"Boom...!!!"
Vast azure chakra surged skyward like a tsunami, forming a giant clad in striped garments.
It was called "garments" rather than "armor" because the form had not yet been completed!
Nagato rose from where he stood upon the sea until he reached the giant's crown.
The immense chakra he further unleashed formed a "giant" Crow Tengu Armor outside the giant's striped garments, somewhere between a flame-like and solid state...
But the Crow Tengu Armor had yet to close. The vast, unstable chakra composing it had not yet taken shape!
Once it was fully formed... it would be a genuine "Complete Body Susanoo"!
But when Nagato tried to force it into shape, the burning pain in the veins around his eyes compelled him to halt the process...
Orochimaru and Konan looked up at the sky in amazement. "So this is... Susanoo's true form?"
"No..." Nagato's gaze darkened as he slowly lowered the hand that had been trying to shape it.
This was not the Complete Body.
This was the Complete Body "Critical Form" that Madara had briefly displayed when he faced the Five Kage years ago.
The Susanoo chakra Nagato had unleashed was already on the scale of the Complete Body.
There were two reasons why he could not complete the final shaping.
First, due to Ofutone, Madara's Complete Body Susanoo was larger than Sasuke's Complete Body Susanoo in later generations. This meant that Madara's Complete Body Susanoo had a higher threshold of difficulty to complete than Sasuke's.
Second, Nagato was not the original owner of Madara's eyes. This limitation manifested in Susanoo's degree of completion. In truth, Long-Leg Form was the limit of what he could use instinctively, but he had forcibly broken through that limit with his immense chakra, reaching the Critical Form of the Complete Body... Unfortunately,