Chapter 294: The Invincible Uchiha Ikeizumi?
"It's an opening!"
"Obito, why aren't you moving in?"
"Hasn't that guy named Ikeizumi already been restrained by Nagato's puppets?"
Looking at Obito, who remained completely unmoved beside him, Swirl White Zetsu could not help but voice his own question.
"It's not that I'm not moving in; it's that I'm moving in slowly, deliberately, and methodically. Even though Uchiha Ikeizumi appears to be restrained, his Susanoo is still not something so easily breached!"
Obito glanced at Swirl White Zetsu. He felt that he shouldn't have offended this fellow, right?
How was it that during this recent period, Swirl White Zetsu was frantically egging him on to go and seek his own death? Could it be that poop had already been thoroughly researched by Swirl White Zetsu, and he was recently planning to start researching something else?
Like, for instance, researching whether he could be pieced together and resurrected if he, Obito, kicked the bucket?
"Black Zetsu, are the Six Paths manipulated by Nagato any match for Uchiha Ikeizumi?"
Obito ceased paying attention to Swirl White Zetsu and turned his head to look at Black Zetsu on the other side instead.
"If Nagato's body were just a bit better, wishing to defeat or even kill Uchiha Ikeizumi would be nothing difficult at all!"
"But you are well aware of Nagato's body; the Rinnegan is far too much of a burden for him. It will be very difficult for him to kill Uchiha Ikeizumi. As for the odds of victory... he has roughly a sixty to seventy percent chance, I suppose?"
Black Zetsu also spoke up with a hint of self-doubt. The eccentricities residing upon Uchiha Ikeizumi's person were truly far too numerous.
However, the sole piece of good news was that Black Zetsu likely already knew the ability of one of Uchiha Ikeizumi's Mangekyō Sharingan. The Flames of Judgment were indeed absolute and without solution for sinners, but if an opponent carried no sin upon their body, the Flames of Judgment instead could not play much of a role!
Yet even if one set aside the Flames of Judgment, Uchiha Ikeizumi's Susanoo combined with his Wood Release was already fully sufficient to run rampant through the ninja world, not to mention that Uchiha Ikeizumi also commanded Lava Release and other Kekkei Genkai.
The reason Black Zetsu claimed Nagato had a sixty to seventy percent chance of victory was because intelligence on Nagato had never been leaked; the capabilities of the Six Paths possessed a crushing effect against any person who lacked preparation.
"Only a sixty to seventy percent chance of victory?"
"Those odds of victory are not quite high enough!"
Obito furrowed his brows. He desired for Uchiha Ikeizumi to be absolutely dead, rather than a vague and ambiguous chance of victory.
"However, Uchiha Ikeizumi is not without weaknesses either!"
You could say that Obito's brain wasn't very functional, but you could not say that Obito lacked talent when it came to making mischief.
At this moment, Obito's gaze was jarringly locked onto Uchiha Izumi and Kojirō, who were similarly watching the battle from afar!
Obito's thinking was very simple: since you, Uchiha Ikeizumi, are the proxy of justice, then presumably you also wouldn't wish to see your subordinate and your ninja beast helplessly die right before your eyes, right?
"Come, let us go and capture that Uchiha Izumi and that ninja cat!"
Obito did not have much hesitation. With the activation of Kamui, both Black Zetsu and White Zetsu sank along with Obito, vanishing entirely into the Kamui dimension.
On the battlefield a bit further away, Uchiha Ikeizumi was completely unaware of Obito's intentions. As the other paths among the Six Paths manipulated by Nagato joined the fray, the combat also began to grow increasingly intense.
Countless mechanical devices began to initiate upon the Asura Path's body, and missiles bombed toward Uchiha Ikeizumi from the Asura Path one after another.
The Animal Path was manipulating the three massive summoning beasts, continuously bringing harassment to Uchiha Ikeizumi. It was highly difficult for them to breach UIkeizumi's Susanoo, yet they could effectively tie down a portion of his attention.
As for the Naraka Path, its greatest role on the battlefield was instead merely assisting those three massive summoning beasts in resurrecting.
The Preta Path was incessantly draining Uchiha Ikeizumi's chakra, yet what left the Preta Path somewhat bewildered was that Uchiha Ikeizumi's chakra seemed entirely limitless; no matter how it drained, it could not affect the opponent in the slightest?
If it were replaced by any normal ninja, the role the Preta Path could play would actually be despair-inducing. After all, the Preta Path was not only capable of devouring an opponent's chakra, but could even absorb an opponent's ninjutsu as well!
However, for Uchiha Ikeizumi, he merely stood atop the head of the Susanoo, and all of his combat methods used absolute, raw strength to shatter any finesse in an extremely brutal fashion. Whether it was the Susanoo itself or the arcs of sword-light wielded by the Susanoo, these did not fall within the scope of raw chakra; even if the Preta Path wished to absorb them, there was no way to do so.
Lastly, the Human Path's role felt more like it was just showing up to fill space. The Human Path was capable of ripping out an enemy's soul, which was originally an exceptionally effective method—even if it were the supposedly immortal Kakuzu and Hidan, if they were ran into by the Human Path, there would only be a path to death left for them.
Yet it just so happened that the Susanoo was the manifestation of the Mangekyō Sharingan's dōjutsu, the manifestation of the ultimate Yin Release strength. If the Human Path wished to extract an enemy's soul, it had to touch the opponent first, but it could not touch Uchiha Ikeizumi standing within the Susanoo at all!
As for the shared Rinnegan vision of the Six Paths? The opponent was only Uchiha Ikeizumi alone in total—what difference would sharing vision make anyway?
"The situation is looking a bit unfavorable—"
Konan, Kakuzu, and the others further away had managed to hold down that rampaging wood dragon. At this time, Konan could obviously also discern Nagato's helplessness; the maiden battle of the Six Paths constructed by the Rinnegan had not achieved much of an effect.
"If this continues, Nagato can only unleash those forbidden jutsu—"
Konan sighed in the depths of her heart. Clearly, the entire Akatsuki organization had mobilized this time; in terms of raw combat power alone, they could even frontally storm into any single one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages. Yet Kakuzu and the others had not joined the main battlefield from start to finish.
As for Konan, although she could summon paper bombs within a short period, downing the equivalent of three hundred million normal paper bombs hadn't even dirtied the corner of Uchiha Ikeizumi's clothes; Konan was well aware that she could not interject in this level of combat.
"Banshō Ten'in!"
Just as Konan thought, Nagato was currently fighting with extreme frustration. Even with the Deva Path Pain acting as the primary combat force, it was actually difficult to breach Uchiha Ikeizumi's Susanoo within a short period.
He could only continuously unleash Banshō Ten'in intermingled with Shinra Tensei, using repulsive and attractive forces to continuously wear down Uchiha Ikeizumi's Susanoo, as well as to alter the arcs of sword-light slashed out by UIkeizumi.
And for Uchiha Ikeizumi, he could be considered to somewhat understand why Uchiha Madara had developed such an arrogant personality!
Once the Susanoo of the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan was opened, the opponent could exhaust themselves to the brink of death without even being able to touch a corner of his clothes. If anyone were switched into this kind of asymmetrical combat, they would all feel that ninjas were merely a bunch of jumping clowns!
"Will he summon the Gedō Mazō?"
"Nagato's Shinra Tensei and Banshō Ten'in can indeed interfere with me, but wishing to defeat me is an almost impossible matter."
"If he wishes to defeat me, his only option is to summon the Gedō Mazō!"
Uchiha Ikeizumi's gaze experienced a rare ripple of emotion. The Gedō Mazō—or rather, the Ten-Tails—an Otsutsuki clan creation that had once drained the natural energy of the entire ninja planet, and also the root cause of the ninja world turning into its current state.
Uchiha Ikeizumi couldn't even begin to imagine: if he were to completely obliterate the Gedō Mazō, what kind of immense justice would that bring!