"Just now... what happened?"
Not only were the Flugel confused, but even Artosh's heart was filled with a sense of powerlessness.
At this moment, there wasn't a single wound on his body, yet he understood that it was an immense struggle just to move a muscle.
It was as if the strength throughout his entire body had been completely exhausted, a sensation he had never experienced since the moment of his birth.
It was as unbelievable as a tanky LOL hero with a full build of support items being burst down to a single hit point in one second.
His whole body was filled with lassitude, but it wasn't the lassitude of boredom; it was the lassitude of exhaustion.
It was strange. Artosh didn't even know what had happened, but he understood that this battle, which could hardly be called a battle, was already over.
Weakness, helplessness, fear... feelings he had never experienced surfaced in his heart, making him feel a sense of novelty alongside his endless frustration.
This feeling was very unpleasant, but for the God of War, who had been invincible for so long and had fallen into endless boredom and even a bit of stagnation, this sensation was extremely fresh and wonderful.
"It's very simple."
Rias smiled and said, "In that instant, I unleashed an attack that reached the sixth cosmic velocity. The only reason you didn't die is that the attack I launched was limited to set damage."
It sounded like Master Ma's Five- 連-Whip, but the feeling that the entire world had acknowledged Artosh's defeat was something that couldn't be faked.
A Small Universe that has reached the Seventh Sense is capable of throwing punches at the speed of light.
The Leo Gold Saint's ultimate move, the Lightning Plasma, can strike hundreds of millions of light-speed punches in a single instant.
Although the light speed carried by the Small Universe differs in effect from matter reaching the speed of light, it is still enough to shatter stars.
And Rias's Small Universe had already reached the Eighth Sense; it was currently in an accumulation phase.
The five senses of the Fifth Sense, the supernatural powers of the Sixth Sense, the ultimate of the Seventh Sense, and the transcendence of the Eighth Sense.
Almost every aspect had reached its limit, and what followed was limitless accumulation, like the bottom of an abyss, waiting to soar into the sky.
According to the Little Garden system, Rias was only at the level of an exceptional Four-Digit.
But there are differences between one exceptional Four-Digit and another.
Some exceptional Four-Digits can fight against Three-Digit entities for a short time within the Little Garden where the Omnipotence Paradox exists.
But some exceptional Four-Digits, even in the outside world without the Omnipotence Paradox, can beat a Three-Digit entity like a dog.
"So this is defeat... not bad."
Artosh murmured, and then he felt his power gradually slipping away.
Was that... a seal?
"It seems you've never experienced what it's like to be weak, have you?"
Rias chuckled. "To not experience the process from being an ant to becoming the strongest makes a life incomplete. A being like you, born powerful, is even more likely to fall into a mental dead end, which proves your incompleteness."
"So become a weakling and enjoy the process of growing stronger."
What happened next had nothing to do with Rias.
Being able to reach this point was clearly also due to Jibril.
Leaving the interior of Avant Heim, Rias arrived at the planet's Spirit Corridor.
According to the setting, when the'Strongest' appeared, the Suniaster would manifest.
By simply manifesting within the Spirit Corridor, the planet spontaneously condensed the Suniaster.
Feeling the aura of the Suniaster, Rias couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.
"Not bad."
The moment the Suniaster recognized its master, everything within it opened up to Rias.
This world, and even this universe itself, was formed from the power flowing out of the Suniaster.
In other words, the Suniaster was not a symbol of this planet, but a symbol of this world.
Within the Suniaster lay power comparable to the universe.
It possessed the power of Omniscience and Omnipotence, which is to say, perfect laws comparable to the universe itself.
A single Suniaster could create countless Three-Digit level lifeforms.
Yet the Suniaster itself could not be defined as a Three-Digit or Two-Digit item.
In Little Garden, the Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, created by sacrificing the entire Japanese Pantheon, was a Two-Digit level item.
But the Suniaster was clearly above that.
Because the Suniaster was no longer a power that a single worldview could contain, nor was it a Another Cosmology; it was an item that could truly create a universe.
Although Another Cosmology seems capable of creating worlds in the outside world, the laws of the worlds they create are related to the universe-view where the Another Cosmology resides, and they cannot create a normal universe.
If the full power of the Suniaster were unleashed and expanded infinitely, it might even be able to create a worldview as vast as Little Garden.
Even so, the utilization rate of the Suniaster still varied.
Tet could rewrite the environment of this planet with a single thought and establish game rules that all races had to follow. While this wasn't the limit, he could only use it as a tool.
Whereas Rias could absorb the rules and laws within it, turning them into her own nourishment.
And this was the essence of Rias's power: the Unordered Universe.
Laws comparable to a complete world, rules comparable to a complete world, yet it would not gestate life.
This was power from Rias's own origin; even the Crimson World was still considered external power to her.
Her interaction with the Crimson World was more like a community of interests between the Creator, the World, and the create.
The path Rias had walked from the beginning until now was one where all great power was concentrated in her own person.
She took the Suniaster into her body and activated its authority over this world.
Like a GM clearing a map, in an instant, the originally tattered planet returned to its original appearance.
A blue sky, a lush green earth, and a vast ocean.
It was no longer a living hell where spirits died, black ash covered the land, and sunlight could not reach the ground.
Now, it was just a normal planetary environment, causing all races and everyone to tear up.
Nothing else mattered anymore, including past hatreds and conflicts.
"All living beings of this world who call themselves intelligent races, I announce in the name of the Supreme God: the war is over."
Rias's calm voice spread throughout the entire world, and then, the whole world broke into cheers.
By this point in the war, all races had long since become exhausted.
Everyone had lost their reason for fighting, yet they were forced to continue.
The original source of the war was the gods' attempt to seize the Suniaster.
To seize the Suniaster, one needed to become the strongest; because they weren't strong enough, they had to absorb the gods marrow of other gods to empower themselves.
Because of this, the war began, but no one could end it.
Artosh could have, but as the God of War, the concept represented by his gods marrow was his very self; he was both uninterested in the Suniaster and incapable of stopping the war.
Thus, everything had fallen into a vicious cycle.
And now, everything in this world had come to an end.
The simplest way to break a circle is not through internal issues, but through external intervention.
Rias was the Deus Ex Machina.
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