Why can't humans do it too?

Chapter 128 Tricky

Is Amaterasu dead?

The goddess who was the head of the three noble sons and represented the sun died just like that?

With all the gods of Takamagahara dead except for her, how did the Amaterasu Society die so easily?

No one knows exactly what happened in Takamagahara, nor why Amaterasu massacred the gods of Takamagahara. Even Tsukuyomi, who had already died on the moon, might have died because of this. The only thing Suer is certain of is that Amaterasu would not have died so easily.

Almost the instant his thought crossed his mind, the layer of flesh covering the ground of Takamagahara below churned and rippled, like Moses parting the Red Sea in mythology. A fair arm emerged from the abyss of flesh and blood and then braced itself against the side.

It was enormous, even larger than the divine body that Takeminakata had transformed into. Although the arm was pulled out from a sea of ​​flesh and blood, its skin was not stained with a single drop of blood, and even the fine hairs on the skin that enlarged along with the arm were not stained red.

Whoosh! !

Before Suer could think any further, the next moment, another enormous arm was pulled out of the sea of ​​flesh and blood. With an agility far beyond what its enormous size should have allowed, it unleashed a violent hurricane that roared past Suer's location.

It was no surprise that it did not achieve anything, but the owner of the arm—Amaterasu—did not care about this at all. The arm that launched the sudden attack fell down and forcefully slapped the flesh on the other side.

The fluid flesh and blood that she had just separated solidified into a support where her palm landed, a colossal object—I mean, Amaterasu sat up from the sea of ​​flesh and blood in a posture as if she were setting sail.

She alone could fill the sky and earth of Takamagahara, or rather, she was the last Takamagahara. Her outstretched arms allowed her fingertips to touch the edge of this small world. Her seated body was as tall as a mountain range, level with the sun in the sky.

In the end, the sun in the sky gradually disappeared, and in its place were two suns—Amaterasu's eyes.

When she opens her eyes, everything in Takamagahara is illuminated, and when she closes her eyes, darkness descends that even Sull cannot see through with mere sight.

Having no time to worry about the outside world, the Ashihara no Naka de, amidst the flickering sunlight, was causing a great commotion. He was also unaware of whether everything in Takamagahara would be accurately reflected in the outside world. Sur was staring at this enormous deity.

The bones of the other gods, whose flesh and blood had long been melted away, fell from her chest, abdomen, arms, and hair. Along with them fell the remains of those that were only half melted or had only a few remnants left. They fell from Amaterasu's huge body like simple sand and gravel, without leaving a trace of color on it.

"...Wow...I really slept for a long time..."

Amaterasu murmured softly, but her words reached Sul's ears precisely. Her voice was neither loud nor soft, showing no signs of madness or neuroticism. Even the daze she had just experienced a few seconds ago was swept away, leaving only a drowsy and languid feeling as if she had not yet woken up.

"Do you think she'll just give up and tell us it was all a misunderstanding?" Su Er couldn't help but ask Xin Ke tentatively, feeling a chill run down her spine.

"You could try... sending her a bouquet of flowers?" Xin Ke's mocking voice rang in my ears. "Maybe she'll hold you in her arms and comfort you?"

His gaze swept over the two massive mountain ranges. Holding them in his arms would be a joke, but it was no exaggeration that Suer was having a headache over Amaterasu.

Unlike ordinary gods and monsters, no matter which world or era he is in, he can only be considered to have extraordinary power when he establishes a connection with the world. If he loses his connection with the world, he will lose the right to command the wind and rain.

That's why, when Suer saw the enormous Amaterasu in front of him, he understood even better than Shinko how troublesome it was when Amaterasu appeared in the enemy's position—it couldn't even be simply classified as an enemy that could be defeated by sheer force.

Yes, Amaterasu has also established a connection with this world. In fact, Sull could feel the depth of this connection, as if the object he was calling upon when he established a connection with the small world of Takamagahara was not the world itself, but Amaterasu!

This sun goddess has almost become one with Takamagahara, and their concepts are almost overlapping.

So, it was actually Amaterasu that established a connection with me? The spiritual energy I exhaled when I attacked was actually Amaterasu's spiritual energy?

Suer realized this with a mixture of amusement and disbelief.

No wonder he always felt that the small world of Takamagahara was extremely strange, as if it had given birth to his own will and life—a parasite.

Suer suddenly remembered a popular science article he had read when he was bored, about a parasite called a crab slave... or it should be called a slave crab. These parasites molt and enter the crab's body through their joints, then branch out into multiple thin tubes to slowly take over the crab's body, absorbing the crab's nutrients until they finally completely control the crab, preventing it from growing on its own and losing its self-awareness.

Interestingly, if you use the most ingenious methods to separate the crab slave from the crab at this stage, you will get a parasite that has grown into the shape of a crab, with even the details of every joint present... only it is flat.

To the small world of Takamagahara, Amaterasu is nothing more than a crab slave, and the entire world doesn't even possess its own self-awareness.

Not only Takamagahara, but also the Ashihara no Naka de outside suddenly came to mind. They should have been one world, in the same box... Amaterasu absorbed the nourishment of the entire world, the origin of the entire world, making this world so small and full of falsehood.

After all, no matter how much she is hailed as the goddess of the sun, Amaterasu is ultimately just a being born from within the world, and not one of the first beings to be born on the world. How could such a life undergo a further change in its form of existence—a sublimation—without any cost?

"Why are you making that face?" Amaterasu asked, her eyebrows slightly raised on her enormous face. She seemed to be looking for something. "I thought you, who came from outside the world and were born with this ability, would understand me... Am I asking for too much?"

Her voice remained calm and unhurried.

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"To clarify a bit—this ability isn't innate," Suer replied after a moment's thought.

"Is that so?" Amaterasu readily accepted Suer's clarification, then sighed, "But you must have gone through countless difficulties on your way to obtaining this ability... I know, I know everything—and only we can understand."

Her sighs were filled with countless memories and regrets of the past, but Suer could not refute her words, even though he clearly guessed what this goddess had done.

Regardless of how Amaterasu established her connection with this world, she had already slain all the other gods, taking their flesh, blood, souls, or spirits with her to reach this point. The flesh and bones that have slid off her now enormous body are the paths she has traversed step by step.

And what about him? He too stepped over the corpses of his companions and used their souls to ascend to the throne... He couldn't even preserve their souls, which could only scatter into the purest spirits.

What are the differences?

Were the corpses we stepped on along the way voluntary?

The eight million gods who died were not all willing to sacrifice their lives for Amaterasu, but his companions drank his blood without hesitation even though they knew they were going to die.

"Have you ever regretted it?" he suddenly asked, wanting to know what an enemy was thinking, simply because they had some overlap in their thoughts.

"Regret?" Amaterasu seemed somewhat surprised, yet also somewhat intoxicated. "Regret... but no god could resist, right? Once you've experienced that feeling..."

"With the wind as my eyes, I can bring life to all things with a breath, and wither away in an instant. Everything in the world is under my control... Compared to this feeling of being elevated, what is a little regret?"

What she was talking about was the feeling of being immersed in warm water after connecting with the world, and that almost omnipotent power. Suer understood it all—he himself had once been addicted to a power even stronger than that feeling, creating the world at will.

"Really?" Su Er breathed a sigh of relief for no apparent reason. Under Xin Ke's surprised gaze, he suddenly smiled strangely. "Then it seems we are still different—I don't regret it."

If we regret this power, regret the final victory, wouldn't that be a betrayal of those who faced death with equanimity? What would they think?

"...Then you really are...evil, aren't you?" Seemingly not expecting Suer to say such a thing, Amaterasu couldn't help but chuckle, which seemed to make the earth tremble even more on her body, which was taller than a mountain.

“Indeed, I am truly unforgivably evil…” Sue shook her head. “So, are you ready?”

"What are you ready for?"

"Evil—tyranny!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Suer grasped the part of the world that he could still control, the part that had not yet been taken over by Amaterasu, as if he had grasped an illusory lever, and then—overturned it!

Back in Ashihara no Naka de, he knew he was capable of such a feat, but he always considered the consequences and didn't satisfy his curiosity. However, in the small world of Takamagahara, Sull no longer needed to hold back, and even added fuel to the fire for fear that the power wasn't strong enough.

The entire Takamagahara was like a biscuit that had been broken in half, and in this disintegration, it scattered into even smaller pieces on both sides. Amaterasu let out a painful and sharp scream. She, who was almost one with the entire Takamagahara, was as if Sue had stepped on her spine from behind and broken her in two.

"Die! Die!!!"

Enraged, Amaterasu shouted, enduring the pain and raising her arm in fury. For her, now restored and directly connected to the world, this was merely a subconscious, symbolic gesture. Now, every move she made signified natural disasters, thunder, lightning, and raging winds... The raging storm unleashed by Amaterasu swept up a tsunami of flesh and blood, covering Sul. On the crimson walls, faces of various sizes faintly appeared, like the last resentment of lingering fragments of souls.

He concentrated all his strength into a single point and used this sharp force to forcefully pass through the 'tsunami' unleashed by Amaterasu. Here, he could clearly see the scene beneath this fractured world.

Takamagahara is not a planet either; it is also flat and round. At this moment, right beneath Amaterasu's attempts to conceal it, Sull had already passed through her back and seen her empty lower body.

He had thought that Amaterasu had simply buried herself under layers of flesh and blood, but only now did he realize the extent of this sun goddess's madness. Unlike Sur, who maintained her independence while connecting with the world, she had simply shattered herself and completely become a part of this world.

From the waist down, everything had vanished. There was no golden blood, and the uneven cracks made it impossible to see the internal organs or anything else inside. Amaterasu was like a porcelain doll whose insides had been hollowed out, existing in the world only as a shell called skin.

Even light can be swallowed by a black hole, including the wound that Suer had just pierced. Inside, it was pitch black, but the hole itself was filled with golden-red light that flowed outwards, drifting and fading until it completely disappeared from sight. But Suer knew clearly that it had not truly vanished, but had transformed into another existence—connecting Amaterasu with the entire world.

Undoubtedly, she was undergoing the most important transformation by using the flesh and soul of her own kind. Her previous human-like body was just a lure resembling an anglerfish. Normally, Amaterasu might need hundreds or thousands of years to reach the step she longed for, but Suer's uninvited arrival completely interrupted this sublimation.

But Suer didn't care about that. He didn't feel any guilt for ruining what he considered to be the good thing of an evil god. The only thing that mattered to Suer was a faint path... or trace, that was barely visible in his sight and hidden beneath Takamagahara.

More importantly, there was the lingering aura on that trail—the divine power of Tetu?!

For a moment, he even thought he was mistaken. Suer had thought that he would not see anything related to the previous world again, at least for a short time, especially since Tetu's divine power had been completely exhausted after protecting him and Xinke in this world.

Is this what he left behind when he was spying on the edge of the world?

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Or is it something left outside the world when he broke through the barrier of this world to enter?

Why here?

Why is it below the place where Amaterasu was just standing?

This sudden surprise caught Suer completely off guard.

"Ah~, you noticed it~", barely managing to regain her composure from the pain, Amaterasu also stared at the mark, a strange smile on her face. "I noticed you the moment you first appeared outside the world... I watched you, saw you probe outside, and finally rushed in before that shell dimmed and lost its light..."

Suer felt a chill run down his spine. He had never imagined that while he was cautiously observing the world, there was someone he couldn't see staring at him with wide eyes, waiting for him right in front of him.

"So what? By keeping this thing, are you trying to retrace our steps?" Xin Ke sneered, popping her head out from behind Su Er's shoulder. "With your weak strength?"

“Yes…weak, I am very weak…especially compared to the master of this power, the god who sent you to this world, this weakness is exaggerated to the point of being like a giant compared to an ant,” Amaterasu murmured. “But…shouldn’t we run away even more?”

“You don’t look like you’re trying to run away,” Suer said sarcastically, referring to Amaterasu’s behavior, which was almost tied to Takamagahara, completely contradicting her words.

“Then what can I do?” Amaterasu sighed. “Whether it’s Takamagahara or Ashihara no Nakatsukuni, this whole world is like a fruit hanging on a tree, and we are the insects living inside that fruit. I just want to become the whole fruit, and then fall off the tree to go to a wider and more beautiful world…”

"So... please offer your lives and souls to me..." Suddenly, she chuckled, even though golden-red blood was trickling from her eyes and mouth due to the injuries she had just sustained. Amaterasu excitedly stretched out her hand again, her voice growing louder until it was like thunder, "With this divine power, and with your souls as the guide, I can, after becoming the entire world, follow the trajectory to your homeland..."

"Bring me your souls!"

boom! ! !

The shattered earth was torn apart once more, but this time it was not Sul who committed such atrocities, but Amaterasu herself. Crimson waves of blood surged and overwhelmed the world. Sul even heard the creaking of the entire world as it was overwhelmed, as if something was breaking apart.

Amaterasu, who had already assimilated into the entire Takamagahara, was also destroying her own body by doing this, but she no longer cared about the damage at this moment. Large mouthfuls of blood gushed from her mouth, but the sun goddess was laughing wildly.

Suer hadn't misheard; the creaking sound was indeed unbearable. What Suer and Amaterasu had done was like forcefully rubbing a plastic bag until it tore apart, and it had indeed torn.

The false sun had vanished, and through the gaps like tattered rags, Suer could even see the empty, pitch-black starry sky outside—a false starry sky. The Milky Way was behind him, and so was the comical moon.

It is unknown what the life in Ashihara no Nakakuchi will see when it looks up at this moment, nor what the future will be for this world that has lost the sun. Amidst Shinko's sharp cries, the only thing that Sull remembers is the divine power that Amaterasu once drew back from the outer wall of the world, the divine power of Tet.