Igniting War, Absorbing the Three-Tails' Chakra

"I..."

"My name is Uchiha Mu."

"Don't worry. If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have saved you."

"But sorry, my ability is limited. I can only save one person at a time."

The young woman frowned.

"Uchiha?"

"Wasn't that clan wiped out?"

"And why did you save me?"

At that moment, Mu's mind raced. He couldn't exactly say he wanted to marry her, could he?

He could only smile and say,

"There's no particular reason. If there has to be one, maybe it was love at first sight."

Mabui's face flushed slightly as she spat.

"As if I'd believe that. Tell me your real purpose."

"Otherwise, I won't be polite."

Mu smiled faintly, calmly pinching the young woman's chin!

He pressed two fingers against Mabui's forehead.

Mabui only felt her entire body go limp, leaving her unable to muster any strength.

She could only watch as the young man beside her removed his mask and gently kissed her forehead.

He placed another strange talisman in her palm.

Mabui was completely dumbfounded.

Y-you...

"All right, this talisman seals my ability. If you face a fatal threat, crush it, and it can save your life."

"We'll meet again someday."

"Until we meet again."

Mu put on his mask and slowly stepped back. His figure gradually vanished into the void.

Meanwhile, before Konoha's gates.

The Water Shadow had already arrived to attack.

Konoha had long since entered a state of emergency.

A powerful barrier had been raised outside the village.

The Three-Tails' attacks continuously crashed against the barrier.

The barrier shook without end.

The entire Konoha Village was alarmed.

Everyone looked up at the sky.

Danzo lay in an ANBU laboratory, his gaze deep as he looked toward the sky as well.

Why now? My transplant surgery has reached a critical point.

As long as Konoha does not fall, I absolutely cannot interrupt the surgery.

Outside.

The Third Hokage and his group finally arrived.

But the Lightning Shadow, the Earth Shadow, and Killer Bee—three peak Shadow-level experts—were glaring at them hungrily.

Although their goal was merely to force Konoha into signing an unequal treaty,

it would not be easy to get them to sign without first beating Konoha into submission.

The only thing they could not understand was why the Water Shadow was working so hard this time.

Looking at Konoha's side again,

there were many people, and quite a few powerful fighters, but only a handful had truly reached Shadow level.

With the Uchiha Clan dead, Konoha was at its most vulnerable.

"Lord Hokage,"

"what exactly is that bastard Danzo doing? At a time like this, he still hasn't shown himself."

"Does he want to watch Konoha Village be destroyed?"

But there was nothing they could do despite their anxiety. They could only adapt to the situation.

Uchiha Mu stood in the void, his gaze filled with excitement.

The scent of Tailed Beast chakra.

The system was frantically issuing notifications: Tailed Beast chakra detected.

Only once the Tailed Beast had fully transformed could he approach and collect its chakra.

Listening to the system's prompts and looking at the people below,

this battle did not seem chaotic enough.

He wondered what those people were hesitating over.

Let me add fuel to the fire.

That way, those people will finally put in some real effort.

As his words fell,

three kunai bearing explosive tags flew from Mu's hand,

vanishing into the void in the blink of an eye.

The next instant, the kunai suddenly appeared beside the Lightning Shadow, the Earth Shadow, and Killer Bee.

The three were caught completely off guard, their expressions changing drastically.

What? Kunai flying out of the void?

Before the three could finish being shocked,

the explosive tags trailing behind the kunai detonated instantly.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three explosions rang out as dust and smoke filled the air.

The three retreated rapidly, filthy and disheveled.

Fortunately, Gyuki's senses were sharp. Otherwise, Killer Bee would definitely have been injured by that strike.

Killer Bee broke out in a cold sweat as he retreated, his gaze turning toward his brother and the Earth Shadow.

He had not noticed at first.

But the moment he looked, his eyes bulged.

Although the Earth Shadow was unharmed, the tuft of white hair atop his head had been burned away by the flames.

The bald Earth Shadow wore a savage expression.

He was so furious that he blew his beard and glared, but at that moment, even half his beard and eyebrows had been burned away.

Even on such a grave battlefield, the sight made many people struggle not to laugh.

"This infuriates me!"

With that, he once again engaged the Hokage in battle.

The others' battles were on the verge of erupting as well.

After failing to break through for a long time, the Water Shadow actually chose to undergo complete Tailed Beast Transformation.

Uchiha Mu was also surprised. "Why has this guy lost his mind like this? Could he be under control?"

Energy was gathering in the enormous bloody maw of the Three-Tails. It was a Tailed Beast Bomb.

It was going all out from the start.

Everyone stared at the thing in despair.

They had once experienced the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb. Compared to this Tailed Beast Bomb, which had been gathering power for half a minute, it was not worth mentioning.

But just as everyone fell into despair,

a massive hand suddenly appeared and pressed down on the Three-Tails' head.

An electronic notification sounded in the young man's mind.

Ding; Tailed Beast chakra collection started. 5%... 10%...

Feeling its chakra rapidly draining away, the Three-Tails panicked and violently shook its head.

The frantically thrashing Three-Tails could not even maintain the Tailed Beast Bomb in its mouth.

By now, the Three-Tails had lost half its reason.

It did not understand why its chakra was diminishing at a visible rate.

"Why?"

Several kilometers away, a man wearing a spiral mask sat cross-legged inside a strange formation.

His brows were tightly furrowed.

"The Three-Tails is weakening. What's going on?"

Only then did someone finally notice the figure atop the Three-Tails' head.

It was a man wearing a cat-face mask.

He resembled an ANBU member.

But what ANBU member possessed such terrifying strength?

Even Danzo likely could not accomplish this.

Seeing that the Three-Tails could barely maintain its form,

the Earth Shadow, the Lightning Shadow, and Killer Bee attacked the cat-mask-wearing youth at the same time.

The Earth Shadow formed hand seals, casting the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique on the Lightning Shadow and Killer Bee.

The two immediately felt light as swallows, their speed increasing dramatically.

Killer Bee raised his long blade.

Lightning Release chakra instantly flowed into the blade, making it incomparably sharp as it crackled with electricity.

At the same time, the Lightning Release produced high-frequency vibrations, granting it penetration surpassing even Wind Release.

The Cloud Ninja Village ninjas nearby were stunned at the sight.

"That's Lord Killer Bee's Super Vibrato Lightning Release Blade. It feels so powerful."

"Look, Lord Lightning Shadow! That's Lord Lightning Shadow's ultimate move, the Liger Bomb!"

"Though it's a B-rank ninjutsu, its destructive power is astonishing."

"Only Lord Lightning Shadow, who has trained his ninja body techniques to the extreme, can pull it off."

"So far, no one who has taken that move has survived."

The two figures flashed forward at high speed.

In less than half a second, they had reached the space above Mu.

Behind his mask, Mu showed no panic at all.

His left eye widened as the Domain of Time activated.

A powerful sense of sluggishness enveloped an area within thirty feet.

The surrounding space became extraordinarily heavy.

Even the Three-Tails, which had been struggling desperately moments ago, had its movements greatly slowed.

The Lightning Shadow and Killer Bee seemed to be submerged in water, their rapidly charging bodies suddenly slowing down.

Their movement speed dropped by at least fivefold. In battle, that would be absolutely fatal.

"The Domain of Time's beginner level still has limited influence over the surrounding time."

Seeing this,

Mu was not particularly surprised.

Although his eyes possessed the ability to control time and space,

various factors in battle still weakened their effects somewhat.

The Domain of Time just now had merely been a test.

Against Shadow-level experts, it could not completely freeze their movements.

And the consumption was absurdly high. In less than two breaths,

thirty percent of the chakra in his body had already been drained.

Looking at the Three-Tails' progress, it had barely reached 80%.

Mu smiled knowingly.

As he dispelled the Domain of Time,

the Scar of Space activated.

The Lightning Shadow and Killer Bee felt the sluggishness around them disappear.

The violent energy around them erupted once more.

The two locked eyes for a second before their figures vanished.

The Super Vibrato Lightning Release Blade cleaved directly toward Mu's head,

while the Liger Bomb seemed to seize hold of the cat-mask-wearing youth.