Back on the field, the Raikage's chakra leaked out wildly. Countless fine bolts of lightning lashed about like vigorously whipping vines, easily pulverizing anything they touched.
Yet Boruto remained calm and unafraid. He understood that the Raikage had yet to use his full strength; he still possessed the Storm Release Kekkei Genkai, as well as that unique black lightning.
Facing the Raikage's fierce charge, his body clad in lightning, Boruto reacted swiftly and threw more than a dozen specially made kunai in different directions.
The Raikage's fist followed in the next instant. Fine lightning had already spread across Boruto's body, but the Flying Thunder God Technique's Body Flicker Technique was an absolute instantaneous flash. Accordingly, the Raikage's attack missed.
But the instant Boruto landed, the Raikage's fist was already upon him, moving at a speed fully comparable to teleportation.
The force of the punch came rushing at his back. Boruto had not expected the Raikage's reactions to be so exceptional that he could lock onto—or rather, predict—his position so quickly.
Unfortunately, Boruto still evaded him by a step. "Flying Thunder God: Second Stage!"
After landing, Boruto no longer intended to evade passively. Standing far enough away from the Raikage, he released most of his chakra in one burst.
It was orange-red lightning as dazzling as the sun, the power of falling thunder crackling and exploding—a force of natural disaster defined by absolute speed and annihilation.
—Yang Lightning Chakra Mode!
With orange-red lightning enveloping him, Boruto's speed far surpassed the Raikage's. After dodging the punch that came at his back, Boruto rapidly caught up to him and pressed a sphere of orange-red lightning toward the Raikage's back.
Naturally, the Raikage sensed Boruto's movement. Though startled that this brat was so much faster than him, he could not help reminding him, "Lightning of the same level should be useless against me while I'm in Lightning Release Chakra Mode, no matter how you look at it."
His words came to an abrupt halt. The sound that emerged from his throat next differed somewhat from what he had been thinking—or rather, after taking Boruto's blow, his mind was completely consumed by shock and fear.
"Aaaah!!!" he roared in agony, desperately squeezing out his chakra to expel the "Yang Lightning" that had burrowed into his body.
But Yang Lightning clung to him like maggots to bone and was impossible to purge completely. He could only endure it stubbornly, feeling the exquisite power of lightning dance through his flesh, spreading through his limbs and bones until it crawled across his entire body.
A few seconds later, the Raikage had already been scorched by the Yang Lightning. Even the tissues of his internal organs had begun to die—a lightning strike beyond imagination!
Once he had recovered somewhat, the Raikage could not help laughing and cursing. "You bastard..."
"Watch out."
Just as he was about to use another terrifyingly powerful ninjutsu, Boruto spoke. His voice came from behind him—an undeniable humiliation for the Raikage, who was famed for his speed. He had always been the one to blitz others.
Boruto held an enormous orange-red sphere of lightning in one hand. The magma-like heat contained within the sphere constantly warned the Raikage that this was an attack he could not withstand.
Understanding the situation, the Raikage fell silent. He quietly withdrew from Lightning Release Chakra Mode, then turned around and looked at Boruto with a bitter smile. "What kind of nature transformation is this? Even my lightning can't resist it?"
Boruto dispersed his chakra as well. The spherical lightning in his hand vanished without a trace, making the Raikage breathe a sigh of relief.
"Yang Lightning. It's a kind of lightning that exists in nature and possesses terrifying power," Boruto explained. "The records describe Yang Lightning like this: it melts silver into liquid and turns steel into water. It possesses temperatures far beyond magma, while also carrying immensely violent explosive force.
It inherits every characteristic of lightning, including but not limited to paralysis, restraint, burns, and annihilation... among other traits."
The Raikage's worldview was truly overturned. As the leader of a village known for its lightning element, his proud Lightning Release ninjutsu was actually inferior to a nature transformation developed by a twelve-year-old boy.
Judging by that look, he didn't understand a word. After all, this was knowledge from the real world. Its earliest recorded appearance was in the Song Dynasty text Dream Pool Essays.
Boruto had won this battle. If they continued, even the Raikage had no confidence in victory. He understood that Boruto was preserving the dignity of his title as a Kage.
"Sorry, Lord Raikage. I was disrespectful just now," Boruto said, finally bowing respectfully in apology.
The Raikage did not particularly care about it. More than that, he even wanted to ask Boruto for guidance and have him teach him about Yang Lightning's nature transformation.
At this moment, the other four Kage also approached. The shock on the Tsuchikage and Mizukage's faces had yet to fade. Seeing the previously arrogant brat apologize to them as well, they stood there awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
They could all tell from the battle that the Raikage had lost. To surpass every one of the Raikage's techniques using nothing but the lightning element—it had to be said that this brat's strength had already reached Kage level.
"I believe everyone now has a general understanding of Boruto's abilities. That should make our upcoming discussion easier," Naruto stepped forward and said.
"Fine. Then tell us the subject of this Five Kage Summit," Gaara asked.
"Of course. Kage, let's return to the Hokage's council chamber and discuss it in detail." Boruto used the Space-Time Barrier again, teleporting everyone back at once.
"He can still use the Flying Thunder God Technique's Space-Time Barrier?" Tsuikae's shock had only just faded somewhat before his worldview was overturned anew.
At this point, the Kage also seemed to understand why Naruto had Boruto reveal himself to the Shinobi World. Perhaps it was to announce and promote the Hidden Leaf Village's Eighth Hokage?
"First, let us return to our previous topic. The Shinobi World is about to face an unimaginable enemy."
Shikamaru added, "Think about it. Kaguya Ōtsutsuki herself possessed strength above the Shinobi World, yet she still created an army of White Zetsu. Why?
Because Kaguya was not alone in the Starry Sky. Sasuke has spent more than a decade investigating Kaguya's ruins. We are not worrying without cause—we have genuinely discovered something."
The Mizukage interjected, "Speaking of Sasuke, why isn't he attending this meeting?"
The moment those words were spoken, the air became heavy, thick with oppression. Naruto's eyes immediately dimmed.
"What happened?!" The Kage were startled, realizing that something bad might already have occurred.
"This is why I said the enemy is only stronger than all of you," Boruto said.
"Yeah. Sasuke and I have already fought the enemy. Sasuke... is still recovering at Hidden Leaf Hospital."
Only then did the Kage recall that Boruto had previously said the Hidden Leaf Village had already encountered enemies twice.
For once, the Kage straightened their postures. They suddenly realized that perhaps everything Boruto had said earlier was true—the Shinobi World had already become restless.
"An enemy truly... comparable to... Kaguya Ōtsutsuki?" Even Tsuikae's voice faltered.
The Kage had all participated in the Fourth Shinobi World War. Back then, they had only just begun to emerge and make names for themselves. Before such powerful enemies, they had not even been qualified to face them. Had Naruto not shared the Nine-Tails' chakra, the entire Shinobi Alliance might have perished on the battlefield.
"Maybe. Maybe not. The enemy did not display the characteristics of the Six Paths, but Sasuke and I were indeed defeated," Naruto said.
"The enemy we fought is an organization called 'Moon.' Only three members have appeared so far. The first is their leader, who can construct the Four Red Yang Formation alone and travel through other dimensions. The second is a cloaked man who possesses Wood Release comparable to that of the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama.
This includes, but is not limited to, high-intensity ninjutsu such as True Several Thousand Hands and Top Transformed Buddha," Boruto explained.
"Such outrageous strength??"
"Yeah, but Sasuke should have killed the cloaked man."
Those words undoubtedly made the Kage breathe a sigh of relief. At least they were not enemies as impossible to defeat as Kaguya.
"But... that's all." Naruto sighed, as if releasing the helplessness in his heart, a sense of powerlessness spilling out with it.
"The last member of 'Moon' to appear so far is a person dressed entirely in white robes and wearing a mask. The trait he displayed was a Mangekyō Sharingan."
"Whew~~" The Kage let out a long breath.
They had fought the Eternal Mangekyō and even the Rinnegan. Compared to those, the Mangekyō Sharingan did not seem so terrifying.
But Naruto's next words shattered the Kage's assumptions and erased the last of their comfort and wishful hope.
"That White-Robed Man nearly killed Sasuke by himself. If Boruto hadn't come up with an idea at the last moment, the three of us might have all died there.
In the end, we only survived by escaping with Boruto's Flying Thunder God Technique." Naruto's expression was grim.
"A Mangekyō Sharingan that even the Tomoe Rinnegan couldn't defeat?" The long-silent Raikage finally spoke.
"Yeah. But Sasuke and I were probably defeated because we didn't understand the enemy's ocular powers. At first, the White-Robed Man displayed an intangibility ability far beyond Kamui. Then he altered damage values, and he could even fly using his ocular powers!"
"??" The Kage frowned. "Is that really just a Mangekyō Sharingan ocular power? Its functions are that comprehensive?"
"At present, more or less. The enemy did not use his full strength. Therefore, the purpose of this Five Kage Summit is to warn all of you: a new crisis has long since spread throughout the Shinobi World, and we need targeted measures." Naruto spoke solemnly.
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