Boom!
A deafening explosion shook the battlefield.
Yugito Nii spat out blood as she was slammed into the ground.
Swish!
Gritting her teeth against the pain, she vanished from the spot.
Then, she turned her gaze toward Ryosuke, who stood there smiling.
Damn it!
When did he get behind me?!
Yugito Nii's heart pounded.
If Ryosuke had stabbed her with the blade at his waist instead of throwing her, she'd be dead already.
Damn it!
Was the power gap really this big?
Unwilling to accept it, she reached out to the Two-Tails Matatabi within her.
"Matatabi, I need your power!"
Meanwhile, Killer Bee brandished his sword as he clashed with one of Ryosuke's Wood Clones.
"Fool! Idiot! Fool!"
Killer Bee cursed in his usual odd rhythm.
But no matter how he struck, the Wood Clone effortlessly blocked gus attacks.
"Killer Bee, it's useless."
The deep voice of the Eight-Tails Gyūki rumbled in his mind.
"This guy's power is far beyond Kage-level. If you don't use my strength, you won't even be able to defeat his Wood Clone."
"Fool! Fool! Then come on, Gyūki, lend me your strength!"
Killer Bee let out a battle cry as a terrifying chakra erupted from within him.
"Ha~!"
A roar shook the air as he entered his half-tailed beast state.
In this form, his strength skyrocketed far beyond his normal self.
"Rotten wood, go to hell!"
"Tailed Beast Bomb!"
Killer Bee fired a massive Tailed Beast Bomb.
A sphere of condensed chakra blasted toward the Wood Clone.
Boom!!!
The explosion's shockwave slammed into the barrier.
"Hold on!"
Kitsuchi yelled as the assembled ninjas worked desperately to keep the barrier intact.
Inside the barrier
As the flames of the explosion faded, Killer Bee saw something.
At the center of the blast zone stood a massive wooden dome.
It was like a giant snail shell, and it was completely intact.
Crack!
A fissure ran across the wood and from behind it, the unharmed Wood Clone emerged.
"So, that was a Tailed Beast Bomb?"
The clone smirked, it's voice laced with sarcasm.
"Seems kinda weak."
"Stupid bastard! Watch this! Tailed Beast Bomb Barrage!"
The half-tailed beast Killer Bee opened his mouth and fired dozens of smaller Tailed Beast Bombs in rapid succession.
"Wood release: Wood Golem Technique!"
The Wood Clone clapped its hands and instantly, a towering Wood Golem that was 20 to 30 meters tall rose from the earth.
"Block!"
The Wood Golem raised its massive arms, shielding itself against the incoming barrage.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Explosions rocked the battlefield.
The force pushed the Wood Golem back nearly 30 meters.
As the smoke cleared, Killer Bee saw that the damage to the golem was minimal.
The Wood Clone funneled more chakra into it and the injuries repaired instantly.
"No way…"
Killer Bee's eyes widened.
"As the Eight-Tails' Jinchūriki, I can't even defeat a Wood Clone?"
"Stupid bastard! Gyūki, I'm going full Tailed Beast Mode!"
Gyuki said, "Do it! This guy's too damn cocky. I wanna smash him too!"
Gyūki was fired up.
If Killer Bee was being mocked so was he. And he wasn't about to take that insult sitting down.
"Full Tailed Beast Transformation!"
Rumble!!!
Chakra surged as Killer Bee's body swelled in size.
In seconds, a 90 meter tall monster loomed over the battlefield.
"Eight Tailed Beast Twister!"
With no hesitation, Gyūki lunged.
His massive tentacle limbs spun into a devastating whirlwind, shredding the ground beneath it.
The landscape itself was torn apart by the sheer force.
Facing this monstrous assault, the Wood Clone atop the Wood Golem roared and charged forward, resisting the terrifying shockwaves.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The devastating attack covered the entire barrier.
If not for the barrier's protection, the damage would have been catastrophic.
But Ryosuke was completely unharmed.
To him, the Eight-Tails' "devastating" attack felt like a gentle massage.
It was actually kind of nice.
But for the others?
They weren't so lucky.
Especially Chiyo.
Yugito Nii had gone into full tailed beast mode and with her strength, she could withstand the attack.
But Chiyo?
She was just an old Kage-level puppeteer.
Her ten Chikamatsu Puppets had already been destroyed by Ryosuke earlier.
Only some weaker puppets were left to shield her.
And now, with Killer Bee launching his full-scale Tailed Beast Whirlwind, the remaining puppets scrambled to protect her.
These puppets, as well as the machine-light shield displayed by Chiyo herself only resisted for a moment before being blasted to pieces by the terrifying power.
Chiyo watched with a dark face as the puppets standing in front of her were blown up.
What made her sad was not that the puppet was gone.
It's that these puppets didn't die in the hands of the enemy but were blown up by her own teammates.
"Damn Killer Bee!" Chiyo cursed softly.
While trying her best to rush out of the barrier's range, she barely saved her life.
Rumble!
In the barrier, the terrifying vibration stopped after a few minutes.
And Killer Bee was also looking for Ryosuke at this time but the barrier was so densely covered with smoke and dust that it was impossible to see things ten meters away, let alone find someone.
But Eight Tails Gyūki could use sensory techniques, and with the help of Gyūki, Killer Bee quickly sensed two Chakras within the range of the barrier.
One of the Chakras was so huge that Gyūki's heart trembled. It belonged to Ryosuke.
And the other was from Yugito Nii.
"Killer Bee, why don't we run?"
Gyūki was a little timid at this moment.
He had been pinched and sealed by Senju Hashirama with one hand back then.
Now, he had met another ninja who had inherited Wood release, and his Chakra reserve was even greater than Senju Hashirama back then.
This made Gyūki panic.
He was afraid of being pinned down again like in the past and then sealed up abruptly.
Now, he was living a relatively comfortable life.
Apart from the lack of freedom, everything else was fine.
He didn't want to be sealed up again. Then, he would be alone with no one to talk to.
That would drive him crazy.
"Run?"
"It's too late, isn't it?"
Just as Gyūki proposed to escape, Ryosuke had already appeared in front of Eight Tails Gyūki.
Eight Tails, who was 90 meters tall, faced Ryosuke, who was about 1.8 meters tall.
It quickly turned around to run in fright.
"Too late!"
"Rasenringu!"
On Ryosuke's right hand, a black ball the size of a ping pong ball appeared.
It was surrounded by a ring of white particles.
As Ryosuke threw it—
In an instant, it turned into a black meteor and hit Killer Bee.
Rumble!!!
The scorching white light instantly engulfed the entire barrier.
The coalition ninjas maintaining the barrier spurted out mouthfuls of blood in an instant.
Boom!
The barrier that had been maintained exploded instantly.
The terrifying shock wave swept across, killing more than a hundred ninjas from the coalition forces on the spot.
Chiyo, who had just escaped from the barrier, gritted her teeth and used the machine-light shield.
But it only lasted a few seconds before being blasted apart.
Afterward, she was sent flying. She slammed into several large trees before crashing into a half-collapsed mountain wall.
"Ahem~!"
Chiyo coughed and struggled to get up from the ground.
At this moment!
"So, you are here."
Ryosuke's figure appeared in front of Chiyo.
"You—"
Just as Chiyo was about to speak, she was kicked away by Ryosuke.
Boom!
Chiyo, having crashed through several trees lied on the ground while being covered in blood.
Her old body trembled as she tried to get up.
But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get up.
At this moment!
Ryosuke dipped his finger into the blood on the ground.
Then, he placed it into the system's biopheromone warehouse.
"It can't be wasted."
With that, he turned and left. He didn't even bother to finish off Chiyo.
She was as good as dead. Her body was old. Her injuries were severe. She wouldn't last much longer.
Ryosuke didn't need to waste any more effort.
Soon
Ryosuke found Yugito Nii, who had passed out.
She was really unlucky.
At the start, she had fully transformed into her tailed beast state and was ready to fight.
But then, she ran straight into Eight Tails Gyūki's attack and got batted around like a baseball within the barrier.
If that had been the only problem, she might have endured it.
After all, as a full-tailed beast Jinchūriki, she wouldn't pass out from just that.
But then, Ryosuke's Rasenringu landed.
The explosion's shockwave slammed directly into her.
Rasenringu is an S-rank technique.
Combined with Ryosuke's absurd ninjutsu power bonuses, it's force was ten times greater than even the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb.
After being by such an explosion at close range, Yugito Nii lasted only a few seconds before losing consciousness.
But!
Under Matatabi's protection, she wasn't seriously injured.
She had just passed out from the impact.
Ryosuke stepped forward and placed his hand on her abdomen.
He forcefully extracted a large portion of Matatabi's Chakra.
Even while unconscious, Yugito Nii's body twitched violently.
She looked like she was suffering from a seizure.
After a while, Ryosuke finally stopped.
"That should be enough. If I take any more, she might not survive."
He withdrew his hand.
He had created this technique by combining Wood release with the Demonic Statue Chains from the Akatsuki.
It worked like the Demonic Statue Chains by extracting tailed beast Chakra from the host.
But unlike the original, this version was far more efficient and Ryosuke could stop at will.
He could extract as much as he wanted instead of draining all at once, which would kill the Jinchūriki outright.
Now, he had extracted a small portion of Matatabi's Chakra.
It was about half of Genin's Chakra reserve.
"System, convert this!"
Ryosuke commanded in his mind.
Ding~!!
"Transformation succeeded!"
"Congratulations! You have obtained the talent entry: [Two-Tailed Matatabi (Purple)]!"
Huh?
It is named directly after Matatabi?
The system is getting a little lazy.
Still, he opened his character panel and checked the new talent entry.
[Two-Tailed Matatabi (Purple)]: The second of the nine tailed beasts, also known as a sexy kitten!]
[Chakra +500%! Ninjutsu Power +300%! Comes with Matatabi's Chakra!]
"Not bad."
At least, it was much better than the Shukaku's talent entry. That raccoon was just a joke.
Ryosuke nodded in satisfaction.
This entry was a solid upgrade, exactly as expected.