Feeling the sudden change in the young man's aura, even Nagato, who had been confident moments ago, couldn't help but grow solemn. His Rinnegan, filled with concentric rings, watched the boy warily.
In his eyes, the calm young man wore an indifferent expression.
In the next moment, the boy's figure wavered and vanished from where he stood!
Nagato saw this, his eyes abruptly narrowing as he flung his hands open and shouted,
"Shinra Tensei!"
At his shout, a powerful repulsive force once again surged outward from him, sweeping in every direction!
An indescribably powerful force struck everything around them, sending countless clouds of dust and fragments of stone billowing through the empty hall once more, as if it had suffered a terrifying attack.
As Nagato stared with widened eyes, a figure suddenly appeared within the area of repulsion.
"Boom!"
With a loud crash, the figure seemed to slam into an invisible wall, its forward momentum abruptly halted!
Seeing this, a hint of relief flickered in Nagato's eyes.
As expected, that guy couldn't break through the force of Shinra Tensei.
But what happened next left him unable to remain calm. His eyes widened in an instant.
The boy landed hard on the ground, but he wasn't sent flying into the distance as Nagato had expected.
Instead, he braced one hand in front of himself, as if resisting the powerful repulsive force.
"Crack!" "Crack!" ...
The cracks in the ground beneath the boy's feet widened steadily. Though the force kept pushing him backward, his feet carving a deep furrow in the floor,
his face remained utterly indifferent, as if he didn't care about the force at all.
Seeing this, Nagato's expression darkened. He brought his hands together and increased the force.
"Rumble—"
At his movement, the repulsive force that had been surging