"Can you still hold on?"
It wasn't Mei Terumi asking Hozuki Mangetsu that question, but Hozuki Mangetsu asking her.
Because, unlike Hozuki Mangetsu, who was expending chakra, she needed to briefly emerge for air every so often.
And that was undoubtedly extremely dangerous.
The enemy would seize those opportunities to attack.
But Mei Terumi was no pushover either. Traces of her attacks lay everywhere around them, the acid and scalding mist having all but created a forbidden zone of death.
Yet Dagon's abilities truly were an overwhelming counter to Mei Terumi and Hozuki Mangetsu.
His innate ability to control water had almost completely neutralized their Water Release Ninjutsu.
Neither Lava Release nor Boil Release could do anything to the sea before them. Instead, acid and the like would immediately be diluted upon falling into the seawater.
Their abilities were countered, and they had lost the advantage of terrain.
It was already no small feat that Mei Terumi and Hozuki Mangetsu had managed to hold out this long.
But the longer this dragged on, the worse things would become for them.
Just as Mei Terumi was calmly considering countermeasures and looking for a way out, a massive change suddenly occurred behind her!
At some point, a huge hole had opened in the sky, and vast quantities of blood poured in through it.
Trees were submerged one after another, disappearing from sight...
Even the sky grew dim, its bright sunlight swallowed by darkness.
"What's happening?"
Hozuki Mangetsu was startled and uncertain, unsure whether this change was good or bad for them.
But one thing was certain: this definitely wasn't the work of that octopus-head!
In the blink of an eye, the blood-red liquid spread toward them.
Hozuki Mangetsu didn't dare make any rash moves, and the liquid seemed to have no intention