area51novel Chapter 360 A Plan from Many Years Ago
Chapter 360 A Plan from Many Years Ago
Just as Minato was about to be sucked to the tip of the spear, Urashiki thrust out the spear without hesitation!
"puff."
A soft sound, like a sharp object piercing flesh.
The "Minato" who was pierced by the spear suddenly dissipated and disappeared like smoke, leaving no trace.
It's a shadow clone!
"What?!" Pu Shi's pupils contracted.
"Whoosh!"
Almost at the same instant the shadow clone disappeared, another Minato Namikaze appeared from Urashiki's blind spot to the side! He held a perfectly intact Flying Thunder God kunai in his hand, the tip of which was aimed straight at Urashiki's unsuspecting neck!
"Bang!"
In a moment of haste, Urashiki narrowly parried the fatal thrust with his red chakra spear! Sparks flew!
He was both shocked and furious! His earlier "weakness" and "being knocked back" were all a facade?! A trap to lure him into close combat and lower his guard?!
"I already told you... this kind of attack is useless against me!"
Urashiki gritted his teeth, forcefully pushing aside Minato's kunai. A cold, arrogant smile returned to his face. "I suggest you give up now. No matter how many times you try, the result will be the same."
"Is that so?" The "Minato" in front of him simply said.
"puff."
The next second, the figure of this "water gate" also vanished without a trace, like a bubble.
Another shadow clone! Two decoys in a row!
Urashiki's face darkened completely, and alarm bells rang in his mind!
"So... how do you plan to 'dodge' these attacks?"
The calm yet imposing sound of the water gate came from all directions.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh—!"
On the battlefield, dozens of Flying Thunder God kunai, which had been thrown at some point or secretly laid out by the shadow clones, suddenly lit up!
Immediately afterwards, several, even a dozen, figures of Minato Namikaze suddenly appeared from different Flying Thunder God coordinates! They launched a saturation attack on Urashiki in the center from all possible angles, like a storm, with no blind spots!
The sheer number of clones and the density of their attacks nearly filled the space around Urashiki!
"Foolish! I've already told you! You're wasting your time!!"
Faced with this suffocating onslaught, Urashiki's golden Rinnegan eyes snapped open in fury! He no longer tried to deal with them one by one, but instead suddenly stretched his arms out to his sides!
"Shinra Tensei—!!!"
Om-! ! !
An invisible repulsive field, more intense and wider than before, erupted from his center, like a rapidly expanding transparent sphere, instantly deflecting all incoming attacks!
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft..."
Minato's clones continuously dissipated within the repulsive field, turning into white smoke. All physical and energy attacks were repelled by this absolute force, unable to get even a fraction closer.
As the repulsive field slowly dissipated, Urashiki floated in the "clean" air again, looking around at the empty space, with only the Nine-Tails still pinned in the distance, and... a battlefield that seemed to have no more tricks up its sleeve.
That smug, self-satisfied smile of complete control reappeared on his face.
"Enough, you inferior creature. Even if you manage to attack me—even just a scratch—what good will it do? It only wastes a little time; you can't hurt me at all!"
next moment.
"Whoosh—!!!"
His triumphant words abruptly stopped!
A sharp, excruciating pain suddenly erupted from the very center of his chest without warning!
This...this is the real, hidden, fatal blow?!
"Hmph...Utterly useless!" The intense pain made Urashiki's voice tremble, but the arrogance belonging to the Otsutsuki in his heart still stubbornly resisted.
He endured the tearing sensation and tried to activate the escape method that had long become instinctive—to completely "energyize" the chakra and will that constituted this consciousness, dispersing them into countless red origami cranes, thereby breaking free from this restraint and harm!
Commands are issued with the speed of lightning...
...No response.
Focus your mind again and unleash your full power...
...The chakra within his body remained cold, stagnant, and motionless!
Even... he can no longer sense or manipulate the Otsutsuki chakra that originally permeated the surrounding space and belonged to the [Karma]!
"Wha...what's going on?! Why?! It's not working! I can't move...my chakra...why can't I mobilize even a single bit?!"
Urashiki could no longer maintain his composure and screamed in terror!
He felt like an insect trapped in amber, his body completely imprisoned, and even the source of his energy for survival and resistance forcibly severed.
"As expected..." A calm voice rang out not far behind him.
It was Minato Namikaze. He stared indifferently at Urashiki, who was pierced through and unable to move.
"That technique—'Shinra Tensei'..." Minato's voice was unhurried, "Although its defense is absolute, in your current state, especially with your consciousness relying on unstable [Karma] data, you cannot continuously and without interruption use it at a high frequency. Each time you unleash it at full power, it will consume the key energy in your fusion process with [Karma], leaving a brief but fatal 'downtime'."
Logically speaking, if Urashiki only wanted to delay and wait for the fusion to complete, the safest way would have been to keep using Shinra Tensei.
"So, when I used continuous shadow clones to create a feint attack, forcing you to use 'Shinra Tensei' to 'completely wipe out the field'... your choice was actually within my expectations."
Pu lowered his head with difficulty, his gaze finally landing on the source of his pain and confinement.
It is a chain made of golden chakra.
These chains not only pierced his "body" but also firmly locked away any possibility of him mobilizing his power.
"What...what did you do to Naruto?!"
Just as Urashiki was shaken to his core by this desperate situation and his thoughts almost stopped, a female voice filled with murderous intent and grief, which Urashiki also found somewhat familiar, rang out.