Chapter 83 Let the Entire Mountain Be Buried With You

A pungent smell of blood filled the stone hall.

The incident happened so suddenly that the Goblin King had no time to stop Naruto or save his strongest Goblin subordinate, but his reaction was extremely quick; he immediately raised his skeleton staff.

At the same time.

Naruto, having ended Shadow Sneak, swung his ninja sword, and the moment he slayed the Goblin Paladin, his lower body also detached from the shadow, leaping up, raising one hand to the sky, and a "buzz" began to emanate from his palm as he condensed a Great Ball Rasengan!

The two sides exchanged not a single unnecessary word, acting with incredible tacit understanding—kill!

The Goblin King chanted a hoarse spell, and seeing the opponent's decisive killing intent, he had no time to cast magic and could only reveal his trump card in advance.

"Click"

The Goblin King hurriedly pressed a switch on the throne, and the hidden mechanical pivot rotated, making a "clunking" sound.

The next moment.

"Swish, swish, swish…"

From all directions of the stone hall, a dense rain of arrows shot forth.

Every arrow was tipped with potent poison.

Naruto, who was in mid-air, was enveloped by the arrow rain, with nowhere to dodge, instantly becoming a "hedgehog," then with a "poof," he turned into a cloud of white mist and vanished.

"Dead?"

"That's a bit strange; a human body is made of flesh and blood, not white smoke." The Goblin King, seeing Naruto's Shadow Clone disappear, did not let his guard down; instead, he became even more cautious.

He knew that the opponent could form an army by himself, withstand a thousand, and single-handedly destroy the Goblin army; his strength was probably that of a legendary hero.

Moreover, the fact that he deliberately let the Goblin Paladin escape to find him further indicated that the opponent was courageous and resourceful, and could not be easily defeated like this.

There must be a problem!

Indeed.

The shadow of the Goblin Paladin, also riddled with holes like a beehive, once again stirred up ripples imperceptible to the naked eye.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

A large volley of shuriken and kunai flew out from the dark shadow, shooting towards the Goblin King.

The Goblin King was startled but not flustered; he raised his scepter and slammed it onto the ground, and a square, translucent, light-green cubic barrier immediately rose around the throne, appearing thinner than the Holy Wall miracle, but its sturdiness was incomparable to the Holy Wall.

The sharp kunai and shuriken struck the cubic barrier, causing no damage whatsoever.

Just then.

A blonde head emerged from the shadow.

His eyes were icy blue, and he uttered only one word.

"Explode!"

The explosive tags attached to the handles of the kunai instantly burst into dazzling bright light, then transformed into scorching fireballs that exploded.

"Boom, boom, boom"

One fireball after another expanded in succession, instantly engulfing the entire cubic barrier.

"Disperse."

At this command, one Naruto's Shadow Clone after another sprang out from the shadows, scattering and surrounding the throne.

They rapidly formed hand signs, then opened their mouths to spew out streams of high-temperature, scorching flames, directly blasting the cubic barrier in the center.

For a time, the dim stone hall became brightly lit, firelight reflecting off the rock walls, the air dry, and the temperature suddenly rose, becoming increasingly hot.

It was just like a fully burning blacksmith's furnace!

One could imagine how scorching the throne area would be, completely engulfed by flames from all directions, utterly transformed into a fiery purgatory.

"It's useless; a few fireballs alone cannot break this King's absolute defense—"

Before he could finish speaking.

The Goblin King's sinister and cunning face underwent a drastic change in expression.

He discovered that his proud, indestructible "absolute defense" was actually beginning to twist and deform, wobbling, and on the verge of collapsing.

The "absolute defense" also isolated the high temperature, otherwise, the Goblin King would have instantly evaporated into a dried corpse.

"What's going on?"

"Where did all this fire come from?"

"Is it some kind of teleportation magic that transferred me to the Underworld's purgatory?!"

"No, no—this King is still on the Great Snow Mountain."

The Goblin King was filled with doubt and alarm.

From his perspective, all around the cubic barrier were surging, rolling, scorching flames, as if he were buried in a sea of fire, burning in purgatory.

"However, heh heh heh, whether it's magic or a miracle, it can be silenced!"

The Goblin King's hooked nose face grew even more sinister; he gently shook his skeleton staff and murmured an obscure, difficult-to-understand incantation.

After a short while.

A monochrome, hemispherical light shield, centered on the Goblin King, spread out in all directions, enveloping the entire stone hall.

It was—Silence!

Silence can silence the thoughts and minds of priests, making them unable to communicate with gods, and thus unable to manifest miracles.

It can also make the active elements in the world quiescent, causing magic to lose its source of power and become uncastable.

Even Ninjutsu, due to Silence, becomes unreleaseable as Chakra becomes quiescent and temporarily cannot be mobilized.

The streams of flames from all directions, as if their source had been cut off, slowly extinguished and disappeared.

The twisted and deformed cubic barrier, which seemed on the verge of melting, finally held up.

The Goblin King secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He felt as if he had just taken a stroll through hell.

But the next moment.

The Goblin King's pupils suddenly contracted, because he saw dozens of Naruto's Shadow Clones in the stone hall.

"Guroka, you foolish fellow!"

"Didn't you say there were no pursuers, not a single one? What's with these dozens of people in front of me?!"

The Goblin King was furious, cursing loudly, his withered hand angrily slapping the armrest of the throne, saliva spewing from his mouth full of yellow teeth.

Soon.

The Goblin King calmed down, and a sinister, cunning smile once again appeared on his lips.

"Heh heh heh, it doesn't matter, this is my home ground, a lot of people are useless."

Saying that, the Goblin King pressed the last mechanism on the throne again.

Boom. The heavy door crashed down, and the dim stone hall immediately became an enclosed space.

Streams of sickly green poisonous gas spewed out from the mechanism openings where arrows and hidden weapons had originally been shot, rapidly filling the entire stone hall.

"Hahahahaha, just wait to be poisoned to death!"

"This King will carefully enjoy your painful and despairing expression!"

Watching one Naruto's Shadow Clone after another being submerged by the spewing, sickly green poisonous mist, the Goblin King let out a wild, piercing laugh.

However.

The Goblin King did not see the scene he imagined.

One Naruto's Shadow Clone after another stood in the poisonous mist, their expressions calm, and then they spontaneously dispelled, turning into Chakra white mist and "poof, poof, poof" disappearing.

"These aren't real people!?"

"Where is his true body?!"

The Goblin King saw the stone hall become empty again, but he felt no joy; instead, his brows furrowed, and a strong sense of unease inexplicably rose in his heart, as if death was hanging over his head.

At this moment.

Naruto's true body stood above the snowy mountain where the Goblin stone hall was located, allowing the wind and frost to blow his clothes and hair, his eyes slightly closed, his mind absorbing and organizing the memory and intelligence feedback from his Shadow Clones.

In an instant, Naruto opened his eyes, his gaze deep.

"Heh heh, as expected of a Goblin 'enlightened' by the god of awareness, specially enhanced in wisdom and leadership; as expected of one who can rank among the Sixteen Demon Generals of the Underworld, indeed cautious enough."

"Another super-strong defensive cubic barrier, another bug-like Silence magic, and various dangerous and deadly mechanisms and poisonous gases."

"You are indeed much harder to kill than ordinary Goblins."

Naruto smiled nonchalantly, raising one arm high, and the vast, surging Chakra within his body, as if it were worthless, madly poured into the Rasengan forming in his palm.

"Whoosh"

Amidst the unique forming sound of the Rasengan, a bright blue "ball" materialized from nothing, growing from small to large, and even continuing to expand, drawing in the surrounding wind and snow, gathering nearby, stirring up the clouds.

"According to intelligence analysis, your Silence effect is only effective on continuous Ninjutsu, or Ninjutsu that hasn't been activated yet; it's ineffective on already formed Ninjutsu, magic, or miracles."

"Since that's the case, from outside your Silence domain, I'll send you a Great Ball. Can you—catch it?"

The Rasengan grew larger and larger, from a Great Ball Rasengan to finally a Great Ball Rasengan, so huge that it seemed to become a blue sun, suspended diagonally above the snowy mountain.

By the time Naruto's arm could no longer support it, and his sleeve and clothing "ripped" apart, the Great Ball Rasengan had already grown to an unimaginable size.

Even from the distant castle fortress, if anyone looked over, they would be able to spot this incredibly dazzling blue sun.

"Is it reaching its limit?"

Naruto formed a hand sign with one hand, successfully performing Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu, summoning two more Shadow Clones, one on his left and one on his right, to help him support the Great Ball Rasengan, while he injected all of his continuously stored Dragon Origin Chakra into the Great Ball Rasengan, simultaneously adding Wind Release attribute changes.

In an instant.

The originally bright blue Great Ball Rasengan was "dyed" purplish-red by the Dragon Origin Chakra.

Naruto then used his master-level Chakra shape transformation to compress the excessively huge Dragon Origin: Great Ball Rasengan, causing the purplish-red to turn into dark red.

It was becoming increasingly similar to a Tailed Beast Ball!

"This will do. This is the strongest attack I can currently achieve."

Naruto muttered to himself, then leaped up, throwing the Dragon Origin: Great Ball Rasengan towards the snowy mountain.

"Boom—"

The snowy mountain, as hard as cold iron, was now like fragile glass; the moment it touched the Dragon Origin: Great Ball Rasengan, it shattered on impact, no matter how many rocks instantly turned to dust, the mountain body was pierced through, forming a gigantic, perfectly cylindrical deep well.

The Dragon Origin: Great Ball Rasengan did not immediately explode, but instead continuously sank into the snowy mountain, much like a red-hot iron ball being dropped into a block of ice.

Stone hall.

The uneasy Goblin King did not rashly dispel the Silence effect; he looked around suspiciously, attempting to find Naruto's figure.

"You brat, this King admits that you are the most cunning human I have ever seen."

"Don't hide anymore, this King knows you are still hidden in Guroka's shadow, come out quickly."

"If this King burns Guroka's corpse to ashes, with no shadow, can you still continue to hide?"

The Goblin King sneered, looking at the corpse of the Goblin Paladin on the ground.

To be precise, he cautiously stared at that dark shadow.

He always felt that something was hidden in the shadow, stirring restlessly, ready to launch a sneak attack at any moment.

"Crack!"

"Clatter…"

At this moment, scattered sand and rocks fell from the rock ceiling, hitting the Goblin King's bald head.

"Hmm? What's going on?"

The Goblin King rubbed his forehead, looked up, his two dim, cunning eyes filled with confusion, gazing at the rock ceiling.