"Hikari, that pile of rocks is yours." Menma's voice cut clearly through the intense sounds of clashing metal and explosions.
His confrontation with a butler puppet ended almost instantly.
The puppet's speed and strength far exceeded that of a Jonin, its fist tearing through the air. But Menma merely sidestepped slightly, advancing with a step fast as lightning to close the distance.
His left hand, fingers like steel hooks, clamped onto the wrist joint of the puppet's striking arm… a movement so concise it seemed like he was just brushing dust off his clothes.
His right knee lifted like a battle-axe swinging upward!
Crack!
A sickening crunch echoed!
The puppet's seemingly indestructible rock-like shoulder guard was utterly shattered by the impact!
Simultaneously, Menma's left hand fingers exerted force like a vice. The forearm joint, made of alloy, emitted a heart-stopping groan, instantly twisting out of shape!
Before the butler puppet's other hand could even move, Menma's right elbow, like a fired cannon shell, slammed fiercely into its chest core!
Boom!
The butler puppet flew backward as if struck by a battering ram, its internal components exploding into pieces with a tremendous roar!
Propelled by immense force, it smashed into a stone pillar ten meters away, splattering a mess of broken parts and viscous energy fluid.
At the same time, there was a loud sound!!!
The half-bodied stone statue with Hamura's head and insect-like arms moved!
One of its mountain-like giant arms rose high, carrying with it the force of ten thousand tons and a suffocating pressure, and descended like a falling meteorite, savagely smashing towards the center of the plaza where Kimimaro and Kanon were engaged in slaughtering the common puppets!
The point of impact covered an extremely wide area. The terrifying air pressure descended first, sending gravel on the ground flying!
"Don't even think about it!"
Hikari's clear voice carried an iron resolve, sharp enough to sever steel!
The red Complete Body Susanoo is like the incarnation of a god standing tall and upright!
Facing the statue's devastating fist, the Susanoo, gripping a massive Chakra Sword wreathed in dark red magma-like patterns with both hands, met the blow head-on!
"Ha!"
The Susanoo's twin wings erupted with an overwhelming tidal wave of force!
The giant's form advanced instead of retreating. The enormous sword swept upward, tearing through the void, carving a destructive arc of dark red light like a bloody moon!
The space around the blade seemed unable to withstand this power, twisting and blurring!
Boom!!!
Blade and stone fist collided with terrifying force!
There was no stalemate!
Only utter annihilation!
The red Chakra Sword cut through the incredibly hard, knotty giant stone fist as if it were soft butter under a hot iron, splitting it cleanly in two!
From the massive cross-section, shattered rock erupted like volcanic lava, spraying from both sides!
The immense shockwave tore up the ground for dozens of meters all around!
The stone statue let out a deep, heaven-shattering groan, its upper body violently thrown backward!
"Not enough!" Hikari, standing within the diamond crystal in the Susanoo's forehead, had her Mangekyo Sharingan's pattern spinning wildly.
The Susanoo's other hand shot out, firmly grasping the statue's other arm… the one whose fist had just been split and hadn't yet been withdrawn!
Terrifying brute force erupted!
Boom-
Crack-!
Amidst countless flying debris and billowing dust, the statue's massive, mountain-like upper body was actually hoisted up by the red Complete Body Susanoo!
It was swung like an enormous, clumsy bludgeon and hurled fiercely towards another dense cluster of buildings at the edge of the plaza!
The earth shook madly!
Just as the statue was swung and thrown like a hammer, Menma moved!
He paid no heed to the wreckage of the butler puppet he had just destroyed. His gaze, sharp as a cold blade, instantly traversed the chaotic battlefield, piercing through the flying puppet fragments and churning dust, locking firmly onto Shuto, who stood before the castle gates!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Beside the wreckage of puppets pierced by Kimimaro, on the ruins swept by the ends of Kanon's chains, in the shadows where Shisui dodged the attacks of the maid puppets-
Specially crafted kunai engraved with unique sealing formula silently embedded themselves into the ground!
They spread like lethal coordinates, quietly covering the entire vast plaza battlefield.
In the next instant, Menma's figure vanished!
[Flying Thunder God: Second Step!]
The trajectory of his spatial leap was even faster than the eye could follow!
The afterimage he left behind hadn't even dissipated before his true form tore through the void, appearing less than ten meters in front of Shuto!
Without the slightest pause, leveraging the momentum from his high-speed movement, his center of gravity flowed forward like water. A cannon-fist, wrapped in the force of wind and thunder, tore through the intervening air, directly hammering towards Shuto's center!
The motion was refined to its absolute peak, carrying a terrifying, penetrating sharpness that seemed capable of piercing any defense!
Before the fist even landed, the substantialized air pressure caused Shuto's tied-back hair to whip backward wildly!
Bang!
At the critical moment, the two butler puppets guarding Shuto's sides, like the most loyal shields, simultaneously stepped sideways, using their bodies to block the fist's path!
Immense force erupted against the two butlers' bodies in a visible wave of white air!
The puppets' joints emitted a piercing screech of protest!
The two butler puppets were actually sent sliding backward several meters by the punch, their feet plowing deep furrows into the ground!
One of the butlers had several deep cracks visibly etched into its chest!
Shuto's pupils constricted sharply!
His opponent's method of attack, capable of arriving instantaneously and completely ignoring distance, shattered his understanding!
The Taijutsu assault that fused overwhelming, penetrating force with precise, micro-destructive power was something he had never even heard of!
"Repulsion!"
The strong sense of crisis made Shuto raise his hand without hesitation, drawing upon the power of the Giant Tenseigan to activate his Dojutsu!
A pale cyan glow instantly erupted from his hand!
An invisible yet immensely powerful repulsive force, like a substantial shockwave, exploded outward from him as the epicenter!
Hum!
The repulsive force swept out!
Menma's charging form slammed into an invisible steel wall, forced to slide backward by this irresistible power, his feet scraping long white trails across the icy ground!
The maid puppets trying to pounce and the common puppets swarming nearby, caught in the peripheral wave of the repulsive force, were sent tumbling away like leaves caught in a gale!
"How can this be possible!" Shuto roared, his voice a mix of shock and fury!
The power his opponent displayed completely exceeded his estimations!
He jerked his head up, his empty eye sockets seeming to pierce through the layered walls of the castle, connecting directly to the distant Hamura's shrine floating in the void, emitting an eternal, illusory light!
"In the name of our ancestor!"
Boom! ! !
A beam of blazing light, so vast it defied description, erupted from the top of the giant shrine hovering just behind and above the castle!
The beam was a deep, dark violet that seemed capable of devouring everything it touched. Space warped violently along its path!
It was like a divine spear of punishment piercing heaven and earth, disregarding the stone statue locked in struggle with the Susanoo in the center of the battlefield, disregarding the struggling puppets.
Its world-ending point was aimed squarely at the entire castle's plaza!
It intended to wipe this area, along with all the invaders and even the lowly puppets, completely off the map of space!
The speed of the beam's descent surpassed thought!
Terrifying pressure and an aura of annihilation instantly filled every inch of space!
Shisui, who is locked in combat with the maid puppets, froze, Kimimaro, whose spear piercing a puppet's chest, looked up in stunned realization…
Kanon's golden chains hung motionless in mid-air, while Hizashi's Byakugan was instantly filled with the destructive violet radiance!
"Arrogant!"
Amid the cold, disdainful rebuke, the light from Hikari's Mangekyo Sharingan erupted with an unprecedented, sinister scarlet glow!
Boom!!!
The Complete Body Susanoo, which had been formed for a while, let out a roar that shook the void!
At the very moment the violet light beam was about to consume the plaza, the red giant abruptly withdrew the force suppressing the stone statue. Its massive Chakra Sword shifted from a diagonal slash to an upward slash!
The dark red energy wrapped around the blade ignited like volcanic magma, its brightness skyrocketing!
The enormous Chakra Sword slashed toward the world-ending violet light beam!
There was no sound.
Or rather, at the moment of contact, all sound was swallowed by a more terrifying phenomenon of annihilation.
There was only the collision of extreme darkness and light!
The dark red blade, with brute, overwhelming force, split the deep violet beam, which had a diameter enough to cover half the plaza, cleanly in two!
Bzzztt-!!!
Silent waves of annihilation rippled outward in a fan shape to both sides!
The split streams of violet light, like out-of-control floodwaters, slammed violently into the arrays of towering stone pillars on either side of the plaza!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The massive stone pillars, under the impact of this forcibly torn destructive light flow, melted and vaporized like thin ice encountering extreme heat!
Blue fragments and energy residue mixed with a rain of purple light, forming a cataclysmic tidal wave that swept the area of the stone pillar arrays!
A vast vacuum zone was instantly cleared!
The part of the shockwave blocked by the blade's edge swept fiercely through the angle between the Susanoo and the ground, shearing off several more meters of depth from the plaza floor!
This single slash caused Shisui and Hizashi to feel an even more horrifying shock at this Uchiha girl's power.
"How is this possible?!" Shuto's [Mind's Eye] witnessed this terrifying scene, his breath catching, feeling an unprecedented sense of crisis.
'Since when did that Ninja World give birth to such formidable enemies, capable of directly opposing the Chakra Beam Attack of the Giant Tenseigan?!'