Tokyo's 20th Ward. A bustling intersection. Towering billboards flashed with neon light. Traffic lights kept changing. Pedestrians hurried past. No one noticed the depths of the void collapsing. Crack.
A sharp fracture rang out ten thousand meters overhead. The sky split open, and a vast golden rift stretched across it. Violent bolts of lightning raged within.
The lightning lit up the entire city. A gale rose without warning and tore the clouds apart. Countless pedestrians stopped and stared at the sky in terror. "Did the sky just split open?" "Is that an eclipse?"
Alarmed cries spread through the streets. The next moment, a Golden Dragon Banner vast enough to blot out the sky descended from the rift. A majestic Five-Clawed Golden Dragon adorned it, looking almost ready to come alive.
Supreme majesty enveloped all of Tokyo. The Great Empire's Dragon Banner had officially descended upon this world of monsters and despair. Then a tall figure stepped out of the void.
He wore a Nine-Clawed Dragon Robe of snowy white, its gold-embroidered dragons gleaming in the sunlight. The white robe billowed around him. His hair was silver as snow, and his uncanny violet eyes looked down upon the mortal world. They were the Double Six-Tomoe Tenseigan Rinnegan.
It was Tobirama Uchiha! He moved slightly, descending toward an intersection in Ward 20. His leather shoes touched the asphalt without stirring a speck of dust.
Yet space within a hundred meters visibly warped.
[Ding! The Supreme Sovereign has successfully descended!] [The Great Empire's fundamental laws have begun forcibly merging!] [The laws of the Ghoul World are being rewritten...] [Earth Spirit Leyline takeover in progress!]
The system's cold, mechanical voice sounded in Tobirama's mind. Rumble. The ground beneath all of Tokyo began to shake violently.
The Earth Spirit Leyline buried