Above the crater, shimmering particles gathered together and three human bodies materialized into existence.
With no ground to step on, they floated in the air as even gravity knelt before them.
The reason was simple.
Every single of them was once a six eye user, strongest sorcerer of their own era.
Startled by the scenery before his eyes, Izumi couldn't help but speak up first.
"Who did this?"
He gulped inwardly in awe as he couldn't comprehend the level of explosion that would have required to cause such a level of destruction. Calling it 'destruction' might be an understatement.
What Izumi saw was just—complete obliteration. Everything was simply erased like it never existed.
And the most terrifying part, which being could have such potential to cause this? Had god himself descended to do this? Or a meteorite struck the earth?
Silence streched further while Izumi was lost in his thoughts. No answer came for his question from others.
Everyone was looking at same thing. Everyone had same thoughts.
But only Hojo was thinking about probability of Dabura surviving this destruction.
And soon, his doubt became certain when someone ascended from the errie darkness of the crater.
He had multiple limbs, several tentacles, tens of eyes and a large mutated body.
When Gojo and others saw Dabura coming out of crater unharmed, their expression froze for a moment.
Dabura's gaze directly landed on Hojo, ignoring three others like they never existed to begin with.
"You'll pay for this by your death. Let's see what you will do now after that attack of your proved to be useless on me!!"
Furious, Dabura extended his hand and flames swallowed his whole body, even reaching his tentacles to cover them.
He was about to make his second movement when a blur appeared before his eyes, and punch shot toward him.
Dabura, without any hesitation blocked the fist, catching it. The moment Hojo's fist came in contract with flames of contradiction, his wrist vanished, leaving nerve endings, flash and bare bones behind.
Hojo immediately retreated back, his instincts screaming at him to avoid the flames at all cost.
Looking at his hand, Hojo's expression distorted in pain and he immediately activated reversed cursed technique.
With a frightening speed, cell grew back and flesh knit together before a second could pass properly.
But in that tiny moment of time, seeing his opening, Dabura appeared before Hojo, one of his hand shaped as a sword ready to cut through his head.
It was too late for Hojo to defend or even attack.
Suddenly, at the exact moment when the sword was about to cleave through Hojo's head, three figure appeared in front of him, deflecting the sword's trajectory.
'Tsk…! I was so close,' Dabura gritted his teeth as he refocused himself on new three figures.
With a punch, he threw Izumi rocketing toward the ground while he hit Michizane with a kick, sending him into the depth of crater.
The last one remained Gojo, and when he attempted his same physical prowess and speed on him, he failed—terribly.
Before Dabura could even touch him, Gojo moved past him and appeared behind. He slammed a kick perfectly at Dabura's neck, causing his head to leave the body and instead fly through air, plummeting down in the same darkness of crater.
Because Dabura had used soul manipulation to manipulate his body, his new body was a little weaker at some vital spots because of Dabura's inexperience.
That's why his head was easily severed with a kick.
Gojo knew that severing a head alone would not be enough to kill this monster. So he immediately formed the hollow purple.
But, between this process, Dabura's head had already fully regenerated. He glanced at Gojo who was about to shot hollow purple at him.
The next moment, something strange happened.
Gojo's both hands were severed clean and his whole body was meticulously reduced to five slices of human flesh.
"I finally fused the flames of contradiction with cleave and dismantle. Now, you can no longer hide behind your barriers!"
Dabura laughed as announced this out loud, sharing what he had achieved with everyone present.
By this time, both Izumi and Michizane had appeared and their faces had lost their colour when they saw Gojo sliced apart like a piece of butter.
Next, Dabura's gaze fell upon Izumi and Michizane and the same happened to them.
Their bodies were reduced to thousands of small pieces, each scattered in the air.
Dabura was about to turn his head toward Hojo with the same motive of cutting him down into peices when Dabura's vision suddenly changed to that of sky.
Unaware, Dabura's head was again flying through air and when he realized and his gaze fell upon his real body, his eyes widened.
His real body which now was a headless body was erased after being hit by a hollow purple directly.
And the one who did this was none other than Hojo.
Dabura regretted as he realized he had forgot Hojo when he dealt with others.
But no problem, he still had his head. This thought came to his mind when even this hope was shattered and someone catched his head.
And even his last body fragment, his head disintegrated in the influence of technique red.
Dabura was completely erased.