Epic Of Caterpillar

Chapter 2907 - 2908: The Kings Of Chaos

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The Demon King of Terra—Kireina's "Parallel Self," born from one of her many Soul Fragments.

The origin of Terra's catastrophe, slowly swallowing the world into an endless desert.

And the incarnation of the Ancient God of Chaos and the Cosmos of Shintoism, Ame-no-Mikaboshi.

At this point, he had run out of ideas.

Thus, he poured all his remaining energy into growing enormously, attempting to overpower Kireina through sheer brute force and dimension-warping might.

He tried to use everything within his power to stop her now that he realized escape was impossible.

With his tentacles, he twisted space and even time itself, striving to halt her movements.

Yet Kireina moved freely through frozen time and warped space.

Her Cosmic Heart blazed brightly. Her Defiance blossomed with breathtaking beauty.

Her crimson eyes held one singular purpose.

To kill him.

"Heaven And Earth Defying Soul Heart Style."

And so she set out to do exactly that.

The Demon King gazed upon the true might of the real Kireina.

His mouth fell open in shock.

He attacked anyway.

Sharp jaws, eye beams, chaos magic, spacetime distortion strikes—anything he could muster.

If he had been fighting anyone else in her group, he knew they would have died horribly.

But Kireina...

Was simply too different from the rest.

Perhaps the only Cultivator of Heart, Heaven, and Earth to have reached such an exalted Realm!

"Second Form – Defiance of the Nine Heavens!"

The starry skies shattered, revealing nine colossal heavens stacked above the Sun and Moon Domain.

Her sword cleaved through them, not to destroy, but to rewrite their laws. Each heaven cracked open.

From the fissures poured rivers of light and darkness, chaos and blessing, entwined into a single unstoppable stream. All of it converged into an endless sword.

Her Infinite Heavens Sword revealed its true nature.

Kireina's blade sliced through the monstrosity, severing his existence not only in the physical plane but across all planes simultaneously.

"A-AAAHHHHHHH! NO, NO...! STOP!!!"

The Demon King resisted with desperate fury, his powers straining to slow her slash.

Kireina's answer was to push even further beyond.

She closed her eyes and channeled what burned within her Heart.

That Pillar of Light born from her clash against the Star of Misfortune, the evolution of her own System.

Kireina recalled her countless lives and memories. They stacked together into pure Heart Essence.

Power.

She ascended to the Plane of Soul, then Ki, and finally Fate itself.

"Third Form – Pillar of Celestial Enlightenment."

Through Repentant Enlightenment, Kireina transformed her obsessive struggle, endless agony, and searing pain into raw strength.

A beautiful pillar of blinding white light manifested.

Before such an attack, the Demon King had no defense.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

He could only scream in torment as everything he was, is, and once had been was being utterly erased.

BOOOMMM!!!

A massive explosion of blinding light engulfed his entire being.

Yomi trembled, splitting apart into two pieces as the world around her quaked.

But Kireina stood motionless, watching as the Demon King was consumed by her light.

Unable to resist or even speak, his entire existence vanished.

"..."

Or so she thought.

FLUOSH!

Before death could fully claim him, a deep darkness surged from beyond another dimension.

Using the Demon King as a dimensional gate.

"GUAAAGGH?!"

He suffered an even more gruesome ending. Whatever remained of him while he disintegrated was repurposed, forming a monstrous, fleshy portal over a kilometer tall.

"What?"

Even Kireina was taken aback by the sight.

This was, without question.

A Dimensional Invasion!

She glanced behind her. Everyone else stared in the same direction.

Izanami, contained by Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and the rest of the world's forces, began to weep. She lost all will to fight.

As for his wives, after dying for the tenth time simultaneously with him, they no longer revived.

"What's happening now?!" Amaterasu demanded furiously.

"Looks like we're not done yet—something is coming!" Tsukuyomi said, clicking his tongue. "And where is Susanoo when we need him?!"

RUMBLE!

Black thunder gathered within the portal built upon the Demon King's lingering soul. It opened wide, revealing a deep, inky darkness.

Kireina felt an immediate connection to this Dimension.

It was as though it were her home, calling out to her.

But she shook her head and took a step back, eyes fixed on what emerged.

Massive vessels, floating airships constructed entirely from black, metallic exoskeletons forged of miasma itself.

Chaos.

Pure Chaos Elemental Essence.

It poured everywhere, distorting Yomi even further than Ame-no-Mikaboshi ever could.

"The Chaos Plane?!"

A Primordial Plane, a Dimension that spanned across reality.

The birthplace of all Primordial Chaos, the fundamental building blocks of creation itself.

And then.

TRUUUM!

Kireina sensed an immense presence emerging.

No.

"Ah!"

Presences!

Many of them!

Many presences at once.

A giant claw reached out from the portal alongside the floating chaotic vessels.

Slowly, a colossal creature emerged, a king among kings, a monster born and raised in pure chaos.

Then another.

And another.

And another!

When six had appeared, the seventh finally emerged.

He was different from the rest, who resembled enormous, armored humanoid monstrosities made entirely of Primordial Chaos.

He was metallic and mechanical, clearly shaped by human hands, which made him even more unsettling.

Kireina thought he resembled an evil mecha.

His appearance struck the hardest. He exuded overwhelming power, multiple cores within his body radiating Universal Energy.

He seemed the strongest among them, floating above the others. A long crimson cape made of blood-like miasma waved in the wind.

Silence fell. These beings of incomprehensible might simply surveyed their surroundings, black crowns resting upon their heads.

Each one surged with power far greater than the Demon King's.

Several times stronger!

Kireina swallowed hard but refused to retreat any further.

She gripped her two swords tightly, focusing.

And then they finally spoke.

"What a bizarre land we've landed on."

"Is this not Genesis anymore?"

"I sense a large quantity of chaos energy."

"It is extremely rich in cosmic energy as well."

"Shall we conquer it?"

"First come first serve, right?"

They completely ignored Kireina and everyone else standing before them.

Why?

Even the greatest among them—Amaterasu—was an ant compared to these titans whose size spanned hundreds of kilometers.

They existed on an entirely different scale!

"W-Who...! Who are they?" Amaterasu whispered, her lips trembling. "What's happening now?!"

"Sister, lower your voice...!" Tsukuyomi hissed. "These beings belong to a Dimension above ours! They are... Cosmic Visitors—Beyonders!"

"...?!"

Beyonder—a concept few on Earth understood, and even fewer among the Gods.

Amaterasu, however, knew the term.

It could be summed up in a few words: "Visitors From a Higher Plane of Reality."

These visitors wielded such overwhelming power that fighting them was utterly pointless.

You would always lose.

Thus, Tsukuyomi's instinct was to let them pass and flee.

If they wanted Yomi, so be it.

They had to get out of there!

However.

The seventh of these beings fixed his gaze at someone.

Not them, thankfully.

But...

Kireina.

"You."

Kireina, unlike the others, felt no fear. She met their stare with her sharp red eyes.

"Yes?"

She asked with a polite smile, ready for anything.

"Are you the Spawn of Chaos that facilitated our emergence on Genesis?"

"...I might be."

The other entities turned toward the seventh and began addressing Kireina.

"Oh? What is this?"

"I hadn't noticed the little ant."

"Shall I keep her as my pet?"

"She's cute, and looks soft—are you sure she won't break?"

"Enough," the Seventh commanded. "I am Obhedhrur, the Fifth King of Chaos. And these are my fellow Kings of Chaos. We govern the Seven Regions of the Chaos Plane. You have potential. Much to be uncovered. Join us."

"...?!"

Kireina's eyes widened as their words sank in.

What should she do now?

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