Gekkō Raito instantly raised his hand, and thick walls of ice rose from the ground almost in the blink of an eye.
They were meant to block the monster's charge, but Naruto was now like a heavy tank out of control, barreling straight ahead and effortlessly smashing the ice walls Raito had erected.
Dense snowflakes suddenly drifted down from the sky. Raito controlled them, turning them into a blizzard that swept toward Naruto in an attempt to slow him down.
Immediately afterward, a huge ice spear formed before Raito. He thrust it forward, pouring tailed beast chakra into it wildly. The spear, formed from ice frozen solid for ten thousand years, shot straight at Naruto with a piercing whistle.
But at that very moment, the Nine-Tails chakra erupted in full force. The terrifying wave of heat blasted apart the surrounding blizzard and dispersed the ice spear as well.
I can't freeze him!
It seemed that Raito's current mastery was still a little lacking if he wanted to use Ice Release of this level against the completely rampaging Nine-Tails!
A streak of red light flashed through the air, moving so fast that it even produced a sonic boom.
Bang!
With no time to react at all, Raito took the red light head-on. His body flew straight backward like a kite with its string cut, traveling several hundred meters before crashing into a stretch of ruins.
A huge cloud of dust rose from the ground, instantly forming a terrifying dust storm.
Meanwhile, Jiraiya stared blankly, his mouth wide open, at the rampaging Naruto, who no longer looked human at all.
"This power... so this is the Nine-Tails on a rampage? It really is terrifying!"
Yet while Jiraiya stood stunned, the red monster slowly turned its head. Its emotionless, bestial eyes locked firmly