Less than five minutes into the battle, the water droplets had already adapted enough to form a ground-to-air barrage like the bullets and shells in Contra!
But sheer numbers meant nothing against Yomotsu Hirasaka: Body as the Passage. Whether one shot or a hundred, he swallowed them all...
Māra raced across the desert at full speed, his white Rinnegan tracking the white shadow moving rapidly overhead.
Whenever a Water Drop passed through that figure, a black square of Yomotsu Hirasaka's Hidden Door flashed across the white shadow before vanishing.
Through the black Rinnegan he had inherited from Naruto, Māra murmured to himself, "Seriously, when he turns himself into a Yomotsu Hirasaka connecting two spaces, where do his blood vessels and internal organs go? They can't just vanish into thin air. How would his body keep functioning as a human being...?"
"Then I have reason to believe he's only turned his 'skin' into Yomotsu Hirasaka."
"If his skin serves as the 'door,' his flesh and organs should be hidden in the gaps between the doors. But my Water Drop had already pierced space itself. If that were really the case, he shouldn't have survived."
"Is the Tenseigan behind this? Ryūshiki's Tenseigan possesses spatial manipulation of the highest order. Perhaps it opened an alternate dimension like the Kamui Space-Time to house his flesh and organs."
Māra was at a loss. At this rate, he could not force his way through Yomotsu Hirasaka: Body as the Passage... His only option was a battle of attrition, to see whose ability reached its limit first.
And the one thing Void Māra could not adapt to was the chakra consumed by activating techniques.
The Water Drop was growing increasingly powerful through adaptation, but its chakra consumption was also growing exponentially along with its strength.
Every water