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At his low shout, the world seemed to hit rewind. Visible ripples of dashed lines spread outward from Xun Uchiha, reversing time wherever they passed. The destroyed house was restored in the blink of an eye, its broken walls piecing themselves back together as the scattered dust returned to its original place.
Whoosh-
Another shell fired, following exactly the same trajectory as before, heading straight for the intact earthen house.
Xun Uchiha's fingertips twitched. His electronic vision worked at blinding speed, streams of data flooding his display:
[Target object: armor-piercing shell] [Current speed: 1,500 meters/second]
The breath of death rushed toward him.
"Time Slow."
Xun Uchiha raised his hand again. For an instant, heaven and earth seemed to stand still.
The shell that should have been a certain kill paused in midair, then slowed to a crawl, as though struggling through thick honey.
This was the ultimate application of his ability-stretching a single second across three hundred times its normal duration. Within his vastly expanded perception, the blistering speed of fifteen hundred meters per second became a leisurely glide of just five meters per second.
Xun Uchiha sprang into motion, shooting into the air like a bolt of lightning.
The God King Vajra Technique surged through his gauntlets at full power, and the super diamond alloy gave off a faint, cold gleam.
Crack!
A crisp report rang out.
To everyone watching, the speeding shell seemed to have been forcibly stopped by an invisible hand. Xun Uchiha reached out with one hand and firmly caught the scorching lump of iron.
Yet the laws of physics had not ceased to apply simply because time had changed.
The enormous kinetic energy was still there; it merely acted over a longer span of time. It was like a huge boulder rolling