"...Enough... I've really had... enough!!"
"[Oniwabanshu]—!!!"
At the bottom of the enormous crater, accompanied by Urashiki's furious roar, the already powerful and sinister Chakra presence suddenly surged wildly, like an ignited powder keg!
Moreover, this newly emerging power was filled with a scorching, familiar presence—it was the Chakra of Kurama that he had just devoured and refined!
Urashiki no longer held back. He was going to wield this strongest power he had "plundered"!
"Naruto! Get back!" Second Pillar instantly perceived the terrifying transformation in the Chakra below and the imminent eruption, shouting sharply!
"Rumble—!!!"
From deep beneath the earth directly below Naruto and Sasuke! Amid a deafening roar and terrifying tremors that shook the ground and mountains, an unimaginably massive tail made entirely of hard rock and earth burst through the ground and shot into the sky!
With crushing force, it slammed fiercely toward the two who had nowhere to brace themselves in midair! Its range was so vast that it nearly covered every possible route of escape!
Sasuke's gaze hardened. Rather than evade, he poured his power into the Kusanagi Sword.
Facing the incoming massive tail of earth and stone, he swung a diagonal slash!
"Slash—!!!"
The blade forcibly cleaved the enormous earthen tail in two, and huge chunks of shattered rock rumbled down like a landslide.
Using the recoil from that strike, the two of them did not hesitate, shooting backward at high speed and widening the distance from the crater floor.
The instant they retreated—
"Roar—!!!!!!!"
A massive roar suddenly erupted from the dust-filled crater!
An enormous figure that blocked out the sky slowly rose from the collapsing crater floor!
Within the dust, the outline of that figure flickered in and out of view—multiple giant tails lashing wildly, a ferocious head, a body towering like a mountain...