"Now, it's time for judgment."
Chiya's voice echoed through the night sky, like a divine decree from the heavens.
Before his words had faded, the chakra floodgates within him seemed to be forced fully open by an invisible hand.
[Ding! Heightened host emotions detected. Killing intent boiling!] [System overclock mode activated! Chakra output: 100%...200%...MAX!] [Wood Release Cells activated! Indra's Chakra activated!] [Fusing...fusion complete! Form unlocked: All Things in the Universe · Majestic Attire: Susanoo!]
RUMBLE-!!!
The earth began to groan violently, as though an ancient beast were turning over deep beneath its crust.
The open ground before the Konoha Gate instantly collapsed and sank.
The red, rib-shaped Susanoo enveloping Chiya did not dissipate as everyone had expected. Instead, as though injected with a savage growth hormone, it began to swell and tower upward at a frantic pace!
Ten meters...thirty meters...fifty meters...a hundred meters!
In just a few breaths, a colossal figure large enough to blot out the moonlight stood upon Konoha's soil.
But this Susanoo was unlike any in Uchiha history.
It was no longer merely a construct of chakra.
Countless thick, powerful wood-grain patterns grew across its crimson Tengu armor. Emerald vines wound around Susanoo's arms, breastplate, and wings like ancient totems. Behind its back, an enormous Wood Dragon even took shape as a divine halo!
Red chakra and green life energy blended seamlessly.
It possessed both the Uchiha's destruction and brutality and the Senju Clan's solidity and vitality.
It was no longer Susanoo.
It was-All Things in the Universe · Wooden Man Susanoo Demon God!
The hundred-meter-tall demon god's eyes blazed with golden fire, and the wings spreading behind it blotted out the sky. Merely by standing there, its terrifying presence seemed to freeze the surrounding air, making every living creature for miles instinctively want to kneel.
"Wh-what kind of monster is this...?"
Shikaku Nara, who had still been preparing to fight to the death, tilted his head back, his stiff neck cracking.
His gaze traveled from the enormous feet all the way up to the head towering into the clouds. He felt as though he had plunged into an icy abyss, and despair instantly swallowed his reason.
Was this Chiya's power?
Was this...the pinnacle of the Uchiha?
Before this demon god, their so-called elite force was nothing more than a swarm of ants beneath an elephant's feet-ridiculous and pitiful.
"RAAAAAH!!"
Amid the deathly silence, a defiant roar suddenly rang out.
Within the rubble, Akimichi Chōza staggered to his feet, covered in blood. As the shield of Ino-Shika-Cho, his defensive power was indeed remarkable. The earlier blow had not killed him outright.
Looking at the despair-inducing demon god, Chōza knew that unless he risked everything, they would not even have a chance to escape.
"Multi-Size Technique · Super Human Bullet Tank!!"
"Burn...every last calorie!!"
BOOM!
He swallowed the Akimichi Clan's secret medicine in one gulp, and blue butterfly wings of chakra instantly formed behind his back.
Chōza's body expanded again, growing twice as large as before. He became a gigantic ball of flesh dozens of meters across and hurtled toward Susanoo's ankle with the resolve to die!
This was the Akimichi Clan's final, desperate strike!
A blow powerful enough to shatter a mountain!
And yet.
Chiya stood inside the crystal at Susanoo's brow, arms folded, coldly looking down at the fat man below who was "growing bigger."
"Growing bigger?"
A contemptuous smile curled Chiya's lips.
"Before a true giant, that so-called Multi-Size Technique of yours..."
"Is like a malnourished infant."
Chiya gave a mental command.
Outside.
The hundred-meter-tall Wooden Man Susanoo Demon God slowly raised its right foot, clad in wooden armor.
The movement was not fast, but it carried an irresistible "heavenly might."
Then it slammed down!
There were no flashy moves.
Just one simple stomp!
BOOOOM-!!!
Before Akimichi Chōza's fierce "Super Human Bullet Tank" could even reach Susanoo's knee, that enormous foot mercilessly crushed it beneath its sole.
It was like an adult stepping on a ball rolling toward him.
"GAAH-!!"
The Multi-Size Technique Chōza took such pride in was broken instantly. The huge ball of flesh shriveled like a deflating balloon. That single stomp drove him deep underground, sending blood and fragments of his organs spraying from his mouth. Even his screams were drowned out by the thunderous impact.
One blow, a devastating injury!
"Chōza!!"
Shikaku Nara and Inoichi Yamanaka stared in anguish, their eyes nearly bursting.
"We'll take him down with us!!"
Shikaku went mad. Ignoring the agonizing chakra backlash, he formed hand seals, and the shadow beneath his feet extended wildly. He tried to connect it to Susanoo's solid body through the ground and restrain the demon god's movements.
"Shadow Imitation Technique · Shadow Sewing!!"
Dozens of sharp black shadows stabbed like steel needles toward the gaps around Susanoo's ankles.
At the same time, Inoichi Yamanaka, who had just regained consciousness, burned his life force to push his sensory ability to its limit.
"Mind Body Disturbance Technique!!"
He tried to bypass Susanoo's defenses and attack Chiya's mind directly.
"You really...have a death wish."
Chiya shook his head, his Mangekyō Sharingan focusing slightly.
"You're ants not only in strength, but in vision."
"Do you think ninjutsu of this level can still reach the heights of a god?"
Chiya extended his right hand and closed it around empty air.
HUM!
Chakra instantly gathered in Susanoo's hand. A gigantic sword seventy to eighty meters long, burning with solid golden flames, appeared out of thin air.
This was no ordinary Susanoo sword. It was the Soul-Cutting Great Blade, infused with the essence of Ryūjin Jakka!
"It's over."
"Disappear, remnants of the old era."
Controlling Susanoo, Chiya casually swung the sword at Shikaku and Inoichi below.
SWISH-!!!
That slash severed the wind, severed the light, and severed Ino-Shika-Cho's last hope.
Terrifying sword pressure mingled with searing heat, forming a visible, golden, fan-shaped shock wave that instantly swept across the entire Konoha Gate area.
CRACK!
The instant Shikaku Nara's shadow tendrils touched the sword pressure, they snapped and dissolved like fragile spider silk!
"AAAH!!"
Shikaku screamed. The backlash from his severed shadows made him feel as though half his soul had been torn away. His vision went black, and he spat out a mouthful of dark blood. He was thrown backward and slammed into a Torii pillar, his fate unknown.
Inoichi Yamanaka fared even worse.
The moment his mental energy touched Susanoo's shell of raging reiatsu, it was like sticking his head into a spinning helicopter rotor.
"No...what is this mental power...AAAAH!!"
Inoichi clutched his head and wailed, blood streaming from all seven orifices. In an instant, Chiya's mental torrent, filled with killing intent and the will to destroy, reduced his brain to mush.
THUD!
He fell stiffly to the ground, his eyes rolling back, left utterly vegetative.
As for the Aburame Clan and Inuzuka Clan members supporting the attack from the perimeter, the residual sword pressure swept them hundreds of meters away like fallen leaves in an autumn wind, leaving masses of dead and wounded.
The dust settled.
Just one attack.
It could even be called a casual swing of the sword.
The Ino-Shika-Cho formation that Konoha took such pride in, along with hundreds of elite ninja, had been wiped out!
This was the power of Perfect Susanoo.
This was the absolute dominance of a super Kage level fighter.
Chiya dispelled the protection around Susanoo's head and stood a hundred meters above the ground, letting the night wind blow through his long hair.
He looked down upon the deathly silent battlefield below.
Shikaku Nara lay limp amid the rubble, Akimichi Chōza had been stomped deep underground, and Inoichi Yamanaka's mind had collapsed.
The clans that had once supported half of Konoha now lay scattered miserably across the ground, like toys broken through rough play.
"Boring."
Chiya uttered the word flatly.
His gaze slowly shifted away from those "ants" and toward the distance.
There lay the heart of Konoha.
There stood a magnificent landmark symbolizing Konoha's spirit and history-Hokage Rock.
The faces of successive Hokage were carved into the immense cliff, silently watching the carnage as though still whispering that lie called the "Will of Fire."
As Chiya looked at the carvings, the disgust in his eyes deepened.
"Since the people won't obey, I'll smash those eyesores first."
"Leaving them there will only remind me of those hypocritical old bastards."
Chiya controlled Susanoo, slowly turning its massive body.
Every time an enormous wooden foot touched the ground, it triggered a small earthquake.
Carrying the Soul-Cutting Great Blade wreathed in golden flames, he advanced step by step toward Hokage Rock.
With every step, the hearts of Konoha's villagers trembled.
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