Familiar Ninjutsu

"Space-Time Divine Sword, ha!"

With a loud shout from Shin, the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi burst forth with a blinding radiance. Spatial cracks spread even more densely, as if the world's laws had been rewritten, and everything became incomparably slow.

The world fell silent at that moment.

The wind stopped, all sound fell still, and everything froze in place. Nearly ten thousand Konoha ninja below wore expressions of terror.

The sword light descended, seemingly ignoring the distance of space as it exploded directly amid the Konoha ninja.

It was not ordinary sharp sword energy, but a stranger power of space and time. An ancient, weathered sensation emerged as the passage of time abruptly accelerated.

Konoha's ninja had no idea where the attack came from. Countless ninja felt their bodies age in an instant, as though they had lived through decades within a single second. Their skin shriveled, and they withered away.

In just three seconds, several hundred ninja had already died to the ravages of time. Their vitality had been entirely drained, and they died when their lifespans ran out.

In the span of a breath, more and more ninja fell. Centered on where the sword light had landed, the devastation rapidly spread outward in all directions.

But that was not all. Aside from the bizarre passage of time, shattered space followed in its wake. Within the crowd, space began to distort, as though it had been sliced into irregular patterns, strange and unpredictable.

Countless ninja were swallowed by the chaotic currents and vanished the instant they were touched by those spatial fissures, before they could even understand what had happened.

Those were the lucky ones. Many others were only touched on part of their bodies, and entire sections vanished without them even realizing it. The wounds were incomparably smooth, blood pouring from