"Extreme Lightning Chidori: Scatter Blossom!"
Crackle—!!!!
Lightning flared throughout the sea of mist!
Every arc of electricity tried to lock onto and strike any enemy that might be hiding.
But the Third Mizukage shifted between mist and water like a fish. The instant lightning struck him, he turned into a puddle of clear water and merged into the fog, only to reform somewhere else.
"Useless... useless..."
His laughter drew closer and closer. "Every time you use a ninjutsu, every breath you take, you accelerate the poison mist's infiltration.
"By my reckoning... it should be taking effect now, shouldn't it?"
The moment his words fell—
A ripping pain suddenly tore through Kumoi's chest!
"Cough—!"
He dropped to one knee, his right hand clamped tightly over his chest.
It was not the pain of an external wound, but a bizarre agony erupting from the deepest reaches of his chakra pathways, as though countless poisonous insects were gnawing at them!
Within his subconscious, Ray and Gaia cried out in alarm at the same time:
"Kumoi?! What's happening?!"
"Kumoi, kid! Your chakra flow is in chaos!"
Kumoi wanted to respond, but it felt as if an invisible hand had closed around his throat. Even transmitting his thoughts became intermittent.
Gritting his teeth, he looked inward—and discovered in horror that fine gray threads had somehow filled his chakra pathways. Those threads were madly absorbing his chakra while releasing neurotoxins that destroyed the structure of his pathways!
"Found them, have you?"
The Third Mizukage slowly emerged from the mist, standing five meters in front of Kumoi with a victor's smile on his face.
"This isn't ordinary poison mist... It's the Chakra Parasitic Poison, which I spent ten years researching specifically for Kage Level experts.
"Even the Ninja World's Asura of old—Madara Uchiha—would have been helpless against