At that moment, Minato and the giant puppet appeared simultaneously in the middle of the empty plaza.
Anrokuzan reacted instantly. Countless cracks suddenly split open across the puppet's shell, and hundreds of blades sprang out!
"Clang, clang, clang—"
Amid the grating screech of metal, the entire puppet transformed into a gigantic spinning blade wheel.
The fierce wind stirred up by its rapidly rotating blades tore up all the stone slabs around it,
carving a deadly zone where Minato had been standing.
Minato immediately used the Body Flicker Technique to get away, but a cunning gust from one of the blades still grazed his left shoulder, cutting through the skin.
He furrowed his brow and leaped backward several times to put some distance between them.
"Your struggles are useless."
Anrokuzan's voice came from the center of the blade wheel, humming with metallic vibrations.
The giant puppet suddenly stopped. Its six mechanical arms spread out at once,
and the energy vortices in their palms had compressed into dazzling white-blue spheres. The air filled with the acrid smell of ionized air.
"Dragon Vein Blast!"
The six beams merged into a single torrent of destruction, shattering the ground in layers like brittle crackers wherever it passed.
The ruins of buildings on either side were pulverized the instant the beam touched them.
Minato didn't dare underestimate it. He held a Flying Thunder God Kunai horizontally before his chest.
The black jutsu formulas suddenly spread like living things, forming a barrier in midair.
The moment the destructive beam struck, the array of symbols swallowed all its energy like a black hole.
"Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder!"
As space warped, the devastating attack was instantly redirected to a desert several miles away.
A blinding white light suddenly flared on the distant horizon, followed by a rumble like