Boom!
A Tailed Beast Bomb flew in from Iwo Jima's eastern coast, crossed the island's highlands and ravines, and exploded with a thunderous roar.
A towering ball of flame blossomed spectacularly, more magnificent than the extinct Mount Suribachi erupting anew.
Viewed from above, Iwo Jima was ringed by towering seaside cliffs. Motoyama in the north was a landscape of rolling heights and crisscrossing gullies, while Mount Suribachi stood at the southwestern tip, nearly ten kilometers from north to south.
This sea fortress, against which American Marine divisions had battered themselves bloody, teetered on the brink amid the shock waves of the battle between Shukaku and the Nine-Tails Demon Fox, two monsters more terrifying than natural disasters.
Glancing back at the devastated Iwo Jima, Uchiha Senmon pressed his lips together and stared with utmost gravity at the savage, menacing Nine-Tails Demon Fox.
"Whether in power or firing speed, Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Bombs far surpassed Shukaku's!"
After three or four exchanges of Tailed Beast Bombs, even a massive concentration of chakra like Shukaku was a little winded, but the Nine-Tails Demon Fox's evil chakra remained bottomless.
Chakra shaped into the two forms of yin release and yang release merged, and the Nine-Tails Demon Fox was about to produce another Tailed Beast Bomb.
Shukaku's chakra was already stretched thin.
At that critical moment, Isobu the Three-Tails finally swam into the waters around Iwo Jima and launched an assault.
Bang!
Isobu arched his body, wrapped his three spiked tails around his abdomen, and rolled rapidly like a wheel, using his indestructible shell and weight to ram into the Nine-Tails Demon Fox.
Shadow Stroke!
An instant before Isobu charged into him, the Nine-Tails Demon Fox, possessing Malice Perception, swung several long, supple tails behind him to block.
Roar!
Even with his fox tails cushioning the