The monster, sliced into dozens of segments by Shinji's Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, was instantly pulled into the air by a colossal gravitational force. Swept up along with it were the earth from the ground, shattered rocks, and even the broken bricks and tiles from the collapsed Knowledge Tower.
This debris, soil, and stone, together with the monster's mangled remains, coalesced into a sphere in the sky. It rose higher and higher, growing larger and larger, until it became a gargantuan orb hanging high in the firmament!
"Phew..."
Shinji panted lightly.
Activating a Chibaku Tensei on such a massive scale, with a target whose volume exceeded a thousand meters, was a strain even for the current Shinji.
Fortunately, the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion had dismantled the monster's resistance. Before it could recover, it was captured by the gravity. With no effective struggle throughout the process, it was successfully encased into a giant stone sphere suspended high in the sky!
Just as Shinji prepared to breathe a sigh of relief, his expression shifted. His gaze snapped back toward the sphere.
Dull roars began to echo from within the giant stone ball, and a series of black liquids began to seep through the cracks on the sphere's surface.
These black liquids were extremely corrosive. The fact that they had penetrated to the outer surface indicated that the entire sphere had already been severely corroded from the inside out.
"Dammit!"
Without hesitation, Shinji surged his pupil power once again.
In an instant, the ground beneath him was subjected to another powerful gravitational pull. Massive swathes of bedrock were ripped into the air, flying toward the sphere high above.
Within moments, the volume of the giant sphere had doubled again!
"If you want to play this way, then let's play big!"
Shinji did not stop. His expression was cold and resolute as he continuously pushed his dojutsu, pulling in entire mountain ranges from even further away. He crushed them into dust and stone, piling them all onto the suspended megastructure.
Since a single-use Chibaku Tensei couldn't completely suppress the monster, Shinji chose to engage it in a contest of raw power!
Having reached this point, retreat was not an option. If a standard Chibaku Tensei couldn't seal the monster, he would build a larger one—just like the moon created by the Sage of Six Paths and his brother to seal Otsutsuki Kaguya.
If even a moon-sized seal couldn't hold the monster, he would build something larger than a moon!
He would fight this monster to the bitter end!
In the distance.
The Lampbearers, who had already retreated fifteen kilometers, were forced back another few dozen kilometers due to the monster's earlier rampage and the collapse of the Knowledge Tower.
At such a distance, even with auxiliary observation equipment, they could no longer see the fine details of the battlefield.
However, details were no longer necessary; the entire battlefield had long since become a zone of absolute chaos.
The Knowledge Tower, once one of the six great holy sites of the Sixth Ring World, had vanished without a trace. It wasn't just the tower; the outposts, fortresses, and the beautiful mountains, lakes, forests, and valleys that once surrounded it were all gone.
Within a radius of dozens of kilometers, every landmark—architectural or natural—had been erased. Not even ruins remained.
As for the mages of the Knowledge Tower and the reinforcements from the other five towers, they had all been reduced to ash during the battle—including the Storm Sorcerer Supreme, one of the six leaders of the world.
In this entire sector, only the Lampbearers had barely survived!
Staring at the giant sphere that was continuously expanding and rising in the sky, Glory Alice asked with a trembling voice, "Akame... how... how is he doing this?"
Hengo swallowed hard. "Don't ask me. His actions have long surpassed my understanding. I'm starting to doubt if that guy is actually a Hegemon in disguise!"
The old warrior laughed despite himself. "If he were a Hegemon, we'd be dead already."
Except for Arcane, who remained somewhat catatonic, the despair of the other Lampbearers had lessened significantly. From the current situation, Shinji was clearly holding the upper hand.
At that moment, Hengo glanced at the sensors on his prosthetic body. "That giant ball in the sky has already absorbed five billion cubic meters of sand and stone!"
Alice gasped. "How is that possible? With such massive weight, how much lifting force would be required? This shouldn't be achievable by human effort!"
"The volume is still increasing!" After a pause, Hengo added, "No, wait... while the volume increases, the density of the sphere is also changing. Akame is compressing it!"
The old warrior, not sensitive to data, asked, "What is he trying to do?"
Hengo replied, "The sphere is continuing to rise. From the looks of it, Akame intends to push that giant ball above the cloud layers. To prevent it from disintegrating at high altitude, he is constantly compressing its density to make the whole thing sturdier. He..."
As he spoke, Hengo became momentarily speechless.
Alice, the old warrior, and even the dazed Arcane looked at Hengo, waiting for him to continue.
Meeting their confused gazes, Hengo said with wide eyes, "That guy Akame... he's not actually trying to hand-craft a celestial body, is he?"
The group looked at each other in silence. If that were truly the case, they would have to re-evaluate Shinji's strength once again!
On the battlefield.
As Shinji continuously poured pupil power into the Chibaku Tensei, the giant ball in the sky grew so large it almost blotted out the entire firmament.
At this stage, no roars could be heard from within the sphere, and the black liquid no longer seeped out. Everything returned to a state of stillness, save for the thundering booms of the sphere rubbing against the atmosphere as it rose.
Looking up at the giant ball gradually piercing the clouds and ascending toward the starry sky, a rare look of fatigue appeared on Shinji's face.
Because as the sphere grew, the mountains within dozens or even hundreds of kilometers were crushed by Shinji's pupil power and added to the mass. The volume of this sphere had actually surpassed the moon created by the Sage of Six Paths to seal Otsutsuki Kaguya.
Furthermore, because he had to constantly counteract the black liquid and terrifying radiation of the monster, the pupil power Shinji expended was far more than what the Sage of Six Paths brothers had used in their time.
A long while later, a unique celestial body appeared for the Sixth Ring World—a moon that belonged solely to them.
At this moment, almost everyone on the Sixth Ring World only had to look up to clearly see that bright moon hanging in the starry sky!