Simulate the universe, starting with speedrunning Greek.

Before the light arrived, the voice preceded it. Suddenly, the cold voice of the moon god Manny rang out in the sky: "Don't be delusional, giants of Skarmiania—you have nowhere to escape! That god of men cannot protect you! The will of Odin, the king of gods, is something no one in this Norse world can defy, not even the gods themselves. I don't know how strong the Sun King is, but even if he is a wandering god from elsewhere, can he be stronger than His Majesty Odin, the ruler of the world?"

"Surrender, giants," the sun goddess Sul said, clearly having overheard the conversation even from a great distance.

The next moment, two enormous orbs of light, resembling a miniature sun and moon, sped to this place from the sky, and on the chariot within the light were the figures of two gods—the sun god Sur and the moon god Mani.

At that moment, the moon goddess Manny also looked up at the humanoid figure high in the sky—'Is that the being called human, created by Lord Gwyn, the Sun King?'

Manny frowned slightly—they had actually mastered the power of flight, able to roam freely under the skies like the gods. However, humans were said to have extremely fragile vitality, only slightly stronger than the animals created by the gods. A small portion of their strength could hunt magical beasts, but even if they could kill many, their power was far from comparable to that of the noble gods. Although they seemed quite mysterious and appeared to possess some magical abilities, it shouldn't be a major concern; it wouldn't affect their mission.

Despite their similar appearances, Manny wouldn't take the 'weak' human seriously. Out of respect for the Sun King, and not wanting to kill the human outright, he continued, "Go back, human... You can't protect these giants, not even the Sun King behind you. Go back and tell your king... Odin, the God-King, has decreed that all giants who break the bet must be executed! This is an indisputable conclusion!"

When the giants finally heard from the sun and moon gods that Odin was determined to exterminate them, they panicked, and Skarmory became tense as well. He looked up at the man who called himself 'Sallyvan' still floating in the air, wondering if the Sun King would still dare to protect them now that he knew the king's resolve.

however--

"Inquiry—Giants of Skminia, are you willing to offer your lives and loyalty to His Majesty the Sun King!" High in the sky, a figure seemingly reigning over a throne in the void completely ignored the approaching gods of the sun and moon.

As the music begins in Chapter 104, the boss battle brings a sense of oppression!

That completely indifferent attitude... well, now there's no need to ask for an answer... they simply don't take it seriously.

The sun god Sur and the moon god Manni were both stunned for a moment, not even having time to be angry. It was a kind of astonishment—they seemed to have never thought that the other party would dare to ignore their words.

At that moment, Skarmia on the other side knelt down without hesitation: "Then, I will offer my life and loyalty to His Majesty the Supreme Sun King!! The covenant is now complete!"

With a whoosh, countless giants followed suit, kneeling down one after another: "We offer our lives and loyalty to the supreme Sun King!! The pact is now complete!"

At that moment, their eyes were filled with a desperate longing for life. Who would willingly choose death if they could live? Even if it meant sacrificing a little freedom, what did it matter if the Sun King could truly protect them under the protection of Odin, the King of the Gods, and they offered their loyalty to him?!

The moon god clenched his fists. Although he didn't say anything, his expression was clearly more unpleasant. He exchanged a glance with the sun goddess, Sur, and then they both understood what the other meant.

'Foolish humans'—!

Without even a moment's hesitation, and probably without even consulting His Majesty the Sun King, they made the decision to protect those rude giants. With such contempt before them, even if they killed them, His Majesty the Sun King should have no complaints.

Since they insist on protecting these damned giants, then...

"Attack—!" With the cold voice of the moon god Manny, countless moonbeams condensed into a dazzling rain of light and fell from the sky, directly covering all the giants below, including the human 'Sullivan' who was caught in the middle, who obviously no longer cared about anything.

At the same time, the sun goddess Sur will also unleash her divine light, with countless pillars of blazing sunlight falling straight down from the sky as if to annihilate everything.

These crisscrossing lines of light seemed to tear the world apart, leaving no escape for any creature confined within that space. The vast attack range even enveloped a significant portion of the under-construction royal city of Anor Londo! Upon seeing this, the humans not far from the city below suddenly paled, becoming anxious and panicked.

That's their capital city, even if it's not finished yet—is it going to be destroyed by the gods in this one blow?!

While the giants were preparing to withstand these attacks with their bodies.

The figure in the clouds moved, and a teleportation spell familiar to Skarmian appeared—a spatial fluctuation—using the power of the corresponding space within the runes to instantly transfer the attacks behind the distant snow-capped mountains.

The next moment—several runes appeared in the void, shining brightly, corresponding to the power of the world, mystery, and God, flashing wildly. The world—has changed!

A battlefield specially prepared to deal with the coming attack of the Gods of Night!

Night had considered this question before. Even if all the gods were demoted, they would still retain the power of their physical bodies. Some powerful gods might still be able to maintain some authority after being demoted. This power would still be too great for humans, and even a slight disturbance could cause a large number of deaths.

Since it's impossible to start a war at home at night, the only option is to create a parallel space for the battle.

Or perhaps—learn how to materialize the world of imagination? Having already been able to deploy his own military force, Ye, possessing similar abilities, quickly mastered the ability to create the battlefield he desired according to his own will.

Commonly known as the custom battlefield mode, it allows him to freely create any scene from his memory, whether it's the Ancient Dragon's Peak, the magnificent Uruk capital, or even the Sky City or Mount Olympus.

then--

For the giants and the gods, in the blink of an eye, the world before them seemed to have changed completely.

It was as if half the sky had been torn apart, plunging them into countless dazzling stars. When the dust settled, they found themselves in a 'great' church.

Why call it great?! It's a vast expanse that even giants as tall as mountains could easily contain, the size of a church magnified to an infinite scale.

The design of this church is based on the sacred and mysterious building where the boss battle of Pope Sulyvahn took place in the Souls series universe.

Upon entering this world, the unique gloomy and mysterious beauty of the Souls series worlds, filled with decadence and corruption, and resembling a ruined world, immediately attracted the attention of the giants and the two gods of the sun and moon.

'Where...where am I?'

The sacred cathedral is surrounded by a dazzling starry sky, flanked by towering, dark stone pillars and equally tall, hooded statues with bowed heads, holding various staffs.

At that moment, a sacred yet sorrowful, ancient yet mysterious song resounded in the air.

At that moment—the giant and the sun and moon gods in the very center of the church saw an image of 'Sullivan' that seemed to have been magnified as well.

However, he was different from before. He now wore an ancient golden crown, making him appear even more noble and mysterious. He stood calmly in the center of the church, holding two greatswords that shone with a light that was not dazzling.

He wielded a greatsword formed from the power of the sun's radiance in one hand and a purple starlight greatsword formed from the moon's glow in the other.

For someone who has received many blessings from the light, the sun, and the moon, condensing the brilliance of these suns and moons into the shape of a sword is a piece of cake.

—Holding the burning greatsword horizontally in front of him in his right hand, he slowly aligns the hilt with the lower right corner and the tip with the direction above his left shoulder; while his left hand holds the sword in the opposite direction.

With a mysterious fighting stance imbued with religious themes, the enormous figure maintained this unique and dashing fighting posture, gracefully walking towards them without haste, like the Grim Reaper about to send off the challenger.

Upon witnessing this visually oppressive scene, the sun god and moon god's brains momentarily went blank.

'What's this?!'

Why did the world change in the blink of an eye?! They couldn't comprehend this incredible, almost earth-shattering spectacle; how could it have been done? Furthermore, seeing that strange, seemingly mysterious and oppressive figure slowly approaching, the two gods felt uneasy and panicked. Their instinctive urge to resist quickly turned to a change in expression.

The moment they entered this mental world, the deification spell was activated. They were then pulled into a state similar to that of the game "A Certain Magical Index," forced into melee combat and close-quarters battle.

The two gods who discovered this were utterly panicked and didn't know what to do.

In mythology, the moon god is portrayed as an introverted, reclusive man who rarely leaves his home except for essential work. The sun goddess is also depicted as a woman in a long dress; her only melee weapon, a shield, was a gift from the gods to protect her pegasus from the sun's scorching power, and she usually has her maidservants hold it for her. Hmm—it's safe to say that the pegasus in the Norse mythology is indeed subpar, and even the goddess Sur seems to have no idea how to fight in melee! How are they supposed to fight like this?

Chapter 105 One person, one hit, not even ashes without fire? I'm furious and cold!

Of course you have to use shield parry to fight Sulyvahn! However, while shields are available, neither Sulyvahn nor Manny Vayne possesses that kind of advanced combat skill.

And Sulyvahn, who couldn't be stunned by a shield parry, slowly approached...

My powers are unusable; the divine power within my body is suppressed to an extreme degree. It seems only the original power of my physical body can be unleashed? What kind of forced close-quarters combat is this?!

When they fully sensed their divine bodies, they discovered that the situation was far worse than they had imagined. The Sun and Moon Gods: —What a joke...! They weren't the kind of muscular brutes who were good at using weapons in combat!

Wait a minute—that human named 'Sha something Wan,' didn't he claim to be a magician?! But what's with him walking over here carrying two greatswords that radiate the light of the sun and moon?

Which magic users wield greatswords, and two at that?!

Listening to the increasingly grand and sacred music reminiscent of an ancient boss battle, and seeing the towering figure drawing ever closer, seemingly with no escape.

The two gods, Sun and Moon, felt a jolt in their hearts. All they wanted was to find a way out. But there was no door! It was another 'world' altogether! How could they escape? Where could they escape to?

No—it seems there really is a door.

The two gods discovered what appeared to be the entrance to a church behind them—an incredibly magnificent and towering fog gate. They didn't know where they would end up after passing through this unknown and ever-flowing mysterious fog gate, and this eerie scene made them dare not make any rash moves.

That thing doesn't look like a passageway that can be passed through normally at all!

And closer, even closer—watching the unhurried, slowly approaching figure of 'Sulyvahn', it seemed as if a huge shadow was descending.

But when it came to having the two gods fight with their physical bodies, they had absolutely no idea what to do.

Even the two celestial chariots seemed to have vanished in the transformation, remaining in their original world. The two great gods, symbolizing the sun and the moon, who would be incomparably revered in any mythological world, now stood on the ground, and with Sulyvahn's increased stature, they suddenly appeared incredibly small.

It seems that at this moment they are no longer noble gods, but mortals fallen into the dust.

"That's a mental world... It has many names in many worlds—such as a Realistic Marble, a Realistic World. It uses Great Magic to display the scenery in your heart, replacing the real world with a small world in your heart. That is, the manifestation of the inner universe—! Don't even think about escaping, hehe, hehehe... Unless you have the power to shatter this entire world in an instant, or kill the owner of this mental world, you won't be able to go anywhere until the battle is over." A hoarse, aged voice suddenly rang out.

The giant Skarmia looked in the direction of the sound: "A skeleton?"

No, it was a skeletal, cloaked, mysterious figure that looked very much like a skeleton.

At this moment, the giants, along with the two gods, were drawn to the message in his words.

A world of mental images?! To be able to replace the real world with one's inner world—what an exaggerated and terrifying magic! For the gods and giants who have dabbled in magic but remain at a basic, savage stage, far from being abstract art, this is a completely unknown, mysterious, and terrifying realm. Creating worlds is the work of the supreme god!

No, no, no, it's not just that the nature of this magic sounds terrifying, but it's even more terrifying that a mere human man could cast such a magical spell.

At this moment, she didn't care what this mysterious 'skull' was or how it suddenly appeared here. As if grasping at a straw, the Sun Goddess Suer hurriedly asked, "Do you know why my power is sealed here?"

What? The power of the Sun Goddess is sealed here?

The giants were in an uproar. Seeing the genuine anxiety on Suer's face, they realized that he was a real giant. They became excited and looked at the Sun and Moon Gods with hostility.

His powers are sealed?! Does that mean he can only fight using physical strength?

Even though their giant power was weakened by the influence of fate, they still had the strength to deal with two gods who were not good at close combat!

What do you call this wave?! This is a classic case of fortunes changing!

However, on the other side, the skeleton did not answer the goddess's anxious question. The next moment, his figure disappeared from this world as if he had never existed, as if there had never been a skeleton there in the first place.

Thinking back to what the skeleton had just said, this wasn't the real world at all, but rather Sulyvahn's inner world—could that figure from before also be an embodiment of his will?

Upon seeing the giants whose eyes gleamed with a fierce and brutal light, staring coldly at them, the Sun Goddess and the Moon Goddess had a bad feeling. If it weren't for the fact that this was Sulyvahn's world, and the giants' fear of Sulyvahn's mysterious abilities, which prevented them from overstepping their bounds, they would have already been brutally beaten by the giants by now that they had lost their powers.

But even if the giants didn't intervene, the situation would have been almost the same. In the final, desperate gazes of the sun goddess Sur and the moon goddess Manny, two great swords suddenly leaped down from above and struck their faces.

They weren't given any time to react.

"Ahhh!!!" Goddess Suer let out a shameful scream, while Moon God Manny was so terrified that he couldn't speak. Then, both gods lost consciousness.

In the moments before losing consciousness, they seemed to hear a pleasant yet deep and mysterious hoarse male voice—the very voice of the skeleton that had vanished earlier. The voice chuckled softly: 'Heh heh heh, even the ashes without fire shine brighter than you. Couldn't even last a single round? What a sad truth. Gods without divine power, weak and pathetic (laughable)...life…'

A wave of intense shame washed over them, yet it couldn't stop the two gods from losing consciousness, though their physical bodies trembled violently. The last thought in their minds was the same—what did "ashes without fire" mean? Were they even less than that? It didn't sound like a good term, even rather lowly. Ashes were simply the ashes left after something had been burned to ashes. What noble creature could be represented by that word?! A chill ran down their spines—!

But no one cares about their feelings anymore.

Use the power of the sun to cleave the sun god, use the power of the moon to cleave the moon god, one strike each—! No more!

Chapter 106 The throne is worthless; you know nothing of the true nature of the world!

The uncrowned martial arts skills against two melee-challenged gods who can't even use weapons are too easy for him.

That was a sword strike that they simply couldn't stop, and even dodging was instantly blocked.

Of course, the night did not kill the two gods directly. In the end, it simply defeated them until they lost consciousness and then captured them.

Having a powerful physique but not knowing how to use it means that even if the strength of both sides is similar, the one who has mastered the technique can easily defeat the other, and even if they win the battle, they will feel no sense of accomplishment...

After finishing off the two gods, Night, now disguised as 'Sallyvan,' looked once again at the giants beside him...

...glug...

Swallowing hard, the giants all took a step back.

This is too dangerous! Is this the power of humanity created by the Sun King?

I thought all humans were the same weak and unremarkable creatures I had seen before (according to the giants who had built the royal city with the second-generation humans), so what's with this human in front of me?