Susanoo tried to cut Tonatiuh, but the god made a shield appear in his hand, bearing the image of the sun, and used it to defend himself.
The very moment the eastern god’s sword struck the sun god’s shield, he felt his body begin to dry out, so he quickly pulled his weapon away from the god’s shield.
“What’s wrong, little warrior?” the Chichimeca god asked mockingly. “Did you feel your body drying up?”
“I see thou hast the ability to dry the bodies of thine enemies,” Susanoo replied, returning to his combat stance.
Tonatiuh touched his nose and smiled.
“The sun burns and purifies everything,” he said.
At that moment, Tonatiuh raised his hands, and a torrent of deadly heat began to spread throughout the entire area. The heat was so vast that the whole cavern began turning into coal.
“His power is greater than Nanahuatzin’s, I must admit,” Susanoo said while covering his face from the heatwave with his hand.
Tonatiuh shone like a radiant sun as he raised the temperature of the place. Then the stones that had turned into coal became ash and crumbled into dust.
“What’s wrong, little warrior? Can’t you beat my heatwave?” Tonatiuh asked mockingly.
Susanoo then raised his power and, with an electric slash through the air, managed to split the sun god’s heatwave in two, surprising Tonatiuh.
“I must admit that, indeed, thou art stronger than Nanahuatzin, but not enough to defeat me at this moment,” Susanoo replied confidently.
Then Tonatiuh began laughing.
“It is incredible that you resisted my heatwave, but the same did not happen to your little rabbit friend,” the Chichimeca god said mockingly.
“Tul-chan!” the eastern god shouted in fear.
Tul had left them to go toward the cages, but when she tried to approach, a wall of heat struck her and left her unconscious on the ground. All the people who had been locked in the first room of cages had perished, reduced to ash in a cavern whose bars had likewise melted. The walls had also turned into coal.
Susanoo was furious. He needed to finish off the sun god quickly so he could rescue the rabbit goddess, who was being roasted by the incandescent heat in the area.
The eastern god leapt toward Tonatiuh and attacked him with his sword, trying to cut his neck, but the Chichimeca god defended himself with his shield again. Susanoo quickly withdrew his sword and tried to cut the god once more, but he could not get past the deity’s shield.
“You are too slow, little warrior,” Tonatiuh said mockingly while continuing to avoid the eastern god’s attacks.
Then, with his tongue, Tonatiuh impaled Susanoo’s heart. The eastern god felt himself dry up immediately and tried to break free from the attack, but he could not.
Susanoo’s body began to wither like an old leaf. His body started thinning while his eyes began drying out, as did his mouth.
But the god had not given up, and using his katana, he pierced the sun god’s nape while Tonatiuh failed to notice the attack. However, the god’s sword broke and melted at that moment.
Tonatiuh withdrew his tongue from the badly wounded Susanoo’s heart. Although he had destroyed the eastern god’s sword with his heated body, the damage had been effective. However, both gods recovered from their wounds thanks to their ichor reserves.
“You have lost your sword. What can you do now?” Tonatiuh said with a mocking face.
Susanoo looked very worried. He could certainly restore his sword with his water abilities, since the katana had been created with that liquid and metal. However, he could not use it to fight because it would melt again. He had to think of something to defeat him.
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Meanwhile, Tul, half dreaming, felt Tania’s hand on her shoulder. That made her wake up and see that she was burning alive because of a wall of fire she had accidentally crossed, and now she was trapped within it.
“Right, ch’úupal Tania has heat power much greater than this,” Tul said while trying to stand. “Something like this cannot stop me.”
However, what she managed to see with great difficulty horrified her. All the cells in front of her had been reduced to ash. If she had accidentally triggered the trap, she would never forgive herself.
“I must not think about these things!” Tul shouted, and finally stood with difficulty despite the suffocating heat she was being subjected to.
“If I change the fire element to ice, I will die frozen anyway,” the Maya goddess thought, searching for an alternative that would allow her to continue and save all the prisoners who might still be alive.
Meanwhile, Susanoo invoked his powers of wind and thunder to create Tempest, allowing him to attack the Chichimeca god with greater precision. Since he no longer had his katana, the god infused his electrical energy into his hands while adopting a combat stance in the style of the martial art known as kung fu.
“I learned this while traveling to Zhongguo,” Susanoo said. “It is a combat style that requireth no sword.”
Tonatiuh began laughing when he saw Susanoo ready to fight with his bare hands.
“Your sword could not tolerate my heat. Much less your hands,” Tonatiuh said mockingly.
“Mitte kudasai,” Susanoo replied.
Then he positioned himself beneath the god and struck him in the stomach, covering his fist with the Tempest element. Tonatiuh took great damage from that attack and was launched up to the ceiling, which he destroyed with the impact.
Susanoo performed several flips on the ground and, with a swift kick, struck Tonatiuh as he fell. The Chichimeca god crashed to the ground, creating an enormous hole in it.
Still incredulous, the sun god raised his head, only to see Susanoo descend upon him with a flying kick to his skull. The impact shattered Tonatiuh’s head and struck the ground directly once more.
“How do I not have time to use my shield?” the sun god shouted furiously as he stood.
“By employing the element arashi, I have infused my abilities with stealth, thereby preventing thy senses from detecting or reading my movements,” Susanoo replied, while maintaining his kung fu stance.
Furious, Tonatiuh launched several heat rays at the eastern god, but Susanoo avoided them with ease. Before the sun god could prevent it, the eastern god kicked Tonatiuh’s jaw, making him fall backward to the ground.
“After Itzpapálotl, I am the strongest!” Tonatiuh shouted furiously. Now his expression was no longer mocking, but desperate. His eyes were full of rage, and unconsciously, he had bitten his tongue from anger.
Then the sun god joined his hands and created an overwhelmingly powerful sphere of fire.
“You combine wind and electricity,” Tonatiuh said. “Now you will learn what happens when one combines fire and light.”
Golden thunder emanated from the Chichimeca god’s ball of energy, and a great radiance covered the whole chamber as Tonatiuh shouted:
“Iatetepeyotonati teposapiluamina (Solar Wave Cannon)!”
Then the god released the fire sphere like a huge wave of heat energy.
However, Susanoo also prepared himself in a stance of attack and defense, placing his left fist behind his back and charging his right fist with the Tempest element. Then the eastern god caught the wave of fire with his bare hand and deflected it toward the ceiling while shouting:
“Shirizokeru (Repel)!”
The impact of the enormous power created a gigantic hole in the caverns, through which the sky could be seen. The powerful attack had destroyed part of Tollan’s vast central esplanade. Tonatiuh could not believe that this god had avoided his attack with a single hand.
“What is your name, warrior?” Tonatiuh asked, surprised.
“My name is Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and I have journeyed from the distant land of Yamato to become the strongest warrior god,” the eastern god replied while striking a theatrical pose with his palm raised.
“Good,” Tonatiuh said. “It would be a shame for us to die without knowing each other’s names.”
At that moment, he began to shine with tremendous power in order to self-destruct.
“Mate!” Susanoo shouted. “It is not worth it!”
“My honor as the Fifth Sun has been stained! Now all that remains to me is self-immolation,” Tonatiuh replied. “Do you know how many human lives this gigantic power cost?”
“Even so, do not do something foolish,” Susanoo answered with a worried expression.
The Chichimeca god would blow himself to pieces and erase everything trapped inside Ana’s dimension. That attack would also reach Susanoo’s companions fighting above, and little Tul.
“Anej!” Tonatiuh said as he opened his arms to self-destruct, and a golden glow covered his entire body like a star.
But just as he was about to detonate, two circles of white light appeared around Tonatiuh. At that moment, the god exploded from the inside, causing blood to pour from his mouth, eyes, and skin pores. Unconscious, the god fell to the ground.
Susanoo saw that behind the sun god stood Tul, embracing a woman with blue hair and a rabbit on her shoulder. The woman had her arm raised, with a look of determination.