Silence.
After the Complete Body Susanoo descended, the entire world fell into a deathly silence. The wind stopped blowing, and all things held their breath, as though bowing before this absolute divine might.
That moment of stillness was shattered by a shriek that tore through the air.
Sasuke sat upright within the diamond-shaped crystal on Susanoo's forehead, bloody tears streaming from his eyes, yet his expression remained cold as ice. He controlled the enormous demonic god, slowly raising the hundred-meter tachi in its right hand.
There were no flashy sword forms, no elaborate techniques-only the simplest, purest overhead slash.
"BOOM-!!!!!"
The blade fell, and the earth instantly split apart. A massive, bottomless chasm dozens of meters wide was brutally carved into the land like an ugly scar, racing toward the far end of the horizon. Beneath this world-shattering blow, the entire mountaintop under their feet was cleaved in two!
The raging wind from the blade became a shock wave visible to the naked eye, sweeping outward in every direction and leveling all the remaining forest, rocks, and ruins around them.
Yet amid this apocalyptic scene, a tiny figure moved like a phantom, narrowly dodging away just before the enormous blade fell.
Kokushibo appeared a hundred meters away. He gazed at the enormous rift that all but divided heaven and earth, his six eyes filled with gravity.
He knew full well that against power of this magnitude, any attempt to confront it head-on would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. Susanoo's attacks covered too much ground, moved too fast, and struck too hard; merely dodging would sooner or later leave him cornered as well.
But even a god was not without weaknesses!
Kokushibo's figure once again became a blurred black streak. He no longer tried to attack Susanoo's