Chapter 285 - Three Tails

Chapter 285: Chapter 262: Three TailsNaruto Uzumaki was utterly shocked by Li Cheng’s shameless audacity, and after awhile, he shook his head and said: "Sorry, your honor-should I call you Ant? We have already agreed to help Mr. Eugene eliminate the competitors."

Naruto typically embodies the hot-blooded male protagonist of a classic Shonen Jump manga. Li Cheng did not initiate the battle with indiscriminate killing like Joker, and even expressed his willingness to cooperate, so Naruto’s attitude remained relatively friendly.

The sudden Spiraling Sphere attack on the ventilation ducts was meant to force Li Cheng out of Nucleon Island, to avoid damage to the nuclear power plant.

A sudden realization hit Eugene; this version of Naruto was still too naively immature. With his casual remark, he had revealed a key piece of information—

Helping to eliminate competitors meant that Eugene had already revealed to the higher-ups of Toy City that only by eliminating other intrusive players could one win the key game.

Considering the lax display of power by Toy City police during the terrorist attack orchestrated by Joker earlier today, it’s clear that at least before that, Eugene had not warned Toy City Hall of any impending Transcendent attack.

In other words, his collaboration with City Hall only commenced this afternoon and was not particularly reliable.

If Eugene were to be forcefully eliminated, would City Hall seek revenge at all costs... That’s a big question mark.

At that moment, Eugene slightly hooked his little finger, suddenly retreating over a dozen steps backward, bending forward in pain, coughing out a mouthful of blood as if blasted by an invisible cannon.

"An ambush?"

Naruto frowned, gathering Chakra in his boots, darting forward with an electric burst, and delivering a right hook kick towards Li Cheng’s waist.

To be so easily provoked, could it really be he’s not in his final form?

Li Cheng sighed helplessly as black chitin armor grew beneath his skin. He blocked Naruto’s ankle with his left hand and drew a rusty machete from thin air with his right, slashing diagonally.

Clang!

Naruto twisted his wrist, blocking the machete with a Kunai hidden in his sleeve, simultaneously kicking the handle of the knife with his left foot in mid-air, freeing his right foot.

The moment he landed, he leaned forward, lowering his center of gravity, dodged the second round of machete slashes, and thrust the Kunai directly toward Li Cheng’s right shoulder.

Seeing the battle commence, Eugene felt slightly relieved. If Stormtroopers are Toy City’s regular police, and Interstellar Soldiers of the Terrorist Mobile Team are Toy City’s public security anti-terrorism special forces,

Then a highly special individual like Naruto equates to Toy City’s Special Forces, one of the strongest enforcers of City Hall.

As long as backup forces arrived, they could handle Ant however they wished.

Calling over top chefs like Liu Angxing, Xiao Fugui, Yukihira Soma, Ratatouille, and Komatsu to make a dish of Ant sashimi was also not out of the question.

"Reducto!"

Eugene shouted lowly, flicking his wrist, controlling his Magic Wand to release Shattering Spell, aiming a white firework-like orb at Li Cheng.

Pop!

The orb was intercepted mid-air, Gray Rain grabbed the Shattering Spell with one hand, her entire arm burst open, then instantly healed the next second.

"Come play whack-a-mole," she grinned, picking up the Skull Shattering Hammer.

"Shattering!" "Thunder Bomb!" "Divine Blade Shadowless!"

Eugene furiously waved his Magic Wand, continuously casting spells from Harry Potter, but Gray Rain, unreasonably recuperating from every grievous injury, kept striding forward.

Left with no choice, Eugene released a Windwhirl Instant Roll Spell, gusting wind pushing him back while he exclaimed, "Inverted Golden Bell!"

Gray Rain’s feet left the ground, hanging in mid-air, but the next second she went with the flow and shouted, "Kabuda transform!"

Her head and limbs melted and grew back from the opposite direction, restoring her top-down stance as she landed back on the ground.

What kind of monster is this, Terminator T-X?!

Sweat beading his forehead, Eugene cast a Phantom Shifting Spell, teleporting beneath the safety shell of Nucleon Island, pulling back distance, placing his Magic Wand to his mouth, shouting, "Fiendfyre!"

From his mouth spewed a fierce blaze, under the command of the Fierce Fire Spell, the flames coalesced into a giant serpent purely composed of fire.

Its body was fifteen meters long, with a truck-sized head that slowly raised, looking down imperiously at Gray Rain, who appeared tiny in comparison, suddenly opening its massive mouth and spewing scorching flames at her.

In the Terminator movies, no matter how advanced, liquid metal robots fear extremely high or low temperatures freezing their central processor, hopefully, the same applies here... maybe?

As Eugene tensely observed the effect of the Fierce Fire Spell, the battle on the other side had also escalated.

Clang, clang, clang, clang!

Li Cheng and the afterimages of Naruto continuously crisscrossed, the area filled with the chaotic clashing sounds of a rusty machete and kunai, along with occasional bursts from the concrete ground.

’Is it really necessary to be this dramatic?’

Li Cheng inwardly cursed wildly, this version of Naruto was even tougher to beat than Bartmos, with just physical techniques like twist kicks, elbow strikes, knee strikes, hand flipping takedowns, forearm hammers, over-the-shoulder takedowns all coming at him effortlessly.

The situation was so critical that Li Cheng didn’t even have time to pull out his Skill USB to use the Demon Exchange Skill to escape.

Li Cheng had to constantly use the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method to speed up his reactions, maintain his half-insectification to enhance his physical attributes, in order to keep up with the opponent’s movements and closely follow him, not giving Naruto a chance to seal and use Shadow Clone Technique or Spiral Ball.

As time passed, the multiple minds produced by the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method started chatting with each other in Li Cheng’s mind.

’Isn’t this guy just fifteen years old? Is this what a shonen anime protagonist is like?’

’This kid must not be allowed to escape!’

’Hehehe, take his Supreme Bone—cough, I mean, take the Nine-tailed Chakra inside him and snatch his opportunities!’

’Well... actually, Naruto started Ninja School at the age of six, theoretically he’s been learning how to fight for nine years. Lao Cheng, in the strict sense, has been a player for just over half a year, not even a year yet, right?’

’Yeah, so it’s still Lao Cheng who levels up faster, let’s take Gray Rain and snatch his opportunities!’

Li Cheng cleared the chaotic thoughts swirling in his mind, found the right opportunity, and triggered the blast effect of Condensed Qi Internal Explosion Fist.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

Explosive sounds emitted from all over Naruto’s body, and even with Nine-tailed Chakra protecting him, his skin still cracked open, splattering blood.

Taking advantage of this brief gap, Li Cheng grabbed Naruto’s head and before he could unleash the Brain Entropy Extraction Skill, Naruto exploded into a puff of smoke, turning into a log.

Ninja Technique·Substitution Technique.

The tattered and torn Naruto suddenly appeared twenty meters in mid-air, forming a seal and releasing the Shadow Clone Technique, summoning one hundred identical clones in a single breath.

All the clones, in pairs, each formed a Spiral Ball.

In the Information Integration Glasses, each Spiral Ball was immensely powerful.

That’s why having an Infinite Blue Bar is really annoying.

Li Cheng pushed forward with both hands, casting which generated a fierce hurricane, blowing him away.

Simultaneously using Leopard Jump Double Jump, combined with Instant Thunder Skill and Bat Hook Claw Gun, he made a triple jump in a ’Z’ shape, narrowly escaping the explosion range of the Spiral Ball.

Boom!

The explosion’s intense light completely eclipsed the streetlights and the distant fire truck’s searchlights, and the shockwave shaved off a layer of the road, leaving a huge crater about seven to eight meters deep at its center.

On the ground, the clones of Naruto attacked again, while Li Cheng, who had already retreated to the outskirts of the nuclear power plant, fiercely raised his arm and clenched his fist.

Thump!

A muffled cannon sound came from far away, and suddenly a black spot flew from the sky, seemingly slow but swift, hitting the safety shell of the nuclear island, breaking a large amount of the nearly broken cement shell.

It was a high-explosive grenade fired by the Magic Six-legged Cannon from a distant rooftop.

The contingency plan finally took effect as the grenade exploded, tons of cement shell fell down, nearly killing and injuring the Lego fire brigade commanded by the protagonist of "Paw Patrol", Marshall (a white-spotted fire dog).

"You?!"

Naruto’s pupils suddenly constricted, instantly realizing it was Li Cheng who was behind this.

Driven by intense anger, his blond hair stood on end, his eyes reddened, his pupils turned into vertical beast pupils, fangs protruded from his mouth,

A surging red Chakra flowed out from his body, forming a three-tailed fox apparition on his surface.

"Ah, nobody wants this kind of thing to happen."

Li Cheng said in the tone of a TVB drama, and snapped his fingers.

Thump!

Another cannonball roared in, poised to fall precisely through the hole made by the previous Spiral Ball into the interior of the nuclear island,

as Naruto entered the three-tail phase, he had to stop his attack on Li Cheng, leaped high, and swatted away the grenade with a palm.