One-way traffic

I could feel that my breathing was almost nonexistent.

Logically speaking, being pierced through the heart is fatal for a human being.

Cain, however, was different. His entire body had been almost completely transformed into pure fire element, so he did not die immediately.

Without hesitation, he turned his gaze to Elherut, which was located in the sky above.

The enormous fire monster roared after receiving Cain's command.

Its body changed almost instantly.

Bang——! ! !

A colossal body comparable to that of Tiamat—a monster with nine heads—appeared on the land.

It stood in an area far from the black mud, staring at the huge metal mass that had appeared in mid-air, and opened its mouth without hesitation.

Endless flames erupted from its mouth.

"How could I let you succeed—!!"

Hatsune Miku's outfit changed in an instant.

It was a white and blue princess dress imbued with pure ice power.

Snow Future 2019.

The girl raised her wand high, holding a scythe called Nathos in one hand, and unleashed unparalleled ice light towards the direction Elherut roared.

This is the power of ice, capable of freezing everything instantly.

With a brightness surpassing all light in the world, the icy blue fluid collided with Elherut's breath in an instant.

It's now.

Accelerator completely locked onto a single point on the monster and took action accordingly.

First of all.

He manipulated time.

"ZeroZone".

The white monster raised high the arm that was meant to be used against the god Cundiamatis.

—Bang.

Time in the whole world was forced to come to an end.

Globalization, as a silent and static entity, allows only one side to pass through and only one person to carry out activities within it.

No.

There's probably only one guy who's still able to move around.

Before them stood Tiamat, the mother goddess who could ignore even attacks based on time-space paradoxes and against all sorts of instant-death powers.

In this static world where nothing could move, it actually began to move slowly.

But Accelerator didn't focus his attention on her; now was not the time to care about Tiamat.

Clang! With his left hand, he manipulated the power of space, once again crushing the opponent with a planetary-level gravitational field, rendering him completely immobile.

His other hand was aimed directly at Hatsune Miku.

"Seal of Time —!!"

A circular, blank area erupted from his body.

That space enveloped Hatsune Miku's body and clearly imprinted something on her.

The next moment.

The girl's consciousness returned in this frozen space-time.

"Well--?!"

Hatsune Miku trembled slightly in shock.

Before she could even process what had happened, she was met with a scene where everything in the world was frozen in place.

Time...has been stopped?

The girl didn't ask any more questions. She only glanced at Accelerator and, after confirming his gaze, she completely understood what she had to do.

It's something that only I can accomplish at this time.

She once again manipulated the power of ice, condensing faint ice particles beneath her, allowing her to perform flight-like movements in the frozen space.

In the entire world, apart from himself, Tiamat behind him, and Accelerator, no one else could move any further.

This naturally includes Cain and the monster named Elherut.

…so.

"It's time to put an end to all of this!"

She raised her wand high, and a crystal-like, shimmering light burst forth instantly.

An ice-blue magic circle, unfolding like a lotus flower, completely enveloped Elherut's body.

next second.

Hatsune Miku arrived directly in front of her opponent and thrust the Nathos, which she was holding tightly in her right hand, directly into him.

It pierced the body of Elherut, who had evolved into an ice block.

Bang——! ! !

The moment the karmic fire ignites, the flow of time returns to normal.

Boom! !

Elherut, who was hit head-on, had his body instantly burned to ashes.

Instead of being empowered by the power of water or fire, the flames of the scythe in Hatsune Miku's hand have taken control of her power.

This means that it can no longer maintain the immortality that can only be obtained through fire.

Click click click click——

Starting from the bottom of Elherut's body, little by little, its entire body began to melt into pure ice.

And just like that, Hatsune Miku suddenly struck him with her magic wand.

It turned into dust and ice shards scattered across the sky.

There was no further action, and Elherut vanished completely.

There's no way to bring him back to life.

"Cough...Is that so...?"

In the end, they couldn't stop their actions.

Cain knew perfectly well that since Elherut had met such an end, his own fate was self-evident.

—Hephaestus.

In ancient Greek mythology, he was a god skilled in forging and fire, one of the twelve Olympian gods, and the child of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Hera, the queen of the gods.

That was one of his abilities, a power constructed from the power of this deity.

Its effect is that the person who obtains this power transforms themselves into an indelible element of fire.

Moreover, once in this posture, the object held in one's hand will transform into a corresponding melee weapon according to one's imagination, even if it is just an ordinary tree branch. This is the effect of the power corresponding to the status of the God of Forging.

Cain, possessing this power, can not only act as a pure fire element, but also has a constitution that cannot be extinguished and can regenerate like flames.

It was through this power that he was able to integrate a part of his own body—this flame—into Elherut's body, thus gaining control over him.

Elherut possesses the power of a legendary monster called Hydra.

It was precisely because of this power that he lost himself... which is why Cain was able to take advantage of this situation to invade Hephaestus's flames into his body and forge him into a puppet under his command.

This capability has now been cracked.

The scythe of karmic fire, which also possesses the property of never being extinguished, is even more powerful than his own.

boom--

Before I knew it, my body had completely fallen to the ground.

Cain lay there peacefully, feeling the ground behind him gradually turn red with blood. Hephaestus's fire power... was gradually losing its effect.

Even my vision started to blur.

He gritted his teeth and, with great bravado, raised his head to look at the enormous metal structure high in the sky.

—That thing was slammed back at Tiamat.

Bang! ! !

Almost the instant she was struck by that thing, the Mother Goddess of Creation completely lost all her power.

The black mud covering the ground evaporated in an instant, and Tiamat's true form fell into the depths of the underworld.

ended.

This combination of metal and mineral could indeed have a great impact on Tiamat, directly erasing her immortality as BEAST II.

In the underworld, she is no longer the creator goddess of Earth. There is no living life there, and all the immortality she possessed has been destroyed.

King Gilgamesh's guess was correct, and the decisions made by Accelerator and the others were overwhelmingly perfect.

"…ha."

It was at this very moment.

Cain laughed.

"Hahahahahahaha—!!!"

He ignored the shocked looks everyone was giving him and just kept laughing wildly.

"Thank you so much... I really, thank you so much."

"The plan is 100% complete... Yes, this is just the beginning."

hum.

Buzzing sounds—!!!

An even greater tremor emanated from the depths of the entrance to the underworld.

"What, what happened?!"

Because of this tremor, Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others were almost shaken into the underworld.

Then, they all saw it.

On the inner side of the underworld, a white and red light shone.

Meanwhile, streaks of deep purple light continuously drifted down from the sky and were sucked into the pit in the underworld.

So what exactly is inside the underworld right now?

The answer is that it was a combination of metals and minerals that they had just thrown down themselves to deal with Tiamat.

…No, at this point, it shouldn't be described using that term anymore.

"What on earth is going on, Fujimaru! Your reaction over there... suddenly there's an incredibly huge surge of energy, what is this? It's even more intense than Tiamat's current Spirit Origin reaction!"

The doctor's words left everyone speechless.

They could only gaze down at Cain, the dying being.

"...What the hell did you do?"

"Me? Didn't I already tell you?"

Even though there was no hope of survival, Cain's face was still full of smiles.

He looked at Accelerator and spoke to the only person he considered his greatest enemy.

“My ultimate trump card is neither Tiamat nor any of the guys here.”

“None of you can guess what my trump card is... so now, it’s time to reveal it.”