"Heh, this really is a scene worth remembering."
Doichi's expression softened slightly, as though he had recalled something.
Yet an enormous surge of chakra erupted from within him, every bit as powerful as the Third Raikage's. This time, the solid chakra he released did not immediately slam into the surrounding air. Instead, he shaped it into strands of blue chakra thread that spun rapidly around his body.
In the blink of an eye, Doichi was surrounded by arcs of light formed from those visible blue threads, which ultimately became a tightly sealed, spinning sphere of chakra.
Doichi pushed off, propelling the chakra sphere forward. Water parted behind him and on either side, while a wildly spinning water dragon trailed across the surface behind him. Like a steel drill spinning at high speed, he raced ahead.
To the onlookers, the two combatants were no longer visible. All they could see was a long dragon of water colliding head-on with a rapidly spinning water dragon.
The instant the two water dragons collided, dazzling lightning and blue solid chakra erupted, breaking through the heavy curtain of water to reveal the true nature of both attackers' power.
Rikuo, who was pursuing the Third Mizukage with Susanoo, could not help stopping to look toward the area where the Third Raikage and Doichi were fighting.
An inverted, spinning bowl of blue light was expanding at an astonishing speed, sweeping up and engulfing everything around it.
The bowl of light also kept rising, its highest point appearing to reach over a hundred meters.
With dazzling light filling his vision, Rikuo instinctively narrowed his eyes despite Susanoo's protection.
"Damn it! Those two reckless brats!"
The Third Mizukage cursed as waves of water and fierce winds battered him one after another, like a natural disaster.
Seizing the opportunity, Rikuo