Minato Namikaze and Nagato

"Hmph!"

Deidara reacted with incredible speed, guiding the clay bird into a nimble sideways spiral and climb, narrowly avoiding the violently rising giant stone pillar.

Looking at Kitsuchi's hostile, powerful strike below, his eyes beneath his golden bangs showed no fear. Instead, they blazed with the fire of artistic excitement.

"Mm! Taste my art! C2: Dragon!"

His hands moved rapidly, scattering vast amounts of special clay like raindrops. They instantly expanded and took shape in midair!

In an instant, enormous dragons, each far larger than the clay bird, roared into existence one after another!

Within their massive jaws, destructive chakra light gathered wildly, radiating a terrifying aura. Then, wrapped in crushing wind pressure, they plunged savagely toward Kitsuchi below, who had yet to steady himself!

Facing the clay dragons bearing the light of destruction in their mouths, Kitsuchi's expression remained as steady as a towering mountain.

He took a deep breath. The muscles throughout his body bulged and knotted as immense chakra poured without reservation into his hands. His hand seals carried the weight of a thousand tons!

"Earth Release: Mountain Jutsu!"

Boom! Boom!

Two enormous hemispheres formed from pure Earth Release Chakra appeared out of thin air!

Their scale was so immense and their forms so solid that it was as though two real mountains had been moved there from nowhere. In midair, they slammed together with overwhelming force against the diving clay dragons!

Crack!!!

A bone-chilling sound of massive crushing and shattering exploded!

The diving clay dragons did not even have time to unleash the explosive flames in their mouths before being ruthlessly caught between the two "mountains"!

Their sturdy clay shells shattered instantly beneath the absolute crushing force!

More importantly, the terrifying explosive energy on the verge of erupting was forcibly suppressed by the mighty, heavy Earth