Chapter 747: Chapter 17: Universal Tactical Adaptor
"Exactly six... plus me as the seventh one."
After counting the number of vortices, Gu Mo sighed softly, just as he knew it would be.
Meanwhile, he couldn’t help but mutter to himself. Strictly speaking, he was completely an unplanned insertion. So which Anomaly Domain did he replace in the original story? Russia, Northern Europe, China, India, or the Atlantic Ocean?
However, under his conscious intervention, his Anomaly Domain did not evolve naturally. Instead, at the time close to "now," a national ascension occurred, the result being a direct detachment from Earth...
In this way, not only the Imaginary Tree was transferred to the Moon during the framing of this alternate history, but it also avoided staying on Earth and colliding with other Anomaly Domains. It also dodged the trouble of competing with Pan-Human History, even preserving the full power of this alternate history.
After all, the result of this alternate history—
Was initially mankind directly abandoning the Earth and ascending as a nation to the Moon.
And with only his Anomaly Domain occupying the Moon, it naturally could fully replicate this result.
For the people under his rule, the most recent occurrence is the severance of the Earth-Moon Route, losing the agricultural district and natural ecological reserve of Earth as a strategic hinterland. However, it does not greatly impact the overall industrial and military power... In a sense, Gu Mo’s Anomaly Domain has completely become independent.
It wasn’t enveloped by anything like the Storm Wall, as everything was fully materialized on the Moon.
Perhaps for the Imaginary Tree, this is a history revision already completed.
The various Anomaly Domains were supposed to compete with each other, appearing simultaneously on the initialized Earth. But precisely because of this, history has victories and defeats, so ultimately, there can only be one winner—
A victor that can replace the position of the entire Pan-Human History.
Because the essence of humanity can only have one, and it’s impossible to coexist multiple histories normally on a planet.
However, in Gu Mo’s alternate history, under intentional interference, a new track opened up, directly monopolizing the Moon without any competition. The transferred Imaginary Tree lacks consciousness and only possesses instinct, naturally unable to grasp the intricacies and calculations involved...
Thus, it smoothly completed history revision, circumventing Earth, thoroughly "proving" and "outputting" the Anomaly Domain onto the Moon, recreating human order on this celestial body, naturally judged as having completed the designed task.
—essentially, that’s what it is.
It’s not like other Anomaly Domains, blocked inside and out by the Storm Wall, the outside unaware of the situation within, while those inside suddenly feel the world has an end...
"Emmmmmm... Saying that, can’t I just dispatch starships to reclaim Earth?"
Gu Mo gazed at the blue planet, thoughtfully reflecting.
Although knowing his Anomaly Domain is a newly created and expanded worldline, setting aside that recognition, as someone holding the entire record, he seemed to have truly experienced it all, thus being most acutely aware of how massive and formidable his forces are.
Time wasn’t spent on altering the lunar surface’s topography and climate restoration but rather directly opening living spaces within the Moon, virtually hollowing out its interior to transform into an artificial paradise, except for the Moon’s thin outer crust still maintaining its original form...
All space inside was utilized.
Under deliberate control, there are three billion people living in the Moon Sea and countless autonomous machinery, synthetic golems, even specially designated zones for various fantasy species... Adequately advanced immortal techniques and technology have sparked terrifying derivative creations.
With people having overall high quality, there are far too many war weapons close to Servant performance, even far exceeding Servant performance, ready to strike.
The squads of Genetic Warriors, Mechanical Armor units...
And the starships in the spaceport, though impossible to rival Greece’s twelve divine machines’ performance, should not be underestimated. Servants attempting to block such things would be courting death...
Furthermore, I possess a "Rare People Legion." In the Nioh World, it’s my Space-Time Administration Bureau dispatching forces from the future to maintain history in the past. In this Anomaly Domain, it’s naturally a rebranded Servant Legion, just under a different name.
Thinking and pondering like this and realizing how many cards he holds, Gu Mo suddenly felt quite assured, though slightly regretful.
"Too bad I couldn’t directly materialize the "True Spirit Positioning Map"..."
"Is it really because the worldviews are too different?"
The Rare People can still be rebranded, reappearing in Servant form, but the world-level Technique based on the Guardian Spirit System is utterly unfeasible. In this Anomaly Domain, there’s absolutely no information about this aspect, making Gu Mo’s idea to walk a shortcut and cheat an acceleration pack fall short.
Turning back to the direction of Earth, Gu Mo seriously scrutinized it for quite a while, maintaining focus to see surface details.
Except he couldn’t see inside the Storm Wall, the specifics of those Anomaly Domains, thus couldn’t confirm which Anomaly Domain’s original role he replaced.
"Speaking of which, haven’t Gudah and the others managed to escape successfully by now? After all, my early warning surely prevents them from doing worse than the original, and perhaps Chaldea might preserve most of its power, who knows..." Gu Mo pondered, carefully observing Antarctica’s direction.
Naturally, nothing remained.
Like scientific research stations, as well as Chaldea’s base, were similarly whitened out.
He attempted a divination, but could not ascertain the situation regarding Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others. The divination results were quite peculiar, giving feedback as if these individuals no longer existed in the current world, vanished within the web of causality.
"It must be because of the Imaginary Submarine Navigation. They are moving through Imaginary Space to evade pursuit..."
Gu Mo wasn’t too worried; this situation was within his expectations, although he couldn’t help feeling a bit annoyed.
This dungeon has already reached this point in time.
He missed the battle at the Divine Hall of the Crown of Time, missing out on the rewards for taking down Demon God King Gai Tia and the scene rewards. It’s a huge loss... and he hasn’t even visited Chaldea yet, though he had hoped to check in, take photos for memories.
Hmm... it must be because Gudah wasn’t sincere, and didn’t prepare the stones for me—
That’s why I didn’t get drawn as an SSSR.
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On the other side of the Parallel World.
The world line of the Fifth Holy Grail War—
It was late at night, and in the Western-style mansion of the Tohsaka family, there was suddenly a clatter and commotion, very lively and noisy. After a while, it calmed down, leaving no further movement.
A twin-tailed girl wearing the Higashikawa Academy uniform and tied with a black hairband widened her eyes, sitting on the sofa, trembling as she pointed at the sudden large group of people before her, watching them clumsily get up from the overturned table and the mess on the floor, utterly speechless:
"You, you... you all... what are you..."
No one knew that while she was discussing tactics with her allies in the living room, in a drowsy state, contemplating whether to return to her room to rest, she would suddenly witness a whole group of people fall like dumplings, directly knocking over her tableware in utter shock.
All of the drowsiness disappeared utterly, replaced by a heart-wrenching pain, as the girl’s gaze lowered to the shattered tea set scattered on the floor.
Ahhh, everything that could be sold was sold, with only this relatively expensive tea set left to maintain the Tohsaka family’s honor in front of guests... now! It’s all gone! All of these were still worth money!
Realizing the cruelty of reality, Tohsaka Rin’s vision darkened, almost gasping and fainting.
"Ah, sorry, sorry..."
A petite and cute loli stepped aside, looked at the mess on the floor, then stuck out her tongue at the stunned twin-tailed girl with a bit of embarrassment, "Really sorry, but we could only teleport next to Rikou..."
"Da Vinci? How did you end up like this? You’ve shrunk a lot..." Fujimaru Ritsuka also looked surprised, although her attention was oddly diverted. "Huh, and Mash, why are you all here?"
She instinctively glanced towards Akai Hinako’s direction, finding the literature student similarly puzzled, seemingly not expecting such a situation.
Clearly, just a couple of days ago during communication, Chaldea was still providing support from behind the scenes. How come the whole family suddenly arrived here, as if preparing for a vacation like at summer camp? The girl subconsciously thought this, figuring this might be what was going on.
But, how come all the staff are here...
While there are so few Servants?
"Senior... something happened." Mash, dressed in casual clothes, looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka with a wry smile, speaking in a strained tone, "The impact of the Anomaly Zone—has begun!"
"..."
Fujimaru Ritsuka’s breathing momentarily hitched.
The Anomaly Zone... has arrived?
The disaster that immortal informed us of, the second impact following the incineration of human purpose, it’s already started?
At such a critical moment, with me leaving Chaldea...
She couldn’t quite believe it, furrowing her brow tightly, then glancing at the other staff, trying to discern from their expressions that this was a bad joke. However, every face only showed anger, pain, hatred, and seemed to have experienced something utterly despairing.
"We are the last members of Chaldea here, a lot has happened..."
The visibly shrunken loli Da Vinci spoke, "The other Servants couldn’t continue to teleport over, so they decided to stay and cover our retreat..."
"Thanks to them, we managed to teleport here... the way of Imaginary Submarine Navigation was too risky after all, and fortunately, Rikou you provided a coordinate this time, so we decided to abandon the original method and directly transfer to this world, which seems to be the safest choice for now."
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(PS: Sorry, today was another day full of unexpected events. Tomorrow someone will come to install the electricity meter and network... if things go smoothly, it should stabilize by the day after tomorrow, please bear with me... (＠_＠;))
