Kakuzu: Before I Die, I Just Want to Twist Off the Underground Exchange Market Manager's Head!

Faced with Kushina's fierce and violent attacks, Kakuzu did not choose to fight head-on this time. Instead, he used Lightning Release Chakra to stimulate his body, increasing his speed to dodge quickly while searching for Kushina's weaknesses.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Kushina was surrounded by surging Crimson Airflow, as if she were wearing a suit of fiery armor. Every punch and kick, even the simplest Taijutsu, caused sonic booms in the air.

The scorching heat continuously drained the Lightning Release Chakra on Kakuzu's body, causing him to feel waves of burning flames.

"As expected, the ' Crimson Dragon Calamity ' is more suitable for Kushina, and the Cell Experiment have also significantly improved the effects of Garaga's blood." Shiraha thought to himself as he watched the battle from the sidelines.

Although it is said that as long as one bathes in the blood of a dragon-like creature and learns the strongest explosive skill "Crimson Dragon Calamity Crimson Dragon Armor", one can rival the strongest First-Level Wizard.

However, although Shiraha's power boost after learning the "Crimson Dragon Armor" was strong, it was not as strong as he had imagined.

The reason for this is that the Knight Breathing Technique is essentially an explosive training method. After all, there is a huge gap between the Knight profession and the Wizard profession. After Shiraha reached the Third-Class Apprentice in the Advanced Warlock Meditation Method, this feeling became more and more obvious.

When using the Knight Breathing Technique, one's physical attributes, strength, speed, and other abilities will be temporarily enhanced, but it will consume a great deal of stamina.

As for the "Crimson Dragon Calamity," a top-tier Breathing Technique, its energy consumption is even more astonishing.

Shiraha used the "Crimson Dragon Armor" recently and felt that his stamina was being consumed in an extremely exaggerated way. He could only use it for a maximum of five minutes before he would run out of stamina. If he were to unleash his Chakra, he would probably consume stamina even faster.

After all, "Crimson Dragon Armor" is an explosive skill, a trump card used only when facing a powerful enemy.

Under normal circumstances, when facing an enemy, Shiraha would at most use "Crimson Dragon Calamity" to improve his overall attributes, and then combine it with spells, rather than immediately unleashing his ultimate move.

Only someone like Kushina, with her incredible stamina, ridiculously high Chakra reserves, and the Kurama' power-up, could truly unleash the power of "Crimson Dragon Calamity" while using "Crimson Dragon Armor," an explosive skill, as a regular technique.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The sound of violent explosions kept ringing in Shiraha's ears, and it was only through "Sensory Enhancement" that he was able to see Kushina's movements clearly.

Kakuzu was overwhelmed by Kushina's explosive speed and power, unable to even create distance to unleash large-scale offensive Ninjutsu, and was forced to engage in a direct taijutsu Taijutsu.

It's clear that Kakuzu helpless.

Kakuzu, who possesses the Earth Grudge Fear technique, will not die even if his body is torn to pieces by Kushina's punch, as long as his heart is not destroyed.

Kushina didn't seem to be planning to kill him right away, giving Kakuzu time to recover.

"She can still play like this even with her ultimate move activated. Her physique bonus must be over 7 by now." Shiraha activated "Eye of Truth" to observe and couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement. With every move Kushina made, a gale swept through the air, sand and stones flew everywhere, trees were instantly shattered, and wood chips flew everywhere. With each step she took, a small pit appeared on the ground.

His current attributes are Constitution 3.45 and Strength 3.27, and he has such a high Constitution mainly due to the small amount of bloodline transplanted and the additional attribute bonuses after advancing to the Advanced Warlock Meditation Method.

When he used the "Crimson Dragon Armor" burst skill a while ago, his constitution temporarily surged to 6.5 and his strength to 6.41, which is definitely at the level of an ordinary First-Level Wizard.

Although Shiraha did not advance to the First-Level Wizard in his previous life, he was still a decent alchemist as Third-Class Apprentice, and he read many of the academy's classic texts.

Aside from Bloodline Warlock, it's impossible for a normal third-class Wizard apprentice to double their physique when advancing to First-Level Wizard.

Wizard's advancement is a qualitative leap in their soul and Mental Power; while their physical constitution improves significantly, it's merely a secondary enhancement. Of course, even this secondary improvement still makes them stronger than a regular Great Knight.

The fundamental difference between First-Level Wizard, Wizard apprentice, and a regular Great Knight lies in the fact that First-Level Wizard can solidify a level 1 defensive spell model into their soul, allowing them to cast spells instantly without chanting incantations and consuming less Mental Power and Magic Power energy than conventional spellcasting.

Wizard apprentices and regular Great Knight are completely unable to break through level one defensive spells.

A typical Great Knight might punch a defensive spell's shield, only to have their own hand shattered first.

With their immense advantage in Mental Power and Magic Power power, First-Level Wizard can cast other level 0 offensive spells much faster and with power easily several times that of Third-Class Apprentice. As for level 1 offensive spells, their power is even greater.

However, Kushina was clearly an exception. Her innate physical condition was too good, and temporarily breaking through to level 7 in physique must have put a great strain on her body.

But looking at her, she wasn't even out of breath.

However, according to the Super Radiation Creature and Mythological Creature models that Shiraha sensed from the "Book of the Ancient Warlock", the Kurama, despite its weak combat power, Energy Field that is much stronger than that of a typical Super Radiation Creature and is close to that of Mythological Creature, making it a "half- Fourth-Level".

According to the Energy Field, Kushina is at most an ordinary radiated creature, corresponding to the level one. Using part of the Kurama 'Chakra, which is at the "half- Fourth-Level", the only side effect is physical fatigue, which shows how good her physical condition is.

Even if it's because Kushina and the Nine-Tails Chakra have high compatibility, the level difference is extremely difficult to overcome in the Wizarding World, especially between Third Level and Fourth-Level, which is a qualitative change.

If Kurama (the Kurama) were to give Shiraha that much Chakra, Kushina might end up a widow.

Wind Style: Pressure Damage!

Fire Style: Head Hunter Hard Skill!

At this moment, Kushina once again cracked Kakuzu's body, but this time, Kakuzu took the opportunity to completely split his body into five parts.

The main body and the two masked monsters blocked Kushina's attack, while the other two masked monsters jumped into the sky and launched a combination Ninjutsu.

Compound Ninjutsu: Flame Wind Wild Wave!

The extremely high-pressure wind ball formed a powerful whirlwind that swept towards Kushina below, and rapidly spread the Fire Style released by another Earth Grudge Fear Masked Monster. A tsunami-like wave of flames crashed down with overwhelming force.

Upon seeing this, Shiraha quickly retreated.

As for Kushina, he wasn't worried at all.

Bass--!

"Ha!" Facing the overwhelming whirlwind of flames, Kushina clenched her fists and shouted, Crimson Airflow around her body to surge once again.

She hadn't even used her full strength yet!

"Take me with you!" Kurama hurriedly said, sending a small portion of its Chakra out of the Sealing Space.

An orange Chakra surged from Kushina's lower abdomen, merging with the Crimson Airflow on her body to form a tangible armor-like Chakra structure. The helmet on her head was even shaped like a fox.

Boom!

Kushina crouched slightly, then suddenly stomped her feet on the ground. The ground around her immediately cracked, and a large crater appeared beneath her feet. The cracks spread out like a spider web, covering an area of twenty or thirty meters around her.

Her body rose into the air like a cannonball.

The terrifying, scorching flames engulfed her body, but Kushina moved through the whirlwind of flames unharmed, like a fish swimming in water, and instantly appeared beside the two masked monsters, slamming her fists out.

Boom!

The violent Chakra and energy blasted the two masked monsters apart, and the hearts protected beneath the masks were naturally not spared either.

"What?!"

Kakuzu's expression changed; he hadn't expected that this 'one million taels' would be this powerful.

This is far more than 'one million taels'; even Orochimaru with 'one hundred million taels' probably wouldn't have this kind of power.

It instantly destroyed two of his hearts, and the Fire Style Heart was the strongest of his five hearts.

She was able to withstand this level of Fire Style directly. Not only was her attack power stronger than his, but her defense was even more exaggerated than his ' Earth Release: Earth Spear '. The key point is that she was pitifully weak when they last met. How come she is like a completely different person after not seeing her for several years?

At this point, Kakuzu had already decided to retire.

Brush!

With a burst of energy, Kushina charged towards Kakuzu's true form.

Although the four clones and the main body are not of equal importance, Kakuzu still habitually controls the Earth Release Heart because the Earth Release Heart has strong attack and defense capabilities, second only to the Fire Style Heart.

Damn it!

Kakuzu's expression changed drastically, and he quickly hardened his fists using the ' Earth Release: Earth Spear ' technique, then shot them toward Kushina.

Boom!

Kushina unleashed a punch, sending Kakuzu's fists flying backward. Even the soft, black Earth Grudge Fear Tentacles were shattered by the powerful Crimson Airflow.

Kakuzu retreated rapidly, and his other two clones, one water and one lightning, launched an attack at the same time. However, the original owners of these two hearts were just ordinary Jōnin. Faced with Kushina's explosive speed and power, they had little power to resist and were directly knocked away.

"It's over!" Kakuzu's heart sank as he watched the fist rapidly enlarging in his vision. He never expected that he could so easily take the heads of people worth tens of millions of taels of silver, but for a mere 'million taels,' he would completely backfire.

Boom!

At that moment, another figure enveloped in Crimson Airflow suddenly appeared beside Kakuzu, reaching out and tightly gripping Kushina's fist.

"Shiraha?!" Kushina stared at the suddenly appearing Shiraha, slightly taken aback, and pouted, "You said you wouldn't take it from me!"

"I won't fight you for it, but I have some things to say to this Mr. Kakuzu." Shiraha smiled and withdrew his hand, subtly putting his right hand behind his back and flexing his wrist. It hurt terribly!

"I lost." Kakuzu looked calmly at Shiraha, whose body was filled with Crimson Airflow, and prepared to face death.

I never expected these two to become so strong.

He accepted his fate; after all, he had lived for so many years, and that was enough.

The only pity is that we didn't manage to wring the head off the person in charge of the Underground Exchange Market; the intelligence updates were just too slow!

He was somewhat unwilling to die for such powerful ninjas, who were only worth 41 million taels of silver.

After all, there's still so much money waiting for him to earn.

Thinking of this, Kakuzu reached into his robes.

"Don't move!" Kushina 'Chakra chakra surged.

Shiraha pulled her back:

"Don't get agitated."

PS: This chapter supplements some of the setting. Actually, there's no unified standard for classifying Wizard strength in Wizard novels; you can set it up however you like, there are even weaker ones. The most common setting is the Fourth-Level qualitative leap. I could even write First-Level Wizard comparable to Kaguya, but I'll finish this book by the end of the month.

The early settings of this book are heavily borrowed from * The Warlock of the Magus World *, and will be based on those settings. First-Level Wizard are inherently weak because they are all busy advancing to second level and gaining more life force, spending a significant amount of time learning, so their combat abilities are naturally not particularly strong. Only warlocks are natural-born fighters; the bloodline of extraordinary beings greatly enhances their combat abilities. In a normal Wizard novel, no matter how much overpowered the characters are, they wouldn't advance as quickly as in this book. At the current pace, they can complete their advancement this month, and will only be in their early twenties then. Moreover, they will be warlocks with a fusion of two bloodlines, and without comparing them to ordinary Wizard, it's difficult to highlight the strength of First-Level Warlock. I will not change this aspect of the setting. To speed up the progress, I will try to update more frequently when I'm in good condition.