Shota decided to take advantage of the fact that his enemies still did not know that his dojutsu could affect all of the people in his direct line of sight.
He stood calmly in the middle of the desert as the group of traitors surrounded him. He made quick hand signs and gathered his chakra.
"Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!"
By incorporating advanced fire principles in the jutsu, the fire was much hotter as well as spread to a larger area as he blew flames from his mouth.
The flames were bright orange with hints of blue at the center, showing how intense the heat was. The air around the fireball shimmered and distorted from the extreme temperature.
Some of the chunin and genin tried to use defensive jutsus, only to realize that all of their chakra had disappeared the moment they came into Shota's line of sight.
Their faces turned to panic as they tried to form hand signs that did nothing. The jonins shouted commands, but it was too late for many of them.
The giant fireball rolled forward like a wave of death. Those who were too slow or too close were swallowed by the flames instantly. Their screams filled the desert air as the fire burned through their clothes and skin.
Some genin tried to run sideways, but the wide spread of the jutsu caught them from the side. Their bodies twisted in agony before falling silent, reduced to charred remains on the glass-like sand. The smell of burnt flesh and hair spread quickly, mixing with the dry desert wind.
Even those who survived carried terrible burns on their arms and legs, screaming in pain as they rolled on the ground trying to put out the flames.
The scene was brutal and merciless. Smoke rose from the bodies of the fallen, creating dark pillars that climbed into the sky. Shota watched it all without blinking, his eyes cold and focused. He had no mercy for those who betrayed their village and comrades.
Elder Daigo realized what had happened and asked in surprise, "You can erase chakra of more than one person at a time... How?!!"
"What can I say, I am a boy wonder," Shota said with a small, cheeky grin, even though the situation was deadly serious.
'Did he manage to do it now or could he do it even before? Was he hiding the true power of his dojutsu?' These thoughts ran through Elder Daigo's mind rapidly. He was trying to understand the limits of Shota's power while calculating his next move.
'But it does not matter. It seems like he still has to look at the person directly. The ones that were completely hidden by other people were not affected by his dojutsu,' he thought, noting the weakness he could exploit.
Elder Daigo shouted loudly, "Surround him and attack him from all sides!"
His supporters complied immediately. They spread out in a wide circle, trying to attack Shota from every direction at once. Kunai flew from multiple angles, and some shinobi prepared jutsus while staying behind cover.
Shota needed to remember to focus his dojutsu on the three jonin and Elder Daigo. He had found out what it meant to learn advanced nature manipulation and how dangerous the jutsus that these jonin could use. He stayed in the center, turning his head constantly to keep his eyes on as many targets as possible.
The fight turned chaotic very quickly. Shota's binding cloth moved like living snakes, wrapping around one man's leg to pull him off balance while another end deflected incoming kunai.
A third section of the cloth shot out and grabbed another attacker by the arm, swinging him into his own comrades.
Shota switched his gaze rapidly from one person to another, erasing their chakra the moment they tried to use jutsu.
A jonin tried to create a powerful wind blade but suddenly felt empty inside as his chakra vanished. He stared in shock right before Shota's fire-natured chakra string slashed across his chest.
Another chunin tried to throw exploding tags from behind, but Shota's eyes caught him in time. The man's chakra disappeared, and the tags fell uselessly from his hands before he could light them up.
Shota used the opening to send his binding cloth whipping around, tying up two more attackers together.
Shota was constantly on the move, never staying in one spot for long. His cloth defended, attacked, and restrained all at the same time while his eyes continued erasing chakra from anyone who entered his line of sight.
The traitors were growing desperate. They tried to attack from blind spots, but Shota kept turning and adjusting his position. One jonin managed to get close enough to swing a sword, but Shota's cloth wrapped around the blade and yanked it away.
The man was then thrown into another attacker, causing both to fall.
But being occupied by so many people made him miss Elder Daigo for a moment, and thus not being able to use his dojutsu on him. The elder took the chance and used a jutsu.
"Wind Style: Vacuum Bullets Jutsu!"
The vacuum bullets tore through his binding cloth and would have torn through him too if not for Shota's quick thinking.
He had swiftly used one end of his binding cloth to drag one of the nearest Elder Daigo's supporters in front of him and used him as a human shield. The bullets ripped into the man's body with brutal force.
One of the vacuum bullets still managed to hit Shota in his thigh, making him grunt in pain as blood flowed from the new wound.
"You have severely underestimated us, boy, and you would pay for it with your death," Elder Daigo said with a cruel smile.
"While that might be true, do not make the same mistake as me. Do not underestimate your opponent," Shota said as he started floating in the air with a jump.
Shota, seeing that he could not keep an eye on everyone with his position on the ground, decided to find a position where he could. That position was from the air.
He used the anti-gravity part of his quirk as he flew high into the air, rising above the battlefield. The wind rushed past him as he gained height, giving him a clear view of the entire group below.
He then grabbed one of his hands in a fang-like manner as a ball of chakra formed that hovered in the air. "Yokai Rasengan," Shota muttered as he looked at the entire Elder Daigo's faction. All of them were now unable to use chakra and were at the mercy of his moving jutsu.
"Run, little maggots, run," Shota said with a cold smile as the powerful homing Rasengan began to spin faster, ready to hunt down the traitors below.
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