At that moment, he radiated a transcendent aura, as though he had become one with the nature around him.
At the same time, a wooden armor appeared on the Complete Body Susanoo, glowing with a strange light like mysterious runes, slowly enveloping the Susanoo.
With the appearance of the wooden armor, the Complete Body Susanoo's presence surged again, and a powerful pressure erupted skyward, tearing the heavens apart.
The air around him was warped by this pressure, producing a low, resonant hum.
Standing nearby, Tobirama Senju witnessed the scene, and shock spread across his face.
A deep, indescribable awe welled up within him.
'This power has completely surpassed my brother.'
He murmured to himself, his voice filled with astonishment and admiration.
In Tobirama's memory, his elder brother Hashirama Senju's power had already stood at the absolute peak, virtually unmatched.
Yet now, the power Roy was displaying was far greater than his brother's.
"Damn it!" Isshiki Ōtsutsuki said through gritted teeth.
Those arrogant eyes were now filled with panic.
In his long lifetime, he had witnessed countless powerful beings, yet he had never imagined that someone outside the Ōtsutsuki clan could possess power so terrifying.
That golden war god, bolstered by Sage Mode and the wooden armor, was already beyond frightening.
But this was only the beginning, and just as he stood there overwhelmed, an even more terrifying surge of power swept in.
A fearsome wave of Conqueror's Haki poured forth like a surging black tide, rushing toward the golden war god.
Then Armament Haki took the form of a dense black armor and layered itself onto the Susanoo, one stratum after another.
With each layer added, the aura of the golden war god grew stronger still.
In that moment, the entire world seemed to fall into a strange state, as the energy between heaven and earth began to churn wildly, and a suffocating pressure permeated the air.
Heaven and earth themselves seemed to descend into chaos at that moment, as though they feared this new power, or perhaps they were murmuring a quiet hymn of celebration.
"As expected, fusing several powers together has brought me to an entirely new level."
Roy gave a slight nod and quietly felt the surging power within his body, his heart full of satisfaction.
By his own estimate, he had completely stepped into the Six Paths level at this moment.
Roy thought that even if Kaguya were to be resurrected, he now had more than enough power to contend with her.
"Let me show you the power of a god."
Roy's voice echoed slowly.
The aura around him surged freely, and his immense chakra intertwined with his Haki to form a visible storm of energy that spun wildly around him.
That golden radiance outlined his figure, making him appear taller and more imposing, as though a true deity had descended.
But those words caused Isshiki Ōtsutsuki's expression to turn ashen in an instant.
"You dare call yourself a god?"
His roar made the surrounding air vibrate, overflowing with disbelief and the fury of someone who had been gravely insulted.
Only those who stood at the apex of the Ōtsutsuki clan had the right to be called gods, and for Roy, a man outside the Ōtsutsuki clan, to so arrogantly call himself a god filled him with boundless rage and humiliation.
However, Roy had no intention of wasting further words on him, and he narrowed his eyes slightly, a trace of cold indifference gleaming in his gaze.
"Despicable!" Isshiki Ōtsutsuki roared again, and countless black cubes came hurtling in from all directions as though summoned.
These cubes collided and merged with one another, gradually forming an enormous boulder.
The boulder blotted out the sky and sun, carrying infinite oppressive force as it came crashing down toward Roy and his Susanoo.
"If that thing lands, it won't end well." Orochimaru licked his lips.
If struck, the consequences would be unthinkable.
His gaze was fixed on the boulder as he quietly speculated how Roy would respond.
But just as everyone was holding their breath for Roy, the massive form of the Susanoo moved.
The long sword in the Susanoo's hand was slowly drawn at that moment.
The Susanoo raised the sword high and then swung it down hard, and a dazzling sword beam erupted in an instant.
The sword beam cut across the sky in an instant, and the sky appeared as though torn apart by an invisible giant hand, leaving a massive rift.
At the same time the ground shook violently, and great cracks spread outward in all directions, while the enormous boulder formed from black cubes was instantly split in two by the sword beam.
"Such power!" Isshiki Ōtsutsuki was speechless with disbelief.
He could not comprehend how anyone, without consuming a chakra fruit, could have grown this powerful.
By this point in the battle, Isshiki Ōtsutsuki, having overtaxed his power, deteriorated rapidly in physical condition.
His skin cracked open and thin trails of blood seeped through, and he began to lose the ability to support his own body.
Yet even so, the pride buried deep within him left him unable to retreat.
He clenched his jaw and let out a deafening roar.
He surged forward with full force, charging straight at Roy.
And Roy quietly watched Isshiki Ōtsutsuki charging toward him, not a trace of pity in his eyes.
He slowly raised his hand, and the sword in the Susanoo's grip was drawn once more.
This time, Roy not only relied on the sword itself but also activated the space-time power of his Mangekyō Sharingan.
In an instant, the entire world seemed to be enveloped by an invisible force, and the flow of time became eerily distorted.
Under the influence of time's power, the space around the sword rippled outward in waves.
Then a blade of time, radiating a deep and fathomless light, extended outward from the sword's edge, and the power of time flickered faintly within that phantom blade.
This time blade resembled frozen light, yet also a flowing river of time, shimmering with shifting radiance within it.
The time blade swayed gently, and rings of luminous halos expanded outward continuously.
When it was swung, the time around it seemed to be completely distorted.
As the time blade slashed toward Isshiki Ōtsutsuki, his body began to undergo strange changes under the influence of that power, alternately growing young and then rapidly aging, wrinkles crawling across his face.
Enveloped by the world-destroying power of the time blade, Isshiki Ōtsutsuki's body could no longer endure this terrifying force.
His body began to crumble piece by piece, dissolving into countless tiny particles that scattered in the wind and finally turned to ash.
In the last moment of his life, Isshiki Ōtsutsuki stared directly at Roy, and with a trace of helplessness and admiration in his voice, he struggled to speak three words: "You are strong."
Those three simple words, spoken by this once insufferably proud and powerful member of the Ōtsutsuki clan, carried tremendous weight as his final acknowledgment of Roy's strength.