After seeing off the projectile with eyes rounded with fear, Oda threw himself behind his partner, clearly having encountered the used technique before, before collapsing to the ground and covering his head with his hands.
And the next moment, the ball caught up with the swiftly fleeing creepers a couple hundred meters away from the two genin, after which there was a blinding flash and it was as if hundreds of kibakufuds had been blown up.
Bang!
The blast wave nearly swept the kunoichi from her seat, but she roared in time, launching a powerful stream of chakra forward and literally slicing through it, and with her chakra limbs deftly knocking aside parts of tree trunks and crushing chunks of earth. She was reliably protected from smaller projectiles by a cover that threw out a single tail.
Everything that could be demolished in the area was demolished, and the pair of genin found themselves on a narrow wedge of almost untouched vegetation while a huge crater seventy-five meters in diameter formed in front of them with a swath of destruction for another hundred and fifty around it.
- Oh Kami, that was even worse than the drill," Oda groaned, bending over and shaking off the earth, "Kushina, finish it, there's a lot of people coming here and we should get as far away as possible.
- Oda, Hiroshi, he...," Uzumaki turned to her partner, cutting off the flow of chakra with a visible effort.
- I know, - the guy nodded nervously, watching his partner gradually return to her previous appearance and added grimly, - we all knew about the possibility of dying, but there's no bringing him back, and we should complete the mission.
- Yes, you're right," the girl wiped the tears from her lashes, "the sooner we reach the tower, the better.
Accelerating with the help of chakra, the two members of the team sprinted around the crater and galloped down the fallen giants, disappearing into the depths of the Forest of Death.
Five minutes later, the teams of participants who had not yet received their second bracelets, including one blond, began to arrive at the site of the destruction. The brawl between the different teams lasted only half an hour, until darkness, when the winners and the defeated sprawled in different directions, leaving behind the bodies of their fallen comrades. Another free dinner for the local beasts, who smelled blood and were already rushing to the table.
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