Epic of Caterpillar Chapter 2921 2922: The War Against The Sun

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Previously on Epic of Caterpillar...
Kireina and her allies return to a world consumed by the Sun God, who has brainwashed countless deities and entities into his twisted angelic army. Amaterasu makes a final, desperate sacrifice while being absorbed, inadvertently leaving a shard of her power within Matsuo. Realizing the stakes, Kireina rallies her forces and reveals reinforcements, including her mother, to challenge the Sun God's absolute dominance. With everyone awakened as Heart Path Cultivators, the final stand against the burning celestial entity begins.

Amiphossia and Evan made their way toward Kireina's castle at breakneck speed. Throughout their journey, they observed countless allies surging outward to aid Kireina, their forms wreathed in formidable Cosmic Auras and Heart Essence Manifestations. Nevertheless, their attention remained riveted on a single priority: their progeny.

As they closed the distance, the connection became undeniable. Their child was calling out, desperately attempting to form a bond, urging them to reach its side before the moment of birth arrived.

"Our child...!"

"It's here...!"

Amiphossia forced the portal open. Stepping inside with Evan, they discovered a gargantuan egg, comparable in scale to an automobile. Its exterior glittered with white scales, elegantly accented by bands of gold, appearing less like an object and more like a masterpiece of divinity.

Yet, this was no static creation. It pulsated with existence—a literal cradle for a nascent soul and a burgeoning life.

"Is it actually glowing?!"

"Indeed it is!"

Amiphossia and Evan stood stunned as the egg emitted a radiance comparable to the sun itself, though significantly more potent and untainted.

This was the offspring of Kireina’s foremost daughter and a legendary hero from Genesis. Naturally, whatever form this child took, its power would be immense.

Even so, they could never have envisioned the spectacle that was about to unfold…

Crack, crack...!

CRASH!

The shell buckled. A tiny hand broke through, obliterating the egg in one swift motion.

From the wreckage emerged a brilliant child, radiating the very essence of light.

FLASH!

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"So you choose to defy me! I expected nothing less. Exterminate them."

The Sun God’s decree was final. A legion of millions surged forward, a tidal wave of formidable entities clashing against Kireina’s forces.

The Queen of Spirits and her thralls scattered spirit crystals everywhere, conjuring endless hordes of beasts. Simultaneously, Genesis and her Supreme Gods bent the laws of space and time, merging their authorities to refine reality itself and accelerate the Sun God’s indoctrination process.

Hades, acting as the conduit for the Netherworld Plane Ruler, manifested a vast portal. Undead Titans spilled forth, trailing death and chilling nether energy, while ghosts and specters shrieked in anticipation of the slaughter.

The Space Humans unleashed their full arsenal of mechas and titans, their motherships charging cannons capable of reducing planets to cosmic dust.

Archdemons rained down judgment, bathing the battlefield in a deluge of indiscriminate light and shadow. They attacked with expressions locked in a haunting, permanent bliss.

The gods of Earth coalesced into concentrated clusters of divine power, unleashing elemental storms—incinerating, freezing, pulverizing with gales, and electrifying the void.

Utter turmoil descended.

Yet, amidst this madness, a fleeting advantage appeared. Kireina could not help but feel a dark flicker of gratitude toward the Sun God. By gathering every threat she aimed to eradicate into one location, he had provided the perfect opportunity.

Now, she and her allies could excise them all with a singular, decisive maneuver.

"Everyone, the sheer number of adversaries necessitates that we divide and conquer. Form four distinct teams. The first, comprised of those with old scores to settle, shall neutralize the Spirits. The second group will take on the Humans, focusing on those who can dismantle their technology. A third detachment will challenge the Archdemons, and the fourth will confront the Netherworld Ruler."

Kireina had established the squads, ordering immediate mobilization. As for herself, she would ascend beyond the atmosphere to meet the Sun God and his stellar cluster head-on.

She would not be alone. Her parents, Frank, Chaos, Abyss, Kosmos, Ervas, and Veronica were joining the ascent.

"If you're truly prepared for this, Kireina, we go as one," Chaos declared.

"We have traveled far enough; we might as well see this to the end!" Abyss agreed, nodding.

"That is the spirit!" Kosmos bellowed.

"I am in agreement," Ervas added. "That Sun Deity has surely attained an immense realm of power—we are talking about something perhaps at the Peak of Transcending Nirvana. However, his lack of knowledge on further progression may have kept him stagnant at that tier."

"Furthermore, I can sense that when he consumed that goddess, his soul sustained significant trauma," Veronica noted. "Kireina, Ervas, and I possess authorities over souls. If we can penetrate his guard and reach the wound caused by Amaterasu’s sacrifice, we can deepen the injury and even the odds."

"But it will be far from easy, will it not?" Kireina asked.

"Indeed," Ervas replied. "You must create the opening for us. Are you capable?"

"I can try," Kireina started, then corrected herself with steely resolve. "No—that is the wrong mindset. I *will* do it."

"Kireina, let us face him together," Frank insisted. "I am coming with you."

"I don't question your power, Frank, but could you ensure the safety of your companions first?" Kireina countered. "If those under his control fall, he will be destabilized. Join me as soon as you have thinned their ranks. I need your skills; as our premier healer, your primary duty is to keep everyone alive for us."

"…Understood," Frank sighed, yielding. "Just don't you dare die on me, everyone!"

As the group nodded in unison, Kireina surged into the firmament. She morphed into a blinding pillar of light, shaped into the silhouette of a blade, piercing through the intense radiation and the dimensional barriers the Sun God had erected.

"You strive to approach? The closer you draw to the sun, the more thoroughly you shall be incinerated, fools!"

The luminescence was searing and absolute, but her retinue possessed immense resistance to such radiance. By bestowing her Khepri Transformation to weave divine golden scarab armor around them, she ensured they would hold against the onslaught.

"If we fail to crush the sun, the world falls, no?" her father mused. "Honestly, I never anticipated spending my Monday fighting for the salvation of the world. A first for everything!"

"I endured thousands of years of chains and slow demise," Khaos responded. "But you are right—this is a novel experience for me as well."

"Apologies if this is an ill-timed moment, but I am truly sorry you suffered that," Lord Chaos said.

"It is of no consequence," Khaos offered a faint smile. "Kireina liberated me... so the least I can provide now is my strength, as the mother I am."

"…That is it," Kireina’s father nodded. "That is precisely what parents do!"

Both lunged forward. Their chaotic energies shimmered with brilliant radiance as armor of golden scarabs manifested over their bodies, casting them as true gods of chaos and light.

"Ludicrous. If you seek extinction so desperately, come closer!"

The Sun God did not deem them worthy of direct engagement. Instead, he fired beams of solar fire capable of erasing entire solar systems. These attacks crumbled against Kireina's vast veil of the Sea of Emptiness.

Meanwhile, thousands of indoctrinated warriors lunged at her party, desperate to stem their advance.

Kireina swung her blade. A garden manifested, and an eclipse blotted out the celestial heights. Petals swirled. Giant mechas, dream-born entities, spirit beasts, and undead titans were shredded into countless fragments.

"Push onward!"

"RAAAAHHH!"

A collective roar erupted. Their Auras combined into a titanic, glowing cosmic blade, pulsing with chaos, void, and a myriad of elements.

They moved with the velocity of lightning, dismantling the Sun God's defensive barriers with ease. One hurdle after another shattered, until at last, they broke into the void of space.

In the distance burned a massive sun. Hanging before it was a colossal humanoid god of pure plasma, golden wings unfurled at his back. His long blonde hair drifted, his icy blue eyes burned with intensity, and ornate golden armor encased his frame. In his grasp, he held dual blades of holy solar energy.

"You have arrived! Congratulations! Here is your reward!"

With a twisted, hollow laugh, the Sun God warped space, time, and reality. Solar fire detonated, engulfing them. Millions, then billions, and finally trillions of light-beams rained down from every direction.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Witnessing them overwhelmed, the Sun God bellowed with amusement at their presumed fragility.

"Hahahaha! Did you expect otherwise when nearing a Sun God?"

Trapped within the eternal dimension of light the Sun God had crafted, Kireina infused her blade with absolute darkness. She drew upon the foundation of her Heaven, Earth, and Heart Cultivation, alongside the refined Sea of Emptiness.

"If I must, I shall sever light itself!"

Her eyes ignited. Noticing her intent, the group poured their own Cosmic Auras into her, magnifying her potency. For a fleeting second, she stepped into the Sun God’s realm.

"Heavenly Sword God Myriad Soul Blade Arts – Shinra Yaoyorozu."

"First Form – Mountain Slash!"

"Second Form – Terrain Division!"

"Third Form – Splitting Skies!"

"Fourth Form – Storming Seas!"

"Fifth Form – Four Heavenly Cardinals!"

"Sixth Form – Star Cleaving Sword!"

By layering every technique taught to her by Susanoo, Kireina began to manipulate, shatter, and consume the very light that permeated the dimension.

And then, the seventh form was unleashed, manifesting millions of blades forged from the very radiance intended to strike them down.

"Seventh Form – Myriad Celestial Blade!"

"…?!"

The Sun God’s handsome face soured with disbelief. Millions of blades pierced his dimension, fracturing it into countless shards, which were immediately absorbed by Kireina’s Infinite Heavens Sword, swelling her power further.

She pressed the attack, driving her sword downward. The Sun God parried, and the clash of their steel sent tremors throughout the void.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

"Hah, impressive, Kireina! Truly noteworthy! But can you withstand these? Blades forged from fifty compacted Dimensions of Light!"

"What?!"

Kireina was stunned. The Sun God’s blades sliced reality itself, tearing across her form at light speed.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"KIREINA!"

Her parents, frantic, rained a hail of reality-warping punches upon him, riddling his vessel with wounds.

"Hah! To think the whole kin is gathered here! Perfect. I shall eradicate every last one of you chaos-spawn!"

He laughed, summoning legions of clones crafted from Heavenly Cosmic Dimensional Sunlight—the peak of his current power—to assault her parents.

Both Chaos Primordials were hurled back, their frames ravaged. Yet, drawing upon the Chaos Plane made accessible through Kireina, they regenerated with uncanny speed and returned to the fray.

Ervas and Veronica shifted into their most massive forms. Ervas struck from the flanks, shearing chunks of matter from the deity, while Veronica acted as a bastion, her metallic frame absorbing blows while she countered with beams of cosmic ghost energy to vaporize the clones.

Chaos, Abyss, and Kosmos fused, manifesting as a monumental cosmic vampire dragon. They roared, fending off the Sun God to protect Kireina, unleashing a flurry of slashes with razor-sharp talons and beams of destruction, culminating in—

A final, colossal breath attack!

TRUUUMMM!!!

The strike punched a gaping hole through the sun god’s chest. He did not cry out; he only smiled.

"Heh… you will require more than that, lowly lizard!"

His form knit itself back together effortlessly. Pivoting, he severed Chaos’s appendages with a swing, then hammered his head toward the stars. When Ervas attacked, the god ripped his arm aside and shattered his stomach with a blow. As Veronica moved to intercept, he compressed her with dimensional pressure and kicked her toward the burning hearth of the sun.

Her parents roared, expanding in size to strike from all sides, but the Sun God remained untouchable, shattering their defenses at every turn.

"Weak! You are all pathetic! Kireina! What are you doing over there—Huh?!"

As he turned to strike her, he felt a flicker of doubt. Where she stood, manifestations of herself, overlapping through infinite planes her Heart had touched, shimmered into existence.

"Heaven And Earth Defying Soul Heart Style."

"Fourth Form – Heaven-Surpassing Infinite Self!"

A domain crystallized around both of them.

The god’s form was swallowed by a deluge of strikes—millions, then trillions of cleaves.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"Guuuhhh?!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"Nnngaaaah!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"S-Stop it!"

Before he could mount a defense, his Avatar was reduced to nothing but cosmic dust!