Scorching!
The battle situation had already reached a point of kill or be killed.
Everyone wanted to stop fighting, but stopping was completely out of the question.
Kaguya Otsutsuki did not want to return to her seal, Otsutsuki Hagoromo did not want to surrender his authority, and the sages of the summoning holy lands refused to become slaves.
The members of the Uchiha Clan did not want to die.
Orochimaru wanted to... defy the heavens and change his fate.
Orochimaru!
A renowned shinobi-world biologist, geneticist, educator, military strategist, mechanist, medical expert, politician, political theorist, philosopher, and master of forbidden techniques...
Looking across Orochimaru's entire life, one would find that he had always been performing acts that defied the heavens, and he had actually achieved the effect of altering his fate.
Orochimaru might not have been a truly common civilian shinobi, but he was indeed an orphan who had lost both parents and possessed no inherited Bloodline Limit. Perhaps his family had left him with a Summoning Animal scroll.
Yet the summoning animals of Ryūchi Cave were different from those of Mount Myōboku.
The toads of Mount Myōboku had guided the useless Jiraiya into becoming a super powerhouse, whereas the snakes of Ryūchi Cave existed in a state of chaotic evil; learning sage magic meant simply and brutally embedding natural energy into the practitioner—survive, and become a true contractor of Ryūchi Cave; fail to endure, and be eaten.
As for the snakes summoned out, they directly demanded living sacrifices, and it was only after being disciplined by that living patriarch Sasuke Uchiha that the snakes of Ryūchi Cave finally behaved.
Yet Orochimaru had suffered deeply from this persecution by Ryūchi Cave.
Whenever Orochimaru summoned Manda to fight, the snake would always demand living humans from him as sacrifices.
When learning sage