Naruto: Starting as the Third Hokage with Tears in His Eyes

Chapter 565 Toad Oil Flame Bullet

Art?

Huang Tu, who was struggling to maintain the giant rock shield and resist the onslaught of ten thousand snakes, almost choked on his breath when he heard this word.

These Konoha lunatics! They call this kind of cataclysmic massacre art?!

However, he no longer had time to be angry.

Accompanied by Jiraiya's resounding shout, the light of the massive and complex blood-red summoning technique reached its peak!

The earth was rumbling, and the air was wailing.

"Bang—"

Then, that cloud of white smoke that blotted out the sky exploded open with a bang!

The smoke was so thick that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, as if it had swallowed up the entire world.

The Iwagakure ninjas retreated in shock, their hearts pounding uncontrollably as they stared intently at the center of the smoke.

What is it now? What kind of monster is crawling out of those hellish runes?

"Hey, Jiraiya!"

A rough, deep voice, filled with a strong sense of江湖 (jianghu, the martial arts world) and impatience, rolled in from the depths of the smoke. The power contained in that voice made many Iwagakure ninjas' legs go weak.

"Every time you call me to this godforsaken place, there's not even a snack to go with my drinks!"

A sudden gust of wind swept up the thick smoke.

A colossal object, as large as a mountain, appeared in everyone's sight.

It was an enormous red toad, its skin covered in bumps, wearing a simple dark blue kimono, with a bandage wrapped around its waist. Most striking of all was the enormous pipe in its mouth, which was proportional to its body, and wisps of smoke were rising from the end of the pipe.

A hideous scar on one of its eyes added to its fierce appearance.

The Toad Boss – Gamabunta!

Its huge, vertical yellow pupils swept around the chaotic battlefield with displeasure, finally settling on the white-haired youth above its head.

"Haha, sometimes you have to change things up, Bunta!"

Jiraiya skillfully stood atop Gamabunta's broad head, one hand on his hip, the other pointing boldly forward to the earthen ruins behind which lay the Iwagakure army, under the command of the Jonin, attempting to regroup.

He grinned broadly, a smile so bright it was almost blinding, but his words sent chills down the spines of every Iwagakure ninja who heard them.

"Hey, don't be so stingy!"

"Look, the guests are all waiting. Let's give them the grandest and most spectacular fireworks show!"

Gamabunta looked in the direction Jiraiya was pointing, and saw the group of little kids in Iwagakure uniforms staring at him with terrified expressions. He exhaled a thick smoke ring from his pipe, a hint of human-like disdain appearing on his enormous toad face.

"Hmph, a bunch of small fry, do you think they're worth my time?"

That's what it said, but it still took a deep breath in compliance, its chest visibly swelling.

Seeing this scene from afar, Huang Tu felt a surge of unease, his senses reaching their peak. Although he didn't know what the other party was planning, his animalistic instincts were screaming at him.

"Defend! Quickly!!"

However, his order came too late.

Or rather, any conventional defense seems so pale and powerless in the face of Gamabunta's attack range.

"puff--!!!"

Gamabunta suddenly opened his huge mouth and sprayed out streams of viscous, turbid toad oil with a pungent smell.

The oil poured indiscriminately onto the Hidden Rocks' position.

"What the hell is this thing?!"

"How disgusting! It's all sticky!"

"Water Release·Water Crush Wave!"

An Iwagakure ninja tried to wash off the oil stains from his body using Water Release, but to his despair, he discovered that the toad oil seemed to be alive, clinging tightly to the rocks, the ground, and their bodies and armor, and could not be washed off at all!

The battlefield, covering tens of thousands of square meters, was completely covered by the viscous oil slick in just a dozen seconds.

Most of the Iwagakure ninja were not spared; they were all soaked to the bone—no, they were drenched in oil.

Before they could figure out what the greasy liquid was, Jiraiya, standing atop Gamabunta's head, had already completed his hand seals.

"Then, let's light it."

A mischievous smile played on his lips as he took a deep breath and then exhaled sharply!

"Fire Release: Flame Bullet!"

A fireball, not particularly large compared to the entire battlefield, trailed an orange-red tail and flew out slowly, like a pebble thrown into a lake.

Then, the world fell silent at that moment.

boom------!!!

It was as if the entire space had been set on fire!

The moment the fireball touched the sea of ​​oil, an unprecedented inferno descended upon the land with a speed and scale beyond anyone's imagination.

A strange flame shot into the sky, reaching a height of tens of meters, instantly engulfing everything in sight.

Conventional water-style techniques are completely ineffective in extinguishing the flames ignited by the special toad oil. These flames can even burn on the water's surface, clinging to the Iwagakure ninja like maggots, frantically devouring their lives.

"Aaaaaahh ...

"Help! My legs! My legs are burning!"

"Water! Quick, use water! It's no use... Why isn't it working?!"

The piercing screams, the desperate wails, and the sizzling sound of flesh being burned mingled together, composing the most cruel symphony of death.

The resilience and defense that Iwagakure Village was so proud of became a huge joke in the face of this boundless sea of ​​black fire.

"Toad! Don't burn me!"

"This fire is utterly uncontrollable! If you get burned to death, that's just because you're a useless piece of trash!"

The serpent coldly swam through the ruins, sometimes opening its massive jaws to swallow the lucky ones who tried to escape the inferno whole, along with the earth; sometimes sweeping and crushing rocks and life into dust with its mountain-like body.

Gamabunta was even more direct. He strode across the edge of the sea of ​​fire, each step accompanied by a tremor of the earth and the breaking of bones and tendons of dozens of Iwagakure ninja.

The two summoning beasts, one ruthless and the other ferocious, attacked in turn, making the last resistance of the Iwagakure ninjas seem utterly laughable and pathetic.

"No...no..."

Huang Tu's eyes were bloodshot as he watched his subordinates and compatriots struggle and die in the sea of ​​fire. His heart, which was as hard as a rock, seemed to be crushed.

Shame, anger, helplessness... a mix of emotions overwhelmed his reason.

He bit his tongue hard, and the sharp pain instantly brought him back to his senses.

"This can't go on!"