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  Bing Xue was surprised; her Spear of Nirvana did not kill Rakshasa, which meant he was as durable and strong as the Primal King, who took two hits to die.

  heless, she didn’t really care if it survived that.

  “AGH!” He vomited blood, feeling weakened as his body now cked his heart and lungs, yet as a god, he remained alive, albeit agonizingly. “Y-You’re… You’re the real monster here… Heh! Hehahah…!”

  Bing Xue only looked down on him from above, as if he were nothing but an ant, or below an ant.

  To her, he was just a small nuisance.

  But even such small nuisances had to be taken care of, or they would end up creating a big nuisaually.

  That’s why…

  “It’s all yours.”

  “Ah!”

  Rakshasa saw as the beasts he once almost killed, sealed, and tortured jumped over his body. Urbosa, Merkite, Peperina, and Mursha had transformed, their auras being the shape of their gigantic divirons, simirly sized to Typhon.

  Their jaws and beaks started biting through his flesh and soul; their cws and talons tore through his skin and pierced deep into his muscles; and their divine elements burned him, sliced his flesh, rotted his body, and absorbed his energies.

  “Uuuaaagggh! G-Get away from me, you horrendous beasts! Stop…! STOOOP!”

  As he screamed in agony, they didn’t stop—the beasts he fought, the beasts he humiliated, the beasts that he sughtered, and the beasts he tortured.

  This was for all of them, their fathers, who were uo stop him as he killed, ate, and turheir children into ons.

  This was their revenge!

  “YOU’LL PAY FOR SLAUGHTERING OUR PRECIOUS CHILDREN!”

  “DIE AGONIZINGLY, YOU BASTARD!”

  “WE WILL NOT HAVE MERCY! SUFFER!”

  “YOU WANT TO SEE US BEIS?! THEN WE’LL BE THE MOST FERAL BEASTS!”

  “THIS IS FOR ALL OF THEM! FOR EVERYONE YOU’VE MADE SUFFER! REMEMBER IT EVEN AS YOU DIE, YOU MONSTER!”

  The barbarian god tried to run away from them even as they tore apart his arms and legs, even as he was without his legs anymore, even as his half-eaten head remained.

  “STOP! PLEASE HAVE MERCY! I DIDN’T…! I…! AAAAGGGGHHHH!”

  He looked at Bing Xue, extending his hand toward her.

  “Help… Help me! Please…! You’re… You’re merciful!”

  Yet she only smiled back at him without extending a hand.

  “So? How does it feel? This is the suffering you made h. It hurts, right? It makes you want to die, so the suffering finally ends, hm? This is despair; this is pain. Is this your first time experieng it?" Bing Xue asked. “Unfortunately, this will be your first and st time.”

  Bing Xue walked towards him, gring at his eyes.

  “Now think, think about all those you’ve made suffer, all those your followers sughtered… those that were eveen by them! Do you remember them? Their pain? Their cries?” Bing Xue expined. “Yoing through all of that now.”

  “No…! Please… make it… stop…!” He groaned, bleeding from all over his body.

  “This is the end you sought!” Bing Xue kicked his head away, and the rest of the beasts ravenously devoured him piece by piece.

  Not even his brains were spared; the hungry beasts absorbed bae of their powers, although they let Typho the most.

  They khat this child would be the future and that their time as the gods of this world had long ago ended.

  “ROOOAAARR!”

  Typhon roared mightily on top of the corpse of Rakshasa, its reing a shockwave of rainbow colors, enpassing the entire world of Elios.

  The pilrs of all elements… answered his call!

  The other four divi spirit gods bowed to him, as he was the vessel of their father, the Star-Gazing Lion of Beginnings.

  The light quickly pierced through the p’s crust, and the tless cracks, and ripples across it began to heal, rapidly unifying together.

  The voloes, leaving va everywhere, rapidly sealed themselves, moving down into the depths of the underground.

  The va-covered hellish ndscapes ged, immediately cooling down and being covered with beautiful grassnds and growing forests.

  The remaining divis created by Rakshasa dropped dead in an instant, deg and being piles of rubble and ashes.

  And the destabilizing atmosphere above rapidly went back to normal.

  And it was just as there was a beautiful su, making the se even more tranquil aiful.

  “Is it… Is it finally over?” muttered Urbosa, sighing.

  “I-I think so… Ugh,” groaned Merkite.

  The two walked to the side of Bing Xue, hugging her.

  The auras of the divi spirit gods within their bodies quickly returo normal, so they were able to walk on their own.

  “You did well,” Bing Xue smiled, caressing their heads as she let them hug her. She hugged them back happily, ing her arms around their backs. “It’s finally over.”

  “ I get my reward?” Merkite asked with adorable puppy eyes.

  “Fufu, of course, dear~” Bing Xue happily kissed her cute lips, and then her adorable snout. “Well done, my love.”

  “M-Me too!” Urbosa gasped as she learned about the “reward” that Merkite had requested; she had no idea of such a new rule! “I deserve a reward as well!”

  “Okay, I was going to give it to you anyways,” Bing Xue smiled gently, kissing Urbosa’s lips gently, and then her snout and then her forehead. “Mooch, mooch, very well done, my dearest.”

  Her two wives were left even more in love with her adorable way to give them kisses and cuddles, hugging her even tightly and ing their tails around her waist while rubbing their faces on her chest.

  “Damn… I want some of that too…” Mursha muttered without realizing she was saying it out loud. “A-Ah! I mean, I didn’t…”

  “Holy, same…” Peperina sighed, looking at the se as she yawned. “Oh well, we’re done here, I believe… I-It was sure a long day… So much happened; I o eat and sleep to process everything… A-At least I e bae and tell my mom her world is finally safe now.”

  “Well done,” Mursha smiled, patting the rabbit girl’s shoulders. “Let’s go have a meal then; Peperina was your name, right?”

  “Yep! Mursha right?” Peperina asked. “Let’s get along! I think we be good friends! D-Despite our size differences,

  “Hahah, you’re cute!” Mursha giggled, notig hoeperina was pared to her. “e here; I’ll carry you on my shoulders. You’re like a baby girl!”

  Mursha ughed, treating Peperina like a child and carrying her on her shoulders.

  “W-Wait! I’m not a kid, Mursha, stop it!”

  Although she pined, it wasn’t as if she disliked it.

  As they made their way back to the camp, they met with the rest of the cavemen and Fiery Hair, along with all the people who decided not to escape their world.

  There were roughly three thousand people that stayed, so the world wasn’t pletely empty whehing happened.

  Thanks to their hope and trust in these new saviors, Mursha was able to el the power of Hope too, givihe power to pierce through Rakshasa’s defenses.

  “T-They really did it…”

  “The world of Elios is back to normal?!”

  “T-The barbarian god… You saw him die, right? It wasn’t... this isn’t a dream?”

  “They killed him!”

  “And the beast spirit gods, they’re back!”

  “T-This is… I ’t believe this!”

  The people were all in tears, on their knees, stantly g and thanking their heroes. Many of them were still in a state of shock, pletely speechless.

  What seemed to be just another War Game ended up being the st one.

  Bing Xue walked forward with the rest of the partits, as she also noticed Seth ing back with the two gods; they had been battling the divis and proteg the camp.

  Without their help, the camp might have beeroyed, so she was grateful they were here to help as well.

  And well, without knowing about this secret that Seth had, it wouldn’t have been possible for her to save this world properly, at least.

  “You may rest at ease now, everyohe cult has been pletely sin, and the barbarian god is now dead too,” Bing Xue said. “However, the world of Elios has bee in a perilous state. I am only a fner, an otherworldly pyer who has nhts to say anything about this world. I came here and simply syed someohought did not deserve to live. However, the real heroes are these people. They risked their lives for you and became the vessels of the a five divi spirit gods.”

  Bing Xue happily gave all the credit to the girls, and well, it wasn’t as if they didn’t deserve it. She had tried to put Seth ioo, but he just disappeared without leaving a trace; he wasn’t someone who liked attention. She also o ask him a couple of questiohere were still things she was w about him.

  “Thank you, our heroes!”

  “Vessels?! Then they must be the a beast gods’ apostles?”

  “They’re our neostles, hurray!”

  “We have to celebrate; the tyranny of the cult of the barbarian god is no more!”

  “W-We’re free? Really? No more war games? Seriously?!”

  “Thank you! Thank you so much! My family... my kids... they’re all finally avenged!”

  Orcs, beast-kin, thralls, and many other people ran towards Urbosa, Merkite, Mursha, and Peperina, stantly thanking them for everything and kneeling before them.

  Their faith and gratefulness became divine powers, with Faith Points rapidly accumuting on all firls, making their developing divine proidly.

  “I-It was nothing, really!” said Merkite rather nervously.

  “o thank us, we simply fought for our world!” Urbosa said pridefully.

  “Everyone, calm down…” Mursha was embarrassed. “I did this because I just love this world and all of you, people that kept struggling, just like my tribe, you’re the real heroes here!”

  “I-I’m not used to receiving so much attention!” Peperina anig.

  Meanwhile, Bing Xue walked to the side of Typhon, where the enormous metallid crystalline divi spirit rested over the grassnds, gng at the camp and then at the world.

  It had been born fifty years ago, yet it was the first time it was finally seeing its world—the world it would now govern as its god.

  It was a very young god at that, but thankfully, he had a great mentor within him.

  “Bing Xue,” the voice of the Star-Gazing Lion of Beginning spoke through Typhon. “Thank you for everything, truly. I know that you’re the real mastermind behind everything, alongside Seth… Without you, this world might have faced its end.”

  “Ah, well, it’s nothing much, really!” Bing Xue giggled. “Gd you guys are back… Because you are, right?”

  “I’ll have to be ho with you…” sighed the Lion. “By the end of the day, we might no longer be here.”

  “W-What?” Bing Xue asked. “Wait, is it the structure of your bodies? Let me heal you.”

  “It’s not something you could heal; it is ected to the world and the ws we govern,” said the Lion. “I’ll leave behind my knowledge and my will within Typhon, but in a couple of minutes, me, the hare, the phoenix, and my twin wolves will cease to exist as we are.”

  “I heal you; let me!” Bing Xue attempted to heal them through many teiques.

  Yet nothing worked; it was something she couldn’t heal, a wound that has sted for three hundred years; it was somethiential; it was as if the very “story” they’ve built was fragmenting apart, and so their existences were ing to an end.

  It wasn’t something she could heal or revive.

  “You see, we gods not only subsist through Faith, but we also build Stories, Myths,” he expined. “Our myths and stories have been fotten; most of the people who believed in us died. And the new people are too few. It’s hopeless… But that’s fine as well. I want to entrust you with the future of my people.”

  “Me?! But wait, I ’t just stay here forever…” Bing Xue muttered.

  “I know, but I supervise it from time to time…” The lion muttered.

  “Dammit… okay,” sighed Bing Xue. “Hahh… just when I thought I was getting new allied gods, you guys are going to die... Are there other beast gods left behind?”

  “There are a few, weakened and hidden, in the world. They will e to Typhon naturally,” said the lion. “With him, my children shall build a new pantheon. They will bee your friends and allies. Do not worry, although our existences might fade. We will leave Divine Wills, copies of our minds and thoughts, like an archive of what we were and would be. They will bee the new voices of reason for Typhon; he might speak in many voices soon enough.”

  “So like es, huh?” Bing Xue wondered. “Fi ’t be helped at the end. I’m sorry, I wasn’t able to e earlier. I didn’t know you for long, but I know... I at least know you’re a good person, Lion.”

  “Thank you, Bing Xue... That means a lot ing from you,” The lion’s form emerged from Typhoing over the grassnds as he g the su. “What a beautiful suhis is... My st su.”

  Merkite, Urbosa, Mursha, and Peperina walked to their side, and the divi spirit gods that had taken them as vessels also emerged, their bodies slowly fading away at the side of their father.

  “A-Are you really going to die? A-After everything?!” Urbosa cried. “Bing Xue! ’t you heal them?”

  “I’m sorry…” Bing Xue sighed. “There are things that not even I heal.”

  “Hahh…” Merkite sighed. “You guys lied to us; you said you would stay with us!”

  “We will,” said the bck wolf. “We will leave within you all our remaining powers.”

  “Please, take good care of them. I know you’re all worthy, my precious daughters.” The white wolf spoke gently.

  Urbosa ae started g as they saw the two giant wolves beginning to fade away below the su.

  “I-I don’t know what to say… My mom will be so sad…” sighed Peperina.

  “It is fine, dear. Tell your mother that I always listeo every prayer she did. And that I always watched over her,” the hare rubbed their noses over Peperina's head. “You and your mother are strong. Live well. And take good care of my powers. I know you will.”

  “Thank you…” Peperina shed a few tears.

  “Phoenix, you won’t revive like the legends say?” Mursha asked the phoenix.

  “I’m afraid even that legend that gave me such power has died long ago,” ughed the phoenix. “But worry not, Mursha. We will simply return to the world. Death does not truly exist for us.”

  “Indeed, art of the world,” said the lion. “And we will be watg you and proteg you. Our dear children.”

  The lion’s beautiful, starry eyes g the people of the world, smilily.

  “I love all of you, my children.”

  FLASH!

  The beast gods dissipated, being particles of various colors of light, slowly moving away by the wind, elevating into the skies.

  For a moment, everyone in the camp and the world of Elios saw this beautiful se as millions of colorful butterflies made of these colors flew around the globe.

  Their essence, like rain, fell from the skies, giving the world the st spark of life and divinity it o tinue.

  As the sun finally set, Typhon sat there, looking at the night sky.

  “Groooohhh…”

  He howled sorrowfully, regretting being uo spend more time with his parents.

  Bing Xue gently patted his big paws.

  “It’s fiyphon; they’re not gone,” she said. “They will always be inside of your heart.”

  “Grrhhh…” Typhon gave a cute sound, lig Bing Xue’s entire body with its giant tongue.

  “Ugh… T-Thanks…”

  Seth looked at the sky, resting behind the camp’s walls.

  He smiled lightly, recalling the memories of his past love.

  Of a cute tiger-kin girl who meant everything to him.

  “We’ve saved it, Mia... Your world,” he sighed. “I hope that one day I see you again... Amidst the tless worlds this tower has. So we e to your world... And build a house and a family together.”

  Bing Xue remained silent as she heard everything he said to himself in a lower voice.

  “Heh, so even you have someone you love, huh?”

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  Pach