Chapter 94: Take Gaara and Go!
The suddenly erupting Sand Soldiers were too deadly!
Apart from a few Suna ninjas who had walked the line between life and death for many years and managed to escape, most Suna ninjas were killed on the spot by the Sand Soldiers that suddenly appeared and attacked.
Due to the defense of his yellow sand, Gaara once again dodged disaster. He looked somewhat surprised at the appearing Sand Soldiers, "Is this Sand Manipulation Technique?"
"Perhaps it's also a Puppet Technique."
Baki, his expression grave, swung his ninja sword, dispersing a Sand Soldier. Within his line of sight, a strand of yellow sand connected to the back of each Sand Soldier.
The end point of these connecting yellow sand strands was in Uehara Naraka's hand.
Uehara Naraka chuckled lightly, looking at the survivors on the ground, and suddenly said, "Hey, what do you guys think if I take the title 'Desert Emperor' in the future?"
"Not good at all!"
Fourth Kazekage Rasa's expression was extremely ugly. He had expended chakra to create a gold dust pyramid, saving his subordinates' lives in the great tsunami just now.
Unexpectedly, they had just escaped the life-or-death crisis from the tsunami, and these subordinates were again easily sneak-attacked and killed by Uehara Naraka.
"Hmm, is it because this name of mine hit your sore spot?"
Uehara Naraka tapped his own palm, looked at Rasa with sudden realization, a trace of contempt and disdain appearing on his lips, "No, it's because you people are too backward, you don't even know what 'Emperor' means, right?"
"Such a stubborn kid!"
Rasa, stepping on a sand raft, soared into the air. A mass of gold dust under his control transformed into a golden spear, "Magnet Release: Gold Sand Spear!"
That golden spear flew towards Uehara!
Under the effect of Magnet Release chakra, the golden spear spun and accelerated rapidly like a drill, shooting towards Uehara's body.
The speed of the golden spear was so fast it almost allowed Uehara to only see afterimages!
Uehara Naraka hastily extended his palm. In the critical moment, he had no time to form seals, only able to quickly release a defensive ninjutsu, "Wind Release: Wind Wall!"
The golden spear was instantly blocked by a wind wall!
Rasa manipulated the countless gold dust particles following closely behind the golden spear, which were also easily stopped by the wind wall in front of Uehara.
The Fourth Kazekage's eyes flashed with surprise as he looked at the wind wall, "A defensive Wind Release ninjutsu?"
This was truly unheard of!
No wonder this little fellow Uehara Naraka was so arrogant; the ninjutsu he mastered all seemed very unusual, and he used them with great proficiency.
This also didn't hinder Rasa's previous plan.
Now, one-third of Sunagakure's ANBU members and more than half of the guard ninjas had died at Uehara's hands. Rasa believed if he couldn't capture Uehara Naraka to stop the losses in time, wouldn't these ninjas' sacrifices be in vain?
Mass after mass of gold dust surged up from the ground!
Rasa's aura flared violently. He actually intended to go all out here, "Since you won't obediently leave with me, then I'll break your hands and feet first!"
"Still indulging in wishful thinking at this point?"
A purple chakra broadsword [Twilight Blade] suddenly appeared beside Uehara Naraka, automatically helping him block the harassment from the gold dust!
Uehara looked at Rasa, the smile on his face gradually building up, "Has Your Excellency Kazekage forgotten? I'm going to kill you here!"
"Kid, you can't have much chakra left!"
"Relax."
Uehara Naraka slightly closed his eyes. From the bodies of the Suna ninjas on the ground killed by the Sand Soldiers, masses of green energy rose and entered his body (Presence of Mind).
Uehara Naraka's eyes opened. He slowly smiled, "Compared to Your Excellency Kazekage, my chakra is unprecedentedly abundant!"
"That's... some kind of forbidden technique?"
Rasa's brow instantly furrowed. Watching the ever-surging aura on Uehara, his heart sank bit by bit.
He had miscalculated.
This young Ame ninja possessed too many strange powers.
Rasa thought Uehara Naraka's chakra was about to be depleted, but unexpectedly, Uehara also had this kind of forbidden technique capable of collecting chakra from dead people.
"Must conserve chakra..."
Ever since before the battle began, Rasa had wasted considerable chakra resisting one attack from Tidal Wave Roar.
Just now, to save his subordinates, Rasa had used Gold Dust Imperial Funeral, the pyramid defense, and Gold Sand Surging Waves—a pile of extremely chakra-consuming techniques.
"Magnet Release: Gold Dust!"
Now Rasa didn't dare directly surround Uehara with gold dust again; instead, he manipulated the gold dust bit by bit, trying to seize Uehara's limbs.
However, the purple broadsword beside Uehara Naraka flew around, shattering strand after strand of the incoming small streams of gold dust, even appearing somewhat at ease.
From beginning to end, Uehara's face still held immense confidence.
"Your Excellency Kazekage, how much longer can your chakra last?"
Uehara Naraka slowly extended his palm. A puppet ball extended from his hand, "I don't think you can last two seconds. Command: Shockwave!"
The puppet ball suddenly opened!
A distorting colossal force appeared within everyone's sight!
Rasa momentarily lost control of his gold dust and was pulled entirely by Command: Shockwave into a spiraling golden ball.
"Not good!"
Rasa looked up at the huge golden ball, his face suddenly turning somewhat horrified. After losing magnet-controlled gold dust, the battle situation was not looking good.
The only thing that could give Rasa confidence was his Magnet Release ninjutsu.
Fortunately, after just a short second, Rasa felt he had regained control of the gold dust, and his heart barely relaxed.
However, a voice suddenly entered his ears, "One second, enough time to do anything, right?"
Rasa abruptly turned his head, only to see an afterimage appear before him, followed by a purple broadsword heavily striking his chest!
Rasa's entire body plummeted from the air!
Even though he hastily transformed the sand raft beneath his feet into defensive gold dust to block his chest, he still unavoidably suffered a heavy blow.
What terrified Rasa even more was that card after card flew down profusely from Uehara Naraka's palm, shooting rapidly towards his position!
RUMBLE!
A burst of explosive fireworks sounded in the sky!
The few survivors looked, still horrified, at the Fourth Kazekage falling from the sky. Rasa's body was covered in bloody wounds.
Baki watched this scene incredulously, his brow tightly furrowed, "Your Excellency Kazekage... actually lost?"
"..."
Rasa didn't answer.
The Fourth Kazekage struggled to get up. Just now, his magnet-controlled gold dust had been inexplicably nullified for one second, and then in the second second, he was struck to the ground by Uehara's sword.
The battle wasn't over!
Uehara Naraka slowly extended his palm, aimed it at Rasa's direction, and cards once again shot out continuously from his hand.
"Magnet Release: Gold Dust!"
Card after card was entirely intercepted by the gold dust!
Occasionally, a card would explode, sending up a cloud of thick smoke, but ultimately unable to break through the gold dust's defense. Rasa instantly understood the danger of the situation.
Losing control of the gold dust for that one second directly caused him to lose the battle.
Adding the heavy injuries from before and his depleting chakra, death was perhaps not far off... The current Rasa didn't have the infinite chakra of an Edo Tensei!
While manipulating the gold dust to defend, Rasa looked down at the sunken wound on his chest and said coldly, "Baki, you guys take Gaara and go first!"
"Lord Kazekage!"
"Shut up!"
In an instant, Rasa analyzed the most suitable course of action.
Heavily injured as he was now, he might not be able to escape far. If the few remaining Suna ninja guards covered the retreat, they might not be able to hold off Uehara Naraka for long either.
Unexpectedly, just trying to test if Gaara could successfully use the One-Tail nearly led to all of them being wiped out here...
Rasa turned his head towards Gaara, looked at his son, and said loudly with an expressionless face, "Final Kazekage order: Take Gaara back to the village!"
(End of Chapter)
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