The pride of Demon Head Kijuro, unchanged for a thousand years, had finally become the poison that buried him.
Under the spontaneous correction of the world's balance mechanism, this pirated Maga Orochi, born because of him, not only gradually gained the full potential to destroy the world like the true Star of Calamity but also completely blurred and corrupted Kijuro's spirit with the endless greed etched into its blood.
The insatiable devouring hunger of the great serpent perfectly resonated with Kijuro's paranoid obsession over the millennia. The cursed energy of the two deeply merged with their divine souls, transforming into a black hole that only knew how to suck, a mad whale devouring all the negative curses of the archipelago.
Kijuro, whose mind had completely collapsed, had long since become a puppet of the greed beast, dedicating his life's magical achievements to pave the way for Orochi and initiate a vortex of cursed energy between heaven and earth at the peak of Tengen's barrier—the sky of the island nation.
When the absorption energy reached a critical value, Maga Orochi did not hesitate to absorb the special-grade imaginary cursed spirit carefully prepared by Kijuro and began its final transformation into a supreme body.
At this moment, this calamity beast's goal was extremely pure and terrifying. It wanted to absorb these cursed energies as quickly as possible and rush into the boundless universe before the terrifying enemy could intercept its spirit, adding star after star to its endless list of devourers.
In other words, Kagetatsu's attack just now had become its escape route.
But this giant beast, completely blinded by greed, only cared about the cursed energy of the madly devouring whale and did not realize that it had flown to the edge of the stratosphere.
When it finally recovered from the pleasure of devouring, there were no longer raging clouds or clear blue skies above its head. Only the cold, dead, boundless cosmic starry sky indifferently enveloped it.
At the same time, on the ground of Shibuya's ruins, the white Susano'o glowed with a bright light reflecting the distant galaxy. Light patterns flowed, connecting to the sea of stars in the direction of Orion.
Locke, incarnated as Kagetatsu, clearly told him what his intuition had suggested.
His mad hypothesis, transcending the barriers of the world, was not a mirror flower or a moon's reflection. Light could truly shine into reality, but the power he wielded at this moment was far from sufficient.
"Not enough... then add more fire."
[Mortal Walking Gold (Limited)]
[Séance state activated]
[Walk the world of mortals as a god]
[You are more likely to attract divine attention]
After a vast amount of popularity points were invested, the world in Locke's eyes changed.
Perhaps to kill this insatiable greed beast, which belonged to the pure will of Kagetatsu wrapped in the clear light in his hand, it suddenly broke through the shackles of time and the barriers of multiple worlds and awakened the embodiment of light.
Perhaps his guess about the truth of the world was finally confirmed, and this world, due to his imbalance, finally decided to grant his wish and send a miracle across the galaxy to this land.
Whatever the truth, at this moment, the boundless sky above Maga Orochi drastically changed. The stars in the sky began to writhe and tremble strangely. In the sea of stars, a star located in the constellation Orion suddenly broke through the darkness and exploded with a bright radiance that covered the entire night sky, even suppressing Maga Orochi's negative cursed energy.
No one could say whether this vision across the galaxy was an illusion, and even Locke himself couldn't guess the answer.
He simply had an idea, mustered the courage to make a desperate gamble, and tried. And this prayer truly broke through the barrier and became a reality unfolding before him.
[Protagonist Halo (Pseudo) Gold]
[Passive: Probability of reality distortion +5%]
The live stream room was still frantically scrolling comments because the signal had been cut off:
"Why was it suddenly blocked?"
"Outrageous. I just remembered the ban? Why did you come early? Where's your brain?"
But in the next second, the complaints on the screen were completely silenced by explosive exclamations:
"Damn it! Everyone, come out! Look at the sky right now!!"
In the final chapter of the final battle, deciding the survival of the entire planet, the cursed energy fog that had shrouded the city for many days was torn apart by the light of the starry sky.
People emerged from their homes, which had been closed for many days, stood under the long-lost sun, and unanimously raised their heads, full of anxiety and hope, toward the boundless cosmic starry sky.
The clear light in Kagetatsu's palm quickly merged into a pillar of light that ran across the sky and earth, wrapped in the prayers of the entire city, rapidly rushing into the depths of the universe and firmly connecting with the dazzling light of Orion and across the galaxy.
The moment the two beams of light merged, the black-red cursed haze and the thick rain clouds that had shrouded the sky over the island nation for many days were swept away by this gentle but irresistible stream of light.
The waves of surging clouds receded to the surroundings, compressing into a circle of neat white clouds above the sky, completely clearing the last barrier to the depths of the starry sky and fully spreading the pure sea of stars before everyone's eyes.
And at this moment, in the vacuum of the stratosphere, Maga Orochi, completely controlled by greed, suddenly stopped.
The dead, silent cosmic starry sky before it suddenly flashed and writhed. Bright starlight merged and rose like a tide, condensing into four humanoid phantoms standing high in the sky, covered in luminous light before it, with a divine pressure that indifferently locked onto this calamity beast that fed on planets.
"What the hell is that?! This is getting more and more outrageous. How can this be?"
Kugisaki Nobara's complaint resonated with everyone. In a corner where no one cared, Megumi Fushiguro decided to lie down on the asphalt road, cut into a neat grid, looking at the four humanoid phantoms in the sky and contemplating life.
Did their lives as sorcerers really have meaning?
And this scene was seen by everyone. Even the battle between Yuji Itadori and Sukuna stopped. Ryomen Sukuna, who had grown to a height of thirty meters, was inflated, looking at the light in the sky and Kagetatsu, and suddenly stopped the movements in his hands.
Seeing this, Itadori also stopped his technique and carefully watched Sukuna, in case he couldn't resist a sneak attack.
"I've never seen such power in his hands."
Sukuna's inflated body leaked and shrank like a punctured balloon, gradually returning to its original form.
"It turns out he never took me seriously. And I still considered him an old enemy. My life is just ridiculous."
At this moment, Kagetatsu was receiving the blessing of the four embodiments of light. His exhausted spiritual power instantly overflowed, and even Susano'o began a new form—the armor on its body changed its pattern, and the contours of its face slowly transformed into the divine form of a giant of light.
Maga Orochi in the stratosphere instinctively sensed a deadly crisis, immediately abandoned its cursed energy to devour the planet, and tried its best to escape beyond the stars.
But it never expected that the moment it was about to break through the atmosphere, the four phantoms extended their giant hands, simultaneously blotting out the sky, sealing it inside the planet's atmospheric barrier.
Just as it was desperately trying to break through the blockade, Susano'o on the ground raised the light sword in its hand high, gripped the hilt with both hands, and swung the light blade connecting the entire starry sky toward it.
In the next second, the beings of the entire planet looked up and saw a grand fireworks display blooming at the edge of the universe, bright to the extreme.
After all this, Locke, who had returned to his godly form, checked his character panel and discovered that his balance had become much weaker. He instantly broke character and shouted:
"Damn! It cost me 20,000 popularity points to set off fireworks??? Why the hell didn't I upgrade my character card!!"
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