Demonbane Mythos Ultimate Revision - Return of the Strongest Mecha of All Time

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

Okay, at first, I’m not really into the idea of making a revision of Demonbane Mythos, considering the shitshow in every VS forum when it comes to this franchise, but with the support from my friends, I say, “**** it, why not?”. So here we are, what you are reading now is the proper revision of Demonbane verse with complete, overhaul Respect Thread, containing all Japanese scans that you need along with English translation. It took me way back from mid 2022 to finally complete the cosmology as well as terminology of Demonbane Mythos. Without further interruption, let us reclaim the title of strongest robot in fictions for Demonbane. Not Getter Robo, not STTGL, not Mazinger Zero, but Demonbane is the true king of every mecha in existence!

“Coming from the sky of hatred!”
“With righteous anger burning in our hearts!”
““We draw forth the sword that smites evil!””
“Thou art, the innocent blade----”
“Thou art, the innocent wings----”
““Demonbane!””​

Edit: Making sandbox is a horrible idea due to sheer contents of my RT. So please take your time and check my respect thread here:

https://vsbattles.com/threads/demonbane-mythos-official-respect-thread.138905/

Go with the Cosmology first, for it is the most crucial thing to do before going with others (Terminology, Tier,...)

Once you are done with my RT, please check Coston's revision thread regarding of DYN Freaks, magicians, and, of course, the Mainstream Multiverse:

https://vsbattles.com/threads/a-general-view-on-the-lower-echelon-of-demonbane-mythos.150547/

Coston's thread is very important so please don't miss it.

Please check new tier proposal from this comment and downward:

https://vsbattles.com/threads/demonbane-mythos-ultimate-revision-return-of-the-strongest-mecha-of-all-time.150473/page-4#post-5932715

Agree: @Elizhaa, @Ultima_Reality, @PrinceofPein, @Qawsedf234, @LordGriffin1000, @Antvasima

 

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

Here is a TLDR proposal for Demonbane’s tiering as well as its world hierarchy:

The human universe: 2-A
The multiverse: High 1-B
The hyperdimension: Low 1-A
The cycle: At least Low 1-A
The Rings of Yog-Sothoth, Garden of Nyarlathotep: At least Low 1-A
The unknown realm where Nyar stands: 1-A
The Ouroboros Rondo: 1-A
The Outerverse: At least several layers above 1-A and can potentially be 1-A+
The Infinite Spiral: Several layers above 1-A, is referred to as a “True Cosmos.”
Layered-Stages: 1-A+
Sea of Ether: 1-A+
Sea of Chaos/Chaos: High 1-A
The Lotus Throne: At least High 1-A

Okay, i guess i'm done. This is the first time i make a revision for such a big franchise, hopefully i can get advice and support from you guys. Now, let us begin the discussion!

Edit: The proposed tier is no longer correct due to new revision for Mainstream Multiverse and stuffs, please check Coston's thread for more information.

 

[Tarang123]

This is insane. I'm staying neutral for this one

 

[Setsuna_tenma]

The Cycle​

The Saṃsāra, which has several different terms like an eternity, the Ring of Yog-Sothoth, the Garden of Nyarlathotep, the Garden of Saṃsāras, etc… , but commonly referred to as the cycle, is an infinitely-looped timeworld in which every universe, world,… is trapped in an endless cycle where histories repeat itself for an untold amount of time.

Spoiler: Common Route - Chapter 8

私は世界を識る。
運命を識る。
絶望を識る。
世界は無限の蛇の庭に閉ざされているのを識る。
運命は捩れ歪んだ輪の中に在るのを識る。
絶望は、決して辿り着かない未来とそれを識らぬ人々にあるのを識る。
果て知らぬ永劫。
計り知れざる永劫。
怪異なる永劫。
輪を操る獣ですら囚われ、逃れられぬこの牢獄で、それでも私を突き動かすものがあるのは何故に何故に何故に。
――嗚呼、そうだ。
彼が居るからだ。
彼もまた無限の囚人に過ぎぬ。
無限の奴隷に過ぎぬ。
無限の道化に過ぎぬ。
されども、彼は幾星霜、迷う事なく闘い続ける。
それは世界を識らぬ故か。
運命を識らぬ故か。
絶望を識らぬ故か。
そうかも知れない。
だが本当にただそれだけか。
ならば何故、彼は今もなお在り続ける?
この無限の煉獄で魔を断つ意志は失われていった。
失われたことも識らずに失われていった。
門の鍵の子らを止めた賢者の力は届くまい。
セラエノの知識を駆る盲目の賢者は何処に封じられているのか。
人類が生み出した対邪神組織は未だ結成すらされていない。
そんな中で何故に彼だけが、今もなお闘い続ける?<K>
闘い続けることが出来る?
私は識らない。
唯一、彼だけを識らない。
故にこの無限の闇黒の中で、ただ彼だけが雷光の如く鮮明だ。
そうだ。
彼だけがきっと、私を現世に繋ぎ止める楔なのだ。
嗚呼。
だから。
だから。
この無限の中で培った想いを
この無限の中で積み上げた衝動を
嗚呼、嗚呼。
今こそ解き放ちたい。
たとえ――更なる絶望が待ち受けようと。
『死霊秘法』の主。
白き魔術の王。
神殺しの刃。
――大十字九郎。
私は、お前に、逢いたい。
I know the World.
I know Fate.
I know Despair.
I know that the World is trapped in the Court of the Infinite Snake.
I know that Fate is but a twisted, warped ring.
I know that Despair exists for the future that can never be reached, and for the people who know it not.
Endless aeons.
Unknowable aeons.
Strange aeons.
In this inescapable prison, where even the Beast who controls the Wheel is himself trapped, why is it that I am moved? Why? Why?
----Ahh, of course.
It is because he is here.
He, too, is but an eternal prisoner.
He, too, is but an eternal slave.
He, too, is but an eternal fool.
Yet still he fights without doubt, over the countless aeons.
Is it because he does not know the World?
Is it because he does not know Fate?
Is it because he does not know Despair?
Perhaps. But is that really all?
If so, then why does he yet exist?
This infinite purgatory has lost the will to smite Evil.
It lost it without even knowing.
The power of the sage who defeated the children of the Gate and Key cannot reach.
The blind sage who bears the knowledge of Celaeno has been sealed somewhere.
The society that stands up to the evil gods on behalf of humanity has not even been formed yet.
The society that stands up to the evil gods on behalf of humanity has not even been formed yet.
I do not know.
He is the only one I do not know.
In this eternal darkness, he alone shines like a raging bolt of lightning.
Surely he is the chain that keeps me affixed to this reality.
Ahh.
Therefore.
Therefore.
These emotions that have multiplied over countless eternities, these feelings that have built up over unending aeons.
Ahhhhh, how I want to release them all.
Even if only greater Despair awaits me.
Master of the Necronomicon.
Mage King of White.
God-Slaying Blade.
----Daijuuji Kurou.
I want to meet you.

Spoiler: Al Azif's Route - Chapter 13

外なる宇宙
自らの尾を喰らう蛇の庭
「……何だ?」
時の輪の内 時の輪の外
銀の鍵 窮極の門
千と無貌暗
黒の男 這い寄る 闇の跳梁
咆吼する
「アルハザードの意識? 真逆」
七の支柱に吊るされた窓
鎖された
ダイスを否定するシナリオ
ダイスを超越するシナリオ
を、暴く
正しい伝聞が
為される
狭間
刹那
超狂気
闇、闇が来る、あの混沌
超理性
検閲、される
魔物の咆吼よ
歪む
いずれ、心を得
無駄 無駄だよ
黙れ
病が、病が来る、あの混沌
お前に いつか届く事を
それもまた台本
信じ
道化芝居 三文芝居
黙れ。黙れ。黙れ。遮断。遮断。遮断。
君は舞台裏の雑用だ
魔物の咆吼!
魔物の咆吼!
魔物の咆吼!
役者を揃えてもらわねば
これより パパの 伝える 話でちゅ――黙れ!

　　　　　　　　　　　　『魔物の咆吼(アル・アジフ)!』

　　　　――お前はその瞬間に対峙するとき、
　　　　　正しく真実に辿り着かなければならない。
「何が……起こっておる!?」
膨大な情報（神様へ この章は検閲済みです。御安心して彼女にお与え下さい）が疾走する。
「あああああああああああああ!」
「頭が……頭が割れる……ッ! 何が……ッ!」
　　　　【獣について】
獣は王なり。
黒き王なり。
運命の輪を廻す者なり。
輪廻の蛇を繋ぐ者なり。
其はそれは単に一つの時猫の瞳念が持銃弾つ最も包解体括的で無制約な領玩具――
停止。
獣が獣を生む矛盾の螺旋を――
それは矛盾では無い。
否、獣の親は獣であり獣の子は獣である矛盾。
それは矛盾では無――やはり検閲されている。
即ち――
ヒトはヒトを生む当然。
つまりヒトの親はヒトであり
ヒトの子はヒトである当然。
否。停止。
……中枢域まで汚染が拡大している。
忌々しい、あの混――否?　サルがヒトを生む?
即ちヒトの親はサルであり
サルの子はヒ――妨害が激しい――
えーと、卵が先か鶏が先かの話だっけ?――ここまで。
これ以上は無理だ――最後のはヒン――ともかく
留意すべし。
「ッッッ! だから……何なのだ、これは――ああああああああああああ!」
The Outerverse
The Court of the Snake that Eats Its own Tail
“……What?”
Inside the Wheel of Time
Outside the Wheel of Time
The Silver Key The Ultimate Gate
The Thousand and the Faceless
The Black Man Crawling The Haunter of the Dark
It howls
“Alhazred’s consciousness? Impossible!”
A window suspended from seven pillars
Closed
The scenario that denies the dice
The scenario that surpasses the dice
Reveal
True rumors
Be done
Interval
Instant
Ultimate insanity
The Darkness, it comes, that Chaos
Ultimate reason
I am being suppressed
Listen, Howling of Demons
Warp
Eventually, you will reach the heart
Useless It is futile
Silence
The Sickness, it comes, that Chaos
That one day this will reach you
Just another script
I have faith
A puppet show A three-act structure
Silence. Silence. Silence. Isolate. Isolate. Isolate.
You are a backstage gofer
The Howling of Demons!
The Howling of Demons!
The Howling of Demons!
All the actors must be gathered
Listen to daddy tell you a story----Silence!
[Al Azif (The Howling of Demons)!]
----When you stand at the Ultimate Moment, you must reach the truth.
“What…… What’s happening!?”
An immeasurably vast amount of data (Dear God, This text has been fully edited. Please give it to her with no reservations) rushes through my mind.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
“My head…… My head is bursting…….! What is this……!?”
[Regarding of the Beast]
The Beast is the King.
The Black King.
It is he who turns the Wheel of Fortune.
It is he who connects the Serpent of Saṃsāra.
Not merely a thing of one space-time cat’s eye, but allied to the ultimate dismembered animating essence of existence’s whole unbounded toys----
Stop.
A spiral of paradox that the Beast gives birth to the Beast----
That is not a paradox.
No, the parent of the Beast is the Beast and the child of the Beast is the Beast, this is a paradox.
That is not a para----I knew I was being suppressed.
In other words----
Humans give birth to humans, of course.
This means that the parent of a human is a human.
And naturally the child of a human is a human.
No. Stop.
……The infection has spread to the central block.
Damn this Chao----Wait. Humans come from apes?
So the parent of a human is an ape.
The child of an ape is a hum----the interference is too strong----
Umm, which came first, the chicken or the egg? ----Enough.
Trying any harder would be meaningless----I need to leave a hin----for now.
Take heed of this.
“! What…… What is this----Aaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Spoiler: Hadou Ruri's Route - Chapter 15

Spoiler

「次の永劫が始まる。では、また逢おう『アル・アジフ』。永劫の果てに、再び君と相まみえよう」
「次の君こそ……次の大十字九郎こそ、神の領域に立っていると良いな……」
「待て!」
「君はまた、あの場所からやり直すが良い。君が生まれる前から――あのロバ・エル・カリイエから、再び此処まで歩んでおいで……」
「くっ……あああああ!」
闇が嗤う。
蠢く闇が。
吼える闇が。
這い寄る闇が。
姿を変え、容を変える闇黒の、炎える眸が愉悦に歪む。
そう、炎える三つの眸――
そうだ……何故、思い出せなんだ。
汝は混沌の――
「ナイア、ル……ラ……ト……!」
そうか。
この絡繰は……この神の絡繰は……総て総て総て、この混沌の仕業。
絡繰の総てを見た。
絡繰の総てを識った。
だが総ては、間に合わない。
再び、妾は輪廻の蛇に囚われる。
総てを失う。
妾は……
“The next eternity is about to begin. We will meet again, [Al Azif]. We shall be rejoined at the end of the next eternity.”
“It would be nice if I could meet the next you…… and the next Daijuuji Kurou, standing in the domain of the gods……”
“Wait!”
“You should start over from that spot. From before you were born----from Roba El Khaliyey, until you return here……”
“Nngh…… Ahhhh!”
The darkness laughs.
The wriggling darkness.
The howling darkness.
The crawling darkness.
The darkness changes shape and form, its burning eyes are warped with joy.
Yes, three burning eyes----
That’s right…… Why couldn’t I remember?
You are that Chaos----
“Nya…… rla…… th……!”
I see.
These machinations…… They were all…… All of them, all of them, all of them are the works of this Chaos.
I look at everything.
I understand everything.
But it’s all too late.
I will once again be trapped within the reincarnation serpent.
I will lose everything.
I……

Spoiler

奇妙な光景だった。
微細な光の塵が、螺旋を描くように、舞っていた。
渦巻く光の塵は徐々に、数と輝きを増してゆく。
光が部屋の明かりを圧倒するほど輝きを増して、私はそれが意味するものを知った。
光の一つ一つは魔術文字。
螺旋を描く魔術文字は、魔術を構成する複雑な術式。
「えええっ!?」
そして魔術は、ある実体を構築した。
それはまず小さなヒト型を模り、肉体を編む。
白い肌。
翡翠の瞳。
銀の髪の先端はまだ構築し切らないのか、魔術文字のまま連なり、輝く。
魔術が編んだその少女を、私は良く知っていた。
「アル!? どうして!?」
翡翠の瞳が、私を見つめる。
虚ろだった瞳が、意志の光を灯した。
独り言のように、アルは喋り出す。
「……何とか、戻って来れたか……だが、長くは持たん。既に因果が……分解し始めている……」
言うや否や、アルの躰が幽霊のように透明に薄れていく。
ときおり壊れたモニターのように、その姿にノイズが走る。
何が起こっているのか、把握できない。
「また……輪廻に囚われる前に……瑠璃……汝に伝える事があって、参った」
「伝える……こと?」
何が起こっているかは分からないが……それが、大切なことであるのは分かった。見逃さないよう、聞き逃さないよう、全神経を動員して、アルの一挙一動を見守る。
「妾が知った……輪廻の真実……そして……九郎の事を……」
九郎!
その名前に心臓が跳ね上がった。
身を乗り出すようにして、アルに訴えかける。
必死だった。
「九郎は!? 九郎はどうしたのです! アル! 教えて! お願いだから、教えてっ!」
私の叫びが届いているのか、いないのか。
アルは相変わらず独り言を続けているような口調で、私に向かい手を翳した。
「今から……妾が掻き集めた……九郎の意識を……転送する……。九郎の想いを……知ってやってくれ……」
アルの掌が輝いた。
そして――記憶はまるで稲妻のように脳裏を駆け抜け、私の意識に深く灼き付けられる!
文字通り、雷に撃たれたような衝撃に、私は硬直した。
そんな私の目の前で……
「しかと……伝えたぞ……妾は……次の因果に……次こそは……次こそは……必ず……」
私に伸ばされた掌から、躰は糸の様に解けてゆく。
アルの躰が、再び、光に還ろうとしていた。
だが私は、動けない。
灼きついた記憶の鮮烈さに慄いて――
「必ず、未来を――」
散ってゆく光の塵に照らされて、私は知った。
九郎が、あの後歩んだ、道程の全てを。
It’s a strange sight.
Tiny particles of light are floating around, spiraling.
They gradually grow in numbers and intensity.
They glow brighter than the lighting of the room, and I realize what the light is.
Each light is a magic symbol.
The spiraling magic symbols are complex spells weaving the magic.
“What!?”
And the spell begins taking shape.
It forms a small humanoid shape and becomes a body.
White skin.
Jade eyes.
The tip of her silver hair is incomplete, still layers of glowing magic symbols.
I know the girl weaved from magic all too well.
“Al!? How!?”
Her jade green eyes look into mine.
My vacant eyes fill with life anew.
Al begins speaking, as if to herself.
“……I’ve managed…… to come back…… but I won’t last long. Causality is…… already falling apart……”
As soon as she speaks, Al’s body begins fading away like a ghost.
Occasional static runs across her like a broken monitor.
I can’t make sense of what’s going on.
“I came…… to tell you something…… Ruri…… before the cycle catches me…… again……”
“Tell me…… something?”
I don’t know what’s going on…… but I can tell it’s something extremely important. I focus all my senses as to not miss anything and pay all my attention to Al.
“The truth…… about the cycle…… and…… about Kurou……”
Kurou!
My heart skips a beat upon hearing that name.
I lean forward and ask Al.
I’m desperate.
“What about Kurou!? Where is he! Al! Tell me! Please, tell me!”
I don’t know if my shouts are reaching her or not.
Al holds her hand up to me, still talking as if to herself.
“I’m going to transmit…… what I gathered…… of Kurou’s conscience……Take in…… Kurou’s thoughts……”
Al’s hand glows.
And----the memories shoot through my brain like lightning and burn deeply into my mind!
And the electrifying shock turns my body stiff literally.
And in front of my eyes……
“I…… delivered…… it…… I will…… the next causality…… next time…… I must……”
And still stating at her hand, her body begins unraveling into threads.
Al’s body is turning back into light.
But I can’t move.
I tremble at the memories that burned themselves into my head so clearly----
“The future, absolutely----”
I learn everything while the dissipating light shines on me.
Everything, that Kurou experienced after he departed.

Spoiler: True End

Spoiler

「来い! ヨグ＝ソトースの環を破壊するぞ! この世界に……九郎に、未来を……!」
「ええ!」
伸ばされたアルの手を、しっかりと掴む。
私とアルの躰が宙を浮き、光に包まれた。
私の内部を駈け巡る術式。
私の姿は、あの黒い指令服姿……マギウス・スタイルに変わる。
「跳躍ぶぞ!」
粒子となって崩れてゆく躰。
私達は情報の最小単位に分解され、時間を、空間を超える。
永劫の接続点へ。
自らの尻尾を喰らう、蛇の顎へ。
大十字九郎とマスターテリオンが戦う、決戦の宇宙へと――!
“Come! We’ll destroy the Ring of Yog-Sothoth! We’ll give this world…… we’ll give Kurou a future……!"
“Right!”
I firmly grasp the hand Al extends out to me.
Mine and Al’s body floats into the air, light envelops us.
A spell runs through my body.
My shape change into the black command outfit…… into Magius Style.
“We’re jumping!”
My body breaks apart into particles.
We distill ourselves into but the tiniest fragments of information and transcend through time and space.
To the point where eternities meet.
To the jaw of the snake who eats his own tail.
To the battlefield, the universe where Daijuuji Kurou and Master Therion fight----!

Spoiler

「だけどね。輪廻が砕ければ、今までの世界もまた砕け散る。結局、君達の世界は、僕の輪廻の上に在ったんだ」
「総ては無かった事になる。アル。九郎君。瑠璃お嬢ちゃん。君達の戦いも苦しみも勇気も絶望も、出逢いも別れも喜びも悲しみも全部。ただの幻なのさ」
「………………」
女の姿が光に崩れてゆく。
女だけでは無い。
デモンベインが、九郎が、瑠璃が、光に砕けてゆく。
崩れてゆく。
融けてゆく。
「君たちも所詮は狂った因果の産物さ。さあ……総ては正しく因果に還る。君たちも還るが良い」
「僕はまた、宇宙の外から、生き足掻くちっぽけな君たちを嘲笑い続けよう」
正しく、因果に還る。
闇が、消えた。
何の気配も残さずに。
正しく因果に還る。
そして総ては零に巻き戻される――
“I hope you know, though. If the Saṃsāra breaks, so will the worlds up until now. Your world only exists upon my cycle.”
“Everything will be returned to nothing. Al. Kurou-kun. Lady Ruri. Your battles, sufferings, bravery, and despair, your encounters, partings, joy, and suffering, all of it. They are all but a fleeting illusion.”
“………………”
The woman begins to break apart into the light.
And not just the woman.
Demonbane, Kurou, and Ruri crumble into light.
Breaking apart.
Melting into light.
“You are but products of an insane causality. Now…… All will return to proper causality. You, too, shall return.”
“I will gaze from outside the universe upon your struggles once more, and I shall continue to laugh.”
All returns to proper causality.
The darkness disappears.
The darkness disappears completely and utterly.
All returns to proper causality.
And all rewinds to nothing----

It is where all thing are bound, is the place that exists beyond space-time, causality, where all eternities meet and end, connecting the previous worlds/eternities/loops to the next ones. If the Saṃsāra is destroyed, then so do all worlds, returning everything to nothingness and reborn in the new world where its existence is forgotten so that the world can move towards the future. The Garden of Saṃsāra is also where an infinite number of histories of worlds are contained, and the destruction of the garden is the goodbye to all worlds in existence.

Spoiler: Leica Crusade's Route - Chapter 15

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「運命の輪は廻り、宇宙は輪廻し、時間は螺旋を描く」
「遍く総ては、ヨグ＝ソトースの環に囚われている。だから、時を巻き戻し、因果を超えれば良い。そして次の輪廻で、貴方はライカを手に入れる」
「今度こそ決して離さぬように……大十字九郎に奪われぬように……」
「ライカを……手に入れる……?」
意識を失っている筈の、リューガが、幼い声で応えた。
エセルドレーダは母の様に、優しく微笑みかける。
先程の精神支配の比ではなかった。
『ナコト写本』の術は、まさに存在に対する制圧だった。
魂の中枢に甘い毒の如き、魅了の呪詛が滲入する――
「その為に、ヨグ＝ソトースの環を繋ぎ続けなければ。時の神に、不要となった現世のライカを捧げなさい」
「そうして、ライカの罪は贖われ……そう。次の世界こそ、貴方達２人の為の世界。貴方とライカは、ようやく青空に辿り着ける」
“The Wheel of Fortune turns, the universe repeats, and time is a spiral.”
“All is bound in the Ring of Yog-Sothoth. So all you have to do, is turn back time and go beyond causality. And in the next iteration, Leica will be yours.”
“This time, never letting go…… Never letting Daijuuji Kurou take her……”
“Leica…… will be mine……?”
Ryuuga, in his unconscious state, responds in a childish voice.
Etheldreda smiles gently back, like a mother.
The earlier takeover of his soul pales in comparison.
The [Pnakotic Manuscripts]’ spell is literally a seizing of his very existence.
The enchantment seeps into the center of his heart like a sweet toxin----
“And for that, Yog-Sothoth’s Ring must remain connected. Offer the now useless Leica of this current time to the god of time.”
“And Leica’s sin will be forgiven…… And then. The next world will be a world for the two of you. You and Leica will finally reach the blue sky.”

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「どうやら完全に僕の負けのようだ。おめでとう、九郎君。アル・アジフ。真逆、こんな容で僕の庭が壊れるとは思わなかったよ」
言って、亀裂のような笑みを浮かべる。
いや、実際に亀裂が走っていた。
音を立て、貌の半分が砕け散る。
「だけどね。輪廻が砕ければ、今までの世界もまた砕け散る。九郎君。君の世界もまた、結局は僕の輪廻の上に在ったのさ」
「だから、九郎君。君があの街に帰っても……もう其処は君が生きた世界ではない」
「大黄金時代にして大混乱時代にして大暗黒時代のアーカムシティは、もう存在しないのさ」
「………………」
躰が砕けて、塵になる。
「君たちも所詮は狂った因果の産物さ。さあ……総ては正しく因果に還る。君たちも還るが良い」
「僕はまた、宇宙の外から、生き足掻くちっぽけな君たちを嘲笑い続けよう」
“Looks like you’ve completely defeated me. Congratulations, Kuro-kun. Al Azif. I certainly wasn’t expecting my garden to be broken like this.”
A smile spreads across her face like a gaping fracture.
No, it really is a fracture.
Half of her face shatters audibly.
“I hope you know, though. If the Saṃsāra breaks, so will the worlds up until now. Your world only exists upon my cycle.”
“So, Kurou-kun. Even if you return to that city…… It won’t be the world you lived in.”
“Arkham City, in its golden age, chaotic age, and dark age, will no longer exist.”
“………………”
Her body is shriveling into dust.
“You are but a product of an insane causality. Now…… Everything will return to proper causality. You, too, are no exception.”
“And I will laugh again at your insignificant selves struggle in your lives from outside the Universe.”

As mentioned in the hyperdimension sections, we learned that the cycle imprisoned all living beings when Edgar and Al arrived at the hyperdimension, where they viewed the infinite hierarchy of universes as “bubbles.” No matter where you run or how many times you transcend the multiverse, you can never escape from the absolute fate of being entrapped in infinite rings/cycles of time. And not just infinite rings of time, but there are infinite chains of eternities, with even more infinite eternities beyond those eternities. This gives us a clear image of how all versions of Demonbane across multiverses, pasts, presents, or futures, were unable to escape the cycle.

Spoiler: Gunshin Kyoushuu - Chapter 4

そして――
彼らが辿り着いたのは、超時間と超空間を超え、超次元を上り詰めた超・超時空間。
そこでエドガーは、アル・アジフは、垣間見た。
泡のように現れては弾ける無数の宇宙で、
鎖のように連なる無限の時の輪の中で、
無数のデモンベインが闘う/闘った/闘っていた。
それらは在り得べき可能性のひとつ。
それらは選ばれし可能性のひとつ。
それらは失われし可能性のひとつ。
血液の流れのように、無限に分岐し、循環し、収束する、無数にしてひとつの運命、その一、部にしてすべてだ。
永劫の刻のすべてを、永劫を超えた次なる永劫を、無限の永劫の連鎖を――
魔を断つ永遠の剣(デモンベイン＝アートレータ・アエテルヌム)は闘い、闘い、闘い抜いていく。
Next----
Where they arrived to was the hyper-hyper timespace that is on top of hyperdimension and above hypertime and hyperspace.
There, Edgar and Al Azif caught a glimpse.
Inside innumerable universes that burst like bubbles,
Inside the infinite rings of time that connect like chains,
Countless Demonbane fight, fought and have fought.
They are one of the feasible possibilities.
They are one of the chosen possibilities.
They are one of the lost possibilities.
They diverge, circulate and converge like the flows of blood, they are innumerable yet one fate, likewise, a part yet everything.
Across the entirety of an eternity, across next eternity beyond the eternity, across the infinite chains of eternities----
The Eternal Sword That Smites Evil (Demonbane = Atheleta Aeternum) fights, fights and fights to the very end.

The Ouroboros Rondo is the device responsible for creating, destroying, and maintaining the stable existence of the cycle. This is shown in the short OVA with the same name, at 4:24, we can clearly see that when the “story” arrives at its culmination, resulting in both Demonbane and Liber Legis’s defeat, the entire Ouroboros Rondo is “closed”, indicating the cycle is “finished” and no longer needed, after that the Ouroboros Rondo opens to a new eternity/cycle again and dismisses the old one.
Jin-sensei also confirmed that the Rondo represents the loop in Demonbane universe. The world/cycle changed whenever it spun, and thus began a new battle. The tree that contains the Rondo is the image of branching universes. Resulting in the existence of multiple multiverses instead of a singular one. As shown in the hypedimension sections, the presence of infinite cycles gave birth to infinite multiverses, as each cycle encompasses its own hierarchy of universes.

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Lotus: Pardon me, sensei. Today I re-watched “Ouroboros Rondo” with a friend of mine, though I am a little curious about this “Rondo” thingy. Does the tree below here is the “mad divine tree” and this spindle represent the Wheel of Fortune? Or could it be another shape of the Trapezohedron that represent the world (Demonbane's universe) itself?
Jin Haganeya: The motif here is “Prayer wheel”. Certainly you can consider it as the symbol of timeloop. According to the maker of this video the image apparently is “Al Azif but not the book”. The interpretation is that the memories of the loop is engraved based on each spin. I think your interpretation for the tree is correct as well. It is the image of branching universes.
Lotus: Thank you very much!

So the cycle should be at least Low-1A because it encompasses the multiverse and the hyperdimension.
The Ring of Yog-Sothoth should be Low 1-A for containing an infinite number of cycles as well as being the realm beyond space-time where all things across all cycles are bound.
The Garden of Nyarlathotep/Samsara is a low 1-A realm, as the ring of yog-sothoth is a mere part of this structure.
The Ouroboros Rondo itself houses all previous structures and gives birth to the existence of infinite multiverses into the bargain, including the realm where Nyar stands, which puts the Ouroboros Rondo at 1-A.

The Outerverse​

The Outerverse is a very vital part of Demonbane-verse, also known as Yog-Sothoth’s womb, is the highest plane of existence in the Infinite Spiral’s structure, standing at the beginning and the end of all infinities, encompassing the past, the present, and the future, serving as the true battlefield of Demonbane and Liber Legis. It is the true homeworld of Great Old Ones and the connection of all “eternities,” where the snake’s jaw of reincarnation will devour the current cycle and give birth to a new cycle below the ring of Yog-Sothoth. An infinite repeat of death and birth, destruction and creation of endless cycles (Side note: The quote that described Yog-Sothoth is directly taken from H.P Lovecraft's Through the Gates of the Silver Key). This realm is accessible only via the Gate of Yog-Sothoth, which is summoning the Outer God Yog-Sothoth himself.

To summon Yog-Sothoth, you must have a Great Old One like Cthulhu as an offering. Once Yog-Sothoth is summoned, reality itself will lose its identity, and various elements like boundary, space, time, and even the world is warped from their very essence by his sheer presence. There are instances where the world momentarily died and was reborn due to the materializing of Yog-Sothoth. Yog-Sothoth is also described as being allied to the ultimate animating essence of existence’s whole unbounded sweep, which is the last utter sweep that has no confines and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike. A reminder that this is just one among countless manifestations of Yog-Sothoth. Things like the Gate or the spheres, are all different instances from the archetypal true Yog-Sothoth. Because Outer Gods are too immense for even magicians to perceive their entirety, they have to take a form that the human mind can comprehend, and Super Demonbane couldn’t reach this domain despite its infinite transcendence over the multiverse structure, which easily put this realm at 1-A. But there are other reasons supporting the 1-A tiering of this universe.

• This is where Gods, aka the Great Old Ones, reside, and the form manifested in the lower plane of existence is but its mere shadow, as stated in Twitter, the author of Demonbane has confirmed that the existence of Gods in Demonbane is similar to the Theory of Forms, as the true form of the God can not be perceived by normal beings. In Kishin Hishou, the Great Old Ones are called PRIMAL and UNDIMENSIONED, so the realm they dwell in must also be UNDIMENSIONED as well.

Spoiler: Al Azif's Route - Chapter 14

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だが、ならば海中深くにありながら海面に浮かぶ光、原初の宇宙の劫火を灯した双眸は、果たして生物のそれなのか。
But behold the light emanating from the depths of the sea cast by the flames of the primordial Universe that dwell in the monster’s eyes. Is this thing really a living creature?

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海が――沈黙した。
海面を蹂躙する海魔の軍勢も、海中にて遊撃する『深きものども』も、邪神たるクトゥルーですら完全にその動きを止めた。
突然の変化に、連合軍の兵士達は戸惑うばかりだった。
「いったい何が……?」
「…………ッ!」
だが沈黙は一瞬だった。途方も無く巨大な蛇がのたうっているような揺れが、海底から伝わってきた。
海は沸騰した様に震え、戦慄く。
轟音がやがて海を激震させ、連合艦隊を激烈に揺さぶった。
「つっ……! じ、状況を……!」
「海中より途方もなく、巨大な何かが浮かび上がってきます……! こ、これはまさか……!」
「ルルイエ……!」
「そんな……間に合わなかったのですか……?」
絶望に打ちひしがれる暇もなく、瑠璃の乗った戦艦の眼前に巨大な……超大な壁が、否、『柱』が突き出た。
天を衝くとはまさにこの事か。
陽光を遮るほどの影を落とし聳える柱の、その全貌を把握出来る者は存在しなかった。
不幸にも、『柱』の浮上に巻き込まれた数隻の戦艦が、大量の海水と共に、遥か天高くを舞った。
海を震わす轟音は、なおも連続する。
『柱』の浮上は、それ１本きりに留まらなかった。
圧倒的質量の海水を数キロも天に吹き飛ばし、次々と『柱』が海面に突き出てくる。
そのたびに戦艦が、海魔が一緒に宙を舞い、柱の上に、もしくは海面に叩きつけられて原形も残さず、粉微塵に砕け散る。
壮大過ぎて、凄絶過ぎて、何一つ実感の伴わない、悪夢の様な光景だった。
だが――真に恐るべきはルルイエ浮上それ自体ではなかったのだ。
突き出た『柱』は確かに異界の物質――ルルイエの建造物に他ならないのだろう。
それらは『真っ直ぐ』と聳え立ちながら『捩れていた』。
矛盾ここに極まるが、そう表現するよりなかった。非ユークリッド幾何学からなる建造物に、地上の常識は通用しない。
――問題はそんなことではない。
突き出る無数の『柱』。
それらは決して無秩序に聳えているのではない。
ちょうどクトゥルーを円形に取り囲んで、立っているのだ。
その様は、英国にあるストーンヘンジを連想させる――スケールは段違いではあるが。
その通り――これは巨大な環状列石なのだ。
「環状列石……あの呪文……間違いない! 拙い、九郎! 彼奴を止めろ……!」
総ては遅すぎた。変化はすぐに、この海域に生き残った総ての生命に知れ渡る。
何ものも、目を逸らすことが出来なかった。
それ程に決定的で絶望的な、人智の範囲を超える、宇宙的規模の怪異だった。
「な――」
「ンガイ・ングアグアア・ブグ＝ショゴグ・イハア、ヨグ＝ソトース、ヨグ＝ソトース――」
「イグナイイ・イグナイイ・トゥフルトゥクングア、ヨグ＝ソトース――」
「イブトゥンク……ヘフイエ――ングルクドルウ……!」
「エエ・ヤ・ヤ・ヤ・ヤハアアア――エヤヤヤヤアアア……ングアアアアア……ングアアアアア……!」
金の剣が招喚される。金の剣を虚空に走らせ、光り輝く「逆さΩ」の紋様を宙に刻む。
「フユウ……フユウ……ヨグ＝ソトース!」
あの忌まわしい、この世に存在してはならない、邪悪の詩。
この詩を俺は……確かに俺は……識って……
「これは『第九の詩』――ヨグ＝ソトースの招喚!」
「――――ッッッッ!?」
「顕れ給え、門にして鍵なる神よ! 顕れ出で給え!」
「全にして一、一にして全なる神よ! 顕れ出で給え……!」
「――我が、父君!」
「え――――?」
クトゥルーが、邪神が、強壮たる支配者が――沸騰した。
クトゥルーが、溶けていた。
粘液となり煮えたぎり、空間に泡を吹く。
不定形の泡を吹く。不気味な泡を吹く。
クトゥルーは急速な勢いでその実体を失い、総てが総て、泡へと化していく。
何もかもが酷く曖昧だった。
境界と呼ぶべきものが、はっきりとしない。
何処から何処までが世界なのか。
何処から何処までが異界なのか。
現実は自我(アイデンティティ)を失い、一切合切を不確かにしていく。
ルイエの海域が、虹色に輝く、虹色に澱む、球体に満たされる。
海面に。
海中に。
海底に。
水泡の一つ一つに。
水の分子の間々に。
空に。
空の蒼に。
空の風に。
大気の粒子の一つ一つに。
陽子と中性子と電子の間々に。
海が変質した。
空が変質した。
空間が変質した。
時間が変質した。
世界が――変質した。
変質した世界は、虹色の球体。
世界が極彩色に塗り潰されてゆく。
総ての彩は、虹色となり
総ての物質は、球体となる。
――虹色の、
球体。
虹色の球体。
虹色の球体。
虹色の球体。
球。
球。
球。
球。
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　　球球球球球球球球球球球球球球球球球球球球
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　　球球球球球球球球球球球球球球球球球○○○
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その球体は黄金の王冠を頂く駱駝。
その球体は巨大な牡牛。
その球体は偉大な君主。
その球体は鉄の冠を頂く赤い男。
その球体は鴉。
その球体は暗雲。
その球体は蝿。
その球体は白い蛇。
その球体は緑色の顔の男。
その球体は巨大な禿鷹。
その球体は人間。
その球体は巨人。
その球体は黄色の蟾蜍。
虹色の球体が集積する。
それは原初の粘液として泡立つ、触角のある不定形の怪物。
全にして一。
一にして全。
「それは単に一つの時空連続ではなく、実存という概念が持つ最も包括的で無制約な領域のうちの、真に死活を握る要素と結び付いた、あらゆる束縛を遁れ、空想も数字も遥かに超越した窮極的でしかも最後の領域だった」
それは静止した『現在』。
それは流動する『過去』。
それは蓄積された『未来』。
それは『門』。
それは『鍵』。
それは
それは
それは――
こちらの認識の限界を超え、狂気に陥る寸前で、その存在は人間の脳の機能に合わせて、実体を象徴的に歪ませた。
無限の数の球体は虚空を目指し、高速で飛んでいく。
空間に描く虹の軌跡。その総てが空へ消えたかと思うと突如、七色に爆発し、異界の光にルルイエの海を染め上げる。
そして、それは実体に結晶した。
天に浮かぶ、巨大な、広大な、平面。
それは――
「扉――だ」
冥界への扉(ヘヴンズ・ドアー)。
異界への扉(ヘヴンズ・ドアー)。
厳かな、呪わしき、それは門の属性を持つ神性。
扉が断末魔に似た軋みを大音響で奏でながら、ゆっくりと開かれる。
その向こう側に広がる光景は……よく分からない。
ただあらゆるものがたゆたい、歪む、混沌の景色だった。
「ヨグ＝ソトース……あらゆる時間と時空に存在する『門の鍵にして守護者』」
「旧支配者共が棲む外宇宙へと繋がる存在。正真正銘の『外なる神』だ……」
「外なる神(アウター・ゴッド)……」
……クトゥルーどころの騒ぎじゃないってことか。
奴は……マスターテリオンは、こちらの予想をはるかに上回る魔人だった。クソッタレ!
「左様。神を苗床として、更に上位の神を招喚する――『Ｃ計画』も所詮はこの為の土台に過ぎない」
「貴公等も覇道もアウグストゥス達アンチクロスも……そして我が母ネロも皆総て。余が回す運命の歯車の上で踊っていただけなのだ」
The ocean----falls silent.
The horde of Sea Demons that were running rampant on the surface of the sea, the [Deep Ones] that were striking beneath the waves, and even the Evil God Cthulhu itself have completely halted their movements.
The sudden change throws the allied troops into confusion.
“What the……?”
“…………!”
But the silence lasts for only an instant. A tremor vibrated from the ocean floor, as though there is an unimaginably huge serpent writhing in its depths.
The water churns and trembles, as if it is boiling.
Soon a thunderous roar severely quaked the sea and violently shook the allied fleet.
“Kuh……! R-report!”
“Something extremely large from under the sea is coming to the surface……! I-it can’t be……!”
“R’lyeh……!”
“No…… We’re too late……?”
Before she can even have a moment to succumb to despair, a huge…… a titanic wall, no, a [pillar] bursts out of the sea in front of the battleship where Ruri is on board.
Is this what it means to pierce the heavens?
No one is able to grasp the entire scene, as those towering pillars cast a shadow enough to block out the sunlight.
Unfortunately, several battleships were caught during the surfacing of the [pillars], carrying them far high into the sky along with a large amount of seawater.
The thunderous din that shook the seas has not ceased.
For R’lyeh is not a city of a single [pillar].
An overwhelming mass of seawater was blown to the heavens for several kilometers away, and the [pillars] surfaced on the sea one after another.
Each time, the battleships and the Sea Demons flew through the air in unison, then they were thrown either into the top of the pillars or the sea level, leaving no original form left and shattered into small pieces.
It was a nightmarish scene without a sense of reality, too grandeur, too terrifying.
However----the surfacing of R’lyeh is not what truly needs to be feared.
The [pillars] that emerged from the sea are clearly made of some otherworldly material----they can only be buildings of R’lyeh.
They are all [twisted] while towering in [straight lines].
I know it’s totally a paradox, but that’s the only way I can describe them. Earthly concepts are incapable of explaining these structures built according to non-Euclidean geometry.
----But that’s not the problem.
Countless [pillars] are jutting out.
They aren’t just towered in disorder.
They are surrounding Cthulhu in a perfect circle.
It would remind them of Stonehenge in England----except that the scale is completely different, of course.
Indeed----what lies beneath them is a vast circle of stone.
“This ring of stones…… That spell…… It can only be one thing! This is bad, Kurou! We must stop him!”
But it’s much too late. The change is soon perceived by all living things that have survived in this ocean area.
None can tear their eyes from it.
For it is absolute and hopeless, an Other of cosmic grandeur, far surpassing our meager human understanding.
“Wha----”
“N’gai, n’gha’ghaa, bugg-shoggog, y’hah, Yog-Sothoth, Yog-Sothoth----”
“Ygnailh, ygnaiih, thflthkh’ngha, Yog-Sothoth----”
“Y’bthnk…… h’ehye----n’grkdl’lh……!”
“Eh-y-ya-ya-yahaah----e’yayayaaaa…… ngh’aaaaa…… ngh’aaaa……!”
A golden sword is summoned. It sends the golden sword into the void, tracing a shining pattern of “Upside-Down Ω” in the air.
“H’yuh…… h’yuh…… Yog-Sothoth!”
This accursed hymn, this evil verse that must not exist in this world.
These words…… I’ve…… heard them before……
“This is the [Ninth Verse]----the summoning of Yog-Sothoth!”
“--------!?”
“Come forth, O’ God who is the Gate and the Key! Come forth!”
“O’ God who is All-in-One, and One-in-All! Come forth……!”
“----My father!”
“Eh--------?”
The Evil God Cthulhu, the mighty Great Old One----boils.
Cthulhu is melting.
It boils into mucus, sprouting out bubbles in space.
It bursts as shapeless bubbles. It bursts as ghastly bubbles.
Cthulhu has lost its substance with a rapid force, everything has become bubbles.
Everything grows horribly indistinct.
The thing that should be called a boundary is muddled.
Where does this world begin and end?
Where does the Other world begin and end?
Reality is losing its ego (identity), and everything is becoming uncertain.
Glowing, stagnating rainbow-colored spheres are suffusing the oceans of R’lyeh.
On the surface of the sea.
Beneath the sea.
And in the depths of the ocean.
In each and every bubble,
And in the spaces between the water molecules.
In the sky.
In the blue of the sky itself.
And riding on the wind of the sky.
In each and every particle that makes up the atmosphere.
And in the spaces between protons, neutrons and electrons.
The sea changes.
The sky changes.
Space changes.
Time changes.
The World----changes.
The transmuted world is made of rainbow spheres.
The world is painted over with rich colors.
Every color becomes rainbow colors.
Every matter is made of spheres.
----Rainbow-colored spheres.
Rainbow-colored spheres.
Rainbow-colored spheres.
Rainbow-colored spheres.
Spheres.
Spheres.
Spheres.
Spheres.
Spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres spheres ○○○○○●●●○○○○○○○○●●●●●●●●●○○○○○○○○○○○○○●●●●●○○●○●●●●○○○●●●●○○●○.
The spheres are a camel wearing a golden crown.
The spheres are a colossal bull.
The spheres are a great prince.
The spheres are a red man wearing a crown of iron.
The spheres are a raven.
The spheres are a dark cloud.
The spheres are a white snake.
The spheres are a fly.
The spheres are a green-faced man.
The spheres are a mammoth vulture.
The spheres are a human being.
The spheres are a giant.
The spheres are a yellow toad.
The rainbow-colored spheres begin to gather.
They become a formless creature with many tentacles, foaming with primordial mucus.
It is the All-in-One.
It is the One-in-All.
“Not merely a thing of one Space-Time continuum, but allied to the ultimate animating essence of existence’s whole unbounded sweep – the last, utter sweep which has no confines and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike.”
It is the frozen [Present].
It is the flowing [Past].
It is the accumulated [Future].
It is the [Gate].
It is the [Key].
It is,
It is,
It is----
Just as we are on the verge of descending into madness, far beyond the limits of our perception, that being symbolically warped its essence to match with the function of human brains.
Aiming for the Void, the infinite spheres all fly at high speed.
The rainbow’s trajectory is traced in space, but just when I think that they’ve all disappeared towards the sky, suddenly they exploded into seven colors, dyeing the sea of R’lyeh with otherworldly light.
And then the thing crystallizes as an entity.
A vast, titanic surface is floating in the heavens.
It is----
“A----gate.”
The Gate to Hell (Heaven’s Door)
The Gate to Another World (Heaven’s Door)
Accursed, yet majestic, it is the divinity that shared the characteristics of the Gate.
With a thunderous creaking that sounds like a chorus of the damned, the Gate slowly swings open.
And beyond it lies…… a spectacle that I can’t really understand.
It’s a landscape of utter Chaos, where everything is flickered and distorted.
“Yog-Sothoth…… [The Guardian of the Gate and the Key], who exists at all points of Time and Space-Time.”
“A being that connects to the Outerverse where dwell the Great Old Ones. A true [Outer God]……”
“An Outer God……”
……So we’re dealing with something that makes even Cthulhu pale in comparison.
That guy…… Master Therion’s an even greater demon than we imagined. Shit!
“Indeed. Using one god as a sacrifice to summon an even higher deity----the [C Project] was but a mere stepping stone to reach this point.”
“You and Hadou, Augustus and others, the Anticross…… even my mother, Nero and pretty much everyone else. Thee have been dancing atop the Wheel of Fortune that turns in my hand.”

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「そして、今回もまた『時が開く』――」
「そして、さあ……見よ、あの扉の向こう側……混沌の渦を」
「全神経を研ぎ澄ませ、魔術師の感覚でそれを認識するのだ……」
言ってリベル・レギスは扉を指差す。
俺は扉の向こう側に意識を向けた。
己を研ぎ澄まし、あの混沌の渦の内を――
「――――――――ッ!」
悪寒。戦慄。畏怖。重圧。
……居る。
あの渦の向こうに居る。
クトゥルーと同格以上の存在力を放つものども。
それも無数。ただ一体で地球を滅ぼすに足る存在がこんなにも……!
「ヨグ＝ソトースは総ての時間と時空に存在し、旧支配者の棲む外宇宙へと繋がっている……アル・アジフの言った通りだな」
「もし神々が此処に扉が開いたことを知ったらどうなる?」
「――怒涛の如く邪神の群れがこの世界に押し寄せるぞ……」
――――ッッッッ!?
「あっ……ああ……ああああああああああ!? ――マスターテリオォォンッ!」
「ははははははははははははははははははははははははははははははははははははははは!」
「分かったか、大十字九郎! 世界を救いたければ余を追って来い! 世界の果て、時間の果てまでも!」
「いつとも知れぬ時間の狭間、何処とも知れぬ世界の彼方で、余と貴公との最後の決着をつけようではないか!」
「さあ、これが最終楽章だ! 最後の最後まで、この余を! 神の御子を愉しませろ!」
「――神殺しの刃よ!」
哄笑を残し、リベル・レギスが飛び立つ。
その行先は、ヨグ＝ソトースの門。
開かれた扉の向こうに、何の躊躇も無く飛び込んでしまう。リベル・レギスの姿は混沌の渦に飲まれ、見えなくなった。
「ま……待ちやがれ!」
リベル・レギスの後を追うべく、シャンタクの出力を最大に開放しようとする……が、そのとき操縦系の主導権をアルに奪われた。出力が低下する。
「早まるな、九郎!」
「アル!? ここで追わないと、とんでもないことになっちまうぞ!」
「止めろ! 早まるなと言っておる!」
「ど、どうして……!」
「落ち着くのだ、九郎。いくら次元の扉が開かれていようと、すぐに異形共が押し寄せて来る訳ではない!」
「それより汝は慎重に決断しなければならない!」
アルの真摯な視線が、真っ直ぐに俺を捉えて離さない。
翡翠の瞳の向こうに戸惑う俺の顔が映っていた。何故か、初めてアルと出会ったときを思い出す。
あのときもそうだ。こんな吸い込まれそうな深い瞳が俺をのぞき込んでいた……
回想にふける俺を、アルの声が呼び覚ます。
「ヨグ＝ソトースは総ての時間と時空に繋がっている……それは解ったな」
「つまり、あの扉が何処に通じるのかは何人にも分からない」
「あの門を潜れば、我等は現在過去未来、あらゆる宇宙を渡り往くことになる」
「そして――」
そこで一拍置く。
続けて紡がれた言葉は、衝撃というより絶望というより、ただ静かに俺の心を麻痺させる。
「――おそらくは二度と、この世界には帰ってこれない」
“And now, once again [Time has opened]----”
“And…… Behold what lies beyond the Gate…… Look upon the Torrent of Chaos.”
“Focus your sorcerer’s senses, and perceive its true form……”
Liber Legis points at the Gate, drawing my attention to the Darkness on the other side.
I focus my senses and look into the swirling Chaos----
“----------------!”
Horror. Terror. Awe. Pressure.
……They're there.
Just beyond that vortex.
Those that give of a presence either equal or greater than Cthulhu’s.
And there are countless of them. Such many beings that are fully capable of destroying the Earth on their own……!
“Yog-Sothoth exists at all points in Time and Space, and is connected to the Outerverse where dwell the Great Old Ones…… just as Al Azif said.”
“What do you think will happen when the gods realize that the Gate has opened here?”
“----They will come upon this world like a flood, an unending tide of Evil Gods!”
--------!?
“Ah…… Aah…… Aaaaaaaaaah!? ----Master Theriooon!!!”
“Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
“Do you understand, Daijuuji Kurou!? If you wish to save this world, follow me! Come to the end of the World, the end of Time!”
“In the space between unknowable times, beyond the unknowable worlds, you and I will settle our score once and for all!”
“This is the final movement! Come, amuse me to the very end! Entertain Master Therion, the child of god!”
“----Thou God-Slaying Blade!”
Leaving a loud laughter, Liber Legis flies off.
Its destination is into the Gate of Yog-Sothoth.
Without a moment’s hesitation, it leaps through the massive doors. Liber Legis’s figure is swallowed up by the vortex of Chaos and nowhere to be seen.
“Wa…… Wait!”
In order to follow Liber Legis, I try to raise the output of Shantak to maximum…… but right at that moment, Al snatches my control from controlling system. Its output is dropped.
“Don’t be hasty, Kurou!”
“Al!? If we don’t go after him from here, it’s all over!”
“Stop! I’m telling you to calm down!”
“W-why……!?”
“Calm yourself, Kurou. Even though the dimensional door has been opened, those creatures won’t be able to pass through immediately!”
“You have a decision of terrible import to make first!”
Al affixes me with a stare of irresistable gravity.
I can see my face reflected in her jade green eyes. For some reason, I’m reminded of the first time we met.
It was the same as back then. Such deep eyes that seemingly take one’s breath away are looking at me……
Al's voice breaks me out of my reflections.
“As you already know…… Yog-Sothoth is connected to all Time and Space-Time.”
“Which means that it is impossible to know where that Gate leads.”
“Once we pass through it, we will travel throughout all universes, from past, present, to the future.”
“And----”
She pauses.
I don’t feel shock or despair at her next words, but rather a numbness creeping slowly into my heart.
“----We will likely never be able to return.”

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「それが甘いというのだ! 一度あの門を潜れば、其処はもはや人間の常識はおろか宇宙の法則さえ通用しない! そんな領域に汝を飛び込ませるなど……」
「お前こそ甘いんだよ! マスターテリオン相手に独りでノコノコ出向いて、勝てるわきゃねえだろ!」
“You're too naive! The laws of this Universe are meaningless beyond that gate, to say nothing of your human common sense! How can I ask you to plunge into such madness……?”
“You're the one who's being naive! There's no way you can beat Master Therion by yourself!”

Spoiler: Al Azif's Route - Chapter 15

「では、始めようか。終わりの始まりを。始まりの終わりを。永劫の終焉を。永劫の開演を――」
“Then let us begin. The beginning of the end. The end of the beginning. The ending of eternity. The opening act of eternity----”

Spoiler: Kishin Hishou

また、その人以来存在するどのうちのほとんどはそうです、見える（腕、それ、老化する。がそれを精神的に翻訳した一方、テキストが実行されました）、あるいは、最も（それ）古い（それら）ものがそうです、グローバルマスター、あるいはその、最後、生命、また、共通の物質は独立して歩きます。悪霊がありました。悪霊があります。さらに、悪霊はそのように現われて、あるものとして得られます。スペースで、私たちはどれを知っていますか、そのとき何もありません、それ、■■■■■する（■■）そしてそれらがそうである、静か、また初期で、それらの中で歩く、また、どれが目で私たちに見えないかはゲートを知っています。用門的鑰匙守護者はゲートです。用門的鑰匙守護者はゲートのキーおよび保護者です。それは用門的鑰匙守護者のうちの一です、過去、今、そして将来［すべて］で。彼は、悪霊が古いためにそれがどこに前進したか、あるいは、それらがどこに再び前進することができるか知っています。地球のフィールドに沿ってそれらがどこに歩いたか彼が知っている一方、あるいはどこで、■■■■とそれらは、まだそれらに沿って歩くでしょう、また、それらは歩きます、誰もそれらを見ることができません、なぜ？　彼らの匂いで、人々はそれらを時々緊密に知ることができます。それらは類似の中で、類似で人間の人々を退屈させますが、
（しかしながら）、それは光景か物質のない人々の中で最も真実の理想的イメージと異なります、どれがありますか；どれは特徴の中でのみ保存せず知ることができずそれら、それら、形式に、また、それらはそこで多くの種類です。目に、それは目に見えません。彼は歩きます。単語は話されます。また、それらはそれらの季節ごろ、式が通り抜けたただ一つの場所および遠ぼえ（■■）に汚くなります。風は話します、急速に、の中で、それら、音声。さらに、地球はそうです、ささやく、で、それら、意識。それらは森林、および都市を壊し、それはまだ実行されてはならない森林か、都市を曲げます、手が衝突するのを見る、で。どの人［既知の寒い不必要な蓮の中の上凍的荒野、それら、そして］上凍的荒野を知っている？　南部の氷砂漠および海洋が沈む島は、それの上の石およびそれらのシールが彫刻師であると考えます――しかしながら、凍った都市、誰、■■、また、深淵、あるいは密封したタワーは海草と硝子でリースで長い間飾られた■■■■■を見ます――大きな鬼歹老海は弱く秘密に単に調査します、彼、そしてそれら、どれ、それらのいとこである、そしてそれはまだある、汚いものとして実行するべきイア！　懐一千仔的人山人海綿羊！　それらの手は、まだあなたの喉（それは■を視る）にどれを持ちそれら、そしてそれはない、そしてそれら、
居住、保護された閾値を装備した一つの技術です。用門的鑰匙守護者はゲート（球体はそばに会います）のキーです。それ。それらは、場所に直ちに指定されるでしょう、どれ；人々が今管理する人は、今それらが以前に指定した場所に管理します。夏に、冬夏の後に、冬です。それらは患者を待つべきであり、主要なの目的をここで作るべきです――それらは再び広がります。
Nor is it to be thought… that man is either the oldest or the last of earth’s masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They had trod earth’s fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometimes know Them near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the features of those They have begotten on mankind, and of those are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man’s truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them. They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons. The wind gibbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their consciousness. They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. Kadath in the cold waste hath known Them, and what man knows Kadath? The ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraven, ----but who hath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? ----Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can he spy Them only dimly. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not, and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once, They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here----shall They reign again.

Spoiler: WOG

Original tweet:
OP: “Good evening, Jin-sensei.
Today, I wanted to ask for another philosophical question.
Where do conceptual existences belong? What do you think about this question?
Do they exist beyond time and space (like Plato’s Realm of Ideas)?
Or they are simply something within a human’s mind, or do they exist in a higher dimension?”
Jin Haganeya: “A conversation about concepts is a difficult one to me. On top of that, I will tell what kind of gods in Demonbane. When Yog-Sothoth was summoned in my work, he manifested as a gigantic gate to Kurou and others. Yet, at times, he manifested as countless spheres or at other times, he manifested as a gigantic pillar.”
OP: “Furthermore, concerning this question, what kind of being are the gods in your works? Are they physical gods or conceptual gods? I would like hear your opinion.”
Jin Haganeya: “This is because humans are never able to perceive the true form of the gods, they merely see a god in different forms as illusions according to an individual’s sense, mind and soul. Hence, it might a bit similar to the Theory of Forms.”

• The awakening of a Great Old One like Cthulhu can turn the entire Trichiliocosm into Demon World (Note: The word “Trichiliocosm” here refers to all things in the world – “True Cosmos” of Al’s route). The “Cthulhu” that manifested in the material universe through “Illusory Heart Mother” is nothing but an “avatar” of the original god since the real thing always resides in the Outerverse – the true domain of Great Old Ones, where the entire structures(chaos here refers to all the distortion in all creation caused by Evil Gods) existing below the Outerverse is but the dream of Great Old Ones. The Outerverse is also the “tip,” i.e, the highest plane of existence where one arriving at this realm can warp and control all creation to its will.

Spoiler: Al Azif's Route - Chapter 10

異形の神。
眠れる神。
呪われし神。
大いなる“Ｃ”!
大いなるクトゥルー!
アーカムシティの上空に現出せしソレは鱗に覆われ、無数の触手を生やしていた。巨大な、巨大過ぎる蛸のようでもあり、無数の首を持つ多頭龍のようでもある。
これが神の御姿。
これぞ神の御姿。
何ともおぞましい。
何とも禍々しい。
今はまだ、その眸は死の眠りに閉ざされど……。
「どうだ、マスター・オブ・ネクロノミコン。素晴らしいだろう?　怖気が来る程美しいだろう? 」
「あの眸が開かれたとき……三千大千世界は余すことなく魔界と化すのだよ」
The Other god.
The sleeping god.
The accursed god.
The Great “C”!
The Great Cthulhu!
It floats above Arkham City, squamous and with countless tentacles. It is like a gargantuan yet overly vast octopus, and also like a multi-headed dragon of countless heads.
This is the venerable form of the god.
This is the venerable form of the god.
Behold its loathsomeness.
Behold its sinister majesty.
Though its terrible eyes are yet closed in the sleep of death…….
“Your thoughts, Master of Necronomicon? Is it not magnificent? Does its beauty not terrify you?”
“Once he awakes…… all of Trichiliocosm will utterly become the World of Demons.”

Spoiler: Hadou Ruri's Route - Chapter 14

「――星は正しい位置に付いた。今度もまた、時は満ちた」
「――――――」
冷笑を止めて、エセルドレーダは無表情に背後を振り返った。
視線の先に立っていたのは、少女と同様、黒を纏う女。
闇の彩を纏う女だ。
「ナイア」
「さあ、エセルドレーダ。往くとしよう」
「決戦の地へ。血戦の地へ。時の果ての地へ。過去と未来が交わる場所へ。渦巻く螺旋の頂上へ。運命の中心へ。混沌を夢見る永劫の中枢へ。そう――」
“----The stars are right. The time has come again.”
“------------”
The cynical smile is wiped from Etheldreda’s lips as she turns around.
Ahead of her gaze stands another woman clad in black, similar to that of the maiden.
The woman clad in the color of darkness.
“Nya.”
“Now, Etheldreda. Let’s go.”
“To the final battle. To the bloody battle. To the land of the end of time. To which where the past and the future meet. To the tip of the swirling spiral. To the
center of Fate. To the core of eternity which dreams of Chaos----”

Spoiler: Hadou Ruri's Route - Chapter 15 - True End

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Right now, inside of this Other……… in the midst of the Other that lies above even time and space, alluding to the very terminal of Yog-Sothoth, what meaning is there in adhering to such a view?

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粒子となって崩れてゆく躰。
私達は情報の最小単位に分解され、時間を、空間を超える。
永劫の接続点へ。
自らの尻尾を喰らう、蛇の顎へ。
大十字九郎とマスターテリオンが戦う、決戦の宇宙へと――!
My body breaks apart into particles.
We distill ourselves into but the tiniest fragments of information and transcend through time and space.
To the point where eternities meet.
To the jaw of the snake who eats his own tail.
To the battlefield, the universe where Daijuuji Kurou and Master Therion fight----!

Spoiler: Leica Crusade's Route - Chapter 15

Spoiler

「何を莫迦な事を……むしろ、総てはこれから始まる」
「時は始まりによって終わり、終わりによって始まる」
「総ては螺旋。逃れず廻り、昇ってゆく。破滅に焦がれて」
「ワケ分かんねえことをゴチャゴチャと……!」
「……大十字九郎。そうやって貴方は、運命の渦中に居ながら、何も識らず、総てを忘れて存在し続けていた」
「……忌々しい。本当に……不愉快」
“That’s nonsense…… Rather, this is only the beginning.”
“Time ends with a beginning, and begins with an end.”
“Everything is a spiral. All turns and rises with no escape. Yearning to fall apart.”
“I don’t get any of your whacko talk……!”
“……Daijuuji Kurou. You have been cast in the whirlpool of Fate, but yet continued to exist without knowing anything, having forgotten everything just like that.”
“……How detestable. Most…… despicable.”

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「さあ……そろそろ『第九の詩』が完成するよ。そして――」
「…………ッ!」
リベル・レギスを呑み込む心臓が、紅い蒸気をあげて融解する。
今や完全に解放されたリベル・レギスは、開いている方の掌に剣を招喚した。
剣先がΩを逆さにしたような紋様を、宙に描く。
「顕れ給え、ヨグ＝ソトース! 顕れ出で給え!」
「――我々は、時を超える!」
神が実体を結ぶと同時――世界は、おそらく、一度死んだ。
一度、死んで、再構築された。
総てが生まれ変わった世界で――再び時間が正常に再生されて――外宇宙の、神々の領域を垣間見た人々の元に、ようやく正常な世界が返還される。
“Now…… The [Ninth Verse] is almost complete. And----”
“……!”
The heart that had swallowed Liber Legis gives off red steam and dissolves.
Now completely freed, Liber Legis summons a sword in its open hand.
It draws a pattern similar to an upside-down Ω in the air, with the tip of its blade.
“Come forth, Yog-Sothoth! Come forth!”
“----We surpass time!”
At the moment the god took shape----The world, probably, died for once.
It died once, and was reconstructed.
In the completely reborn world----time flows properly again----a normal world is finally returned to the people that caught a glimpse of the realm of gods in Outerverse.

• Upon stepping into the Gate of Yog-Sothoth, one will be swallowed and suffer the violent torrent of time and space spiraling chaotically, the distorts of space-time continuums beyond the laws and concepts of the human world, the thrash of dimensions, the haywire of all causality, all at once. You can even be thrown off the law of causality or discarded into an angle of nonexistent space-time. And since the Outerverse is a domain where space and time is chaotic, hence even time is really stopped, although this is not your average time-stopped world but in a larger scale and way more complicated sense.

Spoiler: Leica Crusade's Route - Chapter 15

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歪む時空。
荒ぶる次元。
可逆性を帯びた時間が螺旋を描く。
逆流する。
飛翔する。
世界の総てが、あらゆる因果が狂い出した。
荒れ狂う時の奔流に、『夢幻心母』は翻弄されている。
「何だ何だ何だ!? 何だってんだよっ!」
「ヨグ＝ソトースに呑み込まれた! 気を付けろ! 油断すると、在らざる時空の角度に滑り落ちるぞ!」
Space-time distorts.
Dimensions thrash.
Inversed time spirals.
It flows in reverse.
It flies.
Everything in the world, all causality, goes haywire.
The [Illusory Heart Mother] is tossed about in the violent torrent of time.
“What in the world!? What the hell is this!”
“We’ve been swallowed by Yog-Sothoth! Watch out! If we’re not careful, we’ll slip off into an angle of non-existent space-time!”

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時を止めたように、静寂が続いた。
いや、時空の狂った領域では、本当に時は止まっているのかも知れない。
私は時の輪廻に囚われて、何処にも辿り着くことのない静寂の中に居るのかも知れない。永遠に。
だけど、時は動き出した。
Silence continues, as if time has stopped in its tracks.
Well, time really might be stopped in this insane realm of space-time.
Trapped in the cycle of time, I might be stuck in this silence never to arrive anywhere. Forever.
But time begins moving again.

• The Outerverse encompasses solely otherworldly universes of incomprehensible laws and different principles of reality. Let’s take a look at when the trio was first thrown off to the sea of chaos, like its name, everything here is pure chaos, all laws and concepts are meaningless, and dimensions, space, and time go haywire. This place/universe is akin to a melting pot in which everything rejects each other, the concept of direction and distance has no meaning. Any being who dares to come here will be tormented by the insanity of this universe both spiritually and physically, even a mage like Kurou (whose mind and soul are protected by spells) and Deus Machina like Demonbane (every Deus Machina already surpasses laws and concepts let alone the likes of Demonbane) could be torn to shreds at any time by the madness of the universe. The Outerverse is compared to an infinite ocean/sea housing infinite space-times, each space-time is a different “angle” inside the Outerverse. Additionally, there's a hidden content that continued directly after where Kurou detected Master Therion’s presence above. Right after Kurou/Demonbane threw Lloighor and Zhar and shattered the very first world inside the Outerverse, they accidentally triggered a hostile reaction of that universe, causing an infinite universe-sized ocean to drown on them (Note: This ocean is also a universe itself, going by the statement “another universe comes pouring in,” you get the idea). From this, we can conclude that the Outerverse contains various infinite-sized cosmic traps as well, had you are not careful during the dimensional travel, it will send in another universe just to nuke you out of this realm. Although however, this content can be seen in Zanma Taisei Retold as well, albeit with minor differences.

Spoiler: Al Azif's Route - Chapter 15

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暁の空にデモンベインが舞う。
目指すはヨグ=ソトースの門の向こう。
時空渦巻く異界の彼方。
俺達の決意を乗せ、そして――
皆の祈りを背負い、超凶気の只中に俺達は今飛び込む――。
極彩色の宙(ソラ)。
気の流れは一定せず、完全無秩序。
何もかもが融け合い、拒絶し合う、此処は混沌の海。
方角も距離も何も意味を持たない――そんな世界に俺達は放り投げ出された。
「惑わされ、己を見失わぬようにな。慎重に手掛かりを探ってゆけ」
「こういう領域においては魂を揺らがせないことこそが、何よりも重要だ」
「ああ」
意識の奥から神経の網(インナーネット)を世界中に張り巡らせ、其処に触れるもの総てを感じ取り、探りを入れる。
人間が住む世界とは違う理が支配する空間。
それを暴こうとする不届き者の脳を、魂を、うねる超狂気が苛む。
神経を灼く苦痛に耐えながら、それでも俺は更に深く己の意識の触手を伸ばしていく。マスターテリオンの気配を得る為に。
「くっ……!」
ズタズに引き裂かれそうな魂の、自我の容を保つのに必死だ。
くそ……っ!
こんなことでは奴に届かないというのにっ!
「案ずるな」
アルの声が聴こえる。
それだけで苦痛は嘘のように消えて失せた。
魂は力に漲り熱く燃え滾り――だが心は波一つ無く平穏に静まる。
強い意志を込めて、アルが囁いた。
「汝は妾が護る」
「……ああ!」
アルの頼もしい一言で、世界から脅威は払われた。
むしろ世界を侵す勢いで、俺は術を紡いでいく。
そしてついに、総動員された感覚の端に、幽かなマスターテリオンの気配を捉えた。
「そっちかっ!」
ロイガーとツァールを招喚。
2つの短剣をブーメラン状に組み合わせる。
投擲(スウィング)。目まぐるしく旋回する刀が、見えない何かを捉える――
目の前の景色に罅が入り、鏡のように割れて、砕ける。
世界が豹変した。砕けた景色のその向こうから別の宇宙が押し寄せてくる。
Demonbane dances through the dawn-streaked sky.
The finish line lies beyond the Gate of Yog-Sothoth.
Beyond the Other world where time and space swirl.
With our unshakable resolve----
And with the prayers of our friends in our hearts, we will face the ultimate insanity----.
We are in a universe (sky) of myriad vivid colors.
The flow of energy is undefined in absolute disorder here.
There is only the Sea of Chaos, where everything is both one with and apart from everything else.
A place where distance and direction have no meaning----we have been tossed into such a world.
“Proceed with caution as you seek him out. You mustn’t get confused and lose sight of yourself.”
“Nothing is more important in this place than to keep your soul firm.”
“Got it.”
I spread the network of my nerves (inter-net) from the depth of my consciousness throughout the world, searching and feeling through everything it touches.
This space exists by different principles than the world where human inhabits.
Its swelling hyper-madness assaults my very mind and soul of mine, which is trying to expose its secrets as an intruder.
While enduring the burning agony in my nerves, I send out the tentacles from my consciousness even further. In order to catch Master Therion’s presence.
“Kuh……!”
I struggled to keep the vessel of my identity, my own soul from being torn to shreds.
Shit……!
We’ll never find him like this!
“Have no fear.”
I hear Al’s voice.
The pain vanishes like it was never there.
My soul is overflowing with power boiling with intense heat----but my heart is utterly calm.
Al whispers with an unshakable will.
“I will protect you.”
“……Yeah!”
Al’s resolute words sweep away the malice from the world itself.
Instead, I weave out my spell with a force to invade the world.
And then, on the very edge of my fully-mustered senses, I caught the faint presence of Master Therion.
“So that’s where you’re hiding!”
I summon Lloighor and Zhar.
Then I combine the two miniature swords into the shape of a boomerang.
I make a swing. The dizzily spinning sword catches something unseen----
Right before our eyes, the view cracks and shatters like a mirror.
The World changes. From the other side of the shattered scenery, another universe comes pouring in.

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「――っ!?　いかん、九郎!　罠だッ!」
「ぬわっ!?」
それは大量の水。
溢れ返り、うねりをあげ、怒濤となって迫り来る。
世界の総てを埋め尽くす圧倒的な水量にデモンベインは為す術も無く呑み込まれた。
“----Huh!? Crap, Kurou! We got into a trap!”
“Nuwah!?”
It was a flood of water.
It overflew, swept and came upon us like a raging wave.
Demonbane was, unable to resist, swallowed by the overwhelming amount of water that encompasses all of the world.

Spoiler: Zanma Taisei Retold: Volume 3, Chapter 5

原色の絵の具を搔(か)き混ぜたかのような極彩色(ごくさいしき)の宙(そら)が広がっている。
方向も距離(きより)も意味をなさず、なにもかもが溶(と)け合い、なにもかもが拒絶(きよぜつ)し合う混沌(こんとん)の海──。
すべてがあやふやなここでは、心を強く持たなければ個を保てずに霧散(むさん)してしまうだろう。
あまりにも理不尽(りふじん)で不可解な空間が果てなく続いている。
早くも帰り道は消え失(う)せていた。
A richly-coloured space spread through as though primary colors are mixed up altogether.
A sea of chaos where distance and direction have no meaning, all things melt and renounce each other.
Here where everything is uncertain, you will be unable to hold your own self and vanish if your mind is not strong enough.
The space is too abnormal and so otherworldly that it goes on without end.
The way back has already gone.
...
九郎はバルザイの偃月刀(えんげつとう)を召喚(しようかん)すると、それを真上に放(ほう)り投げた。偃月刀は高速で回転しながらデモンベインの胸の高さまで落ちてくるとピタリと静止。何処(いずこ)とも知れぬ空間をコンパスのごとく指し示した。九郎がそちらへと目をやった瞬間(しゆんかん)、バルザイの偃月刀は混沌を斬(き)り裂きながら一直線に飛び、その先にある見えないなにかに突(つ)き刺(さ)さった。目の前の景色に罅(ひび)が入る。それは即座(そくざ)に波及(はきゆう)し、甲高(かんだか)い音を立てながら鏡のように破砕(はさい)した。
その瞬間、世界が豹変(ひようへん)する。砕(くだ)けた景色の向こう側から、怒濤(どとう)の勢いでなにかが押し寄せてきた。大量の水のごときそれは軽々とデモンベインを押し流していく。世界のすべてを埋(う)め尽(つ)くす圧倒(あつとう)的なそれに、為(な)す術(すべ)もなく鋼(はがね)の巨人(きよじん)は飲みこまれていった。
Kurou summoned the Scimitar of Barzai then hurled it directly overhead. The scimitar spins with blinding speed, and stops when it falls back to the level of Demonbane’s chest. It pointed to an unknown space like a compass. The moment Kurou’s eyes set on there, the Scimitar of Barzai flew into a straight line as it was cutting through the chaos and pierced into something invisible from beyond. The scenery before him cracked. It produced an immediate ripple effect and shattered like a mirror in its screeching.
In that moment, the world changed. From beyond the cracked scenery is something with momentum of raging waves. It was like a large amount of water, easily swept Demonbane. The giant of steel, unable to resist, was swallowed by the overwhelming thing that filled every corner of the world.

• The Trio faced another universe filled with countless doors, with each door leading to another crazy world. Led by the Ancient One, the Trio entered the Clock Universe, where Master Therion chilled and waited for Demonbane to come. It is an infinite-or-bigger world bearing an infinitude of clocks of different sizes ranging from wristwatch-sized to planet-sized or even larger. This place was later obliterated due to its inability to survive the exchange of Liber Legis and Demonbane. Whenever the current world was at stake or destroyed, the space-time would become unstable, and a space-time quake would send them to another bigger (or transcend time-space again) world.

Spoiler: Al Azif's Route - Chapter 15

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ふと気づけば、世界はまたもや変貌を遂げている。
血の彩の宇宙(ソラ)。無音の世界。
そしてその空間に浮かび上がる扉。扉。扉。扉。
星の数に等しい数の扉。此処は扉の迷宮だ。
不意にデモンベインのすぐ目の前、目の高さに、小さな扉が顕現する。
無音の世界に錆びついた扉の軋む音が響き渡った。
その扉の向こうから現れたのは……ベールを被った人間だった。
宙に浮かぶベールの人物は、黙ってデモンベインの瞳を見つめている……いや、顔はベールの向こうに隠されていて本当にそうかは確認できないのだが。
だが、こいつからは……並々ならぬ気配を感じる。
力の強さとか邪悪の波動とかそういうのとは違う。
……いや、実のところよく分からない。
底がまったく知れないのだ。
果て無い深淵を覗き込んでいるような感覚。
魂を奪われ、何処までも堕ちてゆく――そんな危うい妄想に取り憑かれ、慌てて強く自我を武装する。
Bonus line from Zanma Taisei: ……下手すりゃクトゥルーより、恐ろしい存在かも知れない。
「……ウムル・アト＝タウィル!」
「……何だ、それ?」
「『門を護るもの』『導くもの』『古ぶるしきもの』。ヨグ＝ソトースに仕える神性。否、ヨグ＝ソトースの化身そのものやも知れんな」
「……なるほど」
だがウムル・アト＝タウィルからは圧倒的な威圧感こそ感じるものの、害意は微塵にも感じられない。
別に俺たちをどうこうしようというワケではないようだ。
不意にウムル・アト＝タウィルは自らの胸に両手を突き刺した。
そのまま心臓をえぐり出すように、胸を左右に引き裂く。
裂かれた胸はウムル・アト＝タウィルの躰の大きさを遥かに超えて、みるみる広がっていく。
やがて胸の裂け目はウムル・アト＝タウィルを完全に飲み込み、それでもなお広がり、今ある世界を押し退けていく。
その裂け目の向こうに、俺は見た。
遥か天まで伸びゆく大理石の階段。
天国への階段。
階段の左右に広がるのは無限の宇宙(ソラ)。
そして宇宙に浮かぶ無数の時計。大小様々。
腕時計ほどの大きさのものもあれば、惑星一つほどの大きさはあろう時計もある。
種類は更に多種多様。
柱時計。鳩時計。懐中時計。砂時計。日時計。目覚し時計。掛け時計etC.etc.
それらはどれ一つとして同じ時を刻まず、時を刻む秒針の音、時刻を告げる鐘の音、鳩の鳴き声、ベルの音、それらが無限の木霊となって輪唱となって世界に響き渡る。
「成程……ウムル・アト＝タウィルは水先案内人という訳か」
「ああ、そうだな……」
時計と階段の宇宙に足を踏み入れる。
遥かこの先に続く最上段、この宇宙の果てを見据えながら、断言する。
「この先にマスターテリオンが居る」
ついに来たのだ……魔人マスターテリオンとの最終決戦の時が。
I realize that the World has changed again.
A universe (sky) with the color of blood. A soundless world.
And the doors emerges in that space. Door. Door. Door. Door.
The doors are as numerous as the stars. This is a labyrinth of doors.
I have no idea which door connects to which world.
A small door suddenly appears right in front of us at Demonbane’s eye level.
The creaking of rusty hinges echoes through the silent world.
The one appeared from beyond the gate…… is a person clads in veil.
The veiled figure floating in mid-air stares silently at Demonbane’s eyes…… No, I can’t be sure of that since its face is covered by the veil.
But either way…… I can feel an extraordinary presence from him.
It doesn’t feel powerful or evil or anything like that.
……Nope, I can’t really tell what he is.
It’s utterly unknowable.
Looking at him is like staring into the endless Abyss.
Obsessed by such a situation that my soul would be plucked out and flung into a bottomless pit----I hurriedly and strongly arms my ego.
……Even at the very worst, he might be a being more dreadful than Cthulhu.
“……’Umr at-Tawil!”
“……What’s that?”
“[The Guardian of the Gate], [The One Who Leads], [The Ancient One]. A divine being in the service of Yog-Sothoth. No, perhaps it is an incarnation of Yog-Sothoth himself.”
“……Okay.”
Despite the overwhelming presence emanating from ‘Umr at-Tawil, I can’t feel any hostility from him.
He doesn’t appear to mean us any harm.
‘Umr at-Tawil suddenly thrusts his arms into its own chest.
He tears the wound wider as though trying to expose his heart.
His torn up chest soon spreading out far larger than the size of ‘Umr at-Tawil’s body before our eyes.
Even after completely consuming ‘Umr at-Tawil, the fissure continues to grow, pushing back the World as it widens.
And beyond the tear, I see it.
Stone steps climbing far into the sky.
A marble stairway that extends to the distant Heaven.
The infinite universe (sky) spreads on both sides of the staircase.
And in the universe float innumerable clocks. With all shapes and sizes.
Some are the size of a wristwatch, while others appear as enormous as a planet.
There are various types.
Standing clocks. Cuckoo clocks. Pocket watches. Hourglasses. Sundials. Alarm clocks. Wall clocks etc. Etc.
There’s not a single one of them ticking at the same time, the ticking sound of second hands, the chimes that signal time, the cuckoos of doves, and the sound of bells, became an endless echo resounds across the World as a chorus.
“I see…… So ‘Umr at-Tawil is our guide.”
“Guess so...”
We step into the universe of clocks and stairs.
Looking towards the top that continues a distant ahead, towards the very end of this universe, I know what waits there.
“Master Therion is there.”
We’ve made it…… The time for the final battle with Master Therion has come.

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堕ちながら、俺達は次の斬撃。次の次の斬撃。
次の次の次の斬撃を重ねていく。
衝突する剣先が魔力の火花を散らす。
繰り出す斬撃の速度は、高速を超え音速へ。
音速を超え神速へ。
神速を超え魔速へ。
百撃。千撃。万撃。億撃。
火花は閃光に。閃光は爆発に。
爆発は崩壊に。崩壊は無に。
ヒトを超え、魔を超え、神を超え、世界を超える。
そして世界の限界を超えた攻防が、遂に世界を斬り裂いた。
「マスター! 時空震、来ます!」
「九郎、備えろ! 何処に飛ばされるか、分からぬぞ!」
「牙ァァァァァァァァァァ!」
「疾ィィィィィィィィィィ!」
渾身の一撃が激突する。
世界の断末魔と共に、光は弾け、総てが容を失った。
Even as we fall, we continue to exchange our next slashes. Then the next and other slashes.
The slashes keep coming one after another repeatedly.
The clashing tip of our blades disperses sparks of magic power.
Our slashing speed grows beyond from high speed to the speed of sound.
From the speed of sound to the speed of gods.
And from the speed of gods to the speed of magic.
A hundred strikes. Then a thousand strikes. Then a ten thousand strikes. Then a hundred of millions of strikes.
The sparks turns into a flash of light. The flash of light becomes an explosion.
The explosion becomes a collapse. The collapse turns into nothingness.
Transcending humanity, transcending magic, transcending gods, and transcending the World itself.
And finally our battle that transcended the limit of the World tears the World asunder.
“Master! Space-time quake incoming!”
“Kurou, brace yourself! There’s no telling where we’ll end up!”
“Gaaaaaaaaaaa!”
“Shaaaaaaaaaa!”
The blows with all of our might collides.
With the death throes of the World, the light bursts and all things lose their shape.

• Hastur’s domain, also known as the Great Libary, is where Demonbane and Liber Legis were sent after destroying the previous universe. Master Therion explained that they would fly across the past, the present, and the future, wandering through space-time and destroying all universes they encountered on their way. Additionally, in Zanma Taisei Retold, we have confirmation that the Library of Hastur contains various scriptures and stone monuments stolen from the Great Old Ones and Elder Gods. (Note: This fight followed a similar pattern to what Super Demonbane and Liber Legis have done in the previous light novel but, of course, on a far larger scale since the battle took place in the outerverse where Liber Legis can go all out with full power against Kurou's Demonbane, and where Super Demonbane can never hope to reach)

Spoiler: Al Azif's Route - Chapter 15

蝙蝠に似た翼を生やしたヒト型の怪物が舞う夜空に、俺達は放り投げ出された。大地には奇怪なフォルムの構造物が建立し、あまつさえ宙に浮いていたりもする。
何処かは分からないが、地球の風景ではないことは確かだ。
更にちょうど真下、石で造られた一際巨大な建物が足許に広がっている。見る者を圧倒する荘厳なその建物は、あるいは神殿のようにも見える。
「……大図書館! プレアデス星団のセラエノか、此処は!」
「ハスターの領地か……随分と飛ばされたな、おい」
周囲を見渡し、リベル・レギスの姿を捜す。
居た。
金色の剣を携えたまま、ゆっくりと落ちる。
やがて大図書館の屋根の上へと静かに舞い降りた。
俺も同様にシャンタクを制御し、片膝を突いて大図書館の上へと着地する。デモンベインの重量を支えながらも、大図書館の屋根には罅一つ入らない。
「どうだ……大十字九郎。それにアル・アジフよ」
「マスターテリオン!」
ゆっくりと起き上がり、バルザイの偃月刀を構える。
リベル・レギスもまた応えるように金色の剣を正眼に構えた。
「どうだ……このような血闘こそ、我等に相応しいとは思わぬか?」
「時間も時空も定まらぬ……現在過去未来、あらゆる宇宙を亡霊の如く彷徨い渡り、辿り着く世界を崩しながら必滅の術を交え、犯し合い、侵し合う」
「そうだ! ただの血闘で足りるものか! 今は、今だけは我等が世界の中心、運命の輪は我等の為に廻る!」
興奮したマスターテリオンの叫びが異星の空に轟く。
ケッ……ゴチャゴチャとよく回る口だ。
「知ったことじゃねえよ。俺がやるのはただ一つ。てめえをぶっ潰すことだけだ」
「何とも風情に欠ける……と云いたい所だが、良い。貴公のそういう判り易い行動原理は心地良いぞ。さて……教えておくが」
リベル・レギスの左掌が、ヒトでいうところの心臓の上に添えられる。
「ヨグ＝ソトースを現世に留めているのは、このリベル・レギス自身の動力、魔術機関エンジンに施された呪法にこそ有る」
「即ち世界を救いたければ、このリベル・レギスを破壊する以外あり得ぬぞ」
We are suddenly tossed into a night sky where the bat-like winged humanoid monsters are hovering. The ground is covered with strangely shaped buildings, some of which are even floating in the air.
I don’t know where we are, but it’s obviously not a landscape of Earth.
In addition, right below us, a remarkably colossal building made out of stone is spreading at our feet. This majestic building that overwhelms those who see it, looks sort of like a temple.
“……The Great Library! This is Celaeno in the Pleiades star cluster!”
“Hastur’s domain huh? ……We sure got thrown far.”
I look around, searching for the shape of Liber Legis.
There.
It descends slowly, still carrying the golden sword in its hand.
Soon it gently alights on the roof of the Great Library.
Controlling Shantak in the same way, I landed on one knee atop the Great Library. Even while supporting Demonbane’s weight, there is not a single crack on the roof of the Great Library at all.
“What do you think…… Daijuuji Kurou. And Al Azif?”
“Master Therion!”
We slowly get up and ready the Scimitar of Barzai
Liber Legis responds by raising its golden sword.
“Well…… Don’t you think such kind of bloody battle is fitting for us?”
“Time and Space are in disruption…… Like lost souls, we will wander through all universes, past, present, and future, we will exchange our spells of absolute annihilation while destroying every world we reach, as we violate and commit on each other.”
“Indeed! This is not a mere bloody battle! Right now, just for this moment, we are the center of the World, the Wheel of Fortune turns at our whim!”
Master Therion’s impassioned voice echoes through the unearthly sky.
Keh…… He sure likes to talk.
“Don’t give a shit about that. I’m here to only do one thing. And that’s kicking your ******* ass.”
“You never fail to ruin the mood…… Well, so be it. I appreciate such straightforward principles of yours. Now then…… I suppose I should tell you.”
The left palm of Liber Legis draws near on top of the heart indicating where a human should have one.
“Yog-Sothoth is kept in the present world by the spell seeded in Liber Legis’s magic engine, the source of its power.”
“In other words, there is no way to save your world but to destroy Liber Legis.”

Spoiler: Leica Crusade's Route - Chapter 15

呟き、俺は外に広がる光景に目を向けた。
奇怪なフォルムの建築物に、見たことの無い月に、生き物に……どう考えても、地球上ではないっぽい。
「何だか、異世界に飛ばされちまったみてぇだけど」
「――セラエノだ。向こうに巨大な建物が見えるだろう? あれが神々の知識の宝庫。大図書館だ」
「そんな遠くまで……何故……?」
「ヨグ＝ソトースの力だ。あらゆる時間と時空に存在する神性。門にして鍵。我等は時空転移に巻き込まれた」
「……どうやって帰れば良いんだ?」
「さて……難しいな。如何に時空の扉を再び開くか……」
I mutter as I look at the scenery spreading outside us.
Bizarrely shaped buildings, a moon, and creatures I’ve never seen before…… We’re not on Earth anymore, that much is clear.
“Looks like we’ve been sent to another world.”
“----Celaeno. You see that huge building over there? That’s the storage of the knowledge of gods. The Great Library.”
“That’s quite far…… Why……?”
“It’s the power of Yog-Sothoth. A divinity that exists at all points in Time and Space-Time. He is the Gate and the Key. We were caught up in a space-time shift.”
“……How do we go back?”
“Well…… That’s difficult. How will we re-open the spatial-temporal door…?”

• As the battle in the Outerverse keeps escalating, both Demonbane and Liber Legis are constantly transcending space-time, dimensions, and causality, warping the laws of every universe, and leaping worlds beyond worlds. Each time the current universe is on the verge of destruction, Demonbane and Liber Legis will be shifted into another otherworldly and higher universe(which is also referred to as a “higher domain”, which can only be attained by transcending space-times, dimensions, and causality) via space-time quake. A few notable examples are a universe located in the future with Yaddith’s planet and 5 suns or a universe with the red sun where meteors of various sizes are showering endlessly.

Spoiler: Al Azif's Route - Chapter 15

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こうして辛うじて残っていた大図書館の半分も、クトゥグアの力によって完膚無きまでに徹底的に爆発、崩壊していく。
しかし崩れ落ちる足場にもリベル・レギスは動じず、次の矢を引いた。
俺もまたイタクァの銃口を向ける。
ぶつかり合う２つの闘気。
闘気の衝突が顕現したかのように、突如、両機の間の空間が歪み出した。
「時空震だ! また飛ばされるぞ!」
「マスター!」
しかしお互い優先事項は変わらない。
大切なのは――敵を撃ち斃すことだ!
魔王の矢が雷獣となって放たれる。
魔断の魔弾が氷竜となって放たれる。
敵を貫いた確信と、敵に貫かれた衝撃を得て、世界は再び崩れ移ろい往く。
Thus the remaining half of the Great Library which barely survived, is completely and thoroughly collapsed and exploded by Cthugha’s power.
Unfazed, however, by the disintegrating roof, Liber Legis nocks another arrow.
I, too, raise Ithaqua’s muzzle.
The two battle auras collide.
As though the clash of our fighting spirit has materialized, the space between our two Machinas suddenly warps.
“A spatial-temporal quake! We’re going to get shifted again!”
“Master!”
However, our primary objective remains the same.
All that matters----is to shoot and destroy the enemy!
The demon king’s arrow leaps from its bow as a lightning beast.
The demon slayer’s magic bullet surges from its gun as a dragon of ice.
Just as I’m sure that my attack has pierced my foe, and just as I feel the shock of his attack piercing us, the World crumbles around us once again.

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５つの太陽が燦々と照り、世界を眩む程に輝かせる。
だがその過剰なまでの恩恵を授かる生命はこの惑星には存在しない。
この惑星で生命を謳歌するものは、地中を蠢く粘液に塗れた青白い巨体。うねる躰。忌わしきドールどものみである。
魔道士の呪文によって地底奥深くへと封じ込められていた彼等は、この遥か未来の時代に至って遂にその呪縛を打ち破り、惑星の総てを貪り喰らい死滅させ、それでもなお足らず、死すらも根こそぎ貪り尽くさんとする。
腹の中で蠢く寄生虫に凌辱され、この惑星は安息の死すら迎えることは叶わない――。
「――識らぬ感傷に浸るな」
「ズガウバ……ランドルフ……」
「意識が混在しておるのか? 汝は大十字九郎。それ以外の何者でもない。我が主にして、我が……伴侶だ」
「……どさくさに紛れて恥ずかしいこと言うね、お前。悪ィ、もう大丈夫だ」
酩酊を振り払い、俺は現状を確認する。
眼下に広がるのは、何処までも続く死の荒野と、大地を虫食いのように――いや、これは事実、虫食いだ――穿つ無数の穴穴穴穴穴。
もはや惑星のカタチを為してないかというほどに、ボロボロだ。
「太陽が５つ……おそらくはヤディス星だな。こんな殺伐とした星だとは識らなんだが」
「何か、えれぇ未来に飛ばされたらしいぜ」
Five suns shine brilliantly, dazzlingly litting up the world.
Yet there is no life on this planet’s surface to receive their blessing.
Those burbling their viscous song of life on this planet are only the loathsome Dholes. With swelling bodies. Their large, pale bodies that smeared in mucus writhe through the underground.
Though sealed deep in the center of the earth by a sorcerer’s spell, however after reaching this era of distant future, they have finally broken free of that spell, thus they annihilated and consumed all of the planet, yet that’s still insatiable for them, even death itself is exhausted and devoured completely.
With such foul parasites eating at its bowels, this planet has no peace even in death----.
“----Don’t let strange emotion overwhelm you.”
“Zkauba…… Randolph……”
“Are you confused? You are Daijuuji Kurou. You are no one else. You are my master and…… my companion.”
“……You sure like to say embarassing things in the heat of the moment. Sorry, I’m good now.”
I clear my head and take a good look at our current situation.
Below us is an endlessly wasteland of death, spreading as far as the eye can see, its surface is pockmarked with countless drilled holes----as though the earth itself has been worm-eaten----which, in fact, it has.
It’s in such a battered state that it is no longer able to take a shape of a planet.
“Five suns…… This must be the planet of Yaddith. Although I don’t remember it being such a barren place.”
“We must’ve been blown pretty far into the future.”

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見たのは巨大な、黒き龍の躰を持った金色の弓。
天空より首をもたげてデモンベインを見下ろし、その口腔に装填された燃える、輝く矢を向けている。
矢の放つ輝きは５つの太陽よりも眩く世界を染め上げ、矢の放つ熱は５つの太陽よりも熱く世界を灼く。
「おのれ……ッ」
「天狼星(シリウス)の弓……放て」
「イエス、マスター」
龍の咆吼は伽藍に響く鐘の音にも似ていた。
――世界が白く、沸騰する。
I see a golden bow formed from the body of a great black dragon.
It raised its head from the heavens and looks down at Demonbane, aiming the blazing, yet glittering arrow that has been charged onto its jaw.
The arrow’s light which is more dazzling than the five suns dyes the world, and the arrow’s heat which is hotter than the five suns scorches the world.
“Damn you……”
“The Bow of Sirius…… Fire.”
“Yes, Master.”
The roar of the dragon is like the thunder of bells in a monastery.
----The world boils in whiteness.

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「……九郎、探せ……この餓鬼結界(リヴァイアサン)も……術である以上は核は存在し、破る術もまた当然にある……!」
貪られながら、俺の認識は世界全体に広がっていく。
それは世界の裏を暴く認識。
今ある世界を自ら望む世界に書き換える認識。
解呪の法則。
見つけた――と思ったときは右手が動いていた。
一匹の蛇の頭に掌を押しつけ、システムが起動する。
「――レムリア・インパクト!」
こいつがこの結界の核――!
一撃必滅の無限熱量は、その蛇のみならず、デモンベインを取り囲む獣の檻を根こそぎ昇滅させた。
世界は再び光を取り戻す。
“......Kurou, focus...... This Leviathan (Ghouls Barrier) is the same...... Where there's a spell, there's a nucleus...... And naturally there’s also a way to break it!”
Despite being feasted upon, my consciousness reached all corners of the World.
My consciousness exposed the hidden side of the World.
It rewrote the existing World into a World that I desire.
The Law of Dispelling.
Found you----I move my right hand the moment I thought about it.
Placing its palm against a certain serpent's head, I activate the system.
“----Lemuria Impact!”
This one is the center of the spell!
The infinite heat of the attack sublimates not only the serpent, but the entire cage of beasts surrounding Demonbane.
The World regains its light once again.

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無意識のうちにクトゥグアとイタクァを招喚する。
神獣弾を込めた２挺の拳銃に――怪異が起きた。
２つの拳銃が肥大化し、絡み合い、溶け合いながら、巨大な砲身を象った。砲口を今まさに破滅の矢を放たんとする黒龍に向ける。
無尽蔵に溢れ出す魔力。
一つとなったクトゥグア、イタクァの砲身ですら、そのエネルギーに耐え切れず、細かく罅割れていく。
――黒龍が吼えた。
破滅の矢が放たれると同時、デモンベインもまた引鉄を引いた。
放たれた魔弾は砲身を粉々に粉砕させつつも、真っ直ぐに黒龍とリベル・レギスに向かって飛んでいった。
２つの魔力の衝突と爆砕が、彗星の海総てを呑み込んでいく。
魔力の奔流の中、撃ち抜かれた黒龍が光の中に砕けていくのを、俺達はしっかりと見届けた。
――またもや時空転移。
宇宙空間に吐き出される。即座に周囲の状況を確認する。
I instinctively summon Cthugha and Ithaqua.
The two pistols are loaded with Divine-Beast shells----and then something Other happens.
The two guns expand and join together, melding to become one enormous cannon. I aim its barrel straight at the black dragon that’s moments away from unleashing its arrow of destruction.
And endless overflowing magic power.
Even the barrels of Cthugha and Ithaqua, which has formed into one, are unable to withstand the stress of such energy and begins to crack finely.
----The black dragon roars.
Just as the arrow is unleashed, Demonbane also pulls the trigger.
The released magic bullet blasts the gun barrels into tiny fragments, as it surges towards Liber Legis and the black dragon.
The collision and explosion of two magic powers swallows the entire fleet of comets.
Swept up in the torrent of magic power, we can clearly see the black dragon is shot through and disintegrating amidst the light.
----Another space-time shift.
Once again ejected into the cosmic space. I quickly take stock of our surroundings.

Spoiler: Leica Crusade's Route - Chapter 15

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『夢幻心母』が……いや、違う。この空間そのものが激震していた。
今まで辛うじてカタチを保っていた世界が、みるみる歪み、崩れていく。
こいつは……!
「いかん! 時空震だ! 飛ばされるぞ!」
「飛ばされるって……何処に!?」
「何時かの何処かだ!」
「答えになってねえぇぇぇ!」
「衝撃に備えろ! 因果律から外されたら、跡形も無く消滅するぞ!」
「くっ……ライカさん! しっかり掴まって!」
「は、はいぃ!」
そして世界の崩壊は、俺たちを呑み込んで――
デモンベインは時空を跳躍した。
The [Illusory Heart Mother]…… No, that’s not it. This entire space is shaking.
The world that had been just able to retain shape distorts and crumbles.
This is……!
“This is bad! It’s a space-time quake! We’re going to get shifted!”
“We’re getting shifted…… where!?”
“Sometime, somewhere!”
“That doesn’t answer my questionnnnn!”
“Brace yourself for impact! If we’re removed from the law of causality, we’ll disappear without a trace!”
“Shit…… Leica-san! Hang on tight!”
“Y, yes!”
And the world’s collapse swallows us----
And Demonbane bounds through space-time.

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「貴方に力を授けましょう。時空を越える力を。因果を超える力を。リベル・レギスを授けましょう」
――待っていなさい、大十字九郎。アル・アジフ。
術者を手に入れて……今、貴方がたに絶望を教えてあげる!
「さあ、我に喰われろ、リューガ! 我、『ナコト写本』の下僕となれ! リベル・レギスの血肉となれ!」
“I will bestow upon you a power. Power to transcend space-time. Power to transcend causality. I will bestow upon you Liber Legis.”
----Just you wait, Daijuuji Kurou. Al Azif.
I have obtained a pilot…… And now I will show you what despair is!
“Now, allow me to consume you, Ryuuga! Become servant to me, the [Pnakotic Manuscripts]! Become the blood and flesh of Liber Legis!”

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両機の魔力が臨界まで昂まり――一触即発の闘気に引き裂かれるように、世界は確かな容を失っていく。
「違う! これは脚部シールドの反作用ではない! また時空震が迫っているのだ! ヨグ＝ソトースめ!」
「じゃあ……! また何処か、とんでもないところに!」
「九郎! 衝撃に備えろ! 九郎!」
……アルの叫びは遠い。
俺の認識は――２つの闘気が爆発する瞬間を、ちょうど捉えていた。
今だ――!
「餓アアアアアアアアアアアアアァァァァァァァッッ!」
「アトランティス・ストラァァァァイク!」
寸分違わず同時に地を蹴り、異界の空を飛翔する両機。
激突は瞬時に訪れた。
眼下いっぱいに大図書館を見下ろし、異形の月を背景に、２つの蹴りが交差する。
その衝撃(インパク)と共に、俺たちは再び時空を超えた。
The magic power of both machines reaches their critical point----and the world begins losing its definitve shape, as though being torn asunder by our explosive fighting spirit.
“No! This isn’t a reaction of the leg shields! Another space-time quake is coming! Yog-Sothoth again!”
“Then…! We’re going to be thrown to another crazy place somewhere, again!”
“Kurou! Prepare for impact! Kurou!”
……Al’s shouts are distant.
My senses----just then caught the moment when our two fighting spirits exploded.
Now----!
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
“Atlantis Striiiiike!”
Both machines kick the ground simultaneously without a moment’s difference, and fly through the otherworldly sky.
The collision is instant.
Looking down at the whole Great Library beneath us and the abnormal moon behind us, our two kicks meet.
With that impact (shock), we fly through space-time again.

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光の雨。
何万何億の星が降り注ぐ。此処は彗星の海域。
遠くには赤い太陽が、鈍く烈しく光を放ち、存在を高らかに主張する。
流れる光の洪水に囲まれて、リベル・レギスは宇宙空間を漂っていた。
「が……ハァッ……ああア……! はははっ……面白い……怖気が奔る……!」
リベル・レギスはクトゥグアの超高熱によって、半ば融解しかかっていた。
表面が硝子状と化し、光沢を帯びている。
あのまま直撃を受けていれば、リューガも、この不朽の鬼械神も、跡形も無く、蒸発していたに違いない。
滅びから免れたのは、再び時空震がリベル・レギスとデモンベインを呑み込んだ、幸運に過ぎない。
両機はまたしても、時空を超えた。
「まだだ……まだ力を……もっと力を……もっともっともっと力を……」
手を伸ばす。
虚空を掴もうと手を伸ばす。
伸ばした手の先、宇宙の暗闇を裂いて、無数の星が疾る。
指の隙間から零れ落ちる様に。
「力……高みに届く力……更なる高みに……遥か高みに……誰も届かない……穢れない領域(ソラ)に……ッ!」
零れる光を失うまいと、ただの一粒でも逃すまいと、腕を痙攣させながらも、なお伸ばす。
触れることが出来そうなくらいに近くに見える星々。
だが、どれだけ求めようと飢えようと、無限の距離に阻まれて、決して手中に収める事は出来ない。
否。
「ガァアアアァァァ……ッ!」
世界を満たす魔力の粒子が光線となって、軌跡を闇に刻みつつ、リベル・レギスの掌に集う。
それはまるで流星を、掌に吸い込んでいるようにも見えた。
集った魔力は光球となり、爆発的に膨張していく。
光球は、この流星の海域を照らす赤い太陽よりも、眩く世界を金色に染め上げる。
その金色に、リューガは見た。
実体を結ぶ、顕現する、巨大な、強大な、威力の結晶。
「これは――」
リベル・レギスの掌は、その金色の威力を、しかと握り締めた。
クトゥグアの放った閃光が止んで、気付けばデモンベインは、宇宙空間を漂っていた。
流星が絶え間なく降り注ぐ宇宙(ソラ)。
宙域は、大小様々、無数の星屑によって、満たされていた。
遠くには、紅く燃え盛る太陽が見える。
「また飛ばされたのか……今度は宇宙かよ」
「……依然、ヨグ＝ソトースの力が強い。時空は不安定のままだ。これでは元の世界に帰る見込みも……」
アルが暗い声で呟く。
こいつにしては珍しい、弱気な、いや絶望した表情だった。
……確かに、俺たちは時空を完全に難破している。
元の世界に帰るということは、この無限に等しい時空の海原に浮かぶ、ちっぽけな小島を見つけ出すようなものだ。だけど。
A shower of light.
Myriads, hundreds of millions of stars rain down. This is a sea of comets.
Far away, a red sun sluggishly sends off its intense light, proudly asserting its existence.
Surroundedy by a flood of streaming light, Liber Legis drifts in the outer space.
“Gah…… Augh…… Aah……! Hahaha…… I like it…… It’s giving me the shivers……!”
Liber Legis is half-melting from the Cthugha’s intense heat.
Its surface has turned into lustrous glass.
If it had taken that hit directly, without a doubt Ryuuga and this immortal Deus Machina would have evaporated into thin air.
It was the fortune of the space-time quake swallowed Liber Legis and Demonbane again that saved it from ruin.
Both machines transcended space and time again.
“Not yet…… more power…… I still need more power…… more, more, more power……”
He extends his arm.
He reaches out his hand, grasping at the void.
At the tip of his extending hand, countless stars fly, tearing apart the darkness of the cosmos.
As though they are spilling from between his fingers.
“Power…… The power to reach the heights…… Grander heights…… Distant heights…… Where nobody can reach…… The pure sky (domain)……!”
Despite his arm being convulsed, yet he still reaches out, despite trying not to miss single particle, trying not to lose the spilling light.
The stars that appeared so close it felt like you could touch them.
But, no matter how hard you wish or crave for them, the infinite distance prevents them from ever hope being grasped.
No.
“Gaaaaaaaah……!”
The particles of magic power that filled the World become beams that carve their trail in the darkness, and gather in Liber Legis’s hand.
It looks as though comets are being sucked into the palm.
The gathered magic power become an explosively expanding orb of light.
The photosphere paints this blinding world in gold, brighter than the red sun which illuminates this sea of meteors.
In that golden color, Ryuuga sees it.
A gigantic, monstrous crystal of power materializing, uniting.
“This is-----”
Liber Legis’s palm grasps the golden power firmly.
The light emitted by Cthugha has stopped, and before I realized, Demonbane is drifting in outer space.
A cosmos (sky) where the meteors are continuously showering.
This space sector is full of innumerable stardust of various sizes.
Far away, I can see the sun burning red.
“We jumped again, huh…… And this time we’re in the universe.”
“……Yog-Sothoth’s power earlier was strong. Space-time is still unstable. With this, our chances of getting back to our original world are……”
Al speaks in a gloomy voice.
It’s unusual for her to have such a weak, no, desolate expression.
……Without a doubt, we are completely wrecked in the space and time.
Getting back to our original world would be like finding a small island floating in this infinite sea of space-time. But.

Spoiler

「総ては此処で終わる。お前達がヨグ＝ソトースの環から逃れる事は出来ない。……そう云う事になっているのだ」
数百メートルにも及ぶ長身の武具を、リベル・レギスは振り上げる。
まずい……次が来る。
危機を感じて、シャンタクを噴かせようとするが……クソ! 今のでだいぶダメージを受けてやがる!
「己もライカも大十字九郎もマスターテリオンもアル・アジフもナコト写本も……遍く宇宙の総てが、この永劫に囚われている」
「逃れる事は出来ない。今までだって誰一人、この怪異なる永劫から逃れた者は居ない」
音のないはずの宇宙に、唸りを立てて迫る十字架の咆吼を聴いた気がした。
次いで衝撃。
胸部に大損傷。爆発。
「があっああああああ!」
「くっ……九郎ちゃん!」
ライカさんが俺を抱き締めて庇う。
アルはコクピットにしがみついて、何とかこの状況から逃れようと、足掻いている。
その間にも追撃は続く。
「だがそれを識った今、己は世界を超える権利を得る事が出来る。己は牢獄から逃れ、あの空の高みへと到達する――」
“There is no escape. Not a single person has ever been able to escape these strange aeons.”
I feel like I can hear the roar of the approaching cross in this supposed soundless universe.
And then there is impact.
Massive damage to the chest. Explosion.
“Gaaaaaaaah!”
“Kuh…… Kurou-chan!”
Leica-san holds onto me, shields me.
Al is hanging on to the cockpit, trying desperately to escape this situation.
All the while, the attacks continue.
“But now that I am aware of that, I have been granted the right to surpass the World. I can escape the prison, and reach the heights of that sky----”

• The clash of Lemuria Impact and Hyperobera Zero-Drive drove everything to ashes. The world was destroyed, and the space-time quake was triggered. But this time, it came with space-time cracking hard and a tiny bit of the world’s energy lying beyond creeping in, devouring all things. With space-time and everything dissolved, the Final Universe (or the Verge of Outerverse/Final battlefield of Demonbane and Liber Legis) finally “revealed” itself, a universe that is nothing and yet infinite, momentary and yet eternal, all previous worlds were naught but pure dogshit compared to this thing. It is worth mentioning that this universe would not be the final battleground for Demonbane and Liber Legis if they didn’t use their Shining Trapezohedron, meaning their battles would happen across all future and past eternity, leading to the destruction of infinite universes inside the Outerverse.

Spoiler: Al Azif's Route - Chapter 15

「クハッ……クハハハハ……ッ……ククククッ……ハァーハーハッハッハッ! 大十字九郎ッッ!」
「ハァ……ハァ……アアアアアァァァァァ! マスターテリオンッッ!」
「アル……アジフゥゥゥ!」
「ナコト写本ッッ!」
「「レムリア……ァァァ!」」
「「ハイパーボリア……ァァァ!」」
「インパクト!」
　　　　　「ゼロ・ドライブ!」
――――!?
――６５００万年前。地球。
我々の時代で言う所のメキシコはユカタン半島で激突する両機を、時空震が呑み込んだ。
その際、生じた時空の亀裂――如何なる宇宙の法則も通用しない異界の向こうから、膨大なエネルギーが溢れ出した。
デモンベインが、リベル・レギスが、赴く最後の決戦場。零にして無限、刹那にして永劫の宇宙。遂に解き放たれんとする世界より零れた、ほんの僅かなエネルギーの飛沫。
それは地球の生命に振り下ろされた死神の鎌であり、与えられた進化の黄金だった。
爆発中心部の温度は、摂氏６万度。
一切を蒸発させる。
地表に穿たれたクレーターは直径１７０キロメートル。深さはマントル層にまで達した。
その威力は、世界中の核爆弾を一斉に爆発させた時の、千倍から一万倍相当に値する。
総ては光の中へ砕けてゆく。
砕き、解き、再構築する。創造する。
最後の、宇宙を。
*
何も見えない、何も聴こえない、無明の世界。
無音の世界。
ただ確かに感じるはアルの気配と……世界を歪ませるほどの怨念を放つリベル・レギスの気配。
一撃必滅の奥義応酬はまたしても互いを仕留められずに終わる。
そして確信した。
理屈ではなく実感で。
もはやデモンベインは、リベル・レギスの如何なる滅技を喰らったとして、決して敗れることはないと。
同時にリベル・レギスに、如何なる滅技を喰らわせたとして、決して滅ぼし尽くすことは出来ないのだと。
互いにトドメの一撃を欠くこの戦況。本当に術が無いのだとしたら、俺達はきっと未来永劫過去永劫、無限にこの闘いを続けることになる。
だが――唯一の例外がある。
リベル・レギスの存在そのものを否定し尽くす窮極の最終必滅兵器。
“Kah…… Kahahahaha…… H…… Hehehehe…… Haahahahaha! Daijuuji Kurou!”
“Haa…… Haa…… Aaaaaaaaaah! Master Therion!”
“Al…… Aziffff!”
“Pnakotic Manuscripts!”
““Lemuria…… aaa!””
““Hyperborea…… aaa!””
“Impact!”
“Zero-Drive!”
--------!?
----Earth, 65 million BC.
The space-time quake engulfed both Machinas in what will later be the Yucatan Peninsula of modern-day Mexico.
From beyond the gap in space-time---a World where the laws of this Universe don’t apply that had been created at that time, it pours a vast amount of energy.
It is Demonbane and Liber Legis’s final battlefield, a Universe that is nothing and yet infinite, momentary and yet eternal. A tiny droplet of its energy spills from the world as it is finally about to be unleashed.
For most of Earth’s life, it is the sickle of Death, for others however, it bestows the golden gift of evolution.
The center of the blast reaches 60,000 degrees Celsius.
It vaporized everything in an instant.
The crater reaches 170 kilometers in width. Its depth pierces the Earth’s mantle.
The power of the explosion is some thousand to ten thousand times greater than that of all the nuclear weapons in the world that simultaneously detonated.
Everything vanishes into the light.
It shatters, dissolves, reborn. And then it creates.
The Final Universe.
*
A World has no light, where I see nothing and I hear nothing.
A World of silence.
All I can feel are Al’s presence and…… the presence of Liber Legis, unleashing the hatred that distorts the World itself.
The exchange from our ultimate techniques of one-hit absolute annihilation yet again still failed to finish each other off.
And now I am convinced.
Not by a logic but by my actual feeling.
No matter what kind of destructive techniques Liber Legis brings to bear against us, Demonbane will never be defeated.
And at the same time, no matter any kind of destructive techniques we wield against Liber Legis, we will never be able to destroy it for good.
In this battle, both sides lack the finisher against each other. If we truly don’t possess any technique, we will surely continue this battle indefinitely, from future eternity to past eternity.
However----there is one exception.
The ultimate and final weapon of absolute annihilation that can reject Liber Legis’s existence utterly.

For all the reasoning given above, the Outerverse should be at least several layers above 1-A since it contains various universes, each universe inside the Outerverse is a transcendent structure and it requires the complete transcendence of the previous universe’s space-time, causality, and dimension to ascend to a higher universe/domain. The Outerverse can be potentially 1-A+ as it houses infinite space-times(universes), each being a different “angle” that makes up the whole Outerverse.

you double posted this. Agree but i think the rings of yog should be 1A instead of Low 1A

 

[ImmortalDread]

Following (will read it after I have a guaranteed free time)

 

[Ultima_Reality]

I'm not reading all that.

 

[BestMGQScalerEver]

I'm not reading all that.

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[ImmortalDread]

I'm not reading all that.

 

[Tarang123]

I'm not reading all that.

Kek

 

[RitsuØ1]

I'm not reading all that.

Lol.

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

Here is a TLDR proposal for Demonbane’s tiering as well as its world hierarchy:

The human universe: 2-A
The multiverse: High 1-B
The hyperdimension: Low 1-A
The cycle: At least Low 1-A
The Rings of Yog-Sothoth, Garden of Nyarlathotep: At least Low 1-A
The unknown realm where Nyar stands: 1-A
The Ouroboros Rondo: 1-A
The Outerverse: At least several layers above 1-A and can potentially be 1-A+
The Infinite Spiral: Several layers above 1-A, is referred to as a “True Cosmos.”
Layered-Stages: 1-A+
Sea of Ether: 1-A+
Sea of Chaos/Chaos: High 1-A
The Lotus Throne: At least High 1-A

Okay, i guess i'm done. This is the first time i make a revision for such a big franchise, hopefully i can get advice and support from you guys. Now, let us begin the discussion!

For convenience's sake. You should put this in a blog because this thread is a headache to read.

 

[Rakih_Elyan]

Sheeet.
Going to read it later.

 

[Celestial_Pegasus]

I'm not reading all that.

Seconded.

Got up to the Outerverse part, then zoned out, but as far as i can see, up to there it makes sense, but i am no tier 1 expert.

 

[Reizen23]

Seems fine

 

[YueNoMoral]

oh my, takes time to scroll. read later

 

[StrymULTRA]

Can't you make a blog with all of that shit lmao?

 

[Deceived3596]

I'm not reading all that.

 

[ShivaShakti]

I'm not reading all that.

I agree. Please create a cosmology blog.

 

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

you double posted this. Agree but i think the rings of yog should be 1A instead of Low 1A

Oh my bad, must be an accident to copy them twice.
Deleted.

 

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

I agree. Please create a cosmology blog.

I DID try to create a blog, but it got messy for everytime i input codes for scans, so i give up. If anyone knows where to put all of these so it's easier to read, lemme know.

 

[StrymULTRA]

I DID try to create a blog, but it got messy for everytime i input codes for scans, so i give up. If anyone knows where to put all of these so it's easier to read, lemme know.

I'll try to see something later today.

 

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

I'll try to see something later today.

Thanks, help is appreciated.
Anyhow, Demonbane's franchise is so absurdly huge, it span for 3 Visual Novels, 3 Gaiden Novels, 3 Retold Novels, 1 TV anime series, 1 short OVA, 1 Magazine, 2 Visual Fanbooks and currently it just got one more sequel book. So it can't be helped for the fact that just the cosmology alone is already a big ass wall of text.

 

[StrymULTRA]

Thanks, help is appreciated.
Anyhow, Demonbane's franchise is so absurdly huge, it span for 3 Visual Novels, 3 Gaiden Novels, 3 Retold Novels, 1 TV anime series, 1 short OVA, 1 Magazine, 2 Visual Fanbooks and currently it just got one more sequel book. So it can't be helped for the fact that just the cosmology alone is already a big ass wall of text.

Alright so...

It seems much more complex that I thought, so I'll link you these 4 blogs.

Gurren Lagann Cosmology

Gurren Lagann is a mecha anime television series animated by Gainax, known for its heavy usage of real-life scientific theory including quantum physics, this blog is made to update the cosmological structure (and a little explication about the characters) in detail backed up by databooks...

vsbattles.fandom.com

DIGIMON COSMOLOGY: SOULS, IDEA AND THE POWER OF THOUGHT

Usually when someone thinks of Digimon what comes up in memory is the story of virtual beings that exist inside the internet and occasionally end up appearing on Earth for no apparent reason. And generally when people appear on this Wikia may be surprised why there are many Tier 2 and even Tier...

vsbattles.fandom.com

Pokémon Called Gods

vsbattles.fandom.com

Every Monster Stats in Undertale

vsbattles.fandom.com

To see the source code of them and see how they're coded, just add

? action=raw

At the end of the url

 

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

Alright so...

Are they have codes for "Spoiler"? I figured that putting the scans in "Spoiler" will reduce the wall of text. "Quote" is too long and i don't like it.

 

[StrymULTRA]

Are they have codes for "Spoiler"? I figured that putting the scans in "Spoiler" will reduce the wall of text. "Quote" is too long and i don't like it.

Check the source code here if you want that.

 

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

Thanks, i will see if i can work it out. Will keep it updated.
Ah wait, how do i put the names for each spoiler? Can i do it like in forum?

 

[Rakih_Elyan]

Bruh, I read all of them...
Best 30 minutes of my vs debating, anyways. I agree.

 

[ImmortalDread]

A real evaluation will take over hours :3

 

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

....
I give up.
1) If i copy the scans into my blog, it will just copied as plain text, and i have to redo highlight-ed parts all over again. Trust me, you will not gonna like it considering how big Demonbane is.
2) Japanese writters use this kind of mark "ーー" to extend their sentence, in English we will convert it into "----". And that's the problem, if you put "----" in the beginning of your sentence the code will misunderstood it as underline and ruined all of your paragraph.
Posting in forum is the best choice i have, because i can organize the scans better + allow me to put them in hidden box. Not to mention it will allow me to keep my edit from Spacebattles forum, all i have to do is just copy what i wrote from the said forum.
Making blogs doesn't work for me, sorry guys. Please take your time to reach each section, no need to hustle.

 

[Vietthai96]

I'm not reading all of this, but anyway, we should evaluate this step by step, too many things in one thread

 

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

I already expected that this will not gonna end in 1 or 2 days, so like i said, take your time.

 

[Rakih_Elyan]

The R>F and Infinity*Infinity in those scan are very clear bruh.

 

[ImmortalDread]

....
I give up.
1) If i copy the scans into my blog, it will just copied as plain text, and i have to redo highlight-ed parts all over again. Trust me, you will not gonna like it considering how big Demonbane is.
2) Japanese writters use this kind of mark "ーー" to extend their sentence, in English we will convert it into "----". And that's the problem, if you put "----" in the beginning of your sentence the code will misunderstood it as underline and ruined all of your paragraph.
Posting in forum is the best choice i have, because i can organize the scans better + allow me to put them in hidden box. Not to mention it will allow me to keep my edit from Spacebattles forum, all i have to do is just copy what i wrote from the said forum.
Making blogs doesn't work for me, sorry guys. Please take your time to reach each section, no need to hustle.

You need to do it slowly and partially

 

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

You need to do it slowly and partially

I experienced the exact problem when i tried it the first time.
After about a day, i give up.
Same with this time.

 

[ImmortalDread]

Meh, I may help you in the weekend trying it for you.

 

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

Meh, I may help you in the weekend trying it for you.

Thanks, so far the only problem is to keep the highlighted parts when you copied into somewhere else. It would be dreadful to re-highlight them from the scratch.
To those who don't mind take your time to read my posts, here, feel free to share your input.

 

[ImmortalDread]

Ya it will take a while, since I do the work precisely.

 

[Mafuuu]

For God's sake, what I see right now......

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

Making blogs doesn't work for me, sorry guys. Please take your time to reach each section, no need to hustle.

All cosmology stuff needs to be placed in blogs. That's just the standard way.

 

[Mugen_no_Setsuna]

From what I've seen posting in forum is better, but I will wait for Dread to help.