Chapter 180 The Sneak Attack by Kumogakure and Iwagakure
Chapter 180 The Sneak Attack by Kumogakure and Iwagakure
The front line of the Land of Grass.
"Dust Release: Particle Style - Detachment Technique!"
In the distance, a dazzling white beam of light swept across the sky, instantly obliterating a mound in the center of the battlefield along with several Konoha ninjas on it, leaving not even a speck of dust behind.
The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, floated in mid-air, his hands clenched in a fist, and the destructive power he exuded made it hard for everyone to breathe.
Jiraiya's summoned toad, Gamabunta, was fighting against him. Although the situation seemed evenly matched, the power of Dust Release forced Konoha's formation to become extremely scattered.
"Scatter! All personnel carrying electromagnetic sniper rifles, scatter immediately! Do not huddle together!"
Nishikawa Tetsu roared into the radio.
Because of Onoki's entry, the sniper squad, which was originally stationary, was forced to break up and lose its ability to suppress with concentrated fire, which gave the Cloud Village assault force an opportunity.
"Hey! You scum from Konoha, don't even think about running away!"
A streak of blue lightning bolt swept across the battlefield, its target the snipers who were moving around.
The future Fourth Raikage, A, bathed in Lightning Release chakra, moved at incredible speed, instantly closing in on a lone Konoha Chunin.
"Heavy Storm!"
Ai's elbow slammed down with a sonic boom.
Just as that Chunin closed his eyes in despair.
"Ding!"
A specially made Flying Thunder God kunai suddenly appeared on Ai's inevitable path.
Immediately afterwards, a golden light appeared.
Minato Namikaze appeared as if by teleportation, bracing himself with one hand on the ground and kicking at Ai's wrist, while simultaneously using the recoil to leap backward.
"It's you again, Minato Namikaze of Konoha!"
Upon seeing who it was, Ai's anger was instantly replaced by fighting spirit.
"I didn't get a good fight in Konoha last time, this time I'm going to crush your bones!"
"You can give it a try."
Minato's eyes remained calm as he met the attack with his kunai. The blade was coated with a layer of transparent gel—the very weapon that had broken through Ai's defenses last time.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Cruelty Level!"
Without uttering a single word, Ai transformed into a straight line, his hand slashing with the power to cut through steel as he swept towards Minato's waist.
"Sizzle—"
The kunai slashed through the lightning armor.
However, the anticipated chakra short circuit did not occur.
Conversely, the lightning on Ai's body suddenly changed frequency the moment it came into contact with the gel, bursting out with extremely high temperatures.
"laugh!"
The special gel was instantly evaporated by the high temperature, turning into a wisp of white smoke.
"What?" Minato's pupils contracted slightly, and he used the momentum to retreat.
"Hahahaha! You think the same tricks will work on me again?!"
Ai laughed wildly, his offensive unabated, his eyes filled with the smug satisfaction of his victory.
"Once we get back, we'll figure out the composition of this gel! As long as we change the frequency and temperature of the Lightning Release chakra, your little tricks will be useless!"
But what Ai didn't say was that it took them a long time to figure out this "trick".
"Die!"
A's punch slammed down heavily. Although Minato dodged it with the Flying Thunder God Technique, a deep crater had been blasted into the ground where he had just been standing.
"Yo! Yo! Big brother's awesome! Smash his head! Yeah!"
A boy wearing sunglasses entered the battlefield with strange dance steps.
Chirabi.
The seven short swords on his back were instantly drawn and clamped at various joints of his body.
"Seven-Sword Style!"
He resembled a spinning blade wheel, howling as he charged toward the water gate.
This attack method is extremely bizarre and completely unpredictable; every twist of a joint could be a fatal strike.
First came the Raikage's son's heavy punch, then came the Seven Swords Style's strangulation.
And without the restraint of the gel, the situation instantly reversed.
Minato took a deep breath, his kunai spinning rapidly as he weaved through the storm of attacks from the two.
During this time, he kept throwing Flying Thunder God Kunai around, trying to find an opportunity to break the deadlock.
However, Ai's eyes remained fixed on the landing point of the kunai.
"it's useless!"
As Ai attacked, he simultaneously constructed a battlefield model in his mind.
"I've memorized the location of every single kunai you've placed! Three on the left, two on the right, and one behind you!"
"By! Block his left flank!"
"Roger that, bro!"
The two brothers worked together seamlessly, almost like one person.
They precisely blocked every landing point of the water gate, forcing it to relocate again.
"Too slow! Too slow! Is this what they call a yellow flash?"
Seeing that the time was ripe, Ai immediately gave Bi a wink.
"Use that move! Finish him off!"
"Absolutely amazing!"
"Thunderous Plow and Hot Blade!!!"
Ai and Bi separated instantly, then turned around at the same time and sprinted towards Minato at full speed from the left and right.
The two men held their arms out straight, like two giant scissors, ready to sever everything in between.
This move was so fast that it even surpassed any of the previous attacks. To onlookers, all they could see was two beams of light meeting in an instant.
In Minato's pupils, the figures of the two men rapidly magnified.
If you are hit by this move, your neck will be broken instantly.
"There's no escaping it!"
A victorious grin curled at the corners of Ai's mouth.
"There are no more kunai behind you! The kunai on either side are too far apart; even if you teleport there, you won't be able to escape our pursuit!"
"I've already seen through your space-time ninjutsu!"
In the blink of an eye.
Minato remained calm. He watched A rapidly approaching, and instead of throwing the specially made kunai in his hand, he…
It was thrown violently towards Ai's face!
"Such a trivial skill!"
Ai instinctively tilted her head, easily dodging the straight-through kunai.
"You lost!"
The two men's arms were about to touch Minato's neck.
Ai was certain that this shot would hit!
However, in that instant, Minato's expression changed.
It was an absolute calmness, and... the sharpness of a hunter seeing its prey fall into the net.
"Flying Thunder God Technique - Second Stage!"
"Whoosh!"
Minato's figure vanished into thin air.
Instead of teleporting to a safe area in the distance, he appeared next to the kunai that Ai had just dodged and was now flying behind Ai!
Right in the very center of the gap between Ai and Bi's attack!
"What?!"
Ai felt a blur before his eyes, and the enemy who should have been beheaded disappeared. Immediately afterward, a deadly sense of threat came from above his head.
"He's up there!"
Minato, holding onto the still-flying kunai with one hand, hung upside down, using the kunai's momentum to plummet like an eagle swooping down on a rabbit.
His hands were already outstretched.
"Buzz—"
Two azure chakra spheres instantly formed in his palms.
Not one, but two!
"Rasengan!"
Ai and Bi were still rushing forward due to inertia, and had no way to turn around and defend themselves.
Minato simultaneously thrust both palms to the left and right, slamming them hard into the backs and sides of the two men.
"boom!!!"
Two Rasengan hit their mark!
Spin! Tear!
"puff--!"
Killer Bee's sunglasses shattered instantly, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. He was blasted away like a rag doll, his clothes ripped open at the chest, revealing his bloody and mangled skin.
He was still young and without the protection of lightning armor, so this attack rendered him unable to fight.
"Compare!!"
Ai's eyes widened in fury. He wanted to turn around and fight back, but the Rasengan behind him was frantically cutting through his defenses.
"Snap!"
The Lightning Release Armor, touted as having the strongest defense, began to crack under the relentless, pinpoint impact of the Rasengan.
Broken!
The Rasengan, still brimming with power, slammed heavily into Ai's muscles.
"Ughhhhh!!"
Ai let out a painful roar, his strong body lunging forward, carving a furrow dozens of meters long in the ground, until he crashed into a boulder and stopped.
He struggled to stand up, but as soon as he moved, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and at least three of his ribs were broken.
The battlefield was deathly silent.
Minato squatted on the ground, his hands hanging down, panting heavily.
His chakra was greatly depleted, but his eyes remained as cold as iron.
"It seems that... I'm still a bit faster."
Minato produced another kunai in his hand.
"it's over."
He raised his kunai, ready to bring this battle to a close.
Killing these two will ruin the future of Kumogakure.
"Stop! Protect Lord Ai! Protect Lord Bi!"
Just then, deafening shouts of battle erupted all around.
Hundreds of Cloud Village ninjas, their eyes bloodshot, rushed forward, desperately blocking Minato's path and forming a thick human wall with their bodies.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Pillar!"
"Lightning Release: Gratitude Wave!"
Countless lightning-style ninjutsu rained down on Minato.
Minato looked at the Cloud Village troops surging towards him like a tide, and then at A and Bi, who were being urgently treated by medical ninjas and protected behind them.
He sighed.
Even though he was the Yellow Flash, he couldn't kill two highly protected experts despite the suicidal blocking force of hundreds of ninjas.
"This is war..."
Minato put away his kunai and took a deep look at Ai, who was being carried onto a stretcher with a face full of resentment.
"The next time we meet, it might be a fight to the death."
A flash of golden light.
Minato's figure disappeared from the spot and returned to Konoha's position.
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