Tome of Summated Universal Wisdom
Codex Gigas - Compriment
"I'll show them... I'LL SHOW THEM ALL!! LAUGH AND CURSE YOUR OWN FOLLY AS YOU BITE INTO THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT! MY HANDS WILL FORCE THE ENTIRE WORLD INTO THESE PAGES! CODEX GIGAS: COMPRIMENT!""
Type: Anti-Unit, Conceptual
Rank: B+
Range: 1-500
Max Targets: Varies
Berserker's only work: a cryptic tome said to contain "all of earthly knowledge", despite several missing pages and a considerable portion of indecipherable texts. It's unclear how Berserker was able to write such a thing in a single night (if the legend is to be believed), although it was said that he did so by accepting a deal with
something. Nevertheless, this Noble Phantasm represents the conceptual ability to "forcibly compress the entire world within the confines of a single book". A tome of
,
knowledge, Berserker likens it to the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. Without unleashing its True Name, this Noble Phantasm is usable as an incantation that allows Berserker to "compress" things. Be it information, physical force, magical energy, and many more, by uttering this special incantation, Berserker is able to "capture" them and "infuse" them into something else. For example, he could "capture" the force of a speeding truck and "infuse" them into a pebble, turning it into a powerful projectile weapon, or he could "capture" his own memories and "infuse" them into a piece of paper, granting whoever touches a piece of that paper a look into said memories. That said, a downside to this ability is that Berserker still possesses a certain limit as to how much he can "capture" at any given moment, meaning he cannot simply "capture" the full force of an EX-rank Anti-World Noble Phantasm, for example. Furthermore, upon "capturing" something, he must "infuse" it into another object within one minute (possibly less if the object in question is particularly powerful), or the spell would break and harm his own Spirit Origin.
A different application of this Noble Phantasm is usable by unleashing its True Name. Upon doing so, Berserker's tome radiates a certain energy throughout his surroundings, akin to a scanning function. Similar to his legend, this function aims to "chronicle the entirety of earthly wisdom". This strips Heroic Spirits and ancient technology of mystery as every single captured human phenomenon is explained and infinitely dissected within Berserker's tome. Of course, due to his own madness and obsession with writing only, Berserker lacks the capability to effectively make use of this obtained knowledge. Nonetheless, this function alone is enough to significantly weaken most Servants. Finally, the third, most terrifying aspect of this Noble Phantasm lies in Berserker's own mindset. This Noble Phantasm utilizes the principle of "Berserker compresses everything into his book". Therefore, by reversing this principle, the World considers "
If something is not in that book, it must not exist". That is to say, if during the scan, Berserker considers something "unnecessary" or "outside the boundaries of earthly wisdom", the World would attempt to invalidate its existence. Due to interference from the Counter Force, this effect is merely temporary, and the World would once again correct itself once this Noble Phantasm is deactivated. Nonetheless, while this Noble Phantasm remains active, recognized targets may temporarily be erased from existence. For living beings such as Servants, their parameters would rapidly drop as their existences are erased from the people's collective unconscious, before their physical bodies ultimately vanish. As for what Berserker considers "unnecessary"... his standards are extremely vague and fickle. The most obvious target would be something "outside this world", meaning something not made by human hands, or something divine or otherworldly in nature. Yet in other times, depending on his state of mind, his standards may randomly change, making this Noble Phantasm highly unpredictable as it is powerful. That said, the limit to this Noble Phantasm lies in its absurdly high mana cost, considering how Berserker personally overwrites multiple natural laws during its activation. Using this Noble Phantasm for one minute alone is enough to put a significant, potentially life-threatening mana strain on both Berserker and his Master.
May This Night Outlive Eternity
Codex Gigas - Extendo
"No, no, no, I can't stop now! So many things left to write, and daybreak is fast approaching! Ah, if only this night could last forever..."
Type: Anti-Unit (Self), Conceptual
Rank: B+
Range: -
Max Targets: 1
Another interpretation regarding Berserker's deal with the devil. Instead of "compressing the entire world to be written in one night", what if the deal instead "extends the night, enough to write an entire world"? In that sense, instead of "compressing", this Noble Phantasm represents the conceptual ability to "extend" Berserker's time. As an example, let us assume that time runs in a manner of "
1, 2, 3, 4". By activating this Noble Phantasm through a certain incantation, Berserker's
own time becomes "
1, 2, 3,
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, ..., 3.9, 4", granting himself a window of extra time to move about as he pleases. From an outsider's perspective, Berserker may seemingly be able to teleport or increase his agility to inhuman levels out of nowhere. In that sense, this Noble Phantasm bears some resemblance to a certain innate time control ability possessed by a certain mage. Normally, Berserker can only "extend" time by about ten seconds, requiring roughly two minutes of "cooldown period" before being able to cast the same spell.
By unleashing This Noble Phantasm's True Name, Berserker stretches his own concept of time and space into an infinite value. Reminiscent of how he single-mindedly wrote his book in his cold, empty room, free from any external influence, now this Noble Phantasm considers Berserker to be "inside his own realm" by establishing a localized bounded field enveloping his own body. In this state, physical attacks would harmlessly phase through him and beams would somehow burn out and fade away before touching him, akin to shining a flashlight upon the night sky. Unless one possesses "an attack that will certainly hit no matter what", Berserker is effectively untouchable while this Noble Phantasm is active. Perhaps due to the completely opposing nature of Berserker's two Noble Phantasms, this Noble Phantasm cannot be used while
Codex Gigas - Compriment is active, and vice-versa. Aside from that, similar to
Codex Gigas - Compriment, this Noble Phantasm's "second stage" also requires an absurdly high mana cost to maintain.