Chapter 308 : Thunder Prison Appears

The energy contained within the attack was even more terrifying than that of a typical Tailed Beast Bomb.

Tsunade was stunned. "That attack is aimed at Konoha."

At that moment, every shinobi in the village could feel the surge of chakra from the incoming beam of light.

They also saw Riku and Tsunade floating in the sky.

No one knew exactly what was happening, but they could clearly see the beam of light streaking toward Konoha at terrifying speed.

Numerous shinobi had already taken to the rooftops.

They could all feel the immense chakra radiating from that beam.

If it struck the village, Konoha would be annihilated.

But now... who in Konoha could stop something like that?

This wasn’t an ordinary Tailed Beast Bomb—something you could simply redirect using Flying Thunder God like Minato once did.

Tsunade’s expression turned grim.

Even Riku’s brows furrowed slightly.

He could tell—this beam of light held far more chakra than a typical Tailed Beast Bomb.

"It looks like Naruto’s been captured. How the hell did that guy manage to pull it off?"

There was no doubt. This chakra beam had been fired by Shennong, using the Nine-Tails’ chakra.

Tsunade glanced at Riku. "If you’re not confident you can stop it, then evacuate. Now."

She didn’t want Riku risking his life to block such an attack.

This was beyond the power of even a Kage.

And that was exactly why Shennong had acted so boldly. He believed there was no one—not in any of the Five Great Nations—who could stand against him.

He believed this was how he would conquer the shinobi world.

But Riku’s serious expression wasn’t because of the beam itself.

He was more focused on why Naruto had been captured in the first place.

As the beam of chakra neared Konoha, many shinobi had already begun evacuating or spreading out around the village perimeter.

Riku spoke calmly. "What I really want to know is—where exactly did this attack come from?"

As he finished speaking, Riku activated Sage Art: Thunder Prison.

In the next instant, he entered Sage Mode.

His hands came together in a seal.

A spatial rift suddenly opened in front of him and Tsunade.

Without warning, two massive hands formed of blue and white lightning reached out from both sides of the rift and grabbed its edges.

Tsunade froze in place.

This was her first time witnessing Riku’s Thunder Prison firsthand.

And it wasn’t just her—the entire population of Konoha was stunned.

A pitch-black rift, hundreds of meters long, split open in the sky.

Within the rift, countless arcs of black lightning surged wildly.

As the onlookers watched in awe, the sides of the rift were gripped by those giant hands of pure lightning.

Krrrk—

The space itself seemed to be torn open by some immense force from within.

Bolts of black lightning lashed out across the sky with terrifying force.

When the lightning struck the forests outside the village, massive craters—hundreds of meters wide—instantly appeared.

The trees caught in the blast were incinerated into ash.

These weren’t ordinary lightning bolts—they were spatial lightning storms, devastating and uncontrollable.

Originally, the otherworld dimension Riku had created using his Rinnegan didn’t contain such phenomena.

But he had deliberately established the Thunder Prison adjacent to one of these violent lightning storms in space.

His goal was to let the storms continually temper the Thunder Prison—making it stronger with each surge.

Now, as the rift widened, a colossal titan formed of lightning—over two hundred meters tall—stepped forth.

For a moment, the entire battlefield fell into stunned silence. Even Tsunade could hardly believe what she was seeing.

"W-What is that...?"

Riku replied calmly, "This will stop the attack."

As if responding to his will, the titan raised its arms and began forming a massive shield of lightning.

The beam of chakra struck the shield head-on.

BOOM!

A thunderous explosion reverberated for tens of kilometers. Everyone’s eyes were locked on the clash between the blinding beam of chakra and the titan’s lightning shield.

The giant didn’t move an inch.

Despite the overwhelming force of the beam, the shield held firm.

Even more astonishingly, the shield began absorbing the chakra from the beam.

Still, the residual shockwaves from the collision sent tremors rippling across the entire region.

Though Konoha was directly behind the titan and shielded from the blast, the surrounding land wasn’t so lucky.

The ground for miles around cracked and heaved as if struck by a massive earthquake.

Mountains trembled. Forests flattened.

But within Konoha itself, protected by the Thunder Prison, not a single building was touched.

Outside the village, however, the devastation stretched across the horizon.

Countless deep fissures split the earth, spreading like spiderwebs across the land.

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