Konoha: The Absolute Justice of the Uchiha

Chapter 206 Lava Release and the Three-Tails! (More to come later)
On the scorched, cracked earth where lava flowed, the thick black smoke and choking dust were slightly dispersed by an invisible wave of air, making the view a little clearer.

Pipa Juzo squinted, straining to look at the edge of the explosion's epicenter.

The next second, his pupils suddenly contracted slightly!
Behind the gradually thinning smoke and dust, an enormous, dark gray shadow, as large as a mountain, was faintly visible!

The oppressive feeling emanating from that silhouette seemed to freeze the air, and it also reminded Biwa Juzo of something.

Pipa Juzo couldn't help but gasp, as the sulfurous and burnt smells in the air seemed to turn icy cold.

He muttered to himself, "The Three-Tails...Isobu...has it finally been released by the Mizukage?"

Uchiha Izumi, standing nearby, strained to open her eyes wide, gazing into the distance with a mixture of curiosity and instinctive wariness.

Obstructed by the smoke and dust, she could only barely make out a huge, tortoise-shaped outline, like a small mountain.

Her first impression of the outline was that it was a giant tortoise magnified a thousand times and filled with an ominous aura!
The enormous creature seemed to be in a state of extreme rage.

Each breath was like a howling wind, accompanied by a muffled, thunderous, and unsettling sound!

Even from such a great distance, Quan could clearly feel the slight vibrations coming from the ground beneath his feet.

And the pure wildness and destructive desire contained in that voice.

"Is this... a tailed beast, just like the nine-tailed fox that attacked the village?"

Quan murmured softly, her palms sweating slightly.

As the swirling smoke and dust were dispersed by a gust of hot wind, the terrifying true form of the Three-Tailed Isobu was finally fully revealed to everyone.

Its shape does indeed resemble a giant tortoise, but it is a form distorted by the Creator's unaesthetic hand.

The massive body was not covered by an ordinary tortoise shell, but by a thick, grayish-white, metallic-looking shell covered with huge, hard spikes that stood up like mountain peaks, making it look ferocious and terrifying.

Its head was unusually large, and the top and lower half of its face were covered with a jumble of grayish-white spikes. One of its eyes seemed to be blind, while the other was filled with primal ferocity.

It gives people an indescribable sense of ugliness and ferocity!

Behind it were three tails that thrashed wildly like giant pythons, each covered with hard joints and barbs, their swings accompanied by a shrill sound as they cut through the air.

The parts of the Three-Tailed Isobu not covered by its shell appeared a dark red, like living muscle.

It also has striped textures like biological muscle fibers, as if it is wriggling slightly, exuding an amazing vitality.

What's even more striking is that—atop that ugly, enormous head, the upper body of the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi, is clearly visible!
His lower body seemed to have completely merged with the Three-Tails' body, his eyes were closed, and his face was unnaturally pale.

He seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, which was unlike the legendary perfect Jinchuriki. He was not currently controlling the power of the Tailed Beast perfectly.

It seems...

The Fourth Mizukage was indeed being manipulated.

This wasn't the first time Izumi had seen a tailed beast.

The terrifying scene from that night of the Nine-Tailed Fox remains a haunting nightmare for her—a gigantic, orange-red fox rampaged and roared, and her father's figure was buried forever beneath the ruins after that moment…

"call……"

She exhaled a heavy breath, trying to suppress her surging emotions, and murmured, "He released the Nine-Tailed Fox in Konoha and controlled the Three-Tailed Fox in Kirigakure... Just as Izumi-senpai said, even dying ten thousand times would not be enough to atone for his sins."

Perched on her shoulder, Tachibana Jiro's cat eyes widened in disbelief, and he finally managed to utter a remark: "What a huge turtle, meow..."

It paused for a moment, but couldn't help adding a heartfelt complaint.

"Meow, it's uniquely ugly!"

……

"The Mizukage... he... he unleashed the power of the Tailed Beasts!!"

far away.

A seriously injured Kirigakure ANBU ninja struggled to prop himself up with one arm, while clutching his aching chest with the other.

When he looked up and saw the enormous object in the smoke and dust, his face was filled with shock and disbelief.

He tried to get up, wanting to rush over to help.

But the waves of tearing pain that came through his body made his legs go weak, and he fell heavily to his knees again!
"puff--"

Several more mouthfuls of bright red blood spurted from his mouth, splattering onto the scorched ground.

His face grew even more withered, and his breath was like a candle flickering in the wind.

"Damn..."

He gritted his teeth in resentment, his fingernails almost digging into the scorched earth.

at this time--

A large hand, clearly scalded with several blisters and with bright red skin, silently reached out from behind him.

With an irresistible force, it pressed firmly onto his shoulder.

They pressed his body, which he had just tried to lift, back down!
The ANBU ninja's pupils suddenly contracted!
His combat instincts, honed through long-term training, made him almost instinctively reach into his ninja tool pouch at his waist and pull out a kunai.

Without even looking, he stabbed fiercely behind him!

However, his wrist was precisely grabbed in mid-air by another large hand, like an iron clamp.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move forward an inch!

"It's me." Only when a cold yet familiar voice rang out from behind him did his tense nerves relax slightly.

The Hidden Mist ninja turned around in astonishment and saw a face that was also covered in dust and bloodstains, and looked somewhat disheveled, but still exuded a fierce aura—Momochi Zabuza!

"...Demon?" The Kirigakure ANBU ninja was taken aback, clearly not expecting it to be him.

Zabuza Momochi released his grip, but his gaze never left the monstrous Three-Tailed Isobu in the distance.

Bloodstains still lingered at the corner of his mouth as he spoke in an utterly cold voice, "Since Lord Mizukage has already used the power of the Tailed Beasts, it means... he's determined to deal with all the enemies alone. We, who are already half-crippled, should now go..."

He paused, a hint of barely perceptible sarcasm in his voice: "...You're not helping him, you're making things difficult for him, becoming a burden. Do you want the Mizukage to be dealing with powerful enemies while also having to protect a useless piece of trash like you who can't even stand up straight?"

These words stung the hearts of the ANBU ninjas.

He opened his mouth, but in the end, he could only lower his head in frustration and slam his fist into the ground: "Damn it! How could that Lava Release monster from Konoha be this strong?!"

"In just one exchange, we suffered heavy casualties. Lord Mizukage was even forced to unleash the power of the Tailed Beasts... Logically speaking, in any previous situation, Lord Mizukage would have revealed such a trump card as the Tailed Beasts as the last thing he would have done..."

Zabuza Momochi did not answer.

He simply stared silently at the devastating scene in the distance, feeling the stinging pain from the burns on his body.

His obstruction of this secret agent was naturally driven by his own selfish motives.

Uchiha Izumi's attack, which resembled a natural disaster and instantly crippled more than thirty elite Kirigakure ANBU members, was so terrifying that it seemed to Zabuza Momochi saw a glimmer of light he had never seen before in the endless darkness of blood mist.

That was a glimmer of hope for overthrowing the existing order.

That man...

Terribly strong!
He was ridiculously strong! Perhaps... he was the only one among everyone present who had the ability to completely destroy the Mizukage, who was like a nightmare shrouding the Hidden Mist Village, not through conspiracy or assassination, but through sheer power!

even if...

He was a ninja from another village.

……

"The Lava Release beast of Konoha, the man rumored to have assassinated the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, the most dangerous and unpredictable ninja in the entire ninja world—Uchiha Ikezumi!"

the other side.

Mei Terumi's beautiful eyes held a deep sense of solemnity and apprehension as she recalled the rumors circulating in the ninja world about Uchiha Ikezumi. She took a deep breath of the air, which seemed to carry a slight sulfurous smell.

As a ninja with two bloodline limits, Mei Terumi could more clearly feel the despairing gap between herself and her opponent!

Although her Boil Release and Lava Release are powerful, they could never cause the terrifying destructive power that resembles a natural disaster!

What puzzled her even more was—why?
Why did Uchiha Izumi from Konoha suddenly appear in the Land of Water?

Shouldn't the Mizukage be hunting down the rogue ninja, Juzo Biwa?
How could such a fierce conflict have broken out with this Konoha Fiend?

Has it come to the point where we need to use the Tailed Beasts?

"The key is..." Mei Terumi said warily, "The most dangerous man in the ninja world has come to the Land of Water. For the Land of Water, this is definitely an unexpected disaster."

I am afraid……

The nobles in the Land of Water, as well as the daimyo of the Land of Water, will not be able to sleep well for a while.

This is a ninja who truly dares to kill those who are "superior"!
Logically speaking.

As a ninja from Kirigakure, Mei Terumi should hurry to support Yagura Karatachi, who is now the Mizukage.

but.

She held back.

Her intuition told her that the Mizukage was acting very strangely. Perhaps she could discover some odd clues during the battle between the Mizukage and Uchiha Izumi.

……

"fool--!!!"

The Three-Tailed Isobu exhaled a powerful breath of turbid air filled with dense chakra, the aura spreading outwards like a tangible fog.

Wherever it passed, even the black smoke floating in the air was dispersed.

One of its eyes was tightly closed, with strange marks on its eyelid that looked like burns or scratches, while its other huge eye, wide open, was filled with a violent, cruel, and insane will!

That gaze, filled with destructive desire, was fixed on the tiny yet extremely dangerous Uchiha Ikezumi below.

If you look closely, you can see a faint, ominous red glint flashing by in the deepest part of that pupil.

On Isobu's ugly, gigantic face, the muscles suddenly twisted and twitched, a flash of extreme pain and struggle passing through his eyes.

It was as if something was fiercely resisting deep within its consciousness.

But soon, that struggle was completely crushed by a stronger, external will.

Instead, it has become a purer, more frenzied brutality!

boom--! ! !
A suffocatingly violent surge of tailed beast chakra erupted from its body like a burst dam, its dark red aura enveloping its form.
The already scorching air around them began to distort and tremble violently, emitting a buzzing resonance!
Bang! ! !
Isobu's two thick, pillar-like forelimbs violently crushed the already ravaged ground beneath its feet!

It suddenly raised its ugly head, its cheeks bulging exaggeratedly like air sacs, and a massive amount of chakra frantically gathered into its mouth!

puff! ! !
The next moment, a giant water sphere, twenty or thirty meters in diameter, highly compressed and containing terrifying impact—the "Water Iron Cannon Technique"—sprayed out of its mouth like a giant cannon fired from its barrel!

The "water cannon" tore through the air with lightning speed.

With a mournful howl, it swooped down violently towards the location of Uchiha Ikezumi!

Wherever it passed, even the air was distorted!
At this moment, Uchiha Izumi still stood silently on the scorched earth where lava flowed.

Behind them was a terrifying giant crater, hundreds of meters in diameter and bottomless, like the entrance to an abyss.

His expression remained unchanged in the face of a Tailed Beast-level Water Release attack that could easily destroy an ordinary village.

His right hand had long since been completely elementalized, transforming into scorching, viscous, crimson magma!
Furthermore, the magma arm was expanding, compressing, expanding again, and compressing again at an astonishing frequency!

With each cycle, the color of the arm became a deeper crimson, and the molten lava energy accumulated inside became even more terrifying!
It's as if all the energy of a volcano about to erupt has been compressed into this one arm!
Just as the enormous "water cannon" was about to engulf him within inches...

Uchiha Izumi clenched his molten fist tightly!

Lava Release: Great Fireball!!!
boom--! ! !
A massive, far larger, and more ferocious lava fist than the "Water Cannon" erupted like a volcano that had been suppressed for thousands of years!
Carrying the extreme heat that could burn the entire world and the terrifying impact that could shatter everything, it was unleashed with fierce force!
The expanding magma arm reached its limit instantly, and its crimson light even overshadowed the color of the sky!

Zila——! ! !
boom! ! !
At the moment of their violent collision, the extreme heat and the icy pressure of the water sphere clashed violently! The ear-piercing sound was like ten thousand red-hot irons being plunged into the icy sea at the same time!
The massive "Water Iron Cannon Technique" was almost instantly vaporized by the terrifyingly high temperature on the surface of the lava giant fist upon contact.

It exploded into a sky full of scalding white steam!
The surface of the lava giant fist was also blasted open by the fierce impact of the water cannon, leaving a huge gap.

Crimson lava splashed everywhere!
but!

This small loss is simply not enough to stop the "Great Flame's" unstoppable destructive momentum!
The remaining giant lava fist, still carrying unparalleled power, slammed down fiercely towards the three-tailed Isobu's main body!
The pupils of the three-tailed isobu's frenzied eyes suddenly trembled, clearly not expecting its attack to be so easily thwarted.

"Roar!!!"

It let out a sharp roar, and its three barbed tails, almost simultaneously, lashed out like three giant steel whips with the power to shatter mountains, fiercely striking the incoming lava fist!

Try to intercept it!

however……

puff!

Zila——! ! !
The instant its tail touched the scorching lava...

"Roaraaaaaaahh ...

The Three-Tailed Isobu suddenly let out a deafening, agonizing scream filled with extreme pain!
The sound even sent chills down the spines of the ninjas watching from afar!

Its three incredibly hard tails were sliced ​​off in mid-air the instant they collided with the lava fist, just like a wax figure being cut by a hot knife!

The break was incredibly smooth, and you could even see the boiling, dissipating Tailed Beast Chakra inside!

Only three bare, half-tailed tails remained, dangling helplessly!

There was no blood at the cut, only a large amount of tailed beast chakra overflowing and dissipating wildly as if out of control, and traces of being instantly carbonized by the high temperature!

The intense pain caused the remaining single eye of the Three-Tailed Isobu to instantly become covered with hideous blood vessels.

A frenzied, violent aura erupted from its body as if it were a tangible entity!

……

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P.S.: Still writing, trying to catch up on the update I missed yesterday when I took a day off from the hospital (that darn yellow catfish!!!)
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