Obito looked at the towering giant rising up to the sky, and his own existence seemed so insignificant before it.
He suddenly felt Madara's resolve.
He said lightly, "Madara, it seems you really want to experience a battle where you go all out, unrestrained, and fight to your heart's content."
"Too bad, standing before you today is me, not Senju Hashirama. Otherwise, you'd probably be overjoyed."
But Madara's tone rose with excitement, "Obito boy, enough useless words, stop being so fussy, COME FIGHT, COME BATTLE!"
With that, regardless of Obito's agreement or not, Susanoo's hand moved to the hilt at its waist, drew the blade, and swung down in one smooth motion.
In an instant, the few remaining trees around them were uprooted and blown away by nothing more than the airflow caused by that drawing motion, the scene erupting into a sudden storm.
Obito stood in the gale, his hairstyle blown into a mess, and really wanted to slip into Kamui space to tidy himself up.
But remembering Madara's request of "no Kamui," though he hadn't explicitly agreed, right now he felt embarrassed to use it.
Honestly, he was curious too. Since obtaining the Eternal Dual Kamui, he had never used that inexhaustible pupil power to purely enjoy the thrill of crushing with raw strength.
Now, he finally could.
Thinking this, a surge of heroism rose in Obito's heart, 'Uchiha Madara, huh? Battlefield Asura, huh? A hero spanning from the Warring States era to the era of ninja villages, huh?'
'Why should later generations be inferior to their predecessors?'
'I too will fight with everything!'
At once, a pale blue chakra flared up around Obito, instantly pushing back the raging storm.
That pale blue chakra in a heartbeat turned into deep purple, and it grew and grew, until at last, another towering giant of deep purple stood facing Madara's Complete Body Susanoo.
Just then, Madara's blade had already fallen.
That strike shook heaven and earth.
The wind pressure carried by the blade forced the land beneath Obito's feet to sink down, to a degree comparable to Nagato's Shinra Tensei.
Seeing this, Obito controlled his own Susanoo to draw its blade and slash upward to meet it.
BANG!
Two blades collided, producing a deafening boom.
In the next moment, two shockwaves of sword energy pierced through both Susanoo giants, spreading outward behind each of them.
Everything within the range of those shockwaves, trees, earth, all matter, was instantly pulverized into nothing, carving out two endless gashes in the land, as if the earth itself had been split open.
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At that time, on the other side, on the battlefield between Iwa and Konoha, all ninjas had stopped fighting, staring blankly at the two giants clashing with a single stroke.
Even though they were far away, they could still feel the earth trembling from that blow. The violent wind pressure even reached them.
Some ninjas were directly knocked to the ground by the shockwave.
This kind of scene, like something out of myth or legend, gave them an illusion, "Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?"
One Iwa ninja looked at the enormous blades in the hands of those two giants in the distance, then turned and looked at the tiny kunai in his own hand. Suddenly, he showed a smile uglier than crying.
He thought, 'Am I really fighting with this little thing?'
"Hahaha, HAHAHA."
Another Konoha ninja didn't feel much better. He muttered, "What is this? How can such things even exist in the shinobi world? With such things around, then we… what are we worth?"
But some ninjas who had participated in the recent battle against Akatsuki recognized one of the giants.
"That is, the might of Uchiha Madara!"
"That's right, I saw it once. I'll never forget it my whole life. This is power enough to annihilate the Five Great Ninja Villages! This is, DIVINE POWER!"
With these explanations, the gathered ninjas finally understood a little of the situation.
If such a giant came from that legendary man, Uchiha Madara, then perhaps, maybe, it wasn't completely unacceptable.
After all, Uchiha Madara was the man who stood as an equal with the one truly called a god, Senju Hashirama.
Then came the next question.
If one of the giants belonged to Uchiha Madara, then the other? Who did it belong to?
Could it be Senju Hashirama suddenly revived, once again battling Uchiha Madara?
Before these ninjas could figure it out, the two colossal giants clashed again after their first exchange.
No flashy techniques, no tricks, only pure strength, firm will, and forward-driving courage.
So-called "one force breaking ten thousand arts", that was exactly it.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
The thunderous shockwaves resounded without pause, one after another, knocking ninjas all across the battlefield stumbling to the ground.
On one side of the battlefield, Namikaze Minato, who had just been preparing to move and give Iwa an unforgettable lesson, was forced to stop by this sudden upheaval.
Beside him, Kakashi rolled his dead-fish eyes, "Teacher Minato, looks like Obito and the others made it back safely. Seriously, and they stirred up such a huge commotion."
Because he had faced Sasuke's Susanoo up close in Amegakure not long ago, Kakashi immediately recognized the truth upon seeing the two Susanoo.
Minato rubbed his forehead with some headache, "Didn't expect the moment they return, they'd cause such a stir. By the way, are such giants really something within human capability?"
Minato suddenly felt he might really lack offensive methods. His techniques were enough to handle ordinary ninjas who could be killed by a kunai.
But against giants like these, how could one even break their defenses?
At this moment, Kakashi wondered aloud, "Wait, weren't Obito and Madara on good terms? Why did they suddenly start fighting?"
"Could it be Obito said something Madara didn't like, and that triggered him?"
Minato had already noticed some details. He chuckled, "Kakashi, have you ever seen Obito fight in such an open, direct style before?"
Kakashi immediately shook his head, 'Come on, Obito's fighting style? Each move darker than the last. If he always fought this straightforwardly, I wouldn't have ended up smiling in relief mid-battle.'
Thinking it through, Kakashi immediately realized, 'Yes, Flying Thunder God, Kamui, Phantom Flicker, all those techniques haven't been used. This is clearly Obito holding back.'
Obito and Madara seemed to be playing some kind of raw power game.
Thinking of this, Kakashi rolled his dead-fish eyes again, "Is Obito still a kid? What's the point of playing around like this?"
But Minato seemed to have caught something deeper.
He said slowly, "Perhaps he's simply using this as a stage, to display his strength, and at the same time, to end this war."
Kakashi was stunned. Then suddenly, realization struck, and he said in disbelief, "Teacher Minato, you mean…"
Minato nodded, "Obito, starting from today, intends to ascend to legend."
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