Konoha, Land of Fire, July 23rd of Year 012
Today was the day Seimei planned to hunt and eliminate the Rock Golem.
So, he woke up, got freshened up, ate his breakfast, geared up, and swiftly left for the marked location.
The Rock Golem was lurking in a mountainous region, which is very close to Konoha. The village decided to eliminate it before it could barge into Konoha or any nearby trade outpost.
It didn't take long for Seimei to arrive at the marked location and find the Rock Golem he was tasked to exterminate.
Of course, he wasn't alone.
He was the heir of the Senju clan. He was bound to have Jonin-level protectors following him.
As for the identity of his protectors, it was the duo, Senju Toshiro and Senju Ryosuke, once again.
Right now, they were following Seimei from a distance.
Anyway, Seimei didn't launch the attack immediately and decided to observe his target and scan the nearby area for potential threats first.
Seimei quickly hid behind a tree and quietly observed the Chakra Beast's behavior.
He used his Tenseigan to scan the area within a 3-kilometer radius.
"No enemies within the 3-kilometer radius. Good."
"Even the closest enemy is nothing but a group of 17 chakra beasts of E and D rank. No danger at all."
"Great. It's time to initiate the attack."
Seimei muttered under his breath and got ready to attack.
At the next moment, he took out a kunai from the sealing space of his wristband, activated the Body Flicker Technique, and disappeared from the branch of the tree.
In the blink of an eye, he reappeared 8 meters away from the Rock Golem, whose back was facing Seimei at this moment.
Seimei quickly thrust the kunai he was holding the right hand to the left side of the back of the Rock Golem.
Chirp~ Chirp~ Crackkleeee~
A large amount of Lightning Release chakra was condensed in the kunai with the sound of a thousand chirping birds before the lightning chakra was instantly expended like a sharp spear in a straight line toward the Golem.
Lightning Release: Chidori Sharp Spear
The Rock Golem, sensing danger, quickly turned around.
It used Rock Fist to condense its left hand with a large amount of super-dense rocks and Earth Release chakra and swung it quickly to intercept the incoming attack.
BANNNGGGG! Crack~ Crackle~
The fist of the rock and the lightning spear clashed violently, sending mild shock waves along with flying rock fragments and crackling lightning arcs in the air.
The situation came to a stalemate for a fraction of a second before the lightning chakra of the Chidori Sharp Spear obliterated the Rock Fist, powered by the Golem's passive skill, Tough Skin, with a loud boom.
Booooom!!
Seeing his initial attack succeeding, Seimei quickly formed a "Snake" hand seal and poured 600 chakra points into his Ninjutsu, which transformed into Lightning Release chakra and gathered around him.
The lightning condensed into two distinct 1.5-meter-long lightning spears in the air, which Seimei hurled toward the Chakra Beast.
Lightning Release: False Darkness
The crackling lightning spears zoomed through the air.
"Rooooooaaaaaaaar." Watching Seimei gathering chakra again, the Rock Golem also let out a roar and slammed his right foot hard on the ground.
It quickly activated its innate skill, Rock Wall, forming a 3-meter tall wall of rock in front of the Golem just before the lightning spear from the False Darkness Ninjutsu could reach it.
This was the advantage of the Chakra Beasts.
Most of their innate skills could be activated instantly.
No seals or manual chakra gathering were required. These skills were ingrained into their very DNA.
Instant skill activation. This was what made Chakra Beasts so dangerous and hard to deal with.
Back in the battle, the lightning spears struck the rock wall.
Booooooom!
Yet another violent explosion occurred, causing the rock wall to crack and collapse with a deafening boom.
However, the wall did its job and successfully stopped Seimei's attack.
The Rock Golem didn't wait behind the wall and retreated 30 meters using its innate skill, Ground Slide.
Its left arm, which Seimei's Chidori Sharp Spear had destroyed, had also fully regenerated.
The moment the rock wall crumbled, it roared and smashed his right foot on the ground again.
Turbulent Earth Release chakra flowed from its legs and merged into the ground in front of it.
Seimei, who had seen all this clearly with his Tenseigan even before the rock wall crumbled, wasn't surprised at this scene at all.
His Tenseigan glowed as it immediately captured the huge amount of chakra gathering on the ground in front of the Rock Golem.
Soon, the earth in front of the Golem morphed and formed six 2-meter-long rock spears within less than a fifth of a second.
Earth Golem Innate Skill: Rock Lance
At the next moment, the six rock lances detached from the earth and rocketed toward Seimei at a blinding speed.
Seeing this, Seimei quickly activated the Body Flicker Technique to get out of the way.
The lances of rock, missing their target, continued to race through the air before piercing through several trees and rocks nearly 100 meters away.
But Seimei didn't care. His entire focus was on the Rock Golem.
He quickly dashed to the Chakra Beast while forming a couple of hand seals.
Crackle~ Crackle~
Lightning Release: Lightning Ball
12 basketball-sized glowing spheres of crackling yellow lightning formed around Seimei, and they traveled with Seimei as he was nearing the Rock Golem.
Usually, this C-rank Ninjutsu would only create a few tennis ball-sized lightning balls.
However, Seimei increased this Ninjutsu's proficiency to Lv.5 through continuous grinding.
Coupled with his Lv.6 chakra control and Lv.6 lightning nature transformation affinity, each of Seimei's lightning balls could demonstrate as much power as a low-tier B-rank Ninjutsu.
But if he threw tens of these powerful spheres of lightning at one target…
Seimei hurled the 12 basketball-sized lightning balls at the Rock Golem.
Rooaaaaarrrrr~
The Chakra Beast roared as it activated another one of its innate skills, Rock Bullet, towards the incoming lightning spheres.
The Golem spat a small bullet of rock from its mouth.
The rock bullet grew in size as it traveled further until it became as large as a boulder of nearly 4 meters in diameter.
CRACKLE~ CRACKLE~ BOOM~
Seimei's lightning ball and the boulder met in the air. The boulder successfully resisted three lightning balls before the fourth lightning ball reduced it into fragments with a loud boom.
The remaining 8 lightning balls continued on their path unhindered, crashed into the Rock Golem, and exploded with a thunderous sound.
BOOOOOOOM~
Crackle! Crackle!
Dirt and dust flew into the air. The sheer intensity of the explosion and its resulting shockwave caused the Rock Golem weighing multiple tons to slide backward for tens of meters.
As the dust settled, the figure of the Rock Golem crossing its arms in an X-shape in front of its body could be seen.
The Golem's arms, covered in its innate skill, Rock Fist, were marred with various cracks and signs of blunt damage.
Yellow arcs of lightning flicked around its arms and body.
A huge chunk of rock was missing from its left shoulder, and the top part of its head was also blasted apart.
The right side of the Golem's stomach was completely destroyed.
Black smoke rose from the Golem's entire body as it was charred black by the lightning Chakra of the Ninjutsu.
It was in an extremely pitiful state.
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