"Brat! You've got me excited!"
With a savage roar, the Fourth Raikage's eyes turned crimson, as wide as lanterns. His entire body was bathed in terrifying lightning. He slammed his arm against the surrounding mountain rocks.
One strike. Just one strike.
RUMBLE—
He smashed right through it. The powerful fist, wrapped in flashing lightning and rolling thunder, instantly caused the mountain to crack and the earth to split. The massive mountain body actually began to shake from the Fourth Raikage A's blow. Countless mountain rocks fell and smashed on his head, only to be shattered by the sizzling Lightning Release Armor.
The deep blue electric arcs once again grew much larger, coiling around the Fourth Raikage's body like a thunder dragon descending upon the world.
VMM!
Chakra rampaged. This extremely surging and vast chakra fluctuation spread from top to bottom, causing the wind and clouds in the sky to churn.
CRACK—CRACK—CRACK—
The earth beneath A's feet let out a crackling sound, fracturing like a spiderweb. His golden hair stood on end. The Fourth Raikage's pupils were filled with flashing lightning.
At that moment, he looked just like a Super Saiyan, looking down on everything.
One step. He leaped down from the mountain. The astonishing power was converted into speed. In just one step, he had crossed a hundred meters, a fierce wind rushing to meet him.
"This is Lord Raikage's full-power Lightning Release Chakra Mode!" Samui, who knew more, could tell from the Raikage's upright hair that the current Lord Raikage was at full power. He was very serious.
"This brat is doomed!" A strange, confident smile appeared on her face. Only the internal personnel of the Cloud Village knew that once Lord Raikage opened his Lightning Release Chakra Mode, no one could defeat him. Even that brat's sword aura... hadn't it failed to break through Lord Raikage's lightning armor just now?
And now, Lord Raikage had even directly adjusted his Lightning Release Chakra Mode to its highest stage. At this time, the Raikage's all-around enhancement, whether it was his cell activity or his defensive power, had all reached an unbelievable level.
On the other side, Kusuo looked thoughtfully at the electric arcs on the Fourth Raikage A's body. The deep blue chakra and lightning enveloped his entire body. At first glance, he really did have the appearance of a god of thunder descending to earth.
In the original story, the Fourth Raikage had relied on this move, in cooperation with the Tsuchikage's Super Light-Weight Rock Technique, to smash Madara Uchiha's Susanoo. One could imagine how powerful it was. But that was all. The Fourth Raikage was still inferior to his old man, the Third. That guy was known as the strongest spear and the strongest shield; no one in the world could break his defense. Even the Eight-Tails octopus, second only to the Nine-Tails, could do nothing against the Third Raikage. Most critically, the Third Raikage could fight against an army of ten thousand ninja without falling. In the end, he had only died of exhaustion. Until his death, no one had been able to break his defense. One could imagine how monstrous the Third Raikage was.
As his son, the Fourth Raikage... no matter how Kusuo looked at him, he felt he was lacking.
"A pity you're just a little short. Your Lightning Release Chakra Mode might be stronger than your father's, but your physical constitution is lacking in comparison. In the end, it's a fatal flaw," he commented faintly.
Kusuo raised his sword again. However, his words made everyone stare in astonishment. In this world, someone actually dared to say to the Raikage of the Cloud Village that his physique was not good enough? And the one saying this was a ninja from Konoha, a half-grown boy? If word of this got out, it would surely make everyone's jaws drop.
"You damned brat! If your goal was to anger me, then you have succeeded!" Sure enough, hearing these words, the Raikage was beyond furious. He admitted that his body had a certain gap compared to his father's. Whether in attack or defense, he was far inferior. But no matter what, these words shouldn't have come from an outsider brat, and in such a lecturing manner.
What is this? Humiliation.
This arrogant brat.
"Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop!"
A violent aura suddenly enveloped the Fourth Raikage's body, making his muscles tense, ready to strike.
Swoosh!
Fast! A body as fast as lightning had already disappeared from its original spot. When it reappeared, the Fourth Raikage was already in the sky above, swinging his arms and limbs, wreathed in a chakra lightning filled with a destructive aura, chopping down fiercely towards Kusuo.
This one strike carried the force of a thunderbolt, the power to stop ten thousand men. Such fierce, dancing lightning was like the power of heavenly punishment. Accompanied by the Raikage's fierce roar, it smashed down on Kusuo's head.
"Will it kill him?" Kurotsuchi's eyes widened, her small mouth slightly agape. Even her signature stockinged legs, now covered in dust, she was unaware of. If Kusuo could be killed by the Raikage here, then the Hidden Stone Village would be saved.
Looking at this scene, Kurotsuchi's heart was pounding, as if it were about to leap out of her chest.
Not just her. Mabui and Samui's faces already showed a smile. As the people who understood Lord Raikage the best, they didn't even need to watch the process. Because they knew that the naked eye could not possibly see it clearly. The Raikage, who had opened his high-energy Lightning Release Chakra Mode... not even the Uchiha clan's Sharingan could help.
So, they smartly focused their gazes on Kusuo's body. As expected, Lord Raikage, almost as if he had teleported, suddenly appeared above Kusuo's head and used his killing move, the Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop. This was a super high-level Nin-Taijutsu that only the successive Raikage could learn.
With one strike... he would die without injury. This brat Kusuo... was doomed.
Unfortunately, a clear voice made the smiles on both their faces freeze.
"Is that all?"
Kusuo's gaze followed the Raikage's figure to the sky above his head. At that moment, on the Raikage's extremely horrified face, he saw that faint look of indifference that shouldn't have appeared.
A's swinging arm was still maintaining its motion, but his heart was screaming frantically. How is that possible? This brat's gaze is actually following me! This means his vision can capture my movements! How is this possible?
It simply subverted the Fourth Raikage's worldview of several decades. Years of experience had told him that as long as he opened his Lightning Release Chakra Mode, not even the Uchiha's Sharingan or the Hyuga clan's Byakugan could possibly capture his movements. Because his current body strength... could dodge Amaterasu out of thin air.
Kusuo seemed to have seen the disbelief in the Raikage's heart. A corner of his mouth lifted slightly, with a faint hint of mockery. The expression on his face was calm.
The sword in his hand had, at some unknown point, already turned golden, shining with golden lightning and electric arcs, crackling and sizzling.
"Thunder Breathing, Fourth Form! Distant Thunder!"
RUMBLE!
POW!
Kusuo's body turned into a ball of golden lightning and, at a speed that surpassed dynamic vision, disappeared from the spot. A lightning-fast dash. His entire body leaped into the air. From standing still on the ground to now being face to face with the Raikage in mid-air.
One slash.
Distant Thunder!
The golden lightning suddenly turned black. Like a low-pressure muffled thunder, a high-speed slash struck the Fourth Raikage's body.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
The Raikage's powerful body, and the enhancement of the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, made his body as tough as steel, emitting the crisp sound of metal.
Then—Schlick!
A sword blade... the sound of it cutting through flesh was heard. Then it seemed something fell.
The black, super-high-temperature Distant Thunder, and the deep blue electric arc of the Lightning Release Chakra Mode... blocked all the movements in the battle. Mabui, Samui, and Kurotsuchi couldn't see the situation of the two people inside clearly. The only thing they heard was the clanging of blades and the muffled sound of an object falling to the ground.
There... what on earth happened?!
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