Goddess Scripture 4 "Goddesses and Ancient Shrines"

Goddess Scriptures confirmed. Beginning lesson now.

...I was wrong.

I thought the only thing that could possibly resurrect a dead goddess was that shrine and its altar.

But I had it completely backwards. The goddess IS the shrine and the shrine the goddess.

We can't afford to let anyone resurrect that ancient shrine. It shouldn't even be in the Shining Blue Galaxy.

Its very presence here threatens to destroy the laws that govern our reality.

Normally, there is no such thing as lasting death in the Servantverse.

Servants that disappear eventually respawn randomly in another part of the universe, or reincarnate in a new body, or even interfere in a parallel world. That's what it means for a soul to be tangible.

But the place where the ancient shrine exists is ruled by the goddess...

...and in her world, the Origin Universe, people are born from mothers and eventually die for good.

Those who die in the goddess's domain remain in her custody, and will never respawn unless she allows it.

In time, as all life-forms eventually die out, her universe will become a desolate wasteland.

I suspect Dark Maanna, Space Shinkageryu's headquarters, is a recreation of the goddess's shrine made using Servant technology.

And if that's true, then their ultimate goal is obvious.

They mean to resurrect the ancient goddess's civilization, and use it to rule over the universe.

But I have to wonder: Do they truly understand what they're doing?

A man-made shrine just doesn't have what it takes to become a goddess, no matter how closely they duplicate the original.

Without a genuine goddess to serve as its base, it will never be anything more than an incredibly elaborate model.

However, all that being said...

...If they somehow managed to get their hands on a Spirit Core the Primordial Goddess left behind...

...then their ancient shrine imitation would very likely become the real thing.

Heh. But of course, they won't find Primordial Goddess Spirit Cores just lying around.