Chapter 216: Truth Only Lies Within Range
The corners of Naruto's mouth curled up slightly.
His Chakra connected to the control center of the sky city.
Rockets poured out from both sides of the helicopters lined up overhead.
They blotted out the sky.
At extreme speed, trailing brilliant flames, they rushed towards Deidara.
Even before the impact, a massive roar resounded through the heavens and earth.
The explosion swept through.
Flames engulfed Deidara.
Naruto closed his eyes.
Kagura Minds Eye expanded.
Deidara was fleeing frantically.
Rocket after rocket chased him, exploding one after another.
The entire sky was filled with somber flames, flashing like fireworks in the night sky.
"exploding tags?"
Gaara broke the silence.
"Probably... yeah."
Kankuro swallowed hard; every rocket had the power of a B-rank Ninjutsu.
Used against Deidara, the effect was poor.
But what if they turned around and aimed at Sunagakure?
How would they defend against that?
Gaara reached out, his massive Chakra causing all the sand around him to rush overhead.
A moment later, a giant sand wall formed, covering almost half of Sunagakure.
Kankuro, seeing this Ninjutsu for the first time, was stunned, then felt relieved.
Without Gaara, they would likely have no way to deal with these steel monsters flying in the sky.
"Damn it!"
Deidara cursed under his breath.
The rockets were too dense.
He had no way to counterattack at all.
Once he slowed down even slightly, he would be engulfed by the continuous explosions.
In all his life, he had never encountered such a situation.
He, a master of explosions, was actually being chased and bombed by someone else one day.
"You can't keep bombing me forever, can you?"
Deidara controlled the giant bird to fly further and further away.
He was already approaching the village entrance.
Meanwhile, Tobi and Sasuke also noticed the situation in the sky.
Both stopped their fight and retreated a few steps.
"Is this a ninja tool developed by your Tianming Organization?"
Tobi narrowed his eyes and asked.
He and Sasuke were evenly matched.
The strength of both sides was roughly equal.
Additionally, Sasuke had undergone special training from the Second Hokage in the Flying Thunder God Technique, giving him considerable insight into Space-Time Ninjutsu.
This led to the current stalemate.
Of course, there was another reason: neither had used their true killing moves yet.
Tobi was waiting for other members of the Akatsuki Organization to stall for time.
Sasuke was doing the same; he was waiting for Uchiha Itachi.
Hearing Tobi's question, Sasuke remained silent.
Because he didn't know what Naruto was up to.
He didn't even know who had built this sky city.
"The power is a bit lacking, though."
Tobi didn't mind his silence and said with a light chuckle, "It's of no use against the Akatsuki Organization."
Sasuke frowned.
Though he agreed with Tobi's assessment, he felt somewhat uncomfortable in his heart.
The rocket fire finally ceased.
Deidara had been forced back over a thousand meters.
He wiped away his sweat and steered the giant bird closer.
"Looks like you've run out of bombs."
Deidara held a pile of clay in his hands and said coldly, "Now it's my turn."
Naruto looked down at him, shook his head slightly, and said, "The main show is just beginning."
As his voice fell, the ship shook violently, and the cannons on its hull began to gather Chakra.
An unsettling aura suddenly radiated out.
Deidara's body trembled.
Before he could understand what was happening,
An unimaginable light enveloped the sky city.
From a distance, it looked like a sun.
Deidara's expression went blank.
Then he turned and ran.
The giant bird carried him in a frantic descent.
Tobi looked up and was so startled he retreated several steps.
Good grief!
A giant Chakra sphere over a thousand meters wide.
It was rotating now.
The wind and waves blotted out the sun.
Tobi had seen the Nine-Tailed's Tailed Beast Ballbefore, but it paled in comparison to this thing.
Something this big will kill people!
No, the entire Sunagakure could probably be turned to dust in the endless light and heat.
Tobi subconsciously swallowed his saliva.
Other than running, there was no other way.
Sasuke stared with his Mangekyo Sharingan, his pupils shrinking involuntarily.
Isn't this a bit excessive?
His only option might be to use the moonlight boxto rewind time.
No, wait, rewind my ass.
With such a massive target area, even if he drained himself dry, it wouldn't be possible.
Fortunately, they were all on the same side.
But Gaara couldn't afford to think that way.
"Shukaku, lend me more Chakra."
His face was grave as he continuously thickened the sand wall above him.
But he still had no sense of security.
Shukaku didn't answer him.
Because it felt a familiar aura.
Even though this Chakra was very cold.
"It couldn't be that fellow Kurama, could it?"
Shukaku muttered to itself.
But this Tailed Beast Ball was simply too massive.
Probably only the Ten-Tails could produce such a thing.
"Shukaku, hurry up!"
Seeing it wasn't responding, Gaara's tone grew anxious.
If this continued any longer, the entire Sunagakure would be finished.
He was considered the calm one.
The large group of Ninjas behind him had already turned pale with fright.
Facing a power completely beyond human reach, even their courage to resist had vanished entirely.
"Hold on."
Shukaku didn't have time to explain; it opened the Tailed Beast channel and roared, "You stinking fox, get out here!"
"Oh, isn't this Shukaku?"
Kurama's annoying voice rang out, "What, are you scared?"
"It really is your doing!"
Shukaku suppressed the disbelief in its heart and asked, "How did you do it?"
"Nothing much, just used an amplifier."
Kurama said triumphantly.
The sky city was essentially similar to a Ninjutsu, a further utilization of Chakra.
In the original work, Shinnō used the Zero-Tails and, through it, released attacks that exceeded the power of most Tailed Beast Balls.
In terms of Chakra, the Zero-Tails couldn't even compare to Shukaku.
But it could pull off such attacks by relying on the amplification of the sky city.
Now, Shinnō had gone a step further with the support of the White Lotus Sect.
Of course, more importantly, the Nine-Tailed was far stronger than the Zero-Tails.
As for why the Nine-Tailed, who had originally refused, agreed to Naruto's request today...
That's a matter of a different price—oh no, a different story.
"..."
Shukaku was so angry it didn't know what to say.
Such a massive amount of Chakra was truly enviable.
"Are you guys crazy?"
Shukaku sensed the increasingly terrifying aura and said, "Stop it right now!"
"Oh? Beg this old man, then."
Kurama patted its belly happily.
"In your dreams!"
Shukaku replied without thinking.
"Then go ahead and be reborn; in eighteen years, you'll be a hero again anyway."
Kurama had learned a lot of strange knowledge in the world of Genjutsu.
Of course, a Tailed Beast's rebirth didn't necessarily take eighteen years.
"You... you... you..."
Shukaku was so frustrated its body trembled.
Outside, Gaara was no longer calm either, frantically demanding its Chakra.
"Beg me, you won't lose anything."
Kurama chuckled, "Time is running out for you."
"I..."
Shukaku gritted its teeth.
It didn't want to be reborn, but it didn't want to yield to Kurama either.
After waiting a moment, Kurama curled its lip.
Tsk, no fun.
But it did have a bit of backbone.
It was as if doomsday had arrived.
The sky no longer had any other colors.
Only a sheet of pure white remained.
"This shot is called 'Goodnight'."
Naruto naturally knew that Deidara had already used Kamui with Tobi to escape.
But he wanted to see just how powerful the largest Tailed Beast Ball in the history of the Ninja Worldwould be under the maximum output of himself and the Nine-Tailed.
The target was naturally not Sunagakure, but the vast desert in the distance.
Accompanied by a sound that defied description,
Followed by flames so dense they formed waves.
The desert at the center was instantly vaporized.
A mushroom cloud spanning dozens of kilometers filled the vision of the surviving Sunagakure Ninjas.
At this moment, even the most imaginative person felt a sense of extreme unreality.
In a certain spot, space distorted.
Tobi and Deidara appeared.
"..."
Deidara was silent.
This power had already surpassed his self-detonating C0.
A sense of defeat rose within him.
Tobi scratched his head; looking at the desert that had been blasted into a literal depression, he didn't know how to speak.