That cold female voice, like an invisible steel needle, pierced directly into Naruto's deepest consciousness, as if some totem had materialized.
He did not turn back, his gaze still fixed on the distant battle, and responded concisely.
"Political Commissar of the Cadian Shock Troops, Uzumaki Naruto. Temporarily conscripted, this is an unrecorded human colony planet, codenamed 'Divine Tree'."
The newly appeared assassin, codenamed "Nightingale," slightly turned her face, which had almost no facial details.
Under her indifferent gaze, a sensory system incomprehensible to mortals was scanning and analyzing the entire battlefield at a terrifying speed.
The flowing Chakra energy was marked and categorized as [Unknown Psionic Subspecies].
The two undead puppets were marked and categorized as [Heretical Sorcery: Necromancy].
All the dazzling Ninjutsu were uniformly filed by her logical core into a cold archive—[Unregistered Forms of Psionic Application].
"This still does not constitute a reason to summon me," Nightingale said with a tone of reproach.
"Purging heresy, does it need explanation?" Naruto's voice carried not a trace of pleading, but rather a self-evident question.
He raised his blood-stained hand and pointed at Orochimaru, who stood at the edge of the barrier with a sickly smile on his face.
"That sorcerer who controls corpses, he profaned the sanctity of death, attempted to steal immortality, and walked the path of a false god. His existence itself is a threat to human order. I request that he be purified."
"My mission is directly issued by the Master of the Officio Assassinorum, not by you, Political Commissar."
Nightingale's reply was devoid of any emotion, but the light from the two constantly fluctuating energy scimitars in her hands intensified slightly, silently revealing her displeasure.
"Your actions have gravely violated regulations. Unauthorized summoning is enough to send you to court."
The cold words seemed to lower the temperature within the entire barrier by several degrees.
Orochimaru, the First Hokage, the Second Hokage, and even the exhausted Hiruzen Sarutobi, all felt an indescribable, bone-chilling coldness emanating from the depths of their souls at this moment.
If the previous Yulian was a violent, tangible mountain of steel, his power lay in his world-destroying destructive force.
Then this newly appeared woman was an imperceptible black hole.
She just stood there, but whether it was Hiruzen Sarutobi's perception or Orochimaru's serpentine instinct, both returned a chilling result—nothingness.
It was as if her existence had been forcibly erased from this dimension, leaving only a visual afterimage.
Orochimaru's golden snake eyes constricted again in fear—this was happening too frequently in one day. Every cell in his body, his serpentine instinct, the keenest sense of danger, was emitting a frantic alarm ten, even a hundred times stronger than when he faced Yulian before!
Escape!
This thought surged uncontrollably from the deepest part of his heart.
On the other side, Yulian's outburst finally reached its limit.
"Boom—!"
His last punch smashed Senju Hashirama's Wood Clone into countless splinters, but he himself stumbled and knelt down due to his power pack overloading.
Dense electrical sparks shot out from various joints of his armor, and his once agile movements began to become incredibly sluggish.
Senju Hashirama's Wood Release vines seized this brief opportunity, once again erupting from the water like living pythons, tightly coiling around and binding him.
This time, Yulian could no longer break free, only relying on the abundant vitality of a Space Marine and the ingrained fighting spirit in his bones to resist.
Facing the unyielding assassin, Naruto slowly stood up.
He did not argue, nor was he angry; he simply changed his approach.
Naruto's voice suddenly rose, transforming into a resonant, undeniable declaration of authority and sanctity that echoed throughout the Four Violet Flames Formation!
"I am not ordering you as a Political Commissar! I am stating a fact!"
"Any planet inhabited by humans, whether or not it is named on the Imperium's star charts, is part of the Emperor's sacred domain!"
"Any heretic threatening human survival, no matter what form it takes, is an enemy that the Imperium must eradicate!"
His voice seemed to carry a strange magic, causing everyone present to tremble.
Hiruzen Sarutobi stared in astonishment at Naruto; the young man's face now displayed a god-like majesty he had never seen before.
Naruto raised his hand and pointed directly at Orochimaru, who made him feel extremely uneasy.
"His existence, the sorcery he wields that profanes the dead, is itself the greatest blasphemy against the Golden Throne!"
"As the Emperor's Spear, the mission of the Officio Assassinorum is to eradicate such existences! No matter which corner of the universe he is in! No matter which dimensional shadow he hides in!"
"Blasphemy"… "Golden Throne"… These two words, like two red-hot branding irons, seared deeply into Nightingale's soul.
That was the highest principle, transcending missions, transcending orders, transcending logic.
It was an absolute imprint carved into the genes and souls of every Imperial servant.
Her inhuman, absolutely rational mind experienced a long period of wavering and confusion.
Beneath the skull mask, a barely audible sigh seemed to escape.
"…Received."
She finally responded in a low voice, still cold, but with a hint less of the previous resistance.
"Only one strike. Don't ask for too much; I've already made an exception."
The moment her words fell, Orochimaru's hair stood on end!
An unprecedented, soul-freezing sense of fatal crisis completely enveloped him.
Cannot wait!
He instantly made a judgment: he could not let this woman act! He had to deal with the summoner first!
He no longer hesitated or lingered in battle; his entire being was like a black lightning bolt skimming the water's surface, the kusanagi sword in his hand humming softly as he abandoned all other targets and aimed straight for Naruto's heart at the other end of the barrier!
"Your little tricks end here, Naruto-kun!"
A twisted, sinister grin, a mix of fear and greed, appeared on his face.
As long as he killed Naruto, these bizarre summons would naturally disappear!
However, Nightingale moved even faster than him.
She did not run, nor did she use a Body Flicker.
Her figure simply, slowly, eerily faded in place.
The next moment, she had appeared ghost-like on Orochimaru's charging path, as if passing through an invisible curtain, or as if she had been standing there all along, never moving.
Extremely fast, and extremely eerie!
Orochimaru's pupils suddenly constricted, but he no longer had time to change his attack and could only fiercely swing the kusanagi sword forward to block!
But what happened next completely overturned all his understanding of combat.
The energy scimitar in Nightingale's hand ignored the incomparably sharp kusanagi sword, passing directly through the blade like a void phantom, without sparking or making any sound.
The Callidus Assassin's phase sword, the iconic weapon of the Officio Assassinorum, from an ancient, cold lost dynasty, a forbidden weapon forged from fragments of a god that annihilated stars. Its operating principle is phase shifting, allowing it to temporarily detach from the material world of reality, ignoring any physical defense.
It precisely, gently, pierced Orochimaru's chest.
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