While they were discussing a strategy, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki came toward them.
In the blink of an eye, massive stone blocks fell from the sky, each one as thick as a truck.
They smashed into the ground, instantly cracking the earth.
Fortunately, they were too cumbersome, making them fairly easy to dodge.
"Holy crap! What is that? Earth Release?"
Ōnoki shook his head. "Torikaze said this is one of his abilities. He can absorb any object, then fire it back out."
"He probably absorbed these stone blocks long ago, and we just happened to run into them."
Karatachi Yagura looked somewhat surprised. "Then what do we do? It seems like backing out easily would be the best choice."
Ōnoki shook his head. "Of course not. There's no danger here. Even if we're killed, we won't actually die. It's all virtual—what could be better?"
Hearing Ōnoki's words, Karatachi Yagura knew that unless this battle reached its final moment, Ōnoki would not be willing to give up.
Since that was the case, they would keep moving.
The six of them spread out to prevent themselves from being struck by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's stone blocks again.
But to his surprise, following an angry roar from Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, a rain of stone pillars immediately fell from the sky!
It nearly flooded the entire plain.
"Fuck! Is this even a ninjutsu a human can use? How are we supposed to fight this?!"
Karatachi Yagura cursed at once, becoming the first to be crushed to death by a stone pillar.
Right after that, everyone else was crushed beneath the pillars as well, and this grand challenge came to an end just like that.
After leaving the Trial Tower, all six of them were completely dazed, still finding everything that had just happened rather unreal.
"We were crushed to