"—For Root!"
That roar was no longer human. It was more like a dying beast using the last shred of its life to spit out a curse.
The wildcat-masked ninja codenamed Wind had veins bulging all over his body like twisted earthworms, while an ominous dark purple color showed beneath his skin. Pitch-black, swamp-thick chakra mixed with the pungent stench of sulfur and blood erupted violently from within him!
Forbidden Technique: Soul-Blasting Heart Burial!
This was a mutual-destruction technique developed by Danzo in imitation of the Second Hokage's Mutual Explosive Tags, combined with the Yamanaka Clan's spiritual secret arts. It was exclusively meant for Root's suicide operatives!
Once activated, the caster compressed all of his life force, chakra, and even his soul into an extremely unstable high-density energy core, then detonated it in an instant! Its power was enough to flatten everything within a hundred-meter radius. Not even souls could escape; they would be utterly shredded by the spiritual storm created by the explosion!
This was Root's final dignity, and also their ultimate method of erasing all traces!
Wind's purpose was clear. He had already realized that this bizarre space was not a mere barrier or illusion, but a higher-level power beyond his understanding. Since he could not break it, then he would use the most barbaric, most unreasonable method possible to blow this "cage," along with its caster, into pieces from within!
Bzzzz—!
Black chakra energy frantically collapsed inward around Wind, forming a fist-sized black sphere covered in strange runes. The surrounding air was violently sucked away by that power, creating a vacuum where even the light distorted.
The Time Maze constructed by Kurenai Yuhi began to tremble violently before this pure destructive energy. The stretched and warped flow of time let out a strained wail, like a string