The Golem's massive fist ca crashing down.
The Seven-Tails, Chōi, fixed its eyes on the falling shadow and ducked sharply, angling its hardest horns to et the strike.
Boom!
Horns collided with the wooden fist, unleashing a deafening shockwave. Chōi's huge fra shuddered violently, but the thick vines binding its limbs and torso held fast.
With nowhere to go, the kinetic force surged through its segnted body and slamd into the earth below.
Rumble!
The ground within a dozen ters buckled and split, fissures racing outward as soil and stone exploded into a thick, billowing cloud of dust.
"Blocked it…" Chōi rumbled, its deep voice vibrating through its heavy carapace.
But before relief could set in, the Dragon coiled around the Golem, sprang into action.
It shot down the construct's extended arm, its wooden body lengthening as it lunged straight for Chōi's exposed neck.
"Damn it…" Chōi recoiled, horror flooding its multifaceted eyes. It knew this Wood Dragon...it could absorb chakra. Letting it coil around was unthinkable.
But its panic was in vain.
For a tailed beast, the true terror of Wood Release was absolute. Even knowing its abilities, mounting real resistance was nearly impossible. Awareness didn't an prevention.
The Wood Dragon arrived in an instant.
Swinging its head, it bypassed the horns and bit fiercely into the gaps of Chōi's neck carapace.
Its serpentine body imdiately wound tight, coiling around the beast's neck, shoulders, chest, and abdon in a heartbeat.
Roar!
Chōi bellowed, thrashing madly. But the Wood Dragon was faster...
As it constricted, the roots from the Deep Forest Ergence surged in response... squirming, layering over the dragon's path in perfect sync to reinforce the bindings.
Thick vines and the feral Wood Dragon intertwined layer upon layer.
In the blink of an eye, Chōi's fifty-ter fra was bound so tightly, only its head and a few lower segnts still struggled against the crushing grip.
The instant the snare was complete, the Wood Dragon's innate ability activated.
Chōi stiffened as the chakra scale powder clinging to its body was siphoned away, stripping the beast of its camouflage instantly.
The Seven-Tails' true form was laid bare before Shinichi once more.
"Accept your fate, Chōi," Shinichi called down from atop the Golem's head. "I don't want to hurt you. I just need to borrow a portion of your power."
"Borrow?!" Chōi snarled furiously. "You humans can never be trusted!"
The beast unhinged its mandibles.
Ignoring its bound body, it frantically gathered chakra into its throat.
Dark, crimson energy violently compressed, quickly shaping into a massive sphere that pulsed with destructive ripples...a Tailed Beast Ball.
This ti, it held nothing back.
Shinichi's gaze turned icy. "Stubborn."
He clasped his hands together. "Then I'll let you experience true despair."
The towering Golem moved in sync with his will.
Facing the incoming blast, it raised its left arm without hesitation, its giant palm open to block it.
Red light flashed in Chōi's compound eyes as it fired with its last desperate strength.
Vwoosh!
The dense sphere tore through the air, blasting straight for Shinichi. But the Golem's massive palm was faster. Its wooden fingers clamped shut at the critical mont.
Smack!
It caught the deadly projectile barehanded. Shinichi remained utterly motionless amidst the energy turbulence.
"I'm giving it right back!" he shouted.
With a brutal downward swing, the Golem slamd the volatile sphere directly into Chōi's face.
"No...!"
For the first ti, Chōi saw its own Tailed Beast Ball perfectly reflected in its eyes. Its desperate roar was instantly drowned out.
Boom!
Screech!
A shrill, insectoid wail erupted from the blinding light.
The Seven-Tails had taken a direct, point-blank hit from its own full-power attack. Its head and upper carapace were severely damaged.
Coupled with the Wood Dragon's relentless, frantic absorption, Chōi's struggles visibly weakened.
Its massive chakra signature rapidly withered.
But the assault wasn't over.
The Golem leaned forward, wrapping its enormous arms around Chōi's bound torso in a brutal grapple. Using its entire body weight, the construct pinned the battered beast firmly into the dirt.
Crash!
The earth shook once more.
Completely suppressed beneath the Golems bulk, Chōi's final struggles faded into powerless trembling. The difference in strength was absolute.
The battle was over.
Shinichi stared coolly at the severely injured tailed beast below. "Finally behaving, aren't you?"
Leaving the subdued beast where it lay, he shifted his focus to the Wood Dragon coiled around it.
His eyes instantly lit up.
"Just as I expected…" Shinichi whispered, a fierce thrill surging through him....
"My Wood Dragon really can plunder a tailed beast's power!"
Along the Wood Dragon's serpentine body, the rough wooden texture was gradually shifting, covering itself with a hardened carapace.
It was identical in color and density to the armor plating of the Seven-Tails.
The armor spread rapidly, extending from neck to head, belly, and tail, fully enveloping the wooden construct.
Beneath them, Chōi finally regained its senses from the devastating blast. Weakly raising its head, its eyes shifted to the bindings coiled around its torso...and froze.
"This… this is…!" Chōi's voice trembled, utterly unable to process the impossible sight. "This armor… it's my carapace!"
It could feel its stolen chakra literally coming to life on the Wood Dragon. Shinichi's earlier words echoed in its mind... 'I just need to borrow your power.'
Chōi trembled in horror. "You…" It glared up at Shinichi, the red light in its eyes flickering violently. "You're genuinely plundering my power!"
"Don't worry," Shinichi replied, his tone detached.
"I'm only absorbing a fraction. You're a tailed beast, you'll recover eventually."
"This…" Chōi choked on its words, its shock almost palpable.
Shinichi's declaration hadn't been a lie or empty boast.
This terrifying human could actually siphon a tailed beast's fundantal chakra directly for his own use.
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