"Collapse? Sure thing. You make it sound pretty damn spooky."
Sen curled his lip in a grin and spat into the sinking mud.
The huge Wooden Spike in his right hand twisted with a green storm, roaring deafeningly.
Space cracked with a muffled snap, splitting into black fissures.
Gravity slammed down like a ten-thousand-ton iron weight.
Sen's kneecaps creaked with a dull, aching sound.
Both his feet sank deep into the fractured mud.
"Mother! Bury him alive with this Space Collapse!"
Black Zetsu poked his head out of her huge white sleeve, shrieking.
"His Origin can't withstand the wrath of heaven and earth!"
Kaguya's face turned pale and ashen as she clenched her hands fiercely before her chest.
"Lowly mortal, die in this realm of deathly silence!"
"Die, my ass! Old hag, have you ever heard of protecting the environment?"
Sen pressed his palms together, unleashing life energy.
Golden-green chakra poured into the cracks in the ground as if it cost him nothing.
"Come on, boys! Teach this old lady a lesson! Rise!"
Amid his laughter, ten thousand tree roots burst out of the muddy pit.
Glittering green armor covered the thick roots.
When they encountered the black fissures, they actually burrowed frantically inside.
Like tens of thousands of iron pincers, they clamped space open.
"What kind of monstrous freak of a Wood Release is this? Why is this happening?!"
Kaguya's deathly pale face changed completely.
She felt the Divine Tree's power trembling violently.
The power belonging to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was slipping away.
"Stop screaming. Turns out your Divine Tree's a knockoff."
Sen laughed with his feet planted on the tree and picked his teeth with a finger.
"That Divine Tree you absorbed was just a mongrel, plain and simple."
"It ate one thing today,