The demonic aura surging around Kokushibo made the air thick and heavy. That immense obsession, mingled with jealousy and murderous intent, even sent a flicker of dread through Sasuke.
He clearly sensed that his opponent's presence had risen to an entirely new level, one utterly beyond ordinary understanding. Conventional attacks, even slashes from the Complete Body Susanoo, would likely no longer work.
This battle had already become the ultimate clash of wills and supreme power. Dragging it out any longer would put him at a severe disadvantage, given the immense drain on his ocular power.
I have to settle this with one strike.
"So what if you've seen through it?"
Sasuke's icy voice rang out inside Susanoo, sounding as though he were speaking both to Kokushibo and to himself.
With a thought, he dismissed the damaged greatsword in the massive Complete Body Susanoo's hands. Under Kokushibo's grave gaze, it slowly raised its hands, clad in crow-tengu armor, and brought them together before its chest.
"Bzz... bzzzt..."
The piercing crackle of electricity filled the air-the anguished cry of an immense mass of chakra being compressed to an extreme.
Bolts of purple-black lightning converged from every direction like wildly dancing dragons and serpents, surging furiously between Susanoo's palms. The terrifying fluctuations of energy cracked the earth and made even the distant mountains tremble.
Sasuke poured most of his remaining chakra into it without holding anything back, pushing Lightning Release's nature transformation to its limit.
Soon, a gigantic lightning bow radiating an aura of destruction slowly took shape in Susanoo's palms. Its body was formed from the purest lightning and covered in arcane patterns. Every flicker of electricity seemed capable of tearing space apart.
But that was not all.
The Mangekyō pattern in Sasuke's right eye abruptly contracted. Undying black flames-Amaterasu-ignited along the