With injuries like those, his opponent had only one breath left. The two of them had merely killed each other.
"You should celebrate, boy. It's your honor to have a Kazekage like me die here with you."
Once word reached Konoha, he could even be named a hero.
"I don't think so." Hyuga Akira still wore that savage smile. Even without smiling, he actually looked pretty savage.
"Level up!!"
[Name: I'm Xiao Ming] [Class: Hunter] [Secondary profession: Doctor] [Level: lv56 (0/261500)]
The flames on his body went out. His missing skin rapidly regenerated, the wounds pierced by iron spikes healed, and even his lost eyes returned.
At this point, it came down to who activated their cheat first.
"How... is that possible?" The Kazekage stared at Hyuga Akira in disbelief.
No.
His opponent had demonstrated this ability at the start.
"Erased... again..."
His eyes dimmed, and his head drooped limply. The iron sand floating throughout the instance lost all support and fell to the ground.
[Experience: 1154567]
Hyuga Akira pulled his hand back, lay on the ground, and took a deep breath. Suddenly, he burst out laughing.
"Hahahaha!!! I won!! Hahahaha!!!"
"Old bastard!! I won in the end!!!"
From today onward, he could truly be considered a Kage-level powerhouse.
[Quest: Hunt down any one Kage from the Five Great Shinobi Villages: Mist, Cloud, Stone, Sand, or Leaf] [Time limit: Eight months] [Reward: Remove chakra restriction] [Completed] [Chakra restriction lifted] [Chakra/Nen: 36610/24110+10000+1000+500+500+500] [Calculating physical strength] [Calculating spiritual strength] [Chakra/Nen: 162500/160000+10000+1000+500+500+500]
Blue chakra enveloped Hyuga Akira's entire body. He now probably possessed an amount of chakra comparable to Nawaki's.
"I finally won't have to worry about chakra anymore."
A line of text floated in the sky.
"Winner: Player Hyuga Akira."
"I really didn't expect a Kage