"C-Caught… he caught it…"
"Hss… my god, Lord Garp actually caught the First Mizukage's Tailed Beast Bomb with his bare hands!"
"That's a Tailed Beast Bomb infused with both Storm Release and Ice Release!"
"What kind of monstrous physique does it take to reach out and grab something like that, and actually hold it?"
…
Witnessing Garp's earth-shattering feat of catching two enhanced Tailed Beast Bombs with his bare hands, every Konoha shinobi, Tsunade, Kushina, and the others, along with Yagura's side of the Kirigakure forces, all turned pale as if their souls had been sucked out.
Before Garp made his move, everyone had imagined all sorts of scenes.
Like a clash between his superhuman Rokushiki and a Tailed Beast Bomb.
Or Haki colliding with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
Or perhaps the legendary hero displaying even more unfathomable power they had never seen before.
But none of them, no matter how hard they imagined, ever expected Garp to simply roll up his sleeves, reach out with his bare hand, grab the Tailed Beast Bomb, and actually succeed.
Looking at the two spheres, now resembling mere toy balls, securely locked in Garp's palms, one Storm Release Tailed Beast Bomb and one Ice Release Tailed Beast Bomb, everyone fell silent.
The hero, suit jacket off, had delivered his first strike, and utterly shocked them beyond measure.
This was what a truly legendary-level battle looked like.
Compared to this, the so-called "Kage-level duels" of the ninja village era were nothing more than school children pecking at each other like clueless chicks.
After watching Garp's move and witnessing the clash between the hero and Mizukage, every ninja present mentally compared all the Kage-level fights they had ever seen with the battle before their eyes.
The conclusion was unanimous.
Kage-level battle?
Just two rookies pecking at each other…
"Caught it with his bare hands…How can that old monster still have such a terrifying body?
Impossible… there's no way. I've lived another entire lifetime, my chakra, my spirit, my body have all surpassed my previous peak. But Garp… he should be declining.
He didn't get to live again like I did. He should be nearly a hundred years old by now.
His stamina, strength, speed, even his Haki, by all logic, they should've plummeted straight off a cliff."
Even Byakuren was completely stunned.
At this moment, his mind felt like a pot of thick, scrambled mush.
He couldn't understand it.
He couldn't accept it.
That Garp actually possessed such power.
In his view, even Garp of the old era would have needed to fully harden both arms with Haki and put his entire strength into catching a Tailed Beast Bomb.
But now? Garp caught them as easily as catching two rubber balls tossed over by a child.
Effortless. Fluid. Beautiful in a way that defied logic, without even a hint of strain.
"So this is all you've got?
Looks like your 'second lifetime' ended up being nothing more than a wasted one."
The moment Garp finished speaking, before Byakuren could erupt in fury, he vanished, along with the two Tailed Beast Bombs in his hands.
"Not good!"
The instant Byakuren saw the Tailed Beast Bombs disappear, his heart dropped.
He didn't even have time to be angry. Swallowed by a raging tide of crimson chakra that stained the misty sky red, he fully transformed into a Tailed Beast.
Before, he had maintained a half-human, half mini Isobu form.
Now he went straight into complete Tailed Beast Mode, turning into a colossal turtle with three massive tails, its mountain-like body shaking the earth.
The Three-Tails, Isobu!
Fully Tailed Beast-transformed, and yet he remained absolutely rational.
The immense chakra and destructive power of a Tailed Beast, combined with the intelligence, jutsu mastery, and physical prowess of a First-Generation Kage…
This was a level that no Jinchuriki of the ninja village era, or any wild Tailed Beast, could compare to.
Most Jinchuriki in the village era couldn't even control their Tailed Beast's power, often managing only partial transformation.
The ones who truly mastered full transformation could fully use the Beast's power, but only that.
But the Five Kage of the Warring States era were different.
Their fusion with their Tailed Beasts wasn't simple reliance.
They combined the Beast's chakra and destructive might with their own techniques and intellect, using the Beast's power to complete themselves, elevating their strength to an entirely higher realm.
Just like Byakuren was doing now.
His Tailed Beast power perfectly augmented his three great Kekkei Genkai.
"Here, take them back."
The moment Byakuren fully transformed, Garp reappeared like teleportation itself, carrying one blue and one cyan Tailed Beast Bomb.
In a flash, he appeared before the gigantic Three-Tails and slammed both bombs down toward its massive turtle head.
Byakuren's single eye locked onto the falling Tailed Beast Bombs.
Behind him, his three colossal tails froze over in an instant, turning into three titanic ice-forged hands that shot skyward, catching the bombs like iron towers bracing the heavens.
A deafening explosion shook the sky.
A tidal wave of shock energy engulfed the entire battlefield.
The thick mist in the area was blown away completely.
The thousand meter sky overhead, once shrouded in gloom, was wiped clean, revealing clear open air.
The Land of Water, a country smothered year-round in fog and dark clouds, its climate stubborn and unchanging…
Was instantly transformed, its weather altered, by a single clash between Garp and Byakuren.
As warm sunlight poured down from the skies above, Orochimaru and the others stared in disbelief.
Yagura's forces, shinobi born and raised in this perpetually mist-covered land, were frozen in shock, their faces blank as if the world itself had been turned upside down.
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