Humanity's first hunger was ignorance.
For the Spiders, who had no grasp of their own strength and provoked the strong, this hunger seemed to have sunk into their very bones.
Amid black clouds churning like ocean waves, a pair of cold eyes flickered in and out of sight.
As Dio's eyes kept moving, searching the battlefield below, he caught the clash that suddenly erupted in the distant air out of the corner of his eye, along with Nobunaga's sword, poised to leave its sheath.
At that instant, [Green Ripple Nen] erupted!
Rumble!!
As though the thunder god had flown into a rage, alarm bells suddenly blared in Nobunaga's mind, and a deafening roar came from overhead.
His blade had only just swung into the air, cutting through the curtain of rain, when, amid the scattering droplets, he suddenly caught a bright green flash hurtling down from above out of the corner of his eye!
Lightning?!
Nobunaga's pupils contracted, and a chill swept through him. If that really was a natural lightning strike, he, who had never undergone electrical resistance training, would certainly suffer a heavy blow on the spot!
But the next instant, he rejected that thought:
No! It's too slow. I can even dodge it!
That green light was nothing like the lightning he remembered, so fast that it was impossible to track. Its speed even allowed him time to evade!
Should I dodge?
Nobunaga instantly hesitated. That fat man was already within the range of his [En Samurai], and was caught precisely between the lingering force of his last move and the generation of fresh force.
He was certain this slash would get results!
But that green light was clearly an enemy ability. If he took the risk and endured it head-on, no one knew what the consequences