This puppeteer is a bit... well...

Chapter 42 The Death of An Lushan

"Fire Release: Dragon Vein Great Fire Dragon Technique!"

With a piercing shriek, the giant puppet's head opened its mouth, spewing forth purple flames that engulfed the entire room.

The sudden appearance of a powerful enemy startled Ryuji.

Although, with the help of Jia, a chakra shield was erected above his head in time.

"Boom!"

Flames sprayed onto the chakra shield, which automatically split apart from both sides.

Before he could even think about his next move, his hand suddenly felt light, and the water gate disappeared.

Ninjas must use hand seals to mobilize chakra and execute ninjutsu through a special route.

The higher the level of ninjutsu, the more complex its operational route, and the more concentration is required to execute it.

If one cannot concentrate during the process, even if one's ninjutsu proficiency reaches an almost instinctive level, it will be difficult to use.

Ryuji had been choking Minato, causing him difficulty breathing and pain, which made it impossible for him to concentrate.

But this moment of distraction caused him to loosen his grip.

Minato, having gained a chance to catch his breath, immediately gathered his chakra and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leap.

Ryuji looked around, trying to find Minato.

But after sweeping around, all that could be seen was a sea of ​​fire.

"All of you who want to stop me, die!" The giant puppet let out another shriek, and seven or eight kunai connected by chakra threads shot out from the mechanism.

"Then let's start with you!"

Long Er was quite annoyed that the duck he was about to catch had flown away.

With a thought, the flames on the thrusters behind him surged, and he transformed into a streak of light, flying towards the giant puppet on the roof in the midst of the void.

"court death!"

The giant puppet opened its mouth, and a spear-like whip pierced out from within.

Long Er tilted his head slightly to dodge, and at the same time reached out to grab the bamboo whip. With a pull, his speed suddenly increased, and he arrived in front of the giant puppet in an instant.

"Go to hell!"

With his right arm raised high and his right fist slamming out, flames erupted from his hands, knees, and back, greatly increasing his power.

"Bang!"

The steel fist slammed into the giant golem's face, causing the entire tower to tremble.

The giant puppet's face turned into tiny wood chips or fragments at the point of impact, which dissipated outwards with the shockwave.

The enormous puppet body seemed to lose power and slowly fell backward.

but……

"It's no use!"

Halfway down, the giant puppet straightened up again, its enormous hand sweeping across the air.

Long Er snorted coldly and raised his left hand.

"Bang!"

As the shockwave spread, the giant hand, which could easily hold a person in its grasp, hovered in the air, its palm shattering and splintering into the air.

Meanwhile, Ryuji, the target, remained steadily suspended in the air, completely still.

"It has some merit, but it's still useless!"

A lightning-shaped burst of chakra shot out from the top of a tower, which the giant puppet absorbed with both hands. Its massive body shimmered with purple light, and excess chakra occasionally escaped.

"Super-fast regeneration technique!"

The giant puppet formed hand seals, and its festering body parts rapidly healed.

Long Er snorted coldly, his body transformed into a streak of light and rushed out, unleashing sixteen punches in an instant.

"Bang bang bang..."

A shockwave rolled in, and the earth shook violently.

The enormous puppet withstood unparalleled force, its entire body sliding outwards for over a hundred meters before finally coming to a stop upon crashing into another tall tower. Sixteen more evenly distributed craters appeared on its newly restored body.

"Useless, useless, useless!" The giant puppet laughed arrogantly, spreading its arms wide. "As long as I possess the dragon vein, I am invincible."

Purple chakra shot out from the central tower once again, and the giant puppet's body visibly recovered once more.

In the blink of an eye, it was restored to its perfect state.

"Anyone who dares to hinder my rule over the world will only die!"

The giant puppet continued to make arrogant declarations, and then... it collapsed with a crash!

"Huh!?"

The giant puppet stared wide-eyed in a remarkably human-like manner, seemingly puzzled.

He continued to struggle, trying to stand up, but he couldn't. He couldn't help but start to panic.

"Wait, why can't I move? Move!"

He urged the puppet to move while shouting frantically.

However, the giant scorpion-shaped puppet could not stand up, let alone move freely, except for hopping around like a dead fish.

"Possessing unlimited chakra, yet transforming oneself into a mechanical puppet, is utterly stupid!" Ryuji flew to the puppet and stopped, his cold eyes filled with disdain. "Even the most sophisticated puppet's operation hinges on the rotation of gears. If the gears get stuck, the puppet can't move."

Having received the hint, the giant puppet seemed to realize something, and opened its eyes wide again. "Your previous attack wasn't to destroy the puppet, but to damage the armor so that the gears inside could be jammed!"

"Your reaction isn't completely hopeless."

"impossible!"

Upon receiving an affirmative answer, the giant puppet cried out in disbelief, "This is clearly the first time I've revealed this puppet, so why do you know its internal structure so well?"

"Your puppet is utter garbage. Just by looking at its body movements, I can guess its internal structure. What use is it besides wasting chakra?"

"You, you..."

"Shut up, you trash puppeteer! You've wasted so much of my chakra. Let me replenish it first."

As he spoke, Ryuji placed his hands on the giant puppet and absorbed the dragon vein chakra within it.

Feeling its chakra draining away, the giant puppet felt humiliated and worried about its own life or death.

His eyes darted around a few times, and he quickly said, "You're a puppeteer too, right? How about we team up?"

Ryuji ignored him and silently absorbed the chakra.

"You've seen it too, haven't you? With the dragon vein, I've erected a thousand towers and an army of countless puppets in just two years. If you join forces with me, we can easily control even the five great nations."

Upon hearing this, Long Er turned around and glanced at him, then snorted.

Seeing this, the giant puppet became anxious and was about to continue persuading it when Long Er punched it in the chest, creating a hole and pulling out the driver inside—An Lushan, who had been transformed into a mantis puppet—and throwing him to the ground.

"Are you worthy to join forces with me?"

With that, Long Er stomped on his head and crushed it.

Suddenly, the world fell silent.

The knight puppets patrolling the sky, and the puppet citizens singing and dancing in the squares and streets, all fell silently. Only the songs, imbued with the charm of fairy tales, echoed in the sky above the towering towers.

"Bang!"

A figure fell from the sky.

Silver stood up from the cracked ground and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Master, the enemy got away."

"Were they rescued by Minato Namikaze?"

"Yes."

"That's all. Let's go to the inner courtyard. The scarab found Sasha there."

The last paragraph of the previous chapter has been revised. Please go back and take a look!

The protagonist didn't hesitate about whether or not to kill Minato, but instead went ahead and did so, only to be interrupted by An Lushan's intrusion.

(End of this chapter)