Eight bodies emerged from Ibe, making him look like a zombie amalgamation.
His blood-red energy shield strained outward.
But more than a thousand tentacles bound it tightly from outside, leaving it little room to expand. His puppets could only emerge partway from his body.
"Squish, squish-"
Six large hands extended from Ibe's arms and back, carrying tremendous strength.
They grabbed a tentacle and tore it apart with brute force.
Blood streamed everywhere!
The unusual form special ability users began to pale as their fingers were broken off one by one.
The wind man beneath Ibe's feet beat his wings hard, trying to carry him out of the Tentacle Immortal-Binding Lock.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh-"
The powerful wind whipped up great clouds of sand and dust.
But the tentacles still held him firmly against the ground. Like a fighting rooster, he could only flap, unable to take flight.
The mirror woman at Ibe's chest held up a mirror. Milky-white light reinforced the blood-red shield, helping it resist the rubbery force of the surrounding thousand-plus tentacles, but all it could do was keep the shield from being crushed.
At his ribs, two large hands covered in assorted runes rapidly formed seals before him.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
"Katon: Gouka Q no Kyutsu!" (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)
A fierce stream of flame surged from Ibe's mouth.
The runic hands at his ribs shone.
The flames blasted outward, instantly engulfing over a thousand tentacles.
But the tentacles had tough surfaces, and everyone had twisted them together. Only some of the outer tentacles suffered damage.
Even so, the flames burned the unusual form special ability users' skin and flesh raw.
"Ah!"
All the tentacles of one unusual form special ability user were charred. With no strength left in them, he was forced to retract them.
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