Neji slowly rose to his feet and walked to the very front of the crystal wall.
With his back to the crowd, his gaze pierced through the wall as though he could see the vast Ninja World, ablaze with war on every side.
An indescribable aura quietly spread from his upright figure. It was not a fluctuation of chakra, but something more primordial, more vast—deep as the starry sky, cold as the abyss... a "presence"!
Having only just broken through, Neji could not yet freely control this "presence." Rather than restrain it, he simply let it loose, producing an unexpected effect!
The instant that "presence" emerged, the air in the conference room seemed to be sucked away!
Every Jonin captain and strategist, even the strongest clan heads, felt as though an invisible, icy hand had clamped fiercely around their hearts! Their breathing stopped, and their blood froze!
To their horror, they discovered that the chakra they had always been so proud of trembled like guttering candles in the wind beneath that "presence," on the verge of going out! A tremendous terror born from life's instinctive fear of a higher existence instantly engulfed them!
This was not a difference in strength! It was a gulf between dimensions! Like ants gazing up at the heavens! Like mortals facing... gods!
"Since they all want Konoha dead..." Neji slowly turned around. In his icy eyes, that speck of Genesis Immortal Radiance, where three colors fused together, suddenly lit up like a cold star, scorching every soul present!
His voice was terrifyingly calm, yet it carried the supreme authority to judge life and death. "Then let their 'Kage'... go to hell first!"
Boom—!
Those words exploded through the deathly silent conference room like thunder from the ninth heaven!
"Lightning Decapitation Plan." Neji's voice was like