[h3][color=ed1c24]Kojiro[/color][/h3]


Kojiro sighed as soon as Zume said to land the blow. This was it. Either he would end this fight now, or he would be ended. The edge of fate was ready to fall. As soon as it was said, Kojiro jerked his sword up another inch. 

[color=ed1c24]"Mountain Cutter."[/color]

The red color under his eyes moved slightly as if he had trouble keeping sage mode going under all the stress he was going through. He hadn't spent much chakra in sage mode really, but now his technique was guzzling it faster than he was certain he could handle, but against an opponent like this he had no choice. He had it in his capacity, but using so much of his body's chakra at once, in sage mode no less, was no small feat. The four points created a diamond, with Zume in the dead center. Again, the simple name belied it's strength.

Zume had guessed right from his tools he'd placed, they hadn't been accidentally thrown away full of sage chakra. 

From the four different point, a piece of the earth shot up, the moved towards the center, forming an X, closing in on Zume. The feel of the technique was similiar to Hill Cutter, but on a completely different scale. The Earth shot up in fine particles that shot violently with a vibrating edge. Each 'edge' was 5 feet across, but would still cut most things in between to ribbons.

 The initial earth becoming shot into the earth launched all the tools into the sky, though they were thrown outside of the technique. The Tessen, being the smallest, was launched the farthest, flying over the technique itself to the other side, with the Kodachi and and Sheathe spun wildly in the air as well, off to the sides.

They earth continued to shoot upwards in a geyser like an X-shape making a constant cutting stream into the sky. Kojiro seemed confused himself at the scale of the attack as it continued to grow, pulling the ground HE was on into the sky. It took a great deal of focus for him to control the thousands sections of the attack around him alone trying to drag him into the center. The geyser pulled everything to the center of it, slicing it to ribbons.. He used an additional portion of chakra to shift his blade a small bit to shift the earth he was on a tad so that he wasn't sucked into the center, which was hard. The edged sucked everything to the center before cutting it to ribbons as it dragged it higher and higher into the sky.

The geyser was soon half a mile across.


On the ground the technique started enlarging, pulling in more and more ground from the sides around it to maintain the X, turning the ground from an X to a ♦ as it pulled in more and more earth. The technique pulled more and more things into itself.

The sheer scope of the attack was almost inhuman. Zume was in the worst section of it as well, the center, where earth would rise up from all directions, threatening to sandpaper him out of existance.