Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-2134

The Endless Darkness meet his end without even being able to see what was coming. Shub Niggurath crushed what barely remained of him, devouring his blood, soul, and flesh before her eyes were set into the floating red rock.

"Is this stone truly going to bring us to that damned hidden world? That world so hidden that not even us can see directly?" Shub-Niggurath asked.

"Abyss is a world located within the deepest part of the Sea of Emptiness. It is a Universal World of its own." Said Yog-Sothoth. "And also one of the largest Fragments of the Origin World's Night, its largest one across the countless Dimensions."

"Nyarlathotep most likely placed Noah in there because she knew it would be one of the hardest worlds for us to reach to… Thankfully, as always, Genesis provides. These fragments, made by Ancient Blood Progenitors that visited that world to go back to their own… They shall be ours now." Nyog'Sothep rejoiced.

Their tendrils expanded across the Outer Plane. Their malefic powers infesting the crimson stone and imbuing it with their desires of destruction and their endless hunger. Noah, the True Child of Azathoth, they simply cannot miss such a delightful meal.

Especially one that could bring them to the same level as Azathoth, and not just the Primordial Being of Kireina's Universe, but the Azathoth that expands across all Universes. The constant, endless dreamer that creates the Outer Gods in every universe. And whose dreams are their reality itself.

"Foolish younglings might thing Azathoth is but a Primordial of that universe. But he's much more. Just like we can exist within many Universal Planes, he is a constant being, the constant dreamer." Shub-Niggurath laughed.

The forces of the Outer Plane moved all at once, hundreds of Outer Gods gathered around the Three Outer Lords, creating a circle with their aberrant and tentacled abominable bodies of all shapes and sizes, twisting around.

Their Void Outer Auras connected; each Minor Outer God was like a Rune inside of an incredibly complex magic circle. The Three Outer Lords oversaw the process, the crimson stone exuding a dark red aura, cutting through space.

FLAAASH!

The ray of dark red light pierced through space, forcefully opening the Portal where the Endless Darkness had emerged from to invade the Spiritual Plane and flew off into the intersection between the Sea of Blood and the Atlantean Azure Sea.

RUMBLE!

The entire Spiritual Plane shook as the gigantic beam pierced through all boundaries. Kireina and everyone else panicked as they sensed the gigantic beam come down. The first thing they thought was that the Outer Gods were sending an attack to destroy both Realms!

"No!"

Kireina quickly conjured barriers around everyone to procure their safety, made out of all her powers condensed, and then flew into the skies, harnessing all her powers at once to clash against the beam.

"You think I will let you do as you please?! Enough is enough!"

Her powerful Authorities fused together, forming a sea of chaotic cosmic flames, frost, and darkness all at once, which she further combined with the power of Aquamarine, Mammon, and Shadrach, alongside all her Skills, Daos, Path Jewels, and Divine Authorities.

SLAAASH!

A powerful Slashing attack. She was unable to Summon Masamune without having to wait 24 hours for it. Even less Bifrost when her other Egos and Summons were in another location within the Spiritual Plane. Nonetheless, her attack was so powerful it distorted space itself, breaking through the dark crimson beam and splitting it apart, before an explosion of shadows and blood energy encompassed the skies.

BOOOOMMM!!

"Did that do it?"

Kireina expanded her senses using her powerful Cosmic Eyes, glancing around her and noticing something. The beam, although destroyed, seemed way too weak. Her senses sent alarms to her, as if warning her of imminent danger, not to her though. To someone else.

"Wait…!" The Blood God cried. "Go down! They're not targeting you nor this Realm, Kireina!"

"What do you- UGH!"

Kireina was unable to react in time, a powerful pulling force took out something deposited inside of her soul with enough power to rip her to shreds. She agonized, as two large crimson crsytals flew off her chest, leaving her exhausted.

FLASH! FLASH!

"T-Those are Abyss Gate Fragments!"

Kireina didn't lose a second, chasing after them by skipping through space. However, each time she was about to grab them, black portals opened around her. Black tendrils and claws attacked her, pushing her away. These attacks were not weak either, with enough power to destroy stars. They dealt such explosive damage Kireina's entire body blew up a fragment of it each time she was hit. And she was unable to predict them as they came. It wasn't a single being attacking her, but many.

"What the…?! FUCK OFF!"

Kireina regenerated constantly with each blow, her powerful fusing together as a swarm of snakes attempting to devour the attacks as they tried to hit her. Many managed to free themselves from her Uroboros Skills even as they were being eaten, unblemished and unaffected by her Devouring Powers.

"No damage?!"

Kireina, who had even killed a Universal Ruler and humiliated Buddha herself, was once more facing a foe that she could not deal with as easily. It was always like this. It filled her with frustration. Always when she felt she was slightly stronger, that she could feel more confident, another monster beyond her power appeared, over and over again!

But she always got through that and came out stronger than ever after dealing with such a challenge. And this was no exception. She fused her Blazing Chaotic Infernal Soul into her weapons, wielding two mighty blazing weapons, a Demonic Axe and a Draconian Sword, and then a pair of azure spears, Aquamarine's new form.

"I won't fall! And I won't let you take away what is MINE!"

With a mighty and relentless roar, Kireina continued chasing the fragments as they moved farther away from her grasp, towards somewhere else. Someone she realized was the person they were targeting. Someone precious to her. She harnessed her chaotic powers, constantly clashing against the incoming blows, managing to parry or block most attacks by a hair, explosions of Chaotic Star Falls bombarding her attacker's appendages.

However, she was still too slow, her teleportation and space movement skills constantly blocked by the presence of beings that distorted reality itself. The portals kept increasing, the Spiritual Plane's Dimensional Will was unable to stop them all from appearing, overwhelmed. Black tentacles, jaws, eyes firing beams of red color, chains of abyssal void, and an invisible pressure dragging her back constantly attempted to stop her, as Kireina kept pushing forwards.

"I should have never left them behind, I should have never moved so hastily!" Kireina blamed herself, but this was a force outside of her understanding, powers beyond her control. And then she saw the fragments colliding with her daughter, Scarlet, and fusing with her body as the girl screamed in agony. A malefic and Outer power surging from her, possessing her very Soul and Origin and using her as a mere material.

A vessel! "You were too late, Kireina."

A malefic voice echoed within Kireina's mind, mocking her.

"SCARLET!"

And then the world was tainted red. -----