"Of course there's a difference! She sealed away 90% of her power, her combat strength—everything! Meanwhile, you went all out from the start!" Mordred scoffed.
In the Singularity of Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia,
Tiamat appeared with a [Self-Seal] right from the beginning. Aside from the unlucky King of Heroes, she never truly attacked at all.
She spent the entire time passively enduring, holding back enough to fill the Pacific Ocean!
But in the Camelot Singularity,
Lion King Artoria fought with everything she had from start to finish, genuinely intent on erasing human history.
Only selecting a tiny fraction to preserve as her collection within the Holy Lance.
How could the two even compare?
Artoria asked coolly, "So, would you rather face me at full power, or Tiamat with 90% of her strength sealed?"
"..."
Mordred was instantly speechless.
The gap between them was so vast it wasn't even a contest.
Even with over 90% of her power sealed, a Beast of Humanity could swat her aside like a fly!
Gawain, standing nearby, shook his head.
Ah, Mordred, Mordred... with that little brain of yours, how could you ever outwit your father?
The truth remains—your father will always be your father!
On the screen,
The destruction continued.
The Umbral Star's emissary arrived in China.
Many speculated that it was the corruption of foreign gods that prevented the emissary from ending China's Age of Gods.
But—
Everyone was wrong.
It wasn't the foreign gods who resisted the Umbral Star.
It was China's ancestral heroes!
Fuxi, wielding the Hetu and Luoshu.
Shennong, tasting a hundred herbs to find sustenance and medicine for humanity.
Xuanyuan, the first to unite the tribes and lay the foundation of Chinese civilization.
And Zhuanxu, who sought to sever the connection between heaven and earth, ending the reign of the gods.
Yu the Great, who tamed the floods and brought order to the waters.
One after another, China's ancestral heroes stood together to face the terrifying emissary of the Umbral Star.
In the wake of this cataclysmic battle—
The heavens collapsed!
The earth shattered!
Even Mount Buzhou, formed from the spine of Pangu, broke apart.
Golden crows took to the skies, scorching the land without restraint.
Endless calamities ravaged all of China.
The archer Houyi forged the [Sun-Piercing Bow] and [Sun-Piercing Arrows], shooting down nine of the golden crows.
Only one remained, fleeing to the Fusang Divine Tree.
Then,
This archer inscribed the [Sun-Piercing Bow] into the legacy of civilization.
So long as a summoner met the conditions, it could be called forth once more.
To shoot down the sun—
And protect humanity!
Disaster began to sweep across the land unchecked.
The civilization of China stood perpetually on the brink of destruction.
Yet unlike the gods of Mesopotamia,
those deities sought only to prolong the Age of Gods through the [Heaven's Wedge] and [Heaven's Chains], utterly indifferent to human survival.
China's ancestral deities, however, spared no cost to mend the heavens and tame the floods.
Without hesitation, they burned their primordial essence, sacrificing everything of themselves
to remake the world anew!
Under the ancestral deities' desperate resistance, the Star-Spangled Banner of the Alien God was forced to retreat temporarily, choosing to harvest other civilizations first to grow stronger before returning to claim China's.
With the terrifying enemy gone, the ancestral deities, having expended their power, could no longer oppose the primordial gods.
It was then that the Cthulhu Outer Gods descended.
One by one, the primordial gods were corrupted, beginning their irreversible descent into depravity.
A calamity unique to China once again shrouded the land, setting the stage for Qin Shi Huang and Nameless to join forces millennia later.
This stirred the blood of countless Chinese—
-[Our ancestors truly loved humanity as deeply as Tiamat!]
-[Our ancestors are legends—they actually repelled the Star-Spangled Banner at all costs!]
-[So Nameless summoning the Sun-Shooting Bow to defeat the Beast of Humanity Tamamo-no-Mae was also our ancestors' contingency plan!]
-[No wonder Nameless could summon them so easily—he was avenging them!]
...
The footage continued, shifting to a place familiar to many viewers:
Mount Olympus.
Countless starships descended from the heavens upon Greece, heralding the arrival of the Olympian Gods from beyond the stars.
These extraterrestrial visitors openly discussed how to reshape the entire world, intent on transforming Earth into their new homeworld.
Watching this, Illya frowned. "Thank goodness the Star-Spangled Banner defeated them, or humanity would've been wiped out first!"
"Exactly. Mechanical constructs like them would never care about human survival," Miyu agreed solemnly.
Had their transformation succeeded, Earth would have become a mechanized world, with silicon-based lifeforms dominating.
Carbon-based beings like humans would have been reduced to livestock—either slaves or food.
"To gods, humans are but ants," Heracles sighed.
Even after being defeated by the Star-Spangled Banner and becoming native Greek deities, these beings grew ever more tyrannical,
acting without restraint.
Half-divine heroes like him were mere puppets on their stage, powerless to change their fates, doomed to die with countless regrets.
If the Olympians were this monstrous as native gods, none could imagine what horrors they'd commit while still Machine Gods!
As all watched, the Olympians—freshly arrived and ready to reshape Earth for their homeworld project—
encountered the terrifying Star-Spangled Banner.
Before this entity, the gods stood no chance, effortlessly crushed.
Forced to abandon their Machine God forms, they merged with the Greek pantheon to hide.
Yet the Star-Spangled Banner showed no mercy, relentlessly harvesting all in its path.
Its goal was to devour both human and divine civilizations—why would it stop?
At this critical juncture...
A human has descended!
Clad in resplendent light, he wields a holy sword that gleams with dazzling brilliance, standing alone against the foe.
The Star-Spangled Titan looms with a colossal height of a thousand meters.
Before this instrument of destruction, the human seems insignificant.
Yet, it is precisely this insignificant human—
Who halts the Star-Spangled Titan in its tracks!
The one who has arrived is none other than Nameless!
He has descended into the distant past, thousands of years ago, to face the terrifying Star-Spangled Titan!
Nameless raises his sword and points it at the enemy: "I am he who walks the path of heaven, the one who governs all. Enemy of civilizations and worlds, your doom has come!"
The uploader, Alaya, thoughtfully provides a narrator's note.
Displayed are two buffs currently active on Nameless:
[Gaia's Blessing: EX-Rank] — Against the Star-Spangled Titan that seeks to annihilate Earth, you bear the burden of protecting the world. You may now harness the planet's primordial power, fully unleashing the Star-Holy Sword!
[Alaya's Favor: EX Rank. Facing the Star-Spangled Banner that seeks to devour human civilization, you bear the burden of protecting humanity. You have been bestowed the title of Humanity's Savior and can summon the power of your selves from all timelines!]
With these two heaven-defying buffs, everyone was left utterly stunned.
Under the threat of the planet-destroying Star-Spangled Banner, the two Counter Forces had truly joined hands for the first time!
But that wasn't all.
From within the planet itself, the [Sword of Promised Victory], forged by the fairies.
Was drawn from its sheath [Avalon] by Nameless, unleashing its radiant brilliance.
At this moment, all thirteen restraints had been completely released.
Transforming it into the true Holy Sword of the Stars!
After its full unsealing, its description became—
[Sword of Promised Victory (Fully Unsealed): EX Rank. Forged by the planet itself to defeat those who seek to destroy Earth, it possesses special anti-foreigner properties against all extraterrestrial threats!]
In other words.
Whether it was the Star-Spangled Banner, the Outer Gods, or even the Olympian Machine Gods—all were utterly countered by the Holy Sword of the Stars!
After all, this was a weapon personally crafted by Earth to protect itself!
Under the fearful gazes of the gods.
Nameless swung the Holy Sword of the Stars and brought it down upon the Star-Spangled Banner: "Farewell, enemy of civilization!"
The sword's dazzling radiance enveloped the colossal, kilometer-tall body of the foe.
Beneath this sacred and transcendent light.
The Star-Spangled Banner, capable of devouring humanity and annihilating gods, found itself powerless to resist.
It could only watch as its massive form was shattered.
"No! I have yet to fulfill my mission!"
The Star-Spangled Banner struggled desperately, trying to resist Nameless' ultimate strike.
As the enemy of civilization.
The stronger the civilization it consumed, the larger its body became.
Its form could withstand the extreme heat of the sun, its defenses reaching monstrous levels.
It also possessed terrifying assimilation abilities.
Assimilating countless Primordial Giants to aid in its attempt to destroy humanity.
Yet, none of it mattered.
The Star-Spangled Banner, so overwhelmingly powerful that even the gods could not oppose it, was utterly crushed by Nameless wielding the fully unsealed Holy Sword of the Stars!
All spectators were left dumbfounded—
-[Holy crap, Nameless has become the first-generation Sword Saint—this is just too OP!]
-[The two Counter Forces joining forces to buff him, plus the fully unsealed Holy Sword of the Stars… this is beyond broken!]
-[Who knew Excalibur was this strong? How does it compare to Ea?]
-[Nameless is insane! If he faces the real Star-Spangled Banner in reality, can he still get these two ultimate buffs?]
...
Roya stood there, mouth agape. "Just like that… the Star-Spangled Banner is defeated?"
She had expected a brutal battle.
After all.
This terrifying war machine had swept across the entire planet.
Even the combined might of the gods had failed to stop it.
Instead, it had crushed one mythic era after another.
Yet, against all expectations, this overwhelmingly powerful Star-Spangled Banner had been vanquished in a single strike!
"Victory… just like that?" Gilgamesh was equally stunned.
Let's not forget.
His so-called [Chains of Heaven] was a conceptual projection born from the collision between the Star-Spangled Banner and the gods.
Even he could not stand against it.
But now, this terrifying enemy had been defeated just like that.
Gilgamesh had tried his best to estimate the capabilities of this bastard best friend, yet found he still hadn't truly seen through him.
Just how many more secrets was this guy hiding?
"Truly worthy of being humanity's strongest guardian!" Qin Shi Huang relaxed his expression.
After watching this video, he could finally rest assured.
Two billion people of China could now fully ignite the light of hope against the terrifying Alien God's Apostle.
"A fully unsealed Excalibur, boosted by two Counter Forces working together - this should be normal, right?" Souma deliberately feigned confusion as he countered.
That battle really wasn't worth mentioning.
With those two heaven-defying buffs, it was truly a case of gods blocking, kill gods; buddhas blocking, kill buddhas.
The Alien God Apostle's avatar being unable to resist was only natural.
Yes, what reached Earth was merely an avatar created by the Alien God Apostle, far from being its true form.
No matter how many times the avatar was killed, it could always be recreated!
This avatar had nearly destroyed the entire planet.
Its true form must be incomparably powerful.
Unfortunately.
The grand spectacle of two Counter Forces working together would never appear in reality.
The planetary consciousness Gaia had long merged with the Demon God King, making it impossible to favor humanity!
Truly defeating the Alien God Apostle's true form remained a task as difficult as reaching the heavens.
At this moment.
The side story was reaching its conclusion.
Lines of narration prompts appeared—
[Next Episode Preview!]
[After repairing the singularities one by one, humanity's last Master, the final guardian of human order, will proceed to the final singularity to face the Demon God King Goetia!]