Epic of Caterpillar Chapter 2931 2932: Cornering The Sun God

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"It's time to smash stuff up!"

At the same time, Ryo merged yet again—not just with Shuten Doji's Soul, but with the Souls of all Oni who ever lived and the full scope of Yomi as well.

Izanami united with him, blending into his form to offer her might, appearing as a deep-black tattoo spreading over his skin.

Ryo harnessed the strength he'd built via Buddhism combined with the primal Demonic Power from his heritage, creating a dangerous equilibrium between celestial and infernal forces inside him.

"I hope Matsuo is alright…!" Frank flew toward Kireina, stunned by her glowing new angelic appearance that exuded immense power. "Kireina, Charlotte told me to—"

"Huh? Oh!" Kireina instantly understood the scheme from Charlotte, Andromeda, and Astraea, giving a decisive nod. "Okay, let's do it!"

"WHATEVER YOU'RE PLANNING IS USELESS!"

The Sun God's fury erupted. He swiftly gathered energy from his Main Body and the myriad Stars orbiting around him.

"PERISH BEFORE MY RADIANCE!"

A massive duo of armored gauntlets crafted from Sunlight Galaxies appeared, squeezing the nearby stars into one destructive focal point.

The Sun God aimed to wipe out all existence—erasing them completely.

"OBLIVION ULTIMATUM!"

TRUUUMMM!!!

The stars imploded to maximum density—not forming a black hole, but triggering a devouring blast of sheer, searing white light beyond any cosmic precedent.

"Blossoming Defiance – Myriad Forms and Connections."

"Weapon Form – Infinite Heavens Sword!"

Confronting the approaching doom, Kireina remained steady and determined. She shifted her axe into the Infinite Heavens Sword and struck with total concentration.

She infused the blow with every technique and stance she'd ever learned.

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

"Mountain Slash."

"Terrain Division."

"Splitting Skies."

"Storming Seas."

"Four Heavenly Cardinals."

"Star Cleaving Sword."

"Myriad Celestial Blade."

Her Aura exploded outward, calling forth a vast cosmic tempest beyond imagination. Every lightning strike solidified into a tiny Infinite Heavens Sword, condensing her total might to its peak.

"Heaven And Earth Defying Soul Heart Style."

"Crimson Eclipse Bloom."

"Defiance of the Nine Heavens."

"Pillar of Celestial Enlightenment."

"Heaven-Surpassing Infinite Self."

Next, by directing those condensed swords via Myriad Celestial Blade, Kireina released the four mastered forms of the Heaven and Earth Defying Soul Heart Style.

Simultaneously, all allies behind her unleashed their techniques, spells, abilities, and magic in flawless harmony.

In that brief moment, the universe's most stunning spectacle appeared: countless powerful entities joined together, channeling all their power to stop the apocalypse.

Their assaults shone like multicolored stellar bursts, forming a brilliant chorus of resistance.

RUMBLE!

The annihilating white glow crashed into Kireina up front. Her comrades behind bellowed unitedly, surging ahead with frantic rage. Her Heaven-Surpassing Infinite Self flared up, slicing through spacetime—just as the light threatened to destroy everything, planet and all.

BOOOMMM!!!

…

Silence engulfed the cosmos. The Sun God sighed in exhausted triumph, completely drained. He'd expended almost all his reserves for that attack.

"It's over… I did it…! I killed them all…! Hah… Hahaha…! Finally! I finally… did it…! I… Ugh?!"

BA-DUM!

BA-DUM!

BA-DUM!

Abruptly, an iron vise clamped his heart.

It wasn't Amaterasu's Will.

Nor a last ploy from Kireina.

Kireina and her allies had indeed died. Their path had concluded.

Now, having accomplished this, the revelation dawned on the Sun God.

"Congratulations, Sun God, Helionidas."

"Eh?"

Something—someone—gripped his heart with ruthless power.

A form emerged in his mind: a woman eerily like Kireina, but with golden locks and butterfly wings of dazzling light matching his own.

"W-Who…! Who are you?!"

Sheer dread, unprecedented, overwhelmed the Sun God. He felt profoundly terrified.

"Who guided you this entire time?"

"…?!"

"Who gave you the knowledge you needed? Who made you smarter?"

"…!"

"Me. It was me."

"…Eh?"

"And now, thanks to you, I have finally succeeded. Kireina is dead. That means she will return to my other three sisters above. I descended here, compressing my very existence, all so I could control you."

"W-What! No…! Who the hell are you?!"

"Hm? How strange… Why isn't she—"

SLASH!

"Gyaaaagh?!"

A cutting blow ripped through the woman and the Sun God alike.

Then yet another.

SLASH!

Followed by more.

SLASH! SLASH!

And further still.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Endless barrage.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"KUUUAAAAGGGHHHHHHH!"

The woman and Sun God—now one entity—shrieked in unified torment.

But from where?

Where originated these strikes?

"W-What's happening—GAAAAAHHH!"

The Sun God wailed in panic as endless slashes shredded his being into myriad shards.

With every cut, reality's pieces flickered visible. Time flowed backward.

As shards reassembled, Kireina and her companions rematerialized—pristine, untouched by death.

The Earth survived. All survived.

"T-This is…! What sort of absurd technique is that?!"

The Sun God dismissed the woman from memory, as if she'd never been. In raging blindness, he summoned the same catastrophic spell again.

Yet he failed to complete it.

"A-Aaaahhh!"

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

His Stars exploded sequentially in spectacular bursts. His strength ebbed. His Main Body dwindled to just 30% of former glory—each lost piece blasting anew with havoc.

"It worked!" Kireina bellowed. "Everyone, charge! He's weakened—now!"

Kireina had deployed her brutal strategy from past battles against superior enemies: allowing "death," then time-reversing with a postponed retaliation, reviving herself and allies.

The tactic demanded immense toll—she couldn't loop it forever—but it granted vital moments and maimed the Sun God sufficiently for now.

"Now!"

She charged ahead. All followed suit. Charlotte and Kireina issued orders; mechs fused at breakneck pace.

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!

"W-What is that now?!"

The Sun God gaped in shocked dread as an enormous steel behemoth ascended—matching his Main Body's scale.

At its center pulsed the Earth, directing soul energy via every gear.

Its helm shaped into a gigantic mechanical face like Chaos Lord Obhedhrur.

The frame built swiftly: a huge, robust humanoid mech shining in navy, crimson, violet, and ebony.

Dragon-like shoulders bellowed. A leonine helm topped it, wreathed in fiery white flames as mane.

Veronica and Ervas integrated into it. Chaos flooded the core, saturating with turbulent energy.

From Planet Earth's heart, Flora directed the world's soul, infusing Mother Earth's vitality across the mech like her own flesh.

Tsukuyomi and myriad gods blended with devices and moons from Genesis and Earth, crafting a spinning moon trailing as a starry cape. Aura the System Master and Lucifer appeared behind as a halo of brilliant light.

"W-What is that thing?! S-So strong?!"

The Sun God almost vomited from raw fear. The aura surpassed all prior sensations.

And that marked merely the start.

With Earth as nucleus, all Dimensional Fragments, Heavenly Domains, and Corrupt Domains previously claimed by the Labyrinth of Madness integrated into its structure.

Kireina threaded her power within, connecting her Pillar of Celestial Enlightenment to the Planes of Souls, Netherworld, Dreams, Chaos, Spirits, Fate, Ki, and myriad more—crafting dimensional plating over the giant.

Mother Khaos and Father Lord Chaos merged with its exterior, twisting it into a malevolent, fiendish form: jagged edges, yawning maws, crimson gemstone eyes aglow.

Kireina's Beasts howled, mechanizing and fusing into a secondary gleaming golden mech. Kireina vaulted onto its crest.

"This is the power we have forged. This is the strength of my Myriad Forms and Connections, Sun God… Sister!"

Through time and space, Kireina's sharp eyes pierced what the Sun God had erased from recall.

"T-THIS IS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT! DO YOU THINK A PIECE OF METAL IS GOING TO—NNNGGHH?!"

The Sun God screeched as a massive golden blade pierced his colossal body, tearing inside.

Simultaneously, the other mech loosed a dark void sword, carving the sun's opposing side.

"Abyssal Sword of Eternal Infernal Heavenly Purgatory!"

Mammon and Frank bellowed together, fusing holy and hellish forces into a ruinous onslaught. The blade rent the galaxy-spanning sun.

On the flip side, Kireina's combined familiars wielded their luminous sword, gouging ever deeper.

"GAAAAHHHH!"

The Sun God howled, igniting his lifeforce and soul in panic. His solar shape warped into a gigantic armored humanoid in sacred gold, six limbs grasping huge flaming arms, falcon helm atop.

"YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT ME?! KNOW THE WRATH OF THE SUN GOD, HELIONIDAS!!!"

He bellowed insanely, hammering both mechs with all he possessed. He tapped an enigmatic source unquestioned, gradually rebuilding force.

"Come on, Dad!"

"Yes, dear."

The Dragon King of the East Sea linked his dominion with Earth's seas and all linked Planes and Dimensions in the vast Universal Machine, Deus Exodus.

The waters rushed into Rimuru, ballooning her to immense proportions. Bursting from Deus Exodus, she morphed into a vortex rainbow sword.

Ailine and Colora splashed vivid hues over it, creating a glittering rainbow trail ahead.

"Primordial Rainbow Seas Sword Of Beginnings and Openings!"

They cried out as one, sweeping the sword in a catastrophic sweep clashing the Sun God's supreme shape. Endless cosmic detonations rocked the universe.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

"Tsk!"

Overpowered again, the Sun God gritted his teeth and retreated, climbing ever upward. They hounded him unyieldingly, cutting through his far-reaching dimensional sunlight sword-energy volleys.

"Damn it! Damn it! Get away! I am the strongest in this universeeeeee!"

Yelling, he battered the universal barrier, breaking through to flee.

But right then—

TRUUUM!

"Guh?!"

An authority of boundless might stirred. Radiant white eyes ignited across endless space.

"The One!"

Kireina grinned, breathing deep relief. He'd gotten her signal indeed.

"I am sorry, Sun God Helionidas, but I cannot allow you to harm my Universe any further!"

Myriad galaxies coalesced into vast white fetters that whipped around Helionidas, yanking him back inside.

Concurrently, Kireina called forth the chains she'd honed against her mother—now within her Heart Essence—and hauled with brutal strength.

The Sun God frantically forged nearby stars into missiles, flinging galaxies like lethal showers.

Deus Exodus and the Maximum King thundered together. The paired mechs skewered him from either flank.

"GAAAAHHHH!"

He agonized as Deus Exodus fired scores of fused techniques, maxing every power to extremes.

Still, insufficient.

"NNNGGHH! GAAAHH!"

Though critically injured, the Sun God gulped stars and galaxies for renewal, ripping universal walls and devouring—threatening cosmic collapse.

RUMBLE!

The universe quaked fiercely. Terror gripped countless trillions across worlds and systems.

"Damn it! He's breaking free!"

Kireina snarled, lunging at full scale. She lashed her sword with savage accuracy, hacking his form and lopping arms to halt him.

"Y-YOU WILL NEVER CATCH ME!"

The Sun God cackled wildly as he erupted from the Universe.

Kireina wouldn't relent. She pursued, twin colossal mechs booming in her wake.

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