Inside the underground shrine...
A cave where lava churned.
The ground began to tremble and sway. A purple tentacle suddenly burst from the ground and shot toward the ceiling.
"Grr~~!!"
The stabbing black-purple Chakra condensed into the shape of a dragon's head, its red pupils glittering.
It looked just like a demon that had fallen into the Nine Hells.
Boom! Boom!
Two more tentacles pierced through the ground.
Then the rumbling sounds merged into one continuous roar.
Mōryō's body... began to reveal its true form.
Its original body was countless writhing dragon heads.
"One, two, three, four, five... eighteen!! What a tentacle monster..."
Hyuga Sho didn't marvel for long.
Because at that moment, something unexpected happened.
The tentacles thrusting out of the ground suddenly stabbed toward Hyuga Sho.
Hyuga Sho, who had already seen through them with his Byakugan, leaped several times and retreated.
"Grr~~~~!!!"
The monsters, with heads resembling both snakes' and dragons', numbered eighteen in total. They roared as they charged toward Hyuga Sho.
In terms of size,
Mōryō's body might not be much larger than an eighteen-meter Tailed Beast.
But its advantage lay in its multiple heads.
Its long heads could stretch more than thirty meters.
Whether it was the Eight-Headed Serpent from this world's mythology... or the Hydra from the Norse mythology Hyuga Sho had heard about in his previous life,
neither was as exaggerated as the eighteen-headed dragon before him.
"Hmph!"
The next moment,
Hyuga Sho pulled out the Shikotsumyaku greatsword used by Claude in COSplay.
With a single leap, he landed atop one of the dragon heads.
He swung the greatsword in his hand down viciously.
Slash!!
Mōryō's body was unexpectedly fragile.
It was even easier to cut through than an ordinary giant serpent.
"Huh?"
Hyuga Sho was somewhat surprised by the sight.
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