Chapter 363: Nagato Takes the Bait
Who decreed that "Planetary Devastation" could only serve sealing purposes?
Why couldn't it function as offensive or defensive technique?
Of course it could!
Especially against physical jutsu attacks—the effectiveness proved extraordinary!
Under "Planetary Devastation's" massive gravitational pull, Rasa's offensive completely collapsed without producing any effect.
Nagato casually tossed the gradually expanding black sphere toward Rasa. That enormous gravitational field descended like Fahai's alms bowl, firmly trapping Rasa beneath.
"Damn!"
Rasa's expression transformed drastically. Brilliant gold dust frantically surged from his surroundings, forming resilient chains that desperately anchored him to rock layers below not yet fully stripped away.
His reaction proved extremely fast. But under such tremendous gravity, even earth itself couldn't escape—let alone a human?
Golden light flickered as chains pulled taut, emitting tooth-grinding creaking sounds—about to snap.
Rasa's body lifted uncontrollably. Ground beneath his feet peeled away piece by piece.
He resembled a small boat tied to rotten wood during storms, liable to be swept into the abyss any moment.
Just as he was about to be drawn into the black sphere's embrace along with the sand sea beneath—a thunderous voice suddenly exploded.
"Lightning Release: Lariat!"
Lightning flashed. A's figure transformed into blue lightning tearing through space, pushing speed and power to extremes while completely ignoring that terrifying gravitational field's pull on surrounding matter. Following a straight, violent trajectory, he boldly cut into airspace between Nagato and Rasa, targeting Nagato directly.
He was attacking to save the besieged!
A charged like a rampaging beast before Nagato, right arm swinging as his elbow chopped like a battle-axe toward Nagato's neck.
Before the elbow strike arrived, violent lightning pressure had already ionized air into scorched smell.
Simultaneously with A's attack, Killer B—lightened by Kurotsuchi's "Earth Release: Light-Weight Rock Technique"—also appeared silently behind Nagato, short blade wrapped in condensed Eight-Tails chakra thrusting toward his heart.
THUD!
A dull sound erupted. Shockwaves exploded.
Nagato's left hand gripped a black rod in reverse, pressing it tight against his forearm while precisely blocking the Raikage's mountain-splitting elbow strike, forcibly halting A's attack before him.
Nagato's deep purple Rinnegan eyes stared indifferently at A before him—as though everything was clearly reflected in those Rinnegan, leaving nothing hidden.
"Foolish humans. What gave you the mistaken impression that divine might originates solely from Rinnegan ocular techniques?"
"Moreover, before gods, there are no secrets."
Before words finished, a black rod slid from Nagato's sleeve. His right hand grasped it, thrusting backward—precisely colliding with Killer B's stabbing blade.
CLANG!
Metal rang through clouds. Sparks erupted where blade and rod clashed.
Killer B's supposedly certain strike was precisely intercepted by this seemingly casual backward thrust.
Two black rods blocked the combined full-power assault of the current era's two supreme taijutsu experts.
Force capable of crushing mountains couldn't make him retreat a single step.
Even with the Raikage brothers' strength, they still couldn't easily overwhelm Nagato.
But during these brief moments of stalemate, Ao and Kurotsuchi had already cooperated, rescuing Rasa from the gravitational vortex.
Rasa landed staggering several steps, face pale with lingering fear.
Before they could rejoin the encirclement formation, battlefield variables emerged again.
Muscles behind Killer B suddenly writhed violently. Eight tentacles formed entirely from deep crimson chakra shot forth, coiling toward Nagato's body.
"Watch this!" Gyūki's voice resonated within Killer B's consciousness.
But before tentacles reached Nagato, his calm voice rang out again.
"Shinra Tensei!"
Words became law. With Nagato as center, omnidirectional absolute repulsive force descended once more!
This time, closer distance meant more concentrated power.
The Raikage brothers were struck like invisible hammers hitting them head-on—hurled away like cannonballs.
Lightning and tailed beast cloaks flickered violently across A and Killer B as their feet dragged long furrows through ground, completely unable to resist this overwhelming force.
Ultimately both bodies crashed heavily into distant ground amid billowing dust.
Those eight chakra tentacles also shattered inch by inch within the repulsive field, dissipating as light particles.
Nagato slowly withdrew his black rods, hovering midair with robes fluttering—as though merely dusting off dirt.
Absolute power displayed once more without reservation.
However, they'd finally baited out this ultimate defensive technique—"Shinra Tensei."
"Now!" The Raikage's roar suddenly emerged from dust clouds.
Before words finished, someone suddenly charged from the crowd, body wrapped in lightning while rushing before Nagato at extreme speed, right arm swinging toward him.
Around this person's right arm, a golden rope coiled tight like an armguard.
"Futile tricks. Nothing can deceive divine eyes."
Nagato maintained his indifferent expression. Black rod slid into hand again, thrusting toward that Cloud ninja.
But this Cloud ninja merely dodged vital points slightly while allowing his body to be pierced by the black rod. Yet upon being struck, both hands grabbed inward, firmly grasping Nagato's right hand.
Nagato frowned slightly, kicking this person away.
Only this person revealed a sinister smile even while taking the kick.
After crashing heavily onto ground, the Raikage brothers immediately flashed over, protecting him behind themselves.
"Everyone, now is the time to eliminate Nagato!"
"Coordinate with our attacks!"
Speaking thus, the Raikage brothers once more charged toward Nagato.
Within the crowd, a ninja suddenly appeared, tossing a strangely-shaped long sword from his back toward Killer B.
Killer B caught it, leaping high before slashing down toward Nagato's head.
Rasa and others felt stirred, also rushing forward using various jutsu to cover Killer B's attack.
"Hmph! Meaningless!"
"Numerical advantage holds no significance before gods."
Nagato snorted coldly, clapping both hands to activate Summoning Technique.
Amid billowing white smoke, those Animal Path colossal summoning beasts entered the stage—each targeting one powerful enemy while launching fierce assaults.
The numerical situation immediately reversed. From Nagato single-handedly facing multiple Kage, it became Nagato gang-assaulting the Kage.
"Killer B, switch!" A roared.
"Got it, bro!"
Killer B immediately tossed the strange sword to A before transforming back into Eight-Tails, using his own strength to block all colossal summoning beasts behind himself.
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