Moryo's sealing site lay inside a volcano. The surrounding temperature rose sharply, and Uchiha Mu silently used chakra to keep them both safe.
"So you've finally come?" A man sat there. Had Hyuga Lingnai been present, she would have recognized him as the leader she had killed, but Uchiha Mu had never met him.
"You're the one who broke the seal? Why did you do it?" Shingetsu struggled down from Uchiha Mu's back and looked at the man, her question tinged with sorrow.
"A reason? Do I need a reason to pursue power? Hahahaha!" The man stood, and black tentacles plunged into the magma. A moment later, it erupted toward them like a storm of volcanic meteors.
"A Jinchūriki is harder to deal with than a monster on its own. Looks like that's true." Uchiha Mu activated Susanoo, keeping all the magma outside.
He had cast a genjutsu right at the start, but it had done nothing. The Moryo chakra inside the man behaved like molecules in motion, chaotic and without a pattern. Ultimately, genjutsu worked by disrupting the chakra inside a target to create illusions affecting their five senses.
The genjutsu had failed, but Uchiha Mu had expected as much. After all, countering genjutsu was a basic requirement for any powerful fighter. Unfortunately for his opponent, he was a monster, thanks to his Hashirama cells, Mangekyō Sharingan, and, most importantly, the system's certification.
"Don't tell me you thought I was like those useless idiots outside! You thought a mere genjutsu could finish me?" The man roared with laughter.
"You think you're not useless? Sorry, but that's for other people to judge. And as far as I'm concerned, you're useless," Uchiha Mu said, looking at him.
Standing beside Uchiha Mu, Shingetsu tugged at his clothes. *Who provokes a villain like