Destruction

At Kara, it was another peaceful day. Apart from the beeping instruments, the only sounds were the researchers' hurried footsteps.

Under normal circumstances, no one would ever discover the location of this secret base.

But today, everything changed.

A piercing alarm shattered the calm. Before anyone could react, an intruder had already reached the deepest part of the laboratory.

"Interesting..."

"Research into Ten-Tails cells? Looks like the Ōtsutsuki Clan doesn't understand its own weapon all that well!"

Uchiha Ensei's calm voice sent the room into a panic. Attacks came at him from every direction.

A chakra barrier around him shrugged them all off. Ensei activated his Byakugan and checked the progress of the experiments throughout the base.

Once he confirmed there was nothing he needed, he struck without hesitation.

At his current strength, dealing with this rabble took no effort. To him, the strong and the weak were scarcely any different.

Ninjas were fast and hit hard, but their defenses were poor. Unless they were an exception like Hashirama Senju, killing a Jonin was little different from killing a Genin.

From start to finish, Ensei used only two moves.

First—Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!

Second—he controlled the trees it had grown and used Wood Release: Tree Binding Burial to crush his enemies to death.

The enclosed space limited how far Deep Forest Emergence could spread, but made it even more lethal to those trapped inside.

"Wood Release really is useful. Having to spend Life Force on it is the annoying part..."

"Still, it can absorb Life Force from enemies, so that makes up for it somewhat."

"But... why can the Life Force it absorbs only remain in the jutsu? Why can't it replenish mine?"

"No wonder Hashirama Senju's Wood Release jutsu can last forever."

After weighing Wood Release's strengths, Ensei