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"Vision Link?"
Itachi suddenly raised his eyes, gazing at the nearby Pain's Rinnegan.
"Does that mean I have to avoid the other Pains' line of sight when attacking?"
His heart gradually grew heavy.
Things were indeed not as simple as he and Shisui had initially assumed.
The Pains not only possessed distinct abilities, but they also shared everything they saw with one another.
These factors combined made even Itachi break into a cold sweat.
Facing these Pains alone, without knowing their abilities, simply trying to compile the intelligence he had gathered would be a costly undertaking.
As for defeating them, it would be impossible for either Itachi or Shisui to rely solely on their current abilities.
Itachi had never encountered such a formidable foe before!
Cry!
At this moment, the giant bird charged again.
Realizing that his ninjutsu was ineffective against the Pain before him, Itachi immediately chose to evade.
At this point, Shisui, unable to defeat them, also withdrew from the attack.
He and Itachi reunited.
"The Pain I just fought can absorb chakra from ninjutsu, so the only way to defeat him is with physical attacks."
Itachi immediately shared his summary with Shisui.
A hint of solemnity flashed across Shisui's eyes as he said, "Besides Pain, who can control summoned beasts, there's another whose abilities seem to be related to the soul."
The Sharingan is essentially a power derived from the owner's spiritual level, and there's a close connection between spiritual energy and the soul.
Shisui's current eye power far surpasses that of a three-magatama Sharingan, which is why he could see through the special energy entwined in the chakra of the long-haired Pain's palm.
Itachi nodded.
So far, they had summarized the abilities of five Pains: growing various mechanical weapons, absorbing ninjutsu, controlling summoned beasts, soul-related powers, and the most difficult, the ability to manipulate gravity and repulsion.
"Where's that one?"
At this moment, Shisui and Itachi suddenly realized that there were only three Pains fighting them.
There were four Pains who had just appeared here.
They looked around but couldn't spot the Pain who had quietly vanished at the start of the battle.
Boom!
At that moment, Shisui and Itachi suddenly felt a slight tremor in the ground beneath their feet.
The shattered rocks around them trembled.
"This feeling!"
Shisui's pupils narrowed.
Rumble!
The next moment, a terrifying force emanated from the mountains behind them, rippling the air like water, the ripples violently shaking.
They turned abruptly and saw the mountains, tens of meters high, crumble one after another.
Countless rubble, like cannonballs of varying sizes, hurled toward Itachi and Shisui.
The intense attack was incredibly fast, and as the cannonball-like debris rained down, a vast cloud of summoned smoke billowed behind them.
A summoned beast with three ferocious canine heads blocked Itachi and Shisui's retreat, biting at them with its bloody maw.
In this dire situation, Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan spun rapidly.
"Shisui-senpai, can you handle it?"
Itachi asked gravely, gazing at the enormous summoned beast.
He asked this because, through his Mangekyo, he could tell that Shisui's eye power had recovered somewhat.
Chi!
At that moment, the three magatama in Shisui's blood-red eyes spun, connecting to form a four-cornered windmill-like pattern.
"Yes!"
Shisui said.
"Then stand behind me!"
Itachi declared, a crimson glow emanating from his pores!
At the same moment, Shisui's eyes met the three-headed giant dog attacking from behind, and the Mangekyo patterns in his right eye trembled.
He and Itachi stood back to back, two figures, one large and one small, pressed together.
Then, a barrage of rocks, like cannonballs, descended, enveloping Itachi and Shisui before crashing into the mountains near them.
Boom, boom, boom!
The muffled, dense sound of rocks hitting the mountains echoed in succession.
At that moment, the three Pains from earlier flew toward the shattered mountains.
Then, the three-headed giant dog attacking Shisui and Itachi suddenly stopped!
The dense, rain-like attack of rocks quickly weakened.
Amidst the dust and smoke, six figures slowly approached from the direction of the rocks.
The man standing in the center of the six glanced at the frozen three-headed giant dog and whispered.
"Is it being disturbed by that special eye power again?"
His gaze lingered on the giant dog for a moment before retracting, looking straight ahead.
Amidst the gradually dispersing dust, a crimson chakra glow surged.
Then, the man saw it form a nearly two-meter-high, skeleton-like shield in front of Itachi.
The crimson skeleton completely shielded Itachi and Shisui.
Directly in front of the skeleton, a large amount of rock shattered by the recoil of the chakra lay on the ground.
"Susanoo?!"
The man was slightly startled, his eyes flickering with surprise as he looked at Itachi.
"Pain."
Itachi observed the short-haired man before him, his eyes trembling slightly.
This Pain was exactly the one he had seen in Akatsuki before!
And according to Shisui, this Pain should have been defeated by the latter.
Shisui also turned his gaze, his eyes similarly trembling as he gazed at the defense in front of Itachi, shielding them from the rock attack.
"Is this a dojutsu?"
"Not only has he activated the Mangekyo Sharingan, he can even wield such powerful force with ease."
Although he had long known of Itachi's many incredible secrets, Shisui was still deeply shocked when he saw Itachi fighting at full strength today.
After all, even he had only just activated the Mangekyo Sharingan and hadn't yet mastered its power.
However, he immediately suppressed the shock and doubt Itachi had caused him and looked at the short-haired Pain, who must have been defeated by him.
"They were repaired so quickly?"
Shisui's pupils shrank sharply, but he already knew that the six people before him were puppets controlled by someone.
In addition to the orange-haired man, Pain, who could grow machines and weapons all over his body, had also been repaired.
He had clearly just separated the limbs from the torsos of the two corpses.
Whoosh!
A gentle breeze suddenly blew through the rolling hills, dispersing the dust and smoke that had flattened the ground for a hundred meters.
Itachi and Shisui stared at the six Pains before them with solemn eyes, their bodies tense.
The short-haired man, seemingly their leader, spoke slowly, his words resonating like an oracle, echoing in their ears.
"The execution of the two of you begins now!"
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Boom!
As the orange-haired man finished his words, a repulsive force like a tidal wave instantly surged from his body, pouring forward fiercely.
The rubble on the ground was lifted up with terrifying momentum.
Bang!
This invisible yet powerful force suddenly slammed into Itachi's Susanoo defense.
At the collision, the crimson chakra radiance that formed Susanoo began to tremble violently.
Cracks gradually appeared on the nearly two-meter-tall skeleton.
"What a terrifying power!"
Itachi muttered.
Although the defensive power of Susanoo in its current form was far from its maximum, with his current chakra level, he could not easily use Susanoo in a higher state.
Doing so would quickly exhaust his strength, so he must not use it rashly without fully understanding the enemy's capabilities.
He must first understand how the two bodies before him, clearly defeated and even disintegrated by Shisui, could recover in such a short time.
Otherwise, even if Susanoo defeated the opponent, it wouldn't completely resolve the crisis.
The immense repulsive force caused Itachi, behind Susanoo, to retreat continuously.
Swish!
At that moment, the four Pains behind the short-haired man suddenly darted out, flanking him from both sides, approaching in pairs.
"I'll handle them!"
Shisui shouted from behind Itachi.
Roar!
Immediately, a ferocious roar echoed as the three-headed giant dog summoned by Pain opened its bloody maws and bit the two Pains circling from the left.
The two Pains on the left had the ability to grow mechanical weapons and absorb ninjutsu.
Clearly, the three-headed giant dog summoned by Pain was being controlled by Shisui's eye power.
Swish!
Shisui's main body charged directly at the other two Pains, who were controlling summoned beasts and wielding soul-related powers.
The ponytailed Pain, who could control summoned beasts, shifted the hand seals in his hands, the seals used to dispel summoning jutsu.
Boom!
However, before their hand seals could be completed, a series of flaming shuriken slashed down in front of the two Pains.
Shisui's figure also split into five, intersecting each other.
"What a troublesome eye power."
Pain, controlling the gravitational repulsion, glanced at Shisui, a hint of solemnity in his eyes.
However, his attention remained on Itachi before him.
Itachi could wield Susanoo, making him even more difficult to deal with than Shisui.
"I'd like to see how long you can hold out with a Susanoo of this caliber."
His indifferent gaze fell on Itachi, and then, the terrifying repulsive force surged again.
Bang!
Once again bearing this immense force head-on, the cracks on the Susanoo spread rapidly like a spider web.
Seeing this, Itachi's pupils constricted.
Judging by what he saw, a Susanoo of this caliber would shatter completely after only two more attacks.
But he naturally wouldn't remain passively defensive.
Once the repulsive force from the front gradually weakened, Itachi held Susanoo in front of him and charged directly at the enemy.
He didn't believe the enemy could wield such power without limit.
Any ninjutsu inevitably had weaknesses.
Swish!
Itachi knew the enemy could also use gravity, so a crimson glow extended from the Susanoo in front of him, condensing into a massive arm.
Raising the arm, it struck directly at Pain.
With his power, engaging him in close combat would undoubtedly be suicidal, so even though it would cost him a considerable amount of chakra, Itachi had no choice but to attack in this manner.
This was why Shisui, despite being stronger than him, chose to confront the other four Pains.
He knew that Shisui's Mangekyo technique was no match for Itachi's current ability, and with his own abilities, he would be no match for Pain's manipulation of both repulsion and gravity.
Itachi's powerful attack sent the short-haired Pain swiftly reeling.
"As expected," Itachi muttered upon seeing the situation.
As he had previously suspected, the short-haired man, the most powerful of the six Pains, exhibited a gap between his successive uses of power.
However, the duration of these gaps required further verification.
After the short-haired man retreated, Itachi did not pursue him again.
Instead, he manipulated the arm of his Susanoo to grab the last Pain, a man with unknown abilities, who had been standing behind the short-haired man.
This Pain appeared rather old and burly.
He had appeared before Shisui at the very beginning, along with the three previous Pains, but had not yet demonstrated his abilities.
During the previous battle, this Pain had mysteriously vanished again.
When he reappeared, the two Pains previously defeated by Shisui had been repaired.
This gave Itachi ample reason to speculate that Pain's rapid resurrection was related to him!
However, Susanoo's attack was not particularly fast, so this Pain fled just before Itachi's attack landed.
This, however, significantly closed the distance between Itachi and the two Pains.
Just as he was about to make further moves, the stones on the ground trembled, and a powerful repulsive force poured down upon him again.
Boom!
The stone ground shook, and the patterns in Itachi's eyes began to spin rapidly.
The cracks on the Susanoo, bearing the repulsive force head-on, spread further.
Now, it resembled a flaking crystal, as if it would shatter at the slightest touch.
But Itachi did not retreat.
He had instantly strengthened the chakra in his Susanoo, withstanding the repulsive attack.
Then, he suddenly raised his eyes, and the patterns in his right eye vibrated.
Although using eye power consumes a considerable amount of chakra, Itachi needed to use it to confirm one thing.
"Amaterasu!"
Blood trickled from the corner of Itachi's right eye.
Screech!
Black flames suddenly appeared from nowhere where his gaze was focused.
Itachi's target was Pain, who had never made a move.
However, at the same moment Itachi summoned Amaterasu, Pain, who used repulsion and gravity, appeared there.
Amaterasu landed on him, rapidly igniting.
Hit by the Amaterasu, Pain collapsed to the ground.
Huff, huff.
With the continuous use of eye techniques, Itachi's breathing became heavier.
His burden was entirely borne by chakra, yet the eye power consumption was not as severe as before.
He raised his eyes, and in the eyes of the two Pains in front of him, a gradual understanding emerged.
"It seems that Pain is indeed the core of the six."
According to common sense in combat, Pain, who could manipulate repulsion and gravity, possessed the greatest power, and therefore should be protected first.
But judging by the current situation, this seemingly crucial Pain was actually the one who blocked Itachi's eye technique for a Pain who had never fought before.
His importance is self-evident.
And when Itachi first used Amaterasu to attack that Pain, he had already calculated that the opponent's Rinnegan would be able to detect that when he used Amaterasu, he would concentrate all his chakra into the Mangekyo of his right eye.
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