And at this moment, Sasuke was somewhat helpless. The move of phasing, no matter how much stronger he had become, still seemed so unsolvable.
'This move, how can I break it?'
Young Obito saw the situation and said, "Sasuke, give up. Even if, from a certain perspective, your level is even below mine, but if you want to hit me…"
However, before the sentence was even finished, Sasuke had already raised his hand.
As his hand was raised halfway and just about to fall, he suddenly reappeared beside Young Obito, without giving Obito any chance to react, and struck down.
However, this strike once again hit only air.
And this time, taking advantage of Sasuke's delay in withdrawing his move, Young Obito had already opened his Eternal Mangekyo.
"Kamui!", The space around Sasuke twisted, as if it wanted to crush his whole body to pieces.
Seeing this, Sasuke only snorted coldly.
Before the twisting power of Kamui could take form, his figure vanished once more and reappeared elsewhere.
Young Obito furrowed his brows. Under the support of the Sage of the Six Paths, Sasuke's basic physical qualities had now also reached the Six Paths level.
Far stronger than his own mere Eternal Mangekyo body's physical stats.
Speed, strength, reaction, he had fallen completely behind in all aspects.
The space-twisting power of his left eye, supported by the Eternal Mangekyo, could almost be triggered in an instant, but that brief startup delay, at this moment, in Sasuke's eyes, probably seemed unbearably long.
The battle seemed to have returned to the earlier scene when he fought with Minato.
As long as he maintained the phasing, even if Sasuke was faster, it would be difficult to hit him, but all of his own attack initiations would also be instantly dodged by Sasuke, rendering them useless.
It seemed like neither could do anything to the other.
Looks like… he could only use that, something he had only barely grasped and didn't fully understand yet: the Fantasy Force.
On Sasuke's side, he also became aware of his own strengths and weaknesses. He said calmly, "Looks like, your speed is not as fast as mine. As long as I maintain a very high frequency of attacks, continuously striking at you, forcing you to always stay in a phased state, you'll eventually be exhausted."
"I don't believe that your sustained phasing ability is permanent. So, how long does it last?"
The duration of Obito's phasing was still twenty minutes. The Eternal Eye did not extend this time, it only made the entry into the phase state and all other aspects faster.
But even so, right now, it was a bit hard to keep up with Sasuke's speed.
Just as he frowned, Sasuke's attack came again.
Knowing Sasuke's plan, this time he didn't phase, but before that, activated the Fantasy Force.
Immediately, Sasuke's hand blade stopped in front of Obito, as if frozen in place.
But Sasuke didn't feel he had stopped. He only felt that the distance between himself and Obito was becoming farther and farther, farther and farther...
Clearly, Obito was right in front of him, yet he felt that the distance between them was even greater than crossing the entire Shinobi world.
Sasuke couldn't help but widen his eyes, maintaining his attack stance and asked, "What is this?"
Young Obito said calmly, "This is a kind of regret. Clearly just a step away, yet it's like a chasm as vast as the sky, so close yet unreachable. Sasuke, can you understand this feeling of powerlessness?"
Sasuke snorted, "So it's a kind of space manipulation. Although I don't know how you did it, to maintain this move, you yourself must also be unable to move, right?"
His Rinnegan suddenly widened, staring at Young Obito.
Even though they were far apart, it wasn't real distance in a physical sense, so, could he swap positions?
Immediately, Sasuke's figure flashed, and the hand blade once again slashed toward Young Obito without any limit.
Young Obito was startled, Sasuke had actually swapped himself with the illusory space around him, and in an instant pulled their distance back to normal.
No choice, Young Obito had to activate the phasing ability again to dodge.
As if this was the exact outcome Sasuke wanted, right after Obito phased, Sasuke's attacks came like a torrential storm, continuously pressing in, just so that Obito had no opportunity to exit the phased state and use his other abilities.
Seeing this, Young Obito could only go along with Sasuke's intention, maintaining the phased state without leaving it.
Fortunately, even though twenty minutes of phasing wasn't very long, it definitely wasn't short either.
While keeping his phasing and watching Sasuke's continuous attacks, Young Obito thought to himself, 'As expected, the Fantasy Force works well against ordinary enemies, but against a Six Paths level enemy, the effect isn't as ideal as imagined.'
'Then, how about this move?'
After Sasuke once again struck at empty air, Young Obito seized that fleeting chance and rotated his Kamui.
Sasuke keenly sensed a change in Obito and let out a cold laugh.
That same move from before to infinitely stretch the distance? If Obito dared to use it, he dared to instantly close the gap and slash Obito before he could react.
However, the expected event didn't happen. Young Obito still maintained his phased state, and Sasuke once again hit air.
Sasuke's brows furrowed. Since Obito hadn't exited his phased state, then what was that strange energy he had just detected?
Just as he was confused, suddenly, Sasuke felt, somehow, the strike he had just slashed at Obito had bent along some trajectory and came back, slashing him.
"What is this?", Sasuke widened his eyes, and no longer focused on continuously attacking Obito. Instead, he suddenly struck with a Chidori at the space in front of him.
Then, the Chidori seemed to encounter an attack of equal level. It actually collided mid-air, the energy of both neutralizing each other and ultimately dissipating.
Sasuke turned his head and looked at the still-phased, seemingly unshaken Young Obito, and asked in shock, "Just now… what was that?"
Young Obito replied calmly, "Don't you know best what that was? That was your own attack toward me, I merely returned it to you."
Sasuke frowned, "How is that possible?"
Obito said, "Nothing is impossible. You had the intention to attack, and I had the reason to counterattack. That's all."
Sasuke's mind raced and barely guessed the underlying logic, "Just now, when I passed through your body, you extracted the intent of my attack during that moment, and then, in the next moment, returned it to me?"
"This is… truly a space-time ninjutsu containing the power of time?"
Obito's gaze was deep, "That's exactly what I was thinking. Quite an unbelievable idea, right?"
"But… it truly manifested."
"The ability of these eyes of mine is called Kamui. Of course, the name wasn't given by me, but by Kakashi instead."
"And why did he name it that? Maybe, in some mysterious way, he also sensed something."
"What is the divine might of Kamui really like?"
"With the pitiful insight of humans, how could they understand it?"
"Unimaginable, unpredictable, that is Kamui!"
Saying this, Obito asked, "Sasuke, do you believe it? I have a feeling, if that ability from before is pushed to the extreme, even if you don't actually attack, just have the intent, I could… reflect that attack intent back to you."
Sasuke's brows furrowed even more. Why was Obito becoming more and more mysterious? Each ability was more unpredictable than the last, and yet, Sasuke knew that Obito wasn't lying.
If that's the case, compared to Young Obito, wouldn't it be better to face Old Obito?
Old Obito looked strong, but his abilities, at least, could be seen and touched. Not so deceptive, right?
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