Momoshiki Otsutsuki could not even be bothered to look straight at it. He merely tilted his head slightly and glanced out of the corner of his eye at the flames about to engulf him.
Then he raised his right hand and opened his palm, aiming the Rinnegan in it at the oncoming flames.
The flames stopped abruptly a foot in front of him.
Then, like water pouring into a parched desert, they spiraled into the Rinnegan in his palm, silently absorbed in their entirety.
The lingering heat still distorted the air, but the Ninjutsu that could have blasted through a city wall had vanished without leaving so much as a spark.
"..."
The two ANBU members' pupils contracted sharply.
The lean Ninja instinctively tried to form more hand seals, but Momoshiki had already turned his palm over gently.
"Here, have it back."
The terrifying Rinnegan lit up in his palm again. This time, a horrifying pillar of fire, even more intense than before, shot out of it.
After being absorbed, this Fire Release had been amplified and compressed by the Rinnegan, its power now on an entirely different level. The flames coalesced into a roaring dragon of fire that hurtled straight toward the two ANBU members.
It all happened in an instant.
The burly ANBU member only had time to open his mouth. Before he could even cry out, the flames swallowed him whole.
The lean Ninja behind him likewise had no time to dodge and was swept into the vortex of flames along with the rocks and earth for several meters behind him.
An explosion erupted, its terrifying blast of sound echoing through the river valley.
A great blaze and clouds of dust and smoke rose, and an enormous, dazzling fireball suddenly appeared before their eyes.
BOOM!!!!!!
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