"Boom!"
From the thick, dark clouds, a massive bolt of lightning descended, startling countless birds and beasts while also illuminating the surroundings.
The fierce wind howled, bending tree trunks and rustling leaves. The thunderstorm that had previously only swept the outskirts now seemed to have arrived in the inland of Inazuma.
And the source of all this was the giant spatial rift above Tenshukaku.
Starlight was reflected within the massive rift, its edges constantly trembling, as if it could close at any moment.
This made Ember think of the Abyss Passage used by the Abyss Heralds. Their forms looked almost identical.
However, the feeling this spatial rift gave off was completely different from the Abyss Passage used by the Abyss Heralds.
If the Abyss Passage felt deep and chaotic, then the spatial rift above Tenshukaku felt violent.
Violently tearing open a hole in space, violently accumulating power within it.
Suffocating pressure spread, making the Tenryou Commission members on the ground almost cry out.
What a day it was! For them, ordinary people, to experience such a powerful and clearly inhuman terrifying pressure twice in a row.
If it were someone with a weak heart, they would probably be scared to death without Ember or the Raiden Shogun even needing to act.
"It's more powerful than last time," Ember said, looking up and extending his hand to feel the surging electro element in the air, exclaiming.
To be able to mobilize this level of elemental power, it was no wonder it could carve a huge canyon on Yashiori Island.
"How… how terrifyingly powerful."
"Is this truly the Raiden Shogun's real strength?"
Kaede and Kazuha looked up at the purple-tinged spatial rift in the sky, which resembled a giant eye carrying infinite power, making all who gazed upon it tremble with fear.
Seeing their hair slightly standing on end, Ember inexplicably found it somewhat amusing.
"No matter how much you praise her, she won't care about the lives of you two."
Looking around, Ember found that even the other members of the Tenryou Commission were almost identical to Kaede and Kazuha, so he added:
"It seems it's not just you two; she doesn't seem to care about the lives of these people either."
"Raiden Shogun…"
Kaede's eyes flickered, as if he wanted to defend the Raiden Shogun.
"I'm starting to wonder if the Electro Archon's authority is related to the mind, otherwise why are you speaking for her like you've been drugged?"
Ember glanced at Kaede, preemptively making a joke. Then he looked up at the rift leaking purple lightning, shaking his head and chuckling:
"Does the puppet's pressure also get this intense? I think I just stomped my foot; I didn't really do anything, did I?"
"Hah! Everyone, get back!"
After laughing, Ember let out a soft shout. Accompanying his voice, a visible shockwave swept through, pushing back everyone around him.
Rejection — The Prayer of the Two Fingers' followers, capable of creating a shockwave that repels surrounding individuals, with its amplitude increasing through charging.
O Tarnished, since you fully trust the guidance, please reject all other things.
Although the Prayer stated that the Tarnished should reject all other things, Ember was clearly not going to be so obedient.
After all, this Prayer, "Rejection," also went by the name "Force" to him, didn't it?
The crowd was pushed back, and the electro element surging around Ember became even more violent.
It seemed that without any reservations, the power the Raiden Shogun was brewing had received a further boost.
The giant rift above Tenshukaku no longer showed any starlight; powerful elemental energy directly filled the void, transforming it into a dazzling purple.
After the power accumulated to its peak, the purple suddenly contracted, and the starlight flickering within the spatial rift reappeared.
However, the starlight, after reappearing, didn't have time to flicker a few times before it was obscured by an even more dazzling purple light than before.
The light no longer flickered from within the rift; it extended out. It was a sharp, dazzling, slender purple katana.
Appearing outside the rift along with the blade was the giant puppet arm gripping it.
The puppet's arm, even just the part that extended out, was already as long as the entire main hall of Tenshukaku, and the katana it held stretched even beyond Tenshukaku.
"Now this has the aura of cleaving a canyon," Ember said, seeing that the surroundings had become a sea of lightning, and in his astonishment, he raised a brass shield.
After attempting a few jumps, wherever Ember jumped, the purple lightning followed like maggots on a rotting bone.
"Playing target lock, are we?"
Seeing this, Ember stopped his erratic jumping. He clearly felt that he had been locked onto by the puppet arm above Tenshukaku.
But even so, Ember didn't see the Raiden Shogun's figure appear, not sure if she was too reclusive? Or if there was something wrong with the puppet itself.
"If that's the case, then let's try it. Let's see whose blade is harder, yours or my shield!"
Within the purple light, a fiery red appeared. Ember, in his burning state, raised his shield, staring directly at the blade that was enough to burn one's eyes.
"Screech! Boom!"
The puppet arm within the rift finally made a new move; the katana in its hand swung down from top to bottom, and the curtain of light it drew seemed to connect heaven and earth, illuminating both.
Even the Grand Narukami Shrine on the other side of Narukami Island could clearly see the breathtakingly huge blade light in Inazuma City.
"Damn it! What did they do?! They woke up this shut-in old woman who's been cooped up for hundreds of years!"
Rushing out of the shrine in a panic, Yae Miko saw the light curtain connecting heaven and earth. This level of power meant Ei was absolutely serious.
Although before Ei entered the Plane of Euthymia, she would often joke with Yae Miko about giving her a slash, saying she could dodge it anyway.
But Yae Miko knew very well that she could indeed dodge Ei's slash, but that was when Ei wasn't serious.
And Ei in her current state, Yae Miko had only seen once, five hundred years ago.
"Such power… can it truly be defeated?" In a trance, Yae Miko pulled out the Gnosis she held.
Ei's immense power made her waver slightly in her plans for the future… The blade descended from the sky; its physical form had not yet arrived, but the power it contained had already begun to cleave the ground, forming deep ravines.
"With power leaking out like this, aren't you afraid of destroying your own city?"
Seeing the ravines in the earth extending far into the distance, Ember couldn't help but exclaim.
"You think I'll take it head-on? Heh! Just kidding!"
The giant blade drew closer and closer to Ember, so he raised the shield in his hand.
A circle of fiery red light rose around Ember's entire body, its power so immense that it tore a hole in the sky-filling purple light. It looked as if he intended to forcefully block this powerful slash.
But surprisingly, the blade actually passed directly through Ember's entire body, cutting into the ground without reservation.
Combat Art: Indomitable — A combat art used by the ancient warriors of the Golden Tree.
Raise the shield, fill the entire body with golden power, capable of instantly entering an invincible state.
Can be used with all shield-type weapons.
Although it said to use the power of the Golden Tree, Inazuma clearly didn't have such strong golden power, so Ember used his own power.
"Bang!"
A tremor even more terrifying than Ember's stomp came. Before, only the Tenryou Commission was shaking; now, the entire Inazuma City was shaking.
The purple katana directly cleaved into the earth, and the displaced chunks of ground, mixed with surging elemental power, spread far into the distance.
If Ember's stomp created cracks in the earth, then the Raiden Shogun's slash directly tore the entire earth apart.
Seawater surged into the gap in the earth, and within a few breaths, Inazuma City had a new outlet to the sea.
It was fortunate that the Tenryou Commission was located on one side of Inazuma City, a coastal corner of Narukami Island, otherwise that slash just now would have resulted in widespread devastation, at the very least.
Of course, it still counts now. After all, the fish in the sea are also living beings.
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