With Drake and Pain, the two generals of their respective sides, remaining stationary and locked in a standoff, the battles in other areas intensified. However, everyone tacitly agreed to widen the battlefield.
Drake said, "All six paths puppets should be deployed this time, right? Let me witness the extent to which you've developed the Rinnegan!"
Pain, already accustomed to Drake's information-gathering abilities, responded, "Then so be it!"
A massive, bizarre bird with black rods protruding from its head swooped down. After it passed over Pain's head, five more figures appeared beside him.
The Six Paths of Pain... had arrived!
The five newly appeared figures, like Deva Path Pain, all wore Akatsuki uniforms and carried forehead protectors indicating their status as renegade ninjas.
However, all six of them had small black rods protruding from their exposed faces, clearly not just ordinary decorations.
In reality, the Six Paths of Pain were all puppets made from corpses. The black rods on their bodies were Chakra receivers, allowing them to remotely receive Nagato's Rinnegan's power and control one of the Rinnegan's abilities.
The six puppets shared vision and fought in perfect coordination. Combined with the Rinnegan's abilities, they were undoubtedly the pinnacle of ninja power before the late-game power creep characters came online.
The first to act was the Animal Path. He clapped his hands on the ground, and the incantation of the Summoning Technique spread across the ground.
The Summoning Technique was a very special technique. The effectiveness it could display didn't depend on the development of the technique itself, but on the summon beasts with which a contract had been signed.
Guy's summoned turtle could only be used as a stepping stone, while Madara Uchiha summoned the Nine-Tails.
Of course, ordinary ninjas wouldn't have the strength to forcibly form a contract with a tailed beast like Madara Uchiha.
For ordinary ninjas, it wasn't easy to find summon beasts that met the conditions, and each of the great ninja clans had their own groups of summon beasts with which they had signed contracts for generations.
For example, the Hatake clan's ninja dogs, the Sarutobi clan's monkeys, the Uchiha clan's ninja cats, and so on.
And the strongest among the summon beasts were naturally the toads, snakes, and slugs of the three great holy lands. The three-way deadlock of summon beasts was also the most famous characteristic of Konoha's three legendary Sannin.
And the Animal Path's Summoning Technique came from the Rinnegan, so it was naturally different. Strictly speaking, the Animal Path's ability was a replica of the Six Paths puppet technique, and the summoned beasts were all modified with Yin-Yang Release.
The giant dogs, rhinoceroses, chameleons, and other beasts that appeared in the white smoke all had the same black rods protruding from their bodies as the Six Paths puppets.
And these summon beasts also shared vision with the Six Paths puppets. Although they didn't have the Rinnegan's abilities, their sheer size was extremely intimidating.
"A bunch of beasts, don't interfere with Drake-san's battle!"
Sting and Rogue charged forward at the same time, punching the summon beasts in front of them and sending them flying.
Carla carried Wendy, and Vinnie also transformed into a dragon-human, spreading her wings and flying up. The two of them released a wind and fire tornado together, knocking away the approaching Yatagarasu.
Lucy also summoned the Star Spirits of the Pisces constellation. Two giant eels, one black and one white, appeared, suppressing the centipedes, bulls, and other creatures.
And the most troublesome of the Animal Path's summon beasts, the giant dog that would split when attacked, had been trapped in a water sphere by Juvia, struggling desperately but unable to escape.
Stella turned her head and threw a punch. The area where her fist hit distorted for a moment, and then a giant chameleon appeared out of thin air.
The entire head of the chameleon was deformed, and the Human Path and Asura Path jumped out of its open mouth.
The Human Path had the ability to peer into memories and extract souls. Nagato had used the invisible summon beast to send him here in order to obtain information about Fairy Tail.
However, it was too much of an underestimation to think that he could deceive Stella with just visual invisibility.
But Nagato had long thought of this, so the Asura Path, the strongest in terms of attack power among the Six Paths, had also appeared.
The Asura Path's body emitted the clicking sounds of machinery operating, and then he punched towards Stella.
With a clang, the Asura Path's fist hit Stella's Dragon Queen's Crime Sword, making a loud bang, but Stella's slender arm didn't move at all.
The full-body mechanical modification gave Asura Path Pain extremely strong power, but Stella's wrist strength was far above his.
So Stella just raised her greatsword, and Asura Path Pain was directly sent flying.
The black cloak with red clouds shattered, revealing the upper body of the Asura Path, but then the skin began to separate, revealing a large number of gun barrels. A large number of missiles, dragging their tail flames, shot towards Stella.
At the same time, the Human Path also seized the opportunity and approached Stella under the cover of the missiles.
But what the two puppets saw was a ferocious fire dragon that suddenly appeared.
The Preta Path arrived in time, stretching out his hands and creating a transparent spiral. The fire dragon collided with it and began to shrink as if it was being watered down.
Drake had thought that the Preta Path could only absorb Chakra and ninjutsu released using Chakra, but he didn't expect that it could actually absorb energy.
However, Stella's flames weren't so easy to swallow. The expressionless Preta Path's hands began to turn charred black, and his body began to emit a dangerous red light.
Stella's flames were not only extremely hot, but the energy contained within was also too powerful and violent. The Preta Path was about to explode.
But the Asura Path and Human Path had already retreated, and the Preta Path also didn't force it and retreated at the same time, letting the fire dragon blast the ground.
The Animal Path still wanted to provide support, but Sherria approached him with a black gale, directly forcing him back.
The Hell Path, who could repair the other Six Paths puppets, silently retreated, because Drake had already arrived in front of the strongest, the Deva Path Pain.
Neither of them had any interest in communicating. After exchanging a glance, they charged towards each other at the same time.
Deva Path Pain opened his palm, and a black rod fell from his sleeve and was grabbed in his hand.
The black rod was a creation of Yin-Yang Release, and was the prototype of the Truth-Seeking Ball, the ultimate form of ninjutsu. Not only could it be used as a Chakra receiver for the Rinnegan's power, but it also had the ability to disrupt ordinary Chakra.
Of course, its sturdiness was also top-notch, and it was quite difficult to destroy it!
Deva Path Pain directly used the black rod as a weapon to stab at Drake, but Drake just tilted his head and dodged the black rod. Then, he raised his hand and pressed the palm of his hand against the black rod from the side.
With a snap, the black rod broke directly, and Drake took a step forward, getting close to Deva Path Pain and thrusting an elbow at him.
"Shinra Tensei!"
The powerful repulsive force that suddenly appeared sent Drake flying, making his feet create long marks on the ground.
But Deva Path Pain himself was also sent flying by the reaction force.
Deva Path Pain narrowed his eyes. To break a Yin-Yang Release black rod with his bare hands, and to withstand Shinra Tensei and instead send himself flying, just how strong was the body of this young man in front of him!
Drake stretched his shoulders and said, "The force isn't bad. My 40% power didn't break it!
Then next, I can release a little more, right!"
Saying this, strands of flame began to wrap around Drake's body.
He had been able to sense a powerful aura appearing from just now. In the ninja world, the only person who could have such a powerful aura and would be here at this time that Drake could think of was him.
It seemed that before leaving this world, he would still have the opportunity to fight the strongest person in this world.
Before that, he would warm up properly with Deva Path Pain!
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