Mount Myoboku Is in Peril!

Outside, countless rats began squeaking, accompanied by thunderous roars like an earthquake.

"Something's wrong! Something's wrong!!!"

At that moment, a toad ran in, hopping frantically with a terrified expression.

"Mount Myoboku is full of rats now! Those rats bite any toad they see, and there are lots of rats as huge as mountains!!!"

The toad shouted in panic. Upon hearing the little toad's words, the toads present looked at one another in bewilderment, completely dumbfounded.

No, the Great Toad Sage had only just made his prophecy, and they were still discussing what to do! How had the prophecy come true so quickly?

"Croak! Mount Myoboku is in peril!"

The Great Toad Sage cried out. His prophecies had always been accurate. His original plan had been to take all the toads of Mount Myoboku and flee, abandoning the mountain. After all, preserve the people and lose the land, and both could be regained; preserve the land and lose the people, and both would be lost. As long as the toads of Mount Myoboku survived, losing Mount Myoboku would not matter.

At worst, they could build another Mount Myoboku.

But before he could put that plan into action, the prophecy arrived.

It was too sudden, far too sudden. It was like someone learning how they would die—say, being crushed by a flowerpot falling from the sky in the future. They had just decided to run home and hide, believing they could escape that certain future, when, two seconds later, a flowerpot fell from the sky and killed them. Was a future two seconds away not still the future?

That future had never told him when he would be crushed to death. Why could it not be two seconds from now?

"Great Horned Rat, yes! Yes! For the great Brahman! Hahahaha!!!"

A mountain-sized Great Horned Rat, clad in metal-glinting armor and holding an enormous green trident, roared as he devoutly praised Brahman. The next moment, he raised his trident, and immense chakra began to churn as boundless gales gathered around it.

"Lowly, wretched toads, die! Hahaha!!!"

The Great Horned Rat's deep, hoarse voice, laced with a mechanical tone, rang out. The next moment, countless gusts transformed into blades and slaughtered the fleeing toads one by one.

"Stop! What are you things?!"

At that moment, an angry roar erupted. A gigantic crimson toad, bandages wrapped around his waist and a pipe clenched in his mouth, charged at the Great Horned Rat with a roar.

"Yes, for the great Brahman!"

The Great Horned Rat looked at the massive toad charging toward him and spun his trident. Then he opened his mouth, revealing a cannon made of flesh and machinery within it.

Chakra Blast Cannon, fire!

Bang!

Powered by nuclear-fusion functional organs, the terrifying attack contained dreadful force and moved so fast that it was utterly impossible to evade. It shot from the Great Horned Rat's mouth and slammed directly into Gamabunta.

"Croak!"

A painful, horrifying scream rang out as a huge hole was blasted straight through Gamabunta's chest.

How... how could it be this powerful...

Gamabunta felt the agony wrack his body in shock. He collapsed to the ground and began using senjutsu chakra to repair himself.

"Croak, Bunta, are you all right?!!!"

Gamaken watched Gamabunta collapse after being instantly defeated in a single move and roared. Gripping his U-shaped, twin-headed-dragon-like spiked club, he stirred the senjutsu chakra within his body and charged at the Great Horned Rat.

"Yes, yes, yes, Praise Brahman! Hahaha! So weak! You lowly creatures, hahaha, all of you die!"

Seeing Gamabunta taken down in one move, the Great Horned Rat leaped excitedly into the air. He gripped his trident as his tail rose behind him, and a crimson glow flared at its tip.

Whoosh!

Driven by mechanical prosthetic limbs of immense strength and inexhaustible power, the trident in his hand carried boundless gales and became an afterimage, surpassing the reaction speed of every toad present.

In the blink of an eye, the enormous trident vanished from the Great Horned Rat's hand and appeared above Gamabunta's head.

"Croak..."

Gamabunta let out his final scream. Like a frog in a laboratory, after his head was destroyed, his limbs twitched and trembled from their final nerve responses. But his brain had been destroyed. In other words, the toad was dead.

"Bunta! Croak!"

Gamaken roared. The next instant, an incomparably powerful crimson laser shot from the Great Horned Rat's tail and pierced straight through his chest.

His mighty body, strengthened by senjutsu chakra—his mountain-like, terrifying physique and formidable defense—was as fragile as paper at that moment, instantly destroyed.

"Brahman was born to nourish all things, yet not one thing repays Brahman! Kill, kill, kill!!!"

In the distance, an equally enormous brown rat held a gigantic laser katana and howled at the sky. Then he drew the massive humming blade and began madly attacking the surrounding toads.

Slaughter and destruction. Countless screams echoed across Mount Myoboku, while toad blood and corpses nearly filled the entire mountain.

It was a rout, an absolute rout. Not a single toad was a match for these Rat Supermen, created through extensive technology and ruthless modifications.

"Why are these rats so powerful?! They clearly don't even possess senjutsu! Other than chakra, they have nothing but chakra!"

The powerful toads fought desperately against the powerful rats. One powerful toad after another was hacked to death, killed, bitten to death, or blasted apart by cannons.

It was like a battle between primitive tribesmen and genetically modified warriors from the future—an absolute rout. So-called senjutsu chakra was like a toy before these rats, easily crushed apart.

Senjutsu chakra was not all that remarkable by nature. Did it not merely increase one's lifespan? That was hardly difficult. If you wanted a longer life, why not just undergo genetic modification?

One injection, and you could live forever. Why bother cultivating?

"Hehehe..."

High in the sky, several Shadow Clones of Uchiha Brahman silently watched the battle below. This battle was a test of the results of their experiments over this period. Seeing the Great Horned Rat lead the Rat Supermen in crushing the toads of Mount Myoboku from start to finish, they knew the experiment had succeeded.

"Croak!"

The Great Toad Sage let out a tremendous roar. His body was already covered in wounds.