As Obito spoke,
Mikami Yuu's hands turned into afterimages. He continuously pulled kunai and shuriken tied with steel wire from his ninja pouch and flung them forward.
Although that suspected lizard ninja beast could hide its body, this concealment was clearly only visual. It couldn't phase into another space like Kamui, so when facing these physical attacks, it could only keep dodging while looking for a chance to approach.
Clangs rang out one after another.
In just over ten seconds, Yuu had nearly emptied his supply of kunai.
Most of the kunai and shuriken were dodged, burying themselves in the trees and the ground behind it. Only a small number landed on the lizard's body and did not fall off because of its movement.
Only then
did Yuu suddenly clench both hands. Using the technique of Monster Strength, he burst out with tremendous force, pulling those steel wires taut. Then, toward the shadowy outline sketched by the wires, he opened his mouth and spat.
"Dragon Fire Technique!"
Whoosh—!
A solid, condensed dragon of flame roared out with terrifying piercing power and speed.
Boom!!!
Firelight shot into the sky. Towering trees dozens of meters tall seemed to have been struck by a giant axe, letting out tooth-aching cracking sounds. Their thick trunks were instantly carbonized and shattered by the heat and impact, and the upper crowns collapsed with raging flames.
The blaze drove away the darkness in that area and instantly illuminated a massive, blurry outline covered in dark green scales.
Just as Yuu had guessed,
that thing really did look like a giant lizard. Its head was ferocious, its limbs thick, and a long tail trailed behind it. Its body surface had a color-changing camouflage similar to Transparent Escape. Even under the firelight, it only showed a dark green outline.
At this moment,
it was clearly injured and even more enraged. It opened its mouth and let out an ear-splitting hiss, then leapt forward. From a massive tree dozens of meters away, it pounced down toward Yuu, Obito, and the group of hostages behind them like a towering little mountain.
A huge shadow instantly enveloped everyone, carrying a suffocating pressure.
"Water Release: Water Formation Wall!"
Yuu had long since prepared. The moment the giant lizard leapt, his hands had already completed the Water Release seals like fluttering butterflies.
Splash—!!!
Chakra transformed into a thick, rushing circular curtain of water, surging up from the ground in front of and on both sides of everyone. It firmly protected Yuu, Rin, and the hostages.
Bang!!!!
The giant lizard's massive body slammed hard into the high-speed rotating water curtain.
At that moment, a dull impact like a war drum exploded, making everyone's eardrums ache. Water splashed everywhere, forming a white mist. Although the giant lizard's charge was forcibly blocked by the Water Formation Wall for a few seconds, under its overwhelming strength, the wall ultimately scattered.
Taking advantage of this chance,
the two water clones Yuu had created in advance, along with Rin, each grabbed one or two hostages and retreated to the rear.
After that,
Yuu glanced at the Uchiha beside him.
"Obito! Use your strongest Fire Release!"
"Got it! Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"
Obito glared with his two-tomoe Sharingan, locking onto the giant lizard's struggling outline in the water mist, and fully drove his chakra. A blazing fire dragon—slightly inferior to Yuu's version but still huge, savage, and formed from several entwined streams of flame—roared out and charged toward the giant lizard's head.
Yuu removed the Water Formation Wall at just the right moment.
And so…
Boom!!!
The Great Dragon Fire, no longer blocked by the water curtain, slammed fiercely into the giant lizard and erupted into even more violent flames and a thunderous blast.
The massive amount of water vapor produced when the Water Formation Wall dispersed also came into contact with the ultra-hot flames of the Great Dragon Fire. In an instant, there was a sharp hiss—tsss—and a dense, scalding white fog, so thick one couldn't see their own hand, spread wildly in all directions, instantly engulfing everything within dozens of meters.
"…Yuu! Obito!"
Rin had already led the hostages out of the danger zone and stopped on a mound dozens of meters away. She anxiously looked toward the area swallowed by dense white fog, her heart in her throat, but she couldn't abandon the powerless hostages and rush in to help.
For a while,
all that could be heard from within the mist were the furious, pained roars of the giant beast, the crackle of burning flames, and the sharp ringing of close-quarters combat.
In this kind of fog, neither ordinary eyes nor the Sharingan were useful.
Otherwise, when Kakashi fought Zabuza, he wouldn't have needed to summon the Eight Ninja Dogs to break the Hidden Mist Technique.
However,
the lizard was indeed injured, and quite a few shuriken tied with steel wire were embedded in its body.
Yuu and Obito were also extremely close to it.
Under these circumstances, even if they fought blind with their eyes closed, there was a high chance they could hit its main body.
At once—
"Shadow Prison Phantom Kill Formation, open!!"
As an invisible domain unfolded into the fog, Yuu's main body split into six or seven afterimages in an instant. The white short sword in his hand slashed repeatedly, each strike carrying sharp blade intent as it landed on the giant lizard, whose movements had slowed due to burns and impact.
Splurt! Splurt! Splurt!
The dense sound of blades cutting into flesh rang out again and again.
Pale green blood sprayed like fountains from all over the giant lizard's massive body. The intense pain made the lizard's roars even more shrill and frantic. Its enormous body twisted and rolled wildly in the white fog, using its tail and limbs to lash, smash, and sweep indiscriminately in all directions.
Bang!
A small tree as thick as a bowl was snapped in half!
Immediately after, deep craters were smashed into the ground one after another, sending mud and water flying.
"Damn it! This thing's already taken so many wounds, but it can still go berserk!"
With the excellent dynamic vision of his Sharingan, Obito barely caught the huge black shadow sweeping through the thick fog. Several times, he rolled away from its attacks by a hair's breadth, then swung both hands repeatedly, trying to shoot kunai and shuriken into the giant lizard's eyes to create an opening for Yuu's killing blow.
But
at this moment, Yuu subconsciously slowed his blade momentum. The attack targets shifted from vital areas like the eyes, throat, and heart to nonlethal areas such as the giant lizard's relatively thick back armor and limbs. A strange light flickered in his eyes.
How should one put it…
Yuu had taken a liking to this giant lizard.
Although its own strength was a little weak, and in a one-on-one fight it might not beat a regular jōnin, its color-changing invisibility mechanism was excellent. Add to that its decent defense and vitality—even after being hit so many times by him and Obito, with blood spraying like fountains, it could still rampage like this…
This was excellent summoning beast material!
Hmm… was it his imagination? Why did this thing feel a little like one of Pain's Six Paths' summoned beasts?
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