"Morieu has possessed the village chief, and we must first destroy the body before using Fuin," Hebun Ri-Raito (Seal: Heavenly Light)," the priestess shouted at me, glowing with the full power of her dojutsu, "otherwise, I simply won't have enough strength to destroy him and we'll have to retreat.
"Understood," I nodded to her and sped up, taking off first and flying up to the village wall.
Several genin appeared above, obviously left behind in case of an attempt to break through the walls, but kunai flew out of the fuin on my palm at tremendous speed, ending their lives before the brats could do anything.
A second later, finding myself at the top, I chopped up four more shinobi, who were nothing but borrowed strength, and jumped onto the roof of the nearest house, leaping toward the open space in the center, where I could sense Morieu.
But before I could cross a few roofs, I began to sense a frenzied concentration of chakra being pumped into a single point, and my sense of danger, which had been covered in dust, began to signal that I was about to be completely screwed.
Reacting instantly and quickly forming hand seals while still in midair, I landed on my feet and pressed my palms into the ground, activating a defensive technique capable of covering not only myself but also the girls following behind me.
"Kuchiyose: Sanju Rashomon (Summon: Triple Gates of Rashomon)!"
And even before the first massive gates with grotesque masks rose completely from the ground, I saw a gust of wind blow from the square and the houses between us practically evaporate in a stream of chakra.
He crashed into the fully erected gate and gradually, with a terrifying screech and hum, pushed it down, but the technique worked before the first Rashomon Gate was destroyed, reliably covering me. Thank you, Orochimaru, for such useful ninjutsu, whatever it's called.
The demon's powerful attack lasted only a couple of seconds, but even so, two of the three gates were destroyed, and the third was on its last legs.
But I had already rounded the obstacle and, glancing briefly at the trench of melted earth where dozens of houses had stood just moments before, I pushed off the roof with all my strength and rushed forward at full speed, trying to use the momentary respite to get within striking distance.
No matter how strong Morieu was, all living beings have physical limits, and even he could not constantly pass huge amounts of chakra through the possessed without harming him, not to mention the extreme toxicity of the power used on a human being.
Considering the frankly weak local ninja compared to the elemental countries, a couple more shots like that and the demon would be left without a physical vessel, but I wasn't going to just wait passively for that to happen, preferring to destroy the possessed one by force — the triple Rashomon Gates consume a lot of chakra, and I would still need it for the battle with the creature's true form.
By the time I had covered several hundred meters and finally made it to the center of the village, I saw a figure literally ablaze with purple fire, with a couple of strong shinobi at his sides.
The bastard had managed to recover and create a black ball half a meter in diameter in front of him, firing at me a second time, clearly designating me as a higher priority target than the high priestess, who was lagging far behind the kunoichi and making her way to the other side of the heat-radiating pit.
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