Naruto: I have Ten Skill Bars

Chapter 470 - 469: Tsunami Defense and Ice Barrier

Shinji Ōtsutsuki led a massive army toward Kirigakure.

At that moment, the Hidden Mist Village was shrouded in its usual dense fog.

Shigure sat calmly atop the Mizukage Building.

Beside him, Hinata glanced over with concern. "Shigure-kun… are you really sure there's no problem here?"

Hearing this, Shigure smiled faintly. "What problem?"

He looked around. Not a single shinobi was stationed near the Mizukage Building.

Of course, it wasn't that Kirigakure had no forces left. Every available shinobi had already been deployed outward.

To defend against the incoming invasion.

Hinata didn't quite understand. As the Mizukage, shouldn't Shigure be on the front lines?

Was he planning to act personally?

But if the enemy was truly that strong, why was Shigure still so calm?

Shigure glanced at her and said evenly, "They're enough. Whether the enemy can even reach me is another question."

Hinata was slightly stunned.

Was Kirigakure really that powerful?

Strong enough that the Mizukage didn't even need to act?

She knew the Mist shinobi were formidable, but this level of confidence felt almost overwhelming.

Shigure only smiled and said nothing more, his gaze drifting into the distance.

"The defenses of Kirigakure aren't so easy to break through. Just watch, Hinata."

Previously, Shigure had used his abilities to restructure the village's surrounding geography. The scattered islands beyond the harbor had been repositioned into a defensive formation.

Those islands now acted like forward strongholds.

To reach Kirigakure, the enemy would first have to pass through this outer line of defense.

Twelve islands, positioned close together, formed an unbroken protective ring around the harbor.

Breaking through wouldn't be easy.

Even from the Mizukage Building, Shigure could clearly see a fleet of ships cutting through the sea, rushing toward Kirigakure.

He raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Not bad."

"Shinobi from the three great villages… and even those who should already be dead."

As expected, if Orochimaru was involved, then the Impure World Reincarnation technique would be used.

The dead, turned into tools of war.

But what surprised Shigure was that these people seemed fully revived.

Could the Rinnegan truly bring the dead back to life?

He found himself curious.

[Great Sage: Of course. The Rinnegan possesses abilities akin to the Six Paths. By controlling that power, resurrection is possible.]

So even without using the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique directly, mastery over the Six Paths still allowed resurrection.

As long as the soul existed, a body could be reconstructed.

Shigure nodded slightly.

"Good. Then let's see how they handle the first layer of Kirigakure's defenses."

His gaze fixed on the approaching fleet.

As the ships came within a kilometer of the outer islands, the Mist shinobi stationed there began to act.

Each of the twelve islands held at least a hundred shinobi, all highly skilled in Water Release.

That alone made over twelve hundred shinobi.

And there was a simple reason for that specialization.

Shigure smiled faintly.

He raised his hand and pointed toward the distant sea.

"Now… enjoy this."

"A great tsunami."

Rumble!

In an instant, shinobi across all twelve islands formed hand seals simultaneously.

They all used the same technique.

Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique.

Individually, it was nothing remarkable.

But when over a thousand Water Release specialists cast it together…

Especially on the open sea, where water was limitless…

The effect was completely different.

Chakra surged, and the ocean responded.

Massive waves began to rise around the islands.

One after another, they stacked and grew.

Five meters.

Ten meters.

Fifteen meters.

Twenty meters…

Within a few breaths, the surging waves grew higher and higher.

Until…

A colossal tsunami, nearly three hundred meters tall, formed and roared toward the distant fleet.

At the very front, the leading Kage were visibly shaken.

"This… is Kirigakure's defense?"

"When did they establish so many outpost islands outside the village?"

"Damn it… breaking through this line won't be easy."

Boom!

The towering wave surged forward, carrying an overwhelming force as if it could devour everything in its path.

Gaara's expression tightened, his brows furrowing. "Do something. If we don't stop this, the tsunami alone will wipe us out."

Beside him, the Fourth Kazekage glanced ahead grimly.

On land, the two of them working together could have blocked such an attack.

But this was the open sea.

There was no footing, no terrain to anchor their abilities.

They couldn't exert their full power here.

At that moment, figures suddenly rose from the rear fleet.

Members of the Ōtsutsuki clan leapt into the air one after another, forming a sharp, arrow-like formation.

Their chakra erupted outward.

Condensed and compressed, it shot forward like countless spears, piercing straight into the incoming tsunami.

In an instant, the massive wave was split apart.

The sheer force of their combined attack carved a temporary passage through the destruction.

Gaara and the others froze for a moment.

"They're… opening a path for us?"

The corridor was wide, but not wide enough.

Even with that effort, nearly a third of the fleet was swallowed by the surrounding waves.

There was no choice.

They could only push forward.

The fleet surged through the narrow opening.

When they finally passed the tsunami, the distance to Kirigakure was still nearly two kilometers.

And behind them…

The cost was already clear.

Nearly a quarter of their forces had been lost.

Broken ships drifted across the sea, and corpses floated among the waves.

Gaara's gaze flickered, unease rising from deep within.

At this rate, they might lose half their forces before even reaching the village.

On the Mizukage Building, Shigure watched calmly and nodded.

"Not bad. They managed to endure the first wave."

A faint smile appeared on his lips.

"But what about the next one?"

As his voice fell, the sea before the fleet began to churn once more.

Water surged violently, spiraling upward.

In an instant, massive pillars of water shot toward the sky.

Then, they froze.

One after another, the towering columns turned into solid ice.

From afar, it looked as though countless gigantic spears had been driven into the ocean itself.

An impenetrable forest of ice.

Trying to sail through it…

Was impossible.

—•——•——•——•——•——•—

# This novel is fully completed on Pa-tre-on/LordMerlin — read the entire story now!

# Add to your Library!