The Queen Descends!
Outside the cave, Kingu flew back, his back covered in wounds, having paid the price of taking a sword strike from Quetzalcoatl.
The weapon in Quetzalcoatl's hand was named Macuahuitl, a unique Aztec weapon, a double-edged sword shaped like a saw, about 1 meter in length. Because the Aztec civilization's iron-smelting technology was backward, they used this weapon made by embedding sharply polished obsidian blades into a wooden club in a serrated pattern.
The sharp obsidian combined with the serrations, although having a huge maintenance cost, brought terrifying lethality against unarmored targets, not to mention its power in the hands of a god. Even with the support of the Holy Grail, the wounds on Kingu's body were extremely horrifying.
But he still risked everything to fly back.
"Gorgon!" Returning to the Temple, Kingu urgently called out that name, but all he saw was a gradually fading figure, and the golden eyes gradually condensing behind Kiana...
"How dare you!" In a fit of rage, he directly launched an attack at Xia Yu, countless chains shooting toward her from all directions.
"Tsk," seeing this, Xia Yu clicked her tongue. Originally, these chains wouldn't have a special attack modifier against her; she wouldn't even need to dodge. With just a slight shockwave, her Stats as a Herrscher would teach Kingu a lesson in humility. But now that she had become 'Gorgon', this special attack modifier naturally appeared.
Although it wasn't to the point where being entangled by the chains meant being bound to death, breaking free from them would still take some effort.
So Xia Yu merely dodged in a flash, stepping through the portal behind her to arrive on the ground next to Fujimaru Ritsuka.
She gently set down Ana, who was in her arms, and patted her head. "Just stop worrying about the Humanity Order. With how inhumanely it acts, it completely deserves getting its door kicked in by the King of Mages."
Ana looked at Xia Yu, who carried a familiar aura, at a loss... Stop worrying about the Humanity Order... How could it be that easy...
But every word the other party said truly struck a chord in her heart. To her, the Humanity Order was truly too inhumane.
"Now, it's time for me to act." Xia Yu raised her head to look at Kingu. "Yo, isn't this Tiamat's most, most beloved child?"
"I did you such a huge favor, and not only are you ungrateful, but you're actually biting the hand that feeds you. What kind of logic is that?"
"Hmph!" Kingu looked with an ugly expression at the abyss in the center of the Temple where Gorgon fell. Now that her divine name and divinity had been stripped away, what was left was no longer enough to sustain her in The Living World; she had already been sent back to the Throne of Heroes.
"Without me by her side, there's no protection from the Holy Grail," Kingu said through gritted teeth. "This is a matter of course..."
He also knew in his heart that with the disruption caused by an intruder like Kiana, he could no longer fulfill his promise to Gorgon. Gorgon's exit was only a matter of time.
"This is bad, to think I'd be so agitated," he touched his cheek. "I really wished she could have lived a little longer... I haven't even fulfilled my promise to her yet."
"And then..." He looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka, "You from Chaldea, do you really think you've won? If I were you, I'd absolutely not stand beside that person!"
"Wait, this is..." Before Fujimaru Ritsuka could speak, Merlin beside her looked at Xia Yu with a face full of horror.
"Ritsuka, what exactly is the situation over there!" Just then, a communication from Chaldea came through, and the Doctor said urgently, "It's very strange, we can observe that Gorgon's Saint Graph has completely disappeared on our end, but why does the Singularity still exist!"
"Hmph, how does it feel to be deceived by others?" Kingu looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka with deep malice. "All your efforts have just become someone else's stepping stone!"
"Eh, your attack power is a bit weak," Xia Yu, hearing this, looked at him with a smile and said, "You should say it like this: 'Bitterly resenting year after year of pressing golden threads, only to make a wedding dress for another'~~"
"Kingu, you're really useless. You clearly could have awakened her much earlier, but just because you spent so much time with Gorgon, you started treating her as a companion in your heart, so you kept hesitating to strike."
Xia Yu shook her head with a sigh. "And you call yourself a major villain acting like this? Kingu, are you really that starved for affection?"
Hearing this, Kingu's defenses were instantly shattered. "You!"
Accompanied by his words, countless chains attacked once again, but purple spatial doors also opened wide behind Xia Yu! A dense barrage of Void Lances directly pinned these chains to the ground.
"Now, since you're passively on strike, it's time for me to get to work." Feeling the connection between the Persian Gulf and the Authority of Tiamat she had usurped, Potnia Theron, Xia Yu muttered in a low voice...
"Time to wake up, Mother!"
In an instant, over at the Persian Gulf, countless amounts of primordial Black Mud rushed toward the sea surface from the ocean floor like tentacles, directly dyeing the entire sea black and red.
"Wait, the data we're detecting... It's impossible!" The Doctor's voice rang in everyone's ears. "Sheba 02, 06, and 09 are damaged!"
"This is... Romani, this is bad!" Da Vinci's voice also began to panic. "It's a space-time quake!"
"The entire world of Mesopotamia is experiencing spatial ruptures, wait, this is..."
They stared at the Saint Graph reaction that covered the entire Persian Gulf.
"What is this?"
Meanwhile, in the ruins of the Blood Temple.
Blood seeped from the corner of Merlin's mouth as he collapsed to his knees.
"Oh no, so this is what's going on." Merlin looked at Kingu with a bitter smile. "In this duel of mutual deception, I actually fell one step behind."
"That's exactly it, you cunning Nightmare." Kingu smiled with immense satisfaction. "You set up a cage of dreams for Mother, delaying the time of her awakening. My only worry was how... to wake Mother from her slumber!"
"But your life-preserving abilities were maxed out, making you completely uncatchable, which is why I had to... Gorgon... sigh..."
"Since she couldn't be awakened alive, then killing her once was the solution," Xia Yu continued speaking. "You connected the Authority of Potnia Theron that Gorgon possessed with Tiamat, synchronizing it... with her very being. So Gorgon's death also meant Tiamat being violently jolted awake from her slumber."
"The plan was beautifully thought out, it's just that there was a problem with you, the creator and Enforcer. You couldn't bear to part with Gorgon, couldn't bear to part with this sole companion. Kingu, you always say you are a weapon... but your emotions are richer than anyone else's!"
"Shut up!" Kingu gritted his teeth, glaring at Kiana in the sky. "You have no right to talk about me! You thief, you liar!"
"And the rest of you!" He turned his head to look at Fujimaru Ritsuka and the group. "A bunch of fools, idiots! To think you were used by someone just like that!"
"Come on, just admit it, Kingu." Hearing this, Xia Yu smiled very happily. "I'm Mother's favorite child. Look, you needed to plan so much just to wake her, but... I only needed to speak a single 'time to wake up' to her Authority, and Mother opened her eyes."
"Shut up!" Kingu was thoroughly triggered, shooting out chains once more, but they were still easily suppressed by Xia Yu.
"Do you remember what I told you? Kingu, you don't understand Mother at all! You don't understand her thoughts, you don't understand her love. You just took the 'Beast' that the Humanity Order forcibly bestowed upon her... and treated it as her entirety, not knowing that's exactly what she disgusts the most!"
"In the Imaginary Number Space, she'd rather undergo a Self-Seal than let the Authority of the Beast occupy her entirely and seek Regression. Admit it, Kingu, you're just the King of Mages's pawn. You thought... you were acting for Mother, but in the end, you were just making a wedding dress for someone else!"
"...It doesn't matter." Hearing this, Kingu's body swayed, but he remained stubborn. "Anyway, Mother has awakened now. Your actions are no different from mine."
"And you all!" He looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others. "You should all take a good look at the posture of our true god, take a good look at the posture of the original sin of Humans, and then die in despair..."
And right at this moment, Merlin could finally hold on no longer, his entire body beginning Spiritualization.
"Merlin!" Fujimaru Ritsuka hurriedly supported him.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Need you even ask?" Kingu said mockingly. "Mother woke up, so naturally she'd squash the little bugs that have been causing trouble nearby."
"Listen closely, you must quickly return to Uruk," Merlin looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Although she has awakened, she hasn't started acting yet..."
"No, she's already started acting." Hearing this, Xia Yu shook her head. "The new Humans Kingu spoke of have already been incubated."
"Kiana," hearing this, Merlin looked up at Xia Yu. "I've never understood your goal. If you're plotting for Tiamat, then will you destroy Humans? For the sake of me... constructing the Dreamscape for you for so long, could you give me an answer?"
"Destroy Humans? No, no, no, of course I wouldn't be that heartless," Xia Yu shook her head. "But you see, the people of this Uruk are destined to die. Even Gilgamesh knows this, doesn't he?"
"So you can just watch them die?"
"No, quite the contrary." Xia Yu's attire changed. From the heroic Valkyrie outfit of the Herrscher of Flamescion, six massive hems gradually extended. Her high ponytail was untied and let down, and her pupils transformed into a brilliant gold.
Several Void Lances floated behind her. At the hollows of her hems, massive amounts of Honkai Energy gradually condensed into the shape of eyes, before bursting out with black lightning that struck straight at the sky!
"I will save them!"
That black lightning continuously spread across the sky, and wherever it passed, countless purple circular spatial doors emerged.
A purple barrier appeared beneath Xia Yu's feet. She stretched out her hands, as if to embrace the entire world, and stepped into the sky step by step.
"Potnia Theron... Heh, this Authority is truly useful..."
As her words fell, countless Honkai Beasts squeezed their bodies out of those spatial doors. In just a few short seconds, they occupied the entire sky!
Honkai Beasts with the dual attributes of Magical Energy and Honkai Energy would definitely bring endless surprises to the Lahmu that had thoroughly disgusted her for a long time back in Chapter Seven!
"Ritsuka! What's going on!" The Doctor's voice carried terror. "The data shows you have an unidentified energy there... No, it's already expanded, and its scale is actually on par with the one in the Persian Gulf!"
"Moreover, an unidentified Magical Energy reaction is also being monitored in the Persian Gulf. The Magical Energy level of every single individual exceeds that of the Demonic Beast Ugallu. They're Demonic Beasts that even a typical Heroic Spirit would struggle bitterly against. The number is... already over a hundred million! And it's still continuously multiplying!"
"We've detected that a hundred thousand have already approached land... We can't let them make landfall, otherwise it'll be an unparalleled catastrophe!"
"Doctor, Da Vinci-chan," Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Xia Yu, whose back was densely covered with Honkai Beasts, and then thought about the situation in the Persian Gulf. "We're in big trouble."
"Quickly return to Uruk and tell King Gilgamesh," Merlin said, looking at Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Tell King Gilgamesh exactly this: the one who can only be countered by seven Cavalry of the Grand Class... the Beast of Regression that devours the Humanity Order, the Sea of Life, the Mother of Genesis, the Beasts of Sin who is one of the Seven Evils of Humanity, Tiamat, who represents Regression, has awakened!"
After saying that, he could no longer hold on.
"Sorry, Merlin," Xia Yu said, looking at the continuously dissipating Merlin. "I'll have to trouble you to make a trip."
Hearing this, Merlin's face was filled with horror, but he completely dissipated before he could speak.
Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed. Sure enough, how could the enemies be so simple wherever Big Sis Kiana is? Evils of Humanity... The formidable power of that Beast which represented humanity's evil deeds was still vividly etched in her mind... Yes, its track record of being violently killed by Big Sis Firefly in ten minutes was also something she would never forget for the rest of her life.
Now she had to face such an overwhelmingly overpowered opponent again... Sure enough, Big Sis Kiana was right, the Humanity Order really acts inhumanely! If it weren't for Big Sis Kiana, did we even look like we could defeat a Beast?
"Go back to Uruk, Ritsuka, you're needed there," Xia Yu looked up toward the Persian Gulf. "Gilgamesh will make a rational choice, or rather, he knows he doesn't have a choice."
"As for me..." She looked at the sky full of Honkai Beasts and pointed toward the Persian Gulf.
The Honkai Beasts, blotting out the sky like dark clouds, were guided and surged overwhelmingly toward the Persian Gulf!
At the same time, in the lighthouse by the Persian Gulf, the scholar dispatched for observation trembled all over as he looked at the Chaos Tide.
"Is this the destruction the King mentioned... Notify Uruk at top speed!"
His assistant was just about to move when he froze completely in place.
"What are you standing around for?" the scholar angrily rebuked upon seeing this.
"Teacher... Behind you..." the student stuttered.
The scholar turned his head, only to see behind him a deformed demonic monster with four sharp long claws resting on the ground, a large mouth on its head, and two tentacles beneath its body staring at him. Although the other party had no eyes, he could feel its gaze!
"Hehehe, Humanity!" The demonic monster raised its sharp claws high, aiming at the scholar. "Fun!"
Then it viciously stabbed down!
The scholar could only watch powerlessly as the other party killed him, but just as those sharp claws were about to touch him, boom!
A white shadow descended from the sky, directly pinning that demonic monster to the outer wall of the lighthouse. The scholar looked closely, only to see another never-before-seen... creature (?), with a humanoid body, completely white. Its right arm was a Long Spear, a shield grew on its left arm, purplish-red patterns spread across its body, and in the center of its head was a structure resembling a red eye.
He was only stunned for a moment before several of the same creatures descended from the sky, directly turning that deformed demonic monster into a pincushion!
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