"What power!"
Yui and Kenta looked at Aoki Yoru in shock.
They hadn't expected such immense power; despite giving their all, they had barely managed to scratch the surface.
"Did it work?"
Gasping for air, Kenta struggled to lift his head and look at the scene before them.
At this moment, Aoki Yoru's expression was grim; there was no joy in having wounded the Eight-Tails.
"It's not over yet. A Tailed Beast isn't that easy to deal with."
In his perception, the wounds on the Eight-Tails were healing rapidly. It was practically cheating; how were they supposed to fight this?
"Not bad. Since that guy, the Third Raikage, you are the first ones to inflict such a serious injury on this lord," the Eight-Tails said in a buzzing, resonant voice.
Its tone was calm, devoid of any anger. It had already accepted the three people before it as true opponents and had begun to take them seriously.
"How could this be!"
Kenta and Yui watched, stunned, as the massive wounds on the Eight-Tails healed visibly to the naked eye.
"Are Tailed Beasts invincible? To recover from such injuries… how are we supposed to fight?" Yui muttered to herself, having truly witnessed the terror of a Tailed Beast.
"The most effective way to deal with a Tailed Beast is a Sealing Technique. Unfortunately, none of the three of us are proficient in it."
Subsequently, Aoki Yoru bit his finger, his hands moved in a blur to form hand seals, and he pressed his palms to the ground.
"Summoning Technique."
Yatagarasu, having been summoned once again, was already accustomed to being called by its master. It was just about to sing a song to express its cheerful mood.
But as the song reached its beak, the sound suddenly choked in its throat and stopped abruptly. The eight-tailed octopus before it gave off an intense sense of lethality.
It lowered its head and looked at Aoki Yoru in disbelief, as if saying, "You aren't going to make me fight this kind of monster, are you!"
Aoki Yoru grabbed his two companions by the arms, leaped lightly, and jumped onto Yatagarasu's back, immediately urging it: "Stupid bird, hurry up and take off."
Upon hearing this, Yatagarasu immediately flapped its wings, kicking up clouds of dust, and soared into the sky instantly. Even Aoki Yoru was impressed by the speed.
It dared not linger on the ground; the monster before it was too dangerous and could tear it apart at any moment.
"Yoru, are we running away?"
At this moment, Yui was extremely worried about her cousin in the camp; she didn't know what their situation was now.
Although they had notified them to evacuate before coming here, transferring the wounded was not that easy.
Aoki Yoru looked at the gloomy sky, where thunderclouds were roiling and a heavy rainstorm could pour down at any moment. He gritted his teeth and said: "I have one last move. If that can't handle this monster, then we'll have to retreat."
As he spoke, he looked toward the camp, where personnel were still covering the evacuation of the wounded. He said in a hoarse voice: "When the time comes, we'll save as many as we can!"
Immediately, lightning flashed on his hands. He thrust his arm toward the heavens, and a massive amount of Lightning Release Chakra surged into the sky, piercing straight into the rolling dark clouds.
The originally gloomy thunderclouds were instantly enraged; lightning bolts danced frantically within the clouds, accompanied by thunderous roars.
A massive Kirin, condensed from lightning and glowing with light, poked its head out from the sky full of dark clouds and roared at the ground.
Aoki Yoru looked up at this Kirin; it was much larger than the one Sasuke used in the original work.
This was normal. In the original work, Sasuke used Fire Release to create the clouds, whereas he was borrowing the natural weather conditions. The two were worlds apart.
"It's not enough!"
Sasuke's Kirin couldn't even break through a Susanoo; he didn't think this would be enough to handle the Eight-Tails.
Immediately, Aoki Yoru wrapped all the Natural Energy he had onto the Kirin. In his vision, it was like putting a layer of armor on it.
The excessive use of mental energy made his face pale. This time, he had used all his means; whether it would succeed depended on this.
"Hachibi, don't be careless. I feel a fatal threat," Killer Bee's voice rang in the Eight-Tails' mind.
"Don't worry, Bee. I am the Eight-Tails Gyuki; how could I lose?"
The Eight-Tails roared and suddenly threw its head back. Its massive mouth opened wide, and pitch-black Chakra compressed frantically in its throat. A Tailed Beast Ball capable of destroying the world was rapidly forming.
The standoff between the two giants not only stunned everyone present, but even the main battlefield in the distance stopped, watching the scene in the distance with dumbfounded expressions.
For many Chunin and Special Jonin, this had already exceeded their understanding of Ninjutsu.
Kakashi and the Raikage also took the opportunity to put some distance between themselves.
Looking at the familiar Yatagarasu in the sky, a look of shock appeared on Kakashi's face. He hadn't expected the Chidori to have such an application.
Maruboshi Kosuke, Dodai, and others closest to them immediately ran toward the rear; at such a close distance, they would be sucked in.
Watching the Eight-Tails condensing the Tailed Beast Ball, Aoki Yoru did not hesitate and pulled his arm down violently.
"Sage Art: Lightning Release: Kirin!"
The pale blue lightning beast, Kirin, descended with the force of a thunderbolt from the depths of the roiling thunderclouds.
Almost at the same instant.
The Eight-Tails Gyuki roared, and the ink-black Tailed Beast Ball suddenly formed in its mouth.
It spat out from its massive mouth, and a world-destroying energy ball, carrying the pressure to devour everything, shot straight into the sky!
Two absolute powers collided suddenly in mid-air.
"Boom——"
Lightning and ink-black Chakra collided and annihilated each other frantically; the intense light made it impossible for people to open their eyes.
The shockwave swept in all directions, and even the earth was cracking.
Dust and smoke shot into the sky, forming a terrifyingly huge mushroom cloud.
Looking at this immense power, everyone was stunned. For the first time, they felt a sense of powerlessness, asking themselves if they could block it.
"Did it work?" they asked, watching the scene below with dumbfounded expressions as the mushroom cloud gradually dissipated, full of anticipation.
"Ah!"
Aoki Yoru, pale-faced, revealed a smile. The Eight-Tails' figure had disappeared, and Killer Bee's aura was weakening.
As the smoke cleared, it revealed the devastated battlefield; the entire hilltop had been almost leveled, and the ground had sunk into a huge crater.
Killer Bee, having exited his Tailed Beast state, lay in the crater, his body scorched black. His chest rose and fell slightly; he was breathing his last.
Suddenly, a mound of earth rose from the bottom of the pit, enveloping Killer Bee and pulling him into the ground.
Aoki Yoru and the others could only watch helplessly as he was rescued. At this moment, the three of them were also exhausted and could no longer fight.
Maruboshi Kosuke and the others outside the battlefield wanted to capture the Eight-Tails, which would end the war, but Dodai and the others wouldn't let them have their way, blocking them desperately. The Eight-Tails must not be lost.
"Bee!"
On the main battlefield, the Raikage saw the Eight-Tails disappear and immediately shouted.
'An opportunity!'
Seeing the Raikage expose an opening, his Mangekyo Sharingan spun frantically.
"Kamui!"
The surrounding space instantly twisted and cracked. An invisible, terrifying suction force locked onto the Raikage, intending to twist his body apart.
"The same move is useless against me."
The Raikage said, his Chakra surging violently. He actually stripped off his Lightning Release Chakra armor and forced his way out of the twisted space.
"Is that so?"
Kakashi's voice came from behind. The Raikage's pupils constricted, and the Kakashi in the distance suddenly turned into a flash of lightning.
"A Lightning Clone? When?"
"Boom——"
With a heavy blow, the Raikage's body flew out, carving a deep trench into the ground.