Simulate the universe, starting with speedrunning Greek.

Boom! An incomparably evil weapon and power suddenly enveloped Ye's body.

The next moment, under the influence of the will of night, the entire golden world suddenly began to transform into a cosmic battlefield backdrop resembling the Milky Way.

Unfold the mental world to replace the passageway to the real world.

"What is that?" The gods' pupils contracted as they saw that in the boundless, deep, dark space, the figure of Night above the stars had disappeared, and the next moment a figure wearing mecha had appeared.

Jet black, crimson, deep purple—! Incredibly enormous—a powerful figure like a war god standing in the universe.

The mech itself is like a black hole, capable of absorbing all the light in the world and manifesting absolute darkness—that is, evil.

Originally a sacred radiance befitting gold, the night perfectly transformed itself after being infused with absolute evil.

This moment—it is humanity's final trial, it is the gods' final trial—! Ragnarok!

A sense of destiny and impending doom washed over Odin. His voice was hoarse as he suddenly murmured, "The final trial of the gods!"

This is the ancient wisdom, now telling him the most straightforward answer to the phenomenon before his eyes.

That armor (mech) that seemed different from their own time was their harbinger of death, the twilight of the gods.

What Ragnarok originally was is no longer important, but the moment Night, with the purest concept of absolute evil, decided to fight the gods, he automatically seized and overturned that destiny, that status!

Under the influence of this force of fate, absolute evil becomes unprecedentedly vast.

The power within the soul began to rapidly increase entropy, and soon—the mass and volume of the spiritual entities permeating the mecha had expanded to a level that would frighten anyone with spiritual vision into fainting.

Needless to say, the gods are also included, but the gods who appear here in spirit form at this time are not subject to the concept of being frightened into unconsciousness.

This leads them to endlessly amplify their fears!

What a joke! We can't let that continue, or we definitely won't win.

Just then, the voice of the night rang out again: "Perhaps it's ironic, but a weapon created to counter a threat has been given the name of a god. Humanity's ultimate god-slaying weapon—its name is 'Heavenly Thunder - Azeus,' named after Zeus, the supreme god-king of the Greek pantheon—its thunder is enough to scorch the sky, shatter planets, and slay 'gods.' [To eliminate calamity with humanity's greatest and final ultimate blow] [Counterattack Weapon AA-ZEUS], humanity, which has been on the verge of annihilation several times, has finally obtained the twelfth god-slaying spear to defy fate and destroy everything."

An intuition resonated in the hearts of the gods: the gods that Night spoke of were not simply referring to the numerous 'trash' like them, but rather to those who had truly reached their 'stage' and were like great beings in the universe, only then could they be called gods.

Only a god like this is qualified to be the ultimate evil that threatens the survival of humanity, the history of humanity, and the final trial for humanity that threatens mythology.

"I am not a hero standing on the side of humanity. I am now the final trial to destroy civilization—since humanity has defeated 'God' in the name of Heavenly Thunder, then—correspondingly—as the final trial of the gods, I who stand here now will annihilate you in the name of 'enemy of God'."

The next moment, a dazzling sci-fi-style glow shone from the mecha, with stars and the Milky Way as a backdrop, and its eyes suddenly lit up with a handsome and bewitching red light.

Then, the cold, electronic synthesized voice that played from the mechs announced the name of their most powerful weapon, a suit that symbolized the concept of absolute evil.

"The Star of Calamity—Typhon!!"

Named after the ancestor of all demons, who, like other Greek gods, once led numerous monsters to attack Olympus—the true enemy of the gods.

In some versions, he was a demon king who suppressed Zeus, the supreme god of Greece!

'The weapon of divine destruction—! Zeus—and Typhon, the star of calamity!'

'An enemy of God—!'

The mere mention of those impressive-sounding names sent shivers down the spines of all the gods, causing them to tremble in unison.

Putting everything else aside, its symbolic meaning alone is enough to terrify the gods.

If Aeus's power is the dawn that breaks through humanity's final trial, then Typhon, the demon who opposes him, is clearly a natural disaster that will destroy them and plunge the civilization of the gods into despair!

After being thoroughly misled, the gods even genuinely believed that such a final trial and god-slaying weapon had ever existed.

While Arceus is confirmed to exist, he exists only in the supermassive endpoint of the neighboring card game universe. However, if we place their backstories within the same universe, it wouldn't be entirely wrong to say that Arceus was fighting the 'Final Trial'.

Theoretically, it is entirely correct for the gods to regard Typhon, the calamity star who is the opposite of Zeus, as their greatest enemy at this moment.

As countless purple energy serpents surged from behind Typhon, they lunged directly at the gods—! A fierce battle, no—a trial had begun!

Because of Ye's previous actions, the humans and gods of this world came to believe in the name of the Final Trial.

They believed that the original candidates, Ragnarok, and everything else were connected to the final trial.

Thus, the concept of absolute evil, transformed into human evil and Ragnarok, evolved once again.

The moment the concept of absolute suppression over mythology or human history was unveiled, it was recognized by the collective consciousness of the gods as their 'natural enemy' and immediately received feedback from the concept of the universe.

Night: They believed it!

So—BOOM! !! Night felt his power expanding even further.

Even the purple energy serpents that were unleashed at that moment had instantly grown to the point where a single strike could destroy a planet, and there were more than dozens of these energy serpents unleashed in that instant!

Hundreds, thousands—!

The more absolute the gods are, the more insurmountable the trial becomes, and the more breathtakingly desperate the feedback from the concept of the trial is.

The next moment, amidst the myriad stars of the universe, countless starlight burst forth. If one were to look up from a habitable planet, one would surely see a dazzling starry sky, as if a long river had been lit up.

On that day, the Norse gods finally understood—what it meant to be 'the end and apex of all excess!'

What is this 'monster'—the enemy of the gods, absolute evil, named in opposition to Aeus, humanity's ultimate weapon against the gods?!

Rumble~! !

Chapter 275 Typhon, the Star of Calamity, the Monster Who Destroyed the Norse Pantheon

It appears to be a battle unfolding separately.

In reality, everything was accomplished together!

In the microcosm, the night, with its destructive light and the spear of destiny, shattered the will of the gods and imprisoned them in the golden demon castle.

Meanwhile—in the passage, Typhon, the star of calamity who had become the final trial of the gods, was also fighting the entire horde of gods alone with fierce firepower.

In this world where the physical body has been abandoned, and the clash is purely based on the strength of the soul, how powerful will Ye's soul, already strengthened by countless concepts and expanding towards the very essence of the universe, become after being equipped with that specific mecha?!

That was N times harder than the final trial against humanity. It was a bug-like monster in a world that had no intention of giving you a chance to conquer it, and it showed the gods what true despair was.

The divine artifacts were all shattered! The power was as insignificant as a breeze, unable to even budge that figure! And the opponent didn't even need to get close; their fierce firepower was enough to completely obliterate this entire starry sky along with them!

Countless planets exploded and perished in grief!

Even though this is merely a manifestation of the mental world, in the eyes of the gods, even outside the world, the power of 'Typhon, the Star of Calamity' will still be so great, and its destructive power will probably be even greater!

Once it possesses a physical body, wouldn't this monster be able to unleash even greater combat power than it was originally?

But they don't realize that the physical body is actually a shell that limits their ability to perform in the present night.

This is also a consequence of his physical growth not keeping up with the speed of his conceptual and spiritual development.

But in the eyes of the gods who did not understand this, 'Typhon' became synonymous with invincibility.

Hitting? Then it's just scraping.

Escape? Escape is futile. Finally, they fought until they were out of ammunition and supplies, until their will crumbled, their spirit shattered!

Countless gods could not hold on any longer; their spirits collapsed before their souls, and they gave up the struggle.

In reality, the essence of the gods is there, and with the support of the local mythological background, their powerful immortality makes them not so easy to kill completely.

In terms of endurance, the night is the most terrifying.

Night, who already possesses many high endurance capabilities, coupled with the concept of absolute evil, which grants him the attribute of being absolutely invincible to the gods, meant that his firepower was almost never interrupted throughout the entire process.

Its attack methods can destroy planets in an instant, bombarding from the start to the end of the battle, and it also has extremely high mobility.

A mecha combat style that feels like returning to one's home turf in space.

Under this terrifying firepower, even defensive artifacts were blasted into pieces after countless bombardments.

—The battle lasted for one hundred days and nights.

What devastated the gods, led by Odin, even more was that this battlefield, which should have been incredibly fragile as a gateway to the world, had been engaged in such intense fighting for so long since it was covered by the power of night. Each time it was nearly shattered, it always managed to repair itself.

Although the attacks that nearly shattered the passage each time came from Typhon, the Calamity Star, on the other side.

But this process of giving people hope and then despairing them repeatedly finally extinguished their thoughts of mutual destruction. Even thinking of trying their luck in the dangerous spacetime turbulence was better than being ground to death here. There was nothing more painful than this.

And in this process, the night gradually completed the manifestation and absorption of the microcosm.

Finally—the moment his last step succeeded, before the exhausted gods, who had already been 30-40% killed, could even react, Night's power suddenly surged to another dimension. He ignited his cosmos, and as a soul, he was able to unleash his strongest power on this battlefield without restraint!

An attack of cosmic mass suddenly transformed into a torrent of crimson light that shot out from Typhon, the planet of calamity, instantly engulfing vast swathes of gods. Even the slightest touch would pulverize them into nothingness, leaving not even ashes, turning them into a world of nothingness even emptier than dust.

And it was this attack that shattered the passage once again! The few surviving gods didn't have time to be stunned or terrified by this terrifying blow. Driven by their strong instinct for survival, they fled and scattered the moment they returned to their original forms.

Night did not continue the pursuit—but instead stopped the mech in place, suddenly experiencing a peculiar feeling, immersed in the wonderful sensation of power and life leaping to the next level, no longer caring about those insignificant gods who had escaped and were barely clinging to life.

Although it was a clever trick, the feat of slaying the gods was accomplished only under certain conditions.

If this were placed in the outside world, it would be impossible for Ye, with his still immature cosmos, to trap the gods and slowly wear them down.

But if you do it, you do it.

Just as Siegfried slew the evil dragon Fafnir, no one was surprised that he used trickery to defeat the dragon that even the gods feared. People only remembered the result and the miraculous feat. The process was no longer important. In fact, the process of the weak defeating the strong was itself something that people could talk about, yearn for, and admire.

Suddenly—Night sensed a message from the Black Tower: this simulated universe could now end.

After Ye Gang confirmed the existence of that small universe, the future fate of the Norse world was anchored, but the gods were defeated and severely injured at this moment, with most of them killed or wounded. The remaining few were simply not enough to survive the upcoming drama of the Church declaring war on many pantheons.

Because of Night's cunning actions, he replaced 'Ragnarok' and completed the final volume of Norse mythology ahead of schedule!

But the gods could not overcome this trial of fate!

The original plan was that the main universe would shatter because of this great war. Whether a new world is born or Ymir returns, it should be based on the world being destroyed.

Meanwhile—not to mention that Ye and his group had completed their annihilation battle in the consciousness world covered by Ye using their soul forms, the main universe remained intact.

Surtur, the fire giant who wielded the world-destroying demon sword and could destroy the world, did not participate in the final battle, but he still witnessed the great commotion caused by the gods, who were all wiped out in the end, with only a few escaping.

It's unknown how long it will take for the remaining dead gods to be resurrected from the river of mythology and from the realm of concepts. Even after their resurrection, it's uncertain whether they will still be the same individuals they were before. (As long as the river of mythology endures and faith persists, the gods will eventually return from their corresponding legends and human history. But what awakens from this river will merely be the image of a god as imagined by people; will it truly be the same individual god born from chaos at the very beginning?)

So that's how it is—now that the cause and effect are clear, and considering that Surtur doesn't dare to show his face at all, fearing that he'll be killed by the terrifying being of Night if he does,...

So—Night: 'Then let's settle the accounts.'

Chapter 276 Why do I need others' approval? If you want to wear the crown, then come and take it!

Night has already obtained the greatest harvest in the Norse universe: many famous Norse artifacts, the authority of the World Tree, and—a true—mini-universe!

Although the bet with the God King was not fulfilled.

But now the gambler has been directly killed, and all of his assets have become his inheritance.

No, he had clearly completed the mythical bet. Therefore—it wasn't a forced takeover, but simply reclaiming what rightfully belonged to him. (laughing emoji)

However, on the eve of settlement, the final "three alls" policy was implemented.