The Monster's Fear Backlash and Absolute Chakra Chains

Inside the Hokage's Office.

Baishi's fingertips were still pressed against the surface of the floating Water Mirror. A searing heat surged through his fingertip, the painful swelling caused by the high-density Nine-Tails Chakra rushing through his Meridians at extreme speed. The smell of scorching grew heavier by the moment. The edge of the solid wood desk had already been completely charred, trailing wisps of black smoke.

The Water Mirror rippled with fine golden waves, transmitting the battle in the Forest of Death, dozens of kilometers away, directly into his mind.

He watched the skeletal monster in the Water Mirror madly tearing at its own chest, the corners of his lips curling into a mocking, cold smile.

"A shoddy jigsaw puzzle." Baishi gave Orochimaru's creation his final verdict. "It can't even have the most basic instinct to obey engraved into its genes. Once it encounters the suppression of a higher-level power, all that's left is a beast's panic."

In the Water Mirror, black blood sprayed from the monster's chest like water from a high-pressure hose, splattering across the frozen earth and corroding holes that billowed with pungent white smoke. The monster forcibly dug out the core flashing with the black light of the Cursed Seal and crushed it in one hand.

Immediately afterward, its massive body sprawled onto the ground. It opened its enormous maw and frantically inhaled the remaining poisonous miasma around it.

As the poisonous miasma entered its body, large amounts of gray-white slime rapidly secreted across the surface of the monster's hardened bones. Its body, which had originally resembled a hill, turned into a pool of melting sludge, attempting to seep through the cracks in the frozen earth and flee underground.

"Lord Orochimaru! It... it severed the link!" On a distant tree trunk, Kabuto Yakushi trembled so badly