Danzo's screams echoed over the ruins, shriller than the cry of a night owl.
The Hashirama Cells, no longer suppressed by Izanagi, were like wild horses freed from the reins, completely taking over that ruined husk of a body.
The upper half of Danzo's body, which had barely still held a human shape, was swiftly covered by frantically growing, coarse bark. His mouth was pierced from the inside by a thick wooden spike, and his two eyeballs were squeezed until they burst from their sockets.
He knew he was finished. There was no backup plan that could save him.
In the final second before his consciousness was completely swallowed by agony, the last of Danzo's vicious nature erupted in full. He used up the last shred of his strength, forcibly mobilizing all the chakra running wild inside him and compressing it at his heart.
"Even if I die... I'll drag you down to hell with me! Deep Forest Emergence: Self-Destruction!"
Rumble--!
As a blinding burst of green light erupted from Danzo's heart, an extremely terrifying life force mixed with destructive chakra violently exploded outward with him at its center!
But this self-destruction was completely different from an ordinary exploding tag. What the explosion produced was not flames and shock waves, but countless towering trees several meters thick!
Those trees grew wildly at a speed that defied the laws of nature, tangling with one another, colliding, sweeping out in every direction like a tsunami. Hard rock was easily pierced through by tree roots, and the flat ground of the ruins was forcibly arched up dozens of meters high.
In just a dozen breaths, the ruins within a hundred-meter radius had completely turned into a dense primeval forest filled with twisted wooden spikes.
The entire area was thoroughly shrouded in dust and