Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-1801-30041322

Across the grand cosmos, back in the Sea of Emptiness, where Kireina's original Universe resembled a small island floating in a vastly and near endless space, farther away, a grander and more beautiful universe flourished, the Maxima Universe.

Within the confines of this Universe, a powerful and tyrannical Ruler that has governed his Universe using the powers he had developed using his incredible Summoning Dao has been offended by a mere mortal.

Not only Kireina was able to easily decipher his Summoning Dao through a fragment independently developed by someone else, but a Great Goddess also named Ova, who governed all over the Beasts of the World of Genesis and promptly became her ally after her utter defeat, but she even summoned the only Maxima Summon with the greatest affinity with her within his Universe.

Nobody else than the bringer of destruction, a chaotic insect-like Maxima Summon independently born from the Primordial Chaos of the Maxima Universe, the Tyrannical Primordial Chaos Caterpillar, which she jokingly called Bubu!

Oh, the nerve!

And just as he was about to go into that Universe and break through the Universal Walls, he was stopped by the Primordials governing it. Chaos, The One, and even the will of Azathoth, Nyarlathotep stopped his advances, barely managing to buy time before he were to learn Kireina had perished!

Not even her soul was left, and so did her summons die as well!

"Maxima! She's dead now, you have no rights to enter our Universe now!" The Great One protested. "Go away!"

"She's… dead?!" Chaos panicked.

"Leave." Nyarlathotep spoke.

The old man, resembling an ancient sage wearing pristine clothes and having a long white beard glanced at the three Primordials, who barely could hold his power by working together with eyes flashing with bright primordial colors.

"Hmph, it seems to be the case… Whoever slayed that beast has my thanks. However, I have learned she did not left without spreading my Dao's fragments. This time, because my rage has been seethed, I shall leave. But you better take away those fragments from those pesky vermin before I come back!" He roared with anger.

Fully aware that Overseers were watching him already and deciding to retreat back to his Universe before being caught. Although this insight was mostly thanks to his own patron…

[The Cosmic Throne [Butterfly of Seven Colored Wings] recommends your prompt retreat. Overseers are watching over you. You may be able to stand your ground, but against many, you won't have a chance.]

"Hmph… Fine… As long as those bastards don't create a temporary Key again…" The Summoner said, recalling only hours ago, when Kireina's strongest Slimes had combined together with their own Dao Summon Fragments, summoning nobody else but the [Key] of his own Universe, an elusive Maxima Summon he had been searching for ages. However, upon Kireina's death, that very summon disappeared once more, as elusive as ever.

As he retreated, The One, Chaos, and Nyarlathotep felt relieved… only temporarily. Learning that Kireina, their major trump card against the endless dangers of the cosmos had perished was a heavy blow, especially to Chaos, Kireina's mother.

"So she's dead…" Nyarlathotep spoke. "I should never had hopes for her. For now, I will raise my son, Noah. He has been successfully reincarnated in the World of Vampires. In there, I will make him grow into a fitting successor."

"Noah alone won't do." Sighed The One. "Ervas, Veronica, and also Frank and Chaos. I think… No, even all of them… Kireina was too special, losing her…"

"My daughter…" Chaos cried. "Umbra…"

Meanwhile, as they worried for themselves, the Grand Summoner Master of the Maxima Throne sat over his throne, relaxing as he began to recover the strength he lost in that fight, only for his eyes to open wide, only a few hours after Kireina's death, discovering she was not only alive, but she had even regained her Dao Fragments, evolved them into a full-fledged Summoning Dao, and now had three Maxima Summons with her!

"What sort of… Insanity is this?!" He muttered. "Is the root favoring this vermin by granting her Complete Resurrection?! Why?!"

His gaze quickly pierced through countless stars and universes, finally reaching the northernmost area of the Dimensional Boundaries where his Universe and many more existed, discovering a completely abandoned and small Universe, a dying one where all cosmic deities had perished except a single one maintaining everything together, a dragon with the name of Luminous.

"This Universe… Why is it in the shape of a planet?! You're telling me this small universe is a planet by itself?! So there are such wonders in the vastness of cosmos! Nonetheless, this strange world… Grand Terra, is it? Why is she there?! What is she doing in that place?!" He wondered, quickly glancing at her, and finally finding her, many other cosmic presences clamoring to see her, as she had been recently receiving the attention of Null, a powerful Dimensional Ruler!

"She's… Talking with Null?! H-How…?! Am I messing with… someone that is fated to be even greater than me? No, if I stop her growth, then it shouldn't be hard to squish her like a bug." He thought, quickly interrupting other cosmic presences, and making his presence the clearest, scaring Kireina as he sent a direct will to her!

Ding!

[The Universal Ruler [Primordial Summoner of the Maxima Throne] is watching your actions with great anger! He seems baffled by your insolence!]

[The Universal Ruler [Primordial Summoner of the Maxima Throne] has activated his [Maxima Eyes], the vision of his [Primordial Stargazing Eyes Basilisk] are shared with him!]

[His gaze pierce the stars and universes, reaching you in an instant!]

TRUMMMM..!

Suddenly, the stars atop the world aligned together, resembling the ferocious eyes of a Basilisk, glaring me down with fury.

Ding!

[The Universal Ruler [Primordial Summoner of the Maxima Throne] protests that you should be dead!]

[He says that you should forbid the Maxima Summons you hold, and he might forgive your life!]

"You're just threatening me, you can't reach this place, bastard."

Ding!

[The Universal Ruler [Primordial Summoner of the Maxima Throne] is furious!]

[He says that he might not be able to come here yet… but he says that there are many indirect ways to find and destroy you!]

"I knew this would happen eventually." I shrugged. "Come with all you've got."

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