But the members of the Akatsuki had all vanished. What exactly had they been desperately stalling for?
This felt extremely strange and abnormal.
After that earth-shattering explosion, the ground had been burned completely into scorched earth. It could even be described as a hell of flowing lava.
The terrifying heat had even melted the soil underground into magma.
Gekkō Raito stood in midair, suspended above the rolling heat waves, and slowly drifted forward.
Strangely, he could no longer sense Nagato's presence.
Even after carefully extending his senses to search, it seemed that the presences of all the Akatsuki members on the perimeter had vanished as well.
What was going on?
Just then, the bright sky suddenly darkened without any warning.
Gekkō Raito abruptly raised his head to look at the sky.
His pupils rapidly contracted in an instant.
[Great Sage: Emergency warning! Emergency warning! The host is being enveloped by an extremely powerful Sealing Jutsu barrier. Please leave the current area immediately...]
But before the Great Sage's notification had finished, the sky brightened again a second later.
However, a huge, translucent, four-sided barrier had visibly risen with a thunderous crash, completely sealing off the area.
Gekkō Raito's expression turned extremely grim. He now understood exactly what was happening.
No wonder Nagato had brought the First Hokage here and fought him relentlessly at any cost. All of this had been meant to hold him here.
They had desperately stalled for time just to set up this enormous sealing barrier.
Great Sage, can this Sealing Jutsu be forcibly dispelled?
[Great Sage: Analysis and calculations are proceeding at full speed...] [...] [...] [...]
This was the first time Gekkō Raito had found that the Great Sage, with its functions fully restored, had failed to immediately tell him roughly how