[Slash Wave: Azure Dragon] was a technique Araki had developed on the foundation of the Wind-Slaying Sword Technique, drawing inspiration from swordsmanship in an anime from his memories.
Its defining trait could be summed up in one word: fast!
By pushing Wind Style's godlike speed to its absolute limit, the flying sword light could even surpass the speed of sound.
By the time the enemy heard the soft chime of that Divine Wind, the sharp blade had already sliced through his body.
This was an ultra-high-speed sword technique so fast that it left people utterly unable to react.
After learning Keqing's lightning-attribute swordsmanship, he had even wanted to incorporate lightning's extreme speed into it.
If wind at its fastest could surpass the speed of sound, then lightning at its fastest represented the speed of light!
And speed was power. There was no need to say much about the might of a lightspeed sword.
[Slash Wave: Azure Dragon] was Araki's initial attempt at a sonic-speed sword.
At the instant he swung his sword, his entire body seemed to merge with the endless gale. At such high speed, eyes without any special abilities had completely lost their usefulness.
Since he could not see anything in this pitch-black world anyway, Araki simply closed his eyes and controlled the direction of his blade solely through his perception of the wind.
In less than a second, Araki had already ridden the dragon-like azure sword light across Sarutobi Hiruzen's neck!
Bang!
The moment that aged head flew up, the thin figure wielding the Adamantine Staff exploded directly into a cloud of smoke.
At the same time, the darkness that had been blocking Araki's vision quietly receded.
"Was that a Shadow Clone?!"
To be fair, Araki had been somewhat annoyed in that instant, but then he felt