Accompanied by some small vibrations on the ground, it was a powerful bolt of lightning that struck right next to where the girl was sitting… Surprisingly collided with a strange defensive barrier surrounding the wooden temple, just a few inches from the little girl's shoulder at the moment of the impact.

Clearly implying that even though the high-voltage flash of light missed its intended target, the girl is not part of what is being protected by the aforementioned layer of magic.

Which appears to be a retroactive, non-physical wall that is open to the naked eye only after a magical type of attack, damaging the invisible spell that hides the protective spell right behind it; a white floating barrier, partially translucent with a hexagonal pattern all over the surface. Yet there were still faint remains of smoke and some of the pattern on the wall which was shaking slightly like a glitch…

A trace of a previous strike from none other than the primordial god himself, far in the distance beyond the dust and ashes; he who had run out of excuses for how his aim had completely missed his one and only target.

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He even looked uneasy about it, as his right hand that was extended forward seemed to be shaking violently, so he struggled to bring it back close to his chest by pulling it with his left hand… Staring unsure which part of it was to blame for, but even a child would be able to understand, if only one could look directly into the eyes of the primordial god, of how it was plainly just a mortal's face filled with hesitation he was showing to himself.

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Yet it was just sad because the girl couldn't see the man's expression through the cloud of dust and ash around the site of her own cursed explosion from before… As the only thing the girl felt from something she couldn't see clearly was nothing but fear and horror. And even the sweat on her palms had slipped the yellow bottle to the ground, making her even more frantic… Still with the same trembling hands she managed to pick up the fallen bottle.

Hurriedly tried to open the lid; though before that happened, her right hand was pulled back and up by something invisible that made her scream in confusion. Just right at the same time when the primordial god seemed to stretch out his terrifying-looking hand as if he was grabbing something in the empty air… Possibly using some kind of telekinetic ability or something else similar that could impose his own will on objects he wasn't actually touching.

But whatever it was, it seemed like his grip was strong enough to make the girl's hand quite painful, as evidenced by the way she cried and begged for the primordial god to stop with anything he was doing. To the point where she couldn't even get the vial out of her own grasp; instead, a cracking sound could be heard from around the object…

Then the glass exploded as its contents spilled into the ground.

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[“That way it should all be over now…”]

[“Your hope… Along with your vain effort…”]

The primordial god babbled in his own mind, yet his smile when he showed his satisfaction did not match any of his increasingly deteriorating condition; about how his very existence was starting to lose its whole miracle, as more and more pieces of his own limbs were falling off and crumbling to ashes. Just the same way his steps looked limping while he struggled to approach the poor weeping girl; who glanced at her own right palms which were covered in cuts from glass fragments and the blood was flowing quickly… That only made the primordial god feel annoyed, so he forced himself to beg the little girl.

He said, "Don't you cry now."

“Haven’t I done all of this just for you? To end the world you have ruined with your hopes… So don’t you cry for It’s all over now, my lady.”

Some steps he made, till the primordial god could hear the little girl's sobs more clearly as he pleased at such a very close distance… Who was on his knees, trying to reach out his finger to wipe tears from the little girl's face, though it was a shame because the shape of his floating piece of hand had now fallen off. Turned into ashes and was blown away by the wind, even before it managed to touch the cheek of that being in front of him.

Still he looked for another way to console the little girl by saying, “Things will be much better from now on, so worry not. Because, you see, I’ll use another avatar… In this world that I have purified, without anyone getting in the way, I’ll teach you how to become a true goddess. Not like what you are now, but better!”

“Just… Just give me twenty or maybe fifty years at most to find a new body. Then I’ll come back to you, bringing order this time… And of course, you will be the chaos.” Said the man with the girl simply remaining silent, taking all of those thorny fruit in as if the primordial god thought that his words just now would make things any better for anyone.

But surely instead… Still in her own sorrow, the little girl’s eyes were just vacantly staring at how the dazzling yellow liquid slowly vanished between the dust and dirt below her feet.

Where there she looked like she wasn't thinking about anything…

Not expecting to be able to do anything…

“It’ll be a very beautiful world, if I must say… So just you wait here, and-”

“Now just shut up already…”

“......”

It’s the first time in millions of centuries, to be fair…

So it’s just normal for him; the one true primordial god, to feel confused by those words he had just heard from a being… Especially from such a tiny human like the girl in front of him. Or probably more than that, he even felt like his pride had been violated.

To which he proudly corrected, saying, "That… Was hardly a proper thing for someone who just lost to say to anyone, don’t you think?"

“Yeah. Right. And for someone who hasn't even won the game yet, you have no right to say anything to me either…” The little girl arrogantly defied him by saying such.

That even if it seemed like her mind remained blank as to whatever she meant to do, following her insult to the primordial god, it actually happened out of nowhere… When immediately she clapped her hands all together.

As she prays to open the gate of the world; unleashing the spell that had previously been engraved all over the temple's wooden surfaces, despite her being fully aware that half of the requirements were not even present in its initiation… Even if the ritual should never be done in such circumstances.

But incandescent blasts of light still erupted from all around the little shrine… And the resulting gale propelled by the currents, still created a vortex while the world's ceiling split then fractured; leaving a massive hole with all red, right in the middle of the night sky.

Causing the primordial god to appear both angry and terrified of what he himself had allowed to happen; so then he pulled his reality-rending blade, using anything that remained in his left hand and sought to demolish the little temple with its raw power… Yet they were both blasted away by the residual excess energy of the spell cast within the ritual, even before his intentions could ever become real.

As it already seemed like that was the only chance he had, since the primordial god subsequently resolved to stop doing anything.

Except, there for just a moment he took a gaze at the girl's unfazed expression. Then glanced back to the sky; where he returned to his own terror, accompanied by all the horrific roaring sounds that were created solely by the ritual itself… Until at some point the primordial god thought about shouting at her; but it wouldn't be heard, he assured himself.

So instead, the man walked towards the little girl with his thunderous steps which frightened even the grass. But he was also mistaken if he assumed it would scare the girl.

Because in front of him, there she stood, giving the primordial god her side eye with an attitude that said she didn't care at all for what consequences she would get.

For his anger won't change a thing…

And her fear won't make things any better.

Considering those facts, the primordial god then fell silent as the roaring sound from the sky and the burst of light around the shrine had also reached its end… Irritated by how the girl showed her solemn expression; the one who didn't want to make the man to feel any sense of victory over her… Showing that she really is nothing but just an infant who doesn't want the other infant to have things that she can't have herself.

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And then in the end, out of nowhere, the primordial god conceded a draw…

He didn't win but at least neither did the girl. However, exactly as the primordial god had determined previously, man didn't harbor even the slightest bit of anger in that world that was nearing its end. That there was no grudge in him as it would normally be if a human being were in his own position as the losing side.

And there he just sat, staring at the girl who was dragging herself away from where he was... As he calmly mentioned, “Not only did you fail to save your friends, but you just triggered the end of the entire universe beyond.”

“I mean, it’s an imperfect ritual, after all… I guess you know it already, so why should I bother explaining? But still… Sending all of those mindless souls into a world where such enormous power should not be wielded…”

The primordial god let go of his sword while he expressed his displeasure to the girl. As he silently watched her going here and there, scratching piles of dust in many places, intending to look for something buried somewhere.

Then she found it…

The dagger in the girl's hand, one that caused the primordial god's eyes to enlarge slightly; as if he was scared of what he was about to witness, where the man then started to get desperate. Trying so hard to find a cause for the girl to abandon her intentions; he then persuaded her by saying, “You know you failed, so you already know what's waiting for you on the other side, right? There will be nothing… You will be the only one who remembers everything!” As they both agreed that it would be the most agonizing end for her.

And the worst fate the girl would ever have.

Nonetheless, she readied the black dagger she had just recovered, with the pointed tip aiming directly at her own chest… Intends to stab herself; only after reciting some spells as part of a secret ceremonial procedure that she must carry out without anybody knowing it but her… Or perhaps it wasn't actually as secret as the girl still imagined, because no one else still alive in that world could witness what she was about to do to herself. Where the primordial god, of course, was an exception… Though the man still seemed to be trying to interfere, saying, "I'll still be there, you know?"

“The place you’re going… Just give me fifty years, or maybe even sooner. Then I’ll take what was wrongly given to all of you! Only then will my vow be finally fulfilled, and after that… Only then… You… And I will…”

The primordial god didn't have time to complete his sentence; since without any warning, the girl stabbed her own chest using the black dagger to carry out the spell… Transferring her soul and consciousness to the next realm, where unexpectedly, the primordial god looked like he was in mourning. Nearly sobbing as he bit his own lip, keeping back the anguish.

Only then did he speak inside his own heart with complete honesty, using no other deceptive intentions as he had no reason to share it with anyone…

There he said, [“I will set you free, Eligos…”]

[“I will not let these eyes… Witness the world sacrificing yourself for the third time… No… Not for those rotten humans!”]

[“Just… Wait…”]

[“For me… To save you…”]

[“Eligos…”]

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