Rasa looked at Minato charging at him, a trace of a sneer hung on his lips, he had already long been on guard for this scene.
Before Minato even got close, the sand beneath Rasa's feet had already moved at an extremely fast speed, forming an impenetrable sand shield.
Minato raised his right hand, a Rasengan instantly formed, and he pressed it onto the sand shield.
BOOM!
The sand shield was almost shattered by this strike, but it still managed to defend against the Rasengan's attack.
Rasa had his arms crossed behind his back, the sand around him constantly flowing. He said mockingly, "I won't suffer twice from the same technique."
"Yellow Flash of the Leaf, can your attack power break through my defense?"
However, just as he finished saying this, a Flying Thunder God kunai was suddenly thrown into the air, appearing right above Rasa's head, spinning continuously.
The next moment—
WHOOSH!
Minato appeared beside the Flying Thunder God kunai.
Rasa almost immediately gathered the surrounding sand above his head, forming another sand shield.
Minato saw Rasa's reaction was so prompt, and a hint of frustration flashed in his eyes, 'This really is tricky. That's why I especially learned this technique.'
After saying that, he suddenly swung the kunai in his hand in Rasa's direction.
Beside Rasa, a Sand Eye formed. Because he relied heavily on sand for defense, which blocked his own vision, he needed auxiliary ninjutsu to provide sight.
Then, through the Sand Eye, he saw the kunai Minato had thrown, and he scoffed, "Just a kunai, you think it can break through my defense?"
However, the next second, Minato chanted, "Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique!"
As those words fell, the kunai that Minato had just thrown suddenly split apart, turning into an uncountable number of them.
Then, their speed and power suddenly increased drastically, raining down on Rasa like a violent storm.
"Nani? What is this?"
Rasa's eyes widened. It wasn't like he hadn't seen the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique before, but this could split into so many, and even with acceleration, acceleration nearly matching Wind Style speed, this was a first for him.
There was no time left to think. The next moment, countless Flying Thunder God kunai were already slamming into his sand shield.
Perhaps once or twice, his sand shield was very solid, but a hundred times? A thousand times?
Under the countless impacts, he felt the sand shield start to falter, already showing signs of collapse.
In desperation, he mobilized more sand around him and erected another layer of sand shield behind the front one.
Rasa smirked with satisfaction, "Didn't expect this, did you? Even if you break one layer of my defense, there's still another underneath."
However, at that moment, Minato slightly smiled.
WHOOSH!
His figure vanished in mid-air.
Rasa was shocked. Under that just-now shuriken barrage, he had almost forgotten Minato was a speed-type assassination ninja.
To construct the overhead sand shield, the originally airtight sand walls around him now had a gap.
He shouted that this was bad, but in that brief moment of lapse, Minato had already seized the opportunity.
Another Flying Thunder God kunai passed through the defensive gap, flying rapidly toward him.
As the kunai approached his eyes, the sand infused with chakra around Rasa's body, specially modified for high-speed movement, reacted.
Instantly, it wrapped tightly around him, forming a 360-degree defense with no blind spots.
CLANG!
The Flying Thunder God kunai struck the sand sphere and bounced off.
But the next second, Minato appeared beside that kunai, reached out, and grabbed it again.
Seeing the sand ball so close to him, Minato threw out the kunai again.
Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique was activated once more.
Rasa saw this through his Sand Eye, breaking out in a cold sweat.
Just now, Minato's Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique could even penetrate the thick sand shield he had built, this full-body-wrapped sand ball of his didn't even match that earlier defense.
And it was this close. If hit directly, it would break his defense.
The next moment, thousands upon thousands of kunai once again rained down on him.
With no choice, Rasa gave up his defense on all sides and concentrated all his sand on the point from which the kunai were coming.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Another round of violent impacts followed. These specially crafted sands of Rasa's still managed to block the second wave of Minato's Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique attack.
He gasped heavily. Fighting the Yellow Flash of the Leaf, there truly wasn't a moment he could relax.
And the worst part was, although all his attacks were wide-ranged and powerful, they weren't fast enough, and he couldn't do anything to Minato.
He was constantly led by the nose, stuck in a passive defensive state.
Still, he had managed to hold the defense. As long as he kept defending, Minato wouldn't find a good opportunity to take him down.
Then on the frontal battlefield, Orochimaru alone wouldn't last much longer. As long as either Chiyo or Ebizo could free up, they could perform a sort of dimensionality-reduction strike on other ninjas below the Kage level.
That would be their chance at victory.
Rasa grinned slightly, planning to just keep dragging it out with Minato.
But, at the next moment, Minato's figure suddenly appeared in front of him, almost face to face.
'Impossible!'
Rasa's eyes widened. He hadn't noticed any Flying Thunder God kunai or markings nearby, he had memorized all the kunai positions.
'How did Minato get here?'
Suddenly, he remembered the Rasengan strike Minato had landed on his sand shield at the beginning. Instinctively, he looked at his own sand.
Sure enough, because he had gathered all the sand together to block the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique just now, the marks on those sands had also been gathered.
'So that's it. The mark was placed then.'
Rasa's mind cleared up the confusion. But now, a Rasengan had already appeared right in front of him.
As a jutsu-type powerhouse, close combat wasn't his specialty, how could he react at this speed?
The next moment, the Rasengan struck him…
Rasa was blasted away by the endlessly rotating force, blood spurting from his mouth.
He flew far before crashing heavily to the ground, then struggled up, panting.
On his abdomen where the Rasengan had hit, a massive wound appeared. The surrounding sand kept falling off.
Fortunately, he had a layer of sand armor on his body, which barely offset part of the Rasengan's power. Otherwise, he would've been completely dead.
Now, although not dead, he was heavily injured and had no strength left to keep fighting.
"Over there… is it over yet?", Rasa instinctively looked toward the other side of the battlefield, where Chiyo, Ebizo, and Orochimaru were fighting.
Then he saw a shocking scene.
What he had imagined, Chiyo and Ebizo pushing Orochimaru into retreat, leaving him breathless, did not appear.
Because, beside Orochimaru, there was a little girl.
Konoha's Violet Angel—Rin.
The medical ninja who had saved countless wounded and who Rasa desperately wanted to kill.
Then, he just happened to see Rin's body erupt with a violet chakra cloak, and she punched directly at Ebizo's signature puppet.
Under that punch, the tough puppet scattered into countless parts.
'So that's it… besides the Yellow Flash and Orochimaru, even that little girl from Konoha is a powerhouse.'
'We don't actually have the advantage in high-end combat strength.'
Rasa came to a realization. No wonder Chiyo and Ebizo hadn't been able to spare a hand to help him.
But, it was already too late for him to realize this, because Namikaze Minato's figure appeared before him again.
This time, he didn't even need to guess, he already knew. When Minato hit him with the Rasengan just now, he definitely left behind a second Flying Thunder God mark on his abdomen.
'What a… terrifying ability.'
The next moment, Minato's hand had already pressed down on the wound on his abdomen.
He murmured, "Seal!"
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