Ais couldn't even register the event that happened before the thing that swallowed her goddess disappeared below them, her arms that still reaching for where she was are even taken as her scream echoed on the now tattered Babel.
Aghhhhh!!!
Everyone was startled at her outburst as the feeling of their immediate victory against an enemy that no one else has claimed was also instantly broken when they saw an armless Ais slowly tumbling on the ground.
Rem quickly moved to catch her fall but failed as an explosion occurred below her, if not for her sister's quick reaction then perhaps she would be gone.
Rumble*
Rumble*
The floor they are in slowly crumbled as the explosion claimed half of it along with those few who survived and were cured by Rem.
"N-no."
Hephaestus staggered at the loss of her dear friend while Freya clasped at the bastard sword which Ottar left before sacrificing his life to save his beloved goddess.
"Loki."
Hestia whimpered while staring blankly at the destruction ahead of them, they have never thought that something so brutal would happen to them as even their wildest nightmare can barely compare.
With no warning, they lost their family, friends, and children while some may have miraculously survived, the instances that followed and occurred surely took away without a doubt that not even they, the gods could do anything to help.
Hestia slumped on the ashen ground, tears freely falling on her immaculate face as her hand clutched her chest as she remembered the time they had spent.
Even if they bickered at all times while throwing jabs at every chance that they have, Hestia will never deny that the now-gone trickster has become a big part of her life.
Her emotion broke while also remembering her first child who died not before long when she met him, along with the rest of her Familia that unluckily existed in the Promised Time.
"Why"
She whispers softly before her broken voice increases along with the grief that she felt inside.
"Why?!"
Hestia's Arcanum dances wildly before their very eyes as the dungeon shakes crazily which seems to be terrified of something.
Meanwhile, a dark dragon that seems to be made of nothing emerges from below them after devouring Loki and OEBD.
The five adventurers that valiantly helped them have also disappeared and could possibly be eaten in an instant after the being found an opening to attack them.
Towering over them it roared loudly to finally announce its presence; however, a light brightly illuminated the night that seemed to ignore everything just to obliterate the thing before them.
With no skill nor technique, Hestia just barbarically attacks the dark dragon with no regard whatsoever even if she disappears or forever be erased.
Her emotion gets better over her that she has forgotten that once her Arcanum would be depleted then her own existence would cease to exist.
Swoosh*
Like a smite that descended from the heaven a burning light struck the being before it could prey on them, an ear-piercing roar echoed everywhere that it seemed to threaten to end them.
Immediately Rem held the now unconscious goddesses in her arms while Ram erected a barrier to protect them.
The world seems to ignite in bright colors of yellow and red that persist for a long time along with a pained scream from the monster in front of them.
I aM bUt ThE fIrSt So pRePare FOOR THE WORSTT!!!"
WRAGHHHHHH!!!
BOOOOOMMM!!!
An explosion quickly followed after it took its life to at least inflict further loss from them but its power had greatly weakened from Hestia's attack and Ram's quick thinking denied its last effort in life.
"Hestia!"
Hephaestus rushed to her friend to check her condition as seeing her outburst caused her great guilt and pain, losing her first children and true connection must have been the catalyst of Hestia's breakdown, and her convection to protect them must have been the trigger of her emotion.
Tears flow down the red-haired goddess's face as she removes her eye patch that is drenched and wet, she didn't know what to do anymore, every child in her Familia has long since dead or is in a state of slumber and her lover is down beneath the world fighting something that caused the necklace of Tears of Goddess to broke down twice.
She knows of his capabilities as they concluded a connection to heal her curse but the current situation must be something that is beyond his reach.
"Hestia-sama is fine but she needed some rest, it seems that expanding much Arcanum damaged her existence."
Rem slightly told them to alleviate their worries.
Hephaestus' deathly expression took a great turn after hearing the only good news despite the rain, but her hand clenched above her slightly bulging stomach and the necklace on her neck.
'Please be safe David, I don't want our child to live in a world without you in this place.'
Meanwhile, Rem glanced at the goddess of beauty behind them that now has a crazed face, she knew what just happened but as an Oni with no great power in her wake, she couldn't fully feel the power that just filled her being.
"Sister"
Rem worried voice on her silent sister
"I'm sorry Loki-sama, Hestia-sama….Ais."
Ram murmured while her back was still facing them, the being that was still burning was now gone and had been replaced by something.
"wHo DaRrreee…!"
The new being screamed but Rem turns around to face them and her horn that was missing is now fully healed and filled to the brim.
"ARCANUM?!"
Freya exclaimed in non-believing but Ram just butted in..
"But instead I'll protect them."
Hephaestus sweetly smiled while wiping her tear-filled face after nodding.
"Show me the power of the second strongest in your world, Ram."
Ram's eyes widened for a moment before gently bowing, she didn't know how Hephaestus knew their origin but it seems her summoner's wife is the real deal..
"Hai, Hephaestus-sama."
Then the world of Miasma and Dark snow has come to end.