Chapter 331: Trump Card (Patreon)

Just as Charles was about to rise and counterattack, Mephisto, who had just dealt with the wooden clone, flashed to him again, transforming his palm into a blade, ready to deliver a fatal blow to Charles.

"Ninjutsu - Shield!" (Provides 90% damage reduction for 4 seconds, note: cannot reduce fatal damage.)

Charles didn't form any hand seals, directly using this ninjutsu. Coupled with his immortality, Charles wasn't pierced through the heart by Mephisto's hand, but was instead sent flying.

Nevertheless, his heart was still punctured, and he coughed up a large amount of blood. For other ninjas or wizards like Balthazar, this would undoubtedly be a fatal blow. However, for Charles, these were just physical pains.

After being sent flying, Charles observed the surroundings and noticed the giant toad Gamakichi as he instructed him to attack. Gamakichi aimed at Mephisto and launched a massive water cannon.

The huge water bomb struck the ground, creating a ten-meter-deep crater, but it didn't harm Mephisto at all.

Mephisto appeared beside Gamakichi. Although his body looked tiny like an ant, he kicked the thirty-two-meter-tall toad, sending it flying. He even casually fired an energy blast.

"Boom!"

A massive explosion rose, and Mephisto clapped his hands, saying, "That bothersome fellow is gone now."

At the moment of the explosion, Gamakichi deactivated the Summoning Jutsu, returning to the Summoning Realm to evade the opponent's attack. Still, Mephisto's kick inflicted significant damage on it.

Mephisto once again flew towards Charles. Suddenly, an earthen wall appeared in his way, blocking his path.

"Boom!"

A single energy blast shattered the earthen wall, and Mephisto reached Charles, striking his neck with a powerful blow.

Charles raised his hand to defend, but Mephisto's strength was overwhelming. He knocked him down to the ground.

Now, Mephisto lifted his leg, viciously kicking towards Charles's fallen body.

"Crack!"

Instead of kicking Charles's actual body, Mephisto's foot shattered a piece of the wooden substitute. Glancing around, he spotted Charles, who was catching his breath.

Before Charles could take more than a couple of breaths, Mephisto was once again in front of him.

"Drink!"

Charles angrily shouted, throwing a straight punch towards Mephisto. The fist was enveloped in blue chakra, indicating that this punch was not ordinary.

"Boom!"

The two clashed fists, and a white shockwave erupted from the impact point, sending the surrounding demon soldiers flying.

Seeing that Charles had actually blocked his punch, Mephisto showed no surprise. He calmly spoke, "Is this the extent of your strength?"

"It's far less than Merlin's."

Mephisto retracted his right fist and delivered a whip kick directly towards Charles.

"Great Revolving Heaven!"

Mephisto's kick hit Charles's Great Revolving Heaven, but it ended up launching him backward instead.

...

On the other side-

Charles's summoning beast army, despite killing many hell demons, suffered significant damage due to the overwhelming number of enemies.

After the eight ninja dogs couldn't withstand the onslaught of the demon army, they returned to the summoning realm to recuperate. Following that, Aoda and the ninja turtle also had to leave under the siege of the demon army.

Finally, only the recently summoned Katsuyu remained by Tsunade's side.

At this point, not only the summoning beasts struggled, but the ninja squad and the magic teams were also heavily injured.

Tsunade formed hand seals and instructed, "I'm counting on you, Katsuyu."

"Understood, Lady Tsunade!"

In the next moment, the colossal form of the slug transformed into over three hundred smaller slugs, flying onto the shoulders of everyone to begin healing their injuries.

Meanwhile, the three members of the ANBU were surrounded by a large number of mid to high-level demons, separated into three parts on the battlefield. They couldn't come to each other's aid, only fiercely fighting the demons around them.

The demons were aware that they couldn't let the ANBU escape and were relentlessly attacking to hinder their movements.

After Charles repelled Mephisto with his technique, he immediately initiated the hand seals for the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.

As Mephisto approached, he unleashed a series of strikes. The Sharingan in Charles's eyes switched to the Byakugan as the strikes enveloped Mephisto.

"Two palms, four palms, eight palms, sixteen palms..."

Soon, all sixty-four palms were completed, and then chakra surged throughout Charles's body: "Mountain Crusher!"

It was the final strike, and Charles unleashed the Mountain Crusher. Unlike in the mobile game and the Naruto world, the extraordinary Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms included the Eight Trigrams Mountain Crusher in the last move.

An invisible shockwave surged forth, even causing Charles's figure to slide a considerable distance due to the counterforce.

Having endured this combination of techniques, Mephisto was sent flying at an even faster speed than before, crashing into the demon army near the Great Abyss.

Charles looked down at his hands, his brow furrowed, and his expression became serious. When he executed the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, he simultaneously used the Chakra Surgical Knife, attempting to cut Mephisto's muscles with each strike to obtain his blood.

However, after the technique was completed, there was no trace of blood on Charles's hands. The cuts in Mephisto's muscles and acupoints didn't leave a drop of blood.

Could it be that during the previous miniaturization, Mephisto burned all of his blood? It was worth noting that when he was enlarged earlier, cutting off his arm caused blood to flow.

However, with the previous battles and destruction, all traces of blood on the ground had been wiped away.

This made it impossible for him to use Hidan's technique to confront Mephisto. After all, without blood, he couldn't perform the evil god Curse technique.

This change also made Charles realize that this was a clone, not the opponent's main body.

Glancing at the magic formation that hadn't yet covered the entire world, Charles knew that if Mephisto's main body entered before the magic formation enveloped the entire world, things would become extremely troublesome.

If it was already difficult to deal with a clone, it would be disastrous if the main body arrived.

Charles's expression kept changing; it seemed he needed to finish this quickly. His gaze then fell on the unused A-Rank ninja experience card in the storage space.

Now was the time to use it. Charles's gaze became determined.

"Activate A-Rank Experience Card!"

As Charles's will entered the system space, the A-Rank ninja experience card flew out from the storage bag and appeared in the sky as the Leaf Village as the background.