Crushing the Sword Saint!

"This sword will send you straight to Hell!!"

On the temple's second floor, a violent surge of white sword pressure erupted.

Reid Astrea, the First Sword Saint, wore a savage expression.

The iron sword in his hand

tore through the void in a ten-millionth of a second.

Riiip—

Dazzling white sword energy swept across the chamber.

The tower walls were impossibly hard,

forged from ten-thousand-year-old black crystal. The instant the sword energy touched them,

they burst apart with a deafening crash, crumbling and collapsing across a vast area.

Countless massive chunks of black crystal

were caught in the wake of the sword pressure,

swept up by the gale and sent crashing down in a storm of rubble.

Reid poured everything into this strike.

He unleashed

all the power left in his remnant soul. Its force shook the heavens.

The sword fell at blinding speed.

"My lord, watch out for his sword energy!"

From a corner beside the steps, Emilia cried out in terror.

"That sword intent... it can cut through the laws themselves!"

Felt tightened her grip on her short blade, her face pale.

As divine consorts of Heaven,

they understood the terrifying power of that sword pressure better than anyone.

Tobirama Uchiha, however,

still stood quietly in the center of the ruins.

His silver hair stirred gently, his white clothes gleamed like snow, and his expression was cold as frost.

Reid's plain yet indestructible iron sword

flashed forward at incredible speed.

Its tip

pointed straight at Tobirama's face.

But when the blade reached a point barely an inch from Tobirama's skin,

Hummm!!!

An

invisible, flawless Absolute Spatial Web, harder than anything imaginable,

suddenly appeared in the void.

It locked the tip of the long sword fast in empty space.

The air itself gave a faint, tortured whine,

yet