Uchiha's Blade

When the Scarlet Sand Scorpion sensed someone coming and came out of the cave stronghold, even he couldn't help being surprised.

"Uchiha Mana?"

From Didara's abnormal reaction, Xie already guessed that someone might come to deal with him recently.

Nagato suddenly withdrew from Akatsuki's organization and set up another branch. After the initial shock, everyone was still shocked.

Because they suddenly discovered that there was another masked man hidden behind the original organization. Nagato betrayed the Akatsuki organization rather than the masked man.

No one knows what conflict happened between Nagato and the masked man. What everyone knows is that without Nagato, the masked man is not easy to deal with. They still have to admit the masked man as the new leader of Akatsuki.

After Nagato established the new organization 'Colorless', he would naturally recruit people from the original Akatsuki organization.

Scorpion had long expected that Nagato would send an invitation to them. The only thing he didn't expect was that Nagato only invited Didara, but ignored him instead.

After the initial accident, Scorpion understood that after winning over Didara, Nagato would definitely attack him.

Maybe it was him himself, or Xiaonan, or someone else he sent, no matter who came, they must be people with extraordinary strength, and Nagato must believe that the other party's strength can kill him.

So after Didara left, Scorpion found a secret stronghold that he had prepared before and began to prepare for this inevitable battle.

But he never expected that the person who came would be the current Hokage Mana Uchiha.

Fei Liuhu's voice is low and deep, which usually gives people a scary feeling, but obviously, the current Scorpion's heart is more surprised.

"So, the new backstage that Nagato found is you? Konoha is behind the colorless organization?"

Mana smiled and said: "How can you say that, I'm not Nagato's backer, it's just that he agrees with my ideas and feels that Akatsuki made mistakes in the past, so he just plans to work hard again. He is a very good person."

Her attitude can be called kind and natural, but the less she cares, the more nervous Scorpio becomes.

According to Jue's information, although Uchiha Mana is young, she is already one of the strongest people in the ninja world today.

And the strength she showed is by no means her true strength.

No one knows how many hole cards she has yet to show.

Scorpion doesn't know either.

But he knew that this must be the biggest crisis he had ever encountered.

He no longer cares about what happened to Mana and Nagato, what is more important now is whether he can survive tonight.

Mana patted the heads of the two children beside her: "Okay, you go to the side."

While talking, she parted into a shadow and came out.

Xie's voice was even colder: "Are you looking down on me?"

The shadow part and the body will divide the chakra of the main body evenly. Even if only one is divided, the impact on Mana's strength will not be small. Before that, no one dared to divide a shadow part in the battle with the scorpion. .Go to the side to play.

Xie saw Mana's shadow at a glance. The body was used as a babysitter for the two children, and it was impossible to participate in the battle.

When fighting him, it's okay to bring two too weak little ghosts to watch as if watching a show, but there is actually a shadow part. Going to be a nanny?

Xie couldn't help sneering again and again: "Very good, very good, you are indeed the opponent who has made me the most angry all these years, if you lose, don't regret it!"

Mana blinked: "You all know that the shadow part will divide my chakra, weakening my strength is a good thing for you, why are you so angry?"

Scorpion: "Should I still thank you?"

Mana took it for granted: "Even if you don't thank me, there's no need to be angry, you are so strange."

Scorpion was so angry that she almost fell on his back, without saying a word, Fei Liuhu's sharp and poisonous tail swept towards her at an extremely fast speed.

Mana's Kageben, carrying Neji and Sasuke with him, disappeared in the same place in an instant, and went to watch the battle at a place with a better view.

Mana herself disappeared at the same time.

The chakra dagger has been unsheathed.

She seemed to flicker, just disappeared from one place, and then appeared in another place.

At the same time, there is also the knife light that belongs to the Chakra short knife.

Scorpion has known for a long time that she can fly the art of thunder. For a strong man like Uchiha Mana, he will naturally care about her ability, not to mention that her identity is still Hokage.

It can be said that there is no one in this world who is confident in his own strength and has channels to obtain information, who will not analyze her ability.

Of course, Xie also analyzed it, and he even investigated the information about the Flying Thunder God Art in detail, because he thought it was indeed a very troublesome art.

The latest user of the Flying Raijin Technique is the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato. Although Namikaze Minato has passed away for many years, his information is at least easier to find than that of the Second Hokage or Uchiha Mana. The understanding of Naruto comes naturally from the analysis of the Fourth Hokage.

He knew that Flying Thunder God Art is a time-space ninjutsu that can maximize the speed of the user. As long as it is imprinted, the user can appear anywhere at any time.

This is also the reason why the scorpion attacked first in this battle.

He didn't have a good way to deal with the Flying Thunder God Technique, because the two famous users of the Flying Thunder God Technique that can be found so far died in battle after voluntarily giving up the advantage of the Flying Thunder God Technique.

The second generation of Hokage was to protect his subordinates and buy time for the young people to escape, so they could not avoid or retreat, and even had to attack by force to delay the enemy, so they died in battle.

The fourth Hokage is to protect the village, and it is also an inevitable battle. His opponent is still the strongest tailed beast like Kyuubi.

It can be said that the analysis of these two people did not yield any information about the weakness of Fei Lei Shen's technique.

After thinking about it, Xie finally came to the conclusion that he must completely control the rhythm of the battle, and he must not allow Chennai to have the opportunity to deploy the Flying Thunder God spell.

No matter how powerful the Flying Thunder God technique is, if you can't perform the technique, it will be of no use at all.

High-intensity and high-density attacks are exactly what puppet masters are good at, not to mention that a puppet master like Xie can manipulate multiple puppets at the same time and launch continuous attacks.

So he attacked first if he disagreed, because he didn't want to give Mana a chance to throw Thunder God Kunai.

It's a pity that Scorpion still underestimated Mana.

As early as when she first chatted with Xie, she had already placed enough marks of Flying Thunder God around her.

But Mana is not surprised that Scorpion will make such a judgment, because for those who do not understand the Flying Thunder God Art and can only analyze it through the fighting habits of the fourth generation of Hokage, it is indeed easy to make such a misjudgment.

The Fourth Hokage is more accustomed to fixed objects. The most common thing is to leave the mark of Flying Raijin on Kunai in advance, and then throw out these pre-prepared traits Kunai during the battle, so as to set up Flying Raijin's position in an instant .

But the essence of the Flying Thunder God Art is to leave a coordinate imprint based on the user's Chakra. This does not need to be made in advance. As long as the Chakra reaches and the control is sufficient, it can leave a imprint.

Generally speaking, this is indeed a better choice, and it was also used by Mana at the beginning.

Especially for ninjas, battles always come suddenly, and it is even more difficult to predict the situation on the battlefield. The Flying Thunder God Kunai prepared in advance can set up the Flying Thunder God's position in an instant, which is enough to deal with various emergencies. It saves the embarrassment of needing to slowly blow away Thor's marks one by one in the surrounding environment in actual combat.

But on the other hand, even the inventor of the Flying Thunder God technique, Qianshou Feijian, never said that only one Flying Thunder God mark can be used at a time.

As long as the calculation ability is sufficient, coupled with sufficient chakra, and excellent chakra control, it is no problem to hit hundreds, thousands or even more at a time. There is no upper limit.

Mana has no shortage of chakra.

Uchiha's bloodline chakras are already more than ordinary ninjas. She also used medical ninjutsu techniques to stimulate the body's chakra veins for a long time during her growth, which made her chakras far exceed her peers. In this case Next, she also learned the Yin seal to store chakra.

It can be said that as long as she does not use some techniques that consume far more than normal levels, such as Mana's Hell, she will basically not lack chakra.

But that's just not enough.

What really made her not care about the consumption of chakra was after becoming king in the slate world.

So of course Mana could use less conventional methods.

She doesn't lack chakra, and her control is good enough. The body that has been developed to the limit by the slate includes the brain. I don't feel smarter, but the calculation ability and memory are indeed many times better.

Therefore, she can leave countless flying thunder god spells around her within a few words.

...and so secretly hit the spells below the ground, so that Xie couldn't see her mark of the Flying Thunder God at all.

After all, when using the Flying Thunder God Art, it doesn't appear in the overlapping position of the Flying Thunder God Art, but can appear near the art, so I don't care about the slight error at all.

This caused Mana to appear on the side of Feiliuhu's tail when Xieman thought that Feiliuhu's tail could cause some trouble to Mana, at least delaying for a few seconds so that he could take out more puppets. The carat dagger cut down directly with a ray of light, instantly cutting off Fei Liuhu's tail.

This seemingly nimble and light slash was surprisingly powerful, as if a gun had been ignited at the cut.

Not only was Fei Liuhu's severed tail blown out, but even the scorpion inside the puppet felt the aftershock.

Mana won the blow without hesitation, and her figure flashed again and was already close to Fei Liuhu's side.

Scorpion has never seen such a fast speed.

The powerful dynamic vision of Sharingan was pushed to the extreme by Wang Zhili, which made Mana's Flying Thunder God technique faster.

Scorpion barely had time to react, Mana's knife had already sliced ​​off Fei Liuhu's head horizontally.

Scorpion didn't care about stabilizing his body at all, but flew out following the huge force of the slash.

This caused his flying movements to be very embarrassing, such a staggering appearance should not have appeared on a ninja of his level.

Scorpion didn't care about the embarrassment, let alone landing, and started to take out the puppet almost in the middle of flying out.

However, he had just taken out the scroll, and hadn't even had time to open it.

A blade as thin as a silk thread split the scroll in his hand into two pieces.

This time, the scorpion was knocked down from mid-air and fell heavily on the ground, raising smoke and dust.

Originally, he planned to suppress Mana with fast and intensive attacks, but now he was suppressed by Mana's attacks that were so fast that he couldn't see clearly.

Scorpion doesn't even have time to be upset.

He's about to run for his life!

Mana's only three blows made him lose all fighting spirit, and his mind was full of the question of how to escape.

The development of this battle is really amazing.

At least Scorpion can still tell that Mana slashed him a few times, but Sasuke on the other side is completely different.

When Mana smashed the scorpion on the ground, the first afterimage of Mana standing in place in his eyes just disappeared.

From the time when the scorpion attacked with Fei Liuhu's tail, to when Mana moved, and when the scorpion was smashed to the ground, he couldn't see what happened in the middle.

Everything in front of me seems to be a blunt switch between two irrelevant pictures.

It seems that Xie and Mana were still standing upright in the previous picture, but in the next picture, Xie had already been smashed to the ground, and Fei Liuhu's broken tail fell far away on the other side.

Sasuke tried to open his eyes wide: "What happened? What's going on?"

The veins on Ning Ci's face were bulging, and he had already rolled his eyes, but the speed of his eyes opening couldn't keep up with the speed of Mana's battle. By the time he looked over, all this had already happened.

It was the shadow left by Mana. She saw everything clearly, and she explained it to the two children.

After hearing this, Sasuke blushed with excitement: "It turns out that Sharingan and Flying Thunder God's technique are so powerful!"

He is Uchiha, and he will also have Sharingan in the future. He is now following Mana to lay the foundation for learning the art of Flying Thunder God in the future.

Sharingan, Flying Thunder God Art, he will have these in the future.

Sasuke looked at the cracked Fei Liuhu in the distance, and couldn't help thinking, could he also get such a powerful power in the future?

The red sand scorpion is also a top powerhouse in the ninja world. The S-level rebel ninja in the sand ninja village has the powerful power to destroy a country by one person.

But when facing Mana, his performance was almost no better than a novice Shinobi.

Until Fei Liuhu was smashed and smashed to the ground, he couldn't even make a decent attack.

Mana stood opposite Scorpion, the distance between them was less than three meters.

It really doesn't make a difference.

Even if she was 30 meters away from Xie, if she said she wanted to hit him, she would still hit him.

Distance is meaningless in front of Flying Thunder God Technique.

For Mana, who has maximized the speed of Flying Thunder God, the distance is even more meaningless.

Scorpion also understands this, so he doesn't care about the distance between himself and Mana.

A pale hand stretched out from the destroyed Feiliuhu, a boy's hand.

A handsome young man with red hair stood out from the terrifying crimson liuhu.

He asked Mana, "Why didn't you do it?"

Mana pointed in the direction of Sasuke and Neji: "This should be a good experience for them, they can always learn something, and it will be boring if it ends too soon."

After a pause, she asked again: "Are you feeling better? Hey, as a puppet master, it's not good for you to be killed before you even have time to take out the puppet. Let you do it first this time."

Her tone was light and cute, with the vitality and sweetness of a girl in her voice, but the content of her words was extremely arrogant, and she didn't pay attention to a strong man like Xie at all.

But this time, Scorpio no longer felt the anger of being underestimated.

Uchiha Mana is qualified to say this.

That's it.

Therefore, he did not refute, but seized the opportunity that he finally got, and unfolded the scroll that he carried with him.

As an S-rank rebel ninja who is well-known in the ninja world but no one dares to hunt down and kill him, it is absolutely not an exaggeration to say that he has the strength to destroy a small country with one person.

There is probably no more powerful puppet master in this world than him.

He is a master at both making puppets and manipulating them.

But in the face of Mana, Xie didn't use his red secret skill, Hundred Machines Exercise, which is enough to destroy a small country, and he knew it was not a good choice.

The strength of Hundred Machine Manipulation is that he can control hundreds of puppets to fight at the same time, and there has never been a problem that the control over each puppets will decrease due to the greater number of controls.

But this trick is of no use to Mana.

Not to mention hundreds of puppets, even if thousands of puppets were used to bury her, she would be able to escape from the center of the battle in an instant.

What's more, the strength of a single puppet performed by a hundred machines is by no means qualified to fight with Chennai.

So Xie took out his most important and strongest puppet.

The human puppet made by the former three generations of Kazekage can use the ninjutsu of the three generations of Kazekage during his lifetime.

The third Kazekage is known as the strongest Kazekage in history. Although the title of the strongest Kazekage is far less valuable than the title of the strongest Hokage, it has to be said that looking at the ninja world, the third Kazekage is already the strongest at the top of the pyramid.

The human puppet that Scorpion made with Three Generations of Kazekage is one of his biggest trump cards.

Mana didn't know Sandai Kazekage, decades ago there was no name of Sandai Kazekage, and when she came back decades later, Sandai Kazekage had already become history.

But when Scorpion summoned the puppet of the third generation of Kazekage, the puppet was still wearing Kazekage's white robe.

Mana is too familiar with this ugly and ugly standard costume of Shadow of a Village.

So she asked Scorpion: "Who is this? Your hole card?"

Now that the matter has come to this point, there is no need for Xie to hide it from her.

"This is the third Kazekage. I killed him when I defected from Sand Ninja Village, and spent a lot of time making him into a puppet. In order to preserve his ninjutsu during his lifetime, I spent a lot of thought. "

Mana looked at the puppet of the Third Kazekage, when Scorpion was not controlling him, the puppet stood there lifeless.

"It sounds like you killed him probably by using some unscrupulous means, otherwise you don't need to be so proud of retaining his ninjutsu, or pay so much attention to his strength, and use him as a trump card against me. Fight head-on, he's stronger than you, right?"

Xie sneered: "Is it interesting to say this now?"

Mana said: "Of course, what you have done will affect how I treat you, don't you care?"

The implication was that before the battle even started, she had already determined that even if she took out the third-generation Kazekage puppets, Scorpion would still not be her opponent.

Xie said coldly, "Didn't you come to kill me today?"

Mana laughed: "If I only wanted to kill you, you would be dead by now!"

She smiled very beautifully, but she stabbed the knife into Xie's chest one by one: "There is always some information about me outside, although it is not comprehensive, but I have a kaleidoscope sharingan, I can use the wooden escape, I can There is always information on immortal arts, and the Akatsuki organization also has intelligence geniuses like Jue, so you don’t know about it? But which one do you see that I used for you?”

This undoubtedly means that even if she splits out a shadow at the beginning to watch and eat melons for the children as a commentary, and does not use kaleidoscopes, wood escapes, fairy arts and other big moves, she can already gradually force the scorpions into it. In Desperate Situation, even such a big move as the Three Generations of Wind and Shadow Puppets can only be done with her permission.

For a genius like Scorpion, this is undoubtedly a huge blow.

Scorpion stopped talking.

Couldn't find a refutation.

Regardless of Scorpio's mood that seemed to be bleeding from the core, Mana continued: "I am indeed here to deal with you, but dealing with you and killing you are not the same thing. Whether you live or die depends on your death." It is more valuable to be alive than to be alive."

Can live, no one wants to die.

Not to mention that Scorpion even transformed himself into a puppet in order to pursue "eternity".

So he asked: "Nagato only invited Didara, but he didn't give me any news. Haven't you already made your choice?"

Mana sighed: "Look, your brain is not very good. Nagato didn't invite you. It's because you don't want you to join his organization. It doesn't have any causal relationship with me killing you. Why do you have to?" Think so?"

Xie asked calmly, "So, are you going to let me go?"

Mana pointed to the three generations of Kazekage puppets beside him: "You have to fight it before you know, if you are worthless, it will be more convenient to kill, and there will be no trouble in the future."

"it is good."

Several chakra lines extended from the fingertips of the scorpion, and the puppet of the third Kazekage finally moved: "If you want to see it, I will let you see it well!"

The human puppet of Sandai Kazekage is his most confident work. Even in the face of Uchiha Mana, Scorpion has the confidence to compete.

Especially now that Uchiha Mana doesn't know what kind of thinking, and puts a bunch of big moves that don't work.

Whatever the reason, at least this is an opportunity for Scorpio.

On the other hand, Sasuke directly asked Mana's shadow □□ the doubts in his heart: "Why doesn't Mana-sensei not use wooden escape, kaleidoscope writing sharing eyes, or fairy art? I know that Mana-sensei's sealing technique is also very good, If she wants to, she can use the reverse seal, so that the red sand scorpion can't even take out the puppet!"

Mana had shown him this special level of using the sealing technique to reversely seal the scroll, making the opponent's scroll invalid, and Sasuke was stunned at the time.

Never thought it would be possible to play like this.

But now, none of these tricks are working.

Kagebumi smiled and said: "The main body said, it is to bring you to gain knowledge, and it is also to let Sasuke you see the change of Chakra's nature, so the protagonist of this battle will only be the change of Chakra's nature. , she won't use another one."

The nature of chakra changes, which can be said to be the basis that every ninja who learns ninjutsu must learn.

Use this kind of foundation to defeat the S-rank rebellious ninja like the Scarlet Sand Scorpion?

No matter how much Sasuke admired Mana, his eyes widened slightly when he heard this, and he couldn't help thinking, isn't this approach too crazy?

"But...if the nature changes, why doesn't Master Mana use ninjutsu?"

Shadow Fen. Okinawa explained with a smile: "Ninjutsu is the next step in nature change. What the ontology wants to show you is the change in Chakra's nature itself."

Now, Sasuke didn't understand how to fight this battle at all.

Only changes in nature, but no ninjutsu, how do you fight?

The answer was soon revealed.

The title of the strongest Kazekage of the Three Generations of Kazekage has never been a false name. He has a unique ability to manipulate iron sand, and he is both offensive and defensive, which is very difficult to deal with.

At this time, the Three Generations of Fengying puppets raised their hands to seal, countless black iron sand floated in the air, and formed black needles all over the sky in an instant.

Magnetic Escape·Sand Iron Shiyu!

The thin needles that filled the sky really fell like rain, but the speed of their flying was definitely not comparable to that of rain.

In order to prevent Mana from directly attacking the main body, Sandai Kazekage and Scorpion surrounded a circle of iron sand fine needles like hedgehogs, waiting for Mana to appear around them, and immediately pierced Mana into a sieve.

There seems to be no other way to decipher this huge and extremely detailed attack other than avoiding it far away.

However, Mana didn't dodge or evade, and rushed forward just like that.

Her figure flashed, and she had already appeared near Sandai Kazekage.

Xie sneered endlessly in his heart, he had been waiting for such an opportunity to make a move a long time ago!

As soon as she saw Mana appearing, the hedgehog-like thin needles around Sandai Kazekage flew out, and changed the angle in an incredible way, hitting Mana from all directions, without giving her a chance to dodge.

boom.

Mana, who should have been tied into a sieve, suddenly turned into a wooden stake. At the same time, Mana's figure flickered again, appearing next to Sandai Kazekage.

This is the most basic substitute technique, even a ninja who just graduated from ninja school can do it.

But it is this ninjutsu that treats the strongest iron sand of the three generations of Kazekage as nothing.

Fortunately, Xie didn't think that he could instantly kill Mana with a single move, and he was already prepared for the next move.

At this time, it was too late to condense new fine needles, and the black iron sand surging like waves around Sandai Kazekage quickly gathered, and then spewed upwards, forming an iron sand shield, blocking in front of Sandai Kazekage, protecting his descendants. One move to buy time.

The sand is alive, and it only takes a moment to switch between attack and defense. It only takes a moment for the seal to form, and the surging iron sand shield in front of Mana will turn into needles again, pricking hundreds of thousands of holes in her body.

However, Mana's face was indifferent, and the light of the dagger in his hand skyrocketed.

No one has ever dared to pick up the iron sand of the third Kazekage with a blade.

But Mana Uchiha did just that.

Because she is ignorant?

Because she has never seen the horror of the three generations of Fengkage iron sand ninjutsu?

No, because she is strong enough!

The short chakra knife collided with the iron sand wall with dazzling light, and then the thick iron sand wall, which seemed impossible to be broken by anyone, was cut off by the light of the knife like a piece of paper, and the surging iron sand was no longer a piece. A ball, or a strand, they are almost shapeless, like a ball of sand raised by a child, one by one, one by one, they are scattered in all directions.

The strong airflow formed by the collision made Sandai Kazekage take a few steps back.

Scorpion's eyes were fixed on the knife in Mana's hand.

A short sword made of metal that can transmit chakra.

Refined, expensive, functional.

Xie remembered the knife that Mana cut through Fei Liuhu like cutting tofu.

The secret is in this knife.

The body of the puppet is not enough for him to make a more subtle expression, and he can probably only express his mood with his tone: "Is this... a change in the nature of Chakra?"

Mana slowly revealed a smile: "Yeah, did you see it?"

"Nature change? What nature change?!"

On the other side, Sasuke tugged on the sleeve of the hidden avatar, eager to get an answer.

Ying Fen. Body smiled slightly: "It is the change of Chakra's nature, the most basic nature change."

The sharpness of the wind, the speed of thunder, the strength of fire.

"So it's sharp enough to cut through everything, so it's so fast it can't be dodged, so each of its cuts will cause the opponent to suffer the same damage as a huge explosion at close range."

Sasuke's thunder attribute has just started to be learned recently, but he is familiar with the fire attribute.

The first time he met Mana was when he was practicing the Ho Fireball Jutsu.

Hao Fireball Jutsu is a real fire escape ninjutsu. In addition to the heat and destructive power of the flame, it can also blow up the hit target.

This has the same effect as the iron sand scattered like an explosion after being chopped off by Mana.

Sasuke couldn't help exclaiming: "It's amazing!"

Before today, he never thought that the change of Chakra's nature could be used in this way.

In the past, he just used the chakra that changed in nature as the basis for using ninjutsu with different attributes.

Sasuke can only sigh very powerfully, for Scorpio, this makes him horrified.

He is stronger and more knowledgeable than Sasuke, of course he understands that this is not just a simple 'nature change'.

Chakras with different attributes have different characteristics, such as the sharpness of the wind and the high temperature of the fire, which are very suitable for attacking.

But this does not mean that the chakra after the nature change is very powerful.

If this is the case, everyone can only learn about the changes in the nature of Chakra, why do you need to learn ninjutsu again?

Therefore, if you want to achieve the level of Chennai, it is not just as simple as a change in nature.

That is a purer and more extreme change.

In the short time of the knife, she exerted the ultimate speed with thunder, making the knife unavoidable, but when she touched the target of the attack, the chakra attached to the knife had instantly turned into another chakra. This kind of extreme, the sharpness of the wind makes her invincible, even the specially made Scarlet Liuhu, or the iron sand wall of the third Kazekage can't stop her blade.

While tearing apart the opponent's line of defense, her chakra changed again, and the violent attack and destructive power of the fire attribute was exerted to the extreme, making this knife not only sharp, but also destructive like an explosion.

Coupled with her already powerful strength, the originally simple slash turned into a terrifying move.

That's easy to say, and there's not even a second... no, not half a second to do it all!

That is a short period of time so small that it is difficult for ordinary people to even perceive it.

In such a short period of time, it is rare enough to push a chakra nature to the extreme, but Mana has changed three times?These three changes have a front and a back, with clear boundaries, and there is no interference between them.

Each is pure, each is the ultimate.

What kind of terrifying chakra control is this? !

This kind of control scorpion, let alone grasping it, he never even thought about it!

The nature change of chakra is the basis of ninjutsu, so how terrible will the ninjutsu used by Uchiha Mana, who has this monster-like control power, be?

While understanding Mana's attack method, Scorpion's self-confidence also suffered an almost devastating blow.

His fighting spirit, like dew in the sun, quickly melted away. "