Animal Path pressed both hands against the muddy ground.
Black Summoning Formula markings spread rapidly through the mud and water.
Two enormous clouds of white smoke billowed upward, their shock waves driving the sea breeze back.
As the smoke cleared, a multi-headed giant dog the size of a small hill emerged.
Black metal rods studded the vicious dog's body, and a pair of Rinnegan with distinct concentric rings stared from its sockets.
Beside it crouched a red Hell Crab, waving enormous pincers.
The giant crab spat corrosive acidic foam. Its pincers slammed into a rock, shattering a stone slab several feet thick.
Chikage looked at the two behemoths and nearly lost his grip on his baton.
"I'm just out here doing a job. Do you really have to drag out every beast you keep at home?"
Chikage spat irritably.
"Yashiro, write them up for illegally letting large, dangerous animals roam free. Start the fine at five million ryō."
Standing behind him, Yashiro's face twitched.
Who had time to keep accounts now?!
The Multi-Headed Dog lunged with a roar, its thick paw whipping up a gale as it swiped straight at Chikage's face.
The Hell Crab charged recklessly too, its massive pincers shearing through every tree in its path.
Chikage slammed his palms together and mobilized the chakra of his sage body.
"Sage Art: Wood Release: Wood Human Technique!"
The earth shook.
Soil churned and split as countless massive trunks burst from underground, weaving and twisting together.
A gigantic wooden humanoid, every bit as large as the Summoning Beasts, rose from the earth.
A Wood Dragon coiled around its shoulders, and its heavy arms crashed down against the ground.
Boom!
The giant wooden humanoid swung its left fist, meeting the charging Multi-Headed Dog head-on.
The blow struck the dog's heads and