Facing an enemy of Sora's caliber, the Root's members fought with complete disregard for their own lives.
In an instant, over twenty of them surged forward. Yet, in Sora's eyes, those sharp attacks were full of openings.
"Danzo…"
"You are being far too frivolous."
Sora stood firm in place, unmoving. He looked at Danzo, hiding behind the crowd, a trace of a disdainful smile appearing on his face.
He drew his sword.
Screech!
In an instant, a flash of snow-white sword light cut sharply through the air, piercing through over a dozen Root's members with a 'thump' sound.
It was the most perfect slash, irresistible.
Sora's terrifying power, far surpassing that of a Tailed Beast, also erupted violently upon these Root's members.
Squelch!
Squelch!
Squelch!
Blood blossoms bloomed.
However, even with their bodies almost severed by the sword light, those Root's members still did not retreat.
Holding their mangled bodies, they lunged towards Sora through the air.
No one dodged, no one retreated, no one was afraid.
The gaze of every Root's member was so cold and emotionless. They completely ignored the sword light ravaging their bodies, seemingly intent on pouncing to perish together with Sora.
Black blood poured down from the sky, forming an especially terrifying bloody zone.
Severed limbs, broken arms, blood, white bones…
That hellish scene caused even the usually cold and emotionless Danzo have a clear look of anger flashing in his eye.
"For the village…"
"Your sacrifices are all valuable."
Danzo's hand holding the wooden cane trembled slightly. He looked up, staring fixedly at Sora's position, waiting for the final trump card to be revealed.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The next instant, those Root's members spraying plasma all exploded like balloons.
Their bodies turned into black blood fragments and dust, scattering in the air, pouring down towards Sora.
What appeared following that were clusters of circular light nets covered in black seals.
Over a dozen exploded simultaneously, sealing Sora within them impenetrably.
'This…'
'The Reverse Four Symbols Sealing?'
Sora looked up, his gaze calm as he watched everything unfold slowly.
The spherical black light produced by the explosion of over a dozen Reverse Four Symbols Sealing blocked all his escape routes.
As the black light surged, it also linked up, forming a sky-obscuring light screen that completely devoured Sora.
"The Reverse Four Symbols Sealing, this is Konoha's trump card, an unimaginably powerful Sealing Technique!"
Seeing events unfold exactly as planned, Danzo's slightly trembling hand finally steadied. He gripped his wooden cane, saying aloofly and calmly: "Yuki Sora, at the final moment of your life, remember this. I am different from immature youngsters like Jiraiya and Namikaze Minato. Fighting me…"
"You will truly die."
Following Danzo's words, that spherical light screen formed from pitch-black blood, after continuously expanding, abruptly collapsed in reverse into a singularity, completely vanishing from this world.
And along with it, Sora, and everything under that black light screen's coverage: soil, gravel, broken wood, sunlight, even the air… All disappeared from this world.
This was the power of the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing! Using life as a blood medium, sacrificing and obliterating everything in this world!
Even the strongest Ninja would be powerless before this technique. This was Danzo's trump card, his ultimate move!
A short time later, over a dozen Root's members stood motionless in the field.
Looking at the huge hemispherical void pit on the ground, they couldn't hide a complex look in their eyes.
"The casualties are too heavy."
Someone, after scanning the field, couldn't help but sigh.
"This is the necessary sacrifice to seal Yuki Sora. Facing such a monster, expecting to capture him without bloodshed was impossible from the start."
Another Root's member, seemingly a Root Captain, shook his head, his tone firm.
"What a pity…"
Danzo, positioned at the center of the group, suddenly sighed: "We ultimately reached this point. Search the battlefield. See if you can find any of Yuki Sora's flesh or tissue. Even a single drop of blood, find it for me!"
"Yes, Danzo-sama!"
The surviving Root's members all acknowledged respectfully and prepared to sweep the battlefield.
"By the way, where is Orochimaru?"
Danzo's gaze swept around but he never saw Orochimaru's figure.
But this wasn't strange, as that guy's fighting style was always unpredictable. Him disappearing suddenly was understandable.
It's fine as long as he was available for experiments later.
Just then.
Suddenly, a Root's member passing by Danzo inexplicably stabbed his sword towards Danzo's heart.
Thump!
One stab pierced from the back, grinding the heart, then the blood-stained sharp blade emerged from the front chest.
In an instant, Danzo's pupil constricted sharply, his face turning as pale as paper.
"What?"
"Why?"
Danzo's gaze was full of astonishment. He couldn't imagine how his loyal, machine-like subordinate would ambush him in the dark.
"Danzo…"
"Open your eyes, see this real world!"
That subordinate wearing a red bird mask suddenly murmured softly, his voice eerie and familiar.
Danzo had only heard it a few times, but would never forget it.
'Yuki…'
'Sora!??'
"Impossible, I clearly sealed you, how could you…"
Danzo's face was full of terror and horror. He roared incredulously in a low voice, even trying to turn his head to angrily question Sora about something.
However,
All his astonishment and bewilderment were interrupted again by a voice devoid of any emotion.
"Shatter, Kyoka Suigetsu!"
As the words fell,
Crack!
Crack!
Crack!
A sound like something shattering seemed to ring in Danzo's ears.
Then he saw, with a horrified gaze, the world in his field of vision shattering like a mirror.
The originally intact world shattered into a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand broken mirror pieces.
The mirror pieces interlaced and segmented each other, tilting and sliding down, and then the entire world completely collapsed because of it.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
When the illusory world collapsed with a roar, the harsh real world finally reflected into Danzo's pupils.
Within the black blood light screen, Orochimaru, astonished and confused, was struck by the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing and turned into an atomic state. And his living subordinates were madly slaughtering each other as if possessed.
In just a few seconds, they had used kunai or swords to behead each other, filling the field with incomplete corpses.
"This…"
Danzo's expression completely stiffened. No matter what, he couldn't imagine how things had developed to this state.