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"Instead of continuing your behind-the-scenes operations to support the Hidden Ones and the Alien Apostles, what are you doing here in the spotlight?" Shiomi slowly got up from the ground and asked the other party sarcastically.

Although his face remained calm, he dared not truly underestimate this woman.

“Originally, I should have acted behind the scenes. After all, the existence of someone like you in Chaldea has disrupted the original balance.” Koyanskaya looked down at Shiomi with a calm expression. “You’ve completely disrupted my original plan to collect goods in the Lostbelts.”

"So what? Why are you coming to me now? Are you planning to follow in the footsteps of the Olympian gods?" Shiomi crossed her left shoulder and stared at Koyanskaya. "After all, I don't mind fighting again right now."

"How could that be? Of course, I deliberately chose to appear at this time for my own purposes," Koyanskaya said with a smile.

Shiomi looked at the other person: "You are neither an alien apostle nor interested in protecting the Imaginary Tree. You are merely using the Alterego spirit origin to assist the alien apostle in hindering Chaldea to a limited extent. To be honest, I am also very curious about your background... before my mother gave me these eyes."

The Star Eyes emitted an unusual light, but the smile on Goyanskaya's face deepened.

"So that's the Star Eye that only the creator goddess Tiamat can possess? As expected, you're becoming more and more valuable as a commodity. If it were you, it could definitely make up for the serious losses NFF suffered due to the disappearance of the three Lostbelts," Koyanskaya said.

"If you can do it, give it a try, Beast, which is not yet 'mature'." Shiomi's magical energy suddenly surged.

Koyanskaya's expression also turned cold: "Stop trying to bluff, Shiomi Tenkei. Choosing to unilaterally endure the relentless attacks of Zeus's thunder in order to focus on taking down Aphrodite, even if you survive, you will be at your last gasp. I've been waiting for this moment when you are at your weakest."

"..." tide Jian remained silent.

If Koyanskaya had arrived just a little later, he could have recovered to a more stable level.

Ultimately, it's because Zeus kept getting in the way...

Making excuses now is pointless.

"So you're keeping quiet now that I've hit the nail on the head?" Koyanskaya asked.

"No, I was just wondering what your real name is, Beast," Shiomi probed calmly.

“Just keep calling me Koyanskaya, after all, I don’t have a real name,” Koyanskaya said. “As fellow beings who are ‘not yet mature,’ let’s get along amicably… after you become a part of me!”

As soon as she finished speaking, a thick fog, so dense that visibility was almost zero, suddenly rose up, followed by a bone-chilling cold.

Within the thick fog, Koyanskaya's magical reaction intensified rapidly, and her words revealed her true purpose.

"Do all beings, whether gods or beasts, enjoy devouring me? Am I some kind of high-grade food?" tide Jian mocked loudly.

"Hahaha! Don't worry, I don't intend to repeat Aphrodite's mistake and be foolish enough to swallow you whole. I will take you back to my lair like the fairies of Britain treated the priestesses, and slowly devour you bit by bit until I have completely digested you."

"You even know something like this? Looks like you weren't just wasting your time when you infiltrated the Fairy Kingdom... If you can do it, then give it a try!"

Leaning on Gungnir, with herself as the center, Shiomi began to write runes, forming one spell after another.

Until she is fully recovered, she can only use magic to deal with Koyanskaya.

The opponent is an incomplete Beast larva, so it's going to be tough.

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Meanwhile, in the eastern forest of the interstellar city.

As Aphrodite was shot down, the dense clouds covering the sky were torn apart by the explosion, and the true face of the starry sky and clouds was revealed again through the huge hole. At the same time, Shiomi's clones left in the forest also disappeared one after another.

Similarly, Aphrodite's wide-area mental attack was also rapidly disappearing.

Morgan immediately returned to the cliff where Shiomi had just left, gazing at the large hole in the dark clouds in the sky.

"My husband!"

When she caught sight of Shiomi falling, her pupils suddenly contracted.

Even knowing that Xijian wouldn't die so easily from a fall, she couldn't shake the worry in her heart.

"Isn't this the way...?"

Scáthach also ran over. She moved her hands to check her physical condition while looking in the direction Shiomi was falling.

“Over there is the forest area between the eastern and southern regions of the interstellar city.” Having determined the approximate area where she had fallen, Scáthach gripped her crimson spear and turned to Morgan. “Could you use your ‘Mirror’ to catch my beloved student?”

"...No...space itself has been disturbed. It must be Zeus's doing."

Morgan reached out, trying to confirm the coordinates of the 'Mirror' through the magical pathway between herself and Shiomi, but she couldn't match the direction Shiomi was falling in her field of vision, which annoyed her.

Moreover, the negative effects caused by Aphrodite have not completely disappeared, making it impossible to perform magic that should have been easy.

"It seems that's the case! Burn it all away!"

At that moment, Scáthach turned around and, using the runes at each point of the forest barrier as triggers, unleashed a massive destructive spell, sending flames soaring into the sky.

While hindering Shiomi's attack on Aphrodite, the Olympian soldiers, along with a defensive force composed of autonomous defense devices and magical beasts, are conducting a thorough search of the entire eastern region.

Unable to properly grasp the situation, Zeus finally discovered the anomaly in this area after half a day of silence.

"How is it?" Morgan asked.

“They are indeed Olympian soldiers, each one as strong as a Servant.” Scáthach looked at the densely packed figures swaying in the forest firelight. “It’s more important to reunite with my beloved disciple now. There’s no time to waste here with these petty bosses.”

"Feel the same."

Morgan was very worried about Xi Jian's situation. He slammed his magic spear heavily into the ground, causing the entire forest to tremble and endless explosions to erupt one after another.

Taking advantage of the attack's disruption to the ground search forces, Morgan and Scáthach jumped off the cliff and sped towards the southern region of Olympus.

Chapter Eighty-Eight: Entanglement

Within the dense fog created by Koyanskaya, the magical reaction continued to intensify.

"Although time is short, I have managed to prepare some magnificent fur patterns for each Lostbelt. Now that I have an onlooker like you, I might as well reveal a few of them sooner rather than later. After all, once you become part of the fur pattern, you won't be able to see these anymore, the unfinished 'god'."

Her voice echoed in the thick fog, gradually becoming enveloped in a layer of resonance, as if it were encroaching on the surrounding space, omnipresent.

"You sound impatient. Are you afraid I'll recover before you can subdue me?" Shiomi gathered her magic power as much as possible. "Or are you afraid Zeus will discover what you're doing and interfere?"

Although he felt the latter was unlikely.

Perhaps for Zeus, it would be best for an unformed Beast like Goyanskaya to fight a mutually destructive battle with an existence like Shiomi.

After all, for the Lostbelt King who intends to use the Lostbelts of this world to cover up the blank planet and build a new history of mankind, the existence of the Beast is itself a potential threat that must be eliminated.

“That supreme god wouldn’t care what I did to his enemies. Rather, it would be more in line with his wishes for me to deal with you here,” Koyanskaya said. “Moreover, it’s not ‘playing with the human race,’ but ‘playing with the human race, which is almost indistinguishable from gods.’ How could I not be eager for such a once-in-a-lifetime feast?”

Then, endless laughter echoed through the thick fog and gale. Shiomi didn't care what Koyanskaya was thinking. His Star Eyes strained through the fog and he identified Koyanskaya's true form.

Even though it was still shrouded in a magical fog, Shiomi still saw the true face of Beast.

A black, four-legged beast with multiple tails.

"Don't be so shy. If you keep your true form hidden, you can't even compare to Mother, let alone Goetia."

The ninth of the original runes, the rune of navigation.

While verbally probing Goyanskaya, Rune unleashed his magic, attempting to suppress the thick, impenetrable black fog before him, as well as the eerie sandstorm that obscured his vision.

“Goetia? Come to think of it, I forgot to express my gratitude. It is all thanks to you that I shattered that man’s naive hopes that we have all of this now.”

Unaware of the full picture of what Shiomi was saying, Koyanskaya easily revealed the part related to Goetia.

"what?"

tide Jian's eye twitched.

Previously, he had discussed with Romani several times whether Lostbelts, the whitewashing of human reason, and the future of this planet turned into a blank sheet of paper were foreseen by Goetia using King Solomon's clairvoyance.

But it was all just speculation. After the battle at the Temple of Time, the defeated Goetia did not perish, but they also did not make a comeback.

Even Romani couldn't say for sure whether Geitia acknowledged the complete failure of the Human Order Burning Plan or believed that the whole matter needed to be reconsidered.

Now, Koyanskaya suddenly says that it was precisely because of Goetia's failure that the whitewashing of human reason occurred.

This undoubtedly shows that Shiomi's previous conjecture was actually very close to the truth about Earth's blanking.

"There's no need to keep wagging your tongue; you don't need to know my true identity."

Koyanskaya ended the conversation with a massive mental curse.

"Another psychological attack? Even Aphrodite couldn't do it, do you think you can?"

Realizing that the other party did not intend to delve deeper into the previous topic, Shiomi knew that if he continued to press the matter, Koyanskaya would more clearly avoid his questions.

We should focus on the battle at hand.

Even if Koyanskaya doesn't intend to reveal anything,

"No, just testing the quality a little."

Before the words were finished, on the tail that was floating in the thick fog and whose full appearance could not be discerned, the slender eye patterns suddenly flashed with light, and a blazing, malevolent curse flame crashed down.

Having dodged the initial attack, Shiomi planned to leave the foggy area and attack from the outside, but Koyanskaya entangled her, her cursed flames swirling around her and sweeping in from all directions.

And then there's that tail, whose trajectory is impossible to discern, which attacks from the shadows from time to time, trying to pierce Shiomi's body and deprive him of his ability to move.

Knowing that Shiomi could not be killed, Koyanskaya was not worried about the state of her "prey" at all. She only needed to attack and capture him without restraint, and take down the man in front of her.

"Tsk..."

tide Jian looked at the new wounds on her body and secretly clicked her tongue in amazement.

Koyanskaya's displayed strength was no less than that of Sesshouin Kiara before she had completed her ascension.

Unfortunately, the enemy targeted them right after they were fighting the gods, so even if they wanted to unleash their Noble Phantasms, they couldn't create enough space to release them.

With a tidal wave of attacks, Koyanskaya was clearly determined to win this time, leaving no room for delay or respite.

"Watch out for my gun!"

Once again dodging the attack from several tails that came from the shadows, Shio turned and thrust out, piercing the eye pattern on one of the tails.

With her tail pierced, Koyanskaya didn't even utter a sound of pain. Instead, her tail unleashed even greater power, holding off Shiomi in a stalemate, intending to use this as a price to temporarily seize the Noble Phantasm from Shiomi's hands.

She knew that Xijian had more than one gun, and even if she was pierced by the cursed vermilion gun, her tail would not be damaged.

Without his weapon and in a state of near exhaustion, the man would become Koyanskaya's prey.

The black flames and claws, overflowing with curses, seemed to possess an infallible blessing within this thick fog, allowing anyone who made a move to touch Shiomi's body.

The rate at which injuries accumulate exceeds the rate at which regeneration occurs, which is extremely disadvantageous for Shiomi.

Moreover, Zeus is also watching closely, making the current battle quite troublesome regardless of the outcome.

"So……"

Shiomi opened a magical barrier to defend against the attack, gathered the remaining magic power together, and prepared to activate "Mother Earth's Dinner".

Even if the effect is diminished, Koyanskaya will not have an easy time.

"—Mother, please come to see..."

The chant had barely begun when three cold arrows flew from behind, not toward Shiomi, but straight toward Koyanskaya's tail, which was still swaying and waiting for an opportunity to attack.

"?!"

Faced with the sudden intervention, Koyanskaya realized the danger of being at the level of incompatibility.

"So that's how it is. My summoning to the present world wasn't just because of Artemis. Hunting down the Beast before me is the true mission of my spirit origin."

Orion's rough and steady voice rang out.

"I apologize for keeping you Chaldea waiting. Cleaning up the mess took some time, and after entering this area, Zeus damaged our ship, which is why we've been delayed until now."

Chapter Eighty-Nine: Hunting Beasts

The Heroic Spirit Summoning system was originally a system created by the primates to counter threats to their survival.

The Seven Riders class is a corresponding vessel prepared for the Heroic Spirits summoned to the world.

The origin of these seven classes, which is given the title of Grand, is the most fundamental existence of Heroic Spirit Summoning.

Orion, who manifests alone as an Archer, is precisely such an existence.

“No, you’ve come at the perfect time. It’s amazing that you found us so quickly,” tide Jian said.

“The beast’s magic is too strong.” Orion slowly approached Shiomi, preparing to cover him. “So I entrusted Artemis to Drake and the others to take care of, and came after them first.”

"You are--"

Koyanskaya's voice suddenly rose a lot, her alertness was now at its peak.

Orion drew his bow and aimed through the thick, impenetrable black fog at the Beast silhouette of Koyanskaya, which was hidden within it, and loudly announced his identity:

"Grand Archer, Orion. A Servant summoned to this Lostbelt by the Counter Force to deal with the Beast. In return for past kindness, I will use my bow and arrows to slay the beast that seeks to devour my comrades!"

The Grand Servants exist specifically to counter the Beast. They are granted Grand Spirit Origins and are currently in Orion, Atlantis. They originally intended to use their Grand Spirit Origins to defeat Artemis and help Chaldea enter Olympus.

But Chaldea's struggle far exceeded the expectations of the followers of Pan-Human History.

“There’s no gratitude involved. I just did what I was supposed to do.” Shiomi stopped preparing to use the ‘Mother Earth’s Dinner’.