At the same time, his long-prepared right hand shot out like lightning. His five fingers formed claws, precisely grabbing the middle section of the staff!
"Hmph!"
The third Raikage snorted coldly. His five fingers tightened violently while pulling back with tremendous force.
An overwhelming and irresistible pulling power surged forth!
Snap!
Shinichi could no longer hold on. The Adamantine Nyoi instantly slipped from his grasp and was seized by the third Raikage!
Immediately afterward, without even looking, the Raikage kicked the staff fiercely!
Whoosh!
The heavy Adamantine Nyoi let out a sharp, tearing sound as it spun and flew high into the sky, tens of thousands of meters above!
'His greatest reliance and weapon had been taken!'
However, for the third Raikage, this was only the beginning!
His four fingers came together like a blade, and an immense amount of dazzling blue-white lightning crazily gathered and compressed at the tips of those four fingers!
In the next moment, lightning burst around him again, and his forward speed surged even further beyond its previous limit!
His entire body transformed into an extremely fast, straight beam of lightning, violently thrusting toward Shinichi!
Thrust of Hell: Four Fingers!
The third Raikage's signature ultimate-level Nintaijutsu!
By compressing violent lightning chakra to the extreme and concentrating it at the fingertips, he launched a fatal thrust with unparalleled speed and penetration!
The power of this Nintaijutsu increased as the number of fingers decreased, three fingers, two fingers, and even the ultimate, one-finger thrust, where both power and speed reached their peak!
Even now, in the four-finger state, the destructive penetrating force condensed at the fingertips made all the Konoha ninjas watching from afar tremble in fear!
'Not good! Shinichi is in danger!'
In the distance, Minato Namikaze, who was evading Toroi's magnetic interference with the Flying Thunder God Technique while coordinating with Shinichi's squad to efficiently eliminate the outer forces of Kumogakure, had his pupils suddenly shrink!
He immediately prepared to activate the Flying Thunder God Technique, forcibly entering the Raikage's attack trajectory to interfere.
"Don't think of interfering with Raikage-sama!"
Toroi's cold voice rang out!
He raised both hands, and streams of peculiar white laser beams, as flexible as flowing water yet as swift as lightning and emitting a faint blue glow, shot out from his palms like serpents emerging from their holes!
Storm Style: Laser Circus!
Storm Style, a Kekkei Genkai combining lightning and water attributes, possessed the speed of Lightning Style Ninjutsu and the fluidity, freedom, and controllability of Water Style Ninjutsu. Its essence could be understood as electrified water or liquid lightning.
At this moment, these Storm Style: Laser Circus, precisely controlled by Toroi, were like deadly serpents with independent life and intelligence, tracing elegant yet lethal arcs through the air, accurately weaving and sealing off the space around the third Raikage's charge, forming a three-dimensional laser defense net!
"Come!"
At the center of the battlefield, having lost the Adamantine Nyoi, his greatest reliance and a weapon of both offense and defense, Shinichi showed not the slightest fear. Instead, the fighting spirit and excitement in his heart burned even more fiercely!
His eyes opened to their widest, the glass-like brilliance deep within his pupils flickering like blazing flames as he pushed his perception and visual insight to the absolute limit, fully capturing every detail of that rapidly approaching bolt of deathly lightning!
At the instant before the four-finger thrust, shining with destructive light, was about to touch his chest…
Nue Strike!
Shinichi's left arm shot upward to block!
Boom!!!
Another deafening, heavy explosion resounded!
The third Raikage's unstoppable four-finger thrust struck solidly against Shinichi's raised left elbow!
Finger against elbow! The two collided with a deafening explosion! Blinding lightning and shockwaves spread wildly!
The third Raikage's swift thrust was momentarily halted!
He clearly felt that his powerful strike, capable of piercing through a giant rock, was forcefully blocked by an extremely tough, solid force with strange properties of deflection and recoil!
The penetrating momentum was greatly weakened, and the desired strike through the opponent's body was not achieved!
Under the impact of that terrifying force, Shinichi was as if he had been hit head-on by a train traveling at full speed. His body flew backward uncontrollably and crashed heavily into a towering granite wall hundreds of meters behind him!
Boom!
The hard rock wall was smashed to pieces, and rubble fell down, splashing up dust and stone powder that instantly engulfed Shinichi's figure.
'This is the move that made B accidentally reveal a weakness?!'
The third Raikage had this thought in his mind, and then he suddenly crushed the Flying Thunder God Kunai that he had just taken from Shinichi Higashino.
'The Flying Thunder God Kunai on this kid has already been destroyed by me, so no one can save him now!'
The third Raikage's eyes gleamed with a cold light. Without pausing for a moment, he suddenly closed his four fingers into two, and the lightning gathered at his fingertips became even more dazzling and condensed due to the further concentration of ckakra!
Thrust of Hell: Two Fingers!
Speed and penetrating power have soared once again!
His figure moved again, like a lightning spear that had been accelerated once more, its power multiplied, shooting without hesitation straight into the area completely shrouded in dust!
At this moment, a Shadow Clone holding the Flowing Cloud Sword quickly arrived at Shinichi's side. While supporting the main body, it threw down several smoke bombs, seemingly intending to use the smoke to obstruct the enemy's vision and escape with the original body.
The third Raikage ignored this Shadow Clone. He still charged forward like a bolt of lightning, striking fiercely toward the previous position.
"Shinichi!"
"Captain!"
In the distance, a group of Konoha ninjas who were fighting the Village Hidden in the Cloud's ninjas saw this scene and cried out in alarm!
Many of them even ignored the enemies in front of them, turning around to rush toward that cloud of smoke to provide aid.
But they were all too far away, and the Raikage was too fast. They could only watch helplessly as the third Raikage rushed into the smoke that no one could see through.
Clang!!!
A metallic screech far sharper, longer, and more earth-shattering than any previous collision suddenly erupted from the very center of the dense fog!
Immediately afterward….
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
An unprecedented destructive energy torrent, mixed with countless violent lightning bolts and massive physical shockwaves, burst forth like a volcano that had been suppressed to its limit and finally erupted. Centered on the explosion point, it spread outward in a spherical wave in all directions!
Wherever the shockwave passed, whether Konoha ninja or Kumogakure ninja, anyone even slightly weaker was blown off balance, and some were directly injured by the impact!
A figure shot out from the center of the explosion like a kite with its string cut, tracing a parabola through the air while continuously coughing up large mouthfuls of blood. His clothes were torn to shreds, and his skin was covered in charred burns.
Blood had almost dyed half his body red. The sight was extremely miserable, and the injuries were severe!
"Shinichi!"
"Captain!"
The Konoha ninjas were horrified, grief and fury surging together. Many of them completely ignored the enemy and rushed madly toward the direction where Shinichi was falling!
However, they had only taken a few steps…
Puff!
When the blood-soaked figure in midair suddenly turned into a puff of white smoke like a bubble and disappeared without a trace!