Seimei looked around the battlefield seriously.
Ninjas were blasting chakra beasts off with powerful Ninjutsu. Samurai were swinging their swords and sabers relentlessly, cutting down the limbs, torso, and neck of the beasts.
However, he could also see quite a few injured ninjas and samurai who were being protected by others. He could also see lifeless human bodies, torn limbs, and hollowed guts of his fallen comrades.
He knew that all these things were just the natural order of things.
He knew that they had sacrificed their lives willingly to protect the people behind them.
He knew that this world had only one rule: survival of the fittest.
But still, seeing the dead ninjas and samurai whom he had witnessed fighting valiantly since the beginning of the battle fall like this filled his chest with an unknown tightness.
Did they have families?
Did they have wives, husbands, parents, siblings, and children waiting at their homes for their arrival?
Didn't many of them have bright futures ahead?
Seeing all this, a trace of hatred for the chakra beasts couldn't help but flash in his eyes.
However, he quickly took a deep breath to calm his nerves.
This is the fate of a ninja.
We are professional killers who choose to stain our hands with blood.
Did we become like this to gain more strength? For more fame? Maybe because we wanted to protect those we held dear?
Ultimately, the reason doesn't matter.
Since we stained our hands with others' blood, we must be prepared to die as well.
We must fight as long as we are alive.
Seimei hardened his resolve and formed a single-handed cross seal with his right hand's middle and index fingers.
I can't save everyone.
I'm still too weak. I am still not powerful enough.
His chakra began to flow smoothly under his powerful chakra control.
However, I can kill these beasts as fast as I can to lessen the number of deaths on our side.
The more beasts I can kill, the more lives I can save.
He molded his chakra as it surged outwards following a specific pattern.
I am too weak to save everyone.
But I'm strong enough to send most of the chakra beasts here to hell.
So…
Let me show you hell…
Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu
Puff~ Puff~ Puff~ Puff~ Puff~ Puff~ Puff~
Seimei released his Jutsu, creating seven shadow clones, each with 20,000 units of chakra.
These seven shadow clones, made from Seimei's chakra and spirituality, understood their purpose. They had only one job: to kill as many chakra beasts as possible.
Without wasting any time, the shadow clones flickered to the seven different directions within the battlefield, ready to reap as many chakra beasts' lives as possible.
After all, only by killing them fast can he save as many ninjas and samurai as possible.
Seimei saw his shadow clones moving in different directions to engage with the battlefield with calm eyes.
His Tenseigan began to glow in ocean-blue color as he scanned the battlefield carefully to find the locations where the concentration of chakra beasts was high.
Soon, he found his targets and activated the Thunder Body Flicker Technique to flash toward a group of five C-rank chakra beasts besieging two Konoha Chunin while leaving trails of purple lightning behind.
In the blink of an eye, he arrived near the battle zone of three Chunin and five C-rank chakra beasts and raised his left hand.
His left hand radiated chakra, which transformed into wind and began to converge in front of him. It was one of the Wind Release Jutsu he used frequently, and now, he could use it without hand seals.
Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique
Seimei manipulated the wind chakra to create a 3-meter-wide, diagonal wind blade, which rocketed toward the chakra beasts.
The two wind and another lightning-attributed chakra beasts sensed danger and jumped out of their way to avoid the wind blade.
However, the other two beasts weren't this lucky. Before they could retreat, the wind blade passed through their bodies, tearing through their scales, skin, muscles, bones, and viscera.
The two chakra beasts instantly lost their lives as their bisected bodies fell to the ground, creating a pool of blood around them.
But Seimei wasn't done yet.
He created another hand seal and condensed a large amount of lightning chakra around him.
Lightning Release: False Darkness
Crackle~ Crackle~
Three spears of lightning quickly formed around him before racing toward the retreating chakra beasts.
One lightning spear pierced through the heart of the lightning-attributed chakra beast, electrocuting its internal organs and heart. Another one hit the head of one of the wind-attributed chakra beasts, killing it on the spot.
However, the other wind-attributed chakra beast reacted quickly and formed a defensive disk of wind in front of it, reducing the power of the lightning spear to half while slowing down its advance.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the beast quickly moved away from the trajectory of the lightning spear.
However, one of the three Chunin arrived in front of it like a blur and slashed its neck with his flaming blade.
The head separated from the beast's body before dropping to the ground with a thud.
Seimei nodded at the Chunin and said, "Good job."
Then, he moved toward his next target.
This time, Seimei appeared in front of another C-rank chakra beast, clenched his fist, and gathered chakra in his right hand.
Chakra Enhanced Strength
As soon as his fist connected with the unsuspecting chakra beast, Seimei detonated the gathered chakra, generating a powerful shockwave.
Boooooom!!
The beast's body was torn apart. Its viscera, blood, and bone fragments flew into the air as they scattered backward.
Right at that moment, tens of basketball-sized scorching magma balls were hurled toward Seimei by a B-rank chakra beast.
And Seimei, ever vigilant, tracked their movements with his Tenseigan's 360-degree vision and dodged them with ease.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
With Seimei's timely dodge, the magma balls hit the ground, causing several powerful explosions. The ground was cracked by the impact of the explosions, creating several small craters filled with melted earth.
While the explosions were still ongoing, Seimei, who had just dodged the magma balls, touched the ground and infused rich Earth Release chakra into it.
Earth Release: Earth Flow Spear
The ground around the B-rank chakra beast started to shift before multiple sharp spears of earth erupted from the ground, aiming to impale the beast.
However, the chakra beast had already sensed the tremor of the earth and moved out of the way before the earth spears could even fully erupt from the ground.
At the same time, Seimei formed two hand seals, which caused the surrounding water vapors to turn into droplets of water.
Water Release: Dragon Dance Bomb
The water droplets condensed into a twelve-meter-long serpentine dragon.
Rooooaaaaaaaar~
The dragon roared as it charged toward the magma-attributed B-rank chakra beast with the momentum of a speeding train.
Seeing the incoming water dragon, the chakra beast used its innate skill, Explosive Steps, to quickly sidestep, letting the water dragon pass by beside him.
It had witnessed similar water dragon techniques countless times, and it knew that once it could dodge them, these types of Jutsu didn't pose much threat to it.
Unfortunately, it wasn't a normal Water Dragon Bullet Technique with a fixed trajectory.
Under Seimei's active control, the life-like, shimmering water dragon adjusted its trajectory and chomped down on the chakra beast ruthlessly, tearing its body apart and turning it into a mangled mess of flesh and bones.
And the water dragon didn't dissipate after that.
Seimei made it travel across the battlefield around him and made it chomp down on a few other D-rank and C-rank chakra beasts before the water dragon crashed down heavily on a group of fifteen C-rank and another B-rank chakra beasts.
The water dragon coiled around them and created an inescapable rotating barrier of water around them.
Seeing the total of sixteen chakra beasts, including a B-rank one, Seimei didn't waste any time and immediately formed another hand seal.
BOOOOOOOOM!!
The huge water barrier shrank and drowned the chakra beast inside its semi-spherical dome before detonating with a loud boom.
The huge explosion caused the ground to quake as it obliterated the chakra beasts trapped inside it into pieces.
Seeing the body parts of the dead chakra beasts, Seimei exhaled lightly and looked around the battlefield once more.
Soon, he detected Uchiha Sorata fighting two B-rank chakra beasts on his own, nearly 800 meters away.
"Hoo! No rest for the wicked," murmured Seimei as he dashed toward Uchiha Sorata, ready to kill more chakra beasts.
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