Chapter 115: Slaying a God [First Update]
[Repeating her name countless times every day.]
“S-rank Forbidden Art: Lightning Release—Kirin!”
Thunderclouds churned across the heavens. Bolts of lightning intertwined within them as though endowed with life, and amid a deep, thunderous roar, an enormous dragon’s head emerged from the clouds. Its whiskers rippled in the wind, making it seem as though a divine beast had descended into the mortal world!
Half of the thunderclouds he had created had been forcibly seized from him. Enel’s face turned livid. Though only half remained, the total area was still equivalent to half of a sky island. Within the clouds, everything seemed to collapse inward, eventually forming a colossal spherical mass a thousand yards across.
Violent lightning covered the black sphere of thunderclouds. Inside it, astonishing currents of air and electricity raged, while everything surrounding the thunderball was annihilated by the overwhelming voltage. Enel raised a hand, and the thunderball slowly descended, bearing down viciously upon Shu Mingyuan. Wherever it passed, space itself seemed to cave in, while flashes of black electricity flickered with a darkness that inspired terror.
“Let’s see whether your Raigo is more powerful—or my Kirin!”
In an instant, Shu Mingyuan opened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Lightning moved too quickly; only with the Sharingan could he clearly perceive its trajectory. The Chidori in his hand grew ever more brilliant. With one hand, he guided it forward, his gaze fixed upon the enormous thunderball that was Raigo.
“Descend, Kirin!”
The dragon’s head emerging from the thunderclouds released an earth-shaking roar of fury. Kirin stepped out from within the clouds, and behind the dragon’s head was concealed its own colossal body of lightning, likewise a thousand yards in size. A lion’s head, deer antlers, tiger eyes, elk’s body, dragon scales, and an ox’s tail—the creature was lifelike in every detail. This was the majesty of a true divine beast!
With its feet upon the thunderclouds, Kirin crashed violently into Raigo before the two men within a thousandth of a second!
Kirin represented extreme speed, forming a stark contrast with Raigo’s slow descent.
An indescribable boom erupted in midair. In that instant, the entire world lost its color. Even sound itself seemed to be stripped away, leaving only an endless expanse of dazzling white light before their eyes.
Weber was utterly stunned by the battle between the two men. How could a battle of this magnitude still resemble something humans were capable of? It was plainly a clash between gods. Mortals could only watch from the sidelines, and the slightest carelessness would allow the resulting shock waves to reach them, obliterating them without leaving even a trace.
That blinding white light swept across the entire sky island. Everywhere people looked, their eyes were stabbed by unbearable pain, and tears streamed uncontrollably down their faces. Even with their eyes tightly shut, they could still see nothing but a sheet of white radiance.
The scene seemed to last for an entire century. At last, the piercing white light slowly faded, and the phenomenon created by the collision of Kirin and Raigo finally disappeared.
The power of the two attacks appeared evenly matched. Neither had been able to overcome the other. Yet, upon closer inspection, at the very center of their collision was a tiny thunderball no larger than a thumb.
With a thunderous explosion, the thunderball shattered. Another earth-shaking boom resounded across the entire sky island, and the tremendous shock wave completely destroyed all the trees, earth, mountains, and stones nearby, flattening everything in its path.
Shu Mingyuan employed every defensive measure at his disposal before he could withstand the impact. His blood and vital energy churned violently throughout his body; clearly, blocking the shock wave had been anything but easy.
Under the influence of the enormous storm, the Ark Maxim rocked as it fell from the sky. Large portions of the vessel had been damaged. The vast quantities of gold covering the Maxim had served as perfect conductors during the lightning storm, leaving many areas severely impaired. It could be said that if Enel wanted to use this ark to travel to the Endless Earth, it was now practically impossible.
“Blue Sea brat, you destroyed my ark! I’ll kill you!”
Enel leaped directly from the sky. A tremendous amount of molten lightning surged from the four drums on his back, enveloping his entire body. In an instant, a massive figure covered in crackling electricity appeared.
“Maximum Output—Two Hundred Million Volts: Raijin!”
In this form, every movement he made carried the terrifying voltage of two hundred million volts, capable of reducing anything to nothingness in an instant.
With the force of thunder and ten thousand horses, Enel, in his Raijin form, swung a fist down at Shu Mingyuan!
Shu Mingyuan regarded him indifferently. He removed the Lightning Cutter from his back and gripped it with both hands. Enormous quantities of chakra poured into the blade, and the dazzling radiance of lightning rapidly expanded to a length of thirty yards, transforming it into a gigantic sword of thunder capable of cleaving anything in two.
“Once, Tachibana Dosetsu wielded the Lightning Cutter and struck down a thunder god.”
“Today, I, Shu Mingyuan, shall once again slay a god with the Lightning Cutter and prove my path to enlightenment. This blade is the natural enemy of every so-called thunder god!”
“Enel, today I shall offer your life as a sacrifice to the supreme might of the Lightning Cutter!”
A famous blade possessed a spirit. Having once cut down a thunder god, it now sensed that familiar power once more. An inexplicable force began surging ceaselessly from within the Lightning Cutter, causing the radiance of its blade to expand by another thirty yards!
“This still isn’t enough!”
Defeating an incarnation of lightning with lightning alone was simply too difficult. At that moment, the Armament Haki within his body also surged forth, spreading and coiling wildly around the entire length of the Lightning Cutter.
The enormous sword of thunder, twenty yards long, flashed with black electricity from hilt to tip and radiated a deathly aura that seized the soul.
“Enel, receive this sword! With it, I shall cut down the thunder god!”
“Name of the sword: God Slayer!”
Shu Mingyuan wrapped both arms around the colossal blade and brought it crashing down upon Enel in his Raijin form. The sword’s radiance swept across the sky, and the eerie black lightning seemed to cleave the air and the heavens themselves in two.
At that instant, Enel seemed to taste death. This power had already become a genuine threat to him, powerful enough to extinguish every trace of life within his body.
A flicker of hesitation passed through his eyes. In the end, he still let out a furious roar and drove his fist downward.
He was the thunder god. He feared nothing!
No one could evade the judgment of a god!
As expected, the instant the two attacks met, the thunder god’s fist, filled with overwhelming electrical current, was torn apart by an irresistible sharpness. The black lightning coiling around the blade inflicted unimaginable damage upon his elemental body.
The power of the thunder god ultimately relied upon the electrical current and heat generated by immense voltage. Shu Mingyuan’s God Slayer, however, was a genuine slash fused with Armament Haki!
Under Enel’s horrified gaze, God Slayer cleaved him cleanly in two!
“No!”
He released a terrible scream, but the outcome had already been decided. His severed elemental body could not regenerate. The violent sword radiance, carrying nearly indestructible black lightning, instantly annihilated every organ within him.
His will faded.
The great thunder god Enel was dead!
The God Slayer Sword did not stop. With one final, merciless stroke, it slammed into the earth of Upper Yard, leaving behind a colossal ravine a thousand meters deep. Sword energy and black lightning continued to surge within it, refusing to dissipate even after a long time.
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