Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 178 The Great Battle with the Gods

As expected, thousands of terrifying divine beings suddenly appeared among the boundless stars. Their majesty made the stars pale in comparison, the universe trembled at their arrival, and Agred's soul fire also trembled incessantly at this magnificent spectacle that was only seen once every trillion years.

Agreed was thrilled. Today he would prove to the multiverse that gods were not aloof and unapproachable; they too felt fear and trembled! The gods had united like a pack of weak jackals to kill him, simply because he had kept them awake at night!

In the blink of an eye, the gods appeared before Agred and surrounded him. Odin, the leader, pointed the eternal spear Gungnir at Agred and said righteously, "Die, you undead! This time we are fully prepared. You will not be as lucky as last time!"

Agreed laughed wildly, "Stop spouting such high-sounding nonsense! I'll make the gods tremble in fear at today's feat for billions of years to come!"

With things already said this far, there was nothing more to say. The gods each used their own methods, unleashing a variety of divine powers that violated the rules of the universe as they attacked Agreed. Agreed knew that in his current state, he couldn't even withstand these attacks, so he directly released the fourteenth-order forbidden magic 'Zero Space' that he had prepared beforehand.

Driven by Agreed, the Styx self-destructed instantly, and the entire universe collapsed. Extreme darkness and nothingness spread outward from Agreed as the center. The universe converged inward at an extremely fast speed, becoming a singularity. Even the gods could not resist this unreasonable power of destruction and were eventually sucked into the singularity.

But the gods did not die. An attack of this magnitude could not harm their true forms protected by divine power. However, Odin knew that the singularity would soon reach a critical point and explode again, forming a new nascent universe. Even the gods could not possibly remain unscathed under such a primordial force. Therefore, Odin decisively said, "This place will explode soon. Heimdall! You and the other space gods who possess similar divine power to you, quickly send us out! Otherwise, those lower-level gods of faith will surely die."

Heimdall and the other gods with spatial abilities immediately understood and activated their powers to send the gods out of the singularity. Unfortunately, the first god of faith to escape the singularity ran into Agreed, who was already waiting for him. Agreed instantly triggered the fourteenth-order forbidden magic 'Hand of Plunder', and the gods of faith who had just been sent out were immediately controlled by Agreed. The divine power of the lower-level gods was quickly absorbed by Agreed. At the same time, Agreed used the plundered divine power to replenish the singularity and detonate it, giving Odin and the others no chance to react.

The singularity exploded instantly, and a multidimensional space unfolded continuously. Those weak gods of faith were directly and severely injured by this power of creation. Even Odin and Zeus were injured as a result. However, the power of this move was too dispersed. No god died from this move. Agred only made most of the gods lose their ability to fight.

After escaping the control of the singularity, Odin immediately threw out the Spear of Eternity. Zeus simultaneously released divine lightning, which, empowered by divine power, struck Agreed before the Spear of Eternity could strike. The unstoppable divine lightning destroyed Agreed's protective magic array and struck his skeletal body. Agreed's skeletal body was then shattered into pieces by Zeus's divine thunder, leaving only the crystal ball containing the soul fire intact.

Then, the Spear of Eternity arrived late but easily pierced the crystal ball, destroying Agreed's soul fire. However, the Spear of Eternity did not stop its attack; it then plunged into the still not completely destroyed River Styx, intending to kill Agreed completely.

At this moment, the other gods who still had the strength to fight all urged their divine power to attack the Styx. The universe was ultimately too fragile in front of the gods. Half an hour later, the Styx was completely destroyed and evaporated by the divine power. The universe, which had not yet been reborn, died in its infancy and began to break irregularly, eventually becoming part of the void.

Agreed vanished into the world; at least from the perspective of the gods, he had been utterly killed.

After Odin and Zeus confirmed this repeatedly, Odin turned to his companions and said, "We have succeeded; he is completely dead."

All the gods present breathed a sigh of relief and cheered happily, as if it were a great and glorious achievement for a group of gods to bully the weak and finally win. It was like a group of elephants working together to finally kill a rat that they had been unable to kill. This hard-won victory was really not presentable to outsiders. After all, from the moment they needed to unite to deal with that rat, the elephants had already lost.

Afterwards, Odin and Zeus led the gods back to the capital in high spirits, but what they did not know was that Agreed may not have completely disappeared from the world.

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Four hours after Argreed's battle with the gods, in the cosmic space where Io was born...

A barely perceptible wisp of soul fire burrowed into the eggshell of Nidhogg. This was the twelfth-tier spell 'Reincarnation' left behind by Agreed (a spell created by Agreed himself). To make the act convincing enough to deceive the gods, Agreed had left most of his soul in that universe. What remained here was only the core and most crucial seed of Agreed's soul. After Agreed's physical body died, his consciousness would naturally be uploaded into the seed of his soul and merge with Nidhogg.

Although he was very weak, Agreed still mustered his strength and crawled into the dragon egg containing Nidhogg. Just as Agreed was about to merge with the strongest body he had created himself, an accident happened!

Nidhogg's physical body had unexpectedly developed self-awareness and was even resisting Agred's fusion. This was something Agred had never anticipated, because any creature that wanted a soul must go through the distribution of the River Styx, but the River Styx in this universe had long been under Agred's control. What did this mean?! It meant that someone had been reincarnated right under the nose of the King of Hell without the permission of the underworld!

However, it's understandable. After all, when Agreed created Nidhogg, he fed it divine essence, fragments of divine power, and the origin of the World Tree—things that defy the heavens. It's possible that it could develop self-awareness after breaking away from the River Styx. After all, it was born with a divine body, so such a thing could be explained.

But this sudden turn of events shattered Agreed's mental defenses. He roared, "How could I possibly let a bastard like you get pregnant with my child after all the hard work and suffering I've endured to get to this point! This is the body I nurtured, and you just take it all? Why did you have to do this to me now?! Fine! I was just looking for a way to vent my anger after my defeat, and since you, this wandering ghost, have delivered yourself to my doorstep to die, then don't blame me!!"

Immediately, Agreed rushed into Nidhogg's body, mobilizing his own soul power and, disregarding the danger, borrowing a large amount of soul power directly from the River Styx. Then, Agreed pressed Nidhogg's own proliferating consciousness to the ground, crushing and brutally beating it. Agreed had just suffered a defeat and his soul was full of resentment, so the poor physical consciousness became Agreed's punching bag. Finally, after being brutally beaten, torn apart, and repeatedly tortured, it was finally devoured by Agreed and transformed into nourishment for Agreed's rebirth.