So, they intelligently divided the Six Paths puppets into a grid, one-on-one, with one extra left over.
The battle entered its most intense stage from the very beginning.
The first to "die" was unexpectedly Pride of the Seven Deadly Sins. Pride was theoretically the strongest of the Seven Deadly Sins, and the opponent he had chosen was the Deva Path. Deva Path Pain was, in practice, the strongest of the Six Paths puppets.
Their clash had been simple, brutal, and fierce from the start.
Pride and the Deva Path merely exchanged a distant glance amid the crowd before they both knew it. It was destined to be you.
Then,
they charged at each other without regard for their lives.
One step—Banshō Ten'in.
Sorry, rejected.
Another step—Shinra Tensei.
Sorry, still rejected.
It was unlike ninjutsu and more like rules colliding in the air. When powers of the same level clashed, it ultimately became a collision of fundamental forces.
The first to be affected were the other clones and Six Paths puppets. They could not even keep their footing within the area where Pride and the Deva Path fought.
Then came Konoha's barrier monitoring unit.
The aftershocks of the energy collision reached the barrier, causing the readings in the real-world interface to surge sharply, then plummet, then surge again. The monitors' hearts rose and fell along with them, pounding wildly. Although it was not as exaggerated as the wave of sixteen Holy Fierce Bullet: Divine Execution shots, the fluctuations had continued several times and did not seem likely to stop anytime soon.
"Should we report this to Lord Naruto?"
"Obviously!"
"But the reply will probably just be: no need to interfere, keep a close watch."
His superior angrily smacked him on the head. "Reporting is our responsibility. How they handle it is