"Bzzzzzz...!"
It was the sound of flames trembling.
In midair, Karna's entire body burned with fire, the flames winding around him like countless serpents, endlessly circling him.
Blood dripped onto the flames and was instantly vaporized.
Golden fragments spun within the fire like the scales of a beast.
Then, those fragments gathered toward Karna's hand.
Gradually, they formed a spear.
"----Witness the mercy of the King of Gods----"
Karna began his chant.
"----Indra, watch closely----"
The one he addressed was his opponent's father: Indra, the King of Gods and the Thunder God.
"----Annihilation lies within this thrust----"
It was a declaration of his opponent's end.
"----Burn away completely----"
It was a proclamation of his own end.
Karna raised the spear in his hand.
He raised the spear condensed from pure lightning, radiating a terrifying aura of destruction.
"Crackle... crackle...!"
As though reacting to that Thunder Spear, the Divine Lightning gathered upon Minamoto no Yorimitsu's blade also began to tremble.
It was joy.
It was a wail.
Gazing at that spear of destruction, seemingly formed from all the lightning in the world, Minamoto no Yorimitsu could not help biting her lip.
"So it has finally appeared...!?"
It was only natural, wasn't it?
Anyone familiar with Karna's legend would know what his strongest Treasure Tool was.
It was neither the armor that allowed Karna to stand undefeated nor the Brahmastra capable of destroying even a fortress.
It was a spear.
A God Slayer Spear bestowed by the King of Gods.
In the Indian epic Mahabharata, just before Karna's final battle with his fated opponent Arjuna, a Brahmin monk visited Karna, who had already become the commander-in-chief of the Kaurava army.
The monk's purpose was to ask Karna for his Golden Armor.
At the time, Karna had already sworn that he would grant