Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-1920

Loki opened her eyes, sighing in relief. She felt slightly tired, but stronger than ever to see her children back to their former selves. The madness provoked by that otherworldly fruit was no more.

"You did it." Brontes smiled. "Took you a while, huh?"

"A while?" Loki wondered.

"To realize that those kids mean more than you could ever imagine." Brontes smiled. "Just like with my own daughter, and everyone else…"

"T-Tch… I'm not going to act all sweet and soft or something, if that's what you wanted to see out of me!" Loki said while crossing her arms.

"Heh, your face blushing all over is enough proof anyways." Brontes laughed.

"You guys are finally back guu!" Rimuru celebrated. "I hope you don't want to fight us again even now…"

"Hahaha, we won't." Fenrir laughed a bit at Rimuru's words. "We've already made up our minds, we want to stop Hel."

"It is our fault that she had gone so far…" Jormungandr sighed. "She's screaming for help even now… We always wanted to protect her and to give her everything she needed, yet, when we did so, we also made her feel hollow inside. There were things we should had taught her too…"

"Maybe if we talked some more instead of always feeling afraid of her…" Fenrir sighed. "Perhaps we could had stopped the catastrophes from happening."

"I guess that applies to me a little bit." Loki giggled. "I'm sorry…"

"Being sorry won't resolve anything." Fenrir said.

"Yeah, instead of being sorry, mother, just stay with us until the end." Jormungandr smiled.

"S-So you're really their mother… Does that makes you my great grandmother?" Asked Yiksukesh, feeling surprised.

"I-I guess?" Loki giggled a bit.

"Yaaaay! The family grows bigger! Fenrir is my uncle then?!" Yiksukesh asked.

"Y-Yeah…" Fenrir nodded. "Nice to meet you, little Yiksukesh… I remember hearing a lot about you from my brother."

"Really? Hehehe…" Yiksukesh, who was always hiding her emotions and her thoughts finally began to grow happier. She opened her heart, as Brontes, Nesiphae, Rimuru, and Zehe saw her smile for the first time.

"Well, would you look at that! You're just an average girl now." Laughed Zehe. "I guess pretending to be a little gloomy girl is over for now? Might as well show you to everyone else, they're waiting you inside of the Divine Realm."

"E-Eh?! Ah… W-Well… I'm just happy… I can't help it…" Yiksukesh blushed for a bit, feeling embarrassed.

"Hahaha! All's good, girl!" Wagyu laughed. "I'm glad that amidst so many tragedies, there's a small moment where we can smile and laugh, it always means that everything we did was worth the effort!"

"I suppose you're right, Wagyu." Kekensha nodded. "I'm happy for you, Yiksukesh."

"Heh~ I guess my little adoptive daughter got herself a whole new family." Nesiphae giggled. "Maybe I'll be throw to the side now?"

"E-Eh? Of course not! A-Auntie Nesiphae you're like my mother… Auntie Zehe too… And Kireina…" Sighed Yiksukesh.

"Kireina…" Fenrir said. "The Supreme Goddess of Chaos! Is she not here?"

"That's right, isn't she your strongest warrior and leader?" Jormungandr wondered.

"Ah… well…" Loki sighed, as she quickly saw everyone make a rather gloomy expression.

"Kireina's dead."

Suddenly, the voice of someone very familiar to Loki and her children echoed across the landscapes of Helheim.

It was the voice of Hel herself.

The clean blue sky quickly changed back to its black color, as the clouds covered them completely once more.

Her eyes emerged from within the black clouds, resembling two red eyes glaring down at them.

"I can't believe you've decided to betray me…" Hel sighed. "Fenrir, Jormungandr… You're no longer my brothers… You're only an enemy I'll crush."

"W-What?! Hel! Don't say that…" Fenrir said. "You've been brainwashed, you're merely being manipulated by the Necrotic Plane Ruler!"

"Manipulated? Hah! Me?!" Asked Hel, laughing. "I've never been manipulated. I've been ENLIGHTENED! And you, traitorous, deceivers, betrayers… All of you! Kireina might be gone but you flies continue annoying me, even as I am so close to give this pathetic world to my Master! I'll crush you… No more games! No more patience!"

TRUUUUUMMMMM…!

R U M B L E!

The entire skies above Helheim began shaking and thundering, as Hel's Divine Aura fused with her own Realm's atmosphere, the black clouds suddenly taking the shape of her torso, a gigantic, all-powerful woman made of thunderous black clouds and necrotic energy, her two red eyes glowing brightly as her long white hair waved furiously.

"W-What the hell is she doing?!" Nesiphae was shocked, having never seen such a power before.

"She's merging with the skies?! But I thought she was only a Death Supreme Goddess! Something like this could only be done by the likes of Wind Supreme Gods…" Said Zehe.

"This is bad…" Brontes muttered.

"Hel is much stronger than I imagined…" Rimuru sighed in disbelief.

"Unlike you pathetic Supreme Gods, I have managed to merge my own powers with this Realm's very Core! I have the might of an Entire Realm within me!" Laughed Hel. "And you… will perish before such might! Before you can even confront me within my Castle! Gyahahahaha!"

"W-Wait! HEL! What are you doing?!" Fenrir cried.

"S-She's really has taken over the entire Realm?!" Asked Jormungandr in horror. "T-This is… If she really has done such an insane thing, then her power would be unthinkable!"

"This Realm that has existed the longest and possess trillions of soul and energy accumulated for as long as the New Genesis was born…" Fenrir sighed. "This is bad…"

RUMBLE! TRUUUUMMMM…!

The black clouds began roaring ferociously, as Hel's manifestation finally took form. Her hands waving ferociously as the materialization of her powers emerged as one gigantic scythe made of pure Divine Power and Necrotic Energy…

"[Supreme Divine Netherworld Magic]: [Scythe of the End]!"

Hel started to laugh as she summoned the almighty scythe, bigger than anybody there, and even bigger than the largest of mountains, and swung it vertically, directly towards them!

"PERISH!!!"

CRAAAAAAAASSSSSHHH!!!