Note: I’ve only read the OP. I haven’t gone through the three pages of yap, so if there’s any specific post you want me to look at, please quote me.
I disagree. I find the following scan convincing enough:
However, I haven’t read the 3–4 pages of novel excerpts linked in the OP for context. Those probably shouldn’t have been linked in full anyway. if they were necessary, a concise summary of the relevant portions should have been provided. If the only relevant point is that the ability was used once, I don’t think that alone is enough to override the statement shown in the previous scan about gods surviving Mitsuki’s erasure, unless the statement itself is unreliable, or the nature of Mitsuki’s erasure isn’t properly understood in the verse.
Another issue I have is with the posts linked in the OP. It would be better to include only the relevant scans and quote the necessary parts of the previous arguments. Linking entire posts is unnecessary when creating a new thread itself. New threads should be independently made.
I agree with this.
I can change my mind depending on any convincing arguement from either side tho. But please quote me since i won't read pages of discussion.
Summary:
Regarding high divine regeneration, it has already been approved in this
thread; you can check it.
Now I will explain the reasons in more detail:
First, Mitsuki is able to erase characters from the entire timeline, as if they had never existed at all, as clearly shown here ↓
Let's call it an erasure bolt," the Great Sage said. "If it hits you, it deletes your entire past, present, and future. I guess in really simple terms, it'll make it so that I totally forget you ever existed."
The gods are able to return even after being erased at this level (history), and this is the justification for their obtaining high divine regeneration through history in their profile, which has already been approved, and the reason is:
"I believed it was also acceptable to kill you. You and the UEG both lost, so erasing you completely seemed appropriate. But Lord Mitsuki is kinder than I am."
"Kind? If he's so kind, why did he seal me away?!"
"He was kind in that he did not take your life. Then again, if he had, you would have just revived somewhere else, so if he wished to never see you again, sealing you away was perhaps the best option.
As you can see here, Mitsuki himself is completely unable to kill the gods even with this level of erasure, and he is forced to seal the gods only because he cannot kill them; even if he kills them, they return again, and he even hates seeing their faces.
And also as Sukuna said
here, Mitsuki actually obtained his power from the gods in the first place, and therefore timeline erasure is not a special ability at all; all gods possess it. To be very precise, the gods are nearly omnipotent and omniscient, so any ability possessed by one god is possessed by another god because all gods are nearly omnipotent and omniscient, and the difference between them is only their levels, as there is a hierarchy of the gods themselves and a hierarchy of absolute power among them, where the absolute power of a lower-level god cannot affect a higher-level god, and that is all. All gods share the same abilities, but higher absolute power exists, and a higher-level god overcomes a lower one, and the lower one cannot affect them. Other than that, timeline erasure is already possessed by all gods, as well as all other abilities, and what differs is only the levels, and this is the evidence ↓
However, there's a spectrum even among gods. I'm more toward the pinnacle, and you're at the base, just starting to climb the ladder to godhood."
Higher-level omnipotence is unbeatable by lower-level ones.
First, the novel establishes a single principle: gods are fundamentally indestructible, and death is merely another state of existence for them. Even if they are erased or killed, they will eventually return. Gods cannot be permanently killed. Yogiri is the only one capable of killing gods permanently, and this is the core premise of the story itself ↓
Gods were fundamentally indestructible. Even if you killed or erased them, in time they would reappear. So in battles between gods, it was common for the winner to either enslave the loser or take measures to seal them away.
She had killed any number of gods, but death was just another state of being for them, one from which they would eventually recover.
For a god, death wasn’t the end, but she would be unable to do anything
for a significant amount of time.
These abilities are common in Instant Death. Any character in the story can possess them, including total erasure, as well as causal, conceptual, and even informational erasure of gods and certain characters↓
Instant death. Reflection. Time stop. Time reversal. Spatial severance. Total erasure. Conceptual attacks. Causality erasure. Such things were possible for virtually anyone in the sea.
The gods are of course quasi-omnipotent and omniscient, and naturally, since such abilities can be possessed by any character in Instant Death, the gods possess them, as do Mitsuki and all other characters. This further highlights Mitsuki’s incapacity, as he was unable to erase the gods even with all these levels of erasure. Even the UEG, one of the higher gods, has killed countless gods; however, for them, death is merely another state of existence, and they will return again. Even the UEG is unable to permanently kill the gods, even with all these levels of erasure.
Some of us believe in a theory like this: There are universes contained inside larger universes and so on. Why has that total collection of universes survived? If space and time are infinite, then there is a possibility that eventually an ultimate being would emerge, one that could wipe out all universes on a whim. If the possibility isn’t zero, then given infinite time, it is guaranteed to happen. But it hasn’t. From what we’ve been able to observe, once gods reach a certain threshold of power, they disappear. So there must be someone out there erasing them, right? There must be some sort of limit or criteria being applied.”
“Criteria?”
The UEG had never considered that. She had believed gods were indestructible, eternal beings. She had killed any number of gods, but death was just another state of being for them, one from which they would eventually recover.
Rick’s sword is a conceptual weapon whose function is to kill gods on a conceptual level. This is the intended role of the sword. Rick stabbed the UEG, one of the highest gods, directly in her divine essence with this conceptual god-killing blade. After striking her essence, it immediately destroyed her entire existence completely, leaving nothing of her behind. The sword successfully killed the UEG, and then, just one second later, she returned to life as if nothing had happened, standing in front of them despite the fact that the sword had completely destroyed her on a conceptual level ↓
You are a swordsman who has killed gods, and you possess a holy sword designed for such. That combination should reinforce your godslaying capability on a conceptual level.”
Rick had once used the Holy Sword Orz to kill the goddess Vahanato. That fact lent him a conceptual advantage in killing gods. Truthfully, Rickdidn’t really understand how it worked, but if the Divine King said that wasthe case, he could do nothing but believe her.
No single one of these factors was enough to protect Richard from her attack, but with all of them together, Richard was just barely strong enough to fight back.
“Ah, I get it. That sword is the one that killed me, so it’s got the concept of god-slaying infused into it now. Now I’m mad! No more Mrs. Nice Goddess!”
Vahanato brought the weapons floating around her to bear, each of them firing a beam of light all at once. Her attack had been stopped whenshe was holding back, but what would happen if she went all out?
Rick vs UEG
Rick stepped over to the UEG's side. Taking his sword in both hands, he pointed it at the center of her chest. That should have been where her divine core resided. If he could pierce it, she should die. Rick carefully stabbed down. The Holy Sword passed through the barrier and reached the UEG's chest. It pierced through her clothes and split apart her flesh.Any ordinary attack would have failed to reach the core that resided underneath, but the god-slaying Holy Sword found it without issue Feeling the resistance from the core, he plunged the sword deeper in. The Holy Sword pierced through her core and unleashed an explosive power. The explosion tore apart her divine core, scattering the body that it had sustained, the pieces dissolving into light and disappearing
Yes. The UEG has been erased." Rick had felt the attack succeed. As if satisfied with the result, the sword in his hands vibrated happily
The answer came from behind them. They turned to see the UEG standing there. She looked no different from before, staring at the group with an exasperated expression
Unbelievable. I definitely felt her core being destroyed..."
Surely those other weaklings who call themselves gods would be killed once their core is destroyed. But a true god has no weaknesses. Even the concept of death does not apply to us
He had definitely felt her destruction. Her body had been erased, and her presence had vanished. Rick was absolutely certain she had been defeated. Yet even so, she stood before them like nothing had happened. He found it incomprehensible. Before such an absurdly powerful enemy, he had no idea how to proceed
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As for informational-level erasure, all gods are capable of Type 2 information manipulation and possess multiple layers of such manipulation, where anything in reality can be altered or even made possible by changing information, including reviving characters themselves. Despite this, Mitsuki and the UEG remain completely unable to permanently kill the gods:
The erasure on all these levels (history / causality / conceptual / informational) is all ineffective. Yogiri is the only one in the story capable of killing gods permanently, and these justifications will also be added alongside the historical one.
Note: Gods can die, but death is merely another state of existence for them, and they can return. This is why some members here use phrases like “killed” or similar wording. Gods can be killed, but death is only another state of existence for them, and they will eventually return as shown above.
Regarding immeasurable speed, Hedgehog and all gods, as well as all characters whose power is greater than Yoshifumi, will retain their immeasurable speed because Yoshifumi himself has immeasurable speed, and this has already been proven
here in the comment. The texts have been translated
here and you can verify it yourself. So the same justification applies, but it will differ in that gods have immeasurable speed because they are stronger than Hedgehog. Now the justification will change to the gods being stronger than Yoshifumi, and also all characters above him in power, even Hedgehog himself will likely retain it, but the reasoning will change.
Regarding Kuma’s statement, Elizhaa has already responded and refuted everything he said
here, but he continues repeating it over and over again just to derail the topic.