The battle entered the close-quarters, see-blood stage.
The fighting had looked intense just now, but it had all been probing.
Now that they had gathered a rough amount of intelligence, it was naturally time for a bloody clash.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Armor!"
Sasuke was the first to use this technique.
Well, this technique was based on Kumogakure's Lightning Release Chakra Mode and could be considered exclusive to the Raikage.
But after Tang Ping cracked it, it became exclusive to the Blazing Sun Country.
Moreover, after he modified the technique, both its power and Chakra consumption saw enormous increases.
Compared to the original Lightning Release Chakra Mode, Lightning Armor was several levels stronger.
Of course.
After being modified, while its power increased, its difficulty of learning also rose.
To learn Lightning Armor, a Lightning Release technique comparable to an S-rank ninjutsu, one had to at least be a genius.
And only four people currently knew this technique.
Uchiha Mei, Uchiha Sho, Kakashi, and Uchiha Sasuke.
Uchiha Mei cultivated both Lightning and Fire Release and was known as the Lightning Fire Queen, which showed just how gifted she was in Lightning Release.
Sho's talent in Lightning Release had never been weak, and after receiving the Third Raikage's transplanted heart, his Lightning Release talent practically soared off the charts.
As for Kakashi, he had created the A-rank Lightning Release, Chidori, when he was barely in his teens. His talent was absolutely at the pinnacle of Lightning Release.
Sasuke might have been slightly weaker than those above, but he was still unquestionably top-tier, no worse than the Fourth Raikage.
These people alone showed how difficult it was to learn Lightning Armor.
Crackle!
Blue arcs of electricity flashed across Sasuke's body, currents occasionally surfacing.
In the Lightning Armor state, his cells were activated much like