With the advance of the Flügel legions.
The Greek Divine Realm, Roman Divine Realm, Norse Divine Realm, Biblical Divine Realm, Celtic Divine Realm, Phoenician Divine Realm, Voodoo Divine Realm, Indian Divine Realm, Egyptian Divine Realm, Sumerian Divine Realm, Fusang Divine Realm... numerous divine realms were successively ravaged by the flames of war, leaving only the ruins of mythology.
Among them, some divine realms sensed the danger and wanted to unite to resist the enemy, but even when several divine realms joined forces, they could not withstand the heavenly strikes of the Flügel.
Some divine realms tried to replicate Zeus's actions, concentrating all their authorities in one deity, attempting to suppress the enemy with absolute power.
However, before Jibril who had mastered "Heavenly Smite," such upgraded deities were completely outmatched, instantly annihilated like withered leaves before a hurricane.
Like the sharpest of arrows, the Flügel advanced completely according to the route Ryuga had casually drawn beforehand, pushing forward step by step. The divine realms along the way had no choice but destruction.
For the ruins left behind by the Flügel's conquest, the Ex-Machina legions preserved and recorded them according to Ryuga's orders.
Thousands upon thousands of deities fell, and all these deities' authorities flowed into Ryuga's body through the Sword's Blessing.
Under these circumstances, the authorities and divine cores that Ryuga had absorbed had reached countless levels.
In the end, for convenience of classification and retrieval, even Ryuga had no choice but to reorganize the primordial divine cores according to categorical classification.
Fortunately, these divine realms already had clear boundaries between themselves, naturally forming territories of different mythologies.
"Greek, Celtic, Christianity, Buddhism... only the final corner of the divine realms remains unswept."
Before Ryuga floated dozens of different golden books, each one a mythological history recording the massive deeds of countless deities and mythological scriptures.
These were the cores of divine realms shaped by common mythologies across myriad worlds, and also the mythologies themselves worshipped by humans across myriad worlds.
If one were to count small-scale groups like Mithraism and Esoteric Buddhism, the books before Ryuga would need to increase tenfold or more.
For convenient management, Ryuga unified them all into similar large-scale mythologies.
With the help of the Ex-Machina, he absorbed all the primordial divine cores bit by bit, then weaved them bit by bit into mythologies, restoring their original form.
Now, not only had the power of the original mythological techniques received qualitative enhancement, but Ryuga's understanding of mythology had also achieved a qualitative leap.
Although mythology records the stories between deities, these stories are not without connection. Different mythologies often have different tendencies and different understandings of the world's cognition.
These different understandings are also called—cosmological views.
After carefully analyzing divine cores and established mythological paradigms, one inevitably reaches a conclusion.
That is, the existence of cosmological views is not leftover scraps created after deities were born and their settings were added later.
On the contrary, cosmological views are not only the true core of mythology but also thought paradigms that existed before the birth of deities.
One could even say that the essence of deities' birth was to better present the concepts of cosmological views.
Just as the birth of the most evil demon Angra Mainyu was only to balance the scales of the good-evil dualism, the existence of this deity Verethragna represents the manifestation of the Zoroastrian supreme principle that "good must triumph over evil."
"So, by solving you at the end, I can master the final mythological epic—the Avesta, complete the final Persian mythology, perfect the [Good-Evil Dualism], and thoroughly become the Lord of the Divine Realm."
Looking at the Avesta that still lacked the final corner before him, Ryuga spoke to Verethragna before him.
"I've come to fulfill our appointment. I shouldn't be late, right?"
"...What do you think?"
Looking at the Flügel legions and Ex-Machina legions watching from the sides with hostile intent, the young War God's forehead was covered with cold sweat as he asked back helplessly.
It's only been a few days!
Although there's no fixed time connection between the Divine Realm and the mortal world, Ryuga's arrival was truly too fast.
"Although I believe you indeed have the ability to enter the Divine Realm, your strength evolution is also too absurd, right?"
Looking at the figure before him whose majesty was heavier than mountains, Verethragna found it hard to imagine this was the Godslayer who had usurped his authority just a few days ago.
Although in their previous battle in the lower world, Ryuga had also shown overwhelming superiority against him, with his strength at that time, he might not have been able to defeat an alliance of deities.
Although there was the agreement of the Divine Realm, in Verethragna's heart, Ryuga would need at least several years to advance into the Divine Realm, and would need to undergo some trials before finally reaching the level where he boasted—being able to single-handedly defeat divine armies.
He had imagined several methods to either help or test this special human, and had also anticipated challenging for victory again when they next met.
But he never imagined that when they met again, it would be like this.
Never mind undergoing trials, Ryuga didn't even wait several years, taking only a few days to reach the Divine Realm.
And even more unbelievable was that upon arrival, he directly swept through all divine armies.
Note, not a single divine army, but all divine armies in the Divine Realm.
So much so that now, when Verethragna received the news and wanted to eagerly challenge the divine armies that dared invade the Divine Realm, he discovered in bewilderment that except for the Persian Divine Realm, all other divine realms had already fallen.
The vast Divine Realm now had only the Zoroastrian divine army left.
And before long, the Zoroastrian divine army was left with only one deity.
That was himself.
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What destroyed both good and evil without discrimination was the legions of the Flügel.
Actually, if it weren't for overhearing his own murmurs, that Flügel young girl had specifically spared him, leaving him for Ryuga to personally handle, he would probably have already died under the radiance of "Heavenly Smite" like Mithra.
Faced with Verethragna's lament, Ryuga simply raised his hand slightly.
"Are those your final words?"
"No, if possible, I indeed have one thing I want to ask."
Verethragna immediately shook his head.
Having witnessed Jibril's power, he had completely abandoned the possibility of defeating Ryuga.
Even though he was the War God of mythology, essentially representing victory, in the field of victory, Ryuga was already far ahead of him.
Fighting meant death. Although he wasn't afraid of death, he still had some doubts he wanted to clarify beforehand.
"What is it?"
Ryuga asked.
He and Verethragna's relationship was limited to meeting and stabbing once, plus the other party was just a War God. He didn't think the other could ask any puzzles worth contemplating.
But unexpectedly, after receiving permission, Verethragna showed an extremely serious expression.
"Lord Patriarch, I want to ask, does your appearance herald the arrival of Judgment Day?"
"Patriarch?"
Hearing this title, Ryuga was slightly startled and asked back.
"Why do you call me that?"
Verethragna looked at him with an expression of 'isn't this obvious?'
"One who masters the good-evil dualism and possesses such unrivaled strength—who else could you be but the patriarch of our Zoroastrianism?"
Good must triumph over evil; conversely, the victorious must be good.
So now, even though Ryuga had destroyed the entire Divine Realm and annihilated the entire Zoroastrian divine army, in Verethragna's view, this was all part of the "good must triumph over evil" cycle.
Just as Archangel Michael saw Ryuga as the incarnation of the Lord and thus had no objections to all his actions, although Verethragna had not yet been killed and recreated by Ryuga, through analysis of Zoroastrian doctrine, he still regarded Ryuga as the yet-to-descend supreme good god Ahura Mazda-type existence.
Since he was the master of the good-evil dualism, he was naturally also the patriarch ruling over all of Zoroastrianism.
"So it's this reason..."
Looking at Verethragna's serious and somewhat reverential eyes, Ryuga nodded and accepted this explanation.
After all, he had encountered this kind of treatment many times along the way.
The divine armies had taken the concept of "if you can't beat them, join them" to its extreme. Now he was already the Father of the Greek pantheon, Master of Christian mythology, and taking on the additional role of Zoroastrian Patriarch wasn't anything special.
However, there was still one point he didn't quite understand, which was—
"Judgment Day?"
To be continued…