Chapter 124 The Future Fourth Hokage VS The Future Fourth Raikage
Chapter 124 The Future Fourth Hokage VS The Future Fourth Raikage
The air was hot and dry, without a breath of wind.
Ai stood in the center of the training field, casually tearing off his shirt to reveal his terrifying muscles.
With a low roar, a surge of violent lightning chakra erupted from his body, enveloping him in dazzling blue lightning.
"Sizzle sizzle—"
The sound of the electric current surging was chilling; Ai's hair stood on end, and he looked like Thor descending to earth.
"The brat from Konoha."
Ai cracked his neck, making a series of snapping sounds, and his wild eyes locked onto Minato Namikaze across from him.
"Don't say I'm bullying you. If you can even touch me, or last three minutes against me, you win!"
Opposite him, Minato Namikaze stood quietly.
Compared to Ai's explosive visual impact, Minato seemed somewhat frail. He wore a specially made, fitted combat uniform from the police department, held a kunai coated with special gel in his hand, and still wore a gentle smile on his face.
"Messenger of Kumogakure, don't speak too definitively."
Minato lowered his center of gravity slightly, and his eyes instantly became sharp as knives.
"Konoha ninjas are not that fragile."
"Hmph, sharp-tongued! Lightning Release: Lightning Cruelty level!"
Before he finished speaking, Ai's figure vanished into thin air.
It's not about invisibility, it's about speed.
So fast that it's invisible to the naked eye, so fast that even a visual afterimage doesn't have time to form.
With a deafening roar, the spot where Minato had been standing exploded instantly, sending debris flying and leaving a deep crater in the ground, cleaved open by a powerful slash.
"So fast!"
On the sidelines, Fugaku Uchiha's pupils suddenly contracted, and his three-tomoe Sharingan spun wildly, but he could only barely catch a glimpse of a blue streak of light.
However, there was no blood.
At the critical moment, Minato's figure appeared like a ghost behind A's left, and the kunai in his hand silently slashed towards A's neck.
"Instantaneous movement technique? Hmph!"
Ai's reaction speed was no joke either; he unleashed a spinning kick with the force of a thunderbolt towards Minato.
"Bang!"
The water gate disappeared again and reappeared on a tree trunk a dozen meters away. He looked at the ground that Ai had kicked and was secretly surprised.
The combination of speed and power is truly terrifying. If he hadn't undergone targeted training in dynamic vision and neural response, he might have been seriously injured just now.
"Does it just run around like a flea?!"
Ai roared, and the lightning on his body intensified, clearly indicating that he was getting serious.
"Lightning Release Chakra Mode - Activation!"
His neural synapses reached their limit under the stimulation of Lightning Release, and his entire body transformed into a blue lightning bolt, instantly rushing towards Minato.
"A contest of teleportation techniques?"
Minato's eyes narrowed, and he stopped dodging, unleashing his chakra as well.
"Let's go then!"
What happened next made both Fugaku and Nishikawa Tetsu hold their breath on the sidelines.
Inside the training field, two beams of light began a frantic clash.
One was a raging blue lightning bolt, the other a nimble golden flash.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Dull, resounding impacts echoed through the air, but no figures could be seen. Only cracks appeared on the ground, and sparks flew from the air.
A's Body Flicker Technique relies on extreme physical explosiveness and the activation of Lightning Release, resulting in a breathtakingly fast linear speed.
Minato's Body Flicker Technique relies on exquisite chakra control and superhuman reflexes, making him as agile as a ghost.
The two were surprisingly evenly matched!
"They actually... caught up?"
Fugaku stared in shock at the scene. "That A's Body Flicker Technique is actually comparable to Minato's?"
"No, it's Minato who's barely keeping up."
Nishikawa Tetsu analyzed, "A overwhelms with absolute strength and speed, while Minato is walking a tightrope. In a prolonged high-speed clash, Minato's stamina will be far greater than A's."
In the field.
"Hahaha! That felt great! That felt great!"
Ai laughed wildly as he moved at high speed, the visceral impact of the punches and the collision of speeds thrilling him to the extreme.
"You brat from Konoha! Your Body Flicker Technique is indeed impressive, managing to keep up with me! But against my Lightning Release Armor, you're nothing but a fly that can only run. Do you think you can hurt me?!"
Ai suddenly accelerated, using the sonic boom cloud generated by the Lightning Release: Body Flicker Technique to instantly close the distance with Minato, and threw a punch.
This punch was unavoidable!
Minato frowned slightly. He knew that the simple Body Flicker Technique had reached its limit and could not break the deadlock.
"Now."
Nishikawa Tetsu said in a low voice from the sidelines.
Minato took a deep breath, gripped the kunai coated with special gel tightly in his hand, and at the same time flung out several specially made Flying Thunder God kunai with his other hand.
The second generation's Flying Thunder God Technique is actually a Flying Thunder God technique. He had thought about how to quickly approach the enemy in battle, and the answer was to use kunai.
Those special kunai all have the Flying Thunder God Technique formula, but the formula left by the Second Hokage consumes a lot of chakra, so he can only use it a few times now.
"Ninja Art: Flying Thunder God Technique!"
Swish!
Minato's figure disappeared.
Ai's punch missed again, but this time he didn't stop. With his beast-like instincts, he suddenly swung his elbow behind him.
"Here!"
However, he missed this time too.
A golden flash leaped between the kunai on the field, leaving a trail of afterimages.
"Space-time ninjutsu?"
Ai was getting a little annoyed. He roared and decided to use an area-of-effect attack to clear the area.
"When the Thunder God meets Suzuki's Blade!"
Just before his chakra exploded and he was about to unleash his ultimate attack.
A golden light suddenly approached his face without warning, and in front of Ai was the Flying Thunder God Kunai that Minato had just left behind.
Minato's figure suddenly solidified, and the kunai in his hand did not pierce a vital spot, but instead precisely sliced through the thickest lightning armor on A's chest.
"You're asking for it! This piece of junk thinks it can break through my defenses?!"
Ai ignored it, straightened his chest to take the hit head-on, and prepared to smash Minato's head with a punch.
however.
"Sizzle—!!!"
The kunai did not bounce off the lightning armor the moment it passed through it.
The transparent gel on the blade underwent a violent chemical reaction the moment it came into contact with the high-intensity lightning chakra.
It didn't damage the armor; instead, it acted like a superconductor, instantly absorbing and disrupting the chakra flow frequency in that area.
The originally indestructible Lightning Release Armor suddenly short-circuited and stopped at the chest area for a moment.
"What?!"
Ai felt a tingling sensation in her chest, and the smooth feeling of power suddenly stopped.
In a battle between masters, a momentary lapse can mean the difference between life and death.
Minato's kunai sliced through the thinning layer of lightning without any resistance, the cold blade pressing against Ai's carotid artery.
At the same time, Aina's fist, powerful enough to shatter mountains, stopped an inch in front of Minato's nose.
The exercise field was deathly silent.
Only the heavy breathing of the two people could be heard.
Minato maintained his reverse grip on the sword, his golden hair flying backward in the wind from his punches, but his hand remained as steady as a rock.
"You're too kind."
Minato smiled and retracted his kunai, then leaped backward to create a safe distance.
Ai remained frozen in his punching stance for two seconds, then slowly withdrew his hand and touched his neck.
There was a shallow bloodstain there; if he hadn't stopped, his throat would have been cut open in that instant.
He glanced down at the area on his chest where the flow of chakra was still somewhat sluggish, and then at the kunai in Minato's hand that was still dripping a strange liquid.
"What the hell is that thing?"
Ai's voice was low, filled with an incredulous sense of defeat.
His lightning armor was actually broken by a kunai?
"A conductive gel mixed with trace amounts of a nerve-blocking agent."
Nishikawa Tetsu walked over from the sidelines, holding the empty bottle in his hand, and explained with a smile:
"This is a lightning protection coating that our research institute developed specifically for... cough, for dealing with thunderstorms. We never expected it to have such a miraculous effect on lightning chakra as well."
"Lightning protection coating?"
Ai's eye twitched slightly.
What the hell is this lightning protection coating?! Whose lightning protection coating could melt my lightning armor?!
"Despicable! This is cheating!"
The Cloud Village ninjas behind Ai started shouting.
"shut up!"
Ai shouted angrily, silencing his men's incessant chatter.
He gave Minato Namikaze a long look, then glanced at Toru Nishikawa.
One possesses astonishing speed and spatial ninjutsu, while the other possesses such unpredictable and bizarre methods.
"Losing is losing, I'm not a sore loser."
Ai is straightforward and, although short-tempered, respects the strong.
"Minato Namikaze, is that you? I'll remember you. I'll definitely get my revenge next time we meet."
Ai picked up the cloak from the ground and draped it over her shoulders again; the violent aura around her had subsided considerably.
He turned around and looked at Nishikawa Tetsu, the vice president of the scientific research institute, who seemed to be the one in charge here.
"Since they won't sell weapons or transfer technology..."
"Are those consumer technologies we just saw, like air conditioners and refrigerators, exported?"
Nishikawa Tetsu and Fugaku exchanged a glance, both seeing the smile in each other's eyes.
"No problem, Lord Ai, but the specific details still need to be discussed and agreed upon."
"As long as the money is right, we guarantee you'll be satisfied with any product from Konoha. We can also provide door-to-door delivery service, but of course, shipping costs are extra."
Ai snorted: "I'll stay in Konoha for a few more days. I'll discuss the order with my assistant."
"Walk!"
He had considered the possibility of losing. Konoha still had ruthless figures like White Fang, and at the very least, there were the Three Legendary Sannin. But he had lost to a boy a few years younger than himself, and he was too ashamed to stay there for the time being.
Watching the departing figures of the Cloud Village members, Minato breathed a sigh of relief, plopped down on the ground, and wiped away his cold sweat.
"Thank goodness... If that attack hadn't worked, I really would have been sent flying."
"That's the magic of science, Watergate."
Nishikawa Tetsu walked over and pulled up the water gate.
"However, you have indeed become stronger. Your speed just now was simply too fast."
"Really?" Minato scratched his head and gave a bright smile.
Fugaku walked over, looked at the two of them, and was filled with emotion.
This "technical exchange" not only protected Konoha's bottom line but also resulted in a big business deal. More importantly, it showed Kumogakure that Konoha's younger generation was not to be trifled with.
"Let's go back."
Fugaku straightened his police uniform.
"I'll pay for the celebration dinner tonight."
"Yay! You're awesome, senior!"
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