Life among the stars was dull, even on the Boundary Domain Battlefield.
For a month, Fugaku rested with his eyes closed. Then they slowly opened as a faint tremor passed through the asteroid's surface.
His body vanished into Black Mist. He emerged from his hiding place and looked ahead. A flying rock had struck the asteroid.
Fugaku activated his Rinnegan Mangekyo and looked into the distance. Two groups were fighting, and the rock had been hurled into the asteroid by their clash.
One group had Byakugan. They were clearly from the Wood Realm and belonged to the Otsutsuki clan.
If Fugaku guessed correctly, the other group consisted of Sea Realm experts.
The five-member Otsutsuki squad had already suffered heavy losses. Two Ten-Tails in Complete Body form were barely clinging to life.
Fugaku's eyes widened in disbelief. He had felt the Ten-Tails' vitality for himself.
He had never expected them to be beaten unconscious. The ferocity of the battle exceeded his expectations.
One fighter raised both hands, and dense bolts of lightning poured from them like a torrential downpour.
The surrounding stars became a sea of lightning. The bolts avoided the Sea Realm experts and engulfed all five Otsutsuki.
The lightning had gone beyond its natural color and turned black, carrying an aura of destruction.
One bolt spread to the nearby rocks and instantly reduced them to ash.
The Sea Realm group had seven experts. Two were gravely wounded and unconscious, while the other five had also expended a great deal of strength. The fighting before this must have been brutal.
As the lightning kept falling, the Sea Realm experts visibly relaxed.
Killing five Wood Realm experts would be a major achievement for them.
Lightning continued to course over the five Otsutsuki. One of them suddenly drew a long blade from