A vast room.
No, at this scale, Shiomi wasn't even sure it could still be called a room.
Knee-deep water covered the floor of the space. All around it stood marble pillars, so collapsed, so still rising upright, making the whole place look like so kind of ruin.
And yet, for all its size, there was very little here.
So the first thing that entered the eyes of the unified god, Morgan, was the foreign object floating at the center of the space.
A single-eyed object, hovering there in plain sight.
Its shape was not especially bizarre, yet it gave off a clear sense of alienness.
That alien quality ca from the fact that it embodied a different set of concepts, an ancient relic from an unknown civilization.
Without question, this was the Mooncell core BB had spoken of, and also the one-eyed box that was Mooncell's true body.
It floated in the air like a perfectly assembled high-order cube. One corner facing them was partially open, revealing a transparent interior and the [light] sealed inside, unable to escape.
"It's even simpler in structure than I imagined, and yet there's no way to grasp its concept at a glance..." Shiomi said softly. "The alien civilization that left this on the moon... just what kind of..."
Morgan thought for a mont.
"There is no way for us to know exactly when Mooncell was left here. Perhaps, for Mooncell itself, that is its deepest secret. But perhaps that alien civilization was even more advanced than the Twelve Machine Gods of Greece. Or perhaps that civilization, too, has already vanished into the universe."
"Forget it. If that answer is ever uncovered soday, we should leave it to the humans who open a route into the sea of stars."
Shiomi let out a soft but certain laugh.
"Our task is to make sure humanity can reach a future like that."
"To watch over the cradle called a planet... when you think about it, it really is an extraordinary job."
Morgan felt the sa as she looked at Mooncell.
"In that case..."
The core was still so distance away from the unified god, too high to reach while standing on the water's surface.
If they wanted to touch it, they would have to fly up and approach it themselves.
Just as Morgan confird that there was no abnormal gravitational field interfering and was about to take flight, transparent steps began extending from Mooncell's center toward where the unified god stood.
"Stairs... Is it opening a path to us on its own?"
Shiomi grew tense in a way that was rare for him.
Morgan understood why.
After all, this was the mind of a god not yet opened to humanity, the Boundless Holy Grail that originally could only be reached after 128 Masters were eliminated one by one until a single victor remained.
"Go."
Shiomi said it to Morgan, confirming their shared resolve.
"Mm."
Morgan nodded, slowly stepped forward, and climbed the stairs one level at a ti, gradually drawing closer to the center of the space, Mooncell's core, the Seraphic Gate.
Until it was within arm's reach.
The light sealed inside Mooncell kept flickering, without the slightest change.
The massive cube itself showed no reaction either.
It was like sothing that simply existed by nature, there for anyone to touch.
Morgan studied that light for a while before withdrawing her gaze.
Neither fairy eyes nor star eyes could see through the Mystery within it.
Even layered together, they still could not.
Shiomi and Morgan let out a silent sigh in perfect unspoken understanding.
Then, as the one taking the lead within the unified god, Morgan reached out her hand. The [light], seemingly untouchable and yet right before them, connected their consciousness to Mooncell for real, turning them into sothing almost unified with it.
Vast amounts of information.
Concepts unlike anything human.
An information storage system edited into patterns like intricate textures.
This was not a body of knowledge ant for human use.
But as the unified god, as beings who had reached the domain of the divine, they were able to decipher fragnts of it.
Following the torrent of information, they searched for the answers useful to them.
Mooncell had indeed recorded everything faithfully.
From the dawn when humanity still lived in ignorance, when they did not even understand the principles of heaven and earth and could only live sheltered beneath the wings of the gods, it had faithfully recorded everything on this planet.
It observed and calculated, gave birth to intelligence several tis in the course of its recordkeeping, then dismantled it with its own hands, continuing to exist as a re observer.
Below lay the world where humanity lived.
No matter what happened on Earth, the Moon accepted it all, rely watching from the sidelines.
But...
After hearing the Great Demon King's plea, a certain compassionate Earth Mother Goddess placed a plan to save humanity before Mooncell.
After performing extrely thorough calculations, Mooncell agreed to carry it out.
The super-calculation device that should have quietly waited for humanity to discover and make contact with it instead made a small intervention toward Earth.
All in order to wait for the one who had been granted permission to arrive at this Threshold of Heaven.
"The amount of information here is staggering. If an ordinary human or Magus had touched this instead of us, they probably would have been swallowed by the torrent of data," Shiomi said quietly.
"No. It may be that because we are the ones making contact, Mooncell is presenting the information more directly, without any restrictions," Morgan replied.
"That could be it."
Shiomi nodded.
"Then the question is, how exactly do we correct Marisbury's blind ambition and the rewritten Human Order created through CHALDEAS's plan?"
As Shiomi spoke, Mooncell began reorganizing the enormous flow of information. It categorized everything, removed unnecessary data, and gradually narrowed the scope.
"For such a massive plan, even sothing like the [Grand Order], which continued for thousands of years and began before the Common Era, must still have a true starting point," Morgan said as she processed the imnse amount of information.
She could feel that less than a second had passed in physical ti. Yet the overwhelming volu of data stretched a god's perception, making it feel as though more than ten seconds had passed.
"The starting point... the Fifth Holy Grail War."
Then Mooncell presented the answer, along with the solution they needed.
When they saw the result, Morgan and Shiomi both fell silent at the sa ti. And yet, they also understood why it made sense.
"Singularity F. Fuyuki City," Shiomi said quietly.
"How ironic. Marisbury was only able to complete CHALDEAS because he won the Fifth Holy Grail War and obtained the imnse wealth granted by the Holy Grail."
"It seems the Singularity F that was supposed to disappear still contained a problem we overlooked," Morgan said.
"And in truth... it never disappeared."
"It's ti to go," Shiomi said softly.
The unified god slowly severed their connection with Mooncell, preparing to turn and leave.
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