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Chapter 134: Light Release
"You bastard brat! Where are you looking?!"
A exploded with rage. Stomping his foot, he transformed into a streak of blue lightning, appearing instantly in front of Doi. His hand-knife, capable of cleaving through steel, slashed straight toward Doi's face.
"Die!"
"Doi! Dodge it!" Captain Ishikawa shouted in terror.
However, Doi didn't even take his hands out of his pockets.
Just as A's hand-knife was about to touch the tip of his nose, Doi's body suddenly went boneless, leaning back at a bizarre angle. Immediately after, his entire form melted like a puddle of sludge, merging into the stone pillar beneath his feet.
Earth Release: Hiding in Rock Technique.
A's strike hit nothing but air. His hand-knife slammed into the stone pillar, blasting it into powder.
"He ran?"
A frowned, his sensory perception expanding to its limit.
The next second, the earth began to tremble.
It wasn't a dull thud this time, but a high-frequency, dense vibration, as if countless earth dragons were churning beneath the surface.
"Since you've come all the way to my doorstep, it would seem rude not to host you properly~"
Kizaru's voice echoed from all directions, reverberating through the valley, making it impossible to pinpoint his location.
"Although I really hate working overtime, but..."
"Earth Release: Multiple Earth-Style Wall — Modified: Labyrinth Fortress!"
Rumble, rumble, rumble!!!
The ground of the entire outpost instantly ruptured.
This time, it wasn't just one or two walls rising.
Countless heavy rock walls shot up frantically from the ground like bamboo shoots after the rain. They crisscrossed and connected, constructing a complex, three-dimensional labyrinth across the battlefield at an astonishing speed.
Garp, who was in the middle of a charge, didn't even have time to react before a three-meter-thick stone wall rose abruptly in front of him, nearly breaking his nose.
"Bastard! You think this kind of thing can stop this old man?!"
Garp roared and smashed the stone wall with a single punch.
But the moment the wall shattered, two new walls rose up behind it, their surfaces covered in sharp rock spikes.
"What?!"
It wasn't just Garp; Killer B on the flank was trapped as well.
The walls seemed to have a life of their own, constantly shifting positions to divide and surround the intruders.
In just three seconds, the originally open wasteland had transformed into an indestructible rock fortress.
The surviving Rock ninja stared blankly at the scene, their mouths wide enough to fit an egg.
"This... this is Earth Release?"
"Is this the Tsuchikage-sama's personal disciple? Releasing a ninjutsu of this scale so easily..."
Captain Ishikawa trembled with excitement. He waved his kunai wildly and roared, "Counterattack! Use the cover to counterattack! Doi is buying time for us!"
"OOOHHH!!!"
The morale, which had hit rock bottom, instantly skyrocketed.
The Rock ninja quickly utilized the maze-like walls as cover, beginning to hurl kunai and explosive tags at the separated Cloud ninja.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Explosions rang out one after another, and the situation reversed instantly.
Deep within the labyrinth.
Garp smashed through the eighteenth wall in front of him, a layer of fine sweat already seeping from his forehead.
"So annoying! So annoying! These damn rocks just never end!"
For every step forward he took, he had to smash through three layers of walls.
And these walls were constantly regenerating!
"That brat hiding in the dark..."
Garp gritted his teeth. This fighting style reminded him of a certain old colleague who irritated him to no end.
Just as wretched. Just as maddening.
"Raito! Don't waste energy on the walls! Jump over them!"
A's roar came from the distance.
Garp jerked his head up. He gathered strength in his legs and leaped into the sky like a cannonball.
However, just as he jumped, a massive rock lid condensed out of thin air directly above his head, swatting down viciously like a fly swatter.
"Earth Release: Dropping Lid!"
Garp had no leverage in mid-air and could only cross his arms to tank the hit.
BANG!
He was forcibly swatted back to the ground, smashing out a large crater.
"Damn guy."
Garp climbed out of the pit. Instead of being discouraged, the fighting spirit in his eyes burned even fiercer.
"Since you want to play, this old man will play with you until the end!"
"Fist Bone: Meteor Shower!"
Garp no longer held back his stamina. His fists turned into countless afterimages, unleashing an indiscriminate bombardment on the surrounding walls.
Every punch carried a terrifying monstrous strength capable of splitting mountains and cracking rocks.
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!
The speed of the walls collapsing finally outpaced the speed of their regeneration.
On the other side, A had also activated the maximum output of his Lightning Release Chakra Mode. He transformed into a blue drill, rampaging through the labyrinth.
"Bee! Use a Tailed Beast Bomb! Level this place to the ground!"
A had finally lost his patience.
"Yo! Big Brother's rage, turns the page! Tailed Beast Bomb, clears the stage! Yeah!"
Killer B jumped onto a high rock, opening his mouth wide. Ominous red and blue chakra began to condense rapidly in his mouth.
The black sphere expanded quickly, emitting an aura of destruction.
The expressions of the Rock ninja changed drastically.
"Stop him! Quickly, stop him!"
Countless kunai and shuriken flew toward Killer B, but they were easily deflected by the octopus tentacles surging from his body.
Just as the Tailed Beast Bomb was about to take form.
A blinding light suddenly lit up above Killer B's head.
Kizaru's figure appeared out of thin air. He wasn't forming hand seals; instead, he was holding a strange hand gesture, with highly compressed Earth-attribute chakra condensing at his fingertips.
Although he didn't have the Glint-Glint Fruit, his understanding and application of light were etched into his soul.
He used Earth Release to create countless microscopic crystal mirrors, focusing the sunlight into a single point.
"Although there are no lasers, the principle should be about the same~"
"Light Release: Crystal Mirror Reflection — Beam!"
Pew!
A beam of light—not particularly thick, but extremely blinding—instantly shot into Killer B's wide-open mouth, directly disrupting the chakra balance of the Tailed Beast Bomb.
"Cough, cough, cough! Hot! So hot! Fool! Ya fool!"
Killer B choked, tears streaming down his face. A small portion of the Tailed Beast Bomb exploded inside his mouth before it could be fired, puffing out a cloud of black smoke and leaving his face covered in soot.
"That bastard brat!"
Seeing this, the corners of A's eyes nearly split with rage.
He spun around abruptly, locking onto the figure slowly descending from the sky.
"Got you!"
A exploded instantly, his speed reaching the extreme, surpassing even sound.
"Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop!"
This strike was unavoidable!
At this critical moment, a seemingly ordinary earth wall appeared in front of Kizaru.
But this wall was different.
Its density was extremely high, its color a deep, dark brown, appearing as if it were cast from steel.
CLANG!!!
A's hand-knife struck the wall, actually producing a loud sound of metal clashing against iron, sending sparks flying.
Although the wall cracked, it actually blocked the attack!
A was shocked.
Using the split second of obstruction, Kizaru had already used "Subterranean Voyage" to slip away to a spot dozens of meters away.
"That was truly close~ Are young people these days all so short-tempered?"
Kizaru stood atop a high wall, patting his chest as if he were scared to death.
But in his eyes, hidden behind those tea-colored sunglasses, there was no mirth whatsoever.
This body's chakra reserves were nearly bottoming out.
Although he could use skill and experience to punch above his weight, facing two monsters at the Jinchūriki level was simply too draining.
"It seems I'll have to use some real methods..."
By now, the battlefield had turned into ruins.
The Cloud trio regrouped in the center.
Garp was covered in dust, A was panting heavily, and Killer B's face was scorched black.
Opposite them, the brat in sunglasses still stood on high ground, with dense fortifications rising up behind him once again.
"Damn it... just where did this monster come from!"
A gritted his teeth, staring dead at Kizaru.
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