Lightning Cage Lasting 30 Minutes! Repent Amidst the Thunder!!!

Heavy fists slammed out one after another, the erupting gale sweeping through the forest. Wherever it passed, trees were blasted apart, shattered into powder, the ground torn open, ravines crisscrossing in every direction! In a short span of time, this dense forest had become a scene of utter devastation! Obito's expression remained quite composed.

Although Namikaze Mirai's attacks were powerful, they had little effect on him.

With the ability to make his body intangible, he feared this kind of overwhelming attack the least.

As long as his true body wasn't hit, all attacks were useless against him!

Dodging Namikaze Mirai's assault, he calmly created distance, leaping onto a nearby tree that was still relatively intact.

His scarlet eye stared back with a cold smirk.

"I already told you, under this eye of mine, your attacks are meaningless."

A spiral space distortion appeared around his single eye.

"I'll let you off this time! Next time, you won't be so lucky."

Obito prepared to leave.

This place was too close to Konoha.

This brief exchange had already caused a huge commotion.

For all he knew, Konoha ninja might already be heading this way.

His current appearance wasn't suitable for exposure to Konoha ninja's eyes.

The longer he delayed, the more disadvantageous it became.

Suddenly, a flash of blue light streaked past.

A single bead of cold sweat slid down Obito's forehead.

Fast! So fast!

What was that just now?!

If he hadn't been constantly watching Namikaze Mirai's movements and stopped the Space-Time Ninjutsu at the shortest possible moment, he would have been hit by that attack.

"Did I allow you to leave?"

Namikaze Mirai stared at him coldly.

"When you perform Space-Time Ninjutsu, you have to switch to a solid state, right? In other words, as long as I don't agree, you can't use Space-Time Ninjutsu to leave here."

Obito's heart skipped a beat.

Damn it! How did Namikaze Mirai find out?!

His earlier pretentious demeanor was meant to intimidate Namikaze Mirai, to keep him from discovering this secret.

But he never expected—

It was exposed after all! Yet what Namikaze Mirai said next made every hair on his body stand on end, as if he had fallen into an icy abyss! "Your intangibility has a time limit too, doesn't it?"

A slight curve lifted the corner of Namikaze Mirai's mouth, his gaze cold and scrutinizing as he examined Obito.

"Let me guess, what's the limit? Five minutes? Ten minutes? Or... fifteen minutes?"

Obito's unease grew with every word.

He didn't know that Namikaze Mirai had learned about his abilities from Minato in the Sealing Space.

If he had known, he would have left the moment Namikaze Mirai appeared, without lingering a second!

"Did you really think I was just attacking randomly earlier?"

Namikaze Mirai's deep blue eyes, like two profound springs, fixed on Obito.

Obito suddenly felt the ground beneath him tremble.

He looked around and saw, amid the rumbling vibrations, four massive silver metal pillars slowly rising from four directions around him, roaring as they ascended.

These metal pillars were oddly shaped, with large tops resembling mushrooms!

Faced with this sudden development, Obito's heart sank.

He didn't know what these strange pillars did.

But he was certain that Namikaze Mirai wouldn't make useless preparations!

The earlier attacks were just a disguise—the real purpose was to set up these things?

To have the spare energy to arrange such a setup with underground metal under that level of assault...

Namikaze Mirai, you're even more terrifying than Minato! Lifting his feet off the ground, Namikaze Mirai's body slowly rose, as if ignoring gravity, floating above to look down at Obito.

"You probably don't know what these things around you are, do you?"

"Ten meters high, with coil diameters of three meters—giant Magnetic Blast Coils capable of releasing over a million volts of high-pressure current! Each one's attack range covers a hundred meters in every direction!"

"And I've prepared four of these for you!"

A flicker of pity suddenly appeared in Namikaze Mirai's eyes as he looked down at Obito.

His raised right hand fell.

"A Lightning Cage lasting thirty minutes! Repent for your sins in the thunder's roar!!!"

Rumble!!! Hundreds of thousands of blue-violet currents, each thicker than an infant's arm, erupted simultaneously from the tops of four Magnetic Blast Coils. Amid the deafening thunderclaps, the remaining trees instantly shattered under the violet-blue lightning, and the fragments vaporized in the soaring temperatures.

The surrounding air molecules were electrolyzed, oxygen ionizing into ozone under the high pressure, releasing a pungent stench like rotten eggs.

For hundreds of meters in every direction, everything transformed into a sea of violet thunder!!!

Namikaze Mirai hovered high above like a deity, gazing down upon that churning blue-violet hell!

Lightning churned like molten metal!

It was like the apocalypse!

Obito stood at the very center of this lightning hell. If not for his intangibility ability, his body would have been struck, scorched, and carbonized in less than a thousandth of a second! Amid the roaring thunder, he vaguely recalled.

The last words Namikaze Mirai had spoken.

'A Lightning Cage lasting thirty minutes...'

Thirty minutes?! His heart was flooded with shock!!! His crimson Sharingan was filled with terror!

Almost the instant the violet thunder erupted, every villager in Konoha felt that terrifying pressure!

The electromagnetic pulse from the ultra-high-voltage current instantly paralyzed all electronic devices in the village! Children watching old-fashioned televisions suddenly saw the screen turn to static, buzzing with noise.

Refrigerators cooling food sparked at their rear compressors before shutting down entirely, leaving only harsh static in communication equipment.

This powerful electromagnetic pulse would even affect the Land of Fire Daimyo's Capital, over a hundred kilometers from Konoha.

The nobles living there in comfort would find, to their astonishment, that their televisions weren't working properly today.

Villagers walking on the streets looked up blankly, their pupils trembling as they gazed at that sea of violet thunder.

The ionization of moisture in the air, combined with the sudden surge of static electricity, left their skin tingling with numbness.

"Dammit! What the hell is going on?!"

"Heavens, is this something a human can do..."

The Anbu members following Sarutobi Hiruzen toward that battlefield nearly froze in place, swallowing their saliva with trembling throats.

The scene before them completely exceeded their understanding!

Lightning!

Nothing but lightning!

The forest that had been southeast of Konoha was now utterly transformed into a violet thunder sea!! Countless lightning bolts as thick as arms danced and leaped within that sea of thunder! The buzzing, rumbling roar of the intense current seemed to become the only sound in the world.

Almost simultaneously, from another direction, Uchiha Fugaku and his clansmen, also rushing toward that battlefield.

Stood frozen, staring up at that sight.

"The power of a god..."

A certain Uchiha murmured, trembling.