The battlefield collapsed into madness.
Fire consumed the skies.
Darkness swallowed the earth.
Millions fought and died beneath crimson clouds while reality itself tore apart around the two monsters standing at the center of the war.
Kaien and the Entity faced each other across a wasteland already drowning in blood.
The Entity stood within Kael's corrupted body while endless darkness poured from him like living shadow. Every step distorted the battlefield itself while manifestations screamed around him like servants before a god.
Then Kaien slowly lifted his head.
Golden solar energy burned violently around his body now.
The crimson mark between his eyes glowed brighter than before while space itself started trembling near him unnaturally.
The Entity smiled through Kael's face afterward.
"So you intend to challenge me directly?"
Kaien's eyes narrowed sharply.
"If that's how you want to play this…"
The air around him distorted violently.
"…then let it be."
And suddenly—
space broke.
Thousands of soldiers across the battlefield froze instantly.
Because the world around Kaien twisted unnaturally.
The sky bent.
The ground folded inward.
Reality distorted around his outstretched hand like shattered glass collapsing into itself.
Even Dominion's forces stared in shock.
Space-time manipulation.
The power Kaien inherited through lives of suffering and adaptation.
The power even the first Karna struggled countless lifetimes to obtain fully.
Kaien clenched one hand slowly afterward.
And tens of thousands vanished.
Instantly.
Not burned.
Not crushed.
Erased from existence itself.
Entire sections of the Entity's advancing army disappeared as folded space collapsed inward violently swallowing corrupted soldiers, manifestations, and monstrous beasts alike into distorted nothingness.
The battlefield itself imploded.
Dark fractures spread outward while corrupted creatures screamed before being dragged into collapsing dimensions around Kaien's hand.
Humanity's soldiers looked horrified.
Because even they barely understood what they were witnessing.
One Dominion officer whispered shakily,
"…what kind of power is that…"
Nyra stared toward the battlefield silently afterward.
Even after years beside him—
Kaien still terrified her sometimes.
Not because he was cruel.
But because he carried powers humanity was never meant to touch.
The Entity's smile faded slightly seeing entire armies erased instantly.
Then Kaien moved again.
He launched himself skyward like a golden comet exploding upward through the battlefield.
Shockwaves shattered the earth beneath him while sunlight itself seemed to follow his ascent.
Manifestations roared toward him from the skies immediately—
Kaien ignored all of them.
He reached high above the battlefield afterward where the war looked like two oceans colliding beneath burning skies.
Then slowly—
he raised Vijaya overhead.
The spear radiated unbearable golden light now.
Divine.
Ancient.
Terrifying.
The entire battlefield felt its presence.
The Entity's corrupted forces suddenly hesitated instinctively.
Fear.
The weapon remembered slaughtering gods.
Kaien's voice thundered across the battlefield afterward.
"Disappear."
And he threw Vijaya downward.
The world exploded.
Vijaya pierced directly into the center of the corruption tide like divine judgment itself.
The impact alone vaporized thousands instantly.
Then the spear unleashed its true power.
Golden solar energy erupted outward from the impact point in a catastrophic wave consuming everything nearby. Manifestations burned alive before even understanding death while corrupted soldiers vanished into ash instantly beneath the divine light.
Entire sections of the battlefield disappeared beneath the explosion.
Hundreds of thousands died within moments.
The earth cracked apart violently.
Massive trenches formed across the wastelands while solar fire spread endlessly through the corruption army. Even Dominion forces miles away shielded their eyes from the brightness erupting across the battlefield.
The Entity itself staggered slightly seeing the devastation.
Kaien descended afterward through the burning skies like a falling sun itself.
Vijaya returned automatically into his hand while golden energy spiraled violently around him.
Then he landed directly inside the destroyed battlefield.
Everything around him burned.
Manifestation corpses filled shattered craters while darkness itself struggled to regenerate near his presence.
Humanity's soldiers stared toward him in stunned silence.
Hope surged violently across Dominion lines.
Because for the first time since the war began—
the Entity's army had actually stopped advancing.
Kaien stood alone before the apocalypse afterward while sunlight illuminated him through crimson skies.
The Son of the Sun had entered the battlefield completely now.
The Entity slowly looked around afterward toward the destruction Kaien caused.
Entire armies erased.
Manifestation titans reduced to ash.
Corruption flames extinguished beneath solar resonance.
Then suddenly—
it laughed.
A horrible deep laugh that echoed unnaturally through Kael's body.
"Incredible."
Darkness exploded violently around it afterward.
"You truly surpassed every previous version."
Kaien tightened his grip on Vijaya immediately afterward.
The Entity slowly stepped forward again.
"But you still misunderstand one thing, Suryaputra."
The battlefield trembled violently.
The darkness behind the Entity suddenly started moving unnaturally.
Then humanity realized with horror—
that wasn't the full army yet.
More corruption emerged endlessly from gigantic fractures opening across the horizon.
More manifestations.
More corrupted soldiers.
More monstrous abominations crawling from another reality itself.
Infinite.
The Entity raised one hand slowly afterward.
"My army…"
Darkness spread endlessly across the skies.
"…cannot be exhausted."
The battlefield pressure multiplied instantly.
Even Kaien's expression darkened slightly afterward.
Because despite everything he destroyed—
the corruption tide still stretched endlessly toward the horizon.
Humanity's soldiers felt fear return immediately.
"How many are there…"
"That's impossible…"
"We can't survive this…"
Then Kaien suddenly raised Vijaya toward Dominion's forces afterward.
And his voice thundered across the battlefield again.
"STOP LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS!"
The sheer force behind his voice shook the battlefield itself.
Soldiers froze instantly afterward.
Kaien's eyes burned like sunlight itself now.
"If they advance—kill them."
Golden energy exploded around him again.
"If more appear—kill them again."
He slowly pointed Vijaya directly toward the endless darkness afterward.
"And if this world itself tries to fall…"
The skies ignited violently behind him.
"…THEN WE WILL DRAG IT BACK INTO THE LIGHT!"
Humanity roared afterward.
Fear transformed instantly into fury across Dominion's forces.
Weapons raised again.
Soldiers screamed battle cries.
Entire divisions surged forward beneath Kaien's presence.
And the final war consumed the world completely.