—Your Excellency!
"Get out!" Bring Tsunade and the others to me. I want to personally ask them why...
Why is Miba no match for Uchiha Yue?
What's it to me? This Uchiha Yue appeared because of you idiots. Now, even the Hidden Cloud Village, which had nothing to do with him, had taken action. And what did Konoha do? What were you doing?
Not a match for Uchiha Yue? Have you even tried? Have you done nothing and already given up? Who swore so confidently that they could defeat him?
Right now, the Daimyo of the Land of Fire really hoped that Konoha really had a way to defeat Uchiha Yue. Of course, he had hoped for this before, but never before had this desire been so desperate. He wished with all his heart that Uchiha Yue would die as soon as possible, preferably right now, on the spot.
— Yes, Your Excellency!
"Hee—hee.".. souls... I need more... hee-hee...
Scarlet blood was spreading on the ground. Lifeless bodies lay in crimson pools. A giant head hovered over one of the corpses, absorbing the soul of its victim.
What a vile, blasphemous monster.
His face — the face of an old man, riddled with cracks, as if about to crumble — was almost an exact copy of the Third Hokage Konoha. He had no hair; instead, the top of his head and the back of his head were dotted with countless screaming faces, causing anyone suffering from trypophobia to scream in disgust.
This giant head had no body. Below the neck, countless pale, snail-like fingers grew out of it.
The monster! It was a real monster that had no place in the Shinobi world!
And it was Sarutobi Hiruzen, completely distraught and enslaved by the thirst of souls.
When a great calamity befell Konoha, and Naruto was completely plunged into darkness, he did not stay in the village. He left her and began to wander through the Land of Fire, madly devouring the souls of its wild inhabitants.
None of those who met him on the way survived. They were all eaten and became a part of him. In the old days, when order still existed, such mass killings would certainly have attracted the attention of the authorities of the Land of Fire, who would have instructed Konoha to conduct an investigation.
But now the aristocracy of the Land of Fire has long since fled. Even the Daimyo himself fled to other countries. No one was keeping order anymore. And even if some commoners had turned to Konoha with a task, the village simply would not have done it. On the contrary, they would most likely have captured these savages who voluntarily came into the trap and sent them to the laboratories.
After all, Konoha herself was experimenting on these people, so why would they care about their lives?
— Hee-hee, souls, souls... few... ha ha ha... So hungry... HA HA HA!!!
Mad laughter echoed in Sarutobi Hiruzen's head. The huge head left this place, continuing its search for delicious souls.
In fact, Hiruzen has regained consciousness now. His self-awareness returned after he had his fill. But, like a drug addict, his way of thinking, his worldview has completely changed. He's completely gone mad—gone mad, staying sane.
His mind was enslaved by his desires, his stomach. There was only one thought left in his head — to satisfy his hunger, to absorb as many souls as possible, to enjoy the feeling of how they filled him, how they trembled inside. He was clearly aware of what he was doing, but there was no turning back. He can never come back.
Now the so—called people, the so-called souls, were nothing more to him than food, just as fresh blood was to a vampire. People have stopped being people! And Sarutobi Hiruzen has ceased to be Sarutobi Hiruzen.
"What is this thing?"
The two Shinobi from the Hidden Stone Village, upon seeing this distorted, abnormal head, instinctively dropped their "wild" experimental model and assumed a fighting stance.
They had never seen such a perverted, blasphemous monster, the very sight of which caused physical disgust and nausea. It was as if this creature was by nature an enemy of humanity.
Moreover, they could sense an incredibly powerful and terrifying chakra from this monster.
— Ha ha ha... souls... Ha ha ha!!!
Sarutobi Hiruzen, looking at these fresh souls, laughed. In the next moment, the hands under his neck instantly formed seals. Several heads surrounded the Shinobi, and then the most powerful ninjutsu crashed down on them, completely engulfing their figures.
After a moment...
— no!!!
The soul screamed in horror. Her body was grabbed by a huge hand made of souls and looking like a monstrous creation sewn from the limbs of various people, which Hiruzen spewed out of his mouth, and dragged inside.
"Hee—hee."..
One more. Ha ha ha!!!
Sarutobi Hiruzen's face expressed greedy satisfaction. The souls he absorbed weren't really digested like food. He didn't have the ability to digest them. Instead, they merged with his own soul. If it were possible to extract his soul now, then a terrifying monster constructor would appear, forcibly assembled from many souls, in which all kinds of limbs could be distinguished. This was the true essence of the current Sarutobi Hiruzen.
The souls in this world were also essentially a chakra. The fusion of such a huge number of souls caused the chakra in Hiruzen's body to increase dramatically, breaking through the limit that prevented Edo Tensei from becoming stronger. Now, his chakra was no less than that of an average Tailed Beast.
And although his Edo Tensei body has undergone changes, it still retains the property of endless resurrection. This meant that the current Sarutobi Hiruzen had become an immortal soul-devouring beast.
The next moment, Hiruzen abruptly turned his head in the direction where Uchiha Yue was and grinned maliciously.
—Haha, I told you, I told you, Uchiha Yue is invincible, ha ha ha!!!
At Akatsuki's hideout, Nagato, upon receiving the news, laughed like a madman. It wasn't that he was useless, it wasn't that his Rinnegan was too weak, but that the Mangekye Sharingan, Uchiha Yue's Mangekye Sharingan, was too strong!
It was a monster that had no place in this world, a creature that surpassed the gods themselves!
Laughing, Nagato fell silent. Four times, it was useless to kill him four times. Now there really is only one hope left — another dimension of Uchiha Obito. Obviously, only a Mangekye Sharingan can stand up to another Mangekye Sharingan.