Scorching air, dim light.
The air was thick with the smell of sulfur and the fiery glow of lava.
And all of it was merely the stage backdrop for the witch on the altar, laughing madly with her arms spread wide.
From an outside perspective,
one could clearly see that what erupted from the volcano was no longer lava and smoke, but a purple pillar of light shooting straight into the sky.
The so-called "body" of Moryo sealed here was actually this immense mass of energy, formed over hundreds of years as it silently absorbed the countless dark hearts of the Shinobi World.
In the terms of this world, that energy was Dark Chakra.
After all, to shinobi, all forms of energy could be called Chakra.
Moryo's true body was the witch Miroku it currently possessed.
Because it was not, in fact, a creature from the demon realm as the legends claimed.
In the very beginning, hundreds of years ago, a witch of the Land of Demons from some generation felt that her power was far too great.
Afraid that she might one day misuse that power, she divided her mind and thoughts into two.
She made them watch over and restrain one another, while also longing for one another, remaining ever mindful of each other as they coexisted.
It sounded rather mystical.
But in essence, she had merely separated a portion of her power containing part of her consciousness from her body.
What that witch had not expected was that the separated portion would be tainted by the endless wars and evil of the Shinobi World, contaminated by the various dark desires they produced, and gradually become a complete and utter monster.
And the solution she came up with
was to defeat Moryo, then seal its soul—its consciousness—in the