Bhanda Appears, and I Love Saying No to the Self-Righteous

The mummy's massive hand burned with flames as it seized the trident.

Whoosh!

In an instant, the flames covering the mummy seemed drawn toward it, all pouring into the trident.

The trident's spearhead pulsed with scorching light.

The Three-Time Fire of the past, present, and future ignited one after another, swallowing the flames from the mummy whole.

"It finally faded!"

The mummy slowly rose, revealing a tall, lean body within the void.

Streams of brilliant golden radiance shone forth, revealing an incomparably pure soul. Power of earth, fire, wind, and water surged from that pure soul, condensing into a body and restoring its original form.

"Mindube has arrived!"

"I, son of Bhanda, the Destroyer's Eight Directions Eye and heir to ruin, am finally free!"

Mindube raised both hands and shouted.

He was tall, with a powerful bare upper body and loose white trousers below, like a muscular snow-white bull. His eyes shone like Mani jewels, radiating brilliant light.

Mindube, Parog, and Indroniya had come to pursue Indra, only to be trapped in a world of Shiva for countless years. Now, they were finally free.

As Liberators, their souls were immortal and indestructible.

But the closer a soul came to Brahman Incarnations, the greater the risk of losing itself over such a vast span of time, calamity after calamity. This was especially true for those creators of universes when they manifested their cosmic forms—like one candle flame nearing another, until flame merged into flame.

Within Shiva's world, bathing in the fire at the end of the kalpa had truly been torment enough.

Now, he had finally escaped with the help of this power!

However...

Mindube turned his head, his gaze narrowing as he stared deeply at Indra.

This was their target!

They had found him!

They only needed to withstand the