The sky was torn to pieces by fiery explosions and clay creations.
The Kaguya brothers, Kei and Ken, shot through the air like cannonballs, the chakra thrusters on their backs blasting eerie blue chakra-enhanced exhaust as they carved two irregular zigzagging paths through the dense swarms of Clay Spiders and birds.
The armor on Kei's right arm sprang open, and a bone-white spike suddenly extended. Like a spear, it precisely pierced a diving clay owl. The instant the spike entered, he flicked his wrist, and several thinner bone spikes branched from its tip, shredding the clay creation from within and eliminating any chance of it exploding.
"Useless! My art is endless!" Deidara screamed from atop the Giant Clay Bird, frantically kneading more clay with both hands.
Kaguya Ken was even more direct. He activated his armor's overload mode, and the thrusters' output instantly surged. He became a blur and charged straight into the densest cluster of explosives. He neither dodged nor evaded, letting C1-level explosions burst against his armor in flashes of fire. The bone blades extending from his armguards crossed before his chest, forming a high-speed spinning drill that ground every approaching clay creation into powder.
However, this fighting style consumed an enormous amount of chakra. Deidara's clay seemed inexhaustible. The moment one sea of explosions was cleared away, another immediately filled the gap.
The situation on the ground battlefield was no better.
Sasori had seized more and more Bolters.
The terror of the "Performance of a Hundred Puppets" lay in the fact that Sasori did not need to act personally. Over a hundred Human Puppets equipped with Bolters were extensions of his will. They felt no fear and no fatigue, mechanically carrying out orders to fire, suppress, and advance.
Chiyo's "Chikamatsu Collection of Ten Puppets" was indeed the