479. The Attack of Gedō Mazō Part-1

Pew… Pew… Pew…

Izumi nocks three more arrows and fires them toward Dino.

BANG… BANG… BANG…

The arrows pierce through Dino's body and pin him down on the ground.

Samui, Atsui, and the rest stare into Izumi's direction.

"Looks like she can handle it on her own. Let's help deal with the second member of the Akatsuki." They turn toward Haku and Zabuza, fighting against Kisame.

Haku and Zabuza are struggling against the massive reserve of Kisame's chakra.

Kisame takes a deep breath and claps his hands.

"Water Release: Great Water Prison Shark Dance Technique,"

Kisame generates a massive dome of water using the water from his previous technique and the sea. The massive water prison engulfs a wide span of the area and moves alongside Kisame, with him acting as the center of the giant water prison.

"Ice Release: Ice Dome of Absolute Protection,"

Haku encases his and Zabuza's body into a massive ice crystal with an air pocket inside it to breathe inside the giant water prison. He controls the movement of the ice crystal and attempts to flee out of the water prison.

Samui, Atsui, and Ino-Shiko-Cho also arrive in the vicinity of the giant water sphere.

"Hmm… how should we deal with this?" Shikamaru racks up his brain while Atsui blindly charges toward the water bubble.

"My hot blood will burn this water prison to vapors."

He encases his sword with fire and madly slashes at the giant water bubble.

Shikamaru places a hand on his head and enters into a deep thought to figure out a plan.

"Huh! What's he doing?" Samui glances at Shikamaru and turns towards Ino for an answer.

"It's a habit of his. He always makes this pose when he figures out a plan." Ino shakes her head.

"I have an idea!" A few seconds later, Shikamaru opens his eyes.

"This is my plan!" He whispers the plan to Samui, Ino, and Choji.

"I understand!" Samui nods and dashes in the opposite direction of the water bubble.

Meanwhile, Shikamaru asks Ino to help him contact the HQ and relay his plan to Haku and Zabuza, who are trapped within the water bubble.

On the other side of the battlefield,

Izumi easily overpowers Dino and didn't even give him an opportunity to counterattack.

"You bitch! I should have killed you first, back then." Dino yells in humiliation.

Slash…

Izumi severs his head with a slash of her katana.

"Too bad I can't kill someone who is already dead. However, I can seal you away for eternity."

Izumi makes a series of hand signs and summons a crimson blade with a gourd, as its hilt. She wields the blade and glances at Dino's severed body.

"This is the Totsuka blade or the Sakegari Blade."

An ethereal blade shimmers with a bright hue as Izumi infuses her chakra into it.

"There is a very powerful sealing enchantment on this blade. Whoever this blade pierces shall be sealed within the genjutsu world of drunken dreams for all eternity. This will be your new hell!"

Izumi lifts the blade and pierces it through Dino's head.

"NOOOO!!!"

Dino's desperate screams echo in the surroundings as the Totsuka blade extracts Dino's soul from the Edo body.

Izumi falls to her knees and burst out in tears.

"Grandma, I avenged you!" She holds the Totsuka blade in her hand and silently stares at the dusk sky.

On the other side of the battlefield,

The group somehow manages to seal Kisame inside the Benihisago with the combination of Haku, Zabuza, Samui, and Atsui's combat prowess and Shikamaru's wits.

"This is one handy tool!" Zabuza holds the Kōkinjō rope in his hands.

"However, it uses a lot of chakras and I almost completely drained of my chakra with a single use." He swallows a chakra recovery pill and passes the rope to Samui.

Choji and Atsui also pass the Benihisago gourd and Shichiseiken blade to her.

"I am so hungry!"

Choji lies down on the ground in exhaustion. Shikamaru raises his head and glances at the setting sun in the sky.

"Today was a very exhausting day!"

Samui passes the two treasured tools to another captain and asks him to inform the headquarters.

"Inform the HQ and ask Mabui-san to teleport them back to safety."

"Yes, Samui-san!" The captain nods and orders his subordinates to wrap up the battles.

Samui also turns around and walks towards the rest of the group.

Suddenly,

Swirl…

The space behind Samui swirls into a black portal, and a figure walks out of it.

"Summoning Jutsu!"

Tobi makes a Ram hand sign.

Huh!

Samui swiftly turns around. She notices Tobi in Akatsuki's robe standing in between her and the Kumo captain.

"You are…"

"Marui, run!" Samui yells in shock and trepidation.

"Die!"

Atsui flickers behind Tobi and swings his fiery blade.

SHOOM…

Tobi lifts his left hand and points it toward Atsui.

BOOM…

A powerful repulsive force acts upon Atsui's body and sends him flying across the battlefield.

BANG…

Atsui slams into a distant hill and passes out.

"ATSUII!!"

Samui yells in horror at Atsui's situation. Tobi ignores her and focuses his attention on the Kumo Captain Marui in front of him.

Marui listens to Samui's words and dashes away from Tobi.

"You can't run. None of you will!" Tobi's cold, emotionless voice sends a chill down everyone's spine.

He lifts his right hand and points it toward Marui.

Shoom…

A powerful attraction force acts upon Marui's body and pulls him towards Tobi.

ARGH…

Marui struggles with his entire strength. He grits his teeth and stabs his blade into the ground to latch on it. However, the powerful attraction force rips apart the ground and drags him toward Tobi.

Bang…

Tobi clutches Marui's neck and lifts him in the air.

Shiing…

He places his hand on top of Marui's head and extracts all the information from him using the Human Path. He pulls out a sealing scroll from Marui's clothes and tosses Marui's dead body away.

Rumble… Rumble…

The ground around Tobi trembles and a giant humanoid wooden statue with multiple eyes and chains crawls out of the ground. Various black receiver rods jut out of the statue' back.

"Gedō Mazō!"

Swish… swish…

Tobi makes a series of hand signs and the treasured tools of the Sage of Six Paths appear in his hands.

"Hmm… there are only two of them!"

He frowns as he only sees two sealing tools, Benihisago and Kohaku no Jōhei in his hands.

"Well… it doesn't matter. These were my original goals, to begin with!"

Swirl…

He stores them away in his Kamui dimension. Tobi turns his attention toward the rest of the allied shinobi force.

"Go, Gedō Mazō!"

The giant statue breaks the shackles around its arms, neck, and legs and stands up.

The size of the statue easily dwarfs the surrounding mountains as its head almost reaches halfway to the clouds.

BOOM…

The giant statue lifts one of its feet and stomps it down on the ground.

BOOM…

A powerful shockwave traverses across the battlefield. The ground beneath the statue's foot crumbles apart and a massive ravine forms into the earth. The ravine swallows the shinobis and the giant statue charges towards them in a frenzy.

"RUUUNNNN!!"

The allied shinobi army gulps their saliva in despair and scatters.

Back at the Allied Shinobi HQ,

Burble… burble…

Multiple powerful ripples spread across the sphere and one-fourth of the giant sphere separates from the rest.

"WHAAAT?!!!"

The eyes of the sensor and logistic unit shinobis widen in shock.

"What's the situation?!" Shikaku enquires.

"An immense chakra field has appeared on the battlefield near Samui's company. This amount of chakra, I am afraid, it's on par with a tailed beast if not greater than a tailed beast." Ao gulps his saliva.

"We received an emergency message from Samui's company!" A member of the communication team rushes into the room.

Shikaku and the rest glance at the visual feed on the comms.

"It appears to be some sort of giant humanoid monster! And it seems to be controlled by the…"

Tobi's face appears on the feed.

On the battlefield, Tobi raises his head and glances towards the sky as he senses multiple gazes on him.

Shoom…

Tobi activates his Rinnegan and observes the world around him. The world in his vision turns into a spectrum of rainbow and multiple frequencies travel around him.

"Huh!" He notices several rod-like nodes emitting a signal implanted within the ground.

"Is this what the Allied Shinobi force is using to monitor the battlefield?" Tobi frowns.

"What a powerful surveillance tool!"

The Gedō Mazō stomps the ground and destroys several CPS terminals in its vicinity.

"That's the Gedō Mazō!"

Minato opens his mouth.

"It's a powerful summoning ability of the legendary Sage Eye Rinnegan!" He adds.