"Curtain."
Lexon felt the heaven-reaching tornado sweeping toward him, so he reached out with his other hand and tugged at a pitch-black Truth-Seeking Orb.
He reshaped it.
Under his manipulation, the Truth-Seeking Orb instantly transformed into a sky-obscuring black curtain, veiling the tornado.
In an instant, the violent, surging sandstorm was covered by the black shroud.
The annihilating properties of the Truth-Seeking Orb erupted, causing the sandstorm to dissipate like spring snow under a scorching sun.
Afterward, the Truth-Seeking Orb slowly contracted, returning to its original black spherical form.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, this guy is a bit strong. What's going on?" A cloud of dust emerged beside Number Two and the others, and within the sand, the figure of a man with a buzz cut gradually materialized.
Some of the sand clearly contained several people within it.
Lexon's Wood Clone shared memories with the main body and recognized those people at a glance.
They were the remaining Reincarnators from his own faction.
Even Youmei and Rara were among them...
"He's a Reincarnator. This is tricky. Be careful," Number Two warned Number One.
"A Reincarnator?" Number One asked, somewhat confused.
"Yeah. Probably an opponent forced upon us by the Main God," Number Two responded.
"Then doesn't that make him a Fifth Stage Reincarnator?" Number One asked.
"It's possible," Number Three answered.
"Are we making a move?" Number One asked again.
"We have to. This is a confrontation mission, and we used our authority to force our way in. The penalty for failure is much heavier, almost unbearable..." Number Three's cold, clear voice came from her small, icy face.
"Then let's kill him," Number One said in a deep voice, a murderous glint in his eyes.
"I agree with that plan," Number Three stated.
"Agreed," Number Four added.
"Same here," Number Two expressed his thoughts as well.
At that moment, they reached a consensus.
They would exterminate the hostile Reincarnator before them!
"I suggest you don't resist," the Wood Clone, floating in the air in Six Paths Mode, looked down at the Reincarnators below, his voice devoid of emotion.
"Do it," Number One said, ignoring the Wood Clone's words.
Immediately, his body dispersed into sand and scattered.
As soon as he moved, his teammates moved as well.
Number Two slid his ten fingers through the air, pulling out ten zipper openings. As he reached the end of the motion, he flicked the zippers toward the Wood Clone.
Number Three's figure gradually became ethereal, manifesting within Lexon's mind.
Number Four manipulated the children who had already surrounded the area in secret, sending them charging toward Lexon.
They held nothing back, erupting with one hundred percent of their combat power!
"Since you've made that choice... then this is my response..." The Truth-Seeking Orbs around Lexon gradually changed shape, transforming into a long sword which he gripped in his hand.
"Ten Thousand Slashes."
A very simple name.
And a very simple method of attack.
At extreme speed, he swung the black sword carrying the property of annihilation in a single instant.
In a flash, tens of thousands of strikes were unleashed.
The afterimages left by the black sword were so dense it looked as if he had grown ten thousand arms.
Number Two's ten zipper attacks arrived.
But the moment they touched the curtain of sword strikes, they were silently shredded.
It seemed that under the annihilation property of the Truth-Seeking Orb, even the zippers that had never been forcibly erased before could not offer any effective resistance.
They were completely fragile.
Seeing this, Number Two's expression changed instantly.
His reliance in battle was his zippers.
The indestructible nature of the zippers was one of the strongest points of his combat power.
Opening zippers consumed physical strength, but maintaining zippers of a certain size on the field didn't affect him much.
In other words, in a normal battle, the longer he fought, the more zippers would be on the field, and the greater his advantage would become.
This was one of the edges that had made him invincible in past battles.
However, now that his zippers could be destroyed by the opponent's attacks, it meant this ability would be significantly weakened.
As long as the opponent aimed to destroy the zippers, they could eventually grind him down!
Number Four, who was manipulating the children, also understood the indestructible nature of his teammate's zippers.
But now they were being destroyed by that black sword made of spheres...
Consequently, he internally established a rule: do not touch that black substance.
Number Four commanded the charging children to retreat, but some had already stepped into the range of the black sword.
In an instant, the children who entered the range were sliced into tiny pieces.
However, no blood flowed from the cuts; instead, clumps of viscous liquid dispersed.
That was the body fat of Number Four's main body.
This was also the reason why the attacks of Sarutobi Hiruzen and Enma in Konoha Village had been ineffective.
Attacks would sink into the fat and do nothing...
But the Truth-Seeking Orb's attack was different.
The Truth-Seeking Orb, carrying the power of all creation, could easily destroy and annihilate any structure.
Any defense would be meaningless.
"I can't reform..."
Number Four's child-like face was filled with solemnity.
Normally, those children composed of his fat could be restructured even if they were blown apart. However, the fat that had been cut by the black sword just now seemed to no longer be under his control; the command to restructure could not be executed.
If his body housing his consciousness were cut before he could react, wouldn't that mean he would truly die?
Number Four suddenly realized this grim reality.
"Watch out for those black substances!" Number Four shouted loudly.
He wanted his teammates to avoid touching those pitch-black materials at all costs.
"Number Two, use that!" Number One, whose body had reformed from sand, shouted to Number Two.
"It takes time to activate!" Number Two responded immediately.
"I'll buy it!" The missing Number Three spoke from an unknown location.
Are they going to use something...
Lexon's Wood Clone suddenly remembered the mechanical creation used by the Captain of the Scarlet Knights.
Are they using a prop...
I should stop them.
Regardless, the main body only requires them to stay alive; nothing else matters.
Being near death is just right...
As the thought fell, he tilted the hand holding the Tin Staff forward. The head of the staff struck space itself, seemingly causing a spatial ripple that sent out waves of invisible oscillations.
"Avoid it!" Number One sensed Lexon's attack and immediately yelled.
Clang...
A roar like a struck bronze bell echoed in the minds of everyone present.
Number Two, who was at the center of the vibration, immediately bled from his nose and mouth. Number One's body uncontrollably collapsed into wind and sand, while Number Four transferred his consciousness to a child's body further away to reduce the damage to himself.
"Endless Nightmare!!"
In the next moment, the voice of the enraged Number Three suddenly rang out.
Within the independent consciousness of the Wood Clone, layers upon layers of illusions suddenly emerged—illusory, unreal, yet flipping logic and twisting thought.
But the impact was extremely limited; Lexon's Wood Clone quickly snapped out of it.
The time he was affected should have been no more than a single second.
But in a battle of this level, one second could decide many things.
"Now!"
Just as he regained clarity, he heard the scream of the white-haired woman known as "Number Three."
Click...
Then came the sound of a camera taking a photo.
It was Number Two holding something resembling a camera, taking a picture of Lexon's Wood Clone.
Zzzzt...
The camera spat out a photograph.
What does this mean?
The Wood Clone frowned slightly.
In the next instant, his consciousness lagged. The space he occupied suddenly became flat, and he felt as though he were being isolated from the three-dimensional world, separated from reality.
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