Chapter 61: Hidden Sand VS Hidden Rain (Part 2)
Hanzo didn't give Chiyo any more chances to use her verbal skills. His Chakra erupted instantly, his figure moved, and he charged towards the Hidden Sand forces.
The Hidden Rain ninjas behind him, seeing their leader take the lead in the charge, all followed Hanzo's footsteps, shouting as they began their assault.
Seeing that Hanzo not only didn't respond to her anymore but also attacked directly without any regard for honor, Chiyo's face darkened. After handing over command of the troops to her younger brother Ebizo, she similarly rushed quickly to meet Hanzo.
Chiyo had no intention of probing as she ran and directly brought out her most powerful puppet.
Chiyo's fingers curled, and she used Chakra threads to retrieve a purple sealing scroll from her portable ninja tool pouch.
Manipulating the Chakra threads to unfold the scroll in the air, she formed a hand seal with one hand while running and released the scroll's seal.
"White Secret Technique: Chikamatsu Ten Puppets!"
The characters engraved on the scroll flew out continuously, transforming into various ghostly shapes, and then turned into ten white-clad puppets with different forms, floating beside Chiyo and rushing towards Hanzo with her.
On the other side, Hanzo began forming hand seals during his charge. The weather of the Land of Rain at this time provided him with great convenience.
"Water Release: Black Rain Technique!"
Black oil mixed with rainwater fell towards Chiyo's direction.
Chiyo, who had some understanding of the Hidden Rain Village's ninjutsu, instantly saw through the essence of this technique, but she had no intention of dodging. With a slight movement of her fingers, she manipulated the puppets beside her to form an airtight defensive formation, preparing to withstand Hanzo's next attack.
Hanzo's hand seals continued, launching the next wave of attacks, Chakra constantly gathering in his mouth.
"Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique!"
Dense fireballs continuously spewed out from Hanzo's mouth, attacking Chiyo.
Although it was only a C-rank Fire Release, when used by Hanzo, a powerhouse approaching the limit of Kage-level, its power had surpassed that of an ordinary B-rank ninjutsu. Coupled with the Black Rain Technique from before, it was enough to unleash power comparable to an A-rank ninjutsu.
Chiyo, who clearly understood that the essence of the Black Rain Technique was to cooperate with Fire Release to produce unexpected damage, saw Hanzo using the Phoenix Sage Fire Technique, a Fire Release with a very wide coverage area, and decisively deployed her defense.
"Puppet Technique: Barrier Shield Seal!"
Chiyo's Chakra poured in large amounts through the Chakra threads into the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets, which had already formed a defensive formation. Using the puppets as a medium for casting, she formed a huge Chakra shield, blocking all of Hanzo's attacks.
But at the same time, because of blocking Hanzo's attack, Chiyo's forward momentum also stopped.
Hanzo's speed was very fast. Just as Chiyo deployed her defense, the distance between the two was less than 50 meters.
Hanzo's Chakra erupted further, instantly increasing his speed by another level. At the same time, he reached out and drew the chain scythe he carried on his back, then leaped high. A flash of blade light streaked across the sky like a shooting star, the blade pointing directly at Chiyo, who was protected behind the puppets.
"Sword Technique: Quick-Draw Slash!"
Chiyo, unable to dodge in time, was instantly cut into two pieces by Hanzo. However, there was no joy on Hanzo's face. When the scythe passed through Chiyo's body, Hanzo, who came from a samurai background and was a master of swordsmanship, knew he hadn't hit his target because something felt wrong.
Sure enough, Chiyo appeared on the other side. It turned out that Chiyo had already taken advantage of the puppets blocking Hanzo's view to secretly use the Sand Clone Technique to replace her main body. The one cut into two pieces was just her Sand Clone.
Having missed his strike, Hanzo turned around smoothly and threw the chain he held in his left hand towards Chiyo's direction.
Chiyo's ten fingers quickly slid in the air, and the Chakra threads, almost invisible to the naked eye, quickly reconnected to the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets whose control had been severed due to the use of the Sand Clone to replace her main body. She manipulated them to block in front again.
The rapidly approaching chain tightly bound the foremost puppet, which had yellow horns on its head. Hanzo didn't care that the chain hadn't hit Chiyo; it was good enough to disable one-tenth of her fighting power first.
"Sword Technique: Chain Scythe Two-Stage Strike!"
Hanzo pulled the chain hard towards his direction, and at the same time, he leaped forward under the effect of Chakra. The scythe in his right hand slashed down fiercely from the air.
At the last moment before being hit, Chiyo barely managed to control the puppet to shift slightly. The sharp scythe Cross the puppet's body, cutting off the puppet's right arm without any resistance and also severing the Chakra threads connected to the puppet.
Without caring about the pain, Chiyo hurriedly controlled the other puppets to retrieve it. At the severed right arm of the puppet, dark purple poison continuously spread towards other parts of the puppet, constantly corroding its body.
"As expected, the intelligence was correct. Hanzo's scythe really has his poison on it!" Chiyo thought, then carefully extracted a bit of the poison and began to analyze it. "Then next, I need to stall him as much as possible until the poison analysis is complete!"
"This woman who plays with puppets is really troublesome. As expected of the Flower of the Hidden Sand Village!" Hanzo muttered, having failed to achieve much with several attacks.
At this moment, the main force of the Hidden Rain had already clashed with the Hidden Sand's forces, and a fierce battle had begun between the two sides.
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