Chapter 294: The Last Kotoamatsukami
Scarlet dots of light spiraled in front of Kaito Shirogane, quickly condensing into a Loot Card.
He swiped his hand casually, and the Loot Card fell into his hand, where he crushed it.
[You opened the Scarlet Loot Card]
[Loot opening...]
[Calculating target Killing Points. Target Killing Points: 7. No reward increase.]
[Calculating your Killing Points...]
[Detected that Ex051 possesses Sin Points. You will receive 1 extra reward selection right.]
[Calculation complete. For this opening, you may choose 2 items from the following rewards:]
[A: 50% of Dimensional Points]
[B: 3 items from the backpack]
[C: Extra 10% increase of the main attribute added to your own attributes]
[D: Randomly draw 1 Specialty, retaining a maximum level of Lv3]
[E: Randomly obtain 1 Ability, retaining only at Lv1]
[F: 5% probability of extracting Bloodline Items. Bloodline optimization reserved without retention.]
...
[You selected C · Attribute Extraction. Extracting...]
[Your Agility +1. Current: 29 (Demon in the Wind)]
[Your Spirit +1. Current: 24 (Active Spirit)]
[You selected D · Specialty Extraction. Extracting...]
[You obtained Dual Wield Specialization Lv3]
Kaito Shirogane flicked his finger. A scarlet glow, accompanied by air pressure, shot into the ground with a pfft sound, leaving a palm-sized pit.
"Weak. So weak. Too weak..."
Kaito Shirogane could hardly feel any improvement after killing this Reincarnator. There was no powerful or cruel personality, nor the strength to support that naivety. It was so weak that Kaito Shirogane felt bored.
The scarlet Satsui no Hado was like a bone-chilling gale, constantly spreading outwards from the individual named Mercenary Tao. It was no longer something that could be described by mountains of corpses and seas of blood; the opponent's killing intent had materialized and was constantly impacting the bodies of the two people present.
Jiraiya and Tsunade looked at each other, their eyes filled with inexplicable shock. Especially Tsunade, a powerful ninja of the Senju clan. Although she had heard about Mercenary Tao's strength from Jiraiya and other ninjas, facing this scene at this moment still shook her to the core.
That was no longer human. Whether it was the opponent's abnormal posture or this killing aura that seemed to pierce their skin and corrode their bones and flesh, it completely transcended the scope of ninjas.
Even though she had seen the terrifying posture of her grandfather exploding with chakra when she was young, she still trembled at the sight of the scarlet killing aura escaping from behind the man before her like flames spreading in all directions.
Whoosh!
The sound of an almost inaudible Body Flicker Technique rang out. Tsunade and Jiraiya stiffened, lowered their centers of gravity, and let their hands hang by their waists. They only moved their pupils, using their peripheral vision to see that the person arriving was Uchiha Shisui.
"Jiraiya-sama, Tsunade-sama, don't make a move!"
Uchiha Shisui faced Mercenary Tao directly at this moment and thoroughly felt the opponent's terrifying aura.
No wonder the two top ninjas of the Sannin were stunned on the spot. Even though Mercenary Tao had a completely defenseless posture, neither of them dared to attack.
"All of this is my fault, and I must make up for it..."
As Uchiha Shisui spoke, intense chakra began to rise from his body.
Green chakra ignited around him like flames. The powerful momentum instantly surpassed the two Sannin. Jiraiya and Tsunade both realized something.
This renowned number one expert of the contemporary Uchiha clan had mastered the legendary Susanoo!
Uchiha Shisui actually blamed himself considerably. In his view, a significant part of the current catastrophe in this world was caused by him.
If not for his carelessness during his first sortie, how could he have been instantly defeated by Mercenary Tao before he even had time to use [Kotoamatsukami]?
Later, because Itachi fell into the opponent's hands, he became Mercenary Tao's accomplice, attacking the Hidden Mist Village to capture Tailed Beasts, indirectly leading the Akatsuki organization to contact Mercenary Tao, eventually resulting in the tragedy of the collapse of Konoha.
After the Golden Erdtree appeared, he was attracted by the concept of the Golden Order and used [Kotoamatsukami] to send that beast to the side of the Golden Order.
This caused the Golden Erdtree to grow instantly, and ninjas of various countries were no longer able to resist.
Now, it was time for him to end this tragedy himself.
Boom!
The intense impact refocused Uchiha Shisui's mind. Fragments of blazing white cloud trails sprayed around like waves in front of his eyes.
Under the insight of his Mangekyō Sharingan, Mercenary Tao's figure seemed to drag out dozens of afterimages, appearing in front of him almost instantly.
Behind him, the scarlet Qi spiral was like a ribbon.
[Burst]!
His right hand formed a knife-hand, stabbing out like a great spear.
Crack!
Just as the huge figure of Susanoo took shape, a crisp cracking sound rang out.
The scarlet Satsui no Hado penetrated through Susanoo and impacted directly on Uchiha Shisui's face.
He woke up instantly.
He actually got distracted during the battle with Mercenary Tao?!
Bang!
Amidst the intense impact, the lower body of Susanoo shattered directly. At this moment, Mercenary Tao's strength and speed completely surpassed the Fourth Raikage's strongest Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
Susanoo couldn't withstand it either.
Crack!
The hand-knife wrapped in intense fluctuations pierced Susanoo and stabbed directly towards Shisui's face.
Many plans flashed through Uchiha Shisui's mind at this moment.
Body Replacement Technique to dodge?
Body Flicker Technique to create distance?
Or...
The scene of his whole body's bones being shattered by Mercenary Tao, who was fast to the extreme, almost without him noticing in the state without Susanoo flashed through his mind.
He raised his head. The shuriken-like pupils in his eyes rotated instantly, as if a crow flew out in an instant.
[Kotoamatsukami]!
Between life and death, Uchiha Shisui realized that no matter what method he used, once he left Susanoo, he probably wouldn't even have the chance to attack before being severely injured by Mercenary Tao's next strike.
So he chose to fight for life in the face of death, directly releasing [Kotoamatsukami].
In Kaito Shirogane's world, heaven and earth seemed to stand still in an instant. Strange power instantly turned the world black and white. Only that huge crow flapped its wings and entered his body.
Creak~
Kaito Shirogane's muscles vibrated. Scarlet killing intent flowed within his muscles. The pain, like his body being torn apart, made Kaito Shirogane's spirit concentrated as never before.
[You suffered a special attack: Kotoamatsukami]
[Performing Immunity Check...]
Unlike the last time, during the previous release of Kotoamatsukami, Kaito Shirogane didn't even feel that he was hit by the technique before being influenced by it.
Only through the space panel afterwards could he realize the fact that he had been under the technique.
But this time, after the Satsui no Hado broke through Lv4, the tangible killing intent hurt both others and himself, but as energy, the power of Satsui no Hado was unquestionable.
Under the infusion of Satsui no Hado, [Kotoamatsukami] also began to encounter resistance.
The veins on Kaito Shirogane's forehead bulged one by one, as if they were about to burst through the skin at any moment, like small snakes coiled on his forehead.
Uchiha Shisui also looked shocked. A technique like [Kotoamatsukami] could actually be resisted?!
Was the sign of him activating the technique too obvious? So much so that Mercenary Tao poured that special power into his brain to resist?
No, looking at Mercenary Tao's crazy posture, he guessed that perhaps at this moment, that red power occupied the opponent's whole body. Any external force wanting to change him would be counterattacked.
Blood began to flow from the corner of Uchiha Shisui's eye, and his vision became increasingly blurred.
The massive consumption of pupil power made the Mangekyō Sharingan unable to sustain itself.
He covered his left eye, which had already used [Kotoamatsukami] once, and poured all his pupil power into his right eye at this moment.
The thought in his heart also changed from dominating Mercenary Tao to purge everyone and return the world to its original state, to making Mercenary Tao leave—leave the human world, the farther the better!
The stronger and more explicit the goal, the finer the adjustments needed to be made to the opponent's will and brain.
At this moment, Shisui clearly felt that he couldn't keep it up. The casting of [Kotoamatsukami] was about to fail. He could only "drive away" this wild beast with the vaguest will.
He could no longer save this world. All he could do was expel this monster, whom no one was powerless to control, from the human world.
In the real world, Kaito Shirogane's scarlet hand-knife froze in mid-air, half a meter in front of Uchiha Shisui.
Tsunade and Jiraiya watched this scene, their hearts relaxing slightly. Although they didn't know exactly what happened, it seemed...
Did it succeed?
Pfft!
Uchiha Shisui's eye suddenly exploded amidst a spray of blood.
Uchiha Shisui collapsed to the ground dejectedly.
The green Susanoo also slowly faded and disappeared.
Although the hand-knife Kaito Shirogane stabbed out froze in mid-air, the intense force still penetrated through, carrying scarlet Satsui no Hado and impact force. Following inertia, it shattered Uchiha Shisui's eye and impacted his brain.
Kaito Shirogane slowly retracted his hand.
He turned to look at Jiraiya and Tsunade. Their identity as humans suddenly made him look down on them.
Kaito Shirogane looked at the panel, knowing that he was actually influenced by [Kotoamatsukami], but that arrogance and disdain emerging from his bones didn't seem fake at all.
He had lost interest in these guys who were so weak that they didn't even have the courage to attack him.
Kaito Shirogane turned around, glanced at the guarded Jiraiya and Tsunade, bent his knees, and suddenly stomped with force.
Bang!
Amidst the exploding ground, he jumped hundreds of meters into the sky. Stomping his feet again, dragging a red trail, he flew straight into the distance.
Jiraiya and Tsunade stood quietly on the ground, watching that red trail crash into the Golden Erdtree with a boom. Amidst violent vibrations, it smashed a branch and disappeared into the sky.
Only now did Tsunade have the chance to help up the unconscious Uchiha Shisui.
The opponent's breath was already extremely weak. His right eye was completely shattered, and his brain had also suffered damage.
Tsunade placed the Katsuyu attached to her back onto Shisui's face, attempting to treat this hero who, to some extent, saved Konoha and everyone.
Inside the massive Golden Erdtree, Uchiha Itachi looked at the fallen and unconscious Shisui with lowered eyes.
Shisui's path, in the end, couldn't change this world...
He looked at the Great Toad Sage in the middle of the tree, and Sasuke, whose hair had already turned golden, and made his own decision.
At the same time, on the moon, a young boy looked at the huge planet in the distance. Nearly half of it had turned into a golden hue. He was puzzled about what exactly happened there.
Perhaps, he should go and take a look...
(End of Chapter)
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