"Sorry, old man, could you please not run around?"
Chika greeted him with a smile.
Madara raised an eyebrow and asked with interest, "What if I say no?"
Chika didn't answer, showing an innocent, untainted smile. The next moment, her white arm transformed into pure lightning.
"60 Million Volt - Thunder Dragon!"
A blue lightning dragon roared from Chika's arm.
It opened its maw, filled with lightning fangs, and roared towards Madara.
Watching this roaring, raging lightning dragon charging at him, a flicker of surprise passed through Madara's Rinnegan.
"Oh, Lightning Release… Not bad."
Madara commented while raising his right hand, palm facing the lightning dragon, "But Ninjutsu is useless against me."
As he spoke, Madara prepared to absorb it using the Preta Path's ability.
The lightning dragon was less than half a meter from his palm. Suddenly, Madara's expression changed.
Madara immediately realized something was wrong. His body reacted at the critical moment, performing a mid-air somersault and veering off the lightning dragon's attack path.
The lightning dragon grazed his Susanoo armor as it flew by, exploding on the ground. The spot where Madara had been standing was blown away dramatically, leaving a deep crater hundreds of meters wide.
"Not Ninjutsu?"
Madara, now in mid-air, said in surprise.
He landed on the ground, looking down at his right hand grazed by the lightning dragon's tail flame.
Alice stood to Madara's left and couldn't help but remark:
"He's so much stronger than Nagato."
She had briefly fought Nagato while operating with Jiraiya.
Nagato had also tried to absorb their Devil Fruit techniques with the Rinnegan's abilities, but because he didn't understand Devil Fruits, he was directly hit by their attacks.
But Madara, at the last moment before the attack hit, made a judgment and dodged… that was the difference.
And then, Saeko had already leapt up.
Her body spun twice in the air, the Shodai Kitetsu drawn from its sheath. Conqueror's Haki wrapped around the blade, dark red lightning condensing and bursting on the blade as she slashed down at Madara.
Sparks flew.
Madara glanced sideways, deep blue Susanoo ribs condensing in front of him, between Saeko's blade and his own body, creating a burst of dazzling sparks.
The Susanoo kept making cracking sounds, cracks spreading from the blade edge in all directions.
"Strong offensive power." Madara gave a word of praise.
Then, his hands quickly formed hand seals, turning his head to face Saeko.
"Fire Release: Great Fire Destruction!"
A giant pillar of fire spewed from his mouth, heading towards Saeko.
But Saeko had just been forced back when Hiyori and Alice pincered him from left and right.
Hiyori held Enma and Ame no Habakiri in her hands.
Alice held the Emperor Sword Napoleon in her hand, Prometheus's crimson flame wrapped around the blade.
"Gun Quasi-Ogre!"
"Blade Mother's Blaze!"
Under their combined assault, a violent shockwave erupted in mid-air.
Blue-green and crimson light intertwined, exploding around Madara's Susanoo, scattering rubble and dust in all directions.
Madara was sent flying.
Reze, already transformed into the Bomb Devil, was waiting in mid-air.
She waved her hand, releasing the explosive cords wrapped around her arms. Like slender tentacles, they extended from her arms and accurately tied around the flying Madara's right ankle in mid-air.
Reze then snapped her fingers.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The explosive cords detonated from Madara's ankle upwards.
Chain explosions boomed in mid-air, engulfing Madara's entire body in a sea of fire.
The shockwaves from the explosion spread in all directions, blasting the nearby White Zetsu army away in droves.
Many Ninjas from the Allied Forces fighting the White Zetsu army saw this and couldn't help but cheer.
After the dust settled, Madara slowly walked out of the thick smoke.
He patted the wounds on his body. The shattered armor fragments were slowly repairing themselves, new dust growing from the fractures.
"Well done!"
Madara praised expressionlessly.
Then everyone saw—
Madara's armor had a gap blown open by the explosion, revealing his reanimated body, revealing a face on the inside of his chest… Hashirama's face.
Seeing this, everyone was startled again.
Even Tsunade widened her eyes in shock, her lips trembling for a moment before she managed to squeeze out a voice: "What... what are you?"
Madara glanced at Tsunade and said flatly, "This... it took quite a bit of effort to get this set up back then."
Having said that, Madara's reanimated body began to repair itself.
Reze looked at the Madara before her, at Hashirama in the distance fighting her man, and at Naruto and Sasuke still entangled in another battlefield.
From over there came the constant sound of bickering: "Sasuke, come back with me!" "You're so annoying."
Reze withdrew her gaze and murmured, "These Konoha men have something a bit wrong with their sexuality."
For a time, top-tier fighters like Makoto and Madara were all occupied.
Kakashi stood at the rear of the Allied Forces, his gaze piercing through the smoke and dust, landing on Obito atop the Ten-Tails.
After a moment of thought, Kakashi went to Utaha and said quietly, "Utaha, please transport me to Obito."
"Are you serious?" Utaha asked incredulously.
She had heard about the love-hate relationship between those two.
She fully understood Kakashi's desire to settle things with Obito.
But the problem was, the other party's Mangekyo Sharingan was now with her, and Obito possessed the Rinnegan. Under these circumstances, Kakashi still dared to actively seek him out?
Kakashi explained seriously: "Right now, Obito has already split off a lot of his Ocular Power to control the First Hokage and the others to keep Makoto occupied. He can't bring out the full power of his Rinnegan."
"I have a chance."
In the original work, many praised Kakashi's greatest strength not as his Sharingan, but his keen insight.
That was on full display here at this moment.
Although he no longer had the Sharingan, his tactical thinking, battlefield judgment, and ability to detect enemy weaknesses were still top-notch.
Although Obito now had Rinnegan in both eyes, his ability to utilize their power was limited.
Currently, controlling all the Six Paths of Konoha to occupy Makoto consumed a tremendous amount of Obito's Ocular Power.
Otherwise, there would be no explanation for why he didn't also control the minds of Hashirama and the others. It was because he didn't have enough Ocular Power.
Therefore, Kakashi was certain he had a chance.
Seeing Kakashi's confident demeanor, Utaha no longer refused.
After all, one of the eyes she had came from him, so she owed him a favor.
She used the Kamui of her right eye to transport Kakashi into the Kamui Dimension.
Kakashi's body swirled and shrank in Utaha's right eye, eventually disappearing.
Then, she aimed her left eye at Obito atop the Ten-Tails in the distance and released Kakashi from the Kamui Dimension.
Space warped, and Kakashi's figure suddenly emerged from the void, landing beside Obito.
His ordinary eyes met Obito's Rinnegan.
A complex look flashed across Obito's face, followed by a cold sneer.
"Never thought I'd have to deal with a waste like you at a time like this."
As he spoke, Obito controlled the power of his Rinnegan, forming a Black Chakra Receiver in his palm and charged at Kakashi.
"As you said, I am indeed a waste, Obito."
Kakashi's lips pressed tightly beneath his mask, resolutely saying: "But this world cannot become the way you want it to be. This is surely what Rin would have wished for as well."
After saying this, Kakashi stabbed at Obito with the kunai in his hand.
"Don't mention Rin to me!"
Obito instantly lost his composure.