Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!
The instant Akaseki was flung away and landed, he spat out a massive fireball—
First, the enemy situation was unclear. Second, this was hardly a good opportunity to use large-scale ninjutsu. Third, Akaseki had needed to form hand seals discreetly before landing, and time was limited.
Therefore, Akaseki had chosen only the C-rank Great Fireball Technique.
However, with Akaseki's mastery of Fire Style Chakra transformation, this Great Fireball Technique was exceptionally powerful. The enormous, searing fireball, fifteen meters in diameter, swept toward the River Shinobi who seemed to have undergone "human modification"!
The burly River Shinobi immediately dodged, but Akaseki had originally aimed this Great Fireball Technique to kill two birds with one stone. Even after being evaded, it continued onward without losing momentum, surging toward the other two River Shinobi behind him.
On a written test, he would have needed to calculate the trajectory. But just as Akaseki had said before the exam—
What this required was not calculation during a test, but instinctive choices in a fight to the death!
Akaseki had originally thought he could use the attack to force the other two River Shinobi to reposition. However, to his surprise, neither of them dodged. Instead, the gaunt River Shinobi stepped directly in front and made a move that Akaseki found utterly incomprehensible—he raised his palm to catch the Great Fireball Technique?
By all rights, he should have been cooked—
Yet something even more astonishing happened. Akaseki's Great Fireball Technique was actually caught in the man's hand.
Akaseki's pupils contracted—by all logic, the Great Fireball Technique was not solid. Upon impact, it should have enveloped him and roasted him alive. How did it seem to have been caught like a balloon?
The next moment, Akaseki discovered something even stranger—
The "balloon" was