Chapter 242: A–B Combo

Chapter 242: Chapter 242: A–B Combo

BOOM!

With a blinding flash of light, a tremendous explosion thundered through the sky!

Hyuga Kagami barely had time to react. His Susanoo had only managed to form a skeletal frame when the Tailed Beast Ball hurtling toward him struck it head-on, sending both him and the Third Kazekage human puppet flying violently through the air.

Whoosh... whoosh...

As he plummeted, Kagami’s ears were still ringing, and he could barely make out the shrill howl of the wind rushing past him.

His head was spinning, his consciousness hazy, and he couldn’t gather his thoughts at all. For the moment, he couldn’t even tell what condition the Third Kazekage human puppet was in.

Several breaths later, he finally shook off the daze and forcibly suppressed the churning blood and chakra in his chest before adjusting his posture in free fall.

As soon as he steadied himself, his field of vision opened up.

He immediately spotted the Third Kazekage human puppet not far away, also plummeting through the air.

However, most of the black Iron Sand that had surrounded the Third Kazekage human puppet had been blasted away by the Tailed Beast Ball just now.

Only about a third of the original Iron Sand remained swirling around it.

"Tch..."

Kagami clicked his tongue. An almost uncontrollable surge of irritation and killing intent suddenly welled up inside him!

But immediately afterward, he snapped back to his senses and became wary.

"Huh? What exactly happened just now? Could the Mangekyo Sharingan be affecting my emotions?!"

Suppressing his thoughts, Kagami chose not to dwell on the matter at such a critical moment. Instead, he calmly sensed the fluctuations of Tenseigan chakra within the Third Kazekage human puppet while using his Mangekyo Sharingan to examine the damage to its body.

After carefully inspecting it, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

The Third Kazekage human puppet hadn’t suffered any actual damage. The violent impact just now had merely thrown the Tenseigan chakra within its body into disorder, temporarily rendering it unresponsive.

After confirming that the Third Kazekage human puppet would recover shortly, Kagami, still plummeting through the air, calmly looked toward the direction from which the Tailed Beast Ball had come.

That Tailed Beast Ball had come far too suddenly.

Fortunately, Kagami had reacted in time and used Susanoo to absorb most of the damage, leaving both him and the Third Kazekage human puppet merely shaken by the tremendous impact.

Otherwise, if they had taken a Tailed Beast Ball head-on, losing an arm or a leg would have been considered lucky.

More likely, there wouldn’t even have been a corpse left behind!

Soon, Kagami’s brows gradually furrowed.

From the direction the Tailed Beast Ball had come, he spotted a massive trail of dust rapidly charging toward the spot where he was about to land.

Dust billowed into the air wherever it passed, and trees toppled one after another. The sheer momentum was astonishing. Even from high above, Kagami could faintly hear the continuous rumble, rumble below.

It was like a bulldozer hurtling forward at full speed, plowing straight through everything in its path as it charged toward him.

Seeing flashes of lightning flickering in and out of the dust cloud, Kagami’s gaze sharpened.

"The Fourth Raikage..."

Kagami had never encountered such ferocious and overbearing Lightning Release chakra before.

There was no need to even think about it.

Within Kumogakure, the only person who could possess Lightning Release chakra approaching the level of a Tailed Beast was the Fourth Raikage himself.

Kagami couldn’t help feeling somewhat frustrated.

If he had been in his Yin Release true body, there was no way that Tailed Beast Ball just now could have escaped the detection of his Tenseigan.

Although the Mangekyo Sharingan possessed extraordinary powers of perception when it came to minute details, in terms of long-range reconnaissance, forget comparing it to the Tenseigan—it couldn’t even match an ordinary Byakugan.

At that moment, the Third Kazekage human puppet finally returned to normal.

It activated Magnet Release once more, gathering the remaining Iron Sand into a smaller pair of iron wings. It caught the falling Kagami, and the two slowly descended to the ground together.

The instant his feet touched the ground, Kagami felt a faint tremor beneath him.

Knowing that the Raikage was about to come charging in for the kill, he ignored the burden on his body and activated Susanoo once again.

In an instant, two trails of bloody tears streamed from his Mangekyo Sharingan as a golden phantom projected outward from his body.

Bones formed first, followed by tendons and sinew, and finally an outer layer of blazing golden flame armor.

Within just a few breaths, a colossal half-bodied Susanoo towered over the battlefield.

"He’s coming!"

Feeling the tremors beneath his feet grow increasingly violent, Kagami muttered inwardly.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, accompanied by a violent howl through the air, a dark shadow shot out from the cloud of dust and hurtled straight toward Kagami.

The instant it emerged from the dust, Kagami saw clearly that it was nothing more than an ordinary boulder.

So he didn’t move recklessly.

While commanding Susanoo to strike the incoming boulder, he kept his Mangekyo Sharingan trained closely on his surroundings.

BOOM!

With a tremendous crash, Susanoo shattered the feinting boulder with a single punch.

Fragments of rock sprayed outward like raindrops, and Kagami instinctively blinked.

Whoosh!

But in the very instant Kagami blinked, a streak of blue light appeared directly above his head!

"What...?!"

Before Kagami could fully react, the blue figure came crashing down from above and struck his Susanoo, sending both Kagami and the Susanoo protecting him flying backward.

Only after smashing through several large trees did Kagami finally manage to steady himself.

His heart was filled with shock.

"The Raikage is this fast?!"

Although Kagami had long known that the Raikage possessed astonishing speed while using Lightning Release Chakra Mode, experiencing it firsthand still left him deeply astonished.

At that moment, another figure appeared on the battlefield.

Looking at the shinobi wearing sunglasses with several swords strapped across his back, Kagami’s expression sank.

Although this was their first meeting, that didn’t stop Kagami from immediately recognizing him.

The Eight-Tails’ jinchuriki of Kumogakure—

Killer B!

Kagami inwardly cursed his rotten luck.

"Kumogaker’s A–B Combo? Damn, what rotten luck..."

The Raikage landed atop a large tree and shouted at Kagami in his deep, booming voice, "You two are those damn Kamigami members, aren’t you?! Do you know who I am? Today, it’s time for you to repay the debt you owe Kumogakure!"

Kagami calmly replied, "I didn’t expect the Fourth Raikage to personally take action. That really is a bit surprising! But whether you can keep us here or not depends on whether you actually have the ability!"

The Raikage sized up Kagami’s Susanoo before letting out a heavy snort.

"Hmph! So this is all the Uchiha clan’s Mangekyo Sharingan amounts to? Today, I’ll make you repay your blood debt with blood!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Fourth Raikage’s figure flickered and vanished directly from Kagami’s sight.

This time, however, Kagami was prepared.

Although the Fourth Raikage’s speed was still astonishingly fast, Kagami managed to roughly judge his trajectory and immediately commanded Susanoo to unleash a sweeping strike.

RUMBLE—!

Susanoo’s golden arm swept across the ground, unleashing a deafening series of crashes!

But just as Susanoo’s massive arms were about to strike the Fourth Raikage, several enormous, octopus-like tails suddenly appeared out of nowhere and braced themselves against Susanoo’s giant arms...