Chapter 593: The Spinning Tomoe

Chapter 593: Chapter 593: The Spinning Tomoe

Hearing Danzo’s utterly ruthless words and looking at the mysterious, eerie altar below him, the Kumo shinobi possessing Storm Release realized something. His face filled with horror as he asked, "Y-You intend to imitate Hiruko?!"

The Kiri kunoichi possessing Boil Release couldn’t help trembling. "You damned demon!"

As the Akatsuki rose to prominence, the name ’Hiruko’ had become a nightmare for many shinobi possessing Kekkei Genkai.

This was because Hiruko and the forbidden technique he had developed, the Chimera Technique, had turned every shinobi possessing a Kekkei Genkai into potential prey.

Standing at the center of the altar, Danzo cast one final indifferent glance at the five shinobi bound to the execution racks before bringing his hands together.

Clap...

With a crisp clap, the bandages wrapped around his body burst apart one after another, and countless streams of transparent substance spread outward through the gaps between them.

These substances were the new Chimera Bud developed by Kagami and Orochimaru.

The reason they had chosen to conduct the Bloodline Fusion Ritual inside a volcanic cavern, aside from other considerations, was partly to accommodate this new type of Chimera Bud.

This was because the new Chimera Buds were affected by temperature. In a high-temperature environment, their activity would surpass that of the old Chimera Bud, producing a much stronger fusion effect.

"Lord Raikage will definitely avenge me!"

"What the hell is this thing?!"

"Stay away from me!"

"Please, I beg you! Spare me!"

"Ughhh..."

Bound to the execution racks and unable to move, the five shinobi possessing Kekkei Genkai saw the Chimera Bud surging toward them. Some cursed loudly, others begged for mercy in terror, while still others broke down in tears.

Danzo watched their reactions with disdain.

As a civilian-born shinobi without a Kekkei Genkai, Danzo, like Orochimaru, had always sought to obtain the power of bloodline abilities. Every one of the cruel human experiments he had conducted in secret had been aimed at satisfying his desire for this power.

Now that everything was about to become his, Danzo couldn’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of superiority, as though he stood above all living beings and looked down upon them.

It was as if, at this very moment, he had already become a god!

Watching Danzo’s eyes gradually grow unfocused atop the altar, Orochimaru revealed a sinister smile. At the same time, a greedy glint flashed through his snake-like vertical pupils.

For one brief instant, the way he looked at Danzo was as though he were admiring a work of art—a work of art that would soon belong to him.

Meanwhile, Kagami activated the two observation instruments beside him. Beneath his flame-patterned mask, his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, bearing an interwoven pattern of triangles and diamonds, appeared in his eye sockets!

"AHHH... AHHH... AHHH..."

Amid a series of screams and roars, the Chimera Bud extending from Danzo’s body wrapped around the five shinobi bound to the execution racks and pulled them down one after another.

Soon, the five shinobi’s agonized cries grew fainter and fainter.

As they were gradually enveloped and devoured by the transparent Chimera Bud, the altar slowly fell silent. Only the writhing sounds of the Chimera Bud and the howling of the swirling air currents remained.

Beneath his flame-patterned mask, a trace of surprise appeared on Kagami’s previously unperturbed face.

He had predicted that the new Chimera Bud would possess somewhat greater devouring capabilities than the old ones in a high-temperature environment, but he had never expected the difference to be this significant.

Compared to Hiruko’s devouring process, Danzo’s attempt was proceeding so smoothly that it was almost unbelievable. Kagami even had the feeling that Danzo wasn’t exerting his full strength to activate the Chimera Bud.

With this thought in mind, Kagami turned his head and glanced at Orochimaru, the man who had discovered this new type of material for the Chimera Bud, and inwardly marveled, "What an extraordinary discovery!"

Suddenly, Kagami’s brows furrowed.

Only now did he notice that something was very wrong with the way Orochimaru was looking at the altar. It was a gaze filled with anticipation, covetousness, and even greed!

"Hah!"

At that moment, Danzo let out a loud shout from atop the altar, urging the Chimera Bud that had devoured the five shinobi to return to his body!

The Bloodline Fusion Ritual had reached its most critical stage, and Kagami did not dare allow himself to be distracted. He withdrew his gaze from Orochimaru, forcibly suppressed the faint unease rising in his heart, and focused all his attention on Danzo atop the altar.

Devouring the targets with the Chimera Bud was merely the first step. The truly difficult part was the fusion that followed—using the power of a single individual to fuse, all at once, an amount of flesh and blood five times greater than his own!

As the Chimera Bud that had devoured the five shinobi returned to Danzo’s body one after another, his expression began fluctuating unpredictably, as though countless different emotions were simultaneously reflected on his face.

"AHHH!"

Danzo roared as he unleashed every last bit of his chakra without reservation!

BOOM...

In an instant, an enormous amount of chakra, visible to the naked eye, enveloped Danzo’s body. With the eruption of this chakra, the fusion process rapidly intensified!

"Such powerful chakra!"

Kagami exclaimed in astonishment, his brows tightly furrowed.

Even Kagami couldn’t help being shocked by the amount of chakra Danzo was unleashing at this moment. It had already far exceeded the limits of an ordinary shinobi and was vaguely approaching the level of a Jinchuriki.

If the Dragon Vein Chakra was excluded, even Kagami’s Yin Release true body would probably be inferior to the current Danzo in terms of sheer chakra reserves.

Beside him, Orochimaru chuckled. "Not bad. Not bad at all!"

Kagami suddenly felt that the human modification surgery Orochimaru had performed on Danzo was probably not as simple as he had previously imagined. However, at the moment, he simply couldn’t spare the attention to think about it.

On the altar.

Danzo roared, "Not enough! It’s still not enough! Orochimaru, activate the chakra transmission array!"

Even after unleashing such an enormous amount of chakra, it was still insufficient for the fusion process. The fusion speed had yet to reach Danzo’s expectations, so he ordered Orochimaru to activate the chakra transmission array outside the cavern without hesitation.

Orochimaru wasted no words. He decisively formed a hand seal and pressed his palm against the sealing array controlling the ritual.

In an instant, the more than 1,500 Konoha shinobi assembled outside the volcanic cavern simultaneously felt their chakra being extracted by the sealing formulas beneath their feet.

"Everyone, remain calm! This is merely a routine chakra transmission test!"

Dozens of Root shinobi patrolled the perimeter of the shinobi formation, reassuring the Konoha shinobi whose chakra was being drained in large quantities.

Meanwhile, inside the volcanic cavern, with the chakra support of more than 1,500 Konoha shinobi, the pressure on Danzo atop the altar immediately eased considerably, and the fusion process accelerated significantly.

Kagami pushed the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in his eye sockets to their limits, attempting to capture every single detail of what was happening on the altar.

But at that very moment, he suddenly sensed an increasingly powerful Power of All Creation erupting from Danzo’s body as he underwent fusion.

And as this Yin-Yang power continued to rise, both eyes in Danzo’s sockets simultaneously transformed into three-tomoe Sharingan.

The three tomoe began spinning rapidly, gradually converging together...