Epic of Caterpillar

Yerze conjured a powerful spell she had been learning since she became a demigoddess, which could be called something like her own Divine Technique!

By harboring her faith as the priestess of Goghesdum (and the other dragons), she shaped her Holy Light Thunder into the figure of the dragons she prayed to as if they were Gods (And well, they were Gods now!), shaping it as Goghesdum, her greatest figure of faith after Kireina, and releasing it as a powerful divine holy light thunder attack!

"ROOAARR!"

The phantom dragon rushed towards Blazeye, using its holy thunder claws to tear him apart, crushing his soul in the way!

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

"GRAAAAAAAHHHH!"

Blazeye was quickly consumed by the sheer power, as Yerze didn't stop there! Goghesdum wasn't the only one that emerged within her phantom projections, but also Odanth, Yvnei, and Nannet! All of them made of holy light thunder, rushing towards the gigantic and deadly eye and consuming him with the burning light of faith and thunder!

CRAAAASH!

Blazeye quickly was torn apart, and his soul fragmented into shattered pieces quickly after, Yerze hurriedly caught them by extending a net using her holy light thunder and then saving everything inside her Inventory.

"And done~!" she said, as Goghesdum and Nannet congratulated her, she had grown quite a lot.

"Good work, Yerze, you make your goddess proud," said Goghesdum, petting the adorable Yerze with her gigantic draconic claws.

"Hm, I could notice that you had become way better at fighting, from a priest to a battle mage you've improved incredibly quickly. I am sure that Master Kireina will accept you for Dual Cultivation as well, so we can all grow together," said Nannet, as she also petted Yerze with her gigantic, black-scaled draconic hand.

"D-Dual Cultivation? B-But I didn't-"

"Oh, look, Yiksukesh is fighting too, let's see how much she had developed… Did you know that she used to be a Dungeon Boss? Quite crazy… Wait, that's what we used to be as well… I guess we had that in common," said Goghesdum, who was also kind of a Dungeon Boss from Nyzzet's Dungeon, although she was always an independent dragon, born as a lizard with the intelligence of her previous life as a male alchemist and mage adventurer who died in the dungeon.

"Indeed, we are Dungeon-born in a way…! Though I hatched from mama's egg," said Nannet.

"Eh? But I-"

"Hm, I do wonder if Kireina-sama might allow me to lay an egg with her seed…" wondered Goghesdum, who had already quite fully embraced being a woman, and desired a child with Kireina as a way to gain some more authority within her Divine Realm and the many nations she governed. After all, she was a woman that liked to be prayed upon by devoted people.

Although the High Thunder Lizardman was still praying to her and the other Dragon Goddesses, they were dedicating a lot of that to Kireina now…

Well, this was but only one of the reasons, although she was shamelessly speaking these things directly when the moment of truth came, she might end up having cold feet and get all embarrassed.

"I-I see that Goghesdum-sama is eager… But I don't know if I should-" muttered Yerze, as she was interrupted again.

"I see that you're eager to give me a sibling, mama… I will also try to give you a grandchild if possible," said Nannet with her dragon form, her roaring voice was intimidating and not feminine at all.

"Oh… Nannet, you're so considerate… I never considered being a grandmother," said Goghesdum.

"We'll make a big family of little dragons," said Nannet, as mother and daughter looked for the future ahead which included some egg-laying… While Yerze was mixed in against her will.

"Erm… T-This… I…" she muttered, she wasn't able to muster many words in front of her goddesses, especially in their draconic and gigantic forms, so she ended giving up. She might have to embrace Dual Cultivation as well! Who knows? She might end like Faylen and grow addicted to Kireina's body…

"What's wrong, Yerze?" asked Goghesdum.

"Do you have something to say, dear?" asked Nannet.

"Ah! I… Well… Never mind…" she sighed.

Meanwhile, just a few dozen of meters away, Yiksukesh suddenly transformed into her true form, the enormous Undead Snake, hissing furiously as she released breath attacks of nether poison gases from her mouth!

"GGRRRIIIIISHAAAA!"

FLAAASH!

The powerful and deadly beams reached the God she was fighting, who resembled to be a giant golem made of charcoal, with a single eye made of a red-colored crystal in the middle of its torso, as it lacked a body, it was Graschoal, the Demon God of Charcoal Fire!

"Nnnggh…! Foolish snake! Your venom doesn't affect a being such as me!" he laughed, although he was incredibly nervous, mostly because he was being glared at by the enemy, who all wanted his adversary to kill him.

However, he knew that they wanted her to do it by herself, so that's why they were not decimating him with ease as they did with the rest.

This was his chance! He simply needed to slaughter this snake, eat it through divinity devouring and fight until he could escape!

It was an insane plan with a very low percentage of success, but he was running out of options, and this looked like the best one he could possibly take…

And this snake, although big, had an attack that didn't affect him, alongside that, she seemed clumsy and rather stupid, it was ideal! He was going to blast her away with his explosive charcoal and grill her alive, and then, eat her up!

"Charcoal Fire!"

Suddenly, Graschoal generated hundreds of mountain-sized charcoal boulders, firing them against Yiksukesh, as they began to explode all around her, she was being torn into pieces, her wounds were enormous and even her head exploded!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Yiksukesh wasn't particularly fast, and Graschoal was confident that he could take her down merely with this, as she was clumsy and slow, and also because he knew that Gods divine bodies usually took some time to regenerate as they were charged with a lot of power that couldn't be easily recovered!

"GAHAHA! Now, time to devour you, you foolish snake!" laughed Graschoal, flying towards the blazing Yiksukesh as she released her aura of nether venom, her divine aura shaped itself as hundreds of deadly snakes and flew towards Graschoal, surprising him!

"Eh?!"

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Graschoal managed to resist most of them through walls made of charcoal and fire, but he was beginning to be overwhelmed!

"I am still developing my abilities, so sorry for copying your techniques, Nesiphae-mama," sighed Yiksukesh, who saw Nesiphae as her adoptive mother after being taken care of by her for some time.

Yiksukesh imitated her adoptive mother's powerful technique of manipulating her aura and shaping it as snakes of various elements! Although they were not of varied elements other than Darkness, Nether, and Poison.

Graschoal seemed to have underestimated the little Yiksukesh, even more as he saw how she began to regenerate all her wounds almost automatically! The flames over her quickly dissipated as she coated herself in slimy nether!

"NNGGGH…! You…! What kind of regeneration is that?!" asked Graschoal.

"Hm? You're still alive? Oh right… Explode," said Yiksukesh, as she glanced expressionlessly at the golem made of charcoal, as all the snakes overwhelming him suddenly began to glow with eerie black light!

"Eh?!"

BOOOM!!!

All of the snakes exploded at the same time, resonating through the entire battlefield and releasing shockwaves all around, as Graschoal was overwhelmed by the burning potency of the nether within them, which affected not his physical body but directly into his soul1 After all no gods were immune to elements, they were simply resistant to them, even a fire god would be damaged by divine fire, and even a thunder god could be damaged by divine thunder, it all depended on how much they could resist!

Graschoal, however, barely survived the explosions, as he began to escape like a tiny floating black rock, barely keeping his shattered soul together however he could, but he was already about to die miserably soon!

FLASH!

The enormous jaws of Yiksukesh reached him in an instant as the tiny fragment of the red jewel that worked as his eye glared with horror at the immense esophagus of Yiksukesh, opening wide to crush him!

"NNNNGGRRYYYYAAAHHH…!"

CRUNCH!

Unlike most snakes, Yiksukesh had a lot of razor-sharp fangs, and easily crushed the god into pieces and then shattered his soul through God Devour, saving it all inside her Inventory.

She "smiled" happily at her senpais, as they gave her thumbs up.

"Good work Yiksukesh-chan!" said Yerze, flying at her side and petting her giant snakehead, Yiksukesh closed her eyes as she received her petting.

"I am growing stronger!" she said.

The Dragon Goddess flew around Yiksukesh and congratulated her, as they realized that most of the battle had now come to an end… the battlefield had become silent and peaceful, all the Gods were slain.

"Phew, that was rather intense, alright guys, time to go! Quickly get into the Divine Realm," said Kireina, opening a large rift in space that led to her Divine Realm, as he family and allies celebrated.

After everything was done, the Living Deity Spatial Slime Clones and Kiroid flew inside her Divine Realm too, and Kireina devoured the evidence left, such as the formation and everything else, and quickly appeared outside of the Lower Realm… everything was tranquil, it was all over for now.

Zeus and his family, alongside Baltis, quickly decided to move back to the Central Continent, leaving all of this behind for the moment.

"We'll keep you updated with any news," said Zeus, as he and the other Gods teleported away.

"Now… What else there is? Oh! This," said Kireina, glaring at the large Divine Area formed by the Dark Flames and their pantheon, who were all killed already, Kireina had probably killed 99% of all Gods within the Lower Realm, and as there wasn't any Great God here, this had practically become her territory now…

Kireina quickly used her Spatial Architect Ability to move the entire space within the Divine Area inside of her Divine Realm, assimilating it inside of it!

The gigantic land filled with mixed divine materials and divine beasts quickly merged and became a part of her divine realm, taking over another empty land, of the many she had.

Kireina's Divine Realm wasn't completely filled with materials or much, aside from grasslands, sea, and some deserts and mountains, they were all quite plain-looking, but this also allowed her to fuse God's Divine Realms into these empty lands to make them flourish with life and precious materials.

Having this done, Kireina checked her existence level… no, it was still not enough to become Great Goddess, even after having eaten those three Dragon Gods.

"Well, it should be more than enough whenever I eat the other Gods," thought Kireina, as she began to fly around the Lower Realm at an incredible speed.

Flash!

Now that the Gods were defeated, she began to enter Dungeons left and right, blasting each boss and then stealing the Dungeon Cores by fusing them with her main dungeon!

One by one, she took around a minute per dungeon, and all of them were completed incredibly quickly!

There were around 46 Dungeons all around the Lower Realm, and after finally having conquered and fused them all, she felt the powerful connection with her, and all the divine power they were giving to her as well.

As she was also a dungeon, she had fused with her main dungeon, and every time she fused a dungeon with it, she would be fused with it as well.

Now, she felt connected with all such dungeons and a lot of the Lower Realm! It could be said that this was her way to conquer it entirely!

All the treasures she got were quite meaningless at this point, as she had grown way above these items, but they could still be useful for others, so she stuffed them into her Inventory.

And then…

Ding!

[The [Lower Realm] has been conquered!]

[Do you desire to form the [Realm Core]?]

<Yes> <No>

"Eh?"