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BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

Maria was sent flying downward, crashing into the city and collapsing a massive golden tower into rubble.

From the ground, she glanced up at the skies. Her family was battling the enormous sky fleet that the entirety of Thebes had deployed.

"I can't afford to slack off…"

Maria had spent years sharpening and cultivating her soul for this very moment.

She stood up slowly, glaring at Ra.

"Still you dare stand before our power?" Ra spoke with countless voices blended together. "Together, we are invincible! Not even the Chaos Bringer, Apophis, could defeat our combined might! Thanks to us, this entire Empire was created! We govern ten worlds and ten floors of the tower! Do you truly believe you alone can defeat us?"

"Yeah."

"…?!"

Maria's calm confidence sent a chill down the spines of all the unified gods.

"Enough!"

Ra roared and compressed the power of every god into his mechanical palms, gathering a rainbow-colored mystical flame.

"{Divinity Fusion Flame}!"

The mountain-sized rainbow flame hurtled toward Maria as she walked steadily toward Ra.

The divinity flame was so potent it warped space itself, obliterating everything in its path without discrimination.

Then she swung her sword upward, faster than lightning.

It was instantaneous.

"{Myriad Firmaments Sword Soul Dream Heart Art}"

"{Second Form – Path Of Genesis}"

"{Echo – Destruction of Divinity}"

SLASH!

BOOOM!

The gigantic rainbow flame exploded into countless pieces, yet Maria's attack continued forward. It resembled a giant horizontal slash formed from many layers of compressed energy.

This was Destruction of Divinity.

By compressing the power of the Path of Genesis to cut through all things that could not be cut and combining it with the Dream Blade, she had created a uniquely terrifying technique designed to slice through divinities within souls and destroy them in agony.

"Nnnggh! Sekhmet's Fury!!!"

Ra unleashed the power of the Goddess of War. His right hand, formed from her giant vessel, punched Maria with overwhelming force before thrusting her spear to impale Maria's entire body.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Maria swiftly intercepted the spear with a second sword that surged from her Nightmare Heart, her own Nightmare Weapon.

Using both blades, she cut through the divine war spear and split it cleanly in half.

SLASH!

"Ngh?!"

Ra screamed as half of his body was suddenly cleaved apart.

"N-No! Osiris…! Authority!"

FLUOSH!

Osiris's power quickly regenerated him from the brink of destruction.

Maria glanced toward the source of Osiris's divine aura.

"I had better kill the healer first!"

RUMBLE!

With an explosion of black thunder, Maria leaped from the ground and soared high into the skies.

Ra roared. His many wings—one of red flames, one of raging winds, and one of white ice—attacked her at once, unleashing a devastating elemental assault.

BOOOM!

The attack, spanning nearly a kilometer across the sky, struck Maria with full force.

And yet…

SLASH!

Her blade cleaved through Ra's six wings, tearing them from his body.

"Osiris Authority— GACK?!"

The moment he tried to heal using Osiris again, Maria moved toward the signal of his divine presence.

A glowing red divine light emanated from Ra's back.

There, the giant mech had completely merged into Ra's vessel, hiding from sight.

Maria aimed her swords and, using her Thunderous Spectral Wasp Step, pierced straight through the steel to reach him.

"I found you, annoying bastard."

"Nngh?! AAAAGH! RA! RA, SAVE MEEEEE!"

"OSIRIS!"

Ra screamed as he watched Maria's swords pierce Osiris.

But it was too late.

With a vicious smile, Maria split Osiris's soul into a hundred fragments, triggering a violent combustion inside Ra's vessel.

BOOOMMM!!!

"AAAGH!"

Ra's vessel exploded. Several of his functions failed, and Maria turned her attention to the other separate god souls one by one.

Swinging her katana and employing the techniques of the Path of Nihility, she mercilessly cleaved through the Divine Souls of the remaining Egyptian gods.

"I have no time to play around with you lot! Get out of my way or die!"

Stars upon stars of concentrated sword energy tore through them without end.

All of it converged into a gigantic Sword Formation made from her own attacks.

The compressed strikes shattered every god's soul into pieces.

Then Maria swung her hand forward, using her Necromancy to raise all the slain gods into a single giant, chimeric God Soul.

"Kill Ra!"

At her furious command, the abomination—covered in countless arms, heads, legs, and wings—roared and overwhelmed Ra, slamming him into the ground.

BOOOM!

"GAAAAHHHH! H-How can this be happening! No…! NOOOO!!!"

Ra screamed and desperately connected with the desert of the entire world, trying to draw its essence to stay alive.

Giant columns of flame erupted from the earth, surging into the skies and making all of Thebes tremble violently.

"You really don't know when to quit, huh?"

"I won't quit! I earned everything through my own efforts! This world, these worlds, everything I have is mine! Mine! Mine! Mineeeee!"

Ra transformed into a monstrous, aberrant bird of flames, molten metal, and glass. He clashed against Maria's Chimeric God Ghost, tearing countless holes through it.

At the same time, he lunged toward Maria with all his remaining strength.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

"Tsk!" 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Maria clicked her tongue. Her swordsmanship evolved as she began to dance, duplicating into dozens of Dream Ghosts at once.

Each of her Stars temporarily became a perfect clone of her.

She concentrated deeply, accelerating her mind and body by up to ten thousand percent. She merged with all her Dream Ghosts and activated dozens of boosting skills, titles, and stacked transformations.

"Enough!"

With a commanding voice, Maria transformed into a dark entity, assuming her Outer Goddess form as she clashed against Ra.

"{Myriad Firmaments Sword Soul Dream Heart Art}"

"{Third Form – Path Of Oblivion}"

"{Echo – Ascending Mountains Beyond Heavens}"

She pushed herself to new limits, clashing against a seemingly impossible foe and ascending mountains beyond the heavens.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

RUMBLE!

TRUUUM!

"G-Gaaahack?!"

Ra vomited soul essence as his entire body was split apart and carved into the shape of a giant mountain. Maria appeared behind him, sheathing her sword into the black hole within her chest.

"It's over."

"What?! No…! Y-You…! Nngh…! Aaahhh…! I…! I was…!"

Ra stretched his hands desperately toward Maria, but she did not even glance at his face.

His entire body collapsed, along with his control over the many machines.

But that was not all.

"Rise!"

Maria quickly revived him as a Divine Ghost and fused him with the Chimera Ghost she had created earlier.

The Egyptian God Ghost Chimera roared, overflowing with their combined divine power, now bound as an Undead under her command.

"I command you: stop this war."

At her words, the chimera roared and spread six giant colorful wings before clashing against the heavens.

It was a titanic divine ghost, over five hundred meters tall.

With its sharp claws and savage bites, the chimeric god halted the massive fleet in the sky, ending the war once and for all.

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