sbdcsierra Chapter 1962: The Holy Grail War is about to resume; The golden potential of "Feather's Di
Chapter 1962: The Holy Grail War is about to resume; The golden potential of "Feather's Di
Chapter 1962 The impending restart of the Holy Grail War; The golden meaning of "Feather's divine bravery, unparalleled throughout the ages".
The Uchiha clan is a cursed clan, but also a clan defined by "love".
Extreme love can give rise to extreme hatred, and extreme hatred often stems from the initial extreme protection and cherishing.
Although he is a transmigrator, he possesses the Uchiha bloodline and naturally has the same rich emotions as the Uchiha.
How could he be completely unmoved by the countless separations and deaths that have occurred on this land, by the silent grief and anticipation that permeates the air?
Because he was not numb, because he cared, the heavy hope for "resurrection" placed on him was like an invisible shackle, testing both his abilities and his heart.
He was afraid of letting them down, afraid that this last hope would be extinguished because of him, and afraid of seeing more eyes dimmed by the loss of hope.
The appearance of the Gedo Mazo is like casting a definite beam of light into a dark labyrinth.
It doesn't specify where the exit is or how many thorns lie along the way, but it at least proves that this road called "Resurrection" does indeed have an "entrance".
That heavy expectation does not point to an inevitable precipice.
That's why he felt relieved.
Clear responsibilities are better than vague expectations; predictable challenges are better than unknown fears.
Uchiha Ten slowly exhaled a long breath.
"Hopefully, the final outcome will be good."
This hope points not only to the success of the procedure, but also to the positive impact it may have on people's lives afterward.
If everything is as he deduced, and the appearance of the Outer Path Statue means that the Reincarnation Technique is feasible in this world, then what follows are countless real-world problems waiting to be solved, and the pain of dashed hopes.
The art of reincarnation requires a complete body as a vessel for the soul's return.
Those victims who perished in the disaster, whose bodies were completely destroyed and whose souls were left without even a trace of flesh or blood, how can they be brought back even if the Rinnegan can communicate between life and death and the Golem can convert life energy?
How can a tree without roots grow again?
Perhaps, with the help of certain individuals with special abilities, and in conjunction with the rapidly developing spiritual technology of today, the body can be reshaped or repaired using residual blood and hair.
But for those who have passed away and left not even these faint traces, resurrection may have been a pipe dream from the very beginning.
Have their relatives and friends already accepted this reality amidst endless sorrow, buried their longing deep in their hearts, and tried to move forward?
Or is there still a tiny, unrealistic fantasy buried deep in the heart?
When the art of reincarnation can truly be performed, and when some lucky individuals are able to reunite with their deceased loved ones, what kind of severe secondary trauma will those close relatives who are destined not to be resurrected suffer?
Will they question why other people's loved ones can return, while their own beloved ones are gone forever?
Uchiha Ten could imagine that gap, but he didn't want to think about it.
Even if the procedure is feasible, it cannot be abused without restraint.
Who is eligible to be resurrected? What criteria are used? How should the resurrection be ordered?
What price will be paid?
Good deeds can also lead to disaster.
He stood at a new starting point, facing a road that seemed full of hope, but on both sides of the road were thorns of human nature and traps of rules.
I just hope that the final outcome will be good.
Small world.
Bai Xuan's gaze fell upon the relieved expression on Uchiha Ten's face.
The demonic statue of the heretics was indeed created by him.
There is no mechanism of reincarnation in this world. After all living things perish, that luminous and undimmed origin, that "information" that carries all the memories, emotions and traces of existence of an individual, will not cross over to the other side or the underworld.
Like autumn leaves falling, they return to a real "sea of information".
The sea of light spheres that Uchiha Ten saw in a fleeting glance was a hazy projection of the "Sea of Information" at the level of rules.
Each sphere of light is a frozen epic, recording the joys and sorrows, loves and hates, and obsessions of a lifetime; recording the roads traveled, the people met, and the dreams dreamt.
They are real, yet static; rich, yet closed; they are the most complete tombstones of the "past," but not the seeds of a promising "future."
Even if the ball of light were retrieved from the sea, its body reshaped with immense life energy, and all its memories infused into it, what would be born would be nothing more than a "copy" possessing all of its past memories.
It remembers everything, it behaves as always, but is it still "him"?
The answer varies from person to person.
For orphans yearning for reunion, the return of those they remember is the ultimate salvation; for philosophers who are committed to the uniqueness of the soul, this may be another form of loss.
Hope and despair, satisfaction and nothingness, often lie only in the viewer's mind.
To achieve true resurrection, to bring that unique person back from the end of their demise, what is needed is not the transfer and reconstruction of memories, but the intervention and correction of the timeline itself.
Let the ceaseless river flow backward, let the established cause and effect shatter and recombine, let the world regress to the moment before death, and start anew from that unpolluted point.
If that's the case, why did he give the Uchiha Tengaiden Demonic Statue?
Perhaps it's because Bai Xuan dislikes regrets.
There was no particular reason, nor any grand consideration regarding the future of civilization.
Simply because he wanted to do it.
Human regrets, like fine dust, fall on the grand canvas of time. They are insignificant, yet they make certain parts of the canvas appear gloomy and sorrowful.
Since the people living on this land so strongly desire to grasp even the imperfect possibility, and so persistently want to fill the void of regret.
So he gave it to him.
It granted Uchiha Ten and all those who had high hopes the power to choose, an opportunity to change the "settled situation," while also leaving them to bear and digest all the consequences that followed.
Bai Xuan did not promise perfection, nor did he guarantee happiness.
He simply removed the biggest obstacle in theory and opened the door called "possibility".
Whether the world behind the door is salvation or deeper delusion is something the person entering must measure with their own footsteps and bear with their own heart.
This may be a form of mercy, for it offers hope; it may also be a form of cruelty, for it throws the weight of choice and the sharp edges of truth fully at those who are not yet prepared.
The process of eliminating regrets may itself create new regrets.
Bai Xuan shook his head and immersed his consciousness in the chat group.
In the chat group,
An ordinary group admin: "The Holy Grail War has finally come to me again!!!"
An ordinary group admin: "Last time, Liu Hongxuan got incredibly lucky and drew Xiang Yu, winning the Holy Grail War!"
An ordinary group admin: "He's so arrogant!"
An ordinary group owner: "He's always showing off the Xiang Yu armor he got through wishing for!"
An ordinary group owner: "Isn't it just a reward for winning a Holy Grail War?"
An ordinary group owner: "He could only fight me for a short time at the beginning by using the power of Xiang Yu's armor, but afterwards he was still being thrashed by me."
An ordinary group admin: "You say my victory was unfair? Fine, this time in the Holy Grail War, I'll show you what I'm made of!"
Su Yunqing's words were filled with resentment, clearly indicating that she harbored a lot of anger about the process and outcome of the last "Holy Grail War".
You should know that the last Holy Grail War summoned Guan Yu, the Guan Yu, Guan Yunchang!
They actually lost! They lost!
Although in terms of pure combat strength, the Second Master is indeed slightly inferior to that monster Xiang Yu.
But the Holy Grail War is not just a simple fight based on stats alone.
This is war!
Strategy, teamwork, intelligence, and Noble Phantasms—which one isn't important?
Gilgamesh had such outrageous abilities, yet he still died, didn't he?!
The results of it?
Last time, one of those guys summoned Qin Qiong (Qin Shubao), another summoned the ancient evil Dian Wei, and the third was Xue Rengui.
They are all renowned and formidable generals. If they get together, think about tactics, coordinate their efforts, and employ some strategies, they might not be guaranteed to win, but their chances of winning are quite high.
But they were different. After reading about the deeds of their own heroes, they all seemed to be under a spell and rushed to challenge Xiang Yu to a duel.
It wasn't even a battle of attrition; it was like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather, sending them off one by one!
Who could defeat Xiang Yu in a one-on-one fight?
This Holy Grail War was created by Bai Xuan, not from the Fate world; the data of many Heroic Spirits has been altered.
Xiang Yu's stats were so exaggerated that they truly deserved to be described as "unparalleled throughout history".
However, Su Yunqing had to admit that when she summoned Guan Yu and saw the green-robed figure with a face like a red date, a two-foot-long beard, and holding the Green Dragon Crescent Blade proudly appear in the summoning array, she herself was a little arrogant.
She felt that everyone present was a scoundrel, and that she alone could eliminate all the participants in the Holy Grail War.
She completely forgot about tactical coordination and strategic maneuvering, her mind filled only with the thought that "my second master is invincible."
She just didn't expect that the heroic spirits summoned by Chen Ming and the others would be more and more powerful than the last.
Qin Qiong, also known as Qin Shubao, is a door god whose name resounds throughout history, his mace striking down heroes across the land; Dian Wei, the ancient evil one, was Cao Cao's most valiant general, his death battle at Wancheng is legendary.
Xue Rengui, with three arrows, pacified the Tianshan Mountains and bravely conquered Liaodong, earning him the renowned reputation of a military god of the Tang Dynasty.
Dian Wei may have been slightly inferior to other famous generals in terms of leading troops and strategizing, but when it comes to pure battlefield combat and personal bravery, this number one warrior of Cao Wei was absolutely no less formidable.
It can be said that, setting aside their leadership and strategic vision, the participants in the last Holy Grail War were all at the pinnacle of their respective eras in terms of individual combat prowess.
But they were facing Xiang Yu.
A monster reshaped and adjusted by Bai Xuan, with its stats set to truly live up to the eight-character evaluation of "the bravery of the feathers, unparalleled throughout the ages".
Strength, agility, stamina, and Noble Phantasm have all been enhanced to a level that would leave heroes of the same rank feeling hopeless.
The result can be imagined.
Under the influence of the "black magic" that infected them with the heroic deeds and pride of their respective spirits, what should have been a wonderful team Holy Grail War combining wisdom and courage turned into a "showcase of individual martial prowess of the overlord" and a "record of various fierce generals taking turns to send people to their deaths".
After the war, Liu Hongxuan, the biggest winner, had an extraordinary level of admiration and love for Xiang Yu.
He didn't even wish for anything else, but instead prayed to the Holy Grail with extreme "single-mindedness" and obtained Xiang Yu's armor, which was the kind that could be upgraded.
This armor not only perfectly replicates Xiang Yu's abilities, but it also evolves continuously as the master's strength increases, resulting in an extremely exaggerated amplification effect.
With this "Xiang Yu Armor," Liu Hongxuan's strength even surpassed that of Su Yunqing at one point, causing her to suffer several defeats.
This is an utter disgrace.
Fortunately, as the chat group's administrator, she took advantage of the chat group's convenience to improve her strength far faster than Liu Hongxuan, and was soon able to crush Liu Hongxuan, who was using the "Xiang Yu Armor".
She seized the opportunity and gave Liu Hongxuan a good beating.
But Liu Hongxuan, who knew she had joined a chat group, was naturally not convinced and said that Su Yunqing's victory was unfair.
Now, the Holy Grail War has come to them again, and Su Yunqing will surely avenge her previous defeat.
That guy Liu Hongxuan, he'll be the first one eliminated!
Just as Su Yunqing was mentally preparing and planning how to be the first to eliminate Liu Hongxuan in the new round of the Holy Grail War, a new message notification interrupted her thoughts in the chat group.
He boiled Daigo into soup: "Is it your turn again so soon?"
Turning Daigo into soup: "I remember you said that those 'ancestor' level big shots in your world are also very interested in the Holy Grail War?"
Boil Daigo into soup: "Have they already been involved?"
He boiled Daigo into soup: "Besides, doesn't the Holy Grail require a long time to accumulate enough magical power, or energy, before it can be activated?"
He boiled Daigo into soup: "It feels like it hasn't been that long, how come it's your turn again so soon?"
Daigo was somewhat puzzled. Was the flow of time in Su Yunqing's world that much faster than in his world?
An ordinary group admin: "I guess it's over now."
An ordinary group owner said: "Those old... cough, those seniors are indeed very interested, and have already organized three Holy Grail Wars."
An ordinary group owner said: "Moreover, the scale is getting bigger and bigger each time, and the number of participants and the resources invested are becoming more and more exaggerated."
An ordinary group admin said: "As for the Holy Grail needing to accumulate energy, theoretically it does require a considerable amount of time. According to the normal process, once a year is a reasonable cooling-off period."
An ordinary group admin: "But, rules are rigid, 'people' are flexible."
An ordinary group owner said, "Anyway, as long as enough 'resources' can be replenished for the Holy Grail, it can be activated at any time."
An ordinary group admin: "They don't lack resources, shrug.jpg"
It is, after all, a world in the mid-to-late stage of spiritual energy revival. Although the most prosperous era has passed, it hasn't been that long.
In terms of resources, we are still in a stage of abundant abundance.
As the founders of various powerful forces, they possess even more abundant resources.
Moreover, the Holy Grail War wasn't about consuming all these resources for a simple victory or defeat; these resources were merely transformed into the energy for the Holy Grail to ultimately fulfill its wish.
They can still obtain something of equal or even greater value through the Holy Grail.