The fall of the newly risen Ancor Vantian

His blood surged, veins bulged, and demonic horns spread...

The secret technique he had not used in so long had not become useless with the passage of time. Instead, as its user grew stronger, it unleashed even more savage power!

For a moment, a tangible, frenzied sense of strength filled Arata's chest.

That feeling made him think, I can be this powerful too. It even stirred an urgent desire to plunge into that endless Purgatory right now and settle the score with the so-called God of Devastation!

Crack.

With a dull cracking sound, fractures spread like spiderwebs across the underside of Ancor Vantian, followed immediately by huge chunks of falling stone!

The power of demonification no longer affected Arata alone. The Susanoo manifested by his Eternal Mangekyō and the phantom of Gyuki formed from Ghost Entanglement Power were also influenced by this violently savage force!

Even Ancor Vantian, as heavy as a mountain, visibly rose higher!

A tiny deviation could lead to an enormous error.

Let alone a displacement of dozens of meters, forced upward by brute strength!

Boom.

At last, amid the contest between gravity, propulsion, and sheer strength, the main cannon finished gathering energy and unleashed its terrifying might into the boundless night!

Like a galaxy streaking across the heavens, like the sun erupting in a flare, the brilliant energy beam lit up the entire sky!

"That's..."

Down on the ground, the villagers, already panicked and unsettled by the ninja assault and the awakening ruins, all stopped moving and held their breath. They looked up as the energy beam, trailing flames, passed directly over their village and finally slammed into the distant mountains.

But unlike the terror shown by those villagers, the girl sitting on the ground with her knees hugged to her chest felt something else entirely.