[Wind Style: Rending Wave Slash] was a sword technique Araki had just created, making use of the powerful wind-nature control he had learned from Yasuo, along with some ideas from the Umi-bozu in Amachi's scroll and the Rasengan.
The spinning sword wheel made entirely of wind blades successfully made up for Araki's lack of long-range area-of-effect techniques.
It made him abandon the idea of exchanging for [Wind Style: Pressure Damage].
The reason he had exchanged for those ninjutsu in the early stages was that his swordsmanship had not been strong enough, and he had done so out of necessity to improve his combat power.
But at this point, aside from secret and forbidden techniques with useful special abilities, ordinary damage-dealing ninjutsu really were not as powerful as the sword techniques he created himself! Why waste that money?
And if he needed anything, he could always mooch off the Hozuki Clan Compound's collection.
Hmm...
Getting freebies once felt great; getting freebies forever felt even better. He had the Hozuki Clan Compound completely wrapped around his finger! Even the Sage of Six Paths himself would not be able to stop him!
Just as Araki and Mangetsu were passionately discussing swordsmanship, a thunderclap that seemed capable of tearing apart the sky boomed overhead, and winding Lightning Snakes descended from above.
BOOM!
CRACKLE!
"Over there..."
Araki turned toward the sound and looked south.
"That's the location of the Anbu base!"
Hozuki Mangetsu quickly made his judgment. "There's an intruder!"
"Huh?"
Araki blinked. Wasn't that the effect of [Lightning Blade: Kiba]?
As one of the few ninja swords among the Seven Ninja Swords to get special attention, [Thunder Blade] seemed to Araki like nothing more than a pair of Lightning Release amplifiers—and their amplification effect was absurdly powerful.
The reason Uchiha Sasuke's [Lightning Style: Kirin]