Both sides were monsters through and through!
Everyone had long known that Raito was a freak, but who could have imagined that Might Guy, who usually looked rather comical, could be so terrifying when he unleashed his power?
"Eight Gates of Restriction... this move absolutely deserves to be called the Shinobi World's greatest taijutsu!"
The Fourth Raikage spoke with lingering fear.
Beside him, Darui and C nodded repeatedly, their faces pale with fright.
There were probably only a handful of people in the entire Shinobi World who could fight an inhuman being like Raito to this extent.
Ōnoki wore a complicated expression. "This is what makes Konoha's reserves so terrifying. Even a seemingly ordinary Elite Jōnin has the power to destroy the world when he puts his life on the line."
As he spoke, the old man gave a helpless, bitter smile. If Iwagakure had someone this formidable, he, the Tsuchikage, would wake up laughing from his dreams at night.
"Good thing that Raito already defected from Konoha and joined Kirigakure. Otherwise, Konoha would be so strong now that nobody else would stand a chance."
Kurotsuchi rubbed salt in the wound from beside him.
Deidara curled his lip in disdain. "There's no beauty in this kind of battle. It's just brute force, beating each other up. How boring!"
Boring?
Ōnoki almost failed to resist punching his wayward disciple.
You call what you do pursuing art? What fundamental difference is there between your explosions and this brute force? Isn't it all just destruction?
But now was not the time to discipline Deidara.
The earth-shattering thunder continued for over ten seconds before slowly subsiding.
When the dust cleared, everyone poked their heads out for a look and sucked in a sharp breath.
The original uneven valley terrain had vanished completely. An entire