Chapter 16 The Terrifying Explosion
Chapter 16 The Terrifying Explosion
In the riverbed below Howling Canyon, five modified heavy transport ships are sailing upstream.
The beams of searchlight swept across the cliffs on both sides, keeping watch for any possible ambush.
On the deck of the lead ship, there was Kazama Sosuke, a Sand Village Jonin.
A hunched-over man carrying a huge puppet scroll on his back stared ahead with a gloomy face.
"Have the puppets expand their sensory networks to the maximum!" Kazama Sosuke commanded in a hoarse voice.
"The advance team lost contact just now; there must be rats around here."
"yes!"
A dozen or so humanoid puppets, controlled by chakra threads, flew into the sky and hovered above the fleet like eerie bats.
On a cliff hundreds of meters high, in the grass.
Hinata Hiroshi's white eyes bulged, his gaze fixed intently on the area below: "Enemy forces have entered the designated area. The lead ship is 300 meters... 200 meters... 100 meters from the detonation point. That's enough distance!"
"Now."
Nishikawa Tetsu's fingers, which had been gripping the detonator's fuse, tightened slightly as he turned to look at the blond boy crouching beside him.
"Minato, it's up to you."
Minato Namikaze took a deep breath, and his azure eyes became more focused than ever before.
He didn't speak, but simply nodded slightly. The chakra fluctuations around him instantly subsided to the extreme, as if he had merged with the rain.
"Three seconds."
Minato whispered.
The next instant, a golden light appeared.
In Hinata Hiro's Byakugan vision, he saw a scene that he would never forget.
Minato Namikaze's figure disappeared, replaced by a golden lightning bolt that leaped wildly across the vertical, slippery, and moss-covered cliff.
He had no protective measures and relied entirely on his extreme control over chakra to adhere to the rock wall.
Each step created a swirling mist of water on the rocks.
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
Amidst the combined forces of gravity and torrential rain, Minato Namikaze's figure cast several afterimages in the middle of the cliff.
The first kunai was inserted into the crack.
The third one... the fifth one...
The Sand Village puppeteers below only felt a glint of light in the corner of their eyes, but when they looked up, they only saw the pitch-black rainy night and the cold rocks.
"What is that..." A Sand Village ninja on duty rubbed his eyes, before he could finish speaking.
The golden light had already turned back.
"call--"
Minato Namikaze landed steadily back in the grass at the top of the cliff, his chest rising and falling slightly, and his golden hair was still dripping with water.
"Mission accomplished." He flashed a bright white smile and gave a thumbs-up.
"Exactly three seconds."
The Chunin standing nearby stared in disbelief, looking at the usually gentle and cheerful boy as if he were a monster.
Walking on such a sheer cliff as if it were flat ground, and accurately locating twelve coordinate points within three seconds, is this really something a low-ranking ninja could do?
Hyuga Hiroshi was, after all, a Jonin of the Hyuga clan and had seen many ninjas known for their speed, but none of them could match his level of speed during their Genin days.
"Thanks for your hard work."
Nishikawa Tetsu didn't waste any words.
"Now, it's time for science."
He formed a "寅" (Yin) mudra with his hands.
"burst!"
There was no earth-shattering noise.
Twelve kunai, embedded deep within stress nodes in the rock strata, detonated simultaneously.
If it's a regular explosion, the sound will be very muffled.
But this time, the frequency of these twelve explosions was carefully designed by Nishikawa Tetsu, creating a strange resonance within the rock strata.
"Buzz—!!!"
The entire cliff began to groan, as if a giant beast was awakening deep underground.
Kazama Sosuke's expression changed drastically as he looked up sharply at the cliff to his right.
Suddenly, a tiny crack appeared on the 100-meter-high, solid basalt wall.
Immediately afterwards, the crack spread wildly like a spider web, accompanied by a teeth-grinding cracking sound, and the entire massive rock began to peel away from the mountain.
"No, impossible!" Kazama Sosuke's pupils contracted sharply. "This is a single, continuous rock stratum!"
"In the face of resonance, even the hardest stone is like tofu."
On the cliff, Nishikawa Tetsu coldly watched all of this.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Finally, the support point completely broke.
The massive boulder, weighing tens of thousands of tons, crashed down with earth-shattering force, carrying mudslides and broken logs, into the narrow river channel below!
That was a true cataclysmic event.
A massive shadow instantly enveloped the fleet below, and those puppets that the Sand Village was so proud of appeared as insignificant as toys in the face of the power of nature.
"Quickly, abandon ship!"
Kazama Sosuke's urgent roar was drowned out by the roar.
"Thump!!!"
A huge rock crashed into the riverbed.
A giant wave, tens of meters high, shot into the sky and instantly shattered the first two transport ships.
The terrifying shockwave pushed the river water to both sides, and boats were thrown about like matchboxes, crashing and shattering against the rock walls.
The once rushing river was instantly blocked, and the water level rose rapidly within seconds, forming a barrier lake.
Smoke, water vapor, and gravel turned the entire Howling Canyon into a boiling broth.
"This power is terrifying."
On the cliff, Chunin Kaito swallowed hard, his legs feeling weak.
The look in his eyes when he looked at Nishikawa Tetsuya was no longer one of disdain, but of terror.
How did they create an artificial landslide using only twelve explosive tags?
What's going on in this kid's head? It's insane.
Stop watching the show!
Fugaku Uchiha drew the short sword from his back, his voice cold and sharp, interrupting everyone's shock.
"Falling rocks can only kill small fry; true powerhouses don't die so easily."
"All troops, attack!"
"yes!"
The morale of the Konoha ninja was greatly boosted, and led by Fugaku Uchiha, they plunged down the cliff.
……
In the ruins of the riverbed.
"Cough cough cough! Damn it, those damned Konoha rats!"
Kazama Sosuke stood awkwardly on a plank of a boat floating on the water.
Just now, at the critical moment, he used chakra threads to pull himself under a protruding rock on the shore, barely avoiding the direct impact of the boulder, but his left arm was still broken by flying debris, and it was covered in blood.
Looking at the supply ship behind him, which was already mostly sunk, and the corpses of his subordinates floating on the water, his eyes instantly became bloodshot.
It’s over.
All supplies were destroyed.
Even if he returns alive, Hanzo and Kazekage will not let him go.
"Come out! Get out here!"
Kazama Sosuke roared, flinging open the massive scroll behind him with one hand, "Summoning Jutsu: Puppet Army!"
"Bang bang bang!"
The white smoke exploded, and although he suffered considerable losses, he still managed to summon thirty battle puppets of various shapes and sizes.
"I will tear you to pieces!"
"Your opponent is me."
A cold voice pierced through the rain.
Fugaku Uchiha landed heavily on a boulder in front of Sousuke Kazama.
He slowly raised his head, his scarlet three-tomoe eyes radiating a chilling power in the darkness.
"Kazama Sosuke, the Jonin of Sunagakure, your life is yours, Uchiha."
"Uchiha?!" Kazama Sosuke's heart sank when he saw those eyes, but a surge of frenzied killing intent immediately followed. "Perfect, I'll use your head to atone for my sins!"
"Kill him!"
Kazama Sousuke flicked his fingers, and the puppets instantly unleashed sharp blades and poison needles, swarming towards Uchiha Fugaku.
"snort."
Instead of retreating, Fugaku Uchiha advanced, his hands forming hand seals so fast that only afterimages remained.
"Che is right. I was too wasteful in the past."
He took a deep breath, and the chakra in his throat spun and compressed wildly.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique - Modified!"
"Buzz—!!!"
That familiar, terrifying, ghostly blue pillar of fire appeared once again.
This time, it was no longer used for target practice, but became a scythe of death on the battlefield.
The blue flames instantly pierced through the five puppets at the forefront.
The specially treated wooden and metal puppets were melted away under the high temperature, without even a chance to explode.
"What?!" Kazama Sosuke exclaimed in shock, "Blue fire?!"
The flames continued their relentless advance, heading straight for Kazama Sosuke's face.
at the same time.
On the flank of the battlefield, a golden flash was weaving through the horde of puppets.
With each swing of his kunai, Minato Namikaze precisely severed a chakra thread.
High above, Nishikawa Tetsu was kneeling on the ground, setting up a modified heavy-duty Fuma shuriken launcher. Beside him, Hyuga Hiromasa accurately reported the coordinates of every Sand Village ninja hiding in the shadows, attempting to launch a sneak attack.
"Direction 105, elevation 30, distance 200," Hinata Hiroshi said very quickly.
"Received." Nishikawa Tetsu adjusted the angle and pulled the trigger.
"collapse!"
The Fuma Shuriken, armed with explosive tags, whistled out and precisely blasted away a Sand Village Chunin who had just appeared.
"Perfect coordination."
Nishikawa Tetsu looked down at the battlefield.
"This battle ended the moment that cliff collapsed."
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