Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-1925

Some minutes ago, within the Realm of Helheim…

Once they landed on the shores of the Realm, all Supreme Gods ended in different places.

The Supreme Goddess of Life and Origin, Flora found herself in a desolate land covered on pure death, a gigantic lake made of phantasmal souls emerged, billions of souls merging together into a specter to stop her.

The Supreme God of The Star Ocean, Aura, landed in the middle of two enormous mountains, which harbored enormous Divine Dungeons where undead kept coming out from, led by many Necrotic Death Overlords.

The Supreme God of the System, the System Master himself, watched across the many events, as the System had been greatly damaged after the battle that killed Kireina, and was hastily repairing it to maintain the world of Genesis stable.

And lastly, the Supreme God of Space, Lucifer, landed somewhere else, as he traveled across space itself and looked around, mostly deciding to become a spectator.

Naturally, their paths crossed once their challenges were completed, as the four of them found one another in the middle of this desolate land, following their trails.

"Flora! I've finally found you!" Aura flew across the skies like a mass of cosmic dust, a small nebula overflowing with bright stars.

"Aura!" Flora said, her surroundings having completely become a verdant forest, as in front of her, hundreds of Necrotic Death Lords and millions of Undead laid completely destroyed, covered on plant roots.

"I never thought I would be so happy to meet you." Laughed Aura. "I can feel a fight happening in the deeper areas of the Realm. Kireina's family must be there!"

"I know." Flora nodded. "However, I am not in a hurry. I know they're strong, so they can fend by themselves if possible. I've dedicated myself to purify the Realm with my Life and Nature."

"Why? Wouldn't the nature be destroyed seconds after being born?" Aura was confused.

"Not exactly." Flora smiled deviously. "That's what happened at first, but as I imbued my very Divine Supreme Domain and Aura into this Realm, I've managed to make my own plants evolve, and become capable of resisting the primordial element of death itself. They suck away all malice, miasma, and nether, and flourish endlessly. I've created a path of life and nature."

"Such a thing is possible…" Aura was surprised. "But I am more worried about Kireina's family. Let me help you hasten this process." Both of their Auras combined together, spreading nature and plants more and more.

Green grass grew constantly, then colorful flowers, big trees, and even normal animals such as birds, squirrels, wild dogs, cats, and bears emerged, living in this recently created nature.

This was the divine power of Flora, the manipulation of Life and Origin!

But why was she doing something that could be considered rather useless in such an intense war against an impossibly strong enemy?

Well, there was a very big and easy to guess reason.

The more Flora imbued life and nature into the Realm, the weaker Hel and the Necrotic Plane Ruler grew.

Why? Because both developed, grew, and regenerated from the festering death.

If she covered a large area of this Realm with Life instead, this would cut down the supply of power to Hel and her sponsor, and also this would make it so they become weakened from the Life energy, toxic to these beings.

"By now, at least a third of this realm has been covered on my plants and nature." Flora smiled, her sharp eyes gleaming cunningly. "This should give us plenty of time…"

"Oh, what a surprise. It seems we meet once more. Flora, Aura." Suddenly, space opened, as a gorgeous, demonic lady appeared, Lucifer, the Supreme Goddess of Space. Or well, one of his many vessels.

"So you're finally showing yourself." Flora sighed. "For how long you have been spying on us?"

"For a while now~" Lucifer laughed.

"I guess it is to be expected, you never said you would actually cooperate with us." Sighed Aura.

"Indeed! I only wanted to help you get here, but this place… I would rather not participate for now." Lucifer smiled. "Oh my, and my good friend is coming right there."

FLAAAASH!

BAAAAAMMM…!

The System Master suddenly landed on the floor, crushing through several trees, making Flora slightly angered. Yet at the same time surprised and curious.

"System Master?! What happened to you?" She asked in surprise.

"Ungh…" The man slowly stood back up. "The fight between the different Planes happening in our world is disturbing the thin pillars sustaining this world's order. The System, a big pillar, is also being disrupted. It has taken me a while to repair it. Kireina had become a really good pillar to the System without realizing it, now that she's gone, I have to put even more effort."

He slowly stood up, revealing several cracks across his body. Because he was the embodiment of the System as well as its Master, it was natural he would feel this tired and exhausted.

"My mother is crying in pain…" He sighed, hearing the soundless screams of pain coming from the System itself. While he controlled it and was part of it as its major administrator, the true system was a connective network of divine power and divine runes of tremendous power, one of Genesis' first creations.

Despite being like a big computer more than anything, it had life, and although it lacked emotions, and didn't had a personality either, it could feel pain, and agony.

The disruption of this world's Pillars of Reality was making her slowly wear down, and it seemed as if Genesis herself was doing nothing about it… yet.

"Ugh, you sure look terrible." Lucifer sighed, using her Spatial Supreme Divinity to heal his wounds by patching up the space within the System master's very body.

"You don't need to heal me, these wounds is what I deserve, for being unable to stop Kireina's death… And for doing all these awful things to her…" He sighed. "It is like karma, hahah…"

"Don't say such foolish things-" Flora's words were suddenly interrupted.

Crack… crack…!

CRACK!

By space and time cracking and opening into a gigantic portal leading to another pseudo-dimension. The three Supremes were surprised, except Lucifer, who looked at the scene as if he had been expecting it to happen.

Gigantic purple, black, and dark blue colored tentacles emerged, alongside monstrous jaws, and enormous red eyes and blue eyes, with deep black pupils. All of such grotesque eyes glanced from within the portal at the Supreme Gods.

"I've finally found YOU!" It spoke. "Good thing you're all together like this, it'll make things much easier!"

"Huh?! You?!" Flora was shocked. "It's really you!"

"So you've come!" Aura roared.

"This is not good…" The System Master sighed, smiling defiantly at the entity in front of them.

"So you've showed up at long last, Necrotic Plane Ruler." Lucifer sighed. "It is nice to see my old friend doing as good as ever! How is your Plane doing? Still receiving less souls than mine?"

"SILENCE, SHAPESHIFTER!" Roared the monstrous, eldritch being, about a ten percent of his body began to manifest, his presence sending shivers down the spine of even the Supreme Gods themselves! "I'll take this opportunity to kill all four of you pests, so my Incarnation won't have any more problems with you!"

A battle between the Necrotic Plane Ruler and the Four Supreme Gods was about to begin…

And while the entire world was being consumed by wars between different Planes, what would Genesis do now?