"Roar—!!" Two majestic dragon roars echoed through Elysium as they charged straight toward the Twin Gods.
Thanatos gave a disdainful smile and said, "Do you really think you can oppose us in those forms?"
Thanatos then raised his left arm and extended his index finger, releasing a powerful orb of energy surrounded by purple lightning.
He casually hurled the lightning orb toward Issei Hyoudou and Vali. Both of them could feel the terrifying energy contained within it.
"Transfer!!" Issei Hyoudou activated the 'Boosted Gear Gift' ability of his boosted gear, transferring the multiplied power he had accumulated so far to the Divine Dividing on Vali's body.
"Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide!..." Vali quickly activated the halving ability of Divine Dividing. Although the presence of divinity prevented the halving power from working smoothly, the transfer from 'Boosted Gear Gift' allowed him to diminish a portion of the lightning orb's power before them.
The lightning orb shrank slightly in size, but the energy contained within it did not decrease by much.
Seeing that things were going south, the two of them hurriedly dodged.
Boom—!!!
The ground struck by the lightning orb instantly turned into scorched earth for miles. The two split up to face the Twin Gods individually: Vali took on Hypnos, while Issei Hyoudou faced Thanatos.
"Hypnos!! Roar—!!" Vali shouted angrily at Hypnos, his voice carrying a draconic roar.
Facing Vali's ferocious charge, Hypnos remained expressionless. He cast off his white robe, revealing the underworld armor beneath, which featured peacock wings.
A purple Cosmos erupted from Hypnos. He extended his arms in a circular motion and said, "I am not a bellicose god. White Dragon Emperor, I pity your tragic origins, so I shall grant you eternal Sleep. Immerse yourself in a beautiful dream."
"Eternal Sleep!!"
As Hypnos spoke, a purple light radiated from his palms. Beneath his armor, Vali's eyes were filled with shock as he was bathed in Hypnos's purple glow.
When the purple light dissipated, Vali collapsed to the ground with a thud. Even Albion gave no response.
"Vali! What happened to you!!"
"Albion! Say something!!"
Issei Hyoudou, who was fighting Thanatos, saw Vali being defeated without any visible injury and shouted toward him in concern.
Ddraig, seeing that Albion was not responding, also shouted out in a hurry.
"You still have the leisure to look elsewhere!!" Thanatos's angry voice rang out as he fired countless powerful purple energy bullets from his palm, striking Issei Hyoudou like meteors.
Countless fragments of crimson armor scattered on the ground. Issei Hyoudou forced his body to stay upright, clutching an injured arm as he shouted at Hypnos:
"What did you do to Vali and Albion?! Why aren't they responding?!"
Hypnos said calmly, "It is nothing. I simply put them to Sleep. I am the God of Sleep who presides over the slumber of all things in the universe. Using my divine power to plunge them into an eternal Sleep from which they cannot wake even if the universe ends is my greatest mercy to them."
"What did you say... Vali and the other will never wake up..." Issei Hyoudou said with a dazed look in his eyes.
At this time, Thanatos also shed his white robe, revealing his underworld armor as the eagle wings on his back spread out.
"Tartarus Phobia—!!"
Countless white vengeful spirits appeared behind Thanatos, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws as they rushed toward Issei Hyoudou—or more accurately, toward the dragon soul of Ddraig within him.
"Roar—!!" Bitten by those vengeful spirits, Ddraig let out an agonizing roar as every piece of his soul was devoured by the spirits.
"Ddraig!!" Issei Hyoudou cried out in worry.
Thanatos reached out and said, "They are spirits lower than the dead, the final form of the lives I have harvested. They wander in eternal pain within the House of Death, which connects to the abyss of Tartarus."
"Yet, they can wound both soul and flesh."
Then, a black Cosmos of Death radiated from Thanatos's entire body as he changed his tone, "I am not as kind-hearted as Hypnos! If what he grants is eternal Sleep!! Then what I grant you is eternal Death!!"
"Terror of Fate—!!"
Thanatos's right hand formed a claw, continuously condensing the black Cosmos of Death into a sphere within his palm before releasing the energy and expanding it.
Thanatos's right hand formed a claw, continuously condensing the black Cosmos of Death into a sphere within his palm before releasing the energy and expanding it.
"Aaaah—!!" The attack of Terror of Fate shattered the armor on Issei Hyoudou's body, leaving not even a single shard behind, as if his body itself would be torn asunder at any moment.
Among everyone in the Underworld subjugation team, Issei Hyoudou suffered the most fatal damage. However, to prevent blood from defiling the paradise of Elysium, Thanatos had stayed his hand slightly.
When the attack ended, Issei Hyoudou's vision went dark and his consciousness blurred. He fainted instantly, his bones crushed by Thanatos's terrifying Terror of Fate. He was unable to rise again, rendered a broken man.
In the Underworld, Falbion and the others watched this scene with vacant eyes, kneeling on the ground. Their pupils shrank as they looked at the sky. The Great Eclipse was complete. Not a single ray of sunlight shone through, and snow began to fall in the Underworld—a place where it never snowed—accompanied by a biting wind.
It was the same for other mythological systems; the weather gradually grew cold, blizzards began to arrive, and rivers and seas slowly began to freeze.
The Human World, Hyodo Residence.
Ophis and Lilith, the two great Infinite Moé Dragons, looked expressionlessly at the snow falling outside the window and the black eclipse in the sky. With their hands clasped and cheeks pressed together, they said blankly:
"The Great Eclipse is complete. I wonder how Issei Hyoudou and the others are doing?"
With a single thought, they instantly arrived at Falbion's castle in the Underworld. Upon arrival, they saw everyone sitting on the ground in various postures, looking as if they had lost their souls, their eyes completely hollow.
Then, the two of them went to the light screen and saw the image of Vali and Issei Hyoudou fallen in Elysium.
"What's going on?" Ophis and Lilith tugged at Falbion's sleeve and asked with confusion.
Falbion turned his head. Seeing who it was, he replied with eyes devoid of any light, "Everyone who went to the Underworld has been wiped out. Vali has been plunged into eternal Sleep by Hypnos, and Issei Hyoudou was killed by Thanatos."
"Now that the Great Eclipse is complete... there is no one left to stop it..."
After saying those words, Falbion lost all spirit.
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