"They really are noisy…"
Hearing the cheers below, Akira immediately felt speechless.
"Brat! You're very impressive!"
At this moment, the Third Raikage raised his head and praised Akira once before his expression turned cold.
"But precisely because you're impressive, you cannot be allowed to continue growing. Otherwise, you will inevitably become a great enemy of Kumogakure in the future!"
"So die!"
"Hell Stab — Three-Finger Nukite!!"
The Third Raikage raised his right hand diagonally toward Akira in the sky.
His thumb and pinky curled inward while the remaining three fingers aligned together.
The Lightning Release Chakra Mode around his body became even denser as his aura continuously rose higher.
"BOOM!"
The next moment, the Third Raikage violently stomped the ground.
Centered around him, the earth within dozens of meters instantly collapsed and cracked apart.
The Third Raikage shot into the sky like a streak of lightning, charging toward Akira at a speed that directly surpassed the speed of sound.
In the blink of an eye, he had already arrived before Akira.
His fingers were wrapped in incomparably sharp Lightning Release chakra, aimed directly at Akira's chest as though they would pierce through him in the next instant.
"Armament…"
Akira instantly raised his right fist.
Pitch-black Armament Haki completely covered his entire right arm.
Dark red Conqueror's Haki wrapped around it as well, making his entire arm resemble a demonic limb.
At the same time, dense white light gathered around Akira's fist, completely enveloping it.
Then he smashed his fist directly against the Third Raikage's fingertips.
"ZZZZZT!!"
Lightning crackled violently around the two.
The Third Raikage's terrifying attack had actually been stopped head-on by Akira.
Before he could even react in shock—
"CRACK! CRACK!"
The Third Raikage suddenly saw cracks spreading through the air around their fists.
Then—
The space itself seemed to shatter apart.
The Third Raikage instantly felt a horrifying destructive force travel from his fingertips into his arm and then through nearly half his body.
A violent pain exploded through him.
"BOOOOM!!!"
The air detonated violently.
Terrifying shockwaves spread wildly in every direction.
Both he and Akira were blasted backward by the recoil force.
"CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!"
The Third Raikage smashed toward the ground at terrifying speed.
At this moment, however, his right arm had already twisted into a grotesque angle.
He could clearly feel that the bones throughout his entire arm had shattered into several sections.
His muscles and meridians had all suffered varying degrees of damage.
The skin on his arm had split open in many places as blood continuously flowed out.
"BOOM!"
His entire body smashed deep into the earth, creating a gigantic crater.
"PFFT!"
Unable to withstand the recoil force any longer, the Third Raikage spat out a mouthful of blood.
It was not merely the impact from crashing into the ground.
The main issue was the strange power contained within Akira's punch earlier.
That force had traveled directly into his body through his arm, damaging his internal organs.
Then the collision with the ground worsened the injuries even further.
Meanwhile, Akira's condition was far better.
He was merely blasted upward by the recoil force, soaring even higher into the sky.
Only after rising more than a hundred meters did Akira fully disperse the force and stabilize himself.
"H-How is this possible?! Raikage-sama was injured?!"
"Raikage-sama actually lost in a direct clash?!"
Seeing the Third Raikage severely injured and coughing blood, the Kumogakure ninja could hardly believe their eyes.
All their previous cheers vanished instantly.
The battlefield atmosphere became incomparably heavy and oppressive.
The invincible image of the Third Raikage in their hearts had begun to collapse.
Meanwhile, the surviving Konoha ninja erupted into thunderous cheers.
"WOOOHOO! Long live Akira-sama!"
"Akira-sama is invincible!"
"Unbelievable! Akira-sama actually defeated the Third Raikage in a direct clash?!"
"Am I dreaming?!"
Nara Shikaku and the others exchanged looks, each seeing deep disbelief in the others' eyes.
"The younger generation truly is terrifying nowadays…"
Nara Shikaku sighed with amazement.
"To think even the Third Raikage can be defeated head-on… unbelievable."
"Yeah!"
Akimichi Chōza nodded heavily.
"It feels like the entire history of ninja geniuses is about to be rewritten."
Yamanaka Inoichi, however, smiled lightly.
"Isn't that a good thing?"
"We no longer need to worry about Kumogakure invading us."
"Instead… Kumogakure should be the ones worrying now."
Not far away, Minato and Sakumo were also staring blankly in shock.
"To think he could even overpower the Third Raikage in a frontal collision… when exactly did this brat's physique become so monstrous?"
Sakumo genuinely felt that Akira had been acting all along.
Was this really the strength and physique a seven or eight-year-old child should possess?
Meanwhile, Minato smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"Everyone has always called me a genius…"
"But compared to Akira-kun, I suddenly feel like an ordinary person."
This only strengthened his determination to seek Akira's guidance afterward.
He felt fortunate that he had readily agreed earlier to let Tsunade hand the full set of sealing technique books over to Akira.
Surely Akira still remembered that favor.
With that relationship as a foundation, Minato felt his chances were good.
As for whether it would be embarrassing to seek ninjutsu advice from a child far younger than himself?
Minato felt it would not.
Once today's battle spread throughout the ninja world, who would dare look down on Akira?
After all, this was ultimately a world where the strong ruled.
If your fists were bigger, then you were right.
"Now that was satisfying…"
Floating down slowly from the sky, Akira shook his somewhat numb right arm and muttered inwardly:
"If I hadn't used the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power to offset most of the attack, merely relying on Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki infusion probably wouldn't have been enough."
"I might've actually gotten my defense broken instead."
As expected, these famous veteran Kage-level powerhouses truly could not be underestimated.
"Still, Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki infusion can also reduce a large portion of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's recoil damage. That's definitely good news."
Akira silently noted this as well.
Sure enough, only through real combat could he properly understand these things.
When Akira finally floated down beside the massive crater created by the Third Raikage's impact, the Third Raikage himself struggled back to his feet from within the pit.
He looked down at his twisted right arm before raising his head to stare at Akira nearby.
Looking at Akira's youthful face and slender figure, the Third Raikage suddenly seemed somewhat dazed.
At this moment—
He truly realized he was old.
"What a terrifying brat…"
The Third Raikage sighed emotionally while staring at Akira.
"Cough! Cough! Cough!"
Then he coughed violently several times before spitting out a mouthful of bloody saliva.
Only afterward did he continue speaking.
"Brat! This time, Kumogakure has lost!"
"State your conditions. As long as they are reasonable, we are willing to sign a peace agreement."
He was not stupid.
With injuries this severe, he was no longer fit to continue fighting.
Knowing full well he could not win yet still stubbornly forcing himself onward would not be courage—
It would simply be foolishness.
Although he looked like a muscle-brained brute, the Third Raikage was actually extremely intelligent and far from reckless.
Thus, he made what he believed to be the best possible choice.
Of course, if possible, he still would have preferred to kill Akira—the monstrous genius standing before him.
For that goal, he would not have minded risking his own life.
Unfortunately, after their previous clash, he already understood that was nothing more than wishful thinking.
He had been severely injured in a single exchange.
Meanwhile, Akira looked completely unharmed.
Under such circumstances, trying to drag Akira down with him was simply unrealistic.
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