"The Earth Release: Golem Technique was always a Rock Shinobi technique, created through our blood, sweat, and tears."
Ōnoki shouted. They were its rightful creators; Kazan of Konoha was nothing but a bandit who had forcibly stolen their secret technique.
"It's all the more disgraceful when your own technique can't muster even a hundredth of the power someone else gets out of it!"
Madara Uchiha paid him no heed. Susanoo brought down its other foot and crushed the Stone Man to powder.
The next instant, Susanoo formed eight tomoe and bombarded every corner of Iwagakure.
Ōnoki felt as though flames were burning in his chest.
After so many years, an enemy had once again stormed the Rock Shinobi's home, bringing the fires of war to every corner of their village.
He summoned another Stone Man, but this time, Madara stomped it back underground before it could even fully emerge.
"Your Stone Man can't withstand a single kick from me. Kazan blocked my blade!" Madara Uchiha exuded overwhelming dominance, paying no heed to the vast Rock Shinobi army.
One sweep of his blade shattered entire swaths of buildings, killing countless Rock Shinobi in a single strike.
"Where are the Four-Tails and Five-Tails?"
He rampaged unchecked. His incomplete Susanoo had two faces and four arms, like a demon straight out of a story, possessing the power to destroy the world.
"No one will tell you! Don't think you'll get their whereabouts out of a single Rock Shinobi!" Ōnoki remained defiant.
Facing Madara Uchiha again, he still feared the man's terrifying power.
Yet, to his own surprise, the Will of Stone he had once lost to fear was now firmer than ever before.
Since becoming Tsuchikage, he had supported Iwagakure for decades, growing from a young man of twenty into an old man