Uchiha Madara wasn't going to humor Leone any longer. He wasn't going to prolong this stalemate. With a single palm strike, he scattered all of Leone's beast-claw attacks. Then, he extended his hand and delivered a flick to Leone's forehead, what was commonly known as a "forehead flick"!
With a muffled thwack, Leone was directly sent flying by this single flick. She fearfully crashed backward, breaking four or five trees, and only then did she come to a stop.
Leone, whose back had slammed into four or five tree trunks, suppressed a muffled groan. She came to an abrupt halt on the forest floor, her gaze fearfully uncertain as she looked at Uchiha Madara opposite her.
To be so easily repelled by just a flick... What kind of monster was this, exactly?!
She felt she absolutely had to change her strategy. Her golden figure flashed, and she rapidly retreated to one side!
Uchiha Madara fixed his gaze and observed. Leone was currently moving at extreme speed through the surrounding bushes. Her figure flickered intermittently between tree trunks and leaves, and the sound of running constantly echoed from the ground around them.
Looking around, Uchiha Madara was even too lazy to activate his Sharingan.
"Leone, it's a very good strategy to utilize the terrain to your advantage in battle," he said. "But sometimes, strategies are useless in the face of absolute power!"
Leone's voice came from all directions:
"Useful or not, we'll know once we try!"
No sooner had her voice fallen, Leone suddenly lunged out from an angle, aiming a beast-claw strike at Uchiha Madara's heel!
However, Uchiha Madara was already prepared. He lifted his foot and delivered a kick, striking Leone squarely in the face without a shred of pity, sending her flying, covered in dirt!
The flustered Leone quickly retreated into the deep forest, continuing her high-speed skirmish.
Suddenly, Leone darted out again from above and to the side of Uchiha Madara, a beast-claw reaching directly for Uchiha Madara's eyes!
Uchiha Madara smiled faintly. With lightning speed, he grabbed Leone's wrist, twisted it with immense force, and, just like before, sent her whistling through the air as he threw her!
Poor Leone once again crashed through four or five trees, landing dejectedly.
After landing, Leone forcibly swallowed a mouthful of fresh blood, climbed back up, and resumed her high-speed movements.
This time, Leone, with a somewhat desperate roar, sprang down from a tree behind Uchiha Madara, her hands transformed into beast-claws, aimed for both of Uchiha Madara's temples from behind!
"Die, Uchiha Madara..."
Uchiha Madara calmly turned around and delivered a kick, directly to Leone's abdomen!
With a muffled thud, Leone, struck in the abdomen, curled into a giant shrimp-like shape in mid-air!
At this moment, Leone's face was pale. Her eyes bulged. She finally couldn't endure it and retched a mouthful of stomach acid into the air with a gurgling sound!
Then, Leone was sent flying once more!
Seeing that poor Leone was about to smash through another four or five trees, at the crucial moment, Leone endured the intense pain in her abdomen, and, like a feline, quickly and forcefully adjusted her posture in mid-air. A beast-claw grabbed a tree trunk, she spun around it once to shed her momentum, and hung onto the tree.
Leone temporarily stopped her skirmish. In her view, for such petty tricks to work against Uchiha Madara, either she was foolish, or Uchiha Madara was foolish; only then might she succeed.
Curled up on the tree, one hand weakly clutching her agonizing abdomen, Leone glared hatefully at Uchiha Madara below.
Uchiha Madara also looked up at Leone at this moment:
"Oh, not fighting anymore? If you're not fighting, then I'm going to make my move!"
No sooner had he finished speaking, Uchiha Madara extended his hand, and five translucent thin threads stretched out from his fingers.
"Wind Release: Cutting Threads!"
With a whoosh through the air, under Uchiha Madara's flick of the wrist, several sharp Wind Release: Cutting Threads were flung towards Leone, who was directly in front!
Looking at the rapidly approaching translucent threads below, Leone, in her Beastification state, instinctively sensed ominous danger. Without another thought, she leaped away!
Indeed, right after Leone escaped, these cutting threads instantly sliced the tree where Leone had just been into a pile of lumber!
Leone, moving quickly, looked back, especially at the smooth cuts on the sliced lumber. Cold sweat broke out on her forehead, a chilling realization.
This technique was very similar to the Imperial Arm of her companion, Lubbock, but compared to his, it was clearly sharper, more flexible, and even more terrifying!
If struck by such a thing, she would absolutely be dismembered instantly!
No sooner had this thought crossed Leone's mind, Uchiha Madara turned with a smile, and continued to fling the five Wind Release: Cutting Threads from his hand at the still-running Leone!
Now things got lively. Throughout the forest, Leone's panicked, fleeing figure was everywhere.
However, during this frantic escape, several terrifying translucent cutting threads were always chasing and twisting behind Leone, intent on slicing her to pieces!
Wherever Leone's figure went, the translucent Wind Release: Cutting Threads would slice. Leone rapidly fled for her life, while the trees behind her were continuously severed and shredded.
Uchiha Madara seemed to be playing a cat-and-mouse game. He could clearly finish off Leone in an instant, yet he chose to toy with her like this.
This kind of prolonged torment resulted in not a single standing tree within a few dozen meters of Uchiha Madara, all of them having been severed or shredded by the Wind Release: Cutting Threads!
The chase continued...
Leone ran around a tree, and several cutting threads instantly sliced that tree into a wooden stake.
Leone fled in a zigzag pattern among the trees, and several cutting threads instantly obliterated all those trees.
Leone ran up a tree trunk, and several cutting threads similarly sliced these three trees from bottom to top, reducing them to mounds of splintered wood and dirt.
Today, Leone finally and thoroughly understood the meaning of "weary of running for her life."
This can't go on like this. If this continues, she would be completely drained of stamina, and completely dismembered by these threads!
A somewhat desperate Leone's mind raced, searching for a solution.
A solution quickly came to mind. The only way now was a desperate, life-or-death strike. Succeed or die trying!
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