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Chapter 964: Sand Crocodile in a Desperate Situation!
Ninja World.
The Land of Swamps has become the focal point of this world.
As Demonic Ice Lilith froze and shattered the volcano that originally sealed the Mōryō's body.
The demons pouring out from the entrance of the First Layer of the Underworld no longer needed to crowd through a single passage.
This allowed their 'spawning speed' to reach its maximum.
Countless lower-rank and middle-rank demons formed a dark, oppressive wave.
They launched wave after wave of offensives against the Sunagakure and Konoha Allied Ninja Forces.
Fortunately, in the evening, Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki led several thousand Iwagakure soldiers to the battlefield, significantly boosting morale across the entire scene.
Especially when he used Dust Release, sweeping away over a thousand demons in a flash of extreme white light.
This scene made the ninjas' blood boil even more.
It must be said that Dust Release is indeed powerful.
These mid-lower rank demons couldn't resist it at all; instead, they fearfully called it Underworld Domain Magic.
However, Ōnoki only helped with this one wave, then similarly flew off into the distance.
He joined Uchiha Fugaku, Rasa, and Jiraiya in surrounding and attacking Aketos, who was manipulating Underworld Water.
As expected, with Dust Release unleashed, even Aketos, an upper demon, had to avoid its sharpness in shock.
This was because Aketos felt a strong deathly aura within the radiance of Dust Release!
Speaking of which, Dust Release, which has the ability to decompose any substance and energy into molecular states, is quite similar to the Zero Magic World's Ultimate Void Magic: Life.
However, no matter how fiercely these ninjas fought, they could not influence the victory or defeat of this demon war.
Because the key to victory or defeat lay in how to defeat those two supreme demons!
Demonic Ice Demon Lilith and Demonic Flame Demon Naamah!
The area at the south end of the Land of Swamps, extending even into the adjacent small country, was their battlefield with Crocodile.
Looking from a distance, the scene resembled a black sea of fire and a patch of black frost, fiercely sandwiching the raging sand tornado in the center.
This was the scene visible to the mortals' naked eyes.
But if one were to probe further inside.
They would see Crocodile struggling to withstand the combined assault of Lilith and Naamah.
At this moment, he looked somewhat disheveled.
His expensive, earthy-yellow suit was tattered, covered in traces of burning or freezing, and the pitch-black Coat of Justice behind him was largely damaged.
Yet, Crocodile paid no heed to these things.
While constantly dodging the countless incoming black ice and black fire, he continuously swung his 'buzzing' sand transformation arms, pursuing Lilith, causing the latter to let out angry shrieks again and again.
"What do you mean by only attacking me? Do you think I'm weaker than Naamah?!"
Crocodile sneered, "Aren't you?"
"Ahhhhhh, you're seeking death, ant!"
Lilith roared in great anger, "Naamah, I don't want this collection anymore!"
"Whatever makes you happy, Lilith," Naamah replied indifferently.
As soon as the words fell, the black ice and black fire on their bodies visibly intensified, and in Crocodile's perception, the aura of these two demons was rapidly climbing!
"Damn it, as expected, they still weren't using their full strength..." Crocodile sighed inwardly.
Fortunately, these two guys' sensory ability wasn't very strong; at least, it couldn't suppress his Observation Haki, which allowed him to avoid most of the attacks.
The next moment.
With a deafening roar.
The giant sand tornado surrounding Crocodile was instantly shattered by Lilith and Naamah using even stronger Demonic Ice and Demonic Fire.
On the earth, there were hardly any traces of desert left.
Because everywhere one looked, there was flowing magma and burning black fire, or frozen pitch-black frost.
The temperature was even more terrifying and bizarre.
A normal person stepping in might be frozen by the cold air one step, or burned by the blazing flames the next.
At the same time.
Crocodile himself was seen flying backwards like a cannonball.
He drew a long black line through the air with a sharp, piercing whistling sound.
Finally, he crashed onto a cold frozen earth, stirring up a rumble that echoed throughout the entire scene, and smashing out a large circular dent.
Crocodile stood up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and self-mockingly said, "I never thought I'd fall in a place like this."
At this moment, his upper body had both burn injuries and frostbite.
Clearly, Lilith and Naamah's Demonic Ice and Demonic Flame were enough to break through Crocodile's Armament Haki.
"It's starting, it's starting, let's begin!"
"Yes, torment him, play with him, destroy him!"
Naamah and Lilith, slowly descending from the sky, became excited again.
"But something's still missing, Naamah."
"Yes, it's fear, it's despair. He doesn't have these most wonderful scents on him, Lilith."
Hearing this, Crocodile below raised his head and sneered, "Fear? Despair? Who do you think I am? I am Crocodile, Ha—Ha—Ha—Ha—"
In this desperate situation on the verge of death.
He actually let out his characteristic gasping laugh!
"Then I'll torment you until you can't laugh anymore! I must taste your fear, your despair, and then freeze your body to pieces!"
The enraged Lilith shrieked.
Instantly, as she waved her hands.
Dense black ice thorns condensed out of thin air around Crocodile, wrapping towards his entire body, but they were fiercely shattered by the Conqueror's Haki that erupted from him again.
"You seem to have misunderstood something. I haven't lost my combat ability yet. As for these injuries..."
Saying this, Crocodile took out a Purple Butterfly Emergency Pill from the pocket of his Coat of Justice and swallowed it. Immediately, a faint green light appeared on his skin, and his injuries began to recover rapidly.
"Although I can't beat you, if you want to kill me, be prepared to spend ten days and ten nights here!"
Crocodile laughed wildly, meeting Lilith and Naamah's gaze.
"Ridiculous, pathetic, lamentable. Haven't you realized that the strength between us is not on the same dimension at all?"
Naamah expressionlessly raised her left arm, condensed from Demonic Fire.
"Let's attack together and kill him directly, then capture his soul. Then you can play with him however you want, Lilith."
"That's a fantastic idea, Naamah, let's do it!" Lilith giggled, covering her mouth.
[Boom! Boom!]
In an instant, Crocodile watched as the entire sky above him was completely covered by a black sea of fire and black ice.
Observation Haki was definitely useless under an attack of this scale, which also proved that they were indeed acting with killing intent this time.
However, Crocodile had no intention of sitting back and waiting for death.
Even knowing that his Sand-Sand Fruit ability couldn't compete, he unleashed it with full strength.
The next second, the originally frozen ground around him instantly melted, spewing out surging yellow sand like seawater, forming a yellow sand giant crocodile roaring towards the sky in mid-air, charging fiercely towards the pressing black ice black fire.
"I am 'Sand Crocodile' Crocodile!!!"
But just as his angry shout echoed.
Another shout followed closely from a distance: "Maha Padoma!!!"
Instantly, a pale blue radiance swept across the entire scene, causing everything, even light, to freeze in an instant.
(End of Chapter)
Ninja World.
The Land of Swamps has become the focal point of this world.
As Demonic Ice Lilith froze and shattered the volcano that originally sealed the Mōryō's body.
The demons pouring out from the entrance of the First Layer of the Underworld no longer needed to crowd through a single passage.
This allowed their 'spawning speed' to reach its maximum.
Countless lower-rank and middle-rank demons formed a dark, oppressive wave.
They launched wave after wave of offensives against the Sunagakure and Konoha Allied Ninja Forces.
Fortunately, in the evening, Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki led several thousand Iwagakure soldiers to the battlefield, significantly boosting morale across the entire scene.
Especially when he used Dust Release, sweeping away over a thousand demons in a flash of extreme white light.
This scene made the ninjas' blood boil even more.
It must be said that Dust Release is indeed powerful.
These mid-lower rank demons couldn't resist it at all; instead, they fearfully called it Underworld Domain Magic.
However, Ōnoki only helped with this one wave, then similarly flew off into the distance.
He joined Uchiha Fugaku, Rasa, and Jiraiya in surrounding and attacking Aketos, who was manipulating Underworld Water.
As expected, with Dust Release unleashed, even Aketos, an upper demon, had to avoid its sharpness in shock.
This was because Aketos felt a strong deathly aura within the radiance of Dust Release!
Speaking of which, Dust Release, which has the ability to decompose any substance and energy into molecular states, is quite similar to the Zero Magic World's Ultimate Void Magic: Life.
However, no matter how fiercely these ninjas fought, they could not influence the victory or defeat of this demon war.
Because the key to victory or defeat lay in how to defeat those two supreme demons!
Demonic Ice Demon Lilith and Demonic Flame Demon Naamah!
The area at the south end of the Land of Swamps, extending even into the adjacent small country, was their battlefield with Crocodile.
Looking from a distance, the scene resembled a black sea of fire and a patch of black frost, fiercely sandwiching the raging sand tornado in the center.
This was the scene visible to the mortals' naked eyes.
But if one were to probe further inside.
They would see Crocodile struggling to withstand the combined assault of Lilith and Naamah.
At this moment, he looked somewhat disheveled.
His expensive, earthy-yellow suit was tattered, covered in traces of burning or freezing, and the pitch-black Coat of Justice behind him was largely damaged.
Yet, Crocodile paid no heed to these things.
While constantly dodging the countless incoming black ice and black fire, he continuously swung his 'buzzing' sand transformation arms, pursuing Lilith, causing the latter to let out angry shrieks again and again.
"What do you mean by only attacking me? Do you think I'm weaker than Naamah?!"
Crocodile sneered, "Aren't you?"
"Ahhhhhh, you're seeking death, ant!"
Lilith roared in great anger, "Naamah, I don't want this collection anymore!"
"Whatever makes you happy, Lilith," Naamah replied indifferently.
As soon as the words fell, the black ice and black fire on their bodies visibly intensified, and in Crocodile's perception, the aura of these two demons was rapidly climbing!
"Damn it, as expected, they still weren't using their full strength..." Crocodile sighed inwardly.
Fortunately, these two guys' sensory ability wasn't very strong; at least, it couldn't suppress his Observation Haki, which allowed him to avoid most of the attacks.
The next moment.
With a deafening roar.
The giant sand tornado surrounding Crocodile was instantly shattered by Lilith and Naamah using even stronger Demonic Ice and Demonic Fire.
On the earth, there were hardly any traces of desert left.
Because everywhere one looked, there was flowing magma and burning black fire, or frozen pitch-black frost.
The temperature was even more terrifying and bizarre.
A normal person stepping in might be frozen by the cold air one step, or burned by the blazing flames the next.
At the same time.
Crocodile himself was seen flying backwards like a cannonball.
He drew a long black line through the air with a sharp, piercing whistling sound.
Finally, he crashed onto a cold frozen earth, stirring up a rumble that echoed throughout the entire scene, and smashing out a large circular dent.
Crocodile stood up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and self-mockingly said, "I never thought I'd fall in a place like this."
At this moment, his upper body had both burn injuries and frostbite.
Clearly, Lilith and Naamah's Demonic Ice and Demonic Flame were enough to break through Crocodile's Armament Haki.
"It's starting, it's starting, let's begin!"
"Yes, torment him, play with him, destroy him!"
Naamah and Lilith, slowly descending from the sky, became excited again.
"But something's still missing, Naamah."
"Yes, it's fear, it's despair. He doesn't have these most wonderful scents on him, Lilith."
Hearing this, Crocodile below raised his head and sneered, "Fear? Despair? Who do you think I am? I am Crocodile, Ha—Ha—Ha—Ha—"
In this desperate situation on the verge of death.
He actually let out his characteristic gasping laugh!
"Then I'll torment you until you can't laugh anymore! I must taste your fear, your despair, and then freeze your body to pieces!"
The enraged Lilith shrieked.
Instantly, as she waved her hands.
Dense black ice thorns condensed out of thin air around Crocodile, wrapping towards his entire body, but they were fiercely shattered by the Conqueror's Haki that erupted from him again.
"You seem to have misunderstood something. I haven't lost my combat ability yet. As for these injuries..."
Saying this, Crocodile took out a Purple Butterfly Emergency Pill from the pocket of his Coat of Justice and swallowed it. Immediately, a faint green light appeared on his skin, and his injuries began to recover rapidly.
"Although I can't beat you, if you want to kill me, be prepared to spend ten days and ten nights here!"
Crocodile laughed wildly, meeting Lilith and Naamah's gaze.
"Ridiculous, pathetic, lamentable. Haven't you realized that the strength between us is not on the same dimension at all?"
Naamah expressionlessly raised her left arm, condensed from Demonic Fire.
"Let's attack together and kill him directly, then capture his soul. Then you can play with him however you want, Lilith."
"That's a fantastic idea, Naamah, let's do it!" Lilith giggled, covering her mouth.
[Boom! Boom!]
In an instant, Crocodile watched as the entire sky above him was completely covered by a black sea of fire and black ice.
Observation Haki was definitely useless under an attack of this scale, which also proved that they were indeed acting with killing intent this time.
However, Crocodile had no intention of sitting back and waiting for death.
Even knowing that his Sand-Sand Fruit ability couldn't compete, he unleashed it with full strength.
The next second, the originally frozen ground around him instantly melted, spewing out surging yellow sand like seawater, forming a yellow sand giant crocodile roaring towards the sky in mid-air, charging fiercely towards the pressing black ice black fire.
"I am 'Sand Crocodile' Crocodile!!!"
But just as his angry shout echoed.
Another shout followed closely from a distance: "Maha Padoma!!!"
Instantly, a pale blue radiance swept across the entire scene, causing everything, even light, to freeze in an instant.
(End of Chapter)
