While Hashirama and Mito went back to the kitchen to decide what to cook for lunch, the battle between Seimei and Tobirama had reached the final stage.
Dark clouds churned, twisted, and roared in the sky, right above the training ground. Stormy clouds spun with such ferocity that it looked like a tornado of inky black clouds and twisting arcs of lightning, ready to descend to the ground at a moment's notice.
Under Seimei's control, the frequency and the intensity of the thunderclaps soared to a whole new level. Targeted by an S-rank Jutsu with such an intimidating sight, any ninja below the Kage-level would feel their knees weaken.
As long as you were not a Kage-level ninja, don't even bother running or praying to the gods. The moment Seimei unleashed it, you're toast.
But the one facing the S-rank Ninjutsu wasn't some average ninja.
He was Senju Tobirama—a Super Kage-level ninja, inventor of forbidden techniques, wielder of every basic chakra nature affinity, master of Water Release with barely any equal, the near-mad scientist, and a fearsome individual whom the enemies dreaded facing, even more than battling Hashirama.
Watching Seimei, who was about to unleash a powerful AoE, S-rank Lightning Release Ninjutsu, he showed no fear, only anticipation.
He was stunned for a moment, but now, he was excited.
Meanwhile, Seimei raised his palm, which was covered in a large amount of lightning chakra, releasing several wild arcs of purple lightning bolts.
He used the heavily charged lightning chakra in his hand to control the natural lightning in the sky.
His chakra control, water affinity, and lightning affinity were all sitting comfortably at LV7, making it easier to mold, control, and shape the clouds and natural lightning with relative ease.
With a moment's notice, he could alter the properties of the lightning he was controlling in his palm, change its charge status to positive, and immediately attract the negatively charged natural lightning, making it strike the earth at a blinding speed.
And he was about to do it.
Seimei looked at his father's deep red eyes and said, "Get ready, father. This Jutsu is too violent. If you are not prepared, you will truly suffer from severe injuries."
As for worrying about his father dying…
That was ridiculous.
With Tobirama's capabilities and numerous trump cards, even if he were a fresh and new Kage-level ninja, he still wouldn't die after facing Seimei's attack head-on.
Others might not know. But did he, his son, not know how deep and unfathomable his father's methods were, especially after spending a considerable amount of time helping him with his scientific endeavors?
He really didn't understand how the fuck a man like Senju Tobirama died while facing the Gold and Silver brothers in the original anime.
This man, if he had grown to be as powerful as Naruto or Sasuke, someone like Otsutsuki Urashiki, Kinshiki, and Momoshiki would be forced to run away with their tails between their legs.
Tobirama, unaware of the wild thoughts racing inside Seimei's brain, replied with a chuckle, "Hehe, you are still a few decades too young to worry about my safety, Seimei."
With that, Tobirama released a large amount of chakra from his tenketsu and converted it into water chakra. Wind blew around him wildly, making his silver hair dance and his clothes flutter.
And in the blink of an eye, countless water droplets formed around him and began to float while circling him.
With Seimei's Tenseigan and his superior senses, he could deduce that Tobirama was discreetly controlling enough water particles, both visible and microscopic, to form a small lake.
Seeing this, Seimei could only complain in his mind.
Okay, okay, I underestimated you. You almost finished your preparations in an instant, huh? Even when using the strength of a fresh Kage-level ninja, you are still Senju Tobirama.
Watching you control water with such ease, I am suddenly feeling really bad for the Kirigakure ninjas and their Mizukage. If they had to face you and compete with Water Release techniques…wouldn't you just play them to death?
Never mind. I will just strike.
With that, the chakra fluctuations around Seimei suddenly intensified. The purple electricity in his sky-facing palm also crackled with even more ferocity.
Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!
At the same time, the lightning and thunder flashed with a booming sound, way louder than before.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The dark clouds were almost illuminated in a silvery purple hue of the raging thunder.
"Here it comes, father," said Seimei.
As soon as his words fell, the natural lightning and the lightning chakra mingled and converged into a singular point in the cloud.
And in less than a tenth of a second, the converged lightning and thunder bloomed with a deafening bang and formed a beast of lightning that almost looked like a western dragon.
The lightning beast was made of 90% natural purplish white lightning and 10% deep purple lightning chakra released by Seimei.
The lightning dragon's eyes burned with such a high temperature that they almost looked red.
As soon as the lightning dragon emerged from the clouds, Seimei dropped his raised palm that was packed with dense lightning chakra and pointed it toward Tobirama.
Seimei shouted in his mind.
Go!
Lightning Release: Kirin
Crackle! Boom!
With that, the lightning dragon construct came out of the shackles of the cloud and shot toward Tobirama.
At the same time, Tobirama also controlled the water droplets circling him and concentrated them into a large whirlpool above his head. Then, he raised his arm, and the giant whirlpool, which contained enough water to fill a small lake, shrank.
Its shape changed and formed a rotating, whirlpool-like, two-meter-long spear of water.
The density of the water was so high that the whirlpool-like spear became harder than steel. If not for the still rotating water, nobody would believe that the spear was made of water.
"Since you are greeting me with a newly invented S-rank technique, I should also return the greeting with something of equal caliber, shouldn't I?"
"I hope you like my gift, too."
As soon as Tobirama's voice echoed in the training ground, he threw the two-meter-long, whirlpool-like water spear at the lightning beast that had just emerged from the clouds.
Water Release: Hard Whirlpool Water Blade
Whoosh!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The water spear raced toward the lightning speed at a speed faster than sound, leaving behind several sonic booms.
Expand!
Tobirama thought inwardly as he controlled his Jutsu.
The more distance the water spear crossed, the larger its size became.
And by the time it reached the lightning beast in the air, its size expanded to almost twenty meters long and two meters thick.
At the next moment, as the giant water spear pierced the chest of the supersized lightning dragon, the world around them went silent for a moment.
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