Jatice stuff from V22

Some Jatice stuff from V22,full volume some time after i'm done with V21.

Backstory from chapter 5:

Have you seen real evil?

Ever seen real,100% pure evil?

Have you seen a bottomless pure black,extreme evil?

I have seen it.

The bottomless,absolute,hopeless evil.

Every time i closed my eyes,it feels like it all happened yesterday.

<It> fell from far away,from the sky.

And just like that,<My> world and common sense came to an end.

<It> has a human form and at first glance,it seems to be a human girl.

But it's posture can be ever changing,with sprouting tentacles,hooked claws,and a head filled with chaos,and people can't see it's true face clearly.

This evil being has easily destroyed the world i inhabited.

True fear and despair ravaged <My> world and destroyed it completely.

My parents were killed,my sister was killed,my friend were killed,my neighbors were killed,my countrymen were killed,everyone else in the world were killed--

By sheer luck,i am the last person alive in the entire world,it's just sheer luck but in retrospect,my Original Magic had begun to manifest a bit back then but even so,being the last man standing in a world of billions is a matter of extreme luck.

But my luck is running out.

That evil--<Pure and Untarnished Darkness> came to swallow him into the abyss of death and despair.

But then,i saw--

--Absolute <Justice>

That person came down from the sky and came to him,<He> felt sorry for what happened to the world,felt angry,and turned those emotions into strength to fight the real evil.

It was an incomparably grand battle that opened the world described in books,dramas,novels and myths--

The figure of the man who stood up against the super powerful despair made him forget about the grief of losing his family members,neighbors,friends,country and his world,and even he forgot that he lost himself because the incomparable beauty of that battle moved him.

The back of the person who never flinched in front the horrible monster who makes people want to vomit and the despair of the chaos that was as the dark as the bottom of the abyss,the back of the person that kept fighting - it was so beautiful that i shed tears.

Who are you?

I asked it so.

-It answered.

--The <Magician of Justice>

That's right,this is,that is <Justice>

Resist injustice and unreasonableness,the pride of mankind,the hope of mankind--

If there is real,100% evil in this world-Then on the other side,there is absolute justice on the other end of the extreme.

........
...
...

...In terms of result,it's a pity that the Magician of Justice lost.

The real evil,as if it has grown tired of the world it destroyed,shattered the world and the Magician of Justice failed to stop it.

I was caught in the vortex caused by the collapse of the world and i didn't know where i was going to drift...

The <Magician of Justice> reached out to me and shouted something to me-but its voice and its hand couldn't reach me.

I'm falling,falling-falling into the gap between dimensions.

However,the noble and beautiful figure fighting against the desperate evil is deeply engraved into my mind.

Compared to the anxiety caused by my own collapse.

Compared to the sadness of losing everything.

Compared to the despair brought about by the destruction of the world.

Than the horrors that overpowering evil brought me.

That lofty and beautiful figure was strongly and vividly fixed in my soul.

So naturally i think so:One day i am going to catch up with him,One day i will surpass him and defeat that evil,One day i will carry out the <Justice> that even the <Magician of Justice> failed to carry out.

Although this is really a naive and childish idea,at that time i realized that this was my innate destiny and career i was destined to fight for.

I,the only survivor among billions,should do just that.

I survived billlions just to do it.I am chosen.

I must enforce justice.

Carry out absolute justice.

So,i started a long,long journey of the soul-

After absorbing Falia using his power as <The One who Wants To Surpass Gods>:

Glen tries to shorten the distance and punch Jatice but the latter deployed a magic circle that caused cracks in space and destroyed the continuity of space between them which baffles Glen because this is already beyond the realm of human magic and he asks Rumia if she can repair the space between him and Jatice to which she tells him that she can with the power of Tilica's <Golden Key> but not immediately,as Rumia continues to repair the crack in space,Jatice leisurely tells Glen's group to rest for a while because now is not the time for the final act yet,and besides,it's been a long time since he,Glen and the others met up so wouldn't it be nice for them to chat to catch things up as an intermission?

Glen protests to this to which Jatice comments he's the same as usual and that while he personally wanted to have his chat with him over coffee and black tea,the current situation makes that hard so he's going to bring up the topics he wants to hear the most to make him listen:<Why am i here?> and <My real purpose>.

As Jatice predicted,this made Glen shut up as Ferrod's existence continues to be devoured by Jatice,obviously something more horrible than the <Last Key Corps/Ultimus Clavicus> will come and a more difficult battle is about begin so he needs to understand Jatice's real purpose even more.Jatice then said that he needs to explain the Grandmaster's true purpose before we get to him to which Glen disgustedly states that the Demon King's purpose is the Holy Grail Ritual which he was preparing thousands of years to get the Akashic Records,Jatice points out to Glen that since he has figured out that much,then he knows what the Akashic Records actually is to which he tells Jatice that it's hard to explain in words.

What flashed through Glen's mind was <It> that he somehow came in contact with(even though he shouldn't,Sistine for some reason was nowhere to be seen despite being supposedly sent at the same time to the Sea of Consciousness by Ferrod,which means she only got a vision and was never actually sent there in the first place and that Ferrod accidentally sent him to where the real Akashic Records is without knowing it) at the end of his soul journey in V19.

It is everything and everything is it.
It rules over all wisdom.
It is the original soul-the original <1> that gave birth to everything in the forest of dimensional trees.
It is the singularity that is the source of all possibillities of the dimensional trees's worlds and their center,and therefore,it contains all the information of this world,and has the power to give birth all things in it.
<God>
<Source>
<Truth>
<Atziluth/Formation>
<Heaven>
Some call it the universal wishing machine and others sees it as nothing more than an intelligence recording medium.

All in all,the Akashic Records(Forbidden Book) is the dream of all magicians and the ultimate source of wisdom,and this is the true purpose of Researchers of Divine Wisdom's Grandmaster,the Demon King Titus Cruo.

Glen then continues to explain that to obtain it,you need the <Sky Castle of Megalius> and the <Holy Grail Ritual> by offering up sacrifices to the Sky Castle so the road to the Akashic Records can be opened,for this purpose,the people of the Arzano Empire and the Kingdom of Rezaria were deliberately created and raised by him over a long time for the purpose of being sacrificed for the ritual,Jatice clapped his hands and praises Glen,as expected of him whose eyesight as a magician has improved significantly which makes him very happy,he then says that it's exactly as Glen says:no matter how convoluted and complicated the conspiracy is,fundamentally it's the same old tired plot of <Demon King sacrifices countless innocent lives to obtain something greater> which is so old-fashioned that can't be more old-fashioned,he also adds the information that was left in Alicia III's diary for everyone else in Fejite who is currently watching them thanks to space distortion:that the Sky Castle of Megalius is actually a communication device to contact the <Gate God>(Yog=Sothoth but got renamed because copyright) in the outer universe and the Holy Grail Ritual is the energy device for the communication device,the Gate God/Yog=Sothoth is an exaggerated Outer God that is connected to every time and space in existence including where the Akashic Records is located and as long as you use its power,the way to the Akashic Records can be opened,that's how the train of thought is supposed to go but Jatice points out that there's actually something that doesn't make sense in the Demon King's plan and he asks Glen with a smirk:because it's Glen,then he already realized something was off about the Demon King's plan from the very moment he heard about it and that he can realize what it was as he is right now which confuses Sistine because she thinks that there's no contradiction in what they know about the Demon King's plan-

Glen then interrupts Sistine and reveals the truth about the Researchers of Divine Wisdom's attempted Holy Grail Ritual to everyone else in Fejite except Jatice:

"...The number is not enough.the number of sacrifices required for the Holy Grail Ritual is simply not enough"

Glen continues to explain to Sistine and everyone in Fejite that even though he only thought of it after obtaining Celica's magical knowledge from the <World Stone>,but no matter how much he calculated it,the sacrifices Titus and the Researchers of Divine Wisdom prepared both in ancient times and in the present is nowhere enough to reach the required amount of sacrifices to get the Akashic Records using the Holy Grail Ritual,so in other words,even if the Arzano Empire lost the final battle against the RODW or the hypothetical war with Rezaria ended with both nations killing each other,the Researchers of Divine Wisdom will never obtain the Akashic Records no matter what,because sacrificing one or two countries in a world does not fulfill the equivalent exchange needed to obtain the Akashic Records which is the source and aggregation of infinite worlds in the multiverse,can you really obtain the source(One) of all possible worlds of the forest of Dimensional Trees by offering up this much?,Glen then concludes his reveal by saying that because the Akashic Records is <One and All> and at the same time <All and One>,sacrificing 1-2 countries in one world can't even be considered to be <One>,to actually get the Akashic Records and fulfill the equivalent exchange,you have to fulfill the maximum amount of sacrifices needed,by <Sacrificing all existences of a branching world>.

(basically,to get the Akashic Records you have to,at minimum,literally sacrifice the very existence of a world including its past,present,future,and all of its parallel world possibillities plus everything that has,is,and can possibly be born within that world)

A satisfied Jatice nodded and confirmed Glen's explanation:from the very beginning,the truth is that Titus's plan to obtain the Akashic Records both in the super-magical civillization era and in the present was imperfect and incomplete,or in other words,the final result of Titus's Holy Grail Ritual in both eras is incomplete which causes Ferrod to make distorted expression as he is being impaled and devoured by Jatice who tells him that it's really delusional thinking,that he and the rest of the Researchers of Divine Wisdom really thought that performing the ritual with what they prepared will get them the entire Akashic Records,at best they'll only get scraps--only a few pages of the book in the best scenario for them.

An impatient Glen protests that even a few pages of the Akashic Records is already an invincible miracle from the point of view of normal people and that Titus is still a disgusting existence to which Jatice sarcastically feigns being scared of the thought of Titus obtaining a few pages of the Akashic Records and continues the topic.

"By the way Glen...do you know about <Pure Darkness>(basically all 3 of Azathoth's kids merged into 1 God but the Nyarlathotep aspects are more prevalent,also copyright)?"
"...<Pure Darkness>?..."

Glen has heard it a few times from Alicia III's diary and Al Khan from the past,not to mention getting in contact with it in the Sea of Consciousness and that Maria is currently the core of the <Evil God Soldiers> who are the subordinates of Pure Darkness that are currently destroying the world.

"Looking at your expression...i knew you knew!"

Jatice smiled excitedly.

"<Gate God/Yog=Sothoth>!,<Flame King Cthuga>!,<Golden Thunder Emperor/Shabbith-Ka>!,<Wind God Ithaqua>!,and--<The Twins of the Sky/La Tilica and Le Falia/Nug and Yeb>! and so on and so forth,these divine existences with super powerful powers living outside of the forest of dimensional trees in the outer universe.They are basically powerful forces without any subjective power and there is no concept of good and evil in them.So calling them <Gods> is actually wrong.<God> is only a synonym for the existences they can't understand.But there are exceptions and <Pure Darkness/Nyarlathotep> is one of them."

"...!"

"The Laughing Clown...the Crawling Chaos,the Faceless Evil,the Man of Darkness,the Beast of Chaos,the Darkness of Lament-<The Darkness of Pure Filth>,the true darkness without any subjective color where all the colourful colors of chaos blend together.It is the enemy of all sentient beings and all worlds,unlike the others who cannot be defined by good and evil,it plays with life,makes life itself self-destruct or destroys life itself,and returns everything into nothingness..all to satisfy its own desires and makes itself happy.Pure power cannot be called <God> because <God> interferes with and guides human beings with its own will,it is common in religions with a God that it has a strong will and power.So what is the god that leads mankind to its destruction by its own will? You get it,Glen? <Pure Darkness> is the <Evil God>.The only God that currently exists in this world in the truest sense--and also the <Evil God>"

At this time Ferrod interrupts Jatice while gasping for breath and spitting blood from his mouth,he tells everyone in Fejite that what Jatice said is true and continued to say with all his strength--the people in this world can't imagine it but right now this world,universe,all worlds in this dimensional tree,and all dimensional trees...are always threatened and surrounded by <Pure Darkness>.

"...What's the meaning of your words...?"

Glen was shocked by the horrifying truth revealed by Ferrod and because the scale of the topic has become too large,he can only respond this way.

Ferrod then continues to reveal more of the horrifying truth:if one tries to divine the destiny of the world from the changes in the stars by using Astrology,anyone can know the final ending of this world:<Pure Darkness>'s arrival to this world is inevitable and this applies to all worlds in all dimensional trees,so from a cosmic perspective,the squabbles of all sentient beings and destruction and deaths that come as a result of it is fundamentally and ultimately irrelevant,because the current status quo of the forest of dimensional trees is that all worlds will end up being destroyed by <Pure Darkness>,that naked threat,irresistible despair will pass through space and time will certainly come to this world unreasonably and mercilessly.

As a horrified Glen listens to Ferrod's revelation and realizes that nothing they did has any effect on the fact that this world will be inevitably erased by <Pure Darkness> in the future which meant that everything they did so far to save the world is basically meaningless,Ferrod continues that being instantly destroyed by <Pure Darkness> on a whim meant the world is very lucky but for the unfortunate worlds,Pure Darkness will infiltrate human society and take advantage of the stupidity and immaturity of humans so it can drag humanity into a quagmire,create a hell worse than death,or the self-destruction of humans.Many worlds in the forest of dimensional trees was subjected to this whim and was destroyed including Ferrod's original home world but he doesn't know why Pure Darkness loves to see humans making stupid suicide acts,comical struggles,laments,screams,pain,sadness,and despair.As a horrified Glen listens to Ferrod's revelations to its end,the latter was about to tell Glen that this is what he meant about saving the world by using the Akashic Records back in the Taum Astronomy Temple and the super-magical civillization era,but when he was about to tell him this by spending a lot of effort to get to this point-

"<Just want to save humanity>-Don't hesitate to use the power of the Akashic Records right?"

Jatice answered in Ferrod's place and then he tells Glen about the final goal of the Demon King:

"Glen,his idea of using the scraps of the Akashic Records obtained through this incomplete Holy Grail Ritual is to strip our world from its Dimensional Tree and then isolate it from the Outer Universe.In this way,Pure Darkness can't interfere with this world"

(To compare it with Honkai,it's basically removing the world from the flow of time and universe by cutting off the entire branch from the Imaginary Tree which results in Rowafoss becoming a bubble world,in contrast to erasing a branch up to a certain point to reverse time which Otto faked trying to attempt in HI3rd)

"...Absurd!"

Glen was baffled at what Jatice revealed because this is essentially a world-scale version of Celica's abillity to cut off a part of the world and this will result in everything in the world being frozen because the flow of time is gone from the world.

"This is indeed a problem.In this way,humans can't be regarded as alive.However he still has considerations on this point.And his idea is...to let all humans in this world <Dream>"

(literally a more advanced version of Infinite Tsukuyomi that includes even the souls of the dead in it,given what the Shining Trioctahedron is capable of,also it ties in with Eleanor's last thoughts before she perished from Eve's infinite heat spell about how as long as the Grandmaster fulfills his long-cherished wish,then her death doesn't matter because once Rowafoss is removed from its dimensional tree and put in an eternal dream,then she and all of the other parallel world Eleanors would be saved even in death)

"...<Dream>..."

"You know right? Unlike the body and soul which are bound by time and space,the spirit is free so if you can dream all the time and don't realize you're dreaming,then that person will believe the dream is the world.If all humans are dreaming then the world can be considered as eternal...This is what he thought.This is the ultimate goal of the Demon King-the Grandmaster."

Ferrod confirms what Jatice said and tells Glen that this will create a utopia for humans that Pure Darkness can't touch,in the static time anyone can dream the dream that can make them happy forever,in this way,poverty,hunger,disease and war will cease to exist and the world will be redeemed in the truest sense,he points out to Glen and everyone that they must have someone or things that they cherish but was lost to them and in his timeless utopia,they can get them back again and asks everyone if the thought of meeting or regaining them again is wonderful?

While everyone else's reaction to this didn't get shown,Glen found himself unable to deny what Ferrod said because he too has people he wants to meet again,especially 2 women:Celica,who he lost just recently and Sara,who he lost long ago and dearly missed,as Glen thinks about what Titus said,the latter says that compared to the tragedy of being erased into nothingness or the world being turned into hell by Pure Darkness,sacrificing one or two countries is nothing even close as horrible and is even a necessary sacrifice to protect everyone from what Pure Darkness could do to them and asks them to at least understand him-

"Yeah,i see...,how boring."
"......What......"

However,Jatice denies the delusion and justice that Ferrod believed in,as the latter is stunned,Jatice continued on like a cannonball by expressing his disappointment that this is the final result of the Demon King's millennia-long conspiracy.Part of the nobillity of humanity is that they can carry pain and sadness all the way through their lives and their next ones that will come through reincarnation for this is how it should be for humans and Ferrod pretending to be a false messiah by using the arbitrary logic of obtaining eternal happiness by selfishly removing all pain is disgusting,he tells him that the ultimate purpose that he,Pauwell,Eleanor,and the rest of the RODW wants to achieve is a pointless and stupid idea which makes them essentially the same as Pure Darkness except for the fact that they're essentially turning all humans into zombies instead of killing everyone and what's more disgusting is that Ferrod and the RODW thinks they're in the right,Jatice then tells the Demon King that he is an inexcusable evil that committed a mortal sin and calls to him to come to his senses for he will judge his crime.

Jatice's sneer toward Ferrod was so cold it could drop the entire temperature of the city into absolute zero and at this point-

"I...Of course i also understand...I also know that i was actually wrong..!"

Ferrod retorts to Jatice with the last of his strength and then grabbed Jatice's sword,he finally breaks and admits that he knew everything he did to the world,Celica,the Arzano Royal Family,etc to get the Akashic Records was wrong,but he literally couldn't find any better solution other than this and the memory of his world being destroyed is still stuck in his mind to this very day and he's scared that the same thing will happen again to this world and its people,as Ferrod continues his confessional,Namenlose/Tilica realizes while keeping her emotions in check that this is the reason Titus changed so suddenly back when they were together:the trauma of losing his world scarred him so deeply that he didn't want to experience another repeat,so he fell into depravity and madness all just to protect this world.Finally Ferrod asked a question to everyone present in Fejite,he yearned for an answer to this question he hadn't understood after living for thousands of years...this was the cry of the Demon King,Titus Cruo's soul:

"Then what should i do!? What should i do to save this world!"
"The answer is simple"
Jatice answered him nonchalantly.
"Just get rid of <Pure Darkness>."
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After Jatice finished speaking,everyone from Glen,Ferrod,Sistine,Rumia,Namenlose/Tilica,Lu Silva,Albert,Eve,Luna,Aries/Ilya,Barnard,Christoph,Alicia,Re=L,Forzel,etc,fell silent.Because silence is the only possible response and everyone has the same thought in their minds:What the hell is this guy talking about?

Jatice gets confused as to why everyone doesn't understand this simple answer,since the evil god is threatening this world and all other worlds then the obvious answer is to get rid of it quickly and that's how humanity should be,human beings shouldn't submit to mere gods and they should what they always have done:to defeat the mighty nature and violent enemies,humans makes great sacrifices,use wisdom and courage to overcome difficulty,and open up the future for this is the strength and nobillity of human beings.He tells Titus that if he wasn't so cowardly and asked him to help directly destroy Pure Darkness back in the Sealed Land,then he would have sided with him instead.

"..........................."

Kill an Outer God of the Outer Universe and the one of strongest among them.This is so absurd that ordinary people couldn't tell what is absurd but Glen and Sistine could understand because of their experience and learned how truly insignificant human beings are for there are great beings that exists far beyond the limits of human imagination so they have only one thought in their minds:

"What the hell are you talking about...!"

Ferrod shouted this to Jatice for everyone present and tells him he's just boasting because he doesn't know the true horror of and how powerful Pure Darkness is but Jatice tells him that in actuality,he knows,he knows better than everyone else in this world and Ferrod asked him that even so,he'll still going to resist the gods with a human body which he says is impossible but Jatice says he can do it,back in the Sealed Land 3 years ago when he met him,he finally realized the true enemy he should fight and surpass at all costs,but then he corrects himself by saying that he already knew that Pure Darkness was the true enemy long before that time he met him and declares with an unwavering will that he has always,always lived for this purpose!

Jatice then raised his hand and at that moment,Fejite-the whole world began to vibrate.

"Wh-,What has happened!?"

Everyone in Fejite began to panic from the sudden tremor and at last-Fejite itself glowed blinding red and a super-huge beam extended from the ground to the sky,covering Fejite and all its surroundings-

"This,is this...!? The Holy Grail ritual has been activated!? How can this be! Why!?"

An extremely flustered Namenlose gets baffled as to why the ritual is activating even though Titus literally did nothing and Jatice gave her the answer:

"It's very simple,I took away from him the achievements he took thousands of years accumulating.The control of the <Holy Grail Ritual>...the control of the Weapon of Faith <Evil God Soldier>...and the contract with and the right to control the <Angel of Sky> Falia...the control of the Sky Castle....all of these were taken by me."

Only a short while ago,Falia has completely disappeared thanks to the power of the <God Eater>,her existence was decomposed and completely absorbed into Jatice as a result,he then calls back to Glen wanting to ask him <Why is he doing this?> and he tells him that it's to implement justice,in order to inherit all the inheritance accumulated by the Demon King in the correct way,to implement true justice.

"Jatice-!"

Only then did Glen finally react and he accuses him of wanting to complete the ritual in Titus's place by sacrificing Fejite but Jatice tells Glen that he's sad that he would look down on him so much and accuse him of doing something so petty which he wouldn't do to which Glen tells him he's still crazy no matter what he says and Jatice reminds Glen that he already understood it just now:even if he did the same thing as Titus and the RODW then he wouldn't get the complete Akashic Records,at most,you'll only get a few pages which is meaningless because Pure Darkness is nowhere near weak enough to be killed by just a few pages of the Akashic Records.

Having said that-the crimson light enveloping Fejite began to expand in all directions,covering the entire territory of the Arzano Empire,and then the entire Seyford Continent,and finally the entire world of Rowafoss was enveloped at the speed of light--In the end,the entire world is included.

At the same time,the sky all across the world began to distort because the dimensions and space itself began to distort but only a few people in the world could understand what happened:at this moment with a certain height from the ground as the boundary,the high-altitude side of the world has become a alien world where the laws of physics no longer apply to it and the <Sky City of Megalius> appeared in all of the world's skies.

However it's not that Jatice mass produced Sky Cities at the speed of light,there's still only 1 Sky City of Megalius in the world and what Jatice did was use Falia's power to distort space-time and cause the phenomenon of <Placing every inch and corner of Rowafoss's land under the Sky City of Megalius>.

Then-the spreading light has disappeared,the sky was as red as if it has been stained red with blood.It is the dazzling twilight color symbollizing destruction and everyone in Fejite except Glen and Jatice looked each other in puzzlement,blinking,and not knowing what happened.At this moment people all over the world are probably puzzled by the sky city and red sky that is highlighted above their heads.

"...What did you do?"

Glen asks Jatice this tremblingly but he already has the answer even before asking the question thanks to the knowledge gained through Celica's World Stone and with its vast knowledge and wisdom,Glen had already understood how horrifying the impact of what Jatice did to the world but even though he understood,he couldn't help but ask Jatice for a confirmation with a little luck in his heart--

"What the hell did you just do!?"
"I just expanded the scope of the Holy Grail Ritual from Fejite to the entire world"

And with that sentence,the little luck in Glen's heart was crushed,that is to say--Jatice intends to sacrifice the entire world for the Holy Grail Ritual.

"Jatice...don't you...do you want to...!?"
"You only reacted to this just now? Didn't you say it? Just sacrificing a country isn't enough to get the Akashic Records.At least one world has to be sacrificed...then just sacrifice it.It's that simple."
"Asshole...do you think someone will approve of you doing such a thing...."

Ferrod curses Jatice as if he is breathing his last breath,questioning if he really thinks anyone will approve of him sacrificing the entire world to which Jatice snorts at him by saying that he is implementing true justice and thus he does not need approval,and besides,what he's doing is the same thing as him,sacrifice a few to save the majority but in a larger scale than his which Ferrod couldn't refute and Glen curses him for doing such an outrageous thing.

"The revolution is about to begin! it's time to ignite the smoke of rebellion against the evil God! I will sacrifice the entire world to obtain the Akashic Records...i will kill the real evil <Pure Darkness> with my own hands! I will make the whole World-Oh excuse me,what i mean by <World> is a completely different concept from what you think as <world>,so let me just say it! The World i mean refers to the entire multiverse,and i will implement my justice! I will kill all the malicious aggregates of <Pure Darkness> and become the supreme,ultimate,<Magician of Justice> that saves all living beings of the multiverse in the truest sense! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-!!!!!"

On that day,the Sky City of Megalius appeared above the world.
The whole world was shrouded in bottomless despair.
The end of the world,the collapse of the world,came all too suddenly.

"...Mom what is that?
"...Huh?"
In a remote village.

"Then,what is that...?"
"What happened...!?"
It was a certain town in a certain area.

"That that that that is...that is...!"
"No,it can't be...How could such a thing happen...!"
In a certain city in a certain country.

A great disaster strikes.
The ground was broken,and those things jumped out from under the ground--it is a <Meat Pillar>
A column of shapeless pieces of meat,as intimidating as chopping and kneading all kinds of strange deep-sea fish,There are countless tentacles twisting,trembling and wriggling on its surface-the whole body of the meat column is covered with huge eyes which makes people sick just by looking at it.It is so thick,soaring into the sky,as majestic as a tower or a giant,and the bloody mouth at the top looks so blasphemous,it is the so-called embodiment of chaos and madness.
Those who understand will naturally understand.
Those who understand it will deeply regret why they tried to understand it.
This is the genus of the <Pure and Unsullied Darkness>,the roots of the <Evil God Soldier>.
(For those of you reading this,yes,the roots is basically a more grotesque version of FGO Demon Pillars in Ars Paulina)
It is a desperate manifestation of the Weapon of Faith that ravaged the battlefield in the War of Magic that broke out in the 1600s of the Holy Calendar and such a huge disaster happened in every corner of the world named Rowafoss.
Arzano Empire.
Kingdom of Rezaria.
Calz to the east.
The countries of the Celia Alliance in the southeast.
Southern Plains,Aldia.
Taliesin,the land of the green.
Harasa in the desert.
The Sunlun Kingdom in the Far East.
Armanis in the most southeast corner.

Plains,seas,grasslands,mountains,wetlands,snowfields,straits,continents,canyons,rivers,mountain ranges.dry grasslands,hills,swamps,forests,highlands,lakesides--<Meat Pillars> appeared in every corner of the world.They opened their big mouths at the top of their bodies,and began to devour the entire world with their huge mouthparts that were as thick as their bodies.

Despair and terror suddenly filled the entire world.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"JATICEEEEEEEE--!"

In the sky above Fejite,Jatice's crazy laughter and Glen's angry roar intertwined,the situation all around the world is projected by Jatice using magic for everyone in Fejite to see above their heads.
The scene where all parts of the world are swallowed,eroded,and destroyed by that unspeakable chaos--
The scenes that drive people crazy,desperate,fearful,and fleeing in a hurry--
This is Hell.

Jatice then asks Glen if he understands his goal:he wants to use the roots of the Evil God Soldier to sacrifice the entire world for the Holy Grail Ritual to obtain Akashic Records,and the very moment the sinful Arzano Empire which was created by the Demon King and full of crime becomes a cornerstone of justice and the fire that ignites the firewood called the world,its charges will be completely pardoned and cleansed.

"How long are you going to talk to yourself..!?"
"Afterwards,leave it to me,Glen! I will definitely defeat Pure Darkness and carry out justice! i will never let your-let this world's sacrifice be in vain! Absolutely not! I swear here,i will never back down,i will fight the real evil to the last moment! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--!"
"Stop,stop......!"

Ferrod begs Jatice to stop because he doesn't know what he's doing,to control the Evil God Soldier,Pauwell's presence as a supporter because of his status as one of Pure Darkness's thousand faces is absolutely necessary,but now that Albert and Luna destroyed him,if he rashly manipulates the Evil God Soldier-

"It's just what i want."

Jatice replied decisively to the frightened Ferrod and no one else could tell the meaning of their short conversation but in short,the result was that Ferrod was too scared to continue after hearing Jatice's answer.

Jatice's eyes were filled with excitement and madness but at the same time-it was also extremely sharp,filled with the brilliance of reason and will.In his eyes,these 2 extreme concepts blend together without any contradiction.Jatice is serious and he's definitely not crazy,he firmly wanted to <Kill the Gods> and he already exudes a powerful aura that can do such a thing.

"Unbelievable...unbelievable...where did your power come from...?"
"How did a human come to this level...? how can you use magic that far surpasses me...and even rivals gods? How can a mere mortal...?"
Ferrod said this in a weak tone while vomiting blood--he asks Jatice in disbelief as to how he could surpass even him as a magician and even elevated his level to the point that he can rival even the Gods of the Outer Universe in less than a month,it's impossible for a human to reach this level in such a short time.In response Jatice tells Ferrod that despite how it looked to everyone else,it took him a lot of effort to reach this level--

"Actually,it took me a lot of effort to reach this level.It took about 500.000.000 years."
"......Ah?"
".........??"

Both Ferrod and Glen(and pretty much everyone else even though it didn't get shown,since space is still distorted so everyone in Fejite can still hear what Jatice is saying) is bewildered by what Jatice said,who uttered astonishing words one after another.A baffled Ferrod mutters that Jatice experienced 500 million years to get to this level and the latter confirms this and continues that in other words:no matter who you are,even if they are the weakest magician,warrior,etc.Anyone and everyone can reach the realm infinitely close to the Outer Gods and the Akashic Records by working hard to accumulate 500 million years of wisdom and training.Ferrod then asks him in disbelief as to where is the place he got 500 million years of wisdom even is to which Jatice reminded him:

"Hahaha,Demon King,have you forgotten? Wasn't it you who exiled me from this world to <Study Abroad>? Thanks to you i came to a place called the <Great Library> in the multiverse's farthest end of time(The end of time in this context doesn't mean the literal end of time which doesn't exist as a concept because time will go on for all eternity independent of the universe,and in Rokuaka,1 universe is equivalent to 1 dimensional tree and there is a countless amount of them so 1 universe's death doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things).Although it's not as good as the Akashic Records,it also contains unimaginably great wisdom,accumulating all kinds of long lost knowledge and technology(so the library is essentially the knowledge repository of the worlds and universes that died basically),it is a place freed from the shackles of time so you don't need to care about time,and you can practice and learn slowly.I let you exile me on purpose for this reason because my abillity at that time was not enough to break the barrier of time and space,so i used you...i <Expected> you to do this."

In other words,Ferrod and Pauwell were completely played by Jatice in V17 by acting exactly like he predicted while also being under the illusion of being able to assert control over their plan.Ferrod points out that the probabillity of getting to the end of time by relying on his <Dimension Banish> is so low that it might as well be impossible but Jatice states that he can see and control the flow direction of imaginary numbers in space and time to some extent so there's no worry of him being randomly banished to another world or time period in the forest of Dimensional Trees in the first place(and given that he arrived by V18,which is only 2-3 weeks after he got banished,it didn't take too long to get there either) though him reaching there 100% safely is another thing entirely:

"But even so,the probabillity that i can safely reach the Great Library...was it 1 in a 7692536478596006258944175490873524379070795783652426475869584736352859085938387637824353805943754784732547391432765494837252436478584736252632738383363524430998765413245674849430098899977625279875671324256278900099847746635244111278009984765355488976645651326898677566542899001324563894876526711182990587464653342411778903975874646533? Although it was a risky gamble,i won in the end."

(To put it short,the odds of safely arriving in the Great Library while having some abillity to see and control the direction of imaginary numbers is 7.7x10^-277,the absurd odds comparable to winning a lottery's first prize 46 times using the first 46 tickets you bought)

Hearing Jatice's accomplishment of a feat so absurd,Ferrod's body was trembling uncontrollably just from hearing this,and not even he knows why he was trembling-

"Uh... ah... ah... that is,even if by some kind of miracle happened to make you arrive at the Great Library... that would be 500.000.000 years? 500.000.000 years! How can the spirit of ordinary people be sustained! How can it be possible to maintain themselves!?"
"Huh? really? my spirit has remained intact."

Jatice nonchalantly replied to horrified Ferrod making a futile rebuttal with this:

"As you often said,<The human heart is magic>.If you believe strongly and move forward,then your wish will come true someday won't it? the people whose ego collapses after only hundreds or thousands of years at most is just weak willed,right?"

Jatice's casual reply was him simply saying that the so-called inevitable limit and breakdown of the spirit that prevents humans or any sentient beings from living forever never existed in the first place,as long as your willpower to go on and faith in your beliefs and ideals is strong enough,then the spirit will never break down,and that people who broke down after only hundreds or thousands of years are just weak-willled,essentially mocking Titus and Celica for being weaklings and that continuously using the Soul Succession Method to parasitize humans to live on was worthless because if the Demon King actually had genuine faith in his beliefs,then there was no need for the Soul Succession Method.Hearing this,Ferrod could only respond with this:

"...Jatice......you......are no longer a human being......"

At this point,Jatice's absorption of Ferrod is complete and the latter lost all of his strength,falling from being impaled by Jatice's Adamantite sword while fading away slowly,Sistine tries in vain to catch her grandfather's body only for Ferrod's body to completely fade away before she could even grab his hand to her dismay,at this point Rumia finally repairs the continuity of space between Glen and Jatice and everyone thought the final battle between the two would begin but-

"...."
"...."

But the two just stared at each other silently and quietly,In the sky that is dyed red,under the icy wind raging--in here is a quiet,only the sound of wind can be heard.At this moment,the roots of the Evil God Soldier is multiplying,trying to swallow up the world itself...but here is so quiet that it's impossible to imagine another situation elsewhere.Jatice then breaks the silence by telling Glen that this is the stage he mentioned in V9 where their showdown will take place and asks him if he's satisfied,both of them has gone through a lot to get here and finally obtained the power to stand on this stage,Glen was silent for a moment and then asks Jatice if this is the justice he yearned for and he affirms it with a gentle smile,saying that this is his justice,his complete,absolute,overwhelming,undeniable justice.

He then asks Glen if he can call this anything but justice:in this multiverse,at this very moment,in some place and in some time apart from theirs,some worlds are being destroyed,human beings are being hopelessly tortured,tormented and eaten by Pure Darkness,and are finally wiped out,but he can confirm that this chain of misfortune and despair can be cut once and for all,he will kill the root of all evil using the complete Akashic Records,although the price is that their world will be sacrificed,all other worlds in the forest of dimensional trees and the ones that have yet to be born will be able to continue on without being destroyed by Pure Darkness forever,he then asks Glen what is this called if it is not justice to which Glen tells him that no matter what Jatice says,he still thinks that he's speaking nonsense and that he's the evil god,telling him not to get too crazy and in response to Glen's words-

"Indeed,this may be a little arrogant.This may be arrogance,this may be an act that surpasses his duty as a human being.But--i worked hard,i moved forward,i kept challenging,i was troubled,i suffered,i kept thinking,i exercised uncompromisingly,and walked all the way.Then--i handed in my answer,what i think is the most supreme <Justice>...what about you Glen?"
"...!?"

Jatice then asks Glen about his justice compared to the one he advocates?,he asks him if he feels satisfied as long as he can save anyone he can touch and is it enough for him to only fight for the moment?,to be satisfied with the kind of justice that is played badly in cheap drama and novels?,or does he think that pretending to ignore the malice and existence of the absolute evil known as Pure Darkness and enjoy this hypocritical peace?,he asks Glen:does he really think this kind of peace is correct?

"Shut up...I...I...!?"
"You understand right?,it's time for the decisive battle.Who is more better between my justice and your justice...it's finally time for us to show off,it's time to verify who is the real <Magician of Justice>"

After speaking Jatice raised his hand and a ray of light poured from the Sky City that enveloped Jatice and Glen could only watch silently as Jatice slowly disappeared into the light.

"..."
"Glen,whatever your <Justice> is...at least right now the world you love is being swallowed up.To save it,you have to bring me down too.So,that's all we have to do.Deny each other,and fight to the death.I will wait for you in the deepest depths of that distant Sky City,this is the veritable final battle."

After speaking,Jatice completely disappeared into the light which dissipates shortly,everything returned to the silence where only the cold wind could be heard.

"Sen-,Sensei..."
"........."

Sistine's worried words also flew away with the wind as Glen stared silently at the fantasy city floating in the air.