"Puppet Technique: Mechanical Shield Seal."
"Puppet Technique: Hundred-Hand Manipulation."
Facing the surging wave of iron sand, the small boy quickly retreated, swinging his arms forward, channeling the chakra capacitance within his body, and condensing it into a light shield in front of him. Simultaneously, the summoning seals on his back scattered, summoning hundreds of slender mechanical arms to protect himself from all directions.
Shimizu used chakra threads to manipulate the small boy for self-preservation, but he himself did not.
Because this level of attack didn't require defense.
"Resonance Breathing: Third Form - Revolving Resonance Whirlwind."
The light sword quickly drew a circle in mid-air.
A high-temperature airwave accompanied by blue plasma light spilled out.
In an instant, the iron sand around Shimizu was completely cleared away, turning into molten iron and scattering on the ground.
"Bang!"
The iron sand cube was smashed into pieces by the fat puppet's fists, falling to the ground along with it.
The Third Kazekage's lips curved into a smile, his bright eyes looking at Shimizu, revealing a serious expression.
"It's hard to say how much strength the Third is using, but Shimizu-jōnin's power has already surpassed most of the jōnin in the village, which is amazing. His puppets, even a single one taken out, feels no less than one of the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets to me."
The young chūnin's supervising jōnin looked at the battle in the training ground and sighed.
The average quality of Shimizu's three puppets is indeed close to the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets.
When Chiyo taught him the White Secret Technique, she had Shimizu try to disassemble and reassemble these ten puppets himself, and try to manipulate them.
In Shimizu's panel rating, a single Chikamatsu Ten Puppet's rating is A+, but these ten puppets can cooperate with each other. Three combined can have a powerful combination technique like the Three Treasures Suction Crushing. After the combination, it can be regarded as a whole, and three combined can reach a rating of S-, while ten combined can reach S level.
"In terms of puppetry alone, Shimizu-jōnin is probably second only to Elder Chiyo and Elder Ebizō in the village now."
A special jōnin from the puppet unit carrying a sealing scroll also joined the conversation.
"However, Shimizu-jōnin's method of manipulating puppets is quite unique, wrapping himself in puppets as a combat unit. Through special design, it allows the puppeteer to strengthen their own protection while also stacking other aspects of their combat power into the puppet, indirectly increasing combat power. This type of armored puppet has also been tried by a small number of puppeteers since last year.
I estimate that after this battle, many puppeteers will follow suit and use this style."
"But do you puppeteers have sword skills as powerful as Shimizu-jōnin's? With this level of powerful swordsmanship, I feel that only Konoha's White Fang and Hanzō of the Rain Village can be compared to Shimizu, right? And this never-before-seen chakra attribute… It's not a Lightning Release secret technique, could it be a newly developed kekkei genkai?"
A middle-aged jōnin squinted his eyes, watching the movements in the training ground.
He has been a jōnin for almost twenty years, and his vision is naturally extraordinary.
The combat power Shimizu is showing now has completely surpassed the scope of a jōnin.
He can't judge whether he can match the Five Kage, but at least he has the strength to approach the Kage level and has the ability to deal with experts of this level.
But the scariest thing is Shimizu's age.
To have such a performance at this age, what about the future?
"Shimizu-jōnin's current age doesn't seem to exceed fifteen years old, right?"
The middle-aged jōnin asked the younger puppeteer.
"He just turned fourteen after the New Year."
The middle-aged jōnin nodded slightly without showing any emotion.
It's time to let the family bet on investment.
Although Rasa is still quite good, he is far from dazzling enough, and will most likely be surpassed by Shimizu in the future.
Even though Shimizu's age is not very old now, with his current strength, there are almost no threats in the current ninja world that can threaten the lives of strong people of this level.
In other words, the possibility of Shimizu dying prematurely is small, and he is destined to reach the pinnacle.
There was more than one person among the onlookers who had the same idea.
"Magnet Release: Iron Sand Shower!"
"Resonance Breathing: Fourth Form - Resonance Rainfall!"
Countless high-temperature plasma sword energies flew, accurately splitting the long spears condensed from iron sand by the Third Kazekage.
The fat puppet landing on the ground once again spewed air from its back, and the ejected airflow was mixed with many black iron particles, launching an attack in cooperation with the small boy again.
On the battlefield of the Second Ninja World War, Shimizu had also encountered the Aburame clan of Konoha.
After that, he improved the pneumatic system, so that the puppets he made had a self-exhaust and cleaning function, which could use Wind Release to flush away all the small manipulators stuck in small gaps and pipes.
At this moment, this function happened to be used. It was difficult for the iron sand manipulated by the Third Kazekage to get into the puppet and cause damage to the puppet from the inside.
However, the Third Kazekage still had a calm look on his face, floating in the air.
"As expected of the Third Kazekage…"
Shimizu啧啧 praised twice.
In the original timeline, the Third Kazekage had become Sasori's puppet. Although he could also exert the kekkei genkai from his lifetime, its power was definitely not as great as when the Third Kazekage himself was alive. This made people only have a rough judgment range for the Third Kazekage's strength, but it was not clear.
Shimizu has been in the ninja world for so many years, and he can be considered to have some knowledge. He knows that the strength of the Third Kazekage can be ranked very high among the Kage-level powerhouses, but he didn't expect it to be so strong!
Little did he know that the Third Kazekage looked like he was in control on the surface at this moment, but in fact, while he was happy that the village's juniors had grown up, he was also a little anxious.
He found that he couldn't take down Shimizu.
In fact, the purpose of this spar had already been achieved.
He had already seen Shimizu's combat power.
An unexpected surprise.
A ninja who can create and integrate a kekkei genkai on his own is generally guaranteed to be an elite jōnin, and the power displayed by Resonance Release also met the Third Kazekage's expectations.
And Shimizu not only possesses Resonance Release.
The puppetry, which is very different in style from orthodox puppeteers, and the powerful swordsmanship that is almost close to White Fang, combined together, even the Third Kazekage can only suppress it temporarily.
If you want to determine the outcome, you have to fight as hard as on the battlefield.
