Chapter 264: A Light That Cannot Be Looked Upon

Chapter 264: Chapter 264: A Light That Cannot Be Looked Upon

Just how large could Susanoo become at its absolute limit? Even Hyuga Kagami wasn’t sure.

But in his memory, during the Fourth Great Ninja War, Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo had effortlessly reached a scale where it seemed to tower above the mountains themselves. Judging from that, the upper limit of Susanoo should be somewhere around two to three hundred meters in height.

In truth, there was another reason Kagami had agreed to Uchiha Ryota’s request for a battle: he wanted to observe just how powerful this pair of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan would be in the hands of their original owner.

As a researcher, collecting data had already become second nature to Kagami.

However, judging from the current situation, even with the enhancement of his unique Mangekyo Sharingan ocular ability, Mikoto, Ryota’s Susanoo still couldn’t compare to Uchiha Madara’s.

Kagami thought to himself, "Maybe it’s a matter of chakra..."

Compared to Uchiha Madara, who possessed Indra’s chakra, Ryota was inferior by far, whether in terms of chakra reserves or chakra potency.

On top of that, Kagami’s previous "stimulation experiments" had not only cost Ryota an arm, but had also inflicted numerous irreversible injuries upon his body, severely damaging his vitality. These weren’t wounds that could simply be healed by resting for a few days.

Therefore, it wasn’t particularly surprising that Ryota’s Susanoo was inferior to Madara’s.

Even so, the golden Susanoo before him—nearly a hundred meters tall, equivalent to a building more than thirty stories high—still gave Kagami an indescribable sense of oppression.

At that moment, Ryota, standing within the Susanoo, declared, "Hyuga Kagami, right now, I feel like there’s nothing I can’t do!"

Kagami slowly formed hand seals as he replied, "If I win, I hope you’ll keep your word!"

Ryota burst into wild laughter. "If you can defeat me as I am now, then I won’t have any complaints about you taking these eyes!"

Whoosh...

In an instant, sky-blue chakra enveloped Kagami’s entire body. His eyes also transformed from pure white into a brilliant sapphire blue, as though countless stars were contained within them.

Staring transfixed at the Tenseigan in Kagami’s eyes, Ryota instinctively felt a shudder run through him.

"So these are your evolved eyes?"

Kagami didn’t answer. He merely raised a hand.

Immediately, one Truth-Seeking Ball after another emerged from the center of Kagami’s forehead.

Five in total.

They gathered around his raised right hand and began spinning rapidly.

Staring at the Truth-Seeking Balls whirling around Kagami’s right hand, a wary expression appeared on Ryota’s face.

Although Ryota believed that Kagami’s victory over him that night hadn’t been entirely fair, he still vividly remembered the golden sword technique Kagami had used to shatter his Susanoo.

And he knew perfectly well that Kagami’s golden sword had been formed by combining these very black spheres.

"I have to strike first!"

Ryota quickly made up his mind and let out a loud shout.

As Ryota unleashed his chakra, his golden Susanoo immediately soared into the sky, two massive swords formed from golden flames appearing in its hands.

Immediately afterward, the golden Susanoo swung both flaming swords down at Kagami with tremendous force.

Compared to the enormous Susanoo, which stood nearly a hundred meters tall and wielded two gigantic flaming swords, Kagami appeared incredibly small even while enveloped in Tenseigan Chakra Mode.

Watching the two enormous flaming swords slash toward him head-on, Kagami’s figure suddenly flickered.

He transformed into a streak of sky-blue light and narrowly shot through the gap between the Susanoo’s two flaming blades!

BOOM...

The two flaming swords that had failed to strike Kagami instead slammed into a nearby hill.

Amid a deafening explosion, the entire hill was blasted apart, sending dust and debris billowing into the sky.

Golden flames scattered in every direction, raining down across the surrounding ground.

Whether it was grass or shrubs, the instant they came into contact with those golden flames, they immediately erupted into a raging sea of fire!

In the air—

Having narrowly evaded Ryota’s attack, Kagami didn’t pause for even an instant. His figure blurred again as he began circling rapidly around the enormous Susanoo.

Kagami knew perfectly well that trying to win a battle of attrition against Ryota, who now possessed the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, would be far too time-consuming and exhausting.

The correct way to deal with Ryota was to take advantage of the fact that he didn’t understand the true nature of the Truth-Seeking Balls. Kagami would launch a surprise attack with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, rapidly break through Ryota’s Susanoo just as he had before, and secure the victory in one decisive strike.

Watching Kagami circle around him like a streak of light, Ryota’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan darted from side to side, desperately trying to lock onto Kagami’s movements.

However, Ryota had only used the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and controlled Susanoo once or twice at most.

So even though his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan could barely track Kagami’s movements, the enormous Susanoo under his control simply couldn’t keep up with Kagami’s rapid maneuvers.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Amid a succession of piercing sounds as he tore through the air, Kagami continued circling at incredible speed, searching for an opening in Ryota’s defenses.

Suddenly, a dazzling golden sword appeared in Kagami’s hand.

At the same moment, his entire body transformed into a streaking meteor as he charged at Ryota from behind!

But Ryota was no longer in the same state he’d been in that night, when both his mental and physical strength had been pushed to their limits.

Although he still couldn’t completely keep up with Kagami’s speed, he managed to react in time.

BOOM!

Amid a thunderous explosion, the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion in Kagami’s hand pierced Ryota’s Susanoo!

However, the point it struck wasn’t the back of the neck where Kagami had been aiming.

Instead, it pierced the Susanoo’s left arm.

In that split second, Ryota had controlled his Susanoo and, at the very last moment, managed to turn sideways and raise its arm to defend himself.

Ryota was overjoyed.

"I blocked it! Now it’s my turn to counterattack!"

Crack...

But just as Ryota was about to swing the massive flaming sword in the Susanoo’s right hand at Kagami, the sound of something cracking reached his ears.

Ryota’s eyes immediately narrowed.

"How is this possible!?"

He had already tried to overestimate the power of Kagami’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion as much as possible. To block Kagami’s thrust, he had even decisively sacrificed the Susanoo’s entire left arm.

But never in his wildest imagination had he expected that the left arm he’d used as a shield wouldn’t even be able to delay Kagami for more than a few breaths!

Kagami was also somewhat surprised.

"Even my Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion is having trouble breaking through a Complete Body Susanoo enhanced by Mikoto? It’s actually this tough?"

After being caught on the Susanoo’s left arm, Kagami’s breakthrough speed had been greatly reduced.

His expression hardened.

Two more pitch-black Truth-Seeking Balls suddenly emerged from the center of his forehead and merged into the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion in his right hand.

In an instant, the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion in his hand blazed like the brilliant sun overhead, erupting with a radiance so dazzling that even the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan could not look directly upon it...