As Minamoto Takuya finished forming his hand seals, a sudden change erupted across the boundless, desolate battlefield that had been ravaged by countless ninjutsu.
The earth, which had previously been plowed over again and again by all kinds of world-destroying power, now silently began to flicker with countless ghostly-blue Seals.
The lines of those Seals radiated cold, profound waves of energy.
What was horrifying was that after enduring Madara Uchiha's Six Paths Sage Art, Minamoto Takuya's terrifying bombardment, and even the devastation of God: Deep Forest Emergence...
Those Seals were still completely intact, as though all that destruction had merely skimmed across their illusory surface.
This was Minamoto Takuya's true scheme—the vast formation known as "Ninja Art: Reverse Chimera Technique"!
It had not been a spur-of-the-moment idea. From the moment he first descended here, that Wood Clone that had seemed to be merely sitting by and watching had, over a long span of time without anyone noticing, quietly carved it into the leylines and space of the entire battlefield.
Minamoto Takuya's true body had long since, at some unknown moment, completed the handoff with the Wood Clone and silently taken over this earth-shaking chessboard that had already been laid out.
What he had been waiting for all along was this exact moment—when Black Zetsu thought his plan had succeeded, when Kaguya Otsutsuki's resurrection ritual had begun, and when the power and will of the progenitor of Chakra were being pulled back from another dimension into the present world.
"Wh-what is this?!" For the first time, Black Zetsu's hoarse, twisted voice carried unconcealable panic.
He had been immersed in the wild joy of Kaguya's imminent return. Madara's broken body floated there, greedily absorbing the energy from the cocoons of all living beings' Chakra wrapped by the God Tree.
Yet the ghostly-blue