The instant Planetary Devastation shattered amid the glowing green sword energy, Heavenly Path Pain's floating body jolted violently.
The patterns in his Rinnegan constricted sharply, and cracks appeared for the first time in his formerly frozen, lifeless expression—the shock of a god's majesty being torn apart.
"Impossible..."
A hoarse murmur escaped him as Heavenly Path Pain's fingertips trembled uncontrollably.
Amid the rain of shattered rocks, the glowing green sword energy moved like a living creature, gnawing his prized Planetary Devastation in half.
He could clearly sense the gravitational field at Planetary Devastation's core shattering like glass before that power. This destructive force, beyond the Rinnegan's understanding, made him question his own strength for the first time.
What chilled him even more was that the energy fluctuations erupting as the sword energy tore through the rocks were completely unlike every power he had ever sensed.
It was a force filled with primal brutality, as though it came from an abyss beyond the world, as if it did not belong to this world at all.
It was a terrifying power he had never seen before and could not comprehend!
His Rinnegan spun madly, trying to analyze the nature of this power, yet it only caught the will of destruction flowing through the sword energy.
When he saw the sealed Naruto falling from the rubble while that glowing green light continued carving deep ravines through the ruins, Heavenly Path Pain revealed the emotions he had kept hidden for the first time in battle.
Not anger, nor arrogance, but blankness mixed with fear and the collapse of everything he understood.
The godly arrogance he had maintained for so long was utterly shattered by this power at that moment!
Pain kept retreating, opening the distance between himself and the slowly approaching Harry. He asked in