When Super Shinra Tensei ended, it left a basin-shaped scar nearly twenty kilometers in radius across the earth.
Amid dust that billowed a hundred meters into the sky, Pain's Deva Path descended straight into the depths of the ruins.
After Super Shinra Tensei, the Rinnegan's Deva Path abilities would temporarily cease to function, but Pain had nothing to worry about. No one could withstand that technique head-on!
He paced through the ruins, looking around for any trace of Sasuke's remains.
But apart from scattered fragments of the Wood Dragon and lingering traces of black flame, there was nothing to prove Sasuke had ever been there.
"Looks like he was pulverized..."
But when he jumped onto a fragment of the Wood Dragon, his expression suddenly changed.
A large Jutsu Formula had been inscribed there.
"This is..." After examining it closely, he spotted the clue.
"Delayed Summoning Formula."
"It lets the user set a delay before the summoning activates automatically, and it can't be destroyed by anyone. Even Master Jiraiya never mastered it back then. It's the highest-level summoning Jutsu Formula."
"Why would Sasuke Uchiha leave a Jutsu Formula like this when he was on the verge of death? Was he planning to summon reinforcements? Or..."
As one possibility occurred to him, Pain's gaze immediately turned deadly serious!
"He isn't dead...!!!"
Boom...!!!
The Jutsu Formula activated just then... Amid an enormous cloud of smoke, a dying giant snake lay sprawled on the ground!!
"This is... Orochimaru's summon, Manda?"
Six-pointed stars filled Manda's eyes. His mouth opened and closed, his voice barely a whisper yet seething with resentment. "You damned brat. You used those eyes to control me? Damn it... To think I, the great Manda, would meet an end... like this!"
Manda died, and the six-pointed stars faded from his eyes. Bracing