Chapter 512: The Truth-Seeking Ball—Offense and Defense in One

Chapter 512: Chapter 512: The Truth-Seeking Ball—Offense and Defense in One

On the battlefield.

Having already guessed part of what was going on, Kagami frowned deeply.

’Limbo: Border Jail’ was an extremely troublesome dojutsu. In the original timeline, the Nine Tailed Beasts had been instantly defeated by Madara using ’Limbo: Border Jail’ with only a single Rinnegan.

Naruto and Sasuke had also suffered heavily at the hands of this dojutsu, forcing the ’Sage of Six Paths,’ who had been watching from the sidelines all along, to personally intervene and grant his power to Naruto and Sasuke.

Yet even then, Naruto and Sasuke, despite possessing Six Paths power, had still failed to gain much of an advantage against Madara.

Nagato’s current ocular power obviously couldn’t be compared to Madara’s. Naturally, the ’Limbo: Border Jail’ he wielded was nowhere near as powerful as when used by Madara, the original owner of those Rinnegan. Even so, it was more than enough to give Kagami a headache.

At that moment, a distorted vortex suddenly appeared out of thin air. To Kagami’s surprise, a huge section of the black sphere protecting him was directly torn apart by the twisting vortex!

"It’s ’Kamui’!"

Realizing that Obito had joined the battle as well, Kagami’s expression darkened. He immediately transformed the black sphere surrounding him back into nine Truth-Seeking Balls.

Against the spatial distortion of Obito’s ’Kamui,’ even Truth-Seeking Balls couldn’t provide perfect protection. Passive defense was therefore meaningless.

Offense was the best defense!

Immediately afterward, Kagami swept his gaze across the battlefield and located Obito, who was hiding nearby while using the dojutsu ’Kamui.’

With a thought, Kagami activated ’Wheel of Will.’

In an instant, Obito’s entire body was seized by an immense gravitational force and dragged through the air toward Kagami.

At the same time, Kagami grabbed a black spear formed from one of his Truth-Seeking Balls, preparing to hurl it straight at the approaching Obito.

Realizing this, Zetsu had no choice but to intervene.

In an instant, countless tough branches burst from the ground and rapidly wrapped themselves around Kagami.

"Tch!"

Kagami clicked his tongue, then fiercely swung the black spear in his hand, instantly severing every branch binding him.

Obito seized this opportunity to ’phase’ himself, escaping the gravitational pull of Kagami’s ’Wheel of Will.’

At that moment, Nagato’s two ’Limbo Clones’ charged at him once again.

Now that he had figured out the true nature of these blurry black shadows, Kagami naturally wouldn’t be as constrained as before. His expression remained unchanged as he transformed another Truth-Seeking Ball into a black spear and hurled it fiercely toward Nagato’s two ’Limbo Clones.’

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Accompanied by piercing whistles through the air, the two black spears formed from Truth-Seeking Balls instantly pierced through Nagato’s two ’Limbo Clones,’ pinning each of them firmly to the ground!

Pinned to the ground by the black spears formed from Truth-Seeking Balls, the ’Limbo Clones’ struggled desperately, but no matter what they did, they couldn’t break free from the restraints of the Truth-Seeking Balls.

Seeing this, a faint smile appeared at the corner of Kagami’s mouth.

In truth, during close-range combat, directly using the Truth-Seeking Balls was no less effective than using them to unleash the ’Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.’ In terms of flexibility, they were actually even superior to the ’Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.’

After all, Truth-Seeking Balls combined offense and defense into one, making them far more balanced than the ’Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion,’ which pursued sheer offensive power to the extreme.

However, the effective control range of the Truth-Seeking Balls was only around sixty to seventy meters. Once they exceeded that range, Kagami could no longer control them.

And at the level Kagami and Nagato had reached, opportunities for close-range combat were actually quite rare.

That was why he had rarely used the Truth-Seeking Balls directly before.

Whoosh!

His figure flashed.

Having dealt with Nagato’s two ’Limbo Clones,’ Kagami charged straight toward Nagato himself.

Kagami knew that Nagato should have four ’Limbo Clones’ in total.

He had already cut down one with the ’Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion,’ and just now, he had restrained another two with two Truth-Seeking Balls. That meant Nagato could have, at most, only one ’Limbo Clone’ remaining.

In the blink of an eye, Kagami transformed into a streak of blue light and appeared directly in front of Nagato’s true body.

At the same time, the black spear in his hand, transformed from a Truth-Seeking Ball, thrust forward with the momentum of his charge!

Whoosh!

With a sudden sound, Nagato in front of Kagami abruptly transformed into a blurry black shadow.

Having already seen through what had happened, Kagami wasn’t surprised in the slightest.

The black spear thrusting from his hand didn’t hesitate for even an instant!

Swish!

The black spear pierced straight through the blurry shadow before him and, following through with its momentum, pinned it firmly to the ground.

"That makes four!"

Kagami thought to himself.

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

Suddenly, a dense series of hissing sounds erupted beneath Kagami’s feet as explosive tags began to ignite.

Countless explosive tags burst from beneath the earth as though they had come alive, surging up and wrapping themselves around Kagami!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

A continuous series of explosions once again thundered through the night sky!

The explosions were so densely packed and lasted for so long that even the shinobi of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, who had already withdrawn far from the battlefield, were left horrified.

Tsunade clicked her tongue in astonishment.

"It still hasn’t stopped... Just how many explosive tags did they use?!"

The relatively calm Third Hokage spoke up, "And those aren’t ordinary explosive tags either. They should be specially made!"

Jiraiya shook his head and sighed. "It must be Konan. Her Paper Release allows her to mass-produce explosive tags, and they’re considerably more powerful than ordinary ones!"

At that moment, Obito and Zetsu revealed themselves on the battlefield, appearing beside Nagato’s true body. Konan, who had been hovering in the air, slowly descended as well.

Together, they stared toward the area where the explosions were still raging.

Clearly, this had been a trap.

Konan had buried a full thirty million explosive tags in advance beneath the spot where Nagato’s true body had just been standing!

A while later, the explosions finally subsided.

White Zetsu asked uneasily, "He should be dead... right?"

However, no one answered his question.

At that moment, everyone’s gaze was fixed on the center of the explosion—on the dense cloud of smoke and dust!

Soon, a black sphere emerged into everyone’s view.

Then, the black sphere separated into six fist-sized black balls, revealing the completely unharmed figure of Yama within.

"This...!?"

An overwhelming sense of frustration surged through the members of Akatsuki.

Even Nagato was no exception.

They had exhausted every method at their disposal. Not only had they ganged up on him with superior numbers, they had even resorted to setting a trap.

And yet, after all of that, they discovered they had accomplished absolutely nothing.

They couldn’t even put a single scratch on Yama, the leader of Kamigami!

But they soon noticed that Yama wasn’t even looking in their direction.

Instead, his head was tilted upward, his gaze fixed on the sky.

Seeing this, the members of Akatsuki also raised their heads and looked toward the heavens.

There, in the darkness of the night sky, was a single point of light.

And that point of light was growing larger...

and brighter!

Konan’s delicate brows furrowed.

"What is that?"

Nagato, possessing the Rinnegan, stared upward in astonishment and said,

"It looks like... a meteorite!"

In the brief span of those few words, the point of light in the sky rapidly transformed into a blazing mass of fire clearly visible to the naked eye, plummeting straight down from the heavens!