"God...!"
Kizaru and the others stared at Rena who was slowly levitating in the air with shocked expressions. Even Kizaru couldn't hide his astonishment.
He absolutely didn't expect that Rena would directly swallow her opponent whole. The girl had now become such a powerful existence; from her aura alone, that was enough to suppress him completely. Moreover, the black aura radiating from Rena's body carried extremely dense malicious intent.
"This little girl... her power turns out not far different from that crazy woman (Kaguya) and that baldy (Saitama)!"
Kizaru's face became very serious. He was one of the people involved in the previous Bijuu incident and witnessed with his own eyes the peak confrontation between Saitama and Otsutsuki Kaguya.
In such a short time, a little girl who was previously weak even powerless, could grow to this level. Truly hard to believe.
"Is this also one of that mysterious First Place on the Golden List's tactics?" Kizaru murmured.
"Hm?" Rena's black eyes shifted to stare toward Kizaru. The black aura full of malicious intent began spreading toward them.
"Go!" Kizaru shouted without the slightest hesitation. He grabbed Sentomaru, golden light glittering around him.
Golden mirrors (Yata no Kagami) appeared in empty space, and his body transformed into a beam of light. He carried Sentomaru shooting through the reflection of those golden mirrors, fleeing madly into the distance.
He knew well that with his current power, he was absolutely no match for that girl. That aura full of malicious intent clearly showed no friendliness whatsoever. If they stayed there, most likely they would be massacred.
"Want to run?!" Rena grinned cruelly. Her black power soared to the sky like a tidal wave. Her speed turned out no less than Kizaru's, pressing toward Kizaru and Sentomaru as if wanting to swallow heaven and earth.
Kizaru was scared half to death. After his meeting with the First Place on the Golden List, this was the second time he felt such a real death threat. At this critical moment, he exerted the power of Pika Pika no Mi to the maximum limit, activated his Devil Fruit's Awakening ability, and brought out a small flag.
"Open!" Golden sunlight spilled from the sky, as if dyeing the entire land golden. At the same time, Kizaru's body seemed to merge into that light, with glittering golden light particles.
This vast expanse of golden light was apparently able to hold back the black wave momentarily. And in that brief moment, the black flag finally shone, radiating a strange transparent wave. That transparent wave directly enveloped Kizaru and Sentomaru, and both vanished instantly.
"Fled?" Rena squinted her eyes, feeling slightly angry.
This anger made her suffer more, and that suffering actually made her stronger. As the God of Suffering, her power indeed originated from suffering.
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Meanwhile, at World Council Headquarters (formerly the Holy Land Mary Geoise).
Sengoku, who was sitting in his office working on documents, suddenly jolted. The safe placed beside him suddenly shook by itself with increasingly violent frequency. Not long after...
*BOOM!*
That safe exploded, sharp metal fragments shooting wildly in all directions.
Sengoku's expression changed. Golden Buddha light enveloped him, deflecting all those fragments. At the former safe's location, two people appeared with a flag planted in the ground between them.
Those two were Kizaru and Sentomaru.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Sengoku asked anxiously seeing Kizaru and Sentomaru's disheveled condition. He didn't know what danger Kizaru encountered that forced him to use the Space Transmission Flag he had given.
This Space Transmission Flag was a Golden List reward that Sengoku obtained. In total there were 18 flags; one main flag and 17 branch flags. This item was a one-time use item.
Anyone who possessed a branch flag could activate it to instantly teleport to the main flag's location regardless of distance. All council chairmen in the World Council each held one branch flag as a final ace to save their lives. Unexpectedly Kizaru used it so quickly; he must have faced danger he couldn't fight.
"The situation is bad, a terrifying figure appeared..." Kizaru panted, his eyes still retaining traces of fear as he recounted the incident he had just experienced.
"God of Suffering? Godhead fragments?" After listening, Sengoku's expression slowly became very serious. "You mean, all people who entered the Sacred Ruins Trial Tower at that time potentially have Godhead fragments and have the opportunity to unite into a true god?"
Kizaru nodded. "More or less. According to my speculation, the power of someone who unites into a true god must be no less than Saitama or that crazy woman Otsutsuki Kaguya. We can't fight them."
Sengoku squinted his eyes, pacing in the office with hands behind his back. After a few moments, he stopped suddenly and shouted: "Immediately summon all chairmen and council members for a meeting at headquarters. No one may be absent!"
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At the same time, in the Naruto World.
In a valley hundreds of miles from Konoha Village, Jiraiya led a group of ninja to examine piles of corpses on the ground.
Corpses lay scattered in a messy condition; clearly a major battle had occurred. These corpses all wore Konoha headbands—they were Konoha ninja on an external mission. Unexpectedly they died miserably here.
"Who did this?" Jiraiya's face was very gloomy.
The ninja behind him also showed angry expressions. They didn't expect that in the current Naruto World there were still those who dared kill Konoha ninja. Didn't they know that currently Konoha was guarded by two great gods, the First and Second Hokage?
Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama, although perhaps not comparable to abnormal figures like Saitama or Kaguya, within the Three Worlds, they were still experts at the highest level. Not many dared provoke them. In the current Naruto World, Konoha was the main leader, and uniting the ninja world was just a matter of time.
"Jiraiya-sama, there are bloodstains here!" A ninja who found a trail shouted.
Jiraiya immediately approached. That group of people followed those traces into the distance. The bloodstains disappeared at the mouth of a deep cave.
"How dare! After killing people, instead of fleeing, they're actually staying here!" Jiraiya immediately waved his hand, ordering his forces to surround that cave from all sides, closing all exit routes.
"The culprit is inside, Jiraiya-sama. Should we storm in?" Someone asked.
Jiraiya had just started to answer when suddenly from inside the cave radiated extremely bright red light. An extraordinarily tremendous power exploded from inside the cave, making the entire valley shake violently.