"Orochimaru, prepare for phase two. Inject the concentrated solution directly into the Three-Tails' cerebral ganglia. Increase the dosage to three hundred percent."
"Three hundred percent?!" Orochimaru gasped. "That will completely destroy its consciousness!"
"That's the point," Liuyu said coolly. "Out with the old, in with the new."
Orochimaru drew a deep breath, fanaticism blazing in his eyes once more.
"Yes, sir!"
He rapidly worked the control console. The mechanical arm switched to a larger injector, its syringe filled with a nearly solid black gel.
The injector slowly moved toward the back of the Three-Tails' head, where the tailed beast's chakra center and the core of its consciousness lay.
Isobu seemed to sense what was coming. A pleading look appeared in its single eye.
But the injector mercilessly pierced its flesh anyway.
The black gel was slowly pushed inside.
The Three-Tails' body suddenly went rigid.
Then-
"ROOOOOOOOAR-!!!!!"
An agonized roar unlike any before shook the entire cavern.
The Three-Tails' single eye instantly turned pitch-black, its white webbed with blood vessels.
It thrashed wildly, snapping three of the twelve reiatsu chains at once!
The remaining chains groaned under the strain, and cracks began to spread through the metal pillars.
Worse still, it opened its mouth.
A pitch-black Tailed Beast Bomb more than thirty meters in diameter rapidly formed inside its mouth.
This was no ordinary Tailed Beast Bomb. Purple-black Hollowfication reiatsu coiled around its surface, radiating ominous pulses that made the heart tremble.
"Damn it! It's going to blow itself up!" Orochimaru's expression changed.
If the Tailed Beast Bomb exploded here, it would destroy more than the laboratory. The entire underground structure of Kirigakure would collapse!
Yet Liuyu remained calm.
He did not even turn to look at the nearly formed Tailed Beast Bomb. He merely sighed softly.
"What a disobedient little