But very quickly, someone still noticed the difference.
"This isn't Scorch Release!"
"There's no high temperature."
"It's simply drying out the moisture inside the body!"
"But it's still very strong."
"It counters us Kirigakure shinobi heavily."
"This must be Rasa imitating the effects of Scorch Release and creating it through Magnet Release."
The moment they thought of this, the Kirigakure shinobi became even angrier.
"Too much!"
"Does Rasa hate Kirigakure that badly?"
"Even when creating a new ninjutsu, he specifically makes it to counter Kirigakure shinobi?"
"Just how much hatred does he have toward Kirigakure?"
But in their hearts, the Kirigakure shinobi also understood.
If Sunagakure did not target Kirigakure, who else would they target?
Among all villages, Kirigakure had treated Sunagakure the worst. Their conflict was the greatest. Their grudges were the deepest.
One Kirigakure shinobi after another fell at Rasa's hands.
Rasa discovered that Crescent Moon Sand Dune was truly excellent against shinobi much weaker than himself.
Once it touched them, even if they did not die, they would be heavily wounded.
Even if they pulled their bodies away in time, losing part of their body's moisture would greatly affect their condition.
And once their condition worsened, Rasa's second round of attacks would arrive.
Furthermore, Rasa still had Magnet Release.
And the Lightning Blade.
If he restrained them first and then used Crescent Moon Sand Dune, the opponent had no possibility of dodging.
"No wonder Pakura is hated so much by Kirigakure's shinobi."
"For Water Release shinobi like them, this is indeed extremely difficult to deal with."
Yagura watched helplessly as the people he had brought fell one after another.
In just a short while, he was the only one left.
Yagura glared at Rasa, his eyes bloodshot.
"I originally wanted to take you down head-on, but I have to admit, Rasa, you do have some ability."
"In that case, submit before my Water Mirror Technique!"
Yagura formed hand seals.
A mirror formed from Water Release appeared instantly.
But Rasa had already anticipated this.
"Quicksand Displacement!"
Before the mirror appeared, Rasa used Quicksand Displacement to leave.
Yagura's Water Mirror Technique only reflected the Sand Soldier puppets, but the copies of these Sand Soldier puppets held little meaning.
Yagura hurriedly turned back.
But at this moment, Rasa was not behind Yagura either.
He had hidden in the shadows.
To deal with the Water Mirror Technique, one only needed to avoid being reflected by the mirror.
Then one would not be copied.
Rasa's thinking was very clear.
As long as Yagura's Water Mirror Technique could not reflect him, the advantage would definitely belong to Rasa.
He hid in the dark, where Yagura could not see him at all.
Meanwhile, through the Byakugan Scouting Technique, Rasa could clearly observe Yagura's situation.
At the same time, he used gold dust to attack Yagura from a distance.
The surrounding sand began surging, wave after wave.
Yagura's expression sank. He frantically searched for Rasa's figure.
"Rasa, is hiding all you can do?"
"You don't dare come out?"
"Is this the Kazekage's way?"
Rasa sneered inwardly.
He had stopped using such crude provocation even when he was a child.
Rasa continued calculating.
"Yagura becoming a jinchuriki means his chakra reserves are certainly huge, but my chakra reserves are not small either."
"And I still have this."
Rasa took out a ninja tool.
The Infinite Hole Armor.
During the Three-Village Conference, he had once lent this ninja tool to Kisame Hoshigaki, greatly enhancing Kisame's chakra absorption ability and allowing him to defeat Akatsuchi.
And now, Rasa had used a clone to bring this ninja tool over.
So what if a jinchuriki had huge chakra reserves?
He could fight while recovering.
He had no fear at all.
One Sand Soldier copy created by the Water Mirror Technique sank into the sand and soon disappeared.
The yellow sand ground was like an invisible mouth, capable of swallowing everything.
Rasa quickly approached.
"Infinite Hole Armor!"
Very soon, the chakra inside that Sand Soldier copy was completely absorbed by Rasa.
Yagura was still furiously searching for Rasa.
"Here!"
"Here!"
"Here!"
"No!"
"No!"
"Still no!"
Yagura was furious to the extreme. He stopped searching and hardened his heart, looking toward Sunagakure.
Yagura knew this was not proper.
When Kage fought Kage, abandoning the opponent before them to attack ordinary shinobi and civilians instead—
Once such a precedent was set, other shinobi villages would use the same strategy when dealing with Kirigakure in the future.
In a shinobi battle, any means could be used.
But in the end, there were still certain tacit rules.
Now, Yagura planned to break that rule.
He could no longer afford to care.
A large amount of chakra condensed in front of Yagura.
"Tailed Beast Ball!"
Through the Byakugan Scouting Technique, Rasa saw Yagura's movement. His expression sank.
"If you can't find a way to deal with me, you attack ordinary shinobi and civilians instead?"
"Karatachi Yagura. Good. Very good."
"A person like you being controlled by Uchiha Obito and reduced to a puppet really is deserved."
Rasa drew in a deep breath.
There was no way he could allow Yagura to attack Sunagakure like this.
But going out directly was not a good choice either.
The Water Mirror Technique was too unreasonable.
Therefore, Rasa chose a third method.
He would attack Yagura with unprecedented ferocity and leave Yagura no chance to attack Sunagakure.
"Magnet Release: Gold Dust!"
"Gold Dust Senbon!"
Countless senbon formed from gold dust shot in from every direction.
Front, back, left, right, above, below.
All sides at once.
At the same time—
"Sand Soldier Manifestation!"
Dozens more Sand Soldiers were created by Rasa. Every one of them possessed jonin-level strength. They charged toward Yagura, thrusting the long spears in their hands fiercely at him.
High in the sky, the Yatagarasu began laying eggs again.
"Thud!"
"Thud!"
"Thud!"
The Sunagakure shinobi on the wall widened their eyes.
"So strong. So many. So violent!"
"Is this Kazekage-sama attacking at full strength?"
"He could probably bring down an entire village like this."
"How will Yagura deal with this?"
"Even as a jinchuriki, there's no way he can safely escape from this kind of attack, right?"
Yagura's pupils constricted.
"This attack!"
"After consuming chakra for so long, Rasa can still use an attack like this?"
"Where does he have that much chakra from?"
"I'm the jinchuriki here!"
Suddenly, Yagura seemed to think of something.
"Back during the Three-Kage Conference, it was said that Kisame Hoshigaki relied on a ninja tool capable of absorbing chakra to defeat Iwagakure's Akatsuchi."
"Could that ninja tool be on Rasa right now?"
The more Yagura thought about it, the more likely he found it.
"Otherwise, Rasa couldn't have lasted this long!"
"No wonder…"
"Relying on a ninja tool to cheat, huh?"
Yagura snorted coldly.
"But do you really think this kind of attack will work on me?"