"An opponent of this level... and that trash Zuo Xun still had to request support from Lord Danzo. He's really weak..."
The Root ninja wearing a wolf-shaped mask was extremely disdainful in his heart. Looking at Watanabe Mousse fleeing wretchedly under their four-man siege, he felt a sense of being in complete control.
Mousse hid his body behind a large tree. His face was slightly pale, and his breathing had become a bit heavy. The battlefield where he was located was now completely unrecognizable. The cracked earth was covered in scars, with chunks of raised earth showing traces of being burned by fire and cut by sharp blades.
"Didn't they say that Wind Style ninja in Konoha are extremely rare? Why did two of them just appear so casually?!" Mousse thought to himself, feeling troubled. But he hadn't realized that the Root ninja were all "geniuses" carefully selected and trained by Danzo since they were young. For him to encounter a few Wind Style ninja now was a perfectly normal thing.
As everyone knows, Lightning Style is countered by Wind Style. Especially in long-range attacks, not only is the power of Lightning Style ninjutsu greatly reduced, but it is also completely countered by Wind Style. Wind Style combines destructive power, killing power, and control power into one, and it has an extremely outstanding performance in close, medium, and long-range combat.
Although the killing power of Lightning Style can faintly compare with Wind Style in terms of power, it is mainly reflected in close-to-medium range. Once the enemy pulls away, a situation like Mousse's now will occur, where he can only be passively beaten and cannot get close. His sword skills and Lightning Style all needed to be at close range to exert their power. And once the distance was pulled away, the destructive power of Lightning Style would be rapidly weakened, and the only control power of Lightning Style's paralysis attribute was almost zero, because the strength and accuracy of Lightning Style would rapidly decay with distance.
If he continued to be kited by the enemy like this without limit, while Mousse's stamina was greatly reduced, he himself would also fall into an extremely unfavorable situation. So, he now had no other choice.
Swoosh!
After dodging another long-range ninjutsu bombardment, Mousse began to rapidly charge towards that wolf-masked Root ninja. But once his action point had a clear target, his next landing point would be predicted by the Root ninjas' ninjutsu.
"Fire Style · Great Fireball Technique!"
"Wind Style · Great Breakthrough!"
The four Root ninja, including the one with the wolf mask, formed hand seals one after another. Without needing to coordinate with words, they directly cast a combination ninjutsu again. Although the power was not as fierce as when twelve people had cast it at the same time before, it was more than enough to completely bury the ten-meter radius around Mousse.
BOOM!
The fierce wind rolled up the flames, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws as it rushed towards him. A trace of helplessness flashed in Mousse's eyes. Faced with a large-area combination ninjutsu like this, just with his own movement speed, it was already very difficult to avoid. And it was accompanied by a considerable risk that he himself would be hit by the edge of the ninjutsu's power.
Body Flicker Technique!
The next moment, as the power of the sky-covering firelight came over, he formed the hand seal for the Body Flicker, and his entire person instantly vanished from the spot. Then he appeared about twenty meters in front of the wolf-masked ninja. He did not choose to continue charging towards the target. He knew that those Root ninja would soon react and use ninjutsu to intercept him.
"Is this all I can do..."
Although he felt it was a great pity in his heart, the movements of his feet were not slow. He used erratic movements to paralyze the enemy's attack intentions. The Root ninja were all elites. The moment his figure was exposed, he knew he would be discovered by the Root ninja behind him.
A series of violent explosions roared behind Mousse, and even by his ears. The firelight clearly revealed his entire person. The flying earth and stone fragments made his figure look like a lone hero charging into an army.
Mousse's hands began to quickly form hand seals. He knew he only had this one chance.
With himself as the center, dense blue electric arcs suddenly appeared in the air. In the night, they were like tens of thousands of fireflies, directly dispelling the darkness. The chakra in his body frantically gathered towards his hands. Two balls of lightning, condensed to the extreme and even turning a ghastly white, appeared in his palms.
Around these white balls of lightning was a layer of illusory and turbulent mysterious halo. It was an anomaly that appeared when the air was sucked dry by the chakra that had been compressed to the extreme. The world seemed to have quieted down. In the air, there was only the faint sizzling sound of lightning.
This one shot of Lightning Style, condensed to the extreme by Mousse, even before it was fired, made the expressions of a group of Root ninja change drastically. They immediately stopped their pursuit and began to retreat rapidly. Including that wolf-masked Root ninja, who was also frantically retreating, not daring to test the power of this Lightning Style.
Mousse pushed his palms out flat. The massive lightning current that had been continuously suppressed seemed to have found a breakthrough. Two thick, purplish-black arcs of lightning spread out in an instant like a divine punishment descending from heaven.
"Lightning Release · False Darkness!"
Mousse let out a world-shaking roar and shot this full-power Lightning Release at the wolf-masked Root ninja.
The lightning illuminated the world. A strong light, countless times more fierce than the Root ninja's Fire Style, suddenly flashed out,刺 (cì) - stabbing/blinding - the people within a few li to subconsciously close their eyes. But even so, they only felt their closed pupils as if they had been irradiated by the sun at close range. At this time, it was still a burning pain.
CRACKLE!
Only at this time did a clap of thunder sound in the endless strong light. The speed of this Lightning Release was actually faster than sound. This scene, which was as bright as day, only lasted for two seconds. The next moment, the forest and the earth that had been directly hit by the lightning directly exploded and flew out in all directions.
The roaring sound of the explosion echoed through the clouds. The dust, which was tens of meters high, was squeezed by the violent after-effects of the ninjutsu and spread rapidly towards the entire battlefield like a tsunami or a landslide. The battle, which had been spread out within a few li, was temporarily put on hold by this one shot of Lightning Release from Watanabe Mousse.
In the two battlefields that had been divided not far away, the already scarred Tianfeng and Watanabe Sheren quickly exchanged a look, then turned and ran. They had been very clever and had turned and closed their eyes a moment before the lightning first appeared. At this time, they had not been blinded by the strong light, nor had their bodies been paralyzed by the overflowing chakra lightning flow in the air.
...
The earth in a range of dozens of meters had turned into scorched earth. Everywhere was scattered with shattered tree fragments and earth and stone residue. A pungent, burnt smell emanated. In many places, sparks of fire were still burning.
"Cough, cough!"
At the edge of the ninjutsu explosion, the wolf-masked Root ninja struggled to get up on his knees. At this time, his arms were hanging limply. His clothes were in tatters, and his mask had been blown off, revealing the stern face of a man in his thirties. But now he looked extremely wretched, covered in dust, and blood was also trickling from the corner of his mouth.
His exposed body was covered in scars, a field of scarlet. And the two arms that had been protecting his head before were already charred beyond recognition. An injury of this degree was still the result of him doing his best to avoid the center of the ninjutsu's explosion.
"What a terrifying Lightning Release! If I had been directly hit by that, I probably would have been directly vaporized..." The wolf-masked Root ninja had lingering fear. His perennially indifferent eyes actually showed a hint of fear at this time. No one was not afraid of death, even if he belonged to the humanity-annihilating Root.
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