Chapter 298: The Raikage Falls
After capturing the slight opening where Douhuan's old force had just been spent and new force was yet to be born, Mifune, who specialized in the Iaido slash, suddenly drew his sword. A streak of shimmering cold light suddenly lit up, and at an extreme speed, silently slashed towards Douhuan's neck!
Uchiha Douhuan did not even fully turn his head. His body bent backwards in a near-distorted posture that violated the common sense of physics. At the same time, his left hand shot out like lightning, and his chakra-wreathed fingers accurately flicked the weakest point on the side of Mifune's katana!
"Ding!" A crisp sound of metal clashing! Mifune felt a strange and powerful vibrating force coming from the blade, causing his sure-hit Iaido slash to be instantly deflected. The blade's edge grazed past Uchiha Douhuan's Hokage robe. Subsequently, Uchiha Douhuan used the force to spin, and his lightning-wreathed palm fiercely chopped towards the other party, forcing Mifune to quickly retreat and block.
The entire combat process was as swift as a hare leaping up and a falcon swooping down, all in a flash of lightning!
The dust settled slightly.
The banquet hall was a mess. Tables and chairs were shattered, the ground was cracked, and the terrifying traces of lightning and Dust Release remained. And the elite ninjas of the two villages, disguised as civil officials, were now lying amidst the collapsed palace, their life or death unknown.
In the center of the field, Uchiha Douhuan stood proudly. The Hokage robe fluttered slightly in the surging chakra, and his crimson Mangekyo Sharingan coldly scanned the entire scene.
Uchiha Douhuan's breathing was extremely steady, as if the fierce battle just now was just a warm-up.
The Fourth Raikage A clutched his mechanical prosthetic arm, which had been blasted to near scrap by the lightning. One after another, scorched black marks were left on his bronze skin. His breathing was slightly heavy, and his eyes were full of shock and anger. Compared to their last fight, Uchiha Douhuan had become stronger again.
The Third Tsuchikage Onoki floated in the air, his face ashen, panting for breath. Maintaining and releasing Dust Release consumed a great deal of energy. What made him even more frustrated was that his most proud jutsu was dodged by the other party in a nearly prescient way, and he had even suffered a precise counter-attack.
And Mifune, who had barely managed to join a battle of this level, knelt on one knee, his katana stuck in the ground to support his body. The web of his hand holding the sword was split open, blood seeping out. His face was pale, and his eyes looked at Uchiha Douhuan with a complicated expression. His signature sword-drawing technique was actually broken by the other party with two fingers! The pride of a samurai had suffered an unprecedented blow.
"It seems Lord Mifune is planning to reconsider your Land of Iron's neutral stance," Uchiha Douhuan looked coldly at the three in front of him and said unhurriedly.
"Hmph, stop with the hypocrisy here. I don't think your ambition has any intention of letting our Land of Iron remain neutral, does it? If I hadn't joined forces with them, I'm afraid it wouldn't be long before our Land of Iron would have to exist in name only, just like the Land of Water."
"That is indeed the case," Uchiha Douhuan nodded, generously admitting his ambition, and then said. "However, if you had not chosen to meddle in the war of the ninja villages, then in the future, you would not have lost your position as a marquis."
"Are you trying to make me surrender? In your dreams! The Land of Iron has no samurai who live on their knees!" Mifune stood up, and then stood beside Onoki and A with his sword.
A took a deep breath. From the sealing scroll on his body, he took out another metal prosthesis and replaced the one that had been destroyed by Uchiha Douhuan. Subsequently, the three stood ready.
"Planning to go three against one?" Uchiha Douhuan asked with a light laugh.
"Even if it's a three-on-one that violates the spirit of the samurai, we must win. Don't you dare say we are despicable. You are the current strongest in the ninja world," Mifune said with some difficulty, gripping his sword.
"How could I?" Uchiha Douhuan suddenly laughed. Subsequently, he formed a seal. After a large puff of smoke flashed, three of Uchiha Douhuan's shadow clones instantly appeared beside each of the three. In the eyes of the shadow clones, the Mangekyo Sharingan flowed, and black skeletons slowly formed.
"After all, it's three on one. You wouldn't say I'm being despicable, would you? You must know, you are the Kage of the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth, and the strongest samurai of this world."
"You!" Mifune had not expected that a careless word of his would bring such consequences. The three shadow clones of Uchiha Douhuan at his side had already locked onto him firmly. A pressure like a mountain tsunami rushed towards him. And Uchiha Douhuan's main body, on the other hand, walked straight to the place where Mifune had originally sat, sat down on his own, propped up his cheek with his hand, and sized up the few of them with great interest.
"Stay calm. They are just shadow clones. They can't exert much of his main body's strength," at this time, Onoki said in a low voice.
"Then you can all give it a try," Uchiha Douhuan said with a light laugh.
In the next instant, the three shadow clones beside each person attacked almost at the same time. Three three-on-one battlefields were instantly formed, and the scene also became chaotic. And Uchiha Douhuan, with a wave of his hand, a bottle of fine sake that had survived the previous clash on the ground not far away flew straight into his hand under the effect of Ryuchi Cave's sage art of controlling inorganic matter.
Uchiha Douhuan tilted his head back and took a sip, unhurriedly sizing up the battle between the few of them and his shadow clones.
However, even the weakest of the three, Mifune, his strength could still be considered mid-level in the Kage-level category. The other two were even more so. Uchiha Douhuan's shadow clones were, after all, not wood clones that were not afraid of physical attacks. A few minutes later, the last shadow clone beside the three was broken.
However, Uchiha Douhuan himself had not thought of defeating the other party with just these few shadow clones. He had done this out of a whim after hearing what Mifune had said.
However, even though they had dealt with Uchiha Douhuan's shadow clones, they did not look relaxed. Mifune, who was already in a sorry state from the previous clash, the chakra blade in his hand was already covered with cracks. And Onoki, whose chakra reserves had already declined due to old age, had consumed a full half of it. Among the three, only the Raikage looked a little better, but there were also several new scorched black marks from lightning on his body.
Uchiha Douhuan drank the last sip of sake in the bottle and stood up with a smile, applauding.
"It seems a three-on-one is not such a difficult thing. Let me try out your strength," Uchiha Douhuan said. His dōjutsu and chakra surged outside his body, and the complete Susanoo slowly formed. The ceiling of the city lord's mansion in this border city of the Land of Iron was instantly pierced through and collapsed. More than half of the ninjas who were buried in the collapsed walls instantly lost their lives.
Onoki used his flight jutsu to take Mifune and the Raikage and left the dangerous area. Looking at the nearly hundred-meter-tall Susanoo before him, he also secretly swallowed. Before this, all his understanding of Uchiha Douhuan's strength came from one intelligence report after another. To be honest, he had already greatly overestimated Uchiha Douhuan's strength. When preparing for this ambush, he had treated Uchiha Douhuan as the Uchiha Madara he had once seen. But now, after truly facing him, Onoki realized how ridiculously wrong he was.
However, at this moment, the arrow was already on the bowstring, and there was no room for retreat.
"Raikage! Lord Mifune! Cover me!" Onoki roared after taking a deep breath. He formed seals with his hands with difficulty, the veins on his forehead bulging. He frantically poured all his remaining, bottom-of-the-box chakra. "Particle Style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu!"
A tiny, white-glowing cube that emitted a destructive light formed between his palms and rapidly expanded.
A roared, transforming into a blue lightning bolt that tore through space. He rushed towards the Susanoo's legs at a speed that could not be caught by the naked eye. The metal prosthetic limb, wreathed in lightning, slammed down, trying to attract Douhuan's attention and buy time for the Dust Release.
Mifune, on the other hand, became one with his sword, instantly slashing out dozens of extremely condensed vacuum sword qi, accurately cutting towards the Susanoo's sword-wielding arm joint and the base of its wings, interfering with its movements and balance.
Uchiha Douhuan stood in the crystal on Susanoo's forehead, his eyes indifferently watching the offensive of the three.
"A cornered beast's struggle," Uchiha Douhuan said coldly. Subsequently, with a thought, the Susanoo's giant greatsword swept horizontally, easily swatting away Mifune's sword qi. At the same time, it raised its foot and stomped hard, trying to flatten the Raikage A, who was moving like a bolt of lightning.
At this very moment, Onoki's Dust Release cube finally expanded to its limit. With an aura that could annihilate all matter, it accurately and silently hit the Susanoo's head armor!
Swish—!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a teeth-grinding sound of decomposition.
The chest armor of the Susanoo, which was claimed to be an absolute defense, in the face of the Dust Release's power that could decompose everything at the atomic level, was like an ice cube thrown into strong acid. It rapidly dissolved and decomposed, revealing the internal structure and Uchiha Douhuan's main body standing in the core crystal!
"Success!" Onoki's spirits were lifted, but the intense consumption made his body sway, and he almost fell from the sky.
The moment the chest armor broke open was the perfect opportunity for a killing blow!
"I got it!" A's eyes burst with an unprecedentedly sharp light. All the Lightning Release chakra in his body was instantly compressed to the extreme, gathered at the pointed index finger of his metal prosthetic limb, forming a point of extreme lightning that pierced the sky!
"Hell Stab: One-Finger Nukite!"
Abandoning all defense, concentrating speed, power, and destructive force into one point! This was A's strongest secret technique, which in his father's hands had once pierced the strongest shield! He transformed into a blue lightning spear that pierced through heaven and earth, his target aimed straight at the heart of Uchiha Douhuan in the crystal at the breach! The speed was so fast that it surpassed sound, surpassed vision, and even made space feel distorted!
This blow condensed A's lifelong conviction and power, carrying the resolution to eliminate the threat for the Cloud!
Onoki's and Mifune's hearts were in their throats. This was the one and only, and also the best, opportunity for a killing blow they had created!
However, Uchiha Douhuan, standing in the crystal, facing this menacing blow, the corner of his mouth hooked into a cold arc. His pair of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan instantly bloomed with a deep and strange light.
Countless branches flowed before Uchiha Douhuan's eyes. Uchiha Douhuan easily anchored the most suitable one.
Uchiha Douhuan slightly sidestepped, then his right index finger tapped lightly on a weak point of A's forward-rushing metal prosthetic limb.
In the next instant, A's One-Finger Nukite actually stabbed hard into his own right chest. The clash between the Cloud's strongest spear and strongest shield, it seemed the Lightning Release Armor was at a disadvantage. At this moment, A finally understood how his father, the Third Raikage, had gotten that scar on his chest that he was so secretive about.
However, unexpectedly, Uchiha Douhuan's next blow did not attack his other vital points, but instead, a punch smashed into a metal device at his waist.
It was at this moment that a look of disbelief appeared in A's eyes.
"Did you know? I could have actually blocked that old man's Dust Release just now," Uchiha Douhuan said with a light laugh. "But I took the initiative to drop my defense, precisely for such an opportunity to catch you."
"This thing is a device that can trigger a one-time Heavenly Transfer Technique, right? Not bad workmanship. Plus those chakra armors you showed on the battlefield before, it seems you have a master in the Cloud. But it's a pity, my eyes have already seen through the future," Uchiha Douhuan picked up the scientific ninja tool he had taken from A's waist and said with a laugh. "Triggering the Heavenly Transfer Technique to escape at a critical moment, and then selling out your allies here? No wonder Kakashi would say your credit is not even enough to borrow a lighter."
"You!" A was just about to say something, but in the next instant, his throat was grabbed by Uchiha Douhuan.
"Those two can survive at my hands, because I need their flags to appease their respective nationals and end the war as soon as possible. But you are different. You have provoked Konoha time and time again, provoked me. If I let you live, it will make me, this Hokage, look too incompetent."
With that, an azure-blue lightning bloomed in Uchiha Douhuan's hand. The violent lightning instantly surged into A's body. Although his body had been tempered by lightning for many years, the lightning released by Uchiha Douhuan far exceeded his tolerance. A smell of burnt flesh rose up. After Uchiha Douhuan threw the heavily injured A out, his main body also jumped out of the Susanoo, and in mid-air, a knee struck A's body.
Subsequently, Uchiha Douhuan, with A, fell like a meteor. After landing on one knee with his knee pressing on the Raikage's body, he plowed forward for several tens of meters, creating a deep trench.
After stopping, Uchiha Douhuan stood up again. Beneath him, the already half-dead Raikage A had become a bloody mess and soon breathed his last.
"A!!" Onoki's eyes were about to split. Mifune's hand holding the sword also trembled slightly due to extreme shock and anger. His eyes for the first time showed a deep despair.
The fall of the Raikage not only meant the loss of their strongest attack point, but also completely shattered their only remaining glimmer of hope for victory.
Uchiha Douhuan slowly withdrew his blood-stained chakra blade, not even glancing at the fallen A. His cold gaze swept over the swaying Onoki in the air and the poised but unable to hide his grief and indignation Mifune on the ground.
"Surrender, or continue your futile resistance? What is your choice?" Douhuan's voice was devoid of any ripple.
(End of chapter)
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