Kaida took a deep breath and moved ahead, but before using the jutsu, he turned around and asked,

  "Sensei, I really use my more powerful teique?"

  "Yes, but only this time," Jiraiya said with a smile.

  "Okay, sensei."

  Listening to this versation, everyone once again grew curious.

  'Did Jiraiya teach Kaida a forbidden jutsu?' thoughts like these swirled in their minds.

  Kaida, not paying any attention to them, made quick hand signs, and three shadow es appeared o him one by ohen, in front of everyone, he made one more hand seal, and bck marks began appearing on his body.

  Due to him wearing a half-sleeve shirt, the markings on his hand were visible. Fugaku, who had seen Tsunade in a, could tell that the markings on Kaida's hand were different from what Tsunade had. Hers were simple lines, but Kaida's had various fuinjutsu seals and lines bio form something simir to a gauattoo on his hand.

  "Sensei, please take care of the projectiles," Kaida said.

  "Don't worry about us, brat. You're 10 years too young for that," Jiraiya replied.

  Kaida nodded, and then two of his es used the *Transformation Jutsu* to transform into two giant hammers, with spikes emerging from all sides—looking more like a mad hammer bo.

  Without hesitating another sed, Kaida jumped into the air. Normally, he could only manage a 10 to 12-meter jump, but this time, the chakra enha from the seal powered his leap, sending him 20 meters above the ground. One of the three remaining shadow es quickly used chakra-enharength to throw a hammer toward Kaida.

  Kaida caught the hammer. However, instead of using it for a direct attack as everyone expected, he simply cast the *Gale Palm Jutsu*, a basic k jutsu, just like Kabuto had used. The hammer, already heavy, gaihe speed it needed and struck the ground like a meteor, crushing two or three statues us weight and damaging nearby ones as well.

  But no one aying attention to that. The real motive behind the *Gale Palm* wasn't the hammer’s impact—it was to push Kaida higher. Now, he was 35 meters above the ground, nearly the height of a 10-story building—an astronomical height.

  The e below pushed its body to its limit, chakra leaking into the enviro, and lifted the hammer again. Spinning it with all its strength, it threw the hammer as fast as possible. The e dispersed from overexertion, having pleted its task.

  Kaida, now 30 meters above the ground, caught the hammer once more. He took a deep breath ahe chakra enha reach its full force. While using his own chakra, he infused *Earth Release* chakra into the hammer.

  Uher chakra types that make ons more lethal in unique ways, Earth chakra has the odd feature of making ons sturdier and heavier—exactly what Kaida needed.

  With the hammer in hand, Kaida began his dest. The hammer, inally weighing 70 kg, was now enhao 120 kg by Earth chakra. As Kaida used his chakra-enharength, he struck downward at 40 meters per sed, truly desding like a meteor.

  *BOOM!*

  The impact was immense—like hundreds of explosive tags detonating at once. Kaida’s attack created a 10-meter-wide crater. The statues ihe circle were either reduced to powder or shattered into splinters, damaging the surrounding area. ks of earth flew out with them.

  But the destru didn’t stop there. As soon as his attack hit, a small earthquake shook the eraining area, f even Jiraiya and Fugaku to use chakra to maintain their bance.

  As the dust settled, Kaida was seen with his arm bent at an unnatural angle, nearly broken. This was after his body had already healed somewhat using the *Creatioh Jutsu*. With visible healing, Kaida’s bones mended rapidly, though he had to realign them from time to time. This was the price of unleashing su attabsp;

  "That attack is easily among mid to high S-rank jutsu if we just sider destru," Fugaku said.

  "But using that against any powerhouse is not possible. Even though blog that jutsu is almost impossible, evading it is not," Hiruzen remarked.

  "That jutsu is still not plete. It's just an experiment we're doing as part of his test fighting style," Jiraiya added.

  "Then I would love to see this jutsu when it's plete, Jiraiya-sama," Fugaku replied.

  Jiraiya just nodded. By then, Kaida had already healed himself aurned in front of them.

  "Very good, Kaida, that was really great. You destroyed... 210 statues pletely, while the remaining 40 are also damaged but not enough. Still, 210 is already very impressive. Good job," Hiruzen said, sensing the numbers of the destroyed statues.

  "Thank you, Lord Third," Kaida responded.

  Everyone was surprised at this. Seeing the effect of the jutsu, they had thought Kaida would be panting his heart out by now, but he stood there perfectly fih 90% of his chakra reserves intact. This was the be of using the *Yin Seal* for strength enha.

  "What do you think, Itachi? Could you beat him?" Hiruzen asked.

  "Yes," Itachi replied, but there was nan his tone, as if he were just stating a faown to everyone.

  "Good, then it’s your turn," Hiruzen smiled, and Jiraiya went ahead and once agaied 250 statues.

  Itachi started walking toward the area slowly, his steps her hurried nor slow. The wind began blowing softly, and Itachi’s long hair fluttered in the breeze.

  ‘Fuck you, world. I get it—you want him to be the main character, but this is just too muow, what? Will leaves fall, adding the st detail to this picture?’ Just as Kaida thought this, a tree quite a distance away shook from the wind, and red-colored leaves flew through the air, pleting the se for Itachi.

  ‘WHAT THE FUCK…’ Kaida's expression riceless, but no one paid any attention to him because the show in front of them was far more iing.

  Itachi began making one hand seal after another, using the jutsu he had learned retly. His chakra began revolving like crazy inside his body. The amount far exceeded what Kabuto had used for *Mud Wolf* by a huge margin. Suddenly, Itachi stopped his hand signs, and the chakra, which had been swirling inside him like a river during a monstrous rainstorm, was released into the enviro.

  One by one, rge fireballs started appearing above Itachi. Owo, three... ten... fifteen... twenty... twenty-five. Exactly 25 fireballs with sutense heat that even though everyone was standing more than 100 meters away from Itachi, they could still feel the scorg heat on their skin.

  *Fire Release: Great Fme Flower*

  Itachi raised his hand, looking toward the statues, then brought his hand down like a king delivering a death senteo criminals. All 25 fireballs desded upoatues, destroying ten each, and spreading a sea of fire around.

  There was o t this time. Everyone khere wasn't a siatue left standing. Even if, by ce, one had remained, it would have loed from the intense heat.