As Seimei and his three teammates were watching the Ice Demon warily, Seimei quickly searched through his memory to find all the details about this bipedal Chakra Beast.
[Name: Ice Demon
Nature Affinity: Ice Release
Danger Rating: B
Innate Skills: Ice Generation, Ice Wall, Glacial Claw, Ice Bind, Ice Spear, Blizzard
Passive Traits: Inhuman Agility, Strong Physique, Regeneration, Ice Resistance, Water Resistance
Details: A bipedal, demon-type Chakra Beast with noticeable tactical intelligence. It has a strong physique, logic-defying regeneration capabilities, and possesses natural resistance against Water Release and Ice Release Ninjutsu.
It's fast, agile, and highly intelligent, making it harder to deal damage to it.
Its skills are:
Ice Generation: The Ice Demon can generate bone-chilling, cold, and extremely hard ice around it, and use it for defense, offense, and trapping.
Ice Wall: Generates a thick wall of ice of varying height, width, and hardness to defend against unavoidable attacks.
Glacial Claw: Covers its arms with thick layers of hard ice to make its arms capable of tanking most sharp objects. The skill allows its fingers to be covered in thick, sharp frozen claws capable of rending flesh and breaking bones.
Ice Bind: Freezes an area of up to 50 meters in radius to immobilize its target's legs in a thick layer of ice. It takes a lot of chakra to release this skill, so Ice Demons never use it unless necessary.
Ice Spear: Generates one or more ice spears, ranging from 1 to 2 meters, before hurling them toward the intended targets.
Blizzard: Creates a storm of snow and sharp icicles within a radius of 30-50 meters to obscure, trap, slow, and attack the intended targets. Each usage eats up at least 15-25% of the Ice Demon's entire chakra reserves.
Use Fire Release and Lightning Release Ninjutsu to counter the Ice Demon's Ice Release. The Shinobi going up against it should be agile and have fast reflexes.
The Best Methods of Extermination: The only ways to exterminate an Ice Demon, a demon-type Chakra Beast, are:
Decapitation
Destruction of the heart
Obliterating the entire upper body of the demon.]
It's going to be a tough fight.
Still, it's nothing we can't handle.
While a demon's combat intelligence is higher than usual Chakra Beasts, our teamwork should be enough to dispatch it quickly.
So what if its agility and regeneration capabilities are off the charts?
This is the real world, not a fantasy cultivation manga.
Nothing is indestructible. Nobody is unkillable.
You bastard! You will pay for delaying my goodnight sleep!
As soon as Seimei finished his thoughts, he discreetly glanced at his teammates, who also glanced back while keeping an eye on the demon.
He said, "I will engage in close combat with it while trying to use Lightning and Fire Release Ninjutsu to deal damage to it."
"But we all know it can regenerate its wounds quickly."
"So, here's the plan."
"While I keep it busy, try to find opportunities to incapacitate it."
"Haneda, use Fire Release and Lightning Release Ninjutsu."
"Yuto, use your Fire Release Ninjutsu and explosive tags whenever you get a chance."
"Shikamo, hide and find an opportunity to use the Shadow Imitation Technique to restrict its movement."
"We only need to restrict it for a moment to destroy its heart or behead it."
Haneda nodded, "Alright."
Yuto said, "Sure. Just be careful of its Ice Generation skill. It can be tricky!"
Shikamo responded, "Very well."
All this thinking and conversation happened in the span of a few seconds, giving the Ice Demon no chance to launch an attack.
In reality, the Ice Demon wanted to launch attacks multiple times during this interval. But the four pairs of menacing eyes locking onto it made it hesitate again and again.
After all, even if it was a Chakra Beast, its intuition and survival instincts allowed it to understand how hasty actions could often lead to death.
As for activating its area-effect innate skill, Blizzard, right away…
Don't even think about it.
It would consume at least 15% of its chakra to activate it, and the skill would drain even more chakra if the demon wanted to maintain the icy storm field or adjust its power.
Unless the Ice Demon had no other choice or found an opportunity to kill the enemies in front of it for sure, it wouldn't activate Blizzard at all.
What if it runs out of chakra in the middle of the battle?
Wouldn't it be a literal death sentence?
Even low-tier Chakra Beasts understood this, so how could it, a bona fide Ice Demon, not understand that?
So, it waited for an opportunity to launch an attack, and didn't take immediate action.
On the other side, Seimei also finished rallying the instructions and got ready to eliminate the Ice Demon.
"Alright, guys! It's time to gang up on this demon and finish it off!"
As soon as Seimei said that, he used the Body Flicker Technique and vanished from his location.
Ishimori Haneda and Sarutobi Yuto also began to move and circled around the demon to launch surprise attacks.
As for Nara Shikamo, he decisively hid among the deep foliage and trees, waiting for a chance to target the demon's shadow with the Shadow Imitation Technique and restrict its movement.
Their reactions were so sudden and quick that it even left the demon dumbfounded.
If it had normal human intelligence, it would have already started cursing them and complaining about the unfairness in this world.
It was just one demon and only wanted to feast on human meat! Did they really have to go this far to eliminate it?
Crackle!! Crackle!!
Seimei quickly arrived in front of the Ice demon and slashed his blade, which was brimming with potent Lightning Release chakra, horizontally at its neck.
The demon also activated Glacial Claw to cover its arms in a protective layer of frost and blocked the incoming blade.
Clank!! Crackle!!
Arcs of blue lightning flashed as the claw and the blade collided with a metallic clang.
Taking advantage of the brief stalemate, the Ice Demon drove its sharp, ice-covered left claw at the center of Seimei's chest, ready to pierce through him.
Before the claw could reach him, Seimei took a step back and pivoted on his left leg to move his entire body toward his left in a smooth, rotating motion, causing the claw to hit nothing but air.
Crackle! Crackle!
The moment he did that, a loud, crackling sound of lightning could be heard from the demon's left side.
The demon looked sharply toward its left, only to see Haneda completing his hand seals and forming a massive 2-meter-long spear of lightning in the air.
Lightning Release: False Darkness
Haneda hurled the deadly lightning spear at the demon, who immediately felt a chill down its spine.
Ignoring Seimei, the demon instantly activated the innate skill, Ice Wall, to create a thick, 5-meter-tall and 4-meter-wide wall of ice.
Booooooom!!!! Crackle!!
The lightning spear struck the ice wall with thunderous momentum before exploding, causing a mild shock wave that destroyed at least half of the wall.
However, Seimei wouldn't let it have time to relax.
Taking advantage of the demon's distraction, he quickly began gathering and shaping a large amount of chakra in his empty left hand.
The demon instantly sensed it and tried to disrupt Seimei. But it was already too late.
A blue, gem-like, basketball-sized, glowing sphere of chakra formed in Seimei's left hand in less than half a second.
The chakra rotated inside the sphere so violently that the Jutsu began to distort the airflow around it.
Rasengan
Seimei thrust the Rasengan at the left side of the demon's chest, wanting to obliterate the heart of the Chakra Beast.
Unfortunately, the demon still managed to move its body toward the left, causing the Rasengan to hit the right side of its chest.
Booooom!!!!
The enormous force of the Rasengan caused the demon to fly backward with tremendous momentum before hitting the stem of a thick tree.
Dust erupted from the collision, obscuring the figure of the demon.
The fate of the demon was unknown!
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