mynovelonline Chapter 400 - 400 Menma's Susanoo!
Chapter 400 - 400 Menma's Susanoo!
Menma took a step forward, his gaze sweeping over the menacing, variously shaped humanoid combat puppets in the air and on the ground, as if appraising a pile of scrap metal.
He gently shook his head, his tone carrying undisguised disappointment and disdain:
"Six years, you stole my technology and pilfered Ryumyaku Chakra. I thought you could come up with something decent. And this is all you managed? Just this level of small fry?"
"Small fry?!"
This word instantly ignited the humiliation, resentment, and insane obsession that had been suppressed in Anrokuzan's heart for six years!
As a puppeteer, a self-proclaimed genius who had surpassed tradition and created a new puppet art, his painstakingly crafted, resource-draining 'masterpiece' was being so contemptuously dismissed as 'small fry' by the other party! This hurt more than killing him!
"Arrogant! You'll pay for your pride!" Anrokuzan let out a hysterical roar, waving his hand violently like a general commanding thousands of troops.
"Attack! Tear them apart! Leave none alive!"
Swish swish swish—!!
With his command, the over one hundred humanoid combat puppets on the ground and in the air activated simultaneously!
Their arms transformed, revealing sharp rotating blades, pointed drills, or Chakra Cannon ports glowing with purple light!
Like a school of sharks smelling blood, they pounced from all angles towards the surrounded group!
The shrieking sounds of tearing through the air were piercing to the ears!
Though terrified, Sara bravely spread her arms, blocking in front of the trembling civilians.
Minato, Choza, Shibi, and Naruto tensed, leaning forward, ready to meet this hard fight.
At that moment, the pupil in Menma's left eye turned into a blood-red color. Three tomoes slowly rotated, forming a spiral pattern.
Mangekyo Sharingan… activate!
"Doujutsu: Ame-no-Minakanushi!"
Menma's lips moved slightly.
The next instant.
Clatter clatter clatter—!!
As if all the puppets charging and attacking towards the group had their strings simultaneously cut by an invisible great blade, their movements froze stiffly!
Then, they lost all power, directly falling from the sky or collapsing forward in their charging postures, emitting a series of dense, crisp metal impact sound and the sound of scattered parts!
In just one or two seconds, the over one hundred elite humanoid combat puppets that were so menacing moments ago all became piles of lifeless metal wreckage, littering the park's open space!
The entire park fell into an eerie dead silence, only the sound of wind whistling through the tower gaps.
"I-impossible!!" Anrokuzan's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets. He let out an incredulous roar. "This can't be! These puppets are all directly controlled by my will through the Ryumyaku connection! How could you sever my connection to them?! What did you use?!"
He couldn't comprehend how the massive, stable connection of the Ryumyaku could be so easily severed.
"Now's the chance!"
Right at the moment Anrokuzan was shocked and distracted, Naruto seized this fleeting opportunity!
Deep blue Chakra rapidly spun and compressed in his palm!
"Rasengan!"
A highly condensed Chakra Sphere instantly formed!
Naruto burst Chakra from his feet, his body shooting forward like a leopard, reaching the unprepared Anrokuzan's main body in the blink of an eye!
"Take this!"
Naruto yelled, slamming the glowing blue Rasengan in his hand squarely onto Anrokuzan's face, twisted with shock!
Thud—!!!
A heavy, huge impact sound echoed!
Anrokuzan's face was hit head-on. He let out a wretched scream, his body flying backward like a broken kite, smashing hard into the base of a high tower at the park's edge, creating spiderweb cracks on the hard stone wall!
The outer shell he used for disguise shattered and peeled off under the Rasengan's impact, revealing the intricate mechanical structure and glowing purple energy circuits underneath.
Meanwhile, the Mukade that had been made into a puppet clone reacted quickly. It immediately raised its right arm, the front of the arm transforming, extending into a hand cannon of considerable caliber. The cannon port rapidly lit up with dangerous purple light, aiming at Naruto, who had just finished his attack and hadn't fully recovered his stance!
"Watch out!" Minato's voice rang out almost simultaneously!
Swish—!
A kunai with a sizzling, burning explosive tag attached to its tail shot towards the puppet Mukade's newly raised arm cannon barrel!
Clink!
Boom—!!
The crisp clinking sound of the kunai and the ensuing explosion were almost indistinguishable!
The explosive tag's power, while not enough to completely destroy this clearly more advanced puppet, the impact and flames successfully interrupted its charged attack and blasted it, making it stumble backward, its arm now sporting a patch of scorch marks.
"Bastards... bastards!! You damn pests!!"
Anrokuzan, blasted away by the Rasengan and looking wretched, struggled to stand up from the indentation in the wall.
The exposed metal structure and flickering purple energy channels under his damaged facial skin looked especially ferocious.
Thick purple Ryumyaku Chakra surged from his body, wrapping around his 'wounds' like living things. The damaged structures actually began to rapidly repair and heal at a visible rate!
Anrokuzan lifted his head, his expression utterly twisted, mixed with intense pain, mad rage, and a kind of hysterical insanity. He glared fixedly at Menma and the others, his voice hoarse as he roared, "Good! Very good! Since you're so eager to die! Then let me show you my true, most perfect masterpiece! Feel true despair!"
Accompanying his roar, his entire body began to undergo a terrifying change!
His body rapidly swelled and twisted like a balloon being inflated!
His skin, or rather synthetic shell, cracked all over, revealing even more complex mechanical structures underneath!
His lower body extended in segments like a centipede, transforming into a dozens-of-meters-long, heavy metal-plated, giant centipede body and tail densely lined with sharp barbs on both sides!
His upper body became abnormally thick and burly, covered in angular, heavy armor. At the ends of his two arms, his fingers disappeared, replaced by five gleaming, several-meters-long, giant rotating blades with serrated edges!
And his head was encased in a ferociously designed, insect-head-like metal helmet, his eyes also shining with mad purple light.
And the puppet Hundred Puppets that was blasted back also underwent a similar transformation!
Its body also swelled, but turned into a huge, enormous metal spider form!
Its eight long legs were all composed of giant, sharp blades, gleaming with a cold light, supporting the bloated torso at the center.
And its inhuman head was a ferocious, enormous mouth filled with sharp metal teeth, constantly opening and closing!
Two nearly hundred-meter-tall giant puppet monsters stood towering in the park!
The shadows they cast completely engulfed the entire park and everyone within it. The oppressive weight and screeching metal grinding noises they emitted were enough to break an ordinary person's spirit!
Sara and the Roran civilians looked up at these sky-obscuring terrifying giants, the color draining completely from their faces. Fear made it almost impossible to breathe; they could only collapse on the ground, emitting unconscious whimpers.
The expressions on Naruto, Minato, Choza, and Shibi's faces also grew more grave and shocked.
Naruto looked up at the centipede and spider monsters, gulped, and said in a dry voice, "Hey, hey... you guy... for power, you've even stopped being 'human'? This is too exaggerated!"
"Hahahahaha—!!!"
Anrokuzan's mad laughter, mixed with the sound of metal grinding, came from the centipede monster's head, echoing among the empty towers, filled with twisted delight and the arrogance of controlling everything:
"See?! This is power! Ultimate power that transcends ordinary Ninjas!"
"Before the power of the Ryumyaku, before the perfect art of puppetry, your flesh-and-blood bodies are mere insignificant ants! Feel despair! Then, become nourishment for my puppet factory!!"
Minato's eyes were sharp. He quickly pulled several special Flying Thunder God kunai from his ninja tool pouch.
In a low voice, he rapidly deployed tactics to his companions: "Choza, prepare to use the Multi-Size Technique, focus on attacking their joint connection points! Shibi, use your insects to interfere with their movements and chakra source, look for possible weaknesses!"
"I'll handle the main offense and distraction. Let's concentrate our strength, take out one first! Naruto, you..."
However, Minato's tactical arrangements were cut short by Menma's voice.
"Unnecessary."
Menma walked forward a few steps, alone, facing the two mountain-like giant puppet monsters.
His silhouette seemed especially thin under the huge shadow, yet exuded an indescribable steadiness and confidence.
"Since it's trouble caused by scum that fled from my world," Menma said, slightly turning his head to Minato and the others behind him, his tone calm. "Then I'll handle the 'cleanup' personally."
"You protect Sara and her people. Don't let the battle reach them."
Having said that, Menma turned his gaze back to the still-maniacally laughing Anrokuzan, the corner of his mouth lifting, a fierce light flashing in his eyes.
"If this is your confidence, then go die."
The next instant—
Boom!
A vast, violent dark red Chakra awoke, erupting from within Menma's body, instantly forming a soaring pillar of light that enveloped Menma!
The dark red Chakra rapidly condensed and took shape!
First, a huge dark red skeletal frame rose from the ground, emitting a heart-stopping aura of death!
Then, Chakra spread and filled over the skeleton like flesh and tendons, covering it with fierce, heavy black armor!
A pair of huge wings burning with dark red flames, edges like broken blades, spread open behind the armor, blotting out the sky!
In just a few breaths, a Complete Body Susanoo over two hundred meters tall, clad in fierce black armor, with blazing giant wings on its back, stood towering between heaven and earth like a demon god descended from hell!
Dark red Chakra rose and flickered on its surface like flames, slightly distorting the surrounding air.
Before the pressure it exuded, Anrokuzan and puppet Mukade seemed like two children.
The Susanoo slowly lowered its head, the skull burning with dark red flames, gazing down at the tiny centipede and spider monsters below.
Its huge, armor-covered right hand made a grasping motion. A Chakra Great Sword over two hundred meters long, entirely pitch-black, with burning, leaping black flames entangling along its edges, slowly materialized!
The moment the great sword appeared, the surrounding temperature seemed to drop suddenly. A terrifying aura of severing all things, incinerating souls, spread out!
"This... this is?!"
Minato, Choza, Shibi… all were dumbfounded, their faces filled with shock!
"Su... Susanoo?! The Uchiha Clan's... Susanoo?!" Choza's voice was somewhat altered. Hailing from Konoha's prestigious Akimichi Clan, their family records contained fragments about the Battle of the Valley of the End between Madara and Hashirama, including mentions of this legendary ultimate Dojutsu of the Uchiha Clan.
Susanoo!
Shibi pushed up his slipping sunglasses, his eyes behind the lenses filled with horror.
He never imagined he would witness this power existing only in legends in his lifetime.
Minato was even more astonished. He had heard about it from his teacher Jiraiya, described by the Third Hokage, but seeing it firsthand brought an entirely different level of impact!
'That sky-obscuring size, that soul-trembling Chakra Fluctuation, that pitch-black flaming blade seemingly capable of severing anything...'
'This was the power of Uchiha Madara back then?'
'But how did Menma obtain that eye?'
Menma, standing within the diamond crystal on the Susanoo's forehead, faced Anrokuzan's insane 'eyes' from afar.
He crossed his arms over his chest. The black Susanoo slowly raised its hand, lifting the Chakra Great Sword burning with black flames.
"Come." Menma's voice, transmitted through the Susanoo, resounded across the battlefield, carrying a faint trace of mockery.
"Let me see how many seconds these toys you've built over six years can last... before my 'Gundam'?"