The Final Day (⑨): This Time, There Could Be No Mistake

This was a disaster for the entire multiverse. Countless worlds collapsed, and even the void itself began to contract.

Countless living civilizations across every world were destroyed. No matter how brilliant or magnificent those civilizations had been, they perished alongside the collapse of the multiverse.

At a time like this, only higher beings could survive in a place where even the void no longer existed. Of course, they could only survive—remaining in such a place for too long would cause their own status to steadily fade away.

With the multiverse already collapsed, They were like people whose island had crumbled beneath them and cast them into the sea. They could swim, but they could not live in seawater forever.

Of course, some could live in the sea by mutating into fish-men. Some could simply build another great ship and continue sailing upon the ocean. Others were islands themselves and had no fear of seawater.

Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat, belonged to the type that could become a fish-man. After obtaining a sample of the final monster created—Noah's Ark—She took advantage of the multiverse's collapse to enter the place beyond it.

She knew full well what lay in the Land of the End. Though it was indeed a fine place, there was no need to go there. Joining forces with the other two to create the game had merely been for the sake of gathering more life data. Perhaps She could live quite well in that place where everything was unknown and unclear. Perhaps there were even higher beings there. Perhaps there was nothing at all. But who cared? Her daughter had grown up; it was time for her to venture out into the world.

Thus, the Darkness among the Three Pillar Gods—the Goddess of Dark Fertility, the Supreme Mother Goddess, the