The sudden self-destruction of the five followers caught Hayate Hoshi off guard. The visual impact was truly intense. Hoshi froze for a moment before realizing that Kirū had to be behind this.
Hoshi wanted to rush back and stop him from casting the technique, but it was already too late. The distance between them was too great; with Hoshi's speed, there was no way he could stop Kirū before the ritual was complete.
If he couldn't stop it, then he needed to run. So Hoshi's next words were, "Run awaaay~~~!" By the time Hoshi took off at full speed, Kirū had already completed his ritual.
"Cursed Technique: Corpse Manipulation Blood Art."
Once Kirū completed the ritual, an extremely bizarre scene unfolded. The huge pools of blood on the ground seemed to be guided by something, flowing toward the magic circle beside the fallen genin's corpse.
After absorbing the incoming blood, the genin's corpse rapidly turned crimson and swelled. The body, originally around 1.6 meters tall, expanded to nearly two meters.
As the corpse continued to expand, the dim blue Chakra flames that had nearly gone out began burning again.
When the blue flames reignited, the cloud genin's corpse rose to its feet once more.
Kirū looked at the resurrected corpse with a somewhat surprised expression.
"So these blue flames were this guy's own ability? What an unexpected bonus."
The Cursed Technique: Corpse Manipulation Blood Art that Kirū had used was one of the ultimate forbidden arts hidden away in the Cursed Technique Scroll.
Its effect was to use a great quantity of blood to awaken someone who had died only recently, turning them into a Blood Corpse and forcibly making them fight for the caster.
The deceased's strength depended on how strong they had been in life and how much