Black Flames Burn the Sea and Destroy the Ancient Beast; Arrival on the Dark Continent to Subdue the Calamities!

It was a tsunami of black-ice heavy water surging back toward the heavens.

The black wall of water stood three hundred meters tall and stretched for dozens of kilometers, carrying the laws of extreme cold from the deepest reaches of the Sea of No Return. Once those ten million tons of ultradense heavy water crashed down, they would crush not only fleets of steel warships but even the Hunter World's strongest continental plates, punching a hole straight through the crust in an instant. The air had already frozen under that absolute cold. Before the tsunami even fell, space groaned beneath its weight with crack after crack, like shattering glass.

The enormous head of the ten-kilometer-long Ancient Heaven-Devouring Demon Serpent hung high above the wall of water. Its vertical pupils, like blood-red meteors, reflected the brilliance of the Great Empire Golden Divine Carriage, brimming with greed and savagery. It seemed already to envision the delightful sight of that irritating golden carriage crushed by black-ice heavy water, the energy beings inside becoming food in its belly.

Yet before that inescapable, sky-obscuring expanse of water...

Tobirama Uchiha stood at the dragon-headed front of the divine carriage, his frost-white hair barely stirring in the bitterly cold gale. His face, perfect as a deity's, showed not the slightest panic. Instead, it bore an utter indifference that made souls tremble, as though he were looking at something already dead.

Facing the catastrophic curtain of water about to crash onto his head, Tobirama slowly raised his fair, slender right hand and pressed his thumb against his index finger.

The Mangekyō Sharingan in his deep eyes abruptly stopped spinning. In an instant, an ocular power capable of annihilating eternity crossed the dimensions of space and locked onto the mountainous tsunami ahead.

"A mere firefly dares compete with the