As Hanti's mocking laughter died away, all the pillars of light had fallen.
A towering ice pillar, over a hundred meters wide and nearly a thousand meters tall, appeared between heaven and earth.
For a moment, everything fell silent.
Other than the howling of the cold wind high in the sky, there was no other sound.
Even the roars and cries of the frost dragons and white-winged wyverns from before had vanished.
They had all been wiped out by those ten Chibaku Tensei.
But Hanti did not care.
She now understood that no matter how many frost dragons she had, it would be difficult for them to threaten Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo.
Fortunately, the battle was already over!
"Hmph, I thought he was something impressive. He talked so big before, saying he would capture this Goddess. But who is this Lord Imu he mentioned? The ruler of the World Government?"
Hanti crossed her arms beneath her chest, thrust out her proud figure, and cursed furiously.
"If he truly rules the World Government, why was there no information about him in the soul memories of those three people?"
The thought left her uncertain and uneasy.
[Crack!]
Suddenly, a crisp cracking sound rang out, and Hanti's expression froze.
When she raised her eyes toward the gigantic ice pillar piercing the clouds before her, she was shocked to see cracks appearing across its surface and spreading outward at incredible speed.
"How could this be—"
[Boom----]
Before Hanti could finish speaking, the pillar that held up the sky exploded.
An unimaginable Shockwave became a thick, surging blast wave, sweeping countless chunks of shattered ice of all sizes into every direction across this Underworld.
[Bang bang bang bang.]
They fell like meteors across every corner of the snowy plains.
Ice Oni, green Goblins, blue beastmen, ice trolls,