Naruto: Eating Kaido's Azure Dragon Devil Fruit-Chapter 281 The Secret of the Earth Grudge Fear

Chapter 281: Chapter 281 The Secret of the Earth Grudge Fear

Boom!!!

The deafening explosion reverberated through the forest, wind and fire wildly intertwined. The resulting high temperature air currents ignited all the surrounding trees. Thick smoke billowed, instantly forming a sea of fire!

However, Kakuzu’s attack did not stop.

Under the cover of the collision between the Wind Release and Fire Release, a bizarre black tentacle monster had already silently separated from beneath his black robe.

It clung to the ground, rapidly moving like a shadow around to Sora’s flank and rear.

Simultaneously, Kakuzu’s main body formed seals again.

"Lightning Release, False Darkness!"

A sharp lightning spear suddenly condensed, piercing towards Sora’s chest at an astonishing speed!

This was a powerful Lightning Release combining speed and piercing power!

Frontal wind and fire raged, a strange tentacle lurked on the flank, and a lightning spear assaulted head on!

Kakuzu’s offensive was like a violent storm, coordinated and lethal.

"One of the Earth Grudge Fear mask monsters has already been dispatched? The coordination is quite tacit."

Sora’s perception had long since detected the unusual movement on his flank and rear.

Facing this near three sided encirclement, a flash of resolve passed through his eyes.

"This Vermilion Bird alias will still be useful later, cannot expose too many overt abilities, can only use that one..."

He forcefully pressed his palms together!

Boom!

Vast Dragon Vein chakra was instantly drawn forth. Although deliberately suppressed and disguised, the amount of chakra that erupted still caused Kakuzu’s pupils to contract slightly.

"Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"

Poof poof poof poof poof...

In an instant, a full thirty shadow clones wearing Vermilion Bird masks appeared around Sora, cramming the originally somewhat spacious forest clearing completely full!

"What?!"

Kakuzu’s heart shook. "Thirty shadow clones? And the solidity of their chakra... This guy’s chakra amount isn’t right!"

Originally, based on intelligence, he judged "Vermilion Bird’s" strength to be between elite jonin and Quasi Kage level. His chakra amount shouldn’t be too exaggerated.

But being able to create thirty shadow clones with considerable combat capability at once.

This chakra amount was at least at the mid to upper Kage level!

"The intelligence is wrong!"

Kakuzu instantly heightened his vigilance, but his hands moved even faster.

The lightning spear continued its momentum unabated, stabbing straight at Sora’s main body!

However, those thirty shadow clones had already sprung into action.

Ten of the shadow clones simultaneously formed seals.

"Fire Release, Great Fire Dragon Technique!"

Ten enormous fire dragons roared forth. Five of them intercepted the lightning spear, while the other five directly pounced toward Kakuzu’s main body!

Another ten shadow clones rushed toward the Wind attribute mask monster attacking from the flank and rear. Various basic ninjutsu and taijutsu attacks rained down, firmly entangling it.

The final ten shadow clones positioned themselves protectively around Sora’s main body.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The fire dragons and lightning spear collided, again triggering violent explosions.

Kakuzu’s figure swayed as he easily evaded the pounces of several fire dragons, but his eyes grew even more grave.

"Clone tactics are skillfully coordinated, and the power of the ninjutsu far exceeds the ordinary... This Vermilion Bird is more troublesome than imagined."

"Thirty five million ryo? Must raise the price!"

Kakuzu was not a man to give up easily. The money was right before his eyes. How could he not take it?

"Hmph! Petty tricks!"

Kakuzu snorted coldly, his black robe billowing. Two more black shadows separated.

The Lightning attribute mask monster and Fire attribute mask monster charged toward the shadow clone group and Sora’s main body respectively.

At the same time, Kakuzu formed seals with both hands again, Earth Release chakra surging.

"Earth Release, Earth Spear!"

His arms instantly hardened into pitch black, his entire body charging toward Sora, ready for close quarters combat!

The battle instantly escalated!

Sora controlled thirty shadow clones, fighting Kakuzu’s main body and three Earth Grudge Fear mask monsters in a tangled melee.

Fire Release, Wind Release, Lightning Release, Earth Release...

The light of various ninjutsu flashed wildly through the forest. Explosions and impact sounds were continuous.

Trees fell in swathes, the ground became pitted and scarred, flames and thick smoke spread everywhere, as if an apocalyptic scene.

Sora deliberately controlled his output, mainly using Fire Release ninjutsu, secretly incorporating the Azure Dragon Fruit’s Boro Breath ability to enhance their power.

He occasionally supplemented with Wind Release and Water Release, causing his ninjutsu to erupt with power beyond Kakuzu’s expectations.

The more Kakuzu fought, the more alarmed he became. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

He discovered that his proud coordination of multiple chakra nature transformations, under the opponent’s endless stream of Fire Release with enormous power and exquisite clone coordination, could not gain much advantage.

After tanking a Great Fireball infused with Boro Breath using Earth Spear, Kakuzu analyzed rapidly in his mind.

"This guy’s Fire Release is strange. The temperature is ridiculously high, and the shape transformation is extremely exquisite."

"And those thirty clones, sharing damage and disrupting vision, are too troublesome."

"Must take out the main body first!"

His thoughts turned sharp. The attacks of the three mask monsters became even more frenzied, willing to trade injury for injury to forcibly restrain a large number of shadow clones.

Meanwhile, Kakuzu relied on the absolute defense of Earth Spear, hard tanking the suicidal attacks of several shadow clones, forcibly breaking through the defensive circle and charging straight at Sora’s main body!

"Die!"

Kakuzu’s hardened pitch black fist, carrying terrifying power enough to split mountains and crack stones, blasted directly toward Sora’s face!

However, facing this seemingly unavoidable strike, the corner of Sora’s mouth beneath the mask curved slightly upward.

A standard kunai had somehow appeared in his hand.

Around the kunai coiled a layer of unparalleled sharp energy fused with Wind attribute chakra nature transformation.

This was one of his attempts at refining the Azure Dragon Fruit’s wind control ability.

Seeing Sora try to block Earth Spear with a kunai, a trace of contempt flashed through Kakuzu’s mind.

"Fool. The defense of Earth Spear is not something that—"

Thud!

A soft sound rang out, like a sharp blade cutting into rotten wood.

The contempt on Kakuzu’s face froze instantly, transforming into sheer horror.

That seemingly ordinary kunai pierced straight through his hardened arm, the defense he claimed as absolute.

Its momentum did not diminish and it plunged precisely into his chest.

More accurately, it pierced into the core of the Earth Grudge Fear mask hidden within his body, the one representing the Earth attribute heart.

"Urk..."

Kakuzu’s movements abruptly froze.

His fist stopped inches from Sora’s mask, unable to advance another fraction.

He looked down at the kunai nearly buried in his chest, his dark green pupils contracting violently.

"How is this possible... My Earth Spear was actually..."

Sora slowly pulled the kunai out, bringing with it dark green blood and strange black tentacles.

He looked into Kakuzu’s eyes filled with horror and spoke calmly.

"The first one."

Sora’s calm voice passed through the Vermilion Bird mask, striking Kakuzu like a thunderclap.

How could he know?

The secret of the Earth Grudge Fear, the truth of possessing multiple hearts, should have been absolute top secret.

Aside from the long dead upper echelon of Takigakure, no one in the world should know his background so clearly.

It was even more impossible to accurately locate and destroy one heart in such a short exchange.

Kakuzu’s pupils shrank violently. After the shock came a murderous intent as cold as ten thousand year ice.

If before he was killing purely for the thirty five million ryo bounty, now he truly wanted to erase this "Vermilion Bird" from existence.

This guy knew too much.

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