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Behind the green snake mask, Sora's eyes were icy, devoid of any emotion.
On his left claw, blinding blue electric arcs suddenly erupted! Crackling with violent noise!
The Iwagakure Jonin, seeing that furious lightning, pupils contracted sharply!
He wanted to retreat, he wanted to defend, but his body's reaction was ultimately a beat too slow!
Sora's Lightning Claw, with a speed quicker than thunder, smashed fiercely onto the Iwagakure Jonin's rock armor!
Zzzzzz!!!
Furious lightning instantly exploded, like countless blue venomous snakes, instantly piercing through the rock armor's defense!
"Gahhhh!!!"
The Iwagakure Jonin let out a shrill, miserable scream, his whole body trembling violently. A terrifying numbness instantly spread throughout his body, muscles spasming uncontrollably, even the flow of his chakra became extremely sluggish and stagnant!
The rock armor on his body also shattered piece by piece under the lightning's ravage, clattering as it fell away, revealing the scorched black skin underneath.
He looked just like a Cloud-nin.
'Damn it... this brat's Lightning Release... how is it so strong?! And with no hand seals at all!'
The Iwagakure Jonin was utterly horrified in his heart. The intense numbness made it almost impossible for him to think. He could only rely on his years of combat instinct to try and retreat.
But how could Sora give him a chance to catch his breath?
Take advantage of his weakness, take his life!
A cold light flashed in Sora's eyes. His dragonized right claw rose again, aiming directly at the Iwagakure Jonin's now completely unprotected throat!
'It's over!'
However, just as the dragon claw was about to touch the other's skin, a frantic and resolute, vicious grin suddenly appeared on the Iwagakure Jonin's face.
"Cough... together... go to hell! Konoha's little monster!"
He rasped a low roar. Not only did he not retreat, but with the last bit of his strength, he lunged towards Sora with all his might!
Simultaneously, his hands, with great difficulty, came together to form the simplest hand seal.
"Secret Technique: Four Black Seals Formation Explosive Tag!!"
Hummm!
Sora felt an extremely dangerous, extremely unstable chakra fluctuation suddenly erupt from within the Iwagakure Jonin's body!
Dense, intricate black seals instantly appeared on his scorched black skin surface. These seals writhed like living things, emitting a heart-palpitating glow!
Through that shattered, charred skin, Sora could even see layers upon layers, an astonishing number of explosive tags pressed tightly against his flesh underneath!
'Madman!' Sora's pupils abruptly contracted, a wave of scalp-numbing fear washing over him.
'This guy actually planted this many explosive tags inside his own body?!'
This was even crazier than those Cloud-nin who play with Lightning Release!
The Iwagakure Jonin completely abandoned defense and evasion. Like a human bomb with its fuse lit, he spread his arms wide, trying to wrap Sora in a death grip!
'Must not let him grapple me!'
Sora's internal alarms blared loudly. Although the Azure Dragon Fruit's defense was formidable, facing such a close-range, concentrated detonation of so many explosive tags, he didn't dare guarantee he'd come out unscathed!
'Retreat!'
Without hesitation, Sora's dragonized legs powerfully pushed off the ground, wind elements swirling around him. His body shot backward as if teleporting!
At the same time, his left hand swiftly reached for the ninja tool scroll at his waist!
'Release!'
With a light poof, smoke flashed, and several spherical smoke bombs and a large handful of explosive tags instantly appeared in his hand.
Sora's eyes hardened. He directly hurled the smoke bombs in his hand at the lunging Iwagakure Jonin, throwing them right in his face!
Poof! Poof! Poof!
The smoke bombs burst open mid-air. Dense, grayish-white smoke instantly billowed out, enveloping both their figures, severely hindering vision.
"Useless! You can't escape!"
The Iwagakure Jonin roared madly within the smoke, charging recklessly towards Sora's last known position. The black seals on his body grew brighter and brighter, becoming extremely unstable!
He didn't care about the obstructed vision. His goal was to lock onto Sora with his body and perish together!
'Konoha already has the White Fang and the Sannin. An even more terrifying monster absolutely cannot appear! For Iwagakure's future! You must die here!'
This was the Iwagakure Jonin's final obsession.
Although during the Second Great Ninja War, Konoha primarily fought the Village Hidden in the Sand, the figures of Konoha's White Fang and the "Sannin" dominating the battlefield, invincible wherever they went—that fear, as one of the few who participated in fighting Konoha back then, was still branded in his heart to this day.
And the potential Sora displayed before him was even more terrifying than those few!
Bizarre full-body beast transformation, terrifying taijutsu bursts, the ability to manipulate fire and lightning, even flight...
Once Sora grew up, the threat to Iwagakure would be catastrophic.
As a Jonin who had lived through that brutal war, he absolutely would not allow this to happen! Even at the cost of his life, he must strangle this threat in its cradle!
However, Sora's reaction was far faster and his tactics more flexible than he imagined.
While throwing the smoke bombs, Sora had already used his enhanced perception after dragonization to lock onto the Iwagakure Jonin's position.
Sora didn't just retreat blindly. Instead, he moved sharply to the side. Simultaneously, he flung the large handful of explosive tags in his hand, scattering them like heavenly flowers, accurately throwing them onto the ground along the path ahead of the charging Iwagakure Jonin!
'You like to blow up? Then try this first!'
Swish swish swish!
Over a dozen explosive tags embedded into the ground and surrounding rocks like shuriken.
Almost at the same moment, Sora formed a one-handed seal, shouting low:
"Explode!"
BOOOOOOM!!!!
Ear-splitting explosions rang out in a chain!
The explosive tags Sora threw were detonated first. Furious flames and shockwaves instantly devoured that area, also completely engulfing the Iwagakure Jonin who was charging forward!
"What?! Gahh—!"
The Iwagakure Jonin was caught completely off guard. He never expected Sora not only wouldn't run, but would counterattack this way!
The unstable, about-to-detonate chakra layer outside his body, stimulated by this sudden external explosion, instantly triggered a terrible chain reaction!
KABOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!
A sound far more terrifying than all previous explosions, as if it could tear eardrums, suddenly erupted!
The explosive tags inside the Iwagakure Jonin and his own forbidden technique were prematurely triggered by Sora's explosive tags!
A massive fireball shot into the air. Scorching heat waves swept outward in all directions like a tsunami. The ground shook violently. Broken rocks flew everywhere like rain!
Although Sora had retreated early and used his own explosion to offset part of the impact, he was still violently flung back by that terrifying shockwave!
Thud!
Sora slammed heavily into a large boulder. A sweet taste rose in his throat, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. His Anbu uniform and special bandages were tattered and torn, revealing the glowing blue-green dragon scales underneath.
'Cough cough... he really went all out...'
Sora wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, feeling the churning energy in his body, and couldn't help but curse inwardly.
Fortunately, the Azure Dragon Fruit's recovery power was extremely freakish. In just this short while, the discomfort inside his body was rapidly subsiding. He estimated he'd recover to normal in no time.
He looked up towards the explosion's epicenter. There was only a charred black crater and lingering smoke. The Iwagakure Jonin was already gone without a trace.
'What a madman...' Sora thought with lingering fear.
'Is this Iwa's "Will of Stone"? For the village, not hesitating even to self-destruct.'
Then Sora's gaze swept over the chaotic valley, finally settling on the only remaining living person—that Iwagakure Chunin who had long been scared stiff, collapsed on the ground.
Now, that Chunin's face was pale as paper, his body trembling violently uncontrollably. His eyes were filled with boundless terror and despair.
He had witnessed with his own eyes the Jonin-sama being forced to self-destruct. He had also seen with his own eyes that Konoha little monster, in such a terrifying explosion, had only spat out some blood and soon stood up again...
And his injuries... seemed to be healing automatically?!
'M... Monster... He really is a monster...'
The Iwagakure Chunin's mind went blank, leaving only endless chill. 'Jonin-sama's life-risking attack... actually... actually didn't kill him?!'
When he saw Sora's icy gaze sweep over and finally lock firmly onto him, he felt his blood was about to freeze solid.
That look... held no warmth at all. It was like looking at a dead person.
Sora slowly straightened up, wiping the blood from his mouth. The green snake mask had long been damaged and fallen off during the previous fight and explosion, revealing his somewhat youthful yet scaled face covered in blue-green dragon scales, with a pair of cold, vertical pupils.
His gaze, like a palpable killing intent, firmly locked onto that shivering Iwagakure Chunin.
'Did you see it...'
Sora's gaze swept over the scene.
Dandelion, Black Leopard, Wild Boar, Tanuki, Baku, the Iwagakure Jonin, the tall skinny Chunin... and another Iwagakure Chunin's corpse...
The entire valley was like a bloody slaughterhouse.
And all of this, because of him.
His Azure Dragon Fruit ability, his dragon transformation, dragon breath, lightning, flight... almost all his trump cards had been revealed in that brutal battle just now.
He absolutely could not let any eyewitness leave alive!
Everyone present here today, every single one—
Everyone must die!
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