Important AN:

Before this chapter begins, I just want to let you guys know two things.

First of all, due to IRL and me working on other fics that had my attention, I was not able to get as much done for this chapter as I'd initially hoped. In fact, it's on the shorter side of the chapters I've released, and doesn't contain certain things I'd said/planned to be in it, however, that's fine, given I've kind of change plans, just a tiny bit, and by that I mean shit has been moved to later, in favour of what's about to be done here and now.

As for the other thing, that actually relates back to what I just said.

I'd like to announce to those who may not know yet, but I've released two new stories recently, as spinoffs.

One being The Primordial Destroyer, where Beerus is born in Ouranos's place as Gaea's partner around the beginning of Creation, in Greek Myth.

The other fic is a multi-shot series of omakes/spinoffs of Beerus in unseen or alternate pathways of this fic, as well as alternate realities not just to do with purely Greek Myth, but any franchise that has a Greek Pantheon to it(and maybe some in the future who won't). First(and maybe second) chapter(s) is already out, giving what a number of you have asked for. A Percy Jackson and the Olympians crossover, which will be a three-shot. Third chapter releasing in the New Year.

Feel free to give both a read, as I hunker down more on this fic(and them), and see if I can't start releasing a bunch of updates in 2025 to make up for the poor release drops in 2024, for TOGOD.

Anyways, I hope you all had a very happy Christmas, and are going to have a happy New Year, as get on with the chapter!

The Olympian God of Destruction:

Chapter 44: Seed of Destruction IV

Above the surface of the Earth…

"It is done, brother. Nephew. I have everything analysed." Koios remarked, throwing his arms up to their chests to have them halt, as he, Krios and Atlas regrouped in the air, half a kilometre away from Beerus.

Another lull had been created between the two sides, however brief it would be, and the scars of the battle showed on the Titans. Ichor dripping from certain wounds, as each were nursing cuts, bangs and bruises around their ascended forms, along with a few cracked or broken bones.

All whilst their foe looked to be as fresh as he'd been since the start. Whatever damage he may've suffered from their efforts fully healed by now, as he was not subject to the side-effect his own power placed on them, with every blow.

"It's about time." Atlas commented gruffly, but there was no mistaking the beginnings of a smirk on his stony features.

"Shame you couldn't have it that way from the beginning, save us the damage endured, but then, I suppose you'd not ever suffered defeat the way you did against the sister of Beerus before." Krios said, as he massaged one of his shoulders, which almost looked crooked after taking a heel to it from Beerus a moment prior.

"It matters not anymore, uncle. Hestia's magic disrupting Koios' mind as it did was but an inconvenience, in the end, for we have endured. And now, our odds of victory shall be considerably greater." Atlas shot back stoically, his words getting nods from the two older Titans.

As for Beerus himself, he took note right away in the Titan trio's shift in demeanour, and quirked an eyebrow, as their postures suddenly became significantly more confident than before.

Well now… It seems as if whatever plan they've been concocting might finally be ready to be put into action. Hopefully it won't be anything dull, as I was beginning to get a little bored just playing around with them, until now. The destroyer mused with narrowed eyes and a light smirk of his own, as he mounted his hands on his hips.

"I do hope for your sakes that you three are ready to show me something interesting and aren't just stalling over there. Because the entertainment value of this little bout was starting to wane for me, I have to say." The GOD couldn't help but taunt, his voice easily carrying through the gap between them with magic.

"Be not concerned about mere entertainment, Beerus. Be concerned about your coming defeat!" Atlas bellowed, as Koios slapped his hands down on his Krios's backs. "This is where the tides of battle shall turn in our favour!"

The effect was immediate, as the soft glow of Koios's aura shone beneath their own, their eyes gaining an additional shine similar to his, as all three focused in on him.

"Turn in your favour, will they?" Beerus snorted, having a strong idea already of what their plan was now, as his body relaxed but remained ready for any attack that came, as his purple-gold aura rose. "Now you've definitely got me curious. Let's see how effective whatever you've cooked up is."

No further words were exchanged, as in a flash of gold, both Krios and Koios were upon him, on either side.

Beerus's palms stopped the punches the duo aimed for his face dead, and his retaliation was immediate, pulling them both in to deliver punches of his own to their guts.

His wrists were grabbed with frightening accuracy and expedience by both Titan's other hands, however, stopping his blows and keeping his arms held in place. Following that up without any wasted motion, both then jammed their feet down just over his knees, so he couldn't kick out.

Atlas then appeared in a flash of gold above him, and with his massive fist already cocked back, and body bulked up further with muscle, he sent his knuckles crashing down on Beerus' temple with world-shaking force.

Beerus's head snapped back violently before his body did, as the Titans let go of him, letting his body careen down at blurringly high speeds from the blow, which produced a BOOM through the heavens.

The Titans didn't let him strike the Earth, though, as Krios teleported below him, seemingly waiting to intercept.

Nursing a dull headache from Atlas' punch, Beerus used his own momentum to spin around and thrust a kick down toward the Titan.

As if he'd seen it coming from a mile away, though, Krios transformed himself into a small bird, still bearing the glow of his ascended state on the body and feathers, as he weaved around Beerus's leg, and bobbed himself over the destroyer's follow-up swipe with his hand.

His form shifted again, this time becoming a larger, more ferocious-looking bird with a sharp beak and talons, the latter of which he used to claw over Beerus's cat-like features without mercy, specifically slashing over his eyes.

"Agh! Damnit!" Beerus cursed in pain, teeth gritted as his eyes and face were cut into. Ichor spilling down his cheeks and jaw, vision temporarily blinded, as he used his sensing ability to pinpoint Koios and attempt to slap him down.

He hit nothing but air, as Koios had already teleported away before his hand could reach him, but his swerving momentum did carry him forth into another brutal punch from Atlas, who teleported at his side to plough his fist into his cheek, while he was distracted.

Beerus once again had his head whipped in another direction, but before his body could follow, Atlas tightly grabbed his arm, forcefully wrenching him back in to slam his knee into his gut, knocking the wind from the Olympian and doubling him over.

Beerus's face was then met with Krios's knee, as he appeared in a flash of gold and swung his leg up like a blade. The crack of his jaw echoed from it, as his head snapped back again, ever-so-slightly disoriented, before both Titans vanished away, leaving him a sitting duck for the constellation construct of a kilometres-large spear that came crashing down on his dome with its sharpest point.

THOOOOM!

The force and pull of it sent them both smashing down unto an indistinct island below, which fragmented and all but exploded outward from the collision, sending the chunks of land and massive waves of seawater blasting outward in all directions in a catastrophic display.

The spear barely had time to lodge itself deep into the crust of Gaea, before it was swiftly reduced to motes of purple light. The glowing figure of Beerus revealing itself floating above the impact zone with a frown and narrowed, scrutinizing eyes up at his foes.

With a small crack of his neck, he then zoomed up into the sky and headed directly for the Titans at immeasurable speeds, an annoyed expression on his rapidly healing, growling face.

He was met halfway up by Koios, who appeared in another flash of light behind him, which he responded to with an instant, instinctive spin and swinging heel kick. His speed doubled from before.

Despite being twice as fast now, though, Koios had no issue dodging back in time, leaving Beerus's foot to barely graze his hair, before he struck forth, throwing his full weight into a gut punch that partially bent the destroyer over his arm.

Beerus had hardly let loose a grunt from the blow, before he'd lashed out in response, his palm poised to crush the Titan's face, only to hit motes of golden light, as Koios teleported away at the last possible second.

And the same instant he had, another flash had Krios appearing, hooking his arm around Beerus's outstretched one, and then ploughing his elbow directly into Beerus's chin, whipping his head back before ducking underneath. His hip clashing against the Olympian's as he wrenched on his arm and tossed him over head in a violent, summersaulting spin.

The momentum sent him straight into Atlas's arm, as he came zooming down with ferocious speed. His enormously muscular arm driving itself into Beerus's neck with a savage CLAKH as he clotheslined him, forcing spit and ichor out of his feline maw. The Titan's speed and power sending both shooting forth like a streaking rocket, their forms a blur as they carved a path through the very ocean itself, splitting it into two rising waves of stupendous height, as they blazed forth into a massive, country-sized landmass.

The land never stood a chance. The two deities' impact had it exploding out in spectacular fashion with chunks that flew everywhere, soon to be submerged in water and known by none besides those who dwelt in the water, no different from the destroyed island. All as the boundless sea rung and the endless earth shook.

A second blast wave followed, kicking up more earth and water, as Atlas appeared high in the air with a flash, his body steadily growing in muscle as Beerus's form blurred before him, full of aggression.

Two constellation constructs of tigers twice his size appeared and slammed into him from either side, though. Their crushing force doing no substantive damage, as they were almost instantly obliterated into motes of purple light, but did succeed in grinding his momentum to a halt, while leaving a small opening for attack.

Atlas promptly took it, swinging up into a devastating uppercut that sent ripples through Beerus's feline jaw and a tremor through his skull, as the blow thrust him high up into Heaven at blinding speed, body spinning out of control. He was about a hundred miles high before both Koios and Krios appeared above and below him. The two driving their feet down on his face and the back of his head in a joint dropkick that would burst near any other God's head like a grape, as it bellowed out a sickening CRACK!

Ichor spurted from beneath Koios's feet, dousing his glowing skin, as he felt Beerus's facial bones partially cave in from his weight and power combined with Krios's from below.

Neither made the mistake of sticking around longer than they should to bask in the destroyer, quite literally, being beneath their feet, as both vanished before he could latch on to either, allowing Atlas to once again appear in a flash behind the somewhat discombobulated deity.

The Titan general's mighty arms swiftly wrapped around his waist and tugged him close as he plunged down, turning them both upside-down as he swung Beerus overhead, suplexing him into yet another island that violently shattered on impact.

When he materialized high above, it was to his uncles floating at his sides, looking down on the fragmented crater that quickly filled up with waves of swirling water, swallowing it and the upturned, seemingly unmoving God up like a vortex of shimmering blue.

"Now this is an affair more to my liking." Krios grinned almost bestially with pleasure, witnessing just how strongly the bout had seemingly shifted into their favour, so far. "If only you could've granted us all such a boon on the day of our defeat, brother, we may yet have had a chance of victory!"

"Alas, such usage would've been untenable, brother." Koios sighed. "It is as I told you when we were strategizing the prior day. This power of mine is at its most effective on those who I myself am focused on."

"Yes. I haven't forgotten, as unfortunate as it is. The number matters not, when only you are the beneficiary of your power, and have seen all of their abilities first-hand. When forced to stretch your domain unto others for their varied opponents, without being able to focus on them, such becomes a great strain on your mind. Too great." Krios grumbled in understanding.

"As I am now, yes. The risk is too much, which is why our brother, Kronos, avoided putting me under such conditions, even though I could tell that he wished he could've." The Titan God of intellect continued, sounding remorseful. "In saying that, I must be candid and admit, had I trained to my limits with it for even just a hundred years, I could've brought myself to a point where I could easily withstand such burden upon my senses, for as long as necessary. But I didn't…"

"Complacency. You no more than the rest of us fell prey to it, denying improvement that could've substantially increased our odds in the war against our brother's spawn and their allies. That much is evident." Krios remarked in lament, recognizing the folly made in their hubris. "We foolishly assumed we had everything under control for all those millennia, even knowing of our bastard father's prophecy. Had we taken far greater precautions-"

"There is no use lamenting the past now, dear uncles, as there is no changing it, no matter how much any of us might wish we could. What we can change, however, is our future. And we will." Atlas interjected with calm confidence, cutting his uncle off and pulling him and Koios back into the present.

The Titan general's body bulged then to even greater muscular size, as he continued. "Once we have dealt with Beerus and reclaimed what his side took from ours, when he slew Lord Kronos, we shall take those precautions, this time, to ensure that a situation like the one we find ourselves in now, will never happen again!"

They all nodded at each other then, and just as a geyser of seawater erupted forth, Koios and Krios immediately scattered without another word said, as Beerus phased into existence where they'd all been, and now only Atlas remained, with how maddeningly fast he moved.

His fist sailed forth at over thrice the speed he'd started the battle with, and yet Atlas's head swerved to the side in time to avoid it, while replying with his own fist to Beerus's side, earning a grunt from the deity's slightly crunched features were healing quick.

Beerus's leg sliced forth in a blink following Atlas' punch, aimed for the head and just like his fist, it missed its mark as Atlas ducked underneath it, despite the speed gap, and bludgeoned Beerus's exposed groin with another heavy fist of his own, as he bulked up further.

The blow had its intended effect, even with his genitalia not being present to target, as Beerus's eyes shot wide and a fiercer grunt of pain assailed him, and he was stunned long enough for Atlas to press in.

The Titan smashed him over the head with an axe-handle strike that jerked him down, before cracking his head back up with a knee, and then following it up with three short-ranged, powerful jabs into his chin, nose and temple. He then ended it off with a winding haymaker that put all his weight behind it, as he weaved beneath Beerus's counter punch, which only helped thrust the destroyer's face into his punch for added damage.

The way Beerus's feline mouth crunched beneath his fist, spurting his ichor over his knuckles, sent a rush through Atlas, as Beerus was shot back into Koios and Krios, who flashed behind yet again to swing their legs into his back from either side. Their kicks causing his spine to bend awkwardly over their appendages, as with a ferocious shockwave, they sent his body hurtling back at Atlas.

With ludicrous resilience, Beerus still lashed out when he got close. His forearm coming dangerously close to Atlas's forehead, as the Titan leaned back, circled his enormous legs around his hips, and torqued them both with great ease, using the destroyer's momentum as a boost.

Once they'd turned at 180 degrees, Beerus's face swung into another constellation construct of a spear, this one smaller, but no less powerful than the last, personally hurled by Krios. The construct imploding the instant it struck, damage dealt to Beerus's bleeding face no better than the larger one prior, but it did succeed in stunning him again, for a split-second.

That split-second was all that was needed, as Atlas tugged him up with his enlarging legs, and with his ever-bulging arms, as his aura flared greater and greater, he hammered into Beerus's face with a hail of lefts and rights. His fists bashing his features in, earning him the occasional spritz of his blood, as his head whipped to and fro.

Before Beerus could bring his arms or legs in to respond in any fashion, chains of constellations wrapped around his wrists and ankles and pulled his arms and legs taut and back in either direction. each being held by Krios and Koios, who now appeared on opposite sides and used their power to enhance the durability of the chains as much as they could, allowing Atlas to wail on him at his leisure, pounding his skull in with ever-heightening strength.

"Haaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Atlas only relented when he was forced to, as a war-cry launched from his enemy, before the glow of Beerus's body suddenly became much brighter, and a fire of purple and gold blasted out from him. The Titan general teleporting away before he could get caught in it, as the chains binding the God's limbs were erased.

Encased in a ball of fire made of his own magical energy tied to his domain, Beerus spread himself eagle from within, letting out another bellow, as from the ball of fire he was submerged in, energy blasts of pure destruction were launched. Dozens in total

The Trio of Titans' eyes widened somewhat, as the blasts curved and aimed for them, forcing them to fly around and teleport several times just to avoid being hit by one. Their skilful evasions resulting in the blasts crashing into each other, as they tried to home in on each of them, creating deafening explosions in the air, warping the very fabric of reality with each detonation that saw a mushroom cloud be produced.

Still wreathed heavily in purple and gold flames that covered him like a protective veil, Beerus zoomed up right into Atlas's face at even faster speeds than ever. His form scarcely a blur to the Titan's vision, appearing so fast that it almost seemed like he'd teleported.

And yet, once again, Atlas seemingly had no trouble responding to his attacks, as his arms and legs sliced and slashed through the air with surgical precision on every one of his vital points. Pressure point attacks, sharp punches, lancing elbows and forearms, kicks from his feet, shins and elbows. Despite being approximately five times faster than him now, Atlas leaned, bobbed and weaved around all of them.

The only damage he suffered, was from the flames of destruction that licked at his glowing, marble-like skin, as he dodged. Their heat, impossibly strong, burning through his aura, making divine flesh sizzle and darken in contrast to the radiance of the rest of his bruised and belted form.

Atlas timed it perfectly, then, landing a hard straight to Beerus's chin amidst the storm of attacks. His teeth gritting as he felt his divine flesh burn on contact with his features, as the destroyer's head snapped back.

He briefly considered trying to use his own strength to grab unto those flames and tear them off of Beerus, but quickly tossed the idea, sensing immediately that doing so, even if successful, would very likely result in the complete loss of his hands. Reduced to nothing before that intense fire.

Instead, he endured the pain and dodged another punch from Beerus, while pushing in and nailing his throat with an elbow that left said body part turning dark and sizzling with otherworldly heat, earning the barest form of a croaking gasp from his adversary. He then followed up by grabbing Beerus's feline head by the ears, ignoring how the fire almost melted his palms, and with his greatly buffed strength, he yanked his head down into the harshest knee he'd thrown yet.

The crunch of Beerus's features yet again was almost satisfying enough to offset the searing agony from the flames that rippled through his divine flesh, right down into his bones, charring them as well, as he crushed the Olympian's cat features against his knee. The force of the impact causing an almighty BOOM that tore through the infinite heavens and made the ethereal mists of Aether distort and shift colour for an instant.

Gnashing his teeth down in a snarl that almost shattered them, Atlas wasted no time in pulling his leg away, just to swing up bash Beerus's face with his other knee, agonizing burn down to the bone be damned, as his muscles bulked up yet again, increasing the power of the blow from the last. An even more powerful, booming wave that warped the sky's colour occurring, as Beerus's head whipped up high and back, out of his grip, loosing another small spritz of ichor from his nostrils.

The Titan general then teleported away as Beerus swiped back at him, barely avoiding the reprisal this time, as Koios and Krios descended once more, golden motes of light licking their coruscating forms. Both holding spears summoned from stars, as they lanced them forth in unison. The sharp, starry tips stabbing home against Beerus's neck, as they breached through the fire.

Seemingly unaffected by Atlas's latest attacks, Beerus tanked the strikes from the Titan brothers full on, being pushed back a little, but hardly even flinching from the combined power this time, as a toothy smirk blossomed on his face.

And then, with a mere pulse of his aura, the spears disintegrated shortly after making contact, before he lashed out with a full split, ramming both his feet toward their faces, with the fire of destruction clinging to them, burning through space itself.

Both elder Titans became motes of golden light just as the flame-bodied feet struck where they were, eradicating the motes instantly into fading flecks of purple.

When they appeared next to Atlas again, however, it was with looks of surprise and pain, teeth gritted down in twisted grimaces, as each Titan held a part of their face, Koios above his eye and Krios around his cheek. Both areas blackened, badly burnt to a fine charcoal colour, despite the blows themselves aimed for them never landing.

"Peh! Well, this is definitely an improvement from before! You lot have gotten far more efficient at reacting and countering me, now. Couldn't even land a single blow of my own there for a little while. Not a direct one, anyway." Beerus finally spoke from within the veil of fire, which seemed to burn at space and time itself, with how the air warped and distorted around the billowing flames that had no target.

And though the annoyance was palpable in his voice, there was little denying the undercurrent of him being impressed.

Dare they even say, somewhat excited.

The fire slowly started to abate completely then, and before the Titan trio's eyes, it was as if nothing of the battle so far, since Koios had applied his domain's blessing, had taken place against him. Any damage done to Beerus not merely healed, but destroyed altogether, making him look as fresh as a daisy, as he mounted his hands on his hips.

"So, this is what your domain can accomplish under the right conditions, is it?" The Olympian asked pointedly toward Koios, who frowned deeply. "Not bad. I can see why Themis and Metis would've struggled greatly with you. Adding that to these two on top of yourself certainly creates quite the tricky situation, once you know your opponent's every move. Always one step ahead."

Beerus chuckled ominously. "Of course, therein lies the fault in your strategy, which I can see quite plainly now. It's banking on you having read my every movement and knowing everything I can do, so that its effectiveness is absolute on me."

The God's shining, feline form only got brighter, as his aura burgeoned, expanding to 5 metres all around him in a blaze of divine power, as his lips split open further to reveal his sharp teeth, while he turned sideways and aimed an outstretched palm towards them. The other hand slipping behind his back.

"There are several ways I could easily put an end to this plan of yours, those flames being one of them, if I really let them loose, but in the spirit of giving you all a fighting chance, I'll pick none of them and do this the hard way, instead. Make it a tad bit more exciting."

"How generous of you." Atlas's stony voice resounded with sarcasm, insulted yet again by the sheer arrogance on display from the eldest son of Kronos.

Yet at the same time, he and his uncles knew that arrogance was what allowed them to contend as well as they had, so far. That much was clear, no matter how much it wounded their pride to admit.

For with their eyes opened now, thanks to Koios's domain, they were well aware of just how much the Olympian was truly holding back on them, in terms of his physical strength and speed alone. And how much further he could push, if so inclined.

If he went all out from the beginning, no added abilities, just his full power and speed, he'd have wiped them out in an instant, and they'd have stood no chance of stopping him.

He hadn't though. He'd chosen to toy with them, which gave them the chance to take him down via weaponizing his own hubris. And that was what they would do, what they had to do, no matter how difficult it would be.

Failure was not an option. They couldn't allow it to be, in their minds.

They had to believe with all their hearts that victory was achievable. That they could –

KKKKRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

"Huh!? What in Tartarus' name!?" Krios exclaimed for all of them in surprise, when it hit.

Suddenly, it was as if nature itself was howling and screeching all around them, disrupting their thought processes and the brief lull in their battle, making all four of them tense, as they sensed what was happening, even as they looked around.

The earth well beneath their feet blared with noise, striking the ears of the Titans and Beerus almost instantly, as violent tremors struck land and sea. And even the air itself seemed to shiver as an oppressive atmosphere arose without warning, like a horrid miasma from the depths of the deep.

Meanwhile… Within Beerus's Palace…

"Nngh…"

Hestia gripped the lower half of her tunic from where she sat on her brother's bed, face pinched and frowning, as a shiver subconsciously struck her, while the groans of her sisters and Styx's daughter resounded beneath the quakes of the walls and the floor. Their slumber deeply disturbed, both by the shaking of everything around them, and of the aura that asserted itself from beneath their feet.

An aura that felt very similar to one Hestia knew all too well, but carried with it a most terrible air that made her very soul itself shrivel in terror, forcing her to make use of her power to keep herself calm, and offer some protection and comfort to Hera, Demeter and Bia, as they slept restlessly.

Her concern lay greatest of all with her twin, however, as she sensed the intent of whatever was fast rising up toward them being most focused around where he was.

But as she felt it, so too did Hades, as he stopped in his walk through one of the palace's hallways, eyes narrowed sharply and intensely, as he coldly regarded what he sensed rising up, making everything shake around him.

Styx and her awakened children sensed it, too, and whatever lingering drunkenness remained with the Titaness' sons and daughter seemed to vanish, as the terror-inducing aura touched them and made them involuntarily quake. Even the eldest Oceanid failing to hold back her shiver at the oddly familiar, yet foul air that arose from beneath Gaea's grip, as she scowled and tensed herself.

Poseidon also felt it, as he sat naked upon the edge of the bed he'd shared with his nude Nymph lovers the last two nights. His previously serene expression after engaging in lengthy coitus with the now passed out nature Goddesses lying atop the bed fast shifting into an alarmed and serious one, as the terrible feel of that aura hit him and made his lovers squirm and whine fearfully in their slumber.

And it wasn't just them, either, as those who'd remained on Olympus and awoken from their slumber, all began to stir and wriggle frightfully from the seeping aura's touch, as their surroundings shook. Some, such as Helios, Selene, Pan and Themis, even snapping to attention with a sensation of pure, unbridled dread. The likes of which had never been felt before.

Meanwhile… Outside Upon Olympus…

The courtyard was no different from the inner-palace, as all deities who yet remained upon the peak, either stumbling about or engaged in coitus, began to shudder with growing apprehension and clawing dread, as loud gasps and cries filled the air. The dread so great, even their drunkenness was subdued by it, as they were temporarily frozen in place, scared down to their very spirits as the atmosphere became overwhelmingly oppressive in an instant.

"W-What is going on!?" Metis cried out in shock, eyes wide and balance almost tipped, as Olympus shook beneath her feet without warning, the air around her ringing anxiously, as if afraid of something that was coming.

Something she herself could sense, as an immense, bone-chilling bloodlust broke through the pores of the soil, and a foreign, yet familiar-feeling aura leaked up, tickling her senses and making her shudder involuntarily like the rest. Her arms wrapping around herself instinctively.

"And what is this feeling!? Who is producing such a… a vile power!?"

Zeus's face pinched into something grim, as his earlier feeling in his gut, which he'd not known the reason for having, was confirmed resoundingly to have been a warning from his Godly instincts. A warning of something unexpected, something ghastly that was making its presence known and felt.

"Whatever it is, it's nothing good." He muttered just loud enough for Metis to hear, as his fists clenched within his folded arms. The deity pushing down and resisting a sudden compulsion he was astonished to be feeling, and so strongly at that, before whatever was responsible for this sensation had even showed themselves. One he was sure all on Olympus were feeling to some degree, at this very minute.

The urge to flee.

Back in the Heavens…

The Titan trio and Beerus, startled by the sudden shift, which they could all sense came from none of them, all kept their auras up, as that power arose from beneath them. The shaking of all of nature around them growing worse with each second.

By this point, the destroyer's senses had recognized the aura breaking through the bounds of Earth, growing mightier and fouler each instant that passed.

And the being responsible for said aura grew closer.

"You've got to be kidding me…" Beerus muttered, as he glanced down. "Gaea, what are you-"

"Beerus!" The Primordial of the earth's warped voice boomed through her earthen form, starting the Titans and Beerus himself with the worried, distressed urgency she carried, unlike anything they'd seemingly heard before. "Watch out! He's coming!"

Those words had scarcely left her, before both ground and sea exploded out under him and the three Titans in a large radius. A wave of reality-warping power rippling through everything in its path and slamming over the Olympian and his adversaries with incredible force.

VVVHOOOOOOOOOOOSHH!

Senses going haywire, Beerus flew back with expedience, his form a blur as he narrowly avoided a purple-hued pillar of raging fire that ploughed up through the shattered bed of ground and water, looking like it came straight out of Hell!

The fire tore through the space surrounding it like wet tissue paper, stretching out to a staggering twenty-thousand kilometres in diameter by itself, as it thrust up impossibly high into the heavens. The flames as they launched up and scorched at the mists of Aether painting the whole sky a dark, malevolent-looking hue of red and purple, as the destructive breath of flame burned too hot to accurately describe.

"What in the world!?" Atlas exclaimed, as he and his uncles teleported to avoid the pillar of destructive fury. The trio staring in disbelief at the towering inferno that burned at the very heavens itself. The pained cries of Aether resounding everywhere, along with Hemera, as they took the brunt.

The elder Titans were certain they even heard their father's cry of pain in there, somewhere, before the pillar of disastrous flames abated, fizzling away to leave the sky darkened, the shredded ground charred and the sea boiling to an atrocious steam.

That is, of course, where the latter two weren't reduced to nothing but motes of purple light, hardly any different from the ones Beerus produced, when his domain of destruction was invoked, as a gaping, abyssal hole was all that remained where sea and land had previously dwelt.

Inching their gazes down toward that pit of darkness, the Titans and Beerus bore witness to the glowing purple lights of bestial eyes beaming up at them from the depths. Each so large that they rivalled a continent in size. And all of them full of bloodthirsty drive as the flap of wings rang loudly through the disturbed air.

"HRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWW!"

And then came the deafening roar that surged forth, which shook Earth, Sea and Heaven in tandem, nearly bursting the eardrums of the Gods floating above, and making the elements squirm with horror. Less a singular one, was the roar, but one of multitudes of beasts strung together in an abominable chorus that ripped through all that carried sound, making the woken Winds of the Cardinal Directions weep and cry of malady at its horridness.

And then they saw the creature himself, outlined by the oppressive, purple aura of destruction around its form. The Titans for the first time, and Beerus for the second, though the latter's eyes bulged when he saw the monster in full, again, as he soared up from the pit, so much larger than the GOD remembered from his visit to him yesterday.

Featherless, draconic wings that each spanned so wide, they could individually wrap around planet Earth many times over. The heads of various beasts all over its long, densely muscled torso and broad shoulders to go with a more humanoid head, each large enough to easily swallow said planet whole, as they snarled and snapped around like sentient beings unto themselves. And serpents that made up the creature's legs and fingers coiling and hissing with aggression and malicious intent.

"W-What or who is that!?" Koios vociferated in shocked horror, which waved through his cohorts as well, as they backed up instinctually. "I've never in my entire existence bore witness to something so foul, not even from my hundred-handed brothers!"

The elder Titan's voice appeared to attract the monster, who wasted no time hurling its planet-sized fist right toward him, and by extension, his fellow Titans.

Their immediate response was to try and teleport away, in order to easily avoid it.

Only to find that they couldn't. The power refusing to surface in any of them, in that moment.

Panic immediately flashed over the trio, then, as the gargantuan fist rocketed toward them at speeds too great to dodge with pure speed, even if they moved now, with how close it already was to them. The careening appendage making the air screech in its wake.

Atlas was the first to react to this situation, though. His warrior instinct kicking in over the chill of primal terror that tried to claw at his heart, in the presence of such a foul, multi-headed monster, as he reared back, before thrusting forward and ahead of his uncles to meet the giant's punch with his own.

THOOOOOOOOOM!

The resulting shockwave of the colliding forces of the heavily buffed Titan of strength and endurance, and of the multi-headed giant had the heavens almost rent in two with a horrendous screech. The surrounding backdrop warping into a kaleidoscope of colours and wavy motions from reality itself bending, while the endless earth and sea beneath it quaked with vehemence.

Atlas gritted his teeth, grunting harshly as sharp pain lanced up and down his arm, muscles popping and tearing, while bones rattled and cracked from fingers to shoulder, as he pushed back against the giant's destructive might with all his current power, seeking to equal and neutralize it. All as his uncles flinched back and crossed their arms over their faces, bracing themselves against the blast-wave generated.

To the Titan general's credit, the giant's punch was indeed met and stopped in its tracks, as the shockwave died down and their fists pushed away from each other, sending Atlas back into his uncles for support.

As his limp, lifeless arm flailed down by his side, with a stump ejecting motes of purple light where his hand had been, as he clutched his limb with his remaining hand, much to Krios and Koios's astonishment, it was clear that such a defence had come at a steep cost.

"W-What!? Such power! I'm not sure even the Hekatonkheires combined could produce such might!" Koios shouted in disbelief, eyes on Atlas, just as Krios's were, in that brief instant, before an alarmed jerk from their nephew had both snapping their gazes back to the towering behemoth that had arisen from the depths of the earth.

And no sooner had they done so, then were they met with a massive plume of fire, just like the one from before, but twice as big, as it was a combined effort from the dragon heads atop the giant's shoulders.

"Heavens be damned!" Krios screamed, a section of his back lighting up as he pushed every ounce of his domain to the fore. Multiple dome-shaped shields formed of constellations then appeared in-front of them, one after the other, until they reached ten in total. All with the aim of attempting to block the inferno headed toward them.

The flames shredded through each almost like they weren't even there, reducing them to flecks of purple and red light, as it was barely slowed at all, still on a fast collision course with the three Titans, who might as well have been sitting ducks.

Sensing the inevitable on the way, with fear gripping him, the Titan of constellations made a split-second decision before it was too late, reaching over and gripping both his brother and nephew's shoulders with all his strength.

Both snapped their attention to him partially, alarm on their faces, but had no time to utter any words, before he thrusted them both downward at the highest speeds he could. His action making it so that the fire would assuredly miss them, as the final shields in front of him started to splinter like glass.

The only thing the elder Titan could do then, was brace himself, before the light and heat of the fire broke passed his final shield and consumed him entirely.

The unholy roar through the sky was soul-shuddering, as the plume of fire blazed out far into the distance. The blast of hellish flame coming with such force that any surrounding mountains, islands, larger landmasses and the sea that separated them from below either burned, melted, crumbled, were sent flying away, or rippled apart into uncontrollable waves.

"Krios!" Both Atlas and Koios cried out in horror beneath the bellow of fire, as they righted themselves and stopped their descent, which would've plunged them into the pit the monstrous giant had risen from, to begin with.

When the joint breath of fire abated, their fear for their comrade was only amplified, as there was no physical trace of the Titan of constellations remaining, no matter where their head swivelled. And even his very presence itself seemed to have been snuffed out.

Beerus watched this all happen, appearing genuinely stunned at this turn of events, not just with the giant's violent appearance up on the surface, out of nowhere, but also from witnessing the elder Titan's sudden and brutal downfall at said giant's behest.

That fire was harnessing the domain of destruction, in a similar manner to what he did, but was by no means as refined as his own was.

Case in point, the Titan's soul. He had not felt its total destruction, unlike the God's body, which he most assuredly would have, if it had occurred.

That being said, he barely had to sense out at all with his domain to know the damage was still severe, to the point where unless he himself directly intervened, it was unlikely the Titan would have tangible presence in the world, ever again.

He would still exist on some level, which was better than Kronos's completely non-existent self, but the deathless deity was functionally dead all the same, without major assistance.

And it had happened faster than the blink of an eye.

"Oh, Lord Beeeeeeeeeruuuuuuuuuus~!"

The destroyer snapped his gaze down, as he heard that familiar, feminine voice hissing excitedly at him.

It was then he laid eyes on something – more accurately, someone – which had evaded his attention, until now.

That being Ekhidna, who coiled herself snuggling and tightly around the waist of her consort, but from his back, she beamed over at the God of destruction with depravity-laden eyes of darkness. Her serpentine tongue slithering out of her mouth in horny circles, as she regarded the destroyer who helped bring her destroyer into this world with joy. The destruction around them arousing her more and more by the second.

"You don't mind if your beloved son joins in on the destruction, do you? For a little bit of father-son bonding~?" She asked lasciviously, clasping her hands together before her massive breasts, a huge blush sported on her features, as the giant's humanoid head turned to look behind him.

Beerus felt Typhon's gaze upon him, and turned his eyes up to his humanoid face, as he felt the lust for carnage and annihilation roll off the giant in waves alongside his awful aura that could – and was – paralyzing many other lesser deities in the background with terrific trepidation.

"FAAAAATHER!" The title grated deafeningly from his maw almost childishly, as the destructive giant fully turned toward his parent, bearing a face-splitting, toothy smile upon all of his heads, as he focused his attention on him.

With flames billowing from his every mouth, the giant flapped his wings once more, harder this time, kicking up hurricane-like winds that batted against the surroundings, as his menacing aura darkened with his savage glee. His next words being howled out with greater intensity than any storm, as he loomed over the smaller deity with intimidating size currently comparable to a fifth of Olympus's.

"FIIIIIIIIIGHT MEEEEEEE!"

AND CUT!

Well, that's the end of this short chapter.

In the next chapter, well, I wonder just what will happen next, lol.

In any case, not much to say about this, other than an apology for a two-plus month wait for such a short chapter, but I'll make up for it with a much swifter release of the next one in January. New Years Resolution, we'll call it, to have more frequent updates in 2025 than 2024. Hoping for at least 20 chapters being released, but we'll see how it goes.

Regardless, Happy New Year to all you cats out there, as I squeeze this sucker in just before 2024 ends, and I'll see you all in the next one!