Support

Chapter 268: Support

‘Hiss~’

A crawled out from a pile of rubble, feeling a stabbing pain where he had been struck.

The combined internal and external attack was too much even for his body to withstand.

What was going on?

In a contest of pure taijutsu, he had actually fallen into a disadvantage right from the start?

Impossible!

"I don’t believe it!"

Driven by confidence in his own abilities and the pride of a close-range fighter, A no longer limited himself to taijutsu alone. The Lightning Armor around him began crackling.

The next moment, he exhaled a breath of Tainted Qi and raised a trembling arm, holding four fingers together.

Then he bent them one by one until only a single finger remained.

That trembling was not from an injury inflicted by Xu Yue, but from the explosive force surging within his own body.

"This move is…"

Seeing his opponent’s opening stance, Xu Yue was rather surprised. It should have been the Third Raikage’s signature technique. Had he developed it through years of training after losing to him?

It seemed that the place he had affected most was still the Land of Lightning…

Crackle~

With a speed even more terrifying than before, A once again displayed the absolute speed second only to Minato.

Hell Stab!

This was also an incredibly powerful technique that the Raikage lineage could use only because their physiques rivaled those of tailed beasts.

It was known as the strongest spear!

Even Xu Yue could not continue deflecting such a terrifying attack in his current state.

But…

Eight Inner Gates, Fourth Gate, Gate of Pain, open!

Since he could only use taijutsu, then he could only rely on taijutsu speed to evade the attack!

There was clearly no need to receive the terrifying piercing power of Hell Stab head-on when relying purely on taijutsu.

After opening the Fourth Gate, the sudden surge in speed carried him beyond A’s predicted trajectory, allowing him to directly evade the piercing strike.

Screech~

A sharp channel of air appeared before A, and the airflow plowed a long, narrow gash through the ground.

No matter how powerful an attack was, it meant nothing if it could not hit its target.

After evading the attack with his suddenly increased speed, Xu Yue instead charged toward A’s flank.

A radiance formed from rising green steam emerged, echoing the Raikage’s deep-blue Lightning Armor.

Then the two rapidly tangled and collided.

Relying purely on close-combat ability, the two of them became like two indestructible streaks of light, the two beams continuously clashing and crossing.

The trailing afterimages left by those streaks swept out like scissors. A mere graze was enough to shatter building after building.

Every time the beams met, an arc-shaped shockwave spread outward.

The collisions came so frequently that before the aftermath of the first few could dissipate, dozens of new ripples would appear in succession.

With pure close combat alone, they unleashed destruction even more terrifying than the combined ninjutsu of Kakuzu’s five elemental techniques.

Even Kakuzu watched with a dumbfounded expression. These two were both monsters!

The Holy Hill Legion Reincarnators, who had already stopped on the other side, looked at each other and trembled.

This one was the real main target, wasn’t he? He was far more terrifying than the first one!

He had actually fought that Raikage, who was more terrifying than a monster, to this extent!

They wanted to cooperate with the Raikage and suppress him.

But the Elite Reincarnators, whose highest level was only jonin, could not even keep up with their speed!

"Fortune is found in danger! Everyone, it’s time to risk our lives!"

In the end, it was the Crusader leader who gritted his teeth.

"I have a powerful one-use item on me. Even if obtaining the Heavenly Transfer Technique afterward cannot make up for the loss, it will definitely be worth it if everyone benefits."

The moment he finished speaking, the others understood what he meant.

"Don’t worry. We won’t let you bear the loss alone. We’ll split the cost according to the item’s market price afterward."

"Good! This time, we’re going all out!"

Covered in green steam, Xu Yue continuously clashed with A using nearly all of his taijutsu techniques while also noticing the unrest among the Reincarnators.

The Space only gives me a reward if I beat him one-on-one.

They actually want to ruin my plans?

Forget it. I had already gotten enough out of fighting A, and I had more or less integrated my taijutsu mastery.

Then…

Let’s end this.

Sage Mode…

Activate!

Xu Yue could now enter Sage Mode in an instant. In the next moment, two snake scales appeared on both sides of his face.

The forgive-me green steam from opening the Fourth Gate immediately turned golden as natural energy fused into it.

The golden steam alone surged more than thirty feet outward.

The surrounding air warped.

His aura skyrocketed!

A immediately felt an oppressive force bearing down on him from the front.

Even the Lightning Armor around his body seemed to be suppressed.

Under that thick, oppressive sensation, even his movements slowed by a fraction!

"This guy…"

Before the thought could even arise in his mind, Xu Yue had vanished from sight, leaving behind only a golden afterimage.

Not good!

As he hastily turned around, all he could see was a fist rapidly enlarging before his eyes.

I’ll die!

That was the alarm ringing endlessly in A’s heart.

Yet under the terrifying wind pressure, having just completed his turn and exhausted his force, he found it difficult to move at all.

He could only watch helplessly as the punch came at him.

Boom!

The fist that had shot past his ear suddenly stopped.

Circles of air trails exploded through the air.

Behind A came the sensation of the earth shaking and mountains trembling.

Stiffly following the deliberately missed fist with his gaze, he saw that the ruins of the entire Raikage Building behind him, all the way out beyond the village, had been cleaved through by a plowed, penetrating opening!

"Huh? I missed."

Slowly withdrawing his fist, Xu Yue looked at A’s stiff expression.

With Great Mastery Body Mastery, Great Mastery Sage Body, Monster Strength Technique, the Fourth Gate of the Eight Inner Gates, and Sage Mode all working together, he had thrown the strike with the technique of Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm. Its destructive power had somewhat exceeded even Xu Yue’s expectations.

Since the mission was a pure contest of taijutsu, Xu Yue had not even incorporated his AT Field. With the combined explosive boosts from so many aspects, he had already reached this level.

Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm had even greater potential than he had imagined.

During the Fourth Holy Grail War, Hinata had used Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm to knock open one of the Ten-Tails’ tails under the buff from Naruto’s Chakra. With so many boosts now, reaching this level seemed only natural.

The ultimate limit of Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm’s advancement should be the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, capable of destroying heaven and earth, shaking the skies with sage power, and combining offense and defense into one…

"I lost…"

"In taijutsu, you are stronger too…"

Ding~ Taijutsu duel completed. Reward: Scroll. Perfect Body Mastery.

Defeating the Fourth Raikage, who possessed Nintaijutsu, in pure taijutsu and close combat had indeed earned him quite an excellent reward!

Seeing the scene of destruction behind him, caused purely by taijutsu and far greater than any ninjutsu, A’s face filled with bitterness.

After all these years, after training day and night, not only had he failed to close the gap, he had even been surpassed in taijutsu, where he had once held an absolute advantage.

Such talent truly made one despair.

Leaving aside A’s complicated feelings, the Reincarnators from Saint Hill Military Academy on the other side stood at the edge of the plowed depression, staring at the gaps where several teammates had inexplicably vanished into thin air.

The Crusader leader, who had just taken out a scroll, silently tucked it away again.

The others all pretended they had seen nothing.

What was there left to watch?

Did they want to become pancakes? They should just go home, wash up, and sleep.

They would just pretend this mission had never appeared…

But then they discovered that the situation seemed to have taken a turn for the better.

After such a terrifying scale of battle had erupted here, and the village had largely completed the evacuation of the combat zone, two more figures arrived at the scene.

Kumogakure’s other two Kage-level trump cards.

The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki Killer B! The Two-Tails Jinchuriki Yugito Nii!

Not only were they tailed-beast Jinchuriki, they were both capable of perfectly controlling the power of their tailed beasts.

They not only possessed powerful individual abilities, but also immense strategic destructive power!

"Lord Raikage!"

"Big bro!"

Upon arriving, the two saw the despondent expression on A’s face, an expression they had never seen before.

But after seeing his two allies, A swiftly recovered from his brief dejection.

He bore the name of Raikage. At a time like this, he had no time to wallow in self-pity!

"I lost this time, but that does not mean our village has lost!"

As his words fell, countless black dots appeared in the distance, surrounding the area.

In order to evacuate the villagers earlier, only the most elite group of Anbu had been nearby. After they were dealt with, there had briefly been a situation where the Raikage faced the enemy alone.

But now it was time to display the foundation of an entire village!

Lord Raikage had bought them enough time by himself!

Meanwhile, Xu Yue stared at Yugito Nii with an unusual expression.

Of the Chakra of the nine tailed beasts, yours is the only share I’m missing.

After making such a huge commotion, I finally managed to wait for you…

That’s both updates. Yugito Nii’s surname is Nii, and she is also the Two-Tails Jinchuriki, so it is a little easy to confuse.