Its surface had none of the roughness of earth. Instead, it had a metallic sheen resembling a mixture of granite and mica, with exceptionally regular, smooth facets.
Clang!!
The dark-gold sand spear struck the crystalline lattice barrier, releasing a high-pitched screech like metal grinding violently against metal.
Sparks flew.
The dense gold dust scattered under the tremendous impact, striking the surrounding trunks like buckshot and punching through their thick bark.
The barrier shook violently, fine cracks spreading across its surface, but it did not shatter.
It had stopped Kinsharo's strike head-on-a blow powerful enough to pulverize ordinary rock.
Kinsharo's breath caught.
His bloodshot eyes fixed on the half-meter-high earthen wall. He seemed unable to comprehend how Konoha genin could produce a defensive material denser than his gold dust.
"You-" Kinsharo's voice grew raspier. The gourd on his back began shaking violently, and more gold dust surged out like boiling water, gathering overhead into an enormous dark-gold hand that blotted out the sky. "
You're not ordinary insects.
You're-mutant insects.
I'll grind every last one of you to powder!!"
"His heart rate is spiking, and his chakra is running wild.
His brain can no longer calculate precise trajectories. This is nothing more than area bombardment." Lu watched the enormous gold-dust hand overhead and swiftly made his assessment.
"Kenji, use your 'dough' to disrupt his footing! Emi, drop the barrier and prepare to retreat.
Aoi, give me your medicine bottle!"
Lu issued his orders in a tenth of a second.
Without hesitation, Kenji pressed both hands to the ground, sending his chakra underground toward Kinsharo's feet.
Kinsharo was about to bring the hand overhead crashing down when he suddenly felt the earth beneath his feet turn slippery as a loach and extraordinarily springy.
His center of gravity shifted ever so slightly, causing