"Big brother, what nonsense are you talking about?"
Killer Bee's eyes widened behind his sunglasses, and the octopus tentacles behind him slapped the ground irritably, kicking up clouds of scorched earth.
"The atmosphere is all set, this is my ShowTime! One Tailed Beast Ball will blow that turtle shell wide open, you fool, you idiot!"
"Shut up!"
A cut him off roughly, his eyes as large as copper bells bloodshot, his voice carrying suppressed fury.
He looked at the quiet figure in the distance: "This kid hasn't even used his full strength yet."
"The White Giant he used to counter you when you released the Eight-Tails last time hasn't even appeared yet."
He lowered his voice, filled with wariness: "If you undergo a Complete Tailed Beast Transformation now, that kid will 100% release that giant."
"When that happens, two hundred-meter-tall monsters will be blasting each other on this Battlefield..."
A swept his gaze over the Battlefield, which had already turned into a complete mess.
The Konoha and Kumogakure Ninjas were completely embroiled in a chaotic melee, their defensive lines interlocked.
"Ordinary Ninjas will definitely suffer heavy casualties!"
"The Land of Fire has a large population; they can afford the deaths!"
"We have scant resources. This kind of indiscriminate clearing will bury the entire future of Kumogakure first!"
Killer Bee fell silent.
No matter how much he loved to play around, he knew what was important.
The destructive power of a Complete Tailed Beast could not be precisely controlled.
Releasing it in a melee of thousands of people would be an indiscriminate slaughter of both friend and foe.
"Tch..." Killer Bee spat in annoyance, retracted the tentacles behind him, and reverted to a Semi-Tailed Beast state.
"Then what do we do? One of those guys is too slippery to catch, and the other is too tough to break."
A took a deep breath, and the Lightning Release Chakra on his body, which had already dimmed, surged violently once more.
Zzzzt—!
The piercing lightning light stretched his shadow extremely long.
"Change of tactics."
"Don't kill."
"Stall!"
A's gaze locked onto Minato Namikaze and Aokawa in the distance.
"The moment we failed to kill that kid during the sneak attack, we actually lost our chance."
"With his turtle-shell-like Ninjutsu and Minato Namikaze's disgusting spatial movement, there's nothing we can do to them."
"But they can't do anything to us either, so we just need to trap them here!"
"It's enough as long as we don't let them participate in the battle with the Regular troops."
"This Hyuga brat's long-range Ninjutsu and Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God are too efficient at killing Regular ninja; we cannot afford the losses."
...The wind stopped.
There was no more violent venting of Chakra.
No more deafening roar of Tailed Beast Balls.
The Battlefield fell into an eerily bizarre silence.
Only the battle cries of thousands of Ninjas fighting in the distance came through dully, as if separated by a thick layer of glass.
This central area seemed to have become a vacuum zone of death.
The lightning light on A's body was restrained to the extreme.
Those electric arcs that had been jumping wildly were now clinging tightly to the surface of his skin as if they had a life of their own.
The high-density Lightning Release Chakra was no longer for show, but for extreme activation.
"Go!" a low shout rang out.
There was no sonic boom.
A's figure disappeared directly from the range of retinal capture.
This was a sprint that discarded all flashiness and pushed speed to its physical limit.
Aokawa stood his ground.
His pupils did not move; his body's instinctive reaction was faster than his thoughts.
The spirit particles sparks under his feet exploded instantly.
Hirenkyaku!
Zzz!
A jarring sound of friction rang out.
Aokawa's figure sidestepped half a meter to the right.
Right where he had been standing, a hand blade wreathed in deep blue lightning sliced through the air.
The space itself seemed to be sliced open with a thin crack by this pure power.
Without any pause, having missed the strike, A's elbow swung across in a heavy smash.
The Ginrei Kojaku in Aokawa's hand vanished instantly, and blue spirit particles compressed frantically in his palm, stretching into a Spirit Blade in an instant.
With a flick of his wrist, the Spirit Blade slashed upward to meet A's elbow.
Zzz zzz zzz—!
Sparks flew everywhere.
A felt a stinging pain at his elbow, a sign that his Chakra defense was being sliced open.
His brow furrowed slightly, and he was forced to change his move and retreat.
The two passed each other.
In just one second, both sides had exchanged three tests on the edge of life and death.
On the other side.
Killer Bee was no longer clowning around.
The Seven Ninja Blades in his hands were like a blooming lotus of death, spinning and strangling in illogical trajectories.
Every blade locked onto one of Minato Namikaze's vital points.
Without the enhancement of Tailed Beast Chakra, relying purely on bizarre Taijutsu, Killer Bee remained a top-tier killer in the Ninja World.
Clang! Clang!
A short blade emerged bizarrely from under his armpit, piercing straight toward Minato's throat.
Right then.
Shoo!
A Short Reishi Arrow, only as long as a finger, shot silently from the side.
It accurately collided with the tip of Killer Bee's lethal short blade.
Ding.
After the crisp sound, the short blade's trajectory deviated by three inches, grazing past Minato's neck and slicing off a few strands of blonde hair.
Minato Namikaze seized the opportunity, kicked Killer Bee's wrist, and leapt back using the momentum.
"Thanks." Minato Namikaze did not look back, his gaze still fixed forward.
"You could have dodged it with Flying Thunder God even if I hadn't shot that arrow."
Aokawa's voice was cold as his Reishi Blade blocked another heavy punch from A.
At this moment.
Everyone on the Battlefield was stunned.
In the distance, Uchiha Yashiro cut down a Kumogakure Chunin and looked up at the central Battlefield, panting.
He had originally expected to see an earth-shattering scene.
But it was terrifyingly quiet there.
Four figures were rapidly intertwining within a very small area.
There was no brilliant light and shadow from Ninjutsu.
Only physical collisions so heavy they made the heart stop, and occasional sparks of light.
"What... what are they doing?" a young Uchiha clansman's voice trembled.
"Do you see it? This is what a top-tier duel looks like," Uchiha Yashiro said, wiping blood from his face.
"In a battle of that level, any single mistake means death."
"They are compressing all their power within their bodies; every punch and every kick, they don't strike lightly, but when they do, it's lethal."
"If just one person makes a mistake..."
He swallowed hard.
"It's death."
The center of the Battlefield.
The oppressive atmosphere was suffocating.
A grew more shocked the more he fought.
He was mentally prepared for Minato Namikaze's speed.
But this Hyuga brat—how was his speed so much faster than before?
The extreme speed he was so proud of had been able to suppress the boy just now, but now he actually couldn't shake him off?
That movement footwork with exploding light points underfoot was not only fast but also as flexible as a loach.
Even more disgusting was the kid's battle instinct.
Every time he tried to force a Breakthrough of the defense, the Reishi Blade in the kid's hand would turn into a powerful bow.
Point-blank shots!
Explosive Arrows at that distance forced A to play defensively.
"Whew..." A let out a long breath, his chest heaving violently.
This high-intensity nerve-wracking tension was more exhausting than releasing ten Raikages Full Power Attacks.
The four figures separated again.
Each occupied one of four directions, like four statues.
On the ground, dense footprints and slash marks crossed each other, every mark representing a brush with the Shinigami.
Sweat dripped from A's chin, hitting the ground and evaporating instantly.
He scanned the area; Minato Namikaze had lost his usual calm demeanor and looked exhausted.
Bee was much the same; even with Tailed Beast Chakra to supplement him, his own physical stamina had to keep up.
But what was with this Hyuga brat?
He had shot so many arrows since just now, but he still looked full of energy.
Did he not need to consume anything?
"No!" Fourth Raikage A suddenly realized.
It wasn't that the kid's speed had increased, but that his own stamina had begun to decline, and his speed was slowing down.
Is this kid's Chakra infinite?!
"Hey, if we keep fighting like this, we won't have a winner even by nightfall." Minato Namikaze shook his somewhat aching wrist, his face expressionless.
"Then we'll fight until nightfall," A said, staring at him coldly, stubbornly refusing to back down.
"It seems your Konoha Ninjas lack endurance."
As he spoke, the lightning light on his body increased instead of decreased, and his figure vanished once more.
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