Above the giant beast's head, the azure flaming slash crashed down.
The flames erupted with a roar, and the giant beast howled.
Yet the giant beast made no other move in response to the Heavenly Flame's scorching.
Inside the giant beast's mouth, ink-black currents surged madly back through the gaps between its clenched teeth, pouring into Ebizo's body and reshaping his flesh.
His original body disintegrated inch by inch under the scouring of tainted blood and curse power. His shriveled flesh swelled in the boiling dark blood curse before rapidly reconstructing, and an uncanny power completely erased every trace that had originally belonged to Ebizo.
The pitch-black magic array covering the ground trembled violently and blazed with light. Dense patterns of tainted blood climbed up from the ground, wrapping tightly around the giant beast's head and the body within, forming layer upon layer of curse-power cocoons.
Inside the cocoon, all the chakra and curse power within "Ebizo" that had originally belonged to Ebizo were burned away, replaced by a purer, more nauseating torrent of savage curse power. This curse power forcibly filled "Ebizo's" limbs and body, every inch of bone cracking as it reshaped.
Outside, fierce flames burned; inside, a rapid metamorphosis unfolded.
Faced with this sight, Uchiha Gen remained expressionless, instead watching the scene before him with interest.
This was his first time encountering a boss that entered its second phase as soon as they met.
In just a few breaths, the cocoon inside the giant beast exploded!
The armored giant beast's phantom dissolved into black wisps that filled the sky, all merging into the fully reconstructed body.
Ebizo's figure stood upon the earth once more, the aura around him utterly transformed.
The presence that had originally belonged to Ebizo was now completely gone, replaced by a deeper, more