Seimei stared at the goblin lord with a faint smile on his lips, and the goblin lord glared back at him.
Behind Seimei, the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground, explosions generated from Fire and Lightning Release Ninjutsu, and flesh being torn by sharp objects could be heard.
Clearly, Touma and Haneda were wreaking havoc with such intensity that the goblins and hoblins didn't have the leisure to look toward Seimei and cause trouble for Seimei anymore.
With his powerful perception and Tenseigan, no one could sneak attack on him unless they employed some really peculiar method. These pesky goblins obviously didn't have anything like that.
So, Seimei's full focus was on the goblin lord in front of him. It seemed intelligent, had enough battle IQ to launch well-timed, deadly attacks, and the patience to wait without charging blindly at him.
According to the notes, although the goblin lord still had a set amount of innate skills, just like any other chakra beasts, it had enough intelligence to modify the innate skills it possessed and make them deadlier to its enemies.
And Seimei wanted to witness it first-hand.
"Let's see if you can give me any surprises before your death."
Seimei murmured as he steadied his stance, ready to dash forward toward the cautious yet enraged goblin lord in front of him.
Seeing Seimei charging toward it, the goblin lord instantly channeled rich Earth Release chakra into the ground and activated one of its long-range offensive skills.
Innate Skill: Earth Drills
No less than ten deep brown, fifty-centimeter-long, drill-like structures emerged from the ground in front of the goblin lord and began to rotate so fast that they became red due to scorching heat generated from the friction.
The previous drill-like projectiles didn't have this feature. It was clear that the goblin lord was going all out, determined to take Seimei down.
In the blink of an eye, the scorching hot, red, rotating drills shot forward like arrows, one after another. The goblin lord released each of them with a couple of milliseconds of interval between two projectiles, making them difficult to dodge or deflect.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Watching the ten spinning drills that could easily obliterate his body, Seimei showed no fear. Instead, his eyes began to glow in an ocean-blue glow as he charged forward fearlessly.
Ten heavy projectiles. I can dodge them.
Seimei thought as he dodged six of them with ease. When he was about to dodge the other four by moving sideways, two tall and sturdy walls of earth suddenly appeared on his left and right sides.
The goblin lord's eyes shone with cunning as he looked at Seimei, whose escape route had been cut off. Now, Seimei had no other choice but to face the projectiles head-on.
Even if he destroyed two or three of them, he wouldn't have the time to destroy the last one completely.
This would lead to Seimei suffering from severe injury.
At least, that was what the goblin lord thought.
Paths blocked. Projectiles are closing in. I don't have enough time to destroy the walls. Jumping high can be a solution. But the goblin lord might just be waiting for me to do it.
The Water Formation Wall won't work in this closed situation. The Wind Release Jutsu will take time to gather wind. Fire Release? Bad match-up.
Earth Release? Yeah, let's not. Wrestling control over the natural earth from the goblin lord with my Earth Release chakra will cause a slight delay.
In that case…
Seimei's mind raced as he thought about different scenarios and solutions.
Finally, purple lightning gathered in his left hand, which caused the sound of a thousand birds chirping to echo in the air.
Lightning Release: Chidori Senbon
Seimei swept his left hand from his right to his left in a horizontal motion, releasing nine, sharp, destructive, one-meter-long needles of lightning as thin as arrow shafts.
Four of them collided precisely with the remaining four drill-like constructs launched by the goblin lord and destroyed them with a burst of lightning, scattering fragments of earth in the air.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Meanwhile, the remaining five needles of lightning charged toward the goblin lord, targeting its throat, heart, liver, belly, and, surprisingly, its groin.
The goblin lord calculated the trajectories of the incoming lightning needles, and its face immediately darkened.
If it could speak, it would have cursed Seimei for not having any knightly virtue or noble honor.
The human boy was targeting its throat, heart, liver, and belly? Fine. It was understandable that he wanted to kill it. It also wanted to kill Seimei.
That was fair.
But why was this dishonorable guy also targeting its little brother and family jewels, too?
Needless to say, Seimei's dick move completely disgusted the goblin lord.
With a stormy expression on its face, it quickly used its innate skill, Drifting Earth, and got out of the way without breaking a sweat.
Soon, it slammed the sword it was carrying on the ground and channeled a vast amount of Earth Release chakra on the ground.
Seimei, who was running toward the goblin lord, could see and perceive that. But he didn't know exactly what kind of move it was planning to unleash with so much chakra.
He didn't have to wait for a long time as the goblin lord revealed the answer.
The ground around the goblin lord suddenly began to vibrate.
At first, the intensity of the vibration was minuscule. However, at the next moment, the tremor intensified, and the ground around the goblin lord began to change shape.
Multiple square-shaped pillars, each four to five meters wide, emerged from the ground and rose high up in the sky.
Next, the stone pillars bent flexibly and rushed toward Seimei with the momentum of a speeding bullet train.
When the first pillar appeared in front of him and was about to crush him, he immediately used the Body Flicker Technique to move sideways before continuing to run toward the goblin lord.
Meanwhile, the stone pillar that missed Seimei crashed heavily on the ground, causing the earth within a radius of ten meters to crack and sink.
Booooooooom!!
Dust and stone fragments exploded outward. The impact zone formed a deep crater-like pit surrounded by large cracks and chunks of destroyed stone.
Seimei didn't even bother to look at the aftermath of the impact. After all, more than a dozen stone pillars were coming after him, seemingly hell-bent on crushing him into meatpaste.
"If this innate skill were used in a war, the result would be devastating. Its power is similar to a mini meteor impact."
Lightning arcs burst out of Seimei's body as he activated the Thunder Body Flicker Technique to quickly dodge all the incoming stone pillars with swift and agile movements.
Stone pillars crashed left and right. And amidst the chaos, Seimei continued forward. The distance between him and the goblin lord was now just over a hundred meters.
Suddenly, another stone pillar emerged just fifty meters away and raced toward him at a sharp downward angle.
Seimei simply jumped onto it and ran across it.
But before he could even move for ten meters, an earth spear formed on the stone pillar he was running on. The spear detached from the pillar and shot toward him, targeting the middle of his chest.
Seeing this, Seimei jumped off the stone pillar, dodged the flying spear effortlessly, and landed on the ground.
Now, Seimei was just fifty meters away from the goblin lord.
"Kiiiiieeeeeeeeeee"
The goblin lord let out a sharp screech, and the ground around him trembled once more.
This time, more than fifteen stone pillars erupted from the ground, rose, bent, and rocketed toward Seimei in a denser formation.
Unfortunately for the goblin lord, Seimei, who was empowered by the Thunder BodyFlicker Technique, still dodged every attack.
The stone pillars slammed on the ground around Seimei with a tremendous force, but it couldn't halt Seimei's pursuit.
The stone pillars had now formed a zigzagged wall on both sides of Seimei, who was just over twenty meters away from the goblin lord.
Seimei activated Chidori Katana, causing countless arcs of lightning to coil and dance around Seimei's blade, and made it vibrate at a high frequency.
However, at that moment, hundreds of small spears made of stone emerged from the stone pillars that surrounded Seimei from his left, right, and upward directions.
Hundreds of spears were clearly going to be shot toward Seimei within a few milliseconds.
Crap. A smart move, indeed. If I don't take the right action within the tenth of a second, these spears will turn me into a dead sea urchin.
Thankfully, Seimei had many moves to get out of this predicament.
So, he decided to unleash the technique that could solve the situation most efficiently.
Seimei made his decision.
And then, countless lightning bolts flashed in the battlefield with such intensity that even Touma and Haneda, who were a few hundred meters away, could clearly see them and feel their destructive power.
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