Chapter 120: The Evening Bell

"Tolling—" "Tolling—"

The sound of the bell was not deafening, yet with an irresistible magic, it instantly overwhelmed Tiamat's mournful cries and the thunderous roar of the churning black mud.

It was at the very moment the bell tolled that a hair-raising scene unfolded—

Those Lahmu, which had been churning madly in the black mud and feared nothing no matter how many times they were killed, now emitted ear-piercing, wretched screams, as if their very marrow had been drained!

They ceased their assault on the defense line and even began to retreat desperately, their twisted bodies trembling uncontrollably under the reverberations of the bell.

"W-what is happening?"

PD stared at the monsters suddenly plunged into panic, his mind blank. "These monsters without any emotions... are actually afraid?"

It was not just the monsters that were afraid.

The moment they heard this bell, Belle, Charles, and even the tens of millions of veteran "FGO" players worldwide who had been grinding since the game's launch and had diligently followed the story, saw their pupils constrict violently.

Every hair on their bodies stood on end as a shocking scene from deep within their memories, concerning the desert and the scorching sun, split through their minds like lightning!

"This bell... this sound effect..." Charles was so excited that his voice was wavering; he jumped up from his chair violently. "It can't be wrong! It absolutely cannot be wrong!"

Countless veteran players in the barrage comments were also plunged into complete madness at this moment:

"Holy crap! It's the Sixth Singularity!"

"It's that invincible old man from the Camelot main story who split the Death Sandstorm with a single sword strike!"

"He helped us! He actually chased us all the way to the Seventh Singularity?!"

Meanwhile, in Chaldea's communication channel, Dr. Roman had completely lost his usual composure, his voice cracking from extreme shock:

"This Spirit Origin scale... this is impossible! The detectors are going to explode! This is not an ordinary Servant, this is absolutely not a normal Servant!"

"The proof of the strongest standing at the pinnacle of the seven major classes! This is—[Grand]!"

"My, this really is..."

Merlin, who was struggling to hold the front line, completely set aside the frivolity on his face, a deep sense of awe revealing itself in his eyes. "I didn't expect that even the pinnacle of Assassins would be stirred to personally enter the fray."

Accompanied by the collective shock of players and NPCs across the entire network, a huge void fissure suddenly split open in the center of the inverted pitch-black spire above the Underworld's firmament.

Pale blue, desolate flames ignited in mid-air, converging into a staircase leading to the abyss.

A burly figure clad in thick, pitch-black armor, wearing a skull mask, and wielding a massive heavy sword, stepped on those pale blue flames and slowly walked down from the void.

With every step he took, the sound of the Evening Bell, which seemed to proclaim the end of one's lifespan, would toll once in the Underworld.

Even when facing the Mother Goddess of Creation, who possessed a stature like a mountain and radiated world-ending pressure, this swordsman's figure did not retreat in the slightest, instead exuding an absolute dead silence capable of making even gods tremble.

"From the abyss of the valley, I have come to attend this dark feast of death."

A low, hoarse voice, like sandpaper rubbing together, echoed over the entire tactical sand table, carrying a composure that had seen through all life and death.

"Who goes there?!" The Lahmu on Tiamat's back emitted terrified screams.

"That... that Spirit Origin scale on his body! You are actually..."

"The Grand title is not what I seek."

The skull-masked swordsman slowly raised the pitch-black greatsword in his hand, which resembled a cross.

Under the gaze of tens of millions of players across the network, who were shocked beyond measure, the Spirit Origin reaction on Chaldea's monitoring panel, which had originally been so massive it was on the verge of exploding, began to incredibly contract and burn inward!

The Grand Spirit Origin, representing the pinnacle of Assassins and the proof of absolute power bestowed by the World—[Grand Assassin]—was discarded by him without the slightest hesitation!

The Grand is a weapon summoned by the World to save human history.

But at this very moment, he swung this sword not for the World, but solely to carve out a path of survival for Fujimaru Ritsuka.

For this, he did not hesitate to discard the name of the Grand that stood at the pinnacle of Servants, turning his entire Spirit Origin into the weight of this single strike!

"Listen, the Evening Bell has revealed your true name—"

Beneath the skull mask, those eyes burning with pale blue flames suddenly flared bright.

He gripped the greatsword with both hands and, aiming at Tiamat's body, which was large enough to blot out the sky, and those huge wings attempting to tear through the laws of the Underworld, he heavily swung down that peerless strike which would stun the entire history of gaming.

"I bestow upon your immortality, the concept of death!"

"[Azrael]——!!!"

There were no flashy lights or effects, no earth-shattering explosions.

There was only a pitch-black sword light that seemed capable of severing space, time, and causality all at once, piercing through the entire Underworld with an absolutely domineering posture!

"Rip—!"

The sword light flashed, and that pair of indestructible, pale blue wings on Tiamat's back were severed at the root by this ultimate sword strike!

The massive Mother Goddess of Creation lost her final means of flight and emitted a wretched scream that resonated through the soul, as she was heavily pinned and nailed to the ground of the Underworld!

Meanwhile.

"Crack—"

A crisp shattering sound rang in the ears of all players.

That was the sound of the invincibility mechanism, which had plunged all players across the network into despair, being forcibly shattered!

On the holographic tactical panel, the [Infinity (∞)] symbol lock above Tiamat's health bar, symbolizing absolute invincibility, burst into a sky full of light fragments under that pitch-black sword light!

The health bar, it lit up!

[System Prompt: The target has been forcibly bestowed with the 'Concept of Death'! Mother Goddess of Creation Tiamat, invincibility status has been removed!!]

They went crazy! Completely crazy! Inside countless VR experience pods across the entire Blue Star, roars and screams erupted that were enough to flip the roof!

"Ahhhhhh! Gramps is too cool!!!"

"Holy crap!!! Physically severing the wings, bestowing the concept of death! One sword strike shattered the health-lock mechanism!"

"Forcibly applying a death-guaranteed debuff to an unselectable world-class big Boss! This is the strongest physical cheat!"

"The foreshadowing buried in the Sixth Singularity was actually recovered here! This skill of weaving subtle threads is simply the best in the world!"

"To swing this sword for us, he burned his Grand Spirit Origin directly! In terms of style, who in the entire history of gaming can surpass this?!"

Charles was pounding the table and roaring in the live stream, tears streaming out:

"Brothers! The health bar is lit! That high and mighty God, she has a health bar! As long as it dares to show a health bar, even a God, I'll show you we can kill it!"

Amidst the deafening sound of the Evening Bell, the skull-masked swordsman planted his greatsword on the ground, his eyes burning with ghost fire looking at the stunned Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"Master of Chaldea... the path has been cut open for you."

"Go, and swing the final sword of counterattack against this desperate fate."

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