Hearing Arcane's words, Glory Alice, Greedy Wolf Hengo, and the old warrior—these three Lampbearers—looked at each other in silence.
It was precisely because they knew the cruelty of the Hegemons that they conceived the idea of resisting them; and because of their continuous struggle against the Hegemons, they understood their terror more deeply, with despair gradually festering in the depths of their hearts.
Especially at this moment, after successfully luring the Propagation Hegemon from T33 to the Sixth Ring World, they found that not only had they failed to help the Sixth Ring World break its fatal deadlock, but they had also accelerated the destruction of the Sixth Ring World.
Even Alice, the most strong-willed among them, couldn't help but begin to doubt whether resisting the Hegemons as she did had any meaning!
Fear and despair permeated the entire battlefield, and even the brilliant magic ring on the Knowledge Tower seemed to lose its luster at this moment.
...
In the sky.
Floating high above, Shinji paid no mind to the thoughts of those below. He stared at the flesh puppets surging majestically from the distance, his face showing disdain.
Back when he was only at the Six Paths Level and still needed to cover the God Tree, these flesh puppets couldn't affect him at all.
Furthermore, having successfully advanced to Kekkei Mora, he was no longer the person he used to be. His strength was a full level higher than before, and the God Tree was now within his body. Not only did he not need to distract himself to cover it as he did on T33, but it could also continuously provide him with chakra.
Under these circumstances, the fact that the Propagation Hegemon only sent this many flesh puppets was practically a joke to Shinji.
He tilted his head and glanced upward: "Is this the limit of the power you can infiltrate right now? Hey, put some effort into it!"
As if hearing Shinji's taunt, bursts of rolling thunder sounded again in the firmament above his head.
"If this is your limit, then stop embarrassing yourself!"
As Shinji spoke, he gave a casual wave of his hand.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
In an instant, nine Truth-Seeking Balls manifested one after another, landing in his palm and transforming into a miniature storm!
Continuing to use Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to deal with flesh puppets of this level was truly overkill.
However, the number of these rolling flesh puppets was too great, layered upon each other with no end in sight. Ordinary jutsu really had no way to clean them up, so this time Shinji activated another technique of the Tenseigan—Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
This wide-range "floor-cleaning" technique was only half a step inferior to Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion in terms of attack power, but its attack surface was larger and wider, making it more suitable for the current scene!
"Go!"
Subsequently, Shinji casually pushed the storm in his palm forward.
Rumble...
The storm expanded instantly. In the blink of an eye, it became a massive tempest sweeping across the entire world, whistling as it struck the horde of flesh puppets.
The already gloomy world was turned upside down by the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
Flesh puppets as massive as mountains were no different from the surrounding ordinary trees and rocks in the face of this extinction-level natural disaster; they were swept up by the storm without discrimination and then completely erased, leaving only a mess on the ground!
Viewed from extreme altitude, the area swept by the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion looked as if a work on a canvas had been wiped away by a wide eraser, leaving no trace behind.
If the scene of Shinji using Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to sweep away the flesh puppets earlier was a shock to the mages, then the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion he casually activated now—sweeping away even larger and stronger flesh puppets—left them with nothing but horror!
Glory Alice murmured: "This is a man-made natural disaster..."
Greedy Wolf Hengo said: "Hey, even the forbidden magic of the Sorcerer Supremes probably doesn't have this kind of power, right?"
Arcane nodded in a daze.
...
No matter how much he esteemed the Sorcerer Supremes, he had to admit at this moment that Shinji's casual strike had already far exceeded a full-power strike from a Sorcerer Supreme!
But this was only normal.
The Sorcerer Supremes of the Sixth Ring World had strength roughly equivalent to the complete shrine maiden Shion before she learned magic, belonging to a level very close to the Six Paths Level.
Current Shinji was a Kekkei Mora, a level higher than the Six Paths Level. Roughly speaking, current Shinji was actually two levels above a Sorcerer Supreme.
Therefore, as long as Shinji took a serious shot, anyone with even a bit of insight could see that Shinji's strength had surpassed the Sorcerer Supremes.
For Arcane and the others, the only remaining question was exactly how much stronger Shinji was than the Sorcerer Supremes!
After a long time, the storm created by the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion finally subsided.
The flesh puppets that had been connected in a line, surging toward the Knowledge Tower like a moving mountain range, had vanished without a trace!
The view was one of desolation. Even the famous mountains and great rivers that originally existed near the Knowledge Tower had been wiped away together, turning the landscape into a barren plain.
Roar—
Shinji's strike seemed to have truly enraged the Propagation Hegemon blocked outside the spatial barrier. From the dome covering the entire land, a whistling sound like a roar actually erupted!
That roar seemed capable of striking the soul directly. For a moment, every living creature that heard it—from the Storm Sorcerer Supreme sitting in the Knowledge Tower down to the ants in the earth's cracks—fell into a bizarre state of being awestruck, unable to extricate themselves.
Only the Lampbearers inside the temporary war fortress were slightly better off, protected by their respective Lamps.
Glory Alice clutched her head and said with difficulty: "What was that sound just now?"
Hengo shook his head: "I don't... know!"
His situation was worse; he was half-kneeling on the ground, and the consciousness storage card within his prosthetic body seemed to have encountered a problem, making his speech intermittent.
The old warrior, who practiced martial arts and tempered his own body, had the mildest symptoms. He struggled to look up toward Shinji in the sky.
He had a faint premonition that the roar penetrating from outside the dome just now likely came from one of the two Hegemons: Propagation or Plague.
...
In the sky.
Shinji scratched his ear and spat lightly: "Tch!"
Perhaps it was because of the presence of Lampbearers in the Sixth Ring World, or perhaps because the magic ring of the six Sorcerer Supremes was working.
In short, the power that the Propagation Hegemon blocked outside the spatial barrier could infiltrate was very limited—limited enough to make Shinji, this Kekkei Mora, feel bored.
However, for Shinji, this was an excellent opportunity to test a Hegemon's power. Thus, he provocatively released the aura of the God Tree, aiming to further stimulate the Propagation Hegemon to see exactly what it could achieve.
Additionally, he wanted to see what choice the Plague Hegemon would make in this situation.