"Are you sure this is the right way?" Ayaka asks Nilou.

"According to the memories of that guard I just absorbed? We're nearby."

"You mean these double doors?"

"Yes, it is this one."

Ayaka then kicked the doors open, and in front of them they face a huge machine resembling that of an Inazuman warrior. The person piloting it inside the head opened his eyes and grinned evilly at the two.

"Why, if it isn't the Shirasagi Himegimi of the Kamisato Clan? It is an honor to meet you! I'd tip my hat, but I seem to have lost it!"

"You're the one in the final painting back in the festival."

"Then what of it? I refuse to be called what I was once back then. With the gnosis of my creator, I am able to achieve this far, I am now a God myself!"

Ayaka and Nilou prepares their blades, right before three other people rushed in. They glanced behind them to see Aether, Paimon and Nahida.

"I'm sorry if we're too late, girls!" Aether called out.

"It's alright, Aether... Wait, where's Noelle?" Nilou asked.

"Buer, and the Traveler! This has become an interesting predicament!"

"He has undoubtedly become a true god now, even though I can't feel the same kind of divinity as Greater Lord Rukkhadevata." Nahida noted.

"The existence of what once was called itself Kunikuzushi appears infinitely small..."

The head of the machine, codenamed Shouki no Kami, then closes before it's arms starts to move.

"Now, let us reenact the scene of the Archon War. Come and inaugurate my birth as a god."

The huge right arm of Shouki no Kami then shoots out a powerful mist of cryo, which Aether quickly blocked by using the starfell sword, to summon obstacles for the mist.

"Miss Ayaka, he stole your attack!" Nilou shouted, as she noticed that the mist is nearly similar to Kamisato Ryuu: Soumetsuu.

"I'll kill him!" Ayaka shouted, as a pair of cryo heron wings sprouted from her back, and she flew to the head of Shouki no Kami, and swung her tachi once.

However, no damage was inflicted, and the Shouki no Kami grabs Ayaka with it's right hand effortlessly.

"Oh no... WAAAAHHH!!!" Ayaka screams, as she was swung towards the floor in an insane speed.

"I got you, miss--" Nilou was about to perform a slash, but was blasted away by a blast of pyro from Shouki no Kami's left hand.

Nilou was sent flying to a wall, and fell down to the floor, her body slowly vaporizing. She quickly regained her consciousness, and summoned more water from her vision to restore herself. As for Ayaka, she was smashed to the floor before Shouki no Kami then prepared it's left hand again to blast Ayaka away. She quickly summons a gust of cryo to back away from the blast.

"There'd better be someone behind me--"

"What the-- UGH!"

Ayaka crashes into Paimon, and the both of them continued on until they hit a wall.

Now only Aether and Nahida remains standing, the former dashes towards Shouki no Kami, and struck it's chest multiple times, as Nahida collected energy for the neo akasha terminal that she developed.

"Raikiri!" Aether chanted as he powers up his sword with electro.

However before he could plunge the blade, Shouki no Kami unleashed a rotating arc of electro beams, which sends him flying off it. Aether crashes to the ground, before he summons another boulder via the starfell sword. Peeking out, he then conjures a tornado which absorbed the electro from the beam and it was sent towards Shouki no Kami, which barely dented it. The boulder then fades away just as a huge palm is heading straight towards Aether, which he quickly held back with his two hands. The force from the push soon ruins the floor of the platform where the group are standing, and they all fell down to the floor below, save for Ayaka who recovered and glided down safely.

"This is getting out of hand... Where is that airheaded maid when you need her?" Ayaka asked, as she then plunges down to strike Shouki no Kami.

However it's upper body connects itself with it's lower parts, causing a shockwave to form which knocked Ayaka down to the floor below. Shouki no Kami then continued to fight against Aether, who is struggling against the height and size of the machine long enough until Shouki no Kami then retreats to one end of the arena where it summons a huge portal that shoots out bullets of electro. At the same time, tornadoes were formed as well as waterspouts and freezing mists, making a quiet obstacle course for Aether to pass. However Aether passed it effortlessly, and with one leap of faith, he jumped and thrusts his blade into the chest of Shouki no Kami, attempting to break open the container that held the electro gnosis. However it won't pierce through, and Aether is met with a direct hit from Shouki no Kami's fist which sends him rocketing down to the floor, forming a crater.

It then prepares to crush Aether using it's palm again, however a golden flash appears right as Shouki no Kami thrusts it's palm towards Aether. When the dust settles, Aether opens his eyes to see a long haired individual, with a translucent golden cape flowing down her back.

"N...Noelle!"

"I found you, Aether. The balladeer must be punished for what he is attempting to do to you."

"Now the Maid-Knight of Mondstadt is here! This is getting even more exciting!" The Balladeer said within Shouki no Kami, as he then strengthens his push to crush both Noelle and Aether.

However, he was interrupted with a slash projectile out of cryo which hits Shouki no Kami's head. He then turned his attention to the one interrupting him. It was Ayaka, who slowly stood up and sheathed back her tachi.

"I will kill Noelle, and you won't get that chance! Don't touch Noelle, you understand!?" Ayaka then lets out a battle cry as she flies right towards Shouki no Kami.

Ayaka unsheathes her tachi to perform an iai slash to Shouki no Kami's head, before kicking it with her knee and finally slashing it one more time only for Shouki no Kami to then grab her two arms and twisted them, forgetting that Noelle is now free.

"AAA-AAAGHHH!"

Ayaka was then lifted up, before she was smashed down to Shouki no Kami's knee back-first, so hard that a crack was heard.

"Waaa- Uh." Ayaka is unconscious at this point.

It then continued to break Ayaka's bones apart, until a bubble of hydro hits it in the back. It's head then looked back to see Nilou, sword drawn.

"I have seen the future within my dreams, and you were not there! It is because that Aether, Noelle, and the rest of us will defeat you! You won't end our hope!"

Nilou then charges in, as Shouki no Kami tries to stomp her, but she turns into water, that snakes around it's body before she reforms right in front of it's chest where she then performed a vertical slash, which shoots out a hydro slash projectile that scratches the chamber. She rapidly continued to do the same attack, until Shouki no Kami then blasted her away again with a blast of pyro from it's palm.

As soon as Shouki no Kami returned it's focus towards Nahida, she began to speak.

"The data collection has been completed."

"What!?"

"You have fallen into a loop, and the 168th has been concluded. Do you know, during your creation the people of Sumeru has gone through the same amount of Sabzeruz Festivals as well?"

"When did you use the power of dreams on me!?"

"When you were speaking with Nilou and Ayaka before we arrived, you were still half conscious, and I took that chance to utilize the power from behind the entrance. Now with the loops concluded, all that has happened will be transferred to both the Traveler and the People of Sumeru who still wore their akasha."

The door behind the group slowly opens.

"And do you know... That you don't have any data regarding the chaos that was caused because of Azar's greed, do you?"

There stood Noelle, her eyes still glowing in a fit of inhuman rage.

"Now I shall leave this to you and your family, Traveler... The first sages of Buer!"