The dark-green, half-bodied giant suddenly appeared. The instant the giant red sword was about to strike, the Susanoo's spiral spear thrust upward to block it.
In an instant, the sword and spear clashed, creating a deafening roar.
A violent wind, generated by the impact, swept out in all directions.
The clothes and hair of Zabuza, Haku, and the Kirigakure Anbu were all blown back. They had to rely on chakra to barely keep their footing.
Crack...
Suddenly, a cracking sound was heard.
The expression of Zhongh, the leader of the Crimson Knight Brigade's formation whose aura was united as one, changed abruptly.
He realized their giant sword, formed from crimson light, could not withstand the opponent's spiral spear. It was beginning to collapse.
The cracking sound just now had come from within the giant red sword.
"Crack... crack..."
The cracking sound grew louder. Fissures appeared on the sword's body. Soon, the cracks multiplied and widened, and the entire sword began to shatter, disintegrating into pure red light that dispersed into the air.
"So brittle."
Lexon's eyes were calm. He casually raised his hand and swiped it down.
The Susanoo followed suit, raising its spiral spear again.
The dark-green chakra surged, and the spiral spear began to rotate wildly, kicking up an incredibly fierce gale.
The next moment, the spinning spiral spear pierced the airflow, stabbing straight toward the Crimson Knight Brigade's formation.
'Crap!'
Zhongh was terrified.
It wasn't just him. The other team members were also horrified when they saw the terrifying, dark-green, demon-like giant and the shattering of their sword.
Now, the unstoppable, terrifying power of the spinning spiral spear seemed to cast a shadow over the hearts of the Crimson Knight Brigade members. Their morale plummeted.
'Is this an opponent we can even defeat?'
This thought couldn't help but surface in their minds.
"Don't lose heart!"
Zhongh, as the captain, had the responsibility to encourage his team, so he roared.
At the captain's shout, the dazed expressions of the team members immediately turned grim. They readjusted to their optimal state.
"Shield!"
Zhongh commanded again.
He did not choose to dodge.
If they dodged, the formation would certainly scatter, and they could be picked off one by one. So, he chose not to.
In an instant, the longswords in the hands of the Crimson Knight Brigade members were all returned to their spatial accessories. Replacing them was a triangular shield.
"Defend!"
All members of the Crimson Knight Brigade shouted in unison again. Their aura flared, and an even denser red light spread out, unleashing their abilities to the maximum!
The red light in the air and the light from their bodies instantly condensed above them, forming a giant, blood-red, triangular shield.
The crimson armor on the team members' bodies even began to glow, as if to reinforce the giant shield.
"BOOM!!!"
The Susanoo's spinning spiral spear and the giant triangular shield collided, and an ear-piercing crash resounded.
The moment after the collision, surprised expressions appeared on the faces of Zhongh and the others.
The continuously spinning spiral spear had actually failed to pierce the giant triangular shield's defense. Although the impacted area was damaged and the spear was still spinning at the shield's center, it had not broken through to attack the team members below.
"He's not so strong that he's unbeatable!"
Zhongh used this scene to encourage his team again.
"Prepare to counterattack!"
Zhongh, as the core of the formation, began to channel power, intending to hit the opponent with a "shield parry."
A so-called defensive counter!
While forcefully blocking the opponent's weapon with the shield, they would transform the shield into a sword and deliver an ultimate slash!
"It's pretty hard..."
Lexon, seeing the shield formed from their combined power holding strong under his spiral spear, couldn't help but chuckle.
Then, the chakra in his body surged.
"Let's try this then..."
As his voice fell, the spiral spear, still spinning on the shield, was instantly clad in a crimson chakra shell!
It was the Nine-Tails' chakra, enhancing the spiral spear!
KABOOM...
The deep-red, giant triangular shield was instantly pierced by the spear tip.
'What?!!!'
Zhongh's thoughts of counterattacking froze. He stared blankly at the spiral spear as it closed in.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!!"
Accompanying the descent of the spiral spear was a series of tragic screams.
Under the Susanoo's spinning spear, the Crimson Knight Brigade's formation, now without its red-light defense, was torn apart like paper. Some team members were like an_EN-US_mess_... thrown into a meat grinder—sliced, crushed, and torn to pieces.
Not even a few complete parts were left behind.
Only a few people on the formation's periphery managed to survive, but they were clearly on their last breath, dying.
Zhongh was one of them.
He had been at the very front of the formation, and the Susanoo's spear had thrust into the center, so he had managed to survive by relying on his greater strength.
But only half of his body remained.
"Still alive?" Lexon approached Zhongh, who was now only half a body and breathing his last, and crouched down slightly to speak to him.
"Hah... hah..." Zhongh was in such bad shape he couldn't speak. After a few seconds of gasping, he found the strength to look up at Lexon and said weakly, "You're... so strong... I... I think I understand... why the Main God Space gave us so much idle time for this confrontation mission..."
"Oh? Why is that?" Hearing something interesting, Lexon's eyebrow raised, and an interested look appeared on his face.
"Idle time of more than five years... means we'll encounter... only... only..." Zhongh's voice grew weaker, so faint that you couldn't hear him if you weren't listening closely.
"Only what?" Lexon crouched, resting his chin on his hand, and asked.
"It's... it's..." As Zhongh spoke, his pupils suddenly shot out a hateful glare. A spherical mechanical device appeared on his arm, and he instantly pressed the red button on it.
Suddenly, [Intuition] sent a "danger" signal.
A surprised look appeared on Lexon's face.
"It's death! Let's go to hell together! You bastard!" Amidst Zhongh's maniacal laughter and ferocious expression, the spherical mechanical device instantly bloomed with an extreme white light.
'Demonization, Breathing Technique, Markings, Adamantine Sealing Chains, Susanoo, Nine-Tails Chakra, Blood Demon Art, Eight Gates...'
All of Lexon's power erupted in an instant.
The resulting blast of power knocked Zabuza, Haku, and the Kirigakure Anbu unconscious.
A giant, red-green-and-black figure, wrapped in massive, ink-black chains, appeared where Zhongh had been.
Immediately, the white light shone, seeming to envelop everything.
Aside from the white light, everything else seemed to return to nothingness.
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