Watching the kunai draw closer and closer, the gravity in the Ant King's eyes grew heavier.
He had few choices left.
In fact, he only had one: take the initiative and stop the kunai from approaching. He knew very well that once the kunai passed through the slowed zone, it would definitely burst forward and attack him.
Especially since there was clearly something wrong with that kunai.
As for options like retreating, they simply didn't exist. The space behind him was also locked down.
He could choose to turn around and attack the sealed space behind him, but that was no different from directly attacking the kunai.
Either choice meant actively abandoning his defensive ability.
And the flames only robbed him of even more time to think, because the intense heat had already pierced through the "slowed zone" and entered the interior.
If he kept stalling, even if the kunai didn't hit him, the high temperature would directly cook him alive inside this sealed space.
In a single instant, Ronin had forced him into a dead end with only one possible option.
Impressive.
The moment that thought appeared in his mind, the Ant King reached out toward the kunai without hesitation.
And in that instant, the "Limitless" locked within Ame-no-Tokotachi vanished.
Ronin's figure also transferred into Ame-no-Tokotachi in the same instant. At that very moment, Ame-no-Tokotachi disappeared, and the Rasengan drove straight toward the Ant King's chest.
The flames were not only forcing the Ant King to make a choice faster, they were also obstructing his vision.
But that obstruction had no effect on Ronin.
With his Mangekyō Sharingan, his vision could pierce through the flames and lock onto the Ant King's Nen inside.
By tracking the movement of the Ant King's Nen, he could judge the choice the Ant King was making.
The instant the Ant King moved forward, it meant his passive "Limitless" had disappeared.
And that also meant Ronin could finally unleash his true killing move.
The "Sword of Shinobi Love" on the kunai was the mark of the space-time ninjutsu Flying Thunder God. The Rasengan had already been formed after completing the hand seals earlier. As for Flying Thunder God, Ronin had already developed it to a semi-complete level, so he only needed to form the hand seal with one hand to trigger it.
The moment their positions shifted, the Rasengan, condensed to its maximum power, landed precisely on the Ant King's chest.
Even though the Ant King had known there was something wrong with that kunai, he had never imagined the problem would allow Ronin to appear at the kunai's position in an instant.
Boom!
Under the Rasengan's terrifying power, the Ant King's body was smashed directly into the ground.
As the earth shattered, blood sprayed from the Ant King's mouth, and a massive area of his chest caved in.
Ronin had unleashed this strike after activating the Strength of a Hundred Seal, bringing his aura to its peak.
Although it was not the strongest form created by completing all forty-four seals, the Rasengan was an ability whose power increased the more chakra was poured into it. So this strike could be considered Ronin's strongest attack under the current circumstances.
The ground cracked apart over a wide area. By the time the full force of the Rasengan exploded, the Ant King's eyes had already rolled back, and he had fallen into a state where it was impossible to tell whether he was alive or dead.
In the distance, the monkey Chimera Ant, who still hadn't died, entered a berserk state the instant the Ant King was driven into the ground by Ronin's strike.
A Royal Guard's instinct to protect the King was engraved into its DNA.
At that moment, the monkey Chimera Ant's beastly nature was completely unleashed. He ignored the javelins and Nen bullets shooting toward him, erupting with speed to the absolute limit as he charged toward the place where the Ant King had disappeared.
But it was also in that instant that Vanessa, hiding in the shadows, finally found another opening.
She didn't choose a killing blow. Instead, the instant she emerged from the monkey Chimera Ant's shadow, the dagger in her hand slashed directly at his ankle.
The condensed Nen cut into flesh and blood, and in that same instant, completed the feat of severing it.
One of the monkey Chimera Ant's feet flew off.
But then a scene that shocked everyone unfolded.
The monkey Chimera Ant completely ignored his severed foot. He directly stabbed the exposed bone of his lower leg into the ground and, without hesitation, continued charging toward the Ant King with an uneven, lopsided gait.
Mascher's "Destructo Disc" landed at the spot where he had predicted the monkey Chimera Ant would pause.
Even Colin's javelin came a step late, stabbing into the ground behind him.
After completing that strike, Vanessa also emerged from the monkey's shadow.
The monkey Chimera Ant's movement had been too decisive. The action he completed in that instant caused his shadow to rush forward rapidly, making Vanessa lose the chance to immediately slip back into it.
At that moment, no one could stop the monkey's movement.
But the monkey still had no chance of reaching the Ant King.
Because the most important obstacle remained in front of him.
The Four Violet Flames Formation built by Ronin's shadow clones.
The monkey's maimed body slammed directly into the purple barrier, and violet flames instantly began burning across him.
But the mad monkey ignored everything. His fists kept hammering against the violet flame barrier.
Under that frenzied assault, cracks actually began appearing in the purple barrier.
But inside the Four Violet Flames Formation, Ronin had already dragged the Ant King's broken, dog-like body out from the shattered ground.
At that moment, the counter-type Nen around the Ant King no longer rose up at all.
If one looked closely, they would find that the area where his heart had been was already empty, and more than half of his head was missing. Those were all finishing blows Ronin had delivered after smashing him underground.
Once Ronin could attack the target, how could he possibly stop?
It could be said that the Ant King had still been alive when he was smashed underground. But after Ronin's Rasengan finished exploding, the fact that the Ant King's "Limitless" did not immediately expand and shrink Ronin, who had grabbed him, already meant the Ant King had no chance left.
This Ant King had been far weaker than Ronin had expected.
Even though he possessed an extremely powerful counter-type Nen ability, he had been born too recently. His understanding of Nen was shallow at best, relying entirely on instinct and imitation. Under those circumstances, the fact that he had forced Ronin to use the Strength of a Hundred Seal was already enough to prove how powerful he was.
If the Ant King had been given enough time to develop, Ronin felt that defeating him at his current stage would have been far more difficult.
Even though he had won now, the vision in his left eye seemed to have been affected to some extent.
Repeatedly using Ame-no-Tokotachi, and even using the kunai himself to increase its consumption, had placed too heavy a burden on his eye.
When the monkey Chimera Ant saw the Ant King's corpse in Ronin's hand, he fell completely into a state of madness.
However, the violet flames had already burned him beyond recognition.
But as Ronin watched the monkey Chimera Ant in that state, a thought suddenly occurred to him.
The unwilling monkey Chimera Ant might produce post-mortem Nen after death.
As for the Ant King in his hand, while he had also been unwilling, once Ronin got close to him, it had already become impossible for him to produce post-mortem Nen after death.
Because a sealing formula had already appeared on his corpse.
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