Uchiha Imperial City, Ministry of Trial.
Naruto opened his eyes. The next moment, his entire body was covered in golden Chakra, mixed with black.
"Kurama, let's go."
"Mm."
Hearing Kurama's response in his heart, Naruto was filled with strength, vowing that he would definitely bring Sasuke back.
But when he stepped out of the door, he found the surroundings very strange.
Why was it empty? There wasn't a single person.
Just then, some Uchiha rushed out with two lines of blood and tears flowing down their faces. Only then did Naruto realize that the Fifth Great Ninja War had completely erupted.
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Hall of Contemplation.
Shikaku, who had finally come out of the basement, glanced outside, then sat down opposite Hiromi.
While pouring tea, he said, "Madara is enough to be considered one of his trump cards. I'm afraid the Uchiha clan alone won't be able to take him down. Are you not going to make a move?"
Hiromi said calmly, "He isn't his trump card, just a discarded pawn he values relatively highly."
"But with his strength, I'm afraid no one can stop him, right?"
"One must let people perform."
Shikaku frowned slightly.
Hiromi smiled. "Do you think I am overconfident?"
Shikaku pondered for a moment and said, "Apologies."
Hiromi smiled. "No need to apologize. I also have my own trump cards, prepared for a long time, but no one has touched them yet. Now that I have too many trump cards, I am a bit arrogant. I know this, but I truly hope someone can touch them. However, Madara is not enough, and I am afraid my acting skills aren't good enough, and I will scare that person away, so I simply don't appear."
Shikaku bowed in apology. "Since you have calculated it, then it was my overstepping."
Hiromi shook his head slightly and said nothing.
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Battlefield.
The Allied Shinobi Forces looked at the dozen or so Mangekyo Uchiha and Edo Tensei summons sandwiching them from front and back, their scalps tingling.
Fight?
It was impossible for them to fight.
Even when the Uchiha made their move, they didn't dare to budge, fearing they would attract the attention of these red-eyed monsters.
Resist? They absolutely did not dare to resist.
Therefore, under the pincer attack of the Mangekyo users and the Edo Tensei summons, who kept closing in, the Allied Shinobi Forces, under immense pressure, could no longer hold back.
"Ahhh!!!"
As a scream rang out, a ninja from a small village collapsed and fled.
It was like a starting gun going off, more ninjas collapsed and fled.
The Mangekyo users and the Edo Tensei summons were like hunters, quickly killing these panicked, fleeing prey.
But the Mangekyo users and the Edo Tensei summons combined did not even number a hundred. Facing tens of thousands of Allied Shinobi Forces, they still let some escape.
However, the Allied Shinobi Forces who fled to the north let out screams and the screams were getting closer.
Before long, the Allied Shinobi Forces actually fled back.
The Uchiha Clan Members looked to the north and saw a man wearing red Sengoku-era layered armor walking out of the forest.
"Uchiha... Madara..."
The Uchiha's pupils constricted as they stared at him intently.
"Is he being controlled?"
"No." A mental-type Mangekyo Clan Member said solemnly.
"It seems Clan Head Fugaku didn't stop him."
"It seems he is indeed hostile to the Uchiha clan."
"Is Hiromi not going to make a move yet?"
The Mangekyo users fell silent and looked at Shisui. Their expressions did not carry any blame, just curiosity, as usual.
Shisui stared at Madara and said, "Prepare to give it your all."
The clan members' eyes lit up.
Does this mean we can go wild until we die?
"I love hearing that."
"I've long wanted to know what death feels like."
"Then let's go all out!"
Meanwhile, Madara looked ahead. The Allied Shinobi Forces fleeing in all directions, the nervous and excited Uchiha, and the Edo Tensei summons.
"Hashirama is not here..."
Madara, who had just fought Fugaku, had no desire to dance with the weak. Instead, seeing these ants made him somewhat impatient.
He formed hand seals with both hands. A touch of blue light emerged on his body, and at the same time, ripples appeared in his pupils—Rinnegan.
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Orochimaru, Kabuto, Sasuke, and others were on their way to the battlefield.
At this moment, Kabuto's expression suddenly became excited, and he stopped them.
"Wait!"
Sasuke's killing intent surged. "What do you want to do!"
Kabuto didn't speak, but looked up at the sky excitedly.
Everyone looked up together, only to see a meteorite over a hundred meters wide in the sky, carrying astonishing wind pressure, crashing toward the front, as if it were the end of the world.
"This Chakra... it's Madara!" Hashirama's expression was solemn.
The other three Hokage opened their mouths in disbelief.
Orochimaru glanced at the uncontrollably excited Kabuto and said with a smile, "Is this your experimental result?"
"Yes! The power of the Sage of Six Paths! Hahahaha!" Kabuto was like a madman, very excited.
Orochimaru laughed and said, "Kabuto, I admit you have changed a lot in the few months since I died, but if you only combined Hashirama cells with Madara's body, it is impossible to have such a result."
Kabuto turned his head abruptly, his expression terrifying, staring at Orochimaru. "Why?"
"Hehehe, the Mangekyo can indeed generate some kind of union with Hashirama cells. Perhaps the combination of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and Hashirama cells can attempt some special, miraculous changes. But the awakening of the Mangekyo is a fluctuation of emotions to the extreme, it is only born after falling into the abyss of despair and breaking through to stand again. The Rinnegan is even more so. It is impossible to merge them just by adding one plus one."
"Then how do you explain the Rinnegan on Madara now?" Kabuto stared at Orochimaru, his gaze very dangerous.
Orochimaru smiled but did not answer.
Instead, he said, "Awakening comes with fluctuations in ocular power. Do you really think the birth of the Rinnegan would have absolutely no fluctuations?"
Kabuto's pupils constricted. He had actually miscalculated. Plus, what Orochimaru said about him also being part of the calculation...
In other words, he had resurrected a monster that even he could not control?!
Kabuto felt a sense of disbelief and frustration in his heart.
But Orochimaru was very excited. He could feel that the truth of the world was getting closer and closer to him.
"That is Uchiha... Madara!"
Sasuke and Itachi stared at the meteorite, their expressions grave.
"How does it compare to Hiromi?" Sasuke suddenly asked.
Itachi thought for a moment and replied, "Slightly inferior."
The meteorite attack was grand in scale and terrifying in power, but it was too cumbersome. Hiromi's volcano, from the encirclement to the eruption, was a despair from which no one could escape. Especially since this was just a meteorite, not high-temperature, highly corrosive magma.
At this moment, the hundred-meter-wide rock finally landed. The resulting shockwave was such that even several thousand meters away, one could feel a wild hurricane approaching.
The ground trembled, trees collapsed, and vision became chaotic.
They used Chakra to anchor themselves to the ground, standing firm amidst the collapse, staring straight ahead.
They could see countless things being lifted and blown away by the visually shocking shockwave. Among them, splashes of blood were mixed in—not a lot, but they could still see the bloody remains of various body parts.
There were two severed hands gripped together, severed feet covered in a mixture of blood and mud, heads frozen in extreme terror, hearts, eyes, tongues, intestines...
An ordinary person seeing this would be nauseated to the extreme and vomit uncontrollably. But all those who had survived were already accustomed to it.
What was important was...
They looked upward.
Above the hundred-meter-wide meteorite, there was a second one, over two hundred meters wide, as if it were an adult version of the first.
If the first one was for the Allied Shinobi Forces, then the second one was for the Uchiha clan.
The Mangekyo users stood behind Kazuto, whose Mangekyo had negated part of the impact.
Three other clansmen activated Susanoo to protect the others, though they were knocked away by the remaining shockwave and looked somewhat exhausted.
Now, seeing that second meteorite with a diameter of two hundred meters, they all widened their eyes, their expressions filled with excitement.
"So the Rinnegan alone has such power!"
"Hiromi is so strong!"
"Hahahaha!"
"Shisui!" Raichi looked at Shisui, her expression filled with fanatic excitement.
The other clansmen were the same.
Shisui nodded, waved his hand, and shouted with imposing momentum, "Do not use Izanagi!"
"This is not a battle to the death!"
"This is the prelude to the world's rebirth!"
"The protagonist is neither you nor me!"
"But if the protagonist's role is stolen... Hiromi won't blame us!"
The Uchiha were stunned, staring blankly at the black lightning crackling around Shisui, sensing his fighting spirit.
The next moment, they erupted into a frenzy.
Pairs of Mangekyo became even more excited and scarlet.
"Kill!!!"
In an instant, Madara, who was in the process of recovering as an Edo Tensei summon, sensed the gaze of a dozen Mangekyo and turned to look.
Storm Release Chakra Mode, Lightning Release Chakra Mode, Fire Release Chakra Mode!
Besides that, they all possessed Mangekyo!
Madara was startled and infected by their excited killing intent, he curled his lips, his heart surging with emotion.
"Hahaha! Do you also wish to dance?!"
Even though half of his body had not yet recovered, a Perfect Susanoo appeared on him. With the appearance of the two-hundred-meter-tall Susanoo, a shockwave surged out, ravaging the entire battlefield.