Beam pressed his hands together and began forming hand seals.
"In that case, I'll create a combat environment favorable to me!"
Kisame saw the order of the hand seals Beam was making and his expression changed slightly. He was all too familiar with those signs.
"Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave!!!"
Beam opened his fanged mouth wide, lowered his head, and spewed an endless ocean current from his mouth.
It gushed forth like a flood from a breached dam, pouring over the dry wasteland.
The White Zetsu Army, and even some of their own allies, were caught off guard, struggling, tumbling, and being scattered in the flood.
The reanimated Kage stood on the water's surface, their feet stuck to the water, watching all this expressionlessly.
In just a few seconds, the entire battlefield had turned into a vast ocean.
Beam's technique was exactly the same as the one Kisame used against B in the original work.
Kisame looked at the endless expanse of water beneath his feet. His expression was first one of surprise, then he smiled.
He couldn't help but sigh inwardly that the other party's fighting style was really very similar to his own.
When facing a tricky enemy, he would also use this technique to change the terrain and create an environment favorable to him.
Fortunately, all the Ninjas present could use Chakra to solidify their feet and walk on water.
If it were people from the One Piece World, they'd probably drown.
Beam's body began to deform, expand, and change.
Finally, he transformed into his Devil Form as a Shark Devil.
His entire body swelled several times in size, with three eyes on each side of his head, turning into a giant shark with six fin legs.
"Die die die—!"
Beam shrieked, his tail flicking violently, and his entire body shot through the water like a torpedo.
A white splash burst open on the water's surface, and Beam's figure disappeared beneath the water.
Almost instantly, he was in front of Kisame.
He was so fast that Kisame only had time to see a dark shadow flash beneath the water before that fanged mouth was already upon him.
Crack—!
Beam's fangs sank into Kisame's waist, nearly biting his body in two.
Blood spurted from the wound, turning the surrounding seawater red.
Beam released his mouth, and Kisame's body swayed on the water's surface, with less than a third of the flesh and skin still connecting his upper and lower body.
"One down."
Beam said, a hint of pride in his voice.
"Not so fast."
However, Kisame, whose body was almost bitten in half, suddenly retorted.
His voice was still steady, without a trace of the weakness of approaching death.
Beam's six eyes focused.
The other's body was changing.
Samehada was nowhere to be seen on Kisame's hand.
Barbs grew from Kisame's skin, and his body was covered in a layer of dark blue scales.
Half-man, half-fish.
Beam looked at the other's appearance, was stunned for a moment, and then broke into an excited grin.
"Then let's see who's the stronger shark!"
In the seawater, the two sharks fought fiercely.
White splashes kept bursting on the water's surface, muffled sounds of collision kept coming from beneath the water, and red blood stains floated up from the bottom.
The others applied Chakra to the soles of their feet and fought on the water's surface.
Reze shook off the water stains that stuck to her body, feeling secretly relieved.
Fortunately, she had learned to use Chakra... otherwise, as a Bomb Devil, getting wet would prevent her from detonating her body, and that would be a problem.
Boom—!
Another snap of her fingers, completely suppressing and blasting away Gengetsu's Water Balloon Technique.
Mu charged at her from the side, Dust Release glowing in his hands.
Reze dodged sideways, flicked her fuse rope, and extended it to Mu's face.
Onoki dove down from the sky, both hands spreading open a square of Dust Release.
"Boom~"
Seeing this, Reze parted her red lips slightly and could only resort to another indiscriminate explosion.
Although she wasn't losing while dealing with the siege of multiple Kage-level fighters alone, she was gradually feeling the strain.
She was forced many times to use mutual destruction, then replenish blood to recover.
Just then, a swift shadow flashed behind her.
"Behind you!"
Someone shouted.
Reze turned her head.
Charging toward her from behind was none other than the Third Raikage, known as the [Strongest Raikage in History].
At that moment, his four fingers were pressed together into a knife hand, lightning Chakra condensing into a blue glow on his fingertips.
"Four-Finger Nukite!"
The Third Raikage was so fast that Reze only had time to see a blue lightning bolt coming at her.
Among the Allied Forces, some Ninjas who once belonged to Iwagakure saw this move and couldn't help but cry out in shock:
"Look out! That's the Third Raikage's Hell Stab!"
Back in the day, the Third Raikage used this move with a single finger to stop a ten-thousand-man force from the Iwagakure.
Reze gritted her teeth.
'Damn, I was paying too much attention to the two Tsuchikage and the Second Mizukage.'
It was too late.
The Third Raikage's Four-Finger Nukite was stabbing straight into her heart.
"Sand Shield!"
At the critical moment, a wall of sand rose from behind Reze, standing between her and the Third Raikage.
The Four-Finger Nukite stabbed into the sand wall, making a 'sizzling' sound.
The sand turned to glass under the high heat of the Lightning Chakra.
In less than half a second, the Third Raikage's four fingers broke through the sand wall, severing Reze's left arm.
Reze quickly retreated and looked back.
Gaara, seated on the flowing sand, was raising his right hand, his five fingers slightly spread.
"Thanks."
Reze walked out from behind the sand wall, pulled out a blood pack from her pouch, held it in her mouth, bit it open, tilted her head back, and took a sip.
The crimson liquid flowed down her throat, and in an instant, under the astonished gazes of many, a new arm grew.
The Third Raikage emerged, shaking his hand, his four fingers now three.
Clearly, his next move would be the more powerful Three-Finger Nukite.
Reze wiped the corner of her mouth with the empty blood pack and asked Gaara:
"Finished on your side?"
Gaara nodded.
He wasn't familiar with Reze, so he had nothing to say.
Reze flexed her newly grown shoulder, glanced at the distant sand pyramid sealed with sealing technique marks, and knew without asking that Rasa was sealed inside.
Reze withdrew her gaze and said to Gaara half-jokingly:
"I think your old man's got a screw loose."
Gaara's eyelid twitched.
Reze had heard Makoto complain about the lunatics of the Ninja World many times at home.
Making Gaara a Jinchuriki wasn't a big deal... after all, Minato had done the same thing.
But Rasa was definitely among the craziest.
Knowing full well that his son's mental state was unstable after becoming a Jinchuriki, he kept provoking him… that was crazy.
By normal logic, facing this situation, shouldn't you use emotional tactics?
To put it bluntly, you should brainwash him directly, like Konoha did with Naruto using the Will of Fire.
Isn't that the logical approach?
But Rasa directly chose the most controversial method.
Trying to assassinate Gaara repeatedly.
Ultimately, he assigned the task to Yashamaru, the uncle Gaara cherished most.
This led to Gaara's complete downfall.
Back then, when Reze and the others heard about Rasa's actions, they were all speechless.
With that level of intelligence, he could become a Kazekage?
No wonder Iwagakure had always been the lowest-ranked of the Five Great Ninja Villages.
Gaara silently turned his head to the other side. After a long while, he managed to say:
"Let's continue..."
After all, he couldn't join outsiders in cursing his own father as insane.