Tengai Shinsei! The Allied Forces Are in Peril!

Kabuto Yakushi, who had arrived recently, had also mastered Sage Mode, but his transformation had only given him the features of a snake.

That was the first stage of Ryūchi Cave's Sage Mode. In fact, Kabuto's transformation was the normal result.

Aogetsu Hyuga, on the other hand, had skipped several stages and gone straight to its most perfect form!

The White Snake Sage flicked her tongue, deep in thought.

Ichikishimahime slowly drew her head away from his shoulder. She had transferred every bit of the Natural Energy the White Snake Sage had given her into him.

Aogetsu felt the power within him and willed it into motion.

Snakelike blue-green light coiled around his body like ribbons, forming a Chakra Cloak.

Boom!

A powerful glow and aura spread outward.

The Three Snake Princesses stared in amazement. The power Aogetsu had unleashed now matched what they could wield!

And they had spent a thousand years training!

Aogetsu had trained for only... half a minute!

Or rather, he had not trained at all. After absorbing the energy, he had reached this level automatically!

Ichikishimahime clasped her hands and gazed at the powerful Aogetsu, full of admiration and even a little awe.

Aogetsu opened his eyes and reached toward a nearby wall.

Whoosh!

A serpent of light shot out and blasted a small crater into the stone.

The light serpents drifting around him had plenty of uses. They could attack, defend, and even carry ninja tools and other objects.

That was not all. He could feel that his speed had improved slightly.

For an ordinary ninja, those improvements might have brought them close to Kage-level strength in an instant.

For Aogetsu, though, they were almost negligible.

What interested Aogetsu was not how Natural Energy strengthened his body,

but what it could do when applied