Hinata remained silent for a few moments. Her mind was already struggling to process all the revelations Bivisu had shared with her. The Original Gods, the Outergods, the ancient wars... all of this far exceeded anything she had ever believed possible.
She finally raised her eyes toward him.
— The name of their father... won't that make me a target?
Bivisu looked at her, then let out a slight smile.
— No... or maybe.
His gaze suddenly changed.
— But what is certain is that this revelation will finally allow me to lay my hands on him!
He abruptly turned around.
— Lay my hands on him!
A titanic explosion erupted instantly.
The whole world seemed to tremble.
Hinata was thrown backward by the shockwave and fell into the waters of the lake. For a few seconds, she saw nothing but a whirl of bubbles and distorted light.
When she resurfaced, completely disoriented, she scanned her surroundings.
— What is happening?!
Before she could even understand, someone lifted her into their arms.
She abruptly turned her head.
— Sakolomeh?!
He gave her a reassuring smile.
— Don't worry. We simply came to move you away from this guy.
Hinata immediately looked ahead.
Facing them still stood Bivisu.
But this time, his expression had changed.
A strange, almost unsettling smile stretched across his lips.
At his side stood several imposing figures.
Neru.
Ravena.
Bakuzan.
Salomeh.
They were all present.
Bivisu observed the group for a long moment before fixing his gaze on Sakolomeh.
— So you are the Ineffables...
Then his eyes returned to Hinata.
— From the beginning, I sensed an unusual mana emanating from this girl.
He stared at Sakolomeh.
— That presence... it comes from you?
Sakolomeh calmly nodded.
— Exactly.
Then he added:
— We didn't come to fight. On the contrary. You could become a valuable ally for the battle that is coming.
Bivisu slowly turned his gaze toward Ravena, then Neru.
His smile disappeared.
— Me? Cooperate with Ineffables?
A brief laugh escaped him.
— In my time, my mission was precisely to eliminate them before they could even become what they are.
The next instant, he disappeared.
His speed was such that he seemed to simply cease to exist for a fraction of a second.
Neru reacted immediately.
Hundreds of pale blue bones appeared in the air before being launched toward Bivisu.
But something unexpected happened.
Instead of being destroyed or weakened, Bivisu absorbed their power.
His aura intensified.
Neru's eyes widened.
— What?
Bivisu extended his hand toward him.
His fingers narrowly missed his throat.
Neru stepped back at the last moment.
Bivisu followed him with his gaze.
— This time...
His voice became colder.
— I will not lose myself in my role again.
Bakuzan then manifested a massive sword wrapped in abyssal black mana.
— You know the truth.
The warrior took his stance.
— This body is only a residue of your true being. You don't have the power to—
He never finished his sentence.
Bivisu was already in front of him.
A series of titanic impacts echoed throughout the region.
Bakuzan parried the blows with difficulty.
Blades of energy and waves of mana tore apart the landscape around them.
— Tsk...
He finally pushed Bivisu back with a brutal motion.
— You idiot...
Bakuzan smirked.
— You're just a fragment and yet you already strike like a monster.
Meanwhile, Ravena slowly raised her hand.
— Domain.
Thousands of red threads appeared in every direction.
The sky.
The lake.
Space itself.
Everything was covered in a vast crimson web.
BOOM.
The world seemed to close in on itself.
Bivisu was instantly imprisoned at the center of the domain.
The demonic threads wrapped around his body like the legs of a giant spider.
Neru let out a sigh.
— We didn't come to fight you.
He crossed his arms.
— And even you know that with this mere fragment, you can't defeat all of us.
Bivisu frowned.
For the first time since the beginning of the confrontation, he hesitated.
— Who sent you?
His voice had grown deeper.
— Do you really think I'm going to cooperate with you?
Silence settled.
Then Sakolomeh simply answered behind him:
— Son of God.
Bivisu's eyes widened instantly.
All hostility seemed to vanish from his face.
— Son...
His voice slightly broke.
— Of God?
Bivisu's smile lingered in the air for a few seconds.
Then he slowly shook his head.
— You really think I'm going to believe you?
His voice was no longer that of the calm young man who had been speaking with Hinata. Something had changed. His gaze seemed colder. More distant. As if an ancient nature, buried for eternity, had suddenly resurfaced.
Around him, the red threads of Ravena's domain continued to tighten.
Then Bivisu simply raised a finger.
A strange circle appeared behind him.
A vast geometric symbol composed of shifting lines, unknown inscriptions, and forms impossible to fix with the eye.
Rivisün.
The circle slowly rotated.
And instantly, the red threads turned against themselves.
Ravena's webs folded in as if they had changed allegiance.
— What?
Ravena's eyes widened.
The thousands of threads meant to immobilize Bivisu began to knot into each other.
As if the domain itself had accepted a new rule.
— My laws? she murmured.
— No.
Bivisu's voice resonated calmly.
— Yours no longer exist.
BOOM.
The entire domain trembled.
Neru immediately appeared in front of Ravena.
His hand pierced through several layers of reality.
Hundreds of pale blue bones emerged in all directions.
They were not physical.
They were not spiritual.
They were fragments of negation.
Each bone represented an impossibility.
Each spike sought to shatter the very existence of its target.
— Try absorbing this.
The bones rushed toward Bivisu.
They struck his body.
Pierced him.
Engulfed him.
A moment of silence followed.
Then something absurd happened.
Bivisu's mana increased.
Again.
Then again.
Neru remained motionless.
— ...
Even Ravena blinked.
— You're kidding...
Bivisu's wounds were disappearing.
No.
They had never truly existed.
As if the attack had been reinterpreted.
As if it had changed meaning.
Bivisu slowly raised his head.
— All opposition confirms my existence.
— Ah...
— All negation makes me more real.
Behind him, Rivisün rotated further.
The entire domain groaned.
Even Sakolomeh frowned.
— He's already using that law...
Bakuzan tightened his grip on his sword.
— And this is just a fragment.
Bivisu disappeared.
The next instant he was in front of Neru.
His hand went straight for his throat.
Neru stepped back.
The movement should have been impossible to follow.
But Bivisu was already there.
Again.
Then again.
As if he appeared at every place Neru tried to go.
— Tsk!
Hundreds of pale blue rings emerged around the Ineffable.
Layers of broken causality.
Layers of destroyed narration.
Layers of erased identity.
All of it was launched simultaneously.
Space warped.
Time froze.
Even the memories of the place were momentarily suspended.
Bivisu passed through all of it without slowing down.
As if none of it had any meaning to him.
His hand finally reached Neru's shoulder.
BOOM!
Neru was sent flying for several kilometers.
The landscape exploded.
Mountains of mist collapsed.
Hinata watched the scene in terror, struggling to follow them.
— This is just a fragment?
Salomeh swallowed.
— Yes...
Even she had trouble believing it.
Neru reappeared a few seconds later, uninjured.
But his expression had changed.
— Alright.
He spat a bit of blood.
— I take back what I said.
— This guy is ridiculous.
Bivisu did not respond.
His eyes were fixed on him.
Cold.
Empty.
Almost mechanical.
Like those of an ancient forgotten function, as if he wasn't fighting.
As if he were simply correcting an anomaly.
Omnivisu then appeared.
Gigantic rings covered with eyes emerged in the sky.
Hundreds.
Then thousands.
Each eye observed everything.
Every movement.
Every thought.
Every possibility.
Ravena immediately felt something.
— He's reading us...?
— No.
Neru shook his head.
— He has already read us.
The eyes continued to rotate.
Everywhere.
They even observed possible futures.
Strategies.
Countermeasures.
Intentions.
Bivisu already knew each of them before they were used.
— Boring.
That was the only comment he made.
Ravena frowned.
Then raised a hand.
The red domain immediately changed.
This time the threads no longer targeted Bivisu.
They targeted space itself, billions of threads flooded the area, weaving a prison around the very concept of movement.
— Let's see if you can get around that.
The world turned red.
Completely red.
Even Sakolomeh was surprised.
— She's serious now.
Bivisu looked around him.
For the first time.
He stopped.
The threads wrapped around his arms.
Then his torso.
Then his legs.
Ravena smiled.
— Got you.
— No.
The answer was immediate.
Rivisün rotated again.
The red threads changed direction.
Then began to immobilize the domain itself.
— What?
Ravena stepped back.
— That's impossible!
— Impossible?
Bivisu slightly tilted his head.
— That notion has always seemed strange to me.
BOOM!
The entire domain cracked and the threads shattered.
Ravena's laws were rewritten.
Not destroyed.
Rewritten.
As if they had always been meant to function differently.
Bakuzan whistled.
— Seriously...
Even Sakolomeh had to acknowledge the obvious.
— This fragment is monstrous.
— Not monstrous, corrected Neru with a smile.
— he is simply Ancient.
Silence fell again.
Bivisu was still looking at the Ineffables.
His eyes seemed to pass through their forms.
As if he were examining something behind them.
Something invisible.
Then finally he spoke.
— You have changed.
— Since my time.
— You have become what I was meant to prevent.
Ravena and Neru exchanged a glance.
Bivisu's tone was not hateful.
It was worse.
He spoke like someone observing a natural phenomenon.
Like a guardian noting that a prohibition had been broken.
— Yet...
he murmured.
— I no longer feel the need to destroy you.
That sentence surprised everyone.
Even he seemed to reflect on his own words.
Then his gaze fell on Sakolomeh.
— If Son of God truly sent you...
then perhaps...
Just perhaps...
The fragment of Bivisu finally became still.
Omnivisu's eyes continued to rotate in the sky.
But the violence that filled the space slowly began to subside.
The battle had produced no victor.
But one thing had become clear.
Even reduced to a mere residue of himself, Bivisu still possessed enough power to stand against several Ineffables at once.
And that thought alone was enough to worry even beings like Ravena and Neru.
Because if a fragment could do this...
Then what kind of monster was the complete Bivisu truly?