Watching the army of puppets surge toward them, Akaseki weighed the strength of both sides. Then...
Clap-
Sage Mode!
Akaseki instantly took on his Red Lion form.
His leonine eyes flashed...
Sure enough, Sage Mode was not restricted!
When Akaseki saw that Miroku's Sealing Technique had not been affected, he had guessed that Sage Mode would work too.
After all, if the old-school Sealing Techniques were unaffected, Sage Mode was no less ancient. Both had existed before ninjutsu was created.
Something that targeted ninjutsu should not affect Sage Mode. Besides, in principle, Sage Mode did not involve Chakra Nature Transformation, but rather mixing one's own chakra with nature energy!
Even after entering Sage Mode, Akaseki still could not use ninjutsu, not even with senjutsu chakra. But Senjutsu such as Inorganic Reincarnation were now ready to go. And...
Akaseki stretched his body...
For Akaseki, entering Sage Mode was the ultimate Nintaijutsu!
"Leave this to me," Akaseki said in a deep, rumbling voice.
He charged straight into the tide of the Puppet Army.
Though Akaseki was much more powerfully built in Sage Mode than usual, he was only about the same size as these puppets. Standing alone amid their surging ranks, he seemed like a mere drop in the ocean.
But then...
Crash-
One punch from Akaseki instantly turned the tide.
Not only did he send the puppet in front of him flying, he also knocked down a whole swath behind it!
The fallen puppets could still get up, but the one that had taken his punch was shattered, and the first few it had struck had lost arms and legs...
Clearly, Akaseki's close-combat strength in Sage Mode far surpassed what he had displayed earlier!
He rarely had a chance to show it because he normally used Susanoo, so no one had