Tyrant Mode

Midair.

Hyuga Satoru gulped down air, trying to ease the shock in his mind and the exhaustion from constantly pushing his body to its limits.

Right now, he was completely different from how he remembered himself when using the Eight Inner Gates.

The Eight Inner Gates had never allowed anyone to fly. Even opening the Gate of Death didn't grant flight; it only allowed one to remain airborne through speed that defied common sense.

But he was genuinely flying through the air now, and the explosive power filling his body was utterly unlike that of the Eight Inner Gates.

The power of the Eight Gates was extreme speed and offense, while his current state felt more like an overbearing force that looked down upon the world, filled with violent tyranny that could slaughter and plunder all things!

"No matter what, I can tell this state won't last long. I'll test its abilities while I can."

Hyuga Satoru took a deep breath and extended his right palm toward the thick metal plates beneath him. With a slight shift of his will, the metal floor he had painstakingly constructed was torn open with a massive gash.

Countless heavy metal plates squeezed and scraped against one another, producing a piercing shriek that made his teeth ache. Hyuga Satoru suddenly clenched his hand, and the twisting metal immediately contracted, forcibly wrung into a twisted lump.

"What terrifying power." A trace of shock still remained in Hyuga Satoru's eyes.

This level of absolute control over metal was something he had never been capable of before!

"Could it be that my current state doesn't enhance my body? Is it my authority over Electromagnetic Force instead?"

Hyuga Satoru felt as though he had vaguely grasped something. His Life Magnetic Field was as vigorous as the sun now, blazing fiercely like a raging fire!

Having found his direction, Hyuga Satoru drew a breath and slowly raised both hands in midair.

The ground suddenly began to tremble faintly. Fallen leaves and branches on the ground shook rapidly up and down, while animals in the surrounding forest seemed to sense something and fled into the distance in panic.

Rumble...

Amid the earth's tremors, huge amounts of metal burst from the ground like bamboo shoots after rain. They twisted and intertwined, piercing through one thick tree after another as dust filled the air...

When it finally stopped, a savage Metal Jungle had appeared!

In the air, Hyuga Satoru panted heavily as sweat slid down his forehead. Looking at his "masterpiece," a faint smile appeared on his pale face.

"Just as I thought, my control over Electromagnetic Force has increased tremendously."

Gathering the metal particles beneath the surface with Electromagnetic Force, then controlling them to rise and grow in an interwoven mass to form a Metal Jungle—no matter what, his former self could never have achieved this.

The Third Kazekage's Magnet Release could use vast amounts of iron sand to achieve similar techniques, but Hyuga Satoru had forcibly dragged out all the metal beneath the ground within nearly a kilometer. The difficulty wasn't even on the same level!

He clenched his palm into a fist, his body transforming into a bolt of lightning as he abruptly crashed toward the ground.

Several massive trees thick enough to require several people to encircle them were smashed apart by the violent force, wood chips scattering everywhere. Not only that, even the surrounding Metal Jungle was forcibly snapped apart.

Twisting at the waist, he swept out with a spinning kick. The point where it struck a tree that required three people to encircle exploded into powder, and the enormous trunk crashed down through the forest with a thunderous boom.

Every Taijutsu strike seemed plain and unadorned, yet each contained immense force, brimming with a brutal kind of beauty.

This was completely unlike the Front Lotus and Reverse Lotus of the Eight Inner Gates. It was a terrifying ability empowered by Electromagnetic Force.

Hyuga Satoru's body was wrapped in flickering arcs of lightning. At this moment, every inch of skin and every cell in his body was filled with explosive power.

He took a step forward, and the towering Metal Jungle around him seemed to come alive, parting where he walked to reveal a passage wide enough for him to pass through.

"I finally know how Magneto really feels."

Hyuga Satoru smiled, extremely satisfied with his current state.

The massive increase in his authority over Electromagnetic Force allowed him to vaguely savor a hint of what Magneto felt like.

When he reached the spot where he had previously laid the metal floor, he raised a hand. The lump of metal twisted into a knot was forcibly flattened back into plates and laid in its original position.

The Metal Jungle behind him also seemed to receive some sort of summons, slowly sinking back into the ground and leaving behind a devastated forest.

After the last of the Metal Jungle sank into the ground, the lightning arcs around Hyuga Satoru vanished, and his standing hair returned to normal.

After finishing all this, Hyuga Satoru's face was somewhat pale as he panted heavily.

"That should be about enough. They should be here soon."

He looked into the distance.

About a dozen seconds later, several Anbu wearing animal masks appeared nearby. Seeing the devastated forest around them, shock appeared in their eyes beyond their masks.

"What happened? How was this place destroyed so badly?"

"Was it an enemy attack?"

A faint smile appeared on Hyuga Satoru's pale face. "Sorry. I was practicing a ninjutsu just now, and I made a little too much noise."

"It's Hyuga Satoru."

One of the Anbu recognized him.

Hyuga Satoru was currently considered someone close to the Hokage. He had completed an important Anbu mission in the Land of Iron, and his instructor, Aburame Shibi, had also once been an Anbu member. Thus, these Anbu were not unfamiliar with Hyuga Satoru.

"Practicing ninjutsu? You caused such a huge commotion?"

The Anbu still found it difficult to believe. Judging from the traces around them, even a Jonin would have struggled to cause this much destruction.

If they had seen the Metal Jungle from before, who knew how shocked they would have been.

Hyuga Satoru deliberately coughed a few times, putting on an appearance of utter weakness. He gave a bitter smile and said, "I developed a powerful ninjutsu, but I lost control of it. That's why it ended up like this."

"I see." The Anbu nodded slightly.

Hyuga Satoru's weakened appearance didn't seem fake, and his Chakra appeared to be completely exhausted. They had found no traces of other ninjas nearby either, so it seemed that was indeed what had happened.

"In that case, we won't disturb you any further."

With several whooshes, the Anbu vanished.

Sensing that the Anbu had left, Hyuga Satoru let out a breath, his eyes flashing.

It was true that he had lost control during training, but the reason wasn't because he was developing a ninjutsu. More accurately, he had developed a mode.

Tyrant Mode!

That was the name Hyuga Satoru had given his previous state.

"I never expected that after opening the fourth gate of the Eight Inner Gates, my Life Magnetic Field would suddenly surge, greatly feeding back into my authority over Electromagnetic Force."

Hyuga Satoru took a breath, that shock still lingering in his heart.

The ability he had used just now was at least comparable to Electromagnetic Force LV4. In that state, even if he encountered an enemy at Aburame Shibi's level, he would dare to fight!

Forcibly crossing the gap in Electromagnetic Force level and using abilities far beyond his current level—this was Tyrant Mode!

It was also because his authority over Electromagnetic Force had increased drastically that the range of his Electromagnetic Sense had expanded greatly. Without activating the Byakugan, he had already discovered Anbu approaching this place.

But thinking it over carefully, this change was perfectly reasonable. Before training in the Eight Inner Gates, he had already discovered that a vigorous Biological Magnetic Field would feed back into his electromagnetic authority.

And every opening of the Eight Gates caused the Biological Magnetic Field to surge. The fourth gate was a watershed, so it wasn't difficult to understand why the Purple Star Vortex in his mind would resonate.

"Its power far exceeds the normal Eight Gates, but the backlash seems severe too."

Hyuga Satoru smiled helplessly. In just a few minutes, not a single drop of Chakra remained in him, and even the slightest movement of his muscles brought a tearing, stabbing pain.

"But it has become my strongest trump card. When facing an enemy far stronger than me, I'll have a chance to turn the tables."