Chapter 72: Raiga, the Black Lightning, Crazed

Chapter 72: Raiga, the Black Lightning, Crazed

Choji had been seriously injured by Raiga. This rogue ninja from the Hidden Mist Village had, in his final moments, left a long, tearing wound across the chubby ninja's stomach and left ribs. Due to the lightning blade, the area around the wound was also torn, causing Choji excruciating pain. However, he gritted his teeth and didn't utter a single sound.

It was fortunate that Choji had thick layers of fat and a sturdy build. If Ino, with her slim waist, had taken such a blow, she would have collapsed long ago.

Choji, with his thick skin and flesh, had been chased and slashed by Raiga all this time. He looked battered and bruised, his face scorched black, and his hair smelling faintly burnt. In reality, a couple of servings of barbecue would be enough for him to recover. Ino, on the other hand, was fragile. As soon as she received Ranmaru, she consecutively activated Water Instantaneous Body Technique three times, putting tens of meters between them and Raiga.

"I will bury you alive! Put down Ranmaru!" Raiga roared, his chest filled with rage. He abandoned Choji and turned to chase Ino like a madman.

He continuously used lightning to accelerate himself. The normally stamina-consuming "Lightning Blade. Slash" became a movement skill. Lightning bolts crisscrossed, and stray electric snakes flew in all directions. Trees, rocks, and even rivers were cleaved open. He was like a rampaging thunder god, disregarding chakra consumption, forcibly catching up with Ino.

"Die!"

He unleashed a technique named after himself: "Lightning Release. Lightning Fang!"

He crossed his twin blades and raised them high. After a brief charge, lightning erupted in all directions!

Asuma once again carved a deep, bone-deep wound on his back, but the lightning storm still descended.

Ino bore the brunt of the attack. Watching the dense, falling lightning, she had no choice but to put down Ranmaru. Her hands quickly formed hand seals, and she took a deep breath, spitting out a waterfall-like curtain of water. Under her control, the water curtain rapidly rotated around her body and absorbed external water flow to fortify the defensive wall.

"Water Release. Water Formation Wall!"

Just as she finished the seals, lightning bolts as thick as buckets struck the water wall one after another. Electric arcs leaped rapidly across the circular water barrier.

Ino was still observing the water wall's consumption when Raiga had already transformed into a sharp arrow, pouncing fiercely.

He forcefully charged through the water wall, letting the stray lightning on the barrier strike his body.

It was true that he had released the lightning, but he was not immune to it. These attacks could still harm him.

His shoulder, abdomen, forehead, and even teeth were injured by the electricity. He merely used the lightning blade in his right hand to deflect the majority of the lightning energy to the side. Then, he lunged forward, shattering the water wall, which had become extremely thin, with his shoulder.

"Die!!" His eyes were bloodshot, looking truly furious. He stared intently at Ino within the water wall, not even dodging, letting Ino stab a kunai, held in reverse grip, into his shoulder. The lightning blade in his left hand pierced Ino's heart with ruthless force.

"Poof!" A cloud of white smoke erupted. He was furious, resentfully pulling out the kunai from his shoulder, and looked towards the figure running away: "Shadow clone? Rats of the Hidden Leaf Village!"

Ino was becoming increasingly proficient with shadow clones. Naruto actually hadn't even developed one-tenth of the technique's potential, only relying on sheer numbers to brute force his way through. In Ino's hands, it had many uses.

She left a shadow clone to delay him, while her main body continued running in the 10 o'clock direction, carrying Ranmaru. When Raiga, trading injury for injury, defeated the shadow clone and chased after her again, she would create another shadow clone to hinder him.

Asuma was also seizing every opportunity to launch fierce attacks.

His strength was actually comparable to Raiga is. However, the defense and speed boost provided by "Lightning Armor" were weakening. In this operation where Ino and Shikamaru were kidnapping the hostage and running around the battlefield, Raiga was getting battered and bruised, while Asuma had only had his clothes torn by "Lightning Armor" and expended some stamina and chakra. He himself was completely unharmed.

The Ino-Shika-Cho coordination was one aspect, but the opponent's mental state was also a factor. A normal enemy would not be led around by the nose like this.

"Shadow Imitation Technique!" Shikamaru, who had been lying in ambush in the 10 o'clock direction, jumped out from the side. His shadow, as black as ink, burrowed under Raiga is feet, forcibly restraining the enemy.

Shikamaru would be able to bind the tailed beast form of Ginkaku in the future, but he was far from that level now. Ino's internal drive had made him slightly stronger than in the original timeline, but whether he could control Tayuya was still unknown, let alone Raiga? The gap was simply too large.

He was only able to maintain it for two seconds before he was drenched in cold sweat. The opponent was struggling too fiercely, and Shikamaru's already limited chakra was rapidly depleting.

"Hurry! Help me too!" he shouted.

Ino quickly formed hand seals and cast a genjutsu on Raiga, "Descent to Hell Technique." This was just a very ordinary D-rank genjutsu. Even though Ino's Yin Release level was high, the genjutsu's rank was too low, limiting its effectiveness.

However, this genjutsu did distract Raiga, and the intensity of his struggle decreased by about half.

"Nice one!" Asuma decisively injected a large amount of wind-attribute chakra into his chakra blade. His chakra directly manifested, transforming into two blades radiating a faint blue light.

He dashed forward several steps, clenched his right fist, and enduring the damage from "Lightning Armor," slashed his chakra blade at Raiga is neck.

Shikamaru gritted his teeth, maintaining the Shadow Imitation Technique, and Choji, who was panting as he chased over, also glared, ready to support at any moment.

Just as Asuma's chakra blade was only a hair's breadth away from Raiga is neck, Ranmaru's childish voice rang out. He propped his hands on the ground, his eyes glowing with an enchanting red light: "You are not allowed to hurt Raiga! Raiga, wake up! I need you!"

Ranmaru's red eyes directly broke through Ino's third-rate genjutsu and even helped Raiga forcibly break free from Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation Technique.

Facing a life-or-death crisis, this Hidden Mist Village elite jonin unleashed his full potential. His body leaned back with force, narrowly avoiding Asuma's decapitating strike.

Seeing their teammates' techniques all fail, Choji disregarded his own injuries and once again used "Human Bullet Tank" to ram into Raiga.

"Lightning Release. Lightning Dragon Tornado!" Raiga had also gone completely mad. He used his lightning blades to summon massive lightning, completely abandoning his own defense. The remaining energy of "Lightning Armor" was fully converted. The twin blades rotated, quickly creating a giant lightning dragon.

The buzzing sound was deafening. Just as Choji's Human Bullet Tank was about to collide with the lightning dragon, Asuma saw that this technique was extremely dangerous for Choji. He swooped down from mid-air, exerted force with both arms, and roared, using wind blades to cut off the lightning dragon. Choji, in his Human Bullet Tank form, burst out from the gap and slammed heavily into Raiga.

With a muffled "bang," Raiga took a solid, heavy blow. His muscles, internal organs, and bones were severely damaged. Continuous injuries had finally pushed his body to its limit. He howled like a dying wolf, raising the lightning blades in his hands, preparing to stab at Choji's heart.

At this moment, a lightning bolt flashed across the sky, the electric light illuminating Choji's young and tender face. Ino quickly used the impact force of a water surge to push Choji to the side.

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