Namikaze Minato paused for two seconds, then took a deep breath and gripped the Kunai in his hand tightly.
"Keep up!" Namikaze Minato turned to his companions behind him, a hint of helpless laughter in his voice. "Looks like we're here to be spectators today."
Deep within the underground palace, Anrokuzan sat on his enormous stone chair, with a light screen made of Chakra floating in front of him, displaying the battle situation in the square in real time.
When he saw the giant, dark blue cat covered in Susanoo armor tearing his puppet army apart like grass, the composure on his face froze instantly.
It felt like the sky had fallen.
"What... what... what!!!"
"My God!! That's... the Two-Tails?! But, but what the heck is that armor?!"
Anrokuzan's voice trembled, and fine beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
"No... impossible! How could the Two-Tails Jinchuriki be here? And that purple Chakra... that's Susanoo?!"
Anrokuzan suddenly stood up, waving his hands wildly in the air, trying to mobilize more puppets.
"Block her! Block her! Have all the puppets swarm her! Pile them up until she's crushed!"
Anrokuzan's orders were instantly transmitted through Chakra Threads to the puppet cores on every level of the underground palace.
In an instant, more puppets poured out from the various exits of the underground palace, like a black tide, and rolled towards the square.
Namikaze Minato stood on the rooftop, looking at the overwhelming army of puppets, his pupils slightly contracting.
"This number..." He gripped the Kunai in his hand, his tone grave, "At least two thousand. Even if we manage to escape unscathed, those civilians..."
Namikaze Minato was about to speak, intending to discuss with Uchiha Hikari whether they could use the Flying Raijin Jutsu to teleport the people out in batches.
But just a second before he opened his mouth—
Uchiha Hikari moved.
She stood at the center of Susanoo's forehead, her hands Hand Seals!
" Yachihoko - Eye Power Unleashed--!"
In that instant, a massive amount of Chakra surged from her body, like an invisible tsunami, spreading in all directions!
The charging puppets froze instantly upon contact with this Chakra surge.
The Dragon Vein Chakra within them seemed to be forcibly suppressed by some force, causing a brief period of chaos in their originally stable control system.
"Now!"
A cold glint flashed in Uchiha Hikari's eyes, Susanoo's hands clasped together abruptly—
"Boom--!!!"
An invisible shockwave exploded outwards from her center!
The Chakra Threads on those puppets were instantly scattered by the shockwave!
The puppets, now out of control, collapsed to the ground like broken strings, making a series of dull thuds.
Namikaze Minato was stunned.
Uzumaki Naruto, who was behind him and was originally planning to use the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to fight against the puppet army, was also stunned.
"This... this is solved?" Yamato murmured, his voice filled with disbelief.
Uchiha Hikari didn't speak, but simply exhaled a breath of stale air, the bloodshot in his eyes slowly fading.
Prepare for the excruciating pain that comes from overdrawing a large amount of pupil power in a short period of time.
But at that moment, she suddenly felt a warm power of light flowing into her body from the distant Sky Fortress through the imprints of the Yachihoko.
That's Uchiha Jun's eye power!
"This guy..." Uchiha Hikari's lips curled into a very faint smile.
The Sky Fortress, the main control room.
Uchiha Jun lowered the hand Hand Seals he was forming, and the Mangekyō Sharingan pattern in his right eye began to slowly rotate.
"This girl, she still won't drain my eye power when she gets serious." Uchiha Jun shook his head, a hint of helplessness in his voice. "Luckily, the Yachihoko mark I had her inscribe beforehand is bidirectional, otherwise, if she had kept doing this, she would have blinded herself sooner or later."
Just as Uchiha Jun had predicted, this time Uchiha Hikari did not extract his eye power when he activated the Mangekyo Dōjutsu, but instead wanted to take the hit alone.
It was because they didn't know that Uchiha Jun was already able to mass-produce Mangekyō Sharingan that they were being so cautious.
Seimei watched in disbelief. "Boss, what you just did was... remotely transmit your eye power?"
"Hmm." Uchiha Jun responded casually, then turned to the control panel, " Railgun, how's the charging status?"
"One hundred percent, ready to launch at any time!" A slight tremor Seimei his voice. "Boss, shall we launch now?"
"Buzzing----"
The humming sound of the Railgun charging, like the roar of an ancient behemoth, echoed throughout the steel skeleton of the entire Sky Fortress.
Seimei stood in front of the main control panel, his mechanical finger hovering above the red launch button, his pupils reflecting the ever-increasing energy readings on the screen.
Uchiha Jun stood behind him, arms crossed, his gaze passing through the observation window of the main control room, looking down at the Rōran Ruins half-buried in yellow sand.
The aura of the Dragon Vein writhed deep underground, like a living creature.
Uchiha Jun could clearly sense that Anrokuzan was in the deepest part of that labyrinth, like a greedy maggot, frantically absorbing the power of the Dragon Vein.
"Wait a little longer," Uchiha Jun said calmly. "The evacuation of Hikaru's side isn't finished yet."
"There's something else I want to ask you."
"Boss, what do you want to say?" Seimei said, somewhat agitated.
To be honest, this was the first time in his life that he had controlled such a terrifying masterpiece, comparable to, or even surpassing, Tailed Beasts Tailed Beasts!
I am so excited, words fail me!
"When you were charging up the electromagnetic cannon, did you consider the aftershocks and kill radius after activation?"
Uchiha Jun pointed to the control panel and asked.
To be honest, he had been paying attention to this ever since he arrived in Rōran. He originally thought that Seimei would come up with a corresponding constraint plan, but even when it was time to launch the attack, Seimei still hadn't made any proposal.
This made Uchiha Jun worry. This guy hadn't considered this issue at all; he was only focused on the thrill of battle and had already started attacking.
"Huh? Kill radius? Aftershocks?... What are those?"
Smack!
A crisp slap echoed in the empty control room.
Seimei's head spun 720 degrees at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then his entire body was carried away by that enormous force, crashing into the wall with a dull thud.
"Well..."
Seimei struggled to get up from the ground, reached out to straighten his mechanical head that had been knocked askew, and looked at Uchiha Jun with a blank expression.
Seimei wasn't angry, after all, Uchiha Jun had always presented himself as a good boss to his subordinates.
Therefore, Seimei's first thought was whether he had done something to offend Uchiha Jun.
"Boss... why did you hit me?"
Uchiha Jun didn't answer, but just looked at him with an expression as if he were an idiot, then slowly exhaled. "You just said you didn't know?"
"Yes... yes..." Seimei hadn't realized the seriousness of the problem and nodded innocently.
Uchiha Jun closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then suddenly opened them. "You fucking bastard, the power of the Railgun is enough to blast through a hundred meters of soil! Do you think the aftershocks won't reach the Sky Fortress?!"
"Didn't you calculate the attack radius yourself?!"
"The core kill radius is two kilometers! The shockwave spread radius is five kilometers! Are you trying to make it so that you inflict 800 damage on yourself while inflicting 1,000 damage on the enemy?!"
"The projectile of the Railgun is a solid alloy projectile weighing 680 tons, 20 meters long, and 1 meter in diameter! You didn't even consider the aftershocks after firing such a supersonic projectile?!"
Seimei was stunned.
He mechanically turned his head to look at the Railgun on the control panel, which was already poised to fire, and then glanced at the attack range parameters displayed on the screen.
Core kill radius: 2km
Shock wave propagation radius: 5km
The current altitude of the Sky Fortress is 4.8km.
Seimei: "..."
His lips twitched, and then he said in an extremely weak voice, "Um... boss... I think... I forgot to calculate..."
"Forgot to calculate?!"
Uchiha Jun's voice rose eight octaves, and he raised his hand to slap the head that Seimei had just straightened away flying again.
"If you actually launch that, all the civilians who are still in Rōran and haven't evacuated yet, as well as Uchiha Hikari and the others on the ground, will be affected!"
"Idiot!"
Seimei got up from the ground. This time he didn't dare to speak. He just silently raised his hand and turned his head back to its normal position.
Sasori of the Red Sands sighed, took out an electric baton connected by puppet strings from his waist, skillfully pressed the switch, and a ghostly blue arc of electricity immediately appeared at the tip of the baton.
"Hey, hey, hey!! Brother Scorpion, what... what are you going to do?"
Upon seeing the stun gun, Seimei instinctively took a step back. As a forging worker, he was well aware of the power of this baton.
This thing is perfect for dealing with his mechanical body.
"The boss means to teach you a lesson." Sasori of the Red Sands Earth Flow expressionlessly, the stun baton crackling in his hand.
"Wait! I was wrong! I was really wrong! Boss, please have mercy--"
"Hmm hmm ah ah ha ah ah--"
Three seconds later, Seimei and piercing scream echoed in the control room.
Uchiha Jun Seimei's screams and turned to use Kamui to leave the Sky Fortress.
The next second, his figure appeared on the ground.
Uchiha Jun stood on the open ground in front of Anrokuzan's puppet labyrinth entrance, looking up at the Railgun overhead that was slowly gathering energy, then looked away and at Uchiha Hikari not far away.
"Guang, lead the first group of civilians to a safe area, the farther the better."
Uchiha Hikari nodded, asked no further questions, and immediately turned to arrange the retreat.
Uchiha Jun Hand Seals once more, and the Chakra within his body surged forth like a flood bursting its banks.
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Two completely different forces erupted within him simultaneously!
" Uchiha Flame Formation!"
Uchiha Jun Hand Seals and slammed them hard onto the ground.
boom--!!!
A massive, fiery red barrier rapidly spread outwards from him!
The barrier was a semi-transparent dome that enveloped the entire labyrinth area, its surface burning with blazing dark red flames that emitted temperatures high enough to melt steel.
But that's not enough.
Uchiha Jun frowned slightly. He could sense that the power of the Railgun above his head far exceeded his expectations—even the Uchiha Flame Formation would probably be unable to completely withstand the shockwave of the explosion.
"Add a few more layers of seals."
He bit his finger and quickly drew blood-red runes in the air. The runes moved through the air like living things and then attached themselves to the inner and outer layers of the fire array.
" Four Symbols Seal!"
" Eight Trigrams Seal!"
Layer upon layer of Sealing Jutsu were superimposed on the fire array, completely enveloping the entire puppet maze area, like a giant red cocoon.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Jun was busily setting up the fire array.
Deep within the labyrinthine core of the Dragon Vein, Anrokuzan sat cross-legged in the center of a massive sealing array.
His body had been completely transformed into a puppet, and through this puppetized form, he had achieved a certain degree of fusion with the Chakra Dragon Vein.
Countless fine golden lines emerged from beneath his skin, like slithering snakes greedily sucking up the power of the Dragon Vein.
"It'll be soon... it'll be soon!"
Anrokuzan's voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement as his eyes were fixed on the slowly rotating Chakra 'tide' in front of him—the core of the Dragon Vein, the foundation upon which the entire Ancient Kingdom of Roran had prospered for hundreds of years!
"Within an hour at most, I can master one-tenth of the Dragon Vein Chakra!"
Anrokuzan licked his chapped lips, his smile growing increasingly twisted. "Then, I'll be able to wield that ' Giant God Soldier,' forged from the entire wealth of Rōran! With this ultimate weapon, I'll be a war machine capable of rivaling the Tailed Beasts!"
"At that time, all those Konoha Ninja and Uchiha Clan clans will die! Hahahaha!!"
Anrokuzan became more and more excited as he thought about it. He even began to imagine himself standing on the ruins, stepping on the corpses of those Konoha Ninja, while that Uchiha Clan brat who controlled the Tailed Beasts knelt before him begging for mercy.
"Ha ha ha ha--"
Wild laughter echoed deep within the labyrinth, like a trapped beast reveling.
However, just as Anrokuzan was laughing his head off, an indescribable sense of crisis suddenly welled up in his heart.
Anrokuzan's laughter stopped abruptly.
He suddenly raised his head and looked at the ceiling of the maze. A look of surprise and uncertainty flashed in his bloodshot eyes.
"What?"
"What happened?!"
Anrokuzan immediately used his puppetry technique to connect with the sensory barrier that spanned the entire maze, allowing him to clearly perceive everything happening above the maze.
And at that moment, he sensed it!
It was a terrifying energy fluctuation that made his entire soul tremble!
"Damn it! What the hell is this?!"
Anrokuzan's pupils contracted sharply; in his perception, the labyrinth was thousands of feet above him.
A massive energy source was rapidly condensing, its intensity even exceeding the amount of Chakra he sensed at the core of the Dragon Vein!
" Tailed Beast Ball? No! The Chakra nature of the Tailed Beast Ball is not like that at all!"
Anrokuzan hurriedly stood up, his hands rapidly Hand Seals, attempting to activate the defensive barrier above the maze.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry, faster! We're going to be too late!!"
The entrance to the puppet maze.
After doing all this, Uchiha Jun breathed a slight sigh of relief, but he remained vigilant.
He raised his hand and spoke in a deep voice over the Sky Fortress's communication channel, " Seimei, prepare for launch."
"Receive!"
Over the communication channel, Seimei's voice carried a hint of weakness from the recent electric shock, but his tone was extremely solemn.
" Railgun, final firing sequence initiated!"
"Countdown... three!"
"Two!"
"One--"
"Emission!!!"
The passionate and surging roar of Seimei resounded through the communication channels.
The next second--
At the bottom of the Sky Fortress, a blinding white light suddenly flashed from the muzzle of the 1000mm caliber Railgun!
The white light was like the sun falling to earth, illuminating the sky for several kilometers around with a ghastly white glow!
Immediately afterwards--
A solid alloy projectile weighing 680 tons, 20 meters long, and 1 meter in diameter, accelerated with a roar, propelled by a powerful Chakra reminiscent of Tailed Beast Ball!
"Sizzle--!!!"
That was the ear-piercing shriek of metal rubbing violently against the air!
The sound, like the roar of an ancient behemoth, tore through the clouds, ripped apart the wind, and ripped everything apart!
The projectile's speed exceeded the speed of sound in a mere 0.1 seconds!
Then it's three times the speed of sound!
Five times the speed of sound!
Ten times the speed of sound!!
The moment it burst from the muzzle, the surrounding air didn't even have time to disperse before it was shattered, forming a visible white sonic boom cloud!
The sonic boom cloud spread rapidly, scattering the clouds surrounding the Sky Fortress!
On the ground—
Anrokuzan looked up and, through his labyrinthine perception barrier, saw the white-gold dot of light rapidly falling.
His pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints.
"No... impossible... what kind of power is this?!"
His voice trembled, his body trembled, even his soul trembled!
He wanted to run away, to hide, to—
But it was too late.
That platinum-colored light pierced through the clouds and the air, like a falling meteor, and crashed into the center of the maze without hesitation!
A mushroom cloud rose from the ground, and then--
"Boom--!!!"
That was a deafening roar that could shake the earth and eclipse the sky!
It was like hundreds of millions of Explosive Tag detonating simultaneously, or like the roar of a Tailed Beasts unleashing its fury!
The shockwave spread outwards at a visible speed, tearing everything in its path to shreds—soil, rocks, golems, labyrinths—everything was devoured by that destructive force!
The ground was shaking violently, as if the entire Ancient Kingdom of Roran was trembling!
And that puppet labyrinth, on which Anrokuzan placed high hopes, capable of withstanding a massive army—
Under the bombardment of the Railgun, it vanished instantly like paper!
All those intricate mechanisms, those sturdy walls, those hidden traps and fortifications, were reduced to dust before this unparalleled power!
"No--!!!"
Anrokuzan let out a final, desperate cry, and then—
His voice was also swallowed up by the explosion.
The aftershocks of the explosion did not stop there.
The devastating shockwave continued to spread outwards, sweeping everything away like a tsunami, and then—
They ran right into Uchiha Jun's pre-arranged Uchiha Flame Formation!
"Boom--!!!"
Another loud bang!
The fire array trembled violently, and the dark red flames on its surface swayed wildly under the impact of the shockwave, as if they would be extinguished at any moment!
Uchiha Jun's pupils contracted sharply. He could feel his Chakra being consumed at an alarming rate!
The power of this Railgun was even more terrifying than he had anticipated!
"Hold on...!"
Uchiha Jun gritted his teeth, pressing his hands firmly to the ground. His terrifying Chakra, comparable to that of Tailed Beasts, surged wildly into the fire array as if it were free, maintaining the stability of the barrier!
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
Every second was torture.
But in the end, the fire array held up.
After lasting for more than ten seconds, the shockwave gradually subsided, revealing the area protected by the barrier—a scene of devastation, but at least there were no casualties.
Uchiha Jun slowly stood up, feeling his almost depleted Chakra, but his face showed no signs of fatigue; instead, a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
"Not bad... This power far surpasses Ōnoki's Dust Release."
Uchiha Jun muttered to himself, his gaze sweeping over the maze area where the Railgun a huge crater, silently assessing the power of the shot.
"Although the charging time is too long and the Chakra fluctuations are too obvious, making it easy for a fast-moving Kage Level ninja to evade it in advance..."
"But if you're facing a target that can't move, or a dense cluster of targets within range..." A cold smile crept across his lips, "Then it's one shot, one kill."
"And this is only the initial version."
A certain image flashed through Uchiha Jun's mind— the Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki Statue from the original work, capable of directly confronting the Nine-Tails and passionately exchanging elbow strikes.
"If the power of the Railgun could be further increased... perhaps one shot would be enough to severely damage that statue, and two shots would be enough to kill it."
Uchiha Jun clenched his fist, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his eyes.
" The Dragon Vein... this trip was truly worthwhile."
Uchiha Jun turned around and looked at Uchiha Hikari, who was rushing over from a distance, and the still-shaken Rōran civilians behind her. Her smile deepened.
"Alright, now it's time to take care of the Mukade's funeral arrangements."
At the same time.
On the edge of the battlefield, about one kilometer away from the ruins of Rōran, Namikaze Minato stood on a protruding rock, his azure eyes fixed on the area shrouded in the Uchiha Flame Formation in the distance.
He witnessed the entire process of that Sky Fortress launching an attack far more terrifying than the Tailed Beast Ball!
--That attack that fell from the sky, that terrifying, suffocating surge of Chakra!
Without a doubt!
Even he wouldn't dare attempt to transfer using the Flying Thunder God Guiding Thunder!
The principle of lightning guide is to first 'receive' the target with Sealing Jutsu, and then transfer it with the Flying Thunder God. If it cannot 'receive' the target, then without a doubt, it will be backfired!