[GATE OF BABYLON] 150,000
SINGLE-USE: 150
[REDEEMED FOR 1 MINUTE.]
[COST]: 15 POINTS.
[REMAINING BALANCE]: 2,841 POINTS.
A tangible golden key appeared in Gilgamesh’s hand, and he stared at it in a daze, utterly entranced. It had cost only 15 points, and could exist for only one minute.
This was the key-shaped sword that led to the treasury through a spatial link, it allowed its user to freely draw out the items stored within.
It contained the prototypes of all Noble Phantasms. More than that, it also held the prototypes of humanity’s inventions in the Type-Moon world, along with treasures and rare artifacts from every age and land.
You could say it was the crystallization of the sum of human wisdom itself!
What mattered was that what he held in his hand was Gate of Babylon, not Bab-ilu.
This was a true Noble Phantasm, a miracle in its own right, sublimated by countless legends. Even now, the catalog of treasures inside it continued to grow.
This was something the original Gilgamesh could only possess after his death, once he had become a Heroic Spirit. In terms of sheer output, it might not have been all that different from what he had while alive, but it was still undeniably something that only came after becoming a Heroic Spirit.
Gilgamesh stared at it for a while before remembering to put it into the Gate of Babylon that had come with him when he crossed over.
“Phew… whether I can really make something of myself now depends on this one move.”
He waited while the system stayed completely silent.
“So single-use items redeemed from the system really are supposed to disappear, but for some reason my Gate of Babylon seems to be intercepting and keeping them.”
“Bwahahaha! So that’s how it is. I used to think the only advantage of this built-in Gate of Babylon was that it didn’t cost mana to use!”
Gilgamesh rose to his feet and laughed wildly into the empty hall.
“So I really am the overpowered main character here?”
When the minute was up, Gilgamesh took out the golden key.
He waited another minute. The golden key showed no sign of vanishing at all. It still shone in his hand with intoxicating brilliance.
He clenched his hand, and the golden key dissolved into a stream of light and sank into his body.
Mana trembled inside Gilgamesh, and golden ripples, no different in appearance from before, spread open once more. Only this time, they were completely different!
A sword emerged from the golden ripples, radiating awe-inspiring magical power. This was a Noble Phantasm! A genuine Noble Phantasm!
Gilgamesh grabbed the hilt and drew it out.
“Hmmm, so this is the holy sword Durandal.”
“Hard to believe that just redeeming a Gate of Babylon gives me this many Noble Phantasms to use.”
They were only prototypes, so there was a significant difference between them and the Noble Phantasms wielded by other Heroic Spirits, both in rank and in how fully they could be unleashed.
A few were even stronger than the versions in other hands, but most were a step weaker.
And yet…
As mana flowed into Durandal, light bloomed along the blade, and Gilgamesh could feel his mana draining away at an alarming rate. In just a few minutes, nearly a twentieth of his reserves had already been poured into it.
And that was no trivial amount. Gilgamesh was a demigod.
Besides, he had not even released Durandal yet, and the efficiency was already this awful.
He had never felt anything like this when using Ea before.
Was it because his Spirit Origin wasn’t compatible? Or because he wasn’t familiar enough with using it?
But I hadn’t used Ea before, either.
Gilgamesh sorted through the stream of information surfacing in his mind.
As he thought, golden ripples appeared again.
Gilgamesh knew at once that these came from the Gate of Babylon he had arrived with, not the redeemed Gate of Babylon.
He put Durandal into it, then took it back out.
A smooth, seamless feeling came over him, and the previous resistance vanished completely.
To his surprise, Durandal had suddenly become easy to use.
That earlier rapid mana drain was gone!
“So that’s it. It doesn’t just retain the system’s items—it can also make them conform to me?”
Gilgamesh understood.
He called the golden key back out from within himself and threw that Noble Phantasm into the Gate of Babylon that had come with his transmigration.
Then, under his control, every treasure inside the Noble Phantasm poured out in a great flood, transferring from the redeemed Gate of Babylon into his own Gate of Babylon.
He emptied out the redeemed Gate of Babylon completely!
[HOST!]
The system really couldn’t take it anymore. This was the most outrageous thing she had ever encountered in her entire existence as a system.
[NO ONE GETS SOMETHING FOR NOTHING! IF YOU STOP NOW, THEN TEN YEARS FROM NOW YOU’LL STILL GET A REAL, HONEST KIND OF HAPPINESS!]
She tried her best to reason with him.
“Nonsense! If I don’t do this now, I’m the one who’s going to regret it!”
Gilgamesh dismissed her completely, perfectly displaying the stern face of a privileged king.
Making money isn’t shameful!
A cheat had already been delivered right into his hands—if he still didn’t use it, would he even count as human?!
Pathetic!
As Gilgamesh drew out all kinds of Noble Phantasms from the treasury and found that he could use every one of them without issue, a satisfied smile spread across his face.
“This Gate of Babylon really knows how to surprise me. Doesn’t that make me invincible now?”
No… not yet.
Think about the gods. Think about Tiamat.
Think about the Saver. Think about all the Bodhisattvas.
Think about the Ultimate Ones. Think about alien civilizations.
All of a sudden, Gilgamesh felt a real pain in the ass coming on.
Seriously, if this was supposed to be a fantasy world, then why did it have to throw in so many things with a completely different vibe too?
Hello? Could you at least stay on theme?
“Right. This still isn’t enough to call myself invincible. No, no, it doesn’t even count as safe.”
Gilgamesh pulled up the system interface again.
“Whether it’s a peaceful life or anything else, it all depends on having enough peace of mind—and peace of mind comes from objective, factual safety.”
So…
“First, let’s equip Avalon…”
[…]
“Now let me think what other must have items there are… and while I’m at it, I should solve the mana problem too.”
[…]
T/N: heuheuhuehuehue yes yes yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyway im only highlighting the store items when he redeems them, not after and im only highlighting everything else when he activates them like true name stuff yknow anwyway gilly willy heuheuheuuhe heres the nps
babi-ilu
durandal
he didn’t use the other ones… butttttt freak it
heres avalon
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