newbobooks Chapter 479 A Kaleidoscope's Solo Dance! The Puppeteer's Nightmare!
Chapter 479 A Kaleidoscope's Solo Dance! The Puppeteer's Nightmare!
For the first time, the faces of those dozen or so Sand Village puppeteers froze.
Immediately afterwards, the solidification shattered, turning into unbelievable horror.
"Impossible... such a reaction speed..."
A puppeteer's whisper was instantly shattered by the sound of rain and the shrill screeching of metal scraping together.
"He saw through the attack?!"
"No!"
The puppeteer leader, with his withered face and the most chakra threads extending from his ten fingers, stared intently at the motionless man in the center of the battlefield—Uchiha Fugaku.
That's not seeing through things.
It was a prediction!
No, it's even more terrifying than predicted.
From the moment before, the man's commands were always issued just before their puppet mechanisms were activated.
This is not a response at all, but directing a drama with a pre-written script.
Their supposedly deadly move turned out to be nothing more than a clumsy prop in the opponent's script that needed to be eliminated.
This realization caused the master, who had been immersed in puppetry for decades, to feel a tremor of utter crushing power originating from his professional foundation.
This is not a battle between ninjas and puppets.
This is a perfect "human puppeteer," manipulating a group of marionettes!
"Uchiha...when did they develop this kind of teamwork?"
The tides of war shifted in the blink of an eye, but the rhythm of the battlefield remained firmly in Fugaku's hands.
"Releasing it now!"
Fugaku Uchiha's voice pierced through the rain, calm and utterly devoid of any warmth.
The Uchiha clan members, who had been holding back their chakra for a long time, suddenly unleashed their burning chakra at the same moment.
Dozens of fireballs, each the size of a millstone, tore through the air, trailing scorching flames, and wove a net of fire from all directions, enveloping the puppets that had just finished their attack and were still in a state of shock.
This time, the puppeteers' fingers danced wildly, but they were ultimately a beat too slow.
"boom--!!!!"
The violent explosions continued, and flames shot up into a huge mushroom cloud amidst the torrential rain, the scalding steam instantly evaporating everything around them.
Several valuable war puppets were blown to pieces under the overwhelming force.
Red-hot metal parts and broken mechanisms were mixed in the flames, like deadly fireworks in a festive display.
"Damn it!!"
The withered puppet master leader let out a mournful roar. His masterpiece, the scorpion-shaped puppet skilled in stealth and assassination, was melted into molten iron in this round of saturation bombardment.
He could no longer remain calm.
"Second batch!!"
He clasped his hands together abruptly, and the huge scroll behind him sprang open with a bang.
Three puppets, painted with ominous crimson paint and with even more ferocious forms, roared out from the unfolded scroll runes, rushing towards the battlefield with a thick stench of blood.
However, this was exactly the moment that Fugaku Uchiha had been waiting for.
Just when the enemy was desperate and focused all their attention on the front lines, trying to overwhelm them with numbers and ferocity.
He moved.
The person vanished from the spot.
No, it didn't disappear.
His speed was so fast that even those dozen or so pairs of eyes with dynamic vision far exceeding that of ordinary people could only catch a fleeting afterimage.
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A very thin, cold glint flashed and disappeared in the rain.
A Sand Village ninja who was intently controlling the new puppet suddenly froze.
A thin line of blood slowly seeped out on his neck, then was washed away and stained by the rain.
He couldn't even comprehend what had happened.
His gaze slowly descended, revealing only a pair of cold, slowly rotating scarlet windmills, leaving their final mark on his completely unfocused pupils.
Fugaku Uchiha had already infiltrated the ranks of the Sand Village puppeteers.
"Enemy attack!!"
"Protect the captain!"
The Sand Village's formation was thrown into chaos instantly.
They couldn't understand how the man had broken through the blockade unscathed and appeared behind them amidst the impenetrable puppet attack.
Only the withered puppeteer leader, with strength far surpassing his companions, managed to catch a glimpse of that illogical scene out of the corner of his eye.
The instant he released the second batch of puppets, Fugaku Uchiha made a move that defied all his combat instincts.
Instead of retreating, he charged head-on at the three newly formed killing machines.
There were no hand seals, and no ninjutsu.
However, along its charging path, it made seven consecutive turns with a strange, unpredictable gait, like a gazelle leaping over horns.
The first turn sent a rapidly spinning flywheel grazing his cheek, the force of which even ruffled his sideburns.
With his second dodge, he precisely stepped on the poisonous thorns protruding from a humanoid puppet, using the momentum to roll and narrowly avoid the Thousand Rain of Needles raining down from above.
And so he walked through that dance of death, composed of blades, poison needles, and mechanisms, with an almost contemptuous air.
That wasn't a fight at all.
It was a precise calculation, performed on the edge of countless blades, down to the millimeter.
What supports this calculation is the Mangekyou Sharingan, which can see all the changes in the next few seconds.
"you……!"
The withered leader was both shocked and furious. His ten fingers danced wildly as he manipulated his three strongest guard puppets—the Fear, the Ant, and the Flying Fish—to viciously encircle Fugaku in a triangular formation.
These three puppets are his early works, his last line of defense, and his most treasured possessions.
However, Fugaku merely gave him a cold glance.
"Too slow."
His figure became blurry again.
This is not ninjutsu; it is merely a visual residual created by using the Sharingan's visual manipulation combined with extreme high-speed movement.
The puppeteer leader's prized "Fear" crashed headlong into the afterimage, while the attacks of "Ant" and "Flying Fish" all missed their mark, colliding with each other and producing a piercing metallic scraping sound.
As the leader's pupils contracted sharply in horror, Fugaku Uchiha was already standing before him.
A hand gripped his throat.
"it's over."
His calm tone made it seem as if he were simply stating a fact.
Despair and madness instantly overwhelmed the withered leader's face.
Even if it means death... I'll hold you by my side...
His chakra erupted, the threads connecting the three puppets taut like steel bars, and the explosive runes inside the puppets lit up instantly!
He's going to self-destruct all the puppets!
However, Fugaku Uchiha only applied slight pressure to his fingers the instant the opponent's chakra surged.
"Click."
The crisp sound of the neck bones cracking was crystal clear in the wind.