He reveled in the feeling of serene emptiness. But at the very moment when Uchiha Yue was enjoying the tranquility, his silence was broken.
At the edge of the Region of Dead Silence, Ootsutsuki Isshiki, piloting an Absolute Demonic Mech, looked at the darkness spread out in front of him and rushed inside without hesitation.
As soon as he entered, the anti-gravity field on the surface of the mech began to be absorbed. A colossus weighing thirty million tons crashed to the ground, but did not get stuck in it as it should have.
The huge machine sank onto the cold, dead ground, as if it had fallen into some kind of gigantic and durable gel mass. Her gravitational potential energy was continuously being absorbed by the Area of Dead Silence. By its mere existence here, the mecha fed Uchiha Yue with energy.
They had foreseen this development.
—Absolute Demonic Mecha, full power!
Ootsutsuki Isshiki pushed the control lever all the way down, and the internal energy engine roared to its limit. The energy began to wildly contract and spin. In an instant, the anti-gravity field that had almost disappeared reappeared, and the mecha, which was slowly sinking towards the center of the earth, lifted off the surface.
The efficiency of energy production has dropped to one percent. The returns were almost negligible.
But their plan, as expected, was feasible. Uchiha Yue was not absolutely invincible, nor was he an unsolvable mystery. No matter how terrible a thing is, as long as it exists in this world, there will certainly be a way to deal with it.
Moreover, Uchiha Yue has not yet reached his full prime.
"Ha ha ha, Uchiha Yue, you're finished!" Ha ha ha!
Ootsutsuki Isshiki's insane laughter rang out in the cockpit. In the next instant, the Absolute Demonic Mecha turned into a blurry silhouette and rushed deep into the Region of Dead Silence. As we progressed, the efficiency of energy production steadily increased: two percent, three, four, five…
When he plunged into this dark, lightless underworld, the rate reached twenty percent.
In its normal state, the Absolute Demonic Mecha could run at full power for ten minutes, but now it only had eight left. No, even less than eight—seven at the most.
—Heh, that's enough! Ootsutsuki Isshiki grinned and finally saw a huge giant floating in the air.
— Oh... wow, the furs! Interesting!
Uchiha Yue, of course, also noticed the Absolute Demonic Mecha. He saw him at the very moment when he burst into the Area of Dead Silence, but did not take any action. As indifferent as a demon lord sitting on a throne, he calmly watched the hero approach.
Talking was unnecessary.
At the moment of the meeting, a giant weighing thirty million tons turned into lightning and brought his fist down on Susanoo's chest.
A deafening boom rang out, and the sound wave generated by it spread hundreds of meters across the silent netherworld before finally fading away.
However, this blow did not destroy Uchiha Yue. He easily stopped him by raising his hand. Countless cracks appeared on the blue-black palm, it was almost destroyed, but it withstood the blow.
—Humph! Ootsutsuki Isshiki, who had foreseen this outcome, smiled coldly.
The next moment, he abruptly raised his other mechanical arm, which transformed into a giant drill in the blink of an eye. Carrying a power capable of piercing a planet, it shattered Susanoo's other arm and pierced through his thick carapace on his chest.
Looking at the approaching drill, Uchiha Yue took this blow with his bare hands.
But even Ootsutsuki Isshiki himself could not withstand such power. The excessively saturated kinetic energy, compressed to the limit, exceeded Uchiha Yue's absorption limit in an instant. The remaining force rained down on his palm without a trace, destroying the flesh and biting into the bones furiously.
It was a truly shocking scene: a tiny human body, like a grain of sand, stopped a metal drill the size of a small mountain spinning at high speed.
Here it is, the moment!
Seeing this, Ootsutsuki Isshiki was not afraid, but on the contrary, he was delighted. The ability to absorb energy was too incredible. In order for Izanami to work on Uchiha Yue, it was necessary first of all to bypass his absorption mechanism and make the genjutsu work.
And it was easy to bypass this mechanism — it was enough just to exceed the limit of energy absorption for the shortest moment.
Izanami, activation!
At the same time, the giant artificial eye on the chest of the Absolute Demonic Mech flashed with a blinding, eerie red light. The black artificial tomoe inside him spun crazily like a spiral. The enormous dojutsu force accumulated in the eye dried up in an instant, completely crashing down on Uchiha Yue.
In the next instant, his eyes dimmed, and like a de-energized machine, he lowered his head dejectedly.
It worked!
— Ha ha ha, it worked! Ha ha ha! Ootsutsuki Isshiki burst into a frenzied laugh.
In fact, the current Izanami was already different from its original version. This Izanami has been modified. The ordinary plunges the target into an endless cycle of illusions, from which it is impossible to escape without true repentance.
For creatures with a limited lifespan, this is a very troublesome ability, but for someone who, like Uchiha Yue, is not limited in resurrections, it is a trifle.
But this one, improved by Izanami, was different. You could say it was created specifically for Uchiha Yue. After application, a powerful genjutsu will trick the target's consciousness into believing that it is still attached to the body, when in fact it will already be separated from it.
Thus, all that remains is to destroy Uchiha Yue's soul, and then his eyes, in order to finally end him.
As soon as Uchiha Yue was affected by Izanami, the left eye of the Absolute Demonic Mech began to distort, and the Mangekyo Sharingan installed in it started working at full power. Ootsutsuki Isshiki drew the Soul Annihilation Sword from behind his back, and space and time around Uchiha Yue began to warp.
His flesh began to separate, going into another dimension and exposing his soul.
The Sword of Soul Annihilation flashed, its blade touched Uchiha Yue's soul, and at the same moment, a blinding, terrifying light flashed…