Chapter 177 Orochimaru's Difficulty
Chapter 177 Orochimaru's Difficulty
While Fugaku Uchiha and the Eight-Tails were locked in a fierce battle.
Manda opened its blood-red maw, attempting to swallow the tiny human before it whole, but the moment its teeth touched the raging lightning armor, a burst of blinding sparks erupted.
A flicker of pain and rage flashed in the giant vertical pupils of the monstrous creature. It twisted its massive body, its tail sweeping out like a battering ram.
The Third Raikage, A, stood still, neither dodging nor avoiding.
The lightning on his body surged, his muscles bulged like rocks, and his hand transformed into a hand blade, fiercely slashing down at the snake's tail, which was powerful enough to flatten a hill.
"Hell Thrust - Three-Pronged Attack!"
"Pfft!"
Blood splattered, falling like a torrential rain.
Manda's hard scales were as brittle as paper in front of the Raikage's hand blade, and his thick tail was cut in half, revealing his bare white bones.
"hiss--!!!"
The monstrous snake let out a mournful howl, its enormous body thrashing wildly, crushing the surrounding trees and rocks to dust.
"Orochimaru! You didn't say the opponent was this kind of monster!"
Manda turned its massive head and roared at Orochimaru, who was standing above it, "I'm not going to serve this kind of incredibly tough guy anymore!"
Before Orochimaru could respond, Manda's enormous body vanished into thin air in a huge cloud of white smoke, leaving behind only a mess and still-dried snake blood.
Orochimaru lost his footing and landed lightly on the ground.
He stuck out his long tongue and licked his lips, looking at the thunder shadow standing in front of him like a demon god. There was no fear in his golden vertical pupils, only a kind of morbid appreciation for the perfect body.
"As expected of the strongest shield, even Manda can't break through its defenses?"
"Hmph, that beast dares to try and hurt me?"
The Third Raikage flicked the snake blood off his hands and fixed Orochimaru with a chilling gaze.
"Now, your pet has escaped. The Legendary Sannin of Konoha, let this old man see if your body is as tough as your mouth!"
"boom!"
The ground cracked.
The Raikage vanished instantly, reappearing in front of Orochimaru, still wielding that indestructible hand blade, aimed straight at Orochimaru's heart.
Orochimaru instantly parried with his sword, the blade coated with sharp wind-style chakra.
"bite--!"
The sword struck the lightning armor, leaving only a shallow white mark. The immense recoil caused Orochimaru's hand to split open instantly.
The next second, the Raikage's other fist slammed into Orochimaru's abdomen.
"Bang!"
Orochimaru's body arched like a shrimp, and he flew backward, crashing through three giant rocks before coming to a stop.
"It's over." Raikage snorted coldly.
But in the ruins, Orochimaru, whose internal organs should have been shattered, had his body twisted strangely.
His mouth suddenly opened wide to its limit, and a pair of wet hands emerged from his throat. Then, a brand new, undamaged Orochimaru emerged from the "old skin," covered in slime.
"...That's disgusting."
Raikage frowned; enemies that are impossible to kill are the most annoying.
"The Raikage's punches are indeed powerful."
The newly reborn Orochimaru stood on the ruins, unharmed, but his aura was noticeably weaker than before.
While this substitution technique can grant immunity to damage, it also consumes a huge amount of chakra.
Without Manda's restraint, Orochimaru gradually found himself on the defensive against the Third Raikage, who was both offensive and defensively strong and incredibly fast.
He could only rely on software modifications and various bizarre ninjutsu to constantly move around and avoid direct confrontation as much as possible.
The balance of power in the war began to tilt.
If the Raikage can seize a few more opportunities to exhaust Orochimaru's chakra, this battle will come to an end.
However, just as the Raikage was preparing to launch his next deadly attack, a deafening explosion came from the other side of the battlefield.
That was the roar of Fugaku's Susanoo severing the Tailed Beast Ball.
The Raikage abruptly stopped.
He turned his head and looked at the battlefield on his flank.
The sight that came into view made even his heart, which was as hard as steel, twitch slightly.
The enormous body of the Eight-Tailed Gyūki had disappeared, replaced by Burubi lying in the deep pit, her life hanging in the balance.
In that direction, a huge black half-skeletal giant was slowly dissipating.
"Brubi...lost?"
Raikage's pupils contracted slightly.
Moreover, on the battlefields of ordinary ninjas further away, the situation was an even more one-sided massacre.
That "Heian Corporation" unit, dressed in black uniforms and carrying long-barreled weapons painted in red and black, was reaping the lives of the Cloud Village ninjas like the Grim Reaper.
Beams of blue and white light crisscrossed the battlefield.
The Cloud Village's prized taijutsu ninjas and lightning release troops were utterly unable to mount an effective charge against such weapons with extremely long range and penetrating power.
They were often riddled with bullets before they even got close.
Corpses are everywhere.
The rate of casualties in Kumogakure far exceeds that in Konoha.
The Raikage looked at his subordinates who were falling one after another, and then looked at Orochimaru in the distance, who still maintained a sinister smile even when he was being suppressed.
He realized that the war could not continue.
The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki is severely injured and his fate is unknown.
If we leave Brubi here again, Kumogakure will really suffer a major blow.
"Damn it!"
The Third Raikage gritted his teeth and made a decision.
He ignored Orochimaru and turned to rush towards the direction where the Eight-Tails had fallen.
"All troops, listen up! Take the wounded and retreat!"
Raikage's voice echoed across the battlefield like rolling thunder.
He charged ahead, breaking into Konoha's encirclement. With his invincible defense and terrifying power, he forcefully tore open a gap, grabbed the unconscious Brubi, and hoisted him onto his shoulder.
"Trying to run away?"
Orochimaru extended the sword in his hand, attempting to block it.
"Get out of here!"
The Raikage turned around, his eyes blazing with tangible fury. The lightning on his body surged to its limit, and with a swift chop, he compressed the air into a vacuum blade, forcing Orochimaru to retreat and defend.
Taking advantage of this opening, the Raikage led the remaining Cloud Village troops away from the battlefield like a black whirlwind, rushing towards the Land of Lightning.
The rain gradually stopped.
All that remained on the battlefield was devastation and lingering smoke.
Orochimaru stood still, sheathed his sword, and did not order a pursuit.
He wiped the rain and sticky liquid from his face, watching the Thunder Shadow's departing figure, a trace of weariness flashing in his golden vertical pupils.
"As expected of the Third Raikage... If this fight continues, he'll probably have to use his most powerful techniques."
He turned around and looked to the other side.
With the help of several clansmen, Fugaku Uchiha stood up with difficulty, his eyes closed and two dried blood and tears marks on his face, but his spine remained straight.
Meanwhile, the special operations team of "Heian Corporation" was methodically cleaning up the battlefield under the command of Uchiha Yatsushiro.
"We've won for now."
Orochimaru muttered to himself.
"However, the Third Raikage won't let this go so easily; he'll probably be back soon."
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