Chapter 431: Urashiki Otsutsuki Suffers a Defeat
Urashiki shot skyward, tearing through the clouds until he hovered high above the battlefield. He thrust one hand downward, leveling his palm squarely at Uchiha Akira.
"Tensho: Ryugu!"
A deafening bellow ruptured the heavens. Behind the self-proclaimed god, endless waves of toxic purple chakra condensed in the empty void. The fabric of space warped, and a gigantic black-purple oarfish glided out from thin air. The monstrous leviathan coiled its massive, serpentine body, blotting out the sun and casting an enormous, suffocating shadow over the earth. Deep within its gaping maw, a violet chakra sphere hundreds of meters across spun into existence, crackling with devastating gravitational force.
Far below, bathed in the oppressive purple light of the impending strike, Uchiha Akira stood unmoving. Facing the apocalyptic spectacle above him, he merely lifted an eyelid, his gaze utterly devoid of fear.
"Is that all you have?" he murmured, his voice carrying effortlessly over the roaring winds. "The Otsutsuki always favor the flashy and the useless."
Akira shook his head in mild disappointment. He slowly raised his right hand, turning his palm toward the sky.
"Then allow me to show you what real power looks like."
A surge of chakra, infinitely fiercer and purer than Urashiki's corrupted energy, erupted from Akira's core. The very earth shattered beneath his boots, tectonic plates groaning under the sheer pressure. An armored giant materialized behind him, rising from the dust. Ten meters. A hundred. Five hundred. In the blink of an eye, the colossal construct breached the clouds.
A Perfect Susanoo, standing a staggering one thousand meters tall, towered between heaven and earth. Clad in impenetrable samurai armor, the ethereal titan radiated a suffocating aura of absolute dominance. Compared to this towering god of destruction, the giant oarfish summoned by Urashiki looked like nothing more than a pathetic pet snake.
"Perfect... Susanoo?"
Adult Sasuke stood at the edge of the battlefield, his lone eye widening as his pupils quaked. He had manifested his own Perfect Susanoo countless times, yet the sheer scale and density of Akira's construct felt utterly different. It was a manifestation of pure, unadulterated tyranny.
"We are not done," Akira said coldly. Standing securely within the diamond-shaped crystal at the titan's brow, his eyes locked onto his prey. "Susanoo: Hogyoku."
High above, the giant raised its massive hand. Within the titan's palm, terrifying black energy whirled and compressed at a sickening speed, dragging the surrounding light into its center. It formed a colossal sphere of pure destructive power, a miniature black hole threatening to devour reality itself. With a sharp motion of his hand, Akira directed the titan to hurl the black orb straight at Urashiki.
All color drained from the world, leaving only violent clashes of black and violet.
The Susanoo: Hogyoku smashed head-on into Urashiki's Tensho: Ryugu. For a few agonizing seconds, the two apocalyptic forces ground against each other. Then, the black gravitational vortexes began to tear the violet chakra apart. It did not just destroy the attack; it devoured it. Assimilated it.
Urashiki's Tensho: Ryugu was completely obliterated, swallowed by the endless dark.
Urashiki stared in horror. His proudest technique could not last even a single second?
'Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!'he screamed in his mind, his composure shattering.'How can this inferior creature possess such strength?!'
The black orb, its momentum entirely undiminished from the collision, locked onto his signature. Urashiki shuddered. A primal chill gripped his spine. He could not block it. There was absolutely no way to block it.
Shedding all pretense of his supposed godly dignity, he turned tail. Leaving a red streak in his wake, he rocketed backward through the sky. At the same time, the golden Rinnegan embedded in his forehead spun wildly, glowing with desperate intensity. With the surrounding space locked down, rendering him unable to open Yomotsu Hirasaka, he funneled every last drop of his ocular power into pure physical speed.
In an instant, he crossed a full kilometer.
The Susanoo: Hogyoku detonated exactly where he had just been hovering. A towering, pitch-black mushroom cloud rose into the stratosphere. The ensuing shockwave flung millions of tons of earth into the air, vaporizing entire forests for kilometers in every direction and leaving behind a smooth, bottomless crater.
From his perceived safety in the distance, Urashiki stared at the devastation, his heart hammering against his ribs like a trapped bird.
"Huff... huff..." He panted heavily, wiping a thick layer of cold sweat from his pale brow.
That was entirely too close. A fraction of a second slower, and he would have been erased from existence. A feral, ugly grin of relief curled his lips.
"So what if it possesses raw power?" he mocked under his breath. "It is completely meaningless if it cannot hit its target. Inferior creatures will always remain inferior. They only know clumsy, brutish attacks."
Urashiki straightened his posture, ready to regroup and strategize. If he maintained his distance and relied strictly on ranged strikes, victory was not entirely impossible.
The very instant he convinced himself he had escaped, a voice drifted through the wind, speaking directly beside his ear.
"Who gave you the illusion that you managed to dodge?"
Urashiki froze. The blood drained from his face.
Far across the battlefield, Akira's eyes gleamed with cold, calculated mockery.
"Divine Authority: Heavenly Might. Effect Two: Absolute Hit."
The fading black energy from the explosion answered a silent, imperious call. The massive shockwaves, still spreading violently outward, suddenly froze solid in mid-air. Utterly defying the laws of physics, the scattered black force bent and twisted, rapidly reforming into a concentrated, lethal torrent. It bypassed the concept of distance entirely, locking directly onto Urashiki's soul.
"Wh-what the hell?!" Urashiki's eyes bulged from their sockets.
With a pathetic shriek, he turned to flee once more. But against the law of Absolute Hit, any physical evasion was entirely meaningless.
The black torrent crossed the kilometer gap in a fraction of a heartbeat. It slammed mercilessly into his back. A despairing, agonizing scream tore from his throat as the blast struck him square in the spine. Golden blood sprayed through the air as the impact flung the self-proclaimed god forward like a discarded ragdoll.
He crashed into the ruined earth, tumbling through the dirt and debris as thick clouds of dust billowed into the sky.
When the haze finally settled, Urashiki lay broken in the rubble like a dead dog. Every ounce of his former godly bearing had been stripped away.
"Cough... cough..." He hacked up mouthfuls of golden blood, his limbs trembling violently as he struggled to rise. Pure agony pinned him to the dirt. His voice shook with raw fear and utter disbelief. "I dodged... I did..."
High above, Akira dismissed his Perfect Susanoo. The colossal titan dissolved into motes of light as Akira descended, landing lightly on the scorched earth right before the broken Otsutsuki. Looking down at his defeated enemy, Akira smiled, a cold, mocking curve of his lips.
"In my domain, 'dodge'is not an option," Akira stated, his tone flat and absolute. "There is only'die'... or 'kneel'."
He lifted his right hand. A black spatial vortex slowly began to spin in the center of his palm, radiating a terrifying, inescapable suction.
"Six Paths Sealing Technique: Spirit Binding." Akira's eyes narrowed, his gaze piercing right through the alien invader. "Your power, your chakra, even your very soul. All of it will serve to feed my world."
Feeling the terrible, soul-rending pull of the vortex, Urashiki finally broke. His mind snapped under the weight of true despair. He clawed desperately at the scorched earth, dragging his broken body backward in a frantic, pathetic attempt at flight.
"I am an Otsutsuki! A god! You cannot do this to—"
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