With his Tenseigan vision, Kuroto confirmed that there was a huge sandworm crawling in the sand dunes.

The amazing thing to note is that not only the size of the Sandworm is especially large but it also has a high chakra, and among some of the ninja beasts Kuroto has personally seen, this sandworm would only be inferior to Orochimaru's summon snake, Manda! ​​

And such strength is no joke, after all, Manda is the Boss summon of the Snakes of the Ryuchi Cave, therefore, obtaining such a summon beast is quite rare.

Therefore, Kuroto was impressed, it's just that he was only impressed and nothing more.

While curiously observing the Sandworm, Kuroto decided to wait and see what will the enemy ninjas do.

Obviously, these ninjas don't know that Kuroto has no plans to let them escape, all they will be useful is for Kuroto to measure himself, especially in using the Truth-Seeking Ball, he still needs to get familiar with it.

After all, starting from the point when Kuroto learned to use the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, he has had only a few opportunities to come into the contact with the Truth-Seeking Ball, and most of the time, he was either in a desperate state or didn't have enough chakra at his disposal to be able to successfully familiarise himself with the use of Truth-Seeking Ball.

This is the first opportunity when he has both the necessary time and enough Chakra, so Kuroto doesn't plan to let this opportunity go to waste, otherwise who knows when will the next chance come?

So, while Kuroto was curiously observing the Sandworm crawling beneath, Yusuke gave Nobu and other Chunin ninjas a glance around and nodded in tacit understanding.

In just a short eye contact the eight Sand ninjas discussed their tactics.

"Wind Release: Twin Tornado Technique!"

All the chunin released the Twin Tornado techniques instantly, and at the same time, the giant sandworm hiding in the sand dunes spit out a giant sand pillar under Yusuke's command, the sand spiraled along the various small tornadoes circling around and covered the entire area in shoot and sand causing a sandstorm effect.

Seeing this Kuroto shook his head in pity for them, "So, they are trying to deprive me of my vision by the sandstorm?"

While Kuroto was analyzing the changes around him, Nobu took out two scrolls.

Puff… puff…

With a puff of smoke two puppets appeared in front of him under the cover of the sandstorm.

By appearance, one of the puppets looked like that of a snake, however, instead of a smooth body, it had several joints along its body. And from the looks of it, each of the sections was movable to some degree. It was quite strange, to say the least, but what else can you expect from a puppet?

The other puppet appeared to be like a giant umbrella, with the diameter of the canopy being around 2 meters, at first glance Kuroto mistook it for a Kasa-Obake!

But that confusion was gone instantly.

All this happened under Kuroto's observation.

Glancing slightly, he perceived that the joints in the snake puppet were full of detonation charms while the belly of the umbrella-shaped puppet was filled with thousands of Senbons, and there was no need to guess that these Senbons would definitely be poisoned.

After Nobu was ready with the two puppets, his voice echoed in the Sand Storm, "Choose, whether you will surrender or die, I would be careful if I were you, underestimating us will only get you killed!"

And without waiting for any reply, he launched the attack.

The first to move was the snake puppet, it crawled inside the sand under Yusuke's command.

At the same time, a continuous barrage of poisoned Senbons was fired at Kuroto.

Seeing the incoming Senbons, Kuroto indifferently waved his hands and used the two Truth-Seeking Ball floating around him to block the barrage of poisoned Senbons.

Ding… Ding… Ding…

Countless Senbons hit on the wall of the morphed Black Orbs with a metal crashing sound.

But without any surprise, they all broke like a bamboo stick, and there was no change in the state of Black-Orbs.

While the Senbons keep on coming at him, the snake that went inside the sand crawled out of it beneath the point that Kuroto was hovering over.

Seeing the snake that was too difficult to notice for any ninja with a normal vision because of the sandstorm, Kuroto curled his lips condescendingly.

If it were any other ninja, he/she might have suffered quite damage from that hidden attack because the detonation charms in its joints were already lit and as soon as it appeared out of the sand it jumped to entangle Kuroto and caused a massive explosion.

Boom… Boom… Boom…

The explosions were so violent that it even stopped the sandstorm, resulting in the huge shock waves that even forced all the ninjas to retreat at a distance and cover their faces to meet the impact.

Boom… Boom… Boom…

The explosions continued for the next 1 minute…

It's a pity that Kuroto is no longer ordinary!

After everything became quiet, seeing that there seemed to be no movements and the scene was covered in the sand and dust, a chunin asked nervously, "D-do you think he is dead…?"

Gritting his teeth Nobu shouted to reassure the others, "Don't worry, he has to be dead by now, in that explosion I used more than 10,000 detonation charms, nobody could survive something like tha-…"

However, before he could complete his sentence, Yusuke exclaimed, "No!"

"What now? What's wrong?" – Nobu asked worriedly while the attention of all the chunin ninja was focused on him.

Shaking his head nervously Yusuke muttered in horrifying expression, "H-he is still alive… his chakra reaction hasn't disappeared!"

"What!? Are you sure? Nobody could survi-…"

"I know what I am saying, the sandworm can clearly feel the enemy's chakra reaction!" – Yusuke.

"How can this be!?"

"Who can survive such an explosion?"

"Even Kazekage-Sama wouldn't be able to escape unscathed in this situation!"

The chunin ninjas muttered one after another.

Even, Nobu frowned slightly and asked Yusuke tentatively, "Yusuke, could it be possible that the sandworm made a mistake?"

Looking at the sky that was covered in smoke and dust, Yusuke's expression became more solemn, and he muttered in a serious breath, "I am afraid not, I can clearly feel that it… it is scared of the thing that is inside there!"

Nobu was stunned hearing Yusuke's words and murmured to himself in surprise, "This disaster demon could also be scared of something?"

In the deserts of the Land of Wind, the giant sandworms have close to no natural enemies, all the birds, beasts, and humans are in its predatory range, and this specific giant sandworm was actually one of the King, for such an absurd existence to feel dread of something, Nobu felt that he was hearing something preposterous.

However, without waiting for Nobu to calm down, the sand that covered all the area was blown away by the sharp winds that originated from the center of the explosion site, as the view got cleared, the enemy's completely unscathed figure appeared before their very eyes.

Seeing that there was not even a wrinkle on the opponent's clothing, all Sand ninjas looked at each other with just one thought in their mind, 'H-he is a monster!'

All they could think of was that such a monster shouldn't even exist, how come they have to face him!?

Ignoring the horrifying looks that he was getting, Kuroto silently observed the changes in the truth-Seeking Balls, now again circling around him.

As soon as the Snake jumped out of the sand to coil around him, Kuroto wrapped himself inside a cocoon of morphed Truth-Seeking Ball, so even in the face of explosions caused by the combustion of thousands of Detonation Charms, Kuroto wasn't any troubled, other than some chakra consumption.

And indeed, as the Chunin muttered if it were anyone below the strength of a Kage, they would be dead if anything in the face of such an explosion!

But it's a pity that that's not the case here!

After confirming his state, Kuroto glanced indifferently at the Sand ninjas that were looking at him in a dumbfounded expression, "is that the best you can do?"

If this was all, then Kuroto was already bored, even if he had the intentions of continuing the tests, he still can't continue with it as they are still in the territory of the Land of Wind, and the more movements he causes, the more enemy ninjas will be attracted here, which would be a hassle to deal with, Kuroto has to also maintain the caution that a ninja should have.

Looking at the unscathed appearance of the masked person, Nobu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "This monster is not something we can deal with, Retreat!"

Following Nobu's order, all the Sand ninjas immediately fled in separate directions.

Curving his lips mockingly, Kuroto muttered, "Why are you all in such a hurry, don't you all want to dance!?" and clawing his right hand in the void, Kuroto made a grip to attract something backward.

All the eight ninjas that fled in different directions were immediately back to their original positions.

"Wh-What the hell!?" Even if it was the experienced Jonin like Nobu and Yusuke, they were left flabbergasted with the experience just now.

However, not minding their panic, Kuroto spoke sarcastically, "Why the hurry, let us dance, shall we?" then with a sudden 180-degree change of attitude he spoke with a cold voice, "Or maybe not!?" – as soon as he spoke, Kuroto pointed his hand towards Nobu.

With Kuroto's indication, one of the black orbs circling around his back shot out towards Nobu.

Upon seeing one of those horrifying things shot towards him, Nobu's skin crawled with panic, and instinctively he took out a Kunai to try to block that black orb.

Bang…

However, the black ball that was morphed into the shape of a sword directly cut through the kunai just like a hot knife slicing through butter, and without any resistance, it passed through Nobu's brain…

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