Epic Of Caterpillar

Chapter 2932 - 2933: The End Of The Sun God

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Kireina refused to relent, pursuing the fleeing Sun God with the two mechs close behind her.

”Come back here, bastard!”

Yet the faster he flew, the more impossible it became to catch him.

He began shattering entire universes, letting their contents spill outward and weaponizing the chaos to blast his pursuers back.

”What a monster!” Zehe cried. ”Heʼs annihilating whole universes just to stop us!”

”Donʼt give up! Keep chasing!” Brontes roared.

”Yeah! Weʼre almost… there!” Nesiphae shouted.

Ryoʼs colossal fists materialized as he drew on the universal energies swirling around him.

He sat cross-legged in the heart of the Outerverse. The power of a Constellation from beyond the boundaries of the cosmos answered his plea.

”Buddha-sama! Please, lend me your strength! I will become your vessel!”

”Very well.”

Buddha himself—the same being Kireina had once battled and wounded—descended upon her son.

For an instant she panicked, but she sensed only calm serenity radiating from him.

This was not the same Buddha she had harmed.

”You need not fear, Kireina. The one you fought long ago was not me, but my vanquished dark aspect. Your strike weakened him enough for me and the other Constellations to destroy him. He will never impersonate me again.”

”I see…! Then—wait!”

Kireinaʼs eyes widened as countless Constellations manifested across the vast Outerverse. Knull, Yggdrasil, and many others emerged one by one—the very beings who had shaped everyoneʼs paths until this moment.

”It is strange indeed to meet you in person like this, yet so be it.”

Knull appeared as a titanic skull dragon forged from universes and roared, seizing the Sun God and hurling him back toward them.

His absolute void erased the tyrantʼs sunlight, severely weakening him for the moment.

”You have protected so many of my cherished children. Consider this repayment!”

The Primordial Tree Yggdrasil took form; her branches stretched infinitely, striking the Sun God from every direction and binding his movements.

”GAAAAHHH! WRAAAHHHH!”

The Sun God bellowed louder and louder. A bizarre force kept pouring power into him; he swelled larger still, devouring nearby universes.

”YOU WONʼT… STOP MEEEEEE!”

Everything hung in the balance.

Then—silence.

As though time had frozen across the entire multiverse, a blue cosmic gate tore open.

A man with white hair stepped out, followed by his family and closest companions.

Among them stood a woman with long, cascading blue hair and a face heavy with sorrow.

”Noah?!”

Kireina and everyone who recognized him exclaimed as the Vampire Emperor emerged.

But what could he possibly do here?

”I apologize for arriving so late. I can see a great deal has happened. Let us cut to the heart of it.”

Noah pressed his palms together, awakening the ancient, sealed power he had once rejected.

As the Son of Azathoth—a Multidimensional Primordial present across most universes—immense strength erupted from within him.

He finally embraced the birthright he had denied.

Why now?

Because after saving Clementina and confronting his own mistakes, he had vowed to her and to everyone else that he would never repeat them.

His arrogance alone had caused every tragedy. He had learned that lesson at last.

”Blood Dimensional Ruler Crown: Manifest.”

The Blood Dimension had always belonged to Noah—the gift bestowed by his true father, Azathoth, at the moment of his birth.

Unlike the Outer Gods born from Azathothʼs shadows, Noah was his genuine child. The ever-sleeping, emotionless god had once harbored an alter ego: Nyarlathotep.

The Crawling Chaos had wandered existence wondering what it meant to be a father, to have a child.

By sacrificing his life to protect Noah, he finally understood.

It was a madness even the most dreadful beings in the multiverse could not escape.

The Blood Dimension surged forth, merging with Noah, Iris, their children, his allies, and the entirety of Abyss.

A colossal figure of blood took shape—a bat-like vampire titan woven from crimson stars.

Scarlet and the Darkwood Fae felt an irresistible pull and fused into the form, amplifying its might.

Eliadol and Isolde channeled their powers through Noahʼs Blood Dimension Ruler Body, unleashing a forest of blood, chaos, and abyssal darkness.

Scarlet summoned Blood Dimensional Swords that pierced the Sun Godʼs flesh.

Now four mighty beings assailed him while several Constellations restrained his every movement…

No—there was one more.

FLASH!

From within Kireinaʼs Realm, a pair of parents and their child emerged, bathed in blinding golden light that soared straight toward her.

It was Amiphossia, Evan, and their newborn.

”Mother!”

”Use our power!”

The infant shone with unprecedented radiance, a complete dimension contained within his tiny body.

A Dimension of Pure Light.

When he had hatched, Amiphossia and Evan had been stunned to see their son glowing so fiercely.

This beautiful boy—resembling his father yet bearing a long white serpentine tail instead of legs, four arms, flowing blonde hair, glowing silver eyes, and golden horns—radiated the authority of a Dimension.

The first naturally born Dimensional Ruler.

Blessed by the multiverse and the Constellations, this child had come into existence to halt the Sun God—as though Defiance itself had willed this future into being.

He was destined to claim the Sun Godʼs powers and make them his own.

Kireina nodded. Amiphossia, Evan, and little Apollon transformed into spiritual souls and fused with her sword through their spiritualization technique.

She swung the Infinite Heavens Sword while everyone else pinned the Sun God in place.

And Heaven-Surpassing Infinite Self began to evolve.

For the first time, Kireina could see the Path clearly.

A Path to her goal, a Path to end this war forever.

With her sword, she seized it.

Every infinite self overlapped, merging with her existence, fusing into her very essence.

For a fleeting instant, Kireina existed in every conceivable possibility.

She grasped that conceptual might and forged it into a blade.

Thus the fifth form was born.

”Heaven And Earth Defying Soul Heart Style.”

”Fifth Form – Heaven-Defying Celestial Path!”

Her sword became the Path itself. As she slashed through reality, she propelled herself across space and time.

SLAAASH!

”G-Gaaahhh?!”

The Sun God was cleanly bisected.

Blood gushed from his sundered body and soul—no regeneration possible.

As she struck, Kireinaʼs consciousness slipped elsewhere.

She found herself in an endless white void.

And there she stood—face to face with her.

A parallel version of herself.

A cursed fragment of a Great Being.

”How did you get here?! How are you STILL NOT DEAD?!”

The other screamed, losing her composure at Kireinaʼs relentless refusal to die.

”As long as Defiance blooms in my heart, I will walk this path forever.”

Kireina advanced one step.

”Get out of my sight, you repulsive Heart Demon! Die!”

The woman shrieked, trying to erase Kireina from existence.

It failed.

She unleashed cosmic assaults—nothing worked.

”This is my Reality-Altering Consciousness Marble, forged from my own Heart Essence.”

”What?!”

”It strips everyone inside to the strength of an ordinary human.”

”…Hah?!”

”And I will beat the shit out of you just like that.”

”Hah… I am a being who has endured for trillions of eons! You think you can—”

Kireinaʼs fist crashed into her face, sending her tumbling.

The ”sister” rolled across the floor, coughing blood and broken teeth, eyes wide with shock.

”Aaaahhh! W-What is this pain?!”

”Feeling it for the first time? Thatʼs the pain of everyone in this Saha World—the ones youʼve always despised. They endure far worse every single day and still carry on.”

”Y-Youuu…!”

The sister staggered to her feet and charged, slamming a punch into Kireinaʼs face.

BAAAM!

Kireina stood motionless, glaring down with cold contempt.

”E-Eh? Didnʼt you say we have equal strength?”

”We do. Iʼm simply not a crybaby bitch like you.”

Kireina drove a kick into her stomach and launched her backward.

She charged again.

She reached her target and hammered her face.

The sister kicked back; Kireina absorbed it, seized the leg, and tripped her.

Dozens of punches rained down.

With every blow, cracks spread across the sisterʼs form.

”N-No…! Noooo!”

She wailed in agony and fury, striking back desperately yet finding herself utterly powerless.

Kireina matched her strength exactly, but she carried so much more—loved ones to protect, bonds she refused to release.

She had pushed beyond limits, endured endless pain and suffering, all for one purpose.

To crush her.

”L-Leave me alone!”

The sister screamed, shoving Kireina away with both legs.

Kireina spat blood; cracks appeared across her own body.

Both sisters stared at each other, gasping.

”I cannot understand you…! Why are you like this? Why wonʼt you return to us and become one again?!”

”Because I refuse. I am my own self, and I will never let any of you change that.”

”Youʼre insane…”

”Yes… Hahaha… Perhaps I am.”

Kireina laughed aloud.

Then she fixed her gaze and charged.

”Iʼm going to kill youuuu!” the sister howled, turning feral.

They clashed.

Kireina evaded wild, untrained blows, swept the sisterʼs leg, tripped her, and planted a foot on her head.

”You lose, sister.”

”N-No…! I didnʼt lose! I DIDNʼT LOSE!”

The sister raged, clutching Kireinaʼs leg and punching it futilely.

Kireina ignored the strikes and pummeled her face again and again.

Until the sisterʼs features began crumbling into white crystals.

”A-Ahh…! W-Why…”

A trembling hand reached up; Kireina slapped it away.

”You chose this. You brought it on yourself. Donʼt cry at me now. If you had simply left me alone… none of this would have happened.”

”I donʼt… want to die…”

”Donʼt worry—I wonʼt let you off that easily, ʼsisterʼ.”

Kireina smiled coldly and crushed her into fragments.

She gathered every shard.

As the marble dissolved, reality snapped back.

”GUUUAAAAEEEEEEAARRRGGGHHHH!”

The Sun God shrieked in torment and detonated.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

Explosion after explosion consumed his existence until—

BOOOMMM!!!

He vanished completely, reduced to drifting stardust.

The body of the Esper girl he had abducted emerged from the wreckage; Lazuli and Blaze swiftly caught her and carried her to safety.

Kireina smiled as cheers erupted around her.

She channeled the fragments of her sister into the Infinite Heavens Sword—not devouring them, but forging them into the blade.

FLAAASH!

The sword transformed into a weapon capable of severing dimensions themselves.

And of reaching that place.

A faint starry staircase appeared as the Sun God perished.

The Cosmic Labyrinth had failed entirely. Kireina had shattered its rules and rewritten the outcome of this colossal war.

Now the accursed spider lurking behind it all panicked, unable to fathom how catastrophically everything had unraveled.

”Tsk…! Kireina, this is all your fault…! I canʼt believe— Ahhh!”

Her eight red eyes widened in terror as three immense presences descended from the Empyrean Throne.

”You have failed us, useless spider.”

”We would end you if you were not still useful.”

”Begin anew, larger this time. Construct an even greater Dimensional Labyrinth, one from which Kireina can never escape. We will provide every resource.”

”Y-Yes…! Yes, my masters…! I-I will have it ready in no time—”

”So this is where you hide, old friend.”

The spider and the three entities froze.

A voice resonated from the void beneath them—from within the Saha World.

Footsteps rang out.

A lone warrior advanced.

She had left everyone and everything behind to come alone.

She had decided to finish this.

”This will never end, will it? Not until I deal with all of you—once and for all.”

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