After the two enemies saw Ruri spiral away and vanish from where he stood, they looked around with stiff expressions but found no sign of him. Their great blades had also struck empty air, missing Ruri entirely.
Meanwhile, Lin the butler was watching Ruri's battle from a short distance away, evidently keeping a record of his combat.
Ruri reappeared behind the two ninja, his hands wreathed in lightning. He had unleashed his Ninjutsu, Lightning Blade.
"Since you like sneak attacks, let me show you how I do it. Take this!" Once Ruri's figure had fully appeared, the lightning around his hands instantly pierced the two ninja's bodies.
After Ruri plunged his hands into their bodies, the two ninja struggled to turn their heads to look at him. Their eyes showed how helpless they felt at that moment. They had no idea when Ruri had appeared there, nor did they know what Ninjutsu he had used to get behind them.
"See that? Now that's a sneak attack! Virtual people are still just virtual. No matter what, they don't have the practical combat experience of real people!" With that, Ruri pulled his hands back. No blood flowed from the two ninja's bodies; they simply fell to the ground and lay motionless.
The enemies' attacks did not let up. The two squads of ninja closing in around Ruri hurled a multitude of Shuriken and Kunai at him from either side.
"Do they think overwhelming me with numbers will work? How naive!" Ruri did not panic at the countless Shuriken and Kunai the two ninja squads threw at him. Instead, he spoke calmly.
Ruri then extended his hands and assumed the Eight Trigrams Palm stance before his body began spinning rapidly on the spot. A circular barrier appeared around him.
This was Rotation, a