Meanwhile, outside the battlefield.
Kakashi and Zabuza simultaneously stopped the Kunai in their hands, both turning their heads at almost the same instant to look at the area shrouded by the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals.
They saw a red Chakra rising into the sky there, carrying a terrifying aura that made one's scalp tingle.
'Has the Nine-Tails Chakra gone berserk?'
Kakashi's Sharingan widened abruptly and his body adjusted into a posture to charge toward that area.
"Kakashi, our battle isn't over yet. Where are you going?"
Zabuza tilted Kubikiribocho slightly to block Kakashi's path.
'Things have become troublesome. It seems I can only deal with Zabuza first.'
Thinking this, Kakashi quickly performed hand seals.
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Inside the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, Haku's expression was visibly shaken.
"Impossible. To actually materialize Chakra to this extent..."
His words came to an abrupt end. He saw that the eyes of the blonde boy opposite had changed.
A moment ago, it was the crazy look of an out-of-control beast, but now there was only a kind of near-cold calm.
Naruto didn't intend to explain slowly to Haku. He had barely recovered from the dizziness of transmigrating for less than five minutes, the memories of two lives were still fighting in his brain, and the Nine-Tails Chakra in his body had finally been suppressed by Absolute Control.
The most urgent thing right now was to defeat Haku first, and then talk about the rest.
To be honest, if it were any other person who had just transmigrated, facing this kind of life-and-death combat scene, the first reaction would definitely be to run, or simply play dead and lie flat.
But Naruto was different.
Absolute Control allowed him to know his body like the back of his hand. The force of every muscle and every path of Chakra flow were all clearly presented in his consciousness. This sense of control offset most of the fear and anxiety.
Plus, with Nine-Tails Chakra in hand, his combat power was pulled to the upper limit of the current stage, so if he didn't fight now, when would he?
Naruto quickly calculated the number of Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals in his heart, his brain operating at an efficiency far exceeding that of an ordinary person.
The distribution of the mirrors, the distance between each other, the possible blind spots, and the most likely location where Haku's main body was hiding.
All this information was integrated into a clear tactical map in less than half a second.
This was a habit Naruto developed after developing his brain in his previous life.
Calculate clearly before fighting, and once understood, take action. If you don't act, fine. But once you do, you must end the battle at the fastest speed.
Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu!
Bang... Bang...
A series of white smoke exploded, and a dozen identical Naruto clones walked out from the smoke.
Each Shadow Clone was covered with a thin layer of red Chakra cloak. The shadow clones stood in a row, their fists clenching with cracking sounds, and a dozen pairs of eyes stared straight at Haku in the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals formation.
"Go!"
Naruto's main body shouted.
When in doubt, send the clones first. This is the core tactical logic of the Shadow Clone, simple but extremely effective.
Especially with the reinforcement of Nine-Tails Chakra, the individual combat power of each shadow clone was raised to a higher level, no longer simple cannon fodder decoys as in the anime, but combat units that could truly deal damage.
In an instant, a dozen Narutos turned into afterimages simultaneously, rushing from different directions toward the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals surrounding them.
Dark red Chakra exploded under their feet, with every step leaving a shallow pit in the ground, their speed so fast that the naked eye could hardly capture their trajectory.
The amplification of Nine-Tails Chakra was all-encompassing. Speed, strength, reaction, recovery, were all pushed to a level that was beyond a Genin's reach.
"So fast!" Haku's pupils constricted sharply.
He saw blurred red figures shuttling and turning back and forth between the mirrors.
He threw a senbon at the incoming clones.
Swish!
The senbon flew through the air, drawing a sharp whistling sound in the air.
The Naruto clone in the very front lowered his body abruptly while running at high speed, the senbon narrowly grazing his blonde hair and pinning into the ground behind him.
"Missed!"
The clone grinned.
And just in the gap while Haku was dealing with this one clone, the rest of the Naruto clones had already rushed in front of their respective mirrors.
They clenched their right fists, and dark red Chakra quickly condensed on the fist surface, forming a layer of visible Chakra.
A dozen clones' fists slammed out at the same time.
Crack...
The first Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystal shattered in response. Spiderweb-like cracks spread rapidly from the point of the clone's punch to the surroundings, and then the whole mirror exploded into countless fragments.
Crack... Crack... Crack...
The sound of shattering rang out continuously.
One after another, the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals shattered into a sky full of flying ice shards under the fists of Naruto's Shadow Clones.
Haku attempted to salvage the situation. His fingers flew, attempting to reconsolidate the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, but the Naruto Shadow Clones simply did not give him the chance.
After shattering one mirror, they immediately lunged at the next. The dozen or so clones had a clear division of labor. Some were responsible for destruction, while others were responsible for pinning down Haku's true body.
Whenever Haku gathered senbons, a clone would immediately approach from the flank, forcing him to interrupt his attack and switch to defense.
In the span of just a few seconds, except for the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystal where Haku was hiding, all other mirrors had been shattered.
And just at this moment, the real Naruto moved. He scooped up the unconscious Sasuke, hoisted him onto his shoulder, and with a sudden burst of Chakra beneath his feet, transformed into a streak of red light, charging out of the range of the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals amidst the sky full of ice fragments.
Haku saw this scene and instinctively wanted to move to intercept, his fingers already gripping new senbons, but the moment his figure stirred, the dozen or so Naruto Shadow Clones, having shattered the mirrors, quickly reformed their formation, rushing in unison to stand before the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystal where Haku's true body was located, surrounding him completely.
Pairs of blue eyes stared coldly at Haku within the mirror, like a pack of hunters surrounding their prey. If Haku dared to move even an inch, attacks would descend from all directions simultaneously.