Chapter 768: Incinerating Human Order, The Calamity of World Destruction
Izayoi Sakamaki crossed his arms in front of him as the devastating impact erupted in an instant.
This strike—it contained terrifying power!
He felt a power that he hadn't even sensed from those gods, as if this punch was simply unblockable, containing Gifts like Absolute Invincibility, Guaranteed Hit, Absolute Destruction, and more...
An excess of power and Gifts completely collapsed and ultimately merged into this single punch.
Moreover...
Izayoi Sakamaki was sent flying by a shockwave so violent it could directly kill most individuals with 5-Digit strength.
He continuously threw punches in mid-air, shattering the terrifyingly shaped forces that leaked from the shockwave.
Blown tens of thousands of meters into the sky in an instant, Izayoi spread his arms, flying backwards in a gliding posture. He looked down and saw incredibly terrifying forces bursting outward from where the two fists collided, twisting the air and space into grotesque forms.
The blazing white light resembled a white hole, spewing devastating heat and impact.
Everything began to disintegrate: the Sea of Life, the magical beasts, the earth, the crust, the magma, the air...
Even the magic elements and spirit particles that existed in this special world—whose concentration was almost near that of the Little Garden's outer layers—had their structures destroyed by this exaggerated violence.
Various laws began to collapse, and elements started to run wild.
In this area, spellcasters below 4-Digit probably couldn't even maintain the stable structure of a spell, and most Gifts couldn't function normally here either.
Strong. These two are very strong... So power can reach this level even among this group...
The corners of Izayoi Sakamaki's mouth curled up, his fighting spirit igniting. Looking at the tragic state of this world, he could no longer comply with Sousuke's request for him not to interfere.
He kicked off in mid-air, the air naturally shattering beneath his feet. The terrifying kinetic energy allowed him to spontaneously acquire an ability similar to Geppo (Moonwalk) without needing to learn it. Sonic booms cracked, and clouds of condensation exploded one after another.
BOOM!
Izayoi Sakamaki's expression suddenly changed. A young beast covered entirely in fine white fur, with the insides of its ears and eyes colored like ruby, appeared out of thin air before him.
In an instant, Izayoi's hair stood on end. For the first time, he felt a peculiar sense of threat.
"Fou~"
The young beast let out a low cry. The next moment, its expression became pained, sensing the devastating damage the world had suffered during the battle between those two just now.
The beast's eyes instantly shifted from ruby to crimson, and then its size began to grow. What concerned Izayoi even more was that its presence began to swell instantaneously.
No, in Shiroyasha's words, it should be that the other party's Spirit Status was swelling instantly. In just a breath, it had swelled to a level comparable to the demonic dragon tens of thousands of meters away.
And that was just its Spirit Status; the threat it exuded... was far above the demonic dragon's.
BOOM!
Izayoi Sakamaki raised his hands to parry, but the young beast suddenly turned around. An imperceptible attack instantly grazed Izayoi's hands and struck his abdomen.
An entirely irresistible force directly burst through his body.
Pfft!
For the first time, Izayoi Sakamaki was injured. Blood flowed from his mouth, and his body flew backward and downward like a shot arrow.
[Beast IV: Beast of Comparison, Primate Murder] Descends!
"Hah, it worked!"
Hakumen's mouth stretched into an exaggerated curve, revealing two canine teeth as sharp as a vampire's. She realized she had almost forgotten this feeling.
Hiding behind the scenes, forcefully altering the course of everything, and then planting a conspiracy capable of burying everyone.
She had a talent for this, and moreover, she derived immense pleasure from such things.
After being killed and absorbed by Mercenary Tao's unreasonable brute force in the Fate world, Hakumen lost her physical body and her status as a Reincarnator. Now, finally, in this world full of Gifts, where acquiring power was even more convenient than in the Infinite Dimensional Space...
She had obtained a chance to start over.
Madara Uchiha crossed his arms. One eye was still in the shape of a three-tomoe Sharingan, but the other had transformed into a purple eye with concentric ripples.
The Rinnegan!
"Hmph, so this is the kind of person hiding behind the scenes? To actually be schemed against by this mediocre woman, that guy has gotten sloppy..."
Having fought continuously since the Warring States Period, Madara Uchiha almost always ensured he was in a state ready for combat. He had long grown accustomed to various schemes and calculations.
It was just that he hadn't expected that usually cunning host to actually be schemed against by a woman of this level.
He watched the woman before him with glazed eyes, beginning to alter the rules of her Gift Game. An ancient, simple book appeared before the woman.
On the front of that book, a sun-like symbol was engraved. This mark caused Madara Uchiha to take a few extra glances.
While Hakumen made this true "mastermind behind the scenes" alter the rules of the Gift Game, in the blink of an eye, the rank of the 6-Star Gift Game began to drop.
First it became a 5-Star Gift Game, then a 4-Star... As it downgraded step by step, the parchment instead grew larger and larger.
The other people around also noticed this, and an uproar broke out. Hakumen was still unsatisfied. She knew in her heart that whether it was Azure Sky's [King of Miracles] or Mercenary Tao...
Neither of them was stupid. This so-called mastermind hadn't bothered to hide her intentions much either.
As long as one was a Reincarnator, seeing these fake people who clearly didn't belong to this world, they would naturally understand that these Gift Games were special and specially arranged.
Yet Sousuke and Mercenary Tao still voluntarily entered. Rather than saying they fell for the scheme, it was more accurate to say those two were so arrogant that even seeing a trap, they would step into it and crush everything inside.
Based on her current understanding of Mercenary Tao, this was highly probable.
"It's not enough. Since those monsters are so confident in their power, we should make this a bit more thorough!"
Professor Kento sat in the tavern further away, quietly watching Ye Zi being hypnotized by Madara Uchiha. He frowned, clutching a gemstone in his hand.
Suddenly, Kento felt a chill on his shoulder. A man dressed as a bartender casually sat beside him, his face slowly transforming into Ye Zi's appearance.
"Are you also wondering if your sister would fall into hypnosis so easily?"
Kento's neck was pricked by a chakra blade, blood trickling out, but he didn't move.
"You've always been cautious. I certainly didn't think you would fall into the hands of Hakumen and Madara Uchiha so straightforwardly. However... I also don't think Hakumen would be stupid enough not to tell the difference between a real person and a fake created with Nen and Magic."
He slowly turned his head. The Ye Zi before him lacked the vitality of a living person. This guy was the "fake" created with abilities, and judging by the ability, it was highly likely copied from the Naruto world.
The bartender Ye Zi nodded. The chakra short blade in her hand retracted inwards, and then she naturally sat beside Kento. Without any hesitation, she grabbed the rum from Kento's hand and drank it.
Only then did she look outside in the direction of Hakumen and Madara Uchiha, saying, "Therefore, that Ye Zi is the real body."
"There are some choices Ye Zi can't proactively make, so she chose this method, letting others make the decision for her..."
"Hehe, quite despicable, your sister, isn't she?"
At this moment, Kento also crushed the gemstone in his hand. Mysterious revelations appeared in his mind. He saw Ye Zi's conflict and pain, and her final choice to leave everything to fate...
Looking at Ye Zi being manipulated by Madara Uchiha's genjutsu, Kento's mind was also somewhat in turmoil. He opened his mouth; if he warned Hakumen now, could this all end...
But... if he did that, there was no doubt Ye Zi would die.
The bartender Ye Zi looked at her brother, her eyes full of scrutiny.
"Kento, letting them kill me now might be the better choice for you, for me, and for everyone."
"So, can you make this choice?"
Kento's eyes wavered intensely, his breathing growing heavy. Memories of spending time with Ye Zi in their youth constantly flashed before his eyes, as well as the loss in their parents' eyes when they pretended to be relaxed while saying Ye Zi was studying abroad.
But accompanying this was the judgment of the Azure Sky members from earlier: Ye Zi is a traitor. There was no doubt about this. Ye Zi's own words and actions indicated she had completely twisted the definition of kindness.
Because of her overflowing sympathy, she had lost her understanding and empathy for the world she came from, and for her many compatriots in that world.
Indeed, many plot characters were pitiable, recklessly slaughtered by Reincarnators. But weren't Reincarnators also pitiable? If given a choice, Kento believed over half the Reincarnators in the Infinite Dimensional Space would be willing to erase all their memories and return to an ordinary, everyday life.
But... there was no choice!
Kento clenched his fists, caught in a dilemma.
The next moment, terrifying magical energy and Nen erupted outside. Accompanied by Hakumen's crisp laughter, the parchment suddenly exuded pitch-black magical energy.
[Gift Game: The End of Human Order, Initiated]
[You will be forced to participate in this Gift Game]
The space's prompt appeared out of thin air before Kento's eyes. He was stunned. The next moment, amidst Hakumen's manic laughter, he saw her pulling Ye Zi along, riding away on a fox burning with ghostly blue flames.
Meanwhile, in Underwood, the crowd of participants who had gathered because the 6-Star Gift Game had downgraded began to be forcefully sucked into the parchment one by one.
The sheer number of people caused the fireworks in the sky to connect into a single sheet. In an instant, the streets began to empty.
Kento turned his head. The bartender Ye Zi's eyes were full of sorrow.
"See, you missed the chance to save Azure Sky and save Underwood."
Bang!
The bartender Ye Zi exploded into a puff of smoke. Within the smoke, he grasped a page of the [End of Rhapsody]. Drawn on it, predictably, was Asuma Sarutobi from the Naruto world, smoking a cigarette.
Subsequently, Kento was also swept up by the intense suction force, flying straight into the parchment.
Hakumen and Madara Uchiha quickly retreated outside Underwood, watching figure after figure being sucked into that Gift Game from which there was no return. They waited until the parchment settled down before walking into the empty city.
"This woman really has seen some grand scenes~"
"She's seen three [Beasts] that twist Human Order alone. Hahaha, I really want to see the depressed look on that guy Gilgamesh's face when he sees his world completely collapsing."
Hakumen felt absolutely no psychological discomfort about committing "evil" to this degree. On the contrary, the feeling intoxicated her, her face even becoming flushed.
Madara Uchiha ignored this lunatic, his figure flashing as he entered the empty Underwood. There were many Gifts in this world. After realizing what kind of group Reincarnators truly were, Madara Uchiha also developed a greater thirst for power.
The so-called peace was always built upon power. He increasingly realized this. The only reason Hashirama's hollow ideals could become reality was that Hashirama Senju possessed the power to suppress all ninja of the Warring States Period.
Sizzle~
Like fire burning, Kaito Shirogane's towering body was currently emitting blazing white flames of light. This was a manifestation of Ki and his own cells continuously slipping away.
Kaito Shirogane listened to the wailing of the world below. The continent had been smashed in two from the center. His massive body straddled the terrifying rift, his entire presence so intense that it indiscriminately crushed everything around him.
Just by standing there, the surrounding magnetic field was naturally thrown into chaos, and the atmosphere was running wild.
Elements were in chaos, laws were overturned. Only power was true and absolute.
Kaito Shirogane slowly raised his right arm, revealing the bottomless, massive void below. The terrifying abyss, reaching straight to the Earth's core, could faintly be seen.
Moreover, the crust was slowly moving towards both sides. If Kaito Shirogane exerted force right now, he could continue to tear open this wound in the world.
But he sensed something new appearing.
Whoosh~
Kaito Shirogane turned his head, only to see that between heaven and earth, the pitch-black Sea of Life he had destroyed revealed a cloudless night sky. Amidst the twinkling of countless stars, a massive number of white points of light were born out of thin air, then fell one by one to different locations in the world.
They were human figures! Tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of participants had suddenly flooded into this Gift Game!
Furthermore...
Kaito Shirogane looked back and saw Izayoi Sakamaki crashing like a meteor into the distant ocean. The crust shattered with a resounding tremor, and a massive whirlpool began to form in the ocean, as if the surface of the sea had been broken.
And remaining in the air was a white [Beast]. Its originally soft and cute body had now swelled, surrounded by an unresolvable, twisted power.
Just by standing there, it emitted a power Kaito Shirogane could not ignore.
Kaito Shirogane's body seemed to be fading away, the white flames of light scattering along with the violent air currents.
"Beast of Comparison..."
This was another [Beast] that twisted Human Order from the Fate universe, [Primate Murder]. A [Beast] birthed by Gaia's will, specifically to exterminate humanity in order to protect the world itself.
It possessed an absolute special attack against all primates, demi-humans with human forms, and humanoid beings with intelligence.
At the same time, because it symbolized humanity's nearly infinite concepts of "comparison" and "rivalry," it possessed the trait of near-infinite growth.
As long as an existence stronger than it existed, it would continue to grow until it was stronger than the target.
Simply put, it would always grow to be slightly stronger than its target...
With a whoosh, Sousuke climbed up from the Earth's core, his entire body covered in porcelain-like cracks. But emerging from the magma of the core, those cracks also began to mend.
He frowned. Mercenary Tao's growth had highly likely completely exceeded Sosuke Aizen's arrangements. This power was completely different from Aizen's soul-related traits.
Yet he knew perfectly well that Mercenary Tao's fundamental uniqueness lay in those soul traits.
In other words, Mercenary Tao had completely deviated from the path Sosuke Aizen desired, yet still became this terrifying.
Yes, terrifying. This was the first time Sousuke had his body nearly shattered by a Reincarnator. The [Child of the Stars] stairway placed him practically above the world, making it difficult to defeat him through physical means.
Yet just now, he was almost crushed along with the world itself.
Moreover... that punch just now clearly contained the [Concept] of that terrifying guy from the One-Punch Man world. Mercenary Tao had actually touched another kind of upper-tier power.
If this world weren't the Mesopotamian mythological world where fantasy had not yet ended, if it were a smaller world, perhaps Mercenary Tao really possessed the possibility of killing him...
Sousuke stood up, looking at Mercenary Tao, who was burning with flames of light above him. He knew Mercenary Tao would likely pay a terrible price for this strike, but a lunatic like this clearly wouldn't care.
Sousuke suddenly frowned as well. He felt his Concussive Pulse of the Spiritual Light being twisted. A massive amount of depraved desires spread out, intertwining with his Concussive Pulse of the Spiritual Light.
A flash of inspiration occurred, and the miracle was triggered. He instantly knew the answers to everything, including Ye Zi's hesitation ultimately placing her life in Madara Uchiha's hands, including the massive number of humans from Underwood being sucked into this world, turning what was originally a fake Gift Game into a true, large-scale disaster.
Of course, this also included... the appearance of a new [Beast].
[Beast V: Beast of Depravity]. This thing... one look was enough to know Ye Zi had prepared it specifically for him...