In the sewage pipes at the deepest point beneath Ward 20, the air was cold and damp, thick with the pungent stench of mold and rust. Countless droplets of filthy water hung motionless in midair. Beneath the faint red light, they
refracted a shattered, icy gleam. At that moment, time and space had been forcibly locked down by supreme divine power.
Dozens of elite suicide operatives from the V Organization remained frozen in their assassination stances. Their blades were trapped just one millimeter from Nashiro Yasuhisa's neck, unable to move.
Kurona Yasuhisa and Nashiro Yasuhisa clung to each other. Their eyes were tightly shut, their long lashes trembling violently in the darkness. The cold, searing pain they awaited never came. Instead, what washed over them was
a warmth as gentle as the early summer sun. Crack. The hard stone vault deep within the tunnel was suddenly ripped apart by a blinding shaft of golden light. Countless golden rays
became a vast, imperishable expanse of Great Empire Holy Light. Within that sacred tide of radiance, Tobirama Uchiha wore a snow-white Nine-Clawed Dragon Robe.
Nine golden dragons slowly swam across the white fabric. Beneath the golden light, his black hair shone with an immortal, sacred luster.
The God Emperor had descended. His right arm gently encircled Takatsuki Sen, who had already become a divine consort of the Great Empire. He walked down step by step from the collapsed passage through the void. Takatsuki Sen wore a red dress, her flawless skin gleaming like jade. Her beautiful purple eyes
were filled with docility and fervent devotion to her god. Tobirama's white robe stirred softly in the air. With every step he took, a golden lotus bloomed in the void. The god's arrival illuminated this filthy, chilling tunnel,
making it resemble the supremely majestic