Esdeath seemed to have anticipated that the battle wouldn't end so easily.
But she clearly hadn't expected Uchiha Hikari to shatter her ice meteor with such ferocity.
At this moment…
Facing the dark red Susanoo soaring into the sky, Esdeath raised a hand, summoning a sheet of ice beneath her feet to lift her up. Then, crouching low, she pressed both hands onto the ice.
"Haa!"
A massive surge of frigid air gathered in an instant.
From beneath the ice, enormous icicles formed, each over ten meters long, raining down from hundreds of meters in the air like a storm of deadly projectiles. The howling wind accompanied their descent as they surged toward Uchiha Hikari from all directions!
Swish, swish, swish!!!
Under this relentless barrage of icicles, Hikari's upward charge didn't slow in the slightest.
She deployed her Blood Jade Barrier, enveloping Susanoo entirely. As the icicles collided with the barrier, a faint dark red glow flickered in the air, with fine white scratches appearing on its surface. Shards of ice scattered in all directions.
—These icicles were powerful, but breaking a barrier several times stronger than the Four Violet Flames Formation was clearly beyond them.
Even if the Blood Jade Barrier fell, Susanoo's own durability was nothing to scoff at.
In just a second, Hikari and her Susanoo reached hundreds of meters in the air, facing Esdeath across the ice sheet. With a single swing, she slashed at the ice beneath Esdeath's feet!
Crash—!!!
Even the several-meter-thick ice only briefly slowed her blade before it shattered under the strike.
But Esdeath had already reacted, bending her knees and leaping upward. Her military boots tapped against newly formed ice platforms, vaulting her a thousand meters into the sky!
After completing her ascent, Esdeath turned, clapping her hands together. The "Demon's Extract" mark on her chest glowed faintly.
Another ice meteor broke through the clouds, plummeting with terrifying force!
"…That's a short cooldown, huh?"
Unlike the Rinnegan's "Planetary Devastation," Esdeath's ice meteors were crafted purely from her own power, so they weren't as massive.
Even so…
The first meteor had been over fifty meters in diameter.
This second one was about four times larger, nearly a hundred meters across, like a true meteor, roaring through the sky with bone-chilling winds!
It was like a harbinger of the apocalypse!
Facing this overwhelming pressure, Hikari exhaled, hovering briefly in midair. She channeled every ounce of her chakra and ki, then unleashed her Flight Technique once more, rocketing straight upward!
Whoosh—!!
Though the distance was shorter this time, her speed was even faster than before!
The dark red giant raised its greatsword, parting the air on both sides and creating rippling, milky-white sonic barriers. Like a reverse meteor, it shot toward the darkened sky!
As she ascended, a conical flame aura formed at the tip of the dark red greatsword, spreading to envelop the entire blade. Black-red flames ignited along the edge, soon erupting into a blazing inferno. Wrapped in fire, Susanoo resembled a majestic dragon, piercing the descending ice meteor!
In that instant, it was as if a beam of light shot from the tip of Susanoo's sword, piercing the meteor at one point and exiting the other side!
Then…
The light intensified!
"Ten Heavens Breathing Technique…"
"Activate!"
Hikari took a deep breath.
For the first time in combat, she simultaneously invoked all ten Breathing Techniques learned from the Demon Slayer world, flooding her body with oxygen. Flames, lightning, water, mist… all these elements flashed across the black-red greatsword in less than a second, erupting into a dazzling, multicolored blaze!!
Indescribable heat, paired with sword light as radiant as the sun, pierced through the nearly hundred-meter-thick ice meteor in one go!
This move…
Was the counterpart to "Radiant Starfall"—
"Reverse Radiant Starfall!"
In the next moment, the beam expanded from the width of a wrist to nearly ten meters, starkly visible even within the hundred-meter meteor. It pierced through the clouds thousands of meters above, connecting heaven and earth!
Crack—
Countless fissures spread across the meteor's surface, refracting brilliant rays of light. In a blinding flash, it shattered into countless fragments, scattering in all directions! As the meteor broke apart, chaotic sword winds mixed with biting cold swept outward!
Whoosh—!!
It was late summer in this world, but in that second, it felt like the depths of winter!
To Najenda and the others watching the battle, a massive ring of energy erupted in the sky, followed by a torrential storm that materialized out of nowhere. Like countless wild dragons, it spread in every direction!
Icy winds raged!
Snow and ice dust swirled!
It was as if a rare blizzard had descended.
In this chaotic environment, the figures of the two combatants grew hazy, with only the vague outline of Susanoo still standing, sword in hand, against the night sky.
On the battlefield, Hikari had released the "Ten Heavens Breathing Technique."
The strain on her body was too great, even for just a few seconds, leaving her lungs aching. She quickly reverted to her normal state to recover.
The hundred-meter ice meteor, while not as grand as "Mahapadma," clearly wasn't something Esdeath could spam repeatedly.
As the second meteor split in half, the dark red Susanoo passed through the gap, trailing a storm of ice fragments—each over half a meter wide, falling like a meteor shower. In this environment, Hikari's and Esdeath's eyes locked.
Through the swirling ice, snow, and fiery aura, their gazes met.
"…"
Hikari activated her ocular powers.
In her eyes, the black pinwheel spun gently:
"Tsukuyomi!"
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