However, facing this terrifying attack sufficient to instantly annihilate an entire army, Sora, having transformed into the Azure Dragon, held only a piece of icy indifference within those bluish-gold vertical pupils.
The enormous dragon body showed not the slightest intention to evade, still maintaining its diving posture. The body covered with thick bluish-gold scales directly crashed into the dense barrage of iron sand attacks!
Ding ding dang dang!
Crack!
Puchi! Puchi!
Countless grating sounds of impact and shattering instantly erupted!
The scene Toroi envisioned, of the Azure Dragon being riddled like a sieve, did not appear!
Those iron sand spears capable of easily piercing steel, upon colliding with the Azure Dragon's scales, for the most part merely sparked a trail of dazzling sparks before being directly deflected, or were smashed apart!
Only a very few of the sharpest iron sand spikes, infused with all of Toroi's chakra, barely pierced into the gaps between scales, but they penetrated only about an inch before being firmly stuck by the incredibly tough muscles and the finer, denser inner layer of scales, utterly unable to cause effective damage!
The defensive power of the Azure Dragon was terrifying to such an extent!
"What?! Even the Iron Sand World Law cannot break through its defense?!"
Toroi's eyes nearly popped out of his head, his face filled with despair and disbelief!
This was already his strongest attack, yet it couldn't even breach the opponent's surface defense on a large scale?
How was he supposed to fight this?!
He might as well surrender!
Right at this moment of his mental collapse, the Azure Dragon's colossal body had already broken through the layers of iron sand obstruction, descending upon him with an invincible momentum!
That enormous dragon claw, carrying a terrifying power as if capable of crushing mountains, smashed down right on top of him!
Simple! Brutal!
The pressure from the claw wind made it almost impossible for Toroi to breathe, the sand beneath his feet crazily collapsing!
"No!!! Magnet Release: Absolute Defense!"
Toroi let out a desperate roar, burning all his remaining chakra along with his life force, madly injecting it into that massive shield!
The lightning on the shield shone with unprecedented intensity, the attracted iron sand almost wrapping it into a giant metal cocoon, standing between him and the dragon claw!
This was the strongest defense of his life! His all or nothing strike!
Boom!!!!!!!!!!
The dragon claw and the lightning iron cocoon violently collided!
The deafening roar was like the explosion of heavenly thunder!
A terrifying shockwave wildly spread out in all directions, forcefully scraping off a layer of sand across hundreds of meters in radius!
Crack... crack crack crack... Bang!!!
That "Absolute Defense" coagulated with all of Toroi's strength and hope, before the dragon claw containing mythical power, endured for less than a breath before emitting a groan of unbearable strain, then exploded with a boom!
Shield fragments, iron sand, lightning... scattered everywhere!
The dragon claw shattered the defense, its momentum slightly reduced, but still slammed with immense weight onto Toroi's body!
"Ugh ah ah ah ah !"
Toroi let out a miserable scream, his protective chakra instantly dispersing. Countless bones throughout his body shattered, and his entire person was smashed away from the explosion's center like a ragged sack, heavily impacting a distant sand dune and embedding deep within it, his fate unknown.
With just one strike!
Pure power overwhelming!
It broke through the Magnet Release's life gambling ultimate defense and completely defeated Toroi!
Sora, in his Azure Dragon form, possessed such terrifying physical power!
Sora shook his dragon claw, feeling a slight numbness at the claw tips, stained with some blackened marks from the Lightning Release. A few scales had slight cracks, but that was all, utterly insignificant.
'Magnet Release's defense and counter shock indeed have some merit, but only that much. After complete transformation, my defense and power have exceeded the scope of conventional ninjutsu. This is... Kage level power?'
Sora silently evaluated within his heart, gaining a more intuitive understanding of this power.
Then his enormous dragon head turned, the bluish-gold vertical pupils looking towards the direction where Toroi had fallen. His senses indicated the opponent's life force, though extremely weak, had not completely vanished.
'As expected of an elite Jonin from Kumogakure, tenacious vitality indeed. But... it should end now.'
Sora did not intend to give the opponent any further chance to catch a breath. Long nights breed many dreams.
He opened his enormous dragon mouth. Deep within his throat, bluish-gold light far more scorching and concentrated than during his half dragon form began rapidly gathering!
The surrounding temperature abruptly rose, and a destructive aura causing souls to tremble permeated the air!
In the distance, Fox, who had with great difficulty lifted his head to witness everything, felt his heart almost stop beating upon sensing that destructive aura!
'This kind of chakra... no, this no longer feels like ordinary chakra... it's more like... a natural disaster!'
He was horrified within, finally understanding the source of the power behind Sora's earlier "Great Fireball"!
And Toroi, smashed deep into the sand dune, with all his bones shattered, clinging to only a sliver of consciousness, also sensed that power locking onto him!
He wanted to beg for mercy, wanted to struggle, but his broken body couldn't even move a finger, leaving only boundless fear and despair drowning his final awareness.
"Boom!!!!!"
A bluish-gold dragon breath pillar of light, its diameter far surpassing any previous instance, condensed as if solid, emitting waves of destruction, was expelled from the Azure Dragon's mouth, instantly streaking across the sky, precisely engulfing the sand dune where Toroi was!
There was no deafening explosion, only the "sizzling" sound of extreme high temperatures scorching and annihilating everything.
The light was blinding, impossible to look at directly.
By the time the light faded, all that remained was an enormous, bottomless pit with edges as smooth as glass.
Within the pit, faint smoke rose. All sand, rocks, including any trace of Toroi's existence, were utterly erased from this world, vaporized without a trace.
Slaughtered!
Truly, without any suspense, a complete annihilation of body and spirit!
Sora slowly closed his dragon mouth, feeling the power within his body, which had diminished considerably but remained vast.
'Complete transformation indeed consumes a huge amount of stamina and energy, but the power... is worth it! Kage level power truly is a watershed.'
He silently evaluated his own strength within his heart, simultaneously forcefully suppressing that cold impulse to continue destroying and venting, born from the powerful strength.
The enormous dragon head slowly turned. Those bluish-gold vertical pupils looked towards the sole surviving witness lying not far away.
His captain, Fox.
Fox was also looking at Sora at this moment, his eyes extremely complex. Shock, fear, bewilderment, disbelief, and even a deeply hidden trace of awe...
Various emotions intertwined, leaving this experienced Anbu captain momentarily unsure how to face this unimaginable scene before him.
The gazes of the man and the dragon met in the air.
The air seemed to solidify once again.
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