"Creak, creak, creak..." The sound of trees growing echoed throughout the battlefield as the originally blue Susanoo was gradually covered in green.
Although Madara had used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's life force to restore himself to his peak and accomplished the feat of creating fifty Wood Clones that could use Susanoo, the Wood Clones' chakra was ultimately limited. At most, they could only maintain the second form. Now that the Wood Dragon Technique had drained a massive amount of chakra from them, the Mangekyo patterns in the clones' eyes began to fade one after another, while the Susanoo around them started to collapse as well.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Less than a minute after the Wood Dragon Technique was unleashed, the towering Susanoo could no longer maintain their forms and fell one after another. They looked like verdant mountains swallowed by a forest.
Seeing the blue giants they had been helpless against fall beneath Nawaki's assault, Konoha's Kage-level experts all stopped fighting and swiftly gathered around him.
"Nicely done, Nawaki!"
"Wood Release really is Uchiha Madara's nemesis!"
"Is it over?"
With the battle finally turning around, everyone excitedly showered him with praise.
But unlike his excited companions, Nawaki wore a grave expression as he looked toward a certain point on the battlefield. "It's not that simple. The ones taken down were only clones! The real one is still over there!"
Following Nawaki's gaze, everyone saw that one Susanoo still stood firmly on the battlefield. Though its entire body was wrapped in Wood Release, its chakra structure remained stable and showed no sign of collapsing like the others. That was because this Susanoo had been cast personally by Madara's original body.
"Wood Dragon Technique..." Feeling his chakra rapidly drain away, Madara showed no panic. Instead, he raised a brow