Dodging the stone giant's blow, I created a Rasengan with both hands and imprinted it on its stone leg. Unfortunately, after overcoming the chakra barrier, the glowing balls could only make small craters, literally drilling into the stone and scattering tiny fragments in all directions. If it had been a human-sized golem, the technique could have been considered effective, but for a four-meter giant, it was like a mosquito bite. Jumping back from the kick, I continued the test, using a much more lethal option.
"Bakkatsu Rasengan!"
A little larger than usual, the glowing sphere of chakra broke away from my palm and, almost instantly appearing in front of the target, contracted into a point and exploded with a deafening roar.
Strands of chakra lashed out in all directions, scattering stone chips and leaving furrows in the ground around the point of activation several meters away. Then the cloud of dust dispersed, and a frozen stone giant appeared before my eyes.
Almost two-thirds of its upper body had been completely shaved off, its limbs were chopped off, and its head was missing altogether. Shreds of demonic chakra still flickered here and there, clearly trying to keep it functional, but after a couple of seconds, they disappeared.
This was the most appropriate way to deal with golems. I was somewhat impressed by the result — using this variation of Rasengan years ago, the damage had been much more modest. At the same time, he remembered the reason why he hadn't used it in battle, then completely forgot about it — after use, only a bloody mess remains, scattered in a wide cone dozens of meters wide, but with no usable bodies or wounded.
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While I was trying out various ways to destroy the stone warriors, the clones took advantage of their numerical superiority and finished off the shinobi. The man with the sword, who had held out the longest, skillfully fending off the clones and even dodging most of the ninjutsu aimed at him, using his chakra to neutralize the rest.
He found himself alone against eight equally powerful opponents — the demon worshippers managed to dispel two of them — and was unable to keep track of them all, receiving a serious leg wound with predictable results. Turning away from the corpse lying on the ground, cut in half by a blade of raiton chakra, I formed and dispelled the kage bunshin structure, passing on a new plan of action to the clones.
"Yes, boss!" they replied almost in unison and spread out around the perimeter of a small lake of mud, at the bottom of which there were still a decent number of stone warriors.
We had to deal with them quickly and return to the temple. A couple of my doubles formed several seals and pressed their hands into the ground.
"Doton: Doruyuso (Earth Release: Earth Current Spears)!
Using the tried and tested method of pushing two golems out of the mud, I was surprised when three times more sources of vile chakra rose up than I had expected. But that wasn't the only surprise — the mud figures that had risen near the edge of the lake were already swinging their weapons and hurling them at the nearest clones, while other golems clinging to their legs followed suit.
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