Epic of Caterpillar-Chapter 2926 - 2927: The Final Battle Against Genesis

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"I never imagined we would meet again under these circumstances, Genesis! And to think you would leave your Realm!" Flora roared, confronting the giant, white-feathered dragon-like cosmic entity—the daughter of two Primordials, Genesis herself, the Supreme Ruler of the world that bore her name. "How could you let him mind-control you?! You're the strongest being I've ever known, yet you've become someone else's puppet?! You, the most cunning schemer alive?"

"THE DIGNITY OF THE SUN CLEARLY EVADES YOUR LOWLY MINDS. BUT THAT DOES NOT MATTER."

Genesis's voice boomed, shaking heaven and earth. Brilliant white cosmic light spread in all directions as she began refining the surrounding space with her Trait, bending everything to become part of her power.

"FLORA, AURA, SYSTEM MASTER, LUCIFER—ALL OF YOU ARE TRAITORS! BEGONE!"

Genesis raged. She opened her dragon-like maw and unleashed a devastating breath attack—beams of white void that erased everything in their path.

Thanks to the Sun God's Blessing, her power had risen to even greater cosmic heights, fully awakening her true Primordial might and surpassing the Universal Realm.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

Countless explosions tore through Tokyo's ruined streets. The Supreme Gods swiftly dodged her beams and began circling her—only to encounter other familiar faces who had also fallen to the Sun God's brainwashing.

The Supreme God of Time.

The Supreme Goddess of Souls and Reincarnation.

The Supreme Goddess of Fate and Destiny.

And the newest Supreme God—the Supreme God of the Moon, Genesis's Tsukuyomi.

Genesis's Amaterasu, the new Supreme Goddess of the Sun, had already been devoured along with the entirety of Genesis's Sun, granting the Sun God even more terrifying power.

"I've always wanted you all to die," the Supreme Goddess of Fate and Destiny declared, her true feelings laid bare. She resembled a colossal Arachne—her lower half a massive golden spider woven from constellations and firmaments, her upper body radiant golden light threaded with countless strands, her hair flowing beautifully. "I shall manipulate Fate and Destiny to watch you perish!"

Her powerful Supreme Cosmic Domain manifested, trapping their attackers in her playground. She flicked her fingers, weaving the Threads of Fate to force disasters upon them.

They suddenly lost balance and fell, failed to evade Genesis's attacks, felt their powers falter for a moment, and were struck with dizziness or overwhelming drowsiness.

"For the Sun God… I must do anything I can…" The Supreme Goddess of Souls and Reincarnation spread her arms. A gigantic Wheel of Reincarnation appeared, from which billions of souls emerged and reincarnated into powerful Cosmic Soul Spirits that assaulted everyone while constantly damaging their souls. Her Domain overlapped with Fate's, weakening their targets' souls, rendering them vulnerable to devastating soul damage, and halting any regeneration.

"Time is of the essence… and I shall dictate it," the Supreme of Time muttered. He waved his skeletal hands, spreading his Domain across the battlefield and freezing time for his enemies as they were suddenly assaulted from every direction.

Flora, the System Master, Aura, and Lucifer were quickly overwhelmed. They could do nothing as the three Supremes toyed with them and Genesis continued firing her beams of primordial white void. She paused briefly, then began charging an even stronger attack to finish them once and for all.

"D-Damn it! These tricky bastards!" Aura groaned.

"This is ridiculous! How strong are they?!" Flora cried.

"They've grown much stronger thanks to the Sun God's blessing!" the System Master said.

"Hmm." Lucifer scanned the surroundings and began moving countless hands within Hell.

Now that Hell lacked Archdemons, he held absolute control over the Dimension. He rapidly shifted it toward their location.

Meanwhile, Flora heard the voice once more.

"Please… for my planet… let me help you… become my vessel… and I shall grant you… the unlimited power of this world… and the Heavenly Domain Tree…"

"…!"

Flora instantly recognized the speaker: the Soul of Earth itself, whispering, urging her to become its vessel.

Such a pact carried many risks and variables. At first, Flora had refused to consider it.

But now she had no real choice.

"Fine! So be it!"

"…Thank you."

The moment the pact was sealed, Genesis laughed maniacally. She opened her jaws and unleashed her super-charged attack—capable of annihilating hundreds of galaxies.

If this planet had not been an immensely resilient cosmic world, it would have been obliterated long ago by the sheer pressure of these assaults.

TRUUUUM! 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

The beam reached the Supreme Gods. They tried to resist, but manipulated Fate and Destiny worked against them, Time constantly opposed them, and their very Souls writhed in agony. They could not hold.

"PERISH, YOU NUISANCES!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Genesis laughed wildly, all inhibitions gone under the Sun God's brainwashing. Her attack struck the Supremes. Blinding light consumed them, threatening to erase them from existence entirely.

BOOOMMM!!!

At that moment, powerless and unable to fight back, the Supreme Gods truly believed this was the end. They would die here—pathetically, without Kireina even able to help them, as she battled an even greater monstrous threat.

And yet…

FLASH!

The explosion vanished, absorbed by a towering pillar of bright golden light surging from the planet's core. The Gods watched in awe and disbelief as Flora floated within it, drawing in an endless torrent of cosmic life essence.

"F-Flora?!" Aura gasped, staring at her overwhelming power.

"I am no longer just Flora. I am Mother Earth herself—I have become the vessel for this Cosmic Planet's Soul!" Flora roared. "And I shall wield her power—the Heavenly Domain Tree—to end this war and protect the planet!" Her voice blended with another's, resonant and ancient.

"No way… that's just insane!" The System God felt a twinge of jealousy.

"Fufu, go for it, Flora!" Lucifer cheered. "I have something else I'm preparing, but I need a bit more time!"

"VERY WELL!"

Flora charged forward. Empowered by the planet itself, she radiated unprecedented might. The Supremes of Time, Destiny, and Souls tried to stop her, but Flora smashed them aside with massive fists of wood and stone that erupted from her body. She grew enormously to match Genesis's colossal size.

"Eternal Blooming Nature Soul – Primordial Fists of the Earth."

BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

The three Supremes were quickly overwhelmed. Holes riddled their massive forms; their Domains shattered into fragments and scattered. They were not fully defeated yet but weakened enough for Aura and the System Master to handle.

"I'll leave those three to you! I have someone I need to talk to!"

Flora rushed toward Genesis. The giant dragon-like Primordial roared in response, opening her jaws once more and unleashing another devastating beam of white void.

"FLORA! WHATEVER POWER YOU HAVE IS USELESS AGAINST MY WRATH! FOR I AM THE WORLD YOU'VE LIVED IN FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS!"

Genesis raged. Her beams struck Flora with tremendous force. A massive explosion followed—but Flora pressed forward, her body expanding further until she matched Genesis's size.

"ENOUGH!"

With a ferocious slap, she smashed Genesis's head into the pavement below. The shockwave crumbled half the city into piles of concrete.

BOOOM!

"Nnnggh…! H-How dare you…! Harm your ruler…!" Genesis groaned, opening her eyes blazing with fury. Small tears fell from several of them—the pain was unfamiliar and infuriating.

"You are not my ruler anymore, Genesis!" Flora roared. "I've always wanted to slap you, by the way. But it doesn't feel satisfying when you're just a stupid puppet enslaved by that sun god! Wake up, imbecile!"

Flora kicked her away. Genesis's immense body collapsed, crushing through the city and landing on the mind-controlled vessel of the Netherworld Ruler, Hades—smashing half his body into smithereens as her white aura scorched him.

"DEATH! DEAAAAATH!"

The monstrous vessel roared and advanced on Flora—only for her to strike him down with eight arms of hard wood and stone.

Zagreus and his group, who had come to stop his father's rampage, watched as Flora weakened him for them.

"This man is not my enemy, but I will help you regardless, young ones."

"Eternal Blooming Nature Soul – Divine Stakes of Primordial Life."

Stakes of cosmic dimensional wood from the Heavenly Domain Tree manifested and rained down, piercing the giant Undead Monstrosity and sealing most of its primordial powers. The deadly nether fog that kept Zagreus's group at bay dissipated.

"T-Thank you, great supreme goddess!"

"Save your father, Zagreus. And his auntie for you."

"A-Auntie…!"

Flora had always been on good terms with Hades. Despite their opposing authorities, she had repeatedly urged him to become the Supreme God of Death. He always declined. She had watched Zagreus and his sister grow up and was also a close friend of their mother, Persephone, a Goddess of Spring and Nature, one of her many daughters.

"Persephone, I know you're resting, but it's time to wake up your husband!"

As she called, Persephone—sleeping within Zagreus's Divine Realm—opened her eyes. She received her mother's powerful blessing and stepped forth, overflowing with renewed strength.

"Yes, mother! I will!"

"Good."

Flora watched as Genesis slowly began to recover. She rushed forward again, pummeling her relentlessly and driving her into the ocean.

SPLASH!

Zagreus stared in awe as Flora and Genesis wrestled. In the distance, the Supreme of Star Ocean, Space, and the System battled the Supremes of Time, Destiny, and Souls.

Never in his life had he imagined such a battle could occur.

But wait—where was the Supreme of the Moon?

Down below.

"Nnngghh…!"

"You think you're better than me?!"

Earth's Tsukuyomi battered his parallel self fiercely. Though both fought with equal ferocity, Earth's Tsukuyomi—going all out—proved stronger!

"The Sun is…! I must…!"

Genesis's Tsukuyomi kept trying to worship the sun, a contradiction that weakened his own elemental powers. The Sun God had never considered—or cared about—this flaw.

"You're my own parallel self and yet you worship the sun?! Fool!"

Earth's Tsukuyomi bombarded him relentlessly. Genesis's Tsukuyomi constantly dodged. Both Gods of the Moon clashed with savage intensity; their Moons manifested within their Divine Domains.

Genesis's Tsukuyomi should have been technically stronger—he wielded the power of Genesis's Moon, the largest in the universe, larger than multiple stars combined.

Yet his devotion to the sun prevented him from channeling its full might. All that power went to waste.

"Moonlight Judgement! Shining Eclipsing Moon Blade!"

Earth's Tsukuyomi unleashed everything. A mirror sword of moonlight formed in his hand and sliced through Genesis's Tsukuyomi. The attack damaged his soul deeply and severed it from his body. The brainwashing finally shattered.

"Kuaaaghh?!"

Genesis's Tsukuyomi screamed and vomited blood. He fell to the ground, materializing only as a soul wracked with pain—and regret as he realized what he had done.

"T-The Sun God! He brainwashed everyone…! Y-You…! Please help us…! She ate Amaterasu…! Ahhh…! She… she was the woman I loved…"

"So in that universe you aren't siblings… I see." Earth's Tsukuyomi smiled bitterly and nodded. "I also loved my sister."

"I feel so powerless… Anything I try never gets me anywhere… I am weak and manipulable, a tool… I've always been a tool…" Genesis's Tsukuyomi wept.

"Not anymore," Earth's Tsukuyomi said. "Come. Join me. Parallel selves can become one in this world—just as it happened to Kireina and many others."

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