"Enuma Elish!"
(The Star of Creation That Split Heaven and Earth!)
"ROOOOOAR!!!!!!!"
All the World's Evil, which had yet to fully manifest, let out an unwilling roar as endless black mud poured down from the pitch-black aperture above!
The crimson vortex surged upward to meet it!
But then—
Spacetime itself seemed to freeze.
Everything visible to the naked eye fell into a bizarre state of suspension.
The pouring black mud.
The skyward-rising beam of light.
The sweeping gale.
The restless lifeforms…
Everything.
Everything came to a complete standstill.
Yet Gilgamesh's consciousness could still think, and his perception of the outside world had not been cut off by the frozen spacetime.
It was as though the existence responsible for all of this had deliberately allowed him to remain a witness to what was about to happen.
And then—
Between the black mud of sin and the space-rending beam of light moments away from colliding, a tall, perfectly proportioned figure suddenly appeared.
Leon Stark Odinson?!
Gilgamesh, who still had no idea what was happening, roared inwardly in utter shock.
I was supposed to be the last surviving victor! So why… why are you there?!
In Gilgamesh's crimson pupils, which could not even twitch, he saw—
Leon, who had originally disguised himself as King Arthur with golden hair and green eyes, was no longer wearing his true black-haired, black-eyed appearance.
His hair had naturally transformed into white, while his eyes had become crimson.
His sharply defined, superhumanly handsome face had also softened somewhat.
It was no longer quite so sharp and intimidating, instead becoming more similar to Irisviel and Justeaze.
He still possessed the majesty and domineering presence of the God of Mankind, but now there was also an air of tranquility and approachable benevolence.
The only thing that remained unchanged was his incomparable handsomeness—so dazzling that it could make anyone looking at him instinctively feel inferior.
Father of the Gods.
King of Kings.
For some inexplicable reason, these two absurd titles suddenly emerged within Gilgamesh's mind.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
The entire body of Mount Enzō began to shake.
The enormous female-shaped ritual platform engraved with the Greater Grail's Magic Circuits, spanning several kilometers, appeared as though it had been forcibly scooped out of the mountain by an invisible gigantic spoon.
Before Gilgamesh, who remained completely unable to move, the entire structure slowly rose from beneath the earth toward the heavens.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Within the Root, countless strands of blue magical energy ignored the black mud of All the World's Evil blocking the "entrance."
They converged in midair with the enormous female stone statue that had risen from the earth.
The strands of magical energy automatically began weaving themselves together.
Under the miraculous power of the Root, the enormous female statue quickly transformed within the void into a lifelike white-haired, crimson-eyed woman clad in a pure-white Heavenly Vestment.
Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern?!
Like Gilgamesh, Emiya Kiritsugu had retained the ability to think.
Still kneeling in shock and staring upward, he silently called out the name of the white-haired, crimson-eyed woman who appeared as though she were about to be resurrected.
She stood in the void at a height of 2.5 kilometers.
Leon, who had likewise transformed into his white-haired, crimson-eyed form, stood before her chest.
The difference in their sizes was so immense that even the gaps between the mountains would probably have been difficult to fill.
The two were like an ordinary human compared with an ant.
Yet the devout smile on Justeaze's face remained unchanged.
She slowly spread her arms.
Like a goddess unleashing a celestial radiance, her hands appeared to move slowly, yet actually came together with incredible speed.
Her ten fingertips aligned perfectly.
The tiny Leon, no larger than an ant by comparison, was gently protected between her palms.
She then slowly placed him against her heart.
Next—
As though embracing him, Justeaze bent her delicate feet and wrapped her arms around her knees, which she had drawn together.
Her enormous body curled inward like an unborn infant, completely enclosing the tiny Leon within herself.
Her entire form transformed into a sacred Klein Blue moon, mirroring the eerie blood-red moon hanging in the heavens.
Klein Blue was a highly saturated color created by the French artist Yves Klein—a mysterious and profound blue, dazzling like a summer star.
Against the bizarre night sky, this Klein Blue object suspended upon the heavenly throne produced an even more powerful visual impact and sense of awe.
It was like—
a blazing sun burning in the midst of an eternal night!
Then—
Spacetime seemed to come to a complete standstill.
Even Gilgamesh and Emiya Kiritsugu's thoughts froze.
Perhaps a very long time passed.
Or perhaps it was only an instant.
Crack!
Crack!
Crack!
As cracks spread across the surface of the sacred Klein Blue moon and pieces began falling away, a figure clad in a pure-white Heavenly Vestment adorned with crimson tracery and golden patterns emerged.
The Third Magician, Leon, had officially descended into this world!
[Heaven's Garment — Justeaze: The supreme Mystic Code created through the sublimation of the Third Magician Leon Stark Odinson. Using the Magic Circuits of the Greater Grail, embodied by the Winter Saint Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, as its foundation, the Third Magic—Materialization of the Soul—was used to stabilize and fuse his soul with it. Ultimately elevated by the Root, it bears the Ultimate Ritual — Heroic Spirit Summoning, an advanced evolution of the Servant Summoning Ritual.]
[Description: This is the symbol of the Third Magician!]
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