"When did he...?"
Watching the slash that completely enveloped him, A's eyes flashed with shock!
Since he was about to engage Sora in battle, he had naturally gathered information on him.
Supported by a wealth of intelligence, he knew that Sora's seal-less Ice Release was extremely powerful.
But whether it was intentional or for some other reason, Sora always called out his technique names when using them, as if he couldn't perform them without doing so!
Yet now, Sora had acted suddenly!
'Could the intelligence be wrong?'
A was puzzled.
However, the situation was critical, and there was no time to worry about that.
"Lightning Release Chakra Mode!"
A roared, and the golden lightning that had only appeared sporadically before now completely saturated his body!
Boooooom-
In the sky, a colossal golden pillar of lightning abruptly appeared, the massive cylinder colliding with the Ice Dragon Tail!
Then, something astonishing happened.
Although lightning should technically have no solid form, when the golden thunder clashed with the icy blade, it produced the sound of clashing metal!
Blocked by the unyielding lightning pillar, Sora's Ice Dragon Tail was firmly held back ten steps away from the Fourth Raikage!
'Oh? Interesting!' Sensing the intensity of A's lightning, Sora nodded inwardly.
'Well then, how about this?'
'Ice Dragon Tail: Void Sever!'
Sora once again aimed Hyorinmaru at A. A seemingly slow and deliberate motion, when paired with his overwhelmingly powerful Rank 6 Reiatsu, transformed into yet another incredibly forceful frost slash!
A pillar of ice shot across the sky, impacting the Fourth Raikage at several times the speed of sound!
Seeing this, the Fourth Raikage refused to be outdone. He raised his hand in a knife-hand strike towards Sora's ice pillar!
Golden lightning coiled around A's hand chop.
"Lightning Straight: Thousand Varieties of Dance!"
With A's roar, the golden hand chop collided with the ice-blue pillar!
When two strong forces clash, one must yield!
To Sora's surprise, his attack was once again cleaved apart by A's hand chop!
"So this is the legendary hand chop, honed through bone-crushing training, sharp as a flash, capable of severing the Eight-Tails' horn? Not bad!"
"It seems you've truly grown stronger, able to block my Shikai attacks!"
"But then, what about this?"
Yuki Sora's expression turned serious as he softly uttered one word: "Bankai."
Snowflakes began to fall from the sky!
Simultaneously, a powerful Reiatsu capable of suffocating ordinary people surged from Sora's body like a hurricane-force wind!
Unprecedented pressure descended upon the Fourth Raikage!
Feeling this pressure, completely different from before, A's face showed horror: 'Is this that legendary move?'
"Bankai..."
"Daiguren Hyorinmaru!"
Yuki Sora's words completed the thought in A's mind.
A Reiatsu as terrifying as a nuclear explosion erupted from Sora's body, rapidly forming frosty wings and dragon claws on his hands!
Then, an even more terrifying aura radiated from Sora's body!
An unprecedented freezing air swept through the entire Kumogakure!
Then, the very air seemed to experience an earthquake, showing visible fault lines!
'No, not an earthquake!' A's eyes narrowed!
'Not an earthquake, but freezing!'
As a village passionate about development, even creating a Chakra Cannon, they naturally had a foundation in scientific knowledge.
So A had also attended school and learned some physics.
Therefore, he knew the air contains not just oxygen, but also carbon dioxide.
And when the temperature drops to a certain point, carbon dioxide can liquefy and then freeze!
Right now, the cold emanating from Sora's body was directly freezing the carbon dioxide in the air, creating the fault line effect!
Moreover, the environmental changes caused by Sora didn't stop there!
A looked up at the sky in horror!
In the sky, layered white clouds, pure white snowflakes drifted down!
"It's snowing!"
Given their village's altitude, snow was common.
But this wasn't natural snow… it was snow caused by human power!
'To alter weather phenomena through human strength… was this Yuki Sora's true power?'
A was shocked!
Simultaneously, he noticed another problem.
Lightning Release Jutsu, among all Ninjutsu, were the ones most closely connected to natural forces.
Frequently, Lightning Release could harness lightning from the sky to harm others.
For example, Raiga's Lightning Blades, or Sasuke's Kirin in the future!
But now, a question revolved in A's mind.
Can it still thunder during a snowstorm?
Clearly, it cannot!
At least now, A could feel that he could no longer sense the clouds in the sky!
'This won't do, I can't let him continue like this!'
A reached a conclusion in his heart.
The current situation had reached a point where there was no survival without battle!
"Then, take this!"
"Lightning Bolt Straight!"
Wrapping his entire body in golden lightning, using his fastest speed and his quickest technique, A charged straight at Sora!