"Everyone is standing on the pattern of the barrier."
When Minato's real body launched an active attack on the masked man and the man in black robe, he used the shadow clones he had created to counter the diverted missiles and quickly gather the civilians within the range of the barrier.
Within a radius of a hundred meters, nearly a thousand Konoha civilians were gathered.
At this time, the original body standing with Hiruzen seemed to have received some kind of message.
Immediately, Minato formed seals with his hands.
"His chakra is weakening," said the black-robed man, who also possessed a very strong sensory ability. He could clearly sense that the chakra in Minato's body was shrinking.
However, within the range of this barrier, the chakra of Minato's several shadow clones was enhanced.
Swish!
The moment the chakra was strengthened, the chakra fluctuations of these clones, as well as the civilians and ninjas around them, disappeared.
"He moved all the civilians and ninjas out of the barrier," the man in black robe said, looking at the masked man beside him. Although the latter was a little slower than him, he also seemed to have sensed it.
"Transferring thousands of people at the same time would consume a lot of chakra."
The masked man looked at Minato. Whether it was diverting the previous missiles or teleporting the thousands of Konoha civilians in the barrier, it would consume a lot of chakra.
However, the barrier covering an area of 100 meters did not disappear.
"A boring trick," the masked man laughed solemnly. All the barriers in the world were useless compared to his abilities.
"Within this barrier, he can teleport without any restrictions."
His eyes hidden under the mask narrowed, and he placed his hand on the shoulder of the black-robed man beside him, wanting to take him directly out of the barrier set up by Minato.
"Want to use up my chakra?" Minato also saw through the enemy's intentions. The purpose of attacking Konoha's civilians with missiles was probably not to massacre them from the beginning, but to consume his strength.
This was the real purpose of choosing Konoha as the battlefield, because fighting here was equivalent to tying one hand of Minato and the others, preventing them from exerting their maximum combat power.
For example, Uchiha Yoruki's right eye's black flame Amaterasu—he could not use it in the village.
"It's not that easy to escape from my barrier!"
"Let's go together!" Minato glanced at Uchiha Yoruki and the others who were constantly surrounding this place, and let out a low growl.
Swish, swish, swish!
Upon hearing this, everyone nodded and rushed towards the masked man and the man in black robe.
Although the masked man's space-time movement was more advanced than Minato's Flying Thunder God, he was still weaker in terms of pure movement speed.
This was his weakness!
Minato's eyes were fixed on the barrier pattern under the feet of the masked man and his companion.
"Hmm!"
But he had no way to teleport with the help of the lines, because the chakra on the lines was constantly being absorbed by the black-robed man who stepped on them.
"You can't absorb too much at once. You can't manipulate the natural energy in it," the masked man reminded the person beside him. Sage chakra was not easy to control, and if one was not careful, they would be turned to stone by nature.
"I know," the man in black robe murmured softly. His eyes swept over the five Konoha ninja who were approaching, and he slowly raised his hand.
"If I use it all up at once, it won't matter, right?!"
Looking at the approaching Minato and his companions, the man in black robe seemed to be waiting for something.
"Flying Thunder God: Flash!" Minato pushed his speed to the extreme, like a ray of golden light.
"Are you going to use that technique again?" Seeing the black-robed man's action, Minato's body suddenly tensed up and he became alert.
However, just as he was about to approach the enemy, the man in black robe had not yet launched an attack.
"What's going on?" He suddenly felt confused.
Could it be that this was another of their plans to lure him in?
"Two..." What Minato didn't know was that the man in the black robe was counting something silently in his heart.
Swish!
A golden light suddenly appeared in front of him.
"One..." Minato appeared before him, holding a special kunai in his hand. Wind blades were lingering on the kunai as he chopped down fiercely.
"Swoosh!"
At this moment, the space in front of Minato's figure distorted again, and because of this distortion, his attack was delayed for a moment.
This was the ability possessed by the masked man!
"Shinra Tensei!"
At this moment, with the black-robed man as the center, a powerful repulsive force suddenly erupted. That force was so powerful that it repelled everything around him in the blink of an eye.
"Boom!"
When the repulsive force erupted, Minato noticed it and manipulated the natural energy to form an invisible barrier in front of himself.
However, this barrier was crushed by the repulsive force almost instantly, but this brief moment was enough for Minato.
He once again used the Flying Thunder God Technique and disappeared before their eyes.
Jiraiya, Uchiha Yoruki and the others, who were not as fast as Minato, were still some distance away from the man in black robe, but the powerful repulsive force soon fell on them.
Although the real power of this repulsive force came from the secondary collision with objects after being pushed away, the simple repulsive effect should not be underestimated.
If you bear too much, your internal organs would be injured by the repulsive force.
With the experience from last time, Jiraiya and the others were able to resist a little, although they were still blown away by the force.
The repulsive force continued to spread with the black-robed man as the center until everything within a radius of dozens of meters turned into yellow sand, and then it disappeared.
The top of Minato's bowl-shaped barrier was now covered with cracks. Obviously, although it had resisted the repulsive force, it was about to reach its limit.
"Fire!" At this time, the black-robed man's arm transformed into a missile again, and then shot towards the broken place of the barrier.
"Boom!"
Under the bombardment, the entire barrier suddenly collapsed like broken glass.
"It's even more powerful than last time!" Jiraiya and the others were pushed to the edge of the yellow sand before they could stabilize themselves. At this time, they could see the two people in the center without any obstruction.
The Third Hokage, Hiruzen, who was a professor of ninjutsu, was shocked, because with this special ability to manipulate gravity and repulsion, his opponent was almost invincible.
Because no matter how powerful their methods were, they were meaningless if they could not get close enough to use them.
Swish!
At this time, because he had already teleported away, Minato, who was not affected by the repulsive force, also fell to the edge of the yellow sand.
Although Minato's expression was also solemn, what he was thinking at this moment was completely different from those of Hiruzen and the others.
The black-robed man's ability was indeed tricky, but why did he use this power just when he was about to attack him?
Just now, if it weren't for the masked man's special eye technique, his attack would not have missed.
In this case, the man in black robe would have been in danger.
There was no reason for him not to use his abilities and put himself in a trap.
No matter how powerful a jutsu is, it has its weaknesses.
Therefore, the man in black robe must have had some limitation that he didn't know about if he acted this way.
After several rounds of deliberation, an idea gradually emerged in Minato's mind.
There was only one reason why the man in black robe did not immediately use the repulsive force to push him away.
That is, he himself was unable to use this ability continuously.
There should be a gap between each two uses of this ninjutsu!
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