The battlefield descended into chaos completely.
The peaceful plains connecting the forest villages no longer existed anymore.
What once had been open grasslands beneath clear skies had transformed into a shattered warzone filled with collapsing earth, divine flames, broken space, and endless screams echoing beneath storm-covered heavens.
The Entity's army continued flooding endlessly from the massive fracture hanging above the battlefield.
No matter how many fell—
more kept coming.
And standing alone at the center of it all—
Arin fought like a force beyond human understanding.
Golden-black energy exploded continuously around him while Vijaya burned brighter with every passing moment. The completed divine bow no longer felt merely divine now.
It felt alive.
Every Astra responded instantly to him as though the weapon itself understood the desperation behind each attack.
The villages behind the battlefield remained in full evacuation. Families rushed desperately through forest paths while carts moved endlessly toward safer routes deeper south. Fear spread everywhere.
And through all of it—
the others fought too.
But not on the battlefield itself.
They understood the truth now.
This wasn't their war to win.
It was their duty to protect the people behind it.
Riven and Darin stood near the eastern forest routes alongside several hunters from the villages while smaller underlings that broke through the battlefield charged toward fleeing civilians.
Riven swung his blade through one of the distorted creatures afterward before immediately pulling a child behind him.
"MOVE FASTER!"
The villagers rushed past him desperately while dark creatures crawled through broken trees around them.
Darin slammed another underling into the ground violently before looking toward the battlefield again.
And every single time he looked—
the scale of what Arin was doing became harder to comprehend.
Because the plains themselves were disappearing beneath the Astras.
The sky shattered repeatedly above the battlefield while divine energy exploded endlessly across the horizon.
Meanwhile on the western evacuation paths—
Liora fought beside Selene, Kael, and Aira protecting another massive group of villagers moving deeper into the forest.
Liora unleashed waves of solar flames repeatedly through the trees while corrupted creatures tried surrounding the civilians.
Even after regaining Mira's memories, her power still wasn't near Arin's current level.
But compared to ordinary enemies—
she was terrifying.
Golden flames burned entire groups of underlings instantly while Selene and Kael fought beside her protecting the retreating villagers.
Aira helped guide the injured farther south while continuously watching the battlefield in the distance.
Because nobody could stop looking at it.
The war itself had become impossible to ignore.
At the center of the plains—
Arin unleashed another Astra.
"VAYAVYASTRA."
The skies exploded into storms instantly.
Hurricane-force winds tore across the battlefield violently while thousands of enemies were lifted screaming into the air before being shredded apart by compressed divine pressure.
The plains cracked further beneath the force released by the attack.
But still—
the army continued advancing.
The Entity remained motionless far behind its forces while countless eyes watched the battlefield silently.
Almost patiently.
Arin understood immediately.
The Entity wasn't trying to overwhelm him instantly.
It was exhausting him first.
Using endless waves of underlings to slowly drain his power.
And honestly—
against anyone else, the strategy would have worked already.
But Arin wasn't fighting like an ordinary warrior anymore.
Every restored memory pushed him further now.
Every lifetime strengthened his resolve more.
Karna.
Aditya.
Arin.
All of them stood together inside him now.
And for the first time across countless cycles—
he remembered everything.
Thousands of underlings charged him simultaneously afterward.
Arin raised Vijaya again.
"NAGASTRA."
The battlefield screamed.
Massive serpent-shaped celestial arrows erupted across the plains before multiplying endlessly through the sky itself. The divine snakes tore through entire sections of the army violently while explosions of venomous spiritual energy consumed everything they touched.
The advancing forces collapsed instantly beneath the attack.
But then larger creatures emerged from the fracture afterward.
Towering beasts covered in black armor charged through collapsing space itself while distorted energy poured endlessly from their bodies.
Arin immediately understood.
The real monsters were finally arriving now.
One of the giants slammed its fist into the battlefield hard enough to create a crater stretching hundreds of meters. Another unleashed corrupted energy that erased entire sections of the plains instantly.
The pressure released by them shook even the forests behind the battlefield.
Villagers screamed in terror seeing them emerge.
Riven stared toward the battlefield afterward with disbelief.
"How many monsters DOES this army have?"
"No idea," Darin answered grimly.
"And I really don't want to find out."
Back at the center—
Arin finally stopped holding back completely.
Golden flames erupted around him violently afterward while celestial symbols spread across the sky behind him like ancient scriptures awakening.
Then slowly—
he drew another arrow.
The atmosphere changed instantly.
Even the Entity finally moved slightly.
Because it recognized the Astra forming now.
"INDRASTRA."
Lightning descended from the heavens.
Not ordinary lightning.
Divine judgment itself.
Entire storms collapsed downward across the battlefield while millions of volts of celestial energy obliterated everything beneath them. The giant creatures screamed as their bodies disintegrated beneath the attack.
The battlefield disappeared beneath light completely.
And still—
Arin didn't stop.
One Astra after another continued tearing through the endless army.
"BHUMI ASTRA."
The earth itself rose violently beneath the enemy forces before crushing entire waves under mountains of stone.
"PARJANYASTRA."
The skies flooded. Massive storms drowned thousands instantly beneath divine torrents.
"GARUDASTRA."
A colossal golden bird manifested above the battlefield before descending through the army like divine wrath incarnate.
Every attack changed the battlefield itself.
The plains no longer looked natural anymore.
They looked destroyed beyond recognition.
And through all of it—
Arin kept moving forward alone.
Not backward.
Never backward.
Toward the fracture.
Toward the Entity.
Toward the source of the invasion itself.
Liora noticed it immediately from the forest edge afterward.
"…he's advancing."
Selene looked toward the battlefield again afterward.
And she realized Arin truly wasn't merely defending anymore.
He was forcing the entire army backward.
Alone.
The realization felt unreal.
Then suddenly—
the sky darkened even further.
The fracture expanded violently across the heavens while something massive began emerging slowly from within it.
Not another giant.
Something worse.
The battlefield itself trembled beneath its presence before it even fully appeared.
Arin immediately stopped moving afterward.
Because for the first time since the war began—
he felt genuine danger approaching.
The Entity finally spoke again afterward.
Its voice echoed across the shattered battlefield like the sound of reality dying.
"LET US SEE IF YOU CAN STILL STAND… SURYAPUTRA."