Carl had indeed struck down the gods
but he hadn't killed them all.
The ones who had raised their hands against him were erased without mercy.
Those who stayed still, who made no move to fight, were spared.
After all, Carl considered himself rather merciful.
Since they hadn't taken action, he allowed them to keep their lives.
Carl thought to himself:
If every god in this world were slain and only humans remained,
that might not be such a good thing either.
By now, there weren't many gods left anyway.
Barely a dozen or so in the arena, and a few scattered elsewhere.
As for Shiva
he only survived because Carl, after clearing out the stands, simply couldn't be bothered to strike again.
So Carl let him live.
Now, seeing Shiva too terrified to even speak,
Carl felt leaving him alive wasn't much of a problem.
But if Shiva ever did something Carl disliked,
he could always change his mind.
Watching Carl's silhouette, Xiaoming felt something indescribable—
as though the man before him was a mountain so vast, it could never be scaled.
He hadn't expected it.
The missing gods… really were slain by Carl.
To kill tens of thousands of gods in the blink of an eye
what kind of power would that take?
Xiaoming couldn't even imagine it.
But hearing Carl say it with his own mouth,
he no longer doubted.
Carl was not the type to lie about such things.
And given all his previous feats,
this wasn't entirely impossible.
There was nothing more to say except:
as expected of Carl.
Carl stepped up to Xiaoming's side.
『Carl』: "Come on. Let's go see Brunhilde."
Xiaoming blinked, pulled back from his thoughts.
『Xiaoming』: "See her? For what?"
『Carl』: "To ask about Ragnarok."
『Carl』: "On a whim, I wiped out most of the gods. But the task didn't complete. I want to ask why."
『Carl』: "Though… I'm not sure Brunhilde will even know."
『Xiaoming』: "Oh, oh. Got it."
Together, the two walked toward Brunhilde's position.
Before Carl even spoke,
Gray couldn't hold back her question.
『Gray』: "Carl-sama… what just happened over there? What about the gods in the stands?"
Brunhilde said nothing,
but her eyes never left Carl.
『Carl』: "I dealt with them."
『Gray』: "De… dealt with them?"
She froze, disbelief written all over her face.
『Gray』: "Wait, you mean… the tens of thousands of gods in the audience just now, who vanished all at once"
『Carl』: nodding "Yes. I dealt with them all."
Gray's eyes went wide.
『Gray』: "A-all of them?"
Her first instinct was that Carl was joking.
Tens of thousands of gods, and plenty among them who were strong
and yet she hadn't even seen Carl move before they were gone?
It sounded impossible.
And yet… remembering what he had done in the arena—
Poseidon, Odin, Loki, all slain by his hand—
perhaps no god really could match him.
Still… to slaughter tens of thousands in an instant—
could such a thing even be possible?
At that moment, Brunhilde's live group broadcast was still open.
Everything Carl had done in the arena had already been witnessed by the members.
The praise that had already been flowing now surged even louder.
『Chuunibyou Little Sister』: (O) He… he actually slaughtered all those gods in the audience?
『Chuunibyou Little Sister』: I didn't even see Carl-sama make a move…
『Pink-Haired Vessel』: Yeah, me neither. Not a single move.
『Pink-Haired Vessel』: Too amazing. Truly.
『Shirley』: Well, it is Carl-sama.
『Hot-Blooded Spider Girl』: (???_??) Carl-sama yyds! [yyds = "forever the god" slang]
『Hot-Blooded Spider Girl』: Gods? What gods? Weaklings, the lot of them.
Brunhilde could not suppress the smile tugging at her lips.
She had never held much affection for the gods to begin with.
If she had, she wouldn't treat them with that frosty attitude in daily life.
Now Carl had swept through the arena,
wiping out the gods en masse.
And if anyone was happiest about it,
it was Brunhilde herself.
Not even Carl, nor the human spectators,
could match the joy she felt.
Though she too was shocked that Carl could annihilate so many gods in an instant,
the joy far outweighed her surprise.
Originally, she only wanted to secure victory in Ragnarok
to humiliate the gods.
That was why she recruited Carl and Xiaoming.
She had never expected Carl to outright erase most of the divine host.
Only a dozen or so remained in the arena,
plus a few absent elsewhere.
It was an unexpected windfall.
Thank goodness.
Thank goodness she had issued that quest in the group.
Brunhilde laughed softly, praising him:
『Brunhilde』: "As expected of Carl-sama. Stronger even than the legends say."
『Carl』: nodding "I have something to ask you."
『Brunhilde』: "Ask away. If I know it, I'll tell you."
『Carl』: "I killed most of the gods, but the task isn't complete. Why is that?"
『Brunhilde』: "The task… isn't complete?"
She froze.
Even she was surprised.
After all, with no gods left in the arena,
shouldn't that mean the divine side had lost?
『Carl』: "No. It still shows incomplete."
『Brunhilde』: "Hmm…"
She thought for a moment, then pulled out her phone and pointed to the roster.
『Brunhilde』: "It may be because the gods' fighters haven't all been killed yet."
『Carl』: "I see…"
He studied the list thoughtfully.
That explanation did make sense.
After all, the rules of Ragnarok were thirteen versus thirteen.
Whichever side secured seven victories was the final winner.
So far, humanity had won the first three matches.
With Odin and Loki slain by Carl,
that would make five victories if deaths counted as losses.
If that reasoning was right,
then defeating just two more of the divine fighters would clinch victory.
The remaining gods were:
Shakyamuni, Apollo, Susanoo, Bishamonten, Anubis, Beelzebub, Heracles, and Shiva.
Quite a few still.
But they only needed to be rid of two.
Shakyamuni was an undercover ally.
Heracles was a god who loved humanity.
Shiva had just been spared deliberately,
and Carl had no desire to go back on that.
That left the others.
Carl had read enough myths.
He held little affection for those particular gods.
He might as well deal with them together.
After some thought, Carl turned to Xiaoming and the others.
『Carl』: "I'll go take care of the gods. Wait here a moment."
With that, Carl's eyes flared with superhuman sight,
scanning the distances.
『Carl』: "Most of them aren't far."
And in the next instant,
his figure vanished.
End of chapter...
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