All the World’s Evil, Seize It! (3K)

Based on the Assassin class, you have gained Command Spell Enhancement: Regeneration.

Based on the Assassin class, you have gained Mana Replenishment (Strong).

A ceaseless stream of power emerged within him, helping Bai Cangshu resist the erosion of the Black Mud. Among it, the power known as Command Spells restored vitality to Bai Cangshu’s corroded, withered body every time it appeared.

Bai Cangshu’s current body was, in truth, somewhere between that of a Servant and an ordinary reincarnator.

The Assassin class was like an invisible suit of exoskeletal armor attached over Bai Cangshu’s own body.

Most of the time, this armor restricted the use of some of Bai Cangshu’s abilities while enhancing him in other aspects.

But when he suffered erosion, that corrosive power acted directly upon Bai Cangshu’s own body and soul beneath the Assassin class.

Yet that kind-hearted Master seemed unable to "recognize" that the Holy Grail War had ended and that even the wish-granting stage had been seized by her own Servant. She continued using mana supply and Command Spells to provide this Assassin with powerful support.

Bai Cangshu had gained tremendous assistance for nothing.

The first enhancement Bai Cangshu received from being constantly tainted by the Black Mud was that his immortality had risen from intermediate to advanced.

Bai Cangshu found it easy to understand, because the Holy Grail War had originally been a ritual intended to pursue the Third Magic: Heaven’s Cup.

The so-called Third Magic: Heaven’s Cup was essentially a magic that transformed the soul into a material form like a perpetual-motion machine, granting eternal life and infinite mana.

Although Bai Cangshu did not believe that a ritual as difficult as the Holy Grail War could truly allow someone to obtain a complete Heaven’s Cup, that so-called eternal life, freely mutable soul form, and infinite mana had never fully appeared even in the Type-Moon World.

It was most likely a special state that could only be attained through The Root.

But merely enhancing his own immortality was highly likely to be achievable.

In fact, Bai Cangshu believed he could achieve that effect without absorbing too much "Black Mud."

Of course, All the World’s Evil would distort human wishes and fulfill them in an utterly malicious manner.

For example, at the end of the Fourth Holy Grail War, Kiritsugu Emiya discovered that the Holy Grail had already been contaminated and used a Command Spell to order Saber to destroy it.

The Holy Grail was indeed destroyed, but the Black Mud that spilled from it directly caused the Fuyuki City fire, creating an enormous disaster.

Kiritsugu Emiya had clearly made no wish. He had merely issued that command while wanting to save more people, yet it was still twisted into a catastrophic outcome.

Bai Cangshu considered himself a completely self-centered person. Unlike Kiritsugu Emiya, he did not care how great a disaster the Greater Grail brought upon Fuyuki City, even if it destroyed Japan or this entire world.

Therefore, the best way for All the World’s Evil to twist things with malice was naturally to destroy Bai Cangshu himself with the most violent and terrifying power.

Bai Cangshu knew that as well, but he still wished to obtain all power.

There was his Greed in that, but also his understanding of the Infinite Dimensional Space.

Just as with the contaminating mutation he had experienced after the Mount Tai Imperial Lord Ritual, so long as he had a chance of surviving, the Space would find a way to redeem him, this "loyal" Scavenger.

In a place like the Infinite Dimensional Space, as long as you could obtain it, nearly any power could ultimately be neutralized.

Thus, in his boundless Greed, he wanted to absorb All the World’s Evil into his body, including the Avenger Mainyu within it.

He treated his Consciousness Sea entirely as a massive containment facility, refusing no one—Yin Spirits, Cursed Spirits, Grudge Spirits, Guardian Spirits… even gods and Heroic Spirits, he wanted to try containing them all.

To Bai Cangshu, the so-called Myriad Tribulations Yin Spirit Yellow Springs Physique was a special constitution that accommodated all Yin Spirits, controlled all Yin Spirits, and thereby gained countless supernatural abilities.

You have endured the erosion of All the World's Evil. Trait: High-Speed Self-Healing has improved. Current: Hyper Regeneration.

You have suffered intense erosion. Your vitality has been greatly weakened...

After seeing that notification appear an unknown number of times, Bai Cangshu only felt the flesh beneath his skin grow incomparably heavy, as though his entire body had become sluggish.

It was as if his soul had been filled with lead.

His thinking speed began to suffer, and the rotation of the Vortex of the Heart piercing into the sky began to slow.

"Hey, hey, that guy didn’t screw himself over, did he?!"

Satoru Gojo had already removed his blindfold. White clouds flowed within his Six Eyes, but even he could not see what the Black Mud continuously flowing and dripping from the Throne of the Heart truly was.

Millennium Worm vaguely sensed the truth. Although he had been unable to leave Mercenary Tao’s body during this time, through the Heroic Spirits constantly being absorbed here, he had confirmed that his host, Mercenary Tao, had most likely entered the Type-Moon World.

"That is probably energy formed from the malice and negative wishes carried by an entire world…"

That was how Millennium Worm answered Satoru Gojo, but everyone could only silently watch as the Black Mud continued to flow and drip from the Throne of the Heart high above.

Then it fell into this pure white Consciousness Space. Because several of them guarded the four sides of the Throne of the Heart, not many Yin Spirits could enter this space.

No Yin Spirit had yet touched that substance in the short term, but everyone knew that if the Black Mud continued pouring in without end, whether it flowed into the Yellow Springs or came into contact with those Yin Spirits…

Some kind of change would inevitably occur.

Even a reincarnator like Millennium Worm had never encountered such a thing.

According to the settings, ordinary people who came into contact with this Black Mud would basically suffer erosion from malice and ultimately experience mental collapse or death. Magi with Magic Circuits who touched the Black Mud could attempt to resist it with magecraft, but in the end, they would still be affected, suffering mental erosion or a drastic reduction in lifespan.

Even powerful Heroic Spirits and Servants would suffer warped personalities and damaged bodies after being tainted by the Black Mud.

Then what exactly did spiritual bodies like them count as?

Could they resist the erosion of the Black Mud?

Millennium Worm had no way of knowing either.

He suddenly turned to look at the Special Creation spiritual body whose face was filled with Black Curses.

Black Face!

A special spiritual body from the Naruto World—the Death God!

In Fate, Gilgamesh had not suffered erosion after touching the Black Mud. Instead, he had used it to reconstruct his body and become a special Servant capable of existing independently.

Aside from being sufficiently powerful as a Heroic Spirit, Millennium Worm believed Gilgamesh’s special qualities lay in two points.

First, Gilgamesh possessed divinity.

Second, Gilgamesh was extremely Prideful and self-centered, making him very difficult to alter through malicious erosion.

Of those two points, Mercenary Tao, who now held the power of life and death over all their spiritual bodies, most likely possessed the second as well.

Mercenary Tao’s pride and self-centeredness had even earned the recognition of Satoru Gojo, who likewise considered himself the one and only supreme being under heaven and earth.

"Divinity… I think he needs divinity!"

The instant Millennium Worm spoke, Satoru Gojo appeared before Black Face as if by Teleportation.

Black Face was wrapped in intense Spiritual Pressure. He did not fear Satoru Gojo, or rather, after awakening, he regarded himself as superior to every spiritual body here.

He was a god!

"Go. Sit on it!"

Satoru Gojo’s gaze was cold. Cursed energy blazed around him, taking on a mingled black and crimson appearance as it manifested within this space.

Once condensed, that cursed energy resembled chains emerging from the flesh behind Satoru Gojo’s back and hanging down into the Yellow Springs below.

A frigid, Silent aura began to emanate from Satoru Gojo’s body. He spread his arms, and new eyes suddenly began appearing across both arms. When they opened, every one of them revealed the form of Six Eyes.

This was…

Millennium Worm, Uchiha Madara, Namikaze Minato, and the newly arrived spiritual bodies such as Lu Bu were all stunned.

They had entered this space at different times, but none of them had ever seen Satoru Gojo in such a state.

They only felt that in this form, Satoru Gojo seemed faintly connected to the Yellow Springs, radiating an utterly terrifying pressure.

Black Face held that katana in his hand without drawing it. After confronting Satoru Gojo coldly for a moment, he spun and floated upward.

"When the King returns, I will eat you."

Black Face’s voice was hoarse and hollow, as though it did not directly enter the others’ senses but echoed all around them until they heard it.

This was one of his exceedingly rare instances of speech, and it also revealed terrifying malice toward Satoru Gojo.

But Satoru Gojo did not care. The chains behind him stirred within the Yellow Springs, and his cursed energy grew incomparably dense.

In this space, Cursed Spirits were born almost every moment. As the only "Jujutsu Sorcerer" in this world, he naturally continued growing stronger.

At the same time, seeing Bai Cangshu become increasingly powerful and encounter ever more novel powers, Satoru Gojo was naturally unwilling to fall behind. He too pursued power in his own way.

The next moment, Satoru Gojo appeared out of thin air before that constantly writhing pure white spiritual body. His mouth split open in an incomparably sinister smile.

"Miss, it seems there’s still a score between us that hasn’t been settled. Heh~ While that guy isn’t back yet, I’m very interested in settling it with you."

Satoru Gojo lowered his head and looked at White Face, who was using her spiritual body to bind the blonde female knight. His gaze was wanton, and as cursed energy emanated from him, his aura became increasingly sinister.

White Face’s eyes shifted. She had realized that this Satoru Gojo before her was the one she had used as a sacrificial offering to Curse Kill with the Mount Tai Imperial Lord Ritual.

The corner of her mouth rose as she was about to mock him.

But she suddenly felt the world before her being torn apart.

Pfft!

The white spiritual body burst into flying flesh and blood.

With a tear of both hands too fast for the naked eye to see, Satoru Gojo used the space-distorting power of the Limitless Cursed Technique to directly tear apart White Face, who had completely reversed the AT Field to imprison Saber.

White Face’s consciousness sank into chaos. When it emerged again, she rose from murky yellow water. The moment her head broke the surface, she saw the white-haired sinister man hanging his head as cursed energy surged endlessly around him.

"Damn it, Mercenary Tao really absorbs everything into his body…"

At that moment, Black Face, who had arrived before the Throne of the Heart, slowly descended into the Black Mud. The next instant, Black Face was struck as though by lightning.

Golden light erupted from the Throne of the Heart.

Buzz!

A violent tremor erupted. The next moment, Black Face was blasted away with a bang, smashing into the Yellow Springs like a beam of light.

"Who allowed you to touch my things?!"

Bai Cangshu’s uniquely Prideful voice echoed through the Consciousness Sea.

The golden light atop the Throne of the Heart was incomparably warm. The next moment, the trembling of the Consciousness Sea had already vanished.

Saber frowned. The Throne of Heroes’ absorption of her power seemed to have… disappeared?

EX051, you have endured the erosion of All the World's Evil.

You have obtained Special Creation: All the World's Evil (Red).