The Uchiha's Path to the Top, Starting from Konoha

Chapter 149 The Destruction Dragon King

Ten days later, a lightly equipped team of adventurers set off from the fortress city of Ye-Lantir and headed towards the Tob Great Forest to the north of the city.

The Tob Forest, which surrounds the southern section of the Angelicia Mountains, is a vast primeval forest with a U-shaped distribution, providing humans with abundant biological resources—herbs, timber, and game.

However, the depths of the forest are also home to a large number of dangerous magical beasts, so ordinary humans can only carry out their gathering activities within a range of about 100 meters around the forest's perimeter.

Adventurers with some skill will venture deeper in search of more precious herbs or other treasures, where visibility will drop rapidly to about ten meters due to the dense trees.

At the same time, the monster's figure will rise rapidly, and you will be attacked by the monster lurking in the darkness if you are not careful.

But that's all in the past.

A wide cement road, constructed using earth and wood ninjutsu, leads directly to the junction of the northern Top Forest and the Angelicia Mountains.

The three great rulers of the forest—the great southern demon beast, the "Forest Wise King," the powerful regenerative battle ogre, the "Eastern Giant," and the "Western Serpent," whose upper body is that of a human elder and whose lower body is that of a snake—were all captured and brought to Konoha.

The remaining weak monsters need no further explanation. The only thing that rendered the combat ninjas helpless and even caused many casualties was a giant plant-type monster discovered deep in the northeastern part of the Tobu Great Forest through a thorough search!

According to the ninja's detection, its strength surpassed that of an ordinary Kage. Chiyo of Sunagakure was defeated and forced to retreat under the attack of the Demon Tree.

If the Demon Tree weren't so difficult to move, Chiyo would most likely have perished on the other continent.

"Your Majesty, according to the intelligence that Iwagakure received from the Slane Theocracy, the Demon Tree is known as the 'Destruction Dragon King' Setorque. It was one of the many terrifying monsters that appeared in the sky hundreds of years ago when it suddenly tore open. It possessed the power to destroy the world and was later defeated or sealed away by the True Dragon Kings."

Uchiha Takeoshi, who was traveling in clone form, was accompanied by Uzumaki Minako, who was riding a warhorse.

Uchiha Muan sat on a four-legged beast that looked like a hamster, with silver fur and a snake tail. Its body was over two meters long, and its tail, covered in snake scales, was over twenty meters long. Its soft fur had the feel of a top-quality sofa.

This monster was none other than the Forest Wise King, Kurasuke. After having over ten kilograms of blood drained from it and having some of its fur and scales cut off, it was used as a mount by Uchiha Muan and roamed the Tobu Great Forest.

Upon returning to his homeland, Kurasuke wore a bittersweet smile, a smile of relief at having narrowly escaped death, and walked briskly on the solid cement road.

Its sensitive nose can detect the countless monster corpses buried beneath the earth.

Therefore, while Kurasuke felt extremely fearful of the important person sitting on him, he also felt an inexplicable sense of peace.

Follow the big shots, and you'll get three meals a day.

Behind Kurasuke were Chiyo riding a horse and several Sunagakure ninjas handling miscellaneous tasks.

The three women of the [Four Weapons] were also by his side. Uchiha Muan had specially sent them out to broaden their horizons. Among the humans of the Magic Continent, adventurers of the Orichalcum level were already rare experts.

However, in the ranking system of the Ninja World Continent, they are only around the level of elite Chunin. Facing a powerful demonic tree like the [Destruction Dragon King] is enough to broaden their horizons and prevent them from becoming complacent.

Chiyo looked at Uchiha Takeoshi ahead, her mind wandering, and she couldn't help but recall the scene when she first saw the Demon Tree.

It was a tree with a trunk that was 100 meters tall, and six tentacle-like branches that were over 300 meters long. In the center of the trunk, below the open mouth, there were terrifying serrated rings. Its powerful aura was like that of a beast about to go berserk, and it was at least a five-tailed beast.

(Just like the Ninja World, the Magic Continent has both incredibly weak individuals and monstrously powerful ones!)

Chiyo felt a pang of worry—she was doing well with Uchiha Takeo, but she didn't know what Bunpuku's unit, the One-Tailed Jinchuriki, would face once they arrived in the desert city.

If there were a being like the "Destruction Dragon King," the Sand Village could truly fall into the abyss of ruin if they weren't careful.

Fortunately, Hanzo the Salamander was also weakened by the Bahars Empire's counter-ambush, and the war with the Empire entered a true stalemate.

The war between Iwagakure and the Slane Theocracy is progressing at an increasingly slow pace. With Amegakure serving as a cautionary tale, the Fifth Hokage Han is becoming increasingly cautious in the face of the strongest theocracy in human history.

Among the three Kage villages, Kirigakure is the most powerful. In its conquest of the Argland Council, it has chosen the same strategy as Konoha against the kingdom, constantly replacing the local demi-human race administrators. Recently, there have been rumors that it has encountered a formidable obstacle.

The fact that the top three Kage villages were all in trouble gave Chiyo a breather, and she no longer had to worry about the Sand Village falling far behind. She sent her blessings to Bunpuku and his group, who were far away in the vast desert, hoping that everything would go well for them.

Unaware of Chiyo's thoughts, Uchiha Takeo slowly said, "The essence of the Magic Continent is no less than that of the Ninja World Continent. There is the True Dragon King in the past and an object from another world in the future. Now let's practice with the [Destruction Dragon King] Setorque."

"Minako, this battle is in your hands."

While Uchiha Muan struggled to control battles at the Six Paths level, he remained confident in battles below the Six Paths level.

Minako Uzumaki responded with a gentle and confident smile.

Time passed slowly, and when the cement road came to an end, the group walked into the forest, where they soon came to a desolate scene.

A towering, Cthulhu-like demonic tree, with six winding, dragon-like branches and tentacles, pierced the earth. The surrounding trees and earth turned gray at a visible speed, and all life was being taken away by the demonic tree, becoming nutrients for its own growth.

The people of the ninja world were alright; they knew that there were enormous tailed beasts in the world, but when they saw the [Destruction Dragon King] Setorque, they were simply shocked.

However, the three women of the Four Horsemen stared in disbelief at Setorque, which lay sprawled across the earth, like ants looking at an elephant. Their very existence instinctively gave rise to the thought that they were no match for him, and their past smugness was completely shattered.

"For those who are level 80 or above but haven't reached level 90, Minako is the perfect fit."

With his consciousness connected to the sea of ​​magic, Uchiha Muan used his powerful mental insight technique to discover the strength range of the [Destruction Dragon King]. At the same time, the strong aura of another dimension emanating from the other party stirred something within him.

(Looks like I won't be lonely anymore.)

(End of this chapter)