Chapter 355: Absolute Defense
Throwing away Solomon's disguise, the Demon God King Gaitia regained his true form, and his spiritual base was changed from Caster to Beast.
One of the evils of mankind, the beast of mercy among the seven beasts.
Lu Xiao once read a legend about King Solomon.
Solomon's 72-Pillar Demon God is very famous, and many ACG works will add settings related to the 72-Pillar Demon God, such as a large factory that makes money by selling models.
In the setting of the Moon World, King Solomon attributed magic and mystery to the people on his deathbed, using this as a dividing line, and the gods began to fall into decline.
After the death of King Solomon, the 72 pillars of demon gods sealed in his corpse each gave birth to independent spiritual intelligence, and the one who unified the consciousness of these demon god pillars was the demon god king Getia.
The timeline of the Burning of the Flame must be agreed upon by most of the Demon God Pillars for this to happen.
Just like humans, the Demon God Pillar also has its own different ideas, some of which want to burn the history of mankind and let the earth re-nurture a new generation of civilization.
But there are also those who are adamantly opposed to this practice, choosing to believe in the infinite possibilities of human beings.
Leif Lenoor Floros, the Demon God Pillar who was completely killed by Lu Xiao before was the fuse of everything.
In the timeline of the inhuman burning, due to the contamination of the Holy Grail of Fuyumu, Marisbilly was unable to obtain the resources needed to build the Chaldees through the Holy Grail, and naturally the Chaldean organization did not exist.
Like-like experiments related to Chaldea would not have taken place, and the Maltican with a birth defect would certainly not have descended into this world.
In most timelines, Leif ends his life in a self-ending way, also because it eliminates the possibility of human beings being burned but realized.
The existence of IVF Matthew had a huge impact on Reif's outlook on life, and he was shocked that human beings could have fallen to such a point and conduct such inhumane human experiments for their own selfish desires.
In the timeline of Renli Burning, Leif did not choose to commit suicide, but submitted his opinion to the Demon God King Gaitia.
"Humans are stupid and selfish creatures, and they need the guidance of the 'king' to get back on track."
The king Reif was referring to was, of course, Solomon, whom he had served.
However, the real Solomon had died at the end of the Divine Era, and the Demon God Pillar's unified consciousness Gathia made a suggestion that he manipulate Solomon's corpse to fulfill the king's unfulfilled wish.
The purpose of Gathia is to erase the existing history of mankind and to rewrite the past and future of the new humanity as a guide.
Combining the 72 pillars of demon god consciousness, Gaitia is truly omniscient and omnipotent.
Through Solomon's EX-class clairvoyance, he can gain insight into the past and the future, which is also the basis for the existence of the Seven Peculiarities and the Human-Riyaki Pattern throughout each era.
Despite being omniscient and omnipotent, Getia is unable to comprehend the stupid thinking patterns of human beings, or rather...... He disdained to understand.
Moreover, Gaitia could not see through Lu Xiao's past and future, and Lu Xiao was the only existence that could not analyze the principle since he was born consciousness.
Solomon's Third Noble Phantasm can produce a terrifying heat that burns the concept of human history at its greatest emancipation, but to this extent, it must be measured and assisted by the hypothetical First Phantasm of Gatia.
At this time, the Gethia was only unfolding a simple destructive Noble Phantasm, and did not have the power of annihilation in the conceptual sense.
Seeing that the band of light above the temple was becoming more and more dazzling, Matthew took a deep breath and tightened the handle on the inside of the shield, preparing to liberate the treasure and forcibly resist the attack of the Getia.
"Wait, Matthew."
Lu Xiao pressed Matthew's shoulder: "If your own will is not shaken, your treasure can theoretically block all the attacks in the world, but your body can't withstand the heat generated by the Agatia treasure." β
"Let me do it."
Blocking Maxiu behind him, Lu Xiao glanced at Fufu.
"Fu!"
The usually well-behaved Fufu had a rare tantrum, biting Matthew's shoulder armor and pulling it back.
Although its meagre strength could not produce any practical effect, the attitude of the little beast was clearly expressed.
Lu Xiao looked at the light ribbon in the air with a stern face, and pinched out the mysterious magic decision in front of his chest with both hands.
"Gaetia, you call the inherent barrier formed by Solomon's second Noble Phantasm the Temple of Time, but you don't understand what real manipulation of time is."
"Open!"
The hands crossed on his chest shifted to the sides, and the time gem hanging on Lu Xiao's chest revealed its true body in the temple.
"Let me teach you how to use the power of time!"
With Lu Xiao as the center, a circle of invisible ripples spread.
Using the results of his recent research during meditation in the Chaldees, Lu Xiao fixed the space within a certain range and intercepted the flow of time only within this space, greatly reducing the consumption of the time gem itself.
"It's a clichΓ©, but let's use it."
Combined with the mirror space spell that Kama Taj is good at, Lu Xiao completely fixes time and space in a small area.
"Absolute defense."
"Boom!"
The Noble Phantasm of Gatia is expressed as the convergence of heat, which uses human history as fuel, absorbs power through the light bands of the seven peculiarities, and radiates it at once.
As Lu Xiao said, if Matthew opens the Noble Phantasm to resist, maybe the pure white city of Camelot will be able to block the attack of Gatia, but her flawed body cannot withstand the terrifying heat of the Treasure's release, and is destined to be vaporized by Gatia's Treasure.
Lu Xiao's choice of defense is more clever, he uses the mirror space to strip the time and space within a certain range from the regular timeline, and temporarily escapes into the untouchable time gap.
This trick was used once in the Fourth Holy Grail War against Lancer Artoria.
However, at that time, Lu Xiao was not proficient in the application, and forcibly reversed a large range of absolute time, causing the time gem to fall into an overload state after one use, and there was a feeling of killing chickens with a knife.
The ultra-athermic heat released by the light band bombarded the temple, causing the temperature of the entire area to rise sharply, and the solid temple floor even crystallized.
After the dust stirred up by the energy attack cleared, and there was no trace of human presence on the enchanted ground, Gatia exhaled with satisfaction through his nose.
"Hmph~ The human beings who are full of big words can't compete with our treasures that burn human history."
"Hehe~ full of big words? Are you talking about yourself? β
"Da~"
The crisp snap of his fingers interrupted Gatia's boasting, and under his stunned gaze, Lu Xiao, Matthew, and Fujimaru broke away from the gap in time and reappeared in front of him unscathed.
Having omniscient eyes, Gaitia couldn't see through Lu Xiao's details, but he quickly deduced everything from the traces of time-space twisting that remained nearby.
"Space stripping? No! It's a combination of the power of time and space! β
Being slapped in the face by the human who he looked down on, the angry Gatia's expression became more and more hideous: "A mere human can actually grasp the power that only gods have, but do you think you can defeat me in this way?" β
"Demon God Pillars! Give me your power! β
Under Gaidia's orders, the Demon God Pillar that was entangled with the Heroic Spirits suddenly disappeared, and the remaining 71 Demon Gods gathered all their power on Gaitia.
"Not good!"
Romani, who was sitting in the Chaldeans, suddenly changed his face: "Gaitia is going to fight hard, he has unified the power of all the Demon God Pillars, and the next blow is likely to annihilate the time and space in the Temple of Time!" β
Romani's face changed slightly, but he finally made up his mind.
"Leonardo da Vinci, the command of the Chaldeans has been handed over to you, and it is time for me to complete my mission."
Da Vinci had long anticipated his actions, and asked calmly, "Have you really decided?" Give up the mortal body that you got through the Holy Grail Wish and become the puppet king controlled by the gods again? β
Romani's body paused, and it was clear from Leonardo da Vinci's question that the almighty man had guessed his true identity.
"Heh~"
Romani smiled relievedly: "Perhaps, this is my fate." β