"Roar—"
Beneath the sky, a roar that sounded both feline and tiger-like swept across the entire battlefield, making countless people tremble in fear!
Uzuki Riten's face turned pale, his eyes filled with lingering terror. "Hey, hey, hey, are you kidding me? There's another Tailed Beast?!"
It was a Two-Tailed cat demon wreathed in blue Chakra flames. Its massive body was covered in black markings, and its mismatched yellow and green eyes looked coldly down upon the defenders atop the walls, as though they were nothing but insignificant ants!
Since ancient times, Tailed Beasts had been disasters spoken of by all. People feared their terrifying power to destroy heaven and earth, but where there was fear, there were naturally those who coveted that power.
After Kumogakure was founded, it set its sights on the Tailed Beasts' power and began researching the feasibility of Jinchuriki. Their original target had been the Nine-Tails within the Lightning Country, but before they could organize a force to capture it, Flame Hidden Village had beaten them to it and taken the Nine-Tails away wholesale.
Fortunately, their research into Jinchuriki had not stopped. Once they were assigned the Two-Tails at the Six Kage Summit, they immediately began a Jinchuriki training program.
To become a Jinchuriki, one needed not only immense Chakra, but also willpower far beyond that of ordinary people. The Second Raikage happened to possess both. Driven by his powerful desire to wash away his humiliation, he had forcibly mastered the Tailed Beast's power in an extremely short time!
Of course, since he had yet to truly connect with Matatabi, the Second Raikage was not a perfect Jinchuriki at this moment. He could only borrow the Tailed Beast's power for a short time and enter full Tailed Beast Mode. If it lasted too long, however, the