# 919
Chapter 920: The Second Red Moon
The silver carriage raced beneath the crimson moon like a bolt of lightning, its speed impossibly fast.
Lin Qiye could only watch as the scenery outside the window blurred into a streak. In that moment, it felt less like he was riding in a carriage and more like piloting a supersonic fighter jet skimming the ground... The speed was leagues apart from when Merlin had been with them.
Lin Qiye's heart sank.
The carriage was being pushed to its absolute limits, which meant Merlin was doing everything in his power to get them away from this place... This indirectly proved that an absolute crisis was closing in.
But where was this crisis coming from?
Why was Merlin so desperate to send them away?
ROOOOAR—!!
A furious roar rapidly approached from the distance. A terrifying killing intent, like a surging tide, was racing along the road behind them!
Lin Qiye froze for a moment.
Of course he recognized that sound. Ever since entering the temple, Susanoo's roar had grown increasingly fierce. But what surprised him was that Susanoo had actually left the depths of Takamagahara and was charging toward them.
Was the target... this carriage?
"Me?!" Lin Qiye seemed to realize something, his pupils contracting sharply. "Susanoo's target is me? Because I absorbed all the faith power from Takamagahara?!"
They had been in Takamagahara for almost a full day now, yet Susanoo, who was in the deepest part, hadn't moved an inch. But the moment he left the temple, Susanoo went berserk and charged toward them.
There could only be one answer.
He had come to kill Lin Qiye.
Under the corruption of the red moon, Susanoo was infinitely close to madness. Now that he saw the faith power that Takamagahara's gods had painstakingly accumulated for decades was taken by a single human, he was probably so furious his lungs would burst.
So when Merlin said there was something to handle, he meant...
...
Beneath the blood-red sky, a figure in a bloodstained divine robe flew across the heavens.
He gripped a longsword radiating silver light. His massive form cast a vast shadow over the ruined earth. Reflected in the crimson moon, his scarlet eyes blazed with狰狞 intensity as he stared fixedly at the silver carriage racing toward the horizon, killing intent surging like an ocean.
Just then, a breathtakingly magnificent magic array unfolded across the sky. Dense black lightning surged between the formations, like a漆黑的荆棘之森 dancing down from the heavens!
BOOM—!!!
Susanoo's form was struck by the dense lightning, blasted from the sky down to the earth.
The black lightning slithered across the shattered ground like serpents, swallowing Susanoo's form. In the sky above, a white array unfurled, and from it emerged a figure in a deep blue魔法长袍 with a great wind hood, those bloodshot eyes gazing down calmly at the sea of black light below.
"I won't let you pursue them."
Merlin's eyes flickered with starlight. He raised his magic staff, and two identical Merlins stepped out from within him—one cloaked in black, one in white.
Three Merlins stood shoulder to shoulder in the sky. Beneath them, in the void, three magnificent magic arrays took shape simultaneously, rotating slowly like interlocking rings from different dimensions. At the center of the arrays, directly facing the fallen Susanoo.
An ancient and cryptic triple incantation echoed between heaven and earth, sometimes impassioned, sometimes somber...
Just then, a brilliant sword flash cleaved through the sea of black lightning. All the thunder was sliced apart in an instant. Susanoo, gripping Ame-no-Murakumo, roared as he launched himself skyward from the earth.
"KILL!! KILL..." In those bloodshot eyes of Susanoo, only endless berserk rage remained. "KILL KILL KILL!!"
He raised his longsword.
SHING—!!
His Ame-no-Murakumo sliced down in an instant, shattering the lowest magic array. Shattered magic power scattered into the air. A sword arc sliced through the white-robed Merlin's body, instantly reducing him to fragments that vanished without a trace.
Susanoo's form rocketed toward the second overlapping array in the sky!
"Completely lost his sanity, become a Cthulhu Believer..." The Merlin in the deep blue mage robes narrowed his eyes, the gale whipping his robes violently.
Susanoo's form ascended rapidly, arriving directly before the black-robed Merlin's array. In that instant, the black-robed Merlin's array activated fully. Desperate-looking black tentacles extended from within, like an enormous man-eating flower, wrapping around Susanoo's body.
After swallowing Susanoo, these tentacles writhed violently, like the stomach of a beast digesting its prey.
Suddenly, all the tentacles went rigid. A piercing sword flash arced outward, slicing all the tentacles apart. The maddened Susanoo stepped out from the mass of flesh and gore, Ame-no-Murakumo in hand, slashing upward at the array above.
The magic array shattered inch by inch. The black-robed Merlin's form was also cleaved into fragments.
Meanwhile, Merlin's本体 incantation finally concluded. Brilliant magical radiance rippled outward from his center. Glowing golden rings materialized from the void, suspending around Susanoo and slamming him down into the dust with tremendous force, like a golden tower pressing him into the earth.
"【Holy Radiance Chapter Three: Suppression Ring】."
Merlin stood above the golden magic array, looking down at the sealed and suppressed Susanoo, and helplessly shook his head.
"The one destined to kill you is not me... Even if I wanted to kill you, it cannot be done."
Merlin's eyes had seen through Susanoo's fate. Since Susanoo was destined to die at that person's hands, no matter what methods Merlin employed, an irresistible force would intervene to prevent it.
All he could do was seal Susanoo and buy time for Lin Qiye and Jialan to escape.
Merlin raised his magic staff and began incanting again. Powerful sealing magics unfolded before him, gradually taking shape.
Just then, the crimson moon in the sky suddenly blurred.
The hazy moonlight split like a double exposure, separating slowly into two. Dense crimson blood-colored light shrouded the surface of both red moons, like a pair of scarlet eyes staring down coldly, gazing at the earth beneath.
The second red moon?!
Merlin's pupils contracted sharply at the celestial phenomenon.
In that instant, a flash of inspiration struck his mind. A deeply hidden thread of fate appeared within his perception. As if understanding something, he stared intently at the second red moon that had manifested in the sky, and spoke word by word:
"Tsukuyomi!"