"Earth Release: Earth Style Wall!"
"Water Release: Water Formation Wall!"
"Wind Release: Wind Wall!"
Kakuzu controlled two Earth Grudge Fear creatures and his own body to unleash three defensive Ninjutsu simultaneously, with the Wind Wall at the very front, the Water Formation Wall behind it, and the Earth Style Wall at the rear.
But Didaze gave a cold smile and pulled his finger down from the sky!
"Explode!"
Didaze shouted!
"Still trying to scare me?"
Kakuzu watched the flight path of the two-winged bird, then sneered disdainfully.
Boom!!!
A Clay Giant Bird swooped down from the sky, striking Kakuzu behind the Earth Style Wall head-on!
"Wh... what!"
Kakuzu knelt on one knee, convulsing in pain.
Before long, one of the Earth Grudge Fear creatures vanished completely.
"Was the lightning-attribute Earth Grudge Fear the one that disappeared? Looks like my luck isn't bad."
Didaze accurately identified the vanished Earth Grudge Fear creature's attribute as lightning!
This meant he could use Lightning Release to detonate his Clay Bombs without wasting more Chakra.
"When did you..."
After an Earth Grudge Fear creature left his body, Kakuzu finally recovered, stood up, and looked at Didaze with a grave expression.
"Take a guess?"
Didaze chuckled, with no intention of explaining it to Kakuzu.
That Clay Giant Bird was actually the one he had ridden here. When the battle began, he had directed it to fly away while he kept drawing Kakuzu's attention.
The earlier feigned explosion had also been intended to make Kakuzu lower his guard before delivering a vicious blow with the Clay Giant Bird!
Had Kakuzu used Earth Release: Hardening, even the Clay Giant Bird would not have been able to destroy one of his hearts, but Kakuzu had underestimated his opponent.
"You damned brat!"
Kakuzu stared at Didaze as fury rose within him.
This was the second time someone had beaten him into such a sorry state. The last time had been when he fought the First Hokage.
"Earth Release: Earth Flow River!"
"Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"
"Wind Release: Pressure Damage!"
Kakuzu unleashed three Ninjutsu in succession, creating something like lava that rushed toward Didaze with the aid of Wind Release!
"C2: Dragon!"
Didaze quickly molded a Giant Dragon, tossed it into the sky, then flipped onto its back!
The Giant Dragon immediately took flight, leaving the Earth Dragon Flame Flow on the ground completely unable to reach Didaze!
"Water Release: Water Line!"
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
"Wind Release: Decapitating Airwaves!"
Watching Didaze take flight, Kakuzu controlled three Earth Grudge Fear creatures to unleash long-range Ninjutsu.
The three Earth Grudge Fear creatures below frantically fired Ninjutsu into the sky, while Didaze used the Giant Dragon to dodge and return fire!
Didaze's Giant Dragon kept spitting out Clay Bombs-spiders, centipedes, and even the most ordinary little round bombs.
But as soon as Kakuzu's Earth Grudge Fear creatures saw the Clay Bombs falling, they destroyed them with Ninjutsu.
The bombs were blasted straight into ash, naturally leaving them unable to explode.
"C3 No. 18!"
While the Giant Dragon attacked, Didaze began tirelessly molding Number 18. Since Number 18 required an enormous infusion of Chakra, it also took relatively longer to make.
"Is that all you've got?"
Kakuzu taunted him.
Kakuzu had cleared away all the little bombs, and now he had begun attacking the Giant Dragon with ranged attacks!
Any bomb the Giant Dragon produced was immediately obliterated by Kakuzu's attacks, while its body also came under constant assault!
"Tentacle Fist!"
Watching Didaze remain silent overhead, Kakuzu suddenly felt a little uneasy.
He chose to trust his instincts and launched his fist straight upward like a rocket!
Kakuzu stared fixedly at Didaze, steering his fist through the sky to dodge the bombs!
"You can't dodge this..."
Kakuzu's fist swept around one Clay Bomb after another and successfully reached Didaze!
A satisfied smile appeared on Kakuzu's face.
Panic also appeared on Didaze's face, as though he too had realized he could not dodge.
"I'll be taking your bounty!"
Kakuzu had put all his strength into this punch. Anyone it struck had no chance of surviving unless they specialized in Taijutsu!
"Something's wrong!"
The moment Kakuzu struck Didaze, he sensed something was wrong!
It did not feel like hitting a human at all, but rather a lump of clay!
"You fell for it!"
The Didaze he had struck made a face at Kakuzu, then began rapidly swelling all over!
When the real Didaze used his Clay Substitute, he immediately molded a Clay Giant Bird behind him and jumped aboard!
"How could this happen!"
Kakuzu tried to pull his hand back, but the Clay Bomb had already wrapped tightly around it!
Boom!
After jumping onto the Clay Giant Bird, Didaze immediately detonated the Clay Bomb!
With an enormous roar, the Clay Substitute exploded, setting off a chain reaction that also detonated the clay Giant Dragon!
Kakuzu's fist was reduced to ash, and even the black threads controlling it were burned to ash!
"Ugh..."
Kakuzu let out a muffled groan of pain.
His arm was completely gone from the elbow down, without even any blood remaining.
"C3 No. 18!"
Didaze seized the opportunity to throw out C3 No. 18, into which he had infused an enormous amount of his Chakra.
C3 No. 18 expanded in the wind, quickly reaching dozens of meters in size!
"Such tremendous power..."
Kakuzu stared in horror at the enormous doll-shaped Clay Bomb, the shock in his eyes impossible to conceal.
"No, I can't escape!"
Kakuzu helplessly realized that he would have absolutely no chance of surviving such a massive explosion. He might as well fight it out!
Above him, Didaze also had barely any Chakra left. This time, he had poured in all his Chakra, intending to destroy every one of Kakuzu's hearts in one go!
The explosion of a giant Clay Bomb like this could last for nearly a minute at the very least, and a minute was enough to kill Kakuzu four times!
"Earth Grudge Fear: Final Shot!"
Kakuzu recalled the three Earth Grudge Fear creatures into his body and began gathering an enormous amount of Chakra in the arm whose fist had been destroyed!
Although Kakuzu could not form Hand Seals without his fist, he could still fire a Chakra beam made of mixed Chakra without any problem.
Kakuzu gathered all the Chakra in his body and fired it straight at C3 No. 18!
A beam over ten meters thick collided with the clay doll dozens of meters tall!
Boom!!!!!
Mountainsides collapsed one after another, and the forest was utterly destroyed.
Outside the forest.
"What a powerful clash of Chakra!"
Watching the Chakra spilling out from within, Umu and the other two could think of nothing but admiration.
"So this is the gap between me and Lord Didaze..."
Umu's gaze grew hazy.