Epic of Caterpillar

The memories of her evolution flowed into Kireina as well, of all her powers. And how this "robotic" side of her learned everything. These new Skills, she knew how to use them right away now. And as her memories were fully restored, Mammon and Aquamarine, who had been sealed inside of her inventory by her memory-lacking self, were freed instantly. And they too, received the boosts of her evolution.

Because of her evolution wasn't just about growing stronger herself either. She had become an embodiment of her powers. And this included her Egos themselves. Through the almighty power of the Absolute Cosmic Enchantment: Ego Ability, she enchanted her Egos and forcefully and temporarily evolved them, without the necessity to fuse them beforehand.

Mammon transformed from a ring into an almighty demonic armor, growing on top of her already armored and insectoid form. All while Aquamarine transformed into her wings, resembling an endless sea of azure cosmic liquified essence, countless stars being born as it waved. And as if that wasn't enough, something was happening outside of these boundaries.

TRUUUMM…!!

Within the Sea of Emptiness were many Universal Bubbles floated, one of the largest bubbles in the Sea of Emptiness started moving. Yes, a whole Universe moving on its own! It was not something that would usually happen, as it would usually require tremendous quantities of Cosmic Essence.

But the Ruler of this Universe could afford it…

"I'm on my way, my other half, wait for me."

As the Maxima Universe grew closer and closer to the wormhole connecting Abyss with the Spiritual Plane and the Outer Plane, Kireina's shared stats from every inhabitant of that Universe continued growing exponentially.

Before, it was around 5% of every living being there. But now, it was going as high as 26%, and steadily increasing with each passing second. Kireina's power had not just tripled, it might have been multiplied by over ten more times… Shub-Niggurath couldn't simply believe her countless eyes.

"H-How are you growing so strong?!" Her titanic axe clashed against her once more, only for Kireina's wings, shaped as a pair of beautiful black and azure katanas, to stop her attack.

CRAAASH!

"I am quite surprised you're not aware of something, Shub-Niggurath." Kireina said with rage inside of her eyes. "I do have a whole Universe backing me, actually."

"A whole universe…?!" Shub Niggurath thought of that as absurd. Not even this Universe would completely back her. The Primordial were all busy doing their own things. This Universe wasn't one where only a single figure dominated everything as the Absolute Ruler. Unless… She was talking about another universe, where such logic worked.

"[Absolute Cosmic Enchantment: Cosmic Swords Mastery]" Kireina said, enchanting her Sword Techniques based in the amount of Cosmic Energy Stat she possessed.

In a split of a second, her entire body spun majestically, unleashing a barrage of slicing attacks. Shub-Niggurath attacked back with her titanic axe, attempting to slow her time down with each strike. Kireina allowed her to strike her shoulders or the blade of her sword. But she never managed to spread much Time Flames before Kireina were to fill her body with slashing wounds. Miasma splattering out of her wounds.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Kireina abused her new Skills to the maximum of her capabilities. Utilizing Metaphysical Manifestation in conjunction with Partial Dimensional Warping to let her droplets of blood, flesh, and armor turn into herself, ambushing Shub-Niggurath by attacking her from all places at once.

Each strike felt stronger and stronger over the Outer Goddess, who was beginning to sweat bullets, realizing that this wasn't just a mere game anymore. Her life was absolutely on the line. And Kireina was slowly becoming the one hunting her instead of the other way around it!

"How… No, I won't accept this! I WON'T! I am Shub-Niggurath! The Aberrant Mother of a Thousand Young… I am the mother of all you bastards! Now come and give me your damned power!" Shub-Niggurath roared in utter fury, her entire body swiftly becoming gigantic and monstrous again, realizing fighting with a humanoid form was now becoming a disadvantage!

TRUUUMMM…!!

"Mother, take me!"

"We shall become one once again!"

"The flesh and soul you gave me, it is yours once more!"

The Outer Gods all teleported towards her, fusing into her aberrant body. Kireina saw as Shub-Niggurath became larger and larger. She continued fighting her. Her titanic tentacles trying to pierce Kireina's body constantly, yet she evaded the attacks as they came, manipulating her own Time Flow as she learned how to do so thanks to Shub-Niggurath using her abilities on her for so long.

However, Kireina was still dancing in the palm of Shub-Niggurath's claws. As she approached, she felt her Time being drained more and more. The Outer Goddess was abusing her abilities by growing larger. Becoming much more capable of absorbing Time Flow than before.

Everything slowed down the more Kireina rushed towards her!

"I got you."

The malefic mother smiled with her countless jaws, her titanic appendages appearing around Kireina. Their tips resembling sharp gray silver-colored spears, coated on Stopped Time, making them incredibly deadly.

"Die, Kireina! And regret your decisions, regret what you've brought upon yourself! Daring to fight me, someone so above you! You were foolish and reckless! Now pay for your sins with your death, return where you belong!"

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

Kireina's entire body was pierced hundreds of times at once. Her body flew off into pieces and burned into ashes by the power of the Time Flames. Her body slowly being reduced on size more and more, bloody hole after bloody hole. Her entire being was being erased from existence! The crazed laughter of Shub-Niggurath echoed in the distance.

Yet…!

FLUOSH!

Before she could get to her, Kireina vanished into white mist and completely disappeared… Shub-Niggurath vomited blood as she felt the backlash of her powerful technique coming back to her once she found no target. And in that moment, she saw Kireina reappear above her.

There was an invisible bubble of warped dimensional essence around her, making her unaffected from Shub-Niggurath's Time Flow Deceleration Domain…

"Y-You did it again?!" Shub-Niggurath groaned. "How… Can you do it twice?!"

Kireina had regenerated almost completely, but she didn't look too good either. Her essence was running low after overusing it so much. Yet she smiled, because more was coming soon from a nearby Universe.

"My Existence is only Abstract. That means I can temporarily reduce the probably of my existence to zero and completely disappear from Reality, which would bring my entire existence to the realm outside of Reality… The Great Nothingness." Kireina lectured her, with utmost confidence. "That also costs a lot of Essence. Indeed… But I feel quite confident today, Shub-

Niggurath. After all… Backup is coming."

TRUUUMMM…!!!

And then, to the disbelief of many, a titanic bubble containing a whole universe started to clash through the wormhole.

It was only a few thousands of kilometers from Kireina, making the shared stats skyrocketed all the way to 50%!

Her power growing to such an extent that it made her equal if not greater in power than Shub-Niggurath herself!

And from within the bubble, another fairy could be seen, identical to Kireina before her evolution.

"Sorry for being so late~!"

The Outer Goddess had already run out of swear Gods to scream at Kireina. But before she could even bring something out, she saw her entire body being sliced into thousands of tiny pieces.

Kireina's entire body had become a manifestation of an entire Universe, or well, half of it. A Half-Primordial.

With enough power, she enchanted her own being and divided herself into a rain of millions of Ego Weapons.

And while Shub-Niggurath was distracted, she finished off.

Right there, right now.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"Y-You fucking… bitch…" Shub-Niggurath muttered on her last words. "Of course you would pull… shit like this… Go to hell, KIREINAAAAA!!!"

As she screamed in utter frustration, her sliced body tried to regenerate back and attack Kireina, draining all her Time Flow!

Yet…

YET!

"I'm afraid you're already dead, Shub-Niggurath."

"H-Huh?"

Shub-Niggurath found herself being devoured by Kireina, every piece of herself disappearing in a split of a second after she attempted to fight back as she died.

The moment Kireina sliced her apart after turning into millions of ego weapons, she was "marked" with her Devouring power, and the digestion process had already begun.

"N-No… this… can't be…! Me? Dying… like this?! I…"

"This is what you get for messing with my family."

"S-Stop… STOOOP! KIREINAAAA!"

"Go fuck yourself."

"GRYYAAAGGGHH…!!!"

As she begged for mercy, the Outer Goddess disappeared, no longer existing, and only becoming Kireina's power.

The Universes and the Outer Realm shook, and the Constellations widened their eyes.

Kireina had once more done something unthinkable.

Shub-Niggurath, one of the three Deep Lords of the Outer Plane, was slain.