Nobody knows how to be a villain better than me.

Damn it! That old bastard Marduk is online! Michael the Godlike, so that's what happened!

The ancient serpent noticed the sudden burst of blazing white light in Michael's eyes, and realizing something was amiss, cursed inwardly.

Clearly, the sudden arrival of reinforcements made the King of Kings wary. His fear and apprehension towards the ancient serpent, his destined nemesis, led him to intend to strike first and eliminate the threat before any further mutations could occur.

Die, you filthy worm!

Marduk, who had forcibly separated most of his consciousness from the white giant god and was now in the form of Michael, was sniping at Samael. His eyes were filled with a sinister look, and the greatsword in his hand was engulfed in flames, like a giant cross, which he swung down at the falling ancient serpent.

In the midst of the crisis, everyone was entangled by the densely packed army of angels and had no way to break free to help. They could only watch helplessly as the falling figure was gradually swallowed up by the blazing cross-shaped pillar of light.

"In my name, I call for victory!"

At the critical moment, a high-pitched, sharp cry resounded through the sky. A long spear crackling with golden lightning was thrown like a meteor, striking the weak point of the dark red cross sword, causing the falling cross beam of light to abruptly stop.

Immediately afterwards, the silver-winged celestial horse carried a female war goddess clad in golden armor and wielding a sheepskin shield, bursting forth from the azure pillar of light on the sea surface, catching the flying spear of victory, and standing proudly.

Whoosh!

At the same time, a streak of golden-blue light swept low across the sea, and a pair of jewel-adorned arms scooped up the falling figure. With superb driving skills, the figure almost brushed against the crossbeam of light, breaking through the splashing waves and drifting perfectly around the corner, avoiding the powerful impact.

"Very good, very good, the fat sheep is in hand! Well done, Maana!"

Ishtar looked at the most valuable item in her arms, patted her vehicle, and couldn't help but smile broadly.

Why is this guy always alive?! Why is it that no matter how perfect a plan is, when it encounters this lowly worm, it always spawns countless uncontrollable mutations?!

hateful! hateful! hateful!

The radiant angel in the sky was enraged. He immediately turned his greatsword and swept it across the sea, slashing at the flying celestial ship Maana like a leech.

hum!

However, as the air trembled, a crimson storm stirred up by a stream of ethereal light tore through space and severed the blazing sword light.

"Hey, isn't this the defeated dog from Mesopotamia? What, you've mustered up the courage to come out and bark again?"

At this moment, the Hero King, clad in golden armor and with his upper body covered in red divine patterns, hovered in mid-air, looking down at the radiant figure with a mocking sneer.

"Go away!"

Marduk paused, a strong sense of humiliation welling up inside him. He turned to look at Gilgamesh, whose mockery was at its peak, and roared angrily. He subconsciously raised his greatsword, preparing to first blast away this first wedge that had repeatedly ruined his plans, and continue to pursue the long worm.

"Heavens have desolate seas, earth has prisons—my heel is the wrath of the underworld! Appear, fiery temple, you bastard, stop right there—Spirit Peak Embrace, Underworld's Saddle!"

However, just as this King of Kings made a move, the sea beneath his feet trembled strangely, and dark rocks emerged from the waves, pressing and closing in on Marduk in the center like giant hands.

The goddess of the underworld, standing on the sea, plunged her spear wheel deep into the water, desperately channeling her divine power to restrict the monster's movements.

boom!

Seeing the mountain mass cracking from the impact and about to burst forth with blazing white light, Ai Lei gritted her teeth and turned to warn the two people on the spaceship behind her.

"quick!"

With the sisters' hearts in sync, Ishtar's expression changed slightly, and she immediately understood.

"Maanna, the gates are open! Jump ready!"

Instantly, under the activation of divine power, the Sky Boat Maana vibrated and trembled, and visible ripples spread through the space in front of it, forming a spatial gate that could be used for teleportation.

"boom!"

Just as Ishtar, carrying Samael, rushed into the spatial gate, the mountain-like cage formed by Ereshkigal behind her suddenly exploded, and the blazing white light flew out once again.

However, as the smoke and dust dissipated, Marduk's pupils contracted sharply, and he was shocked to find that the surrounding space was now filled with golden vortexes.

At the same time, chains shot out with lightning speed and unexpectedly bound themselves to his body.

As he struggled, the chains wrapped around him slithered like snakes, tightening their grip on his limbs, like a spider web, suspending him up.

It defends against purgatory and attacks divinity.

The characteristics of this divinely crafted weapon perfectly restrained his power and divinity.

"Enkidu!"

Marduk gazed at the green-haired beauty who leaped out of the sea and stood in front of Gilgamesh, feeling a strong resistance in his body. He looked unwillingly at his nemesis who finally disappeared into the spatial gate and was teleported a hundred miles away, and gritted his teeth.

"Who gave you permission to address my dearest friend by his name? You bastard!"

The King of Heroes looked down with a cold gaze. The Gates of Babylon behind him opened wide, and thousands of Noble Phantasm prototypes shot out like a meteor shower, breaking through the halo surrounding the bound man and piercing into the body of the Radiant Angel.

"You all deserve to die!"

Frustrated by repeated setbacks and obstacles, Marduk immediately closed his eyes, abandoned Michael as his vessel, and let his consciousness sink back into the white giant. Behind him, the crown-shaped band of light gathered and generated heat, and countless intersecting star rings focused and rotated.

The Genesis Canal: Traveling Light-Years Backward!

Hundreds of millions of streams of etheric light, which had pierced through the various divine eras, converged and solidified before suddenly shooting out.

As that nightmarish scene descended once more, the people, locked in a fierce battle with the angels and unable to escape, felt their scalps tingle.

"Aaaaa!"

Just then, the sea surface trembled violently, and twelve dark blue pillars of light surged forth from the abyss beneath the three bronze gates and three dark curtains, like twelve enormous spears of light supporting the heavens and the earth. The dark blue giant god, which had been reassembled, stood there, chanting loudly, and twelve layers of overlapping dark blue light curtains appeared in front of him.

Boom boom boom!

Under the bombardment of the blazing white light bands as dense as a torrential rain, the dark blue light curtain rippled with both danger and beauty, causing the entire planet to tremble violently, with scenes of plate displacement, river drying up, and volcanic eruptions everywhere.

"This is……"

As Samael gazed at the colossal blue god that appeared amidst the violent shaking, with its layers of light and shadow depicting mountains, rivers, sun, moon, stars, insects, fish, birds, beasts, humans, gods, and spirits, his heart suddenly raced. A strange sense of familiarity welled up within him.

"This is a secret weapon we prepared specifically for this war, for the arrival of Yusei!"

Athena, riding her winged horse, fell into Samael's arms, a pleased smile playing on her lips, and slowly revealed the long-standing scheme of Mount Ares.

In fact, the victory in the war of the giants did not put Athena and the others at ease; Samael's disappearance became a hidden pain for them.

These incredibly wise deities had a vague premonition that the threat from the stars had not been completely eliminated, and therefore had been actively preparing for the next unknown impact.

As early as the expansion of the Persian Empire, when souls began to disappear from the Mesopotamian underworld, the Mesopotamian gods, sensing something was wrong, had already moved to Mount Ares on the advice of their advisors, including Gilgamesh and Athena, to gather their strength and avoid disaster.

As everyone predicted, the subsequent development of the divine era led to a series of religious wars across the land due to their interconnectedness. Greece, because of a certain rumor, became the target of all attacks.

However, it was this half-true, half-false rumor that gave the Greek gods a sudden inspiration: since a single god could not fight against the white giant.

Then let all the gods unite and cultivate an existence that transcends the planet!

So the gods together plunged into the inner sea of ​​the star, using the ley lines to gather the spiritual energy of the entire planet, contributing their divine power and divinity without reservation, and together cultivated this secret weapon to fight against the white giant.

"What's her name...?"

Samael was suddenly struck by a realization, deeply shocked, and, as if remembering something, asked in a dry voice.

"You can call her Gaia, Mother Earth, Spirit of the Planet!"

Athena raised her pretty face, her sparkling eyes showing both pride and remembrance.

This comes from that Greek grandmother who gave love to all living things without discrimination.

Similarly, this planetary spirit, named after Mother Earth, will become the cradle that protects all life.

Samael fell into a brief daze, his mind a jumble of thoughts.

"The Earth is alive!"

In the late 1960s, British atmospheric scientist Woollock first proposed the "Gaia hypothesis" based on this idea. Its main idea is that the Earth itself is a living organism with self-protection and regulation capabilities.

In this world where gods and demons fly, the planet itself also possesses a self-evolutionary, self-protective spirituality, known as the restraining force, or Gaia.

This is both the name of the ancient Greek Mother Earth and a future scientific and magical concept that actually exists.

However, since his arrival, Samael has never witnessed the planet's so-called embodiment of restraint emerge to deal with various crises.

Only now has the ancient serpent come to its senses.

Gaia's birth required a certain opportunity.

Just as apes sensed pain and hunger, they became aware of danger, developed the idea of ​​making tools, learned how to protect themselves, and thus evolved.

Similarly, only when the planet senses a devastating danger will its own self-awareness be born and awaken.

And all of this was caused by the arrival of Wilpa.

It was precisely because of the threat of preying on wandering stars that countless lives were lost, and the overflowing spirituality of life and the divinity of the gods flowed back into the planet's great source, giving rise to the planet's moral self-protection consciousness.

However, by preventing the full-scale invasion of the asteroids and saving the vast majority of the gods and lives that should have been destroyed, Gaia suffered from malnutrition and could not be born on time.

However, with Athena and her companions diving into the inner sea of ​​the star and gathering the planet's great energy, coupled with the re-arrival of the Star Vanguard, Gaia finally revived.

Everything is accidental.

Everything will inevitably happen!

At this moment, as Wilpa and Gaia were locked in a stalemate, before everyone could catch their breath, hundreds of thousands of angels burst out of the gates of the Seven Heavens, spreading out in an orderly fashion in the void, singing hymns of praise.

"O God, your love extends to the heavens."

Your faithfulness, O God, reaches to the heavens.

You saved me from heaven.

Send love and honesty to me

God, may you be exalted above the heavens!

God, may Your glory be higher than the whole earth.

I want to sing hymns, I want to sing praises

I will praise You

We will give thanks to you among all nations.

You are my reliance and my rock.

You are my refuge

I want to cheer, I want to sing.

I will worship You

"Proclaim Your name among the nations!"

Intense, blazing white light emerged from these luminous beings like scattered stars, converging in the sky to form a river-like band of light, flowing into the body of the white giant god like a thousand rivers entering the sea.

In an instant, the shattered star rings reformed, the wounded body of the white colossus vanished, and the azure light screen shattered.

Compared to Wilpa, who destroyed countless civilizations, the newly born Gaia was still too fragile.

“Lord, rise up and scatter your enemies, that those who hate you may flee from your presence; they may be driven away like smoke blown away by the wind, and the wicked may be destroyed in the face of God, like wax melted by fire!”

Immediately afterwards, the angels' praises abruptly turned into a rousing proclamation, and hundreds of angelic legions, like swarms of locusts, swooped down from the cracks in the sky, launching an attack on Greece and the sea.

Boom boom boom!

Swords of blazing fire slashed towards Tanbei Canyon and Wenquan Pass. Wherever the light passed, rocks crumbled, vegetation burned, and everything was reduced to scorched earth.

Whether it was the various tribes of the Persian Empire praying in terror, the remnants of the Greek coalition defending the fortress, or the auxiliary soldiers and wounded who were being transferred from both sides, they all melted into the blazing flames.

The countless scattered spiritual particles drifted into the air, and after being gathered into the fissured white jade throne in the crack, they solidified into light-like rings and were cast back down, rippling outwards and further expanding the scope of the Sea of ​​Nothingness.

Within the area shrouded by the Great Void, in the sky above, one after another, the monstrous eagles, Shera, transformed from birds, swelled and distorted, and swept across, stirring up blazing winds that lashed the earth.

The seas boiled, and the deep-sea serpent Leviathan was born amidst the frenzied battle of sea monsters. It roared as it charged toward the deep-sea fleet, smashing and destroying ships of all kinds, whether made of steel or divine wood, and dragging them into the sea to devour them.

As the seabed crust surged, war-monsters, Behemoths, opened their massive jaws and chewed up the islands and mountains that had fallen into the abyss, along with the flesh and blood of plants and animals, into minced pieces to fill their insatiable stomachs.

At the same time, thick black smoke rose into the air from the crack in the ground. With the annoying buzzing of wings, the resurrected locust demon army of Abaddon burst out of the pit and flew towards the places where fresh life gathered, spreading disease, famine and death.

Burning vegetation and scattered insects and beasts were all broken down into the most basic ether under the blazing white light. The vitality of the earth was plundered inch by inch, and the stars lost their brilliance.

At this moment, after a series of fierce battles, Samael and his men were exhausted. Facing an army of angels and monsters that outnumbered them by dozens of times, they were powerless to break free from the naval battle and stop their invasion of the Greek surface.

Corinth, Thebes, Thebes, Athens, Sparta, Thessaly, and even further afield Macedonia, were struggling to survive the onslaught of monsters as their elite forces were depleted at the front.

In an instant, throughout Greece, as this apocalyptic day approached, ominous bells tolled and flames of war raged.

The world and all things are being decomposed and reconstructed according to the order of Heaven, creating a new era.

"Aaaaa!"

At that very moment, on the Sea of ​​Oceanus, beneath the great whirlpool of the three bronze gates and three layers of darkness, a high-pitched hymn burst forth, washing away the colorless gray light curtain and spreading outwards.

Wherever it passed, the distorted and twisted creations collapsed, turning back into ether, which drifted away with the wind, and the world returned to the serene beauty of the beginning of heaven and earth, when all things were first born.