"So this is... the King of the Anomaly Zone."

Just a moment before, the battle in the sky had just concluded.

In the Russian Anomaly Zone, standing on the permafrost, Tohsaka Rin felt her legs weaken, her gaze vacant and hollow, staring blankly.

Her mind was a blank, losing the ability to think.

She could only instinctively feel every cell in her body reacting, all resisting, all trembling, yet this was not fear, but an extreme cold that even fear could not arise from, a chill as if freezing the blood and bones.

The girl couldn’t quite tell whether this was due to the harsh cold invading from the outside or if her heart had truly frozen, drawing warmth from her body from the inside out.

After all, the land she was currently on was the forever snow-covered permafrost of the Anomaly Domain, white everywhere, either howling snow or deep accumulation, entering this domain inevitably made one worry about freezing to death in the harsh cold here.

Speaking of which—

They had made as thorough preparations as possible before stepping into this domain, after all, the Gem Elder didn’t just throw them here without care.

Chaldea’s base camp was still being built as planned in the other world, with the Gem Elder leaving them a way to move within the world line... so the group made preparations, reorganized, and even completed handover work with the Sea of the Moon—

Under the guise of laying up a guilty plea, which was the condition the Gem Elder stated to bail them out of prison. Though in reality, it was powerful support from the Sea of the Moon, quickly helping to rebuild Chaldea and greatly enhanced its foundation with unique technology.

In this process, they began to engage with various technologies, including but not limited to Event Record Computer Magic, Pseudo-Earth Environment Model, Guardian Summoning System, Spirit Particle Calculation Device...

And so on, a whole series of technological data.

These unique technical reserves of Chaldea were very valuable assets.

This was one of the important reasons behind the cooperation.

After Fujimaru Ritsuka and others developed necessary tactical plans and chose suitable Servants for support, they changed into specially crafted magical attire for the environment and entered the opened channel to the Russian Anomaly Zone.

Then began a series of difficult adventures, as they gradually figured out the information of this Anomaly Zone, Tohsaka Rin realized what kind of terrifying project she had signed up for, but could only grit her teeth and persevere, not really able to stop halfway.

Besides...

Perhaps it was similar to the Holy Grail War, failure would mean death anyway, she had previously thought of participating in the Holy Grail War and was mentally prepared for that.

With these thoughts of self-comfort and self-persuasion, Tohsaka Rin reaffirmed her resolve, until they were ready to head towards Ivan the Terrible, the center of the Anomaly Zone...

Divine thunderbolt exploded.

Stellar flame descended.

These terrifying powers appeared on Earth’s sky without warning, sounding the trumpet of destruction, making everyone watch with terror the apocalypse at the outer space that could be glimpsed intuitively.

Like the only existing life in the Anomaly Domain on the blank earth, everyone kept watching the atmospheric night, watching the monster controlling the power that could destroy planets, in a grand divine battle beyond the heavens—

Harnessing seemingly endless thunderbolt power, every flash of lightning’s divine qi could rip through matter, penetrate dimensions, every lightning strike seemed like billions of thunderbolts tearing simultaneously from a colossal Machine God;

Also that completely invisible figure glowing all over, burning furiously like a god, like a divine nature star leaking, compressing the infinite magnificent form into a "human form" shell of great existence.

Both were beings that could destroy humanity with a single finger, both could drive the planet into desperation with a single hand...

— Truly unimaginable great and terrifying divine power.

— No words could describe the profound shudder from the heart.

The clash between two monsters ignited in the outer space of the planet, thunderbolt power and sun sovereignty competing repeatedly, just the aftermath alone was sufficient to wipe out the surface ecology a hundred thousand times.

Along with other various authorities...

Sky collapsing, earth cracking, outer space seemed shattered with another dimensional world emerging.

Endless, vast thunder sea, like divine punishment descended from heaven in anger, dazzling tribulation light intertwined, forming this great destruction. Space shone with thunder light, everything perishing, the sky torn by lightning, each emanating a fearful breath to all beings.

Even though not directed at Earth, such grandeur, even the smallest lightning finger falling to the planet surface was like a mountain-crushing nuclear explosion, any Heroic Spirit facing this power would shatter spirit base instantly, turn to ashes.

Moreover, the sunlight thoroughly transformed by divine power becomes extremely lethal as battle-oriented authority tendency, solar radiation turns perilous deadly.

Despite almost all energies concentrated to form repeated super-radiation burst strikes, countless times penetrating and melting Machine God’s shell, only very slight light radiation microwaves swept the battlefield, gently traversing space, eventually like breeze blowing across planet’s surface...

Yet, it was solar wind.

The planet’s magnetic field, though originally capable of protecting the earth from cosmic storms, offset quite a part of the power, sunlight still appeared so deadly. If not for the Imaginary Tree branches extending in the stratosphere like a canopy absorbing cosmic rays from space...

Then bathed in such sunlight, life would inevitably be taken away indiscriminately.

First the skin scorches, then the flesh carbonizes, starting with the birds in the sky, followed by the creatures on land and in the sea.

When fire and blood descend from the sky, when burning mountains tumble into the sea, the earth turns crimson, and the seawater becomes blood. Creatures and ships in the sea meet their end or are ravaged.

That is likely the only outcome.

And the rushing progenitor, still with a grave expression, told her that it was Machine God Zeus, the King of the Atlantic Anomaly Zone, dueling with the emperor of the Sea of the Moon... Both their conditions have exceeded the limits of the Anomaly Zone domain and even affected the planet itself.

No egg remains whole beneath a toppled nest.

Since the Imaginary Tree and Anomaly Zone domain are reliant on the planet’s surface, how could they remain unaffected?

Yet, there are things better left unknown, for once known, they can easily rob one of courage. After all, whether it was Tohsaka Rin or the people from Chaldea, their efforts on the Anomaly Zones had just begun; the Russian Anomaly Zone was merely the first step, with other information still being gathered and pieced together.

Now, faced suddenly with such a terrifying spectacle, seeing the two Kings of the Anomaly Zones involved in a battle of this magnitude, it inevitably felt like a crushing blow.

The so-called King of the Anomaly Zone...

Turns out it’s associated with such terrifying concepts?

Not just she, but even most of the so-called divine-level beings encountered in the past would likely have their souls scattered with just a gaze from such a great life form. If they don’t start desperately fleeing the moment they sense its presence, they wouldn’t even know how they died.

And now...

The Ivan the Terrible they planned to face earlier seemingly is also an Anomaly Zone King.

This is not about courage but understanding that what needs to be faced is impossible, resulting in despair from the heart. After all, normal people have their senses and can understand the severity of what they’re facing, rationally evaluating the degree of danger and threat, inherently setting themselves a limit.

Any sane person wouldn’t challenge natural disasters, wouldn’t challenge a hurricane, an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption, because they know they can’t oppose such phenomena.

Moreover, the entity faced has gone beyond the concept and definition of typical natural disasters, not limited to atmospheric conditions. It’s directly the electromagnetic storm in the universe, the flare of a star erupting... Facing such an enemy, still believing unshakably in the value of human wisdom, courage, such dreamy conviction —

Are probably only those who have never glimpsed this apocalyptic scene, those fortunate ones.

"Not all Kings of the Anomaly Zones possess such power..." remarked the Gem Elder, seeing their disheartened faces, his expression somewhat peculiar, "You probably heard the people from the Russian Anomaly Zone boasting that Ivan the Terrible possesses power equal to Zeus..."

To believe this naturally evokes despair.

After all, one party in the space battle is indeed Zeus, also the King of the Atlantic Anomaly Zone... Combine this information, and it’s easy to despairingly assume —

All Kings of the Anomaly Zones are beings of such caliber.

However, that’s impossible. If it were so terrifying, where would the Alien God find the audacity to think they could navigate all of this?

It can only be said that before Zeus truly appears, anyone can rival Zeus.

Just as after Lu Bu’s death, everyone is as brave as Lu Bu.

But just as the old man desired to explain further, he suddenly felt a sense of imminent disaster, instinctively raising his head to the sky... Only to discover a more dreadful change had emerged on the just-finished space battlefield.

...

...

An abyss-like rift tears open across the sky, a cold, watchful gaze surveying Earth from within.

Pupil of Chaos.

It finally appeared.

Merely opening the Void Hole that can interfere with this universe has already triggered violent transformations, affecting even the vacuum. Gu Mo could acutely sense the force field changes in the surrounding space, as if the matter was boiling.

The entire gravitational field of the Solar System was impacted.

It was like another star squeezed into this Cosmic Domain, with its massive gravitational field exerting a noticeable force on the surrounding space-time...

Feeling this most direct pressure, even as Gu Mo grew increasingly ruthless from his rising Synchronization Rate with the sun’s Divine Qi, he still felt the sensation of being stared at by a top predator, his own self seemingly becoming prey.

The so-called Dyson Sphere...

Its essence is already very clear.

The presence before him is a cosmic-crossing star predator.