Chapter 516: Isn’t This Physique a Little Too Ridiculous?

Chapter 516: Chapter 516: Isn’t This Physique a Little Too Ridiculous?

"He actually stopped the meteor all by himself!"

Looking at Nagato’s utterly miserable state, Kagami didn’t feel the slightest bit happy.

Everything in this operation had gone smoothly. Almost nothing had deviated from his expectations.

There was only one thing he had failed to anticipate—

His own chakra reserves.

Earlier, he had fought four opponents alone—Nagato, Obito, Konan, and Zetsu—one after another, beating the Akatsuki side so badly that they could barely raise their heads.

On the surface, Kagami had seemed overwhelmingly dominant, practically unstoppable.

But in reality, his own expenditure had been equally enormous.

Even with the support of the Tenseigan on the Moon, he had still burned through far too much of his own chakra.

After all, with his current strength, controlling nine Truth-Seeking Balls at once was already pushing his limits. On top of that, he had repeatedly used those nine Truth-Seeking Balls to unleash multiple Tenseigan dojutsu.

Especially when he had broken free from Nagato’s ’Chibaku Tensei’—that time, he had truly gone all out.

As a result, without even realizing it, he had overdrawn the chakra within his body.

And now, his chakra reserves were almost completely exhausted.

Even with Nagato severely wounded and looking as though he could collapse at any moment, Kagami no longer had the strength to launch another surprise attack.

In fact, even maintaining ’Tenseigan Chakra Mode’ had become extremely difficult for him.

"I never thought the gap between us would widen this much..."

Staring at Nagato, Kagami sighed inwardly.

He had originally thought that after forcing Nagato to take the meteor head-on and suffer mutually devastating damage against it, he would be able to sit back and reap the benefits—calmly finish off the severely wounded Nagato and seize the pair of Rinnegan in his eye sockets.

But he never expected that once his resonance with the Giant Tenseigan on the Moon was severed, forget finishing Nagato off—

He was barely even capable of protecting himself.

Pfft...

At that moment, Nagato suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood. His body staggered along with it, nearly collapsing to the ground.

Konan, whom Nagato had been shielding beneath him the entire time, hurriedly got up and supported him.

"Nagato, are... are you alright? How is your body?"

Nagato shook his head while coughing up blood, but his gaze remained firmly locked onto Kagami not far away.

Konan also turned toward Kagami and shouted, putting on a fierce front, "I’ve already planted countless explosive tags all around this area! Worst comes to worst, we’ll all die together!"

Whether it was her tone or her expression, Konan couldn’t hide her lack of confidence.

Because she knew perfectly well that her explosive tags couldn’t harm the leader of Kamigami in the slightest.

"Heh..."

Kagami didn’t answer. He merely let out a soft, disdainful chuckle.

This wasn’t the first time he had found himself in such a predicament.

He understood that the closer he was to completely running out of chakra, the more he absolutely could not show weakness.

Otherwise, his life would be forfeit.

At the same time, while secretly keeping an eye on Nagato, he pushed his senses to their limit, vigilantly guarding against a possible surprise attack from Obito.

Everyone else on the battlefield should have been affected to some extent by the meteor’s impact just now.

Obito, however, was the exception.

With his ability to turn intangible and hide inside the ’Kamui Dimension,’ he should be the only person here who hadn’t been affected by the meteor at all.

Naturally, that also made him the greatest threat to Kagami at this moment.

Nagato raised a hand, signaling for Konan to move behind him. Then he looked at Kagami and said,

"Let’s continue. I... I haven’t lost yet!

"And I won’t lose!"

His body was already reduced to skin and bones.

His chest rose and fell violently like a bellows, as though he could barely even breathe.

And yet, the fighting spirit burning within those Rinnegan in Nagato’s eye sockets had not diminished in the slightest.

The shock, uncertainty, confusion, and all the other emotions that had previously appeared on his face—

had completely vanished without a trace.

Seeing three blurry black shadows once again appear around Nagato, Kagami’s expression beneath his demon mask turned extremely ugly.

He cursed inwardly,

"Hey, isn’t this physique a little too ridiculous?!"

He had assumed that since he could no longer maintain the Truth-Seeking Balls that had been restraining the ’Limbo Clones,’ Nagato—who looked to be in an even more miserable state—shouldn’t be able to maintain his ’Limbo Clones’ either.

Yet unexpectedly, the moment the restraint of the Truth-Seeking Balls disappeared, those three ’Limbo Clones’ actually returned to Nagato’s side.

Clearly, even now, Nagato still possessed enough strength to maintain the dojutsu ’Limbo: Border Jail.’

In other words—

Nagato could easily kill him right now.

Kagami couldn’t help but marvel at just how terrifying Nagato’s Sage Body truly was.

That endurance was simply absurd!

And after seeing what Nagato, who had inherited the Sage of Six Paths’ Sage Body, was capable of, it was no longer difficult to understand the terrifying feat of the Sage of Six Paths battling Kaguya for several months straight back then.

Putting aside all his other thoughts, Kagami made a decision.

He would absorb an excessive amount of chakra from the Dragon Vein.

Although doing so would rapidly petrify his body, it was still better than sitting here and waiting to die.

Just then, a distorted vortex suddenly appeared beside Nagato.

Obito stepped out from within it. While keeping a vigilant eye on Kagami, he reached out and grabbed Nagato by the shoulder.

At the same time, Zetsu emerged from underground in a sorry state.

He stared at Kagami with deep apprehension—even a trace of fear—and urged Nagato,

"Nagato, let’s retreat!"

The appearance of Obito and Zetsu allowed Konan to breathe a slight sigh of relief. She hurriedly said to Nagato,

"Do you really have to die here?

"Have you forgotten Yahiko’s last wish?"

At the mention of ’Yahiko,’ Nagato sighed.

He no longer insisted on continuing the fight.

Seeing this, Konan hurriedly supported Nagato. The paper wings on her back spread open, and as though something terrifying were chasing her, she hastily fled with the injured Nagato.

Obito and Zetsu remained behind, silently confronting Kagami as they covered Nagato and Konan’s retreat.

Their clenched palms were drenched in sweat, and their hearts were pounding with unease.

Because after the battle just now, both of them understood perfectly well that in a head-on confrontation, they were simply no match for this ’Yama.’

Within Akatsuki, only Nagato, who possessed the Rinnegan, was barely capable of fighting him on even terms!

Seeing the Akatsuki members appear one after another, Kagami’s heart practically jumped into his throat.

He knew perfectly well that right now, whether it was Nagato, Obito, Konan, or Zetsu—

any one of them could easily kill him in a one-on-one fight.

Only when he saw the others finally persuade Nagato to back down, and Konan outright take Nagato away from the battlefield, did Kagami let out a long sigh of relief.

"Talk about getting lucky..."

But then Kagami realized that he should probably say something imposing before they left.

Otherwise, Obito and Zetsu, who had stayed behind to cover Nagato and Konan’s retreat, would definitely notice that something was wrong.

So he took a step forward and said,

"You two—"

Kagami had barely opened his mouth when Obito’s expression tightened.

His figure instantly shot backward and disappeared into a distorted vortex.

At the same time, Zetsu plunged straight underground and vanished without a trace.

Whoosh...

A gentle breeze swept across the battlefield.

And in the blink of an eye, Kagami was the only person left standing there, his mouth still open as he wondered whether he should even bother finishing what he was about to say...