Having arrived at the Temple of Time, Akatsuki gained a perspective similar to, or even surpassing, Goetia's. Here, she vaguely perceived the truth of a certain event and the intention of a certain entity.
However, this truth was a little cruel for Fujimaru Ritsuka, but it shouldn't be a problem. Once she overcame all obstacles and difficulties, this truth would become a real lie, and the lie would then become the truth.
"So, Demon God King Goetia, could you please stop here? To be honest, I really don't want the Doctor to kick the bucket just yet."
Akatsuki stood in front of Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash, holding a black blade. "Of course, I won't treat you unfairly. As compensation for your surrender, I can send you to another world to be a laborer for gaia."
"Nonsense!"
Seeing Akatsuki reveal his true identity, Goetia, who was disguised as King Solomon, no longer concealed himself and revealed his true form.
The collective body of the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars, one of the Seven Human Evils, Beast I (Beast) possessing the principle of "Pity," and the mastermind behind the Proper Human History Incineration event.
—Goetia!
"Since you are the earth uo of this planet, you should understand! Humanity is beyond saving! Human history should be worthless!"
That massive body rose from the Throne inside the Temple of Time. Facing Akatsuki, who was much smaller than himself, he dared not be careless. While confronting Akatsuki, he also couldn't suppress the anger in his heart. "But why, why do you do nothing! You possess the most powerful force on this planet, so why do you do absolutely nothing!"
"A 'mirror'? Not entirely, I suppose. At least I wouldn't be so angry about this."
The Goetia before her was undoubtedly an independent and perfectionist individual, but since he was a collective of the Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars, Goetia had as many as seventy-two personalities and natures.
Because Goetia was both an individual and a collective, when conversing with outsiders, the "Demon God Pillar" similar to that person would manifest, hence Goetia was evaluated as a "mirror."
"Simply put, a schizophrenic with seventy-two personalities. No big deal."
The Seventy-Two Demon God Pillars were a "system to more effectively promote correct principles" created by Solomon, the progenitor of human magecraft. However, having developed independent thoughts within Solomon's corpse, they had lost this characteristic and acted entirely according to their own desires.
"Then there's nothing to discuss!"
The black blade in Akatsuki's hand, imbued with absolute death, slashed towards Goetia. The black blade seemed like the Grim Reaper's scythe from myths and legends; wherever it passed, space itself was on the verge of death. Yet Goetia remained unhurried, raising his fist to block the sharp attack.
"Frail strength. Is this all the earth uo is capable of?" Goetia mocked.
"Is that so?"
As she spoke, a strong sense of crisis welled up in Goetia's heart. Although he had never experienced it firsthand, it was undoubtedly the aura of death.
Goetia raised his fist, and Akatsuki swung her blade again.
An arm was severed.
A smooth, clean cut and cross-section, with dense black mist swirling around Goetia's wound.
"Is this the strength of the earth uo? But before our great undertaking, even if you are the personification of this planet's soul, you cannot resist our great undertaking!"
"Your great undertaking?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Goetia, who was confronting Akatsuki, and couldn't help but ask, "Demon God King, what 'great undertaking' requires you to ignite all of human history?"
Facing Fujimaru Ritsuka's question, Goetia glanced at Akatsuki, whose gaze was not on him, and then replied.
"I have witnessed countless sorrows, witnessed countless betrayals." The individual named Goetia stood before the Throne, looking at the Chaldea group who had removed seven Singularities. "It is enough. On this planet, even gods can only meet with demise."
"Life born with death as a premise is a mistake, and this planet, which adheres to this law, is also a mistake! It is merely a grand, mad stage device tailor-made for lives destined to end!"
"Precisely why I will go to the extreme point. I will go back 4.6 billion years into the past, to the moment celestial bodies were born in this realm, to recreate this planet, to perform Genesis once more, to create a planet completely without the concept of death!"
He suddenly turned his head to look at Akatsuki, who had somehow already taken a seat on the Throne. "This is our great undertaking! To us, humans are merely thrusters for reaching the primordial universe, and to you, humans are just pets to pass the time. Moreover, this world has nothing to do with you, so why do you come to stop us!"
"Recreate... the planet..."
While Fujimaru Ritsuka was astonished, Akatsuki sat quietly on the Throne. Ever since she took her seat, she had been silent, as if she had become a Doll.
"Answer me! The strongest life form on this planet, King of Earth!"
"No death?"
Akatsuki let out a sound similar to a scoff. To be honest, if she hadn't taken the Throne, she probably wouldn't have responded to Goetia's words, as even without her, Goetia's plan wouldn't ultimately succeed. However, after she took the Throne, she suddenly felt that the view from the Throne was quite nice.
"You just said something like I couldn't stop you, right? Then let me tell you clearly."
Akatsuki's lips curved upwards. "Indeed, with this physical body, it would probably be difficult to contend with your Noble Phantasm alone, but the soul within the body is another matter."
"What?"
"The power I gained as a UO is far more than this. It's just that the one who created this body deliberately limited my output, causing me to only be able to output enough power to destroy half a planet at most, despite possessing immense power."
"To give an analogy, if you put a pipe at the bottom of the ocean, no matter how vast the ocean is, the water flowing out of the pipe will ultimately only be that much."
"Goetia, I've told you very clearly: abandon the Proper Human History Incineration plan and come back with me to work for gaia and alaya. This is my last warning to you."
At this moment, an aura of a passage leading to the outside of the world, to the root, appeared within the Temple of Time.
"Fujimaru, Mash! Don't look at the Throne! You absolutely must not look at the Throne! That's zzzzzzzzzzz...!
A certain gaia once said that in a certain future, she sent herself to the root and never returned, so she speculated that she had been erased by the root.
That's correct, but not entirely.
The root is an existence outside the world, the origin and end of everything in the TYPE-MOON world.
But that's only within the TYPE-MOON worldview. Akatsuki's soul was not born from the TYPE-MOON world; it was pulled over by alaya on a whim.
"In other words, the root erased 99.9999% of my soul, but there's still 0.0001% of my soul that it can't erase! This is why my future self entered the root and was erased, while my past self still exists."
A faint passage gradually formed within Akatsuki's body.
root moon, appearing!
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