Gudako's World War - part 4: Alien Wars

"Ufufu, what's this? It seems like I've been reincarnated as a Beast once more to kill some sort of intruder-eh? Master, is that you?"

"Oooooh! It's Kiara-chan! Can we do fun things in the bed?!" Gudako shouted with joy.

"Mou... As much as I want to, the World wants me to get rid of you. Such a shame too, you always get right back up no matter how many times I send you to nirvana~" Kiara and Gudako began giggling like a pair of schoolgirls.

"Impossible, there's two of them." Goetia muttered in pure disbelief while Zepar shivered in fear. "And to think that there would be a human vile enough to ascend to the level of a Beast, even I didn't foresee this. Truly, the vileness of humans isn't something to be underestimated."

"Ahhhh, ahhhh~" Tiamat sung in a tone of apparent agreement.

"Unfortunately, I have to fight you all now. I wasn't expecting to fight other Beasts like myself, but the World deemed it appropriate to give me extra Authorities to spread my love. I've become a Bodhisattva with the power to govern a solar system now." Kiara stated as she began growing larger and formed hand seals. Soon, the familiar image of the planets of the solar system orbiting Kiara appeared.

"Oy, you're not gonna start off with your womb attack so soon, right?" Gudako asked as she went on guard.

"Like I said, I have some new tricks to use on you all. Hmm...maybe I'll start with the closest one." Kiara replied as she firmly grasped the concept of the planet Mercury and crushed it in her hands.

"▂▂▃▃▅▅▅ーーー！！"

The spider-like form of Type Mercury, also known as ORT, appeared out of nowhere and emitted a screech as it slashed with the claw like appendages on its front legs, spraying horrifyingly sharp shards of crystals everywhere.

"Woah, cool! Can we keep it?" Gudako shouted as her eyes took in the form of Type Mercury. Her vision flickered for a brief moment to adjust itself to the alien view. If a normal human laid eyes on a Type, all the blood vessels in their brain would immediately burst from trying to comprehend the alien being.

"How ridiculous... to think she was given Authority over the Ultimate Ones...!" Goetia exclaimed as he grabbed ORT by its front legs when it tried to crush him.

Tiamat sang as she covered the battlefield with mud once again, the Chaos Tide clashing with the alien crystals that sprouted whenever ORT moved.

While Goetia was holding up the spider-like alien's legs, Gudako scaled its large, forty-meter tall body. Its body was composed of an alien substance, and crystal forming from its body tried to consume Gudako, only to seemingly slip off of her body whenever it made contact. Once she climbed onto what seemed to be its head, she reinforced her body with Outer Magic and started to kick and stomp on it.

ORT responded by manipulating space and time in a manner incomprehensible to normal human physics in an attempt to purge them from this reality. Ordinary humans would have been slaughtered with incredible ease. Fortunately for Gudako and her entourage, they were firmly rooted to existence by the skill known as Independent Manifestation, which negates instant-death effects and space-time skills that attack the concept of existence.

"Ara, ara, I hope you're having fun with one of my new pets." Kiara remarked as Tiamat unleashed her full sized Beast form and started to bite down on ORT. "I wasn't expecting you to last for so long, I might have to call out another one of my pets~" Of course, summoning another Type would force her to split magical energy between both of them, but Gudako didn't need to know that.

"Wow, really? I wanna see!" Gudako exclaimed as ORT wrapped her up with one of its appendages and swung her wildly like a ragdoll. Instead of drawing power from the planet Mercury like it would normally do, it was instead pulling power from Kiara, who held Authority over the solar system.

"Master, please stop." Goetia sighed in exasperation as he blasted ORT with a Human Incineration beam, the heat value equal to a million Excaliburs managing to leave a noticeable scorch mark on its outer shell as well as making it drop Gudako. She promptly climbed onto its body again and punched it in the face.

ORT screeched as it threw Gudako off of its body again, only for her to suddenly replace her arms with incredibly long tentacles and grabbed it by the legs. She used the momentum to shoot herself at ORT like a slingshot and kicked it in the face, knocking it down to the ground.

Tiamat used her mud to swallow up ORT, only for it to crystallize the mud on it and shook it all off of its body like a dog would shake water off of itself.

"Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth." Gudako intoned as a Gate formed and the alien liquid from R'lyeh flowed to the ground. This time, Gudako made it mix with Tiamat's Chaos Tide, the mixture forming into a very potent sludge.

"Hyyyah!" Gudako forced the mud into the shape of a spear and fired it with incredible speed at ORT. It narrowly dodged but the spear tore clean through one of its joints, severing a leg from its body.

"▂▂▅ーー▅ーー！！" ORT howled as a mass of crystals sprouted from its body and reattached the leg.

"Well, that was worth a shot." Gudako shrugged as ORT snatched her up again and started swinging her around. This time Tiamat chomped down on ORT, making it drop Gudako, before flinging it to the side.

"AhhhhAHHhhh." Tiamat's beast form scolded Gudako.

"Sorry, sorry. I'll be more careful." Gudako sheepishly apologized.

"The Ultimate One is too durable to reliably injure. We need to get it away from its power source first." Goetia stated as he glanced at Kiara.

"Oh, I have an idea!" Gudako replied. Goetia and Tiamat bent down as she whispered the plan.

"I see, I suppose that would work." Goetia gave his approval while Tiamat seemed to nod.

ORT stood silently as it tried to calculate a method for destroying its opponents. Suddenly, it went on high alert as it saw Tiamat charging straight at it at full speed, with Gudako and Goetia riding on her head.

ORT hissed as Tiamat rammed into it with all of her considerable strength. Gudako was chanting something while Goetia was providing suppressive fire by raining energy beams onto the Ultimate One.

"Gate open! Let's go, Tiamat!"

As soon as a massive gate opened behind ORT, Tiamat activated her A++ ranked Monstrous Strength and shoved ORT and herself into the gate. The sudden burst of strength caught the alien off guard as all of them went tumbling inside.

Kiara just stood there with a surprised expression, while the World sputtered and cursed. Since Gudako warped using a gate constructed out of foreign magic instead of using a Root-based magic like the Kaleidoscope, the World was unable to immediately track them down and had to use much of its computing power into searching every reality and timeline manually, akin to searching for a specific passage in an infinitely large textbook without an index or a table of contents to refer to.

One must wait endlessly.

The other must pursue endlessly.

This was the prophecy foretold by a certain magus.

Two miracles that must be performed for the hero and the king to be reunited.

After countless years of patiently enduring,

After countless years of reaching for that unreachable place in the stars,

They reached out towards each other despite being a world apart,

Their love transcended beyond the limits of time and space,

They finally reached the end of that beautiful dream.

"I'm back, Saber."

She couldn't help herself as a few happy tears escaped her eyes.

"Yes, welcome back, Shirou."

"Unbelievable...that boy actually did it."

The Magus of Flowers stared out at the Garden of Avalon as he looked upon the two lovebirds from his stone prison using his Clairvoyance. He had warned Artoria that she would likely be waiting for millennia, probably even longer than that, to reunite with the red-haired boy. And on his end, he must be willing to pursue endlessly. A reunion would likely be impossible, and he had told her that in order to save her from much sorrow.

Of course, the stubborn girl ignored him and continued to wait endlessly, until one day, the boy really did show up in Avalon.

"Well, she certainly deserves that much happiness, at the very least." Merlin said to himself, seemingly content with how everything turned out. He may or may not have pulled a few strings from behind the scenes, but that neither here nor there, and was certainly of no concern to anyone. Even the potent magical energy in Avalon's air seemed to lighten up, as if sharing in the King of Britain's happiness.

"Fou, fou."

"Eh?" Merlin turned around to see his familiar sitting on the floor of the tower.

"Cath Palug? How did you get back in here?"

"Fouking Merlin." Cath Palug jumped up and kicked Merlin in the face.

"Ouch, no need to be so hostile. Looks like your personality has come back, as well as your intelligence." Merlin rubbed at his sore cheek. "But surely, you've seen some beautiful things, right?"

"...fou." Cath Palug begrudgingly admitted.

"Ahaha, I knew you'd see it my way." Merlin cheerfully replied.

"Foukyu, Merlin."

"Now, now, no need for foul language. You've picked a perfect day to return, by the way. For today, the story of King Arthur has finally come to a close."

"Fou." Cath Palug jumped on Merlin's shoulder to get a better look outside.

"Shirou, I would like our home to be here."

The pair was standing on one of the many shores of Avalon. Artoria had expressed interest in living by the sea, and Shirou was more than happy to oblige.

"Yes, my love." Shirou replied smoothly, making Artoria blush fiercely. After an eternity of waiting, being reunited with her love was still a big shock.

Shirou prepared to project an entire house on the spot. With the incredible saturation of mana in the atmosphere of Avalon, projecting most items had become child's play.

"W-wait, Shirou." Artoria gently grabbed Shirou's hand. "I wanted to try building our home with our own hands. T-that is, if you don't mind." She poked her index fingers together.

S-so cute! Shirou thought to himself. "Of course, Artoria. After all, we have an eternity together now." he replied with a big smile. He projected raw building materials, such as wood, stone, and many other items. With the way magecraft worked here, anything he projected would stay indefinitely unless he willed it to disappear.

After a few days of labor, they had built up a nice home that was a mix between her castle in Camelot and the Emiya residence in Fuyuki. It was a strange blend of traditional Eastern and medieval Western architecture. Neither of them were architects, but the result made them happy, and that was what mattered in the end.

The pair looked forward to spending eternity with each other, though Artoria was rather annoyed that she had to make sure none of the female fae stole her lover away when she wasn't looking. Seriously, Shirou kept attracting females if she didn't keep an eye on him all the time.

ORT, Tiamat, Goetia, and Gudako fell through the other side of the gate and crash landed on some grassy plains. While Tiamat and ORT continued to wrestle each other, Gudako and Goetia quickly took stock of the surroundings.

"T-this is...Avalon?!" Goetia shouted.

"Eh, is it? I just told the gate to take us somewhere with lots of mana and not a lot of people."

Goetia could only choke and sputter in pure disbelief, in the same manner that a certain twin-tailed girl would react whenever a certain red-haired boy did something impossible or incredibly stupid.

"Whew, there sure is a lot of mana in the air. I feel like I'm getting a recharge just by breathing!" Gudako took in a deep breath, ignoring the two titans spraying crystal and mud everywhere.

"This concentration of mana is enough to make most humans explode." Goetia muttered. "Also, while this place may not have a lot of people, there are certainly plenty of other beasts that roam this land."

The resident phantasmal species, as well as regular animals, had emerged from the nearby forests to see what all the commotion was about. They consisted of beings such as fairies, orcs and goblins, and a minor dragon or two, as well as regular birds, wolves, lions, and other normal animals. Upon seeing the visage of Tiamat wrestling ORT, they all immediately tried to flee in terror.

The keyword being 'tried'. ORT simply slaughtered them all without even noticing they were there, such was its might as an attack-type lifeform. All of them were skewered by sharp shards of jagged crystals that sprouted from the ground whenever it moved. Tiamat doubled down by flooding the entire area in her Chaos Tide, turning all of the corpses into Lahmu and other sorts of Beast entities.

"Tiamat has become stronger now that she can exercise her Authority as an Earth Mother Goddess." Goetia observed as the mud covered Gudako's and his own feet. "And now she can unleash the full might of her Chaos Tide."

Exactly as Goetia described, with the life on Earth to bolster her power, her mud became powerful enough to melt through ORT's crystals. Along with the Lahmu that she was now able to create, Tiamat now had the upper hand in both strength and numbers.

Gudako picked up one of the crystals that spawned from ORT and analyzed its structure.

"Grain..." Gudako muttered as she sifted through the knowledge she gained from the Root. "Particles that make up the base form of planets as well as lifeforms connected directly to them, such as the Ultimate Ones..."

"And Grain is destroyed upon coming into contact with the magical energy of Gods, also what modern magi refer to as True Ether." Goetia added.

"So then this mud..." Gudako scooped up a glob of mud with her bare hands, having long realized that the mud couldn't do anything to her, and analyzed it. "Lots of curses, a geis, and a bit of True Ether in there."

"As expected of a substance formed from the corpus of a goddess, it's only natural that it would include such a thing in its composition. As long as Type Mercury doesn't receive any backup from its planet, the True Ether in the mud will slowly eat away at its body until it no longer has enough Grain to regenerate with."

"Oooh! So once it becomes small enough, I can keep it as a pet!" Gudako exclaimed.

Goetia sighed. "Yes, you can keep it once it become too small to do harm."

Indeed, before their very eyes, ORT, which used to be around 40 meters tall, was slowly shrinking as the mud slowly ate away at the Grain that made up its physical body. Tiamat in her draconic form was well over 60 meters tall, and continued to assault ORT with her Lahmus and mud.

"Tiamat, shoot that laser beam from your eyes again! It was super cool!" Gudako shouted.

"AhhhAHHhHHH."

Gudako cheered as Tiamat's magical blast set a nearby forest ablaze. Goetia sighed again.