Chapter 465

Along with the yellow sand on the ground, the two bombs were wrapped up together.

Like a dud falling into a lake, they only let out a puff of white smoke from within the iron sand before beginning to dissipate and retreat.

"Magnet Release: Iron Sand Time Rain!"

After the Third Kazekage formed hand seals, in an instant the iron sand rose to the height of ocean waves, forming countless thin needles that shot toward Val at extreme speed.

The range was enormous, making it virtually impossible to find a place to dodge.

Even Val's pupils jolted, and he could only hastily summon some metal elements to form a metal wall in front of himself.

But iron sand of extreme weight was not something ordinary metal could withstand.

It possessed both the density and weight of sand, and the hardness of steel.

That the Red Sand Scorpion considered it his finest work was not without reason.

And the current situation was obvious—Val's pride in his own strength had been broken through again and again.

From within the gradually tattered chunks of iron came Val's continuous screams of agony.

"Ahhh!!!"

The screams rang out unceasingly along with the falling of the iron sand.

Val's screams gradually grew quieter—whether from exhaustion or something else, no one knew.

Only when that terrifying wave-like iron sand slowly receded did the mechanical barrier Val had propped up begin to collapse.

Val, his entire body pierced through with iron sand, looked utterly wretched, with sparks continually shooting out from all over him.

The trickle of fresh blood that flowed out brought a faint smile to the Red Sand Scorpion's face.

"What, that's all you've got?"

With a light tug of the fingers of his right hand, two great poisoned blades suddenly sprang out from either side of the Third Kazekage's arm.

A flash of emerald light swept across the blades—one only had to look to know they were coated in deadly poison.

"Don't get too cocky!"

"Form Change: Power Type!"

A flash of annoyance crossed Val's face, and a storm of energy suddenly erupted from his body, wrapping him up.

Val's bodily form also began to change continuously.

His originally tattered frame was filled in with new metal elements, transforming into a gleaming suit of armor.

Like a warrior of the future, an electromagnetic cannon fired directly from his hands, blasting toward the Red Sand Scorpion.

At the same time, his right hand morphed into a sharp blade that collided head-on with the Third Kazekage's puppet.

"Flame Prison Ignition Formation!"

The Red Sand Scorpion raised his left hand, and a pipe suddenly emerged from his palm.

From within the pipe, a blast of searing flame shot forth—a pillar of fire controlled by the Red Sand Scorpion through the chakra within his body, its size freely adjusted at his will.

That flame, thin as a single thread, burning with a glow that seemed capable of melting anything, directly repelled Val's electromagnetic cannon.

It rode the momentum to slam straight into Val's body.

Val's left arm, struck by the Third Kazekage's tremendous force, sank the sandy beach beneath his feet by several steps.......

At the same time, the electromagnetic cannon in his right arm had been beaten back by the Red Sand Scorpion, leaving him no time to adjust his stance.

He could only forcibly twist his body aside, and his entire right arm was swept up by those blazing flames.

That steel body he had been so proud of melted away in an instant, as if it were foam.

It vanished outright into the sandy beach, reduced to a pile of ash.

Even though he had rebuilt himself into a mechanical man, the pain of a severed limb was still there.

Val's face gradually twisted into something savage—since becoming one of the Twelve Holy Shields, he had never once suffered such treatment.

Those whose strength could match his own were none other than the other Twelve Holy Shields; any other mage before him was nothing but a heap of mud.

Garbage he could crush and destroy at will.

But now, this fellow who had suddenly appeared was clearly just a puppet made of some wood and steel.

And he himself might even be a puppet-man—yet he was able to crush Val, a mechanical man built from countless precision machines.

Val couldn't believe it, no matter what he couldn't believe it.

"Magnet Release: Iron Sand Giant Needle!"

As the Third Kazekage completed his hand seals, countless grains of iron sand gathered in the air, forming a single enormous long needle.

The Red Sand Scorpion didn't waste words with Val, directly manipulating the iron sand needle to plummet down from the sky.

Val clenched his teeth tightly—though he didn't want to admit it, he truly couldn't defeat the Red Sand Scorpion before him.

He had just sensed that Battle Princess Timaria and the others were not far from him, and had been about to dodge and stall for time to find a chance to escape.

Val suddenly discovered that his body seemed no longer to obey his commands..

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