Mizukage's Pokémon Ninja Scroll

Chapter 477 Zabuza Gets a Major Upgrade

Outside the Hidden Mist Village, in a spacious training ground.

The sudden explosion was accompanied by a faint, strange corrosive sound, and a giant tree more than ten meters tall collapsed with a crash.

The massive amount of sand and dust kicked up by the fallen tree enveloped a corner of the training ground in a thick haze.

"Cough cough cough~"

A series of coughs followed.

Jianchuan Ju, somewhat speechless, clasped his hands together and released a ninjutsu.

"Wind Release: After the Typhoon Passes"

The howling typhoon surged instantly, sweeping up all the dust and smoke in front of them in the blink of an eye, and quickly dissipating this "sandstorm" into the dense forest beside the training ground.

As the smoke and dust cleared, revealing Zabuza's figure, Tachibana Kanagawa sighed helplessly.

"I told you, don't keep experimenting with the same tree, and sure enough, it fell down, didn't it?"

Somewhat embarrassed, Zabuza scratched his head and walked towards Tachibana.

The blue-purple aura surrounding him gradually dissipated with his steps, merging back into his body.

"My condition was actually quite stable, but I didn't expect the ninjutsu you taught me to be so powerful."

Seeing Zabuza's unusually flustered expression, Tachibana Kenkawa naturally wouldn't be too harsh on him.

As for Zabuza's "State One," it is actually the state in which dark chakra automatically overflows when he calls upon the power of the Zero-Tails in his normal form.

A few days ago, after Tachibana Kenkawa personally intervened and divided the three-tailed creature in the vegetative state and infused it into Zabuza's body, the Zero-Tails inside him was successfully accelerated to its complete form.

Contrary to initial expectations, the fusion of the Three-Tails' power with the remnants of the Zero-Tails is progressing very smoothly.

However, during the fusion process, the remnants of Zabuza's own spiritual imprints also rapidly merged into the newly formed tailed beast body through the fusion of the two forces.

Thus, the original plan to use the power of the tailed beasts to dilute the negative consciousness within the Zero-Tails completely fell through.

Although the negative emotions remaining from the spiritual imprint resulted in an absurdly small depletion of energy in the three-tailed husk held by Tachibana Kanagawa.

It used less than one-tenth of its total chakra.

However, correspondingly, there is something inside Zabuza's body, which we'll tentatively call "Zero Three-Tails".

It also became a strange existence with a very balanced half of the 'Three-Tails Power' and half of the 'Zero-Tails Power'.

Fortunately, after several tests, it turned out to be acceptable.

Perhaps it was because the three-tailed body used by Tachibana Kenkawa did not have its own consciousness, and similarly, during the process of merging those negative emotions, there was no time to generate a new Zero-Tails will.

Ultimately, the "Zero Three-Tails" within Zabuza, while possessing most of the characteristics of an ordinary tailed beast, became more akin to a raging, unconscious wild beast.

It can be roughly seen as an angry tailed beast that can never reach a reconciliation through communication.

Yes, it's still a tailed beast with only about one-fifth of the total chakra of the Three-Tails.

It's important to know that the Three-Tails is only at the level of "securing second place and striving for first" among the nine tailed beasts.

It goes without saying what level one-fifth of it could achieve.

Fortunately, even disregarding the total amount of chakra possessed by the tailed beasts themselves, even if it were less, it would still be considered an infinite amount of chakra.

Moreover, unconscious tailed beasts aren't without their advantages.

At least Zabuza can draw upon the power of the tailed beasts within his body without any hindrance.

The regular extraction in "State One" is already comparable to that of Kisame Hoshigaki or the Uzumaki clan, where chakra can be freely consumed with virtually no side effects.

In the "State Two" Tailed Beast Cloak form, recovery ability is greatly enhanced, and basic attributes are comprehensively increased.

However, due to the negative emotional interference of the "Zero Three-Tails", Zabuza himself will also enter a state similar to "madness".

Being able to barely distinguish between friend and foe is already the limit of what he can do.

Attacks and defenses rely entirely on instinct, and ninjutsu is rarely used. The actual combat power gained may not be as useful as when in "State One".

As for the final "state three", it is the complete form of the tailed beast.

Currently, it is jokingly referred to by Tachibana Kanagawa as the "Bowsbane Demon King Form".

Basically, it's a giant, mindless beast that only knows how to fight back and defend itself, besides smashing and destroying the terrain.

Furthermore, due to the characteristic that "Zero Three-Tail" itself has no independent consciousness.

It is estimated that unless Zabuza possesses the strength of someone like Mito Uzumaki or Kushina Uzumaki, who can suppress tailed beasts with sealing techniques alone, he may have little chance of truly mastering this form.

Of course, the "Zero Three-Tails" is not without its advantages compared to the real Three-Tails.

Jianchuan Ju looked at the fallen tree and said with a smile.

"Since you were able to learn Shadow Ball, you can probably do the same with other Shadow-style techniques. I'll compile a few of these ninjutsu for you later, so you'd better study them carefully!"

"Once you've mastered it, someone like Yagura Kagura will be completely at your mercy, won't he?"

Upon hearing this, Zabuza's eyes flashed with a complex expression, but he still nodded heavily.

That's right. Perhaps it's because the dark chakra associated with Zero-Tails is a good match for Ghost-type techniques, or perhaps it's because Zabuza's own ghost-like spiritual remnants participated in the Tailed Beast fusion.

In short, Tachibana Kenkawa suddenly had the idea to let Zabuza try to learn the Ghost-type move "Shadow Ball," and he actually succeeded in using it.

The tests showed that, in addition to the enhancement of the Three-Tails' inherent water attribute, the "Zero Three-Tails" also brought Zabuza a considerable degree of dark attribute affinity.

On the contrary, Ao's "Coral" attack, which he has recently begun to incorporate into his techniques, has not shown any real effect on the "Zero Three-Tails" inside Zabuza.

For other characters, the trapping effect of Coral Attack is likely to be much better than the slight corrosive power of Shadow Attack.

But for Zabuza, mastering the power of shadow was more like a stepping stone.

Not to mention the "Nara Clan Shadow Technique" that Tachibana Kenkawa has mastered, as well as the two direct attack techniques, "Shadow Ball" and "Shadow Claw".

"Shadow Strike", "Shared Fate", "Sneak Attack", and even "Super Giant Phantom Ghost".

Any one of them can serve as a core ability to support the tactical system of a Kage-level powerhouse.

In addition, there is one-fifth of the Three-Tails' power within Zabuza.

"This kid needs to at least reach the level of a Strong Shadow Realm expert to justify all my investment, right?"

Kanakawa Tachibana stroked her chin, thinking to herself.

"I wonder how long it will take Zabuza to learn these techniques."

Unlike Tachibana Kanagawa herself, who received direct instruction in systematic knowledge, she was different.

The difficulty of learning these ninjutsu is so high that it wouldn't be an exaggeration to classify them as 'S' level.

Zabuza's mastery of the power of shadow only marked the beginning of his journey to learn ninjutsu.

If you really want to learn it, it's not impossible to study for several years without making any progress.

Looking at Zabuza with a determined gaze, Tachibana Kanagawa felt a sudden surge of envy and jealousy.

"We've practically fed you, and if you still can't learn!"

"Come on! Activate Form Three! Let me help you practice your power control again!"

(End of this chapter)