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Endless Earth Grudge erupted, instantly claiming the lives of forty-four thousand White Zetsu.
Of an army of eighty-seven thousand, over half were annihilated the moment they set foot on the battlefield.
Such brutality… Even Obito felt a chill crawl down his spine.
Shikaku said gravely, "Sasuke… he has truly reached the pinnacle of the shinobi world. He possesses the power to challenge the entire world alone. Lord Obito, if you wish to win this war, you must be prepared to make a true sacrifice."
"A sacrifice…"
Obito's gaze darkened. A black rod slid from his sleeve into his waiting hand. He gritted his teeth—and drove it clean through his own right palm.
CRUNCH!
Blood erupted. Under the force of his Rinnegan, the crimson torrent gathered in the sky, swelling into a massive, churning orb.
Obito's eyes blazed. His hand seals shifted.
The blood orb, now bloated to its limit, shot out countless tendrils of red light. They spread across the entire battlefield, weaving and flowing, forming a grand, horrific seal circle for the Impure World Reincarnation.
"This formation is…!!"
Sasuke's pupils constricted. In the next instant, two shadow clones appeared beside him. They grabbed him and hurled him high into the air. His cursed wings beat once, and he shot beyond the perimeter of the formation, landing beside Itachi and Nagato, who had rushed to join him.
The original White Zetsu understood Obito's intention.
"You're really going through with this? My clones aren't renewable. We may never return to how we were."
Obito's voice was iron. "It doesn't matter! All that matters is the future we will have!!"
White Zetsu sighed. "…Fine. We were born to be pawns, after all…"
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
A collective, earth-shaking scream erupted from the surviving forty-three thousand White Zetsu. The countless spiked tendrils of the hellish grudge lifted their fallen comrades' corpses into the air, and an invisible force crushed them to dust.
Then, the living White Zetsu were sacrificed, fueling the technique that remade the dead ones into immortal Edo Tensei puppets.
The sight was stomach-turning.
Nagato's face was stony. "To abuse the Edo Tensei to this extent… He is utterly mad."
Itachi's voice was calm, final. "When Heaven desires a man's destruction, it first drives him mad."
"Then we shall act as Heaven's agents," Sasuke said, his Sharingan fixed ahead. "And destroy him."
The Edo Tensei White Zetsu army, now unkillable and unfeeling, began a brutal, unyielding advance.
From high above, Obito's eyes burned crimson. His voice, dripping with arrogance, boomed across the field.
"Sasuke! Now, faced with this immortal legion… can you still afford to be so leisurely?!"
"Hmph."
Sasuke snorted, preparing to move.
"Wait, Sasuke."
Nagato stepped forward, his tone firm. "My abilities are better suited for this situation. Leave it to me!"
"Chibaku Tensei? I admit it's the perfect counter for immortal enemies. But creating a Chibaku Tensei large enough to seal forty thousand… given the current 'upper limit' of your chakra, even for you, it would be a tremendous strain."
Sasuke was being polite. The "infinite chakra" of Edo Tensei maintained a constant, limited reservoir, which in turn limited the scale of techniques one could perform.
Nagato offered a confident, small smile. "If I cannot increase the power, I shall overcome it with numbers."
Sasuke and Itachi were taken aback. "Numbers? Multiple Chibaku Tensei?"
"Watch."
Nagato smiled wider. He formed a unique series of hand seals.
CLACK-CLACK! CLUNK!
His Edo Tensei body began to transform. Armored plates slid into place, mechanical joints hissed with steam.
"Using the mechanical constructs of the Asura Path to achieve full automation of the technique. The cost is that my main body must remain firmly anchored to the ground… In life, this move would drain my chakra in an instant. It is the ultimate 'black technology' only possible by combining the Rinnegan with Edo Tensei!"
—The Asura Perpetual Motion Engine!
Nagato's now-fully mechanized hands formed the seal for Chibaku Tensei.
ZZZZZRT—!
From launcher pods that deployed on his back, the dense black cores of Chibaku Tensei formed. They fired into the sky like a machine gun barrage.
"Give me enough time, and I could lift the entire planet into the heavens! A mere forty thousand White Zetsu… I'll swallow them whole!"
Watching the sky fill with the dark orbs, Sasuke felt genuine awe. "As expected of you. In the development of the Rinnegan's powers, Nagato, no one can hold a candle to you!"
BOOOOOOM—!!!
The daylight vanished. The earth itself groaned and tore upwards. The White Zetsu, helpless against the irresistible gravitational pull, were sucked into the sky, merging into masses of writhing bodies before being entombed by a chaotic storm of rock and soil.
In an instant, hundreds of Chibaku Tensei spheres took shape and grew in the now-darkened heavens.
Obito's brow furrowed deeply.
Shikaku's analysis was swift. "That heavy mechanized body is bound to lack mobility, Lord Obito. Target Nagato's main body!"
SWOOSH—!!!
Obito phased through space with Kamui, reappearing directly above the mechanized Nagato.
GRRRRRNCL!
Tread-like constructs emerged from Nagato's base, and he began to roll away—but the mobility was indeed limited.
"Hmph!"
Obito drew the Bashōsen, the Banana Palm Fan, and swung it down with force.
WHOOSH—!!
A cataclysm of lightning, fire, raging wind, crushing earth, and explosive water roared forth.
Seeing he couldn't evade in time, Nagato didn't bother. From ports beside the still-firing Chibaku Tensei launchers, five small, demonic-looking heads emerged.
—Asura Path: Five Devouring Fiends Ritual!
FWOOP!
The five enhanced elemental blasts from the fan were channeled, each according to its nature, directly into the mouths of the five fiends—and absorbed completely.
Obito's eyes narrowed, the power of Wood Release already coiling within him.
"Hm?"
Suddenly, he sensed it. He shifted, becoming intangible.
FZZT!
Almost simultaneously, a blazing crimson magatama passed straight through where his solid form had been.
It was the Yasaka Magatama, fired by Itachi from a blind spot, timed perfectly with the moment Obito would have to materialize to attack.
"He… avoided it."
Itachi's tone held a note of genuine surprise.
Sasuke wove between the still-ascending rocks, but his sharp gaze was fixed elsewhere.
On a squad of Edo Tensei shinobi. The former Jinchuriki.
Six pairs of eyes, each gazing in a different direction.
Sasuke's eyes narrowed. "Sharingan, Rinnegan… That's… the Pains?"
CRUMBLE… BOOM…
The dust settled. The Chibaku Tensei were complete. Forty thousand Edo Tensei White Zetsu were sealed away.
The pale moonlight was smothered. No light pierced the dark canopy of floating spheres.
SWISH!
Obito retreated with Kamui back to his own lines.
He knew it. In the first major exchange, he had lost.
CLANK-CLACK!
Nagato's body shifted, the mechanized parts retracting until he stood in his human form again. He looked up at his handiwork blanketing the sky.
"Without destroying the land itself… this is the limit."
Obito's expression was grim.
He had prepared so meticulously. He had launched a surprise attack. In his estimation, even if this assault wasn't a complete rout, he should have held the overwhelming initiative.
Yet, in such a short time, he had lost that advantage.
Shikaku spoke calmly. "The White Zetsu are merely sealed for now. I have a plan. Do not worry."
"Good."
Obito, carrying Shikaku, landed atop the towering form of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
"Then… let's get to the main event!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Six beams of Tailed Beast chakra—each a different color—erupted from the bodies of the Jinchuriki Pains. This wasn't the crude, full transformations of before. Now, each was sheathed in a glowing, colored chakra cloak.
Sasuke, Nagato, and Itachi's expressions shifted in unison.
—"That's… Tailed Beast Chakra Mode?!"
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