Long Night Descends, march toward the eternal end!

"Hmph."

Watching the special clones suddenly materialize around her, Princess Yao gave a disdainful snort. The Lunar Radiance Halberd in her hand swept into position to mow down all before her, and the icy words of Moon's Profound Meaning slipped from her lips: "Rushing Flow, dispel the illusions!"

Her words took effect at once. The deep, mysterious waves of purple energy flame quietly receded from the Lunar Radiance Halberd, and a shaft of real daylight pierced the fabricated curtain of darkness.

This change did not mean that the powerful, valkyrie-like woman could sustain only a single attack. She had merely switched from one Moon's Profound Meaning to another.

The deep purple energy on her halberd was replaced by a blue as rich as the depths of the sea.

A tangible dampness filled the surrounding air. Merely reaching out seemed enough to squeeze an absurd amount of water from it!

Splash, splash.

Waves roared in their ears. The previously tranquil sea had suddenly grown restless, and enormous waves rose one after another, each swallowing the smaller ones like great fish devouring little fish, surging relentlessly toward the shoreline.

It seemed to be answering the false moon overhead, stirring the lunar tides.

Arata's attention was also drawn to the irregular spheres of water suddenly condensing from the air around him. He felt as though he stood in a transparent sea, and those blue spheres bubbling upward were its breaths, the bubbles it exhaled.

Of course, these were plainly no ordinary spheres of water, much less the harmless bubbles they appeared to be!

The fundamental principle was this:

The Body Flicker Technique created countless illusory figures through extreme speed, allowing the illusions and the actual body to exchange places in an instant and completely evade Taijutsu, ninjutsu, and ninja tools. Yet beneath the