Throwing away the disguise of Solomon, Demon King Goetia restored his true form, and his spiritual base also changed as a result, transforming from a caster to a beast.
One of the evils of mankind, the beast of mercy among the seven beasts.
Lu Xiao once had a legend about King Solomon.
The 72 Demon Gods under Solomon are very famous. Many ACG works will include settings related to the 72 Demon Gods, such as a large factory that makes money by selling models.
In the setting of the Xingyue world, King Solomon attributed magic and mystery to the people before his death. This was used as a dividing line, and the age of the gods began to decline.
After the death of King Solomon, the 72 demon gods sealed in his corpse each gave birth to independent spiritual wisdom. The one who unified the consciousness of these demon god pillars was the demon king Goetia.
The timeline for human incineration will only occur with the consent of the majority of the Demon God Pillars.
Just like human beings, the Demon God Pillar also has its own different ideas. Some hope to burn away human history and allow the earth to breed a new generation of civilization.
But there are also people who firmly oppose this approach and choose to believe in the infinite possibilities of human beings.
Leif Lenore Flowers, the Demon God Pillar who was completely killed by Lu Xiao before, was the trigger for everything.
In the timeline of the Inhuman Burning, because Fuyuki's Holy Grail was contaminated, Marisbili could not obtain the resources needed to build Chaldea through the Holy Grail, and naturally the Chaldean organization did not exist.
The pseudo-servant experiment related to Chaldea will not happen, and Mash, who has a congenital defect, will of course not come to this world.
In most timelines, Leif would end his life by self-commitment, also because he eliminated the possibility of human incineration.
The existence of test-tube baby Matthew had a huge impact on Leif's outlook on life. He was shocked that human beings could actually degenerate to such a level and conduct such inhumane human experiments for their own selfish desires.
In the human incineration timeline, Leif did not choose to commit suicide, but submitted his opinion to the Demon King Goetia.
"Human beings are stupid and selfish creatures, and they need the guidance of the 'King' to get back on track."
The king Leif was referring to was naturally Solomon, whom he once served.
But the real Solomon died long ago at the end of the Age of Gods. Goetia, the unified consciousness of the Demon God Pillar, made a suggestion that he manipulate Solomon's corpse to fulfill the king's unfulfilled wish.
Goetia's purpose is to erase the existing history of humankind and re-edit the past and future of new humanity with herself as the guide.
Goetia, who integrates the consciousness of the 72 demon gods, is a truly omniscient and omnipotent person.
Through Solomon's EX-level clairvoyance, he can see into the past and the future, which is also the basis for the seven singular points and the incineration-like existence of humanity throughout all eras.
Even though he is omniscient and omnipotent, Goetia cannot understand human beings' stupid thinking patterns, or rather... he doesn't bother to understand.
Moreover, Goetia cannot see through Lu Xiao's past and future. Lu Xiao is the only being who cannot analyze the principles since the birth of his consciousness.
When Solomon's third Noble Phantasm is released to its maximum, it can generate terrifying heat that burns away the concept of human history, but in order to reach this level, Goetia's imaginary first Noble Phantasm must be used for calculation and assistance.
At this time, what Goetia has deployed is only a purely destructive Noble Phantasm, and does not have the power of annihilation in the conceptual sense.
Seeing the light strip above the temple becoming more and more dazzling, Mashu took a deep breath, grasped the handle on the inside of the shield, and prepared to release the Noble Phantasm to forcefully resist Goetia's attack.
"Wait, Matthew."
Lu Xiao held down Masu's shoulder: "As long as your will is unwavering, your Noble Phantasm can theoretically block all attacks in the world, but your body cannot withstand the effects of Goetia's Noble Phantasm.
of heat.”
"Let me do it."
Blocking Ma Xiu behind him, Lu Xiao winked at Fufu.
"Fu!"
The always well-behaved Fu Fu suddenly got into a bad temper, biting Mashu's shoulder armor and pulling back.
Although its weak strength could not produce any actual effect, the attitude of this little beast was clearly expressed.
Lu Xiao looked at the light strip in the sky with a stern look on his face, and drew out a mysterious spell with both hands on his chest.
"Goetia, 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 folded on his chest moved sideways, and the time gem hanging on Lu Xiao's chest revealed its true form in the temple.
"Let me teach you how to use the power of time!"
An invisible ripple spread out with Lu Xiao as the center.
Using the results of his recent meditation in Chaldea, 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 Stone itself.
"Although this term is a bit cliché, let's use it for now."
Combined with the mirror space spell that Kama Taj is good at, Lu Xiao completely fixed time and space in a small area.
"Absolute defense."
"boom!"
Goetia's Noble Phantasm takes the form of a concentration of heat, using human history as fuel, absorbing power through the light belts of the seven singular points, and radiating it all at once.
As Lu Xiao said, if Mashu activates the Noble Phantasm to resist, perhaps the Pure White City of Camelot can block Goetia's attack, but her body full of defects cannot withstand the terrifying heat when the Noble Phantasm is released, and she is doomed.
Will be evaporated by Goetia's Noble Phantasm.
The defense method Lu Xiao chose was rather tricky. He used the mirror space to separate a certain range of time and space from the regular timeline, and temporarily escaped into an untouchable time gap.
This move was used once when facing the Lancer Artoria in the Fourth Holy Grail War.
However, Lu Xiao was not proficient in the application at that time and forcibly reversed a large range of absolute time, causing the time stone to fall into an overload state after one use. It felt like killing a chicken with a knife.
The super-insulated heat released by the light belt bombarded the temple, and the temperature of the entire area rose sharply, and the solid temple floor even crystallized.
After the dust stirred up by the energy attack dispersed, no trace of human presence could be seen on the enchanted ground. Goetia exhaled through his nose with satisfaction.
"Hmph~ Humans who talk big talk are ultimately no match for our Noble Phantasm that burns the history of mankind."
"Haha~ You're talking big words? Are you talking about yourself?"
"Da~"
The clear snap of fingers interrupted Goetia's boasting. Under his stunned gaze, Lu Xiao, Mashu and Fujimaru escaped from the crack of time and reappeared in front of him unscathed.
Goetia possesses omniscient and omnipotent eyes. Although he cannot see through Lu Xiao's true identity, he quickly deduced everything through the traces of time and space distortion remaining nearby.
"Space peeling? No! It's the combination of the power of time and space!"
Being slapped in the face by a human that he looked down upon, the angry Goetia became more and more ferocious: "A mere human being can actually master the power that only gods have, but do you think you can defeat me like this?"
"Demon God Pillars! Give me your power!"
Under Goetia's command, the Demon God Pillars that were entangled with the heroic spirits suddenly disappeared, and the remaining 71 Demon God Pillars focused all their power on Goetia.
"not good!"
The face of Romani, who was sitting in Chaldea, suddenly changed: "Goetia is going to fight for his life. He has combined the power of all the Demonic Pillars. The next blow is likely to annihilate the time and space in the Temple of Time!"
Romani's expression changed a little, but he finally made up his mind.
"Da Vinci, the command of Chaldea is handed over to you. It's time for me to complete my mission."
Da Vinci had anticipated his actions and asked calmly: "Have you really decided? To give up the mortal body obtained by making a wish through the Holy Grail and become the king of puppets controlled by the gods again?"
Romani paused for a moment, and it could be seen from Da Vinci's question that the omnipotent man had already guessed his true identity.
"Ha~"
Romani smiled with relief: "Maybe, this is my destiny."