"Creak, creak, creak..." The sound of trees growing echoed across the battlefield as the originally blue Susanoo was gradually covered in green.
Although Madara had restored himself to his prime with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's life force and accomplished the feat of creating fifty Wood Clones to use Susanoo, the clones' chakra was ultimately limited. At most, they could only achieve the second form. Now that the Wood Dragon Technique had drained a massive amount of their chakra, the Mangekyo patterns in the clones' eyes began to fade one after another, and 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 lush green mountains covered by forests.
Seeing the blue giants they had been helpless against collapse under Nawaki's attack, Konoha's Kage-level fighters all stopped fighting and quickly gathered around him.
"Nicely done, Nawaki!"
"Wood Release truly is Uchiha Madara's nemesis!"
"Is it over?"
With the battle finally turning around, everyone praised him excitedly.
Yet unlike his excited companions, Nawaki wore a grave expression as he looked toward a certain point on the battlefield and warned them, "It's not that simple. The ones taken out were only clones! The real one is still over there!"
Following Nawaki's gaze, everyone saw that one Susanoo was still standing firmly on the battlefield. Though it was completely wrapped in Wood Release, its chakra structure remained stable and showed no signs of collapsing like the others. That was because this Susanoo had been cast by Madara's real body.
"Wood Dragon Technique..." Feeling his chakra rapidly drain away, Madara showed no panic. Instead, he raised a brow, looked at Nawaki, and