Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? (LN) - Volume 15 Chapter 5.1

There are only a few methods for defeating a god like that.
You can break them down broadly into two categories: wearing them down, or shattering their souls.
The best examples I know of the latter are Heresy Attacks and Abyss Magic.
Leave it to D to casually build in skills that could defeat a god. That wasn’t very cash money of her.
What the hell was she thinking?
Anyway, that method is way too advanced for me.
Yet D is out there letting people who aren’t even gods use it. That wasn’t very cash money of her.
Seriously, what the hell was she thinking?
I had to say that twice, because it’s very important. A soul is the very core of a living being.
Even a god can’t go on living if their soul gets destroyed. It’s like the true form of a god, really.
So that’s the basic flow of a fight between gods.
Get a way to destroy your opponent’s soul and a way to keep them from destroying yours.
Figure out a method that works on them and find an opening to use it. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to be.
But widdle old me can’t do thaaat.
I basically became a god through some weird cheat code, leaving me without any special secret powers.
So my only available method is the other one: wearing them down. Wear down what exactly, you ask?
Energy, of course.
That’s the driving force for any god.
If the soul is a god’s heart, energy is a god’s blood. They use it to perform all kinds of miracles.
Instantly healing a fatal wound is one such use of energy. Naturally, if they run out of energy, they can’t do that anymore. In other words, they’ll die.
Thanks to my Evil Eyes, I specialize in stealing that energy.
I slowly whittle away at my opponents, like poison working its way through their body.

But see, there’s just one problem with this method…
Like, “god” is basically just a being with a crazy amount of energy stored up, right?
And like, I’ve gotta suck all that energy dry, right? It’s gonna take a ton of time, isn’t it?
Yeah, you know it.
This wearing-down method takes a reeeeally long time. Plus, Black has that damn Dragon Barrier.
I don’t think it can block my Evil Eyes completely, but it’s bound to slow down the effects.
Plus, I’m still busy preparing my base for that plan.
Black doesn’t have the firepower to take me down in one hit, either. All this can only add up to one thing: an extremely drawn-out battle.
We’re basically starting an endurance marathon to see who runs out of strength first.
Oof. That’s no fun…
How many days is it gonna take for this to end? No, it might even take months…
Probably not years, or at least, I sure hope not.
If it did come to that, I can guarantee I’d be the first to crash. I gotta set things up so Black’s the one to go down.
The reason I was working so hard before I got tossed into this dimension was that I knew this battle was gonna take ages.
Since I’m gonna be totally preoccupied with this fight for a while, I wanted to hurry up and finish everything else I needed to take care of first.
Although I ended up letting Black get the first move because of that.
Plus, since I was in such a hurry, I pretty much just dropped the rest of my work in everyone else’s lap.
But there’s nothing else I can do now except hope they can handle it.
I’m worried, of course, but I don’t have a second to spare thinking about
it.
After all, my opponent is Black, the strongest god in this world by a wide
margin.
He’s the strongest opponent I’ve ever faced, too.
Frankly, it was probably a bad idea for a fledgling god like me to take him
on.

But ever since I became a god, I’ve been training for this moment. Don’t you dare assume that I’m gonna go down easily.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the outcome of this battle will affect the course of the entire world.
All right, let’s settle this once and for all, Black and White!
…I better set my backup plan into motion, though.