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―Wood Sage: Eight Heavenly Kings!
The eight-armed colossus stood its ground, a rival to the Gedo Statue in sheer scale.
Obito only showed a flicker of surprise. After all, the Gedo Statue before him now housed the power of eight Tailed Beasts. It was second only to the Ten-Tails itself. This power, inherited from the progenitor, was the source of his absolute confidence.
"An enhanced Wood Golem? Meaningless before absolute power!"
BOOM!
The Gedo Statue lunged, its fist descending like a falling mountain.
CLACK!
The Wood Sage's first left arm—originally the Wood Golem's own left arm—rose from beneath its shoulder to meet it.
KRAKOOM!
Two fists collided. The shockwave that erupted shook the earth for miles.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
The Wood Sage's blocking arm splintered from the wrist. Fractures raced up its forearm to the elbow.
But in the same instant, the wooden dragon coiled around that arm writhed to life. It slithered up the Gedo Statue's wrist, twisted around its forearm, and sank fangs deep into its bicep.
The Wood Sage took a step back, using the dragon's grip to yank the off-balance Statue forward. Three left-side arms coiled and shot out as one.
"Child's play…!" Obito sneered.
SNAP!
The Statue brute-forced its way free, tearing the wooden dragon apart. It staggered but caught itself, one arm looping to pin two of the Sage's punching limbs against its side. Another massive hand clamped around the wrist of the third.
Then, with earth-shattering force, it heaved.
WHOOM!
The Wood Sage was violently wrenched sideways, stumbling hard.
BOOM!
The Gedo Statue stepped in, a titanic foot rising to crush the Sage's head—and the Sasuke within it.
Sasuke steadied the reeling giant. His hands flew through seals.
CLACK! CLACK! CLACK!
The three pinned arms erupted. Three new wooden dragons burst from them, coiling and constricting around the Gedo Statue's torso. The Wood Sage planted its feet and pulled with everything it had.
The Statue lurched. The crushing stomp aimed for the Sage's face veered wildly off course, slamming into the muddied earth beside it instead.
After Sasuke's earlier Doton, the ground was little more than deep sludge. The Statue's foot sank deep. Its colossal frame shuddered, the slight instability below magnified into violent tremors at its peak. Obito, standing atop its head, was nearly thrown clear. He was forced to anchor himself with wooden tendrils sprouting from the Hashirama cells in his chest.
Seizing the opening, the Wood Sage's three arms ripped free. It rose, and with all eight limbs now in play, launched a relentless, overlapping barrage of hammer-blows.
BOOM! BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!
Obito regained his footing. The Gedo Statue's fists became a whirlwind. Raw power was on its side, but against eight arms and the vicious, snaking dragons that harried its flanks, it was fighting at a sheer numerical disadvantage. The dragons slithered, bit, and constricted with maddening precision under Sasuke's control. The Statue's overwhelming force was being stifled, boxed in by a seamless, suffocating offense.
A flicker of impatience crossed Obito's face. This back-and-forth wasn't a victory. It was a stalemate. He wanted annihilation.
"Enough…"
Susano'o bloomed around him, swelling to its second stage. Pitch-black Kamui shuriken materialized and were hurled downwards.
SHINK!
The violent spatial vortex of a shuriken sheared through a wooden dragon and the arm it was attached to, swallowing both whole into the Kamui dimension.
Then a second. A third. A fourth.
Four arms severed in an instant. The pressure on the Gedo Statue vanished. Its maw gaped wide. Dark, malevolent chakra swirled and condensed into a monstrous Tailed Beast Bomb, aimed point-blank at the Wood Sage's face.
Such titans lacked agility. But Sasuke didn't panic. His hands formed a single, fluid seal.
CRUNCH! CRUNCH!
The demonic mask of the Wood Style: Hotei Technique materialized, encasing the Wood Sage's head—and Sasuke with it—in a shell of absolute defense.
KABOOOOOOOOOM!
The Tailed Beast Bomb detonated against the Sage's head in a cataclysmic eruption of light and sound.
When the inferno cleared, the Hotei mask lay in shattered splinters. Half of the Wood Sage's facial features were scorched away, leaving behind a grotesque, snarling visage.
CLACK! CLACK!
Two of the Sage's remaining arms crossed before its chest in a hand seal. Two others spread wide to its sides. Before those open palms, murky golden chakra surged. Spheres of condensed power formed and fired in a rapid, thunderous barrage.
BOOM! BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!
Explosive mushrooms of light bloomed one after another around the Gedo Statue. The concussive force was immense, hammering the giant back step by thudding step.
"Damn it…!" Obito cursed under his breath. "This Wood Golem can use long-range attacks similar to a Tailed Beast Bomb!"
CRACK!
The Gedo Statue dug in its heels, arresting its backward slide. It threw back its head and roared.
A visible wave of pure chakra force exploded outwards. The Sage's incoming energy spheres detonated harmlessly in mid-air a hundred meters out, lighting up the sky like a brilliant, doomed curtain of fire.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
In the wake of that roaring shockwave, a salvo of Tailed Beast Bombs launched from the Statue's mouth. The world became a chaotic tapestry of intersecting blasts and raging storms—a vision of heaven crumbling and earth splitting apart.
"Hah."
Sasuke took a slow breath, eyes narrowing.
CRACK-CRACK-CRACK-CRACK!
The Wood Sage's severed arms regenerated in an instant. Now, besides the two arms maintaining their seal, all six other limbs moved in concert. They plunged into the chakra-saturated earth, drawing upon the immense power Sasuke had stirred with his earlier technique.
The energy surged up through the Sage's form, taking shape. Not as wood, but as shimmering, serpentine dragons of golden light. They coiled around the Sage's mighty torso.
The two sealing hands snapped forward, palms out.
Eight Heavenly Dragon Kings!
The eight golden dragons surged forth as one. Their advance scoured away the lingering chaos of the previous clash. The sheer, annihilating pressure of their charge sent a chill of genuine alarm straight to Obito's core.
"You leave me no choice!"
CLENCH!
The Gedo Statue's jaws unhinged. A pale, translucent light gathered before its mouth. Then, from that vortex, white chakra dragons—not of wood or light, but of pure, hungry energy—speared forth.
Golden dragon met pale dragon in a sky-rending duel.
The Gedo Statue's dragons held the advantage. Of the nine pale serpents it released, six were torn apart by the golden ones. But three broke through, shooting toward the Wood Sage with lethal intent.
On Pale Moon Island, Orochimaru's expression finally grew grave. "Those chakra dragons… they can absorb the opponent's chakra and their very soul. A one-hit kill technique."
Sasuke's Sharingan spun.
The Wood Sage's own maw opened wide. A powerful suction force emanated from within, pulling the three incoming pale dragons straight down its throat.
GGRROOAAANN…!
The Sage's colossal body convulsed violently. Cracks spiderwebbed across its form. It shuddered on the brink of dissolution… but held. It weathered the storm from within.
Not missing a beat, Obito unleashed his trump card. Chains shot from the Gedo Statue's mouth, lashing around the Wood Sage's neck with a deafening CLANK!
KRRREEEEE—!!!
The chains went taut. The Wood Sage's immense frame was dragged inexorably toward the Gedo Statue.
But Sasuke turned the momentum against it.
The Wood Sage didn't resist. It leaped with the pull, putting all its might into a forward surge.
CRASH!
One massive hand shot out and clamped around the Gedo Statue's throat. The combined force of the pull and the Sage's own leap was too much. The Gedo Statue was thrown off-balance, staggering backwards.
Sasuke's hands formed the final seal.
Wood Style: Vajra Throne!
BOOOOOOM!
An immense, crushing weight—the power of the Super Weighted Rock Technique magnified through the Sage—slammed down upon the Gedo Statue, pinning it in place.
In that instant, Sasuke leaped from the Wood Sage's head into the open air.
CRACK-CRACK-CRACK!
The skeletal frame of his Susano'o erupted around him. A single, brutal punch, amplified by the falling momentum, was already arcing downward—aimed not at the pinned Statue, but at the figure of Obito, who had only just managed to leap clear from its crumbling crown.
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