"Don't be discouraged! We should try to resist this meteorite! Maybe it's possible to shatter it or make it stop!" The Two-Tails Jinchuriki, Yugito Nii, erupted with chakra from her body and shouted, wanting to give her side some morale to resist.
"Oh~ resist the meteorite!" Killer B responded to Yugito's encouragement, shouting with high spirits.
Hearing the words of the two Jinchuriki, many people began to pull themselves together. As the backbone of the Hidden Cloud Village, their strength was naturally not poor; it was just that the might of the meteorite in the sky was too immense, easily destroying one's confidence.
With two powerful Tailed Beast Jinchuriki present... and Lord Raikage present... and even all the powerful ninja of the village here... they had to try to resist!
With such thoughts, their confidence was gradually established.
"Can you come and help too?" Ay's gaze fell on Lexon as he requested, "If this meteorite crashes down, you should also be in danger of dying..."
Ay obviously didn't think Lexon could remain unharmed under the crash of this meteorite.
In his thoughts, the opponent's jutsu must be a trump card intended to cause mutual destruction.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have used it right when this group of people arrived to support Killer B and Yugito.
He must have felt he couldn't resist so many of us, so he used this trump card... After all, trump cards aren't used until the final moment...
Ay thought.
How could he imagine that Lexon simply wanted to clear the field to save trouble?
When the meteorite crashed, he just needed to undergo demon transformation. His near-immortal vitality meant that even a few more Tengai Shinsei would be painless.
"No, I won't help." Lexon smiled and rejected Ay's request. "Also, I am in no danger of dying."
"We already agreed to your request; why won't you even help a little!" Yugito glared at Lexon angrily.
"If you had agreed to my request earlier, this wouldn't have happened." Lexon's tone was indifferent.
"Many of our ninja will die because of this..."
"So?" Although there was a smile on Lexon's face, his gaze was very cold.
"You..."
"Enough, Yugito." Ay stopped Yugito's words. He looked up at the sky, gazing at the meteorite that, although falling slowly, was getting closer and closer. He said, "This is what we should be paying attention to right now..."
"However, seeing as you agreed to my request, I'll give you a piece of advice..." Lexon spoke up again.
"What advice?"
Ay looked at him.
"Don't attempt to resist, but run however you can," Lexon recited steadily.
"Why?" Ay frowned.
"Because there isn't just one... above it, there is an even bigger one." Lexon said with a smile.
As his voice fell, Ay's expression changed drastically, and the confidence that had just risen shattered with a bang.
Aren't we dead for sure then?
For a moment, he found it difficult to accept such a fact.
"There's no need to be so pessimistic." Seeing his bitter expression, Lexon knew exactly what he was thinking. "Didn't you notice that since you agreed to my request, the speed of the meteorite's fall has slowed down?"
Although Tengai Shinsei could not be canceled once released, as the caster, it was still possible to exert slight control to slow down the meteorite's descent.
However, generally, people who used this jutsu wouldn't do so. If they wanted to kill the opponent, why would they give extra free time for the enemy to escape?
But now... since the opponent had admitted defeat and compromised, there was indeed no need to kill everyone.
Lexon wasn't some homicidal maniac.
"What do you mean?" Ay asked in confusion.
"In other words, at your top speed now, you can easily leave the range of the meteorite's impact," Lexon explained.
In Lexon's estimation, the Fourth Raikage Ay, whose top speed was comparable to Minato Namikaze, known as the "Yellow Flash" of the Hidden Leaf, could completely and easily leave the range affected by the meteorite within the time limit.
"Then what about them?" Ay looked at his subordinates who were looking at the sky with some confidence, preparing to resist the meteorite.
"Might die, might live," Lexon said with a smile.
Then, he waved his hand at Ay, his words containing a hint of a smile as he said, "Come on... the rest is up to you. Run... Fourth Raikage~~"
The next moment, Killer B and Yugito, who had also heard Lexon's words from the side, flickered into motion. Without waiting for Raikage Ay's order, the two of them immediately went to organize all the Cloud ninjas, telling them to give up resisting the meteorite and instead form formations to run in the same direction.
Ay, on the other hand, directly surged with Lightning Style chakra, instantly transforming into blue lightning, picking up two of his trusted subordinates, and rushing toward the other side of Mount Hero.
"So hardworking..."
The meteorite's speed had been slowed, and with Lexon's speed, he naturally moved away from the range the meteorite would cover very quickly.
He stood on a cliff, overlooking the dense crowd of ninjas moving rapidly, striving to leave the meteorite's range.
The Tailed Beast-transformed Killer B used his octopus tentacles to roll up the ninjas with slower movement speeds, carrying them along.
The Two-Tails Matatabi did the same.
And Raikage Ay fully activated the chakra in his body, utilizing maximum speed to transform into blue lightning, flashing back and forth inside and outside the meteorite's range, carrying ninjas out one by one.
After placing the ninjas on the edge, he continued to flash back inside.
This process lasted for over ten minutes.
When the meteorite finally fell, all the ninjas had just barely landed outside the impact range of the meteorite.
However, even so, the violent explosion kicked up by the meteorite crash still affected them.
The Tailed Beast-transformed Killer B and the Tailed Beast-transformed Yugito Nii erected their massive bodies, resolutely blocking in front of the numerous Cloud ninjas. They allowed the venting explosive waves to land on their own bodies, protecting the Cloud ninjas beneath them whose chakra was almost depleted.
"Rumble..."
Mount Hero seemed to vibrate ceaselessly due to the violent explosive waves, as if a powerful earthquake were occurring.
"Continue!"
After the shockwave passed, Raikage Ay gritted his teeth and shouted the order.
He hadn't forgotten what Lexon had said; after this, there was an even bigger meteorite!
Someone looked behind Killer B's massive Tailed Beast body, but all they saw was permeating dust. They couldn't see the "bigger meteorite" the Raikage spoke of, nor could they estimate how much longer they had to run to get out of its range.
But they still forced themselves to rally their spirits, mobilizing their scant remaining chakra... Run! Run!
In the village... there are people I miss! I can't die simply like this!
Holding onto incomparable conviction, they dragged their exhausted bodies with their will and continued to advance.
Ay was still continuously transporting ninjas. The high-intensity chakra usage caused his eyes to become bloodshot, and blood was even seeping out from some places on his skin.
The Eight-Tails Gyuki and Two-Tails Matatabi constantly condensed chakra within the Jinchuriki space to provide for their hosts' use.
Five minutes passed...
Another series of violent roaring sounds rang out. Mount Hero shook even more violently than before, as if a magnitude 18 earthquake had occurred.
The civilians at the foot of the mountain looked somewhat puzzled hearing the sounds coming from Mount Hero.
Up on the mountain... what happened?
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