Ainz raised his right arm and took a staff from thin air.
The staff was cast from gold and inlaid with countless jewels.
Each one emitted a different color of light, illuminating Ainz's black robe with colorful patterns.
The Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown... the symbol of their guild, and their guild's strongest weapon.
Ainz raised the staff high.
An enormous crimson magic circle unfolded in the sky, spreading from above Ainz in all directions, covering the entire battlefield.
The magic circle's diameter exceeded ten kilometers. The runes at its edges slowly spun. With each rotation, the brightness of the magic circle increased.
Megumin's expression changed dramatically.
She could naturally sense that what Ainz was preparing to cast was her favorite magic... Explosion.
But the power was on a completely different level.
Like the difference between Joseph's ripple and the ripple of Kars, who had become the ultimate life form.
Makoto looked at that giant red magic circle, blotting out the sky, and couldn't help complaining, "Really? I'm practically your half dad, aren't I?"
Ainz grew even angrier.
He suddenly swung the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown. The staff cut through the air, emitting a sharp, piercing sound.
The enormous crimson magic circle in the sky began to contract, condensing its boundless, overwhelming magical power into a single point.
Super-tier Magic: Explosion.
A hundred times stronger than Megumin's Explosion magic, enough to destroy an entire country.
Clearly, Ainz had completely lost his mind, forgetting that many of his own people were still below.
Makoto's Rinnegan released even more ferocious Ocular Power.
Sky-blue Chakra surged from his body, condensing into energy skeletal frames on his skin. Ribs, arms, head... Complete Body Susanoo!
The deep blue giant stood on the battlefield, its wings spread, blotting out the sun.
Ainz was unmoved.
He had seen this technique when Makoto used it against Albedo.
It was integrated with both offense and defense, very high-level, but it absolutely could not block the Explosion Magic he had cast with the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown.
The Complete Body Susanoo began to change.
Its armor was pushed open from the inside. Blazing black flames spilled from the gaps, burning, spreading, condensing on Susanoo's surface, outlining a human silhouette.
Beneath the armor, additional flesh appeared.
Ultimate Susanoo!
The final form that Sasuke brought out in the original work during his final battle with Naruto.
The difference was that Sasuke used lightning for his skeleton, while Makoto used flames.
Susanoo spun its chainsaws. The saw teeth emitted a piercing roar as they spun at high speed.
Susanoo crossed its arms into an X shape and charged at the Ultimate Explosion Magic falling from the sky.
The sky-blotting Explosion energy was pushed back by Susanoo.
The energy wave was pushed from the middle of the atmosphere to the upper atmosphere.
Boom!!!
The Explosion Magic exploded outside the atmosphere.
A deafening boom came from hundreds of miles away.
The shockwave tore open the clouds, splitting the sky in two, and sent the earth flying.
Countless people were thrown into the air by the shockwave. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers lost gravity in that instant. People and horses, shields and swords, skeletons and humans... all went flying.
Makoto stood at the brow of the Ultimate Susanoo, looking down at Ainz. "When it comes to destructive power, you can't match me. Hurry up and use your hax-type magic."
Ainz fell silent.
Although he didn't want to admit it, what Makoto said was the truth.
When it came to destructive power, he was no match for his opponent.
But he wasn't a brute who only focused on stats. Or rather, that had never been his specialty.
Among all the Supreme Beings, Ainz was also the type whose fighting style relied on items and magic to get the upper hand.
The next instant, Ainz raised his hands high.
"Time Stop—!"
A strange energy spread in all directions from Ainz's hands.
Wherever the energy passed, the world turned black and white.
The soldiers flying through the air were frozen. Their bodies hung in mid-air. Their facial expressions froze in terror.
The entire world was still. Only Ainz retained the ability to move.
In the game, Ainz usually used this technique to prepare for chanting Super-Tier Magic.
But he didn't plan to use Super-Tier Magic now.
After seeing the Ultimate Susanoo, he had realized that continuing to compete on stats was pointless.
The outcome of this battle would be determined by hax.
Five seconds left.
Ainz silently counted down.
He used flight magic, floated up from the carriage, and flew toward Makoto.
He came before Makoto, face to face.
Four seconds left.
The skeleton's finger raised and pressed against Makoto's chest.
"True Death."
Ninth-tier magic, True Death. Through physical contact, it grants the opponent instant death effect.
There is no method of defense, and it cannot be resurrected with low-tier magic.
Three seconds left.
Ainz's fingers slightly curled. His finger bones pressed against Makoto's chest.
He lowered his head. His eyes were inexplicably dim.
"Goodbye, my creator."
His feelings toward Makoto were complex.
He hated him.
Hated his irresponsibility, hated that he wrote the beginning but not the end, hated that he created them and then abandoned them.
But in a sense, the other party was indeed his family.
He still held a trace of 'human' feeling toward Makoto.
But not enough to change his intent to kill him.
Ainz only knew that if he ever had the chance to return to the real world, he would kill every story-dropping bastard in the world.
Two seconds left.
Ainz withdrew his hand, turned, and floated down from the sky. He landed back on the carriage.
One second left.
"Time resumes."
The world returned to color.
The soldiers fell from the sky. The screams, the sounds of battle, the explosions of magic... all sounded simultaneously.
The instant death effect of True Death activated.
A sharp pain came from Makoto's chest, but the second after he frowned, his expression returned to normal.
However, the complete opposite was true for Ainz, who had thought he had the victory in hand and was quietly waiting for Makoto to die.
Ainz stumbled to his knees. His body trembled uncontrollably, accompanied by heart-rending screams.
"Wh-what's going on?!"
Albedo and the others also changed expressions dramatically, completely unable to understand what was happening.
Makoto also slowly descended from the sky, looking down at this unfilial son.
"The power of Sacred Purification. How does it feel?"