"Clang—"
"Lightning-Sealing Barrier! Close!" Dozens of ninja exerted their strength at once. Before long, a blue lightning barrier sealed off the entire battlefield completely.
A stood amid the ruins, the lightning around his body even more violent than before, like a layer of flickering armor covering his skin.
"Mirai Uzumaki, leave your life here today!" A's voice echoed within the barrier, carrying suppressed fury. "Space-time has been sealed. You can't use your Flying Thunder God anymore!"
Mirai landed atop a tilted lamppost, his Nine-Tails Chakra Cloak drifting slowly behind him.
He glanced down at the lightning-wall barrier rising around him, then at A standing in the middle of the ruins. There was not the slightest trace of panic on his face.
"Then let's see whether you have what it takes to keep me here."
Mirai's voice was calm. "Perfect. Let me see why you're called the Strongest Shield and the Strongest Spear."
"Then I'll show you!"
A's figure vanished from where he stood—
The next second, he appeared directly above Mirai. The four fingers of his right hand were pressed together, while Lightning Release chakra gathered at his fingertips in a blinding blue glow!
"Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite—Earth Split!"
He plunged down like a blue lightning pillar falling from the heavens, smashing fiercely toward Mirai's position!
Mirai tapped the tip of the lamppost with his toes and leaped backward.
The instant his figure left its spot, A's fingers pierced the lamppost—BOOM!
The iron lamppost split in half down the middle. The force did not stop there, blasting a bottomless fissure into the ground. Rubble scattered everywhere, and the crack spread outward like a spiderweb for more than ten meters.
Mirai flipped through the air, planted one foot against the barrier wall, and used the recoil to steady himself. At the