After hearing Sakumo's question, Akira instantly understood what was going on.
Clearly, it was because he had fused with Whitebeard's Haki Experience Crystal and Mihawk's swordsmanship.
Right now, he still could not perfectly integrate and conceal those auras.
"Maybe I made some breakthroughs in swordsmanship last night? Hehe!"
Akira immediately found an excuse to brush the matter aside.
Sakumo directly rolled his eyes after hearing that.
As if he could not tell this brat was obviously bluffing him.
"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't. Your teacher here isn't interested in digging into your secrets anyway. As long as you know what you're doing, that's enough."
Sakumo shook his head helplessly.
This disciple of his was becoming more mysterious by the day.
Previously, Akira suddenly revealing such terrifying strength had already shocked him.
Then there were the flying methods Akira displayed on the eastern battlefield and those bizarre yet terrifying Lightning Release techniques.
All of them felt completely unfamiliar to Sakumo.
Were they really developed by Akira within just the past half year?
Sakumo believed it…
But not completely.
There were definitely deeper secrets involved.
Still, Sakumo did not particularly care.
As long as Akira himself understood things clearly and those secrets would not endanger him, that was enough.
…
Battlefield between the Land of Fire and the Land of Rivers.
At this moment, under the leadership of A, Killer B, and Yugito, Kumogakure was launching wave after wave of frantic attacks.
This time, Kumogakure had mobilized seven to eight thousand ninja.
Meanwhile, Konoha's side had fewer than one thousand remaining.
An overwhelming troop disparity of more than eight times.
Furthermore, Kumogakure possessed at least three or four Kage-level combatants.
Even with Minato present, Konoha could only struggle desperately to hold on, on the verge of total collapse at any moment.
Faced with the joint assault of A and Killer B, even Minato could only barely stall the two.
Meanwhile, Yugito had already entered Version 1 Tailed Beast Cloak and was slaughtering her way through the frontlines.
Had it not been for the combined efforts of Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Chōza, she would have already broken through the defensive line and begun massacring Konoha ninja.
At this moment, the terrifying power of a Tailed Beast was displayed fully.
"Damn it! Haven't the reinforcements arrived yet?!"
"This can't continue!"
"We can't hold the line anymore?!"
"So unwilling…"
The more they fought, the more suffocated everyone felt.
Every Konoha ninja was currently being besieged by multiple Kumogakure ninja.
Their numbers were rapidly dwindling.
At this rate, they would not last much longer.
Even Chōza and the others were beginning to despair.
If things continued like this, not only would they fail to hold the defensive line—
They would all be annihilated.
"B! Fully transform and eliminate Minato Namikaze in one strike!"
After exchanging dozens of blows with Minato, A had completely lost patience.
He erupted with full power while roaring toward Killer B.
"Yo! Leave it to me, big bro! Yo!"
Killer B answered in his bizarre rap-like tone before instantly transforming into a massive ten-meter-tall ox-headed octopus.
Several enormous tentacles immediately swept away the Flying Thunder God kunai nearby.
At the same time, even more gigantic tentacles lashed toward Minato.
Meanwhile, the Eight-Tails had already begun condensing a dark purple Tailed Beast Bomb within its mouth.
The moment it appeared, it immediately went all-out.
"Hell Stab — Four-Finger Nukite!"
At the same time, A also exploded with full strength.
After Minato used Flying Thunder God to evade one attack, A instantly locked onto a certain direction and charged forward at terrifying speed.
The next moment, Minato appeared directly ahead of A.
Sensing a fatal danger approaching, Minato's expression immediately changed.
"Not good!"
After inwardly shouting this, Minato instantly disappeared again through Flying Thunder God and reappeared over ten meters away.
Before he could even relax—
The Eight-Tails had already appeared in front of him and directly fired the Tailed Beast Bomb toward him.
The Tailed Beast Bomb instantly expanded to several meters in size, radiating horrifying energy fluctuations as it blasted toward Minato.
Minato immediately intended to use Flying Thunder God to evade.
But then he suddenly realized—
The direction the Tailed Beast Bomb was heading… was precisely the area behind him where Shikaku, the others, and the majority of the Konoha ninja were gathered.
At some unknown point, the Kumogakure ninja in that area had already completed their retreat.
"Damn it!"
Seeing this scene, Minato's expression changed drastically.
Now, dodging was not an option.
Yet the Tailed Beast Bomb was already about to hit him directly in the face.
"What should I do?!"
Minato hated himself for not mastering the Flying Thunder God Guiding Thunder technique sooner.
If he had already mastered it, he would not be in such a passive situation right now.
He could have directly redirected the Tailed Beast Bomb back toward Kumogakure.
"There's no other choice… I'll have to face it head-on!"
Minato's face filled with bitterness.
"Kushina… I'm afraid I'll disappoint you…"
However, that bitterness was quickly replaced by determination.
He prepared to personally intercept the Tailed Beast Bomb.
"SUPER ELECTROMAGNETIC CANNON!!"
At that moment—
A loud voice suddenly echoed from the distant horizon.
An orange-gold beam of light shot across the sky at terrifying speed from afar.
At the same time, a voice sounded inside Minato's mind:
"Minato-senpai! It's Akira! Please move aside—the reinforcements have arrived!"
"Huh?!"
Minato froze briefly.
Then, without even thinking, he instantly activated Flying Thunder God and disappeared from his original location, reappearing over ten meters behind Shikaku and the others.
A Flying Thunder God kunai had been left there earlier.
Immediately afterward, Minato still prepared to rush toward Shikaku and the others.
Ultimately, he still could not feel fully at ease.
But in the next instant—
He saw the orange-gold beam instantly streak across the sky and collide directly with the Tailed Beast Bomb.
Then—
"BOOOOOOM!!!"
The Tailed Beast Bomb exploded violently in midair, forming a miniature mushroom cloud.
Terrifying shockwaves and energy waves expanded outward in all directions, generating violent air currents that blasted both Konoha and Kumogakure ninja flying hundreds of meters away.
At the same time, a gigantic crater over one hundred meters wide appeared in the ground below.
Its depth was immeasurable.
Like a horrifying scar carved directly into the battlefield.
"What?!"
Seeing the Tailed Beast Bomb detonated prematurely, both Killer B and the Eight-Tails were stunned and immediately looked toward the direction the beam had come from.
There—
A black dot was rapidly approaching from the distant sky.
Soon afterward, Akira appeared high above the battlefield.
"Let me down."
Sakumo spoke calmly to Akira.
Akira immediately withdrew the telekinetic force supporting him.
Sakumo instantly descended toward the battlefield below.
Midair, Sakumo drew the short blade from his waist and transformed into a streak of lightning as he charged directly toward the Kumogakure ninja still fighting Konoha's forces.
Within a single breath, he had already appeared before one Kumogakure ninja.
A flash of silver blade-light passed.
That Kumogakure ninja only felt his neck suddenly grow cold.
Then the world around him began spinning.
At the same time, he saw a familiar headless body.
"So that's… my own body? I'm dead?"
With that final thought, the Kumogakure ninja's consciousness fell permanently into darkness.
All of this happened within an instant.
One slash.
One kill.
No exceptions whatsoever.
"Thunder Breathing — Thunderclap Flash: Sixteenfold!"
A streak of lightning suddenly refracted sixteen times across the battlefield.
Sixteen Kumogakure ninja instantly collapsed dead.
Yet Sakumo showed no intention whatsoever of stopping.
He continued harvesting lives at terrifying speed.
"Damn it!"
Seeing this, A and the others' expressions changed drastically.
White Fang was truly shameless!
The mighty Konoha White Fang—a Kage-level powerhouse—was actually running around slaughtering ordinary Jonin, Chunin, and even Genin?!
This was completely excessive!
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