The Wood Dragon Carriage let out a low, muffled growl amid the billowing black smoke.
I kicked the carriage curtain aside, and a scorching wave of gunpowder fumes hit me in the face.
Half the sky below was glowing red, lit up by the raging flames.
"All right, I've been traveling so damn long my heels have gone numb."
I tossed the shabby bundle in my arms onto the seat and jumped down.
The wet yellow sand beneath my soles was slippery and a little cold.
"Sen! You big blockhead! You finally dragged your ass here!"
Raikage A leaned against a pile of rubble, bellowing at me at the top of his lungs.
Half his shoulder and arm were covered in blackened blood. He looked pretty miserable.
"Uncle Raikage, quit barking over there. I just changed into these clothes."
I brushed the mud flecks off my coat, my gaze turning cold.
Not far away, a blue giant hundreds of meters tall swayed amid the windblown sand.
It was Madara Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo, complete with enormous wings.
"Sen Senju... you even brought spare eyes?"
Madara stood inside the five-pointed crystal on Susanoo's forehead, staring coldly at me.
"I keep them around as night-lights. What the hell is it to you, you old fossil?"
I slowly brought my hands together before my chest, the wood release origin churning wildly inside me.
"Wood Release: Wood Golem Technique!"
I shouted, and a muffled, thunderous rumble rose from underground.
Rumble!
The muddy ground throughout the canyon collapsed in that instant.
A wooden giant so enormous it made people's scalps crawl rose from the earth.
Its huge wooden fists were several times thicker than the Demonic Statue.
"Today, I'm going to practice peeling onions with that crappy shell of yours."
Standing on the wooden giant's shoulder,