The laws of physics throughout the space began to warp subtly. Gravity fluctuated wildly, the air's density rose and fell, and even light refracted in bizarre ways!
"Fall back! Hurry!" Orochimaru reacted immediately, dragging Mayuri Kurotsuchi with him as he retreated frantically toward the edge of the laboratory!
Mayuri Kurotsuchi was also frantically operating the emergency device on his wrist. "The Space Lockdown Module is overloading! The Energy Absorption Module is saturated! Physical impact containment... has failed completely!"
Every defensive system they had designed crumbled in an instant before Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's unrestrained eruption, as futile as a mantis trying to stop a chariot!
Worse still were the two transparent containers holding Momoshiki and Urashiki.
Though sturdy, the containers could not withstand an impact of this magnitude. Under the onslaught of the energy storm, dense cracks spread across their surfaces before they shattered with a crash!
Nutrient solution poured out like a waterfall, mixed with shards of broken alloy glass, spreading across the floor into a murky lake.
The terrifying shock wave blasted Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Urashiki Otsutsuki away like dead leaves swept up by a gale. They slammed heavily into a distant, half-collapsed wall, then fell to the ground.
Their already weakened bodies suffered even more under the violent impact! Momoshiki lost consciousness immediately, while Urashiki coughed a few times with difficulty and vomited a mouthful of blood-streaked nutrient solution before he, too, passed out.
In less than ten seconds, the entire laboratory went from a precisely functioning research fortress to a field of ruins.
Instruments shattered, walls collapsed, and pipes burst. Energy conduits writhed across the floor like dying blood vessels, spraying their last sparks.
Amid the billowing dust, only two figures remained standing.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
And Sōkyū Hatake.
The dust slowly settled, revealing the scene between them.
Vast