Replacement
"Tsk, what a nuisance. Those bastards always act like they're working themselves to the bone, but now they're so willing to put in so much effort." Kama felt immense pressure seeing that Arjuna was almost unharmed by that attack.
Just then, a figure suddenly leaped up, and a spring of water gushed out from beneath his feet. It was Duryodhana holding an iron pestle, raising it high!
"Go to hell!"
The iron pestle fell, and Arjuna's gaze remained fixed on him, raising a finger, his lightsaber flashing. Arjuna naturally disregarded this laughable attack of human power. But just as the pestle struck, Duryodhana suddenly released his grip.
The iron pestle flew upwards in a strange manner, and then a large, silvery-white hammer landed in Duryodhana's hand.
It was Krishna's Moonlight Mace back then. Although he had no idea how to use it, it was still much sturdier than his own back then.
"You used all your strength for defense, didn't you? You didn't have time to react, did you?"
Thump! The Moonlight Mace struck Arjuna heavily on the forehead, Duryodhana withstand the relentless blow.
A tearing, excruciating pain shot through my wrist.
He couldn't feel the hammer's touch, but his warrior's instincts told him that no one could withstand such a blow and remain unscathed. This attack exceeded his strength limits; even a mountain would be crushed by Duryodhana.
"Ha, you've tasted the bitter fruit now, haven't you, you monster in Arjuna's skin!"
"No way!" Duryodhana laughed loudly, while Bai Mo's anxious voice came from the side. He had just used all his strength and needed time to recover. The enemy's numbers were too great. If he made a mistake in his arrangements, the replenishment speed of the Ryougi Lataib might not be able to keep up, and the battle would fall into a vicious cycle.
He spoke up to remind them immediately, but his words came too slowly.
"Idiot, don't break up at a time like this..."
In a fleeting moment, joy consumed that single instant of time.
The sword flashed, Arjuna's expression remained unchanged, only a hint of relief flashed in his eyes. This evil, which should not have existed in this world, had finally been eliminated.
The sword flashed, Duryodhana was instantly swallowed by the Maha Pralaya. He strained his eyes, staring intently at the enemy before him. Arjuna looked into that gaze, but strangely, there was not a trace of fear in the man's eyes.
Of course not, but there was a hidden expectation in his eyes, which reached its peak when a figure appeared.
"Yo, Arjuna, it's been a long time."
As the familiar voice rang out, Arjuna's eyes widened in shock. He stiffly turned his head and saw that figure, without a doubt. His attention was completely drawn to Duryodhana, and with the protective repulsive power he had previously used up by Bai Mo and Kama, Krishna appeared beside Arjuna and patted him on the shoulder as if meeting an old friend.
The instant the hand fell, Krishna's body seemed to have all its bones removed, and he slid down.
Bai Mo immediately channeled his power to catch the attack while preparing to defend against Arjuna's attack. However, unexpectedly, Arjuna seemed to be suffering from a headache, gripping his face tightly with a distorted expression.
A machine or a concept would never produce such an expression.
Meanwhile, Bai Mo's power caught Krishna because Arjuna did not offer any resistance, but upon sensing that Krishna had even stopped breathing.
"This guy's soul is no longer in his body."
Kama frowned, and the two of them looked at Arjuna at the same time. At this moment, the power on this guy's body began to fluctuate uncontrollably.
what is going on...
Arjuna felt this strange, incredibly eerie sensation, and a myriad of emotions arose within him—emotions that humans call feelings—making him want to shout, cry, and laugh out loud.
Human emotions are something that God cannot understand, nor should He understand, and they undoubtedly become an obstacle in the process of reincarnation.
"How could I... something that was abandoned long ago, how could it resurface... and why could Krishna enter into it so easily?"
Shiva!
Arjuna's eyes widened suddenly. He remembered that when he descended, he intended to seize Shiva's existence so that he could fully descend.
During that time, Shiva attacked him, raising his trident and infusing it with destructive energy.
Arjuna's eyes trembled. At this moment, he remembered that before Shiva's existence was taken away, he did something: he raised his trident and used its destructive power to destroy one of the beings within his own body.
It was neither Brahma nor Vishnu, who were also part of the Trimurti, nor the powerful god-king Indra.
What it destroyed was merely one person, a person who no longer possessed any power, the first power he had absorbed— Vasudeva Krishna.
When Krishna within oneself is destroyed, the space that originally belonged to Krishna naturally becomes empty. Now, an identical but completely different component fills that void.