"This is!"
"How did my body become like this?!"
"Could it be...?"
Madara discovered that his body had been eroded by a layer of pitch-black liquid. At this point, only his head remained untouched.
After piecing together the information he had heard earlier, he immediately thought of one possibility.
"That's right!"
"A sacrifice is needed for Mother to descend!"
"Not only must it possess Otsutsuki Clan blood, it must also be powerful enough to bear Mother's strength!"
"Most importantly, it must control the Ten-Tails!"
Black Zetsu listed the conditions one by one.
With every condition he named, Madara's expression darkened further.
Because these conditions had clearly been tailor-made for him. It was only short of directly naming him.
"So even I have been used as a Chess Piece!"
That thought flashed through Madara's mind.
All that could be said was that he had failed to be the "protagonist."
If he had been the protagonist, this much time would have been enough for him to power up and pull off a counter-kill.
But from the moment Black Zetsu struck until now, even though Madara was a Six Paths Level powerhouse, he had not had the slightest chance to break free. He simply became a sacrifice without a ripple.
Gurgle!
With Black Liquid rising to his neck, Madara's body suddenly swelled at high speed, like an enormous balloon.
And that was not all!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
An immense amount of Chakra suddenly surged up from underground, pouring endlessly into Madara's body.
Not only had his hair turned white, it had also grown alarmingly long.
"This Chakra!!"
Naruto examined the massive surge of Chakra erupting from the ground and sensed that something was wrong.
"It should be the Chakra extracted from the ninjas by the God Tree. They need an enormous amount