"Game time is over." Standing atop the Wood Dragon's head, Urashiki looked down at the four faces stricken with horror by the utter failure of their attack. He snapped his fingers.
The Wood Dragon's massive tail, as though twisted together from ancient trees, swept sideways with a dull howl that tore through the air. It was the simplest of strikes!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The four impacts came almost at once. Boruto, Shikadai, Shinki, and Uchiha Hikari might as well have been hit head-on by a train at full speed.
The Chakra protecting them shattered like paper. All four spat blood as they were hurled away like kites with severed strings. They carved long trails through the sand before collapsing among the scorching dunes, unable to move so much as a finger.
One strike.
He had casually neutralized an all-out attack from the four of them combined, leaving every one of them gravely injured.
Urashiki hopped lightly down from the Wood Dragon's head and landed on the sand. He strolled toward the fallen group, whose eyes still held shock and defiance.
"Now, according to the 'mission,' it's time for the sealing."
At that critical moment, the intricate Mangekyo pattern in Uchiha Hikari's eyes erupted with an unprecedented scarlet light!
A surge of Chakra far greater than what she had unleashed with Amaterasu burst forth!
"Aaaagh!"
With a cry that barely contained her pain, bones like burning red crystal formed before Hikari and spread at astonishing speed, building a frame around her!
The moment a small Susanoo appeared, it lunged forward and seized the Wood Dragon's sweeping tail with a huge skeletal hand!
The Wood Dragon's charge faltered! Countless hairline cracks spread across the Susanoo's bones, but it had stopped the deadly blow. Boruto, Shikadai, and Shinki remained sheltered behind its