That was...
The hollow in the outward-blasting dust slowly spread farther outward, and even the entire cloud of dust gradually expanded and faded with it. Arcs of lightning flickered around the Third Raikage, repeatedly illuminating his body and the boy opposite him, whose outline was traced in emerald light, clothes and hair drifting upward. On his grave face, his eyes opened slightly.
Was this some ultimate form of Water-attribute Chakra's Nature Transformation and Shape Transformation? Reflected in his slightly opened eyes was the boy outlined in emerald light, hair gently lifting, tightly gripping a rotating spear of water in his right hand.
With this move alone, he could be considered an S-rank shinobi! That thought surfaced in his mind.
This Taki Chiba had reached an extraordinary level in Chakra Shape Transformation, Nature Transformation, and control. Across the entire shinobi world, fewer than three people could likely fix Water Release's Shape Transformation in place as he had.
At that moment, the Third Raikage even recalled the Water Style Jutsu of the Second Hokage, which the Second Raikage had once told him about.
Taki Chiba's mastery of Water Style Jutsu was already comparable to that of a founding master of Water Release!
Yet this time, the Third Raikage felt neither surprise nor disbelief. There was not even the slightest emotional ripple. Instead, utterly free of shock or distraction, he swiftly entered a state of analysis.
Judging from that water spear, his methods of attack were nothing more than every kind of attack a spear could deliver, along with throwing it.
And the angles of attack could only be...
No! Thinking it through, there was only one path: a frontal assault. Or rather, he could only choose to attack head-on, or wait for me to attack first. After all, he possessed the miraculous