What I offered up to the king in hopes of not dying was not just my stories. It was everything else I had. Of course—- including my body. Therefore, the name of La Puta is surely suitable for this conclusion! Ascend into the skies, glare down at the earth—- then fall, Laputa! Thou shalt become the destroyer of this world's reason, the city that is the fantasy of the end!
— Scheherazade
Full title: "Pseudo-Singularity II - Subterranean World of Folklore, Agartha [Women of Agartha]".
People have been disappearing in Central Asia for unknown reasons in 2000 AD and even worse, several Servants from Chaldea have also unwittingly been Rayshifted over to this new Singularity, a giant underground hollow space. Due to one of the remaining Demon Pillars being the most likely suspect, Chaldea has once again been granted permission to send the protagonist to investigate the disappearances.
Tropes:
- 11th-Hour Superpower: Thanks to the combination of Wu Zetian and Fergus' Noble Phantasms, the final phase of the fight against Phenex is turned massively towards your favor. Every time you deplete it's health and cause it to activate Guts, it suffers a severe penalty to it's Max Health that will continually stack until it reaches only one HP, after which you just have to survive for 10 turns in order for the Guts to completely wear off.
- Arc Villain: Scheherazade and the Demon God Pillar Phenex, who attempted to destroy Mystery, magecraft, and the Servant summoning system to allow themselves to finally die for good.
- Inside the story created by Scheherazade, we have Columbus as the Villain Protagonist.
- Big Damn Heroes: With the floating city collapsing and Astolfo's Hippogriff not being enough to save all the refugees, Helena appears after missing the entire adventure and uses her UFO to save everyone.
- Born as an Adult: The pirate ladies, Chinese torturers, and Amazons all reproduce this way, using sperm from captured men to somehow divide themselves into multiple copies.
- Compliment Backfire: Scheherazade sees Solomon being erased from the Throne of Heroes as a blessing, and praises him for avoiding dying like she desires. She doesn't know that Romani/Solomon had to sacrifice himself to save the world and thus seperated from his loved ones in Chaldea. Her statements ends up enraging Mash and the protagonist.
- Debut Queue: Rider of Resistance (Christopher Columbus) is added to the summoning gacha after this story's completion. This chapter also debuts Caster of Nightless City (Scheherazade), Assassin of Nightless City (Wu Zetian), and Berserker of El Dorado (Penthesilea).
- Didn't See That Coming: Scheherazade picked multiple Servants from Chaldea for the roles she needed them to play, including Fergus for the chaos he'd sow in a land ruled by women. She intended to revert his age to a younger, more horny version before he became a proper king, but accidentally reverted him to his child (and far more innocent) form, throwing a wrench into her own plans.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Averted; the protagonist and their Servants can't help but react with horror, shock, and disgust at the abuse men receive in all three of the main kingdoms of Agartha, no matter how their leaders try to put a spin on it.
- The Greatest Story Never Told: While there's a bit of a Grandfather Paradox in Singularities as fantastical events resolve to undo themselves, this trope also happens explicitly in the aftermath of the Agartha Pseudo-Singularity. In the end, numerous NPC Agartha Resistance men survive and go home to their families with stories to tell about being kidnapped by women in an underground society and fighting against all sorts of storybook enemies and events... but no one believes them as more than just fantasy. Notably, it hammers in the fact that Scheherazade's plan to expose mysticism to the world failed.
- Lady Land: All three nations in Agartha are ruled entirely by women, with men being second-class citizens at best and livestock at worst. Fergus wonders if this is the result of Scheherazade's own subconscious fears of men and equating them with death manifesting through her Noble Phantasm creating the Singularity in the first place.
- Light Is Not Good: The Nightless City, despite or because of Wu Zetian's efforts to enforce Light Is Good.
- Mêlée à Trois: The major factions within the Singularity are locked in battle with each other, focusing on trying to outplay the other.
- The Amazons, led by Berserker of El Dorado, control the western woods and are the most powerful overall. Due to being landlocked however, the pirates of Ys are able to attack them by the sea and the forces from the Nightless City send beasts out to hamper their movements.
- The Pirates of Ys, led by Dahut, control the sea and overall are the weakest of the three main factions. They make up this with their usage of the sea allowing them strike quick and in areas the Amazon's can't properly expect.
- The Beasts and Torturers, led by Assassin of the Nightless City prefer to keep their city hidden to the north, sending out their beasts to go after anyone who isn't within a secure village.
- The Resistance, led by Rider of the Resistance, fights all three and want to liberate the men trapped by all three so they can escape and return home. Being the weakest of all factions, they mainly use guerrilla warfare to save as many men as they can and retreat to the south where they operate in a hidden valley of peace gardens.
- Missing Mission Control: Da Vinci is conveniently unable to contact you when the protagonist agrees to bond Megalos to Columbus. Later on, when this turns out poorly for the Master, Da Vinci pipes up about how were she present during that moment then the current predicament might not have happened.
- Never Found the Body: Dahut, Wu Zetian, and Helena Blavatsky all seem to die only to reappear later. Astolfo even lampshades they Never Found the Body.
- Not Himself: What happens to all of Chaldea's Servants that were taken by Phenex to fill roles in Scheherazade's stories. Drake becomes the pirate princess Dahut, Fergus is reverted to a child, and Heracles is mutated into the even more berserk Megalos.
- Sadly Mythtaken: In-universe, the Mission Control of Da Vinci and Holmes notice various inaccuracies in the presentation of each mythical city, eventually making them realize that the entire Singularity is more akin to a storybook than any other concept. Most notable is conflating the myths of the Greek Amazon warrior women with the city of El Dorado found in the Amazon Rainforest.
- To the Pain:
- The torturers in the Nightless City give a short summary of lingchi, the punishment their prospective victim will suffer for attempting to escape.
- Eventually happens to Phenex itself when Wu Zetian joins the battle, preventing it from rebirthing itself properly.
- Unique Enemy: In the Flunky Boss battle against Scheherazade, she summons a slew of different monsters as recreations of different characters from her stories. The weirdest one of the bunch is "Queen Yamlika", which uses a completely new Lamia sprite and who cannot be fought in the Free Quests. It isn't until later Hunting Quests that it is revealed that the Lamia is called Lamia Queen.
