"BOOM!!!!"
A blast wave surged outward.
"Damn, even watching isn't safe."
Everyone instinctively raised their arms to shield themselves.
Except Qingwu. His repulsive field had already protected him, Guang, and Hiashi and his brother, so the shock wave dissipated before reaching them.
It was like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Under the blast from Deidara's little explosive clay bird,
all the Sand Clock Hands were destroyed, and the blast wave even surged toward Gaara.
"Rustle, rustle..." Gaara's sand instantly protected him, forming one, two, then three layers of shields in front of him.
Not so much as a hair moved.
"Hahahaha! Art is an explosion!!!"
"Ho!" Deidara summoned a second Clay Bird.
He jumped onto it.
And took flight.
Let's see how your sand attacks me now.
Deidara tried to send the Clay Bird higher, using the advantage of altitude to suppress Gaara.
In his previous battles, his combination of high-altitude flight and long-range explosions had almost never failed.
But when the Clay Bird reached the space beneath the Arena's dome, an invisible barrier blocked it. Ripples spread across the pale blue Barrier, like a stone tossed into a still lake.
Fuck—nd#%-@_ghj@-#jkd@?kdkk
Deidara's expression instantly darkened. He forcefully drove the Clay Bird into the Barrier, but it did not budge.
"Damn it! I forgot this lousy Konoha venue restricts altitude! A fifteen-meter ceiling!" Deidara gritted his teeth, his blond hair trembling slightly with his anger.
He had thought he could easily defeat Gaara with his altitude advantage, but now that plan was completely ruined.
Qingwu laughed.
He had never expected little Deidara to be such a scatterbrain.
In the stands, Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded gently and said to the assistant beside him, "It looks like setting up this Barrier was the right decision. If Deidara could freely