Fuinjutsu Battle Formation: Grey Mist
As soon as Seimei activated the battle formation, chakra surged around him before expanding outwards.
The burst of chakra formed a protective Fuinjutsu barrier with a radius of 80 meters around Seimei. And within a few seconds, the entire area covered by the barrier became obscure from the outsider's perspective.
A cold, white-grey mist began to form, covering the hundreds of meters outside the Fuinjutsu barrier with a dense grey haze that made the already dark night even more obscured and eerie.
From the outside, the goblins and other chakra beasts in the forest would not find anything amiss. They would just think that the weather was particularly bad, causing dense fog to appear that significantly decreased the visibility.
However, for the 73 goblins and hobgoblins who had been trapped inside the Fuinjutsu Battle Formation, the situation was entirely different.
They suddenly felt as if their connection to the ground had been severed.
It meant that inside the barrier, they couldn't escape through the ground or channel their Earth Release chakra to manipulate the earth beneath their feet.
They found themselves surrounded by faint mist. Although this mist wasn't as thick as the dense fog outside of the formation, it still felt somewhat eerie.
The faint mist churned and moved mystically as wind roared within the area inside the formation.
In short, this formation:
• Restricted escape through Earth Release Ninjutsu that helped ninjas or chakra beasts sink into the ground and travel underground.
• Forced the Earth Release users to generate Earth through their chakra alone, greatly restricting several large-scale Earth Release techniques.
• Attracted an abundant amount of natural wind and water vapor inside the formation, making the area inside the formation a perfect place to use Water, Wind, and Lightning Release Ninjutsu.
For goblins and hobgoblins, who could only wield a pitiful amount of earth element innate skills, external weapons, and below-average eyesight, the Fuinjutsu Battle Formation: Grey Mist was practically a dead end.
Ignoring the disoriented, poisoned, and confused goblins, Seimei turned his head toward Haneda and Touma.
"This formation will stay active for approximately 15 minutes. Within this time, no goblins or hobgoblins will be able to go out of the formation. The barrier will trap them here."
"And this formation will also block the sound from transferring outside. It means that no matter how loudly these goblins scream or how noisy your Ninjutsu is, the goblins outside of this formation won't hear a thing."
"Just refrain from using Earth or Fire Release Ninjutsu."
"Earth Release Ninjutsu that relied on shaping natural earth under our feet won't work. And in this area filled with an abundant amount of water vapor and mist, Fire Release Ninjutsu will be significantly weakened."
Seimei unsheathed his ninjato and said, "Now, let the blood flow."
As soon as his words fell, Seimei channeled lightning chakra into his blade.
Lightning Release: Chidori Katana
Hummmmm~
His blade hummed as countless lightning arcs snaked around his ninjato's blade and all around his body.
The lightning chakra activated his body cells to their limits, increasing his speed, strength, reflexes, and his blade's cutting power.
While surrounded by countless bolts of lightning that snaked around his body harmlessly, but tearing the earth apart around him, Seimei gave his final command.
"Touma, Haneda…go all out."
Then he turned his gaze toward the incoming goblins and sneered.
"And my dear shadow clones, trap these ugly, green-skinned pests. Prevent them from forming a large group. Block their movements. And of course, kill them."
With that, he finally activated his signature movement technique, which he modified a little.
"Let's see how my modification works in a real battle. These weakened goblins are the perfect living test dummies."
Lightning Release: Thunder Body Flicker—Burst Mode
Lightning bolts around him intensified. And at the next moment, Seimei dashed forward, leaving behind a trail of lightning.
In a flash, he appeared in front of a C-rank goblin and beheaded it. However, his Thunder Body Flicker Technique didn't end as usual.
Instead, lightning burst forth once again as Seimei disappeared toward a completely different direction and sliced a B-rank hobgoblin in half before the hobgoblin's mind could even register Seimei's arrival.
In less than a few milliseconds, before the C-rank goblin's head could fly in the air and the B-rank hobgoblin's upper body could separate and fall off, Seimei disappeared with another burst of lightning.
With each burst of lightning, he charged toward a completely different direction and killed one goblin before targeting another one.
After the seventh kill, Seimei's figure flashed with wild lightning arcs once again before he returned to his position beside Touma and Haneda.
Then, he muttered, "Tsk! This Jutsu still needs more grinding. LV2 is clearly not enough. I still feel a little pain and tension in my ankles and ligaments when I burst forward in a completely different direction."
Fortunately, I have a strong physique thanks to the Otsutsuki bloodline and the Senju clan's chakra infusion technique. If an average Jonin tried to use the Thunder Body Flicker—Burst Mode Technique, their ligaments and muscle tissues would have been torn apart by now. Their bones could have cracked, too. Seimei thought inwardly as he once again thanked his original father and mother, whom he had never met, for donating the precious Otsutsuki bloodline.
Meanwhile, Touma and Haneda looked at Seimei with a shocked expression on their faces.
They couldn't track his movements at all.
To Haneda, it looked like a lightning bolt flashed in the goblin's rank several times.
And although Touma's Sharingan could still track Seimei's movement, Touma knew that if he were on the receiving end, his head would have flown before his body could even respond.
That was how fast Seimei was.
And this guy is still complaining?
Unbelievable.
The group of goblins was equally baffled.
However, Touma and Haneda were battle-hardened ninjas. They quickly snapped out of their daze and launched a fierce assault on the goblins.
"No large-scale Earth Release Ninjutsu? Never mind. I like Water and Lighting Release, too."
Haneda chuckled as he formed a few hand seals and spat a torrent of water from his mouth.
Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique
The torrent of water quickly transformed into a large, ten-meter-long, serpentine water dragon, which roared and charged forward toward the sluggish and poisoned goblins with the momentum of a speeding truck.
Although the hobgoblins still reacted quickly enough to dodge sideways, the water dragon construct still rammed through several C-rank goblins.
Four goblins died instantly by turning into mangled corpses of meat and bones. Three other goblins were severely injured and broke a few bones from being grazed by the water dragon construct.
Seeing the fellow goblin's poor fate, one hobgoblin, who dodged sideways to protect itself, let out a relieved sigh.
"Yo. Chilling already, huh?"
However, its relief was short-lived as Touma appeared in front of him and called it out. The hobgoblin looked at Touma instinctively, only to make eye contact with his pair of Sharingan.
Genjutsu: Sharingan
Touma instantly cast one of the most famous hypnotism Genjutsu to paralyze the hobgoblin for a second.
And a second was all he needed.
Touma stabbed his short sword into the hobgoblin's heart and killed it.
Then, Touma instantly formed a few hand seals and puffed his cheeks.
Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique
Touma expelled a volley of ten tennis ball-sized fireballs, which whizzed toward another group of goblins.
Eight fireballs were either dodged or slashed down.
But two fireballs hit two goblins head-on and exploded, setting the C-rank goblins on fire.
"Kiiiiieeeeeeee"
The two goblins screamed in agony for several seconds before they were burned to death, leaving their charcoal-black bodies behind.
The Fire Release Ninjutsu's power has indeed decreased. But it doesn't mean fire can't kill. Touma thought inwardly as he dashed toward his next target.
Seimei's figure also flashed around the battlefield, reaping at least one goblin's life every time his figure appeared.
Seimei's shadow clones also did their jobs by dividing the goblins and killing them one by one.
As a result, Seimei and his group wiped out the 73 goblins inside the Fuinjutsu Battle Formation in less than six minutes.
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