hand or respond to the call, nor does it mean that there is no holy relic or something, and the "protagonist" cannot summon himself--don't worry about this at all, if necessary, he will Still happy to help.

After all, helping each other is like helping my former self, and there is a strange feeling of nostalgia.

And the other party has the special ability to contract with multiple servants at the same time by virtue of Mash's shield, and basically has not used holy relics for summoning. , and encountered each legendary heroic spirit.

Even the current situation is the same-

The torrent formed by the vast number of followers, even more than the number of the seventy-two demon gods, is frantically fighting for their master and the enemy on the opposite side, the white-hot battle is in the whole space ringing in.

However, there is no catalyst and no summoner, that is, the summoning technique is activated spontaneously, only by the thin line of fate formed once.

It is the same until now. There is still a cavalry Servant who keeps appearing, countless spiritual base reactions continue to increase, and the meteor shower that cuts through the night sky and turns into an extremely sky, descends on this battlefield one after another.

The heroic spirits who have gathered in this field are incomparable, even if they are incompatible enemies, even if they are people of different eras who have no intersection, now they entrust each other's backs to each other .

As they roar, roar, sway with blood and determination.

"Not to stop people from burning..."

"It is the way forward for our contractors!"

In addition, the Temple of the Crown of Time is outside of time, and the Throne of Heroes itself is a mechanism that transcends the time axis, so this magic workshop has become a sieve, and the Servant can make it according to his own will. Fate, and take the initiative to come.

It's just that Xia Ran didn't notice the opportunity to summon him. Although he established a stable link, it could be regarded as a causal thread of fate, but he didn't know what to do to be able to take the initiative to enter that space. middle.

If he could, he would have rushed there long ago. After all, what is better than being here and watching?

It's a pity, it seems that he really only has his mind here, and he can only watch the scenes happening outside the distant time and space...

"It's inexplicable, should I be allowed to play? If I don't do anything, what's wrong with my state?"

The magician felt a little depressed, but he quickly adjusted his mood and began to pay attention to the "nodes" that resonated with him just now. Maybe these are the key to the breakthrough, not sure?

Focusing on the most conspicuous "node", he saw a girl with blond hair and blue eyes, similar to Artoria's appearance, waving the holy flag in a heroic manner.

“…”

“…”

It's really inexplicable, how did you have a causal connection with this saint? Xia Ran sighed in her heart, but that kind of feeling is not deceiving. Is it because of a similar reason to Artoria, that she can reverse the idol theory?

This is a bit far-fetched, isn't it?

But when it comes to Arturia... Subconsciously looking around the battlefield, Xia Ran finds that there is no figure of this knight king at all. After she is included in the space system, her existence is also an extension of space rules. with asylum.

Simply put, it also has uniqueness, and has some of the characteristics of the second magic, although this is not a passive effect that she can actively control.

It also leads to the fact that although King Arthur has a legend, he is no longer on the Throne of Heroes, and it is impossible to be summoned in any world line... But this is such a pity, it seems that many versions do not exist anymore?

Swimsuit version, maid version, mature gunman version...

Although it was originally just a different IF of the same person, well, maybe I can let Saber try cross-dressing later, a Saber with hundreds of styles may be able to make up for some regrets.

It's just some regrets on the body, it seems that there is no way to do it.

But then again, if this is the case, then the changes in this world line are very huge. For example, in the singularity of burning and polluting Fuyuki, the "protagonist" and his party should not be able to touch the blackened King of Knights. .

The sixth singularity is also very likely not Camelot at all. If it is, something must have changed...

Vaguely, Xia Ran felt a flash of inspiration and seemed to have caught something, but when she thought about it carefully, she had no clue. After all, the information was too scarce, and it was temporarily impossible to piece together a decent outline.