Marvel Rise of Lord God - Chapter 40
Tony was the first to notice that something was off at the backlines. The medical ninjas around him had eyes as red as Ajie’s in battle, giving Tony an ominous feeling.
**[Alert… An unknown factor is causing a rapid escalation in world difficulty… World collapse has begun…]**
World collapse? Tony listened to the prompt from the Main God Space, and his heart sank. Lousy news seemed unending.
**[Notice… Due to the abnormal rise in world difficulty, high-level pathfinders will enter the world in ten minutes…]**
**[Main mission change… Mission acquisition successful… Time-space anchor protection mission loaded…]**
Protect the Time-Space Anchor Points (Emergency Main Mission)
Mission Brief: The world has begun to collapse due to certain factors, and internal lifeforms are influenced to launch indiscriminate attacks…
Mission Information (Emergency): Protect Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha from dying within the next ten minutes.
Following the mission change, Naruto and Sasuke, standing near Lee and Guy, began to glow with a yellow light.
Simultaneously, the ninjas around them started to launch indiscriminate attacks.
“Jarvis! Deploy defense mode!”
At Tony’s command, the Quadriga armor began to transform. Unique materials extended and rounded out to form a miniature shelter, protecting Naruto, Sasuke, Lee, Guy, and Tony within.
“Uncle Tony! What’s happening to everyone?” Naruto panicked, seeing many of his friends attacking each other.
“I don’t know!” Tony watched the exterior, drawing a longsword of various mechanical parts from the armor.
Naruto, anxious, saw a figure fly past his field of view—it was Hinata!
Hinata was knocked into the air and struck by numerous jutsu attacks, seemingly doomed.
“Hinata is in danger!” Naruto was about to rush out, but his nature did not allow him to sit back and watch his friend perish.
Tony grabbed Naruto as he tried to run past, “Don’t go out! You won’t help by getting killed.”
“Let me go!” Naruto twisted his hand, pulling a kunai from his pouch and cutting Tony’s grip on his clothes.
Tony’s right hand shook, and the sword split at every joint, transforming into a whip.
Powered by internal mechanics, the whip quickly extended, wrapping around Naruto.
“Let me go! Let me go!” Naruto struggled on the ground, shouting.
A faint red chakra emanated from Naruto, forming three swishing tails behind him.
“Argh!” Using all his strength, Naruto managed to stretch the whip.
Mechanical amplification!
As Naruto was about to break free, Tony’s body pumped more energy into the whip, enhancing its tightening grip.
The struggle caused the whip to start cracking.
“Sasuke! Help me hold Naruto back! You few are the only ones left normal; we can’t let him go out!” Tony shouted.
Sasuke, who had been staring blankly at the distant battlefield where his parents and clan were senselessly slaughtering each other, snapped back to reality.
“Ah?” Sasuke responded.
In the chaos, Sasuke had lost his capacity for rational thought but mechanically followed Tony’s instruction to restrain Naruto.
But merely holding Naruto was insufficient. The shelter’s outer defenses were strong enough to withstand several ordinary jutsu, but the fierce ninjas were far too many, and the attacks on the shelter were nearing their limits.
After watching Hinata die, Naruto, with five tails now, stepped forward, wielding a kunai to protect Lee and Guy. A few minutes later, cracks began to appear on the surface of the shelter. Tony gripped his sword tightly—only five more minutes to withstand until reinforcements arrived.
Psychic Storm!
Alice managed to escape her battle with Hashirama Senju and immediately drove away the ninjas near the shelter.
Hashirama Senju, his eyes red, emerged from the space and wrapped Alice up again while other high-level ninjas also started moving towards them.
Ajie returned to the shelter on time, guarding the key figures.
After a long defense, Hashirama found an opportunity to bypass Alice and charged directly at the shelter.
*Sigh* Tony exhaled. As the only sober adult inside the shelter, he had to take the responsibility he ought to bear.
Holding his longsword, Tony positioned himself at the front of the team, ready for a decisive battle with Hashirama.
Triple Rashomon!
At this critical moment, three massive iron gates fell from the sky, blocking Hashirama’s path.
Orochimaru made several leaps to reach the middle of the shelter, and Alice and Ajie simultaneously adjusted their positions to face Orochimaru directly.
Orochimaru didn’t explain; countless snakes surged from his sleeves, clearing the nearby ninjas and securing a safe area for Naruto and the others.
Although it was unclear why Orochimaru suddenly switched sides.
Alice and Ajie, facing countless ninjas like Jiraiya, were somewhat overwhelmed.
“How many minutes left?!” Alice shouted after repelling another coordinated attack by Hiruzen Sarutobi and Hashirama.
“Two minutes! Time is almost up!” Tony replied.
The shelter was partially breached; Tony, Naruto, and Sasuke each guarded a gap, protecting the people inside from being disturbed.
“Orochimaru! Hold on for two minutes! Reinforcements are almost here!” Alice shared the information with Orochimaru.
Hearing Alice’s words, Orochimaru, with no other options, chose to believe.
A substitution technique was activated from the middle of the battlefield, and throughout the escape, Orochimaru’s hand signs never stopped.
Multi-Layer Rashomon – Modified!
Countless gates fell like raindrops from the sky, forming a circle around Naruto and the others.
Jutsus flying everywhere bombarded the Rashomon, quickly shattering them, but Orochimaru gritted his teeth, extracting every last bit of chakra from his body.
Time ticked by slowly, and two minutes felt incredibly long.
Ajie was covered in numerous wounds in the last half-minute; his energy was nearly depleted, and his defensive power plummeted.
Alice’s condition was similar; excessive use of mental power caused increasing pain in her brain.
She could only stand on the ground for defense; flying consumed too much power, which Alice could no longer afford.
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The countdown ended, and various colors burst into the sky. A teleportation portal appeared right above the shelter.
A pair of short legs stepped out from the portal—the arrival was none other than Qi Yun’s other retainer, Qiqi.
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