Valkyrie - Gate of Valhalla

After letting out a deep sigh, Valkyrie softly places her left hand over her right wrist, then points it at Thanatos. Thereupon, an overwhelming aura that could swallow the entire unified spirit world bursts out of her body.

“Take this...! Omega Valkyrja: Gate of Valhalla!”

I unintentionally imagine that something will shoot out of her hand, but I’m wrong.  A  thick  miasma  rises  into  the  air  as  a  monstrous  gate  appears  over Valkyrie’s head. There’s a gypsum statue of a goddess’s face on the top of the ancient gate.

Is this summoning magic?! I bet she’s summoning something to come out of the gate!

The black gate isn’t made of bars, so what’s inside is shrouded in mystery. But before long, the gate slowly begins to open, releasing the miasma along with it. When the mist clears, I can finally see what’s inside, leaving me aghast. Behind the gate’s doors, a creature robed in black and carrying an iron cross appears—the God of Death that transcends conception—Crossed Thanatos.

Mash and Elulu shriek in astonishment.

“What?! Wh-why?! Why was Thanatos behind the gate?!”

“Don’t tell me that it split into two again?!”

But there are no copies of Thanatos around. The only God of Death is the one standing behind the gate... And it’s the one who has been fighting Valkyrie!

“Wh-what kind of attack is that?!”

The instant I mutter that, the eyes of the gypsum goddess statue open atop the gate. What I thought was an inanimate object drips crimson blood from its mouth.

“Gi-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh!”

Eerie laughter echoes as if from the pits of hell. I look at the goddess statue cackling as blood pours not only from its mouth but the eyes as well.

“...?! What is that?!”

I think I just wet myself a little.

Thanatos tries to crawl out of the gate, but the black door gradually closes along  with  the  laughter.  Countless  spikes  attached  to  the  inside  of  the  doors lowly pierce the invincible God of Death, crackling and popping as if bones are being broken.

“Aaa...aaaaaa...”

I suddenly hear what sounds like a groan coming from Thanatos’s face—the deep abyss. Then...

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

The God of Death, who I thought was void of emotion, starts to scream! But even  Thanatos’s  cries  are  drowned  out  by  the  insane  laughter  of  the  bloody goddess statue.

“Gi-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh-geh!”

Clang!

The door to the gate shuts along with a heavy clank. Then a few moments goby as the miasma clouding around the gate disappears almost simultaneously as the portal itself fades out of existence.

In the midst of our silence, Valkyrie mutters: “The moment it transcends the law of causality and opens, it swallows the enemy without exception. That is the Gate of Valhalla.”

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Volume 2, Chapter 38