Ti passed.
Groan...!
Chōi's low groaning rumbled from beneath the wooden giant.
The beast could feel its chakra vanishing fast, and sothing strange was happening to the Wood Dragon.
Its eyes stayed locked on the wooden construct coiled around it. Fear and hatred clashed inside the Seven-Tails, but it couldn't break free.
All it could do was lie there helplessly as its core chakra kept getting sucked dry.
The carapace spreading across the Wood Dragon's surface moved faster now. Every inch of its texture seeped with Chōi's unique aura. Then, in an instant, the absorption stopped.
The chakra flow cut off, and the draining feeling inside Chōi vanished. The beast was left severely weakened.
A faint red glow pulsed from the Wood Dragon, the condensed energy inside it having reached a critical point.
Standing atop the wooden giant's head, Shinichi's mind raced. A flood of new information about the Wood Dragon filled his brain.
"This is..." His breath caught. "Chōi's scale powder and... its physical traits?!"
'No... there's more. It actually...!'
A huge wave of chakra suddenly kicked back from the Wood Dragon, rushing straight into Shinichi's body through their connection.
A deep warmth spread through his chakra pathway system. The sudden surge of power made him clench his fists. In the next second...
"Ha... haha... Hahaha!"
He pressed a hand to his chest, feeling the chakra inside him swell wildly. His reserves expanded, growing far denser than before.
"Last ti I drained Shukaku's chakra, I only got Magnet Release. The Wood Dragon didn't evolve any further after that," Shinichi muttered, his eyes burning with excitent as he stared at the construct before him.
"But this ti's different! I didn't just get the Seven-Tails' scale powder and carapace defense. I also received massive chakra feedback. This is... an unexpected windfall!"
His joy flickered, replaced by a contemplative gleam in his eyes. 'Why is there such a huge difference between the two?'
A thought struck him. 'Could it be that Shukaku's chakra reserves were just too small?'
'Maybe it only had enough to support the Wood Dragon's basic evolution, with nothing extra to feed back into ?'
The theory made sense. Before he could dwell on it, Chōi's massive body began to blur, its internal power drained completely.
The beast looked up, staring straight at Shinichi. It seed to want to speak, but no sound ca out.
The blurring spread. The fifty-ter tailed beast shrank and shrank until, finally, it transford back into a young girl.
Fu lay on the ground, breathing weakly, eyes shut tight. She couldn't move a muscle. The last traces of tailed beast chakra faded from her skin.
Shinichi paid no attention to Fu's condition. His gaze was fixed on the Wood Dragon. The Wood Dragon currently hovering in the sky.
The massive construct floated effortlessly. A sturdy carapace covered its entire body, gleaming with a tallic blue base and patterns identical to Chōi's armor.
Two pairs of cicada-like wings had sprouted from its back. As the wings vibrated rapidly, the Wood Dragon circled and danced through the sky at breakneck speeds, the rushing air howling in its wake.
"Hmm..." Shinichi furrowed his brow, staring at the flying Wood Dragon. For a mont, he couldn't find the words.
This Wood Dragon was completely different from the one born from Shukaku's chakra. That one had violet patterns but kept a traditional dragon shape.
This one had changed drastically because of the carapace. And the wings just made it stranger.
A winged Wood Dragon. It looked bizarre. Shinichi's expression darkened slightly.
Sothing about the mismatched design felt off.
Still, no matter how weird it looked, the power it displayed, the ability to fly, made him push those feelings aside.
"Never mind the appearance for now." He exhaled sharply. "Utility is what matters."
With that thought, his expression settled. The smile faded from his lips, but his eyes burned with a newfound intensity.
This was proof. Proof that the path he'd chosen was right. Proof of endless possibilities
'It's confird,' he thought. 'My Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique is a specialized variant. It can plunder a tailed beast's chakra to trigger its own evolution. And whatever chakra it doesn't need to evolve, it feeds straight into .'
He slowly raised his hands and clenched them into tight fists. Inside his chakra pathway system, the newly gained power flowed smoothly, blending perfectly with his own. His already bottomless reserves now felt like a vast ocean.
The feeling of explosive growth was intoxicating. He relaxed his hands and looked up at the strange, carapace-covered Wood Dragon hovering above him. His eyes burned with ambition.
'Based on this absorption rate... if my hypothesis is correct... the bigger the tailed beast's chakra reserves, the more I gain. Not just a new Wood Dragon...'
'...the chakra feedback will be exponentially greater.'
The realization struck like lightning, clearing the mist from his path. In that mont, Shinichi's strategy beca crystal clear.
The nine tailed beasts' chakra reserves were worlds apart. Shukaku, the One-Tail, was just the beginning. Chōi, the Seven-Tails, had proven his technique's true potential.
So what about the Three-Tails? The Six-Tails? The Eight-Tails? And the strongest of them all, the Nine-Tails?
Every successful extraction would strengthen the Wood Dragon. But more importantly, it would trigger a terrifying expansion of his own chakra reserves.
'By then...' His blood surged. 'My total chakra reserves... will easily surpass the First Hokage.'
As the thought settled, Shinichi's aura erupted. The sharp edge of his previous presence vanished, replaced by an overbearing, domineering pressure that looked down on the world.
Why had his Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands only manifested at a height of few hundred ters?
Why hadn't he been able to reach the thousand-ter height Senju Hashirama had used to shake the entire ninja world?
The answer was simple.
Chakra capacity.
The scale and power of any jutsu were directly tied to the user's total chakra reserves.
Only a fool would think that just knowing the hand signs was enough to unleash the full, boundless power of the True Several Thousand Hands.
Take a B-rank jutsu like Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation.
Uchiha Madara could use it to swallow the entire Allied Shinobi Forces. Anyone else would just spit out a standard fireball.
Shinichi's body hadn't fully matured yet. While his chakra reserves already eclipsed those of his peers, there was still a massive gap between him and the absolute peak. The man known as the God of Shinobi.
But three years... three years would be enough to claim the power of all the tailed beasts. Enough to grow, to replicate the God of Shinobi's legendary strength... and ultimately defeat Uchiha Madara.
"Heh..." Thinking of this, Shinichi let out a cold, arrogant laugh.
Wood Release was already an invincible path. Why would he ever need to borrow soone else's eyes?
"One day, my Wood Release will reign supre over everything."
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