A unleashed every last scrap of his chakra without restraint, even drawing on his life force.
Lightning surged wildly around him, its color shifting from blue-white to a searing gold.
He abandoned all defense and concentrated his strength in his fists, becoming a walking, human-shaped thunderstorm.
At a speed beyond his limits, he tore through the air and charged once more at Uchiha Ryūha high above.
This was his final and most powerful killing blow, a strike that wagered his life and his dignity as Raikage!
This time, he would drag that lofty "god" down into the mortal world and perish with him.
Facing this desperate attack, Liuyu did not even show the slightest change in his eyes.
He merely raised his other, empty hand slightly, palm still facing upward, and slowly curled his fingers.
As his fingers closed, the countless threads of white light in the sky suddenly trembled.
Then, like subjects obeying their king's command, they instantly converged along the path of A's charge, drawing tightly together.
The threads moved faster than the eye could follow, as though space itself were folding.
In the blink of an eye, they wove themselves into an enormous hand of pure light directly in A's path, its weave so dense that not a single gap remained.
The blazing golden thunderstorm that A had become slammed headfirst into the palm of that hand of pure light!
There was no earth-shaking explosion.
There was no roar of colliding energies.
There was only a faint "pop," like a bursting bubble.
The furiously raging golden lightning covering A's body, hot enough to vaporize steel-
The instant it touched the palm of light, it silently... vanished, like ice and snow beneath a blazing sun.
Beneath the lightning, A's bloodstained face was revealed, his muscles bulging, his expression