In the Celestial Realm, within Takamagahara, the war between the ancient gods had been raging for a long time. The stalemate between them had persisted for a significant period, yet this unsustainable balance was about to be shattered. The scales of power were finally beginning to tilt.
The illusory divine soul of the Ancient God of Darkness spread its massive wings, spanning over a thousand meters. Her claws dug deep into the Great Snake's body, attempting to drag out its divine soul. However, she could only pull out a small portion before she was unable to drag it any further. The Great Snake in its complete form possessed a powerful resilience that the Ancient God of Darkness, existing only as a divine soul, could not handle alone.
While the Ancient God of Darkness was dragging the Great Snake's divine soul and using her abilities to stall its main body, the Great Snake began to manipulate tens of millions of snake heads growing from the fleshy earth to launch a fierce offensive against her. The Ancient God of Darkness stagnated and then dissolved all the attacks aimed at her, yet the Great Snake's assault did not end there.
In the sky, countless modern gods were breaking through the Boundary Wall to enter Takamagahara. They were not only modern gods from Yamato Mythology but also many from other mythologies—those that had been corrupted by the Great Snake. The Great Snake was now summoning its modern god puppets from all over the world to launch a joint attack on the Ancient God of Darkness. Facing the numerous modern gods continuously entering the war in Takamagahara, the defensive pressure on the Ancient God of Darkness grew heavier and heavier.
Yet, whether it was the Great Snake's offensive or the encirclement by the modern gods, neither was the greatest problem facing the Ancient God of Darkness. The biggest predicament she faced at this moment actually came from within herself.
The current Ancient God of Darkness was merely a solitary divine soul without any vessel to inhabit. Radiating power on such a massive scale would inevitably lead to an unstable state. Just as it had been when she sealed Chang'e, the divine soul mode could not be maintained indefinitely. If she did not return to a vessel or a seal after a certain amount of time, she would experience chaotic dissipation.
Finally, under the infinite stalemate against the Great Snake and the many modern gods, the stability of the dark divine soul reached its limit. Her illusory body began to deform and twist amidst waves of fluctuations, unable to maintain its current form. Her ability to resist the Great Snake and the army of modern gods began to weaken. Attacks that she could previously freeze a thousand meters away were now pushing to within a few hundred meters, as offensives from all directions constantly closed in.
It was at this moment, taking advantage of the instability of the Ancient God of Darkness's divine soul, that the Great Snake broke free from the soul-grip and escaped the stagnated state. In an instant, the eight giant heads of its main body regained their freedom.
"You are finished!"
Whispering with sinister malice, Yamata no Orochi's eight heads lunged toward the Ancient God of Darkness. With her divine soul unstable, the Ancient God of Darkness found it difficult to stall or solidify the Great Snake's main body. The Great Snake's eight giant heads broke through the defensive line, opening eight bloody maws to tear into her. The Ancient God of Darkness's defense was declared broken at this moment.
Right then, a tremor of shattering space echoed. Over a dozen tall, black figures broke through the boundary and descended into the space of Takamagahara. At the same moment, they stood before the Ancient God of Darkness to shield her.
Amidst the crisp clanging of metal striking metal, eight tall, mechanical giants used their indestructible bodies to block the eight giant snake heads. Various weapons struck the snake heads or wedged directly into their massive maws, stopping them in their tracks.
'Finally... have they arrived?' Miketsu's consciousness within the Ancient God of Darkness couldn't help but think as she watched the scene. Conversely, the Great Snake showed a look of astonishment.
"These are... divine remains..." The Great Snake's eight pairs of snake eyes widened, then narrowed slightly as it increased the force of its attack. The eight mechas were pushed back by the sheer physical force of the Great Snake's heads, but then three more mechas joined their defensive line, barely managing to withstand the Great Snake's biting assault.
Seizing this opportunity, the Ancient God of Darkness's unstable divine soul began to shrink rapidly. The dark aura filling the sky retracted toward the final remaining mecha, eventually adhering completely to its surface and swiftly seeping entirely inside.
Once the divine soul was in place, a pair of red lights flickered within the dark shadows of the mecha—The Emperor's helmet. It reached out its hand, and the surrounding Boundary Wall continued to shatter. A Dark Giant Crossbow, even larger than the mecha itself, pierced through the air. The Emperor gripped it firmly and aimed at the Great Snake's heads that had broken through the defense. Upon pulling the trigger, a massive pitch-black arrow, carrying the dark aura, shot straight toward the Great Snake. It pierced through the foremost head of the Great Snake, causing it to howl in pain. As it recoiled, it commanded the army of modern gods in the sky to attack the mechas.
In an instant, the gods began to use their various abilities, calling forth countless arrogant and powerful thunders, storms, fires, lights, and ice spikes... Among them, the sun disk of the only Chief God, Amaterasu, was exceptionally dazzling.
At that moment, a light and gentle voice, like a celestial melody, rang out. A silver-white wave accompanied this ethereal sound, spreading from the zenith of the sky. Instantly, the thunder was extinguished, the light dimmed, the storms stopped abruptly, and all manifestations of divine power were completely erased. Even Amaterasu's shining sun disk body was instantly snuffed out.
At the zenith, the source of the wave, the silver-haired Princess Kaguya floated. With the silver-white light flickering in her eyes, every modern god in the entire space was suppressed, unable to release even a spark of power.
"Chang'e!!"
The Great Snake roared, and then the thousands of fleshy snake heads stretching across the entire earth extended and lunged upward frantically, seemingly wanting to bite Princess Kaguya out of the sky. Princess Kaguya also emitted silver beams of light to shatter countless incoming snake heads, but because her origin was damaged and she was extremely weak, she could not handle too many while still suppressing the army of modern gods.
And at this time, the dark mechas controlled by Miketsu also moved.
With The Emperor as the core, over a dozen dark mechas rapidly converged. They linked and assembled with each other amidst constant transformations. During this process, various components continuously broke through the boundary to enter this space, assembling and combining onto the main body. By continuously absorbing new parts, a black-gold super-giant mechanical construct rapidly took shape, and steel wings over a thousand meters wide unfurled to cover the sky.
Amidst the roaring echoes of the alien-constructed engines, several steel-chained tail feathers spanning a thousand meters spread out. Precise and complex mechanical structures driven by the coordinated movements of the ancient god's divine remains allowed the Ancient God of Darkness to manifest once more in this sky. However, this time she was no longer illusory, but possessed a mechanical body of steel.
With a sharp, piercing cry, countless transformations began to occur on the mechanical body of the Ancient God of Darkness. Beneath the unfurled steel wings, thousands of firepower channels opened, and what poured out from them was a barrage of firepower that rained down from the heavens.
Beams of light, energy shells, cannon fire, and even missiles... the thousand-meter-wide steel wings brought down a rain of death, saturating a vast area. It fell upon the fleshy earth covered in countless snake heads. The power contained in each projectile of the barrage was equivalent to a full-strength strike from Miketsu in her Qian Bow mode.
In an instant, explosions thundered everywhere. Light blasts and raging flames swept across the entire earth. Under the wide-area heavy bombardment of the Ancient God of Darkness's mechanical body, everything within sight, including the Great Snake's main body, was submerged in a sea of fire.
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