Like a comet of light, Citlalmina hurled herself toward Ana, who could not avoid the Toltec goddess’s sacred attack. The blow threw the Irish goddess to the other side of the gigantic comet flying through space.
Ana then saw Citlalmina flying through space at tremendous speed. The Irish goddess immediately stood up and spat blood from her mouth, wiping it away with a smile.
“Without this bracelet, I’d tear this girl apart real quick. I’m sure of that,” Ana said to herself as she made Excalibur appear and entered a defensive stance.
Citlalmina then hurled herself toward Ana again like a comet. But before she could strike her, Ana caught her with the edge of her sword, impaling the Toltec goddess through the chest.
A shockwave formed from Citlalmina’s full-speed impact against Ana’s sword, Excalibur. The comet rippled inside and changed course from the force of the overwhelmingly powerful attack.
“Sorry, but you’re no good for training,” Ana said as she saw Citlalmina impaled on her sword, vomiting blood.
But the Toltec goddess kept smiling.
Then the glow of Excalibur went out completely, while the Toltec goddess began shining like a celestial body. It was as if the goddess were absorbing the sacred power of the holy sword.
When Ana realized her mistake, she tried to pull the sword out of the goddess’s chest, but she could not. It was stuck. Then Citlalmina began shining more and more powerfully, until she exploded like an overwhelmingly powerful supernova made only of sacred energy.
Ana was hurled to the far reaches of outer space, while the comet vanished from the powerful impact of the Toltec goddess. The Irish goddess was badly wounded and felt the cold of outer space freezing her body.
“I see. My totema doesn’t fully protect me because of Tul’s bracelet,” Ana thought as she felt her body freezing more and more.
Then the goddess looked toward where the comet had been and realized that, far away, Citlalmina was shining like a star in that place.
“I have to overcome the barrier before I freeze,” Ana continued telling herself as she stood, though floating in space, and invoked Excalibur again.
Ana flew through space toward Citlalmina and cut the Toltec goddess. However, the goddess took no damage. At the same time, Citlalmina took her macuahuitl, wrapped in sacred energy, and struck the Irish goddess with all her might.
Once again, Ana was hurled through space. But Citlalmina flew at full speed toward the Irish goddess and struck her again with all her strength, using her macuahuitl.
Citlalmina continued chasing Ana through space and striking her, while the goddess could not defend herself from the impacts. In the end, Citlalmina positioned herself above a battered Ana, who floated in space, and with a blow from her macuahuitl, hurled her toward one of the nearby planets.
Ana crashed into an enormous gaseous planet, tearing a gigantic hole through its vast layer of gray clouds filled with electrical storms. The planet was very dark. The ground was completely rocky, and there were thousands of volcanoes across the area.
Creating a gigantic crater, as if an asteroid had fallen, Ana slammed into the surface of the unknown planet. The goddess was covered in blood from the cuts caused by the Toltec goddess’s macuahuitl attacks. Even so, she stood again, though with difficulty.
Her ichor quickly healed the wounds on her body, and thanks to the intense heat of that planet, her body began to thaw.
“Where am I?” the Irish goddess wondered as she looked at the red volcanic sky beneath a mass of thick gray clouds.
Then she saw Excalibur lying on the ground.
“Excalibur won’t help me in this fight, because that goddess absorbs sacred powers,” Ana thought.
She made the sacred sword disappear, then summoned her twin swords, Caladcholg and Fragarach.
At that moment, Ana heard the sound of something approaching at tremendous speed. The goddess knew it was Citlalmina flying toward the planet, so she prepared to receive her, placing her swords in an X-shape to defend herself from the coming attack.
Ana, using the speed increase granted by her two swords, quickly avoided Citlalmina’s attack. The Toltec goddess crashed into the planet like a comet. With a slash of her macuahuitl, she split the gigantic planet in half, cutting the sky itself with the impact.
The planet began turning into a sea of magma from the damage caused to its core, while Ana stood on one half of the planet and Citlalmina on the other.
“Don’t go around destroying planets just like that,” Ana said, raising her two swords and pointing them at the Toltec goddess, while Citlalmina raised her macuahuitl and bathed it in sacred energy.
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The two goddesses clashed weapons and began attacking each other without being able to harm one another as they flew over the dying planet. Each shockwave destroyed more and more of the planet’s surface, which was beginning to look more like a cluster of asteroids.
Ana leapt above Citlalmina and, joining her two swords together, shouted:
“Beanna an bháis (Raven of Death)!”
Two purple beams descended from the goddess’s attack at tremendous speed and severed the Toltec goddess’s arms.
The impact of the Irish goddess’s attack destroyed part of the dying planet. Both goddesses were left floating above a group of asteroids, while Ana landed elegantly upon one of those drifting stones.
“You’re done,” Ana said calmly. “I hoped you’d be a good rival, but you were a disappointment.”
The Toltec goddess’s arms, which were floating in space, turned into two spheres of light and began orbiting Citlalmina, while her limbs regrew and she returned to holding her macuahuitl.
The Toltec goddess tried to ram Ana again, but Ana avoided the attack. However, the two spheres of light orbiting the goddess struck Ana in the back.
Ana then tried to strike the spheres of light behind her with her swords, but they evaded her attack. The two spheres then returned to orbit Citlalmina like satellites.
The goddess and the two spheres attacked Ana, who had difficulty avoiding all three attacks. However, she invoked two shields to block the spheres’ attack while cutting off the true Toltec goddess’s head.
But the goddess’s head once again turned into a sphere of light, while a new head appeared on the Toltec goddess’s body. Ana realized that the Toltec goddess could multiply those celestial bodies with the parts of her own body, until she herself became a starry sky.
The Irish goddess was now avoiding four beings. Ana used the feathers of her wings to generate knives and threw them at Citlalmina’s spheres, but every cut she made against them generated more and more spheres of the terrible Toltec goddess.
Behind Ana, there were now dozens and dozens of spheres of light, while the real goddess hurled herself toward Ana to try to harm her with her weapon.
Ana then turned into ravens and escaped at full speed, leaving the dying planet. Outside the surface, the goddess made her two swords disappear, invoked her sword Gram, and aimed it at the planet.
“I don’t know if I can destroy a planet with my current power, but I’ll try so I can blow that ant goddess to pieces,” Ana said.
Then she raised her power to the maximum.
At that moment, the goddess delivered an incredibly powerful slash with Gram while shouting:
“Súil Balor (Eye of Balor)!”
A red beam emanated from Ana’s sword, struck the dying planet, and made it explode in an overwhelmingly powerful blast.
Asteroids floated through space, while ghostly colors remained like illusions where the enormous planetary explosion had occurred.
Ana began to feel herself freezing in space again, despite having been present before a powerful planetary explosion.
“Did it work?” Ana wondered. “She didn’t seem strong enough to survive a planetary explosion… I wouldn’t have survived it myself with this bracelet.”
The Irish goddess began looking everywhere while her body froze more and more.
“How can I get out of this place and return to the trial?” she wondered.
Ana began considering removing the bracelet to survive in outer space.
But then something terrible happened. Billions of spheres of light surrounded the Irish goddess. There were so many lights of the Toltec goddess that they completely covered Ana’s vision.
“This… is a joke, right?” Ana said with a look of fear and disbelief.
The spheres then began shining white, like stars. At that moment, Ana remembered that Citlalmina had done the same thing when Ana had impaled her with her sword.
All those millions of lights would explode with sacred energy. Ana had certainly become resistant to sacred power, but surviving power on that scale would be impossible even for her.
Ana shook her head and slapped her own cheeks.
“I’ll withstand it!” the Irish goddess shouted as she made Excalibur appear and used it as a defense.
However, the Irish goddess remembered the attacks she had seen Freyr, Freyja’s brother, perform in his elven form, combining sacred power with darkness.
“If that pervert could combine the two most unstable elements in the universe, then I should be able to do it too,” Ana said as she made her sword Gram appear as well.
The goddess remembered the attack she had used against the king of Tula and against Coyote, how she had forced an attack of two elements almost in unison. But that was not a pure combination like Freyr’s. She had to equal the Norse god’s power.
Ana breathed deeply and joined her two swords together.
“It disgusts me to do something that filthy Dagda does with his staff, but I think this is what I need to achieve to reach my next level,” the goddess said to herself.
Citlalmina’s spheres shone so intensely that they illuminated the entire galaxy. In the future, that phenomenon would be seen millions of light-years away across all space.
At that moment, all the spheres exploded with a luminous roar that erased all existence around them: planets, suns, comets, celestial bodies. Everything.
After the explosion subsided, only empty space remained, where distant stars could be seen. Every trace of existence had disappeared.
Citlalmina appeared again, glowing like a star. The goddess brought celestial light into a completely empty and dark space. Her light shone like the sun at dawn after the dark night.
But to the Toltec goddess’s surprise, Ana had withstood the attack. Her bracelet had been destroyed by her increase in power.
The Irish goddess had created a white-and-dark barrier using the energy of her wings, while holding one sword in both hands.
The sword looked like a fusion of Excalibur and Gram, while emanating both light and traces of shadow. The power of that weapon was so great that it caused distortions in space merely by existing, as if an error had occurred because of that paradox.
“I told you I’d withstand it!” Ana said with a smile.
The Toltec goddess tried to attack Ana with her macuahuitl, but Ana folded her wings and brought down her fused sword.
“This is Excalibur’s holiness and Gram’s bloodlust,” Ana shouted. “But both have something in common: greed.”
At that moment, Ana delivered an overwhelmingly powerful slash that caused a wave of black-and-white energy.
Citlalmina’s body vanished instantly under Ana’s tremendous impact, leaving only a small white sphere floating in space.
Ana’s two swords separated, leaving the goddess utterly exhausted and dizzy, but wearing a broad smile after not only destroying the barrier, but finally uniting light and shadow.
“Gralibur? Does that sound good for that fused sword?” the goddess wondered to herself as she picked up the sphere the Toltec goddess had left behind when she disappeared.
At last, space no longer froze Ana’s body.