Just then, the utterly bewildered Seven-Tails had no idea what the thing in front of it was.
However, the exploration team captain, who stood to one side recording everything, knew exactly what it was. He understood just how important Wood Release was to Konoha.
Even so, deep down, the captain still refused to believe that Uchiha Yato could actually wield such a powerful ability.
Perhaps he was clinging to a glimmer of hope. He even began to wonder if there was something wrong with his ears and he'd misheard.
But when the enormous vine shot into the sky like a rocket, every thought in the captain's mind was instantly shattered and wiped away.
His gaze locked onto Uchiha Yato, and an unprecedented fervor shone in his eyes.
The captain was just an ordinary civilian ninja, but his family had some ties to the smaller ninja clans in Konoha.
Because of this unusual family background, he knew a thing or two about some of Konoha's untold secrets and history.
Among them, the many legends surrounding Wood Release had always captured his imagination and filled him with longing.
After all, people of their generation had grown up hearing the legendary tales of Hashirama Senju. Who wouldn't yearn to wield the power of Wood Release, a force capable of reshaping the world?
That was why he was looking at Uchiha Yato with such fiery intensity.
Even when Tsunade, Hashirama Senju's granddaughter, failed to awaken Wood Release, everyone had thought it was all but extinct.
But today, with a recording device in his hands, he had witnessed the power and impact of Wood Release with his own eyes.
The colossal vine wrapped around the Seven-Tails with blinding speed, like a ferocious giant serpent coiling tightly around its prey.
The Seven-Tails' wings, which had been