Upon contact with a specific chakra catalyst in the air, this resin would rapidly harden, forming a protective shell tougher than steel and more resilient than rubber. It could also seal an opponent's chakra flow. Once enveloped in this resin, the target would completely lose the ability to use ninjutsu.
This was one of Sasori's rarely used trump cards, because resin-crafted puppets took far longer to produce than ordinary puppets and were extraordinarily expensive. He had poured immense effort into every single one.
But once he brought them out, it meant he was no longer holding anything back. Here and now, he intended to turn this unknown enemy with the Mangekyō Sharingan into another piece in his collection.
"Those eyes of yours can track my movements. That is troublesome indeed," Sasori said coldly. The Chakra Threads at his fingertips began feeding special Activation Commands into the puppets. "But once my resin seals your body, seeing my movements won't matter. You won't be able to move."
Resin seeped like sweat from the joints of more than sixty puppets, gathering under the moonlight into amber droplets that hovered in the air around them, gleaming with a dangerous beauty.
Only now did the battle truly begin.
In Sasori's clouded eyes, worn down by years of practicing the Puppet Technique, the emotion that surfaced was no longer mere gravity. It was the excitement of an artist studying his nemesis, tinged with obsessive fervor.
The resin of his Puppet Army was not enough. He had another ace up his sleeve.
The five fingers of his right hand spread slightly, and the Third Kazekage Human Puppet behind him slowly floated upward. Set into its eye sockets were not ordinary gems, but two genuine Eye Stones that had belonged to the Third Kazekage himself in life. Steeped