Chakravartin fires a doomsday blast at Gaea but Asura, as he enters space, transforms into a near-godly form called Asura the Destructor and deflects it. Asura engages Chakravartin in a battle that causes the very fabric of time and space to come apart with all of creation, eventually bringing down Chakravartin by sheer force of will – but before Asura can finish him, Mithra breaks free and urges him to stop since, if Chakravartin is killed, all mantra-powered beings will cease to function, including Asura himself. Asura chooses to destroy Chakravartin nonetheless, satisfied so long as Mithra can live free from danger. As the landscape around him collapses, Asura shares his final words with Mithra and vanishes, free of wrath for the first time. Mithra is sent back to Gaea, where she integrates with the surviving humans, spending many years – centuries, given her demigoddess lifespan – recounting the tales of her father to the mortal children on Gaea.
Tropes:
- Art Imitates Art: In the epilogue 870 million years later, Asura's story has been immortalized in a statue of him not unlike the Statue of Liberty.
- Crossover Cameo: Chun-Li from Street Fighter appears as a policewoman scolding Kalrow's Reincarnation in modern-times. Though it is left vague if this is in any way canon to Street Fighter in any way.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: When Asura makes it inside Chakravartin's statue, the real Chakravartin greets Asura, pleased with his progress. He gives him back Mithra and proclaims that he is a "perfect being," and that he will make him Gaea's new supreme ruler. He give Asura his hand, the player asked to press a button to accept it... and Asura punches him in the face.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Even though he knows that he will die without mantra, Asura lands the finishing blow on Chakravartin, sacrificing himself for the sake of Mithra and Gaea.
- Irony: Asura has been proven multiple times to be a Nay-Theist who hates being worshipped by humans. With Mithra telling humanity his story however, Legend Fades to Myth and it seems that Asura has become an iconic and venerated symbol to humanity 870 million years after his death. There is a Statue of Liberty-esq statue of his likeness outside of a city and there is a Burger Fool restaurant chain named after him (Asura Attack Burger).
- Kill the God: While he certainly put up a fight, Asura manages to kill Chakravartin in his Creator form, ending his reign, eliminating all mantra and rendering what is left of the Demigod race mortal.
- The Magic Goes Away: When Asura kills Chakravartin, all mantra goes along with him. Asura dies, the remaining demigods are rendered mortal, with Vlitra gone the Gohma die out and all that remains of Shinkoku are the wrecked remains of its architecture and machinery. The epilogue implies that mantra returns in some form many centuries later.
- One-Winged Angel: As Asura gains the upper-hand, Chakravartin takes on a sleeker and more sinister form called "Chakravartin, the Creator."
- Peaceful in Death: As he slowly fades away, Asura admits that his wrath, after all this time, is finally gone, with the last shot of his face revealing that his eyes no longer glow.
- Reincarnation: In the epilogue 870 million years after the events of the game, we see various characters who have a startling resemblance to the various characters from the game's plot, implying that even though Chakravartin's death led to the mantra dying with him, samsara still exists without him.
- Asura, Durga, Mithra and Yasha reincarnate as a family otherwise identical to their former selves. Both Asura and Yasha wear dogtags, implying both have served in the military at some point.
- Wyzen appears as a fat brute with a W on his overall Asura punches for bumping into Mithra. He also appears earlier with Augus' concubines from "Words of Wisdom" as Waitresses outside of Asura Attack Burger.
- Kalrow appears as an old man in a nice suit on a segue, being irritable to a policewoman.
- Sergei is a national celebrity with his face plastered all over the city (perfectly fitting his previous incarnation's affinity to Vanity mantra).
- Purification troops and a Redemption Troop Major appear as obnoxious locals accosting Augus.
- Augus appears as an old Japanese man in a kimono with a scarred eye and a tattoo on his arm.
- Deus and Olga appear as a business CEO and his secretary, both running late when Deus decides to help an old man (Emperor Strada) cross the street.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: A soft and tragic one. Much like the various Shut Up, Hannibal! moments throughout the game, you have the option to interrupt Mithra when she tries talking Asura out of killing Chakravartin, knowing that Asura will die if all mantra goes away when Chakravartin dies. He doesn't punch her though. Instead, he merely rushes past her, merely saying that at least she would be safe.
- Super Mode: Asura, the Destructor is Asura's most powerful form yet, achieved using the Mantra Reactor of the Karma Fortress that allows Asura to use the power of all 8 Mantras, his Destructor form is a lot like his Mantra form only silver-colored and bigger than Gaea itself. He manages to block Chakravartin's world-destroying beam and fly right to his giant statue-form.
- Villainous Breakdown: As the fight goes on, Chakravartin is knocked right out of his composure, throwing his staffs to the side and discards his Powers Do the Fighting strategy and enters a Pummel Duel with him.
