One second.
"Gen! Stay behind me as much as you can!"
At those words, Shibi Aburame immediately began forming hand seals. The gourd on his back shook violently, as though something enormous was about to emerge.
"Hide? I'm... an Uchiha!"
His ocular power erupted, and his Three-Tomoe Sharingan activated in an instant.
He raised his right hand. Lightning began compressing wildly in his palm, and the blade of the Demon Blade Thousand Blades instantly fragmented, forming a sphere that churned rapidly within the lightning.
Three seconds.
In the Shinobi World, where meeting someone meant having to fight them, Uchiha Gen had never developed the terrible habit of waiting for an opponent to reach him and exchanging a few words before attacking.
Electricity surged, lifting Uchiha Gen's black hair. Blue-white sparks burst between the dark strands.
The Thousand Blades fragments in his right hand vibrated at high frequency in his palm. The loose stones on the surrounding ground suddenly shattered, their fragments floating in midair before an invisible magnetic field ground them into fine sand.
"Super Electromagnetic Cannon!"
Crackle!
The instant his cold, sharp words rang out, the Thousand Blades fragments shot from his fingertips, wrapped in lightning, tearing a scorched trail through the air.
The pale purple blades trailed electromagnetic arcs half a kilometer long, peeling back layer after layer of the road wherever they passed.
Five seconds.
"Who the hell!!! Do you think you're looking down on!!!"
Facing the oncoming lightning, Roshi, the Four-Tails' jinchūriki, had magma flowing all over his body. With a raise of his hand, several Lava Pillars instantly shot into the sky.
The soaring Lava Pillars transformed into dragons in midair and roared as they charged toward the incoming lightning.
The Lava Dragons swallowed the lightning.
Boom!!
The dragons' heads exploded instantly, and countless blade