Inside the Hokage's Office, the teacup at Baishi's fingertips had gone completely cold.
He did not touch it again. He merely gazed quietly at the killing formation he had personally created within the Water Mirror, a formation that could be called a work of art.
(So-called Kekkei Genkai, so-called clan secret techniques—before absolute computational power and an overwhelming intelligence advantage, they were nothing more than children playing house.)
(Gentle Fist? Pressure Point Technique? Far too crude.)
(Only by shattering your laughable pride and making you realize that everything you took pride in was worthless would you understand who the true god was.)
A cold, indifferent curve touched Baishi's lips.
His gaze, like the most precise ruler, swept across the twelve "Heroic Spirit" monsters in the Water Mirror, already consumed by frenzy and confusion.
It was time to begin this grand "dissection."
Kyoto, above the ruins.
"ROAR!!!"
The Ox-headed Monster let out an earth-shaking roar, its enormous scarlet eyes fixed on the human insects before it, who had suddenly stopped fleeing and instead formed a strange formation.
An instinctive sense of danger made its massive body feel irritation for the first time.
It suddenly raised its huge claw, as massive as a mountain boulder, and viciously slammed it down at Hyuga Hiashi, standing at the forefront of the formation!
The pressure wave was like a tangible wall, blasting every piece of rubble from the ground into the air!
Yet Hyuga Hiashi showed not the slightest trace of fear in the face of this horrifying strike, enough to crush even a Jonin into pulp.
Within his Byakugan was reflected the trajectory of the descending claw. Yet over that trajectory lay a flawless evasion route, formed from silver threads.
This was the "Oracle" bestowed by Lord Hokage!
"First group! Execute!"
Hiashi's voice