"Hmph, instead of worrying about your companions, you should think about how to save your own life..."
A cold smile appeared on Matsuseki's lips. He abruptly pulled out a scroll from his back, and after a puff of smoke, a massive, blunt, jet-black Blunt Blade appeared in his hand. The Blunt Blade was faintly patterned and appeared to weigh no less than five hundred pounds.
The muscles in his arms bulged high, and a large amount of blue chakra was gathered in his Matsuseki arms.
Swinging his blunt Blunt Blade forcefully, Matsuseki's massive Blunt Blade sliced through the air as he slashed fiercely at the Konoha captain!
Upon seeing this, the Konoha captain reacted immediately, taking out two Kunai from his ninja pouch and crossing them to block the opponent's sudden attack with a 500-pound blunt Blunt Blade.
Peng Dong--
After a loud bang, the treetops beneath their feet could not withstand the force and exploded.
The force of the Matsuseki's downward strike was so great that although the company commander blocked the attack with Kunai, he fell from the broken treetop and landed on the ground like a meteorite with a muffled thud, kicking up countless specks of dust.
What incredible power!
His hands trembled slightly, seemingly numb and unable to muster any strength. The Konoha captain was slammed down from the treetop ten meters high by the opponent. With the force of the impact, his legs were completely numb the moment he hit the ground.
The feeling of numbness and weakness throughout his body made him kneel on the ground, unable to get up for a long time.
At this moment, a dozen more ninjas emerged from the deep grass not far from the forest. The Forehead Protector they wore were made of stacked rocks. These were the Iwagakure Ninja had been left behind by the group who were not good at assassination, and Iwagakure Ninja also rushed up.
After the previous attack by the Iwagakure Ninja, fewer than eight members of the Konoha patrol ninja team had survived. Now, the total number of Iwagakure Ninja joining the battle was as high as twenty-eight, making the disparity in strength between the two sides enormous!
"Damn it, we've fallen into their trap. What should we do now? Set up fireworks as a signal?"
The captain's eyes flashed with despair at the prospect of survival. The stark contrast in strength and numbers between the two sides meant that within the time it took to release the fireworks signal and for reinforcements to arrive, they would be completely annihilated by the enemy's Iwagakure Ninja, because the disparity in power was simply too great.
But even if it means death, the signal flare must still be fired...
With trembling hands, the captain took out a signal flare from his ninja pouch and was about to light it when suddenly his vision went dark. When he looked up, he saw a strong figure wielding a huge Blunt Blade leaping down from a tree.
The huge, Blunt Blade descended and slammed down on him at the ground.
The company commander immediately dropped the signal flare and then pulled two Kunai from his ninja pouch. He waved his hands twice towards the huge black shadow in mid-air, and the two black Kunai shot rapidly towards the shadow, Kunai tails seemingly burning with a yellow sizzle...
The yellow object at the end of the Kunai is Explosive Tag!
After executing this series of movements with fluid grace, the company commander rapidly gathered chakra in his legs and suddenly exploded, his body swiftly retreating several meters before he used both hands and feet to somersault several times, quickly escaping the attack range of the giant Blunt Blade...
Mid-air, Matsuseki narrowed his eyes slightly. Seeing the two Kunai flying towards him, he spun in mid-air, using his waist strength to swing his massive Blunt Blade, which changed from a slashing motion to a striking motion. The two kunai, each covered in Explosive Tag, were Kunai deflected by the Blunt Blade and shot towards the Konoha company commander at an even faster speed, forcing him to scramble and move around again in a disheveled manner...
Bang bang--
The Explosive Tag burned out, creating a violent explosion on the ground. Dust and rubble were blasted up, billowing thick black smoke. The Konoha company commander emerged from the smoke, his face blackened by soot, his clothes tattered, and bloodstains faintly visible through the tattered garments...
These are the scratches caused by flying debris when the Explosive Tag exploded!
Just as the Konoha captain emerged from the smoke of the exploding Explosive Tag and regained his footing, Matsuseki of Iwagakure, dragging his heavy, blunt Blunt Blade, charged towards him again, seemingly not wanting to give him any chance to catch his breath.
Blunt Blade weighing 500 pounds dragged a deep trench in the ground, a truly astonishing sight...
As he sprinted, he slammed his right foot into the ground, his body spinning violently in the air. The massive Blunt Blade slashed down in a semi-circular arc, crashing heavily down on the Konoha captain below, as if to cleave him in two.
That's it, with such a large attack range, there's no way to dodge it!
As the squadron leader closed his eyes and awaited death, a red beam shot out in front of him.
The massive, Blunt Blade in Matsuseki's hand fell heavily, but this time, unlike his usual strikes, it didn't make a loud noise or create any momentum. The blunt Blunt Blade silently stopped in mid-air, where it was caught by a small, fair hand.
This, this is impossible...
The full force I unleashed, the weight of the Blunt Blade, and the immense inertia... all amounted to nothing?
Upon seeing the figure covering himself with his hand as he unleashed a full-force slash, Matsuseki was filled with indescribable horror. However, upon seeing the features of the person before him—blue hair, a monkey-face mask, a beige trench coat, and a height of about 1.4 meters—he was immediately struck by the sight.
Matsuseki thought of someone, the one who had been the subject of much speculation in recent months, the one who had routed several Iwagakure, whose attacks were imperceptible to the naked eye, the one known as the Grim Reaper's Scythe...
Konoha's... Blue Asura?
"That strike seemed a bit too weak. Didn't you eat before you left?"
Beneath the Monkey Mask, a cold, mocking voice rang out!
This immediately engulfed Matsuseki Shi's shocked mind with rage. However, being a seasoned veteran of many battles, he was not controlled by this anger. Instead, he released his Blunt Blade and swiftly used several Body Flicker Technique to flash fifteen meters away.
"It seems you not only lack strength, but you're also quite slow!"
The voice came from behind him again, causing cold sweat to break out on Matsuseki's forehead.
But when his gaze fell forward, he froze, his anger replaced by fear. The figure gripping the Blunt Blade remained motionless, and the same voice behind him—whose was it?
"Ah, ah, ah..."
Screams echoed from all directions, amplifying Matsuseki's negative feelings about the mission. These continuous screams definitely didn't come from the few remaining Konoha Ninja, but from his own Iwagakure Ninja...
Looking around, Matsuseki witnessed the most shocking scene since becoming a ninja: on different large trees, more than a dozen figures with afterimages were moving through their troops, each time they passed through the crowd and reflected a dazzling red light!
Every dazzling red flash is followed by splattered blood and the sight of a fallen Iwagakure Ninja!
Weaving among these different trees was an identical figure, wearing a beige trench coat and standing about 1.4 meters tall. This figure appeared on several trees at the same time, and within a mere fifteen seconds, a total of twenty Iwagakure Ninja fell into pools of blood.
"This, how is this possible? Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu? No, absolutely not!"
As Matsuseki watched the figure gradually disappear in the tree, he analyzed the technique with immense panic. This technique, which seemed to create clones and appear in several places at the same time, was not Clone Technique based on the way it disappeared.
But what is this...?
However, there was no time for Songshi to think further, because the short figure in front of him, Konoha's Blue Shura, had already gripped a huge blunt blade and was flying towards him. The blunt blade in his hand drew a crescent shape in the air and slashed down fiercely towards his head.
Matsuseki dodged to the side, using this method and angle to gain a wider field of vision, because he knew there was another figure behind him, another Blue Asura...
Judging from the casualties of the Iwagakure troops on the trees, the Blue Asura appeared simultaneously on several large trees and launched physical attacks on all of Iwagakure. If this wasn't a genjutsu attack...
So, the Blue Asura behind him can still launch an attack!
Are both players attacking at the same time?
A loud bang!
Under the cleaving of the huge, heavy, Blunt Blade, the ground began to crumble inch by inch. With each cloud of dust, an oval trench half a meter deep was formed, its edges cracked like a spider web.
Okay, you've dodged the Blunt Blade's attack, the next one is...
While suspended in mid-air, Matsuseki shifted his head, turning his gaze to the left, trying to catch a glimpse of the Blue Asura behind him. What came into view was a beige figure spinning at an incredible speed, then its right leg swept across Songshi's chest like a broom sweeping away leaves.
That kick was incredibly fast, catching everyone off guard!
Konoha Whirlwind!
Sato Hideaka inwardly cried out, kicking the Iwagakure Ninja in the chest. The Iwagakure Ninja sent flying backwards like a football struck by Barak Long-Range Heavy Cannon, seemingly breaking the sound barrier, creating gusts of wind...
After smashing through two trees that would take three people to encircle, kicking up countless clouds of dust, Matsuseki's body collapsed among the broken branches of a tree, his chest caved in as if completely broken.
A mouthful of blood spurted from his mouth, mixed with chunks of bright red flesh resembling internal organs!
"Yes, Lord Qing! Lord Qing has come to our aid! He's incredibly strong! He managed to take down more than twenty Iwagakure Ninja in such a short time!" (To be continued.)