The Raikage suddenly twisted his body and, like a flash of lightning, sped back into the formation.
Staring straight ahead, he shouted loudly, "Hurry and inform Mabui. Tell her to concentrate fire and shoot Sasori down first."
"The rest of you, don't rush in close to those puppets. All of you use long-range attacks to deal with them."
After saying this, he paused slightly, then added:
"And also, quickly send someone to call Killer B back!"
Hearing the Raikage's order, one ninja immediately responded:
"Yes!"
Then he sprinted off in the designated direction at top speed.
Meanwhile, the Raikage did not sit idle. He bent down and, with one hand like an iron clamp, firmly grabbed a massive rock from the ground.
The rock was as large as a millstone, yet under the Raikage's tremendous strength, it felt as light as a straw.
Next, with an angry roar, the muscles in his arm instantly tensed, and he hurled the rock forward with all his might.
The stone screamed through the air with unmatched force, its speed astonishing.
In the blink of an eye, it struck three red puppets directly along its trajectory.
Amid a series of ear-splitting impacts, bang! bang! bang! and a thunderous explosion, boom!
Those three puppets were smashed into countless tiny fragments, scattering in all directions.
The last of them contained a large number of explosive tags and completely disintegrated midair in a violent blast.
It had to be said that the Raikage's attack was brutally fierce.
Against puppets that did not fly very high, he chose the simplest, most direct, and most effective method.
Smash them down from the sky one by one.
At this moment, all kinds of supply crates, wheels, vehicle frames, and similar items on the Cloud side were turned into terrifying weapons in the Raikage's hands.
Sasori clearly had not expected the Raikage to attack this way and was caught off guard.
In just a short span of time, he had already lost more than ten carefully crafted puppets.
With no other choice, he quickly manipulated the remaining puppets to lower their altitude and eventually drop into the encirclement formed by the Cloud ninja.
Although the Raikage could no longer continue his free-form throwing attacks now that the puppets had entered the crowd, fortunately, the Cloud side had already launched long-range attacks according to his earlier instructions.
For a time, all kinds of ninjutsu and hidden weapons rained down on the puppets.
The Cloud Village fielded a force of eight thousand in total, while the number of puppets under Sasori's control was only a little over two hundred.
Compared to the Cloud army, this number was nothing more than a drop in the ocean, completely insufficient.
But Sasori did not seem to care about this at all. With someone backing him up, he treated it as a one-time deal.
Without hesitation, he detonated even more puppets.
Do not underestimate these puppets. They were not simply stuffed with a few explosive tags.
Inside their bodies, an enormous quantity of volatile poison had also been installed.
That kind of instant-kill toxin that seals the throat at first blood was extremely limited in supply, so Sasori could only carefully blend various other poisons.
In the end, he produced a mixed toxin that was somewhat weaker but still far from harmless.
Once ingested by the human body, it would cause severe gastrointestinal distress.
Moreover, because this poison spread in the form of smoke and entered the body through the respiratory tract, Sasori had deliberately added ingredients that caused muscle relaxation.
Even though all the puppets were completely destroyed in the self-detonations, many Cloud ninja unfortunately inhaled large amounts of poisonous smoke.
What followed was a shocking sight.
They began vomiting violently and suffering from diarrhea, plunging the scene into utter chaos.
Just then, a sharp whoosh rang out as a dazzling bolt of lightning suddenly shot out from the Cloud formation.
Sasori was horrified. It was already too late to pull other puppets over to use as human shields.
In that critical moment, the chest of the Third Kazekage puppet suddenly burst open, and countless grains of iron sand sprayed out like a torrential rain.
Almost at the same time, that incomparably fierce lightning bolt slammed straight into the Third Kazekage puppet.
With a deafening boom, the Third Kazekage puppet was instantly heavily damaged, half its body completely destroyed.
Sasori himself was sent spinning as he fell.
Seeing this, the Raikage was overjoyed. He knew that once Sasori fell to the ground, he could crush him however he pleased.
Sasori's face was filled with shock as well.
Although Deidara had warned him in advance that the Cloud had long-range attack weapons, he had not expected their attack speed to be this fast.
Seeing the Raikage already waiting below, watching him like a tiger stalking its prey, Sasori desperately tried to control the Third Kazekage puppet to keep his balance.
But things did not go as he wished. After taking the powerful hit from the chakra cannon, the Kazekage puppet was not only badly damaged, even the large amount of iron sand originally used to control the puppet had become difficult to manage due to a sharp drop in magnetization efficiency.
Sasori let out an angry snort and decisively leapt away from the Third Kazekage puppet.
A steel cable glinting with a cold, eerie light suddenly shot out from Sasori's abdomen and, in the blink of an eye, nailed itself firmly into the ground.
Immediately after, the mechanisms inside his abdomen began spinning at high speed, driving the cable to rotate rapidly.
Relying on this powerful pulling force, Sasori forcibly dragged his falling body sideways in midair.
Seeing this, the Raikage stomped hard against the ground and chased after him like a bolt of lightning.
Sensing the fierce pursuit behind him, Sasori dared not slow down at all. He quickly reached back and brushed his hand across a scroll.
In an instant, raging flames burst forth from both of his palms, like a ferocious fire dragon baring its fangs, sweeping straight toward the pursuing Raikage.
Faced with the surging torrent of flames, the Raikage showed no fear.
Lightning erupted all over his body, accompanied by crackling sounds, and his figure vanished sideways like a ghost, disappearing without a trace.
In the very next moment, the Raikage reappeared without warning right beside Sasori.
Then, without the slightest hesitation, the Raikage swung his arm and unleashed an incomparably sharp hand blade straight at Sasori.
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