Chapter 258: Sorry, I need to take leave

At the border of the Land of Rain, five figures moved swiftly through the area.

Soon everyone reached an open space, surrounded by towering rainforests, with continuous rain falling from the sky.

"The signal points here?" Yagura stepped forward, his gaze vigilant as he swept the surroundings.

As a Kage for many years, he had an instinctive intuition for danger; this place seemed ordinary, but gave him an indescribable sense of wrongness.

Fugaku summoned a virtual screen: "Correct, the previous signal was here, and the next positioning is half an hour away."

Minato said nothing more, directly squatting down and pressing his right hand against the ground.

Several seconds later, eyeshadow appeared at the corners of Minato's eyes, and a chakra fluctuation spread outward from him as the center.

In less than three seconds, his expression suddenly changed.

"There's a problem ahead." Minato stood up, his gaze solemn, "There is a huge space underground."

"Since we've found the location," A stepped forward, all the muscles in his body instantly tensing.

"Raiton: Heiryu Raikou!"

With A's roar, the thunderclouds in the sky instantly condensed into a huge black dragon.

But just as the lightning dragon was about to strike the ground, a sudden anomaly occurred.

An almost invisible energy barrier suddenly appeared, like an invisible wall, blocking the lightning dragon ahead.

"Boom!"

The black lightning dragon crashed heavily into the barrier, instantly shattering into pieces. Countless forked arcs of electricity rampaged through the air.

"As expected, it's here." Fugaku's Sharingan spun in his eyes, "The structure of this protective barrier seems not simple."

Yagura stepped forward, quickly forming hand seals: "Let me try too."

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!"

A huge water dragon condensed from the air, roaring as it slammed into the barrier. Just as the water dragon was about to touch the barrier, a flash of coldness crossed Yagura's eyes.

A strange black luster suddenly appeared on the surface of the water dragon, and the clear water instantly turned into corrosive strong acid.

The moment the acid touched the shield, it made a hissing sound, but still could not break through the defense.

"The defense is quite strong." Yagura frowned.

At this moment, behind him, Onoki slowly floated into midair, quickly forming hand seals with both hands.

"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!"

A white light burst from Onoki's palm, forming a straight beam of light.

Boom!

The beam seemed to hit something, instantly being pierced through, and then the outline of a colossus began to appear before everyone's eyes.

It was a silver-white giant protective barrier, hundreds of meters high, standing before everyone like a small mountain.

The surface of the shield was covered with dense hexagonal patterns, and inside each hexagon fine circuits flowed, emitting a faint blue light.

"This scale." Minato frowned slightly at this time, actually having built such a huge base in such a short time.

Onoki dispelled Dust Release; the moment the beam dissipated, the corroded area immediately underwent changes.

Countless tiny particles gathered from all around, and in the blink of an eye repaired the damaged area as before.

"Can it self-repair?" A trace of coldness flashed in Onoki's eyes, "How about this?"

His hands formed seals again, but this time, a strange energy surged out from within his body.

"Amplify tenfold!"

Instantly, the Dust Release beam surged tenfold, instantly expanding from a light pillar originally several meters thick to the size of a house.

Terrific decomposition power swept out, even the air around the beam twisted and deformed.

"Break for me!"

Onoki slashed hard with both hands, and the Dust Release beam swept out horizontally, like a huge blade of light, directly sweeping across the entire shield before them.

"Crack!"

Amidst the crisp shattering sound, blue energy fragments scattered in the air, finally turning into specks of fluorescence and disappearing.

The moment the shield disappeared, a shocking scene appeared before everyone's eyes.

A huge sinkhole with a diameter of over a kilometer appeared on the ground, like a bottomless giant eye.

Smooth metal walls extended straight to the center of the earth, reflecting a cold luster.

Inside the sinkhole, countless tiny silver particles were moving rapidly. They combined, separated, recombined, flowing through the air like galaxies.

"This is..." Minato's pupils shrank.

"Nanobots." Fugaku stared fixedly at those silver particles; in previous tasks he had seen similar things.

His voice had not yet fallen when all the nanobots suddenly stopped construction work, instantly gathering into a huge sphere.

"Hum!!"

The next second, all nanobots went berserk simultaneously.

The silver wave instantly turned into countless blades, sweeping toward the five people from all directions, and even sharp whistling sounds rose in the air.

"Careful!"

A pressed his palms together, his whole body instantly wrapped in lightning: "Raiton: Raijin Tenmei!"

Pitch-black lightning spread out around him like a net; all nanobots touching the lightning net were instantly shattered by electric current.

At the same time, Yagura formed hand seals with both hands: "Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!"

The power of the Melt-Melt Fruit was injected into the water flow, and a huge acid waterfall fell from the sky; wherever it passed, nanobots were instantly corroded.

Minato flipped his right hand, and a special kunai appeared in his palm.

He threw the kunai violently, his figure instantly disappearing from the spot. The next second, he appeared in the sky, just catching the flying kunai.

"Rasenshuriken!"

Senjutsu Chakra spun rapidly in his palm, condensing into a huge Shuriken that was thrown in an instant.

At the same time, he drew his left hand through the air, and a purple Space Rift suddenly appeared before the Shuriken.

The Shuriken passed through the rift and vanished instantly.

Almost simultaneously, a crack split open in the sky above the bottom of the sinkhole, and the Shuriken whistled out from it.

"Boom!"

A huge explosion rang out in the underground space, an energy storm sweeping across, and no more Nanobots surged out within the pit.

The five people's attacks were like a meat grinder, clearing out all the Nanobots in just a few seconds.

In the control room deep underground, Levi watched this scene through the monitors, his brow tightly furrowed.

"Devil Fruit powers, magic, and the abilities of the X-Men Mutant Butterfly—the World has been changed far more thoroughly than I imagined."

He pressed his right hand against the Control Console, and the entire control room was instantly bathed in red alarm light.

A series of alarm sounds rang out, and the status of thousands of combat units simultaneously changed to "Ready."

"Fully launch the combat system, deploy all combat units!" His voice echoed through the communication system, "Take them down for me!"

At this moment, on the Battlefield.

"Rumble rumble!"

The Ground around them suddenly shook.

Minato and the others looked around warily, only to see the Ground around them suddenly crack open with countless fissures, revealing pitch-black Exits below.

Silver metallic luster seeped out from the fissures, accompanied by heavy mechanical roaring.

"This is..." Minato's Pupil Shrinked, and he made a decision in an instant: "We can't let them come out!"

"Dust Release!" Onoki brought his hands together, and a white Light Pillar swept across, directly vaporizing the Ground of an Area.

A and Yagura also struck at the same time, black lightning and corrosive acid covering a large Area, and the Exit was instantly eroded.

But the Launch Shafts in the distance kept opening, and a huge mechanical army surged out from various Exits.

The massive Siege Beasts marched with heavy steps, each step making the Ground tremble.

In the air, large flocks of Valkyrie Fighters whistled past. Silver bodies flashed with cold light under the lights, missiles hanging beneath their wings.

On the Ground, swarms of Plunderer Tanks and Doomsday Tanks rolled over the Ground.

In just an instant, the sky and Ground were occupied by dense mechanical armor.

A steel flood of hundreds of armor units surrounded the five people, and more kept surging out from below the Ground.

(Chapter End)