Is it over...
Amid the tremendous crash of trees falling one after another and the final explosive roar of the massive spiraling lava sphere, Chiba watched the smoke, dust, flames, and fumes rising from the distant mountain forest ahead. He slowly straightened up. His hair, wrapped in emerald light, drifted gently upward as he turned to look at the distant place behind him—the huge, faintly visible nine crimson tails.
"Roar..."
A roar thick with hatred and rage drifted over from afar.
Or rather...
Had it already begun? As those nine indistinct tails entered his sight, Chiba's eyelid twitched slightly.
Four Chakra Nature Transformations, fused into the Rasengan...
So it had still failed after all?
Was I still incapable of mastering that ceiling-level combat power?
Even though I had already...
No! It should be impossible.
According to what "that one" said.
Then, as he listened to the roar filled with hatred and fury, Chiba showed no change in expression. He merely looked calmly at the hand with which he had launched the Four-Nature Rasengan, a thought passing through his mind.
"Pssh!"
The next moment, with a sound like steam bursting into the air, the emerald flame-like Chakra around him suddenly billowed up, turning into strands of emerald light that slowly vanished from the surface of his body.
Gate of View Mode, deactivate! "Pssh pssh pssh pssh pssh!"
In the next second, white vapor slowly enveloped Chiba from head to toe.
It seemed his body was already struggling to bear the burden of Gate of View Mode. Even though the Gate of View Chakra was under control now, it was still far too violent and had caused quite a few minor injuries to his body.
As the white vapor enveloped him, Chiba slowly closed his eyes and drew in a deep breath.