Otsutsuki Yi and Otsutsuki Heng were already scared out of their wits. Seeing the five powerhouses before them compete over who would kill them, they completely lost it.
Otsutsuki Yi trembled violently. "D-don't fight over us! We're not worth anything!!"
Otsutsuki Heng wanted to cry, but had no tears left. "We're just two leftover generals making up the numbers! You don't need to gang up on us!!"
The next second...
More than a dozen layers of Root Algorithms triggered simultaneously. Lü Bu's adoptive-family instant-kill mechanism locked on, Guan Yu's execution check for men in their prime took effect, Shengzhu's twelve conceptual laws suppressed them, WarGreymon's dragon-form instant-kill locked on, and Saitama charged up the power of Absolute Punch.
No light, no wind, no flashy effects, no screams.
Just two exceedingly faint sounds: "Pfft, pfft."
The two surviving Eternal War Generals were completely erased at the root level. They hadn't even had a second to struggle, hadn't even managed to produce a death scene, and their screams were still stuck in their throats. The spot where they had stood was spotless, without so much as a speck left behind.
All five Eternal War Generals froze.
Lü Bu scratched his head. "Who killed them? I hadn't even swung my halberd!"
Guan Yu was dumbfounded. "I hadn't even raised my blade, and they're gone?"
Shengzhu's mouth twitched. "Could you slow your hands down a little?! I'd only just activated my twelve talisman laws!"
WarGreymon stuttered mechanically. "Targets disappeared prematurely. Check invalid."
Saitama spread his hands helplessly. "What did I tell you? Too fast. There's nothing to play with."
Silence filled the void.
The Ōtsutsuki God stared blankly at the empty corner, utterly numb, utterly withdrawn.
Of the eight Eternal War Generals he had spent hundreds of thousands of years cultivating, six had been