91: Chapter 91 The Final Singularity—Approaching!

With the level 33 full-clear video topping the entire internet, and the implementation of "Magus of Flowers, Merlin," FGO players entered a long-awaited and exceptionally comfortable dead week.

No more high-pressure monster hordes, no more stamina capping or Red Sword Brother; only the casual daily routine of logging in to farm Embers and level up skills.

Popular streamer A-Dai was currently lying in her VR gaming pod.

Inside the virtual world, her game character was comfortably leaning on the sofa in Chaldea's [My Room], enjoying this moment of tranquility.

The personal space system of VR FGO was incredibly realistic; players could freely invite contracted Servants to the room for interaction.

"Oh my, although this sofa is soft, I still prefer the flower fields of Avalon. However, considering you went broke summoning me, Master, I'll reluctantly chat with you for a while~"

Merlin, with his silver hair, was sprawled ungracefully on the lazy chair nearby, holding a steaming cup of black tea, and winked mischievously at A-Dai.

On the other side of the room, the golden-haired twin-tailed Ereshkigal was sitting uneasily on the edge of the bed. Her hands were wringing her red and black skirt, her gaze shifting around, and her fair cheeks were as red as a ripe apple.

"Why, why did you call me into such a private room! I am the Goddess of Death! I am the cold and ruthless Grim Reaper! Don't think that just because you passed the trial of the Seven Gates of the Underworld, you can order me around... Um, is the air conditioning temperature a bit high here? I, I am not nervous at all!"

Watching Ereshkigal's iconic tsundere triple-combo, A-Dai's eyes sparkled in the livestream, and with maternal instincts overflowing, she couldn't help but reach out and stroke her golden hair.

"Don't touch me! You disrespectful person... Ugh, forget it, just this once."

Although Ereshkigal resisted verbally, her body didn't dodge, and a small heart effect even popped up above her head, looking comfortable.

"Family, this 100% holographic immersion is simply amazing!" A-Dai boasted happily to the friends in the livestream, "With the handsome husband Merlin as a bodyguard, and the tsundere, cute little sister Ereshkigal here for cuddles, I'd be willing to stay in this personal space for a lifetime, even without fighting monsters!"

The chat was filled with peace and the sour taste of jealousy:

"Let go of that Ereshkigal, let me do it!"

"A-Dai, you little hooligan, let go of my wife!"

"The dead week is so comfortable. Logging in every day to poke the Servants and listen to their voice lines makes me feel like all the suffering I endured at the Absolute Demonic Beast Front has been healed."

"Old Thief Gu's modeling and interactions are truly attentive. Every Servant's bond voice line feels like dating!"

...

Real world, Chaldea Studio.

Gu Yi sat in front of the giant data screen, cast his gaze toward the finalized end-game code in the system backend, tapped his fingers on the keyboard a few times, and officially uploaded the version update announcement to the official website.

"Since everyone has rested enough, let's put a perfect period to this dead week."

Almost simultaneously, a striking red exclamation mark popped up on the terminals in the top right corner of every player's vision inside the game, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

[Version Update Announcement]

To the last Master of humanity:

A fatal anomaly has appeared in the timeline observation. On the absolute outside of time and space, we have discovered a high-density magical energy aggregate of a scale exceeding mythology.

You have reclaimed the cornerstones of human history, but this is not the end. The true destruction, the mastermind who burned human history, is lurking at the end of time, waiting for your arrival.

[New Event Mode: Final Suppression Battle]

In the previous seven Singularities, you were all lone armies drifting outside the timeline. But on the stage of the final decisive battle, Chaldea will break the barrier of event convergence.

All Masters will cross the boundaries of the Quantum Record Band and achieve a convergence of Rayshift at the same coordinates!

You will form a joint attack front of 20 people, divided into five tactical squads, advancing on multiple fronts across the vast temple star map!

The enemy is not a single calamity, but the [72 Demon God Pillars]. Each Demon God Pillar possesses a "Unified Spirit Origin" that exceeds observable scales, which is a server-wide shared health bar!

From defending the [Pseudo-Spirit Vein Tower] to maintain the magical energy supply for the entire army, to breaking into the depths to destroy the [Foundation Anchor] to block the Demon God Pillar's ultimate chant, there will be close real-time combat linkage between various positions. The collapse of any front line will cause everyone to fall into an abyss of no return!

Every sword you swing will reduce the total Unified Spirit Origin of the Demon God Pillar in real-time. Only when all Masters work together to completely shatter the Spirit Origin of the Demon God Pillar can the imaginary barrier guarding the throne be stripped away, facing the final Demon God King!

In addition, the high-density magical energy overflowing after the collapse of the Demon God Pillar will materialize into rich loot.

For example, suppressing the Demon God Pillar "Flauros" will have a high probability of dropping Proof of Hero and Octuplet Twin Crystals; suppressing the Demon God Pillar "Barbatos" will have a high probability of dropping Heart of the Foreign God, Forbidden Page, Gear of Infinite, and other rare cultivation materials!

[Special Warning]: Please note that the suppression battle is a limited-time campaign that will never be rerun. If you arrive at the battlefield and the Demon God Pillar has already been conquered by previous Masters, you will not be able to participate in the server-wide co-op and loot acquisition, and can only revisit this record alone through the "Original Canon · Single-Player Story Mode."

Opportunities are fleeting, so please seize the time!

[Original Canon · Single-Player Story Mode]

If you are a Master who is not good at socializing or only wishes to savor the epic alone, please do not worry.

Outside of the server-wide co-op, we have prepared an authentic single-player mode for you.

Even if you step into that desperate death trap alone, as long as you have left your footprints in this world, you will never be fighting alone.

You can walk toward the throne alone at your own pace in this journey of salvation that belongs to you alone.

Assemble, Masters who have crossed countless desperate situations.

Go and reclaim the future that belongs to humanity!

Countdown: 24 hours.

...

Regarding the Final Singularity, in fact, in the initial conception, Gu Yi only wanted to 1:1 replicate the simple mode of "single-player reducing the server-wide total health bar" from the FGO of his previous life.

But looking at this group of highly cohesive "Fourth Calamity" players who could even come up with exquisite strategies for level 33 full-level clear conditions, he always felt that simple single-player monster farming was not worthy of this arduous journey across seven Singularities.

So, he had a flash of inspiration, combined the most classic large-scale raid mechanics from a well-known side-scrolling fighting game of his previous life, and skillfully modified and integrated it into the underlying logic of the game.

Of course, wanting to let tens of millions of players on Blue Star perform real-time linkage simultaneously was simply a fantasy for the current conventional physical servers on Blue Star.

Fortunately, whether it was the shocking big knife of Chapter 7, the extreme torture of the Pruning Protocol, or the crazy looting of the Merlin gacha, all harvested a massive amount of emotional value for Gu Yi, enough to fill the sea.

He unhesitatingly squandered these long-accumulated emotional values, exchanged for the top-tier [Quantum Multi-threaded Synchronous Computing Matrix] from the system, and completely paved the physical path for this epic server-wide zero-latency co-op.

Thinking of what the players were about to face, Gu Yi couldn't help but hook his lips into an irrepressible smile.

"Be shocked, revel, and then, in the most extreme clamor, welcome that silent despair."