Chapter 75 - 6: Rikudô Sennin

The earth was devastated, the groundwater began to rise to the surface, a gigantic cloud of dust blurred everyone's view more than 30 km around the area.

Haruto was standing in front of Obito's completely unrecognizable lifeless body, as a dark glow passed through his left eye.

"It's time to put an end to these stories of war and Tailed beasts."

"I'm going to destroy these so-called demons for good."

Haruto held out his left palm and placed it on Obito's forehead.

[Magic of Death: Disintegration of the soul]

But suddenly Haruto stopped and the landscape around him changed.

At the same moment Obito suddenly opened his eyes, the horrible wounds he had suffered disappeared, he slowly got up with astonishment but did not see Haruto, if it was not for the destruction caused by Haruto's attacks instead, he would have thought he had fallen into an illusion.

. . . . .

Haruto found himself in a slightly dark space that seemed almost infinite, with a limitless starry sky and countless balls of blue flame radiating slight vital energy that he recognized as souls.

"I feel your presence so come out of hiding."

"Your senses are truly worthy of a nonawakened god."

An old man with a long goatee, a Sharingan at the center of his forehead and a Rinegan at each eye, wearing loose white clothes, floating in the air above several balls of dark energy resembling those that Obito used to protect himself appeared in front of Haruto.

"May I ask why you bothered me in the middle of a fight?"

"First let me introduce myself, my name is Hagoromo Otsutsuki better known as Hermit Rikudo, and I'm the current guardian god of this dimension."

"The reason you're here is because I want to politely ask you to leave my world."

Hagoromo's words were uttered calmly, politely and slowly, but Haruto could feel the strong pressure emanating from his words, translated into coarse language would be "Get your ass out of my house!"

But he didn't get angry, he just looked at Hagoromo and said in a cold tone of voice

"I'm will not leave until I get some of my affairs in order."

"I see, but this way you'd be breaking our laws, I'm for peace and not resorting to violence, otherwise if it was another guardian god, he would have attacked you indiscriminately and would have done everything to kill you, after all the very fact that you are violating the laws of the multiverse by entering my world is a serious lack of etiquette and politeness, I should have killed you for this offense according to the criteria of the other gods."

Hearing that, Haruto was slightly confused.

"What laws are you talking about? And what is a guardian god?"

"Huh? Do you think I'm an idiot, you're obviously a guardian god with your current power level and please don't pretend you don't understand anything I'm saying."

"I have no idea what you're talking about, I'm not a god, I'm just a powerful human being."

Hagoromo then shook his head and said in a deep voice.

"What you say is even more false, know that a human being of any level of power can never enter the Unity World (UW) (the dark space with bubbles.), let's not even talk about the primordial god of omnipresence who prevents everyone from entering other worlds, know that the UW is a dimension where if ever beings with souls enter they will be automatically anhiliated."

"Do you talk about chains?"

"Chains? If you're talking about soul chains know that they're just a low level defense set up by some gods, what I'm talking about is total anhilation, a human entering the Unity World would be like throwing yourself into the arms of death, no actually it's worse than death it's a total destruction of existence."

The tension that Haruto felt at first disappeared, he realized that this so-called god called Hagoromo was quite sympathetic, so he began to ask some questions.

"So you claim I'm a god?"

"Yes, you are a god."

"Now that you say it, it also sounds strange to me, but I think the most likely answer is that you're a reincarnated god, if you'll allow me, i will help you awaken some of your power, but the condition is that you leave my world, what do you think?"

Haruto remained silent for a moment, don't look at his calm attitude, the information he had just received was a real shock, what would you think if a old man floating in the air with strange eyes told you that you were a god?

"Why should I trust you?"

"You can may not trust me, but if you don't accept, I'll have to resort to violence."

Haruto's aura then exploded violently.

"Recourse to violence? I'd like to see that!"

Haruto's aura darkened, a murderous and macabre feeling emanated from his body, slightly surprising Hagoromo.

"Hmm? A curse, I see you should have used one or more forbidden techniques to have such a powerful divine curse on you, I congratulate you for controlling yourself with such a powerful curse, it proves once again that you are a true god, so let's fight if that's what you want."

Hagoromo got up slowly as Haruto rushed towards him.

Two balls of white fire appeared in his palms and became blue, yellow, then white and finally completely dark.

"Magic of fire : The Sun Death!"

The two balls shrunk and then two rays of terrifying light burst from them, and exploded a meter away from Hagoromo.

But Hagoromo was content to raise his left hand and shake it, making Haruto's attack completely disappear.

Haruto didn't get discouraged, he put himself in the pose he used before to draw his sword, but this time empty-handed, he squeezed the air between his empty palms and then drew it in a simple movement so fast that everything just described actually took only 0.0001 seconds to be executed.

It was a movement merging his mastery of the épée and the Blade Magic, it was the consecration of his training and his experience of more than 34 years.

"The Slash"

An indescribable slash cut the space and before Hagoromo could react he was sliced in half.

Haruto stepped in front of Hagoromo and placed his two palms on the two severed parts of his body.

"Magic Of Death : Soul decomposition!'

Hagoromo's body rot extremely rapidly before being completely reduced to dust.

"Is this the power of a god? This is disappointing."

But at the same time Hagoromo reappeared in the place where he'd been blown to dust with a calm expression.

"So you think i'am disappointing? Then I'll fight you with more seriousness."