"..."
Tobirama, through his perception connected to the prison space, also heard Koharu Utatane's terrified scream from outside.
Gritting his teeth in anger and disappointment, he growled in a low voice:
"Why are you screaming? Run!"
If Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado were to die here, then after today, all of Konoha's remaining major clans would inevitably disband on the spot.
The only reason the various clans were still willing to acknowledge Konoha and obey the orders of the two Hokage advisors was because everyone still clung to the illusion that the First Hokage and the Second Hokage might return.
But now, the two Edo Tensei Hokage were completely unheard from. If, at this critical moment, the Hokage advisors—who served as the bond and bridge between the Hokage and the clans—were to die,
then the clans would no longer stand united.
At that point, Konoha would truly become history.
"Stop yelling. They can't hear your warnings," Uchiha Yu's voice echoed within the prison space as he mocked casually. "Every single one of your students turned out pretty mediocre."
Tobirama clenched his teeth and stared at the scene outside the window, where towering flames soared into the sky.
Grinding his teeth, he said, "Don't you want Tsunade to become Hokage? If Konoha completely falls apart, wouldn't everything you've done be pointless?"
"That's none of your concern," Uchiha Yu replied calmly. "I trust Tsunade to handle these matters properly."
Outside the window—
Heaven and earth had changed color.
It was clearly daytime, yet the sky had darkened as though night had descended, the air unbearably scorching.
Boom—!
Wherever the Amaterasu fire tornado passed, the inextinguishable black flames of extreme heat burned everything to ash, erasing it completely.
"..."
Itachi ignored the terrified cries of Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado. Closing the distance, he leapt straight toward them.
If he had to die here today, then he would die after those who had betrayed him!
Only at this moment—
No matter how unwilling he was to accept it, Itachi had to admit that the Konoha he once followed was truly dead, never to regain its former glory.
And now the two Hokage advisors wanted to flee—but it was already too late.
When they looked back, they realized that the heads of the major clans who had been standing beside them earlier were already gone.
It was they themselves who had issued the order to retreat.
And because of their age, Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado could no longer burst out with any real speed.
Itachi easily overtook the two fleeing advisors. As he passed them, he cast a cold, sideways glance their way, then continued sprinting forward without slowing.
"Itachi, save me!"
"Itachi, save me first!"
Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado tried desperately to grab hold of him, but Itachi dispersed into a flock of crows, evading them.
Caw—caw—caw!
Many of the manifested crows had their feathers instantly melted by the extreme heat.
Yet some of them still flapped their wings with all their might, barely escaping the raging black flames surging from behind.
The dark-red blaze swept forward, and the intense heat instantly melted the backs of the two advisors.
Koharu Utatane screamed madly, "Itachi, you ungrateful wretch!"
Homura Mitokado roared, "Itachi, you'll die a horrible death!"
Sizzle—sizzle—sizzle—
The Amaterasu fire tornado swallowed the two Hokage advisors. Starting from their backs, the terrifying heat melted their bodies bit by bit.
As if wax figures were being melted away, blood and flesh evaporated together, revealing ghastly white bones—until even the skeletons themselves began to dissolve.
The flock of crows scattered.
Itachi's body returned to normal. He suddenly turned his head to look back, only to see the two advisors' faces mangled beyond recognition, their hollow eye sockets fixed firmly on him.
They seemed to have turned into vengeful spirits, their mouths still shouting:
"Itachi!!!"
Itachi reined in his expression, turned his head away, and continued sprinting forward.
Realizing that even his Body Flicker Technique wouldn't allow him to escape the Amaterasu Fire Tornado, the calm in his expression finally began to crack.
The sensation of death once again descended upon both his body and mind.
The last time he had felt death so clearly approaching—
was when he had faced Uchiha Yu.
"..."
Itachi clenched his teeth. The pattern in his right eye quietly began to rotate, as blood seeped from the corner of his eye.
Only at this moment
did he no longer need to hide his true strength.
In an instant—
pure, pitch-black chakra flames ignited across his body, gradually into the shape of a skeleton, after which armored plates manifested and locked into place.
"Father… I can't die here yet. Please—help me just this once!"
Itachi's expression twisted into something ferocious as Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan erupted with crimson light.
A fourth-stage Susanoo, jet-black from head to toe, clad in dark tengu armor, wearing a battle helm studded with triangular spikes, and wreathed in black flames, rose up and shielded Itachi beneath it.
Humm—
Beneath the helmet of the black Susanoo, red light flickered within its eye sockets,
as if a giant were awakening.
This was the Susanoo unlocked after deeply excavating the power of Fugaku's Mangekyō Sharingan!
Driven by Itachi's emotional surge in a desperate, no-way-out situation, the Susanoo advanced directly into its fourth stage.
At this stage, the Susanoo possessed not only upper-body armor, but also leg armor and battle boots on its lower body.
It could sprint, leap,
and even release ninjutsu.
This form was only one final step away from the complete Susanoo with wings spreading from its back.
"As expected—Fugaku's eyes are in this guy."
Uchiha Yu gazed at the black Susanoo and sighed inwardly.
He casually glanced at Obito, who was reporting on the situation across the ninja world, and saw that Obito's attention was also fixed on that battlefield.
Behind the Amaterasu fire tornado,
all the ninja controlled by the Eight Thousand Spears stared at the imminent collision between the black Susanoo and the black-flame dragon tornado, unconsciously holding their breath.
In battles between monsters like these,
even if they weren't being controlled, they would amount to nothing more than ordinary people—mere cannon fodder.
It seemed that ever since the night of the Uchiha clan's annihilation,
such superhuman battles had become a common sight.
Hikari simply looked up at the towering black Susanoo, her expression calm and unshaken.
Although the Mangekyō patterns in Itachi's eyes didn't match those from when he had gouged out her eyes before,
his crow-based transformation technique and the Yin-Release chakra aura radiating from him made her absolutely certain—
this was the same Uchiha Itachi who had taken her eyes and provoked her back then!
After all, appearances could deceive,
but one's aura could not be faked.
That was Hikari's belief.
Only—
the mask Uchiha Yu had obtained as a quest reward was far too extraordinary.
Not only could it perfectly imitate another person's appearance without being exposed,
its most outrageous ability was that it could even replicate another person's aura.
At that moment, the originally fifty-meter-tall black fourth-stage Susanoo suddenly began to expand in size as the Amaterasu fire tornado swept toward it.
The violent Yin-Release chakra surging within it climbed rapidly.
The armor of the black fourth-stage Susanoo ballooned outward, and the legs beneath its greaves continued to grow taller.
Only when it neared the hundred-meter height of a near-complete Susanoo, and its massive body became proportionally balanced, did the expansion finally stop.
At this point, the black fourth-stage Susanoo had reached a height capable of standing toe-to-toe with the Amaterasu dragon tornado.
"AAAH—!"
Itachi roared in fury as thick blood poured from both eyes.
He now stood within the jewel-like cockpit embedded in the helmet of the black Susanoo.
Enhanced Susanoo!
This was the Mangekyō Sharingan technique of Fugaku's right eye.
The abilities of the left and right eyes were both enhancement-type techniques.
One eye amplified ordinary ninjutsu, while the other enhanced Susanoo.
At this moment, the black fourth-stage Susanoo was already no weaker than a Complete Body Susanoo—its only flaw being the lack of wings, which prevented it from soaring through the sky.
Itachi manipulated the hundred-meter-tall black Susanoo and stepped forward. Black flames burned across its surface as it used its massive Susanoo body to directly withstand the Amaterasu Fire Dragon Tornado.
Boom—!
Two similar forms of energy collided, causing the surface of the entire Land of Fire capital to quake violently.
Sand and soil were blasted skyward—
Then rained back down.
At the center of the collision, it was as though a nuclear bomb had detonated. Pillars of fire shot into the heavens, sending rings of energy rippling outward.
High above, a magnificent white mushroom cloud rose into the sky.
The Amaterasu Fire Dragon Tornado exploded apart, scattering black flames across the capital of the Land of Fire, instantly setting many buildings ablaze.
Civilians fled in panic.
The black fourth-stage Susanoo was blasted backward, crashing heavily into the city blocks and crushing numerous buildings beneath it.
Pff—
Itachi's real body seemed to suffer a devastating blow. Blood sprayed from his mouth, and combined with the blood streaming from both of his eyes, he was already drenched in red.
The black Susanoo struggled to rise from the ground, staggering backward several steps before finally stabilizing itself.
Its armor had been completely shattered by the high-intensity shockwaves— even the jeweled cockpit in its battle helmet was on the verge of collapsing.
Black Amaterasu flames that would never extinguish still burned across its surface.
Yet Itachi clenched his teeth and remained standing inside the Susanoo. As his mind and consciousness barely recovered—
As long as he could break through the opponent's ocular technique, he could confront them directly with Susanoo itself.
As a genius of the Uchiha clan—
He could not lose!
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