[V1/C4] SHOWDOWN

Reiko then started sprinting down the hallway of the shrine with eight other elders following behind her.

After going through many corridors, Reiko stopped at a place filled with the abundance of nature with a tombstone placed at its center.

Reiko asked the others to sit down around the tombstone, "Everyone, Please position yourselves in a circle surrounding the tombstone, then sit down in mediation."

The elders hurriedly positioned themselves, encircling the tombstone. As they successfully positioned themselves, Reiko walked towards the center with a small triangular handbell in hand.

Reiko looked at the other elders and spoke. "Everyone, repeat after me from this moment on."

The elders nodded as they closed their eyes in unison. Reiko started chanting mystical words at the tombstone; with every finished sentence, she rang the bell in her hand, along with their chanting, which kept on repeating for a whole hour until a brilliant light shone on top of the tombstone.

After another half an hour of chanting, Reiko then entered a dream world filled with the vast emptiness of white.

Upon entering the dream world, Reiko knelt on two knees and bowed her head as she closed her eyes in silence.

"Oh, Goddess of the Sun, Queen of Heaven and Creation... I offer myself as a vessel for your descent to the Mortal World... Please help us subdue the Evil that will bring the world into chaos and despair." She pleaded, with every single ounce of words she had spoken filled with sincerity.

Hearing the old woman's plea, "she" responded."Oh, child of the Earth... Lesser Beings who revered me as their God... I accept your plea for help... But on one condition..." A brilliant light appeared before the old woman; the aura of Divine she exudes is on par with the other High Gods who are on the side of righteousness.

Receiving the answer from the entity, Reiko responded, "We will do our utmost best to fulfil your conditions... Kami-sama." The entity smiled, ending the dream.

Outside the dream world, a soul exuding a majestic and blinding light entered Reiko's body.

***

Back at the present.

The Goddess of the Sun, seeing Satan's respectful gestures, Goddess Amaterasu spoke with a cold voice, "Then go back to where you came from, SATAN" Along with her statement, she gestured her left hand, waving it towards him, indicating that Satan is not welcome in the World of Mortals.

Satan didn't consider it as he creepily smiled at the Goddess.

Seeing his ugly and hateful smile, Amaterasu looked at him with disgust.

Looking at her beautiful face filled with repugnance, Satan pervertedly smiled with a delightful look on his face. "Ahhh... What a masterpiece you are... Amaterasu... It's making me shiver with joy...!" he said as he embraced himself.

Fed up with his unsightliness, The Goddess of the Sun, formed a brilliant spear made of a bright light. So pissed off at Satan's ridicule towards her, she rushed in with her spear, ready to take Satan's life.

'Bingo' Satan inwardly said with a nasty grin on his face. The Devil Satan didn't waste any time and flew aside, dodging the Sun's Spear. With him successfully dodging her attack, Amaterasu got even more furious, swinging aside her spear towards Satan, continuously assaulting him.

With Satan nimbly dodging her attacks, the fight between the two Gods kept climbing up to the staircase of heaven, with only the Goddess on the offensive, her attacks kept vibrating back and forth above and below the Earthly ground.

The Goddess hatefully gritted her teeth, showing her annoyed expression. Shouting his name "SATAN!!!." The Devil answered with a question, taunting her with a wry smile on his face, shrugging both his shoulders. "Yes? You called? KEHAHAHA!" laughing even in the end.

While continuously stabbing her spear, Amaterasu noticed something amiss, 'What... Why am I being taunted this easily...?' she thought, leaving her completely unguarded as she stopped her advance.

Satan didn't miss this opportunity and took a stance as he lunged his lower body, tightly gripping his trident, aiming towards the Goddess. "HAAH!" he shouted as he threw his trident towards Amaterasu.

Seeing it a bit too late, Amaterasu subconsciously used her orb of light acting as her barrier and protection to any harm it gets in contact with.

Before the trident made contact with Amaterasu's barrier, the trident liquefied. 'What?!' The Goddess were taken aback as the big puddle of blood encircled her turning itself into a cage made of bloody waters.

'?!' with a disturbed expression on her face, she released the barrier, clasping both of her hands. Amaterasu started chanting, and as she chanted, scriptures of light appeared, spinning around her.

The humidity around her became warmer with the bright light of Divine Radiance. A second upon finishing her chant, the Goddess raised both her hands at the sky. "HAAAAAAH, NO MORE FOOLING AROUND! LET'S END THIS! SATAN!! she shouted with all her might.

On the other hand, Satan just stood there, drinking fresh blood. "Aaah... Human's blood is different than the monster's blood in hell."

Seeing the nonchalant Satan drinking Human's blood, Amaterasu's veins kept bulging with anger. Once more she shouted at the sight of the Ruler of Hell as if possessed by extreme anger, "SATAN!!!"

As she shouted, a huge ray of light covering the entire volcano came crashing down at Satan.

Satan saw her desperation, looking at the Goddess's eyes, he menacingly spoke, "Filth..." He then glared at the ray of light which would crush them both and raised one of his hands.

As Satan raised his hand, the black ink scriptures written all over his body began moving.

The Goddess of the Sun were quite perplexed as to what she saw '?!'.

The scriptures surrounded Satan's hand which he raised earlier, forming a giant black ball made up entirely of ancient words. "Suck on this!" he said, as he stared at the falling calamity.

Satan threw the black ball of scriptures towards the huge blinding light with all his might.

When the two immense powers of the gods collided, the rays of light were completely subdued by Satan's Dark Sphere and were completely engulfed in the process.

'?!' seeing her Divinity get eaten by the small Dark Sphere, she questioned herself, 'Were the Ruler of Hell really this powerful?! Then how come that being were able to seal him?!' she thought, her expression left with unanswered questions.

In awe and silence, Amaterasu completely lost her will to fight. 'Ah... I guess I'm just a frog in the well after all...' she thought with her fighting spirit shattered, she broke down and fainted like a canary in a cage.

"Boring", the devil said with a bored look on his face.

"You already lost the very moment I cast unto you a spell I specialize in, the power to provoke and dull the senses of anything I've cast it to," he said as he walked closer and closer to the canary.

As he walked towards the cage, Satan looked at Amaterasu's beautiful figure filled with lust, but disappointingly so, he realized that the body she possessed was already at death's door. "Tsk, if it weren't for that dying body, I would have loved to enjoy you myself in Hell," he said with bitterness, looking down at the unconscious Goddess.