Chapter 452: Tsukuyomi

As Shelton perished under the Amaterasu flames, the remaining three commander-level mountain giants looked at Charles with a hint of fear in their eyes.

They were puzzled by the sudden appearance of the black flames and why they couldn't be extinguished.

One of the commander-level mountain giants shouted, "What kind of flames are these?"

"Amaterasu - the Unquenchable Flame!" Charles replied, causing all three to turn their gazes towards him.

Then, they murmured to themselves, "Amaterasu?"

Clearly, they pondered for a moment, not knowing what Amaterasu was. The name didn't ring a bell in their memories, but now they knew that this black deathly flame was called Amaterasu.

Suddenly, a pair of crimson Mangekyō Sharingan appeared in one of the mountain giants' eyes, and the next moment, his world changed as he found himself in an unfamiliar place.

"Tsukuyomi!"

Charles activated his ultimate technique, Tsukuyomi, on the mountain giant who was looking at him and asking questions.

In the unfamiliar world, the mountain giant hadn't even had the chance to speak when he heard a roaring sound coming from above.

Looking up, he saw a red moon descending from the sky.

"No! How is this possible!"

He immediately tried to run away to avoid the falling moon, but found that he couldn't move his body at all.

Realizing he couldn't move or activate his earth power, he could only watch in horror as the moon fell inevitably towards him.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

As the moon descended, the mountain giant's mental will in the Tsukuyomi space was gradually crushed until it turned into dust.

In the real world, only a moment had passed, but one of the three commander-level mountain giants suddenly collapsed to the ground, lifeless.

"Buddy, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing their companion inexplicably falling, one of the other mountain giants jumped over to him, only to be shocked when they made contact.

"H-He's dead."

"What? How is that possible?"

At this moment, both of them showed expressions of shock and fear. This mountain giant's death was even more incomprehensible than the flames from earlier.

Indeed, in the Tsukuyomi space just now, when he had died under the falling moon, his mental will was directly crushed to pieces as he died in the real world as well.

There was a slight smile hanging on Charles's lips as he felt no discomfort after using the Mangekyō Sharingan twice in a row.

Since that was the case...

"Amaterasu!"

Charles summoned the Unquenchable Flame, Amaterasu, to engulf one of the mountain giants once again.

"Ahh!"

With a painful cry, the four commander-level mountain giants who had been attacking Charles were reduced to one in an instant.

The last commander-level mountain giant, seeing the situation, looked at Charles with eyes full of terror and immediately turned to flee.

Seeing his fleeing action, Charles was taken aback. "Dude, this is your territory. Where do you think you're going?"

The next moment, Charles quickly formed hand seals with one hand.

"Shadow Clone Explosion!"

A clone appeared in front of Charles and dashed towards the fleeing mountain giant at a speed surpassing that of sound, creating a powerful sonic boom.

"Boom!"

Upon contact with the mountain giant, the clone exploded in mid-air, blasting the escaping mountain giant away.

"Amaterasu!"

Facing the mountain giant blown towards him, Charles once again unleashed the Unquenchable Flame, Amaterasu.

With this, the four commander-level mountain giants who had besieged Charles were all killed one by one using Charles's Mangekyō Sharingan ability, Tsukuyomi, and Amaterasu.

The entire process, from their appearance to their deaths, took only a few minutes.

Although he had killed all four mountain giants in a short amount of time, Charles's chakra consumption was immense. He retrieved soldier pills prepared by Tsunade from his storage space and consumed them to replenish his chakra.

Then, using Body Flicker Technique, he appeared beside the four corpses and casually stored them all in his storage space. These were all his spoils of war.

...

Outside the royal court, Yodon's face turned extremely ugly. Just a moment ago, he had been confident that his subordinates could take down this newly emerged Supreme Merlin, but in the blink of an eye, all four of his men had died tragically.

Glancing at Thor, who was still struggling, Yodon, to be safe, ordered the remaining four commander-level mountain giants to join in besieging him, believing that with eight commander-level mountain giants attacking together, Thor would be unable to fight back.

Then, Yodon turned to Farbauti and asked, "Did you notice anything special about the abilities the Supreme Merlin just displayed?"

After some thought, Farbauti replied, "There's something wrong with his eyes."

"During the battle, his eyes underwent a change from the Three Tomoe to a pattern resembling a windmill."

"Perhaps there's a significant connection between his combat skills and those eyes. I sensed a destructive aura within those eyes."

Yodon nodded. He also noticed the change in the Supreme Merlin's eyes. However, he questioned, "But it seems like he hasn't used any Merlin lineage spells. Is he really a descendant of Merlin?"

Just as Yodon was speculating whether Charles was truly a descendant of Merlin, Charles looked at the endless army of ice giants before him and summoned the Merlin Staff, then pulled out Excalibur from the staff.

"Hah!"

With a burst of energy, Charles gripped Excalibur with both hands and infused it with his chakra, then forcefully plunged it into the ground.

"Boom!"

As Charles made his move, a crimson light emanated from Excalibur, spreading outward. Wherever the light passed, the earth turned into scorched earth, and the frost giant army in front of him instantly vanished into nothingness.

With this move, Charles managed to kill half of the frost giant army.

The crimson light then dissipated completely.