Prelude (Addressing Complaints):

So, some people have been complaining about Avalon Blade Works, how it's too overpowered, breaks too many of the Nasuverse's laws, etc.

I'd like to address those complaints, so please let me just clarify and explain some things.

If you're not interested, please go ahead and just skip forward to the short Epilogue. Thanks.

First of all, those Excaliburs can only exist within Avalon Blade Works, they can't be traced outside of it. Secondly, it's not literally countless Excaliburs. That's just hyperbole for dramatic effect, it's just Excaliburs as far as Archer can see, to the horizon.

The number isn't even necessarily in the millions (probably around the one million range, if anything), but it's just enough to fill the 3 kilometer space of the projected Reality Marble. Saber can make more within (and only within) Avalon Blade Works, but he can't even use all of them at once. That was just Archer's speculation. And Saber can only unleash the full power and potential of one Excalibur at a time. At least, as a normal Servant, and not as a Grand Servant (and even as Grand Servant, that wouldn't match the power of the false Ars Nova, used by the first Grand Caster). And, that's considering the fact that Grand Servants are on another scale and magnitude entirely in the first place. And I don't even think Shirou would ever even really qualify to be summoned as a Grand Servant, barring extremely exceptional circumstances (especially since Artoria would be the first choice as Grand Saber).

Anyways, I'd also just like to say, some rules are literally made just to be broken, especially for narrative or dramatic effect, to make a cool or flashy scene even cooler. Nasu even literally breaks some of his own rules on occasions, especially during climax scenes, just to make things seem even cooler (which it does).

The rules are meant to serve the story, not the story meant to serve the rules. If you put the rules first, you're putting the cart before the horse.

Also, I genuinely find it kind of funny that people take issue with Avalon Blade Works, but not like the Moon Cell Servants' final form (where they can literally move at or even faster than the speed of light)? Or have you even seen (the false) Ars Nova (burning through 4.6 billion years of human history?!) or what Morgan or Artoria Caster did in Lostbelt 6 (literally shooting Excalibur beams through her reality into another reality)?

I don't know, I mean those ideas seem a lot more ridiculous than Avalon Blade Works, to me (especially since Saber didn't even use those other Excaliburs, only the one in his hands). I mean, the Moon Cell stuff you could at least dismiss as being non-canon as not being written by Type-Moon, but the other two are canon, as they were written by the same people who wrote the original Fate/Stay Night, so...

I don't know, I mean, I guess it just seems silly to me how kind of self-contradictory some people can be in being sticklers for the rules, without even understanding why the rules are there or what the rules are meant to serve in the first place.

Prelude

Then, please enjoy the chapter...

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Fate/New Day - An Ode to God

Epilogue 2

"After The Classical Music Concert"

"A Musical Connoisseur's Reflections and Considerations"

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Hello, everyone. Caster here.

Were you surprised, at that Reality Marble? I certainly was - I never expected to be asked to make such a thing.

But it got me to thinking, about Reality Marbles, and that nature of the World itself.

The World, as one may or may not already know, is itself comprised of many layers, stacked one upon each other, and upon the very Truth of The Planet. Perhaps, then, for the Planet, its Magma-filled form is its physical body, which serves as its foundation, and the layers formed on top of it are its projections of its will, and the will of those who live on top of it.

After all, if Reality Marbles are the externalization (external manifestation) of a person's internal World, one that temporarily create another unnatural layer and unnatural truth upon it, then who's not to say that The Earth itself is not projecting its own natural Internal World upon its body? And that that itself is the form of our natural World?

Like a mind covering its body, and a soul covering its mind.

Perhaps, then, even the True Form of The Root, what one might call "GOD", may even be in this very same form, as a multi-layered Sphere.

With Gaia and Alaya and the corrective impulsive of The World, simply acting as The Planet's subconscious immune system. Counter-Guardians and Grand Servants acting as The Planet's physical anti-bodies. The Leylines and mana flow, of course, being The Plant's blood vessels and blood flow, humans The Planet's cells.

In which case, thinking from such a perspective, even the Beasts of Humanity could be likened to the accumulated waste of the plant, produced by the planet's cells itself.

A rather funny thought, isn't it? That such terrifying things to humans, may be, to something as Grand as The Plant itself, no more than simply the product of its own waste and filth? Well, at least Archer wouldn't be wrong when he derisively calls himself a "Cleaner" then. He may have meant it simply as a term of contempt for his duty, but it may be more accurate than he himself is even aware of.

He may, in some sense, have literally have contracted himself to be one of the ones that clean after The Planet's waste (though, more as one that tries to prevents waste accumulation from resulting in a Beast in the first place, more than anything).

Well, these are just the random musings of an old man, no need to pay it any kind of mind.

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Ah, oh yes, that's right, and as to the matter of the cause of This Holy Grail War...?

It seems that my kids were messing around quite a lot, and in their excitement and their fun, and accidently caused a New Singularity F by accident, The Shin Fuyuki Singularity (Singularity F++).

Sorry for all the trouble they've caused.

...But it was fun, wasn't it?

I certainly enjoyed it.

And I hope all of you watching enjoyed it, too.

Especially you, Zelritch.

Now then, farewell, and until we meet again, in another story, another possibility.

Fate/New Day: An Ode to God - Epilogue 2

END

Author's Notes:

I know I mentioned Type-Earth and Type-Sun in my author's note last chapter, but I took them out, just because I didn't really feel like they fit into the monologue here.

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I also might write out a bonus chapter later, about what Shirou was doing while Saber was busy hunting down the Beast of Retribution.

Basically, Shirou VS Gilgamesh.

But it won't just be a rehash of what happened in Unlimited Blade Works, since Shirou has developed and changed a lot, and so has his own unique Internal World (in a very different direction from Saber's). It'll probably be pretty lengthy, unlike these very short epilogues, about 3000 words or so (without any notes).

It'll be more of a proper fight instead of just a hunt-down, too. It'll be more low-scale (since Gilgamesh wouldn't pull out Ea until the end). But it would be a more personal, more proper one on one fight than Saber just hunting down the Beast of Retribution.

Basically, if you enjoyed the climax of The Holy Shirou, I don't you'll be disappointed with the bonus chapter, either.

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I'm also thinking about posting a "Simple Tune" (No Notes) Version of The Holy Shirou War later. I've been thinking about it for a while, since I know my author's notes and sometimes prefaces can get pretty lengthy, so a smoother and easier read just focusing on the story and character information might be well appreciated.

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So, the idea of the planet as living organism was actually an independent idea I had a long time, derived from my watching of serial experiments lain.

This line of thinking actually isn't alien to the Nasuverse, either, though - since the Type-Planets exist, which are said to be the embodiment of the Planets, themselves, which in turn are also described as having their own wills. I just expanded on that line of thinking a little bit here, going more into specifics and interesting considerations (Leylines as blood vessels, Humans as cells, Beasts of Humanity as the waste of The Planet).

Oh, I believe in "Notes", the story by Type-Moon, humans were described as a parasite living on the planet, though, which is why Earth called down the other Types to exterminate them. Don't know if that's still in the current continuity, though (especially since Alaya - the will of humans, is described as being a part of Gaia, the Will of the Planet). But, either way, it's not like Shirou (Caster) would have that knowledge, so it's not like e could comment on that matter. It's all just his musing from his own viewpoint, after all.

It's applicable in the Real World, too.

Consider,

Highways = Blood Vessels

Lifeforms = Cells

Communities, Villages and Towns = Cell Tissues

Major cities, states, and kingdoms = Organs

Countries = The World's Organ Systems

Food, Package Delivery Services = Circulatory Blood Network

Internet = Electrical Neural Network

Computers = Brain Cells, Neurotransmitters (Information Transmitters)

Europe and China = Brain Hemispheres (Cultural Exploders)

France and Japan = Heart Hemispheres (Cultural Imploders)

Just sayin'

The analogy is interesting is all, and may even be actually true. Maybe the whole world is actually one living organism.

Not everything translates one to one, but not everything has to. Cells don't translate one to one with to a Human being, either. Humans, as a result all their emergent properties, are naturally much more complex than the countless number of cells that compose them.

As enough cells gather and clump together, the next level up becomes more complex, and emergent properties occur as each cell works together to do things they couldn't do individually. And so, cell tissues are more complex than just the sum of their cells, and organs are more complex than just the sum of their tissues, and organ systems are more complex than just the sum of their individual organs, and just as a human is more complex than just the sum of their organ systems.

The Earth itself, likewise, could be more complex than just the sum of its human societies.

The Earth, too, being one large living organism might just be one small part of a much larger universal truth.

Just sayin'

Feel free to share these ideas, by the way. You don't lose by sharing for free, and everybody gains by the act of sharing.