Meanwhile, on the hilltop.
The moment the Raikage's group's Chakra entered Naruto's sensing range, his eyelids twitched, and he opened his eyes.
"Finally here." He curled the corner of his lips.
He stood up from the ground and patted his legs.
The movement of him getting up caused Boruto, who was next to him, to look up from his scroll.
Boruto hurriedly put away his scroll and stood up too. "Dad, what's wrong?"
"The mission target is here."
Upon hearing this, Boruto immediately leaned toward the edge of the hilltop, supporting himself with both hands on a protruding rock, and looked toward the Land of Hot Springs.
After looking for a long time, apart from the outline of the dirt road under the moonlight and the shadows of birds occasionally flitting over the distant tree line, he didn't see anything.
"How come I don't see them?" Boruto squinted and stretched his neck out a bit further.
"They're still far away."
Naruto withdrew his gaze from the direction of the border line and looked at Boruto. "Stay here for a while, don't go out."
Upon hearing this, the anticipation on Boruto's face collapsed. "Huh? I wanted to carry out the mission with you."
"Listen to me."
Naruto stood at the edge of the hilltop, facing the direction of the Land of Hot Springs, and used Mind's Eye of the Kagura to specifically locate the Raikage's group.
At this moment, the group had stopped two kilometers away. He sensed a wave of sensing Chakra just retract. The sensory ninja had finished the border reconnaissance.
"Since the guests are here, let's say hello first."
Boruto was stunned. Before he could ask how he was going to say hello, he saw Naruto begin to rise into the air.
Boruto's eyes widened and his jaw dropped. "He's flying..."
Naruto didn't stop until he rose to a height of one hundred meters. With his hands crossed in front of his chest, Chakra surged out from his palms and fingertips simultaneously.
At the same time, he removed the concealment of his Chakra and C sensed him.
"Raikage-sama..."
C's senses exploded instantly, his voice rising an octave. "That's a person..."
"What?" A asked.
Before C could finish speaking, the ball of light in the night sky suddenly exploded.
Yasakani Magatama!
The next moment, countless light bullets poured down from Naruto's position. They were incredibly fast. Just as C's sensory ability captured the trajectory of the light bullets, they had already covered the entire area where they were located.
"Damn it! Scatter, all of you!" A roared,
Lightning Release Chakra Mode!
His body turned into a blue streak of lightning, dodging at high speed through the gaps between the light bullets.
Darui grabbed the back of C's collar and yanked him to the side, while simultaneously using his right foot to launch himself in the opposite direction.
However, the coverage area of the light bullets was too large, and the density was too high.
Rumble...
Rumble...
The explosions came one after another, and the ground of the entire forest shook violently.
On the distant hilltop, Boruto gripped the edge of the rock with both hands, his mouth wide open, his eyes gleaming.
"So cool! I want to learn that!"
Boruto jumped up and down on the spot, waving his hands in the air.
Sasuke held the trunk with one hand, his Rinnegan reflecting the continuous explosions and firelight in the distance.
The Naruto of this space-time once again exceeded his understanding. This was not the power of a Tailed Beast, nor was it Sage Mode, and certainly not any Ninjutsu he had ever seen.
Naruto still maintained the posture of condensing light bullets, and Mind's Eye of the Kagura clearly fed back the situation of the battlefield below.
The smoke and dust from the explosion slowly dissipated. A large clearing had been blasted into the forest below and the fallen trees were still burning.
A looked back and saw that Darui was pushing a broken trunk that had been pressing on him aside, with C protected behind him, having no major injuries other than a cheek scratched by gravel.
As for the ten elite Kumogakure Ninjas they brought, several had already fallen into the smoking craters, and the remaining few were struggling to crawl out of the rubble.
"Raikage-sama, the enemy is..."
C looked up to the front, his pupils contracting sharply.
A golden figure appeared at A's side, moving so fast that even A, known for his speed, only saw a blur.
Light Speed Kick!
The next instant, the foot carrying the scorching white light made contact with A's side.
Bang!
A was kicked away by this light, his burly body carving a straight trajectory through the air, snapping three trees in a row, before finally crashing into the rock of the mountainside.
"Boss!"
"Raikage-sama!"
Darui and C roared simultaneously.
Darui formed hand seals, blue electric light surging from his palms.
But before he could finish his seals, a laser beam shot towards him.
Boom!
Darui urgently interrupted his hand seals and dodged to the side. The laser grazed his shoulder and hit a rock not far behind him, the blast wave sending him flying.
"Damn it!"
Darui gritted his teeth in mid-air, adjusting his posture in an attempt to land and steady himself.
Just then, a figure appeared alongside his backward trajectory, raising his right foot and aiming it at his chest.
Darui's pupils constricted sharply. He saw the foot clearly, but seeing it and dodging it were two different things.
The foot landed against his chest, and he crashed into the pile of rubble on the other side.
C saw a blond boy stepping out from the golden light and asked, "You... you are the enemy?"
This excessively young face looked just like the one in the intelligence photograph he had brought. Twelve or thirteen years old, blond hair and blue eyes.
He felt as though he wasn't locking eyes with a kid, but rather looking at a veteran who had lived through several lifetimes on the battlefield.
"You are the sensory Ninja from Kumogakure?"
Naruto's gaze swept over C's face: "In a team, damage output is certainly important, but support cannot be underestimated either."
"Intelligence, perception, tactical coordination... if you manage to make it out alive, remember to remind the Raikage next time not to barge into another country's border with so few people."
As he spoke, Naruto raised his right hand, and the light at his fingertips slowly condensed in the night. This white light grew brighter and brighter in the center of C's pupils.
"Damn it!"
He gritted his teeth and formed hand seals, pouring all his Chakra into his most proficient genjutsu.
Lightning Release: Lightning Illusion Flash of Lightning Pillar!
A blinding flash of lightning exploded before Naruto's eyes, acting directly on his visual nerves with an intensity sufficient to render an ordinary ninja unconscious on the spot.
However, C was stunned. Naruto's eyes remained clear and bright. There wasn't even a trace of fluctuation in his blue pupils to suggest he had been affected by the genjutsu.
"Out of tricks?"
Naruto's finger stopped in mid-air, Light Release Chakra condensing at his fingertip.
"Then accept your fate."
'Damn it, is this how it ends?' C looked desperate.
Just as he closed his eyes to wait for death, a blue bolt of lightning exploded from the side.
A's burly figure appeared behind Naruto at a speed far exceeding before. His entire arm was emitting a piercing hiss of electric current.
"Bastard, take this! Lariat!"
At this moment, A had released all restrictions on his body. Lightning Chakra activated every inch of his muscles to the limit, pushing his speed, strength, and reaction time to their peak.
"As expected of the Raikage." Naruto's lips curled slightly.
Flying Thunder God Technique!
The moment before A's right arm was about to make contact with Naruto, his body vanished instantly from A's attack trajectory. The Lariat missed, and the Lightning Chakra slammed into the ground, blasting the entire rubble area into a crater several meters wide, with countless bottomless fissures cracking across the ground.
A panted heavily. Not thinking much, he shielded C behind him.
"Are you okay, C?"
C leaned against the rubble behind him, gulped, and nodded with difficulty. "Raikage-sama, that person is even faster than your limit mode."
"C, you must retreat to a safe area immediately and analyze his abilities and weaknesses. I will hold him off here."
"Yes, Raikage-sama."
C struggled to stand up and retreated, gritting his teeth.
He knew that continuing to stay here would only make him a burden to A. The previous exchange had already proven that his genjutsu was completely useless.
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