Heavy punches slammed out one after another, the resulting shockwaves sweeping through the forest. Wherever they passed, trees exploded into powder, the ground was torn open, and ravines crisscrossed the land! In a short time, this dense forest had already become a scene of utter devastation! Obito remained remarkably composed.
Although Namikaze Mirai's attacks were powerful, they did little to him.
With the ability to render his body intangible, powerful attacks like these were what he feared least.
As long as they could not hit his real body, all attacks were useless against him!
After evading Namikaze Mirai's attacks, he calmly widened the distance and leaped onto a nearby tree that was still relatively intact.
His scarlet eye watched Mirai with a cold sneer.
"I already told you. Under this eye of mine, your attacks are completely useless."
A spiral distortion of space appeared around his single eye.
"I'll let you go this time! Next time, you won't be so lucky."
Obito prepared to leave.
This place was too close to Konoha.
Their brief clash had already caused an enormous disturbance.
Perhaps Konoha Ninja were already rushing here.
In his current state, he could not afford to expose himself to the eyes of Konoha Ninja.
The longer this dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be for him.
Suddenly, blue light flashed past.
A bead of cold sweat slid down Obito's forehead.
Fast! So fast!
What was that just now?!
If he had not been watching Namikaze Mirai's movements the entire time and canceled his Space-Time Ninjutsu at the first possible moment, that attack would probably have hit him.
"Did I permit you to leave?"
Namikaze Mirai stared at him coldly.
"When you use Space-Time Ninjutsu, you need to switch back to a physical state, don't you? In other words, as long as I refuse to allow it, you cannot use Space-Time Ninjutsu to leave this place."
Obito's heart skipped a beat.
Damn it! How did Namikaze Mirai discover that?!
His earlier mysterious act had been intended to stun Namikaze Mirai and prevent him from discovering this secret.
But unexpectedly—
It had still been exposed! Yet Namikaze Mirai's next words made every hair on his body stand on end, as though he had fallen into an icy abyss! "Your Intangibility has a time limit too, doesn't it?"
The corners of Namikaze Mirai's mouth curved upward as his cold, amused gaze examined Obito.
"Let me guess. How long is the limit? Five minutes? Ten minutes? Or fifteen?"
The more Obito listened, the more unsettled he became.
He did not know that Namikaze Mirai had learned the details of his abilities from Minato in the Sealing Space.
If he had known, he would have fled the instant Namikaze Mirai appeared. He would never have lingered!
"Do you really think I was merely attacking at random just now?"
Namikaze Mirai's azure eyes were like a pair of deep springs as they locked onto Obito.
Obito suddenly felt the ground beneath his feet tremble.
He looked around and saw four enormous silver metal pillars slowly rising with thunderous rumbling from four directions around him.
The four metal pillars had bizarre shapes, with massive upper sections resembling mushrooms!
Faced with this sudden sight, Obito's heart sank.
Although he did not know what these strange pillars did,
he knew that Namikaze Mirai would never make useless preparations!
Were the earlier attacks merely a feint, with the true purpose being to set up these things?
Under attacks of that intensity, he had still possessed enough energy to use underground metal to create such a setup.
Namikaze Mirai, you are even more terrifying than Minato! Namikaze Mirai's feet left the ground, and his body slowly floated upward, seemingly ignoring gravity as he hovered in the air and looked down at Obito.
"You probably don't know what those things around you are, do you?"
"Giant Magnetic Blast Coils, ten meters tall with coils three meters in diameter. They can release high-voltage currents exceeding a million volts! Each one has an attack range covering a radius of one hundred meters!"
"And I prepared four of them for you!"
A trace of pity suddenly appeared in Namikaze Mirai's eyes as he looked down at Obito.
His raised right hand came down.
"Lightning Cage lasting 30 minutes! Repent for your crimes amid the thunder!!!"
Rumble!!! Hundreds of thousands of thick blue-violet currents, each wider than a baby's arm, burst from the tops of the four Magnetic Blast Coils simultaneously. Amid deafening thunder, the remaining trees were instantly pulverized by the violet-blue currents, their fragments vaporized by the suddenly soaring heat.
The surrounding air molecules were electrolyzed, and oxygen was instantly ionized into ozone under the high voltage, giving off a foul stench like rotten eggs.
Everything within several hundred meters turned into a sea of purple lightning!!!
Namikaze Mirai hovered high above like a god, looking down upon that roiling blue-violet purgatory!
Lightning Plasma churned!
Like the end of the world!
Obito stood at the very center of the lightning purgatory. If not for his Intangibility, his body would have been struck, scorched, and carbonized in less than one thousandth of a second! Amid the thunderous roar, he vaguely recalled
the last thing Namikaze Mirai had said.
'Lightning Cage lasting 30 minutes...'
Thirty minutes?!!? Terror flooded his heart!!! His crimson Sharingan was filled with horror!
Almost the instant the dark-violet lightning erupted, every Villager in Konoha felt that terrifying pressure!
The electromagnetic pulse generated by the ultra-high-voltage current instantly paralyzed all electronic equipment throughout Konoha! Children watching old-fashioned televisions suddenly found the images on the screen replaced by static, accompanied by buzzing noise.
Refrigerators that had been cooling suddenly sparked and stopped working, while communication devices were left with nothing but piercing static.
This powerful electromagnetic pulse would even affect the Land of Fire Daimyo's Capital, more than a hundred kilometers from Konoha.
The pampered nobles living there would discover in confusion that their televisions were not working properly today.
Villagers walking through the streets raised their heads blankly, their pupils trembling as they gazed at that dark-violet sea of lightning.
The ionization of moisture in the air, coupled with the sudden increase in static electricity, made their skin tingle.
"Damn it! What exactly happened?!"
"My god, is this something a human can do..."
The Anbu members following Sarutobi Hiruzen toward the battlefield nearly stopped in a daze, swallowing hard as they trembled.
The sight before them had completely surpassed their understanding!
Lightning!
It was all lightning!
The forest southeast of Konoha had completely turned into a sea of purple lightning!! Countless bolts as thick as arms danced and leaped within the Lightning Sea! The intense humming and roaring of electric current seemed to have become the only sound in the world.
At almost the same time, Uchiha Fugaku and his clansmen, rushing toward the battlefield from another direction,
also stared blankly up at the scene.
"Is this the power of a god..."
An Uchiha muttered tremblingly.
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