Inner Dead Sea Scrolls

Inner Dead Sea Scrolls

Quality: World’s Rare Treasure (Red)

Type: Special, Ritual, Transdimensional

Description: A hidden page of the Dead Sea Scrolls passed down in a certain world, never discovered, recording the mysteries of the Creator and the ultimate fate of life.

Effect: Combine Adam’s Apostle and Lilith’s Apostle, completely dissolve the Wall of Heart, merge all humans in that world, and create the sole lifeform: ?

White Face’s delicate, petite features stretched into an almost twisted expression. She had not fully achieved her goal, but the sudden appearance of Ryougi Shiki—no, Root Shiki—immediately made her realize that she had become a target of the Restraining Force.

Root Shiki was a hero born in response to the times, an existence capable of directly killing her and bringing her plan to an end.

She had long since secretly seized part of the Black Mud, and at the very beginning had forcibly corrupted Berserker as a contingency. The two Servants considered the strongest in the Fourth and Fifth Holy Grail War were both under her control, meaning she already held the overall advantage.

All that remained, aside from toying with those insect-like fools, was to deliberately lure Mercenary Tao into slaughter and battle. Once Mercenary Tao had gone through countless hardships to seize victory in the Holy Grail War, she would activate the Human Instrumentality Project, turn everyone including Mercenary Tao into "orange juice," and become the sole Lilin—humanity—herself.

This was the flesh portion of White Face’s Stairway of Spirit and Flesh. Although the spiritual path she had previously attempted to obtain through the Mount Tai Imperial Lord Ritual—the qualification to become the Shaman King—had been stolen.

But White Face had already prepared a backup plan.

She knew that Mercenary Tao possessed a Void Core that the Supreme King had tampered with!

Everything was like a play of fate, with the final spotlight shining upon her and Mercenary Tao.

Spirit and flesh had both arrived in this world.

And the Main Mission in this world was actually a Holy Grail War capable of opening a path to The Root.

Such an arrangement made White Face feel as though the magnificent Heavenly Might had revealed itself before her without the slightest concealment.

She firmly believed that she saw more clearly and farther than Mercenary Tao. Such an arrangement undoubtedly meant that, in the unseen, Destiny intended for her to become a god in this world!

The thoughts rippling through White Face’s mind did not affect the hexagonal AT Field before her. This ability firmly separated her from Gilgamesh and Root Shiki.

Though they were separated by only a few dozen meters, their hearts could never draw close.

White Face had slit her own throat. Her body floated in the air as blood continuously dripped down, while the Spirit Body Fox behind her flickered in and out of sight, ready to switch places with her at any moment.

Gilgamesh’s face twisted as he turned to look at White Face in the air.

"Kirei Kotomine, what did you do?"

Gilgamesh looked at the Black Mud covering his body. This was nothing like the stuff inside the Holy Grail.

White Face lowered her eyelids as she looked at the King of Heroes, who thought so highly of himself, so Prideful and self-absorbed that he even denied All the World’s Evil.

Naturally, she would not place all her plans on seizing Kirei Kotomine’s Destiny and attempting to use a "back door" to control the Greater Grail.

White Face had long since obtained All the World’s Evil from the Infinite Dimensional Space in advance, and had "made a wish" upon it and modified it through the Goddess.

Just as Berserker had been directly overwritten and corrupted, this Black Mud was a fallen-evil wish specifically made to corrupt divine beings.

All kinds of scenes appeared before Gilgamesh’s eyes. Those ordinary humans with no special powers had gradually used so-called technology, science, and knowledge to seize the legends that belonged to gods and heroes.

And little by little, they dispelled mystery.

Humanity began using science to explain everything, alter everything, and prove everything.

Mystery faded away, and the world began to become unrecognizable.

A violent thought arose within Gilgamesh. He was not Wise King Gilgamesh, the king who permitted and bore all things.

But likewise, who was qualified to become the king’s subject was for the king himself to decide!

Violence rose within his ruby-like eyes, impossible to suppress any longer.

Light flashed in Gilgamesh’s right hand, and an unusually shaped golden sword appeared.

Its golden hilt curved in an arc, while its blade consisted entirely of three cylindrical segments that rotated on their own. It was a divine sword that surpassed the form of an ordinary sword.

Crimson magical energy lit up across the blade, and black cracks immediately appeared in space.

Ea, the sword that severed the world. In terms of power, it even surpassed Excalibur.

"Gilgamesh, you’re always like this. So arrogant, so… stupid."

White Face spoke softly. Gilgamesh possessed strength capable of nearly steamrolling ordinary Servants, yet because of his arrogance, he had been unwilling to act for so long. Even when he did, he habitually crossed his arms and used the Gate of Babylon to fire Noble Phantasms as attacks.

He refused to easily reveal his true strength.

Across various worldlines, most of Gilgamesh’s defeats had originated from this.

This moment was no exception.

White Face suddenly spread her arms and lunged at Gilgamesh.

She was incredibly fast, appearing before Gilgamesh in an instant.

Gilgamesh tightly gripped Ea and turned to slash. The blade had only just risen when an invisible AT Field appeared before him.

Two Prideful people unwilling to accept one another produced a barrier phenomenon through which interaction was absolutely impossible.

Gilgamesh watched Ea slice through space, yet that invisible barrier before him remained.

Pfft!

The blood from White Face’s neck had nearly stopped flowing. She was relying entirely on Shamanic Power to sustain her movements.

White Face wore a crazed expression. Instead of resisting, she spread her arms.

"Come, Gilgamesh. Beneath the Restraining Force that keeps the world going, you who have been corrupted by The Root and the human heart, messenger of the demigod, and I, the mad, selfish messenger of humanity—let us merge~"

White Face spread her arms, speaking as if in delirium.

The next moment, countless symbols lit up across the rippling ground. They were the ultimate secret of another world.

They symbolized the beginning of humanity.

The Inner Dead Sea Scrolls began to activate.

Crack, hum~

The shattering of the AT Field was as crisp as breaking glass, but Gilgamesh, who had cut through that barrier, instead found empty space before his eyes.

That "Kirei Kotomine" transformed into a girl in white robes, and in the next instant, with a pfft, before Ea could strike her, she became liquid and splashed all over him.

Countless scenes, countless wills began to emerge.

Gilgamesh seemed to see another future, one even crueler than the current world.

Mystery had completely vanished.

The Age of Gods and the Age of Fantasy had vanished without a trace, becoming mere fairy tales, no longer existing even in history.

Human history had become entirely a history of science, a history of biology.

Such a thing…

At the same time, all the magical energy and divine power throughout his body began pouring toward the ground below. The light of the Dead Sea Scrolls began to project into the sky.

Lines of mysterious text began to appear in the heavens.

Root Shiki approached the two madmen with a short blade in hand.

The world’s Restraining Force indeed held the choice and possibility of destroying humanity to allow the world to continue.

But likewise, the Inhibitor of Primates was preventing that possibility.

The Root had chosen her to appear as a hero precisely so that she could cut through all of this.

Within the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, lines of death appeared with crystal clarity. In the next moment, Root Shiki brought her blade down.