"Why are you still fighting back?"
The Masked Man's tone was so self-righteous that the Raikage, Ay, and the surrounding Cloud Village ninja were thunderstruck, their momentum faltering for a moment.
Why is he so confident? Could it be... that we are in the wrong?
Raikage Ay was the first to react!
"Nonsense!" Ay's roar, like a thunderclap, shattered the absurdity of the moment!
Boom—
The solid rock where the Raikage had been standing cracked, and he shot forward like a blue-black lightning bolt, tearing through the sound barrier!
"Lightning Release: Lariat!"
Arcing electricity blurred, too fast for the human eye to track, but Naruto easily dodged it with his Kamui intangibility.
The voice from under the mask remained calm and cold, "I already told you it's no use."
Phew... phew...
Ay panted slightly after the intense burst, sweat mixed with lightning and vaporized. He swept his sharp gaze over the newly arrived reinforcements and roared a command, "Everyone! Overwhelm him with attacks! Don't leave him a single opening! We have five minutes to defeat him! Omoi! Karui! Attack with me!"
"Understood!"
The blonde Samui's eyes flashed with cold tactical wisdom, and she instantly took command, "Squad one and two! Prepare for a combination of ninjutsu to bombard him! Omoi and Karui, cover the Raikage! Move out!"
"Yes!" xN
Raikage Ay was clearly trying to completely annihilate him!
Naruto's visible eye coldly scanned the gathering elites. When his gaze fell on Samui, who was directing from the center, his pupils contracted sharply under the mask!
Wait!
What a magnificent sight... and such a weapon? I thought Tsunade-baasan was already unbeatable, but there's an even greater master? Whose subordinate is this?
In that moment of his distraction, the Cloud ninja's attack arrived.
Raikage Ay led the charge, followed closely by the two swordsmen: a red-haired dark girl and a white-haired dark boy. This was just the close-quarters attack; the ninjutsu squads were preparing a barrage of Lightning Release to strike him precisely.
Unfortunately, the attacks were a barrage, but only Raikage Ay's attacks were worth Naruto's effort to become intangible to dodge. He could easily block or evade the others.
"Hey, newcomers, can you even do this?"
The voice under the mask was cold and mocking. Facing the crisscrossing slashes of the red and black blades, he simply took a tiny step back, elegantly moving between the gaps in the blade flashes!
"Your attacks are weak. Do you really expect me to turn intangible to deal with them? Has the Cloud Village's swords become dull?"
Then his gaze suddenly locked onto the white-haired dark boy. Wooden spikes shot out from his palm like venomous snakes!
"And you, my little dark one, are far too lazy!"
Poof—
The shining wooden spike, carrying a terrifying kinetic force, easily pierced right through Omoi's chest, and a gush of blood erupted!
Just as the Wood Release was about to burst forth and bloom from within,
"Lightning Release: Lariat!"
A roar and a bolt of lightning arrived simultaneously!
Raikage Ay, who had just passed him by, his black elbow attack wreathed in destructive lightning, had teleported back and was about to hit Naruto's back again!
Naruto once again became intangible, dodging the attack, and ending his assault on Omoi. Karui took the opportunity to quickly drag the white-haired boy with the pierced chest away.
"Ninjutsu squad, begin the bombardment!" The blonde bombshell immediately ordered the ninjutsu squad to fill the gap.
Instantly, various Lightning Release attacks rained down.
"Wood Release: Wooden Prison Wall!"
Several layers of curved, thick wooden walls shot up from the ground, enduring a round of the Lightning Release bombardment. Electric snakes ran across the charred wood, crackling and popping!
But this was only the beginning of his defense!
Under the unseen Wooden Prison Wall, Naruto's figure suddenly vanished, reappearing almost simultaneously behind several Lightning Release ninja who were forming hand signs!
"What?!" A ninja turned around in horror!
Too late!
"Wood Release: Multi-Spike Jutsu!" Naruto lightly pressed one hand against the ground. The rocks under the nearby ninja's feet exploded without warning, and dozens of sharp, steel-like, gray-white wooden spikes with barbs shot out!
"Pssh! Pssh! Pssh!"
The screams were cut short! Several ninja were instantly impaled by countless wooden spikes, like insects pinned to a specimen board!
"You bastard!"
Raikage Ay's roar and blue lightning exploded at the same time. He arrived the moment the spikes emerged, and a giant fist wrapped in lightning slammed down on Naruto!
Buzz! It was the Kamui intangibility again!
Ay's fist fruitlessly smashed a wooden stake, sending sawdust flying everywhere. When he turned his head, Naruto had already disappeared.
Samui shouted in a panic, "Watch out! He's luring the Raikage away! His target is us!"
Before she could finish, a scream came from another direction!
A ninja who was forming a hand sign to maintain a formation stared in horror at his chest—a sharp, gray-white wooden spike had silently pierced him from the back and jutted out of his chest!
The Masked Man's figure slowly solidified behind him.
"Die," a cold whisper came from his ear.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Snake!" Karui's lightning-infused sword slashed over in time, trying to force him back.
The Masked Man didn't become intangible. Instead, he instantly transformed into a twisted log.
"A Wood Clone?" Karui's heart sank!
The real, fatal gray-white wooden spike shot out from a crack in the rocks near Karui's feet! It was aimed straight for her throat! It was so fast that Karui had no time to react!
Just in the nick of time!
"Lightning Shushin!"
Zap! Zap!
Ay, wreathed in electricity, appeared in front of Karui at a speed beyond his limits, smashing a heavy fist wreathed in lightning into the base of the wooden spike!
Crack—
The wooden spike was shattered!
"Genjutsu team! Disrupt his hand signs!" Samui, fighting her anxiety, gave the order.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Illusion: Flashing Pillar!"
As soon as the words left her mouth, a blinding flash of light—a genjutsu—appeared before his eyes.
"How pathetic."
These people were actually trying to use genjutsu on him?
Naruto's crimson Sharingan swept over them with cold indifference. His terrifying, deep-sea-like spiritual energy crushed the Cloud Village's genjutsu, and the casters were hit with a backlash, their faces turning pale!
Seizing the opportunity,
"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Jutsu!"
Naruto quickly formed a hand sign! A ferocious giant fire dragon roared out, rushing towards the genjutsu team. The high temperature made the air itself twist!
"Water Release: Water Wall!"
Sizzle—
Water and fire collided, and steam shot into the sky, instantly obscuring their vision! The steam-filled air meant only one thing for Naruto—it was hunting time!
There was a gap between one Obito and another. The difference between a Mangekyo and an Eternal Mangekyo was even greater!
While both used Kamui, the Eternal Mangekyo not only had a longer intangibility duration but also a shorter time to absorb objects!
Therefore, with his bug-like fundamental attributes, Naruto was able to master Kamui and Wood Release to their fullest potential. Just by using the combination of Kamui absorption, Wood Release spikes, and intangibility, he had already slaughtered over half of the Chunin and Jonin present.
The Cloud Village had suffered heavy losses!
A moment later, Naruto paused and the attacks stopped.
In the uneven clearing created by a Tailed Beast Ball that had cut a mountain in half, nearly half of the Cloud Village's elite ninja lay fallen. Impaled, or swallowed by a spatial vortex, their deaths were gruesome and bizarre. The ground was covered in burn marks, spikes, and wood shards left by the Wood Release, as well as bloodstains.
Karui, enduring the pain in her body, helped the pale-faced Samui. Ay stood in the center, panting heavily, his blue-white lightning still raging, but his eyes were filled with the bloodshot exhaustion of battle. He had been a one-man rescue team, constantly using extreme Body Flicker and bursts of speed to save his allies, which had taken a heavy toll on him. He thought he was waiting for backup, but instead, they had become a burden, and the losses were heavy.
Meanwhile, his opponent—that Uchiha Obito—seemed to have barely used any chakra other than a few Wood Release jutsu and his intangibility? That Mangekyo Sharingan was still cold and emotionless.
The remaining ninja looked up to see the Masked Man standing on a high point, proudly and indifferently looking down on them all.
Samui's voice was hoarse, "Raikage-sama... we can't get past his intangibility. If this continues..."
The remaining elites would be picked off one by one!
Ay stared intently at Uchiha Obito, his teeth gritting audibly. Rage burned within him, but the cruel reality forced him to consider the cost. "Reform the ranks! Prioritize defense! I'll deal with him!"
His voice was strained, filled with humiliation.
But Naruto had no intention of playing with them anymore. The Cloud Village was indeed powerful. While they were fighting him, on the other side, in the Tailed Beast battle, they had somehow managed to get a sealing tool and were now sealing the Two-Tails.
The voice from under the mask spoke, arrogant and mocking, "The show ends here. I'll play with you all again next time!"
The space around him distorted, and he reappeared in the distance, standing proudly on top of the sealed Kohaku no Jōhei (Amber Purifying Pot). The Two-Tails was contained inside the pot beneath his feet!
Darui, who was in charge of the sealing, saw the person who had suddenly appeared, and his pupils contracted, "Uchiha Obito?" The surrounding members of the sealing squad recoiled in fear!
The eyehole in the mask held a look of amusement as he looked down at the on-guard ninja, "Yo, you all worked hard. I'll be taking this gift!"
At the same time, a notification appeared.
[A limited-grade item, the Six Paths' Amber Purifying Pot (containing the Two-Tails' Matatabi), has been detected. Would you like to recover it?]
Tsk... I didn't expect to get the Six Paths' Amber Purifying Pot as a bonus just for recovering a Tailed Beast. The Cloud Village is so generous! Thanks!
Without a moment's hesitation, he grabbed it and instantly refined it!
[The 'Six Paths' Amber Purifying Pot' has been recovered. You have received 500,000 ryo, +50,000 chakra, and +5 skill points.]
[The 'Two-Tails' Matatabi' has been recovered. You have received 200,000 ryo, +20,000 chakra, +5 skill points, and the Two-Tails badge.]
The massive Amber Purifying Pot and the Two-Tails within it vanished as if they had been erased, right before everyone's wide eyes!
Darui and the sealing squad were completely stunned! All that hard work for nothing?
Boom!
Seeing this, a blue-black lightning bolt filled with endless fury shot from the distance with the momentum to destroy everything and slammed into Naruto! But he dodged it with his intangibility. The shadow of the attack smashed directly into the rock wall behind him, sending dust and debris flying!
"Uchiha Obito!!!"
Raikage Ay leaped out of the dust cloud, his eyes wide with fury! The Two-Tails! And the Cloud Village's secret Amber Purifying Pot! They had been stolen by Uchiha Obito! He could have suppressed the rage from the destruction and the ninja's deaths! But a Tailed Beast was the foundation of a great nation, a strategic nuclear deterrent! They could not afford to lose it, even if it cost the blood of the entire village!
"No matter where you go! The Cloud Village will use all its strength to grind you into dust!! This hatred... is irreconcilable!!" Every word was soaked in Ay's blood, tears, and determination!
Naruto, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped.
No matter where you go? Like a mad dog that won't let go? How can 'Obito' cause trouble in peace like that? Especially since there's a big plan coming up that absolutely cannot be disturbed!
"I was going to let you live... but it seems I must kill you!"
The calm voice suddenly erupted with murderous intent like thunder, "I have no choice but to kill you!"
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