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Chapter 110 Nagato's Outburst (Please subscribe and vote with monthly tickets)

"Iwata, what are you doing!?"

Faced with his companion's questioning, Iwata looked completely bewildered.

"I...I don't know either."

"I was in a daze for a moment, and when I came to my senses, this happened. I didn't do it..."

Iwata tried to explain, but was interrupted by a whooshing sound from behind him.

Nagato's eyes were indifferent, his body was filled with chakra, and his rain-soaked hair and robes billowed without wind, causing the surrounding rain to scatter in fear.

He pushed off the ground with his feet, cracking the earth, and shot out like a cannonball, covering the distance of five or six steps in an instant, his right hand mercilessly grabbing at Iwata.

"Bang!"

A figure flew in from the side and kicked him in the waist.

The immense force propelled Nagato forward at an even faster speed, flying more than ten meters away. After bouncing off the ground several times, he managed to grab hold of the ground and stand up, sliding several meters before finally coming to a stop.

Nagato braced his left hand on the ground, his right hand gripping the waist where he had been kicked, and looked up at his attacker—wearing a high-collared robe, with short reddish-brown hair, and looking about the same age as himself.

—Ryuuji Ayaki

Nagato's pupils contracted again.

He had already unleashed his full power, but his opponent was still able to keep up with his speed.

Wasn't the previous posture of testing the weak and evaluating them just a bluff?

"Tsuchiya, you guys go raid the Akatsuki camp!" Ryuji tossed two scrolls to a burly-looking man in the group. "As long as you make good use of the weapons I gave you yesterday, even a few dozen against three thousand won't be a problem. Besides, Rasa will take action when he sees any movement."

"yes!"

Tuya packed up the scroll and led the group away.

Ryuji looked at the bewildered Iwata and snapped, "What are you still standing there for?"

"Yes, yes."

Upon hearing the reprimand, Iwata, unsure whether to follow Tsuchiya to the Akatsuki camp or stay to explain, breathed a sigh of relief.

After receiving the order, he immediately chased after them.

Nagato wanted to give chase, but seeing Ryuji's blade pressed against the throats of his three companions, he gave up.

"Nagato, don't let him control us! If we don't bring the information back, we'll all die!"

Hearing his companion's shouts, Nagato remained motionless, his eerie eyes coldly fixed on Ryuji.

His mind is in turmoil; he can't hear his companions' cries, and he wants to kill Ryuji.

Indeed, it wasn't Ryuji who killed Konan.

But he is the real culprit.

Konan's death and Ryuji's earlier statement that "Akatsuki's actions are not peaceful" gave him a vague idea.

Nagato himself didn't understand exactly what it was.

That was just a beginning, a seed; the answer still needs to be determined and explored by ourselves.

But he was certain that the answer was neither the Akatsuki established by Yahiko, nor the peace he had fantasized about.

Therefore, he had no intention of saving Xiao at all; his earlier attempt to chase after her was purely instinctive. Now that he had calmed down, he was completely unmoved.

"Nagato, quick..."

The sound stopped abruptly as Long Er slit their throats with a single stroke.

But Nagato remained unmoved; his pupils contracted briefly before he grew even colder.

Upon seeing this, Long Er frowned.

Nagato was already incredibly powerful, and the presence of the Rinnegan added to his already unstable abilities.

To prevent Nagato from developing a strong sense of crisis, Ryuji used Konan's life to force him to commit suicide.

Unexpectedly, this accident happened in the end.

No, it wasn't an accident.

It was my carelessness.

After seeing Iwata's expression and reaction, Ryuji knew that Iwata was under a spell.

Only Madara Uchiha could silently plant a genjutsu on a captain during the collective action of a hundred elite troops.

Moreover, the technique that delays activation under certain conditions is exactly the same as the Uchiha clan's transcription seal.

In the current ninja world, apart from Madara Uchiha, no one else has been able to do it.

Ryuji had already anticipated that Madara Uchiha would personally intervene, otherwise he wouldn't have brought Kurenai with him.

But he naively thought that the key to the problem lay with Nagato, and that even if Madara Uchiha intervened, he would do so from Nagato's side.

I never expected them to target Xiao Nan.

"Things have gotten to the worst possible state." Ryuji sighed, scratched his head, and looked at Nagato. "Would you believe me if I said someone sabotaged Konan's death?"

"What difference does it make whether you believe or not?"

Nagato remained unusually calm and did not immediately summon the Gedo Mazo.

Perhaps he thought he could win!

In the original story, he only summoned the Gedo Mazo when his legs were injured by Hanzo's fire jutsu and he was surrounded by hundreds of elites.

He stared coldly at Long Er and continued, "Regardless of whether someone is secretly sabotaging us, it's a fact that you wanted to harm us, and I will absolutely not let you get away with it."

"Indeed." Ryuji chuckled softly, then his expression turned serious. "Then, try killing me!"

Nagato snorted coldly and charged out.

The air howled, and rain splashed.

In Ryuji's vision, Nagato's entire body was stretched and distorted.

A person cannot be stretched and distorted for no reason. This is an illusion caused by the extreme speed of the long tortoise, which exceeds the ability of the eye to capture it.

The pain triggered a mental surge, making his chakra stronger and his speed even greater.

but.

Even if the opponent's speed exceeds the eye's ability to detect it, with the data assistance of tactical contact lenses, Ryuji can still calculate the opponent's landing point in advance.

No, it's not just tactical contact lenses.

Having mastered the art of hand-to-hand combat, Ryuji is able to predict his opponent's location thanks to his extensive combat experience and intuition.

If it weren't for his physical limitations, he could have followed Madara's example and faced tens of thousands of ninja troops, using taijutsu to beat them up, and then arrogantly saying: "Do you want to dance too?"

If it weren't for his abilities, he would have died long ago when facing Minato Namikaze in Loulan.

And the result was just as he had expected.

He tilted his body slightly, narrowly avoiding Nagato's chest, and at the instant the two crossed paths, he flicked out his arm blade and stabbed Nagato's carotid artery.

At this time, Nagato was in a situation where the old forces were exhausted and no new forces had emerged, so he was unable to resist.

Furthermore, because of his hatred, he had just used all his strength, and now he couldn't back down even if he wanted to.

It seemed like a certain death was imminent.

But Nagato merely glanced sideways, coldly watching the blade advance little by little, his eyes as calm as still water.

At this moment, time seemed to slow down.

Just as the arm blade was about to pierce Nagato, Nagato's shoulder suddenly bulged.

A thick arm tore open his clothes, reached out from his shoulder, and grabbed at Long Er's neck.

It turned out to be a third hand.

Asura Path!

The word came to Ryuji's mind subconsciously, and his body instinctively leaned back, then he took the opportunity to flip backward and create distance.

Nagato remained expressionless as he extended his third hand, his fingers shooting out trails of flame like miniature missiles as he pursued Nagato.

Ryuji completely surrendered his body to his fully-developed physical skills and instincts. The exoskeleton device was powered at full speed, and steam hissed and rose from the connecting pipes.

He dodged left and right, flipping and rolling repeatedly, using a series of serpentine movements to evade the missile.

A wave of waves has risen again.

Nagato's third arm automatically shed its outer shell like a machine, revealing six slightly larger missiles mounted on a steel frame.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

Six missiles were launched in succession.

Nagato pushed off the ground with both feet and charged forward, following closely behind the missile.

Flames erupted from beneath his feet, accelerating him, and his body transformed as he charged forward. An arm sprouted from his right shoulder, the front half of which was a greatsword as wide as an adult's palm.

Long Er ran and dodged, using a series of serpentine maneuvers to evade the missile barrage.

But before he could catch his breath, Nagato charged in.

It has four arms, one of which is a meter-long heavy sword, making it resemble a humanoid weapon.

But when it comes to close combat, Ryuji remains completely unfazed.

He could say, without any responsibility, that in close combat... as long as their physical abilities are comparable and their opponent doesn't use techniques like the Hyuga clan's Gentle Fist or the Eight Gates, he could go toe-to-toe with the Sage of Six Paths.

The two engaged in a fierce battle, relying on their physical abilities and skills, employing a variety of tactics.

The air currents surged, explosions erupted one after another, and even the torrential rain was blown away by the aftershocks of their battle, unable to get close at all.

If those elite puppeteers were still alive, they would be speechless with astonishment upon witnessing a battle of this caliber.

That's incredible, absolutely incredible.

Nagato used the abilities of Asura Path, Deva Path, and Preta Path in succession during the battle.

First, he grew two more arms, each with the function of a killing weapon, and then he grew a head.

The kind that emits laser waves when you open its skull.

Combined with the gravitational and repulsive forces of the Heavenly Dao, even with Long Er's unparalleled physical skills, he was still suppressed and beaten.

Even if you use ninja tools to unleash ninjutsu attacks, they will be absorbed by the power of the Demonic Path.

Furthermore, Nagato gets stronger with each battle.

Driven by his burning life force of chakra, the various abilities of the Rinnegan grew stronger and stronger.

Faced with Nagato like this, Ryuji couldn't help but think: If Nagato hadn't been injured in the legs while saving Konan in the original story, he probably wouldn't have needed to summon the Gedo Mazo to wipe out Hanzo and the others!

"It's time to end this!"

Ryuji threw out a smoke bomb while Nagato was using his repulsion wave.

Nagato, fearing it was poison gas, quickly covered her mouth and nose and backed away.

Ryuji took the opportunity to open his personal space.

The tubes connecting his body to the exoskeleton detached automatically, and various armor parts flew out from the twisting and rotating spatial portal, automatically covering his body and then connecting to the tubes.

"Tch~"

As the excess gas was expelled, the upgraded "armor" was activated, and a danger signal light lit up inside the black mask.

Nagato remained silent, striding forward with heavy steps, his arms outstretched at his shoulders and under his armpits, ready for a joint attack.

Long Er raised his right hand, palm facing forward.

"Buzz!"

As chakra circulated, red light emanated from his palm, followed by a burst of scorching flames.

Nagato didn't pause; he simply raised his right arm the instant the flames attacked, unleashing the power of the Preta Path...

The flames were not absorbed; his arm was instantly engulfed by the flames, which then spread to his entire body.

Although he managed to deflect the flames with a repulsive wave, his body was already badly burned over a large area.

His right arm, in particular, was covered in blisters, and the pain from all over made him almost cry out.

This isn't ninjutsu; it's just a regular flamethrower.

Ryuji came specifically for Nagato's Rinnegan, so how could he not be prepared?

Not only that, but they also prepared a lot of things like high-speed water jets and physical heat-melting swords.

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