What a monster!
Akaseki cursed inwardly, stopped forming hand seals, and barely dodged A's attack—he only had time to react because A had charged in from a distance this time.
Even then, he had only dodged thanks to his keen senses, the distance, and anticipating the attack. Forget dodging and countering in a flash!
Akaseki had previously crammed information on Kumogakure's top fighters. He knew the Third Raikage was said to be invincible in both offense and defense. His body, tempered with Lightning Style chakra, possessed near-absolute defense and penetrating power...
Now, though, the "little Raikage" before him seemed to have taken a different path. When tempering his body with Lightning Style chakra, his specialty was speed!
Meanwhile, other Cloud Ninja had already begun gathering around them...
Although Kumogakure was now in chaos because of the Eight-Tails' rampage, with its Jonin heading to the main battlefield to assist the Third Raikage against the fully transformed beast, there were still plenty of Chunin and Genin evacuating villagers because they could not help over there.
"Lord A, this guy is..."
Some Cloud Ninja spotted the fighting and hurried over.
"Stop..." A was about to order everyone to stop Akaseki, but suddenly noticed something and shouted, "Watch out!!"
Whoosh!
Boom, boom, boom!
It was not anything Akaseki had done. The Eight-Tails had just aimed a Tailed Beast Ball straight at Toroi's face, only for the Raikage to leap up and strike the side of his head, knocking his ox head sideways...
The originally concentrated Tailed Beast Ball became a sweeping barrage, setting off explosions across buildings on several mountain peaks!
One struck Akaseki's location too. Though nowhere near as powerful as a direct, concentrated Tailed Beast Ball, it still obliterated several unlucky Chunin caught in the blast!
"Damn it!" After dodging the center