Clone Explosion!
This time, Kazuya had thoughtfully added several explosive tags to his shadow clone, blasting an extra punch.
Boom!!!
A thunderous explosion shook the ground, and a blinding light filled the sky.
With his Fire Release technique damage buffed by 100%, and the destruction from the clone's explosion was devastating!
In an instant, Killer B, who thought he had landed a solid hit, was swallowed by the blast.
[You've picked up 500 Chakra Points]
[You've picked up 500 Chakra Points]
[You've picked up 1,000 Tailed Beast Power Points]
[You've picked up 1,000 Tailed Beast Power Points]
[You've picked up 20 Wind Release Affinity Points]
[You've picked up 30 Wind Release Affinity Points]
[You've picked up 20 Indra Bloodline Points]
[You've picked up 50 Visual Prowess Points]
...
Golden beams of light continued to fly toward him across the battlefield, especially from the dust cloud of the explosion.
Tailed beast power—high-quality loot!
In the original story, Naruto's ultimate setup included chakra, tailed beast energy, and natural energy. Now, in terms of raw power, Kazuya was already surpassing Naruto.
On the battlefield, seeing Killer B hit again, Choji Akimichi—lying on the ground, coughing up blood—felt a surge of excitement. "Awesome, Kazuya!"
Choji was energized, and the surrounding Konoha shinobi even more so!
Unbelievable.
Lord Kazuya was singlehandedly dominating two Cloud Village jinchuriki!
It was insane!
The Konoha shinobi now firmly believed all the rumors about him. Lord Kazuya had truly managed to injure Orochimaru; he was a bona fide Kage-level powerhouse!
Meanwhile, the Cloud Village shinobi looked horrified.
They had expected their two powerful lords to break Konoha's forces quickly, but instead, they were witnessing an Anbu member going toe-to-toe with both of them!
And even winning!
"This... this can't be!"
"There's no way!"
Samui, the blonde Cloud shinobi, wore a look of utter disbelief.
No way!
Was there an Anbu this powerful?
That was Lord Killer B! The invincible Killer B!
How could he be beaten by some unknown Anbu?!
Just as Konoha's morale soared and the Cloud shinobi were beginning to panic, a sudden change erupted on the field.
Rumble! Rumble!
From the smoke of the explosion, a series of deafening roars echoed across the battlefield.
Roar!!!
Roar!!!
In the next moment, terrifying beastly roars filled the air.
[You've picked up 1,000 Chakra Points]
[You've picked up 1,500 Chakra Points]
[You've picked up 800 Chakra Points]
[You've picked up 3,000 Tailed Beast Power Points]
[You have picked up 3,000 units of Tailed Beast power]
…
A dazzling golden glow!
Insane levels of power!
In just a flash, Kazuya had collected over 4,000 points of chakra and 7,000 points of Tailed Beast power!
This was... an insane haul.
Behind the mask, Kazuya's expression turned uncharacteristically serious.
And in the next moment, before him appeared a towering beast, about 30 meters tall, with bull-like horns and eight tentacle-like tails flailing behind its massive body!
The monster's left horn was broken, giving it an asymmetrical, ominous appearance.
The sheer power of its chakra was overwhelming; as soon as it appeared on the battlefield, a gale swept across.
The Eight-Tails! Gyūki!
This was Killer Bee in full-tailed Beast Mode!
"Impressive... a perfect jinchūriki," Kazuya muttered, sighing slightly.
The beast's power went far beyond that of ordinary shinobi.
This form of the Eight-Tails seemed only half its size in the original story, but here on the battlefield, it was terrifying enough.
"Stop messing around, Fool-Bee. This Konoha Anbu isn't a simple character. He might even be more dangerous than the Yellow Flash!"
From within the Eight-Tails, a deep, rumbling voice echoed.
"Yo, yo! You're right, Eight-O! This Anbu's beyond what big bro said, so let's take him down—oh yeah!"
"Fool-Bee, I've told you a hundred times, stop rapping in my ear!"
"It's art, my friend! The sky's filled with my rhymes, words take flight, y'know what I'm saying, yo! Buckaroo!"
"Silence!!"
"Oh, got it, Eight-O!"
The Eight-Tails' fierce gaze locked onto Kazuya in the distance.
"That…"
"It's the Eight-Tails!!!"
Within seconds, terror spread through Konoha's ranks as frantic shouts erupted.
A Tailed Beast!
And one of the strongest—Eight-Tails!
Its horrifying presence shattered the morale of the Konoha shinobi on the battlefield.
A massive beast! The Eight-Tails! Just seeing it again was enough to trigger traumatic memories for them.
Standing at the front lines, Kazuya's expression remained tense.
The moment the Eight-Tails appeared, the ordinary shinobi present had no chance.
The difference in power was insurmountable.
Unless… they planned to throw lives at it, as they did on the night of the Nine-Tails attack.
"ROOOAAARR!"
The Eight-Tails bellowed, opening its mouth, and in an instant, a black chakra sphere began to form.
Buzz!
Buzz!
The violent, oppressive Tailed Beast chakra!
The black Tailed Beast Ball grew larger by the second, quickly reaching a diameter of over ten meters!
"It's a Tailed Beast Ball!"
"Fall back!"
"We can't win!"
"Oh my god, the jinchūriki from the Hidden Cloud can use such a monstrous Tailed Beast Ball!"
"Run! We're all dead if we don't get out of here!"
The Konoha shinobi on the battlefield shouted in panic, voices straining.
Some frantically grabbed their wounded comrades and ran for cover.
But how could they outrun a Tailed Beast Ball?
"This is it…"
At the battlefield's edge, Kurenai Yuhi's eyes filled with a desperate resolve.
A Tailed Beast!
No ordinary shinobi could stand up to a force like this.
Be it the Eight-Tails or the Nine-Tails, the power was beyond them.
"Kazuya…"
"Get out of there!!!"
Seeing the white-clad figure on the battlefield, Kurenai dashed forward, screaming wildly.
She couldn't let him die—Kazuya couldn't die here!
"Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall!"
"Earth Style: Sky-Covering Wall!"
"Earth Style: Earth Fortress!"
They needed to change its trajectory, somehow!
Around ten elite Konoha shinobi shouted out their jutsu, summoning walls of earth in the Tailed Beast Ball's path. Yet, upon contact, each wall crumbled to dust, offering no resistance.
"It's over!"
"The difference in power is too great!"
"We can't stop it!"
The faces of those Konoha shinobi attempting to intercept it with Earth Style turned to despair.
Boom!
Boom!
100 meters!
50 meters!
20 meters!
The Tailed Beast Ball approached closer and closer, many Konoha shinobi standing frozen in fear and despair.
But then—
A white figure suddenly darted forward, charging toward the Tailed Beast Ball!
"That's…"
"Lord Kazuya!!!"
"He's still fighting!"
"Lord Kazuya… is trying to stop the Tailed Beast Ball!"
"This… this is the true Will of Fire!"
"Lord Kazuya… incredible!"
As shouts erupted among the Konoha shinobi—
Zoom!
In a flash, the enormous Tailed Beast Ball vanished.
Moments later—
Boom!!!
A blinding light exploded tens of kilometers away!
The shockwave surged back, lifting trees at the battlefield's edge into the air.
[You have picked up 5,000 units of Tailed Beast power]
[You have picked up 5,000 units of Tailed Beast power]
[You have picked up 3,000 units of Tailed Beast power]
[You have picked up a skill: Tailed Beast Ball]
[You have picked up 1,000 units of Tailed Beast Ball experience]
[Your Tailed Beast Ball has leveled up to Level 2 (0/1000)]
…
Kazuya felt a surge of pure golden light streaming into his body, an unbelievable windfall!
With a smile, Kazuya thought to himself:
As expected, the Flying Thunder God technique made transferring a Tailed Beast Ball easy work.
In the original story, Minato Namikaze was even able to handle Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Balls.
So transferring a smaller one from the Eight-Tails was no issue for him.
They were safe.
Seeing that terrifying Tailed Beast Ball disappear, the Konoha shinobi finally exhaled in relief.
"It's gone! The Tailed Beast Ball was moved!"
"Flying Thunder God…"
"What a troublesome jutsu!"
Killer Bee was livid.
The Eight-Tails bared its fangs, another ominous, black Tailed Beast Bomb forming quickly in its mouth.
Enough was enough.
Kazuya was getting annoyed.
Usually, he was the one turning others into target practice, but it seemed this big, blustering Eight-Tails "experience pack" had forgotten its place!
Hiss!
Hiss!
Hiss!
In an instant, lightning crackled to life around Kazuya's right hand, a blazing blue radiance illuminating his surroundings.
BOOM!
BOOM!
The sky, thick with dark clouds, began to shake with terrifying thunder.
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