Chapter 257

The sky began to turn white, and the night's chaos was about to come to an end. The three people responsible for hunting down Aiolos also returned to the Pope's Hall to report, and Shion had already left the Sanctuary at Lancel-Melloi's request to find Aiolos, who had entrusted Athena to foreign tourists. Only Saga was left in the Pope's Hall. According to Lancel-Melloi's arrangement, he distributed the gold armor to the youngest batch of gold saint candidates in advance, and then issued an order for all the gold saints to go to their respective training places to train alone.

Although Lancer Melo said that Saga should follow her instructions completely, before leaving the Sanctuary, Lancer Melo only left him one sentence - "Look in the mirror and think about what the evil you will do next."

Because Shion left early, he did not notice that the blank left by Dietel in the original training site arrangement had been filled with a new place name. Saga, who had never seen the original version, was not aware of the problem at all. Wearing the mysterious mask of the Pope, he directly announced that Aiolos had rebelled and was killed, and that the Golden Saints had collectively returned to the training site for training.

Aphrodite, who was evaluated by Ereshkigal as a muscle-head, yawned casually while standing below, and turned and walked out nonchalantly after the Pope's announcement, passing by Camus as if they had no special interactions as usual - Camus silently pushed away the boy who had a good relationship with him because of the aftermath of Lancermello's memory and who had thrown himself on him, and also turned and walked down.

East Siberia - his course has only now officially begun.

Here, the Gold Saints were packing up and preparing to leave the Sanctuary. Meanwhile, Lancermello handed over the "Court" magic that had not yet been completely lifted in the depths of the British Forest to Shion and Aiolos for use, while continuing to add a magic barrier to drive away ordinary people to ensure the concealment of the two.

When everything was settled, Lancermello even arrived much earlier than Camus - when Camus followed the magic mark prepared by Lancermello in advance to find her, Lancermello put on the uniform she usually wore when working in Chaldea for the first time in front of the people of this world.

"...I have at least crossed half of Siberia." Camus, carrying the holy cloth box, stood in front of Lansemello and looked up at Lansemello, who was standing in the Siberian forest in a short skirt. "My training place is in Eastern Siberia, and this is the Tunguska River in Western Siberia."

"Well, I'm here to explore the Tunguska explosion zone." Lansermello casually wrote a rune for Camus to keep warm, and walked towards the direction of the explosion that occurred decades ago. "I asked you to come here because it would be more convenient if there was someone to help. Don't worry, all we have to do is "record."

"...Doesn't this mean that things are going to get more troublesome here?" Camus, who lived up to Lansemello's expectations and was almost as reliable as Dieter, instantly realized the problem with this place. He took out a pen and paper from the vestry, and while writing the beginning of the record report, he confirmed with Lansemello, "Will Aphrodite participate in this exploration?"

"...I didn't plan a route from Greenland to here." Lansemero was silent for a moment, and explained to Camus, "And I no longer expect him to understand these things - it turns out that last year Pisces was the only one who could understand what I was saying. I left such a deep impression on me that I overestimated Aphrodite's brain."

"Most Saints' brains should be better than ordinary people, because the power of our microcosm can destroy the atom itself, so if you want to understand the microcosm..." Camus hadn't finished speaking when he heard Lancermello interrupt him.

"I know, but after all, I haven't explained the situation to you in detail before - let's take advantage of this time on the road to talk about it." Lansemello led Camus through the forest swiftly, starting from the most basic part, "First, introduce yourself again -"

"Nice to meet you. I am the deputy director of Phoenix Chaldea, the human survival guarantee organization, Lord Lansemello - and also a magician."

Magician - refers to a person who possesses magic circuits, can perform magic, and conduct research on magic.

Magic, to put it simply, is a phenomenon beyond common sense; it is a general term for making things that can be done under common sense happen in an uncommon way; it is a man-made miracle, and the act of recreating miracles.

"Although it is a man-made miracle, strictly speaking, if there is no limit on time and money, the same effect can be achieved by methods that conform to human common sense - this is magic." Lancer Melo paused and looked at the land that was almost completely destroyed in front of him. "If it is impossible to do it with the current level of human technology, then it is magic."

This time the speech was much slower than the meeting in the Vatican, and Lansemello spoke in more detail. After Lansemello's introduction came to a temporary end, Camus quickly cited examples to verify Lansemello's experience:

"Then the power of the Saints to crush atoms can actually be considered a form of magic, right?"

The fifth magic - currently known by another name, and also commonly known as "Magic·Blue" in the Chaldean database, based on the power displayed by the fifth magician Aozaki Aoko herself, it is rumored to be a magic related to destruction itself.

"The initial one changed everything, the subsequent two identified more, the continued three showed the future, the extended four hid itself, and the ending five lost its meaning..." Lancermello turned his head to look at the young golden saint behind him and fell into a subtle silence.

——Destroying atoms themselves, that is, the matter destroyed by the Saints will no longer produce new atoms. This is an effect that even the most advanced technology in the world mastered by Chaldea in 2017 cannot achieve.

Not to mention it's only 1973.

"Well, generally speaking, a true magician will use the power of magic in various ways, not just in a single way like you do." Lansemero did not think for long before decisively linking the fifth magic with the power of the microcosm. "We are here. In order to let you know what we should record, I will introduce you to the common research goals of all magicians."

The lifelong goal of a magician is to reach the source through research. Magical seals and family lines themselves are products derived from this goal of preserving research results and passing them on.

When it comes to the root cause, we cannot avoid the collective subconsciousness of humanity, "Alaya", and the planetary consciousness, "Gaia".

"The two great restraining forces, Alaya and Gaia, constitute the vortex of origin." Lanser-Mero pointed to the desolate land in front of the two people due to the Tunguska explosion. "But generally speaking, these two consciousnesses have no effect on human society - because the restraining force acts on the entire world, and their goal is only to prolong the life of this world."

"But there are also differences—"

"Alaya stopped humanity from going to destruction, just like we stopped Pluto's army in every holy war; and Gaia..." Cameron paused and looked up at Lancermello, "Unless there is a problem like the explosion of the entire planet, there will be no action? Because the extinction of mankind does not mean the destruction of the planet."

"...That's it." Lancermello looked at Camus with admiration and brought the topic back to Tunguska itself. "And the Tunguska explosion was an event that caused damage to the earth 'Gaia' - although there may not be any problems, it is necessary to record it in order to determine the true situation."

"Because when the two restraining forces are in operation, they will conflict with each other's goals - because the survival of mankind does not mean the survival of the planet itself."

"...I understand." Camus stopped writing and looked into the depths of the huge depression. "What exactly do you need to record?"

"No, leaving the record keeping to me alone is enough." Lansemero smiled and winked at Camus, stepping on the air stairs and going deeper down. "What you have to do is to be responsible for vigilance - once there is any abnormality different from 'Tunguska at this moment', no matter what method you use, notify me immediately."

"...I understand." Camus stared at Lancermello in black for a long time before agreeing to her arrangement. "If anything unusual happens, I will use the forgiveness of the Dawn Goddess to notify you - there will be a beautiful aurora."

"The Tunguska Pit..." Lansermero walked down the air stairs step by step, discussing with the two gods in the depths of consciousness, "We went to the non-primate survival zone at that time - there are NFFs, that is, the transformation of the beasts of pleasure, which can't be seen at all. But when I look at this place, I think of other places."

"Cornunos." Ereshkigal pointed out another place that Lansemelo had thought of. "The Great Hollow in the Fairyland - to be honest, the colors deep here also look like Morse. Is it okay for you to go deeper by yourself? However, I feel that it should be different from that place."

"What's different?" Lanser-Mero stood in the center of the explosion crater, waiting for Ereshkigal to tell her how he felt.

"...I can feel the breath of 'alive'." Ereshkigal was silent for a moment, then gave his answer.

At the same time, deeper in the sky, dark purple-black began to surge, just like when the Black Holy Grail devoured the Servant in the Fifth Holy Grail War in 2004, spreading black branches toward the sky - and at the edge of the explosion zone, pure white frost, snow and ice roared along with the aurora, sweeping across the entire area.

Lansemelo used magic to instantly pull herself high into the air, avoiding the attack of the black branches. Behind her, golden magic arrays lit up layer by layer.

Using the high-speed divine words to skip the previous part, Lansermello took a Gandr attack stance in the air and completed the last part of the spell in a normal chanting manner.

"Anima, Animsphere."

The falling starlight penetrated the evil black branches and pressed the suddenly awakened giant back into the depths of the Tunguska explosion zone. Lancermello took this opportunity to rush back to Camus, quickly activated the "Mirror" magic, and transferred the two of them to a pure white ice field far away from Tunguska that she had marked before.